Talk:isp

From Homestar Runner Wiki

Revision as of 10:12, 17 May 2006

YTMND

Is my fun fact on YTMND really unsuitable, I think it makes sense. Also should it be changed to the Wikipedia article? - Volbeat A The Cheat 10:08, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Don't think YTMND is unsuitable. Maybe put it in the Remarks section along with the Goof it's under? --Narwaffle 10:12, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

I am more concerned with what to do with that link that other guy posted.

Phone cord

But it's not Dangeresque's phone

As demonstrated in the shown image, there is a goof in the phone call scene. Can someone write something about it, beacuse I have writer's block. And no, it is NOT a reference to Dangeresque. - Volbeat A The Cheat 10:26, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

It IS a reference to Disconnected Phone. S. What ever. --Homfrog 11:05, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

I gotta agree, i don't think it's a goof, i think they made a reference to cordless phone on purpose, kinda like an uninteractive easter egg maybe...

It's just a goof. It's not onscreen long enough to be noticed. TBC didn't notice that they didn't make the phone cord long enough, is all.— Bassbone (^{TALK CONT}) 11:18, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

I aggree with Bassbone. It doesen't look like a reference. If it were it would actually look disconnected, not just a stub.

I think it's a reference to the cordless phone. remember on replacement?--DumDe 14:18, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

I smell a vote coming. :D Democracy!

"Or" or "For"?

I thought Homestar said "account number for identity theft" rather than "or identity theft". Anyone else hear that? I don't want to change it in case it's just me. ModestlyHotGirl 15:27, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

• I heard "or." When I first heard it, I assumed it was Homestar pulling together a few phrases that he had heard in relation to giving out personal information in order to form what he though was an intelligent sentence (but which to the rest of us is a complete non sequitur.) It makes less sense from a sentence-structure standpoint, but more sense considering that we are, after all, dealing with Homestar.

Pasty white whatsit?

Are you sure SB's saying "bottom"? I'm not sure what he's saying, but it sounds like it starts with a W and has an S in it. --Jay (Talk) 15:49, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

It sounds a bit like "whaffum", or perhaps "wawesome" (or "wassum"?). It certainly doesn't sound like "bottom" to me. --AshyRaccoon 15:59, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

As I put it in the first draft of the transcript, it's "boittom" or "bwahttom". Perhaps "Bwahthom."— Bassbone (^{TALK CONT}) 16:24, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Hilarity Ensues

I have a problem with the "Strong Bad's laughter comes from A Jorb Well Done" reference. Two instances of him simply laughing shouldn't be cross-referenced, and I don't don't think the similarity between the two was very strong. After watching the two files, they don't even sound remotely the same. If anything, his laughter would be a reference to crappy sit-coms (a la Brady Bunch) in which the final joke was seemingly gut-busting to the people onscreen so the show could end with a freeze-frame of everyone looking happy.

But they both are using Strong Bad's insane laughter to make a joke. - Joshua 17:08, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Those two instances of laughter a) come from completely different things, and b) sound absolutely nothing alike, so how on earth can the reference be that the laughter comes FROM "A Jorb Well Done"? The reference makes no sense. You would have to start cross-referencing anything that was even remotely similar if you accept this as precedent. Every time Homestar falls down? Every time Pom Pom laughs?

If it's not an actual reference, then it doesn't belong on this page. If it's the exact sound clip then it should go on Sound Effects, though. — It's dot com 19:10, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, it's laughter, seriously, it happens on a reqular basis, whats next, "Hey, he's walking, lets put that in the wiki!"

Can't it be both? I'm going to have to agree with Joshua here. Both the "A Jorb Well Done" laugh and the "isp" laugh both go on for longer than usual, both get high pitched and insane, and both have a zoom up on the face. Not like his normal "Bwa ha ha" routine. Also, I agree that this is a reference to the sitcom laugh, bo only to a certain extent. If there was a laugh at the end of the Brady Bunch, and then the camera focused in on Greg Brady's face and his laugh went on for 30 seconds getting more shrill and higher pitched by the second... well, you got to admit, something's not normal with this Brady Bunch episode. - El Santo, 13:39 PST, 16 May 2006

The sitcom reference is simply refering to that in both (for example) the B.B. and in this email, the characters are reacting to something only mildly amusing in an over-the-top way in the final moments of the show. Strong Bad's laughter in this episode is over-the-top to the nth degree to drive that point home: it's not at all funny, but it's the last joke, so it's HYSTERICAL! Now go back and watch "A Jorb Well Done." Strong Bad is not being over the top. He's not being hysterical. He's just laughing hard, and since back then he was a bad guy, he laughed hardest when it was at someone else's expense. There's nothing at all extreme about that back-in-the-day laugh. He just thought it was really funny. The olden-days laugh doesn't even build up to any hysterics. It starts out that way. The two references simply don't match. They have as much in common with each other as me writing with a pencil and me coloring with a crayon.

Hampster [sic] Dance?

Didn't see a Fun Stuff link, so I'll post it here. I thought the "break-dancing rodent" might be a reference to the (annoying) Internet meme, The Hampster Dance. Both include animated gifs of a dancing rodent. I'm not positive on this one, but it's the first thing that came to mind when the rodent started not-really-break-dancing on the Lappy. - Totoro 18:05, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

I don't think so. The first thing that came to my mind was the little animated mouse GIF on Strong Bad's Website ⇔Thunderbird⇔ 18:21, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

yea id totally say thats a hampster dance reference. back in that day, hampster dance was the only thing the internet was good for anyway. Del Taco? 23:59, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Not so Magical

That "this is where the magic happens" line in the real-world references HAD to come out. That phrase has been around for decades. It did not originate with Cribs.

Is this worth mentioning?

This is the shortest Strong Bad Email name to date, with only three letters.

I think it's cool, but I'm a nerd. What do you think?--Jnelson09 18:59, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Seems kind of obvious to me, anybody who would find that kind of thing interesting would probably already know. ⇔Thunderbird⇔ 19:01, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Eh, maybe because I'm a nerd too, I don't see a problem with it. --Jay (Talk) 19:05, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

It is also patently false. ⇔Thunderbird⇔ 19:24, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, 12:00 doesn't have any letters, just numbers. — Elcool ^(talk)_(contribs) 19:52, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

12:00 doesn't count in my eyes (zero letters, but five characters) but yeah, didn't think of car. --Jay (Talk) 20:10, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Wired Pom Pom?

Regarding the comment in Remarks about other characters have Internet access: I need some clarification for my own edification. Pom Pom can obviously check his email through his PDA, but do Palm users need to subscribe to an online service in order to do this, or is it just tacked onto the monthly bill as an add-on, as would happen with someone checking their email through their cell phone?

It depends; normally a PDA accesses the internet by wirelessly connecting to an ISP, but some work as cell phones too. That being said, the Pom Pilot doesn't look like the phone type. -Unknownwarrior33 21:49, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

He doesn't? —AbdiViklas 03:22, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

"CD-ROM Cupholder" is a real call!

Go to the very bottom of the page on this link: http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/cs_cdroms.shtml

You'll notice that the responce homestar gave about the "CD-Rom not being a cupholder" may be a real-world reference. (If for whatever reason you cannot acess the link, here is the text

Customer: "Hello, is this Tech Support?"
Tech Support: "Yes, it is. How may I help you?"
Customer: "The cup holder on my PC is broken and I am within my warranty period. How do I go about getting that fixed?"
Tech Support: "I'm sorry, but did you say a cup holder?"
Customer: "Yes, it's attached to the front of my computer."
Tech Support: "Please excuse me if I seem a bit stumped, it's because I am. Did you receive this as part of a promotional, at a trade show? How did you get this cup holder? Does it have any trademark on it?"
Customer: "It came with my computer, I don't know anything about a promotion. It just has '4X' on it."
At this point the Tech Rep had to mute the caller, because he couldn't stand it. The caller had been using the load drawer of the CDROM drive as a cup holder and snapped it off the drive. Tommygun141 21:01, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

We previously had a fact stating that that was an urban legend. Maybe it was real; maybe it wasn't. --Jay (Talk) 21:03, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Hey! Someone deleted it! They could've at least said why they were deleting it. If they thought it was an urban legend, they could have added "this is possibly an urban legend" or something. Jeez. I'm putting it back in, but with a mention of its urban-legendism possibility. Tommygun141 21:14, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Just because you found a transcript of it does not make it real. There is also a transcript available of the famous "too stupid to own a computer" tech-support call. Smopes places these under the "undetermined" heading because while there may have been a grain of truth to them at one time, after being passed around for ten years, they've been embellished a lot.

Someone deleted even after I mentioned the possiblity of it being an urban legend. That's like removing the Big Foot reference in Myths and Legends because it may not be true. Well, not exactly, but if it's a notorious tech support call which may or not be true, and the fact STATES that it may or not be true, there is no reason to delete it. We shouldnt be trying to decide on its truth or not, (although that should be mentioned) but whether the brothers chaps MADE THE REFERENCE. and they did. There is no reason to delete it because of it's referential nature, and if you list that it may or may not be true it should NOT be deleted. Also, please sign your posts. Tommygun141 21:24, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

There's a simpler answer to your problems than this, and that answer can be summed up in one simple acronym: learn the magic of STUFF. --Jay (Talk) 21:29, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Whoa. I was particularly amused by that site, and by searching around I actually found another thing that's related to what Homestar says:

I work for a local ISP. Frequently we receive phone calls that go something like this:

• Customer: "Hi. Is this the Internet?"

...or...

• Customer: "Do you own the Internet?"

...or...

• Customer: "Is this 'Internet' the same as 'www' and do you own that as well?"

We would love to be able to say, just once, to these callers, "YES! We are the Internet, and we own all."

-- Da M-izz-u^Tizzalk 21:52, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Strangely, this is not the first time the above site has been linked on a talk page. See Talk:technology#Whos that stupid? for arguably the prize-winning tech support story. —AbdiViklas 03:34, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Guys, the CD-ROM Cupholder *is* an urban legend. There are no official records of this call actually happening. And it has been quoted in so many different forms, with the joke itself being essentially the same, that you can't really attribute it to anyone in particular. Calling it such on this page is thus appropriate. —  KieferSkunk (talk) — 04:29, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

The incredible vanishing trivia

Someone took out the "back of the Lappy" trivia before I could get to it (I can think of seeing it two places at least, in Animal and Part-Time Job), and I had to take out the "This is the first time we see Bub's laughing" one since he laughs with the rest at the end of Labor Day. Well, chuckles, but it's still laughing. Just an FYI.

Like Jay said in response to a previous comment, put it in STUFF if you're not sure. -Unknownwarrior33

This wasn't a "is this right?" comment. I WAS sure. But people hate it when their remarks, trivia, etc are deleted without any explanation, so i explained.

Datum?

This might be kind of obscure, or even accidental, but I had a thought that when SB says "Datum sounds good", not only is it a play off of the word (and obviously "that"), but it may be a reference to to cheesy Westerns and the such of the 40s and 50s when the Indians in such films used a dialect in which they would put "um" on the end of english words. Like for example, "He-um heap good man. Mighty brave." And other such nonsense. Did anyone else grow up watching these movies? -- Paulsint

I never would have thought of that if you hadn't mentioned it, but now that you did, the tone of voice in which he says that line seems a little too "old-West-style Indian" to be coincidence.

speech impediment

Under Remarks:

When Homestar says the word "internet" after he first answers Strong Bad's call, he speaks without his trademark speech impediment.

MAybe it should be clarified what the word "internet" would sound like with Homestars speeech impediment... cause im not hearing too much of a difference.Del Taco? 00:11, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

I would imagine it would sound like "in-tew-net" or somesuch. I hear a clear "R" sound in there.— Bassbone (^{TALK CONT}) 06:56, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Zzzzz...

I just thought I'd mention that when it cuts back to the Lappy at the end of the email, it shows 99% Complete with the text "Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz..." under it. Is it at least worth mentioning? --GLO3

I'd say yes. I noticed that not in the transcript. --DorianGray

Homestar has another new mouth thingy or I'm emo

I added File:homestar pshh in the early stages of this article, as well as text saying it's an unusual mouth shape for him. It's relevant, WHY THE CRAP DID SOMEONE DELETE BOTH THE FACT AND THE IMAGE? The KB really hates me, I should leave. - Volbeat A The Cheat 10:11, 17 May 2006 (UTC)