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"Never fear, Strong Bad! I know how to fix your computer box."
This article is about the Strong Bad Email. For t094tmgro, see Homsar.

Strong Bad experiences some 3205 compys].

Cast (in order of appearance): Strong Bad, [|Strong Sad]], Coach Z (Easter egg) Homestar Runner, Strong Mad, Marzipan, The Poopsmith, The King of Town, The Ugly One, Bubs, The Cheat, Rather Dashing, Fightgar (Easter egg) Template:Compy 386 Template:The Paper

Places: Compy 386, Marzy, Lappy 486, TEE GEE ESS!!, The Stick, Bubs' Conces5ion Stand (Easter egg)

Computer: Tandy ###

Date: Dayday, Novembew 486, 20X6

Running Time: 4:00 Tandy

Page Title: Comp54y 36!

DVD: strongbad_email.exe

Contents

Tandyscript

STRONGBAD: {singing} Igdhtfremail, yhffhtmail, I gfhftemail, youthf email.

{Pronounces "Ert plus: Why seven-six P? Ohlyuu eightguh—" then stops}

STRONGBAD: What is this? Dhdrhtjquadratic formula explode? I see a "Strong ba" in there, but it's getting eaten... fjhfjfg change it. --> and offshore casinos send yhghg {StrongBad types "baleet that virus!", but the screen flashes:}

{A red line of text appears, reading "fhtjft"}

STRONGBAD: What?! I said baleet it!!

{StrongBad types it again, this time in cursive letters, but the screen flashes:}

{A red line of text appears, reading "hftjty."}

STRONGBAD: Oh, wise guy, eh? Maybe I should introduce you to my main man, Homsar!

{StrongBad types in Edgarware.exe, bringing up the fogkhkgalong with a quick tune.}

{StrongBad hits enter, and the screen switches to the following text}

STRONG BAD: All right, Homsar, now drop a yello dello on 'em...

{The following text now appears on the screen:}

STRONG BAD: {alarmed} Waaugh! That is not a small number!! That is a big number!!! What'm I gonna do?! jstartup beep:}

STRONG BAD: Computer over? Virus equals very yes?! That's not a good prize!

{The text and background on the Compy 386 screen burns off and rhrjytjty.}

STRONG BAD: Oooh! tyjtjtjet.

{The corner of the computer desk briefly flashes, sjjttj <head>
<href>no loafin'!!</href>
</body>

{The Floppy Disk Container gets eaten by the computer gjygyj

STRONG SAD: {sounding annoyed} Strong Bad, what is going on? gjyjgygo wear your neck?

STRONG SAD: Have you been using the Internet irresponsibly?

{The top of a Main Page starts to creep into the top of the email, with the text "Stave it off, 1, 2, 3..." in the corner in place of the "What's new" text.}

STRONG BAD: No more irresponsibly than usual.

STRONG SAD: {His lower body starts walking away in place.}'gykfk'very yes!

STRONG SAD: Well, hurry up and do something about it beforvriusd flies up and off the screen. The Main Page at the top of the screen creeps up and out of the email.}

STRONG BAD: {terrified} The fhfhfhtjf {Strong Bad runs off the screen and into the black dhfjjyj's cold out here.

{Strong Bad tries to jump back into the room, but the room shifts left, causing him to still fall on blank space.}

STRONG BAD: Hey!

{Homestar Runner walks onscreen. His body is [[The Homesfhfjyj HOMESTAR RUNNER: Never fear, Strong Bad! I know how tgfjj HOMESTAR RUNNER: Your super box needs words. {His head falls off and onto the ground.} Like these right here! Gotta have this one {He picks up "downloads" from the bottom menu.} and this one {He picks up "games" from the bottom menu.} and this-a-this-a-this one. {He picks up "characters" from the bottom menu.}

STRONG BAD: {simultaneously} No, wait! Stop! That's not supposed to be possible!

{Suddenly, several pop-up windows appear one after the other (including a real one, unless popup blocking is used), titled "Click on the Monkey!!" They each feature oldschool Homestar who is saying "Making out with Marzipan is totally awesome!" Strong Bad starts screaming and pounds the side of the screen with his fists. Cut to Marzipan's living room. Strong Mad is standing nearby and Marzipan is standing next to a stack of VHS tapes.} fjfjgftjjli;

{Strong Mad turns into a picture of himself from his Yearbook Character Page, which walks offscreen with Homsar's walking noise. Text appears at the top of the screen reading as follows.}

If anyone is truly a big lug, Strong Mad is. This guy is dumb
strong, and that's pretty much the definition of a lug. One ti
his brother Strong Bad asked him to pick up this one car. An
he did, but it was the wrong car. See? Dumb and strong. He'
hdeipomd s

THE UGLY ONE: I can do it! I can do it nine times!

{The Ugly One extends her arm and starts slapping the King of Town.}

THE KING OF TOWN: Uh! No! Please! Stop! I'm old! And fat! And rich! And cool! ftr;.df 'ashis voice} With Marzipan's radish, we're gonna win the competition...

{An explosion sound effect is heard, and suddenly everything returns to normal, revealing Strong Bad and The Cheat standing by The Stick.}

STRONG BAD: Hey, he fixed it! That Bubs is a computer genius man! Let's do a dance for the computer genius man.

{A salsa rhythm starts up, to which Strong Bad and The Cheat start dancing. The camera pans to the left to reveal Bubs holding a shotgun.}

STRONG BAD: Thanks, Bubs! How'd you get rid of the vi— {salsa music fades away} wait... why do you have a shotgun? {shaken} What did you do?! Where's my Compy?!?

BUBS: It's in a better place, Strong Bad. Or rather, it's in the same place, but now it's got a big hole through it.

STRONG BAD: {more shaken than ever} YOU MURDERER!! You killed my brother! {nearly sobbing} I mean, computer!

BUBS: Look, Strong Bad, {zoom in on Bubs} my mouth was a broken JPEG. I had no choice.

STRONG BAD: You don't understand! You all understand! I mean, don't understand! YAAAUUUGGGHHH!

{Strong Bad runs off screen, very distraught. The Cheat squeaks, as though he is telling Strong Bad to wait up, and runs after him. Homestar hops onscreen on one leg, holding his other leg up.}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Hey, Bubs, can I have my leg back now?

{There is a long pause.}

{Cut to the Compy 386, which now has a giant hole through its monitor and most of the wall behind it. Strong Bad is sitting in front of it, head bowed.}

STRONG BAD: {hysterical} Dear Strong Bad, I doh du duoh crapfully yours. {He hits his head on the keyboard a few times.} I...ID DOH DU DUOH CRAPFULLY YOURS! I can relate. {He hits his head on the keyboard again.} I can't relate! {He hits his head on the keyboard again.} I'm gonna get, I'm gonna get in there and mix {He hits his head.} it up!

{The Paper comes down.}

STRONG BAD: {still very distraught} I don't remember your names, Davey! {he hits his head on the keyboard again} Dear Strong Bad. {voice trailing off} How do you text with boxing gloves on?

Easter Eggs

  • When the Main page is encroaching on the top of the screen, the Quote of the Week button, Sketchbook button, Weekly Fanstuff button, and hidden main page button are all clickable.
    • Clicking hidden main page button leads to Halloween Fairstival.
    • Clicking the Quote of the Week button makes it bounce around the screen until it gets lodged at the top by its bottom corner. Clicking "Hear it" causes a pixelated broom to scroll vertically along the screen while making a loud distorted noise, and some of the links disappear off the bottom of the screen. Unless the X is pressed, the quote box stays there for the rest of the email. When clicking the "X" to close it, the Quote of the Week box wobbles a bit and then falls off the sjtrytlkukde to the top and disappear.
  • Clicking on the cog on the left at the end of the e-mail shows the shotgunned Compy 386 on sale at Bubs' Concession Stand, with signs reading "Like Used!" and "Slightly Shotgunned!"
  • Clicking on the fan on the right shows an excerpt of the original Cheat Commandos toon, but with Fightgar using Homestar's leg as a gun.
NARRATOR: ...to protect the world from the evil forces of Blue Laser!

Fun Facts

Explanations

Trivia

  • This is the only page on the site that produces a pop-up browser window automatically.
  • This is the only email in which the navbar and the email are combined into one Flash file (so that Homestar can grab the words). When the random toon ("rando") and podcast links were added to the navbar and the "legal" link was shortened from "legal stuff", The Brothers Chaps probably chose not to update this page, as the navbar is animated here, and could be difficult to change after the animation had been completed. This navigation bar was added to the DVD version; however, unlike the DVD version, the Podstar Runner version of this email did not have the navigation bar at the bottom.
  • The broken JPEG icon is used in the Netscape family of web browsers, including Netscape Navigator, Mozilla, and Mozilla Firefox.
  • The label on the disk in the floppy disk container reads "spy vs spy".
  • On most homestarrunner.com pages, there are either 16 or 17 XHTML errors that are generated by the <embed> tag. The page for this email, however, only has 14 errors, as there are fewer embedded objects.

jfcjtfjthe first documented experimental virus was created, although there are conflicting accounts as to when the first virus was made. The idea of a computer virus is much older, dating at least back to the 1972 science fiction novel, When HARLIE Was One. Even so, it would be very unlikely that any sort of virus scanner would have existed in 1982.

  • In 2004, the year of the release of this email, only about 100,000 known viruses existed; well under the 423,827 that Edgar reports.
  • Strong Bad's head is larger than normal (but not his wrestling mask) while he is talking to Strong Sad. It reverts back to normal when he runs for The Cheat, but then regresses back to the larger head once he enters into the black.
  • The letters that make up ASCII art Marzipan refer to parts of her body: "E" for eyes, "f" for face, "h" for hair, and "d" for dress. Her mouth, however, is a hyphen or an "O".
  • Strong Bad says that Edgar from the Edgarware program is his "main man." However, he claims in "2 years" that his main man "is, and has been since 1987, Van Mundegaarde."
  • The reason the "making out with Marzipan" pop-up doesn't come up in the .swf, or Flash, version is because the information for the pop-up is stored in the HTML source code. All that the Flash file does is send a JavaScript command to the browser, opening the pop-up window.
  • One of Strong Sad's expressions, "whistful," is spelled incorrectly. It should be "wistful."
  • In the Fake QOD, the words "Quote of the Day (Or So)" are displayed reversed, as though in a mirror, and, instead of "Hear It!" and "Get It!", the buttons are "Hear It!" and "Don't TAPE It", although the latter is hidden by the top of the screen. "TAPE" changes to "TAKE" when moused over.
  • When the Fake QOD easter egg is activated, the Games, Characters, Downloads, and Store buttons disappear.
    • This happens because the SWF file for virus's fake Quote of the Week (qod_virus.swf) has black bars at the bottom right where those words are, so when it appears in the email, it covers up those words.
  • Allowing the fake Sketchbook to remain on-screen causes a screen glitch—a black box appears over the left side of the screen when the screen moves off of the center of the page.
    • The reason for the color switcher glitch is because in the .swf file of the glitched up sketchbook, there is a black box to the left of the screen, which covers up the screen on the left.
  • This is the second e-mail made using the Widescreen technique. The first was flashback.
  • Clicking on the "main" on the navigation bar leads to the 404'd page. The address is http://www.homestarrunner.com/mainNaN.html. NaN is the computer term for Not a Number, which is obtained in some environments by dividing zero by zero and/or other mathematical errors.
  • When the fake popups appear followed by the real one, the fake ones look similar to the windows from some of the older Microsoft Windows operating systems. Depending on which operating system and desktop theme one uses, the real popup looks quite different from the fake ones. Especially users of operating systems such as Mac OS or Linux will notice this, while Windows 98 users will see no obvious difference.
  • At the beginning of the Email, the contrast buttons will slightly increase and decrease the volume.
  • In the Podcast version, Strong Bad looks back and forth when the ads pop up, even though they all appear in one area.
  • Most shotguns spread out from the barrel, whereas the blast from Bubs's shotgun seems to narrow down as it reaches the back wall.
  • When the "F" for Weekly Fanstuff and the "S" for Sketchbook are clicked, they change into a "Q".
  • When the top of the screen lowers to reveal the weeklies, using the tab key will highlight a rectangle where the new toon message is displayed. While it can't be clicked, pressing enter while it is highlighted will lead to Halloween Fairstival.

Goofs

  • While the liquid is leaking out of the screen, the contrast buttons are still clickable.
  • After Homestar grabs "downloads", "characters", and "games" from the bottom, "toons" is no longer clickable, unlike the other remaining links. Then, at the end of the email when everything else returns to normal, all the links disappear.tjrfky
  • As Strong Bad runs away from Bubs, his left arm momentarily disappears. This is easier to see if viewed in the Flash file.

Inside References

  • This is an extreme instance of Strong Bad's Computer Malfunctioning.
  • The "Flagrant System Error" ykfykfykfyfk
    • Using a broom to play Marzipan's garbled noise may be an oblique reference to people mistaking her for a broom.
  • "Making out with Marzipan is totally awesome" was once the phrase necessary to trigger the Strong Bad Talker from the Homestar Talker (It has since been changed). The sound clips for the words were also taken from the Homestar Talker. The first four words of the phrase are also heard in "The Cheat Theme Song".
  • Strong Bad screaming and pounding on the edge of the screen while the popups are appearing could be a reference to Where the Crap Are We?.
  • Strong Mad's description, which appears when he glitches, comes from the Yearbook Character Page, as does the picture of him inside a giant M.
    • This time, the giant M shows Strong Mad's "M" insignia on his singlet, whereas in Yearbook Character Page, the giant M did not.
  • The sound effect that plays when The Ugly One appears is taken from RhinoFeeder.
  • The Ugly One's line and the sound effects for her slapping the King of Town in the face come from crazy cartoon. However, she slightly misquotes it: the original line was "I can do it! I will do it nine times."
  • The powering-down sound that plays just before Bubs walks across the screen is the same sound that plays just before the Tandy 400 explodes in gimmicks
  • As Bubs is walking across the screen the first time, his left and right arms are moving as if stuck in positons #4 and #5 (respectively) in the Dancin' Bubs game. Bubs's right arm is also about twice as large as usual.
  • Bubs's broken JPEG mouth bears the letters "TH." This might be a reference to his other identity, The Thnikkaman.
  • During the final glitch scene (just before Bubs "fixes" the computer), the song playing iy

Real-World References

  • "Linux" is a Free Unix-like kernel originally written in 1991, or part of an entire operating system which uses this kernel ("GNU/Linux"). Another reference to Linux can be found in the Videlectrix game Hallrunner.
  • Edgarware is a spoof of Norton Anti-Virus, which until 2001 used bespectacled computer nerd Peter Norton as a front man.
  • The part where Homestar is followed by "ghost" images of himself is a Flash in-joke, referring to the Onion skinning feature of the program that will display translucent images of previous frames as an animation guide.
  • "Click on the monkey" refers to various popups where clicking on an object (ranging from targets to robbers, iPods, etc.) will usually bombard one's computer with spyware, viruses, etc.
  • The dance The Cheat performs when Strong Bad says, "Let's do a dance for the computer genius man," looks like Dana Carvey's "Church Lady" dance from the classic SNL sketch.
  • "Bourgeoise," one of the emoticons acting as Strong Sad's head, is the feminine form of the term used in Marxism to describe the middle or upper class that oppose the proletariat (working class) in the class struggle.
  • The "ding" sound heard after EdgarWare finds the viruses is taken from some versions of Microsoft Windows.
  • The screen "It's now safe to turn your computer off." is similar to the one displayed when shutting down a Windows computer that cannot turn itself off. The actual message is "It is now safe to turn off your computer", and the style of this message is taken from Windows 95 through 98. (and some later versions of Windows, if the computer is unable to turn itself off.)
  • "A wise guy, eh?" was frequently muttered (in a very similar tone of voice to how Strong Bad says it) by Moe Howard of the comedy group The Three Stooges.

===Fast Forward===fyyfkyfk

DVD Version

  • The central pop-up (that is, the one that would actually pop up on the website version) does not appear.
  • Unlike all other DVD emails, this has the navbar on the bottom.
  • The way the Quote of the Week, Sketchbook, and Weekly Fanstuff easter eggs work has changed. All three are combined into one easter egg, which goes to the Weekly Fanstuff easter egg, then the Quote of the Week easter egg, and finally the Sketchbook easter egg.
  • The DVD version features hidden creators' commentary. To access it, switch your DVD player's audio language selection while watching.

Commentary Transcript

(Commentary by: Mike Chapman, Matt Chapman, Homestar Runner) ykff

MATT: S— Oh, no. Strong Bad must have gotten some type of a wirus!

MIKE: {laughs} Virus.

MATT: B— Pardon?

MIKE: Virus?

MATT: Oh. I used the German pronunciation.

MIKE: {laughs} Yeah?

MATT: Yeah. fykkfkyyfk

/SIGGY HERE!

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