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*This is one of only a few emails where the characters seem to "break the fourth wall" by recognizing their existence as cartoon characters on a computer screen rather than in a fictional world of their own. Other emails where they do this are [[flashback]] (they extend the size of the display area and Homestar is "behind the black") and [[the process]] (the entire email implies that Strong Bad is aware that he is a cartoon being watched by people at home). | *This is one of only a few emails where the characters seem to "break the fourth wall" by recognizing their existence as cartoon characters on a computer screen rather than in a fictional world of their own. Other emails where they do this are [[flashback]] (they extend the size of the display area and Homestar is "behind the black") and [[the process]] (the entire email implies that Strong Bad is aware that he is a cartoon being watched by people at home). | ||
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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux "Linux"] refers to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software Free] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix-like Unix-like] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_%28computer_science%29 kernel] originally written for the 386 by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds Linus Torvalds] in 1991, or an entire operating system which uses this kernel. The name is often thrown around as a buzzword by those who do not know what it is, which explains Strong Bad's absolutely random use of the name. | *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux "Linux"] refers to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software Free] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix-like Unix-like] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_%28computer_science%29 kernel] originally written for the 386 by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds Linus Torvalds] in 1991, or an entire operating system which uses this kernel. The name is often thrown around as a buzzword by those who do not know what it is, which explains Strong Bad's absolutely random use of the name. | ||
Revision as of 16:35, 15 November 2004
Strong Bad Email #118
Strong Bad experiences some "technical difficulties" with Compy 386.
Cast (in order of appearance): Strong Bad, Strong Sad, Homestar Runner, Strong Mad, Marzipan, The Poopsmith, The King of Town, The Ugly One, Bubs, The Cheat, Fightgar (easter egg)
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Easter Eggs
- If you click on the cog on the left at the end of the e-mail, you can see the compy on sale at Bub's concession stand.
- If you click on the fan on the right, you can see a changed Cheat Commando episode.
- When the Main page is encroaching on the top of the screen you can still click the Quote of the Week, Sketchbook and Weekly Fanstuff buttons to see them.
- If you tab over to where the updates are posted and hit enter, it takes you to Halloween Fairstival.
- If you go to the URL that pops up in your adress bar, ( http://www.homestarrunner.com/hsmakeout.html ) you can see a Homestar pop-up that adds a few words on to the "Making out with Marzipan" line.
Fun Facts
- A lot of the things said during the time when the viruses go haywire are quotes from previous episodes. For example, SB talking about radishes is from the reddest radish. The Ugly One says one of the lines from the Cheat's cartoon in the SBemail 'cartoon'.
- When Strong Sad appears after the water flows out of the Compy 386, if you look to the top right corner you see the words "Stave it off 1, 2, 3..." which refers to the Strong Bad e-mail "For Kids"
- When the screen switches to the "Teen Girl Squad" screen, the issue number is the first nine digits of Pi.
- A 'quadratic formula' is a real mathematical formula
- When Bubs' mouth is a broken jpeg, it has the letters "TH." this is a reference to his other life as Masked Distractor The Thnikkaman. Bubs may have taken action against the Compy in order to protect his secret identity.
- The floppy on Strong Bad's desk is labeled "Spy vs. Spy" before it melts into the desk. Spy vs. Spy is a feature comic of Mad Magazine, and has recently been featured in Mountain Dew commercials. More appropriately, it was also a mildly popular Nintendo and computer game around 1990.
- In the easter egg with The Cheat, notice that his gun is Homestar's leg.
- This is most likely the end of the Compy 386 era. We should see a new computer in the next email or so. The last computer change was in invisibility
- This is one of only a few emails where the characters seem to "break the fourth wall" by recognizing their existence as cartoon characters on a computer screen rather than in a fictional world of their own. Other emails where they do this are flashback (they extend the size of the display area and Homestar is "behind the black") and the process (the entire email implies that Strong Bad is aware that he is a cartoon being watched by people at home).
- Note that the sound Strong Mad makes as he doodles off the screen is the same as Homsar's movement noise.
- "Linux" refers to the Free Unix-like kernel originally written for the 386 by Linus Torvalds in 1991, or an entire operating system which uses this kernel. The name is often thrown around as a buzzword by those who do not know what it is, which explains Strong Bad's absolutely random use of the name.
