Number One Jams
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- This article is about "Jam" as a musical term. For the other uses of the word, see Jam.
Number One Jam is a phrase used within the Homestar Runner body of work when The Brothers Chaps or a character is describing a song. The term is often used in a self-referential context, so there is nothing to verify whether or not a song is actually a Number One Jam. However, sometimes the claim is verified, as in time capsule when Stinkoman remarks "It tastes like a number one jam" after eating the Grumblecakes single.
[edit] Appearances
- Everybody to the Limit — "The #1 Summer Jam" (description on the Toons Menu)
- Ballad of The Sneak — "The #1 Summer Jam from 1936" (description on the Toons Menu)
- Email time capsule — Strong Bad puts a cassette tape with one of his number one jams about Grumblecakes in his time capsule. Then, Stinkoman eats the cassette tape, thinking that it's a power crunch, and says, "It tastes like a number one jam!"
- In rock opera, this line is pulled out of context to form the sentence "Positate without pizzaz and jam!"
- Email rampage — Coach Z raps that his lyrical rampage is "the number one jam on all the stations".
- Email alternate universe — Strong Bad and his doppelgängers record a number one jam.
- An Important Rap Song — "Download All Our Number One Jams!!" appears at the end.
- Field Day Intro — Strong Bad decides to give the audience the "number one jam of the summer!"
- Yahoo Store — The message on the front page described Strongbad_email.exe Disc Five as "the number one jam of the summer".
- Fish Eye Lens — Coach Z, worried about how long it has been since the last number one jam, gets Strong Bad to rap with him to make a new one.
- Main Page Messages — The button advertising Fish Eye Lens reads "new #1 jam!"
- Quote of the Week — "GET THE NEW #1 JAM!" (the full Fish Eye Lens song).
[edit] Variations
Occasionally, "jam" will be used to refer to music without qualifying it as "Number One".
- Everybody Knows It — Puppet Homestar tells The Cheat to "mash play on that jambox". The Jam Box then reappears in several other toons.
- Strong Sad's Lament — Strong Sad states that he'll take his washboard and jam with Francis Scott Key instead.
- Puppet Homestar recorded a series of songs with They Might Be Giants, collectively titled "Puppet Jam".
- Email cheatday — Bubs tries to cut demos for two of Strong Bad's songs, the latter of which he calls a good jam.
- In an Easter egg, Bubs and Coach Z cut a demo as the Two-O-Duo. Coach Z remarks, "I got fresh jams."
- Halloween Potion-ma-jig — Dressed as Theo Huxtable, Coach Z raps "Jammin' on the one!"
- Email road trip — Strong Bad takes a CD of Jammin' Tunes with him in the Gremlin.
- Happy Hallow-day — The skull in the spooky woods sprouts a rainbow afro and says, "A-jam on it!"
