Paint Daubs
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Citizens of Free Country, USA have strong opinions about painted (as opposed to carved) pumpkins. When calling them out, they have a tendency to specifically use the phrase "paint daubs" (which means haphazard strokes or smears of paint).
[edit] Appearances
- Punkin Show — Homestar Runner explicitly forbids "paint daubs", as he says twice. He later says that The Show is sponsored by the Council Against Paint Daubs.
- Fish Eye Lens — "PAINT DAUBZ" is listed as a filter in a Powered by The Cheat depiction of what appears to be Photoshop.
- @StrongBadActual —
- 4 Oct 2017 — Strong Bad responds to carved pumpkins with the hashtag #nodaubs4lyfe.
- 4 Oct 2017 — Strong Bad replies to a photo of a pumpkin with Bubs's face drawn on it, saying that it's "getting dangerously close to paint daubs territory", as "Sharpie daubs count too".
- 1 Oct 2019 — Strong Bad quotes "NO PAINT DAUBS!" to a fan who won the Punkin Show.
- 7 Oct 2019 — Strong Bad responds to a pumpkin with his own face painted on it with "nothing heralds the coming of autumn like the smell of NO PAINT DAUBS!!"
- 16 Oct 2019 — In response to a photo of a children's book depicting painted pumpkins (captioned "Happy Pumpkin Day"), Strong Bad says that paint daubs are "the scourge of Pumpkin Days everywhere".
- 30 Oct 2022 — Impressed with a photo of a pumpkin depicting The Cheat in Strong Badia, Strong Bad remarks that it could almost get him to reverse his stance on paint daubs.
