Editing Email Processing Room

[[Image:email processing room.png|thumb|right|220px|Print. Chew. Crumple. Repeat!]]
The '''Email Processing Room''' is the nexus of all [[Strong Bad]]'s e-mail processing. It is linked to through the animated GIF of a mouse on [[Strong Bad's Website]].   

'''Page Title:''' MEN AT WORK

==Processing Details==
[[The Cheat]] types on an old computer (probably an [[Wikipedia:Apple II series|Apple II]], by the shape of the computer case and the monitor on top) and prints out a potential email candidate. [[Strong Mad]] grabs the printout, puts on reading glasses, and reads the email briefly. He then chews up the paper, spits it into a cylinder, and sends it via [[Wikipedia:pneumatic tube|pneumatic tube]] to Strong Bad. Strong Bad just laughs at the paper and rips it into tiny pieces, and the cycle repeats.

==Noted Inconsistency==
Behind Strong Mad three signs that say, "PRiDE," "DETAiL," and "ETHiCS" can be seen. They include a link to the former website of "The Rumor." (The site has since expired and been turned into a weight loss advertisement page.) In an [[EmailFAQ|early FAQ]], requests for links from Homestar Runner were rejected on the grounds that the Brothers Chaps' policy has always been "absolutely no advertising," including links to other sites. This has been corrected in the later [[FAQ]]; it now says that they "link to a couple sites here and there but only when it's appropriate."

==The Rumor==
"The Rumor" was the premier American web site dealing in bootlegs of [[The Band]] run by Brent McNeal and Adam Sterritt, friends of [[Matt Chapman]] and [[Craig Zobel]]. Adam is also the brother of [[Ryan Sterritt]]. The "PRiDE," "DETAiL," and "ETHiCS" signs in the cartoon refer to corresponding signs posted in Rumor South headquarters, i.e. Adam's bedroom, and they display the common work principles of [[Strong Bad]] and The Rumor staff.

==Fun Facts==
*Back in the [[Tandy 400|Tandy]] era, sending Strong Bad an email would get an [[Strong Bad Email#Trivia|automated response]] that linked to the Email Processing Room page.
**The response explains the order of events in an acronym. The email gets "R.E.D. The Cheat '''R'''eads it, Strong Mad '''E'''ats it, and I '''D'''eletes it."
*The printer shown here is the printer Strong Bad uses at the end of emails, as shown in [[the paper]].
*The Flash file for the Email Processing Room can be found by exploring [[strongbad_email.exe Disc Two]] in a computer's DVD-ROM drive.
*A Flash decompiler reveals [[Strong Bad Evolution|Strong Bad's fourth design]] (seen in [[A Jumping Jack Contest]]) is being used.

==Goofs==
*Strong Mad appears to "grow" another arm out of his right arm the second and third time he lifts it.
*There is also a layering problem the second time he lowers his arm. He places the cylinder into the tube, then his fist moves in front of the table and disappears.
*When Strong Bad takes the chewed-up e-mail out of the cylinder, he doesn't unscrew the lid, but he takes the note out through the tube.
*Just before Strong Mad sends the cylinder down the tube, the lid closes itself.
*There is a little gray line that goes through The Cheat's computer.

== External Links ==
*[[HR:processing.html|Visit the Processing Room]]
*[[HR:processing.swf|View the Flash file for the Processing Room]]

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