old comics

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Summary

Zack asks Strong Bad why the King of Town has a Poopsmith, and Strong Bad tells him about the Castlefunnies.

Cast (in order of appearance): Strong Bad, The King of Town, The Poopsmith, Homestar Runner, Strong Mad (Easter Egg) and The Knight (Easter Egg)

Transcript

Strong Bad:(singing) Let's get it over with! With the e-mail style, get it over with! (pulls up e-mail)

Easter Eggs

• Click "west islip" at the beginning to see an audio cassette of the band, "West Is Lip".
• Click the commas in Mushy's speech bubble to see a picture of the discovery of the comma.
• Click on the word "moistener" in the sentence "King Castlefunnie Pencil Moistener" to see a picture of what the product looks like.
• Click "still wasn't funny" in the end to see more comics.
• In the last scene click on the sentence "Who Put Pasta Salad In Strong Mad's UnderDrawer Drawer Scare of '04" to see a little movie of Strong Mad eating pasta salad out of his underpants drawer.

Fun Facts

• "The Castle Funnies" comic is co-authored by Lem Sportsinterviews, a frequent contributor of books and illustrations.
• Everybody in the comic has a nose, a feature the castmembers lack (except Strong Mad and The Cheat).
• The art style is somewhat reminiscent of B.C. or The Wizard of Id.
• Mushy Chamberpot only speaking in commas is a reference to Woodstock from the classic comic strip Peanuts, who could also only speak using commas.
• "The Castle Funnies" is co-authored by Levert Burtmore, who wrote the "Dullard" comic in dullard.

External Links

• watch "old comics"
• view the flash file for "old comics"