Strong Bad's Computer Malfunctioning

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Nearly every [[Items#Strong Bad's Computers|computer]] that [[Strong Bad]] has owned has '''malfunctioned''' at some point, and they have done so in some famously tragic ways, most often with a Flagrant System Error or by exploding (the latter ending the computer's run to be replaced by a newer, better, but [[Strong Bad's Technology|still obsolete]] version).
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'''[[Strong Bad]]'s Computer Malfunctioning''' happens to every computer he's had (excluding the [[Lappy 486]]... so far), and seem to happen in some famously tragic ways, most often with a Flagrant System Error or by exploding (the latter ending the computer's run to be replaced by a newer, better, but still obsolete version).
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==System Errors==
==System Errors==
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[[Image:Office Compy PuppetStuff.jpg|thumb|More flamboyant, Less flagrant]]
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The '''System Error''' screen appears whenever Strong Bad's computer crashes. It is an obvious reference to the [[Wikipedia:Blue screen of death|Blue screen of death]] that appears on Windows computers.
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The '''System Error''' screen appears whenever Strong Bad's computer crashes. It is a direct reference to the [[Wikipedia:Blue screen of death|blue screen of death]] that appears on Windows computers.
===Flagrant System Error===
===Flagrant System Error===
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<blockquote class="email" style="background:#2222FF; text-align:center">FLAGRANT SYSTEM ERROR<br />
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[[Image:flagrant system error 2.PNG|thumb|150px|"What the... Where did all my emails go?"]]
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'''Computer:''' [[Compy 386]]
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*Email [[50 emails]]
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*[[strongbad_email.exe Disc Three]]
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<blockquote class="email" style="background:#455fd8; text-align:center">FLAGRANT SYSTEM ERROR<br />
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The system is down. I dunno know what <br />
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The system is down. I dunno what <br />
you did, moron, but you sure <br />
you did, moron, but you sure <br />
screwed everything up good.</blockquote>
screwed everything up good.</blockquote>
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{{clear}}
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===Computer Over Notification===
===Computer Over Notification===
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<blockquote class="email" style="background:#2222FF;text-align:center">FLAGRANT SYSTEM ERROR<br />
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[[Image:flagrant system error.PNG|thumb|150px|"Computer over? Virus equals very yes? That's not a good prize!"]]
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'''Computer:''' Compy 386
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*Email [[virus]]
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<blockquote class="email" style="background:#455fd8;text-align:center">FLAGRANT SYSTEM ERROR<br />
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<br />
Computer over.<br />
Computer over.<br />
Virus = Very Yes.</blockquote>
Virus = Very Yes.</blockquote>
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{{clear}}
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===Flamboyant System Error===
===Flamboyant System Error===
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<blockquote class="short email" style="background:darkblue; text-align:center">Flamboyant System Error<br />
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[[Image:Office Compy PuppetStuff.jpg|thumb|150px|"''Oh, great!''"]]
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'''Computer:''' [[Corpy NT6]] (puppet variation)
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*[[Biz Cas Fri 1]]
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<blockquote class="email" style="background:#3a5f90; text-align:center">Flamboyant System Error<br />
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3rd Qtr. Projection= Bad News</blockquote>
3rd Qtr. Projection= Bad News</blockquote>
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{{clear}}
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===Appearances===
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===Teal Screen of Near Death===
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*[[50 emails]]
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[[Image:Tealscreenneardeath.PNG|thumb|150px|Oh, Child!]]
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*[[virus]] ("Computer Over" notification)
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'''Computer:''' [[Lappy 486]]
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*[[strongbad email.exe Disc Three]]
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*Email [[retirement]]
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*[[Biz Cas Fri 1]] (Flamboyant System Error)
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<blockquote style="background: #06bfad; padding: 30px; width: 25em; margin: 0; border: none">
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[[Category:Running Gags]]
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{| style="margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto"
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|<div style="border: 1px solid black"><p style="border-top: 2px solid white; border-left: 2px solid white; border-bottom: 2px solid #999; border-right: 2px solid #999; background: #CCC; color: black; font-size: 150%; text-align: center; line-height: 125%; margin: 0; padding: 0"><big>[[Image:NO symbol red w-gray.png|50px|link=]]''' Oh, Child!'''[[Image:warning symbol yellow w-gray.png|50px|link=]]</big>
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<br>It's the Teal Screen<br>&nbsp;of Near Death! (TSoND)&nbsp;</p></div>
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|}
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</blockquote>
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{{clear}}
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===Temp Log Off/Out Error===
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[[Image:Temperror.PNG|thumb|150px|"Augh, gonna be a long one."]]
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'''Computer:''' Corpy NT6
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*Email [[from work]]
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<blockquote class="email" style="background:#0048b6; border-color:#E2E2E2; text-align:center">
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{| cellspacing="0" style="border:1px solid white; color:white; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto"
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|-
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| style="background:#FFFFFF;color:#455FD8" | &nbsp;TEMP LOG OFF/OUT ERROR&nbsp;
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|-
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| <div style="text-align:center; border:none; background:none">Oh you are SOOOO not<br/>gonna work here again!</div>
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|}
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</blockquote>
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{{clear}}
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===Fake Fragrant System Error===
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[[Image:compe error.png|thumb|150px|i joké]]
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'''Computer:''' [[Compé]]
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*[[Compy Catalog]]
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<blockquote class="email" style="background:#0000dc; border-color:#E2E2E2; text-align:center">
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FRAGRANT SYSTEM ERROR
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<br>Your brand new computer is bloke.
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<br>Please prepare to wait on hold
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<br>with tech support for several hours.
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<br>The current tech support smugness
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<br>level is RED.
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</blockquote>
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{{clear}}
==Strong Bad's Computers Exploding==
==Strong Bad's Computers Exploding==
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[[Image:sbemail33.PNG|thumb|Spontaneous explosion!]]
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[[Image:sbemail33.PNG|thumb|YOUR TANDY [[A SPLODE]]]]
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Some of Strong Bad's Computers are also known to explode spontaneously. Probably the most famous of these explosions was the explosion of the [[Tandy 400]], which was later fixed (though it still had some malfunctions, such as deleting emails he wanted saved, and saving emails he wanted deleted).
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Some of Strong Bad's computers are also known to [[Explosions|explode]], whether spontaneously or by outside forces. Probably the most famous of these explosions was the first explosion of the [[Tandy 400]], which was later fixed (though it still had some malfunctions afterward).
===Appearances===
===Appearances===
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*[[gimmicks]]
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*Email [[gimmicks]] ([[Tandy]]; this is shown again in a flashback in [[personal favorites]] and [[hremail 3184]])
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*[[virus]] (after being shotgunned)
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*Email [[invisibility]] (Tandy, as shown in flashback in [[hremail 3184]])
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*[[Biz Cas Fri 3]]
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*Email [[virus]] (Compy; not in the original but shown in a flashback in [[hremail 3184]], exploded when Bubs shot a hole in it)
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*[[Biz Cas Fri 3]] (Corpy NT6, puppet style)
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*Email [[retirement]] (Tandy, purposely destroyed by Strong Bad and Homestar; Compy, while in [[Strong Mad]]'s mouth)
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*Email [[hremail 3184]] ([[Lappy]]; purposely destroyed by Strong Bad through use of a self-destruct button)
==Miscellaneous Malfunctions==
==Miscellaneous Malfunctions==
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[[Image:Fixedished_Tandy.PNG|thumb|I hate this computer.]]
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[[Image:sbemail118.png|thumb|150px|That is not a small number!]]
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Strong Bad's computers often have random malfunctions, sometimes due to [[gimmicks|explosions]] or [[The Virus|viruses]]. These malfunctions are short-lived, however.
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Strong Bad's computers often have various malfunctions, sometimes involving [[gimmicks|explosions]] or [[The Virus|viruses]].
===Appearances===
===Appearances===
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*[[sisters]]
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*Email [[sisters]] {{--}} The Tandy spontaneously deletes Strong Bad's email, then saves another email when Strong Bad tries to delete it.
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*[[virus]]
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*Email [[virus]] {{--}} The Compy refuses to delete the virus email, reports more than 400,000 viruses, then blue-screens before the contents of the screen pour onto the carpet.
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*[[Main Page 22]]
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{{clear}}
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==The Paper==
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[[File:Strong Bad lamenting The Paper.png|thumb|150px|"wE haDd A goOd RUN, oLD buDddy."]]
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Following 172 emails of service, [[The Paper]] and its printer fell from an [[Hammerspace|unknown location]] above Strong Bad, breaking it as predicted in the email [[montage]]. After a few moments of reminiscing, Strong Bad burned the paper, in accordance with its last wishes. It was almost immediately replaced by an inkjet printer and the [[New Paper]]. The Paper came back in [[email thunder]] to beat up the New Paper, but since it got burned, its current fate is unknown. In [[hremail 3184]], the Lappy's explosion destroyed one of the Papers, but it's unknown for sure which one.
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[[Category:Running Gags]]
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===Appearances===
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*Email [[the paper]]
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*Email [[hremail 3184]]
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{{clear}}
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{{StrongBadEmailInfo}}
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[[Category:Electronics running gags]][[Category:Strong Bad Email running gags]]

Current revision as of 22:03, 26 March 2024

Nearly every computer that Strong Bad has owned has malfunctioned at some point, and they have done so in some famously tragic ways, most often with a Flagrant System Error or by exploding (the latter ending the computer's run to be replaced by a newer, better, but still obsolete version).

Contents

[edit] System Errors

The System Error screen appears whenever Strong Bad's computer crashes. It is a direct reference to the blue screen of death that appears on Windows computers.

[edit] Flagrant System Error

"What the... Where did all my emails go?"

Computer: Compy 386

[edit] Computer Over Notification

"Computer over? Virus equals very yes? That's not a good prize!"

Computer: Compy 386

[edit] Flamboyant System Error

"Oh, great!"

Computer: Corpy NT6 (puppet variation)

[edit] Teal Screen of Near Death

Oh, Child!

Computer: Lappy 486

Oh, Child!
It's the Teal Screen
 of Near Death! (TSoND) 

[edit] Temp Log Off/Out Error

"Augh, gonna be a long one."

Computer: Corpy NT6

[edit] Fake Fragrant System Error

i joké

Computer: Compé

[edit] Strong Bad's Computers Exploding

YOUR TANDY A SPLODE

Some of Strong Bad's computers are also known to explode, whether spontaneously or by outside forces. Probably the most famous of these explosions was the first explosion of the Tandy 400, which was later fixed (though it still had some malfunctions afterward).

[edit] Appearances

[edit] Miscellaneous Malfunctions

That is not a small number!

Strong Bad's computers often have various malfunctions, sometimes involving explosions or viruses.

[edit] Appearances

  • Email sisters — The Tandy spontaneously deletes Strong Bad's email, then saves another email when Strong Bad tries to delete it.
  • Email virus — The Compy refuses to delete the virus email, reports more than 400,000 viruses, then blue-screens before the contents of the screen pour onto the carpet.

[edit] The Paper

"wE haDd A goOd RUN, oLD buDddy."

Following 172 emails of service, The Paper and its printer fell from an unknown location above Strong Bad, breaking it as predicted in the email montage. After a few moments of reminiscing, Strong Bad burned the paper, in accordance with its last wishes. It was almost immediately replaced by an inkjet printer and the New Paper. The Paper came back in email thunder to beat up the New Paper, but since it got burned, its current fate is unknown. In hremail 3184, the Lappy's explosion destroyed one of the Papers, but it's unknown for sure which one.

[edit] Appearances

Strong Bad Email Info
Site Components Menu (Scroll Button Songs), Irregular Back Links, Irregular URLs, Page Titles, Descriptions, Podstar Runner (2006)
Emails by Title, Length, Intros (DVD, Part 1; Part 2), Subject, Greeting, Closing, Sender, Place, Outros, Release Dates
Running Gags Intros Relevant to the Email, Crapfully Yours, Until Next Time..., DELETED, Draw Trogdor Again, How do you type with boxing gloves on?
Spin-offs, Emails Edited by Strong Bad, Emails Taken in a Different Direction
Abdi LaRue, Ali and Ali's Sister, Bogus Mathematical Theorems, DNA Evidence, Edgar, Tape-leg
Email Number References, Acknowledged Update Delays
Background Emails, Nonexistent Emails
Technology Strong Bad's Computers (Malfunctioning, Surpassing Their Assumed Capabilities, Relationships, Stylized Text), Papers (Preeeeow), Floppy Disk Container
Analysis Statistics, Emails That Meet Strong Bad's Approval, Poorly Written Emails
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