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On '''[[Wikipedia:April Fool's Day|April Fool's Day]] 2006''', [[The Brothers Chaps]] flipped the site upside down.
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On '''[[April Fools' Day]] 2006''', [[homestarrunner.com]] was flipped upside down.
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==Fun Facts==
==Fun Facts==
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===Remarks===
===Remarks===
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*The following pages / sites are exempt from the flipping because they are hosted separately from the main H*R content or are not Flash files:
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*The following pages/sites were exempt from the flipping because they are hosted separately from the main Homestar Runner content or are not [[Flash]] files:
**[[Strong Bad's Website]]
**[[Strong Bad's Website]]
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**[[Store]]
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**[[Store]] and [[Store Thank You Messages]]
**[[Legal]]
**[[Legal]]
**[[Strong Sad's Lament]]
**[[Strong Sad's Lament]]
**[[Stinkoman 20X6]]
**[[Stinkoman 20X6]]
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***Note that if a HTML file is put together to try to do this, the "[[Stinkoman 20X6 Trivia#General|no Flash 7]]" warning appears.
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***Note that if one tries to flip Stinkoman 20X6, the "[[Stinkoman 20X6 Trivia#General|no Flash 7]]" warning appears.
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**[[Podstar Runner]]
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**[[Podstar Runner 2006|Podstar Runner]]
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**[[Store Thank You Messages]]
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**All the stuff in [[Museum]]
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**All the stuff in [[Museum]].
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*Seek bars did not work with the flipped toons.
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*Amusingly, this made [[Homsar]]'s [[Homsar's Character Video|character video]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20061023185919/http://www.homestarrunner.com/theyCallHimFlipper.swf?contentURL=vcr_homsar.swf right-side up], as well as [[Main Page 8]].
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*Seek bars do not work with the flipped toons.
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*This was the first [[:Category:April Fools|April Fools' Day prank]] that is not available directly through the site, as the two before it ([[Under Construction]] and [[HomestarRunner.com: PAY PLUS!]]) were archived in the [[Holiday]] section of the [[TV Time Toons Menu]], and the King of Town-themed pranks became an Easter egg in [[The King of Town DVD]].
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*Amusingly, this makes [[Homsar]]'s character page right-side up.
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*Unlike the pranks before it, this affected the entire Homestar Runner website. In previous pranks, the [[Index Page]] was replaced, but most content was unaffected.
===Glitches===
===Glitches===
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*Any time that a second Flash file is overlaid on the first it is not flipped.
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*Several toons that are not the usual 550x400 resolution were not centered properly:
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*Several toons that are not the usual 550x400 resolution are not centered properly:
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**[[virus]]
**[[virus]]
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***This email also suffers from its custom navbar missing, so Homestar pulls his words from nowhere.
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***This email also suffered from the fact that its custom navbar was missing, so Homestar pulled his words from nowhere.
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**[[Not the 100th Email!!!]]
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**[[Sbemail 100 Fakeout]]
**[[Handheld Games Menu]]
**[[Handheld Games Menu]]
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**[[flashback]] and [[Main Page 22]] are both correct, as they use their own flipper swf files, which handle the different size.
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**[[flashback]] and [[Main Page 22]] were both correct, as they used their own flipper .swf files, which handled the different size.
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*Some pages have invisible or missing text:
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*Some pages had invisible or missing text:
**[[Under Construction]]
**[[Under Construction]]
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**[[Main Page 22]] (games button is missing)
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**[[Main Page 18]] (No HTML text in the "Store" effect.)
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*[[TROGDOR!]] doesn't load up properly - the game itself takes up only the bottom right quarter of the usual frame, and the rest is filled in with gray.
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*In [[high school]], the "m." on Young Strong Mad's shirt was missing.
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*Many buttons and other scripts on some of the site do not work, as they use the <code>_root</code> property in ActionScript to access the main scene of the Flash file. However, with the flipper file loading the main scene, <code>_root</code> actually referrs to the ''flipper'', not the scene itself. The Brothers Chaps could have gotten around this by using the <code>[http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/mx2004/main_7_2/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=Flash_MX_2004&file=00001522.html _lockroot]</code> property in the flipper, but it seems they didn't know about it.
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*[[TROGDOR!]] didn't load up properly - the game itself took up only the bottom right quarter of the usual frame, and the rest was filled in with gray.
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**Many of the rollover button effects on the [[Main Pages]] don't work. In most cases, the speaker simply says the name of the button that is hovered over (without moving his lips) and no visual effects or other sounds occur.
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*Many buttons and other scripts on some of the site did not work, as they use the <code>_root</code> property in ActionScript to access the main scene of the Flash file. However, with the flipper file loading the main scene, <code>_root</code> actually referred to the ''flipper'', not the scene itself. [[The Brothers Chaps]] could have gotten around this by using the <code>_lockroot</code> property in the flipper, but it seems they didn't know about it (probably because they used Flash 5 at the time, in which the _lockroot property doesn't exist).
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**The Eject button on the [[Character Videos | Characters page]] (which normally makes Homsar's video come out of the VCR) does nothing.
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**The Eject button on the [[Character Videos|Characters page]] (which normally makes Homsar's video come out of the VCR) did nothing.
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**[[Edgar#Edgar's Baby's Daddy|Edgar's Baby's Daddy]] on [[candy product]] does not appear. Neither does the [[Old-Timey]] Easter egg in [[little animal]].
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**Some [[Easter eggs]] did not appear, such as the [[Old-Timey]] Easter egg in [[little animal]], and [[Edgar#Edgar's Baby's Daddy|Edgar's Baby's Daddy]] in [[candy product]].
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**The video clips in [[HomestarRunner.com PAY PLUS!]] repeat themselves automatically.
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**In [[interview]], you could not change the pictures on the [[sticky notes]] or play with [[The Cheat's lightswitch]].
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**The [[Random Toon|rando]] link on the navbar does not work.
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**In [[Duck Pond]], the hand never moved when it threw bread, and the ducks never ate what was thrown.
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**[[The King of Town DVD]], [[King of Town Main Page]] and anything linked from there loop at the end instead of stopping.   
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**The video clips in [[HomestarRunner.com: PAY PLUS!]] repeated themselves automatically.
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***Additionally, [[Revenge of the King]] seems to have a similar fate to TROGDOR! (with the broken screen), except you can not hurt The King of Town, nor does he shoot at you. The timer also doesn't work
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**The [[Random Toon|rando]] link on the navbar did not work.
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**On the [[Decemberween Email Menu]], none of the Easter eggs work.
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**[[The King of Town DVD]], [[King of Town Main Page]] and anything linked from there looped at the end instead of stopping.   
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**The buttons on [[Downloads]] don't work.
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***Additionally, [[Revenge of the King]] seems to have had a similar fate to TROGDOR! (with the broken screen), except you could not hurt The King of Town, nor did he shoot at you. The timer also didn't work.
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**The [[Telebision Toons Menu]] does not work.
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**On the [[Decemberween Email Menu]], none of the Easter eggs worked.
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**On any [[Strong Bad Email]]s featuring the [[Tandy 400]] or the [[Compy 386]], the contrast buttons don't work. This includes the Easter eggs in [[gimmicks]]. The ripples on the [[Lappy 486]] appear and disappear much faster than normal, and do not stay if the mouse button is held down.
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**The buttons on [[Downloads]] didn't work.
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**In any of the [[Strong Bad's Message Bored]] Games, none of them work right. There is no possble way to score on any of them.
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**The [[Telebision Toons Menu]] didn't work.
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**In [[First Time Here?]], the number of takes never changes.
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**On any [[Strong Bad Email]]s featuring the [[Tandy 400]] or the [[Compy 386]], the contrast buttons didn't work. This includes the Easter eggs in [[gimmicks]]. The ripples on the [[Lappy 486]] appeared and disappeared much faster than normal, and did not stay if the mouse button was held down.
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**The [[Peasant's Quest Movie Trailer]]s never load.
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**In any of the [[Strong Bad's Message Bored]] games, none of them worked right. There was no possible way to score on any of them.
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**The number of messages on [[Marzipan's Answering Machine]] never changes.
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**In [[First Time Here?]], the number of takes never changed; the clapperboard always read "Roll 1, Scene 1, Take 1".
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*In [[Peasant's Quest]], Trogdor's voice doesn't work.
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**The [[Peasant's Quest Movie Trailer]]s never loaded.
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**When the [[Kerrek]] is encountered, his tune does not play.
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**The number of messages on [[Marzipan's Answering Machine]] never changed.
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**Trying to kill [[Poor Gary]] proves unsuccesful.
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*In [[Peasant's Quest]], Trogdor's voice didn't work.
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*[[Main Page 23]] is missing the "What's New" and "Weeklies" buttons.
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**When the [[Kerrek]] is encountered, his tune did not play.
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*It seems that the text in the Quote of the Week isn't bold, like before the 'flip'.
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**Trying to kill [[Poor Gary]] proved unsuccessful.
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*Nothing in the [[Handheld Games Menu]] (except for [[Homestar Quiz]]), including itself, is fully playable.
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*It seems that the text in the Quote of the Week wasn't bold, like before the 'flip'.
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**None of the buttons in the actual menu work (except for "new games").
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*Nothing in the [[Handheld Games Menu]] (except for [[Homestar Quiz]]), including itself, was fully playable.
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**None of the buttons in [[Dancin' Bubs]] work.
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**None of the buttons in the actual menu worked (except for "new games").
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**[[Homestar Talker]] does not lay out stars for each correct word, and never progresses to the Strong Bad Talker.
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**None of the buttons in [[Dancin' Bubs]] worked.
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**Nothing but the bongos in [[Audition With Marzipan]] are playable.
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**[[Homestar Talker]] did not lay out stars for each correct word, and never progressed to the Strong Bad Talker.
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**[[Bronco Trolleys]] is broken; you can click the "Play" button, but the timer doesn't work and the ingredients are missing.
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**Nothing but the bongos in [[Audition with Marzipan]] were playable.
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**Neither the text boxes nor the finished libs work in [[Strong Libs]].
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**[[Bronco Trolleys]] was broken; you could click the "Play" button, but the timer didn't work and the ingredients were missing.
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**[[Hairstyle Runner]] is playable, but many things are not visible because the top frame is off-center.
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**Neither the text boxes nor the finished libs worked in [[Strong Libs]].
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**The fortune cookies in [[Fortune Cookies]] do not work.
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**[[Hairstyle Runner]] was playable, but many things were not visible because the top frame was off-center.
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**The [[Spin and Say]] does not spin.
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**The fortune cookies in [[Fortune Cookies]] did not work.
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**The buttons on the [[Astro Lite]] don't work.
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**The buttons on the [[Astro Lite]] didn't work.
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*Although the [[Main Pages]] rollover effects were mostly fixed, some issues remained:
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**[[Main Page 3]]: Homestar wasn't knocked back by the coconut for "Email".
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**[[Main Page 8]]: The screen kept moving on "Characters".
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**[[Main Page 10]]: [[The Homestar Runner]]'s body didn't expand when the bomb explodes after "Downloads".
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**[[Main Page 16]]: The entire menu still didn't work properly. In fact, two versions of the copyright notice appeared at the "top" of the screen, and the trees in the background were light blue. This issue remained briefly after the revert, but was fixed soon afterwards.
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**[[Main Page 18]]: On "Games", [[Sherlock]] did not mumble to himself. On "Store", the background "opened" and "closed" faster than usual, with no sound effects and no HTML behind it. These issues also remained after the prank ended, and were not fixed until January 18, 2021.
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**[[Main Page 22]]: The "What's New", "Weeklies", and "Main Pages" buttons appeared in their normal positions and orientations (though it's possible that it was left that way on purpose, given the theme of the page), and the partial scene from [[Peasant's Quest]] did not come in from the side.
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**[[Main Page 23]]: Homestar didn't move his lips for "Toons" and didn't reply with "'Sup" for "Store". Also, the "What's New" and "Weeklies" were missing.
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**[[Homsar Main Page]]: None of the effects worked, except a few bubbles appearing on "Toons".
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*[[Awexome Cross 98]]: When the player lost all their lives, the game froze and [[The Cheat]] was seen spinning in the tire, but the background stayed still.
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*The Storyboards and Deleted Scenes in [[In Search of the Yello Dello]] did not work.
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*When the pages were fixed early on the morning of April 2nd, the Main Page Navigation Bar fix was not initially repaired, leaving the main page right-side up, but the News button and Main Page numbers flipped.
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*The musical t-shirts from the [[Store]] were put in a upside down box at the bottom of the page with its light blue background as a border.
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* In [[A Jorb Well Done]], the sky is darker than usual.
===Fixed Glitches===
===Fixed Glitches===
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[[Image:Main 16 from 2001.PNG|thumb|[[Main Page 16]]: Looking into the past?]]
* Originally, the "What's new" button on the main pages did not appear in the correct location and was right-side up. This was fixed shortly after the "feature's" release.
* Originally, the "What's new" button on the main pages did not appear in the correct location and was right-side up. This was fixed shortly after the "feature's" release.
* The [[Strong Bad Email]] menu originally did not list any emails. This was also fixed.
* The [[Strong Bad Email]] menu originally did not list any emails. This was also fixed.
* The Weeklies popups originally appeared right-side up, but were later fixed so that they would appear flipped like the rest of the site.
* The Weeklies popups originally appeared right-side up, but were later fixed so that they would appear flipped like the rest of the site.
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*Many of the rollover button effects on the Main Pages don't work. In most cases, the speaker simply says the name of the button that is hovered over (without moving his lips) and no visual effects or other sounds occur. This was later fixed.
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* Many of the rollover button effects on the Main Pages didn't work. In most cases, the speaker simply said the name of the button that is hovered over (without moving his lips) and no visual effects or other sounds would occur. This was later fixed.
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* On [[Main Page 22]], the word "games" was not there. This was fixed later in the day.
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* After the orientation reset on April 2, [[Main Page 16]] had a copyright date of 2001 overlaying the regular copyright notice. Homestar's scarf was missing, as were some trees in the background, suggesting that certain elements of the main page were from an older version. Homestar would still speak as normal, but no triggered animations would happen other than mouth movements and a visible wisp of Homestar's breath.
===Real-World References===
===Real-World References===
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*The Flash file that causes the pages to be flipped contains the phrase "They call him Flipper", which is one of the lyrics to the [[Wikipedia:Flipper (1964 television)|Flipper]] theme song.
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*The Flash file that causes the pages to be flipped contains the phrase "They call him Flipper", a lyric from the ''{{w|Flipper (1964 TV series)|Flipper}}'' theme song.
==External Links==
==External Links==
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*[http://www.homestarrunner.com/theyCallHimFlipper.swf?contentURL=welcome.swf View the Flash file for the flipped opening page]
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20061025205148/http://www.homestarrunner.com/theyCallHimFlipper.swf?contentURL=welcome.swf view an archive of the Flash file for the flipped opening page]
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*Several toons with different sizes have their own flash file to compensate:
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**This is an example... everything other than the exceptions below used this style of URL. You used to be able to replace the part after <code>contentURL=</code> with the Flash file of the toon you want to flip. However, after an unspecified date, this feature was taken off the website.
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**[http://www.homestarrunner.com/theyCallHimFlipperMainNav.swf?contentURL=main_nav.swf View the Flash file for the flipped navbar]
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*Several toons with different sizes had their own Flash file to compensate:
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**[http://www.homestarrunner.com/theyCallHimFlipperToons.swf?contentURL=tvguide.swf View the Flash file for the flipped Toons Menu]
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**[https://web.archive.org/web/20061023185933/http://www.homestarrunner.com/theyCallHimFlipperToons.swf?contentURL=tvguide.swf view an archive of the Flash file for the flipped Toons Menu]
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**[http://www.homestarrunner.com/theyCallHimFlipperGames.swf?contentURL=gamesmenu_new.swf View the Flash file for the flipped Games Menu]
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**[https://web.archive.org/web/20061025205301/http://www.homestarrunner.com/theyCallHimFlipperGames.swf?contentURL=gamesmenu_new.swf view an archive of the Flash file for the flipped Games Menu]
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**[http://www.homestarrunner.com/theyCallHimFlipperPayPlus.swf?contentURL=payplus2.swf View the Flash file for the flipped HomestarRunner.com PAY PLUS!]
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**[https://web.archive.org/web/20060903135151/http://www.homestarrunner.com/theyCallHimFlipperPayPlus.swf?contentURL=payplus2.swf view an archive of the Flash file for the flipped HomestarRunner.com: PAY PLUS!]
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**[http://www.homestarrunner.com/theyCallHimFlipperVirusMain.swf?contentURL=main22.swf View the Flash file for the flipped Main Page 22]
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**[https://web.archive.org/web/20061025205237/http://www.homestarrunner.com/theyCallHimFlipperVirusMain.swf?contentURL=main22.swf view an archive of the Flash file for the flipped Main Page 22]
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**[http://www.homestarrunner.com/theyCallHimFlipperHundred.swf?contentURL=sbemailahundred.swf View the Flash file for the flipped flashback]
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**[https://web.archive.org/web/20061023185947/http://www.homestarrunner.com/theyCallHimFlipperHundred.swf?contentURL=sbemailahundred.swf view an archive of the Flash file for the flipped flashback]
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*[[Forum:7608|Forum thread Re: April Fool's 2006]]
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*[[Forum:7608|forum thread re: April Fools' 2006]]
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[[Category:April Fools]]
[[Category:April Fools]]

Current revision as of 00:51, 7 July 2024

Which way is up again?

On April Fools' Day 2006, homestarrunner.com was flipped upside down.

Contents

[edit] Fun Facts

[edit] Remarks

[edit] Glitches

  • Several toons that are not the usual 550x400 resolution were not centered properly:
  • Some pages had invisible or missing text:
  • In high school, the "m." on Young Strong Mad's shirt was missing.
  • TROGDOR! didn't load up properly - the game itself took up only the bottom right quarter of the usual frame, and the rest was filled in with gray.
  • Many buttons and other scripts on some of the site did not work, as they use the _root property in ActionScript to access the main scene of the Flash file. However, with the flipper file loading the main scene, _root actually referred to the flipper, not the scene itself. The Brothers Chaps could have gotten around this by using the _lockroot property in the flipper, but it seems they didn't know about it (probably because they used Flash 5 at the time, in which the _lockroot property doesn't exist).
  • In Peasant's Quest, Trogdor's voice didn't work.
    • When the Kerrek is encountered, his tune did not play.
    • Trying to kill Poor Gary proved unsuccessful.
  • It seems that the text in the Quote of the Week wasn't bold, like before the 'flip'.
  • Nothing in the Handheld Games Menu (except for Homestar Quiz), including itself, was fully playable.
    • None of the buttons in the actual menu worked (except for "new games").
    • None of the buttons in Dancin' Bubs worked.
    • Homestar Talker did not lay out stars for each correct word, and never progressed to the Strong Bad Talker.
    • Nothing but the bongos in Audition with Marzipan were playable.
    • Bronco Trolleys was broken; you could click the "Play" button, but the timer didn't work and the ingredients were missing.
    • Neither the text boxes nor the finished libs worked in Strong Libs.
    • Hairstyle Runner was playable, but many things were not visible because the top frame was off-center.
    • The fortune cookies in Fortune Cookies did not work.
  • Awexome Cross 98: When the player lost all their lives, the game froze and The Cheat was seen spinning in the tire, but the background stayed still.
  • The Storyboards and Deleted Scenes in In Search of the Yello Dello did not work.
  • When the pages were fixed early on the morning of April 2nd, the Main Page Navigation Bar fix was not initially repaired, leaving the main page right-side up, but the News button and Main Page numbers flipped.
  • The musical t-shirts from the Store were put in a upside down box at the bottom of the page with its light blue background as a border.
  • In A Jorb Well Done, the sky is darker than usual.

[edit] Fixed Glitches

Main Page 16: Looking into the past?
  • Originally, the "What's new" button on the main pages did not appear in the correct location and was right-side up. This was fixed shortly after the "feature's" release.
  • The Strong Bad Email menu originally did not list any emails. This was also fixed.
  • The Weeklies popups originally appeared right-side up, but were later fixed so that they would appear flipped like the rest of the site.
  • Many of the rollover button effects on the Main Pages didn't work. In most cases, the speaker simply said the name of the button that is hovered over (without moving his lips) and no visual effects or other sounds would occur. This was later fixed.
  • On Main Page 22, the word "games" was not there. This was fixed later in the day.
  • After the orientation reset on April 2, Main Page 16 had a copyright date of 2001 overlaying the regular copyright notice. Homestar's scarf was missing, as were some trees in the background, suggesting that certain elements of the main page were from an older version. Homestar would still speak as normal, but no triggered animations would happen other than mouth movements and a visible wisp of Homestar's breath.

[edit] Real-World References

  • The Flash file that causes the pages to be flipped contains the phrase "They call him Flipper", a lyric from the Flipper theme song.

[edit] External Links

This article requires information that is no longer accessible. Our records are currently incomplete, but you could help the wiki by contributing your knowledge on the matter. Missing: Date of "theyCallHimFlipper" deactivation
April Fools' Day
2003: kingoftown.com (King of Town Main Page, Revenge of the King, King of Townmail)
2004: Under Construction
2005: HomestarRunner.com: PAY PLUS!
2006: April Fools' 2006
2009: April Fool 09
2010: Xeriouxly Forxe
2014: April Fool 2014
2015: sbemail 206
2016: Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 17.2
2018: the next april fools thing
2019: Discount Strong Bad emails
2022: parenting
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