Talk:secret identity

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Past our bedtimes

It has finally happened! I discovered and watched this Strong Bad email before the Wiki knew that it existed. Ah, sweet success.Triumvir 10:31, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

You mean not counting the fact that I started the toon page several minutes before you posted anything? ;) — It's dot com 10:35, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Actually, it let me create the page and found no conflicts when I did. I guess you just started editing it before me  :-) Triumvir 10:42, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Well, I realize I'm tooting my own horn here, but I'm pretty sure my edit was before yours. :) — It's dot com 12:36, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Ugh! you can do that!? Oh and hi Triumvir! Welcome to the wiki! --Stux 14:30, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

...And how exactly is that an accomplishment?

Agentjs03 21:36, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Dunno where to put it, but

The .wad file extension is most famous for its use on data files for Doom. -- Vorn

simpsons?

Isn't "worst mayo party ever" a reference to the simpsons? You know, Comic Book Guy: Worst ____ Ever!" --TheGreatLogini 12:43, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

brokeback Laramie?

did anyone else think about brokeback mountain when the cowboy picture came up or is there another cowboy reference that I might be missing. I R F 12:53, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

I did, but I still don't think it's a reference. More likely, Laramie is a popular setting for westerns... come to think of it, I think I'll add that. Terlet Brush 19:01, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Isn't Laramie a brand of cigarettes on the Simpsons, with a wild west theme (sort of like Marlboro)?

I totally thought the same thing. Don't know if it's worth referencing, but then with all the press the movie's gotten...--Impulse2, who needs to register

Actually, the town of Laramie is sort of famous for a hate crime which killed a . There is a play about it entitled The Laramie Project.--Lucyinthesky 22:24, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

I think two possible Simpsons references in one toon is too coincidental to be a coincedence. Salty^Talk! 23:54, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Nintendogs?

Is the video game "where you pretend to be a dog" Nintendogs? Or possibly Animal Crossing? Neither of those really counts since you're not actually pretending to be a dog or frog. There was another one, a non-DS one, where you actually pretend to be a dog, but I forget its name off the top of my head. - [User:Octan|Octan] Jan 25 2005, 8:38AM EST

A Dog's Life, for the PS2. --ENUSY 13:37, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Hm...aren't you a frog in Frogger?--Martin925 23:57, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

I say Frogger and Nintendogs. Or perhaps Dog's Life for PS2... --MrsCommanderson 00:36, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

a lot of work for one small comment

When SB talks about seeing the Poopsmith and himself together, I was thinking that TBC put there just to gives us work to do. It would take a bit of work, but does anyone find it worth it to list all of the times that SB and TPS have appeared in the same frame...or is that just too much work which will just amount to one small comment such as, "depsite trying to claim that he has never been seen with the poopsmith, they appeared together in ______, _____, and ______." I R F 13:40, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Three words: big white face. And don't forget couch patch. And rock opera. And Strong Bad is in Jail Cartoon. And Parsnips-a-Plenty. — Has Matt? (talk) 13:44, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

I know, there are a bunch, but is it worth trying to find them all? I R F 13:50, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Doubt it. But who knows what bored people with no lives will do. :P - Joshua 13:52, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Especially bored wiki people. I R F 13:56, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

And labor day... — Has Matt? (talk) 14:00, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Like in The Geddup Noise, I made this to help make tedious searches like this one. The only thing it doesn't have is regular toons. --Stux 14:32, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

You know, I remeber seeing that but I couldn't find it. SB and TPS have also appeared in several Halloween toons together. I R F 14:44, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

By the way, Parsnips-a-Plenty doesn't really count because it's an Old Timey Era with different characters. – The Chort 19:04, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Don't forget A Jumping Jack Contest == About Me ==

I am a regular kind of guy, hang out with friends, edit the wiki, and so on. I enjoy playing video games, and am a die-hard Legend of Zelda fan.

How I found Homestar, and the Wiki

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I first heard of Homestar from my oldest brother, who would watch the toons before he went off to school. I later heard about the site from a friend of mine. A few toons, and I was hooked. I cannot tell you how many accounts I have created over several different sites based off of Homestar. I came upon the wiki when I Google searched "Homestar". I wanted to find a place where I could find all the easter eggs, and some explanations about the jokes. I found this site, created a username, and the rest was history.

Favorite Stuffs

Short: 4 Gregs

Sb Email: alternate universe

Puppet stuff: Labor Day

Game: Kid Speedy

Favorite Monty Python And the Holy Grail Quotes

"How do you know she is a witch?"

• "well, she turned me into a newt!"

"A newt?"

• "...I got better."

"What do you do with witches?"

• "Burn them!!!"

"And what do you burn with witches?"

• "MORE WITCHES!!!" *Whump* "Wood."

"And of Course, Sir-Not-Appearing-in-This-Film."

"We are the knights who say...Icky-icky tang Zooppwoinwarangle..."

"And you must cut down the tallest tree in the forest, WIITH..A HERRING!"

Superman reference

Ms Fessmocker (sp?) is a reference to the female henchman(woman?) of Lex Luthor in the first Superman movie. Does this mean that the cheat is female? Maybe... probably not. It does kind of make sense that the cheat would pick a henchman of a villian as a fake name.

Would make even more sense if this was signed...--ISlayedTheKerrek 15:33, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

The Poopsmith and I?

Shouldn't that be "The Poopsmith and me?" -- Mycroft Holmes 14:53, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Nope. The correct pronoun to use is 'I'. --Musachan 15:11, 25 January 2006 (UTC)Musachan

Hmmmm ... but, wouldn't you say "Have you ever seen us together"? You + me = us. You + I = we. -- Mycroft Holmes 15:59, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

It should be "me", not "I". — It's dot com 16:06, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Yes. Because it is so drilled in everyone's head that you must always say "{someone} and I" (instead of "me and {someone}") in the subject of a sentence, people often don't realize that they should instead say "{someone} and me" instead in the predicate. The usage of I/me is exactly the same as if you were only speaking of yourself, and I/me should always be written last. --Jay (Gobble) 16:29, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Real Genius

Could "I heart Toxic Waste" be a reference to the T-shirt Chris Knight wears in the eighties movie Real Genius?

Yeah that plus the pink bunny slippers and bath robe - he looked sort of like a cross between Chris Knight and that professor at the end, when they're both wearing the slippers.

These edit conflicts are REALLY cheesing me off!

I just want to state, for the record, that I'm still very highly annoyed by receiving Edit Conflict after Edit Conflict when other people's edits have nothing to do with mine. (Someone makes a change in the transcript while I'm editing Inside References: Edit conflict.) This wasn't a problem before. —  KieferSkunk (talk) — 19:15, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Actually, it used to be a problem, then it was "fixed" (but extremely glitchy; ie. One edit would auto-revert the previous edit in many cases), and then the "fix" was fixed. --Jay (Gobble) 19:20, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

You're not kidding. ._. I went through, like, nine edit conflicts to change "great" to "Greek" and remove that extra bit about Bubs. This has not been a good day so far, but that's too off topic. --DorianGray

Yeah, ironically the same complaint has been posted here. I posted a similar reply to Jay's except I didn't know if the fix had been fixed. --Stux 19:37, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

SB's facial hair

Where was it that we saw Strong Bad working on growing a moustache and all he could manage was one tiny hair? Wherever that was, it seems to contradict his ability to grow stubble as Vance Mudgeman. Terlet Brush 19:17, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Maybe he can only grow the hair when he's taking on his alternate persona ;) --Stux 19:31, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Or it could be fake. --Jay (Gobble) 19:33, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

By the way, the pathetic tiny hair was seen in theme park. And who said he really takes the identity of Vance Mudgeman? He could be messing about with us. Remember highschool? – The Chort 19:45, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Yes, it could be fake, but this email seems more, I dunno, real than just a made-up Strong Bad fantasy (which highschool certainly was). — It's dot com 19:50, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

I think that you could get a real big ice cream headache if you try to just reality from fiction in a toon where only one character resembles a human, most don't have arms (debatedly), and the narrator SB, has the maturity of some of the adolescents that I see on those judge shows. So, lets me understand this...He is a charachter on a website that thinks he's real, but also knows that he is performing and can actively let us in on events that he made up and his dreams which happened to be conveniently downloaded onto tangerine dreams for us to view. In this case, ignorance is bliss. I R F 22:22, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Mr. Chamberlain = Pom Pom?

Given Pom Pom's attraction to and luck with the ladies, and Wilt Chamberlain's legendary prowess, is it possible that Mr. Chamberlain would be Pom Pom's pseudo-name? -- Mycroft Holmes 19:43, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

I was thinking Strong Mad, actually. But either way, what does "COMPED" mean? --Jay (Gobble) 19:45, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Bubs didn't charge Mr. Chamberlain, the room was COMP-limentary. -- Mycroft Holmes 19:48, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Not to mention that only Pom Pom would be likely to get the Posh suite. That leaves only Mr. Allen Poe, who I think is Strong Sad. He had a pic of him for his blog once, I think. He'd also be into that kind of story, and would definitely require a double bed. --DorianGray

Very good points. I was actually only thinking of Strong Mad because of his tendency to wear costumes related to sports stars (which, admittedly, Pom Pom did once too.) And I recalled the name being mentioned on the site once before, though it actually turned out to be in 50K Racewalker. --Jay (Gobble) 19:52, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

EDC: Didn't Pom pom dess up as Kobe Bryant once? Ooo! I guessed the link right! What team did chamberlain play for? --Stux 19:55, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

EDCx2: Oh and both played for the Lakers. --Stux 19:58, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

I'm not big on sports. You're lucky that I correctly realized that he was a basketball player. --Jay (Gobble) 19:57, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

House of Portraits

Isn't the trailer SB is in for the "Daddy" secret identity the same one as in portrait?-- Benol, aka Coach B 20:06, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Yes it is. This has been mentioned. --DorianGray

Daemon

The word "daemon" can be correctly pronounced "DEE-mon" or "DAY-mon". See here for more info. ClamIAm 20:38, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the link - I went ahead and pulled the pronunciation note from the transcript. —  KieferSkunk (talk) — 23:02, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Easter Eggs

Is it just me, or was the easter egg at the end with strong sad added some time after the tune was origionally put up? I remember looking for one at the end and not finding one, and then checking the wiki and not seeing it listed. Snowboardpunk

Did you actually check, as in, with the "tab" key? If not, then you could have easily missed any egg. — Lapper (talk) 20:59, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

But to answer your question, yes, it was added later. --DorianGray

Yeah when I saw it earlier this morning I was surprised not to see an egg either. Now I have to go back and watch it again! :) --Stux 21:03, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Whaddaya Know, Reference-Man?

• Whaddaya Know, Haddi-Man? is playing on the TV in the Mudgeman home.

I pulled this item from Inside References because I listened several times to the Mudgeman scene, and I could not hear anything that sounded like Homsar's show. Figured I'd post it here in Talk, though. —  KieferSkunk (talk) — 23:17, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Actually it sounds like the chords from Caleb Rentpayer, but I can't tell for sure. --11945 (^Talk/_Ctrbs) 23:36, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

I think it's definitely Haddi-Man on the TV. Some proof? Just as Strong Bad says "Jeffery Beffery", you can here that "doo-doo-DOO-doo" tune, but the words are hard to make out. While he's saying "Mudgeman", you can clearly here the words "make some new". --VolatileChemical 00:43, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

But there's also quite a bit of other noise in the background that wasn't there in for kids - whether that's part of the TV show or coming from elsewhere in the trailer, I don't know. —  KieferSkunk (talk) — 00:46, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

I hear it too. Though it might be coming from the other room, where the kids are. (That wouldn't explain what Strong Bad's watching and why we can't hear it though.) - [User:Octan|Octan] Jan 26 2006, 9:45PM EST

My Name Bubs

I believe the Bubs' nametag is a reference to his line My name cornbread in the Decemberween Pageant. Anyone else agree?--Martin925 00:01, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Me, I thought of "My name Bubs. This is my regulah voice" from Sample of Style, which was made into a Quote of the Week. --DorianGray

Oh yeah, I forgot about that one. It could be that too. They were both made Quote of The Week.--Martin925 00:15, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Girl On Magazine

Who could be the girl on the woman's magazine?--Martin925 00:17, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

It of course could be Missy Palmer, but I'm leaning more towards Jackie Chapman, simply because it looks a bit more like her (from what we can see). Of course, it could be someone we don't know. —Zelinda 00:24, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Well guys, judge for yourselves: --Stux 02:13, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Um. I can't tell either. --Stux 02:17, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

PoopBad Image

I've uploaded the image of poopbad to here: [1] can someone put it on the site?

This is Fanstuff. Please don't upload it onto the Knowledge Base. —BazookaJoe 01:46, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Uh...fraid not. It's the image that appears as an easter egg in the actual email. Click on "so apparently I'm not The Poopsmith" as they're being spoken. Oh, and I'll try to find somewhere to put it. --VolatileChemical 01:49, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Oops, I guess I didn't see that Easter egg. My bad. —BazookaJoe 01:53, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

It's already on some page somewhere, though, so uploading it is still unnecessary. Check the recent images gallery. --DorianGray

Great. It already exists. Now you tell me, after I've already uploaded it. Oh, well. I'll just put it at Minor Character Variations, see how that works out. I'll call this monstrosity Poopbad, because that's the only name I've heard of so far. --VolatileChemical 02:11, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Now the question is: Which entry do we get rid of: the one at Other Character Variations or the one at Strong Bad Other Costumes? --DorianGray

Lodgings?

Has no one else noticed that Bub's is running a hotel with no rooms? There is a chance they are off screen but this is shattered by the fact Homestar appears from behind the stand, could the rooms be hidden in the supposed Basment? or does Bub's make them sleep on the ground behind the stand? :P

Probably the basement. --VolatileChemical 01:50, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

I ♥ Flint

Is it just me, or are these emails verging on documentary format? I mean, it used to be Strong Bad answering the emailer's question, then showing an example of him doing it/seeing it/showing it. But now, it's Strong Bad saying he often does a certain thing, and then they'll switch to "stock footage" of him doing that thing. More often than not, he narrates the clip. Like in "secret identity" itself, with Strong Bad describing all his alter-ego's, and then suddenly switching to him as that ego in the past. The clips must be in the past because the Tip Tappers one is during the night, and Strong Bad wouldn't take two days to answer an email).

Either that, or he'll say he's going to do something, and then the "directors" switch to other people talking about what he did without showing him doing it. Even though you don't see him doing it, it no doubt happened, due to the character's reaction. This proves the declaration of intent to exercise a certain action, the action-doing itself, and reaction of the other characters are all "filmed". Whether they're edited out or not varies.

Sometimes, Strong Bad (or, in this case, Bubs) will say he's going to do something, then they skip the doing, and go straight to the reaction. Like in virus. Declaration: Bubs says he's going to shotgun the Compy; Reaction: Strong Bad runs off crying and Homestar hops on one leg. The action is skipped. Other times, the declaration is stated, completed, and then reacted to. In modeling, Strong Bad says he's going to get Pom Pom take pictures of him, then he does this, and him and Strong Sad talk about it at the end. Other times, Strong Bad will say he'll do something, then he'll do it, and finish the email without showing the reaction. In ghosts, Strong Bad says he'll sweep Strong Badia for paranormal activity with The Cheat, and he does, but then he ends the email ends without anyone reacting to it.

I'm sorry that I've taken up so much space with those last two paragraphs, and I just wrote those parts to prove that every action and reaction in these emails are filmed, but some parts are edited out. Okay, so: we got stock footage, editing, talking only to the camera numerous times instead of to someone else or writing the response, plus the fact that he's answering real life fan mail...even though you guys probably won't believe b/w agree with me, but I think these emails have long surpassed fourth wall breakings, and are now full-fledged mockumentaries.

*prepares for the annoying barage of disagreements or personal insults or threats on my life coming from the same condescendingly ubiquitous group of users who get into every moderately imporatant argument on toon pages that seems to follow me like the tail of a snake on that cell phone game* --VolatileChemical 01:46, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Not My E-Mail, Yo

The Chaps didn't use my e-mail. That's just the way life goes, I guess. Has anyone noticed that Strong Bad has never answered an e-mail from a wiki user? Whatever, I guess I should watch this one. Kinda pointless, but hey, I don't have much life beyond Homestar. — Darth Katana X ( )

Actually, they have. montage was sent in by a wiki user. --DorianGray