Allegedly Real Things

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This is real.

Many times, objects are specifically (and often awkwardly) described as real or actual when it's plainly obvious that they are not.

Examples

• Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 6.0 — Strong Bad insists that his girlfriend is real, over and over again.
• Email credit card — The writers of the email "promise that [they] are real and not just trying to steal [Strong Bad's] money."
• Email 50 emails — Homestar Runner posts a fake error message after crashing the Compy 386. The error message's title bar reads "This is real".
  • The System is Down, Not the 100th Email!!!, and Main Page 22 — Similar fake error messages to the above appear with "This is real" in the title bar.
• Email autobiography — Strong Bad specifically notes that the description of his alleged girlfriend was a true part.
• Email technology (Easter egg) — Bubs advertises wireless extensions cords as being "lightweight, existent, and shockproof!"
• Decemberween Short Shorts — Coach Z tells Homestar Runner that he's having "all kinds of real people over to [his] house for a coupla real people parties."
• Email diorama — Strong Bad's book, a "real book that exists", is allegedly written by "Ronmartin Realdude" (who insists that he is "a living, breathing person, not a cat") and printed by the "Actual Publishing Company". Coach Z talks to "Ronmartin Realdude" via a notepad with a cell phone drawn on it.

See also

• Blatant lies