Bubs's Shady Business Practices

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Bubs has been known to engage in all forms of illicit and questionable activities from trading in stolen organs to trying to sell evidence.

Embezzlement

• Ever and More! — Homestar asks Bubs to talk about "shiny new ways to misappropriate funds". Bubs then proceeds to describe buying a Jet Ski with the Broternal Order of Different Helmets's money, crashed and broke his shin, and began spending $50 a tube on rubbing ointment.
• Strong Badia the Free — Bubs says that he is definitely not embezzling thousands of dollars from Club Technochocolate.
• Baddest of the Bands — Bubs casually mutters that he's skimming 10% of the profits of the battle of the bands behind his back.

Evidence Tampering

• Bug In Mouth Disease — When Homestar approaches, Bubs is burning an envelope labeled "Exhibit A" and later tries to sell him a pancreas contained in a box labeled "Exhibit B".
• DNA Evidence — Bubs sells Marzipan's DNA evidence to Strong Bad as a snow cone, and returns to her a test tube labeled "tampered with".

Illegal Goods

• Bug In Mouth Disease — Bubs offers to sell Homestar a spare pancreas.
• Strong Badia the Free — Bubs operates a black market out behind Concessionstantinople dealing in weapons, illegally excavated and exported artifacts, and organs.

Information Mining and Spamming

Operating without a valid license

• Senorial Day — Bub's entrepreneur license has SUSPENDED stamped across it.
• Bug In Mouth Disease — Bubs claims to be a doctor despite his "doctor" card clearly being only for VCR repairs and fashion consultation.
• The Baloneyman — Bubs mentions that he has an expired tag and expired license.
• Email licensed — Bubs sells unlicensed unlicensed Strong Bad merchandise.

Overpricing

• King of Town Email — According to the page title Bubs sold the broken Tandy 400 to The King of Town for $900.
• Email pom pom — Bubs charges Stong Bad $5 for a "face mashing" and $10 for a "severe pumeling" from Pom Pom.
• The Baloneyman — Bubs attempt to sell Coach Z a napkin for $32.
• Email myths & legends — Bubs demands an extra $20 from Strong Bad after he comments that the Bear Holding a Shark ice cream he bought looks more like Morgan Freeman.
• Email part-time job — Bubs attempts to charge Coach Z and Pom Pom $50 then $60 for a picture with the Tragic clown dog.
• Baddest of the Bands — Bubs charges Strong Bad "one big sack of cash" for repairs to the Fun-machine.

Sale and distribution of harmful goods

• Email licensed — The strong Bad pinatas that Bubs sell are full of broken glass which cuts Homestar (who is, as usual, too ignorant to care) and his Strong bad ferret ointment gives the Cheat an adverse reaction causing him to inflate like a balloon.
• The Baloneyman — Bubs implies that the baloney sammiches that he has been selling had expired mayonnaise.
• DNA Evidence — Bubs sells the DNA evidence to Strong Bad as a snow cone.

Generic References

• Bug In Mouth Disease — Homestar asks if Bubs is an unethical quack, to which he responds "the most quackinest."
• Doomy Tales of the Macabre — Bubs describes his wallet as the one that says "bad business practices".