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Ropes are for dopes

From: A Folky Tale
Posted on: 05:37, 23 Aug 2005 (UTC)

Arguments for:

• It's odd that he used the quote as a transition to tell his story and then never mentioned it in the story itself. He used "passing out for the rest of their lives" to transition back to the rope.

Arguments against:

• Climbing ropes made Strong Sad think of the Saddy Dumpington quote. Thinking of a Saddy quote reminded Strong Sad of a Saddy story. It just doesn't follow that the quote *has* to be part of the story.
  • This behavior is also in keeping with "folk tale" culture; c.f. the somewhat ADD Simon Wheeler in Mark Twain's Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County: "... if I asked old Wheeler about [Leonidas Smiley], it would remind him of his infamous _Jim Smiley_, and he would go to work and bore me to death with some exasperating reminiscence of him..."
• He also just jumps right in and says that climbing the rope will make him pass out, when that had nothing to do with the reason the townfolk passed out. Therefore, this odd arrangement of Strong Sad's memory is a recurring thing, not a one time goof.
• The tale presented in the toon may not be Strong Sad's only tale about Saddy Dumpington, and the quote might come from elsewhere... but he used this tale instead to explain who Saddy Dumpington was.
• As if anything on homestarrunner.com has to flow anyway?
• Since when has Strong Sad's thought process been anywhere near normal?

Additional comments:

• If the quote reminded him of a different Saddy Dumpington story, why did he tell this one?
  • Because this is the story that explains who Saddy Dumpington is. That does not mean that the story includes every famous quote of his.
  • When people get confused by "Are you asking for a challenge?!?" I link them to japanese cartoon, despite the fact that that phrase isn't used until 20X6 vs. 1936... linking to 20X6 vs. 1936 still wouldn't explain who Stinkoman was.
• Why is this still here? It's been over a week and has been accepted, if by a slight majority.
  • Fun facts which are close stay for two weeks.

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Talkin' 'bout crazy cool medallions

From: A Folky Tale
Posted on: 13:44, 29 Aug 2005 (UTC)

Arguments for:

Arguments against:

• I think it resembles Motown music more than disco music.
• Wrong!!!! its obviously makin fun of "Fat Albert"

Additional comments:

• This has been added and deleted several times, so it got the ol' STUFFing.
• Would someone who is voting to accept please cite a specific song or something for us to use as a comparison.
  • "Night Fever," "You Should Be Dancing," "Stayin' Alive"

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Kinda depressing, ain't it?

From: A Folky Tale
Posted on: 20:33, 29 Aug 2005 (UTC)

Arguments for:

• It's likely that Coach Z inserted The Dancing Brothers into Strong Sad's story because it was so depressing. Being depressed by the story, he inserted TDB as an anti-depressant to try to make the story less depressing.

Arguments against:

• There's no indication that Coach Z knows anything about Zoloft.
• There's no dialog supporting the Zoloft theory.
• The simple characters came from the simple mind of Coach Z.
• The Dancing Brothers have legs.
• The design of their heads is so elementary (a rough oval with a face) that they could, by coincidence, resemble a great number of things.
• And even besides the point, if you look at the ads for Zoloft, the closest thing the circle face characters may come to in the HR universe is Strong Sad. You do have to look closely, but there's a slight resemblance there.

Additional comments:

• Their heads look a bit different.

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Weird Snake & Friends

From: A Folky Tale
Posted on: 16:00, 23 Aug 2005 (UTC)

Arguments for:

• A walking purple reptile is a pretty common reference to Barney.
• TBC have made a clear Barney references in other toons (e.g. The Lil' Brudder Show).
• The costumes are so close that any similarity to walking purple reptiles, living or dead, is purely intentional.

Arguments against:

• Other than the color purple, they're really not that similar at all.
• Since all of the townspeople laughed harder at Saddy's entrance and Saddy himself has a warped sense of humor, TBC would be calling Barney funny, and not making fun of him at all.
• The snake itself did not walk. Barney does.
• Barney has no hair.
• Barney has no spots.
• Barney has a green stomach.
• Barney does not have large front teeth.

Additional comments:

• They're similar but I doubt it's intentional...

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Main character absence

From: A Folky Tale
Posted on: 06:58, 23 Aug 2005 (UTC)

Arguments for:

• It's notable in that the site's established "main characters" are absent.
• Homestar was on the phone, but he was not seen, and it was only in the Easter egg.

Arguments against:

• This is really not important enough to document.
• You're not counting The Cheat in Cheat Commandos (Firebert--different animation, but I should think that'd count).

Additional comments:

• As written, this fact assumes that Senor Cardgage is not a member of the "main cast", or it fails to cover Senor Mortgage.
  • I think the main cast only covers those who have VCR character tapes, which Senor Cardgage does not.
• This could cover all full-length 'toons, shorts, holiday toons, Marzipan's Answering Machines, and Strong Bad emails as written.
• Experimental Film has Homestar, Strong Bad, and Strong Mad in it, not just Strong Sad and the Cheat.
• Fact is, though, the Cheat Commandos seem to operate in a separate universe from the HR universe- kind of in a Caleb Rentpayer sense, you know, just a TV show.

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