April Fools' 2006

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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.
**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.
**The Eject button on the [[Character Videos | Characters page]] (which normally makes Homsar's video come out of the VCR) does nothing.
**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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**[[Edgar#Edgar's Baby's Daddy|Edgar's Baby's Daddy]] on [[candy product]] does not appear.
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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]].
**The video clips in [[HomestarRunner.com PAY PLUS!]] repeat themselves automatically.
**The video clips in [[HomestarRunner.com PAY PLUS!]] repeat themselves automatically.
**The [[Random Toon|rando]] link on the navbar does not work.
**The [[Random Toon|rando]] link on the navbar does not work.

Revision as of 16:59, 1 April 2006

Which way is up again?

On April Fool's Day 2006, The Brothers Chaps flipped the site around.

Contents

Fun Facts

Remarks

Glitches

  • Any time that a second Flash file is overlaid on the first it is not flipped.
  • Several toons that are not the usual 550x400 resolution are not centered properly:
  • Some pages have invisible or missing text:
  • 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.
  • Many buttons and other scripts on some of the site do 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 referrs 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.
  • In Peasant's Quest, Trogdor's voice doesn't work.
  • Main Page 23 is missing the "What's New" and "Weeklies" buttons.
  • It seems that the text in the Quote of the Week isn't bold, like before the 'flip'.
  • The Peasant's Quest Movie Trailers never load.

Fixed Glitches

  • 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.

Real-World References

  • 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 Flipper theme song.

External Links

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