Strong Bad's Website

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Frames upon frames

Strong Bad's Website is a vanity page about Strong Bad's own The Cheat. It was launched in the email "website" as an example of design and content fundamentals. It sports a long Flash intro and lots of animated GIFs, especially the rotating kind. This is a parody of every poorly executed and ultimately pointless website that was common on free webservers like Tripod and Geocities in the late 1990s.

Page Title (With frames): WELCOME TO YOUR DOOM!!
Page Title (Without frames): Total Grodal

House of the Brothers Chaps

The Cheat on the couch

That hunk of foil

The pictures of The Cheat are photos of The Brothers Chaps' house with The Cheat added in later. The couch seen here is the same couch that appears in the August 1, 2003 Pulse Interview. The brick wall seen in this image follows the same brick pattern seen in the The Cheatar short. The contents of the fridge are listed here for completeness:

• Top shelf in the door (left to right):
  • Mt. Olive pickles
  • Three jars Smuckers jam
  • Two unknown jars
• Bottom shelf in the door (left to right):
  • three unknown containers
  • Hellmann's mayonnaise
  • Sriracha Hot Chili Sauce
  • Two unknown containers
  • Heinz ketchup
  • Two unknown containers
• Top shelf inside fridge:
  • Water filter pitcher
  • Loaf of bread
• Bottom shelf inside fridge:
  • Hunk of foil wrapped food that's been there since April
• Strewn about on the floor:
  • Milk
  • Kraft Parmesan cheese
  • Unknown item
• To the left of the fridge:
  • Some Cold Ones

Easter Eggs

• Click on the mouse with the email to go to the Email Processing Room.
• At the very bottom of Strong Bad's page there is an "F10" button which links to Strong Sad's Lament.

Fun Facts

Explanations

• The picture on the site titled "long haired freaky cheat" will never load. The reason the picture never loads is because the image is directed to the file "oh, just nothing" in the source.

Trivia

• Clicking the button that says, "ENTER," will reload the same website, and because it uses frames so poorly, the website will reload inside one of its own frames.
• The "Welcome to Your Doom!" sound bite heard upon entering the page is taken from Sega's "Altered Beast," a side-scrolling action game released in the late 80s.
  • If using a browser other than Internet Explorer, you cannot hear the voice if you do not have Apple Quicktime.
• The fire GIFs at the top of the page actually alternate between "Hot!" and "Fire!"
• The doubled rotating GIF about halfway down the page reads: "World Wide Wed."
• The GIF with the silver diamond reads "Hi Rez," which is most likely referring to the term "high resolution."
• The Title of the Page used for the "A" animation frame is "A!!!"
• The counter always reads "The 16th biggest moron ever."

Remarks

• Strong Bad writes "I'm pretty much the best at HTML" on his webpage; however, according to the World Wide Web Consortium's HTML validator, this webpage isn't valid HTML 4.01 Frameset.
• The picture titled "long haired freaky cheat" is one of the few times when The Cheat is not referred to with the integral article.

Inside References

• The animated gif refers to the World Wide Wed.

Real-World References

• "Long haired freaky cheat" is a reference to lyrics "Long haired freaky people" from the song "Signs" by the Five Man Electrical Band.
• "Welcome to your doom!" is from the arcade and Sega Genesis game Altered Beast.

See also

• Homestar's Website

External links

• Visit Strong Bad's The Cheat Page
  • View the page with no frames
  • View just the frames
    • View just the "A" frame
    • View just the "Str" frame
    • View just the "ong" frame
    • View just the "Bad" frame
• View the long Flash intro