BMW Lighter

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First appearance

The BMW Lighter is Strong Bad's handheld naphtha-type fire starter. It prominently displays the logo of BMW, an abbreviation of "Bayerische Motoren Werke" (Bavarian Motor Works), a German company and manufacturer of automobiles and motorcycles. When the lighter was first introduced in the Homestar Runner body of work, a "real world" BMW lighter was unavailable, as The Brothers Chaps attest to on the DVD commentary for dragon. There are now several styles of BMW lighter available.

It resembles a Zippo brand lighter, a naphtha lighter that flips open and lights with the flick of a wheel, which is not actually present on Strong Bad's lighter.

A variation on this gag appears in portrait, in which Homestar Runner uses a Saab Lighter. In the chair, Lil' Strong Bad is shown using a Duplo lighter as well.

Appearances

• Email guitar - Strong Bad holds it up at the end. After some time it scorches The Paper.
• Email dragon - Strong Bad uses it to burn Strong Sad's drawing of a dragon.
• Email privileges - First it is mentioned on the list of "Medallion Gold Plus Club" privileges, where it is referred to as a "Beamer Lighter." ("Beamer" is a general slang term for a BMW.) Then it actually appears in an Easter egg, in which The Cheat uses it to torch Homestar's guitar magazines.
• Strong Bad is in Jail Cartoon - The Cheat uses it to light the bundle of Fthoom-Bang bottle rockets.
• Email pom pom - Strong Bad uses the lighter during his attempt to poke Pom Pom with a pin while he's on fire.
• Email other days - Strong Bad uses it to burn up Bubs' letter. Here it is first referred to as his "BMW".
• Email long pants - The Cheat uses the lighter to burn Homestar's Daisy Dukes.
• Real-Live E-Mails - Strong Bad uses a real one to literally burn his new DVD.
• Email pop-up - It appears on the last page of the book.
• Email lady fan - Strong Bad uses it to burn Marzipan's arts and crafts supplies in a fiery inferno of pyrotechnics. Her hair was also burned.
• Date Nite - Strong Bad uses it to light the rockets on the USS Flirtini.
• Email the paper- Strong Bad uses it to incinerate The Paper after it 'dies'.

Second appearance	Third appearance	Again in "privileges"	Fourth appearance
Fifth appearance	Sixth appearance	Seventh appearance	Eighth appearance
Saab variation	Ninth appearance	Tenth appearance	Duplo variation
Eleventh appearance	Twelfth appearance