Random Toon
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Random Toon Button
This button was added to the main page alongside Quote of the Week, Weekly Fanstuff, and Sketchbook on September 12, 2005. It loads a random Toon, Strong Bad Email, Marzipan's Answering Machine, or Teen Girl Squad. If you don't like the selection it comes up with, you can press the "again" button on the left side of the box before you are redirected, which will restart the selection process. You can also press the "close" button on the right of the box to abort the selection.
Decemberween Puppet Style and Homestar vs. Little Girl (the two Decemberween In July puppet toons) are not currently included in the random list, although there is a comment in the XML file reminding The Brothers Chaps to add them.
random.bat
A similar button was also added to the top right of the Strong Bad Email menu on September 9, 2005, labeled "random.bat". Pressing it causes the menu to select several random emails in sequence. When it is done, it loads the last random email it picked. Strong Bad says one of several things:
- STRONG BAD: Brrrrrrakatakatakataka...ta..ka...tick...tick... Brring!
- STRONG BAD: {higher pitched and louder} Lakalakalakalaka... tuck... tuck... tuck... tuck... {low pitched} Bong.
- STRONG BAD: Brooootakatakataka..ta..ka..ta...ka... Doosh.
- STRONG BAD: How 'bout this one? Donk. {a random email is then picked without a roulette of emails}
If you click the random.bat button again before you get redirected, he will not say the same thing twice in a row.
Navigation Bar
The random toon button was also added to the navigation bar at the bottom of every page. It reads "rando". It doesn't show the roulette box, simply jumping straight to another toon. Thus far, this has not been added to the special navbars of Main Page 22 or virus.
Fun Facts
Glitches
- If you click the R button on the main page while the randomiser box is up, it will disappear and fly up from the bottom again. If it picks a Strong Bad Email, the email number in the URL will be larger than the correct number by the number of Strong Bad Emails (it will redirect you to something like sbemail405.html). This is because it keeps a counter of the emails as it reads the email names from the XML file, and when you click the R again it re-reads the list without resetting the counter.
