Big Knives

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A big-type knife is better than a small-type knife.

Big Knives are one of the oldest recurring items in the Homestar universe. The most famous and most frequently referenced instance of this inside joke is the "Big Knife", which first appeared in the email i love you, as part of the Painting of a guy with a big knife. A similar knife appeared earlier in the Theme Song Video, and it has made numerous reappearances since then in other emails and toons, along with similar knives. Strong Bad seems to have a particular — albeit unexplained — affinity for them. Big knives almost always appear with serrated edges.

The Big Knife

• In the Theme Song Video, Strong Bad throws a big knife at Strong Sad while he is strapped to a spinning wheel.
• In i love you, Strong Bad's weapon of choice makes its email premiere in his Painting of a guy with a big knife.
• In band names, one of the band names Strong Bad suggests is "Bigg Nife."
• In flag day, the Big Knife appears in the clutches of a snake on the Strong Badian flag.
• In Everybody to the Limit, Strong Bad pops out of the Visor Robot with knife in hand.
• In japanese cartoon, even Stinkoman gets a piece of the big knife action by posing with it in a cool manner.
• In marzipan, Strong Bad asks The Cheat if he could borrow "that big knife."
• In couch patch, Strong Bad cuts a hole in The Couch with a big knife so he can hide his "Aztec gold."
• In army, the Painting of a guy with a big knife apparently turns traitor and becomes a member of the Homestarmy.
• In CGNU, one of the requirements to get into the Crazy Go Nuts University is to draw a picture of the aforementioned Guy with a big knife.
• In Teen Girl Squad Issue 9, The Ugly One carves "BFF" into a tree with a big knife.
• In myths & legends, the painting of a guy holding a big knife appears in a constellation as one of the seven elemental spirits of Strong Badia.

Other Big Knives

• In bedtime story, The Cheat appears next to Moses Malone with a big knife.
• In alternate universe, one of the panels in the Strong Badman comic features a woman holding a big knife.