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Left Handedness

2006-04-04T22:44:36Z

Jonnny:

[[Image:Left_handy_SS.PNG|thumb|Strong Sad is <s>squirrel-handed</s> left-handed]]
Although only approximately 10% of the US population are '''[[wikipedia:Left_handed|left-handed]]''', several [[characters]] in the [[Homestar Runner (Flash cartoon)|Homestar Runner Universe]] appear to be either left-handed or ambidextrous (even though some characters do not have [[Lack_of_Visible_Arms|visible arms]]).

== Left-handed Characters ==
* [[Homestar Runner]]
* [[Strong Sad]]
* [[Whats Her Face]]

== Appearances ==
* In [[Teen Girl Squad Issue 8]], Whats Her Face plays the bass left-handed.
* Homestar plays the lute left-handed in [[Tis True, Pom Pom, Tis True]].
* In [[highschool]], Homestar plays the bass left-handed.
* Strong Sad plays an accustic guitar left-handed in [[alternate universe]].
* Although Strong Bad is right handed, he uses a [[Permanent Marker|left-handed marker]].

[[Category:Activity running gags]]
{{stub}}

huttah!

2006-02-19T04:32:01Z

Jonnny: goof:missing contract knob

{{sbenav|60|marzipan|monster truck}}

[[Image:sbmail60picture.png|thumb|"I think The Cheat is deleted!"]]

Strong Bad tries to fight off hordes of The Cheat's fans.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|The Cheat}}

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]], [[The Cheat's Computer Room]]

'''Computer:''' [[Compy 386]]

'''Date:''' January 28, 2003

'''Running Time:''' 2:34

'''Page Title:''' Compy 386!

== Transcript ==
'''STRONG BAD:''' Chee-wit, chee-wit, chee-wi-chee-wi-email.

''{reading}''

<blockquote class="compy email">Dear Strong Bad, 
 
How come you never let The Cheat 
answer any emails? 
 
Lasko 
Milwaukee, WI</blockquote>

''{Strong Bad says "Lasko" low, long, and drawn-out and says "WI" as "Wisacondasin"}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Well, Lasko ''{said as before}'', The Cheat is not very popular and he never really gets many emails and um, to tell you the truth, I don't even think he has a computer. ''{stops typing}'' All right, next email.

''{He makes a vocal sound effect as the next email scrolls up (henceforth "vocal sfx"), and starts reading.}''

<blockquote class="compy email">Hey Strong Bad! 
 
i love The Cheat! can you ask him for 
me if he is taken? because i like him 
WAY better then you 
 
-Nobuyoshi Shigeta, New York</blockquote>

''{Strong Bad stops reading at "i like him WAY better then—"}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Augh, seen enough of that one.

''{vocal sfx; reading}''

<blockquote class="compy email">Dear Strong Bad, 
 
You and the Cheat are the only reason 
I go on this website. Actually just 
the Cheat, but you are ok too. 
 
Love, 
Mito</blockquote>

''{Strong Bad stops reading for a second after the first sentence, and says "Oh, thank you." His mood sours for the rest of the email, however, and Strong Bad says "Dumpo" instead of "Mito"}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Geez, all these Cheat emails. Moving on.

<blockquote class="email" style="background:#003893; text-align:center">MOVING ON!!</blockquote>

''{Cut to The Cheat watching the email on [[Tangerine Dreams]] in his computer room. He gets progressively angrier with each email Strong Bad deletes.}''

''{vocal sfx; reading}''

<blockquote class="compy email">Dear Strong Bad, 
I think The Cheat is hot. Could 
you hook us up? 
 
Haelee, 
Utah</blockquote>

'''STRONG BAD:''' That's funny, Haelee. I think The Cheat is deleted. BRRAAAMMMMPPPPP!!

<blockquote class="email" style="background:#003893; text-align:center">DELETED!!!</blockquote>

''{vocal sfx, reading}''

<blockquote class="compy email">Hey Strong Bad 
 
My girlfriend thinks The Cheat 
is cute. 
 
Tyler, 
California</blockquote>

''{The Cheat storms off in a fit. Cut back to just Strong Bad at Compy.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Come on, people! He's not even that cute! He looks like a...a cheese! ''{The Cheat walks up to him}'' Or maybe an anvil.

'''THE CHEAT:''' ''{Squeaks angrily.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{nervously}'' Uhhh...which are two of the finest things in life. A cheese...or an anvil. Hey, The Cheat! Just, uh, talking you up to one of the fans here.

'''THE CHEAT:''' ''{Squeaks}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Oh. So you been...watching the email, huh?

'''THE CHEAT:''' ''{Squeaks}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' No, I haven't been holding out on you! I made all those emails up! Uh, most of the emails you get are not that friendly, lemme tell you. If you just turn around for a second I could show you... ''{pause}'' Huttah! ''{He tapes a piece of paper to Compy reading "the cheat" covering the place where Strong Bad's name usually appears}''

''{reading}''

<blockquote class="compy email">DEAR the cheat 
WHERE THE HECK IS YOU SHIRT??? 
YOUR GLOVES ARE STUPID! 
 
I HATE YOU, 
HOLMES, California</blockquote>

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{to The Cheat}'' See? This guy doesn't like that you don't have a shirt on, and he thinks your gloves are stupid! And then there's this one:

''{reading}''

<blockquote class="compy email">Dear the cheat 
 
how do you type with boxing 
gloves on your hands? 
 
derek</blockquote>

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{To The Cheat}'' I've been wondering about that, too! What is with you and those boxing gloves anyway?

'''THE CHEAT:''' ''{Squeaks grumpily, and a black cloud of smoke escapes from his head. He walks away.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' So okay bye! Whooh. I think I handled that pretty well. That coulda been...awkward. I deserve a reward. ''{He runs take-a-break.exe, which is a screen saver of a beach}'' Aahhh... so relaxing. Fshhhhhhhhh! Fshhhhhhhhh! Listen to the waves, man. ''{A bird flaps past.}'' Oh, hello my winged ''{pronounced wing-ed}'' friend!

''{[[The Paper]] comes down.}''

== Easter Eggs ==
*At the very end while Strong Bad is watching "Take-a-break.exe" you can click on the bird to download "[[take-a-break.exe]]" for Windows or Mac.
**The downloadable version does not play sound when the seagull flaps its wings.

== Fun Facts ==
===Trivia===
*With one exception, this is the only time that the Compy uses the proper "[[DELETED]]!!!" screen on a specific email. (It was being used more generally in [[unused emails]] and [[replacement]], and all other instances on the Compy are things like "MATT!!" or "NOTTA CHANCE!!") The exception is in [[2 emails]], but there it is not obvious or part of the plot of the email.
*This is the only email with an exclamation mark in the title.
*The label on the disk in the floppy disk container reads "[[Floppy Disk Container#star flight|star flight]]".

===Remarks===
*Strong Bad knows perfectly well that The Cheat has a computer, as he used it in [[weird dream]] and has also evaluated [[Powered by The Cheat]] cartoons on it.
*Despite his usual disdain for birds, as displayed in the [[Teen Girl Squad]] comics, Strong Bad refers to the seagull as his wing-ed friend. This may just be because he's relaxed, however.

===Goofs===
*The contrast buttons do not work when [[take-a-break.exe]] is running.
*The contrast knob disappears when The Cheat approaches Strong Bad during Tyler's email.

===Real-World References===
*Two emailers, Holmes and Lasko, are names of manufacturers that make electric fans & humidifiers.

===Fast Forward===
*In [[cheatday]], Strong Bad claims that he lets The Cheat answer emails once a year as a special treat.

== DVD Version ==
*You obviously can't download take-a-break.exe, but you can click on a hidden Strong Bad icon in the bottom-left corner of the Compy 386 screen to get a fullscreen demo of Take A Break.

== External Links ==
*[[HR:sbemail60.html|watch "huttah!"]]
*[[HR:sbemail60.swf|view the Flash file for "huttah!"]]

{{Strong Bad Email}}

[[Category:Compy 386 Emails]]

secret recipes

2006-02-13T23:09:37Z

Jonnny: /* Real-World References */

{{sbenav|124|origins|rock opera}}
[[Image:SBEmail 124.PNG|thumb|The horrible truth revealed!]]

Strong Bad reveals some secret family recipes.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|The Cheat}}, {{Film|Coach Z}}, {{Film|The King of Town}}, {{Film|Marzipan}}, {{Film|Homestar Runner}}

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]], [[The Field]], [[King of Town's Castle]], [[Marzipan's House]]

{{Comp|Lappy 486}}

'''Date:''' February 14, 2005

'''Running Time:''' 4:04

'''Page Title:''' Lappy 486

== Transcript ==
'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{singing}'' Email, na na, na na, na na, nanaNA...

<blockquote class="lappy email">
<div>subject: family recipes</div>
Dear Strong Bad, 
When we grow up we want to be chefs. We wanted to know 
if you had any secret family recipes that you would want 
to share with us so...we can make them! 
 
-Melissa and Hillary (from NJ)</blockquote>

''{Strong Bad reads "Dear Strong Bad" as "The usual" and "NJ" as "Nigeria"}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Well Mellie, Hillarious, being from Africa I'm sure you guys are used to eating, like, exotic fruits and nectars and, um, lions ''{clears screen, continues typing}'' so our recipes may seem a bit uncouth. ''{stops typing}'' Uncouth. ''{typing}'' Can something be just plain couth? I bet freakin' Strong Sad is plain couth. Anyways, Couthy, all our family recipes tend to center around the grossing out of or the making puke of friends and well-wishers.

''{The camera cuts back, and we see The Cheat laying on the computer desk flinging floppy disks all over.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' The Cheat! Let's go try out Great Uncle Pawdabber's Pre-tend Ice Cream Showdown! ''{His legs kick to each syllable of Pre-tend Ice Cream Showdown.}''

'''THE CHEAT:''' ''{The Cheat noises, possibly an enthusiastic "Okay!"}''

''{The Cheat stands up. The screen greys and the following text appears.}''

'''NARRATOR:''' Strong Bad may or may not have an actual Great Uncle Pawdabber.

''{Cut to the field. Coach Z is standing around holding a basketball.}''

'''COACH Z:''' Man, what is this thing? ''{bounces the basketball once}'' A bounce thing?

''{Strong Bad and The Cheat enter from the right. Strong Bad is holding what appears to be a bowl of ice cream with yellowish sprinkles, and The Cheat is wearing a towel around his waist.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Oh man, The Cheat! Wow! Look at this! It's our best friend, Coach Z. Say there, Coach, would you like to try some of our free icèd-c-cream? It's got toasted coconut!

'''COACH Z:''' How could I refuse? ''{throws the basketball over his shoulder}'' I can't afford the money-cost variety! ''{The basketball can be seen falling behind the trees in the background.}''

''{Coach Z takes the ice cream and starts pigging out on it.}''

'''COACH Z:''' Oooh! Sweet mercy! ''{He eats some more.}'' This is orful! ''{He eats more.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Aww, it's OK, Coach. You're the proud new eater of a healthy bowl of sour cream and The Cheat fur.

''{Coach Z drops the bowl in shock. Strong Bad pulls away The Cheat's towel to reveal that he's been shaved from the waist down.}''

'''THE CHEAT:''' ''{The Cheat noises, sounds like "ta-da!"}''

'''COACH Z:''' ''{He starts making disgusted noises and coughing up fur.}'' Oof! I think I'm going to puke my pants!

'''STRONG BAD:''' Ugh! Please don't elaborate on that.

'''COACH Z:''' ''{talking normally}'' Naw, it's easy. I do it all the time! Here, let me show ya's!

'''STRONG BAD:''' AUGH!

'''THE CHEAT:''' MEEH!

''{Strong Bad and the Cheat run away as Coach Z continues talking.}''

'''COACH Z:''' You take your pants...

''{A recipe card appears on screen reading as follows.}''

<blockquote class="email" style="background-image:none;border:2px solid black;background:#ffffff;color:#000">Recipe: 
Great Uncle Pawdabber's Pre-tend 
Ice Cream Showdown 
 
Ingredients: 
3 scoops (really) sour cream 
1/2 of shaved The Cheat 
1 bowl 
1 languagely challenged vaguely coach type person 
 
Instructions: 
Mix ingredients until golden brown</blockquote>

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' For best results, dip The Cheat in egg wash before shaving or else he'll get those red shaving bumpies all over him. Ugh.

''{Cut to the side of the King of Town's castle.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{sotto voice}'' All right, we're mixing this next one up on them, The Cheat. I filled this old Speed Stick ''{He pulls out some underarm deodorant reading "X-treme Glacier."}'' with white chocolate and we'll totally gross out or make puke The King of Town when I start eatin' it in front of him!

'''THE CHEAT:''' ''{affirmative The Cheat noises}''

''{Cut to inside the castle. The King of Town is watching TV and eating the same type of Speed Stick we saw Strong Bad with. He also has some more underarm deodorants and spray cans in a bowl next to him.}''

'''TUCKSWORTH:''' You can't marry your guitar, Caleb!

'''CALEB:''' I can try!

''{Strong Bad and The Cheat enter from the right.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Hey Ole King Droll! Checka me out! I'm eatin'—oh. Never mind. ''{the King of Town picks up a spray can and sprays it in his mouth, then resumes eating the Speed Stick}'' Ugh, shoulda known...

''{Strong Bad and The Cheat walk out.}''

'''THE KING OF TOWN:''' No, wait, you guys! Come back! This stuff is strong enough for a man but tasty enough for a king! Don't you want to try any Forest Rush? Or Tundra Mist?

''{A recipe card spins onscreen reading as follows}''

<blockquote class="email" style="background-image:none;border:2px solid black;background:#ffffff;color:#000">Recipe: 
Crazy Aunt Eulatherm's Deodorant 
Doppelganger 
 
Ingredients: 
6 oz. white chocolate 
1/2 of shaved The Cheat (for moral support) 
1 kinda cleaned-out De-odor Cake 
 
Instructions: 
Mix ingredients. Preheat oven. Add hot sauce 
if necessary</blockquote>

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' Yeah, how come deodorants and stuff are always named after biomes anyways?

''{Cut to Marzipan's house. Marzipan is sitting on the couch reading The Latest News. Homestar walks in carrying one of Strong Bad's Pre-Tend Ice Cream Showdown bowls.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Hey, girlfriend, have you tried any of this free ice cream Strong Bad made?

'''MARZIPAN:''' ''{setting aside her paper, clearly amused}'' Homestar, didn't anyone tell you? That's, like, cottage cheese and The Cheat hair!

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' WHAT?! ''{He does a spit take, producing some fur.}'' Strong Bad told me it was ''sour cream'' and The Cheat hair! Looks like this is a job for Stupid Uncle Egg's Goodtime Diaper Pie!

''{Homestar walks offscreen to the left. The screen greys and the following text appears on it.}''

'''NARRATOR:''' Homestar Runner definitely does not have a Stupid Uncle Egg.

''{Cut to Strong Bad's computer room. A pinecone and bendy straw are in a bowl with a sign next to it reading "not A pimecone, diaper pie! i mean reg-ular pie." Strong Bad and The Cheat walk in. The Cheat is now wearing yellow sticky notes, some with black dots on them, to try to cover up his shaved area.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' No, it looks ''totally'' real. I swear, no one'll be able to tell! Oh, what's this? ''{Strong Bad picks up the sign.}'' "Not a pimecone." Well, he's got that right!

''{Homestar pokes his head in from the right.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Oh, look, it's my best friends Cheat and The Strong Bad! Hey, I heard you guys been eatin' some serious regular pie in here!

'''STRONG BAD:''' Uh, yeah, man! We've even got some left over if you want it.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Well if it's anywhere near as good as your free ice cream!

''{Homestar puts the pine cone in his mouth and starts crunching it up. The Cheat and Strong Bad look at each other incredulously.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{with his mouth full}'' Well, so long, suckers!

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{offscreen}'' It's like, even when we win, he wins.

''{Cut back to Strong Bad at the Lappy}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' There you go girls. Recipes for the ages. But if you really want to be chefs when you grow up, we've got a super-secret family recipe for cooking the C-H-E-blank-T ''{types this as "C H E _ T"}''

''{The Cheat makes a very angry noise from offscreen and chucks a floppy disk reading "YOU JERK!" at Strong Bad's head.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Ow! ''{typing}'' And of course that blank is for the letter K. The Chekt. My family's got a great recipe for cooking the Chekt. Yeah, yeah. ''{He only types one "yeah."}'' We're mostly from Bumdumbourge. It's near, uh, Totalslava. "Come down off that smokestack and eat your the Chekt!" my poopaw used to say. Ah, my dear poopaw, I miss you so.

''{The Paper comes down}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{whispering}'' I think the Cheat bought it. Let me know if you want that recipe.

== Easter Eggs ==
*At the end, click on "grow up" to hear a few seconds of the television program the King of Town was watching.
::''{Cut back to the King of Town's castle. The TV is still on.}''
::'''TUCKSWORTH:''' Caleb, that hamburger was mine!
::'''CALEB:''' It's mine now!
*At the end, click on "C H E _ T" to see the Cheat reading a book entitled "So You Want to Cook a Wrestleman?", with a picture of The Cheat putting a lid on a pot with Strong Bad in it.
*At the end, click on the left "poopaw" to hear what the narrator has to say about a poopaw.
::'''NARRATOR:''' I, uh, I don't even know what a poopaw is.
*At the end, click on "the Chekt" to see another recipe.

<blockquote class="email" style="background-image:none;border:2px solid black;background:#ffffff;color:#000">From the Kitchen of Poopaw 
Chicken-fried the CHEKT 
 
Ingredients: 
3 or 7 medium sized the Chekts 
2 salt 
40 pancakes 
 
Instructions: 
Get down off smokestack. Then cook that 
ugly thing.</blockquote>

''{"Bumdumbourge '96" appears as a watermark on the recipe card.}''

== Fun Facts ==

=== Explanations ===
*A [[Wikipedia:Biome|biome]] is a major regional group of distinctive plant and animal communities well adapted to that region's physical environment (for example, Tundra, Forest, etc.).
*[http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=couth "Couth"] means "possessing a high degree of sophistication" or "refined".
=== Trivia ===
*When Strong Bad is talking to The Cheat flinging the discs, if you manage to zoom in on the [[Lappy 486|Lappy's]] screen, you'll find out that some different stuff is typed in (not all of it is visible due to Strong Bad's head blocking the Lappy screen):
<blockquote class="lappy email">
so our recipes may seem a bit uncouth. Can something be 
just plain couth? I bet freakin' Strong Sad is plain couth. 
I wouldn't put that past him. Not that you could put 
anything past that guy. Y'know on account of he's so fat. 
And maybe standing in a really narrow alleyway of some 
 
around the grossing out of or the making puke of friends 
and well-wishers.</blockquote>

*Marzipan's Newspaper repeats the following paragraph as many times as necessary to fill up the pages.
<blockquote class="email" style="background-image:none;border:2px solid black;background:#ffffff;color:#000;width:180px">
'''The Latest News''' 
 
It’s all true. All the 
rumors are true. The 
crime is on the rise 
in our very own 
town. Trust me on 
this one. I know 
what I’m talking 
about. No, wait. I 
don’t. I make stuff 
up sometimes. 
That’s cool though, 
right? Good. I’ll 
keep doing it then. 
It’s a lot easy than 
fact checking. That 
stuff can be 
annoying.
</blockquote>
*The label on the disk in the floppy disk container reads "[[Floppy Disk Container#battle chess|battle chess]]". The floppy disk that Strong Bad throws at The Cheat reads "[[Floppy Disk Container#you JERK|you JERK!]]"

=== Remarks ===
*The way Marzipan is sitting is evidence against the theory that Marzipan's lower body is skirt-shaped.


=== Goofs ===
*When Strong Bad reads the "pimecone" card, the computer screen is almost blank...but still has "and well-wishers." written on it in the same area where Strong Bad typed it before.
*In the beginning of the email, The Cheat is apparently throwing floppy disks from someplace behind him, as the movement of his arm behind him shows. However, when The Cheat jumps up at Strong Bad's suggestion of the ice cream trick, there are no floppy disks behind The Cheat that he could have thrown (unless, of course, he had already thrown all of them).
*In Marzipan's newspaper, the word "easy" should be "easier."

=== Inside References ===
*The king of town was watching the [[Caleb Rentpayer]] show.
*The newspaper Marzipan is reading is the exact same one (down to the repeating text) she was reading in [[Strong Bad is in Jail Cartoon]].
*The book in the Easter egg is titled "So You Want to Cook a [[Wrestleman]]", a phrase that has described Strong Bad previously.
*On the first recipe card where it says "Mix ingredients until golden brown" may be reference to the [[Homestar Quiz]] after you win.
*The towel that the Cheat is wearing appears to be either the same as, or very similar to, the one worn by Homestar in "[[Main Page 14]]."
*The use of the '96 on the card is quite possibly a reference to the year that [[Original Book|the original Homestar Runner book]] was created, during the [[Wikipedia:1996 Summer Olympics|1996 Summer Olympics]] held in Atlanta, Georgia.
*The narrator's voice is the same voice that originally announced Strong Bad's test sentence in the email [[radio]].

=== Real-World References ===
*[http://www.colgate.com/app/Speedstick/US/HomePage.cvsp "Speed Stick"] is an actual brand of underarm deodorant.
*"Old King Droll" is possibly a play on the nursery rhyme "[[Wikipedia:Old King Cole|Old King Cole]]."
*The King of Town's quip about the deodorants being "strong enough for a man" is a reference to [http://www.secret.com/ "Secret" brand deodorant] ads, whose slogan used to be "Strong enough for a man, but made for a woman."
*"So You Want to Cook a Wrestleman" may be a reference to the web site [http://www.soyouwanna.com soyouwanna.com].

===Fast Forward===
* The television show watched by the King appears again in [[Bug In Mouth Disease]]. In that toon, we discover the name of the show is ''[[Caleb Rentpayer]]''.
*In the email [[rock opera]], Strong Bad types "It's only a msyyer pd tun/ blegfr teh '''chekts'''" due to the Cheat throwing roses onto the keyboard.

==DVD Version==
*The DVD version features hidden creators' commentary. To access it, switch your DVD player's audio language selection while watching.
===Commentary Transcript===
('''Commentary by:''' [[Mike Chapman]], [[Strong Bad]], [[Ryan Sterritt]], [[Craig Zobel]])

'''MIKE:''' Uh oh. Strong Bad's here.

'''STRONG BAD:''' Oh, it's true, you guys. Who's gonna tolerate it?

'''RYAN:''' It's gonna—It's chronicling one of your greatest pranks yet.

'''STRONG BAD:''' That's right. You guys were around for this. Huh? Were you?

'''RYAN:''' We watched it all on TVD.

'''STRONG BAD:''' Oh, me too.

'''MIKE:''' Really the only good thing about this email is the introduction of "Caleb Rentpayer."

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{angrily}'' What? Why you gonna... jock me like that?

'''RYAN:''' I disagree, Mike.

'''STRONG BAD:''' —Downplay my accomplishments. Look, I just accused those girls of eating lions. ''{Mike laughs}'' That's great! I think there's just— The abbreviation "NJ" means Nigeria. ''{Mike laughs}'' That is comedy at its finest.

'''MIKE:''' That's pretty funny.

'''STRONG BAD:''' Yeah. Brian!

'''MIKE:''' Uhh, that's pretty good right there; the making puke of—

'''STRONG BAD:''' Exactly.

'''MIKE:''' Kinda switch up the word—

'''STRONG BAD:''' Look! What's The Cheat doing, man?

'''CRAIG:''' What's the game of the day, Ryan?

'''STRONG BAD:''' He's tossing my stuff all over.

'''RYAN:''' Battle Chess. ''{pause}'' Pawdabber.

'''MIKE:''' Oh, this is good.

'''STRONG BAD:''' That guy is clueless.

'''MIKE:''' ''{overlapping}'' He doesn't even know what a basketball is.

'''STRONG BAD:''' I was gonna start calling him "Z" cause he does not— He's not a coach of anything.

'''CRAIG:''' I should have guessed what was gonna happen with the towel around him, but—

'''MIKE:''' Did you not know?

'''CRAIG:''' No, it's talking about—

'''MIKE:''' ''I'' knew.

'''CRAIG:''' I asked Steve about it, too... when I first watched it. Why does The Cheat have a towel around him? ''{Mike chuckles}'' And then you find out!

'''MIKE:''' I had made a shaved The Cheat several weeks prior just— I think just to have. I just—

'''STRONG BAD:''' It's nice to have a shaved The Cheat lying around.

'''RYAN:''' Ohhh hooo ohh...

'''STRONG BAD:''' Ohh. And the fact that when Coach Z coughs up you see the little hairs come out. Oh, puke my pants. That's—

'''MIKE:''' That's right.

'''STRONG BAD:''' Ryan Sterritt made that up. Ryan? Talk about it.

'''MIKE:''' Yet another example of us stealing—

'''STRONG BAD:''' At least—

'''MIKE:''' —from our friends.

'''STRONG BAD:''' At least you pay this guy.

'''MIKE:''' That's true.

'''STRONG BAD:''' Ryan, give 'em— Tell 'em how where it came from.

'''RYAN:''' Uh...I did it once ''{Everyone laughs}'' and it kind of grossed me out. So, it became a recurring joke.

'''STRONG BAD:''' Puke my pants. Why not?

'''RYAN:''' ''{overlapping}'' Something I should not want to do.

'''STRONG BAD:''' So this was based on a prank that Matt had when he was a kid. He always wanted to play was wash out an old speed stick, fill it with white chocolate, and then gross some kids out in the locker room after gym class.

'''RYAN:''' We talked briefly about adding a randomizer to the names of the deodorants—

'''MIKE:''' Oh, right.

'''RYAN:''' But we never got around to—

'''STRONG BAD:''' Mike made a bunch of sweet, sweet deodorant names.

'''MIKE:''' It was fun coming up with—

'''STRONG BAD:''' other biomes.

'''MIKE:''' ''{laughs}'' Deodorant names.

'''RYAN:''' Like those band namer things. You know, you pick like four prefixes and four words like "mountain" and "glaciers."

'''STRONG BAD:''' That's true. I don't have a Crazy Aunt Eulatherm, honestly.

'''MIKE:''' Really?

'''STRONG BAD:''' Yeah.

'''MIKE:''' Ahhh. Doesn't surprise me. I don't know if I believe very much of what you say.

'''STRONG BAD:''' Look! That's a rare shot of Marzipan sitting down.

'''MIKE:''' That's true.

'''RYAN:''' Can we "zoom in" on that paper?

'''STRONG BAD:''' Uh, it says the same thing over and over again, doesn't it, Mike?

'''MIKE:''' ''{overlapping}'' Yeah. And it says the same thing from the Strong Bad is in Jail Cartoon.

'''STRONG BAD:''' Yeah. Marzipan needs to get a new subscription. ''{Mike laughs}'' She's such a recycler that she just reads the same paper that she got so many years ago.

'''RYAN:''' Uhh—

'''STRONG BAD:''' That looks great. Mike, remember when you made your wife a post-it note dress?

'''MIKE:''' I did. She—

'''STRONG BAD:''' She didn't want to wear—

'''RYAN:''' She was very excited, wasn't she?

'''MIKE:''' It's still in my closet. ''{laughter}'' Not hers.

'''STRONG BAD:''' It wasn't very flattering. It kinda look like a—

'''MIKE:''' ''{overlapping}'' It looked just like a potato sack—

'''STRONG BAD:''' Yeah.

'''RYAN:''' Uhh—

'''MIKE:''' made out of post-it notes.

'''STRONG BAD:''' It's true.

'''RYAN:''' ''{overlapping}'' It's the thought that—

'''MIKE:''' Right. Remember the thought?

'''RYAN:''' The girls don't remember the thought.

'''MIKE:''' They don't. They just want—

'''STRONG BAD:''' Dudes. Dudes do.

'''MIKE:''' a good looking dress.

'''CRAIG:''' ''{overlapping}'' That was foleyed by, um, I almost ate the chips and I got reprimanded for eating the chips that were left over—

'''STRONG BAD:''' Oh, that's right because I had to...and Mike and Matt had to—

'''MIKE:''' ''{overlapping}'' We had Mo—We had some Moe's Nacho Chips and saved them.

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{theme park tour guide-styled monotone voice}'' Welcome to Moe's.

'''CRAIG:''' ''{deep voice, slow}'' Moe's.

'''STRONG BAD:''' He's always the really ''{monotone voice again}'' depressed guy. At the end. ''{normal voice}'' Or they just go "Muhhhhh" ''{pause}'' What did that one say? That disk?

'''MIKE:''' I don't know what that one said.

'''STRONG BAD:''' Somebody slow it back down. Play it again, Ryan—

'''MIKE:''' Call us up, let us know.

'''RYAN:''' ''{imitates rewind noise of a tape}'' There you go.

'''STRONG BAD:''' What did it say?

'''RYAN:''' ''{overlapping}'' Good game, boys.

'''MIKE:''' ''{laughs}'' Good game, boys.

'''STRONG BAD:''' OK.

'''RYAN:''' I think it was an action game?

'''STRONG BAD:''' Totalslava. You guys?

'''MIKE:''' ''{laughing to himself}'' Poopaw.

'''STRONG BAD:''' So did this mean that I am— I have Euro—Eastern-European roots?

'''MIKE:''' ''{quickly}'' Yes.

''{After The Paper comes down, there is a pause}''

'''MATT:''' Oh, it's not over.—

'''RYAN:''' We finish quick every time.

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{overlapping}'' That's right, guys. Every time 'cause ''{begins to whisper; decrescendo}'' we don't remember cartoons after we're finished making them!

== External Links ==
{{sbemailextlinks|124|2014}}
{{Strong Bad Email}}
[[Category: Emails With DVD Commentary]]

secret recipes

2006-02-13T23:08:16Z

Jonnny: /* Inside References */

{{sbenav|124|origins|rock opera}}
[[Image:SBEmail 124.PNG|thumb|The horrible truth revealed!]]

Strong Bad reveals some secret family recipes.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|The Cheat}}, {{Film|Coach Z}}, {{Film|The King of Town}}, {{Film|Marzipan}}, {{Film|Homestar Runner}}

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]], [[The Field]], [[King of Town's Castle]], [[Marzipan's House]]

{{Comp|Lappy 486}}

'''Date:''' February 14, 2005

'''Running Time:''' 4:04

'''Page Title:''' Lappy 486

== Transcript ==
'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{singing}'' Email, na na, na na, na na, nanaNA...

<blockquote class="lappy email">
<div>subject: family recipes</div>
Dear Strong Bad, 
When we grow up we want to be chefs. We wanted to know 
if you had any secret family recipes that you would want 
to share with us so...we can make them! 
 
-Melissa and Hillary (from NJ)</blockquote>

''{Strong Bad reads "Dear Strong Bad" as "The usual" and "NJ" as "Nigeria"}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Well Mellie, Hillarious, being from Africa I'm sure you guys are used to eating, like, exotic fruits and nectars and, um, lions ''{clears screen, continues typing}'' so our recipes may seem a bit uncouth. ''{stops typing}'' Uncouth. ''{typing}'' Can something be just plain couth? I bet freakin' Strong Sad is plain couth. Anyways, Couthy, all our family recipes tend to center around the grossing out of or the making puke of friends and well-wishers.

''{The camera cuts back, and we see The Cheat laying on the computer desk flinging floppy disks all over.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' The Cheat! Let's go try out Great Uncle Pawdabber's Pre-tend Ice Cream Showdown! ''{His legs kick to each syllable of Pre-tend Ice Cream Showdown.}''

'''THE CHEAT:''' ''{The Cheat noises, possibly an enthusiastic "Okay!"}''

''{The Cheat stands up. The screen greys and the following text appears.}''

'''NARRATOR:''' Strong Bad may or may not have an actual Great Uncle Pawdabber.

''{Cut to the field. Coach Z is standing around holding a basketball.}''

'''COACH Z:''' Man, what is this thing? ''{bounces the basketball once}'' A bounce thing?

''{Strong Bad and The Cheat enter from the right. Strong Bad is holding what appears to be a bowl of ice cream with yellowish sprinkles, and The Cheat is wearing a towel around his waist.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Oh man, The Cheat! Wow! Look at this! It's our best friend, Coach Z. Say there, Coach, would you like to try some of our free icèd-c-cream? It's got toasted coconut!

'''COACH Z:''' How could I refuse? ''{throws the basketball over his shoulder}'' I can't afford the money-cost variety! ''{The basketball can be seen falling behind the trees in the background.}''

''{Coach Z takes the ice cream and starts pigging out on it.}''

'''COACH Z:''' Oooh! Sweet mercy! ''{He eats some more.}'' This is orful! ''{He eats more.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Aww, it's OK, Coach. You're the proud new eater of a healthy bowl of sour cream and The Cheat fur.

''{Coach Z drops the bowl in shock. Strong Bad pulls away The Cheat's towel to reveal that he's been shaved from the waist down.}''

'''THE CHEAT:''' ''{The Cheat noises, sounds like "ta-da!"}''

'''COACH Z:''' ''{He starts making disgusted noises and coughing up fur.}'' Oof! I think I'm going to puke my pants!

'''STRONG BAD:''' Ugh! Please don't elaborate on that.

'''COACH Z:''' ''{talking normally}'' Naw, it's easy. I do it all the time! Here, let me show ya's!

'''STRONG BAD:''' AUGH!

'''THE CHEAT:''' MEEH!

''{Strong Bad and the Cheat run away as Coach Z continues talking.}''

'''COACH Z:''' You take your pants...

''{A recipe card appears on screen reading as follows.}''

<blockquote class="email" style="background-image:none;border:2px solid black;background:#ffffff;color:#000">Recipe: 
Great Uncle Pawdabber's Pre-tend 
Ice Cream Showdown 
 
Ingredients: 
3 scoops (really) sour cream 
1/2 of shaved The Cheat 
1 bowl 
1 languagely challenged vaguely coach type person 
 
Instructions: 
Mix ingredients until golden brown</blockquote>

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' For best results, dip The Cheat in egg wash before shaving or else he'll get those red shaving bumpies all over him. Ugh.

''{Cut to the side of the King of Town's castle.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{sotto voice}'' All right, we're mixing this next one up on them, The Cheat. I filled this old Speed Stick ''{He pulls out some underarm deodorant reading "X-treme Glacier."}'' with white chocolate and we'll totally gross out or make puke The King of Town when I start eatin' it in front of him!

'''THE CHEAT:''' ''{affirmative The Cheat noises}''

''{Cut to inside the castle. The King of Town is watching TV and eating the same type of Speed Stick we saw Strong Bad with. He also has some more underarm deodorants and spray cans in a bowl next to him.}''

'''TUCKSWORTH:''' You can't marry your guitar, Caleb!

'''CALEB:''' I can try!

''{Strong Bad and The Cheat enter from the right.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Hey Ole King Droll! Checka me out! I'm eatin'—oh. Never mind. ''{the King of Town picks up a spray can and sprays it in his mouth, then resumes eating the Speed Stick}'' Ugh, shoulda known...

''{Strong Bad and The Cheat walk out.}''

'''THE KING OF TOWN:''' No, wait, you guys! Come back! This stuff is strong enough for a man but tasty enough for a king! Don't you want to try any Forest Rush? Or Tundra Mist?

''{A recipe card spins onscreen reading as follows}''

<blockquote class="email" style="background-image:none;border:2px solid black;background:#ffffff;color:#000">Recipe: 
Crazy Aunt Eulatherm's Deodorant 
Doppelganger 
 
Ingredients: 
6 oz. white chocolate 
1/2 of shaved The Cheat (for moral support) 
1 kinda cleaned-out De-odor Cake 
 
Instructions: 
Mix ingredients. Preheat oven. Add hot sauce 
if necessary</blockquote>

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' Yeah, how come deodorants and stuff are always named after biomes anyways?

''{Cut to Marzipan's house. Marzipan is sitting on the couch reading The Latest News. Homestar walks in carrying one of Strong Bad's Pre-Tend Ice Cream Showdown bowls.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Hey, girlfriend, have you tried any of this free ice cream Strong Bad made?

'''MARZIPAN:''' ''{setting aside her paper, clearly amused}'' Homestar, didn't anyone tell you? That's, like, cottage cheese and The Cheat hair!

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' WHAT?! ''{He does a spit take, producing some fur.}'' Strong Bad told me it was ''sour cream'' and The Cheat hair! Looks like this is a job for Stupid Uncle Egg's Goodtime Diaper Pie!

''{Homestar walks offscreen to the left. The screen greys and the following text appears on it.}''

'''NARRATOR:''' Homestar Runner definitely does not have a Stupid Uncle Egg.

''{Cut to Strong Bad's computer room. A pinecone and bendy straw are in a bowl with a sign next to it reading "not A pimecone, diaper pie! i mean reg-ular pie." Strong Bad and The Cheat walk in. The Cheat is now wearing yellow sticky notes, some with black dots on them, to try to cover up his shaved area.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' No, it looks ''totally'' real. I swear, no one'll be able to tell! Oh, what's this? ''{Strong Bad picks up the sign.}'' "Not a pimecone." Well, he's got that right!

''{Homestar pokes his head in from the right.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Oh, look, it's my best friends Cheat and The Strong Bad! Hey, I heard you guys been eatin' some serious regular pie in here!

'''STRONG BAD:''' Uh, yeah, man! We've even got some left over if you want it.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Well if it's anywhere near as good as your free ice cream!

''{Homestar puts the pine cone in his mouth and starts crunching it up. The Cheat and Strong Bad look at each other incredulously.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{with his mouth full}'' Well, so long, suckers!

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{offscreen}'' It's like, even when we win, he wins.

''{Cut back to Strong Bad at the Lappy}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' There you go girls. Recipes for the ages. But if you really want to be chefs when you grow up, we've got a super-secret family recipe for cooking the C-H-E-blank-T ''{types this as "C H E _ T"}''

''{The Cheat makes a very angry noise from offscreen and chucks a floppy disk reading "YOU JERK!" at Strong Bad's head.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Ow! ''{typing}'' And of course that blank is for the letter K. The Chekt. My family's got a great recipe for cooking the Chekt. Yeah, yeah. ''{He only types one "yeah."}'' We're mostly from Bumdumbourge. It's near, uh, Totalslava. "Come down off that smokestack and eat your the Chekt!" my poopaw used to say. Ah, my dear poopaw, I miss you so.

''{The Paper comes down}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{whispering}'' I think the Cheat bought it. Let me know if you want that recipe.

== Easter Eggs ==
*At the end, click on "grow up" to hear a few seconds of the television program the King of Town was watching.
::''{Cut back to the King of Town's castle. The TV is still on.}''
::'''TUCKSWORTH:''' Caleb, that hamburger was mine!
::'''CALEB:''' It's mine now!
*At the end, click on "C H E _ T" to see the Cheat reading a book entitled "So You Want to Cook a Wrestleman?", with a picture of The Cheat putting a lid on a pot with Strong Bad in it.
*At the end, click on the left "poopaw" to hear what the narrator has to say about a poopaw.
::'''NARRATOR:''' I, uh, I don't even know what a poopaw is.
*At the end, click on "the Chekt" to see another recipe.

<blockquote class="email" style="background-image:none;border:2px solid black;background:#ffffff;color:#000">From the Kitchen of Poopaw 
Chicken-fried the CHEKT 
 
Ingredients: 
3 or 7 medium sized the Chekts 
2 salt 
40 pancakes 
 
Instructions: 
Get down off smokestack. Then cook that 
ugly thing.</blockquote>

''{"Bumdumbourge '96" appears as a watermark on the recipe card.}''

== Fun Facts ==

=== Explanations ===
*A [[Wikipedia:Biome|biome]] is a major regional group of distinctive plant and animal communities well adapted to that region's physical environment (for example, Tundra, Forest, etc.).
*[http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=couth "Couth"] means "possessing a high degree of sophistication" or "refined".
=== Trivia ===
*When Strong Bad is talking to The Cheat flinging the discs, if you manage to zoom in on the [[Lappy 486|Lappy's]] screen, you'll find out that some different stuff is typed in (not all of it is visible due to Strong Bad's head blocking the Lappy screen):
<blockquote class="lappy email">
so our recipes may seem a bit uncouth. Can something be 
just plain couth? I bet freakin' Strong Sad is plain couth. 
I wouldn't put that past him. Not that you could put 
anything past that guy. Y'know on account of he's so fat. 
And maybe standing in a really narrow alleyway of some 
 
around the grossing out of or the making puke of friends 
and well-wishers.</blockquote>

*Marzipan's Newspaper repeats the following paragraph as many times as necessary to fill up the pages.
<blockquote class="email" style="background-image:none;border:2px solid black;background:#ffffff;color:#000;width:180px">
'''The Latest News''' 
 
It’s all true. All the 
rumors are true. The 
crime is on the rise 
in our very own 
town. Trust me on 
this one. I know 
what I’m talking 
about. No, wait. I 
don’t. I make stuff 
up sometimes. 
That’s cool though, 
right? Good. I’ll 
keep doing it then. 
It’s a lot easy than 
fact checking. That 
stuff can be 
annoying.
</blockquote>
*The label on the disk in the floppy disk container reads "[[Floppy Disk Container#battle chess|battle chess]]". The floppy disk that Strong Bad throws at The Cheat reads "[[Floppy Disk Container#you JERK|you JERK!]]"

=== Remarks ===
*The way Marzipan is sitting is evidence against the theory that Marzipan's lower body is skirt-shaped.


=== Goofs ===
*When Strong Bad reads the "pimecone" card, the computer screen is almost blank...but still has "and well-wishers." written on it in the same area where Strong Bad typed it before.
*In the beginning of the email, The Cheat is apparently throwing floppy disks from someplace behind him, as the movement of his arm behind him shows. However, when The Cheat jumps up at Strong Bad's suggestion of the ice cream trick, there are no floppy disks behind The Cheat that he could have thrown (unless, of course, he had already thrown all of them).
*In Marzipan's newspaper, the word "easy" should be "easier."

=== Inside References ===
*The king of town was watching the [[Caleb Rentpayer]] show.
*The newspaper Marzipan is reading is the exact same one (down to the repeating text) she was reading in [[Strong Bad is in Jail Cartoon]].
*The book in the Easter egg is titled "So You Want to Cook a [[Wrestleman]]", a phrase that has described Strong Bad previously.
*On the first recipe card where it says "Mix ingredients until golden brown" may be reference to the [[Homestar Quiz]] after you win.
*The towel that the Cheat is wearing appears to be either the same as, or very similar to, the one worn by Homestar in "[[Main Page 14]]."
*The use of the '96 on the card is quite possibly a reference to the year that [[Original Book|the original Homestar Runner book]] was created, during the [[Wikipedia:1996 Summer Olympics|1996 Summer Olympics]] held in Atlanta, Georgia.
*The narrator's voice is the same voice that originally announced Strong Bad's test sentence in the email [[radio]].

=== Real-World References ===
*[http://www.colgate.com/app/Speedstick/US/HomePage.cvsp "Speed Stick"] is an actual brand of underarm deodorant.
*"Old King Droll" is possibly a play on the nursery rhyme "[[Wikipedia:Old King Cole|Old King Cole]]."
*The King of Town's quip about the deodorants being "strong enough for a man" is a reference to [http://www.secret.com/ "Secret" brand deodorant] ads, whose slogan used to be "Strong enough for a man, but made for a woman."

===Fast Forward===
* The television show watched by the King appears again in [[Bug In Mouth Disease]]. In that toon, we discover the name of the show is ''[[Caleb Rentpayer]]''.
*In the email [[rock opera]], Strong Bad types "It's only a msyyer pd tun/ blegfr teh '''chekts'''" due to the Cheat throwing roses onto the keyboard.

==DVD Version==
*The DVD version features hidden creators' commentary. To access it, switch your DVD player's audio language selection while watching.
===Commentary Transcript===
('''Commentary by:''' [[Mike Chapman]], [[Strong Bad]], [[Ryan Sterritt]], [[Craig Zobel]])

'''MIKE:''' Uh oh. Strong Bad's here.

'''STRONG BAD:''' Oh, it's true, you guys. Who's gonna tolerate it?

'''RYAN:''' It's gonna—It's chronicling one of your greatest pranks yet.

'''STRONG BAD:''' That's right. You guys were around for this. Huh? Were you?

'''RYAN:''' We watched it all on TVD.

'''STRONG BAD:''' Oh, me too.

'''MIKE:''' Really the only good thing about this email is the introduction of "Caleb Rentpayer."

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{angrily}'' What? Why you gonna... jock me like that?

'''RYAN:''' I disagree, Mike.

'''STRONG BAD:''' —Downplay my accomplishments. Look, I just accused those girls of eating lions. ''{Mike laughs}'' That's great! I think there's just— The abbreviation "NJ" means Nigeria. ''{Mike laughs}'' That is comedy at its finest.

'''MIKE:''' That's pretty funny.

'''STRONG BAD:''' Yeah. Brian!

'''MIKE:''' Uhh, that's pretty good right there; the making puke of—

'''STRONG BAD:''' Exactly.

'''MIKE:''' Kinda switch up the word—

'''STRONG BAD:''' Look! What's The Cheat doing, man?

'''CRAIG:''' What's the game of the day, Ryan?

'''STRONG BAD:''' He's tossing my stuff all over.

'''RYAN:''' Battle Chess. ''{pause}'' Pawdabber.

'''MIKE:''' Oh, this is good.

'''STRONG BAD:''' That guy is clueless.

'''MIKE:''' ''{overlapping}'' He doesn't even know what a basketball is.

'''STRONG BAD:''' I was gonna start calling him "Z" cause he does not— He's not a coach of anything.

'''CRAIG:''' I should have guessed what was gonna happen with the towel around him, but—

'''MIKE:''' Did you not know?

'''CRAIG:''' No, it's talking about—

'''MIKE:''' ''I'' knew.

'''CRAIG:''' I asked Steve about it, too... when I first watched it. Why does The Cheat have a towel around him? ''{Mike chuckles}'' And then you find out!

'''MIKE:''' I had made a shaved The Cheat several weeks prior just— I think just to have. I just—

'''STRONG BAD:''' It's nice to have a shaved The Cheat lying around.

'''RYAN:''' Ohhh hooo ohh...

'''STRONG BAD:''' Ohh. And the fact that when Coach Z coughs up you see the little hairs come out. Oh, puke my pants. That's—

'''MIKE:''' That's right.

'''STRONG BAD:''' Ryan Sterritt made that up. Ryan? Talk about it.

'''MIKE:''' Yet another example of us stealing—

'''STRONG BAD:''' At least—

'''MIKE:''' —from our friends.

'''STRONG BAD:''' At least you pay this guy.

'''MIKE:''' That's true.

'''STRONG BAD:''' Ryan, give 'em— Tell 'em how where it came from.

'''RYAN:''' Uh...I did it once ''{Everyone laughs}'' and it kind of grossed me out. So, it became a recurring joke.

'''STRONG BAD:''' Puke my pants. Why not?

'''RYAN:''' ''{overlapping}'' Something I should not want to do.

'''STRONG BAD:''' So this was based on a prank that Matt had when he was a kid. He always wanted to play was wash out an old speed stick, fill it with white chocolate, and then gross some kids out in the locker room after gym class.

'''RYAN:''' We talked briefly about adding a randomizer to the names of the deodorants—

'''MIKE:''' Oh, right.

'''RYAN:''' But we never got around to—

'''STRONG BAD:''' Mike made a bunch of sweet, sweet deodorant names.

'''MIKE:''' It was fun coming up with—

'''STRONG BAD:''' other biomes.

'''MIKE:''' ''{laughs}'' Deodorant names.

'''RYAN:''' Like those band namer things. You know, you pick like four prefixes and four words like "mountain" and "glaciers."

'''STRONG BAD:''' That's true. I don't have a Crazy Aunt Eulatherm, honestly.

'''MIKE:''' Really?

'''STRONG BAD:''' Yeah.

'''MIKE:''' Ahhh. Doesn't surprise me. I don't know if I believe very much of what you say.

'''STRONG BAD:''' Look! That's a rare shot of Marzipan sitting down.

'''MIKE:''' That's true.

'''RYAN:''' Can we "zoom in" on that paper?

'''STRONG BAD:''' Uh, it says the same thing over and over again, doesn't it, Mike?

'''MIKE:''' ''{overlapping}'' Yeah. And it says the same thing from the Strong Bad is in Jail Cartoon.

'''STRONG BAD:''' Yeah. Marzipan needs to get a new subscription. ''{Mike laughs}'' She's such a recycler that she just reads the same paper that she got so many years ago.

'''RYAN:''' Uhh—

'''STRONG BAD:''' That looks great. Mike, remember when you made your wife a post-it note dress?

'''MIKE:''' I did. She—

'''STRONG BAD:''' She didn't want to wear—

'''RYAN:''' She was very excited, wasn't she?

'''MIKE:''' It's still in my closet. ''{laughter}'' Not hers.

'''STRONG BAD:''' It wasn't very flattering. It kinda look like a—

'''MIKE:''' ''{overlapping}'' It looked just like a potato sack—

'''STRONG BAD:''' Yeah.

'''RYAN:''' Uhh—

'''MIKE:''' made out of post-it notes.

'''STRONG BAD:''' It's true.

'''RYAN:''' ''{overlapping}'' It's the thought that—

'''MIKE:''' Right. Remember the thought?

'''RYAN:''' The girls don't remember the thought.

'''MIKE:''' They don't. They just want—

'''STRONG BAD:''' Dudes. Dudes do.

'''MIKE:''' a good looking dress.

'''CRAIG:''' ''{overlapping}'' That was foleyed by, um, I almost ate the chips and I got reprimanded for eating the chips that were left over—

'''STRONG BAD:''' Oh, that's right because I had to...and Mike and Matt had to—

'''MIKE:''' ''{overlapping}'' We had Mo—We had some Moe's Nacho Chips and saved them.

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{theme park tour guide-styled monotone voice}'' Welcome to Moe's.

'''CRAIG:''' ''{deep voice, slow}'' Moe's.

'''STRONG BAD:''' He's always the really ''{monotone voice again}'' depressed guy. At the end. ''{normal voice}'' Or they just go "Muhhhhh" ''{pause}'' What did that one say? That disk?

'''MIKE:''' I don't know what that one said.

'''STRONG BAD:''' Somebody slow it back down. Play it again, Ryan—

'''MIKE:''' Call us up, let us know.

'''RYAN:''' ''{imitates rewind noise of a tape}'' There you go.

'''STRONG BAD:''' What did it say?

'''RYAN:''' ''{overlapping}'' Good game, boys.

'''MIKE:''' ''{laughs}'' Good game, boys.

'''STRONG BAD:''' OK.

'''RYAN:''' I think it was an action game?

'''STRONG BAD:''' Totalslava. You guys?

'''MIKE:''' ''{laughing to himself}'' Poopaw.

'''STRONG BAD:''' So did this mean that I am— I have Euro—Eastern-European roots?

'''MIKE:''' ''{quickly}'' Yes.

''{After The Paper comes down, there is a pause}''

'''MATT:''' Oh, it's not over.—

'''RYAN:''' We finish quick every time.

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{overlapping}'' That's right, guys. Every time 'cause ''{begins to whisper; decrescendo}'' we don't remember cartoons after we're finished making them!

== External Links ==
{{sbemailextlinks|124|2014}}
{{Strong Bad Email}}
[[Category: Emails With DVD Commentary]]

secret recipes

2006-02-13T23:07:48Z

Jonnny: /* Inside References */

{{sbenav|124|origins|rock opera}}
[[Image:SBEmail 124.PNG|thumb|The horrible truth revealed!]]

Strong Bad reveals some secret family recipes.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|The Cheat}}, {{Film|Coach Z}}, {{Film|The King of Town}}, {{Film|Marzipan}}, {{Film|Homestar Runner}}

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]], [[The Field]], [[King of Town's Castle]], [[Marzipan's House]]

{{Comp|Lappy 486}}

'''Date:''' February 14, 2005

'''Running Time:''' 4:04

'''Page Title:''' Lappy 486

== Transcript ==
'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{singing}'' Email, na na, na na, na na, nanaNA...

<blockquote class="lappy email">
<div>subject: family recipes</div>
Dear Strong Bad, 
When we grow up we want to be chefs. We wanted to know 
if you had any secret family recipes that you would want 
to share with us so...we can make them! 
 
-Melissa and Hillary (from NJ)</blockquote>

''{Strong Bad reads "Dear Strong Bad" as "The usual" and "NJ" as "Nigeria"}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Well Mellie, Hillarious, being from Africa I'm sure you guys are used to eating, like, exotic fruits and nectars and, um, lions ''{clears screen, continues typing}'' so our recipes may seem a bit uncouth. ''{stops typing}'' Uncouth. ''{typing}'' Can something be just plain couth? I bet freakin' Strong Sad is plain couth. Anyways, Couthy, all our family recipes tend to center around the grossing out of or the making puke of friends and well-wishers.

''{The camera cuts back, and we see The Cheat laying on the computer desk flinging floppy disks all over.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' The Cheat! Let's go try out Great Uncle Pawdabber's Pre-tend Ice Cream Showdown! ''{His legs kick to each syllable of Pre-tend Ice Cream Showdown.}''

'''THE CHEAT:''' ''{The Cheat noises, possibly an enthusiastic "Okay!"}''

''{The Cheat stands up. The screen greys and the following text appears.}''

'''NARRATOR:''' Strong Bad may or may not have an actual Great Uncle Pawdabber.

''{Cut to the field. Coach Z is standing around holding a basketball.}''

'''COACH Z:''' Man, what is this thing? ''{bounces the basketball once}'' A bounce thing?

''{Strong Bad and The Cheat enter from the right. Strong Bad is holding what appears to be a bowl of ice cream with yellowish sprinkles, and The Cheat is wearing a towel around his waist.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Oh man, The Cheat! Wow! Look at this! It's our best friend, Coach Z. Say there, Coach, would you like to try some of our free icèd-c-cream? It's got toasted coconut!

'''COACH Z:''' How could I refuse? ''{throws the basketball over his shoulder}'' I can't afford the money-cost variety! ''{The basketball can be seen falling behind the trees in the background.}''

''{Coach Z takes the ice cream and starts pigging out on it.}''

'''COACH Z:''' Oooh! Sweet mercy! ''{He eats some more.}'' This is orful! ''{He eats more.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Aww, it's OK, Coach. You're the proud new eater of a healthy bowl of sour cream and The Cheat fur.

''{Coach Z drops the bowl in shock. Strong Bad pulls away The Cheat's towel to reveal that he's been shaved from the waist down.}''

'''THE CHEAT:''' ''{The Cheat noises, sounds like "ta-da!"}''

'''COACH Z:''' ''{He starts making disgusted noises and coughing up fur.}'' Oof! I think I'm going to puke my pants!

'''STRONG BAD:''' Ugh! Please don't elaborate on that.

'''COACH Z:''' ''{talking normally}'' Naw, it's easy. I do it all the time! Here, let me show ya's!

'''STRONG BAD:''' AUGH!

'''THE CHEAT:''' MEEH!

''{Strong Bad and the Cheat run away as Coach Z continues talking.}''

'''COACH Z:''' You take your pants...

''{A recipe card appears on screen reading as follows.}''

<blockquote class="email" style="background-image:none;border:2px solid black;background:#ffffff;color:#000">Recipe: 
Great Uncle Pawdabber's Pre-tend 
Ice Cream Showdown 
 
Ingredients: 
3 scoops (really) sour cream 
1/2 of shaved The Cheat 
1 bowl 
1 languagely challenged vaguely coach type person 
 
Instructions: 
Mix ingredients until golden brown</blockquote>

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' For best results, dip The Cheat in egg wash before shaving or else he'll get those red shaving bumpies all over him. Ugh.

''{Cut to the side of the King of Town's castle.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{sotto voice}'' All right, we're mixing this next one up on them, The Cheat. I filled this old Speed Stick ''{He pulls out some underarm deodorant reading "X-treme Glacier."}'' with white chocolate and we'll totally gross out or make puke The King of Town when I start eatin' it in front of him!

'''THE CHEAT:''' ''{affirmative The Cheat noises}''

''{Cut to inside the castle. The King of Town is watching TV and eating the same type of Speed Stick we saw Strong Bad with. He also has some more underarm deodorants and spray cans in a bowl next to him.}''

'''TUCKSWORTH:''' You can't marry your guitar, Caleb!

'''CALEB:''' I can try!

''{Strong Bad and The Cheat enter from the right.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Hey Ole King Droll! Checka me out! I'm eatin'—oh. Never mind. ''{the King of Town picks up a spray can and sprays it in his mouth, then resumes eating the Speed Stick}'' Ugh, shoulda known...

''{Strong Bad and The Cheat walk out.}''

'''THE KING OF TOWN:''' No, wait, you guys! Come back! This stuff is strong enough for a man but tasty enough for a king! Don't you want to try any Forest Rush? Or Tundra Mist?

''{A recipe card spins onscreen reading as follows}''

<blockquote class="email" style="background-image:none;border:2px solid black;background:#ffffff;color:#000">Recipe: 
Crazy Aunt Eulatherm's Deodorant 
Doppelganger 
 
Ingredients: 
6 oz. white chocolate 
1/2 of shaved The Cheat (for moral support) 
1 kinda cleaned-out De-odor Cake 
 
Instructions: 
Mix ingredients. Preheat oven. Add hot sauce 
if necessary</blockquote>

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' Yeah, how come deodorants and stuff are always named after biomes anyways?

''{Cut to Marzipan's house. Marzipan is sitting on the couch reading The Latest News. Homestar walks in carrying one of Strong Bad's Pre-Tend Ice Cream Showdown bowls.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Hey, girlfriend, have you tried any of this free ice cream Strong Bad made?

'''MARZIPAN:''' ''{setting aside her paper, clearly amused}'' Homestar, didn't anyone tell you? That's, like, cottage cheese and The Cheat hair!

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' WHAT?! ''{He does a spit take, producing some fur.}'' Strong Bad told me it was ''sour cream'' and The Cheat hair! Looks like this is a job for Stupid Uncle Egg's Goodtime Diaper Pie!

''{Homestar walks offscreen to the left. The screen greys and the following text appears on it.}''

'''NARRATOR:''' Homestar Runner definitely does not have a Stupid Uncle Egg.

''{Cut to Strong Bad's computer room. A pinecone and bendy straw are in a bowl with a sign next to it reading "not A pimecone, diaper pie! i mean reg-ular pie." Strong Bad and The Cheat walk in. The Cheat is now wearing yellow sticky notes, some with black dots on them, to try to cover up his shaved area.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' No, it looks ''totally'' real. I swear, no one'll be able to tell! Oh, what's this? ''{Strong Bad picks up the sign.}'' "Not a pimecone." Well, he's got that right!

''{Homestar pokes his head in from the right.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Oh, look, it's my best friends Cheat and The Strong Bad! Hey, I heard you guys been eatin' some serious regular pie in here!

'''STRONG BAD:''' Uh, yeah, man! We've even got some left over if you want it.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Well if it's anywhere near as good as your free ice cream!

''{Homestar puts the pine cone in his mouth and starts crunching it up. The Cheat and Strong Bad look at each other incredulously.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{with his mouth full}'' Well, so long, suckers!

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{offscreen}'' It's like, even when we win, he wins.

''{Cut back to Strong Bad at the Lappy}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' There you go girls. Recipes for the ages. But if you really want to be chefs when you grow up, we've got a super-secret family recipe for cooking the C-H-E-blank-T ''{types this as "C H E _ T"}''

''{The Cheat makes a very angry noise from offscreen and chucks a floppy disk reading "YOU JERK!" at Strong Bad's head.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Ow! ''{typing}'' And of course that blank is for the letter K. The Chekt. My family's got a great recipe for cooking the Chekt. Yeah, yeah. ''{He only types one "yeah."}'' We're mostly from Bumdumbourge. It's near, uh, Totalslava. "Come down off that smokestack and eat your the Chekt!" my poopaw used to say. Ah, my dear poopaw, I miss you so.

''{The Paper comes down}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{whispering}'' I think the Cheat bought it. Let me know if you want that recipe.

== Easter Eggs ==
*At the end, click on "grow up" to hear a few seconds of the television program the King of Town was watching.
::''{Cut back to the King of Town's castle. The TV is still on.}''
::'''TUCKSWORTH:''' Caleb, that hamburger was mine!
::'''CALEB:''' It's mine now!
*At the end, click on "C H E _ T" to see the Cheat reading a book entitled "So You Want to Cook a Wrestleman?", with a picture of The Cheat putting a lid on a pot with Strong Bad in it.
*At the end, click on the left "poopaw" to hear what the narrator has to say about a poopaw.
::'''NARRATOR:''' I, uh, I don't even know what a poopaw is.
*At the end, click on "the Chekt" to see another recipe.

<blockquote class="email" style="background-image:none;border:2px solid black;background:#ffffff;color:#000">From the Kitchen of Poopaw 
Chicken-fried the CHEKT 
 
Ingredients: 
3 or 7 medium sized the Chekts 
2 salt 
40 pancakes 
 
Instructions: 
Get down off smokestack. Then cook that 
ugly thing.</blockquote>

''{"Bumdumbourge '96" appears as a watermark on the recipe card.}''

== Fun Facts ==

=== Explanations ===
*A [[Wikipedia:Biome|biome]] is a major regional group of distinctive plant and animal communities well adapted to that region's physical environment (for example, Tundra, Forest, etc.).
*[http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=couth "Couth"] means "possessing a high degree of sophistication" or "refined".
=== Trivia ===
*When Strong Bad is talking to The Cheat flinging the discs, if you manage to zoom in on the [[Lappy 486|Lappy's]] screen, you'll find out that some different stuff is typed in (not all of it is visible due to Strong Bad's head blocking the Lappy screen):
<blockquote class="lappy email">
so our recipes may seem a bit uncouth. Can something be 
just plain couth? I bet freakin' Strong Sad is plain couth. 
I wouldn't put that past him. Not that you could put 
anything past that guy. Y'know on account of he's so fat. 
And maybe standing in a really narrow alleyway of some 
 
around the grossing out of or the making puke of friends 
and well-wishers.</blockquote>

*Marzipan's Newspaper repeats the following paragraph as many times as necessary to fill up the pages.
<blockquote class="email" style="background-image:none;border:2px solid black;background:#ffffff;color:#000;width:180px">
'''The Latest News''' 
 
It’s all true. All the 
rumors are true. The 
crime is on the rise 
in our very own 
town. Trust me on 
this one. I know 
what I’m talking 
about. No, wait. I 
don’t. I make stuff 
up sometimes. 
That’s cool though, 
right? Good. I’ll 
keep doing it then. 
It’s a lot easy than 
fact checking. That 
stuff can be 
annoying.
</blockquote>
*The label on the disk in the floppy disk container reads "[[Floppy Disk Container#battle chess|battle chess]]". The floppy disk that Strong Bad throws at The Cheat reads "[[Floppy Disk Container#you JERK|you JERK!]]"

=== Remarks ===
*The way Marzipan is sitting is evidence against the theory that Marzipan's lower body is skirt-shaped.


=== Goofs ===
*When Strong Bad reads the "pimecone" card, the computer screen is almost blank...but still has "and well-wishers." written on it in the same area where Strong Bad typed it before.
*In the beginning of the email, The Cheat is apparently throwing floppy disks from someplace behind him, as the movement of his arm behind him shows. However, when The Cheat jumps up at Strong Bad's suggestion of the ice cream trick, there are no floppy disks behind The Cheat that he could have thrown (unless, of course, he had already thrown all of them).
*In Marzipan's newspaper, the word "easy" should be "easier."

=== Inside References ===
*The king of town was watching the [[Caleb Rentpayer]] show.
*The newspaper Marzipan is reading is the exact same one (down to the repeating text) she was reading in [[Strong Bad is in Jail Cartoon]].
*The book in the Easter egg is titled "So You Want to Cook a [[Wrestleman]]", a phrase that has described Strong Bad previously. The book's title may be a reference to the web site [http://www.soyouwanna.com soyouwanna.com], which bears a similar color scheme to the book's cover.
*On the first recipe card where it says "Mix ingredients until golden brown" may be reference to the [[Homestar Quiz]] after you win.
*The towel that the Cheat is wearing appears to be either the same as, or very similar to, the one worn by Homestar in "[[Main Page 14]]."
*The use of the '96 on the card is quite possibly a reference to the year that [[Original Book|the original Homestar Runner book]] was created, during the [[Wikipedia:1996 Summer Olympics|1996 Summer Olympics]] held in Atlanta, Georgia.
*The narrator's voice is the same voice that originally announced Strong Bad's test sentence in the email [[radio]].

=== Real-World References ===
*[http://www.colgate.com/app/Speedstick/US/HomePage.cvsp "Speed Stick"] is an actual brand of underarm deodorant.
*"Old King Droll" is possibly a play on the nursery rhyme "[[Wikipedia:Old King Cole|Old King Cole]]."
*The King of Town's quip about the deodorants being "strong enough for a man" is a reference to [http://www.secret.com/ "Secret" brand deodorant] ads, whose slogan used to be "Strong enough for a man, but made for a woman."

===Fast Forward===
* The television show watched by the King appears again in [[Bug In Mouth Disease]]. In that toon, we discover the name of the show is ''[[Caleb Rentpayer]]''.
*In the email [[rock opera]], Strong Bad types "It's only a msyyer pd tun/ blegfr teh '''chekts'''" due to the Cheat throwing roses onto the keyboard.

==DVD Version==
*The DVD version features hidden creators' commentary. To access it, switch your DVD player's audio language selection while watching.
===Commentary Transcript===
('''Commentary by:''' [[Mike Chapman]], [[Strong Bad]], [[Ryan Sterritt]], [[Craig Zobel]])

'''MIKE:''' Uh oh. Strong Bad's here.

'''STRONG BAD:''' Oh, it's true, you guys. Who's gonna tolerate it?

'''RYAN:''' It's gonna—It's chronicling one of your greatest pranks yet.

'''STRONG BAD:''' That's right. You guys were around for this. Huh? Were you?

'''RYAN:''' We watched it all on TVD.

'''STRONG BAD:''' Oh, me too.

'''MIKE:''' Really the only good thing about this email is the introduction of "Caleb Rentpayer."

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{angrily}'' What? Why you gonna... jock me like that?

'''RYAN:''' I disagree, Mike.

'''STRONG BAD:''' —Downplay my accomplishments. Look, I just accused those girls of eating lions. ''{Mike laughs}'' That's great! I think there's just— The abbreviation "NJ" means Nigeria. ''{Mike laughs}'' That is comedy at its finest.

'''MIKE:''' That's pretty funny.

'''STRONG BAD:''' Yeah. Brian!

'''MIKE:''' Uhh, that's pretty good right there; the making puke of—

'''STRONG BAD:''' Exactly.

'''MIKE:''' Kinda switch up the word—

'''STRONG BAD:''' Look! What's The Cheat doing, man?

'''CRAIG:''' What's the game of the day, Ryan?

'''STRONG BAD:''' He's tossing my stuff all over.

'''RYAN:''' Battle Chess. ''{pause}'' Pawdabber.

'''MIKE:''' Oh, this is good.

'''STRONG BAD:''' That guy is clueless.

'''MIKE:''' ''{overlapping}'' He doesn't even know what a basketball is.

'''STRONG BAD:''' I was gonna start calling him "Z" cause he does not— He's not a coach of anything.

'''CRAIG:''' I should have guessed what was gonna happen with the towel around him, but—

'''MIKE:''' Did you not know?

'''CRAIG:''' No, it's talking about—

'''MIKE:''' ''I'' knew.

'''CRAIG:''' I asked Steve about it, too... when I first watched it. Why does The Cheat have a towel around him? ''{Mike chuckles}'' And then you find out!

'''MIKE:''' I had made a shaved The Cheat several weeks prior just— I think just to have. I just—

'''STRONG BAD:''' It's nice to have a shaved The Cheat lying around.

'''RYAN:''' Ohhh hooo ohh...

'''STRONG BAD:''' Ohh. And the fact that when Coach Z coughs up you see the little hairs come out. Oh, puke my pants. That's—

'''MIKE:''' That's right.

'''STRONG BAD:''' Ryan Sterritt made that up. Ryan? Talk about it.

'''MIKE:''' Yet another example of us stealing—

'''STRONG BAD:''' At least—

'''MIKE:''' —from our friends.

'''STRONG BAD:''' At least you pay this guy.

'''MIKE:''' That's true.

'''STRONG BAD:''' Ryan, give 'em— Tell 'em how where it came from.

'''RYAN:''' Uh...I did it once ''{Everyone laughs}'' and it kind of grossed me out. So, it became a recurring joke.

'''STRONG BAD:''' Puke my pants. Why not?

'''RYAN:''' ''{overlapping}'' Something I should not want to do.

'''STRONG BAD:''' So this was based on a prank that Matt had when he was a kid. He always wanted to play was wash out an old speed stick, fill it with white chocolate, and then gross some kids out in the locker room after gym class.

'''RYAN:''' We talked briefly about adding a randomizer to the names of the deodorants—

'''MIKE:''' Oh, right.

'''RYAN:''' But we never got around to—

'''STRONG BAD:''' Mike made a bunch of sweet, sweet deodorant names.

'''MIKE:''' It was fun coming up with—

'''STRONG BAD:''' other biomes.

'''MIKE:''' ''{laughs}'' Deodorant names.

'''RYAN:''' Like those band namer things. You know, you pick like four prefixes and four words like "mountain" and "glaciers."

'''STRONG BAD:''' That's true. I don't have a Crazy Aunt Eulatherm, honestly.

'''MIKE:''' Really?

'''STRONG BAD:''' Yeah.

'''MIKE:''' Ahhh. Doesn't surprise me. I don't know if I believe very much of what you say.

'''STRONG BAD:''' Look! That's a rare shot of Marzipan sitting down.

'''MIKE:''' That's true.

'''RYAN:''' Can we "zoom in" on that paper?

'''STRONG BAD:''' Uh, it says the same thing over and over again, doesn't it, Mike?

'''MIKE:''' ''{overlapping}'' Yeah. And it says the same thing from the Strong Bad is in Jail Cartoon.

'''STRONG BAD:''' Yeah. Marzipan needs to get a new subscription. ''{Mike laughs}'' She's such a recycler that she just reads the same paper that she got so many years ago.

'''RYAN:''' Uhh—

'''STRONG BAD:''' That looks great. Mike, remember when you made your wife a post-it note dress?

'''MIKE:''' I did. She—

'''STRONG BAD:''' She didn't want to wear—

'''RYAN:''' She was very excited, wasn't she?

'''MIKE:''' It's still in my closet. ''{laughter}'' Not hers.

'''STRONG BAD:''' It wasn't very flattering. It kinda look like a—

'''MIKE:''' ''{overlapping}'' It looked just like a potato sack—

'''STRONG BAD:''' Yeah.

'''RYAN:''' Uhh—

'''MIKE:''' made out of post-it notes.

'''STRONG BAD:''' It's true.

'''RYAN:''' ''{overlapping}'' It's the thought that—

'''MIKE:''' Right. Remember the thought?

'''RYAN:''' The girls don't remember the thought.

'''MIKE:''' They don't. They just want—

'''STRONG BAD:''' Dudes. Dudes do.

'''MIKE:''' a good looking dress.

'''CRAIG:''' ''{overlapping}'' That was foleyed by, um, I almost ate the chips and I got reprimanded for eating the chips that were left over—

'''STRONG BAD:''' Oh, that's right because I had to...and Mike and Matt had to—

'''MIKE:''' ''{overlapping}'' We had Mo—We had some Moe's Nacho Chips and saved them.

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{theme park tour guide-styled monotone voice}'' Welcome to Moe's.

'''CRAIG:''' ''{deep voice, slow}'' Moe's.

'''STRONG BAD:''' He's always the really ''{monotone voice again}'' depressed guy. At the end. ''{normal voice}'' Or they just go "Muhhhhh" ''{pause}'' What did that one say? That disk?

'''MIKE:''' I don't know what that one said.

'''STRONG BAD:''' Somebody slow it back down. Play it again, Ryan—

'''MIKE:''' Call us up, let us know.

'''RYAN:''' ''{imitates rewind noise of a tape}'' There you go.

'''STRONG BAD:''' What did it say?

'''RYAN:''' ''{overlapping}'' Good game, boys.

'''MIKE:''' ''{laughs}'' Good game, boys.

'''STRONG BAD:''' OK.

'''RYAN:''' I think it was an action game?

'''STRONG BAD:''' Totalslava. You guys?

'''MIKE:''' ''{laughing to himself}'' Poopaw.

'''STRONG BAD:''' So did this mean that I am— I have Euro—Eastern-European roots?

'''MIKE:''' ''{quickly}'' Yes.

''{After The Paper comes down, there is a pause}''

'''MATT:''' Oh, it's not over.—

'''RYAN:''' We finish quick every time.

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{overlapping}'' That's right, guys. Every time 'cause ''{begins to whisper; decrescendo}'' we don't remember cartoons after we're finished making them!

== External Links ==
{{sbemailextlinks|124|2014}}
{{Strong Bad Email}}
[[Category: Emails With DVD Commentary]]

Talk:narrator

2006-02-07T03:15:00Z

Jonnny: /* Bathroom */

Can I make the transcript for this one? {{User: Seriously/sig}} 01:05, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
:I was gonna, but go ahead. I call next one for sure (unless it comes out while I'm not home). {{User:Salty/sig}} 01:18, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
::Actually, I gotta go to bed. Sadly enough, you can have it. {{User: Seriously/sig}} 01:28, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
Can I do one? [[User:Riley|Riley]]
I call next one after Riley's! Or, at least, I'll split it with somebody. --[[User:Ookelaylay|אוקאלייליי (Ookelaylay)]]
:Okay, I guess ACupofCoffee is just gonna edit conflict me and take over. {{User:Salty/sig}} 02:29, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
==Reference==
Someone stuff this, I think '''rouge on josh pot pie''' is a reference to '''chicken pot pie.''' [[User:Riley|Riley]]
:There are different types of pot pie you know, even though the only one I can actually name is chicken pot pie. {{User:Has Matt?/sig}} 01:54, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
Ok, I'll do this one. Riley can do next week's. {{User:Salty/sig}} 02:00, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

It's "Rogan Josh" pot pie. Lamb curry. Yum.

== Bathroom ==

Should we include the bathroom where SS is shaving as a place? I mean, it did appear in the email. -{{User:Marth 99/sig}} 02:21, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
:Is it just me, or did I totally miss SS shaving? I only saw him brushing his teeth... -[[User:Jonnny|Jonnny]] 03:15, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

User:Jonnny

2006-01-27T19:32:07Z

Jonnny:

(There is currently no text in this page. Seriously.)

User:Jonnny

2006-01-26T23:33:01Z

Jonnny:

(There is currently no text in this page. Really.)

HRWiki talk:Thank You!

2006-01-26T21:54:38Z

Jonnny: /* Not Linked? */

== Not Linked? ==
See someone here (maybe even you) who's not linked properly? Please let us know! Leave a message on this page and we'll try to fix it. We want to give these generous people the recognition they deserve. — {{User:JoeyDay/sig}} 00:58, 9 Mar 2005 (MST)

:Is this not linked properly or not linked at all? →''<tt>[[User:FireBird|FireBird]]</tt>''

::Either/or. — {{User:JoeyDay/sig}} 14:59, 9 Mar 2005 (MST)

:::Oh. I'm pretty sure that Leith is [[User:Thunderbird L17|Thunderbird L17]]. →''<tt>[[User:FireBird|FireBird]]</tt>''

::::Yuppers, you're right on that one Fire. ''<tt>[[User:Thunderbird L17|?Leith?]]</tt>'' 14:22, 13 Mar 2005 (MST)

I (Eliot Frost) would appreciate having my name changed to TheJapaneseGeek and having it link to my userpage. Many thanks.

:Done. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 02:14, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

Could you switch my user name to display my real name (Sean Fennel)? I thought that's what I'd said earlier, but, whatever. I've asked for it now. {{User:ACupOfCoffee/sig}} 05:26, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

:Done. (It had been fixed in the ledger earlier, but not here on this page.) — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 05:29, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

::Oh, I'm sorry about that Sean. As Dot Com said, I fixed it on the ledger but forgot to fix it here. I'm spacey like that some (okay, most) of the time. Sorry. — {{User:JoeyDay/sig}} 15:29, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

:::Hey there, just so you know, I'm on the thank you page as Nathaniel Paulsen, if you want to link to me. Also, could you change my name to read "Nat Paulsen" (which is the name I always go by)? [[User:Heimstern Läufer|Heimstern Läufer]] 16:19, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

::::Fixed.[[User:Tom|<nowiki></nowiki>]] -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 18:35, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

::::This is now fixed in the Ledger and my Excel spreadsheet as well. Thanks for the heads-up, Heimstern. — {{User:JoeyDay/sig}} 04:17, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

:Jonnny = Jonathan Pobre. :) [[User:Jonnny|Jonnny]] 21:54, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

== Name Sizes ==
Is this dumb? Should we go back to normal sized names? Is there something I can change to make it look different/better? — {{User:JoeyDay/sig}} 14:59, 9 Mar 2005 (MST)

:Eh... I like it better with the normal sizes. The random sizes look kind of weird, and I'm having a hard time figuring out why some are hugenormous and some are tiny. →[[User:FireBird|''<tt>[[User:FireBird|FireBird]]</tt>'']]

:Yeah, I think it just looks strange having them all different sizes. {{User:Rainer/sig}}

: Maybe just put them in order based on how much donated and show the amount. [[User:nintendorulez|nintendorulez]] 18:16, 14 Mar 2005 (MST)

:: I agree with nintendorulez. It's very odd looking at the page when all of the names are in different sizes. You can just put them in the correct rank. You don't even need to mention that that is the rank... →[[User:evin290|evin290]] 18:40, 14 Mar 2005 (MST)

:Personally, I liked it the way it was. I don't think this is really the place to recognize amounts donated. I think this page should look particularly professional. Maybe we could find some other way to show relative amounts donated by users. -- [[User:AgentSeethroo|AgentSeethroo]] 12:53, 28 Mar 2005 (MST)

::Is someone going to change it? IMO, it looks alright with names being ''slightly'' bigger, but seeing a gigantic, blue coloured "Joey Day" and "Tom Preuss" looks kinda strange. {{User:Rainer/sig}} 12:46, 5 Aug 2005 (UTC)

:I personally like it like this. If I donated $200 dollars, I'd like to have more credit than someone who only donated $2. (Although I know that we should be grateful that we get credit at all.) Anyway, that's my two cents. (pardon the pun) - '''''[[User:Joshua|Joshua]]'''''

Okay, I think it needs to change now. Tom's has taken over the whole page, practically. It looks awkward now. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]

:I like how it looks now, except for Tom's name (still too big, IMO). I think it is important to have some names slightly bigger if that person donated a lot of money, but not so much that it is distracting. {{User:Rainer/sig}} 08:31, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

== Screenshot ==

Anyone else think it would be a nice touch to add a screenshot of the "Thank You" poster over Marzipan's couch to this page? [[User:ComputerBox|Tom]] 15:30, 9 Mar 2005 (MST) -Tom as in "ComputerBox", not the admin.

:I don't think it would look very good. →[[User:FireBird|''<tt>[[User:FireBird|FireBird]]</tt>'']]

::I think it's worth a shot at least to see what it'd look like. Dangit. -- [[User:AgentSeethroo|AgentSeethroo]] 07:20, 30 Mar 2005 (MST)

==Sizage==

Is it just me, or did everybody just shrink? {{User:Thunderbird L17/Siggie}} 01:02, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
:I think they did. On purpose. Some names were getting just too big. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]

== Matt Chapman ==

What happened to the (legendary?) Matt Chapman wiki donation? Why isn't it listed here? -[[User:AtionSong|AtionSong]] 15:40, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

:I guess JoeyDay still have problams with the check. {{User:E.L. Cool/sig}} 16:00, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
::Now it's on. {{User:Bubsty/sig}} 20:34, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

Talk:secret identity

2006-01-26T05:40:10Z

Jonnny: /* Whaddaya Know, Reference-Man? */

==Past our bedtimes==
It has finally happened! I discovered and watched this Strong Bad email before the Wiki knew that it existed. Ah, sweet success.[[User:Triumvir|Triumvir]] 10:31, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
:You mean not counting the fact that I started the toon page several minutes before you posted anything? ;) — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 10:35, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
::Actually, it let me create the page and found no conflicts when I did. I guess you just started editing it before me :-) [[User:Triumvir|Triumvir]] 10:42, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
:::Well, I realize I'm tooting my own horn here, but I'm [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=secret_identity&action=history&limit=2&offset=20060125102814 pretty sure] my edit was before yours. :) — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 12:36, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
::::Ugh! you can do [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=secret_identity&action=history&limit=2&offset=20060125102814 that]!? Oh and hi Triumvir! Welcome to the wiki! --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 14:30, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
:...And how exactly is that an accomplishment?
[[User:Agentjs03|Agentjs03]] 21:36, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

== Dunno where to put it, but ==

The .wad file extension is most famous for its use on data files for Doom. -- Vorn

== simpsons? ==

Isn't "worst mayo party ever" a reference to the simpsons? You know, Comic Book Guy: Worst ____ Ever!" --[[User:TheGreatLogini|TheGreatLogini]] 12:43, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

== brokeback Laramie? ==

did anyone else think about brokeback mountain when the cowboy picture came up or is there another cowboy reference that I might be missing. {{User:Invisible_Robot_Fish/sig}} 12:53, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
:I did, but I still don't think it's a reference. More likely, Laramie is a popular setting for westerns... come to think of it, I think I'll add that. [[User:Terlet Brush|Terlet Brush]] 19:01, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
::Isn't Laramie a brand of cigarettes on the Simpsons, with a wild west theme (sort of like Marlboro)?
:I totally thought the same thing. Don't know if it's worth referencing, but then with all the press the movie's gotten...--Impulse2, who needs to register

Actually, the town of Laramie is sort of famous for a hate crime which killed a . There is a play about it entitled The Laramie Project.--[[User:Lucyinthesky|Lucyinthesky]] 22:24, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
:I think two possible Simpsons references in one toon is too coincidental to be a coincedence. {{User:Salty/sig}} 23:54, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

== Nintendogs? ==

Is the video game "where you pretend to be a dog" Nintendogs? Or possibly Animal Crossing? Neither of those really counts since you're not actually pretending to ''be'' a dog or frog. There was another one, a non-DS one, where you actually pretend to be a dog, but I forget its name off the top of my head. - [User:Octan|Octan] Jan 25 2005, 8:38AM EST
:A Dog's Life, for the PS2. --{{User:Venusy/Sig}} [[Wikipedia:Leet|13:37]], 25 January 2006 (UTC)

:Hm...aren't you a frog in Frogger?--[[User:Martin925|Martin925]] 23:57, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

::I say ''Frogger'' and ''Nintendogs.'' Or perhaps ''Dog's Life'' for PS2... --[[User:MrsCommanderson|MrsCommanderson]] 00:36, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

== a lot of work for one small comment ==

When SB talks about seeing the Poopsmith and himself together, I was thinking that TBC put there just to gives us work to do. It would take a bit of work, but does anyone find it worth it to list all of the times that SB and TPS have appeared in the same frame...or is that just too much work which will just amount to one small comment such as, "depsite trying to claim that he has never been seen with the poopsmith, they appeared together in ______, _____, and ______." {{User:Invisible_Robot_Fish/sig}} 13:40, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
:Three words: [[big white face]]. And don't forget [[couch patch]]. And [[rock opera]]. And [[Strong Bad is in Jail Cartoon]]. And [[Parsnips-a-Plenty]]. {{User:Has Matt?/sig}} 13:44, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
::I know, there are a bunch, but is it worth trying to find them all? {{User:Invisible_Robot_Fish/sig}} 13:50, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
:::Doubt it. But who knows what bored people with no lives will do. :P - {{User:Joshua/sig}} 13:52, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
::::Especially bored wiki people. {{User:Invisible_Robot_Fish/sig}} 13:56, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
:::::And [[labor day]]... {{User:Has Matt?/sig}} 14:00, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
::::::Like in [[The Geddup Noise]], I made [[User:Stux/Email_CheckList_Template|this]] to help make tedious searches like this one. The only thing it doesn't have is regular toons. --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 14:32, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
:::::::You know, I remeber seeing that but I couldn't find it. SB and TPS have also appeared in several Halloween toons together. {{User:Invisible_Robot_Fish/sig}} 14:44, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
::::::::By the way, Parsnips-a-Plenty doesn't really count because it's an Old Timey Era with different characters. {{User:The Chort/sig}} 19:04, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
::::::::::Don't forget [[A Jumping Jack Contest]] {{User:Sbmaniac}}

== Superman reference ==

Ms Fessmocker (sp?) is a reference to the female henchman(woman?) of Lex Luthor in the first Superman movie. Does this mean that the cheat is female? Maybe... probably not. It does kind of make sense that the cheat would pick a henchman of a villian as a fake name.

Would make even more sense if this was signed...--[[User:ISlayedTheKerrek|ISlayedTheKerrek]] 15:33, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

== The Poopsmith and I? ==

Shouldn't that be "The Poopsmith and me?" -- [[User:Mycroft.holmes|Mycroft Holmes]] 14:53, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
: Nope. The correct pronoun to use is 'I'. --[[User:Musachan|Musachan]] 15:11, 25 January 2006 (UTC)Musachan
::Hmmmm ... but, wouldn't you say "Have you ever seen us together"? You + me = us. You + I = we. -- [[User:Mycroft.holmes|Mycroft Holmes]] 15:59, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
:::It should be "me", not "I". — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 16:06, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
::::Yes. Because it is so drilled in everyone's head that you must always say "{someone} and I" (instead of "me and {someone}") in the subject of a sentence, people often don't realize that they should instead say "{someone} and me" instead in the predicate. The usage of I/me is exactly the same as if you were only speaking of yourself, and I/me should always be written last. --{{User:Jay/sig}} 16:29, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
My English teacher taught me to take out the extra phrase (in this case, "The Poopsmith") and see how the sentence should be without it. It would be "Have you ever seen me in...", so, it would be me. {{User:Salty/sig}} 03:19, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
:"(person) and me" is a terrible Americanization. Technically it '''should''' say "..and I", or better still in my eyes, the reflective "and myself". Eitherway it's an Americanization only. [[User:62.137.135.77|62.137.135.77]] 05:25, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
:: Say to yourself: "Have you ever seen I with The Poopsmith?" Does that sound fluid at all? "Me" is the only word that fits there. The structure of the sentence (other than the prepositional phrase) does not change by adding "The Poopsmith" to "I/me". "The Poopsmith and me" is the only correct option. --{{User:Jay/sig}} 05:36, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
:: What's more, the reflexive is ''only'' appropriate when the subject and object are the same entity. --{{User:Jay/sig}} 05:38, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

== Real Genius ==

Could "I heart Toxic Waste" be a reference to the T-shirt Chris Knight wears in the eighties movie Real Genius?

Yeah that plus the pink bunny slippers and bath robe - he looked sort of like a cross between Chris Knight and that professor at the end, when they're both wearing the slippers.

== These edit conflicts are REALLY cheesing me off! ==

I just want to state, for the record, that I'm still very highly annoyed by receiving Edit Conflict after Edit Conflict when other people's edits have nothing to do with mine. (Someone makes a change in the transcript while I'm editing Inside References: Edit conflict.) This wasn't a problem before. {{User:KieferSkunk/sig}} 19:15, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
: Actually, it used to be a problem, then it was "fixed" (but extremely glitchy; ie. One edit would auto-revert the previous edit in many cases), and then the "fix" was fixed. --{{User:Jay/sig}} 19:20, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
:You're not kidding. ._. I went through, like, nine edit conflicts to change "great" to "Greek" and remove that extra bit about Bubs. This has not been a good day so far, but that's too off topic. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]
::Yeah, ironically the same complaint has been posted [[Talk:Main_Page#holy_edit_conflicts_batman.21|here]]. I posted a similar reply to Jay's except I didn't know if the fix had been [[Wikipedia:Spaying and neutering|fixed]]. --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 19:37, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

== SB's facial hair ==

Where was it that we saw Strong Bad working on growing a moustache and all he could manage was one tiny hair? Wherever that was, it seems to contradict his ability to grow stubble as Vance Mudgeman. [[User:Terlet Brush|Terlet Brush]] 19:17, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
:Maybe he can only grow the hair when he's taking on his alternate persona ;) --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 19:31, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
:Or it could be fake. --{{User:Jay/sig}} 19:33, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
::By the way, the pathetic tiny hair was seen in [[theme park]]. And who said he ''really'' takes the identity of Vance Mudgeman? He could be messing about with us. Remember [[highschool]]? {{User:The Chort/sig}} 19:45, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
:::Yes, it could be fake, but this email seems more, I dunno, ''real'' than just a made-up Strong Bad fantasy (which [[highschool]] certainly was). — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 19:50, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
::::I think that you could get a real big ice cream headache if you try to just reality from fiction in a toon where only one character resembles a human, most don't have arms (debatedly), and the narrator SB, has the maturity of some of the adolescents that I see on those judge shows. So, lets me understand this...He is a charachter on a website that thinks he's real, but also knows that he is performing and can actively let us in on events that he made up and his dreams which happened to be conveniently downloaded onto tangerine dreams for us to view. In this case, ignorance is bliss. {{User:Invisible_Robot_Fish/sig}} 22:22, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

==Mr. Chamberlain = Pom Pom? ==
Given Pom Pom's attraction to and luck with the ladies, and Wilt Chamberlain's [[Wikipedia:Wilt_Chamberlain#.2220.2C000_women.22_claim|legendary prowess]], is it possible that Mr. Chamberlain would be Pom Pom's pseudo-name? -- [[User:Mycroft.holmes|Mycroft Holmes]] 19:43, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
: I was thinking Strong Mad, actually. But either way, what does "COMPED" mean? --{{User:Jay/sig}} 19:45, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
::Bubs didn't charge Mr. Chamberlain, the room was [[Wikipedia:Comp|COMP]]-limentary. -- [[User:Mycroft.holmes|Mycroft Holmes]] 19:48, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
: Not to mention that only Pom Pom would be likely to get the Posh suite. That leaves only Mr. Allen Poe, who I think is Strong Sad. He had a pic of him for his blog once, I think. He'd also be into that kind of story, and would definitely require a double bed. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]
::Very good points. I was actually only thinking of Strong Mad because of his tendency to wear costumes related to sports stars (which, admittedly, Pom Pom did once too.) And I recalled the name being mentioned on the site once before, though it actually turned out to be in [[50K Racewalker]]. --{{User:Jay/sig}} 19:52, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
::'''EDC:''' Didn't Pom pom dess up as [[Kobe]] Bryant once? Ooo! I guessed the link right! What team did chamberlain play for? --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 19:55, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
:::'''EDCx2:''' Oh and both played for the [[Wikipedia:Wilt_Chamberlain#Los_Angeles_Lakers|Lakers]]. --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 19:58, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
:::I'm not big on sports. You're lucky that I correctly realized that he was a basketball player. --{{User:Jay/sig}} 19:57, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

== House of Portraits ==

Isn't the trailer SB is in for the "Daddy" secret identity the same one as in [[portrait]]?--{{User:Benol/sig}} 20:06, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
:Yes it is. This has been mentioned. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]

== Daemon ==

The word "daemon" can be correctly pronounced "DEE-mon" or "DAY-mon". See [http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/D/daemon.html here] for more info. [[User:ClamIAm|ClamIAm]] 20:38, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
:Thanks for the link - I went ahead and pulled the pronunciation note from the transcript. {{User:KieferSkunk/sig}} 23:02, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

== Easter Eggs ==

Is it just me, or was the easter egg at the end with strong sad added some time after the tune was origionally put up? I remember looking for one at the end and not finding one, and then checking the wiki and not seeing it listed. [[User:Snowboardpunk|Snowboardpunk]]

:Did you actually check, as in, with the "tab" key? If not, then you could have easily missed any egg. — {{User:Lapper/sig}} 20:59, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
::But to answer your question, yes, it was added later. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]
:::Yeah when I saw it earlier this morning I was surprised not to see an egg either. Now I have to go back and watch it again! :) --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 21:03, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

== Whaddaya Know, Reference-Man? ==

*''[[Whaddaya Know, Haddi-Man?]]'' is playing on the TV in the Mudgeman home.

I pulled this item from Inside References because I listened several times to the Mudgeman scene, and I could not hear anything that sounded like Homsar's show. Figured I'd post it here in Talk, though. {{User:KieferSkunk/sig}} 23:17, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
:Actually it sounds like the chords from Caleb Rentpayer, but I can't tell for sure. --{{User:Smileyface11945/sig}} 23:36, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

::I think it's definitely Haddi-Man on the TV. Some proof? Just as Strong Bad says "Jeffery Beffery", you can here that "doo-doo-DOO-doo" tune, but the words are hard to make out. While he's saying "Mudgeman", you can clearly here the words "make some new". --[[User:VolatileChemical|VolatileChemical]] 00:43, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
:::But there's also quite a bit of other noise in the background that wasn't there in [[for kids]] - whether that's part of the TV show or coming from elsewhere in the trailer, I don't know. {{User:KieferSkunk/sig}} 00:46, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
::::I clearly hear the line "we'll make some new friends..." (everything else is obscured by Strong Bad's voice). [[User:Jonnny|Jonnny]] 05:40, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
::I hear it too. Though it might be coming from the other room, where the kids are. (That wouldn't explain what Strong Bad's watching and why we can't hear it though.) - [User:Octan|Octan] Jan 26 2006, 9:45PM EST

== My Name Bubs ==

I believe the Bubs' nametag is a reference to his line ''My name cornbread'' in the Decemberween Pageant. Anyone else agree?--[[User:Martin925|Martin925]] 00:01, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
:Me, I thought of "My name Bubs. This is my regulah voice" from [[Sample of Style]], which was made into a Quote of the Week. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]

::Oh yeah, I forgot about that one. It could be that too. They were both made Quote of The Week.--[[User:Martin925|Martin925]] 00:15, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
I thought of "mine name cornbread" but I knew he said something similar somewheres. I think it could be a reference, maybe. {{User:Salty/sig}} 03:25, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
:I think it could be a little Bubs idiosyncronicity by now. (Spelling help, anyone?) --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]

== Girl on magazine ==
[[Image:Scarfgirl.PNG|thumb|right|who am I?]][[Image:baby lady real.jpg|thumb|Jackie Chapman]]
Who could be the girl on the woman's magazine?--[[User:Martin925|Martin925]] 00:17, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
:It of course could be [[Missy Palmer]], but I'm leaning more towards [[Jackie Chapman]], simply because it looks a bit more like her (from what we can see). Of course, it could be someone we don't know. —{{User:Mibluvr13/sig}} 00:24, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
::Well guys, judge for [[:Image:Scarfgirl.PNG|yourselves]]: --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 02:13, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
:::Um. I can't tell either. --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 02:17, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
::::What I don't get is why somebody uploaded another Scarf after I already had one. Anyway, I think it looks a lot like Jackie Chapman after comparing with this: (picture at bottom right) {{User:Salty/sig}} 03:32, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
:::::I agee with Mibluvr, it's probably a third person. When it comes to making a descision about this picture, VolatileChemical thinks third person is the best way to go. That's a joke, by the way. And either hyperlink that picture, or scale it down. --[[User:VolatileChemical|VolatileChemical]] 03:33, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
::::::'''Edit conflict'''Oh I guess someone already uploaded a version. And she even has a [[Scarfgirl|page of her own]] too! --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 03:35, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
:::::::Turns out yours was uploaded first, I was getting ready to tag mine for deletion before i got the conflict. --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 03:36, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
{{clear}}

== PoopBad Image ==

I've uploaded the image of poopbad to here: [http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/8550/poopbad8bb.png] can someone put it on the site?
:This is [[HRFWiki:Main Page|Fanstuff]]. Please don't upload it onto the Knowledge Base. —[[User:BazookaJoe|BazookaJoe]] 01:46, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
::Uh...fraid not. It's the image that appears as an easter egg in the actual email. Click on "so apparently I'm not The Poopsmith" as they're being spoken. Oh, and I'll try to find somewhere to put it. --[[User:VolatileChemical|VolatileChemical]] 01:49, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
:::Oops, I guess I didn't see that Easter egg. My bad. —[[User:BazookaJoe|BazookaJoe]] 01:53, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
::::It's already on some page somewhere, though, so uploading it is still unnecessary. Check the recent images gallery. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]
:::::Great. [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php/Image:Sb_and_poopsmith.PNG It already exists]. ''Now'' you tell me, after I've already uploaded it. Oh, well. I'll just put it at [[Minor Character Variations]], see how that works out. I'll call this monstrosity Poopbad, because that's the only name I've heard of so far. --[[User:VolatileChemical|VolatileChemical]] 02:11, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
::::::Now the question is: Which entry do we get rid of: the one at [[Other Character Variations]] or the one at [[Strong Bad Other Costumes]]? --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]

:::::::Hey! DorianGray! I was just thinking about how you're pleasantly ubiquitous. I'd say the Strong Bad Other Costumes one. It's not a costume, it's a hypothetical amalgamation. By this logi , could just as easily be called a Poopsmith costume. Plus, Poopbad is as tall as TPS, which means he could be in a costume that size, but SB couldn't have a costume that height unless that entire head is a very realistic mask. --[[User:VolatileChemical|VolatileChemical]] 03:29, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
::::::::I agree with you wholeheartedly, actually. Plus I prefer the Variations pic, coz it has no extra stuff in the background. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]

== Lodgings? ==

Has no one else noticed that Bub's is running a hotel with no rooms?
There is a chance they are off screen but this is shattered by the fact Homestar appears from behind the stand, could the rooms be hidden in the supposed Basment? or does Bub's make them sleep on the ground behind the stand? :P
:Probably the basement. --[[User:VolatileChemical|VolatileChemical]] 01:50, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

== I ♥ Flint ==

Is it just me, or are these emails verging on [[Wikipedia:Documentary film|documentary]] format? I mean, it used to be Strong Bad answering the emailer's question, then showing an example of him doing it/seeing it/showing it. But now, it's Strong Bad saying he often does a certain thing, and then they'll switch to "[[Wikipedia:Stock footage|stock footage]]" of him doing that thing. More often than not, he narrates the clip. Like in "secret identity" itself, with Strong Bad describing all his alter-ego's, and then suddenly switching to him as that ego in the past. The clips must be in the past because the Tip Tappers one is during the night, and Strong Bad wouldn't take two days to answer an email).

Either that, or he'll say he's going to do something, and then the "directors" switch to other people talking about what he did without showing him doing it. Even though you don't see him doing it, it no doubt happened, due to the character's reaction. This proves the declaration of intent to exercise a certain action, the action-doing itself, and reaction of the other characters are all "filmed". Whether they're edited out or not varies.

Sometimes, Strong Bad (or, in this case, Bubs) will say he's going to do something, then they skip the doing, and go straight to the reaction. Like in [[virus]]. Declaration: Bubs says he's going to shotgun the [[Compy 386|Compy]]; Reaction: Strong Bad runs off crying and Homestar hops on one leg. The action is skipped. Other times, the declaration is stated, completed, and then reacted to. In [[modeling]], Strong Bad says he's going to get Pom Pom take pictures of him, then he does this, and him and Strong Sad talk about it at the end. Other times, Strong Bad will say he'll do something, then he'll do it, and finish the email without showing the reaction. In [[ghosts]], Strong Bad says he'll sweep [[Strongbadia|Strong Badia]] for paranormal activity with The Cheat, and he does, but then he ends the email ends without anyone reacting to it.

I'm sorry that I've taken up so much space with those last two paragraphs, and I just wrote those parts to prove that every action and reaction in these emails are filmed, but some parts are edited out. Okay, so: we got stock footage, editing, talking only to the camera numerous times instead of to someone else or writing the response, plus the fact that he's answering real life fan mail...even though you guys probably won't believe b/w agree with me, but I think these emails have long surpassed [[Fourth Wall Breaks|fourth wall breakings]], and are now full-fledged mockumentaries.

<nowiki>*</nowiki>prepares for the annoying barage of disagreements or personal insults or threats on my life coming from the same condescendingly ubiquitous group of users who get into every moderately imporatant argument on toon pages that seems to follow me like the tail of a snake on that [[Wikipedia:Snake (video game)|cell phone game]]* --[[User:VolatileChemical|VolatileChemical]] 01:46, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
:I disagree you <nowiki>*** **** $&$$*@!!! ***** chinese dentist! I'ma kill</nowiki> — err, gotta be firm. Well, I'm kinda not sure I see what your point is. If most emails fall under one of those few categories, then most, if not all, well not all, but a lot, of emails are like that, so it kinda hasn't "changed", but what do you expect? Him to say he did something, then the email ends? It's kinda the only way to do things, unless you want every email to be like [[some kinda robot]]. {{User:Salty/sig}} 03:40, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
::TBC are known to like ''Arrested Development'', which cuts to different scenes and/or back in time in documentary style. Maybe they like that type of format and are either intentionally using it or subconsciously being influenced by it. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 03:53, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

== Not My E-Mail, Yo ==

The Chaps didn't use my e-mail. That's just the way life goes, I guess. Has anyone noticed that Strong Bad has never answered an e-mail from a wiki user? Whatever, I guess I should watch this one. Kinda pointless, but hey, I don't have much life beyond Homestar. {{User:Darth Katana X/sig}}
:Actually, they have. [[montage]] was sent in by a wiki user. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]
There's been more than that. There was [[animal]] (sent by kerrek slaya) and.... that's it. It makes me wonder, if there's so many wiki users, how could only two have there email picked, out of all the percentage of Homestar Runner fans, that comes out to about 1.4% of emails checked sent by wiki users. There's gotta be more than 1% of fans being wiki fans, right? {{User:Salty/sig}} 03:44, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
::It wouldn't shock me in the least if that statistic was ''exactly'' right... if not on the generous side. --{{User:Jay/sig}} 03:48, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
:::Well... actually. If you look at things from a different perspective, 1.4% might not be so bad after all: considering the number of H*R fans that contribute to this wiki (out of ~5,000 registered users, i'd say maybe 1,000 if not less are or have been active and/or legitimate). Let's be generous and say we have 4,000 registered users. I don't know the actual statistics, but I think i read somewhere that TBC has ~1,000,000 hits a month. So i'll be conservative and estimate that there are 500,000 H*R fans in existence. That's roughly 0.8% of the fan population that contributes to the wiki. Less conservative estimates (say 2,500 contributors and 750,000 fans) yield smaller numbers (in this case 0.3333%). So, by comparison, one could argue that the proportions of accepted wikian emails vs. general fan populations is bigger, or something. I should be doing my stats HW instead of this. --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 04:05, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

=="Sign-in Book" Fun Facts==

What about moving all the "Guestbook Fun Facts", (there's over a dozen, from the references of the names, to who's behind the names) into one "Special Fun Fact" subheading? Much like we did with [[boring (really)#Fun Facts|Strong Bad's List Of 3 Letter Words]]? Perhaps in a table or something? It's kind of hard to figure out just who's who, and why, when the fun facts are all around everwhere. {{User:Thunderbird L17/Siggie}} 05:11, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
:I'd agree to that. I think it'd look neat. Although when I first saw this edit summary, I was thinkin' "Why the crap is he writing about [[HRWiki:Guestbooks|guestbooks]] ''here''?" --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]

::I keep getting edit conflicted, so I'll just leave him to it and mention it here. It somehow needs to mention "Why The Bed", and have a Wikipedia link somewhere there for the person referenced. {{User:Thunderbird L17/Siggie}} 05:21, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
::: I got the main layout finished, anyway. --{{User:Jay/sig}} 05:27, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Talk:high school

2006-01-10T03:50:39Z

Jonnny: /* Stampers! */

==Dialogue questions==

Does anyone has an opinion of the dialogue might be in the following lines?

<blockquote>
'''STRONG BAD:''' {singing} It's an email, baby. (HERE)
</blockquote>

<blockquote>
'''BUBSAMECIUM:''' Certainly! Six tubes (HERE) of coming right up!
</blockquote>

<blockquote>
'''HOMESTARMECIUM:''' Oh, (HERE). Um, these are for my twin brother!
</blockquote>

'''EDIT:''' Just gotten word it may be '''Strongbadophage'''.

It would be great if anyone knew. — {{User:Lapper/sig}} 05:34, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
:Here's one: I'd bet my important object that Bubsamecium is saying "rear-end cream". --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]

:The "Bubsamecium" line sounds like "rear-end cream" to me. Provided the "(HERE)" was put in the right spot up there. Also, I think Baby Strong Sad said "Diapersmith" (as it's the baby Poopsmith and all...) -[[User:YK|YK]] 05:40, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
::Ditto that, YK. I'd further like to add that I think that the Strong Bad virus-looking thing is called "Strongbadophage". That's what I put on [[Twin Characters]]. I had to watch it several times to figure that out. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]
:::Absolutely no clue what the word after "It's an e-mail, baby!" is, though. Sounds like "lunge juice"... that can't be right. -[[User:YK|YK]] 05:44, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
::::Sounds like "love juice" to me... Or "lunch juice". Which are just as weird. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]

:::::I heard "lunch juice" and thought I was nuts until I saw you guys had similar things. -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 05:52, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
::::::Sigh—I feel a long and uncivil STUFF (or at least Talk battle) coming on. Currently the article reads "And the email baby loves juice". While this comes the closest to making any sense, it's just not what I hear. My hearing (though I don't assert it as the only possible one) is "It's a e-mail, baby! lunch juice." —[[User:AbdiViklas|AbdiViklas]] 15:42, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Here's another: On first viewing, I heard Baby Strong Bad's line as "I'm pretending I'm playing ''violent'' video games!" What's in the article is "''better'' video games"; on closer listening it ''does'' sound like that, but is pretty difficult to make out anyway. It could be "vinyl" as far as we can tell! So: "violent" certainly makes more sense. But is it simply for that reason (contextual suggestion) that I "heard" it? —[[User:AbdiViklas|AbdiViklas]] 16:02, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
:I heard better on multiple viewings {{User:Some HSR themed username/sig}} 16:17, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
::i agree with abdiviklas. it's what i heard. plus, we know half of the strong bad email intros don't make sense. [[User:Seriously|Seriously]] 20:32, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

SOUNDS! {{User:KieferSkunk/sig}} 20:33, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
*[[Media:highschool_1.ogg|"It's an email, baby, lunch juice!"]]
*[[Media:highschool_2.ogg|"I'm pretending I'm playing better video games!"]]
*[[Media:highschool_3.ogg|"Certainly! Six tubes of rear-end cream coming right up!"]]
*[[Media:highschool_4.ogg|"Uh oh! It's Strongbadiophage! Um, uh... these are for my twin brother."]]
*[[Media:highschool_5.ogg|"Scampers! My long-lost uncle's abandoned pie factory sure is mysterious!"]]
:Ah, KieferSkunk comin' through, doin' his thing with the OGG files, he's gonna be king. =3 --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]

== Continuity ==

This could probably go without saying, but I think we need to consider all of the flashbacks from this toon (and probably the one from [[flashback]], too) to be apocryphal. They just don't jive with established continuity. I think [[stand-up]] probably actually happened in their timeline, as well as [[The Secrets That I Keep]]. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 05:45, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
:I'll second that... Especially the paramecium bits. ;) --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]

::Indeed. -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 05:55, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
::Hey, Strong Bad even *admits* here that he has a "very unphotographic memory". As if his flashback lies weren't obvious before, they are *now*. =P (BTW, is it just me, or does the "paramecium Homestar" resemble the Poopsmith more than Homestar? Weird misshapen eyes, odd mouth shape, few messy hairs... probably coincidence, but weird.) -[[User:YK|YK]] 05:58, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
:::I say it's comparible to the movie ''Big Fish'', where real events are skewed and altered to make a more interesting story. [[User:TheRealZajac|TheRealZajac]]

::::Guy above me- leave your signature, please. Just type four ~'s. ''{edit:signed for}'' As for continuity, It's a comedy. I really don't ever remember seeing a comedy that had continuity. Sometimes the lack of continuity adds to the humor, although I wouldn't necessarily say it does for this. Maybe. Continuity is usually only important in serious plot drama and such. [[User:Agentjs03|Agentjs03]] 13:40, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
:::::There are lots of comedies that pay careful attention to continuity. ''[[IMDb:tt0285403|Scrubs]]'', for example. And TBC in general keep it pretty consistent. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 18:50, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

:The Muppet Babies-style flashback in particular closely resembles the Muppet Babies show in terms of discontinuity. You have a collection of characters who are of varying ages in the original toon, PLUS other movies in the Muppet series that establish different scenarios of how the characters met each other. I think it's a parody of the Muppet chronology as much as it is Strong Bad's really bad memory.[[User:Spell4yr|Spell4yr]] 20:17, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

== Small question... ==

*Would it be of consequence to mention that this is the shortest [[Lappy 486]] email so far? -- [[User:Frickinsellout|Frickinsellout]] 07:08, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
*it is? woah! [[User:Seriously|Seriously]] 20:13, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

== Stampers! ==

I definitely hear an 's' in front of Marzipan's "dampers!" Does anyone else?[[User:Trelawney|Trelawney]] 08:28, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Me too. I heard "scampers" more clearly than "dampers". It could have been "stampers". [[User:TaranchulaVamp15|TaranchulaVamp15]] 12:35, 9 Jan 2006 (CST)

*[[Media:highschool_5.ogg|"Scampers! My long-lost uncle's abandoned pie factory sure is mysterious!"]] {{User:KieferSkunk/sig}} 21:59, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

:no. that is wrong. it is definitely stampers. [[User:Seriously|Seriously]] 00:43, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
::Upon further review, I hear "Stampers" too. Still, this appears to be customary in such situations, so I'll put it to a vote:

'''If you hear "Stampers!", add your name to this numbered list:'''
#{{User:KieferSkunk/sig}}
#[[User:Seriously|Seriously]]
#-[[User:YK|YK]]
#[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]
#{{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}}
#[[User:Jonnny|Jonnny]]

'''If you hear "Scampers!", add your name here:'''

'''If you hear something else, add your name here and state what you hear:'''

== Accent on striped ==

Shouldn't the accent over the e in striped go upper-left to lower-right (the french ''accent grave'')?
:[[Wikipedia:Grave accent#Use in English]] suggests yes, although [[Wikipedia:Acute accent#Use in English]] seems contradictory. But my gut sides with you, IP. Changed accordingly. —[[User:AbdiViklas|AbdiViklas]] 15:10, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

::Are we doing the same thing with "Stripe-ed Green Rabbit with Two Butts" for [[New Boots]]? {{User:KieferSkunk/sig}} 20:07, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
:::Yes, we should totally use striped with accent on both articles. —[[User:BazookaJoe|BazookaJoe]] 20:10, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

== Sickly Sam Pillar ==

In the Easter egg at the end, when Sickly Sam coughs/wheezes and disappears, and the pillar appears in his place... Could this be a reference to something? Isn't there some sort of myth where people were turned into salt pillars? -[[User:Polly|Polly]] 17:24, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
:There's the story of Lot's wife in the Bible, but I doubt there's a connection to this. [[User:EASports|EASports]]
::I'd be willing to give it a little consideration as a reference, but it would be a loose one at best, and I doubt it would survive a STUFF process. --[[User:ISlayedTheKerrek|ISlayedTheKerrek]] 17:59, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
:::I admit it occurred to me as well, but I don't think there's a real reference here. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 18:47, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
::::That entire scene makes no sense whatsoever. :P {{User:KieferSkunk/sig}} 20:11, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
:::::this is probably just another instance of strong bad's apocryphal stortelling. probably doesn't have a reference.[[User:Seriously|Seriously]] 20:20, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
A comment from fark.com:
:2006-01-09 03:12:57 PM hoonis
:Strong-sad-ghost-in-rome is replaced by a DORIC column. get it? Doric.. Dorrr...kkk
Would be pretty obscure if true, but...

==Marz-lody==

Did anyone else see a resemblance to Melody from [[Mellow Mushroom]] in Marzipan's high school self? [[User:TaranchulaVamp15|TaranchulaVamp15]] 12:40, 9 Jan 2006 (CST)

yeah, though i don't know why they would make a reference to her. most people (not counting the wiki) do not know about the site, let alone their creation of it. [[User:Seriously|Seriously]] 20:22, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
:Well, that's what references are for. Inside jokes, sort of. Even if only TBC get it. [[User:Xyzzyka|Xyzzyka]] 21:12, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
::Something I think is more interesting, actually, is that this would be the <s>first</s> second time we've seen Marzipan's legs, even if the sequence isn't exactly canon. The first was on [[Main Page 17]] when 20X6 Marzipan starts jumping around. In both cases, though, these are character variations, and not Marzipan herself. {{User:KieferSkunk/sig}} 21:22, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
:::I'll agree with that... And, lemme tell ya, those legs creep me out... I'm just so used to Marzipan [[long pants#Easter Eggs|being a broom]]... --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]
::::Yeah. The voice is similar, too. I mean, more similar than usual.--[[User:Jnelson09|Jnelson09]] 22:08, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

== Adventure ==

If Strong Bad was referring to the Atari Dragon, and it ate two of his pixels, he was probably playing Adventure, and the second pixel was probably the black dot that activated the easter egg.
:That sounds logical to me... Also, isn't that sound effect an Adventure noise? I can't quite place it, although I know I've heard it before... --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]
::The sound effect in question is used on H*R in two places: In [[Secret Collect]] when you hit a force field, and on [[Main Page 13]] for the Store button. I don't know which actual 2600 game it was used in, though - I don't think it was Adventure. {{User:KieferSkunk/sig}} 20:14, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
:::Well, whatever game it was in, now I'm-a add it to My Pride And Joy, [[Sound Effects]]. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]
The game he was playing seemed like secret collect with that Duck-dragon thrown in. Think about it, there's that same noise, and your character in Secret Collect only has a couple of pixels, right? {{User:Salty/sig}} 01:36, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

== cellular strong bad ==
guys, it sounds like homestar says "strongbadiophage." should that be the name, or is it just homestar calling strong bad stongo badio again? if homestar is, then yes, it would be perfectly logical to call him strongbadophage. but what if he isn't?[[User:Seriously|Seriously]] 20:42, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
:Check the explanations. Strongbadiophage is based on a [[Wikipedia:Bacteriophage|bacteriophage]]. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]

ah. thank you. that clears everything up.[[User:Seriously|Seriously]] 20:46, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

==Coach Z Hat==

Is it just me, or is Strong Bad wearing Coach Z's hat in High School? -- [[User:Grabboarm700|Grabboarm700]]
:Same style, different colour. Not precisely Coach Z's, but of the same brand, if you will. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]

:It seems kind of a lighter color, I guess. -[[User:Grabboarm700|Grabboarm700]]
::Lighter? It's completely different. Coach Z's is purple with a blue brim. This one is bright green with a bright fuschia-ish brim. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]

==Page==

Are the "Middle School" Homestar characters worthy of a page? I'm just curious, because I made took some pictures out , sooo... -[[User:Grabboarm700|Grabboarm700]]
:I think we already put them in [[Stylised Character Designs]]. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]

==Fine Figures?==
Do you guys think it's worth noting that this is practically GUARANTEED PROOF that Marzy's body isn't skirt-shaped? -[[User:Marth 99|Marth 99]]
:No, because Marzipan's legs are seen courtesy of Strong Bad's "unphotographic memory" - implying that we can't rely on it to determine canon. (See [[#Marz-lody]] above.) {{User:KieferSkunk/sig}} 21:33, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

==Guitar==
[[Image:Highschool_band.PNG|thumb|Homestar's "Axe": Zakk Wylde or 70's Style?]]
does anyone else think that Homestar's guitar could be a reference to Zakk Wylde's famous axe? they both have a similar spiral design coming from the pickup areas...[[User:TheSyndicate88|TheSyndicate88]]
:Do you have a picture of this "famous axe" for comparison? I'd like to see before passing judgment. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]
::There are images of this "axe" available here: [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Zakk_Wylde Wikimedia Commons]. Probably the best photo in that bunch is this one: [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Zakk_Wylde_1106.JPG].
::That said, I don't think these are related. Homestar's guitar more closely follows the general style of that era rather than a specific artist. {{User:KieferSkunk/sig}} 23:09, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
:::Agree. They share a similarity, but I'm guessing it's nothing specific. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]
::::Uploaded a screenshot from the Toon for more direct comparison. {{User:KieferSkunk/sig}} 23:16, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
::::Also, addressing Syndicate's original post: Zakk's axe actually has a bulls-eye pattern on it, not a spiral. {{User:KieferSkunk/sig}} 23:17, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

== Baby Strong Bad's hat ==

[[Image:Baby_strong_bad.png|thumb|Baby Strong Bad's hat]] Baby Strong Bad's hat (see right) looks familiar...is it from some other cartoon? I was thinking [http://www.archiecomics.com/coloringbook/jughead/pages/jughead012_gif.htm Jughead], but it's different... {{User:Trey56/sig}} 00:00, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
:Reminds me of the ones Mickey Mouse's little nephews(?) wore... --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]
::It's '''definately''' not Jughead's. Maybe you're on to something Dorian... {{User:Bubsty/sig}} 00:18, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
:::I found this one by Googling. [http://www.thegremlin.com/DA/14465da.JPG] The hat's similar. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]
::::That must be what I'm thinking of--thanks. {{User:Trey56/sig}} 01:35, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

== Vomitorium explanation ==

The paragraph explaning the term vomitorium appears to be copied and pasted directly out of [[Wikipedia:Roman_eating_and_drinking#Vomitorium|Wikipedia]], but without the citation. Do we have a policy on this type of reproduction? Should it be paraphrased, or should the original citation be included? Would a link to Wikipedia suffice? -- [[User:Mayosolo|Mayosolo]] 00:12, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
:I think that paragraph should be shortened and provided with a link to Wikipedia. That's more our usual style, if I'm not mistaken. I'll do that ASAP if no one objects. {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 00:23, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

== Is this a real email? ==

Is it?[[User:Ava|Ava]]

:Yeah. Of course it's a real email. {{User:Kilroy/sig}} 00:32, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
:While nothing says it has to STAY this way, the [[FAQ]] states that all of the published Strong Bad Emails are real, except for [[mile]], which was made up by The Cheat. {{User:KieferSkunk/sig}} 00:41, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

radio

2006-01-06T03:29:34Z

Jonnny: wikified ATC interview

[[Image:deadlypallor.png|thumb|"THE STURGE!"]]

'''Strong Bad Email #120'''

Strong Bad gives some advice on how to be a radio host, in various genres.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|Strong Sad}}/[[The Deathly Pallor]], [[Mrs. Bennedetto]], {{Film|Marzipan}}, {{Film|Homestar Runner}}, {{Film|Old-Timey Strong Bad}}, {{Film|Strong Mad}} (Easter egg), {{Film|The Sneak}} (Easter egg)

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]], [[Strong Sad's Room]], [[Marzipan's House]], [[Homestar's House]], [[Strong Bad's Basement]] (Easter egg)

'''Computer:''' [[Lappy 486]]

'''Date:''' December 13, 2004

'''Running Time:''' 4:01

'''Page Title:''' Lappy 486

== Transcript ==

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{He types in "strongbad_email.exe".}'' I got miles and miles of the e-mail style. Miles and miles of the e-mail style.

<blockquote class="email"><div>subject: radio</div>
Dear Strong Bad, 
My friends are radio hosts. Any chance you could give 
them any pointers on what they can say/do on their show? 
bowing to you 
Fraser, Scotland</blockquote>

''{Strong Bad actually says "slash" between say and do.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Oh, no need to bow, Fraser. G-Get up. ''{reverently}'' Rise, my son. And giveth me instead, $7.50 with which to buy some buffalo chicken tenders. ''{He clears the screen.}'' So your "friends" are radio show hosts, huh? Well, the first rule of thumb for all radio personalities is to look absolutely nothing like how they sound. Take Ol' Greystoke for instance.

''{Cut to Strong Sad standing in his room.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voice-over}'' Now here's a whiny know-it-all who sounds just like he looks.

'''STRONG SAD:''' Why thank you, Senator.

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voice-over}'' Quit calling me that. Anyway, if Strong Sad was a radio host, he'd sound like this:

'''STRONG SAD:''' ''{In spontaneous, radio host voice}'' Hey hey hey, it's the Deathly Pallor, coming at you on numbitty 902, WA3D FM, "The Sturge." Coming up next, we got some hot new tracks from double-O ballyhoo!

''{Strong Sad covers his mouth in horror while Strong Bad laughs.}''

'''STRONG SAD:''' ''{normal voice/frightened}'' Don't you ever make me do that again!

''{Cut back to Lappy 486.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' So once they've got the voice/appearance mismatch working, then it all just depends on what kind of radio station they work for. Listen and loin as I run my test sentence through the various genres.

'''Voice-over:''' Strong Bad's test sentence is "The fish was delish and it made quite a dish." ''{The sentence appears on-screen.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' First up is public radio: smooth n' smarmy.

''{Cut to Marzipan's kitchen. A radio is sitting on the counter.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{as Public Radio host}'' Today on Capitol Hill, the fish was delish, and according to U.N. secretary council members, it made quite a dish. You are listening to member-supported public radio.

''{Public Radio theme song plays. Marzipan walks in.}''

'''MARZIPAN:''' Dang old public radio. I never got my tote bag.

''{Cut back to Lappy 486.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Next up is the drive time morning show. ''{A poster for "[[The am morning "CRUDE" crew|The am morning 'CRUDE' crew]]" with two Strong Bad-like hosts appears onscreen.}'' Oooh, these guys are like bad stand up comics that you can't heckle. Or jeckle. Or throw highball glasses at.

''{Cut to a clock-radio.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{as morning talk show host, with sound effects in the background}'' Rise and shine, people! The fish was delish. ''{canned laughter}'' Wait for it, wait for it! ''{clowny sounds}'' And it made quite a dish.

''{Cut back from the clock-radio to show Homestar in his house with a Public Radio tote bag over his head, holding a glass containing a brown liquid with ice cubes.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' All right, squawk box! Shut it up about the fish already.

'''STRONG BAD:''' I guess that's the way ''{honk honk}'' the cookie crumbles.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Highball! ''{He throws the glass at the radio.}''

''{Cut back to Lappy 486.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Then, there's the utter misery that is college radio. Where they apparently just let any bewildered freshman wander in to the booth and try to run a radio station.

''{Cut to the [[booOOMbox]] containing a blank tape.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{as college radio host, over a song ending and some feedback}'' Uh, that, that was "The fish was delish" and we heard... track... ''{thumbing through CD jewel cases}'' six... "It Made Quite a Dish."

''{Cut to Strong Sad's room, where he is sitting next to the boombox writing some calligraphy.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{on radio}'' Um... Ca...campus outreach is looking for... Hang on...

''{Cut back to Lappy 486.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' College radio can pretty much be summed up in 5 words: 
Dead air, um, dead air.

''{Cut back to the boombox}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{as college radio host}'' Okay, I am out of here for today, bu-but, um, but first up is an, um, er...an...an hour of chanting.

''{A chant plays on the boombox. Strong Sad hits the Play and Record buttons.}''

''{Cut back to Lappy 486.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' And just in case your friends are um, in the past: here's old-timey radio.

''{Cut to an Old-Timey room with an [[Old-Timey Radio]], with Old-Timey Strong Bad reading in front of a microphone.}''

'''OLD-TIMEY STRONG BAD:''' ''{as old-timey radio host}'' This week on The Fish Was Delish progrum, brought to you by Portly Washboy laundry paste, ''{Portly Washboy Fancy Laundry Paste logo appears}'' we join The Fish down at the wharfs as he closes in on the Quite a Dish gang's hideout. Stay tuned for partial excitement.

''{The [[Portly Washboy Fancy Laundry Paste|Portly Washboy]] logo appears again. It depicts a boy and a heaping jar of paste with a spoon in it.}''

'''Voice-over:''' ''{singing}'' Portly Washboy: Don't eat it like the cartoon man.

''{Cut back to Lappy 486.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Done and done, Fraser. Your friends should be well on their way to annoying drivers and gas station attendants the world over. Ooh! And see if you can score me some free coozies, frisbees, or bottle openers from their station. Those free giveaways: Highly flammable.

''{[[The Paper]] comes down.}''

== Easter Eggs ==
* Click on Strong Sad's stomach while he does the radio voice to see him wearing a T-shirt from WA3D FM "[[The Sturge]]."
*Click on "[[The Fish was Delish and it made Quite a Dish|The fish was delish, and it made quite a dish]]" to show a [[Wikipedia: Dr. Seuss|Dr. Seuss]]-style children's book of the same name. It was written by Crazy Prof. Sportsinterviews (aka [[Leomard Sportsinterviews]]), who writes most of the children's books Strong Bad mangles.
**After the test sentence disappears, you can still click where it was to show the children's book.
* Click on "coozies, frisbees, or bottle openers" after The Paper comes down to see them. The coozie is blue and says, "[[WSBD]] The Voice of [[Crazy Go Nuts University|CGNU]] 89.3 Several Dozen Listeners." The frisbee is white and says, "The Sturge numbitty 902 WA3D FM." The bottle opener is red and says, "Smooooooth 'n smarmy".
* Click on "annoying" after The Paper comes down to see/hear more of Strong Sad's new persona.
:'''STRONG SAD:''' Oh, I disagree! I think it's more than just a matter of simple economics. In fact, I'd say... ''{radio host voice and mannerisms, with music}'' Oh, yeah! What's the phrase that pays that plays for days? It's numbitty-nine-oh-two, "The Sturge." Don't you touch that ZABITTABLOUGH!
:'''STRONG MAD:''' ''{confused}'' Blabittablough?
* Click on "me" after The Paper comes down to see more of Old-Timey Strong Bad.
:'''RADIO:''' ''{Old-Timey Strong Bad}'' Stay tuned for partial excitement!
:''{Portly Washboy Laundry Paste theme song plays over radio.}''
:'''OLD-TIMEY STRONG BAD:''' ''{listening}'' Drat and double drat! It's true what they say! The rah-dio really does add four and twenty stone to one's voice!

== Fun Facts ==
===Explanations===
* "Four-and-twenty stone" is 336 pounds (one stone = 14 pounds), though it is probably a play on the saying that "the camera adds ten pounds."
* A [http://ww5.williams-sonoma.com/cat/index.cfm?cid=GlsHDfi&bnrid=3160501&cm_ven=Google&cm_cat=Glassware&cm_pla=HighballsOldFashioneds&cm_ite=highball_glass highball glass] is a tall, narrow glass typically used to serve certain types of alcohol and cocktails. Homestar's glass, therefore, isn't a highball at all; it is a "Rocks Glass" or "Double Old-Fashioned Glass" which is generally short and stout.
** Homestar's glass is the same one The Cheat had on the table in [[montage]] while smoking.

===Remarks===
*The tote bag on Homestar's head reads, ''"PRS Public Radio Sounds "Smooth 'n Smarmy,"'' verifying that this must be the tote bag Marzipan's missing.
*Homestar must have his lights set to come on with the radio alarm at 7:00 am; strangely, he is already up and having a drink.
*Judging by the [[Wikipedia:North American call sign|call letters]] of the college radio station, [[Free Country, USA]] must be east of the Mississippi River. Generally, call letters for radio stations in cities east of the Mississippi begin with 'W'. Those to the west begin with 'K'.

===Goofs===
*The left sleeve of Strong Sad's radio T-shirt disappears during parts of that Easter egg. If you click on him again, it reappears. (See the article image above.)

===Inside References===
*Strong Mad's reaction to Strong Sad's strange remarks in the Easter egg is extremely similar to his reaction to "parakeet" in [[caffeine]].
*Strong Sad's calligraphy pen is also featured in his action figure in the Easter egg for [[action figure]], when writing to Strong Bad in [[Strong Bad Is in Jail Cartoon]], and when transcribing Paradise Lost in [[record book]].
*Strong Sad refers to himself as "The Deathly Pallor," harking back to Coach Z's introduction of Strong Sad in the email [[impression]].
*Right at the very end of the chanting, one can hear the first two notes of the [[Sweet Cuppin' Cakes]] theme song, as seen in [[Decemberween Sweet Cuppin' Cakes]].
*The [[booOOMbox]] Strong Sad listens to was also seen in [[autobiography]]. However, it had no record button.

===Real-World References===
*"Drat and double drat!" was [[Wikipedia:Dick Dastardly|Dick Dastardly's]] ([[Wikipedia:Wacky_Races|''Wacky Races'']]) catch phrase.
*Marzipan's book ''Tolstoy Story 2'' is a reference to [[Wikipedia:Leo Tolstoy|Leo Tolstoy]], a famous Russian author, and also to the Disney/Pixar film ''[[Wikipedia:Toy Story 2|Toy Story 2]]''.
* Strong Bad's test phrase is an old broadcasting cliché. The phrase has been used to test the levels of the '''F''' and '''SH''' sounds in audio signals for recording, public address and broadcast. When those sounds are too "hot," sounding like intense hisses, the mic can be moved or covered to reduce the "swishiness."
*"[[Public Radio Sounds]]" (or "PRS") is a playful combination of [http://www.pbs.org PBS], the Public Broadcasting Service, and [http://www.pri.org PRI], Public Radio International.
*The "UN Secretary Council" represents a mix between the [http://www.un.org/News/ossg/sg/ UN Secretary-General] and the [http://www.un.org/Docs/sc/ UN Security Council].
*The voice-over telling the viewer what the test phrase is is a reference to game shows like ''[[Wikipedia:Password (game)|Password]]'', where something similar would occur so that the viewers knew what the password was.
*Judging by Strong Sad's T-shirt, "The Sturge" is short for [[Wikipedia:Sturgeon|sturgeon]], a large, rare fish and is an obvious spoof of radio stations named after animals. For example, ''[[IMDb:tt0077097|WKRP in Cincinnati]]'' had the mascot "the WKRP Carp."
*"Heckle or jeckle" is a reference to the [[Wikipedia:Terrytoons|Terrytoons]] cartoon [http://www.toonopedia.com/hekljekl.htm Heckle and Jeckle].
*Strong Bad calling Strong Sad "Greystoke" is a reference to [[Wikipedia:Tarzan|Tarzan]].
*The short theme heard while Marzipan listens to public radio is reminiscent of the [http://www.npr.org/programs/asc/features/atc_theme/ theme] to the [http://www.npr.org National Public Radio] program "[[Wikipedia:All Things Considered|All Things Considered]]". Interestingly, on May 8, 2005, The Brothers Chaps [[All Things Considered Interview - 8 May 2005|were interviewed]] about the Homestar Runner website on the show, and a clip from the Public Radio segment of this email was featured.


===Fast Forward===
* $7.50 is the same amount of money that Strong Bad asks "Simone" for in "[[bottom 10]]."

== DVD Version ==
*If the angle is changed (to view the mid-toon Easter Eggs), Strong Sad's shirt has both sleeves in this version.
*The DVD version features hidden creators' commentary. To access it, switch your DVD player's audio language selection while watching.
=== Commentary Transcript ===
('''Commentary by:''' [[Mike Chapman]], [[Matt Chapman]], [[Strong Sad]], Mike's Strong Sad)

'''MIKE:''' This is a... commentary.

'''MATT:''' Look—

'''MIKE:''' Be— Be a character.

'''MATT:''' Okay. Who— Which character, Mike?

'''MIKE:''' Be Strong Sad. Strong Sad's never joined me for commentary before.

'''MATT:''' Okay, we'll see how that works out.

'''MIKE:''' All right. Oh, Strong Sad's in this one, I didn't even think about it.

'''STRONG SAD:''' I ''am'' in the one, Mike.

'''MIKE:''' This is— You're pretty good in this. Did you actually do the voice?

'''STRONG SAD:''' I don't want to talk about what happened while we were doing that.

'''MIKE:''' Did they give yo things?

'''STRONG SAD:''' I was given some things...

'''MIKE:''' ''{laughs}''

'''STRONG SAD:''' For—

'''MIKE:''' Did they drug you? or, just—

'''STRONG SAD:''' I don't know, Mike!

'''MIKE:''' You don't remember?

'''STRONG SAD:''' I just know that?

'''MIKE:''' Is it all a blur?

'''STRONG SAD:''' All this— I would kind of black out, and all of the sudden there was this horrible voice coming forward from my mouth.

'''MIKE:''' I kind of like it better than your regular voice.

'''STRONG SAD:''' Oh.

'''MIKE:''' I can kind of do your— good impression of you, Strong Sad.

'''STRONG SAD:''' See, look, there's— that's me.

'''MIKE'S STRONG SAD:''' Yeah, this could be you, too.

'''STRONG SAD:''' Ah, that's terrible.

'''MIKE'S STRONG SAD:''' No, it sounds pretty good.

'''STRONG SAD:''' No, it sounds awful.

'''MIKE'S STRONG SAD:''' No, I don't— It sounds just like you, Strong Sad.

'''STRONG SAD:''' I don't think so, Mike.

'''MIKE'S STRONG SAD:''' But do ''that'' voice.

'''STRONG SAD:''' Do—

'''MIKE'S STRONG SAD:''' Do the radio personality voice, Strong Sad.

'''STRONG SAD:''' ''{In radio host voice}'' Okay! Maybe I will! For a little while! But it hurts! So I'm gonna stop!

'''MIKE'S STRONG SAD:''' ''{sarcastically}'' Oh, that's so great! That was great!

'''MATT:''' Yeah, how you doing, Strong Sad?

'''MIKE'S STRONG SAD:''' Well, I'm doing pretty good, I guess.

'''MATT:''' This is pretty talented. Matt is talking to Strong Sad at the same time.

'''MIKE'S STRONG SAD:''' This— This is the magic of computer technology.

'''MATT:''' So, Strong Sad, that phrase, "the fish was delish and it made quite a dish"—

'''MIKE'S STRONG SAD:''' Yeah?

'''MATT:''' Uh, there was this place in Brooklyn I used to eat called—

'''MIKE'S STRONG SAD:''' That—

'''MATT:''' —called Giando On The Water, and it was a great little restaurant on the Brooklyn side, right under the Williamsburg bridge.

'''MIKE'S STRONG SAD:''' Oh.

'''MATT:''' So I wrote an online review of it on, uh, zagat.com or something—

'''MIKE'S STRONG SAD:''' Oh, yeah?

'''MATT:''' —and under "user comments" I said that the fish was delish and it made quite a dish.

'''MIKE'S STRONG SAD:''' That's pretty good.

'''MATT:''' You can't find that online, anymore, I looked, actually.

'''MIKE'S STRONG SAD:''' That's pretty good. I wonder what ''{sounding more and more like Mike}'' Stoops and Gusso have been up to lately. I— I— I usually am not awake at that time, so I— I don't get to hear their hilarious—

'''MATT:''' You're turning less and less into Strong Sad the longer you do it.

'''MIKE'S STRONG SAD:''' Aww.

'''MIKE:''' Oh, no! It's going away!

'''MATT:''' And now there's Mike!

'''MIKE:''' Augh.

'''MATT:''' Mike— And I love that part in the background. Mike is just being the other dudes hanging out in the studio, and just going, "Yeah! You got it! Yeah!" Good job. So, what— that's, uh— there's "highball", "hiyah"—

'''MIKE:''' And—

'''MATT:''' —and "ah-choo"?

'''MIKE:''' "Ah-choo." ''{indecipherable}''

'''MATT:''' ''{indecipherable}''

'''MIKE:''' Yeah.

'''MATT:''' I dunno.

'''MIKE:''' Homestar says, "To s—" Oh, that's our friend Rusty's song.

'''MATT:''' It is.

'''MIKE:''' The very end of it.

''{Pause}''

'''MATT:''' Oh, why do they do that at college radio stations? They put that little sticker on the CD and, like, make the D.J. have to read that thing. So they're always like—

'''MIKE:''' Yeah.

'''MATT:''' Track— I mean, the track number— who care— you don't have— like on any other radio, no other radio would say—

'''MIKE:''' I— I like— I think track number three is a good track.

'''MATT:''' ''{laughs}''

'''MIKE:''' Seriously. I think that if you listened— go listen to 10 albums and I think that track number three's—

'''MATT:''' It's like problems—

'''MIKE:''' —probably going to be a hit.

'''MATT:''' It's like putting C for an answer on a Scantron test.

'''MIKE:''' I used to— I used to count the C's. If C didn't win, I'd go back and change some.

'''MATT:''' ''{laughs}''

'''MIKE:''' C or D.

'''MATT:''' Nice. Uh, originally we were going to use our friend Ariana chanting there, who actually knows some Sanskrit prayers, and so, we had her, but then we thought that she might take offense.

'''MIKE:''' May have been sacrilegious.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. We don't want to offend—

'''MIKE:''' If they were real prayers.

'''MATT:''' Hey, the Portly Washboy looks kind of like the kid from the old Boychicks Deli sign over in Orchar— or, Georgetown.

'''MIKE:''' ''{laughs}'' Georgetown!

'''MATT:''' Remember him?

'''MIKE:''' Yeah.

'''MATT:''' He's about to inhale this entire sub.

'''MIKE:''' ''{laughs}'' I got celery— ce— celery-flavored soda from Boychicks Deli.

'''STRONG SAD:''' That stuff is good!

'''MIKE'S STRONG SAD:''' Oh, yeah! You're back! We're both back!

'''STRONG SAD:''' I'm out of here—

'''MIKE'S STRONG SAD:''' ''{simultaneously}'' This is so cool!

'''STRONG SAD:''' I'm out of here now.

'''MIKE'S STRONG SAD:''' No, stay! Hang around! This is—

'''STRONG SAD:''' I don't like you!

'''MIKE'S STRONG SAD:''' Oh, man!

'''MATT:''' Um...

'''MIKE'S STRONG SAD:''' That was great.

'''MATT:''' Poster just fell.

===Fun Facts===
*"Hiyah" was Homestar's similarly-pronounced exclamation from [[montage]]. "Ah-choo" was probably supposed to be "Ahct-poo" from [[Homestar Presents: Presents]].

== External Links ==
*[[HR:sbemail120.html|watch "radio"]]
*[[HR:sbemail120.swf|view the Flash file for "radio"]]
{{Strong Bad Email}}
[[Category:Lappy 486 Emails]][[Category:Old-Timey]][[Category: Emails With DVD Commentary]]

radio

2006-01-06T03:09:53Z

Jonnny: /* Real-World References */

[[Image:deadlypallor.png|thumb|"THE STURGE!"]]

'''Strong Bad Email #120'''

Strong Bad gives some advice on how to be a radio host, in various genres.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|Strong Sad}}/[[The Deathly Pallor]], [[Mrs. Bennedetto]], {{Film|Marzipan}}, {{Film|Homestar Runner}}, {{Film|Old-Timey Strong Bad}}, {{Film|Strong Mad}} (Easter egg), {{Film|The Sneak}} (Easter egg)

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]], [[Strong Sad's Room]], [[Marzipan's House]], [[Homestar's House]], [[Strong Bad's Basement]] (Easter egg)

'''Computer:''' [[Lappy 486]]

'''Date:''' December 13, 2004

'''Running Time:''' 4:01

'''Page Title:''' Lappy 486

== Transcript ==

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{He types in "strongbad_email.exe".}'' I got miles and miles of the e-mail style. Miles and miles of the e-mail style.

<blockquote class="email"><div>subject: radio</div>
Dear Strong Bad, 
My friends are radio hosts. Any chance you could give 
them any pointers on what they can say/do on their show? 
bowing to you 
Fraser, Scotland</blockquote>

''{Strong Bad actually says "slash" between say and do.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Oh, no need to bow, Fraser. G-Get up. ''{reverently}'' Rise, my son. And giveth me instead, $7.50 with which to buy some buffalo chicken tenders. ''{He clears the screen.}'' So your "friends" are radio show hosts, huh? Well, the first rule of thumb for all radio personalities is to look absolutely nothing like how they sound. Take Ol' Greystoke for instance.

''{Cut to Strong Sad standing in his room.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voice-over}'' Now here's a whiny know-it-all who sounds just like he looks.

'''STRONG SAD:''' Why thank you, Senator.

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voice-over}'' Quit calling me that. Anyway, if Strong Sad was a radio host, he'd sound like this:

'''STRONG SAD:''' ''{In spontaneous, radio host voice}'' Hey hey hey, it's the Deathly Pallor, coming at you on numbitty 902, WA3D FM, "The Sturge." Coming up next, we got some hot new tracks from double-O ballyhoo!

''{Strong Sad covers his mouth in horror while Strong Bad laughs.}''

'''STRONG SAD:''' ''{normal voice/frightened}'' Don't you ever make me do that again!

''{Cut back to Lappy 486.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' So once they've got the voice/appearance mismatch working, then it all just depends on what kind of radio station they work for. Listen and loin as I run my test sentence through the various genres.

'''Voice-over:''' Strong Bad's test sentence is "The fish was delish and it made quite a dish." ''{The sentence appears on-screen.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' First up is public radio: smooth n' smarmy.

''{Cut to Marzipan's kitchen. A radio is sitting on the counter.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{as Public Radio host}'' Today on Capitol Hill, the fish was delish, and according to U.N. secretary council members, it made quite a dish. You are listening to member-supported public radio.

''{Public Radio theme song plays. Marzipan walks in.}''

'''MARZIPAN:''' Dang old public radio. I never got my tote bag.

''{Cut back to Lappy 486.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Next up is the drive time morning show. ''{A poster for "[[The am morning "CRUDE" crew|The am morning 'CRUDE' crew]]" with two Strong Bad-like hosts appears onscreen.}'' Oooh, these guys are like bad stand up comics that you can't heckle. Or jeckle. Or throw highball glasses at.

''{Cut to a clock-radio.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{as morning talk show host, with sound effects in the background}'' Rise and shine, people! The fish was delish. ''{canned laughter}'' Wait for it, wait for it! ''{clowny sounds}'' And it made quite a dish.

''{Cut back from the clock-radio to show Homestar in his house with a Public Radio tote bag over his head, holding a glass containing a brown liquid with ice cubes.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' All right, squawk box! Shut it up about the fish already.

'''STRONG BAD:''' I guess that's the way ''{honk honk}'' the cookie crumbles.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Highball! ''{He throws the glass at the radio.}''

''{Cut back to Lappy 486.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Then, there's the utter misery that is college radio. Where they apparently just let any bewildered freshman wander in to the booth and try to run a radio station.

''{Cut to the [[booOOMbox]] containing a blank tape.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{as college radio host, over a song ending and some feedback}'' Uh, that, that was "The fish was delish" and we heard... track... ''{thumbing through CD jewel cases}'' six... "It Made Quite a Dish."

''{Cut to Strong Sad's room, where he is sitting next to the boombox writing some calligraphy.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{on radio}'' Um... Ca...campus outreach is looking for... Hang on...

''{Cut back to Lappy 486.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' College radio can pretty much be summed up in 5 words: 
Dead air, um, dead air.

''{Cut back to the boombox}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{as college radio host}'' Okay, I am out of here for today, bu-but, um, but first up is an, um, er...an...an hour of chanting.

''{A chant plays on the boombox. Strong Sad hits the Play and Record buttons.}''

''{Cut back to Lappy 486.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' And just in case your friends are um, in the past: here's old-timey radio.

''{Cut to an Old-Timey room with an [[Old-Timey Radio]], with Old-Timey Strong Bad reading in front of a microphone.}''

'''OLD-TIMEY STRONG BAD:''' ''{as old-timey radio host}'' This week on The Fish Was Delish progrum, brought to you by Portly Washboy laundry paste, ''{Portly Washboy Fancy Laundry Paste logo appears}'' we join The Fish down at the wharfs as he closes in on the Quite a Dish gang's hideout. Stay tuned for partial excitement.

''{The [[Portly Washboy Fancy Laundry Paste|Portly Washboy]] logo appears again. It depicts a boy and a heaping jar of paste with a spoon in it.}''

'''Voice-over:''' ''{singing}'' Portly Washboy: Don't eat it like the cartoon man.

''{Cut back to Lappy 486.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Done and done, Fraser. Your friends should be well on their way to annoying drivers and gas station attendants the world over. Ooh! And see if you can score me some free coozies, frisbees, or bottle openers from their station. Those free giveaways: Highly flammable.

''{[[The Paper]] comes down.}''

== Easter Eggs ==
* Click on Strong Sad's stomach while he does the radio voice to see him wearing a T-shirt from WA3D FM "[[The Sturge]]."
*Click on "[[The Fish was Delish and it made Quite a Dish|The fish was delish, and it made quite a dish]]" to show a [[Wikipedia: Dr. Seuss|Dr. Seuss]]-style children's book of the same name. It was written by Crazy Prof. Sportsinterviews (aka [[Leomard Sportsinterviews]]), who writes most of the children's books Strong Bad mangles.
**After the test sentence disappears, you can still click where it was to show the children's book.
* Click on "coozies, frisbees, or bottle openers" after The Paper comes down to see them. The coozie is blue and says, "[[WSBD]] The Voice of [[Crazy Go Nuts University|CGNU]] 89.3 Several Dozen Listeners." The frisbee is white and says, "The Sturge numbitty 902 WA3D FM." The bottle opener is red and says, "Smooooooth 'n smarmy".
* Click on "annoying" after The Paper comes down to see/hear more of Strong Sad's new persona.
:'''STRONG SAD:''' Oh, I disagree! I think it's more than just a matter of simple economics. In fact, I'd say... ''{radio host voice and mannerisms, with music}'' Oh, yeah! What's the phrase that pays that plays for days? It's numbitty-nine-oh-two, "The Sturge." Don't you touch that ZABITTABLOUGH!
:'''STRONG MAD:''' ''{confused}'' Blabittablough?
* Click on "me" after The Paper comes down to see more of Old-Timey Strong Bad.
:'''RADIO:''' ''{Old-Timey Strong Bad}'' Stay tuned for partial excitement!
:''{Portly Washboy Laundry Paste theme song plays over radio.}''
:'''OLD-TIMEY STRONG BAD:''' ''{listening}'' Drat and double drat! It's true what they say! The rah-dio really does add four and twenty stone to one's voice!

== Fun Facts ==
===Explanations===
* "Four-and-twenty stone" is 336 pounds (one stone = 14 pounds), though it is probably a play on the saying that "the camera adds ten pounds."
* A [http://ww5.williams-sonoma.com/cat/index.cfm?cid=GlsHDfi&bnrid=3160501&cm_ven=Google&cm_cat=Glassware&cm_pla=HighballsOldFashioneds&cm_ite=highball_glass highball glass] is a tall, narrow glass typically used to serve certain types of alcohol and cocktails. Homestar's glass, therefore, isn't a highball at all; it is a "Rocks Glass" or "Double Old-Fashioned Glass" which is generally short and stout.
** Homestar's glass is the same one The Cheat had on the table in [[montage]] while smoking.

===Remarks===
*The tote bag on Homestar's head reads, ''"PRS Public Radio Sounds "Smooth 'n Smarmy,"'' verifying that this must be the tote bag Marzipan's missing.
*Homestar must have his lights set to come on with the radio alarm at 7:00 am; strangely, he is already up and having a drink.
*Judging by the [[Wikipedia:North American call sign|call letters]] of the college radio station, [[Free Country, USA]] must be east of the Mississippi River. Generally, call letters for radio stations in cities east of the Mississippi begin with 'W'. Those to the west begin with 'K'.

===Goofs===
*The left sleeve of Strong Sad's radio T-shirt disappears during parts of that Easter egg. If you click on him again, it reappears. (See the article image above.)

===Inside References===
*Strong Mad's reaction to Strong Sad's strange remarks in the Easter egg is extremely similar to his reaction to "parakeet" in [[caffeine]].
*Strong Sad's calligraphy pen is also featured in his action figure in the Easter egg for [[action figure]], when writing to Strong Bad in [[Strong Bad Is in Jail Cartoon]], and when transcribing Paradise Lost in [[record book]].
*Strong Sad refers to himself as "The Deathly Pallor," harking back to Coach Z's introduction of Strong Sad in the email [[impression]].
*Right at the very end of the chanting, one can hear the first two notes of the [[Sweet Cuppin' Cakes]] theme song, as seen in [[Decemberween Sweet Cuppin' Cakes]].
*The [[booOOMbox]] Strong Sad listens to was also seen in [[autobiography]]. However, it had no record button.

===Real-World References===
*"Drat and double drat!" was [[Wikipedia:Dick Dastardly|Dick Dastardly's]] ([[Wikipedia:Wacky_Races|''Wacky Races'']]) catch phrase.
*Marzipan's book ''Tolstoy Story 2'' is a reference to [[Wikipedia:Leo Tolstoy|Leo Tolstoy]], a famous Russian author, and also to the Disney/Pixar film ''[[Wikipedia:Toy Story 2|Toy Story 2]]''.
* Strong Bad's test phrase is an old broadcasting cliché. The phrase has been used to test the levels of the '''F''' and '''SH''' sounds in audio signals for recording, public address and broadcast. When those sounds are too "hot," sounding like intense hisses, the mic can be moved or covered to reduce the "swishiness."
*"[[Public Radio Sounds]]" (or "PRS") is a playful combination of [http://www.pbs.org PBS], the Public Broadcasting Service, and [http://www.pri.org PRI], Public Radio International.
*The "UN Secretary Council" represents a mix between the [http://www.un.org/News/ossg/sg/ UN Secretary-General] and the [http://www.un.org/Docs/sc/ UN Security Council].
*The voice-over telling the viewer what the test phrase is is a reference to game shows like ''[[Wikipedia:Password (game)|Password]]'', where something similar would occur so that the viewers knew what the password was.
*Judging by Strong Sad's T-shirt, "The Sturge" is short for [[Wikipedia:Sturgeon|sturgeon]], a large, rare fish and is an obvious spoof of radio stations named after animals. For example, ''[[IMDb:tt0077097|WKRP in Cincinnati]]'' had the mascot "the WKRP Carp."
*"Heckle or jeckle" is a reference to the [[Wikipedia:Terrytoons|Terrytoons]] cartoon [http://www.toonopedia.com/hekljekl.htm Heckle and Jeckle].
*Strong Bad calling Strong Sad "Greystoke" is a reference to [[Wikipedia:Tarzan|Tarzan]].
*The short theme heard while Marzipan listens to public radio is reminiscent of the [http://www.npr.org/programs/asc/features/atc_theme/ theme] to the [http://www.npr.org National Public Radio] program "[[Wikipedia:All Things Considered|All Things Considered]]". Interestingly, on May 8, 2005, The Brothers Chaps were interviewed about the Homestar Runner website on the show, and a clip from the Public Radio segment of this email was featured.


===Fast Forward===
* $7.50 is the same amount of money that Strong Bad asks "Simone" for in "[[bottom 10]]."

== DVD Version ==
*If the angle is changed (to view the mid-toon Easter Eggs), Strong Sad's shirt has both sleeves in this version.
*The DVD version features hidden creators' commentary. To access it, switch your DVD player's audio language selection while watching.
=== Commentary Transcript ===
('''Commentary by:''' [[Mike Chapman]], [[Matt Chapman]], [[Strong Sad]], Mike's Strong Sad)

'''MIKE:''' This is a... commentary.

'''MATT:''' Look—

'''MIKE:''' Be— Be a character.

'''MATT:''' Okay. Who— Which character, Mike?

'''MIKE:''' Be Strong Sad. Strong Sad's never joined me for commentary before.

'''MATT:''' Okay, we'll see how that works out.

'''MIKE:''' All right. Oh, Strong Sad's in this one, I didn't even think about it.

'''STRONG SAD:''' I ''am'' in the one, Mike.

'''MIKE:''' This is— You're pretty good in this. Did you actually do the voice?

'''STRONG SAD:''' I don't want to talk about what happened while we were doing that.

'''MIKE:''' Did they give yo things?

'''STRONG SAD:''' I was given some things...

'''MIKE:''' ''{laughs}''

'''STRONG SAD:''' For—

'''MIKE:''' Did they drug you? or, just—

'''STRONG SAD:''' I don't know, Mike!

'''MIKE:''' You don't remember?

'''STRONG SAD:''' I just know that?

'''MIKE:''' Is it all a blur?

'''STRONG SAD:''' All this— I would kind of black out, and all of the sudden there was this horrible voice coming forward from my mouth.

'''MIKE:''' I kind of like it better than your regular voice.

'''STRONG SAD:''' Oh.

'''MIKE:''' I can kind of do your— good impression of you, Strong Sad.

'''STRONG SAD:''' See, look, there's— that's me.

'''MIKE'S STRONG SAD:''' Yeah, this could be you, too.

'''STRONG SAD:''' Ah, that's terrible.

'''MIKE'S STRONG SAD:''' No, it sounds pretty good.

'''STRONG SAD:''' No, it sounds awful.

'''MIKE'S STRONG SAD:''' No, I don't— It sounds just like you, Strong Sad.

'''STRONG SAD:''' I don't think so, Mike.

'''MIKE'S STRONG SAD:''' But do ''that'' voice.

'''STRONG SAD:''' Do—

'''MIKE'S STRONG SAD:''' Do the radio personality voice, Strong Sad.

'''STRONG SAD:''' ''{In radio host voice}'' Okay! Maybe I will! For a little while! But it hurts! So I'm gonna stop!

'''MIKE'S STRONG SAD:''' ''{sarcastically}'' Oh, that's so great! That was great!

'''MATT:''' Yeah, how you doing, Strong Sad?

'''MIKE'S STRONG SAD:''' Well, I'm doing pretty good, I guess.

'''MATT:''' This is pretty talented. Matt is talking to Strong Sad at the same time.

'''MIKE'S STRONG SAD:''' This— This is the magic of computer technology.

'''MATT:''' So, Strong Sad, that phrase, "the fish was delish and it made quite a dish"—

'''MIKE'S STRONG SAD:''' Yeah?

'''MATT:''' Uh, there was this place in Brooklyn I used to eat called—

'''MIKE'S STRONG SAD:''' That—

'''MATT:''' —called Giando On The Water, and it was a great little restaurant on the Brooklyn side, right under the Williamsburg bridge.

'''MIKE'S STRONG SAD:''' Oh.

'''MATT:''' So I wrote an online review of it on, uh, zagat.com or something—

'''MIKE'S STRONG SAD:''' Oh, yeah?

'''MATT:''' —and under "user comments" I said that the fish was delish and it made quite a dish.

'''MIKE'S STRONG SAD:''' That's pretty good.

'''MATT:''' You can't find that online, anymore, I looked, actually.

'''MIKE'S STRONG SAD:''' That's pretty good. I wonder what ''{sounding more and more like Mike}'' Stoops and Gusso have been up to lately. I— I— I usually am not awake at that time, so I— I don't get to hear their hilarious—

'''MATT:''' You're turning less and less into Strong Sad the longer you do it.

'''MIKE'S STRONG SAD:''' Aww.

'''MIKE:''' Oh, no! It's going away!

'''MATT:''' And now there's Mike!

'''MIKE:''' Augh.

'''MATT:''' Mike— And I love that part in the background. Mike is just being the other dudes hanging out in the studio, and just going, "Yeah! You got it! Yeah!" Good job. So, what— that's, uh— there's "highball", "hiyah"—

'''MIKE:''' And—

'''MATT:''' —and "ah-choo"?

'''MIKE:''' "Ah-choo." ''{indecipherable}''

'''MATT:''' ''{indecipherable}''

'''MIKE:''' Yeah.

'''MATT:''' I dunno.

'''MIKE:''' Homestar says, "To s—" Oh, that's our friend Rusty's song.

'''MATT:''' It is.

'''MIKE:''' The very end of it.

''{Pause}''

'''MATT:''' Oh, why do they do that at college radio stations? They put that little sticker on the CD and, like, make the D.J. have to read that thing. So they're always like—

'''MIKE:''' Yeah.

'''MATT:''' Track— I mean, the track number— who care— you don't have— like on any other radio, no other radio would say—

'''MIKE:''' I— I like— I think track number three is a good track.

'''MATT:''' ''{laughs}''

'''MIKE:''' Seriously. I think that if you listened— go listen to 10 albums and I think that track number three's—

'''MATT:''' It's like problems—

'''MIKE:''' —probably going to be a hit.

'''MATT:''' It's like putting C for an answer on a Scantron test.

'''MIKE:''' I used to— I used to count the C's. If C didn't win, I'd go back and change some.

'''MATT:''' ''{laughs}''

'''MIKE:''' C or D.

'''MATT:''' Nice. Uh, originally we were going to use our friend Ariana chanting there, who actually knows some Sanskrit prayers, and so, we had her, but then we thought that she might take offense.

'''MIKE:''' May have been sacrilegious.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. We don't want to offend—

'''MIKE:''' If they were real prayers.

'''MATT:''' Hey, the Portly Washboy looks kind of like the kid from the old Boychicks Deli sign over in Orchar— or, Georgetown.

'''MIKE:''' ''{laughs}'' Georgetown!

'''MATT:''' Remember him?

'''MIKE:''' Yeah.

'''MATT:''' He's about to inhale this entire sub.

'''MIKE:''' ''{laughs}'' I got celery— ce— celery-flavored soda from Boychicks Deli.

'''STRONG SAD:''' That stuff is good!

'''MIKE'S STRONG SAD:''' Oh, yeah! You're back! We're both back!

'''STRONG SAD:''' I'm out of here—

'''MIKE'S STRONG SAD:''' ''{simultaneously}'' This is so cool!

'''STRONG SAD:''' I'm out of here now.

'''MIKE'S STRONG SAD:''' No, stay! Hang around! This is—

'''STRONG SAD:''' I don't like you!

'''MIKE'S STRONG SAD:''' Oh, man!

'''MATT:''' Um...

'''MIKE'S STRONG SAD:''' That was great.

'''MATT:''' Poster just fell.

===Fun Facts===
*"Hiyah" was Homestar's similarly-pronounced exclamation from [[montage]]. "Ah-choo" was probably supposed to be "Ahct-poo" from [[Homestar Presents: Presents]].

== External Links ==
*[[HR:sbemail120.html|watch "radio"]]
*[[HR:sbemail120.swf|view the Flash file for "radio"]]
{{Strong Bad Email}}
[[Category:Lappy 486 Emails]][[Category:Old-Timey]][[Category: Emails With DVD Commentary]]

Talk:Homsar

2005-12-31T19:31:29Z

Jonnny: /* Nonsense Incarnate */

I'm not happy with the "Homsar Quotes" section. It's not uniform, it's not objective and it's not needed. Who's with me? --[[User:Upsilon|Upsilon]]

Not me- I think all main characters should have it, especially Homsar! -- [[User:Asploder|Asploder]]

There. Deleted Homsar Quotes, got rid of all the quotes on his page. He already has his own little section in Quotes. He isn't ''that'' special. He needs only one page of quotes, just like everyone else. -- [[User:FireBird|FireBird]]-[[User_Talk:FireBird|Talk]]

Do we realy need the MSN Orbit page of the guy who emailed Strong Bad? It doesn't even mantion Homsar!

Have to tell ya, this article is in need of serious rewrite. [[User:213.169.4.137|213.169.4.137]] 07:25, 20 Nov 2004 (MST)

== Re-Write Is Definitely Re-Right ==

This does need re-writing, it says that "Hi, Wonder Mike!" is "One of the few references to pop culture on H*R", when the whole freaking site references pop culture! Please delete that line, someone, it is really bugging me.
This is a wiki, why don't you remove it? [[User:nintendorulez|nintendorulez]] 14:04, 11 Mar 2005 (MST)

== A Song From The Sixties? ==

Can anyone come up with song references from Homsar's speeches? 'Gravy train' could be a reference to Pink Floyd's 'Have a Cigar' but maybe it's just some of his home-spun wisdom. Also, not a direct quote, but 'a million ladies tall' feels sort of like 'half a century high' ala Phil Ochs. Just some random stabs here, it seemed a lot more cohesive in my mind.
:"Gravy Train" is a common phrase meaning getting a lot of money (or something along those lines. Also, Have a Cigar was written in 1975, so it's clearly not a song from the sixties.

== Move? ==

I think this article should be renamed Homsar (Character). The email article should be moved to Homsar (email).
--[[User:ZekeMacNeil|ZekeMacNeil]] 23:43, 15 Jan 2005 (MST)

:We actually used to have the articles titled that way. Then we changed it to the current setup. The titles you mentioned redirect accordingly.[[User:Tom|<nowiki></nowiki>]] -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 02:25, 16 Jan 2005 (MST)

== A Hypothesis About Homsar's Behavior ==

I have a hypothesis concerning why Homsar behaves the way he does.

I believe that Homsar was drafted and sent to Vietnam in the late sixties ("I'm a song from the sixties." could be a reference to this because many songs in the sixties were about the war in Vietnam) and there he witnessed some horrible things that resulted in a dreadful case of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). To escape his flashbacks after retuning home he began taking copious amounts of LSD and rapidly became psychologically dependant on it. After a decade or so of this heavy use, Homsar cleaned himself up; but the side effects from the long-term LSD use compounded by his PTSD cause him to be detached from reality much to this day in the form of incorrect visual identification of objects, mental incongruity, and flashbacks to Vietnam (explaining Homsar's frequent screaming episodes).

Some might argue with me about my analysis, saying that Homsar is simply retarded. I admit to you that this might be tempting to say, but if he were truly retarded many of the pop culture references Homsar makes would be near impossible because most forms of retardation limit the individual's vocabulary for such things; and furthermore, retardation does not often result in rampant grammatical structure disjunction and word misapplication, as seen in Homsar's case, especially when compared to the symptoms seen in long-term LSD ex-users.

Submitted By: Eli Mann

:I know you thought of some big words and obviously spent some time on this, but really- it's just a cartoon. Not everything needs an explanation. →[[User:FireBird|''<tt>[[User:FireBird|FireBird]]</tt>'']]

::Exactly. Interesting hypothesis, but it's a freakin' cartoon!

Course homsar could be based on a figure in the Brother's Chap's life that had those same syndroms.
Wedge Antilles

Interesting but unlikely. Homsar is just the standard gibberish-spouting idiot that all cartoons have. [[User:The_Pardack|The_Pardack]]

Wow. You really must have thought this out. If people look at this page, they can marvel at it. -Alice

I'm a be an agree: This is pretty unlikely. You sure did spend some good thinking time on it, though. What, did you get bored during math class? :) --[[User:65.31.46.157|65.31.46.157]] 23:15, 20 May 2005 (UTC)

Wow, you've got too much time on your hands man, it's a cartoon for pete's sake. Besides, this isn't all too likely. He's probably just really weird, I know a dude who acts pretty similar to him in real life. -Ryan

Come on, guys. It's obvious. He's actually a genius that's just trying to hide his true identity by making himself look like a complete moron. It's that simple. -Neverending Soda

My theory is that the head trauma he suffered from the weight dropping on his head gave him some sort of weird amnesiac condition. Check out my full theory [[Wikipedia:Talk:Homsar|here]]! I command you! --[[User:VolatileChemical|VolatileChemical]] 09:14, 6 Jul 2005 (UTC)

You're all wrong, Homsar has schizophrenia! --[[User:Cocoa|Cocoa]]

Look, cut the guy some slack. This is a discussion page on an obscure article in the Homestar Runner Wiki - clearly, everyone here has too much time on their hands. Kudos on coming up with a plausible theory, Eli. --[[User:mayosolo|mayosolo]] 04:08, 19 Jul 2005 (UTC)

You got it all wrong. Homsar is a jar of mayonase from the sixties that got left out next to the TV (hense the constant references to old shows) and witnessed the goings on of the kitchen (thus being raised by a cup of coffee). The mayo spoiled and some odd bacteria gegan to grow on it, eventualy evolving into a half-sentient being that can walk and talk, albeit strangely. Given a few centuries, he may hope to attain Homestar's level of inteligence. --[[User:TheRealZajac|The Real Zajac]] 13:54, 21 Jul 2005 (PDT)

I agree about the Heavy Lourde being Homsar's problem, but I believe it's just brain and/or spinal cord damage, considering it fell on his head.
-Mortacai

== homsar.com ==

I don't think this should be listed as "may or may not be by the Brothers Chaps". I checked it out on archive.org, and until February of last year it was a blog site entitled "Home Of My Stories And Rants". I wouldn't be surprised if they shut down after they got a lot of misdirected attention from their name, which would explain why the site now just says "go away"

:I've removed this from the article. A [http://www.whois.sc/homsar.com quick WHOIS] confirms it clearly isn't The Brothers Chaps.[[User:Tom|<nowiki></nowiki>]] -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 11:16, 6 Feb 2005 (MST)

* We're not shut down, we just took a different direction. -John from homsar.com

So, what about Stong Bad? He deserves to be a character... :x

== Sensical Stuffs ==

I think this page should have a list of all the stuff Homsar's said that makes sense, like "Uh, yeah, what eeys eet, Strong Bay-ad?" and "I do as ah'm told." for example. What do you guys think? [[User:Poopsmith Z|Poopsmith Z]]
* No, I don't. It's arguable if what much of Homsar says makes sense (For instance, I think "I do as I'm told" is just Homsarish gibberish despite the fact that it makes some sense in context), and this isn't a page for Homsar quotes—aside from his character transcript (which EVERY character has) this is just a biography page. --[[User:Jay|''Jay'']] [[User talk:Jay|(Talk)]] 17:23, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
*Plus, everything that Homsar says is in completly perfect grammatical form. All of his sentences are complete and, albeit a bit weird, are normal. [[User:Stramstar Hummer|Stramstar Hummer]]

== Closed STUFF ==

{{stuffcloseddecline}}
=== Homsar Winner? ===
{{stufffact|The idea of Homsar may not have just originated from bad spelling. There is a noticeable resemblance between Homsar and [[Homeschool Winner]]. Homsar may or may not have evolved from this character.}}
{{stuffverdict|07:15, 8 Jul 2005 (UTC)|00:47, 20 Jul 2005 (UTC)|overwhelmingly declined|15|5|Homsar}}

== What happened? ==

Diddn't we used to have a list of everything Homsar has said? It can't be that hard to maintain, as he has only had 24 appearences to date.--[[RatherAnnoying]]

:We ''used'' to, but it was decided that just because he doesn't speak normally doesn't mean he deserves a separate section on his character page. See the conversation at the top of this page. {{User:Some HSR themed username/sig}} 20:02, 21 Sep 2005 (UTC)

== Talk moved from deleted article: "Homsar's Bowler Hat" ==
Does this have any real significance?
-tapd260

sorta i think --[[User:djm1791|djm1791]] 02:14, 16 Jul 2005 (UTC)

This is becoming a new '''Coach Z's Z''' {{User:E.L. Cool/sig}}

Agreed. '''Delort'''. [[User:Drhaggis|<nowiki></nowiki>]]- [[User:Drhaggis|Dr Haggis]] - [[User talk: Drhaggis|Talk]] 16:37, 16 Jul 2005 (UTC)

Nowaynowaynowaynowaynowaynoway this is awesome.--{{User:Darklinkskywalker/DLSsignature}} 18:16, 16 Jul 2005 (UTC)

If it was baleeted I would just go and make another one along with a new Coach Z's Z. Haw Haw.

:Uh, that would not be proper. Is everything okay Darklinkskywaker?[[User:Tom|<nowiki></nowiki>]] -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 18:24, 16 Jul 2005 (UTC)

Why delteat this? Just merge it with Homsar's article. -[[Giranan]]

If anything, this page should be deleted because it states something that is speculation as fact - how do we know Homsar's hat has a mind of it's own? - Grover Junior

I'm with Giranan. This hardly needs it's own article. '''Merge'''. ---[[User:mihoshi|mihoshi]] 13:38, 20 Jul 2005 (UTC)

This is an important part to one of the funniest characters on the website. Keep. {{User:Rogue Leader/sig}}

I think it's cute. Let's keep it. Besides, it wouldn't do any good to delete it as Giranan said. --[[User:SaikoRoxi|SaikoRoxi]] 10:15 PM, July 22, 2005

I'd go with a merge, except I disagree that it "has a mind of its own," because it always seems to follow a particular logic to its flight paths (or orbit) from and back to Homsar's head. I think it usually "takes flight" when Homsar is trying to emphasize something, which is pretty much every time he says anything. Anyway, the hat is an integral part of the character, but probably doesn't need its own page. [[User:Thesmokingmonkey|The Smoking Monkey]] 17:43, 23 Jul 2005 (UTC)

Oh, come on! Homsar's hat deserves 12 pages! Homsar himself deserves his own wiki!

I sincerely think that this page must not be deleted! This is Homsar's Hat! I mean, the fact that the hat goes flying everywhere is so cool! If an item on Homestar runner has been shown once, and then never even mentioned again, there is no need to even post it! However, Homsar's Hat has been shown with Homsar every single time he is seen on the site! Taking a page about Homsar's hat off this site is like taking Homsar's hat away from him on the official site!

Signed,

DarkMario

No. We've removed pages for individual clothing items before, if only BECAUSE they appear pretty much every time the character in question appears, meaning every single word can be moved over to the (more relevant) character article. --{{User:Jay/sig}} 19:10, 26 Jul 2005 (UTC)

:True that and a half. '''Merge.''' — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 19:12, 26 Jul 2005 (UTC)

There is no reason this needs it's own article. If not deleted, it shold be merged. Does Homestar's eyes have it's on article? NO! It's merged. ''MERGE''--[[User:bkmlb|bkmlb]]

== Examples in Biography? ==

Okay, this is coming up fairly consistently in the Biography, so I wanted to pose a question to the people who run the show around here: Do we need specific examples of oddness in interacting with Homsar in his biography? For example, is it appropriate to point out that Homsar called Strong Sad "That Rhinoceros", and quoting Strong Bad's comment about Homsar in [[interview]]?

:I think the [[Nicknames|nickname]] could be found on the page that follows its name. As for the latter, I don't think we need mention that. — {{User:Lapper/sig}} 00:04, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

::On questions of content, ''you'' are one of the people who run the show around here. You know that, right? — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 00:06, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

:::Yeah, I understand how a wiki works. :) I was referring to those of you with more experience enforcing Wiki standards. Remember, I'm still new here, and this was a grey area. - [[User:KieferSkunk|KieferSkunk]] 00:08, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

::::Well, to answer your specific question, I don't see what harm that info is doing, and it adds a little color. You should probably wait till you get a few replies before considering a question answered. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 00:09, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

:::::Huh... so much for consistency. I remember making several edits similar to that in different articles, and most of them were reverted immediately. - [[User:KieferSkunk|KieferSkunk]] 00:12, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

:::::I guess more importantly, I've seen a lot of similar edits get reverted for one reason or another. My reason for changing the line about "That Rhinoceros" was to clarify that Homsar SOMETIMES does refer to other characters by their real names, and I felt the best way to write that was to say "He refers to other characters by random nicknames from time to time". Also, the "conversations" example seemed redundant and unnecessary to me, and like I said, I've seen things like that get zapped pretty consistently in the past. That's why I brought this up. - [[User:KieferSkunk|KieferSkunk]] 00:16, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

::::::I'm not sure the version of the page I reverted to is the best one. All I'm saying is that, as long as you've asked for input, you should give people a chance to respond. It might turn out that more people want that stuff gone than want it kept. Consistency is a tricky thing around here, because it all depends on what you ask and, probably more importantly, when you ask and ''whom'' you ask. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]]

:::::::By the way, other than when he was introduced, when has Homsar called someone by their given name? — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 00:18, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

::::::::In [[Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 5.0]], when he thanks Marzipan for the flowers. - [[User:KieferSkunk|KieferSkunk]] 00:21, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

:::::::::Wow. I just listened to that, and Homsar was so... ''normal'' sounding. Weird. But you gotta consider the context: that answering machine was released when the Strong Bad Emails were still in single digits, and was only Homsar's second appearance—before his personality was developed at all. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 01:04, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

::::::::::Wow. All this discussion because I put examples in Homsar's Biography? Trippy. I just thought it would be nice to have some specific times he is being strange rather than just stating it. Just saying someone is wierd isn't nearly as effective as citing examples, but that's just my opinion. In response to It's Dot Com, yeah, Homsar does sound way too normal in that answering machine. He's almost...intelligable. Freaky. Anyway, just stating my reasons. thanks! {{User:Houdin654jeff/sig}} 01:24, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

:::::::::::Heya Jeff. Just wanted to make sure you didn't feel like I was trying to pick on you there - I wasn't. I guess we just disagree on the specific-examples idea, so I was posing the question to a larger audience. - [[User:KieferSkunk|KieferSkunk]] 19:19, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

== Up-side Down ==
I just realized. Homsar's stood upside-down twice in the Field before! His character video, and A Folky Tale! A coupla more times and we's gots a running gag! [[User:Cheatachu72|Cheatachu72]]
:He also stood on the top of the screen in [[Halloween Fairstival]], but it's more an element of his character than a running gag. - {{User:Kookykman/sig}}

==separate pages==
I dont know where to put this, so I'll just put this here.
<center>WE NEED A SEPERATE PAGE FOR CHARACTER VIDEOS</center>
It looks messy how it is right now, not just on Homsars page, but on all the other characters' pages. The fun facts seem a bit out of place on the characters pages, but they'd fit just fine on a character videos page. Anyone with me? {{User:Bubsty/sig}} 21:37, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
:I don't think we need separate pages. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 21:50, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

== Nonsense Incarnate ==

Just opening this thread to discuss the phrase "Nonsense incarnate" (Homsar is nonsense incarnate). My understanding is that "Person is X incarnate" is grammatically correct, and that it means the concept X is embodied in Person. The most common real-life use of this phrasing I'm aware of is "Person is the Devil incarnate" - usually to refer to an unruly child, a particularly heinous criminal, etc. I have, however, NEVER heard the phrase "Person is the Devil incarnated" (past-tense). Anyone wanna discuss this? {{User:KieferSkunk/sig}} 05:23, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
:That's how I understand and use it. I've never heard past tense either. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]
::The reason I brought it up is because I reverted [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=Homsar&diff=prev&oldid=226437 this edit], but I don't know for sure that the phrase "nonsense incarnated" is INcorrect. {{User:KieferSkunk/sig}} 05:31, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
:::Yeah, I saw that edit and figured that to be the reason. I dunno if that one's incorrect, but I do know that the first one IS correct. Go with what you know. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]
::::Meh, I learn something new every day. (: --[[User:Jonnny|Jonnny]] 19:31, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

Talk:Whaddaya Know, Haddi-Man?

2005-12-31T02:16:55Z

Jonnny: /* Homsar has a tongue? */

== Shrinky Hat ==

If you watch closely, Homsar's hat shrinks while he's saying that he's a trendy totebag. The only other time I've seen it change was in his character video.-[[User:Runstar Homer|Runstar Homer]]
:Odd... I don't see any shrinking. But... maybe thats just me. {{User:Bubsty/sig}} 00:45, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
::It is just you. Right on the word "trendy," it gets real big for one frame and then smaller than usual for one frame, then back to normal. —[[User:AbdiViklas|AbdiViklas]] 01:31, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

== Closed STUFF ==

{{stuffcloseddecline}}
===Fly like a... something===
{{stufffact|The "raspberry noises" Homsar makes when he moves resembles the noises the "Boobahs" make when they fly in the show of the same name.}}
{{stuffverdict|08:20, 6 November 2005 (UTC)|19:48, 9 November 2005 (UTC)|unanimously declined|14|0|Whaddaya Know, Haddi-Man?}}

== Real Estate ==

Homsar speaks in metaphors. He doesn't actually think that the letter "G" is a "healthy peice of real estate", rather he was saying that it was a nice letter.

== Tote vs Tote ==

I checked [http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=tote%20bag dictionary.com] and the correct spelling is "tote bag" and not "totebag". The [[Store_Front_Page_News_2005#October_2.2C_2005|store]] page and [[for_kids|for kids]] have it spelled correctly. I will fix those entries I've found through this [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php/Special:Search?search=totebag search] except those in talk pages. --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 19:23, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
:Done. On another note: my edit comment originally read <code><nowiki>"totebag" -> "tote bag", see [[Talk:Whaddaya_Know%2C_Haddi-Man%3F#Tote_vs_Tote|talk]].</nowiki></code> but the link did not work. Normally they do. Was it the pound sign (#)? This edit should have a test: <code><nowiki>[[for kids|test]]</nowiki></code>. --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 19:35, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

== Homsar has a tongue? ==

A strip of bacon as a tongue, in fact. lol [[User:Jonnny|Jonnny]] 02:16, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

Talk:Whaddaya Know, Haddi-Man?

2005-12-31T02:16:38Z

Jonnny: Homsar has a tongue?

Homsar

2005-12-31T02:13:50Z

Jonnny: "nonsense incarnate" is nonsense in itself.

{{aboutcharacter}} {{foremail|homsar}}

[[Image:homsar evolution current.png|thumb|Homsar as seen in [[for kids]].]]

== Biography ==
'''Homsar''' is nonsense incarnated. He was created in the second [[Strong Bad Email]] when Vinnie C. misspelled "[[Homestar Runner|Homestar]]" and suggested that [[Strong Bad]] kill him. Strong Bad "killed" Homsar by dropping a [[Heavy Lourde|large weight]] on him, but [[The Brothers Chaps]] must have ended up liking the little guy and upgraded his condition from dead to seriously injured. Upon his recovery, he called [[Marzipan]] in [[Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 5.0]], thanking her for the flowers she had sent to him in the hospital, though he still couldn't feel his legs.

He resides primarily in easter eggs (e.g., [[Homsar Main Page]], his character tape, [[Downloads]] easter egg, etc.), but sometimes he'll appear in a regular [[Toons|toon]] or Strong Bad Email. He is often quoted by [[Homestar Runner (Flash cartoon)|Homestar Runner]] fans, as his few appearances are often accompanied by cute and amusing little sayings. Usually, Homsar's speech is valid syntactically but not semantically: Though his sentences are as grammatically correct as anyone else's, the things he says are rarely useful or meaningful to anybody (except himself, presumably), making him notoriously difficult to converse with. Strong Bad claims to not be able to talk to the guy for more than three seconds before he considers gnawing his own leg off in [[interview]].

Regardless, he appears to be a very social creature, often showing up at parties or dialing up other characters on the phone, and he seems to always be aware of his context on some level (though his "grasp on the world around him" appears to be looser than Homestar's loosest). Most of the time, he seems to forget (or not know) the names of those around him and assigns them random nicknames instead. He seems to be best friends with [[Strong Sad]], but Homestar seems to hate him, as he consistently disrespects him when the two appear together in various Halloween toons. Homsar serves in the [[Homestarmy]] and is the host of his own children's show: ''[[Whaddaya Know, Haddi-Man?]]''. Nothing is known about his past, though Strong Bad once claimed on Homsar's behalf that he was raised by a cup of coffee.

Homsar is quite an accomplished costume maker, having appeared in several Halloween Toons and also having competed in the [[impression|Strong Sad Look-Alike Contest]], where he looked so much like Strong Sad that he was disqualified by [[Coach Z]]. Also, during the holidays, Homsar sets up a [[Homestar Presents: Presents|donation site]] (much like the [[Wikipedia:Salvation Army|Salvation Army]]) using a can of baked beans and a paintbrush that gongs like a bell. The fact that the paintbrush actually sounds seems to be a projection of Homsar's characteristic personal illogic onto the rules of his environment. In a similar phenomenon, Homsar seems to be able to defy gravity at will.

*'''Debut:''' Email [[homsar]]
*[[:Category:Homsar Filmography|Complete Filmography]]

== Character Video Transcript ==
''{'''Page Title:''' The Hand-Me-Down Clown!}'' ''{'''Places:''' [[The Field]]}''

''{The background is upside-down throughout the video, with the blue sky on the bottom of the screen and the green grass at the top.}''

'''HOMSAR''': AaAaAaAaAaAaA! Hi, Wonder Mike! I'm Homsar! The captain of the gravy train. ''{bowler hat pops up and turns into a train conductor's hat}'' Climb aboard! ''{hat returns to normal}'' I've brought my best foot flowered... Pshoooo! ''(Homsar's hat slides down the back of his head, then snaps back once the "Pshoooo!" sound is over)'' Sure beats breaking up with me. Don't look now! I'm just a friendly reminder. AaAaAaAaAaAaA! AaAaAaAaAaAaA! ''{spins around the screen backwards and ends up at the top, upside down}'' Think I won the Powerball.

(Note: To view Homsar's character video, click "Eject" on [[The VCR|the VCR]], then click the tape.)

== Homsar's Bowler Derby ==
[[Image:bowler derby.PNG|thumb|A headgear anomaly]]
His hat moves around all on its own every time Homsar speaks, but it always returns to its resting place on his head shortly thereafter, even if Homsar is standing upside-down (except in [[different town]], as [[Modestly Hot Homsar]], and [[origins]]). A rather amusing example of this is seen in [[A Folky Tale]], where the hat completed a full 360 degree revolution before coming back to rest on upside-down Homsar. It has also been known to change shape (in his character video) and appear from nowhere (in [[impression]]). When Homsar was first created, the hat was much larger and didn't fly as much.
 

== Fun Facts ==

*"Wonder Mike" is a member of The Sugarhill Gang, famous for the song "Rapper's Delight." In the beginning of "Rapper's Delight", Wonder Mike says "I am Wonder Mike and I'd like to say hello", so Homsar saying "Hi, Wonder Mike" could possibly be a response.
*"Think I won the Powerball" is a reference to the multistate [[Wikipedia: Powerball|Powerball Lottery]], which is known for having large jackpots.
*Homsar's character page is the only one with background music.
*Homsar's nonsensical but grammatically correct dialogue is evidence of a trait found in some [[Wikipedia: Mental illnesses|mental illnesses]], and may be either [[Wikipedia: Word salad (mental health)|Word Salad]] or [[Wikipedia:Receptive aphasia|Receptive Aphasia]].
*Since the camera is presumably upside-down throughout his character video, Homsar starts the video upside-down and ends it right-side-up.
*[[Mr. Shmallow]] and [[Nibbles]] make the same walking noise as Homsar.

== Also known as... ==
*[[Whaddaya Know, Haddi-Man?|Haddi-Man]]
*[[Modestly Hot Homsar]]
*[[Mount RidesPlace USA Mascots|Ryan S.]]
=== [[Halloween Costumes]] ===

*[[wikipedia:J. Wellington Wimpy|Wimpy]] in [[The House That Gave Sucky Treats]].
*Ghost Dog in [[Pumpkin Carve-nival]].
*[[wikipedia:Slash (musician)|Slash]] in [[3 Times Halloween Funjob]].
*Kumar (from [[IMDB:0115734|Bottle Rocket]]) in [[Halloween Fairstival]].
*[[Wikipedia:Tingle|Tingle]] from [[Wikipedia:Legend of Zelda|The Legend of Zelda]] series in [[Halloween Potion-ma-jig]].

==See Also==
*[[Homsar Evolution]]
*[[Homsar Other Costumes|Other Costumes]]
*[[Nicknames#Homsar|Nicknames]]

== External Links ==
*[[HR:vcr_homsar.html|watch Homsar's character video]]
*[[HR:vcr_homsar.swf|view the Flash file for Homsar's character video]]

{{Characters|Homsar}}
[[Category:Homestarmy]]

monster truck

2005-12-31T02:12:55Z

Jonnny: /* Remarks */

[[Image:sbemail61picture.png|thumb|Thrills, Chills, Syrup! Kids and old peoples NOT ALLOWED!]]

'''Strong Bad Email #61'''

Strong Bad hosts a monster truck event this SUNDAY SUNDAY SOMEDAY!

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|The Cheat}}, {{Film|The King of Town}}, {{Film|Strong Mad}}, {{Film|Homestar Runner}}, {{Film|The Poopsmith}}, [[The Sad Kids]], {{Film|Limozeen}}

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]], [[Strongbadia]]

'''Computer:''' [[Compy 386]]

'''Date:''' February 3, 2003

'''Running Time:''' 1:41

== Transcript ==
'''STRONG BAD''': ''{like Homestar on the main page}'' Toons! Games! I'm gonna check my eeeemail....

''{reading}''

<blockquote class="compy email">Hey Strong Bad, 
 
Do you ever do TV commercials for 
Monster Truck Shows? I think you 
would be great for the voiceovers. 
 
Your devoted fans, 
 
Stan and Loretta</blockquote>

'''STRONG BAD:''' Aww...that's very sweet. ''{typing}'' Look Dan and Linda, Strong Bad doesn't sell out to anybody, man. No matter how monstrous their truck show may or may not be. Though I have done the occasional promo for the events we hold in Strong Badia. In fact, I think there's one coming up this...

''{Cut to a monster-truck show promo-style segment. The words Strong Bad says appear on the screen}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' SUNDAY! SUNDAY! SOMEDAY!

''{Two tires cross the screen diagonally, with Strong Bad providing the "vroom" noises for them}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' IT'S AWEXOME CROSS 98!

''{Awexome Cross logo appears. Another tire appears and screeches away to cut to the Strong Badia national flag}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' LIVE IN STRONGBADIA!

''{Cut to The Cheat wearing a jumpsuit and waving. What Strong Bad describes shows up on screen as he describes it.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' THRILL! AS THE CHEAT ATTEMPTS TO JUMP THE TIRE OVER THE KOT EATING A CARDBOARD BOX COVERED IN SYRUP!

'''THE KING OF TOWN''': This is some good cake!

''{Cut to Strong Mad holding Marzipan's guitar over Homestar, who is wearing a helmet and knee pads.}''

'''STRONG BAD''': ''{voiceover}'' CHILL! AS STRONG MAD SMASHES MARZIPAN'S GUITAR OVER HOMESTAR'S HEAD!

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER''': Let's do this like Brutus.

'''STRONG BAD''': ''{voiceover}'' RECOIL IN HORROR!

''{Cut to the Poopsmith tossing out multicolored smoke bombs}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' AS THE POOPSMITH LIGHTS SOME SMOKE BOMBS! AND THEN? YOU'LL JUST HAVE TO BE THERE TO FIND OUT!

''{The Poopsmith winks at the camera.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' ADULT ADMISSION IS STILL JUST FIVE DOLLARS! KIDS AND OLD PEOPLE ''{The Sad Kids and the King of Town appear on screen respectively crossed out}'' NOT ALLOWED WITHOUT A BUCKET OF FRIED CHICKEN ''{A bucket of KnF'nC chicken appears onscreen.}'' FOR MEEEEE! ''{An image of Strong Bad appears.}'' STICK AROUND AFTER THE SHOW FOR A FREE PERFORMANCE BY LIMOZEEN!

''{Cut to a photo of Limozeen}''

'''LIMOZEEN:''' ''{singing}'' I've got the heart of a lion and the wings of a bat, because it's midnite!

''{Cut back to the Compy 386 and Strong Bad}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{singing}'' Heart of a lion, wings of some stuff, because it's something! ''{stops singing}'' Oh-ho man, I love that song! ''{typing}'' I can't wait for this sunday sunday someday.

''{[[The Paper]] comes down.}''

== Easter Eggs ==
[[Image:Limozeentruck.PNG|thumb|200px|Because it's something!]]
*At the end you can click on the first "Sunday" to bring up a flyer advertisement for the show. The Awexome Cross 98 theme song plays in the background.
<pre>SUNDAY
AWEXOME
CROSS
98
LIVE IN STRONGBADIA
Thrills! Chills! Syrup!
Also, too:
A live performance by
LIMOZEEN</pre>
*Click on the second "Sunday" to play [[Awexome Cross]].
*Click on the "Someday" to see an autographed [[Limozeen]] picture. "Because It's Midnite" is sung in the background.

== Fun Facts ==
===Explanations===
*A loud voice booming "Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!" is the classic style of advertising used for [[Wikipedia:Monster truck|monster truck rallies]].
===Trivia===
*This is one of the few times we get to see The Poopsmith's face from the front. The only other times are [[different town]] and [[Fall Float Parade]].

===Remarks===
*For some reason, in the picture of Limozeen, there are four extra hands floating around the band members. One infront of [[Perry Palaroncini|Perry]] and [[Larry Palaroncini|Larry]], one behind Perry, one behind [[Gary Palaroncini|Gary]] and the last one behind Larry.
*No actual monster trucks appear in this email.

===Inside References===
*"Toons! Games! I'm gonna check my eeeemail...." is a reference to all the [[Main Pages]].
===Real-World References===
*The jumpsuit The Cheat is wearing is the same as the jumpsuit worn by the famous daredevil [[Wikipedia:Evel Knievel|Evel Knievel]] during his famous motorcycle jumps.
*The bottles of maple syrup around the cardboard box are designed similarly to those of Mrs. Butterworth's, a famous syrup brand.
*The line "Let's do this like Brutus" comes from [http://www.lyricsdepot.com/de-la-soul/skit-1.html a skit] on the [[Wikipedia:De La Soul|De La Soul]] album [[Wikipedia:De La Soul Is Dead|"De La Soul Is Dead"]].
*The chicken bucket that says "KnF'nC" is a reference to [[Wikipedia:Guns N' Roses|Guns N' Roses]], who used the acronym "GnF'nR" during the [[Wikipedia:Use Your Illusion I|Use Your Illusion]] era. The latest incarnation of the band contains guitarist [[Wikipedia:Buckethead|Buckethead]], who wears a [[Wikipedia:KFC|KFC]] bucket on his head like a hat.

===Fast Forward===
*The Limozeen song "[[Because It's Midnite]]" would eventually appear on the [[Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits|Strong Bad Sings CD]].
*Also the King of Town would later hold the chicken bucket in [[Halloween Potion-ma-jig]].

== DVD Version ==
*The Awexome Cross '98 Easter egg is disabled for obvious reasons.
*The DVD version features hidden creators' commentary. To access it, switch your DVD player's audio language selection while watching.

=== Commentary Transcript ===
('''Commentary by:''' [[Matt Chapman]], [[Mike Chapman]])

'''MATT:''' We were just discussing, uh, how there are some Strong Bad Emails that really tip their hand with the name of them—

'''MIKE:''' The title, yeah.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, like this one.

'''MIKE:''' You kind of know what it's going to be about.

'''MATT:''' ''{almost simultaneously}'' Know what it's going to be about.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah.

'''MATT:''' This is—was this the first instan—nah, I guess he's always getting people's names wrong. That's a common theme.

'''MIKE:''' I don't know if that's—I don't know if he's—this... Maybe it's the first time.

'''MATT:''' Who knows?

'''MIKE:''' Somebody, uh, let us know. One of you callers. One of our callers will probably let us know.

'''MATT:''' Mike, we don't have callers.

'''MIKE:''' We should, uh, have a radio show.

'''MATT:''' Mike, no.

'''MIKE:''' Like, this is a radio show.

'''MATT:''' It's not.

'''MIKE:''' ''{adopts gravelly voice}'' All right, all right.

''{Matt laughs}''

'''MIKE:''' Uhm...

'''MATT:''' So here we go. That's The Cheat in his Evel Knievel outfit, obviously, which our mom made us for—or made our ''oldest'' brother first for Halloween—

'''MIKE:''' Yep.

'''MATT:''' —and then I think it got passed down to all of us. I think in, like, 1987 I was wearing an Evel Knievel ''{Mike laughs}'' and I, like, didn't know that he wasn't very popular anymore. And he says "Let's do this like Brutus" there, not "Buddhists." A lot of people think he says that, but that's just a, uh...comment. It's in a De La Soul song or it's on the De La Soul album "De La Soul is Dead." Doesn't Flavor Flav say it at some point?

'''MIKE:''' I think so, yeah.

'''MATT:''' KnF'nC. That's a reference to GnF'nR, Drivin' N' Cryin'.

'''MIKE:''' That's—

'''MATT:''' That's—all four of those are our big brother Donnie, very seriously in the year 1987 dressed as Vince Neil for Halloween. There you have it. And then a bunch of extra limbs.

''{Mike laughs}''

'''MATT:''' And of course, there you go. Limozeen given...wings...wings of steel ''{Mike laughs}'' you know, with which to fly.

=== Fun Facts ===
*Drivin' N' Cryin' was a Southern rock band famous in the Georgia region that never really achieved national fame.
*[[Wikipedia:Vince Neil|Vince Neil]] was lead singer for the band [[Wikipedia:Mötley Crüe|Mötley Crüe]].
*"Wings of steel" combined with the lyric "wings of a bat" refer to the 1960s cartoon [[Wikipedia:Batfink|''Batfink'']], whose eponymous hero is a crime-fighting bat with steel wings.

== External Links ==
*[[HR:sbemail61.html|watch "monster truck"]]
*[[HR:sbemail61.swf|view the Flash file for "monster truck"]]

{{Strong Bad Email}}
[[Category:Compy 386 Emails]]
[[Category:Emails With DVD Commentary]]
[[Category:Performances]]

monster truck

2005-12-31T02:11:15Z

Jonnny: /* Remarks */

[[Image:sbemail61picture.png|thumb|Thrills, Chills, Syrup! Kids and old peoples NOT ALLOWED!]]

'''Strong Bad Email #61'''

Strong Bad hosts a monster truck event this SUNDAY SUNDAY SOMEDAY!

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|The Cheat}}, {{Film|The King of Town}}, {{Film|Strong Mad}}, {{Film|Homestar Runner}}, {{Film|The Poopsmith}}, [[The Sad Kids]], {{Film|Limozeen}}

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]], [[Strongbadia]]

'''Computer:''' [[Compy 386]]

'''Date:''' February 3, 2003

'''Running Time:''' 1:41

== Transcript ==
'''STRONG BAD''': ''{like Homestar on the main page}'' Toons! Games! I'm gonna check my eeeemail....

''{reading}''

<blockquote class="compy email">Hey Strong Bad, 
 
Do you ever do TV commercials for 
Monster Truck Shows? I think you 
would be great for the voiceovers. 
 
Your devoted fans, 
 
Stan and Loretta</blockquote>

'''STRONG BAD:''' Aww...that's very sweet. ''{typing}'' Look Dan and Linda, Strong Bad doesn't sell out to anybody, man. No matter how monstrous their truck show may or may not be. Though I have done the occasional promo for the events we hold in Strong Badia. In fact, I think there's one coming up this...

''{Cut to a monster-truck show promo-style segment. The words Strong Bad says appear on the screen}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' SUNDAY! SUNDAY! SOMEDAY!

''{Two tires cross the screen diagonally, with Strong Bad providing the "vroom" noises for them}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' IT'S AWEXOME CROSS 98!

''{Awexome Cross logo appears. Another tire appears and screeches away to cut to the Strong Badia national flag}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' LIVE IN STRONGBADIA!

''{Cut to The Cheat wearing a jumpsuit and waving. What Strong Bad describes shows up on screen as he describes it.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' THRILL! AS THE CHEAT ATTEMPTS TO JUMP THE TIRE OVER THE KOT EATING A CARDBOARD BOX COVERED IN SYRUP!

'''THE KING OF TOWN''': This is some good cake!

''{Cut to Strong Mad holding Marzipan's guitar over Homestar, who is wearing a helmet and knee pads.}''

'''STRONG BAD''': ''{voiceover}'' CHILL! AS STRONG MAD SMASHES MARZIPAN'S GUITAR OVER HOMESTAR'S HEAD!

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER''': Let's do this like Brutus.

'''STRONG BAD''': ''{voiceover}'' RECOIL IN HORROR!

''{Cut to the Poopsmith tossing out multicolored smoke bombs}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' AS THE POOPSMITH LIGHTS SOME SMOKE BOMBS! AND THEN? YOU'LL JUST HAVE TO BE THERE TO FIND OUT!

''{The Poopsmith winks at the camera.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' ADULT ADMISSION IS STILL JUST FIVE DOLLARS! KIDS AND OLD PEOPLE ''{The Sad Kids and the King of Town appear on screen respectively crossed out}'' NOT ALLOWED WITHOUT A BUCKET OF FRIED CHICKEN ''{A bucket of KnF'nC chicken appears onscreen.}'' FOR MEEEEE! ''{An image of Strong Bad appears.}'' STICK AROUND AFTER THE SHOW FOR A FREE PERFORMANCE BY LIMOZEEN!

''{Cut to a photo of Limozeen}''

'''LIMOZEEN:''' ''{singing}'' I've got the heart of a lion and the wings of a bat, because it's midnite!

''{Cut back to the Compy 386 and Strong Bad}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{singing}'' Heart of a lion, wings of some stuff, because it's something! ''{stops singing}'' Oh-ho man, I love that song! ''{typing}'' I can't wait for this sunday sunday someday.

''{[[The Paper]] comes down.}''

== Easter Eggs ==
[[Image:Limozeentruck.PNG|thumb|200px|Because it's something!]]
*At the end you can click on the first "Sunday" to bring up a flyer advertisement for the show. The Awexome Cross 98 theme song plays in the background.
<pre>SUNDAY
AWEXOME
CROSS
98
LIVE IN STRONGBADIA
Thrills! Chills! Syrup!
Also, too:
A live performance by
LIMOZEEN</pre>
*Click on the second "Sunday" to play [[Awexome Cross]].
*Click on the "Someday" to see an autographed [[Limozeen]] picture. "Because It's Midnite" is sung in the background.

== Fun Facts ==
===Explanations===
*A loud voice booming "Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!" is the classic style of advertising used for [[Wikipedia:Monster truck|monster truck rallies]].
===Trivia===
*This is one of the few times we get to see The Poopsmith's face from the front. The only other times are [[different town]] and [[Fall Float Parade]].

===Remarks===
*For some reason, in the picture of Limozeen, there are four extra hands floating around the band members. One infront of [[Perry Palaroncini|Perry]] and [[Larry Palaroncini|Larry]], one behind Perry, one behind [[Gary Palaroncini|Gary]] and the last one behind Larry.
*No actual monster trucks appeared in this email.

===Inside References===
*"Toons! Games! I'm gonna check my eeeemail...." is a reference to all the [[Main Pages]].
===Real-World References===
*The jumpsuit The Cheat is wearing is the same as the jumpsuit worn by the famous daredevil [[Wikipedia:Evel Knievel|Evel Knievel]] during his famous motorcycle jumps.
*The bottles of maple syrup around the cardboard box are designed similarly to those of Mrs. Butterworth's, a famous syrup brand.
*The line "Let's do this like Brutus" comes from [http://www.lyricsdepot.com/de-la-soul/skit-1.html a skit] on the [[Wikipedia:De La Soul|De La Soul]] album [[Wikipedia:De La Soul Is Dead|"De La Soul Is Dead"]].
*The chicken bucket that says "KnF'nC" is a reference to [[Wikipedia:Guns N' Roses|Guns N' Roses]], who used the acronym "GnF'nR" during the [[Wikipedia:Use Your Illusion I|Use Your Illusion]] era. The latest incarnation of the band contains guitarist [[Wikipedia:Buckethead|Buckethead]], who wears a [[Wikipedia:KFC|KFC]] bucket on his head like a hat.

===Fast Forward===
*The Limozeen song "[[Because It's Midnite]]" would eventually appear on the [[Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits|Strong Bad Sings CD]].
*Also the King of Town would later hold the chicken bucket in [[Halloween Potion-ma-jig]].

== DVD Version ==
*The Awexome Cross '98 Easter egg is disabled for obvious reasons.
*The DVD version features hidden creators' commentary. To access it, switch your DVD player's audio language selection while watching.

=== Commentary Transcript ===
('''Commentary by:''' [[Matt Chapman]], [[Mike Chapman]])

'''MATT:''' We were just discussing, uh, how there are some Strong Bad Emails that really tip their hand with the name of them—

'''MIKE:''' The title, yeah.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, like this one.

'''MIKE:''' You kind of know what it's going to be about.

'''MATT:''' ''{almost simultaneously}'' Know what it's going to be about.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah.

'''MATT:''' This is—was this the first instan—nah, I guess he's always getting people's names wrong. That's a common theme.

'''MIKE:''' I don't know if that's—I don't know if he's—this... Maybe it's the first time.

'''MATT:''' Who knows?

'''MIKE:''' Somebody, uh, let us know. One of you callers. One of our callers will probably let us know.

'''MATT:''' Mike, we don't have callers.

'''MIKE:''' We should, uh, have a radio show.

'''MATT:''' Mike, no.

'''MIKE:''' Like, this is a radio show.

'''MATT:''' It's not.

'''MIKE:''' ''{adopts gravelly voice}'' All right, all right.

''{Matt laughs}''

'''MIKE:''' Uhm...

'''MATT:''' So here we go. That's The Cheat in his Evel Knievel outfit, obviously, which our mom made us for—or made our ''oldest'' brother first for Halloween—

'''MIKE:''' Yep.

'''MATT:''' —and then I think it got passed down to all of us. I think in, like, 1987 I was wearing an Evel Knievel ''{Mike laughs}'' and I, like, didn't know that he wasn't very popular anymore. And he says "Let's do this like Brutus" there, not "Buddhists." A lot of people think he says that, but that's just a, uh...comment. It's in a De La Soul song or it's on the De La Soul album "De La Soul is Dead." Doesn't Flavor Flav say it at some point?

'''MIKE:''' I think so, yeah.

'''MATT:''' KnF'nC. That's a reference to GnF'nR, Drivin' N' Cryin'.

'''MIKE:''' That's—

'''MATT:''' That's—all four of those are our big brother Donnie, very seriously in the year 1987 dressed as Vince Neil for Halloween. There you have it. And then a bunch of extra limbs.

''{Mike laughs}''

'''MATT:''' And of course, there you go. Limozeen given...wings...wings of steel ''{Mike laughs}'' you know, with which to fly.

=== Fun Facts ===
*Drivin' N' Cryin' was a Southern rock band famous in the Georgia region that never really achieved national fame.
*[[Wikipedia:Vince Neil|Vince Neil]] was lead singer for the band [[Wikipedia:Mötley Crüe|Mötley Crüe]].
*"Wings of steel" combined with the lyric "wings of a bat" refer to the 1960s cartoon [[Wikipedia:Batfink|''Batfink'']], whose eponymous hero is a crime-fighting bat with steel wings.

== External Links ==
*[[HR:sbemail61.html|watch "monster truck"]]
*[[HR:sbemail61.swf|view the Flash file for "monster truck"]]

{{Strong Bad Email}}
[[Category:Compy 386 Emails]]
[[Category:Emails With DVD Commentary]]
[[Category:Performances]]

Fall Float Parade

2005-12-31T01:58:00Z

Jonnny: revert from my last edit. didn't realize it was already mentioned as a remark

[[Image:Fall Float Parade.PNG|thumb|"Coach Z, you jerk!"]]
Coach Z and Marzipan host a parade!

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Coach Z}}, {{Film|Marzipan}}, {{Film|Bubs}}, {{Film|Pom Pom}}, {{Film|Homsar}}, [[Homsar]], {{Film|Homestar Runner}}, {{Film|Strong Mad}}, {{Film|The King of Town}}, {{Film|The Poopsmith}}, [[The Hornblower]], [[The Knight]], {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|Strong Sad}}, {{Film|The Cheat}}

'''Places:''' [[The Field]], [[Bubs' Concession Stand]], [[Strong Bad's Laundry Room]] (Easter egg)

'''Date:''' November 21, 2005

'''Running Time:''' 3:28

'''Page Title:''' Reign On, Parade! Reign On!

== Transcript ==
''{A leaf logo appears with the words "The 4Tst Annual Fall Float Parade".}''

'''ANNOUNCER:''' We now return to the firty-tirst annual fall float parade.

''{Cut to Coach Z and Marzipan wearing scarves and ear muffs. Marzipan is holding a mug of hot chocolate with marshmallows, and is glaring at Coach Z.}''

'''COACH Z:''' Okay, den, welcome back. First, please allow me to apologize to my co-host, here, for any inapprapriate comments I may have made while we was at commercial.

'''MARZIPAN:''' ''{nearly under her breath}'' That's two strikes, Coach Z.

'''COACH Z:''' Yes, yes, what fun!

'''MARZIPAN:''' ''{suddenly cheerful}'' So, next up is good old Bubs.

'''COACH Z:''' Yes, good old my favorite type o' guy who I'm just all the time hangin' around and doin' stuff with, Bubs!

''{Cut to Bubs on a giant float with the words "COACH Z, YOU JERK" written on it, next to a model of Coach Z's head with a [[Wikipedia:No symbol|no symbol]] over it. There is a banner hanging on the float that reads, "Happy Thanksgiving!!"}''

'''BUBS:''' ''{through a megaphone}'' Coach Z, you jerk!

'''MARZIPAN:''' ''{surprised}'' Ohhh.

'''BUBS:''' Coach Z, you jerk!

'''COACH Z:''' Oh, I see then...

'''BUBS:''' Coach Z—

'''COACH Z:''' That's very—

'''BUBS:''' ''{with more emphasis than before}'' —you jerk!

'''COACH Z:''' —overt.

''{Cut to a close-up of a giant balloon in the likeness of Pom Pom.}''

'''COACH Z:''' Oh, now here's somethin' that doesn't appear to be makin' fun of me. It's the Pam Pam b'loon!

'''MARZIPAN:''' That's "Pom Pom balloon" for those of you who don't speak Coach Z. Always a hit with the ladies, that Pom Pom.

''{Cut to a wide-shot with the Pom Pom balloon being led offscreen by Pom Pom. A pair of fez-wearing Homsars are coming in behind the balloon driving miniature red cars.}''

'''MARZIPAN:''' And never a hit with anyone, it's Homsar! Oh, and there's another Homsar.

'''HOMSARS:''' ''{both of them in unison}'' Let's sing a song of Pennzoil!

''{A new float enters the frame behind the two Homsars. This float has a big pile of sweatshirts in the center, a giant shooting star on the front, and a bee suspended by a giant spring on the back. "SWE ATSHIRTS" is printed on the base of the float. Homestar Runner is buried in the pile of sweatshirts with only his head visible.}''

'''COACH Z:''' Oh, now this is just adorable. Homestar Runner's sweatshirt float.

'''MARZIPAN:''' ''{referring to the noticeable space in the float's wording}'' Looks more like a "swee-atshirt" float to me.

'''COACH Z:''' You say tomater, I zader matermorts. 

''{Cut to a close-up of Homestar buried in the pile of sweatshirts.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Marzipan, help! I woke up in this pile of swee-atshirts and I don't know how to stop it! I'm s'posed to be watching Bubs' concession stand while he's in some ridiculous parade! ''{looks down}'' And I'm pretty sure a rat just bit my knee.

'''MARZIPAN:''' Oh, that's great, sweetie. Say hi to that bee for me.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{annoyed}'' Hi, bee.

''{Cut back to the wide shot. Strong Mad walks into the frame carrying Bubs' Concession Stand, which has clearly been ripped out of the ground recently, as there are missing bricks and bits of sod still hanging from the bottom.}''

'''COACH Z:''' Well, it looks like Bubs has come to his senses and entered a proper float in the parade. 'Attaboy, Bubs!

'''MARZIPAN:''' I'm pretty sure that's just Strong Mad absconding with Bubs' Concession Stand.

'''COACH Z:''' Oh. Serves him right, then.

''{Cut back to Coach Z and Marzipan.}''

'''COACH Z:''' Oh, and here comes one of my favorites: the K.O.T.H.S. Junior Varsity Marching Band!

''{Cut back to the parade. The band enters, made up of The King of Town waving The Poopsmith's shovel like a drum major's mace, The Poopsmith playing cymbals, The Hornblower blowing his horn, and the Knight playing a bass drum. The band comes to a halt. Cut to a close up of The King of Town.}''

'''THE KING OF TOWN:''' A-break it down for me, fell-as!

''{Cut to a wide shot of the band again. They face the camera and resume playing, now in a hip-hop beat.}''

'''COACH Z:''' Oh, yeah! I'm feeling this! ''{begins rapping}'' One two, one two, keep it "flond"! Listen to me cause Coach Z's, he's got it goin' on!

''{Cut to a close-up of Coach Z as he continues rapping.}''

'''COACH Z:''' I'm a pretty nice guy with fairly good teeth! C'mon, watch me—

'''MARZIPAN:''' ''{breaking into the frame}'' No more free-styling. It's really annoying.

''{Cut back to the parade route. A new float enters. Strong Bad is on the float standing between two snowmen and beating them with nunchaku. The base of the float, which appears to be a mattress on a wagon, reads: "Celebrating 04 Glorious Seconds of Nunchucking Snowmen." The "04" is a digital sign that counts up as the scene continues.}''

'''COACH Z:''' Ah, and here's Strong Bad's annual not-even-remotely-fall-related float.

'''MARZIPAN:''' Is it just me, or does one of those snowmen look suspiciously like Strong Sad?

'''COACH Z:''' Nah, Strong Sad's yellow.

''{Cut to a close-up of Strong Bad and the snowman on the left, who is in fact Strong Sad. He spits out the carrot that had been in his mouth.}''

'''STRONG SAD:''' Ptooey! Strong Bad, I thought you said our float was going to be "Celebrating Our Nation's Covered Bridges!"

'''STRONG BAD:''' No, I said our float was going to be "Sticking-You-in-a-Fake-Snowman-and-Beating-You-Senseless-With-Nunchucks... Covered Bridges."

'''STRONG SAD:''' Well, how on earth did I misunderstand all that?

'''STRONG BAD:''' I don't know, man. You hear the words "covered bridges" and you just go into a trance.

'''STRONG SAD:''' ''{eyes widen as he goes into a trance}'' Ohhh, covered bridges...

''{Strong Sad starts moaning, but snaps out of it when Strong Bad resumes beating him with the nunchaku. A looming shadow crawls across the scene and ominous music plays.}''

'''MARZIPAN:''' And, as always...

''{Cut to a close-up of a giant balloon in the shape of [[Marshie]].}''

'''MARZIPAN:''' ...bringing up the rear, it's the Marshie balloon!

'''COACH Z:''' Man, that thing has got to frighten some children!

'''MARZIPAN:''' Is anyone guiding that balloon?

''{Ominous music plays again as the camera pans down and The Cheat can be seen hanging from one of the balloon ropes, clearly not in control of the balloon. Cut to a wide shot of the platform Coach Z and Marzipan are standing on.}''

'''MARZIPAN:''' Run for your lives!

''{The Marshie balloon collides with the platform, knocking Coach Z and Marzipan off.}''

'''COACH Z:''' Argh! I regret everything!

''{The television signal cuts out as the platform collapses. It is quickly replaced by a technical difficulty screen with a turkey pulling a plug. The caption at the top reads "Pardon our problems..." and "The End" appears at the bottom.}''

== Easter Eggs ==
*Click the top left question mark at the end to see what happened to Bubs' Concession Stand.
:''{Strong Mad and Strong Bad are in what seems to be their laundry room, as there's a dryer nearby. Strong Mad is still holding the concession stand.}''
:'''STRONG MAD:''' CAN I KEEP IT?
:'''STRONG BAD:''' No, you can't keep it. Now go put that thing back.
:'''STRONG MAD:''' IT FOLLOWED ME HOME!!!
:'''STRONG BAD:''' Uh, yeah. ''That's'' not true.

*Click the top plug outlet at the end to see an additional scene with Homestar Runner.
:''{Homestar is standing in what seems to be the Field.}''
:'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Homestar Runner, you have truly outdone yourself!
:''{Pan out to reveal Homestar in a box labeled "blue face man's store" over the removed Bubs' Concession Stand's foundation.}''
:'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Old Mr. Bubs will never know the difference!

== Fun Facts ==

===Explanations===
* Marzipan requested that Homestar say hi to the bee for her because she is very [[Sensitive To Bees|sensitive to bees]].
* K.O.T.H.S. stands for "King of Town High School". Most American high schools have marching bands.
* A [[Wikipedia:Covered bridge|covered bridge]] is a bridge with enclosed sides and a roof, usually made of wood. These single-lane bridges are found throughout rural areas of the Northeastern and Midwestern United States.

===Trivia===
*Due to a discrepancy between the names of the HTML file and the Flash file, this toon didn't load properly when it was first released. A corrected version of the HTML file became available about two hours later.

===Remarks===
*Marzipan's smile reverts to [[Marzipan Evolution|an earlier form]] temporarily while Coach Z is announcing the K.O.T.H.S. Marching Band.
*Although the Hornblower seems to be playing when the K.O.T.H.S. Marching Band "breaks it down", there is no sound of the horn.
*Strong Sad spit out the carrot in his mouth before speaking, but when we see him in the background of the shot as the Marshie float threatens the platform, it is in his mouth again.
*While the foliage in the background of the parade has changed to fall colors, it is still green in the Homestar Easter Egg.
*The text on the "blue face man's store" box is in Strong Bad's handwriting [[Fonts|font]], AhnbergHand, even though it is Homestar's work.
*Either Bubs' Concession Stand does not have a basement (contradicting [[geddup noise]]), or Homestar's box is covering the hole that leads to it.

===Goofs===
*At the end when the Marshie balloon crashes into the stand, and Strong Bad's float is visible in the background, the seconds counter showing how long he's been "celebrating glorious seconds of nunchucking snowmen" has nothing on it.
*After Marzipan drinks from her hot chocolate, the mug is still full.

===Inside References===
*The two Homsars are another instance of [[Twin Characters|twin characters]].
*The "pardon our problems" screen is in the same format as the "technical difficulties" screen from [[pizzaz]].
*The [[Wikipedia:Nunchaku|nunchaku]] Strong Bad uses is from [[Dangeresque (character)|Dangeresque's]] "nunchuck-gun" in [[dangeresque 3]].
*This is another appearance of [[Sticky Notes|sticky notes]].
*The wagon supporting Strong Bad's float is the [[Wagon Fulla Pancakes]] without the pancakes.
*When the K.O.T.H.S. band first appears, it plays the theme song from [[The King of Town DVD]].

===Real-World References===
*The theme of a "Fall Float Parade" is a reference to many holiday parades, most notably the annual [[Wikipedia:Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade|Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parades]] in New York.
**In a striking coincidence, an errant balloon knocked over a light pole and injured two people during the 2005 Macy's Parade, just three days after this cartoon was released. A similar event also occurred in the 1997 Macy's Parade.
*The fez-wearing Homsars in the little cars are modeled after the [[Wikipedia:Shriners|Shriners]], who also appear often in parades.
*[http://www.pennzoil.com Pennzoil] is an American motor-oil company, which has sponsored many holiday parades and sports events.
**Homsar's line "Sing a Song of Pennzoil" is a reference to the old [[Wikipedia:Nursery rhyme|nursery rhyme]] "Sing a Song of Sixpence," also commonly known as "Four and Twenty Blackbirds".
*"You say tomater, I zader matermorts" is a reference to [[Wikipedia:George Gershwin|George]] and [[Wikipedia:Ira Gershwin|Ira Gershwin]]'s 1937 hit song "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off", which compares the pronunciations of several words, including "[[Wikipedia:Tomato#Pronunciation|tomato]]" (''"to-may-to"/"to-mah-to"'').

==External Links==
*[[HR:floatparade.html|Watch "Fall Float Parade"]]
*[[HR:fallparade.swf|View the Flash file for "Fall Float Parade"]]
*[[Forum:5999|Forum thread re: Fall Float Parade]]

[[Category:Holiday Toons]]

Fall Float Parade

2005-12-31T01:54:03Z

Jonnny: /* Goofs */

[[Image:Fall Float Parade.PNG|thumb|"Coach Z, you jerk!"]]
Coach Z and Marzipan host a parade!

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Coach Z}}, {{Film|Marzipan}}, {{Film|Bubs}}, {{Film|Pom Pom}}, {{Film|Homsar}}, [[Homsar]], {{Film|Homestar Runner}}, {{Film|Strong Mad}}, {{Film|The King of Town}}, {{Film|The Poopsmith}}, [[The Hornblower]], [[The Knight]], {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|Strong Sad}}, {{Film|The Cheat}}

'''Places:''' [[The Field]], [[Bubs' Concession Stand]], [[Strong Bad's Laundry Room]] (Easter egg)

'''Date:''' November 21, 2005

'''Running Time:''' 3:28

'''Page Title:''' Reign On, Parade! Reign On!

== Transcript ==
''{A leaf logo appears with the words "The 4Tst Annual Fall Float Parade".}''

'''ANNOUNCER:''' We now return to the firty-tirst annual fall float parade.

''{Cut to Coach Z and Marzipan wearing scarves and ear muffs. Marzipan is holding a mug of hot chocolate with marshmallows, and is glaring at Coach Z.}''

'''COACH Z:''' Okay, den, welcome back. First, please allow me to apologize to my co-host, here, for any inapprapriate comments I may have made while we was at commercial.

'''MARZIPAN:''' ''{nearly under her breath}'' That's two strikes, Coach Z.

'''COACH Z:''' Yes, yes, what fun!

'''MARZIPAN:''' ''{suddenly cheerful}'' So, next up is good old Bubs.

'''COACH Z:''' Yes, good old my favorite type o' guy who I'm just all the time hangin' around and doin' stuff with, Bubs!

''{Cut to Bubs on a giant float with the words "COACH Z, YOU JERK" written on it, next to a model of Coach Z's head with a [[Wikipedia:No symbol|no symbol]] over it. There is a banner hanging on the float that reads, "Happy Thanksgiving!!"}''

'''BUBS:''' ''{through a megaphone}'' Coach Z, you jerk!

'''MARZIPAN:''' ''{surprised}'' Ohhh.

'''BUBS:''' Coach Z, you jerk!

'''COACH Z:''' Oh, I see then...

'''BUBS:''' Coach Z—

'''COACH Z:''' That's very—

'''BUBS:''' ''{with more emphasis than before}'' —you jerk!

'''COACH Z:''' —overt.

''{Cut to a close-up of a giant balloon in the likeness of Pom Pom.}''

'''COACH Z:''' Oh, now here's somethin' that doesn't appear to be makin' fun of me. It's the Pam Pam b'loon!

'''MARZIPAN:''' That's "Pom Pom balloon" for those of you who don't speak Coach Z. Always a hit with the ladies, that Pom Pom.

''{Cut to a wide-shot with the Pom Pom balloon being led offscreen by Pom Pom. A pair of fez-wearing Homsars are coming in behind the balloon driving miniature red cars.}''

'''MARZIPAN:''' And never a hit with anyone, it's Homsar! Oh, and there's another Homsar.

'''HOMSARS:''' ''{both of them in unison}'' Let's sing a song of Pennzoil!

''{A new float enters the frame behind the two Homsars. This float has a big pile of sweatshirts in the center, a giant shooting star on the front, and a bee suspended by a giant spring on the back. "SWE ATSHIRTS" is printed on the base of the float. Homestar Runner is buried in the pile of sweatshirts with only his head visible.}''

'''COACH Z:''' Oh, now this is just adorable. Homestar Runner's sweatshirt float.

'''MARZIPAN:''' ''{referring to the noticeable space in the float's wording}'' Looks more like a "swee-atshirt" float to me.

'''COACH Z:''' You say tomater, I zader matermorts. 

''{Cut to a close-up of Homestar buried in the pile of sweatshirts.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Marzipan, help! I woke up in this pile of swee-atshirts and I don't know how to stop it! I'm s'posed to be watching Bubs' concession stand while he's in some ridiculous parade! ''{looks down}'' And I'm pretty sure a rat just bit my knee.

'''MARZIPAN:''' Oh, that's great, sweetie. Say hi to that bee for me.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{annoyed}'' Hi, bee.

''{Cut back to the wide shot. Strong Mad walks into the frame carrying Bubs' Concession Stand, which has clearly been ripped out of the ground recently, as there are missing bricks and bits of sod still hanging from the bottom.}''

'''COACH Z:''' Well, it looks like Bubs has come to his senses and entered a proper float in the parade. 'Attaboy, Bubs!

'''MARZIPAN:''' I'm pretty sure that's just Strong Mad absconding with Bubs' Concession Stand.

'''COACH Z:''' Oh. Serves him right, then.

''{Cut back to Coach Z and Marzipan.}''

'''COACH Z:''' Oh, and here comes one of my favorites: the K.O.T.H.S. Junior Varsity Marching Band!

''{Cut back to the parade. The band enters, made up of The King of Town waving The Poopsmith's shovel like a drum major's mace, The Poopsmith playing cymbals, The Hornblower blowing his horn, and the Knight playing a bass drum. The band comes to a halt. Cut to a close up of The King of Town.}''

'''THE KING OF TOWN:''' A-break it down for me, fell-as!

''{Cut to a wide shot of the band again. They face the camera and resume playing, now in a hip-hop beat.}''

'''COACH Z:''' Oh, yeah! I'm feeling this! ''{begins rapping}'' One two, one two, keep it "flond"! Listen to me cause Coach Z's, he's got it goin' on!

''{Cut to a close-up of Coach Z as he continues rapping.}''

'''COACH Z:''' I'm a pretty nice guy with fairly good teeth! C'mon, watch me—

'''MARZIPAN:''' ''{breaking into the frame}'' No more free-styling. It's really annoying.

''{Cut back to the parade route. A new float enters. Strong Bad is on the float standing between two snowmen and beating them with nunchaku. The base of the float, which appears to be a mattress on a wagon, reads: "Celebrating 04 Glorious Seconds of Nunchucking Snowmen." The "04" is a digital sign that counts up as the scene continues.}''

'''COACH Z:''' Ah, and here's Strong Bad's annual not-even-remotely-fall-related float.

'''MARZIPAN:''' Is it just me, or does one of those snowmen look suspiciously like Strong Sad?

'''COACH Z:''' Nah, Strong Sad's yellow.

''{Cut to a close-up of Strong Bad and the snowman on the left, who is in fact Strong Sad. He spits out the carrot that had been in his mouth.}''

'''STRONG SAD:''' Ptooey! Strong Bad, I thought you said our float was going to be "Celebrating Our Nation's Covered Bridges!"

'''STRONG BAD:''' No, I said our float was going to be "Sticking-You-in-a-Fake-Snowman-and-Beating-You-Senseless-With-Nunchucks... Covered Bridges."

'''STRONG SAD:''' Well, how on earth did I misunderstand all that?

'''STRONG BAD:''' I don't know, man. You hear the words "covered bridges" and you just go into a trance.

'''STRONG SAD:''' ''{eyes widen as he goes into a trance}'' Ohhh, covered bridges...

''{Strong Sad starts moaning, but snaps out of it when Strong Bad resumes beating him with the nunchaku. A looming shadow crawls across the scene and ominous music plays.}''

'''MARZIPAN:''' And, as always...

''{Cut to a close-up of a giant balloon in the shape of [[Marshie]].}''

'''MARZIPAN:''' ...bringing up the rear, it's the Marshie balloon!

'''COACH Z:''' Man, that thing has got to frighten some children!

'''MARZIPAN:''' Is anyone guiding that balloon?

''{Ominous music plays again as the camera pans down and The Cheat can be seen hanging from one of the balloon ropes, clearly not in control of the balloon. Cut to a wide shot of the platform Coach Z and Marzipan are standing on.}''

'''MARZIPAN:''' Run for your lives!

''{The Marshie balloon collides with the platform, knocking Coach Z and Marzipan off.}''

'''COACH Z:''' Argh! I regret everything!

''{The television signal cuts out as the platform collapses. It is quickly replaced by a technical difficulty screen with a turkey pulling a plug. The caption at the top reads "Pardon our problems..." and "The End" appears at the bottom.}''

== Easter Eggs ==
*Click the top left question mark at the end to see what happened to Bubs' Concession Stand.
:''{Strong Mad and Strong Bad are in what seems to be their laundry room, as there's a dryer nearby. Strong Mad is still holding the concession stand.}''
:'''STRONG MAD:''' CAN I KEEP IT?
:'''STRONG BAD:''' No, you can't keep it. Now go put that thing back.
:'''STRONG MAD:''' IT FOLLOWED ME HOME!!!
:'''STRONG BAD:''' Uh, yeah. ''That's'' not true.

*Click the top plug outlet at the end to see an additional scene with Homestar Runner.
:''{Homestar is standing in what seems to be the Field.}''
:'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Homestar Runner, you have truly outdone yourself!
:''{Pan out to reveal Homestar in a box labeled "blue face man's store" over the removed Bubs' Concession Stand's foundation.}''
:'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Old Mr. Bubs will never know the difference!

== Fun Facts ==

===Explanations===
* Marzipan requested that Homestar say hi to the bee for her because she is very [[Sensitive To Bees|sensitive to bees]].
* K.O.T.H.S. stands for "King of Town High School". Most American high schools have marching bands.
* A [[Wikipedia:Covered bridge|covered bridge]] is a bridge with enclosed sides and a roof, usually made of wood. These single-lane bridges are found throughout rural areas of the Northeastern and Midwestern United States.

===Trivia===
*Due to a discrepancy between the names of the HTML file and the Flash file, this toon didn't load properly when it was first released. A corrected version of the HTML file became available about two hours later.

===Remarks===
*Marzipan's smile reverts to [[Marzipan Evolution|an earlier form]] temporarily while Coach Z is announcing the K.O.T.H.S. Marching Band.
*Although the Hornblower seems to be playing when the K.O.T.H.S. Marching Band "breaks it down", there is no sound of the horn.
*Strong Sad spit out the carrot in his mouth before speaking, but when we see him in the background of the shot as the Marshie float threatens the platform, it is in his mouth again.
*While the foliage in the background of the parade has changed to fall colors, it is still green in the Homestar Easter Egg.
*The text on the "blue face man's store" box is in Strong Bad's handwriting [[Fonts|font]], AhnbergHand, even though it is Homestar's work.
*Either Bubs' Concession Stand does not have a basement (contradicting [[geddup noise]]), or Homestar's box is covering the hole that leads to it.

===Goofs===
*At the end when the Marshie balloon crashes into the stand, and Strong Bad's float is visible in the background, the seconds counter showing how long he's been "celebrating glorious seconds of nunchucking snowmen" has nothing on it. The carrot is also back in Strong Sad's mouth.
*After Marzipan drinks from her hot chocolate, the mug is still full.

===Inside References===
*The two Homsars are another instance of [[Twin Characters|twin characters]].
*The "pardon our problems" screen is in the same format as the "technical difficulties" screen from [[pizzaz]].
*The [[Wikipedia:Nunchaku|nunchaku]] Strong Bad uses is from [[Dangeresque (character)|Dangeresque's]] "nunchuck-gun" in [[dangeresque 3]].
*This is another appearance of [[Sticky Notes|sticky notes]].
*The wagon supporting Strong Bad's float is the [[Wagon Fulla Pancakes]] without the pancakes.
*When the K.O.T.H.S. band first appears, it plays the theme song from [[The King of Town DVD]].

===Real-World References===
*The theme of a "Fall Float Parade" is a reference to many holiday parades, most notably the annual [[Wikipedia:Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade|Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parades]] in New York.
**In a striking coincidence, an errant balloon knocked over a light pole and injured two people during the 2005 Macy's Parade, just three days after this cartoon was released. A similar event also occurred in the 1997 Macy's Parade.
*The fez-wearing Homsars in the little cars are modeled after the [[Wikipedia:Shriners|Shriners]], who also appear often in parades.
*[http://www.pennzoil.com Pennzoil] is an American motor-oil company, which has sponsored many holiday parades and sports events.
**Homsar's line "Sing a Song of Pennzoil" is a reference to the old [[Wikipedia:Nursery rhyme|nursery rhyme]] "Sing a Song of Sixpence," also commonly known as "Four and Twenty Blackbirds".
*"You say tomater, I zader matermorts" is a reference to [[Wikipedia:George Gershwin|George]] and [[Wikipedia:Ira Gershwin|Ira Gershwin]]'s 1937 hit song "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off", which compares the pronunciations of several words, including "[[Wikipedia:Tomato#Pronunciation|tomato]]" (''"to-may-to"/"to-mah-to"'').

==External Links==
*[[HR:floatparade.html|Watch "Fall Float Parade"]]
*[[HR:fallparade.swf|View the Flash file for "Fall Float Parade"]]
*[[Forum:5999|Forum thread re: Fall Float Parade]]

[[Category:Holiday Toons]]