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Store T-Shirts

2006-11-03T01:39:36Z

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The Homestar Runner [[Store]] offers a wide selection of shirts for purchase. Some of the older designs are no longer available.
*''Note: Some shirts that were discontinued are back for a while.''
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==Available Shirts==

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|- bgcolor=#eeeeee
! Shirt !! Close-up !! Name !! Description
|-id="tshirt_baby_trogdor"
|[[Image:Baby Trogdor onesie.png]] || [[Image:Baby Trogdor (store).png]] || Baby [[Trogdor]] ||
'''Awww...Look at the Baby Dragon!'''

For that perfect Baby Shower or first birthday gift, try our new Baby Trogdor onesies and toddler t-shirts! Your little one will be burninating the nursery walls in this 100% cotton onesie by American Apparel. Toddler t-shirt are 100% cotton by Rabbit Skins.

:''The whole line sold out after one or two days.''

'''These Babies Are Already Sold Out!'''

Wow! The littlest, tiniest babies sure do love Trogdor. But don't worry, more Trogdor onesies and toddler tees are on the way. Watch this space for an ETB (Estimated Time of Burnination). Thanks for your patience.

'''Baby Trogdor is Back in Stock!'''

Get your onesies and toddler shirts while they last! Baby fans burned through the first batch like it was a thatched roof cottage.

:''The whole line sold out again in less than a week.''

'''Baby Trogdor is Sold Out Once Again!'''

More are on the way! Please watch this space for an ETB (Estimated Time of Burnination).

|-id="tshirt_bear-shark"
|[[Image:Bear holding shark t-shirt.PNG|150px]] || [[Image:Bear holding shark T-shirt close.PNG]] || [[Bear holding a Shark]] || '''Mysterious Myth... or Legendary Legend?'''
As seen in SBEmail 145!! For a limited time only, you can have your very own "My Baby Got Stole by a Bear Holding a Shark" T-shirt. White image on a 100% cotton navy blue t-shirt. Adult Sizes Sm - XXXL, Youth Large and Women's Medium and Large. Blank on back.

:''The T-shirt sold out twice. This is the message for the third batch:''

'''Bear Holding a Shark'''

This here is our third batch of "My Baby Got Stole by a Bear Holding a Shark" t-shirts. No pushing or shoving please, we think we ordered enough for everybody this time.

These are 100% cotton navy blue t-shirts, blank on the back.

Women's sizes are American Apparel Fine Jersey Short Sleeve Tees which are contour cut for a flattering fit. 100% Fine Jersey Cotton.
|-id="tshirt_cheat_navy"
| [[Image:Cheat-navy-full.png|150px]] || [[Image:Cheat-navy.png|150px]] || [[The Cheat]] || '''The Cheat Navy Blue Edition!'''
Many fans have asked for The Cheat on another color besides red, so now we bring you...The Cheat - Navy Edition! This shirt is 100% preshrunk cotton and features everyone's favorite Little Guy, The Cheat! Available in a variety of Youth Sizes, Adult Sizes and Baby Doll Sizes. Click on the icons below for the size category that fits you best!
|-id="tshirt_cheat_commandos"
|[[Image:Cheat Commandos T-Shirt.PNG|150px]] || [[Image:Cheat Commandos T-Shirt Close.PNG|150px]] || [[Cheat Commandos]] || '''Buy All Our Playsets and Toys!'''
Reynold, Fightgar, Gunhaver, Firebert and Silent Rip - all on a cool navy blue 100% cotton preshrunk tee shirt. The Cheat Commandos slogan "Rock, Rock On!! is printed on the back of the shirt!
|-id="tshirt_cool_tapes"
|[[Image:Cool Tapes T-Shirt.PNG|150px]] || [[Image:Cool Tapes T-Shirt Close.PNG]] || [[Cool Tapes]] || '''Cool Tapes Are Cool And We Like It Like That!'''
This is the one you've been waiting for! As seen in the easter egg at the end of "Cool Things," this light blue shirt is made of 100% heavy weight cotton. The front speaks for itself and the back is blank.
|-id="tshirt_get_ye_flask"
|[[Image:Getyeflask_shirt.png|150px]] || [[Image:Get Ye Flask Shirt Close.png|150px]] || Get [[Ye Flask]] || '''Get Ye Flask'''
We presenteth a Get Ye Flask shirt. Tis available in the assortment of sizes listeth below. The colour tis black as pitch and the yonder side revealeth naught. (the back is blank)
|-id="tshirt_hs_lite"
|[[Image:Homestar Runner Lite T-Shirt.PNG|150px]] || [[Image:Homestar Runner Lite T-Shirt Close.PNG|150px]] || [[Homestar Runner|Homestar]] Lite || '''Homestar Lite'''
Here's a brand new Homestar style - Homestar prancing on a white shirt with a pale blue star background. Regular cut t-shirts are 100% cotton in sizes Youth Large through Adult Triple Extra Large. The baby doll style for the ladies is Medium/One Size which fits sizes 0-8. The back of this shirt is blank.
|-id="tshirt_hs_10th_birthday"
|[[Image:Homestar 10th Birthday shirt.PNG|150px]] || [[Image:Homestar 10th Birthday shirt close.PNG|150px]] || Homestar's 10th Birthday || '''My, How You've Seriously Grown!'''

Check out the evolution of Homestar over the years...from a crappy drawing in a children's book to a crappy animated character on the web! This limited-edition shirt commemorates Homestar's 10th Birthday and in his honor regular sizes are '''only $10!'''

:''The T-shirt was reintroduced in late October 2006''.

'''BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!!!'''

Homestar Runner's 10 Year Anniversary shirt was such a big hit last summer that we're bringing it back! And it's still at the special anniversary price of just $10 for regular sizes!

This shirt features the evolution of Homestar from a crappy drawing in a children's book to an animated character on the web!
|-id="tshirt_homsar_coffee"
|[[Image:homsar-shirt.png|150px]] || [[Image:homsar_shirt_logo_back.PNG|150px]] || [[Homsar]] - Raised by a Cup of Coffee || On the front of this royal blue shirt is a picture of America's favorite blue midget Homestar - Homsar! On the back is his "Raised by a Cup of Coffee" logo.
|-id="tshirt_lil_brudder"
|[[Image:Lil Brudder T-Shirt.PNG|150px]] || [[Image:Lil Brudder T-Shirt Close.PNG|150px]] || [[Li'l Brudder]] || '''Here Comes Li'l Brudder'''
He'll scrape right along and right into your heart! Li'l Brudder first appeared in the Strong Bad email "crying" and now he's appearing on his very own shirt! On the front of this white 100% preshrunk cotton tee, Li'l Brudder proudly proclaims, "I can make it on my own." The back of this shirt is blank. Choose from the sizes below. Please wear with caution as the sight of Li'l Brudder has been known to cause uncontrollable crying
|-id="tshirt_tgs"
|[[Image:Teen Girl Squad T-Shirt.PNG|150px]] || [[Image:Tgs-close.png|150px]] || [[Teen Girl Squad]] || '''Check out the Fashions of Teen Girl Squad'''
Choose from two different girly shirt styles: spaghetti strap or baby doll with black cap sleeves. The back of the girly shirts features the speech balloon "i have a crush on everyboy."
|-id="tshirt_trogdor_black"
|[[Image:Trogdor! Black T-Shirt.PNG|150px]] || [[Image:Trogdor! Black T-Shirt Close.PNG|150px]] || [[Trogdor]] Black || '''Trogdor Burninates the Countryside!!'''
This shirt is 100% preshrunk cotton and features Trogdor the Burninator in all his majesty. Available in a variety of Youth Sizes, Adult Sizes and Baby Doll Sizes. Click on the icons below for the size category that fits you best!
|-id="tshirt_star_shirt"
|[[Image:Star T-Shirt.PNG|150px]] || [[Image:Star T-Shirt Close.PNG|150px]] || Star Shirt || '''Wear a Star — Just Like Homestar!!'''
This "STAR" shirt is 100% preshrunk cotton and comes in sizes Youth Large through Adult Triple Extra Large.
|-id="tshirt_sb_strongbadia_ruler"
|[[Image:Strong Bad T-Shirt.PNG|150px]] || [[Image:Strong Bad T-Shirt Close.PNG|150px]] || [[Strong Bad]] || '''The Supreme Ruler of Strong Badia!'''
This is a 100% preshrunk charcoal colored shirt with a full body image of Strong Bad.
|-id="tshirt_sb_head"
|[[Image:sb-head.png|150px]] || [[Image:sb-head-detail.png|150px]] || [[Strong Bad]] Head || '''Strong Bad Head'''
Here's Strong Bad's handsome face on a white 100% cotton Tee Shirt with Black "Ringers" around the neck and sleeves.

:''This shirt was unavailable for a while but after allowing fans to vote, returned with this message:''

'''Strong Bad Head - Available Again!'''

I heard all your whining like "I want my mom to buy me a Strong Bad Head shirt" or "I have to have a shirt with Strong Bad's awesome head on it." So here it is. Now quit bugging me. -SB
|-id="tshirt_strong_bad_mask"
|[[Image:Strong Bad Mask T-shirt.PNG|150px]] || ''No image available'' || Strong Bad Mask || '''Strong Bad Mask Shirt'''
A black T-shirt with Strong Bad's mug!! What could be sweeter? Get yours today!! To order, click on the available sizes shown below!!

:''This shirt was unavailable for some time, then was put back on clearance:''

'''SB Mask Clearance XL Only'''

We found some Extra Large sizes of the old Strong Bad Mask Shirts. This was the second shirt '''ever''' to be sold in the Homestar Store. It's a collector's item and a steal at only $8!
|-id="tshirt_support_municipality"
|[[Image:Support Municipality T-Shirt.PNG|150px]] || [[Image:Support Municipality T-Shirt_Close.PNG|150px]] || Support the Municipality! || '''Support the Municipality!'''
Now [[The King of Town]] and [[The Poopsmith]] are on the same shirt and in their most oppressive forms. Inspired by SBEmail [[disconnected]], the front of this 100% cotton "Storm Grey" shirt features the menacing visage of the King of Town. [[:Image:Support Municipality T-Shirt Back.PNG|On the back]], three Poopsmiths in full riot gear warn "We're on to You."
|}

==Discontinued Shirts==

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|- bgcolor=#eeeeee
! Shirt !! Close-up !! Name !! Description
|-id="tshirt_bubs_consessions"
| [[Image:Bub's Conses5ions shirt.png|150px]] || [[Image:Bubs T-Shirt Close.PNG|150px]] || [[Bubs]] || '''Check it Out, Check it Out, Check it Out'''
You'll always be awesome in this light blue shirt featuring Free Country USA's enterprising entrepreneur - BUBS. Please note: there is not a typo on this shirt. It's supposed to say "BUBS' CONCES5ION STAND"
|-id="tshirt_the_cheat"
|[[Image:The Cheat T-Shirt Red.PNG|150px]] || [[Image:The Cheat T-Shirt Red Close.PNG|150px]] || [[The Cheat]]! || '''Everyone's Favorite Little Yellow Guy!'''
The front of this quality 100% cotton preshrunk T-shirt features The Cheat in all his glory and the website address is printed on the back.
|-id="tshirt_coachz"
|[[Image:coachz-shirt.png|150px]] || [[Image:coachz-shirt-detail.png|150px]] || [[Coach Z]] || Proudly wear a "Z" just like Coach Z! This 50/50% cotton blend shirt is Kelly Green and comes in sizes Youth Large through Adult XL plus Baby Doll Medium.
|-id="tshirt_CGNU"
|''No image available''|| ''No image available'' || [[Crazy Go Nuts University]] Dumples || '''Crazy Go Nuts University Dumples!!'''
Whether you’re fighting or sometimes striving, you’ll always be in fashion in this genuine Crazy Go Nuts University t-shirt. Made of 100% preshrunk cotton in heather grey with red University block lettering and, of course, a picture of the CGNU mascot.
|-id="tshirt_duck"
|[[Image:Duckie T-Shirt.PNG|150px]] || [[Image:Duckie T-Shirt Close.PNG|150px]] || [[Duckie Shirt|Duck Shirt]] || '''Duck Shirt'''
Some folk will say you are a terrific athlete when you wear your very own Duck Shirt just like the one the Homestar Runner wears in Strong Bad email 100! This 100% preshrunk cotton shirt comes in lemon yellow for regular sizes and pastel lemon for the baby doll size. Blank on back.
|-id="tshirt_HSR"
|[[Image:HStarR T-Shirt.PNG|150px]] || [[Image:HStarR T-Shirt Close.PNG|150px]] || H-star-R ||
|-id="tshirt_homestar_baseball"
|''No image available''|| ''No image available'' || Homestar Runner Baseball Jersey || '''Knock One Outta the Park!!!'''
Now you can savor fond memories of the baseball season until spring training when you wear this Royal Blue baseball jersey-type T-shirt!! Its got "Homestar Runner" emblazoned across the front in colorful script lettering and Homestar Runner web address tastefully printed on the back.
|-id="tshirt_homestar_running"
|[[Image:Homestarrunningshirt.PNG|150px]] || [[Image:Homestar Running T-Shirt Close.PNG]] || Homestar Running || We found various sizes of our Homestar Running shirt during Spring Cleaning at our warehouse. These shirts are a steal, but only limited quantities are available.
|-id="tshirt_homestar_classic"
|[[Image:homestar-full.gif|150px]] || [[Image:homestar-close.gif]] || Homestar Classic || We found various sizes of our Homestar Classic shirt during Spring Cleaning at our warehouse! This shirt is a steal but only limited quantities are available. (Sorry, no baby doll sizes)
|-id="tshirt_limozeen"
|[[Image:Limozeen T-Shirt.PNG|150px]] || ''No image available'' || [[Limozeen]] || Proclaim your allegiance to METAL! Now you can own a shirt featuring Strong Bad’s favorite metal band – Limozeen!! These recently discovered unsold concert tees are from their triumphant 2001 "Zeenin’ Across the Country" tour. This groundbreaking odyssey of rock included stops in Pantsburg, Loughleyton, Dempsey, and Broiter Grove, among other landmark concert sites, all listed on the back of this collectors item! (babydoll sizes don't have the list of concert sites on the back) Don’t wait – get yours today!!
|-id="tshirt_marshie"
|''No image available''|| ''No image available'' || [[Marshie]] || '''Fluffy Puff and Marshie!!'''
Now you can have a tee shirt featuring Homestar's favorite food - Fluffy Puff Marshmallows, with a big smiling image of Marshie on the front!!
|-id="tshirt_marzipan"
|[[Image:Marzipan T-Shirt.PNG|150px]] || [[Image:Marzipan T-Shirt Close.PNG|150px]] || [[Marzipan]] || '''Marzipan T-shirt'''
This red shirt featuring Marzipan is available in baby doll sizes Medium, Large and Extra Large. Also available in regular t-shirt sizes Adult Small and Medium. Red shirts made of 100% preshrunk cotton. The back of this shirt is blank.
|-id="tshirt_pom_pom"
|[[Image:Pom-pom-full.png|150px]] || [[Image:Pom-pom-close.png|150px]] || [[Pom Pom]] || '''Bubble de Bubble!!!'''
He's Big and Orange, and so is this great shirt, with Pom Pom's image floating across the front!!! You're sure to love it!! Get yours today!! To order, click on the available sizes shown below below!!
|-id="tshirt_scalding_lake"
|[[Image:Scalding Lake T-Shirt.PNG|150px]] || [[Image:Scalding Lake T-Shirt Close.PNG|150px]] || [[Scalding Lake]] || '''Where's My Cottage?'''
You’ll look Rather Dashing in this stylish Scalding Lake t-shirt. Sizes Youth Large through Adult XXXL are sand colored shirts made of 50/50 cotton blend. The ladies baby doll is a 100% cotton, nude colored shirt with brown cap sleeves.
|-id="tshirt_sb_zone"
|[[Image:Strong Bad Zone T-Shirt.PNG|150px]] || [[Image:Strong Bad Zone T-Shirt Close.PNG|150px]] || [[StrongBadZone|Strong Bad Zone]] || '''Your Head A Splode!'''
This fabulous shirt has a vivid red 3-D type image of Strong Bad's face on a black, 100% cotton pre-shrunk tee shirt. The caption on the front proclaims "Your Head A Splode". The back displays the name of the shirt - Strong Bad Zone.
|-id="tshirt_stinkoman_20X6"
|[[Image:Stinkoman-full.PNG|150px]] || [[Image:Stinkoman 20X6 T-Shirt Close.PNG|150px]] || [[Stinkoman 20X6|20X6 Stinko Man]] || '''20X6 Stinko Man Shirt!!!'''
Inspired by the 20X6 Stinko Man game, this cool red shirt is 100% preshrunk cotton and bears four images of the "20X6 Stinko Man" on the front and the "20X6" logo on one sleeve. Get yours now 'cause this shirt is available for a '''LIMITED TIME ONLY'''.
|-id="tshirt_strong_sad"
|[[Image:Tshirt strongsad.PNG|150px]] || [[Image:Tshirt strongsad closeup.PNG|150px]] || [[Strong Sad]] || '''Strong Sad "I'm Sad that I'm on a t-shirt"'''
Like a gray and depressing Santa Claus, our Strong Sad shirt comes but once a year. Get yours now because once we sell out, we're not going to re-stock these.
|-id="tshirt_stinkoman_blue_ringer"
|[[Image:Stinkoman T-Shirt.PNG|150px]] || [[Image:Stinkoman T-Shirt Close.PNG|150px]] || [[Stinkoman|Stinko Man]] Blue Ringer Shirt || '''Double Deuce!!!'''
If you’re up for a challenge or maybe some light fighting, then you need this shirt featuring Stinko Man in his famous "double deuce" pose. This Bayside brand shirt is 100% pre-shrunk cotton and has a blue collar and cuffs to match Stinko Man’s blue hair. Width and Length dimensions of each size are shown below. The back of this shirt is blank.
|-id="tshirt_trogdor_lite"
|[[Image:Trogdor! White T-Shirt.PNG|150px]] || [[Image:Trogdor! White T-Shirt Close.PNG|150px]] || [[Trogdor]] Lite || '''Trogdor Lite'''
This white shirt is 100% preshrunk cotton and features Trogdor the Burninator in all his majesty.
|}

[[Category:Store|T-Shirts]]

radio

2006-11-02T21:25:16Z

Killbot:

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[[Image:deadlypallor.png|thumb|"Hey, hey, HEY! It's the ''Deathly Pallor''!"]]

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)

{{Comp|Lappy 486}}

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

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

'''Page Title:''' Lappy 486

== Transcript ==

'''STRONG BAD:''' 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 reads "say/do" as "say slash 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.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' 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|clock radio]]. The clock radio reads 6:59 AM and it is dark in the room, but when the clock switches to 7:00 the lights and radio turn on.}''

'''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}''

'''OLD-TIMEY STRONG BAD:''' —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 by [[Leomard Sportsinterviews#Crazy Prof. Sportsinterviews|Crazy Prof. Sportsinterviews]].
**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, "[[Radio Stations and Shows|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 ''{quickly}'' BLABITTABLOUGH!
:'''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.
*The Portly Washboy advertisement is a reference to the bad childhood habit of eating paste from jars.

===Remarks===
*The tote bag on Homestar's head reads, ''"PRS Public Radio Sounds "Smooth 'n Smarmy,"'' implying that this must be the tote bag that Marzipan never got.
*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'.
*Strong Mad's feet are seperately drawn; the lines on Strong Mad's left shoe are closer together, and the shoe is slightly smaller. (This is seen in the second last Easter Egg).

===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.)
*When Strong Sad goes to record the hour of chanting, the tape turns in the wrong direction.

===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 a white record button.
*The poster in Strong Sad's room, when viewed in the flash file, appeares to say "Votes Don't Cry" A reference to [[A Decemberween Pageant]] when Marzipan said the same thing.

===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.
*Marzipan talking about how she "never got her tote bag" is a reference to how donators to PBS usually receive gifts, a tote bag with the PBS logo embroidered on it being the most well-known.
*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.
*Like most U.S. college radio stations, WSBD has a frequency in the lower part of the FM spectrum (between 88 and 92).
*It's interesting that the sender's name is Fraser, since the title character on the TV show [[Wikipedia:Frasier|Frasier]] is a radio psychiatrist.


===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 you 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 a 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 ==
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2006-11-02T21:23:47Z

Killbot:

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[[Image:deadlypallor.png|thumb|"Hey, hey, HEY! It's the ''Deathly Pallor''!"]]

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)

{{Comp|Lappy 486}}

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

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

'''Page Title:''' Lappy 486

== Transcript ==

'''STRONG BAD:''' 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 reads "say/do" as "say slash 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 [[totebag]].

''{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.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' 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|clock radio]]. The clock radio reads 6:59 AM and it is dark in the room, but when the clock switches to 7:00 the lights and radio turn on.}''

'''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}''

'''OLD-TIMEY STRONG BAD:''' —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 by [[Leomard Sportsinterviews#Crazy Prof. Sportsinterviews|Crazy Prof. Sportsinterviews]].
**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, "[[Radio Stations and Shows|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 ''{quickly}'' BLABITTABLOUGH!
:'''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.
*The Portly Washboy advertisement is a reference to the bad childhood habit of eating paste from jars.

===Remarks===
*The tote bag on Homestar's head reads, ''"PRS Public Radio Sounds "Smooth 'n Smarmy,"'' implying that this must be the tote bag that Marzipan never got.
*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'.
*Strong Mad's feet are seperately drawn; the lines on Strong Mad's left shoe are closer together, and the shoe is slightly smaller. (This is seen in the second last Easter Egg).

===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.)
*When Strong Sad goes to record the hour of chanting, the tape turns in the wrong direction.

===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 a white record button.
*The poster in Strong Sad's room, when viewed in the flash file, appeares to say "Votes Don't Cry" A reference to [[A Decemberween Pageant]] when Marzipan said the same thing.

===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.
*Marzipan talking about how she "never got her tote bag" is a reference to how donators to PBS usually receive gifts, a tote bag with the PBS logo embroidered on it being the most well-known.
*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.
*Like most U.S. college radio stations, WSBD has a frequency in the lower part of the FM spectrum (between 88 and 92).
*It's interesting that the sender's name is Fraser, since the title character on the TV show [[Wikipedia:Frasier|Frasier]] is a radio psychiatrist.


===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 you 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 a 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 ==
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2006-11-02T21:23:05Z

Killbot:

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[[Image:deadlypallor.png|thumb|"Hey, hey, HEY! It's the ''Deathly Pallor''!"]]

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)

{{Comp|Lappy 486}}

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

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

'''Page Title:''' Lappy 486

== Transcript ==

'''STRONG BAD:''' 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 reads "say/do" as "say slash 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.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' 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|clock radio]]. The clock radio reads 6:59 AM and it is dark in the room, but when the clock switches to 7:00 the lights and radio turn on.}''

'''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}''

'''OLD-TIMEY STRONG BAD:''' —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 by [[Leomard Sportsinterviews#Crazy Prof. Sportsinterviews|Crazy Prof. Sportsinterviews]].
**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, "[[Radio Stations and Shows|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 ''{quickly}'' BLABITTABLOUGH!
:'''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.
*The Portly Washboy advertisement is a reference to the bad childhood habit of eating paste from jars.

===Remarks===
*The tote bag on Homestar's head reads, ''"PRS Public Radio Sounds "Smooth 'n Smarmy,"'' implying that this must be the tote bag that Marzipan never got.
*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'.
*Strong Mad's feet are seperately drawn; the lines on Strong Mad's left shoe are closer together, and the shoe is slightly smaller. (This is seen in the second last Easter Egg).

===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.)
*When Strong Sad goes to record the hour of chanting, the tape turns in the wrong direction.

===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 a white record button.
*The poster in Strong Sad's room, when viewed in the flash file, appeares to say "Votes Don't Cry" A reference to [[A Decemberween Pageant]] when Marzipan said the same thing.

===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.
*Marzipan talking about how she "never got her tote bag" is a reference to how donators to PBS usually receive gifts, a tote bag with the PBS logo embroidered on it being the most well-known.
*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.
*Like most U.S. college radio stations, WSBD has a frequency in the lower part of the FM spectrum (between 88 and 92).
*It's interesting that the sender's name is Fraser, since the title character on the TV show [[Wikipedia:Frasier|Frasier]] is a radio psychiatrist.


===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 you 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 a 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 ==
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{{Strong Bad Email}}
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| colspan="2" style="text-align: center; font-size: larger;" | '''Crazy Go Nuts University'''
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| colspan="2" style="padding: 1em 0; text-align: center;" | [[Image:CGNU Crest.png|220px]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
|'''Motto'''
|style="padding-right: 1em;" | The future is you... probably.
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
|'''Established'''
|style="padding-right: 1em;" | Unknown
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
|'''School type'''
|style="padding-right: 1em;" | Private
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
|'''Chancellor'''
|style="padding-right: 1em;" | Unknown
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
|'''Prinicpal'''
|style="padding-right: 1em;" | [[Strong Bad]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
|'''Enrollment'''
|style="padding-right: 1em;" | Unknown
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
|'''Campus surroundings'''
|style="padding-right: 1em;" | Field and Fence
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
|'''Sports Teams'''
|style="padding-right: 1em;" | CGNU Golf Club Team
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
|'''Mascot'''
|style="padding-right: 1em;" | [[The Jolly Dumple]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
|'''Campus Radio Station'''
|style="padding-right: 1em;" | [[Radio Stations and Shows#WSBD|89.3 WSBD-The Voice of CGNU]]
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
|'''Online site'''
|style="padding-right: 1em;" | <nowiki>http://cgnuonline-eniversity.edu</nowiki>
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
|}

'''Crazy Go Nuts University''' is a [[School|university]] created and run by [[Strong Bad]]. To attend CGNU, send in the free art test consisting of drawing a [[Painting of a guy with a big knife|guy with a big knife]]. Actual applicants are not accepted, however, and the art test is only so Strong Bad can make fun of you. A diploma from Crazy Go Nuts University will be pretty impressive on your wall, and all your friends will be pretty impressed. The only known room is a [[CGNU Prinicpal's Office|prinicpal's office]]. They also offer an assortment of courses online, which require only four clicks to get your degree. The CGNU website doesn't actually exist, since .edu addresses are only available to actual educational institutions. However, a fan has created a website at http://www.cgnuonline-eniversity.com/ which looks the same as that shown in [[theme song]].

==Courses offered==
===On Campus===
There is a wide variety of courses taught at CGNU, including:

*Cheesing People Off
*Indian-Giving
*Cutting Ones
*Doing Some Other Things
*Home Invasion
*Cracking Wise
*World Domination
*Sending Me [Strong Bad] a Dollar
*Total Spaceship Guy
*TV / VCR Repair
or
*Get your Degree!

===Online===
Many courses are offered online, including:

*Business Administration
*Business Abomination
*Mousepad Engineer
*Infotainment Technology
*e-Cutting Ones
*The Lighter Side of Sports
*Matt's Communications
*Business Wheeling
*Insider Trading
*Computer Graphs
*Bidness Dealing
*Caps Lock Technician
*Escrow Understandment
*Marriage [[Apothecary]]

==The Golf Club Team==
The CGNU Golf Club Team has a game every day at 6pm. So far the only known teams they have played are Pile of Electronics State and [[Homestar Runner|Homestar]]'s Knees Tech. According to Strong Bad, the team is undefeated. Their fight song lyrics are reprinted here.

''Fighting, and sometimes striving,'' 
''Wondering what the Dumple is.'' 
''Excellence, and what is valor?'' 
''And the Cheat will hit stuff with a golf club!''

''C! G! N! . . . U!''

"(See-Gee-IN-YOU!) (me?)"

==Appearances==

*[[Homestar Quiz]]
*Email [[CGNU]]
*Email [[theme party]] (Easter egg)
*Email [[mascot]]
*Email [[different town]] (scoreboard)
*Email [[radio]]
*Email [[candy product]] (scoreboard)
*Email [[theme song]]

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[[Category:Schools]]

The King of Town

2006-11-02T12:13:07Z

Killbot: Fixing a spelling error

{{charnav|The King of Town|kot|Bubs|The Poopsmith}}
[[Image:kot.PNG|thumb|right|221px|"My life is a joke."]]
{{aboutcharacter}} {{fortoon|The King of Town DVD}} {{for|[[Decemberween]] character|The King of Town (Decemberween)}}

== Biography ==
'''The King of Town''' is the de jure ruler of [[Free Country, USA]] (though [[labor day]] suggests that his title is self-proclaimed). However, nobody wishes to acknowledge this; it's therefore possible that this character is a satire on the obsolescence of monarchy. He is not considered funny or cool by anyone. One of his main problems is that he is a glutton and will eat anything in front of him (except [[Peas|peas]] and [[Whatsit|whatsit]]). His favorite food is [[Butter|butter]]. He employs [[The Poopsmith]] and a [[:Category:King's Servants|few other characters]]. His age is known to be somewhere in his 60s. He also leads the [[K.O.T.H.S. Junior Varsity Marching Band]] during the [[Fall Float Parade]]. According to a message he left on [[Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 13.2]], he can play the guitar, and along with [[The Cheat]], he has cut a remix demo called "Not Talkin' About Butter". He also apparently has his very own "quite popular cartoon show" according to the email [[senior prom]], but it was pre-empted in favor of a [[Strong Bad Email]]. He is also an authorized [[Wikipedia: Godzilla|Godzilla]] reseller as seen in [[TrogdorCon '97]].

*'''Domicile:''' [[King of Town's Castle]]
*'''Debut:''' first seen: [[Marshmallow's Last Stand]], first talked in [[King of Town DVD]]
*[[:Category:The King of Town Filmography|Complete Filmography]]

== Character Video Transcript ==
''{'''Page Title''': Go Go Cookie Dough!!}'' ''{'''Place:''' [[King of Town's Castle]]}''

''{The King of Town is standing outside next to his castle. One of his sheep stands behind him.}''

'''THE KING OF TOWN''': Hello, my loyal subjects. I am the King of Town. Please remain standing while I finish my speech and consume the contents of this bowl. ''{holds up a bowl momentarily}'' Now, despite rumors to the contrary, I did not just buy a crown at the costume palace and ask people to start calling me the King of Town. I earned my title the same way I earned a free combo meal: by purchasing one of equal or lesser value. I also did not ever try to eat my own moustache. I live in yon castle ''{gives a nod to his castle}'', and employ a Poopsmith for reasons I don't care to disclose. And furthermore, now I'm going to eat this bowl of corn dog batter. ''{picks up a bowl of corn dog batter and begins to eat it}''

== Fun Facts ==
* An [[Old Characters Page]] claimed he was [[Marzipan]]'s father, but [[The Brothers Chaps]] have said they dropped this idea early on. "That was just something that we just toyed around with there briefly, but then decided that’s not the way we wanted it to go. We just put that up, but most people don’t visit the [[Museum]], so hopefully it doesn’t cause too much mass confusion." — [[Matt Chapman]]
* At the end of the clip, the sheep continues chewing, even though [[The VCR|the VCR]] is paused. This is because the sheep was created as a movie clip, which animates independently of the main timeline.
*The King claims he got his title (and a value meal) by purchasing one of equal or ''lesser'' value. This is contrary to most value purchases which give you something free when you purchase a similar item of equal or ''greater'' value.
*According to [[A Decemberween Pageant]], a [[The King of Town (Decemberween)|King of Town]] was involved in the discovery of the first [[Decemberween]]. It is not clear, however, whether that King of Town and the current one are the same individual.
* The King slightly resembles the [[Wikipedia:Mister Rogers' Neighborhood|Mister Rogers' Neighborhood]] character on PBS-TV named "King Friday XIII," who rules the [[Wikipedia:Neighborhood of Make-Believe|Neighborhood of Make-Believe]].
*He was once slim and trim, but according to [[flashback]], he got his weight from the lifetime supply of fishsticks because nobody claimed them.
*Apparently, the King has a ham for a heart, as shown in [[Halloween Fairstival]].
*When playing the [[Kid Speedy]] in KOT mode, the King of Town appears to gain energy by eating junk food and [[Swears|swear]] words. Although he has exhibited his love of unhealthy food on many occasions, his predilection for foul language is otherwise unknown.
*Even when the King Of Town's character video stops, you can still see his sheep chewing in the background.

== Variations ==
*[[The Kaiser]] ([[Old-Timey]])
*[[The Prince of Town]]
*[[Castlefunnies|King Castlefunny]]
*[[Trading Card Games|The STING of Town]] ([[trading cards]])

=== [[Halloween Costumes]] ===
*[[wikipedia:Cap'n Crunch|Cap'n Crunch]] in [[Homestarloween Party]].
*[[wikipedia:Hagar the Horrible|Hagar the Horrible]] in [[The House That Gave Sucky Treats]].
*[[wikipedia:Mario|Mario]] in [[Pumpkin Carve-nival]].
*[[wikipedia:Hamburglar|The Hamburglar]] in [[3 Times Halloween Funjob]].
*The Mayor of Halloweentown (from [[Wikipedia:The Nightmare Before Christmas|The Nightmare Before Christmas]]) in [[Halloween Fairstival]].
*[[wikipedia:Colonel Sanders|Colonel Sanders]] (the founder of [[wikipedia:KFC|KFC]]) in [[Halloween Potion-ma-jig]].
*[[Wikipedia:Gorton's of Gloucester|The Gorton's Fisherman]] in [[Happy Hallow-day]].

==Favorite Foods==
The King of Town has [[The King of Town's Food|several food items]] that he loves to eat.
(Some of which we never see him eating, but are stored in his pantry or mentioned)

*Animal Phat
*Anything with "butter" in the name
*[[The King of Town's Food#Army-Style Mayo|Army-Style Mayo]]
*[[The King of Town's Food#Awwww Gratin Potatoes|Awwww Gratin Potatoes]] from '83
*Candy Corn-shaped Halloween lights
*Chicken (both baked and Kentucky Fried)
*Corn dog batter
*[[Decemberween Food|Decemberween Bunnies]]
*Fifty frickin' buffalo wings
*[[Fluffy Puff Mayo]]
*[[The King of Town's Food#Giant Pile of Salt|Giant Piles of Salt]]
*[[The King of Town's Food#The KOT's Good Gravy|Good Gravy]]
*[[Ham]]
*[[The King of Town's Food#Ice Style Cream|Ice Style Cream]]
*Lamb
*[[Pizza]]
*[[The King of Town's Food#Pork Ramblins and Pork Snagglins|Pork Ramblins and Pork Snagglins]]
*[[Potate]]
*Prescription ice cream
*Raw [[Eggs|eggs]]
*Regurgitated food (at least a ham sandwich that Homestar ate)
*A TV remote control
*Salisbury Sundaes
*[[Schenectady Crispies]]
*Toilet Paper
*Too Much Mayo
*Turduckens
*[[The King of Town's Food#Deodorants|Various deodorant products]]

==See Also==
*[[The King of Town Evolution]]
*[[The King of Town Other Costumes|Other Costumes]]
*[[Nicknames#The King of Town|Nicknames]]

==Quotes of the Week==
{{qotwstart}}
*{{qotw|"Let the KOT have some!"|[[senior prom]] outtake|Mirror:kot_havesome.mp3}}
*{{qotw|Not Talkin' Bout Butter (remix by [[The Cheat|DJ Teh Cheat]])|[[Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 13.2]]|Mirror:nottalkinboutbutter.mp3}}
*{{qotw|"The punishment is not too bad, eh?"|[[Revenge of the King]]|Mirror:kot_punishment.mp3}}
*{{qotw|"Stop what? I don't do nothing!"|[[3 Times Halloween Funjob]]|Mirror:kot_donothing.mp3}}
*{{qotw|"Dwoo hoo! We hoo! Woo! I'm absolutely being assaulted! Woo di dhoo hoo!"|[[Where's The Cheat?]]|Mirror:k_assaulted.mp3}}
|}

== External Links ==
*[[HR:vcr_kot.html|watch The King of Town's character video]]
*[[HR:vcr_kot.swf|view the Flash file for The King of Town's character video]]

{{Characters|King of Town}}

{{subtitlesLinks|vcr_kot}}

Cold Hard Flash Interview - 1 Dec 2005

2006-11-02T12:10:31Z

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Some time in Winter 2005, [[The Brothers Chaps]] were interviewed by [[Wikipedia:Aaron Simpson|Aaron Simpson]] of [[Wikipedia:Cold Hard Flash|Cold Hard Flash]].

==Transcript==
{{uncensored|Cold Hard Flash Interview (censored)}}
===Part 1===
Mike and Matt Chapman, hailing from Decatur, Georgia, have built themselves the equivalent of animation dream jobs. They write, voice and animate for a living - and distribute exactly what they want, when they want, to millions of people. It's an incredible achievement, and one that defies entertainment convention.

Early on in their web-careers, the Brothers Chaps, as Mike and Matt have come to be known, opted to go without advertising on their site. But don't worry - [[HR:|homestarrunner.com]] has given them complete financial independence, solely through [[HRStore:|merchandise and DVD sales]]. It's allowed the brothers an unusual amount of creative control for a hit series. But instead of using this freedom to break all the rules, they went against the grain. Since the mid-90's, shock-value has driven millions of eyeballs to dozens of gross-out web shows and too-nuts-for-TV clips. Shirking convention, Homestar Runner and his pals are more G than some shows on [http://www.nickjr.com/ Nick Jr.], but it surely hasn't halted their success one bit.

Perhaps it's because Mike, 33, and Matt, 29, the creators of such characters as Homestar Runner and Strong Bad, are family-oriented. At the [http://www.flashforwardconference.com/ Flashforward Conference] this past February, [[Flashforward Interview - 10 Feb 2006|they concede]] that their "sister, dad and mom, and uh, inlaws" all get into the act; working in the Homestar Runner store and helping out around the office. Growing up, Mike and Matt's parents, Don and Harriet Chapman, were reportedly always quite supportive of their creative endeavors, and ever since 1999, the brother's family-friendly tastes have attracted a feverishly loyal following.

Now, let's get to that following for a minute or two. Their website, homestarrunner.com, is visited by hundreds of thousands of people a day. But the brothers supposedly don't know if it's 100,000 a day or 200,000, nor do they really care. You see, while other web companies and animators comb through the number of 'uniques' they get a day, The Brothers Chaps are busy ''being'' unique.

However, that won't stop the CHF research team (me), who spent tens of minutes scouring the web to come up with rough, unverified statistics. Drumroll, please....according to web-stats giant [http://alexa.com/ Alexa.com], Homestarrunner.com gets more traffic than starwars.com, pixar.com, southparkstudios.com, thesimpsons.com and handful of other high-profile animation websites.

{| border="1" align="center" cellpadding="3" style="border-collapse: collapse"
! WEBSITE !! ALEXA RANK (on 08/06/06)
|-
| [[HR:|homestarrunner.com]]: || style="text-align: right" | 4,050
|-
| [http://starwars.com/ starwars.com]: || style="text-align: right" | 4,207
|-
| [http://www.noggin.com/ noggin.com]: || style="text-align: right" | 6,215
|-
| [http://www.adultswim.com/ adultswim.com]: || style="text-align: right" | 6,292
|-
| [http://mondo.happytreefriends.com/ happytreefriends.com]: || style="text-align: right" | 9,046
|-
| [http://www.pixar.com/ pixar.com]: || style="text-align: right" | 13,127
|-
| [http://pokemon.com/ pokemon.com]: || style="text-align: right" | 15,692
|-
| [http://www.southparkstudios.com/show/display_faq_search.php?section=2&id=38887&search_faq= southparkstudios.com]: || style="text-align: right" | 22,204
|-
| [http://dragonballz.com/ dragonballz.com]: || style="text-align: right" | 26,774
|-
| [http://awn.com/ awn.com]: || style="text-align: right" | 27,716
|-
| [http://thesimpsons.com/ thesimpsons.com]: || style="text-align: right" | 29,574
|-
| [[Main Page|hrwiki.org]]: || style="text-align: right" | 35,203
|}

In fact, the [[Main Page|Homestar Runner Wiki]], the collaboratively-run, online encyclopedia of everything Homestar, gets almost as much traffic at thesimpsons.com (more on the HRWiki in a moment).

But for how many fans they have (the same fans that send in over 3,000 emails a day), The Brothers Chaps have somehow avoided being heralded with awards and honors. Mike and Matt would probably say that they could care less (and that's probably true), but it's symbolic of how independent they've remained. They don't have agents, managers or press buffers. They turn down TV execs holding deals as if they were pan-handlers. The Brothers Chaps are Hollywood 2.0 - blessed with a huge audience, creative freedom, popular merchandise, and an address far from Hollywood.

Speaking of merchandise - the entire Homestar Runner empire is operated entirely off of DVD and merchandise moolah, and with hysterical products like [[HRStore:horufi.html|The Cheat Commando Figurines]], it's easy to see why. In fact, one of the more popular threads at the HRWiki Homestar Runner message board is titled '[[Forum:179|merchandise wishes]].' And if you're wondering what all of thee rabid fans are buying, The Brothers Chaps have shared that the [[HRStore:trbu.html|Trogdor t-shirt]] is their best selling item, but their many [[HRStore:stbademdvd.html|DVD releases]] (see the [http://www.coldhardflash.com/2005/03/strongbad-dvd-is-strong-good.html CHF review]) can't be far behind.

So what's their secret? Well, it's not the software. While Mike and Matt have always used Flash to make their many shorts, they famously don't keep up with the latest versions, and their proud of it. Perhaps the secret lies in their ability to loose themselves in the work. With no sprawling production teams to hire, no Hollywood hobnobbing to suffer through and no agents to please, The Brothers Chaps can just focus on the funny. There's a moment in the interview below, where Matt, the puppeteer in the family, explains his mental state during one of his live puppet recordings. He felt he "wasn't even there." This zen-like creative groove is just the thing Hollywood distractions so easily destroy.

Onward to the interview. Before we get this rolling, I'd like to thank the gang over at the [[Main Page|Homestar Runner Wiki]], whose carefully assembled database helped me immensely in researching this article.

So without further adieu, here's the phone interview I conducted back in the Winter of 2005 (Hey - I got busy!). It's a two-parter, starting with Mike.

'''AARON SIMPSON:''' How do you guys decide who does what on the short.

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' As far as writing goes, we'll talk about what ideas we have. Usually the project timeline is very short, and we'll quickly get the broad strokes down. At that point we usually go take a stab at writing it separately. We both know the main points of the story, and then we take a look at those, and decide that his part works here and my part here. Then Matt goes and records all the voices and when he's doing that, I'm generally blocking the scenes. If I know there's going to be a scene when Strong Bad is in space, I'll go and get those background graphics together. And then once the audio is done, we basically split up the scenes. Matt is the better animator, so if there's scenes that actually have some action going on, he'll usually do those. And if a scene just has characters talking, I'll do those - like Strong Bad at his computer. I mean I can animate okay, but Matt generally will spend more time on each shot, and his little flourishes will look a little better. I'm more likely to have the characters just say their lines.

So after we finish ours scenes, we combine them, look at it, and make changes. For instance, we'll cut the line in half, add sound effects, or move a punch around. The last few hours are making changes like that.

'''AARON:''' Were you guys creatively collaborating earlier in your lives, before Homestar?

'''MIKE:''' Definitely. We grew up drawing, making comic books, making Super 8 movies in the mid-80s, and then we worked with a video camera. So, yes, we've collaborated pretty much all of our lives.

'''AARON:''' I know how brothers can get competitive. Does that ever get in the way of your creative process?

'''MIKE:''' When we were growing up, I definitely used to beat the shit out of Matt. But from a creative standpoint, we don't really ever get carried away. And if there is a part where Matt or I don't like the direction it's going, we just say it - "no I think that sucks, that's not funny. Let's do it this way." And we usually agree on everything, which makes it easy.

'''AARON:''' Have you ever considered passing some of the animation duties on to others?

'''MIKE:''' No, I think if we were gonna do that, we would have done it by now. Years ago, we'd always said that that animation would be the first thing to pass off. For me, that's the part I'm not as excited about. Writing is great, I love illustrating - but animation is especially boring. But since we've been doing it this way, at this point it would be a few steps backwards to get someone else in here. If we were going to do some other project, and start from scratch, we might look at that, but at this point probably not.

'''AARON:''' Is there an certain aspect of your work that's currently getting the most attention?

'''MIKE:''' For me, it's stuff with a unique visual style. Some people in the audience may notice that recently we've been paying more attention to the visual style.

'''AARON:''' Between your games, puppet shorts and the DVDs - which takes the most time to make?

'''MIKE:''' The DVD stuff definitely takes a lot of time. Especially the first time - we hired a friend ([[Ryan Sterritt]]) of ours to help make it. We basically had to learn from start to finish. It worked out great, and now we have a really great DVD author on our team of only 3 people.

'''AARON:''' What was the process like getting the shorts to DVD?

'''MIKE:''' It was around 6 months into the process, and we were watching some test DVDs and they just weren't cutting it. They were pixely and the colors weren't right, and at that point, we essentially started over. There's a program called [http://www.flashants.com/root/swf2video.shtml SWF2Video] that really helped us finish, and then we color corrected in [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&camp=1789&tag=coldhardflash-20&creative=9325&path=ASIN/B00005UMC6/qid=1117915336/sr=2-3/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_3 After Effects].

'''AARON:''' And those DVDs are packed with Easter eggs...

'''MIKE:''' Ya, it would have been impossible to hire a company to do all that. There are just so many little nuances and hidden Easter eggs in the DVD. I'm sure Ryan (Sterritt - the DVD author) hates it but sometimes he'll author the DVD in some way, and in the last week, we'll say "you know what, this interface is going to change." And if he wasn't sitting right next to us, that would have been a pain in the ass.

'''AARON:''' How did you guys first team up with the band [http://www.tmbg.com/ They Might Be Giants]?

'''MIKE:''' Actually John Linnell emailed us. Before that, a fan sent us a picture of them with John Flansburgh, and he was wearing a Homestar shirt. And six months after that, John Linnell emailed and said he was a big fan and suggested we could maybe collaborate. It didn't hurt that I'd been a huge TMBG fan ever since college.

'''AARON:''' Of the 2 of you, who is the puppeteer?

'''MIKE:''' Matt, mostly. Primarily, because he does the voices, and most of it is ad-libbed.

'''AARON:''' You've been lauded on the internet, radio and TV for having an internet show that's relatively family-friendly. Have you ever gotten phone calls or emails complaining about the subject manner in your cartoons?

'''MIKE:''' Ya, there's always people. We'll get someone who misinterprets a short and emails us "what's up with the gay bashing?" So we'd send back an email, and it ends up being a 13 year old girl, and we explain the issue. And then she'll email back saying "you know, you're right." We've done that a few times, where people have sent us really angry emails. We'll email back: "No wait - calm down. This is what we're talking about."

'''AARON:''' I'm sure you get approached by a fair amount of people wanting to partner up. Is there one offer that was more outrageous than the rest?

'''MIKE:''' We get tons of cell phone offers - for ringtones and mobile-episodes. These people just don't get it. We're scratching our heads - have you even looked at our site? We'd never do that. It's the grossest thing I could think of - selling one minute [[HR:sbemail.html|Strong Bad Emails]] for cell phones. These people say "you'd be surprised, people would do it." And we're thinking that's not the point - we know people will do it. We don't want them to do it.

Oh, and there was one caller who wanted to give us $10,000 a month for banner ads or something. And you know someone had just tipped them off - "Hey, you should check out this Homestar site." And they look at it for 5 minutes and call us, "We like your Strongman character."

'''AARON:''' Have you ever had fans try to locate your office and try to swing by?

'''MIKE:''' There have been a few people peek through the blinds. We're right next to a bowling alley and one day someone saw all the Homestar stuff in our office and knocked on the door. They asked us if we were big Homestar fans.

'''AARON:''' How was your experience at [[Bobby Blackwolf Interview - 5 Sep 2005|Dragon*Con]]?

'''MIKE:''' We've never been to a 'Con before. We'd always shied away from those because of the fanboy aspect of them. But it was a lot of fun. Far less creepy and far more fun that we'd imagined.

'''AARON:''' Do you think any of your projects will move onto another platform? Maybe a broadband show or perhaps a video game.

'''MIKE:''' I don't think it's gonna happen. The way we do things is very immediate - we make cartoons and put them up three days later. There's very few projects we do that are long term, but I'd say doing a video game, or something for Gameboy - that would be something that we'd be interested in doing. But we've never licensed our stuff out, and we'd have to do it in-house, and the timeline would have to be quick. But I really don't think that's gonna happen.

===Part 2===
'''AARON SIMPSON:''' Do you think most people find the Easter eggs on your DVDs?

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' We've met people who've seen 60 or 70 [[HR:sbemail.html|Strong Bad Emails]] and we'll mention the Easter eggs and they're like "wait, you guys hide stuff in them?" For years now, we've been checking the fan forums to make sure people were finding them. But the [http://forum.hrwiki.org/ Message Board] fans are the super Homestar nerds, and we sort of took it for granted that everyone knew there were hidden things.

'''AARON:''' You just released a new DVD.

'''MATT:''' We're calling it '[[HRStore:stbademdvd.html|Everything Else: Volume 1]].' It's all the shorter cartoons. Volume 2 will feature the [[Toons#Big Toons|Big Toons]] and other stuff like the Halloween shorts.

'''AARON:''' What made you want to put out DVDs in the first place?

'''MATT:''' Several fans had said we should put our stuff on DVD so they could watch the animations on their TV and not have to get on the web all the time. Plus, we were realizing that things aren't going to last forever, so just for our own archival portfolio, it's a nice way to preserve all that stuff.

'''AARON:''' Do you have plans to release your work in any of the new disc formats?

'''MATT:''' Well, with [http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?link_code=ur2&tag=coldhardflash-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&location=%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2FB000CS3S4A%2Fsr%3D1-1%2Fqid%3D1156343636%2Fref%3Dpd_bbs_1%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dsoftware Flash] because it's all vector, you can export to whatever size you want. Our process works like this - first we make an uncompressed AVI that just looks gorgeous. But, for instance, a [[HR:sbemail.html|Strong Bad Email]] will be about 10 gigs. To get it onto a DVD you have to use so much compression, and we end up with some loss and artifacting. To test these things we have this really old shitty DVD player, and then we have a DV-out into an HDTV - it's the low end and the high end. And when we started looking at our stuff on this really nice set-up we quickly saw some artifacting. It was discouraging, but then we'd watch it on a regular TV and it would look really good. So I popped in one of the 'Lord of the Rings' DVDs and watched it on the same HD setup, and even there we could see some artifacting. I guess its just a necessary evil of DVD compression. So maybe we could put out perfect versions of each Strong Bad Email as a 100 DVD set.

'''AARON:''' Is there a character you find most fun to animate?

'''MATT:''' I'd say Homestar. For one, he's got no arms, which is great. And his head is simple - a closed mouth, an open mouth and an 'Oh' circle mouth. So it's really easy to make him talk. Mike will tell you that if you see a scene and Homestar just sits there and talks - he animated that. If Homestar is talking and waggling all around and talking - that's me. It's fun to force yourself to get emotion from such a simple character. Homestar is essentially a glorified stick figure.

'''AARON:''' What kind of animation tricks are you using now that you weren't doing 6 or 7 years ago.

'''MATT:''' Early on, we relied on motion tweens, where you'd set point A and B, and the software would fill in the blanks. Now we're much closer to doing frame by frame animation. Beyond that, we're always trying new graphic styles - bringing in a blurred JPG background and then we'll do a rack-focus. We've been doing that for years, but if you look back at the earlier ones, we weren't animating quite as much. And now the quality has gone up a little bit more, but the time we've put into it has tripled.

'''AARON:''' There must be thousands of symbols and assets in the Homestar Flash library.

'''MATT:''' We're actually pretty bad at archiving all the artwork. We actually do have a couple master libraries filled with all the parts of each character. During the production of a cartoon, we'll make a new Strong Bad glove that looks a little better, or animates easier, but we'll forget that we did that. So when we go to make a new cartoon, we'll forget that me made that new asset. So we have to start searching.

There's a symbol of [[HR:vcr_cheat.html|The Cheat]] - a reverse view - that's the same one we've been using for 4 or 5 years - and it's terrible! His proportions are off - he's way skinnier than the Cheat should be - and the line is real chunky. I think Mike drew it and scanned it in and then traced the bitmap - which we don't do anymore. We draw everything right into Flash. So it's really kinda gross looking. Over the summer, we made a new one - but we keep forgetting where that new one is saved. We need to organize them better. We should get an intern or something.

'''AARON:''' How do you currently go about finding props or backgrounds from old episodes?

'''MATT:''' It's funny - we ended up using a really exhaustive fan site - the [[Main Page|Homestar Runner Wiki]]. We'll be asking ourselves, "when did we make the orange spoon?" The Wiki is a searchable database, so we'll just search for 'orange spoon,' and it pops right up - "it's in Strong Bad Email #63." And then we noticed the Wiki was having a pledge drive so we donated to it. We probably use it more than the fans do so we figured we should try to keep it alive.

'''AARON:''' You still use Flash 5. Why is this the best version for your production process?

'''MATT:''' It's the way you can select colors and frames. And Flash 5 is the best for lip-syncing. When you click on a frame in Flash 5, you hear that exact frame of sound, which makes it real easy to animate. We tinkered around with Flash 8 and couldn't get it do work the way it does in 5, so we stopped messing around with it. We've had people tell us they could get Flash 8 to work exactly like Flash 5, but who knows.

We got to talking to the Flash developers, the guys who actually make the software - and it was awesome. Sort of like meeting your makers. But it was funny, they put it us a beta test team for Flash 8 along with developers and information architects, and we didn't understand a thing they were talking about. We'd just email them asking "can you make it more like Flash 5?"

'''AARON:''' People seem fascinated that you don't have advertising on your site. What's your reaction to that?

'''MATT:''' I'm surprised that they're surprised. When we started, we knew we were taking a risk, as it seemed like every site needed advertising to get by. But at that point, we weren't trying to make Homestar into a business. Looking at the industry, I wish our no-banner ad stance had caught on more, especially now that ads are sneakier than ever.

'''AARON:''' Had you done any puppetry before the Homestar puppet shorts?

'''MATT:''' No, we'd never really done any puppetry - at least no more than a kid does growing up. We just have a friend who is a puppeteer and makes puppets. We've always thought all along that there were these different Homestar universes. Like there's an [[HR:old.html|old 1930s version]] (click the reels) of the cartoon, and there's the [[HR:stinkogame/v7/stinkogame.html|Stinkoman Japanese version]] of it. So we chose the Pee-wee's Playhouse-style variety show to mess with. We keep the length of these around a minute, because of bandwidth issues. A 6-minute Flash cartoon can be 1.5 mbs, but with video, a minute ends up being about 1mb.

But we think we've only scratched the surface of what we'd really like to do with the puppets. We could make some hilarious set, and have a human host and group of kids - I don't know.

'''AARON:''' Tell us about Homestar's day hanging out with [http://www.tmbg.com/ They Might Be Giants].

'''MATT:''' I don't even remember [[HR:puppetjam3.html|that day]]. Because I was mostly interacting with the band through a puppet. I think of that whole experience through Homestar's eyes and when I watch that stuff, I feel like I wasn't even there.

We occasionally email back and forth with John and John. Hopefully we'll find a way to collaborate again in the future.

'''AARON:''' Do you ever get fan animated stuff that appeals for you?

'''MATT:''' We've gotten a couple things over the years. As they say "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery," but some of these submissions were from really young kids - like 12 year olds. So they're just learning Flash, and it's awesome. And if making your own Homestar fan cartoons is the way you want to learn Flash, then do it. But Mike gets cringy and embarrassed watching some of them.

We're not trying to sound spoiled, or "people like our stuff so much that they're making these things for us." I guess it's dealing with the geek factor. There's people that like your stuff so much and it's just kind of overwhelming and hard to deal with. But on the other hand, there's plenty of fan pieces like [[HR:cheatvideo.html|The Cheat Theme Song]]. It was a song made by fans from Alabama who call themselves [http://www.geocities.com/theskateparty/ The Skate Party]. It was hilarious. It sounded exactly like something we would do. For the longest time people thought it was us, which was great.

There's also an acappella group called [http://www.bulletproofartists.com/onlinestore/category.cfm?Category=18 DaVinci's Notebook] that did an old-timey barbershop song called '[[HR:sneakvideo.html|The Ballad of The Sneak]]'. So there's both ends of the spectrum - some of the stuff is exactly what we would have done or better, and we actually want to use it or collaborate, and then there's the other stuff.

But for the most part, we kind of stay away from the fan stuff - it's a combination of being afraid that it will be bad and we'll feel bad about not liking it. And then what if it's even better and funnier than what we're doing?

'''AARON:''' Would you see yourselves doing this 20 years later?

'''MATT:''' Definitely. If not exactly this, then something like it. Our work is mainly short form, and when we feel Strong Bad Emails are getting old, we can quickly jump into something else. Anytime we talk about wanting to do some other projects, we figure we'll do it the same kind of way - put a few years into it, put it on the web, and if it's good then people will start coming.

But this is as good as it gets, you know, the fact that we make a Flash cartoon for a living. Look at '[http://www.happytreefriends.com/ Happy Tree Friends]' - you can [http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?categoryid=cat02031&id=1457784&skuid=7425994&type=product&DCMP=KNC-TLC&ref=25&loc=MOV buy their DVDs] in Best Buy. Those guys have distribution deals. We just don't want to deal with agents and managers. The fact that we're supporting ourselves and we get to hire friends and family is amazing.

==External Links==
*[http://www.coldhardflash.com/2006/10/homestars-show-runners-part-1.html Part 1 of the interview]
*[http://www.coldhardflash.com/2006/10/homestars-show-runners-part-2.html Part 2 of the interview]

[[Category:Interviews and Public Appearances]]

Cold Hard Flash Interview (censored)

2006-11-02T12:09:34Z

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Some time in Winter 2005, [[The Brothers Chaps]] were interviewed by [[Wikipedia:Aaron Simpson|Aaron Simpson]] of [[Wikipedia:Cold Hard Flash|Cold Hard Flash]].

==Transcript==
{{censored|Cold Hard Flash Interview - 1 Dec 2005}}
===Part 1===
Mike and Matt Chapman, hailing from Decatur, Georgia, have built themselves the equivalent of animation dream jobs. They write, voice and animate for a living - and distribute exactly what they want, when they want, to millions of people. It's an incredible achievement, and one that defies entertainment convention.

Early on in their web-careers, the Brothers Chaps, as Mike and Matt have come to be known, opted to go without advertising on their site. But don't worry - [[HR:|homestarrunner.com]] has given them complete financial independence, solely through [[HRStore:|merchandise and DVD sales]]. It's allowed the brothers an unusual amount of creative control for a hit series. But instead of using this freedom to break all the rules, they went against the grain. Since the mid-90's, shock-value has driven millions of eyeballs to dozens of gross-out web shows and too-nuts-for-TV clips. Shirking convention, Homestar Runner and his pals are more G than some shows on [http://www.nickjr.com/ Nick Jr.], but it surely hasn't halted their success one bit.

Perhaps it's because Mike, 33, and Matt, 29, the creators of such characters as Homestar Runner and Strong Bad, are family-oriented. At the [http://www.flashforwardconference.com/ Flashforward Conference] this past February, [[Flashforward Interview - 10 Feb 2006|they concede]] that their "sister, dad and mom, and uh, inlaws" all get into the act; working in the Homestar Runner store and helping out around the office. Growing up, Mike and Matt's parents, Don and Harriet Chapman, were reportedly always quite supportive of their creative endeavors, and ever since 1999, the brother's family-friendly tastes have attracted a feverishly loyal following.

Now, let's get to that following for a minute or two. Their website, homestarrunner.com, is visited by hundreds of thousands of people a day. But the brothers supposedly don't know if it's 100,000 a day or 200,000, nor do they really care. You see, while other web companies and animators comb through the number of 'uniques' they get a day, The Brothers Chaps are busy ''being'' unique.

However, that won't stop the CHF research team (me), who spent tens of minutes scouring the web to come up with rough, unverified statistics. Drumroll, please....according to web-stats giant [http://alexa.com/ Alexa.com], Homestarrunner.com gets more traffic than starwars.com, pixar.com, southparkstudios.com, thesimpsons.com and handful of other high-profile animation websites.

{| border="1" align="center" cellpadding="3" style="border-collapse: collapse"
! WEBSITE !! ALEXA RANK (on 08/06/06)
|-
| [[HR:|homestarrunner.com]]: || style="text-align: right" | 4,050
|-
| [http://starwars.com/ starwars.com]: || style="text-align: right" | 4,207
|-
| [http://www.noggin.com/ noggin.com]: || style="text-align: right" | 6,215
|-
| [http://www.adultswim.com/ adultswim.com]: || style="text-align: right" | 6,292
|-
| [http://mondo.happytreefriends.com/ happytreefriends.com]: || style="text-align: right" | 9,046
|-
| [http://www.pixar.com/ pixar.com]: || style="text-align: right" | 13,127
|-
| [http://pokemon.com/ pokemon.com]: || style="text-align: right" | 15,692
|-
| [http://www.southparkstudios.com/show/display_faq_search.php?section=2&id=38887&search_faq= southparkstudios.com]: || style="text-align: right" | 22,204
|-
| [http://dragonballz.com/ dragonballz.com]: || style="text-align: right" | 26,774
|-
| [http://awn.com/ awn.com]: || style="text-align: right" | 27,716
|-
| [http://thesimpsons.com/ thesimpsons.com]: || style="text-align: right" | 29,574
|-
| [[Main Page|hrwiki.org]]: || style="text-align: right" | 35,203
|}

In fact, the [[Main Page|Homestar Runner Wiki]], the collaboratively-run, online encyclopedia of everything Homestar, gets almost as much traffic at thesimpsons.com (more on the HRWiki in a moment).

But for how many fans they have (the same fans that send in over 3,000 emails a day), The Brothers Chaps have somehow avoided being heralded with awards and honors. Mike and Matt would probably say that they could care less (and that's probably true), but it's symbolic of how independent they've remained. They don't have agents, managers or press buffers. They turn down TV execs holding deals as if they were pan-handlers. The Brothers Chaps are Hollywood 2.0 - blessed with a huge audience, creative freedom, popular merchandise, and an address far from Hollywood.

Speaking of merchandise - the entire Homestar Runner empire is operated entirely off of DVD and merchandise moolah, and with hysterical products like [[HRStore:horufi.html|The Cheat Commando Figurines]], it's easy to see why. In fact, one of the more popular threads at the HRWiki Homestar Runner message board is titled '[[Forum:179|merchandise wishes]].' And if you're wondering what all of thee rabid fans are buying, The Brothers Chaps have shared that the [[HRStore:trbu.html|Trogdor t-shirt]] is their best selling item, but their many [[HRStore:stbademdvd.html|DVD releases]] (see the [http://www.coldhardflash.com/2005/03/strongbad-dvd-is-strong-good.html CHF review]) can't be far behind.

So what's their secret? Well, it's not the software. While Mike and Matt have always used Flash to make their many shorts, they famously don't keep up with the latest versions, and their proud of it. Perhaps the secret lies in their ability to loose themselves in the work. With no sprawling production teams to hire, no Hollywood hobnobbing to suffer through and no agents to please, The Brothers Chaps can just focus on the funny. There's a moment in the interview below, where Matt, the puppeteer in the family, explains his mental state during one of his live puppet recordings. He felt he "wasn't even there." This zen-like creative groove is just the thing Hollywood distractions so easily destroy.

Onward to the interview. Before we get this rolling, I'd like to thank the gang over at the [[Main Page|Homestar Runner Wiki]], whose carefully assembled database helped me immensely in researching this article.

So without further adieu, here's the phone interview I conducted back in the Winter of 2005 (Hey - I got busy!). It's a two-parter, starting with Mike.

'''AARON SIMPSON:''' How do you guys decide who does what on the short.

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' As far as writing goes, we'll talk about what ideas we have. Usually the project timeline is very short, and we'll quickly get the broad strokes down. At that point we usually go take a stab at writing it separately. We both know the main points of the story, and then we take a look at those, and decide that his part works here and my part here. Then Matt goes and records all the voices and when he's doing that, I'm generally blocking the scenes. If I know there's going to be a scene when Strong Bad is in space, I'll go and get those background graphics together. And then once the audio is done, we basically split up the scenes. Matt is the better animator, so if there's scenes that actually have some action going on, he'll usually do those. And if a scene just has characters talking, I'll do those - like Strong Bad at his computer. I mean I can animate okay, but Matt generally will spend more time on each shot, and his little flourishes will look a little better. I'm more likely to have the characters just say their lines.

So after we finish ours scenes, we combine them, look at it, and make changes. For instance, we'll cut the line in half, add sound effects, or move a punch around. The last few hours are making changes like that.

'''AARON:''' Were you guys creatively collaborating earlier in your lives, before Homestar?

'''MIKE:''' Definitely. We grew up drawing, making comic books, making Super 8 movies in the mid-80s, and then we worked with a video camera. So, yes, we've collaborated pretty much all of our lives.

'''AARON:''' I know how brothers can get competitive. Does that ever get in the way of your creative process?

'''MIKE:''' When we were growing up, I definitely used to beat the **** out of Matt. But from a creative standpoint, we don't really ever get carried away. And if there is a part where Matt or I don't like the direction it's going, we just say it - "no I think that sucks, that's not funny. Let's do it this way." And we usually agree on everything, which makes it easy.

'''AARON:''' Have you ever considered passing some of the animation duties on to others?

'''MIKE:''' No, I think if we were gonna do that, we would have done it by now. Years ago, we'd always said that that animation would be the first thing to pass off. For me, that's the part I'm not as excited about. Writing is great, I love illustrating - but animation is especially boring. But since we've been doing it this way, at this point it would be a few steps backwards to get someone else in here. If we were going to do some other project, and start from scratch, we might look at that, but at this point probably not.

'''AARON:''' Is there an certain aspect of your work that's currently getting the most attention?

'''MIKE:''' For me, it's stuff with a unique visual style. Some people in the audience may notice that recently we've been paying more attention to the visual style.

'''AARON:''' Between your games, puppet shorts and the DVDs - which takes the most time to make?

'''MIKE:''' The DVD stuff definitely takes a lot of time. Especially the first time - we hired a friend ([[Ryan Sterritt]]) of ours to help make it. We basically had to learn from start to finish. It worked out great, and now we have a really great DVD author on our team of only 3 people.

'''AARON:''' What was the process like getting the shorts to DVD?

'''MIKE:''' It was around 6 months into the process, and we were watching some test DVDs and they just weren't cutting it. They were pixely and the colors weren't right, and at that point, we essentially started over. There's a program called [http://www.flashants.com/root/swf2video.shtml SWF2Video] that really helped us finish, and then we color corrected in [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&camp=1789&tag=coldhardflash-20&creative=9325&path=ASIN/B00005UMC6/qid=1117915336/sr=2-3/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_3 After Effects].

'''AARON:''' And those DVDs are packed with Easter eggs...

'''MIKE:''' Ya, it would have been impossible to hire a company to do all that. There are just so many little nuances and hidden Easter eggs in the DVD. I'm sure Ryan (Sterritt - the DVD author) hates it but sometimes he'll author the DVD in some way, and in the last week, we'll say "you know what, this interface is going to change." And if he wasn't sitting right next to us, that would have been a pain in the ***.

'''AARON:''' How did you guys first team up with the band [http://www.tmbg.com/ They Might Be Giants]?

'''MIKE:''' Actually John Linnell emailed us. Before that, a fan sent us a picture of them with John Flansburgh, and he was wearing a Homestar shirt. And six months after that, John Linnell emailed and said he was a big fan and suggested we could maybe collaborate. It didn't hurt that I'd been a huge TMBG fan ever since college.

'''AARON:''' Of the 2 of you, who is the puppeteer?

'''MIKE:''' Matt, mostly. Primarily, because he does the voices, and most of it is ad-libbed.

'''AARON:''' You've been lauded on the internet, radio and TV for having an internet show that's relatively family-friendly. Have you ever gotten phone calls or emails complaining about the subject manner in your cartoons?

'''MIKE:''' Ya, there's always people. We'll get someone who misinterprets a short and emails us "what's up with the gay bashing?" So we'd send back an email, and it ends up being a 13 year old girl, and we explain the issue. And then she'll email back saying "you know, you're right." We've done that a few times, where people have sent us really angry emails. We'll email back: "No wait - calm down. This is what we're talking about."

'''AARON:''' I'm sure you get approached by a fair amount of people wanting to partner up. Is there one offer that was more outrageous than the rest?

'''MIKE:''' We get tons of cell phone offers - for ringtones and mobile-episodes. These people just don't get it. We're scratching our heads - have you even looked at our site? We'd never do that. It's the grossest thing I could think of - selling one minute [[HR:sbemail.html|Strong Bad Emails]] for cell phones. These people say "you'd be surprised, people would do it." And we're thinking that's not the point - we know people will do it. We don't want them to do it.

Oh, and there was one caller who wanted to give us $10,000 a month for banner ads or something. And you know someone had just tipped them off - "Hey, you should check out this Homestar site." And they look at it for 5 minutes and call us, "We like your Strongman character."

'''AARON:''' Have you ever had fans try to locate your office and try to swing by?

'''MIKE:''' There have been a few people peek through the blinds. We're right next to a bowling alley and one day someone saw all the Homestar stuff in our office and knocked on the door. They asked us if we were big Homestar fans.

'''AARON:''' How was your experience at [[Bobby Blackwolf Interview - 5 Sep 2005|Dragon*Con]]?

'''MIKE:''' We've never been to a 'Con before. We'd always shied away from those because of the fanboy aspect of them. But it was a lot of fun. Far less creepy and far more fun that we'd imagined.

'''AARON:''' Do you think any of your projects will move onto another platform? Maybe a broadband show or perhaps a video game.

'''MIKE:''' I don't think it's gonna happen. The way we do things is very immediate - we make cartoons and put them up three days later. There's very few projects we do that are long term, but I'd say doing a video game, or something for Gameboy - that would be something that we'd be interested in doing. But we've never licensed our stuff out, and we'd have to do it in-house, and the timeline would have to be quick. But I really don't think that's gonna happen.

===Part 2===
'''AARON SIMPSON:''' Do you think most people find the Easter eggs on your DVDs?

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' We've met people who've seen 60 or 70 [[HR:sbemail.html|Strong Bad Emails]] and we'll mention the Easter eggs and they're like "wait, you guys hide stuff in them?" For years now, we've been checking the fan forums to make sure people were finding them. But the [http://forum.hrwiki.org/ Message Board] fans are the super Homestar nerds, and we sort of took it for granted that everyone knew there were hidden things.

'''AARON:''' You just released a new DVD.

'''MATT:''' We're calling it '[[HRStore:stbademdvd.html|Everything Else: Volume 1]].' It's all the shorter cartoons. Volume 2 will feature the [[Toons#Big Toons|Big Toons]] and other stuff like the Halloween shorts.

'''AARON:''' What made you want to put out DVDs in the first place?

'''MATT:''' Several fans had said we should put our stuff on DVD so they could watch the animations on their TV and not have to get on the web all the time. Plus, we were realizing that things aren't going to last forever, so just for our own archival portfolio, it's a nice way to preserve all that stuff.

'''AARON:''' Do you have plans to release your work in any of the new disc formats?

'''MATT:''' Well, with [http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?link_code=ur2&tag=coldhardflash-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&location=%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2FB000CS3S4A%2Fsr%3D1-1%2Fqid%3D1156343636%2Fref%3Dpd_bbs_1%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dsoftware Flash] because it's all vector, you can export to whatever size you want. Our process works like this - first we make an uncompressed AVI that just looks gorgeous. But, for instance, a [[HR:sbemail.html|Strong Bad Email]] will be about 10 gigs. To get it onto a DVD you have to use so much compression, and we end up with some loss and artifacting. To test these things we have this really old **** DVD player, and then we have a DV-out into an HDTV - it's the low end and the high end. And when we started looking at our stuff on this really nice set-up we quickly saw some artifacting. It was discouraging, but then we'd watch it on a regular TV and it would look really good. So I popped in one of the 'Lord of the Rings' DVDs and watched it on the same HD setup, and even there we could see some artifacting. I guess its just a necessary evil of DVD compression. So maybe we could put out perfect versions of each Strong Bad Email as a 100 DVD set.

'''AARON:''' Is there a character you find most fun to animate?

'''MATT:''' I'd say Homestar. For one, he's got no arms, which is great. And his head is simple - a closed mouth, an open mouth and an 'Oh' circle mouth. So it's really easy to make him talk. Mike will tell you that if you see a scene and Homestar just sits there and talks - he animated that. If Homestar is talking and waggling all around and talking - that's me. It's fun to force yourself to get emotion from such a simple character. Homestar is essentially a glorified stick figure.

'''AARON:''' What kind of animation tricks are you using now that you weren't doing 6 or 7 years ago.

'''MATT:''' Early on, we relied on motion tweens, where you'd set point A and B, and the software would fill in the blanks. Now we're much closer to doing frame by frame animation. Beyond that, we're always trying new graphic styles - bringing in a blurred JPG background and then we'll do a rack-focus. We've been doing that for years, but if you look back at the earlier ones, we weren't animating quite as much. And now the quality has gone up a little bit more, but the time we've put into it has tripled.

'''AARON:''' There must be thousands of symbols and assets in the Homestar Flash library.

'''MATT:''' We're actually pretty bad at archiving all the artwork. We actually do have a couple master libraries filled with all the parts of each character. During the production of a cartoon, we'll make a new Strong Bad glove that looks a little better, or animates easier, but we'll forget that we did that. So when we go to make a new cartoon, we'll forget that me made that new asset. So we have to start searching.

There's a symbol of [[HR:vcr_cheat.html|The Cheat]] - a reverse view - that's the same one we've been using for 4 or 5 years - and it's terrible! His proportions are off - he's way skinnier than the Cheat should be - and the line is real chunky. I think Mike drew it and scanned it in and then traced the bitmap - which we don't do anymore. We draw everything right into Flash. So it's really kinda gross looking. Over the summer, we made a new one - but we keep forgetting where that new one is saved. We need to organize them better. We should get an intern or something.

'''AARON:''' How do you currently go about finding props or backgrounds from old episodes?

'''MATT:''' It's funny - we ended up using a really exhaustive fan site - the [[Main Page|Homestar Runner Wiki]]. We'll be asking ourselves, "when did we make the orange spoon?" The Wiki is a searchable database, so we'll just search for 'orange spoon,' and it pops right up - "it's in Strong Bad Email #63." And then we noticed the Wiki was having a pledge drive so we donated to it. We probably use it more than the fans do so we figured we should try to keep it alive.

'''AARON:''' You still use Flash 5. Why is this the best version for your production process?

'''MATT:''' It's the way you can select colors and frames. And Flash 5 is the best for lip-syncing. When you click on a frame in Flash 5, you hear that exact frame of sound, which makes it real easy to animate. We tinkered around with Flash 8 and couldn't get it do work the way it does in 5, so we stopped messing around with it. We've had people tell us they could get Flash 8 to work exactly like Flash 5, but who knows.

We got to talking to the Flash developers, the guys who actually make the software - and it was awesome. Sort of like meeting your makers. But it was funny, they put it us a beta test team for Flash 8 along with developers and information architects, and we didn't understand a thing they were talking about. We'd just email them asking "can you make it more like Flash 5?"

'''AARON:''' People seem fascinated that you don't have advertising on your site. What's your reaction to that?

'''MATT:''' I'm surprised that they're surprised. When we started, we knew we were taking a risk, as it seemed like every site needed advertising to get by. But at that point, we weren't trying to make Homestar into a business. Looking at the industry, I wish our no-banner ad stance had caught on more, especially now that ads are sneakier than ever.

'''AARON:''' Had you done any puppetry before the Homestar puppet shorts?

'''MATT:''' No, we'd never really done any puppetry - at least no more than a kid does growing up. We just have a friend who is a puppeteer and makes puppets. We've always thought all along that there were these different Homestar universes. Like there's an [[HR:old.html|old 1930s version]] (click the reels) of the cartoon, and there's the [[HR:stinkogame/v7/stinkogame.html|Stinkoman Japanese version]] of it. So we chose the Pee-wee's Playhouse-style variety show to mess with. We keep the length of these around a minute, because of bandwidth issues. A 6-minute Flash cartoon can be 1.5 mbs, but with video, a minute ends up being about 1mb.

But we think we've only scratched the surface of what we'd really like to do with the puppets. We could make some hilarious set, and have a human host and group of kids - I don't know.

'''AARON:''' Tell us about Homestar's day hanging out with [http://www.tmbg.com/ They Might Be Giants].

'''MATT:''' I don't even remember [[HR:puppetjam3.html|that day]]. Because I was mostly interacting with the band through a puppet. I think of that whole experience through Homestar's eyes and when I watch that stuff, I feel like I wasn't even there.

We occasionally email back and forth with John and John. Hopefully we'll find a way to collaborate again in the future.

'''AARON:''' Do you ever get fan animated stuff that appeals for you?

'''MATT:''' We've gotten a couple things over the years. As they say "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery," but some of these submissions were from really young kids - like 12 year olds. So they're just learning Flash, and it's awesome. And if making your own Homestar fan cartoons is the way you want to learn Flash, then do it. But Mike gets cringy and embarrassed watching some of them.

We're not trying to sound spoiled, or "people like our stuff so much that they're making these things for us." I guess it's dealing with the geek factor. There's people that like your stuff so much and it's just kind of overwhelming and hard to deal with. But on the other hand, there's plenty of fan pieces like [[HR:cheatvideo.html|The Cheat Theme Song]]. It was a song made by fans from Alabama who call themselves [http://www.geocities.com/theskateparty/ The Skate Party]. It was hilarious. It sounded exactly like something we would do. For the longest time people thought it was us, which was great.

There's also an acappella group called [http://www.bulletproofartists.com/onlinestore/category.cfm?Category=18 DaVinci's Notebook] that did an old-timey barbershop song called '[[HR:sneakvideo.html|The Ballad of The Sneak]]'. So there's both ends of the spectrum - some of the stuff is exactly what we would have done or better, and we actually want to use it or collaborate, and then there's the other stuff.

But for the most part, we kind of stay away from the fan stuff - it's a combination of being afraid that it will be bad and we'll feel bad about not liking it. And then what if it's even better and funnier than what we're doing?

'''AARON:''' Would you see yourselves doing this 20 years later?

'''MATT:''' Definitely. If not exactly this, then something like it. Our work is mainly short form, and when we feel Strong Bad Emails are getting old, we can quickly jump into something else. Anytime we talk about wanting to do some other projects, we figure we'll do it the same kind of way - put a few years into it, put it on the web, and if it's good then people will start coming.

But this is as good as it gets, you know, the fact that we make a Flash cartoon for a living. Look at '[http://www.happytreefriends.com/ Happy Tree Friends]' - you can [http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?categoryid=cat02031&id=1457784&skuid=7425994&type=product&DCMP=KNC-TLC&ref=25&loc=MOV buy their DVDs] in Best Buy. Those guys have distribution deals. We just don't want to deal with agents and managers. The fact that we're supporting ourselves and we get to hire friends and family is amazing.

==External Links==
*[http://www.coldhardflash.com/2006/10/homestars-show-runners-part-1.html Part 1 of the interview]
*[http://www.coldhardflash.com/2006/10/homestars-show-runners-part-2.html Part 2 of the interview]

[[Category:Interviews and Public Appearances]]

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== Italics ==
There was a comment in a previous edit that wiki did not allow for underlining, and that underlining was preferred for book titles. In reality, ''italicizing'' is always preferred to underlining when available (as it is on the web and in wiki), and underlining is only taught in high school English because of the lack of italic fonts on typewriters. [[User:Render|Render]]

== Two Rights Hands? ==

One of the trivia items says that when you select "Maybe", it shows Strong Bad with two right hands? Can anyone else verify it? I don't see it...--[[User:Duke33|Duke33]] 10:38, 9 Nov 2004 (MST)

I can't see it either; maybe it's been fixed? Can someone who has actually seen this before verify it?

== Possible Fun Fact? ==

Since I got bored today, I played the dodgeball game for a while. I've noticed that the counter in the background, once getting past 100, will switch decimal places so that only the 10s place and the 100s place are visible. Thus, 100-109 looked like 10 and so forth. Should this be included in the Fun Facts? Perhaps added in to the Easter Eggs?
:For one, it wouldn't really belong in Easter Eggs, since it's just a limitation of flash causing it in that instance. For another, it's already on the [[Peg Strong Sad]] page. --[[User:TheNintenGenius|TheNintenGenius]] 07:13, 20 Jan 2005 (MST)
:For future note, such a fact would belong in the "Glitch" category, not "Easter Eggs", if it wasn't already on the other page. --[[User:Jay|Jay]] 12:14, 20 Jan 2005 (MST)
Dude, this always happens when you run out of digit space. The same happened in [[Night time driving type game]] when I got a score of over 100,000 (I put it on the left and left the room). -Amy Whifflepoof

== Pre-menu behavior ==

"When this email was first released, the extra choices weren't available; instead it immediately progressed to the "different direction" bit (which is why it's the only choice that continues with Strong Bad still typing). The choices were added a few weeks later."

Actually, the way I remember it, it would select one of the three possible endings at random. Later, the menu was added allowing you to specify one. -Electrode (electroblog@gmail.com)

== Possible Glitch ==
Sometimes if you click on a choice it will go to a shortened version of an option that you didn't choose.

:I moved this here from the main article. I've never seen it happen, but maybe someone else has. -- [[User:tomstiff|tomstiff]] 21:07, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

::I'd like to get more details on this, if the person who posted this glitch would provide them. What choice did you pick? What version Flash do you have? What did the shortened option omit? <tt>[[User:Homestar Coder|Aurora the Homestar Coder]]</tt> 21:31, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

:::According to the logs, [[User:64.12.116.136|64.12.116.136]] was one of the people to find this glitch. I have ran it a couple tiems now and it hasn't happened to me, but that user might know. -- [[User:Tony Stony|Tony Stony]] 21:34, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
::::This conversation is done, but I wanted to point out that 64.12.116.136 ''has'' done some trolling. There is a fairly big chance he could've made up this fact. {{User:Bubsty/sig}} 00:17, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

== possible goof? ==

When you play peg strongsad, if you hit the spacebar when the ball is on the far right, the ball hits the scoreboard and the score goes up one, sparks fly out of it, and it makes a sparking type sound. but the sound plays before the ball hits it. anyone else.. care? :P i'd put it on the page myself but my edits always get rv'd--[[User:Collin|Collin]] 18:46, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
edit: this is mentioned in the [[Peg Strong Sad]] page, but still.
:In my experience, images and sound in these Flash dealies often get out of sync depending on my computer speed. I don't know whether that's the case here or not, but it should be taken into consideration. —[[User:AbdiViklas|AbdiViklas]] 18:52, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
::And it's already noted on [[Peg Strong Sad]]. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 18:52, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

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2006-08-09T01:48:59Z

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[[Dead Guy Perez]]

[[HRWiki talk:Upgrade to MediaWiki 1.5]]

Teen Girl Squad Issue 10

2006-08-09T01:46:35Z

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[[Image:TeenGirlSquad10.PNG|200px|thumb|COLOR'D!]]

The Teen Girl Squad celebrates The Ugly One's sweet someteenth birthday in 24 great-smelling colors!

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Cheerleader}}, {{Film|So and So}}, {{Film|What's Her Face}}, {{Film|The Ugly One}}, [[Minor Teen Girl Squad Characters#A Mighty Warrior|A Mighty Warrior]], [[Minor Teen Girl Squad Characters#Olympic Man and Coach|Olympic Man]], [[Minor Teen Girl Squad Characters#Olympic Man and Coach|Coach]], [[Minor Teen Girl Squad Characters#Wave o' Babies|Wave o' Babies]], [[Minor Teen Girl Squad Characters#Smiley Face Man|Smiley Face Man]], [[Minor Teen Girl Squad Characters#George Washington, Abraham Lincoln & Henry Rollins|Henry Rollins]], [[Minor Teen Girl Squad Characters#George Washington, Abraham Lincoln & Henry Rollins|Abraham Lincoln]], [[Minor Teen Girl Squad Characters#George Washington, Abraham Lincoln & Henry Rollins|George Washington]], {{Film|Thomas}}, [[Minor Teen Girl Squad Characters#Olda Boys|Olda Boys]], [[Minor Teen Girl Squad Characters#Quarterback|Quarterback]], [[Minor Teen Girl Squad Characters#Possums|Possums]], [[Visor Robot]], [[Minor Teen Girl Squad Characters#Gift Exchange Lion|Gift Exchange Lion]], [[Minor Teen Girl Squad Characters#Hawaiian Guy|Hawaiian Guy]], [[Minor Teen Girl Squad Characters#No I In Team Boy|No I In Team Boy]], [[Minor Teen Girl Squad Characters#Dinosaur|Dinosaur]], [[Mrs. Commanderson]], [[Minor Teen Girl Squad Characters#Scotsmen|Scotsmen]], {{Film|Tompkins}}, [[Minor Teen Girl Squad Characters#Fatty|Fatty]], [[Minor Teen Girl Squad Characters#Intercom|Intercom]], [[Manolios Ugly One]], [[Minor Teen Girl Squad Characters#Vultures|Vultures]], [[Minor Teen Girl Squad Characters#Trolls|Trolls]], [[Mr. Pitters]], [[Minor Teen Girl Squad Characters#Learner's Permit Girl|Learner's Permit Girl]], {{Film|Arrow'd Guy}}, {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|Strong Mad}}, {{Film|The Cheat}}, {{Film|Strong Sad}}

'''Places:''' [[Teen Girl Squad Locations#The Cafeteria|The Cafeteria]], [[Teen Girl Squad Locations#Olympic Race Track|Olympic Race Track]], [[Teen Girl Squad Locations#The Ugly One's House|The Ugly One's House]], [[Teen Girl Squad Locations#Giza|Giza]]

'''Date:''' October 10, 2005

'''Running Time:''' 3:34

'''Page Title:''' Tenth Issue-versary!

== Transcript ==
'''NARRATOR STRONG BAD:''' TEEN GIRL SQUAD: TENTHENNIAL EXTRAVAGANZA! In 24 Great-Smelling Colors! ''{the screen is filled with color}'' Cheerleader! ''{groovy grapefruit pink}'' So And So! ''{viscious violent violet}'' What's Her Face! ''{radacious bodadical razberry blue!}'' The Ugly One! ''{gnarly nursing home green}''

''{The episode begins with Cheerleader, So And So, and What's Her Face sitting at a lunch table.}''

'''CHEERLEADER:''' Lunchtime gals. Now let's get ready to eat...

'''CHEERLEADER, SO AND SO, WHAT'S HER FACE:''' NO FOOD!

'''SO AND SO:''' Eating lunch is for weirdos.

''{The Ugly One walks on to the screen with a cafeteria tray piled high with corn in her hands.}''

'''THE UGLY ONE:''' Holla grlfrndz. It's Corn and Corn Alone Day!

''{The Ugly One places a plate of corn on the table. Cut to a close-up of the corn. A tiny samurai warrior carrying a [[Wikipedia:naginata|naginata]] jumps out of the corn.}''

'''A MIGHTY WARRIOR:''' Corn is no place for a mighty warrior!

'''THE UGLY ONE:''' So... who wants to come to my sweet someteen birthday bash tonight?

'''WHAT'S HER FACE:''' Is it going to be Nick-at-Night themed again?

'''SO AND SO:''' ''{slaps her forehead}'' I don't think I can stomach another show not on the WB.

'''CHEERLEADER:''' No! We can't come. We have... the... Olympics... tonight!

'''THE UGLY ONE:''' Oh, cuz it's a boy/girl party...

''{Close-up of So And So and Cheerleader, both of whom look rather insane.}''

'''CHEERLEADER, SO AND SO:''' a B'GRL PRTY?!?

'''WHAT'S HER FACE:''' Taking the vowels out of words doesn't always make them cool.

'''SO AND SO:''' 'm srry.

'''CHEERLEADER:''' ''{holds up a cell phone, from which "the olympics are sooooo dumb!" is coming}'' So, coach just called and said the Olympics are dumb. We'll be there like shareware!

''{Cut (the music stops). A small man in a red hoodie labeled "coach" is standing next to a rather angry-looking burly man labeled "olympic man." Behind him is a banner that says "OLYMPIC RACE," and a cell phone identical to Cheerleader's is on the ground beside the coach.}''

'''COACH:''' I don't know what they're talking about, I swear!

''{Cut again to the Teen Girl Squad (music starts again).}

'''CHEERLEADER:''' Now, more than ever before, let's get ready to look....

'''CHEERLEADER, SO AND SO, WHAT'S HER FACE, THE UGLY ONE:''' SO GOOOD! ''{the camera does a 360-degree spin around the girls}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' Whoa! That was about the coolest thing ever! Me gotta see that again.

''{The cartoon rewinds and replays the 360-spin. The "SO GOOOD!" speech bubble has disappeared and doesn't return. At the end, however, What's Her Face is still spinning.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Uh-oh. We got a spinner.

'''WHAT'S HER FACE:''' Wheeeee! ''{the word slides to the right across the text bubble}''

''{A title slide entitled "AT THE PARTY" (imprinted on a cigarette, which a man is smoking) appears. Cut to the boy/girl party. Various characters from previous TGS episodes are attending. Pan right to reveal the TGS sans The Ugly One. What's Her Face is still spinning.}''

'''CHEERLEADER:''' Alright, wallflowers, watch a professional at work... I'm fit to get makey outy all over those uppaclassmen.

''{Cut to three Scots standing around a wooden barrel marked "XXX," holding froth-topped mugs.}''

'''SCOT #1:''' ACHGH!

'''SCOT #2:''' ACHGH!

'''SCOT #3:''' ACHGH!

''{Cheerleader walks in.}''

'''CHEERLEADER:''' Any o'you boys wanna ditch this preschool party? I know of a couple HAWT junior college jams we could hit.

''{One of the Scots throws Cheerleader away from them.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' CABER TOSSED!!

''{Cut to a spinning What's Her Face}''

'''WHAT'S HER FACE:''' I really want... some of these chips.

''{Dead Cheerleader falls at the feet of What's Her Face.}''

'''NARRATOR STRONG BAD:''' Tonk! Ponk!

'''SCOT:''' ''{off-screen}'' BAGH! Only 23 metres!

''{Cut to the bowl of chips. The warrior jumps out of the chips.}''

'''A MIGHTY WARRIOR:''' Corn chips are no place for a mighty warrior!

''{The samurai's naginata digs into What's Her Face as she rotates, and the upper half of What's-Her-Face's body falls off.}''

'''NARRATOR STRONG BAD:''' ''{grinding sound}'' LATHE'D!

'''WHAT'S HER FACE:''' Oww! I hope they have those corn chips in heaven!

''{Cut to So And So and Tompkins, playing a Game Boy.}''

'''SO AND SO:''' Say, Tompkins, Brett Bretterson and I are Splitsville, so I'm lookin for a little rebound action!

'''TOMPKINS:''' Hecks no! I got Bowser on the ropes!

''{A Koopa shell comes out of the Game Boy and strikes So And So in the face.}''

'''NARRATOR STRONG BAD:''' ''{the word "pØwned!!" appears}'' Puh-owned! Or however you say that...

''{Cut to The Ugly One's Father, standing at a microphone, speaking to the party crowd.}''

'''MANOLIOS UGLY ONE:''' OK, party people, get ready to give it up for my little girl on her sweet someteenth birthday... and remember, if you're looking for low prices on used and broken electronics, don't forget... Manolios Ugly One's Lectro-Pawn!

'''TOMPKINS:''' ''{offscreen}'' p4wned! ''{said "peh-awned"}''

'''MANOLIOS UGLY ONE:''' And here she is... THE UGLY ONE!

''{Cut to The Ugly One, wearing a red dress and looking ''much'' more attractive than before. The music is interrupted by a scratching-record sound.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Whoa! Did ''I'' draw that new hotness?

'''THE UGLY ONE:''' Thanks for coming to my party everyone! Now let's get it on like Diddy Kong!

''{All people at the party, including The Ugly One, begin dancing.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ARROWED II! ELECTRIC—

''{Arrow'd Guy appears on the screen, wearing a tuxedo and holding a diamond ring in a box. He has two spikes on his back, a bad case of razor burn, and what appears to be a mound of corn in his breast pocket.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Wait a minute! Not this time, mister!

''{Strong Bad places a new piece of paper on the screen, containing The Ugly One and a muscular Strong Bad in a construction helmet. In the background are the [[Wikipedia:Great Sphinx of Giza|Great Sphinx of Giza]] and two pyramids.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Oh, why, hello, The Ugly One, you're looking so makey outy tonight.

'''THE UGLY ONE:''' Why thank you [[Sir Hotbod Handsomeface]]. So are you!

''{Strong Bad and The Ugly One start making out. Cut to Strong Bad at his desk, making out with the paper of The Ugly One. Zoom out to a broader view of the desk, revealing Strong Mad, Strong Sad, and The Cheat standing next to him, looking bewildered.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Oh...mmm, not bad...oh, twice...

'''STRONG MAD:''' Aah?

'''STRONG SAD:''' Aaa?

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

''{Strong Bad notices them, and quickly hides the paper.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Oh! Uh, this is a piece of uh... pi- pizzaa-aaa...

''{Strong Bad shoves most of the paper into his mouth.}''

''{Cut to a crumpled & salivated paper, with the "IT'S OVER" screen appearing on the paper. A faint outline of the making-out scene is visible.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{slightly muffled}'' IT'S OVER!

'''STRONG SAD:''' ''{off-screen}'' Uh, Strong Bad, were you just first-basin' it with that piece of loose-leaf?!

==Easter Eggs==
* At the end, click on the "O" to play a scene with Manolios Ugly One.
:'''MANOLIOS UGLY ONE:''' So okay, guys. Come down and be shopping at Manolios Ugly One's Lectro-pawn! ''{"come down and see us" flashes on the screen.}'' I have a price on broken VCR, smashed tape, or something like that. I'll be over here yelling, Manolios Lectro-pawn! ''{he appears upside-down from the top of the screen}'' Manolios Lectro-pawn! Or something like that.
* Click on the "!" to play a scene with the girls.
:'''CHEERLEADER:''' It's our tenth issue-versary!!! Let's do a clip show!!!
:'''SO AND SO:''' Let's have a wedding!!
:'''THE UGLY ONE:''' Let's have a baby!!!
:'''WHAT'S HER FACE:''' Let's kill someone off!
:'''NARRATOR STRONG BAD:''' Okay!
:''{A "splat" is heard, and Cheerleader's head is turned upside-down, but with one ponytail still coming out of the "top" of her head, with the other ponytail on her backside and her arms and legs swapped. So and So is squished by a giant golf ball. The Ugly One is eaten by a carnivorous plant. What's Her Face has a lampshade over her head.}''

==Fun Facts==

===Explanations===
*"24 great-smelling colors" refers to scented markers like the [http://www.sanford.com/sanford/consumer/jhtml/new-product/productdetail.jhtml?attributeId=SNATT20025&nrProductId=SN20072 Mr. Sketch] series.
*"pØwned" is a variation of Internet slang meaning "owned". "[[Wikipedia:Pwn|Pwned]]" has numerous pronunciations, with popular ones including "owned" or "poned". Along the same lines, "P4wned" would also be [[Wikipedia:Leet|leetspeak]] for "pawned" as in pawn shop.
*The [[Wikipedia: Caber toss|Caber toss]] is a traditional Scottish sport, usually involving a log of specific weight. However, the remark "BAGH! Only 23 metres!" does not apply to the sport, for distance is not the object, rather how straight the throw is after it lands end-over-end.
*A [[Wikipedia:lathe|lathe]] is a tool used to create objects with [[wikipedia:rotational symmetry#Rotational symmetry with respect to any angle|cylindrical symmetry]] such as table legs. It works by rotating the subject while a cutting or smoothing tool is applied, evenly removing material around its circumference.
*[[Wikipedia:Clip show|Clip shows]], weddings, new babies, and characters getting killed off are staples of anniversary episodes and are generally considered signs of a TV show [[Wikipedia:Jumping the shark|jumping the shark]]. Such episodes also reprise characters and themes from the show as a whole (this issue features a great number of minor characters from previous issues). In the '60s, some shows, such as ''[[IMDb:tt0055662|The Beverly Hillbillies]]'', were thought to have jumped the shark when they made the switch from black and white to color.
*The "Sweet Someteen" birthday is a play on [[Wikipedia:Sweet sixteen (birthday)|sweet sixteen]].
*[[Wikipedia:Shareware|Shareware]] is generally software that an individual creates and grants distribution rights to for free (accompanied by a request for payment), with the intention that recipients will like it and share it with other people, increasing its visibility and potential profitability.
*The 3 "X's" on the beer barrel surrounded by the Scots are marks that once signified the thoroughness of distillation of [[Wikipedia:moonshine|moonshine]], but now have come to be synonymous with any type of alcohol.

===Trivia===
*This cartoon uses a higher [[Wikipedia:Frame rate|frame rate]] than any of the other ones before (20 fps, where others are 12) due to the 3-D sequence; this makes Strong Bad's makeout sequence and a few minor effects such as So-And-So's spinning eyes seem a little smoother than normal. In addition, the animation of the word "loading" (which has used the same number of frames since the second issue) appears on the screen (and, if necessary, repeats itself) more quickly than normal.
*The music at the party is a dance mix version of the TGS main theme song.

===Remarks===
*If The Ugly One's dad's name is Manolios Ugly One, then "Ugly One" is actually her surname; this calls to mind So and So's step-mom being named [[Mrs. So-and-so-erson]], and What's Her Face possibly having the surname "Her Face" (in [[Teen Girl Squad Issue 5]]).
*This toon has more characters in it than any other toon to date.
*Even though it says in "24 great smelling colors", there are 43 colors.
*Strong Bad drew the "It's Over!" page on the back of the making-out page (you can see it reversed through the page, which is crumpled).
*This is the first time we've actually seen Strong Bad kiss something.
*When Strong Bad places the paper of himself greeting The Ugly One over the ARROWED II page, you can faintly see the ARROWED page beneath it.
*This toon, the 10th issue special, was released on October 10, or 10/10.
*This is the first Teen Girl Squad issue to take us outside the paper and into the regular Homestar Runner universe (not counting the [[Wikipedia:frame story|frame story]] in the email [[comic]]).
*The speech balloons for the Mighty Warrior's first phrase, the Coach's phrase over the cellphone and "SO GOOD!" are opaque; the lines on the paper aren't visible inside them.
*When Strong Bad says "It's over", it sounds like the making-out page is still in his mouth. However, "It's over" is written on the back of the same piece of paper.
*If the Scotsman was able to toss Cheerleader 23 metres (about 75 feet), The Ugly One's party must be in a large room or outside.
*The back button at the end of this comic leads to the Toons menu instead of the Teen Girl Squad menu.

===Goofs===
*"Vicious" is misspelled as "viscious" in So and So's description.
*When Manolios says "give it up," his speech bubble says "give up." Yet on the DVD version, the word "it" is not omitted.
*Near the end, in the "real life" scene, we see the "ARROWED II" paper on the desk. However, it is missing the "II."
*In the Easter Egg, when Manolios Ugly One is waving his arms around, a gap opens and closes repeatedly in his beard.
*So And So's teeth are pink in her introductory shot.

[[Image:Babydaddy.PNG|100px|thumb|Oops.]]

===Glitches===
*In the rotational scenes, Cheerleader's ''baby daddy'' floats off of her dress. This is probably because of a shortcut taken which involves decorations such as eyes rotating around spherical objects, such as heads. Masks are then added to cause the eyes to disappear when they leave the head area. Apparently they forgot to add this mask to Cheerleader's dress.

===Inside References===
* "ARROWED II!" is a reference to "ARROWED!" on [[Teen Girl Squad Issue 1]].
* "[[Minor_Teen_Girl_Squad_Characters#Brett_Bretterson|Brett Bretterson]]" is So and So's imaginary boyfriend in [[Teen Girl Squad Issue 4]].
* The three scotsmen saying, "ACHGH! ACHGH! ACHGH!" is a reference to [[Teen Girl Squad Issue 1]], where three of the girls say "word" and "a'ight" in the same fashion, and a similar occurrence in [[Teen Girl Squad Issue 5|Issue 5]], with George Washington, Abe Lincoln, and Henry Rollins all saying "woot" in sequence.

===Real-World References===
*[[Wikipedia:Nick at Nite|Nick at Nite]] (misspelled as "Night" in the toon) is a programming block of [[Wikipedia:Nickelodeon (TV Channel)|Nickelodeon]] that runs "classic" TV like ''[[Wikipedia:Cheers|Cheers]]'' and ''[[Wikipedia:The Cosby Show|The Cosby Show]]'', while [[Wikipedia:WB Television Network|The WB]] is a network historically aimed at teens, with shows such as ''[[Wikipedia:Dawson's Creek|Dawson's Creek]]'' and ''[[Wikipedia:Gilmore Girls|Gilmore Girls]]''.
*[[Wikipedia:Bowser|Bowser]] and [[Wikipedia:Diddy Kong|Diddy Kong]] are [[Nintendo]] characters. Bowser is the king of [[Wikipedia:Koopa|Koopas]], which is why a Koopa shell hit So And So.
*Tompkins is playing the original 1989 [[Nintendo#Game Boy|Game Boy]] model. However, [[Wikipedia:Bowser|Bowser]] never appeared in a traditional game for this version of the Game Boy.
*"ARROWED II! Electric..." is a reference to the movie [[Wikipedia:Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo|''Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo'']]. It has become frequently referenced as an example of facetious follow-ups to popular films.
*The "spinner" gag refers to glitches in physics simulation used in CGI animation, such as when certain objects fail to stop moving. Examples can be seen in the DVD special features of the computer-animated film ''[[IMDb:tt0198781|Monsters, Inc.]]''
*Henry Rollins is colored bright red when he is shown socializing at the party. This is a reference to the make-up he wore in the video for ''[[Wikipedia:The Rollins Band|The Rollins Band]]'' song called "Liar."

== 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]], [[Matt Chapman]].)

'''MATT:''' Hey Mike, we just made this a couple weeks ago!

'''MIKE:''' Two weeks ago, Matt! Teen Girl Squad number ten!

'''MATT:''' We didn't know if we'd make it...

'''MIKE:''' We did.

'''MATT:''' So, there's a big deal— a lot of big deals in this Teen Girl Squad! There's colors...

'''MIKE:''' ...colors...

'''MATT:''' ...there's— there's three D's, in quotes...

'''MIKE:''' ...and lots of corn. And samurais.

'''MATT:''' I like this little samurai.

'''MIKE:''' He just sounds like old Strong Bad.

'''MATT:''' ''{laughs}'' Str— that's right. Strong Bad was a s—, a samurai. Not a wrestleman.

'''MIKE:''' I spelled Nick-at-Nite wrong there.

'''MATT:''' Did you? How'd you spell it?

'''MIKE:''' Oh, I spelled vicious earlier— wrong earlier too.

'''MATT:''' We should change that.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah. So when you're listening to this commentary, we're talking about some misspellings that aren't actually there!

'''MATT:''' Maybe! Depending on how lazy we are.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, maybe we won't fix them.

'''MATT:''' Look at— I love the way Cheerleader looks right now. She's—

'''MIKE:''' I like the Ugly One's smile right there. She's got Marzipan's smile.

'''MATT:''' That is the single best moment of any cartoon we've ever made. Mike, I, I— we talked about—

'''MIKE:''' Ah, look at that!

'''MATT:''' That's sweet deal. I agree, Strong Bad. So, uh, we spent way too much time on that.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah. That was sort of the reason we why kept What's Her Face spinning there, was because we spent so much time on those, like, spinning animations that we wanted to, uh, get some more use out of it.

'''MATT:''' Just blomp  it. Yeah.

'''MIKE:''' Look, here's all your favorite past TGS friends! Including Mrs. Commanderson!

'''MATT:''' And Henry Rollins from the liar video by Rollins band!

'''MIKE:''' Look, here's the techno remix of Teen Girl Squad theme song!

'''MATT:''' Yeah. That middle Scotsman looks kind of like our friend John. We really— and it looks kind of like a drawing that John would do, too. We later learned that that's wrong. The caber toss is not about distance.

'''MIKE:''' ''{simultaneously}'' It's not about distance.

'''MATT:''' It's about straightness.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, I guess.

'''MATT:''' She's more can opener'd than lathe'd, there.

'''MIKE:''' Can opener'd maybe would have been better.

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

'''MIKE:''' Lathe'd is fine.

'''MATT:''' Tompkins is playing his really, really old Game Boy that weighed, like, five pounds.

'''MIKE:''' ''{simultaneously}'' Maybe he's playing Battletoads, maybe?

'''MATT:''' Ooh, Tecmobowl?

'''MIKE:''' I think those are the two games, we had. That and Tetris for— those and Tetris, for the—

'''MATT:''' Right.

'''MIKE:''' —old green Game Boys.

'''MATT:''' Uh, The Ugly One's dad is, um—

'''MIKE:''' —a slob!

'''MATT:''' ''{laughs}'' A fat slob!

'''MIKE:''' So, Manolios; Matt, tell everyone about Manolios!

'''MATT:''' Manolios! Uh, my wife and I went to Greece this summer and we got to take a ride on the Manolios boat around Santorini.

'''MIKE:''' And Matt didn't shut up about it for about a month afterwards, ''{incomprehensible}''

'''MATT:''' It was— it was the best thing ever.

'''MIKE:''' Aw, look at Mr. Pitters!

'''MATT:''' Oh, he's got corn— he had corn in his pocket; I don't know if you noticed that, and he had some razor burn. Because he had to shave really quickly for the prom, and to ask The Ugly One to marry her [''sic''] at the prom, apparently.

'''MIKE:''' Oh, ooh, my!

'''MATT:''' That's— that's a little much, Strong Bad.

'''MIKE:''' Oh, look at this! Twenty frames, uh, a second animation instead of our usual twelve.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, it really throws everyone off.

'''MIKE:''' I kinda like it, uh, maybe I want to start doing some more stuff. It definitely took a lot longer.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. That's the problem.

'''MIKE:''' Roughly eighty percent longer!

'''MATT:''' ''{incomprehensible noise}'' ''{imitating Strong Sad}'' Loose leaf?

== External Links ==
*[[HR:tgs10.html|watch "Teen Girl Squad Issue 10"]]
*[[HR:tgs10.swf|view the Flash file for "Teen Girl Squad Issue 10"]]
*[[Forum:5318|forum thread re: "Teen Girl Squad Issue 10"]]

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2006-08-06T01:49:41Z

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2006-08-05T17:31:46Z

Killbot:

I rock really hard. No really. I won the dig to china with your ears contest!
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2006-08-05T17:31:28Z

Killbot:

I rock really hard. No really. I won the dig to china with your ears contest!
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2006-08-05T17:30:27Z

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Weclome Back

2006-08-05T17:01:07Z

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{{toonnav|Big Toon|weclomeback|A Folky Tale|The King of Town DVD}}
[[Image:Weclome Back.PNG|thumb|"What is it, like, mid-May or something?"]]
Homestar and the gang all reflect on their summer vacation.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Bubs}}, {{Film|Marzipan}}, {{Film|Strong Mad}}, {{Film|The Cheat}}, {{Film|Homsar}}, [[Eh! Steve]] (Easter egg), {{Film|Strong Sad}}, {{Film|The King of Town}}, {{Film|Coach Z}}, {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|Homestar Runner}}, {{Film|Pom Pom}}, {{Film|The Poopsmith}}

'''Places:''' [[The Field]], [[Topiary Garden]], [[The Island]], [[Obstacle Course]], [[Airplane]]

'''Date:''' July 3, 2006

'''Running Time:''' 4:37

'''Page Title:''' Your dreams were your ticket out...

==Transcript==
''{A closeup of a time clock attached to a telephone pole. A time card is punched in. The words "Weclome Back" are shown, and flash various colors. Pull out to see Bubs holding a cup of coffee, in front of a table with styrofoam cups and an urn, in the Field. Marzipan enters and also punches in.}''

'''BUBS:''' Well, hello, Marzi-person! Welcome back.

'''MARZIPAN:''' Well, howdy, stranger!

'''BUBS:''' Stranger? I'm Bubs, remember?

'''MARZIPAN:''' ''{unimpressed}'' Uh, I know. It's a joke.

'''BUBS:''' That's hilarious! How was your vacation?

'''MARZIPAN:''' It was toot sweet! I took the Cool Tapes on a midwestern tour ''{the tour map pops up}'' of bead shops and topiary gardens.

''{Cut to a topiary garden; Marzipan, Strong Mad and The Cheat are playing in the band}''

'''MARZIPAN:''' ''{singing}''
:Cool tapes are cool, and we're better than ever,
:Cool tapes are cool, 'cause we're light as a feather.
:Keep it down with that real cool flavor,
:Me and The Cheat and our bass player.
:Rockin' the spot.
:Yeah, we're rockin' the spot.

''{Marzipan appears behind a topiary tree shaped like William Shakespeare.}''

'''MARZIPAN:''' Grapes, y'all! And don't forget we've got cool 7-inches for sale over at our merch table.

''{Cut to the merchandise table. Homsar is standing on it, it has a sign reading "Merch Masala" and another reading "Steven Inches $[[Pi|π]]"}''

'''HOMSAR:''' I'm a little light in the leftovers!

''{Homsar's hat flies off the left of the screen, then returns from the right and hits him on the head before settling back into its original position. Cut back to Bubs and Marzipan at the coffee table.}''

'''BUBS:''' I bet you drove the shapèd plants wild.

'''MARZIPAN:''' Yeah, they were way into it. So what did you do?

'''BUBS:''' I drove my baloney sandwich truck down to the beach.

''{Cut to the tropical island. Bubs's "Baloney Sammich Truck", which resembles an ice-cream truck, doesn't quite fit, and the rear wheels are in the water.}''

'''BUBS:''' BAH-loh-NEH!!! Come on, people! Come on, palm tree! I'm-tryingtosellabaloneysammich!

''{An Atari seagull squawks and flies past.}''

'''BUBS:''' ''{angrily to Atari seagull}'' You shut your face!

''{Cut back to the coffee table.}''

'''BUBS:''' I sold exactly zero baloney sandwiches!

'''MARZIPAN:''' Well, that's great!

'''BUBS:''' Yeah, it was pretty much my best summer ever.

'''STRONG SAD:''' ''{walks in}'' Same here. I spent two glorious weeks at Gluten Camp. I learned more about this oft-misunderstood plant protein than I ever thought possible.

'''THE KING OF TOWN:''' What''eva!'' ''{puts a time card in the time clock}'' I was across the lake at Glutton Camp. And we challenged those pansies to an obstacle course!

''{Cut to the obstacle course, pan across to see Strong Sad and the King of Town stuck in two tire swings.}''

'''STRONG SAD:''' Well, should we call it a draw?

'''THE KING OF TOWN:''' Hecks, no! I got stuck in here 10 minutes before you!

''{Pan across to Coach Z.}''

'''COACH Z:''' Let's go, Glorten Camp! Glorten Camp is pain and scranin' on yous!

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' Oh yeah?

''{cut back to the coffee table}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Well while you slo-mos were slounching around on your haunchy laurels, I was checking the most amazing email of my career!

''{Cut through static to Strong Bad, holding the Lappy, on a plane. Screen markers and a recording light are visible, as though viewed through a camcorder. Strong Bad leans in and adjusts the focus.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' All right, Lappy, when I mash record on that camera, we're gonna perform the world's first death-defying midair SBEmail check! We'll make the cover of all the latest blogs! Now, are you psyched?! I'm psyched, are you psyched?!? OK, 3! 2! 1!

''{Strong Bad leans in and presses a button on the camera. Cut through static to Strong Bad standing on the ground. The camera drops to the ground and slowly falls over.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Oh, the believing is hard to be doing, because that was so incredible! We met so many celebrities in midair! And the part with the narwhale ''{sic}'' was ''so'' illegal.

''{Cut through static to Strong Bad, back at the coffee table}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Oh, cuh-rap! What am I, your dad? I can't believe I pulled the old "mash Stop when you think you're mashing Record and mash Record when you think you're mashing Stop" routine on myself.

'''MARZIPAN:''' But if we've all been on vacation, who's been taking care of the website?

''{Homestar Runner walks in, tired, wearing a dressing gown, a nightcap and Nebulon slippers, with a cinnamon 5 o'clock shadow.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{yawns}'' What's up, my brothers? Let no one say the Homestar Runner don't know how to nap. What is it, like mid-May or something?

'''STRONG BAD:''' Uh, try "early July."

''{Zoom in.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Aah! I slept through June!

'''STRONG BAD:''' Yup.

''{Zoom in even tighter.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Aah-! -gatha Christie would never sleep through June... neither would Angela Lansbury.

'''STRONG BAD:''' Aren't they the same person?

'''BUBS:''' Yeah.

'''KING OF TOWN:''' Yep.

'''MARZIPAN:''' I think they are.

'''STRONG SAD:''' Yes, they definitely are.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Well, it's settled then. Now, what's this I hear about some of you guys sleeping through June? I'll let it slide this time, but June-sleepers will not be tolerated from this day henceforth. Now, whose turn was it to ''{rolls tongue}'' bring the doughnuts?

'''EVERYONE BUT HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Yours!

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Well, I'll let it slide this time, but dough-not rememberers will dough-not be tolerated from now on. All right, everybody, everybody. It's time to get this www-dot-show back on the road-dot-com. Now, places! Aaand...
[[Image:Weclome Back everybody.PNG|150px|right|"Everybody, everybody!"]]
''{Cut to everyone standing in regular clothes in front of a plain blue background. The words "everybody, everybody" appear in front of them, zooming and flashing. The music from the [[Intro]] page plays.}''

'''CHILDREN:''' Everybody, everybody! Everybody, everybody! Everybody, everybody! Everybody, everybody!
{{clear}}

==Easter Eggs==
[[Image:Freewheelinsteve.PNG|thumb|The Freewheelin' Eh, Steve]]
* In Homsar's scene, click on the "Steven Inches" sign to see a "The Freewheelin' Eh, Steve" album cover. On the bottom it lists the songs ''Sweet Cups and Cakes'' by Wheelchair Man, ''Eh, Steve's Dream'' by Eh, Steve!, and ''Talkin' Trying to Catch a Worm Blues'' by Fresh Juice.
* When the King of Town first appears, click on his crown to see his "I'm with Glutton Camp" T-shirt.
* Click on the left "everybody" at the end of the toon to see what Pom Pom and The Poopsmith presumably did during their summer vacation.
:''{Pom Pom and the Poopsmith are both leaning on the palm tree on the deserted island. The Poopsmith is wearing Strong Bad's Dangeresque sunglasses, and Pom Pom is wearing Homestar's. After a few moments, a thought cloud appears and reveals that Pom Pom is thinking of a baloney sandwich. Another one appears shortly afterwards and shows that the Poopsmith is too.}''

==Fun Facts==

===Explanations===
*This toon refers to the real-life vacation that [[The Brothers Chaps]] took in the late spring/early summer of 2006, during which time the site went nearly seven weeks (48 days) without a major update, the longest hiatus on record. There were various minor updates during this period, but no toons.
*"Toot sweet" is a play on the French phrase ''"tout de suite"'' (which translates to "immediately" or "at once"). Both phrases are pronounced roughly the same.
*The Baloney Truck is a spoof on the [[wikipedia:Ice_cream_truck|Ice Cream Truck/Van]], which is popular in some parts of the world.

===Trivia===
[[Image:Cool tapes tour.png|thumb|300px|Cool Tapes' June 2006 tour]]
*The time card reads:
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|- style="border: 3px solid #F9C"
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|- style="border: 3px solid #F9C"
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|- style="border: 3px solid #F9C"
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*The [[Cool Tapes]] tour goes through East Westerburg, Beadsburg, Bead Store City, Sculpted Busheston, New Beadshop, Topiarianapolis, Beeeeeds, and Tope Gardens. Other towns on the map are Northtime, Pantsburg, Shoigut, Thuxtable, and The Slickster.
*There are trees in the topiary garden shaped as an ice-cream cone, [[Trogdor]], a tree stump, and [[Wikipedia:William Shakespeare|William Shakespeare]].
*According to the sign on the side of Bubs's [[Baloney Sammich Truck]], he's selling:
**"Gumball Surprise"– A baloney sandwich with a purple gumball on top.
**"Open Smiley Face"– An open baloney sandwich with a smiley face drawn on it in mustard.
**"I Heart Baloney"– A baloney sandwich with heart-shaped bread.
**"Dog Food"– A baloney sandwich with bone-shaped bread.
**"It's Not a Real Popsicle" – A baloney sandwich with popsicle-shaped bread.
**"Inside Out"– A piece of bread between two slices of baloney.
*In the DVD commentary on Strong Bad Email [[island]], Matt said they should use the island again. In addition to this cartoon, they already reused it in [[disconnected]].

===Remarks===
*[[Wikipedia:Agatha Christie|Agatha Christie]] and [[Wikipedia:Angela Lansbury|Angela Lansbury]] are not, in fact, the same person. Christie was a crime fiction author, and Lansbury is an actress famous for ''playing'' a crime fiction author on ''[[Wikipedia:Murder, She Wrote|Murder, She Wrote]]''. Lansbury however ''did'' play Christie's fictional sleuth [[Wikipedia:Miss Marple|Miss Marple]] in the movie adaptation of Christie's ''[[Wikipedia:The Mirror Crack'd|The Mirror Crack'd]]''.
*The spelling ''narwhale'' and Strong Bad's pronunciation of it are accepted variants; the more common spelling is ''narwhal''.
*When we see the back of the Lappy, it has none of the connection ports from [[isp]], but it is possible that Strong Bad's glove may be covering them.
*When Cool Tapes plays in the Topiary Garden, no amplifiers are present. Yet, when it closes up on Marzipan in the following shot, two "Marzipan" amplifiers are present behind her.

===Glitches===
*When Marzipan's angry expression is used, blinking causes her outline to be intruded.

===Inside References===
* [[Pants]]burg is one of the [[Strong Bad's Vacation Spots|places Strong Bad visited]] on his [[vacation]], and one of the places in [[Limozeen]]'s [[Limozeen#Zeenin' Across the Country 2001|Zeenin' Across the Country tour]].
* Strong Bad's line, "I can't believe I pulled the 'Mash stop when you think you're mashing record, and mash record when you think you're mashing stop' on myself", is a reference to [[Mashing Go|mashing go/play on something]]
* The Atari seagull first appeared in [[huttah!]] and [[take-a-break.exe]].
* Marzipan's [[Cool Tapes]] band comes from [[Cool Things]].
**Marzipan's remark, "Grapes, y'all!", is a reference to the bag of four grapes that appeared in the original lyrics.
* The toon's title contains the word [[Unusual Greetings#Weclome|Weclome]].
* Bubs pronounces "shaped plants" the same way Strong Bad and Teenage Homestar pronounced "striped pants" in [[highschool]].
* One of the places the Cool Tapes band visits is East Westerburg. Westerberg (spelled slightly differently) was visited in [[Thy Dungeonman 3]], and it was to the east of the player's starting location.
* The Poopsmith is wearing what appears to be [[Strong Bad]]'s [[Dangeresque]] sunglasses, and Pom Pom is wearing [[Dangeresque Too]]'s sunglasses.
* In addition to the two ropes attaching the tire swings to the tree at the obstacle course, a third rope hangs from the sky and sways gently, as did the rope featured in [[A Folky Tale]].
* The "Gumball Surprise" is another example of a [[Concoctions|concoction]].
* Homestar's sleeping through June is similar to how he slept through most of Decemberween in [[Homestar Presents: Presents]].
* The Eh! Steve song "Sweet Cups and Cakes" refers to [[Sweet Cuppin' Cakes]], from which he originated.
* "Fresh Juice" (from the Eh! Steve album) is one of the suggested death metal lyrics from the worksheet in [[death metal]].
* Homestar is wearing [[Cinnamon|cinnamon]] on his face, and his slippers resemble [[Nebulon]], who first appeared on [[Main Page 1]].
* Marzipan's comment, "Who's been watching the website?" is an example of [[Fourth Wall Breaks|breaking the fourth wall]].

===Real-World References===
*The city "The Slickster" (as seen on the Cool Tapes tour map) is a reference to former [[Wikipedia:World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] manager [[Wikipedia:Ken Johnson (wrestling)|Ken Johnson]], whose ring name was Slick and often called "The Slickster" by the commentators.
*The city of "Thuxtable" is a reference to Theo Huxtable, a character on [[Wikipedia:The Cosby Show|The Cosby Show]]. Theo Huxtable was previously referenced in [[Halloween Potion-ma-jig]], when Coach Z dressed up like him.
*The design of the Cool Tapes Marzipan amps is based on the design of the classic Marshall amp. It was previously seen in [[different town]].
*The page title references the theme song from the sitcom ''[[Wikipedia:Welcome Back, Kotter|Welcome Back, Kotter]]'' ("Welcome back / Your dreams were your ticket out...").
*Athletic competitions between summer camps occupying the same campground are common in family movies and cartoons. Some examples include the movies ''[[Wikipedia:Heavyweights|Heavyweights]]'' and ''[[Wikipedia:Meatballs (film)|Meatballs]]''.
*The "Freewheelin' Eh! Steve" album cover is a reference to [[Wikipedia:Bob Dylan|Bob Dylan's]] early album, ''[[Wikipedia:The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan|The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan]]''. In addition, "Eh! Steve's Dream" is a reference to the Dylan song ''Bob Dylan's Dream'' and "Talkin' Trying to Catch a Worm Blues" refers to Dylan's song ''Talkin' World War III Blues''.
*Homestar's green ribcage [[Homestar Runner's Sleepwear|shirt]] is a reference to the movie ''[[Wikipedia:This Is Spinal Tap|This Is Spinal Tap]]'', in which [[Wikipedia:Nigel Tufnel|Nigel Tufnel]] wears the same shirt and later remarks "This is what I sleep in sometimes".
**The Eh! Steve song "Sweet Cups and Cakes" is likely a ''This Is Spinal Tap'' reference as well, since "Cups and Cakes" is the name of a Spinal Tap song.
*Strong Mad's violin styled bass bears a resemblance to the [[Wikipedia:Hofner|Hofner]] bass played by [[Wikipedia:Paul McCartney|Paul McCartney]]. However, Strong Mad plays right handed, while Paul is left-handed.
*Strong Bad's Narwhal reference is a reference to the popular Internet game [http://www.spinnerdisc.com/narwhaldiving.html Narwhal Diving] at the website [http://www.spinnerdisc.com Spinnerdisc.com].
*The sign on the merchandise table that reads "Merch Masala" refers to the 1985 Hindi movie [[Wikipedia:Mirch Masala|Mirch Masala]]. Mirch Masala is also the name of an Indian restaurant in Decatur, Georgia.
*Strong Sad's "I'm with gluten camp" T-shirt is a play on the popular [[Wikipedia:1980s|'80s]] "I'm with stupid" T-shirts.
*Marzipan almost smashing [[Carol]] in the "Cool Tapes" scene is a reference to [[Wikipedia:Pete Townshend|Pete Townshend]]'s habit of smashing his guitars onstage.
*The "Marzipan" amplifiers bear a resemblance to [[Wikipedia:Marshall Amplification|Marshall Amps]], a famous brand of guitar amp that became synonymous with heavy metal and rock bands.

==External Links==
*[[HR:weclomeback.html|watch "Weclome Back"]]
*[[HR:weclomeback.swf|view the Flash file for "Weclome Back"]]
*[[Forum:8992|forum thread re: "Weclome Back"]]

[[Category:Toons]]

Icon References in Halloween Costumes

2006-08-03T17:02:48Z

Killbot: Added more

[[Image:Homestar_GreatHero.PNG|thumb|150px|"Believe or not, I'm walking around. I never thought I could trick-or-tre-e-eat..."]]

During the [[Holidays#Halloween (October 31st)|Halloween toons]], the [[Characters#Main characters|characters]] dress up in [[Halloween Costumes|costumes]] in which to go 'trick or treating'. More often than not, such costumes are of an icon or celebrity from the 1970s, 80s and 90s. As a result, at least one character per toon occasionally speaks in dialogue or lines (or moves around) that somehow pertains to his/her respective costume.
==Occurrences==
===[[Homestarloween Party]]===
*'''Coach Z''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Flavor Flav|Flavor Flav]] of the rap group [[Wikipedia:Public Enemy|Public Enemy]], Homestar comments on his costume by saying, "Coach Z is down with the PE". This is a reference to the group's song, "Burn Hollywood Burn", wherein guest-rapper [[Wikipedia:Ice Cube|Ice Cube]] raps "Ice Cube is down with the PE".
*'''The Cheat''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Garfield|Garfield]], he holds his teddy bear, Pooky, which is actually Garfield's own teddy bear.
*'''Strong Bad''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Carmen Miranda|Carmen Miranda]] a famous actor from the 1940's.
*'''King of Town''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Captain Crunch|Captain Crunch]] a cereal mascot for a cereal of the same name.
*'''The Poopsmith''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Tron|Tron]] from a movie of the same name.
*'''Strong Sad''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Mikhail Gorbachev|Mikhail Gorbachev]] general secretary of the communist party of the Soviet Union.
*'''Marzipan''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Jeannie|Jeannie]] from the show [[Wikipedia:I Dream of Jeannie|I Dream of Jeannie]]
===[[The House That Gave Sucky Treats]]===
*'''Coach Z''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Humpty Hump|Humpty Hump]], the rap he performs is from [[Wikipedia:Digital Underground|Digital Underground]]'s hit song, "The Humpty Dance," only Coach Z substitutes his own name for Humpty's.
*'''Strong Mad''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:William Perry (football)|William "Refrigerator" Perry]], he does a variation of that old prank phone call, "Is your refrigerator running?" In this case, he says, "Is your refrigerator perry running?"
*'''Marzipan''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Joey Ramone|Joey Ramone]] of the punk rock group, The Ramones, she says, "Hey ho, let's go!" This is part of the lyrics to their song, "Blitzkrieg Bop", and also both a reference and tribute to Joey after he died earlier in 2001.
*'''Homsar''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Popeye|Popeye]] comic strip character, [[Wikipedia:J. Wellington Wimpy|J. Wellington Wimpy]], who really adores hamburgers, he says, "I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for some candy today." This is a parody of Wimpy's catch phrase, "I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today," only Homsar substitutes "some candy" for "a hamburger".
*'''Strong Bad''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Carmen Sandiego|Carmen Sandiego]], he says, "Where in the world is my candy?" This is a reference to the computer game and TV show that features Carmen, "Where In the World Is Carmen Sandiego?"

===[[Pumpkin Carve-nival]]===
*'''The King of Town''' — Dressed as famous video game character [[Wikipedia:Mario|Mario]], he comments that he is a video game (which Marzipan wouldn't know, since she doesn't play video games). Later, after Homestar (or rather, Strong Bad dressed up as Homestar) gives him a worst prize, he laments, "Sorry, king, but our princess is in another castle." This is a reference to the [[Wikipedia:Super Mario Bros.|first Super Mario Bros. game]], in which, after clearing each level (prior to the eighth and final level), the mushroom people Mario saves say, "Thank you, Mario. But our princess is in another castle!"

===[[3 Times Halloween Funjob]]===
*'''The King of Town''' — Dressed as the [[Wikipedia:Hamburglar|Hamburglar]], he says that he is "dressed to 'hamburgle'" and even utters the Hamburglar's catchphrase, "Robble-robble!"
*'''Stinkoman''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Speed Racer|Speed Racer]], he declares that he's "a demon on wheels". This is directly lifted from the show's theme song, which also describes the title protagonist as "a demon on wheels".
*'''Strong Mad''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Magnum P.I.|Magnum P.I.]], he bellows "Higgins!", who is actually Tom Selleck's boss on that show.
*'''Strong Sad''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:David Byrne|David Byrne]], leader of new wave group [[Wikipedia:Talking Heads|Talking Heads]], he says, "This is not my beautiful house! This is not my beautiful wife!" These are lyrics from the song, "Once In a Lifetime," by Talking Heads.
*'''The Poopsmith''' — Dressed as ''[[Wikipedia:Street Fighter|Street Fighter]]'' character, [[Wikipedia:M. Bison|M. Bison]], he performs a flaming maneuver. This is actually M. Bison's Psycho Crusher attack.

===[[Halloween Fairstival]]===
*'''Strong Bad''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:The Joker|the Joker]], he calls his posse his "bad pennies", which is what the Joker calls his henchmen. Later, at the end, he says, "Hello, kiddies, a-meet the Joker!"
*'''Homsar''' — Dressed as Kumar from the movie ''[[Wikipedia:Bottle Rocket|Bottle Rocket]]'', he says one of the character's most famous lines, "AaAaAa... I blew it, man! I just lost my touch."
*'''The King of Town''' — Dressed as the Mayor from the movie ''[[Wikipedia:The Nightmare Before Christmas|The Nightmare Before Christmas]]'', he turns his head around to show a second face with a blue tint and difference expression. The Mayor in the movie changes his face around when his mood changes.
*'''Homestar Runner''' — Dressed as Carl Spackler from the movie ''[[Wikipedia:Caddyshack|Caddyshack]]'', Homestar comments, "So I got that going for me. Which is nice." This was a line spoken by Spackler in that movie.
*'''Marzipan''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Willie Nelson|Willie Nelson]], Strong Bad notices this by saying to her, "Hey Marzi, I just can't wait for you to get on the road again... and get hit by a schoolbus." The first part of this line is a reference to Nelson's song, appropriately titled "On the Road Again."

===[[Halloween Potion-ma-jig]]===
*'''Strong Bad''' — Dressed as Jambi the Genie from [[Wikipedia:Pee-wee's Playhouse|Pee-wee's Playhouse]], he says to The Cheat about Homestar, "Meka-leka-hi-meka-The Cheat, throw a TV on him...ho." This is a reference to Jambi's favorite incantation, "Meka-leka-hi-meka-hiney-ho." Later, when asked of what he is supposed to be, Strong Bad says he's Jambi and even says another of the character's signature lines to prove it: "Wish? Did somebody say 'wish'?"

== See also ==
*[[What are you supposed to be?]]

[[Category:Lists]]
[[Category:Halloween]]
[[Category:Inside Jokes]]

{{stub}}

Icon References in Halloween Costumes

2006-08-03T16:58:20Z

Killbot:

[[Image:Homestar_GreatHero.PNG|thumb|150px|"Believe or not, I'm walking around. I never thought I could trick-or-tre-e-eat..."]]

During the [[Holidays#Halloween (October 31st)|Halloween toons]], the [[Characters#Main characters|characters]] dress up in [[Halloween Costumes|costumes]] in which to go 'trick or treating'. More often than not, such costumes are of an icon or celebrity from the 1970s, 80s and 90s. As a result, at least one character per toon occasionally speaks in dialogue or lines (or moves around) that somehow pertains to his/her respective costume.
==Occurrences==
===[[Homestarloween Party]]===
*'''Coach Z''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Flavor Flav|Flavor Flav]] of the rap group [[Wikipedia:Public Enemy|Public Enemy]], Homestar comments on his costume by saying, "Coach Z is down with the PE". This is a reference to the group's song, "Burn Hollywood Burn", wherein guest-rapper [[Wikipedia:Ice Cube|Ice Cube]] raps "Ice Cube is down with the PE".
*'''The Cheat''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Garfield|Garfield]], he holds his teddy bear, Pooky, which is actually Garfield's own teddy bear.
*'''Strong Bad''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Carmen Miranda|Carmen Miranda]] a famous actor from the 1940's.
*'''King of Town''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Captain Crunch|Captain Crunch]] a cereal mascot for a cereal of the same name.
*'''The Poopsmith''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Tron|Tron]] from a movie of the same name.
*'''Strong Sad''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Mikhail Gorbachev|Mikhail Gorbachev]] general secretary of the communist party of the Soviet Union.
===[[The House That Gave Sucky Treats]]===
*'''Coach Z''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Humpty Hump|Humpty Hump]], the rap he performs is from [[Wikipedia:Digital Underground|Digital Underground]]'s hit song, "The Humpty Dance," only Coach Z substitutes his own name for Humpty's.
*'''Strong Mad''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:William Perry (football)|William "Refrigerator" Perry]], he does a variation of that old prank phone call, "Is your refrigerator running?" In this case, he says, "Is your refrigerator perry running?"
*'''Marzipan''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Joey Ramone|Joey Ramone]] of the punk rock group, The Ramones, she says, "Hey ho, let's go!" This is part of the lyrics to their song, "Blitzkrieg Bop", and also both a reference and tribute to Joey after he died earlier in 2001.
*'''Homsar''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Popeye|Popeye]] comic strip character, [[Wikipedia:J. Wellington Wimpy|J. Wellington Wimpy]], who really adores hamburgers, he says, "I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for some candy today." This is a parody of Wimpy's catch phrase, "I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today," only Homsar substitutes "some candy" for "a hamburger".
*'''Strong Bad''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Carmen Sandiego|Carmen Sandiego]], he says, "Where in the world is my candy?" This is a reference to the computer game and TV show that features Carmen, "Where In the World Is Carmen Sandiego?"

===[[Pumpkin Carve-nival]]===
*'''The King of Town''' — Dressed as famous video game character [[Wikipedia:Mario|Mario]], he comments that he is a video game (which Marzipan wouldn't know, since she doesn't play video games). Later, after Homestar (or rather, Strong Bad dressed up as Homestar) gives him a worst prize, he laments, "Sorry, king, but our princess is in another castle." This is a reference to the [[Wikipedia:Super Mario Bros.|first Super Mario Bros. game]], in which, after clearing each level (prior to the eighth and final level), the mushroom people Mario saves say, "Thank you, Mario. But our princess is in another castle!"

===[[3 Times Halloween Funjob]]===
*'''The King of Town''' — Dressed as the [[Wikipedia:Hamburglar|Hamburglar]], he says that he is "dressed to 'hamburgle'" and even utters the Hamburglar's catchphrase, "Robble-robble!"
*'''Stinkoman''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Speed Racer|Speed Racer]], he declares that he's "a demon on wheels". This is directly lifted from the show's theme song, which also describes the title protagonist as "a demon on wheels".
*'''Strong Mad''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Magnum P.I.|Magnum P.I.]], he bellows "Higgins!", who is actually Tom Selleck's boss on that show.
*'''Strong Sad''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:David Byrne|David Byrne]], leader of new wave group [[Wikipedia:Talking Heads|Talking Heads]], he says, "This is not my beautiful house! This is not my beautiful wife!" These are lyrics from the song, "Once In a Lifetime," by Talking Heads.
*'''The Poopsmith''' — Dressed as ''[[Wikipedia:Street Fighter|Street Fighter]]'' character, [[Wikipedia:M. Bison|M. Bison]], he performs a flaming maneuver. This is actually M. Bison's Psycho Crusher attack.

===[[Halloween Fairstival]]===
*'''Strong Bad''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:The Joker|the Joker]], he calls his posse his "bad pennies", which is what the Joker calls his henchmen. Later, at the end, he says, "Hello, kiddies, a-meet the Joker!"
*'''Homsar''' — Dressed as Kumar from the movie ''[[Wikipedia:Bottle Rocket|Bottle Rocket]]'', he says one of the character's most famous lines, "AaAaAa... I blew it, man! I just lost my touch."
*'''The King of Town''' — Dressed as the Mayor from the movie ''[[Wikipedia:The Nightmare Before Christmas|The Nightmare Before Christmas]]'', he turns his head around to show a second face with a blue tint and difference expression. The Mayor in the movie changes his face around when his mood changes.
*'''Homestar Runner''' — Dressed as Carl Spackler from the movie ''[[Wikipedia:Caddyshack|Caddyshack]]'', Homestar comments, "So I got that going for me. Which is nice." This was a line spoken by Spackler in that movie.
*'''Marzipan''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Willie Nelson|Willie Nelson]], Strong Bad notices this by saying to her, "Hey Marzi, I just can't wait for you to get on the road again... and get hit by a schoolbus." The first part of this line is a reference to Nelson's song, appropriately titled "On the Road Again."

===[[Halloween Potion-ma-jig]]===
*'''Strong Bad''' — Dressed as Jambi the Genie from [[Wikipedia:Pee-wee's Playhouse|Pee-wee's Playhouse]], he says to The Cheat about Homestar, "Meka-leka-hi-meka-The Cheat, throw a TV on him...ho." This is a reference to Jambi's favorite incantation, "Meka-leka-hi-meka-hiney-ho." Later, when asked of what he is supposed to be, Strong Bad says he's Jambi and even says another of the character's signature lines to prove it: "Wish? Did somebody say 'wish'?"

== See also ==
*[[What are you supposed to be?]]

[[Category:Lists]]
[[Category:Halloween]]
[[Category:Inside Jokes]]

{{stub}}

Icon References in Halloween Costumes

2006-08-03T16:57:58Z

Killbot: Added more stuff!

[[Image:Homestar_GreatHero.PNG|thumb|150px|"Believe or not, I'm walking around. I never thought I could trick-or-tre-e-eat..."]]

During the [[Holidays#Halloween (October 31st)|Halloween toons]], the [[Characters#Main characters|characters]] dress up in [[Halloween Costumes|costumes]] in which to go 'trick or treating'. More often than not, such costumes are of an icon or celebrity from the 1970s, 80s and 90s. As a result, at least one character per toon occasionally speaks in dialogue or lines (or moves around) that somehow pertains to his/her respective costume.
==Occurrences==
===[[Homestarloween Party]]===
*'''Coach Z''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Flavor Flav|Flavor Flav]] of the rap group [[Wikipedia:Public Enemy|Public Enemy]], Homestar comments on his costume by saying, "Coach Z is down with the PE". This is a reference to the group's song, "Burn Hollywood Burn", wherein guest-rapper [[Wikipedia:Ice Cube|Ice Cube]] raps "Ice Cube is down with the PE".
*'''The Cheat''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Garfield|Garfield]], he holds his teddy bear, Pooky, which is actually Garfield's own teddy bear.
*'''Strong Bad''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Carmen Miranda|Carmen Miranda]] a famous actor from the 1940's.
*'''King of Town''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Captain Crunch|Captain Crunch]] a cereal mascot for a cereal of the same name.
*'''The Poopsmith''' — Dressed as[[Wikipedia:Tron|Tron]] from a movie of the same name.
*'''Strong Sad''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Mikhail Gorbachev|Mikhail Gorbachev]] general secretary of the communist party of the Soviet Union.
===[[The House That Gave Sucky Treats]]===
*'''Coach Z''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Humpty Hump|Humpty Hump]], the rap he performs is from [[Wikipedia:Digital Underground|Digital Underground]]'s hit song, "The Humpty Dance," only Coach Z substitutes his own name for Humpty's.
*'''Strong Mad''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:William Perry (football)|William "Refrigerator" Perry]], he does a variation of that old prank phone call, "Is your refrigerator running?" In this case, he says, "Is your refrigerator perry running?"
*'''Marzipan''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Joey Ramone|Joey Ramone]] of the punk rock group, The Ramones, she says, "Hey ho, let's go!" This is part of the lyrics to their song, "Blitzkrieg Bop", and also both a reference and tribute to Joey after he died earlier in 2001.
*'''Homsar''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Popeye|Popeye]] comic strip character, [[Wikipedia:J. Wellington Wimpy|J. Wellington Wimpy]], who really adores hamburgers, he says, "I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for some candy today." This is a parody of Wimpy's catch phrase, "I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today," only Homsar substitutes "some candy" for "a hamburger".
*'''Strong Bad''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Carmen Sandiego|Carmen Sandiego]], he says, "Where in the world is my candy?" This is a reference to the computer game and TV show that features Carmen, "Where In the World Is Carmen Sandiego?"

===[[Pumpkin Carve-nival]]===
*'''The King of Town''' — Dressed as famous video game character [[Wikipedia:Mario|Mario]], he comments that he is a video game (which Marzipan wouldn't know, since she doesn't play video games). Later, after Homestar (or rather, Strong Bad dressed up as Homestar) gives him a worst prize, he laments, "Sorry, king, but our princess is in another castle." This is a reference to the [[Wikipedia:Super Mario Bros.|first Super Mario Bros. game]], in which, after clearing each level (prior to the eighth and final level), the mushroom people Mario saves say, "Thank you, Mario. But our princess is in another castle!"

===[[3 Times Halloween Funjob]]===
*'''The King of Town''' — Dressed as the [[Wikipedia:Hamburglar|Hamburglar]], he says that he is "dressed to 'hamburgle'" and even utters the Hamburglar's catchphrase, "Robble-robble!"
*'''Stinkoman''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Speed Racer|Speed Racer]], he declares that he's "a demon on wheels". This is directly lifted from the show's theme song, which also describes the title protagonist as "a demon on wheels".
*'''Strong Mad''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Magnum P.I.|Magnum P.I.]], he bellows "Higgins!", who is actually Tom Selleck's boss on that show.
*'''Strong Sad''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:David Byrne|David Byrne]], leader of new wave group [[Wikipedia:Talking Heads|Talking Heads]], he says, "This is not my beautiful house! This is not my beautiful wife!" These are lyrics from the song, "Once In a Lifetime," by Talking Heads.
*'''The Poopsmith''' — Dressed as ''[[Wikipedia:Street Fighter|Street Fighter]]'' character, [[Wikipedia:M. Bison|M. Bison]], he performs a flaming maneuver. This is actually M. Bison's Psycho Crusher attack.

===[[Halloween Fairstival]]===
*'''Strong Bad''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:The Joker|the Joker]], he calls his posse his "bad pennies", which is what the Joker calls his henchmen. Later, at the end, he says, "Hello, kiddies, a-meet the Joker!"
*'''Homsar''' — Dressed as Kumar from the movie ''[[Wikipedia:Bottle Rocket|Bottle Rocket]]'', he says one of the character's most famous lines, "AaAaAa... I blew it, man! I just lost my touch."
*'''The King of Town''' — Dressed as the Mayor from the movie ''[[Wikipedia:The Nightmare Before Christmas|The Nightmare Before Christmas]]'', he turns his head around to show a second face with a blue tint and difference expression. The Mayor in the movie changes his face around when his mood changes.
*'''Homestar Runner''' — Dressed as Carl Spackler from the movie ''[[Wikipedia:Caddyshack|Caddyshack]]'', Homestar comments, "So I got that going for me. Which is nice." This was a line spoken by Spackler in that movie.
*'''Marzipan''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Willie Nelson|Willie Nelson]], Strong Bad notices this by saying to her, "Hey Marzi, I just can't wait for you to get on the road again... and get hit by a schoolbus." The first part of this line is a reference to Nelson's song, appropriately titled "On the Road Again."

===[[Halloween Potion-ma-jig]]===
*'''Strong Bad''' — Dressed as Jambi the Genie from [[Wikipedia:Pee-wee's Playhouse|Pee-wee's Playhouse]], he says to The Cheat about Homestar, "Meka-leka-hi-meka-The Cheat, throw a TV on him...ho." This is a reference to Jambi's favorite incantation, "Meka-leka-hi-meka-hiney-ho." Later, when asked of what he is supposed to be, Strong Bad says he's Jambi and even says another of the character's signature lines to prove it: "Wish? Did somebody say 'wish'?"

== See also ==
*[[What are you supposed to be?]]

[[Category:Lists]]
[[Category:Halloween]]
[[Category:Inside Jokes]]

{{stub}}

Icon References in Halloween Costumes

2006-08-03T16:54:15Z

Killbot: added more stuff!

[[Image:Homestar_GreatHero.PNG|thumb|150px|"Believe or not, I'm walking around. I never thought I could trick-or-tre-e-eat..."]]

During the [[Holidays#Halloween (October 31st)|Halloween toons]], the [[Characters#Main characters|characters]] dress up in [[Halloween Costumes|costumes]] in which to go 'trick or treating'. More often than not, such costumes are of an icon or celebrity from the 1970s, 80s and 90s. As a result, at least one character per toon occasionally speaks in dialogue or lines (or moves around) that somehow pertains to his/her respective costume.
==Occurrences==
===[[Homestarloween Party]]===
*'''Coach Z''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Flavor Flav|Flavor Flav]] of the rap group [[Wikipedia:Public Enemy|Public Enemy]], Homestar comments on his costume by saying, "Coach Z is down with the PE". This is a reference to the group's song, "Burn Hollywood Burn", wherein guest-rapper [[Wikipedia:Ice Cube|Ice Cube]] raps "Ice Cube is down with the PE".
*'''The Cheat''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Garfield|Garfield]], he holds his teddy bear, Pooky, which is actually Garfield's own teddy bear.
*'''Strong Bad''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Carmen Miranda|Carmen Miranda]] a famous actor from the 1940's.
*'''King of Town''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Captain Crunch|Captain Crunch]] a cereal mascot for a cereal of the same name.
*'''The Poopsmith''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Kevin Flynn|Kevin Flynn]] from [[Wikipedia:Tron|Tron]].
*'''Strong Sad''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Mikhail Gorbachev|Mikhail Gorbachev]] general secretary of the communist party of the Soviet Union.
===[[The House That Gave Sucky Treats]]===
*'''Coach Z''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Humpty Hump|Humpty Hump]], the rap he performs is from [[Wikipedia:Digital Underground|Digital Underground]]'s hit song, "The Humpty Dance," only Coach Z substitutes his own name for Humpty's.
*'''Strong Mad''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:William Perry (football)|William "Refrigerator" Perry]], he does a variation of that old prank phone call, "Is your refrigerator running?" In this case, he says, "Is your refrigerator perry running?"
*'''Marzipan''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Joey Ramone|Joey Ramone]] of the punk rock group, The Ramones, she says, "Hey ho, let's go!" This is part of the lyrics to their song, "Blitzkrieg Bop", and also both a reference and tribute to Joey after he died earlier in 2001.
*'''Homsar''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Popeye|Popeye]] comic strip character, [[Wikipedia:J. Wellington Wimpy|J. Wellington Wimpy]], who really adores hamburgers, he says, "I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for some candy today." This is a parody of Wimpy's catch phrase, "I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today," only Homsar substitutes "some candy" for "a hamburger".
*'''Strong Bad''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Carmen Sandiego|Carmen Sandiego]], he says, "Where in the world is my candy?" This is a reference to the computer game and TV show that features Carmen, "Where In the World Is Carmen Sandiego?"

===[[Pumpkin Carve-nival]]===
*'''The King of Town''' — Dressed as famous video game character [[Wikipedia:Mario|Mario]], he comments that he is a video game (which Marzipan wouldn't know, since she doesn't play video games). Later, after Homestar (or rather, Strong Bad dressed up as Homestar) gives him a worst prize, he laments, "Sorry, king, but our princess is in another castle." This is a reference to the [[Wikipedia:Super Mario Bros.|first Super Mario Bros. game]], in which, after clearing each level (prior to the eighth and final level), the mushroom people Mario saves say, "Thank you, Mario. But our princess is in another castle!"

===[[3 Times Halloween Funjob]]===
*'''The King of Town''' — Dressed as the [[Wikipedia:Hamburglar|Hamburglar]], he says that he is "dressed to 'hamburgle'" and even utters the Hamburglar's catchphrase, "Robble-robble!"
*'''Stinkoman''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Speed Racer|Speed Racer]], he declares that he's "a demon on wheels". This is directly lifted from the show's theme song, which also describes the title protagonist as "a demon on wheels".
*'''Strong Mad''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Magnum P.I.|Magnum P.I.]], he bellows "Higgins!", who is actually Tom Selleck's boss on that show.
*'''Strong Sad''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:David Byrne|David Byrne]], leader of new wave group [[Wikipedia:Talking Heads|Talking Heads]], he says, "This is not my beautiful house! This is not my beautiful wife!" These are lyrics from the song, "Once In a Lifetime," by Talking Heads.
*'''The Poopsmith''' — Dressed as ''[[Wikipedia:Street Fighter|Street Fighter]]'' character, [[Wikipedia:M. Bison|M. Bison]], he performs a flaming maneuver. This is actually M. Bison's Psycho Crusher attack.

===[[Halloween Fairstival]]===
*'''Strong Bad''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:The Joker|the Joker]], he calls his posse his "bad pennies", which is what the Joker calls his henchmen. Later, at the end, he says, "Hello, kiddies, a-meet the Joker!"
*'''Homsar''' — Dressed as Kumar from the movie ''[[Wikipedia:Bottle Rocket|Bottle Rocket]]'', he says one of the character's most famous lines, "AaAaAa... I blew it, man! I just lost my touch."
*'''The King of Town''' — Dressed as the Mayor from the movie ''[[Wikipedia:The Nightmare Before Christmas|The Nightmare Before Christmas]]'', he turns his head around to show a second face with a blue tint and difference expression. The Mayor in the movie changes his face around when his mood changes.
*'''Homestar Runner''' — Dressed as Carl Spackler from the movie ''[[Wikipedia:Caddyshack|Caddyshack]]'', Homestar comments, "So I got that going for me. Which is nice." This was a line spoken by Spackler in that movie.
*'''Marzipan''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Willie Nelson|Willie Nelson]], Strong Bad notices this by saying to her, "Hey Marzi, I just can't wait for you to get on the road again... and get hit by a schoolbus." The first part of this line is a reference to Nelson's song, appropriately titled "On the Road Again."

===[[Halloween Potion-ma-jig]]===
*'''Strong Bad''' — Dressed as Jambi the Genie from [[Wikipedia:Pee-wee's Playhouse|Pee-wee's Playhouse]], he says to The Cheat about Homestar, "Meka-leka-hi-meka-The Cheat, throw a TV on him...ho." This is a reference to Jambi's favorite incantation, "Meka-leka-hi-meka-hiney-ho." Later, when asked of what he is supposed to be, Strong Bad says he's Jambi and even says another of the character's signature lines to prove it: "Wish? Did somebody say 'wish'?"

== See also ==
*[[What are you supposed to be?]]

[[Category:Lists]]
[[Category:Halloween]]
[[Category:Inside Jokes]]

{{stub}}

Icon References in Halloween Costumes

2006-08-03T16:48:26Z

Killbot: Added more stuff!

[[Image:Homestar_GreatHero.PNG|thumb|150px|"Believe or not, I'm walking around. I never thought I could trick-or-tre-e-eat..."]]

During the [[Holidays#Halloween (October 31st)|Halloween toons]], the [[Characters#Main characters|characters]] dress up in [[Halloween Costumes|costumes]] in which to go 'trick or treating'. More often than not, such costumes are of an icon or celebrity from the 1970s, 80s and 90s. As a result, at least one character per toon occasionally speaks in dialogue or lines (or moves around) that somehow pertains to his/her respective costume.
==Occurrences==
===[[Homestarloween Party]]===
*'''Coach Z''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Flavor Flav|Flavor Flav]] of the rap group [[Wikipedia:Public Enemy|Public Enemy]], Homestar comments on his costume by saying, "Coach Z is down with the PE". This is a reference to the group's song, "Burn Hollywood Burn", wherein guest-rapper [[Wikipedia:Ice Cube|Ice Cube]] raps "Ice Cube is down with the PE".
*'''The Cheat''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Garfield|Garfield]], he holds his teddy bear, Pooky, which is actually Garfield's own teddy bear.
*'''Strong Bad''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Carmen Miranda|Carmen Miranda]] a famous actor from the 1940's.
*'''King of Town''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Captain Crunch|Captain Crunch]] a cereal mascot for a cereal of the same name.
*'''The Poopsmith''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Kevin Flynn|Kevin Flynn]] from [[Wikipedia:Tron|Tron]].
===[[The House That Gave Sucky Treats]]===
*'''Coach Z''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Humpty Hump|Humpty Hump]], the rap he performs is from [[Wikipedia:Digital Underground|Digital Underground]]'s hit song, "The Humpty Dance," only Coach Z substitutes his own name for Humpty's.
*'''Strong Mad''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:William Perry (football)|William "Refrigerator" Perry]], he does a variation of that old prank phone call, "Is your refrigerator running?" In this case, he says, "Is your refrigerator perry running?"
*'''Marzipan''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Joey Ramone|Joey Ramone]] of the punk rock group, The Ramones, she says, "Hey ho, let's go!" This is part of the lyrics to their song, "Blitzkrieg Bop", and also both a reference and tribute to Joey after he died earlier in 2001.
*'''Homsar''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Popeye|Popeye]] comic strip character, [[Wikipedia:J. Wellington Wimpy|J. Wellington Wimpy]], who really adores hamburgers, he says, "I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for some candy today." This is a parody of Wimpy's catch phrase, "I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today," only Homsar substitutes "some candy" for "a hamburger".
*'''Strong Bad''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Carmen Sandiego|Carmen Sandiego]], he says, "Where in the world is my candy?" This is a reference to the computer game and TV show that features Carmen, "Where In the World Is Carmen Sandiego?"

===[[Pumpkin Carve-nival]]===
*'''The King of Town''' — Dressed as famous video game character [[Wikipedia:Mario|Mario]], he comments that he is a video game (which Marzipan wouldn't know, since she doesn't play video games). Later, after Homestar (or rather, Strong Bad dressed up as Homestar) gives him a worst prize, he laments, "Sorry, king, but our princess is in another castle." This is a reference to the [[Wikipedia:Super Mario Bros.|first Super Mario Bros. game]], in which, after clearing each level (prior to the eighth and final level), the mushroom people Mario saves say, "Thank you, Mario. But our princess is in another castle!"

===[[3 Times Halloween Funjob]]===
*'''The King of Town''' — Dressed as the [[Wikipedia:Hamburglar|Hamburglar]], he says that he is "dressed to 'hamburgle'" and even utters the Hamburglar's catchphrase, "Robble-robble!"
*'''Stinkoman''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Speed Racer|Speed Racer]], he declares that he's "a demon on wheels". This is directly lifted from the show's theme song, which also describes the title protagonist as "a demon on wheels".
*'''Strong Mad''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Magnum P.I.|Magnum P.I.]], he bellows "Higgins!", who is actually Tom Selleck's boss on that show.
*'''Strong Sad''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:David Byrne|David Byrne]], leader of new wave group [[Wikipedia:Talking Heads|Talking Heads]], he says, "This is not my beautiful house! This is not my beautiful wife!" These are lyrics from the song, "Once In a Lifetime," by Talking Heads.
*'''The Poopsmith''' — Dressed as ''[[Wikipedia:Street Fighter|Street Fighter]]'' character, [[Wikipedia:M. Bison|M. Bison]], he performs a flaming maneuver. This is actually M. Bison's Psycho Crusher attack.

===[[Halloween Fairstival]]===
*'''Strong Bad''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:The Joker|the Joker]], he calls his posse his "bad pennies", which is what the Joker calls his henchmen. Later, at the end, he says, "Hello, kiddies, a-meet the Joker!"
*'''Homsar''' — Dressed as Kumar from the movie ''[[Wikipedia:Bottle Rocket|Bottle Rocket]]'', he says one of the character's most famous lines, "AaAaAa... I blew it, man! I just lost my touch."
*'''The King of Town''' — Dressed as the Mayor from the movie ''[[Wikipedia:The Nightmare Before Christmas|The Nightmare Before Christmas]]'', he turns his head around to show a second face with a blue tint and difference expression. The Mayor in the movie changes his face around when his mood changes.
*'''Homestar Runner''' — Dressed as Carl Spackler from the movie ''[[Wikipedia:Caddyshack|Caddyshack]]'', Homestar comments, "So I got that going for me. Which is nice." This was a line spoken by Spackler in that movie.
*'''Marzipan''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Willie Nelson|Willie Nelson]], Strong Bad notices this by saying to her, "Hey Marzi, I just can't wait for you to get on the road again... and get hit by a schoolbus." The first part of this line is a reference to Nelson's song, appropriately titled "On the Road Again."

===[[Halloween Potion-ma-jig]]===
*'''Strong Bad''' — Dressed as Jambi the Genie from [[Wikipedia:Pee-wee's Playhouse|Pee-wee's Playhouse]], he says to The Cheat about Homestar, "Meka-leka-hi-meka-The Cheat, throw a TV on him...ho." This is a reference to Jambi's favorite incantation, "Meka-leka-hi-meka-hiney-ho." Later, when asked of what he is supposed to be, Strong Bad says he's Jambi and even says another of the character's signature lines to prove it: "Wish? Did somebody say 'wish'?"

== See also ==
*[[What are you supposed to be?]]

[[Category:Lists]]
[[Category:Halloween]]
[[Category:Inside Jokes]]

{{stub}}

HRWiki:Sandbox

2006-08-03T16:37:48Z

Killbot:

My mom looks pretty with a [[flask]].

Yet she cant get ye [[flask]].

[[homestar runner]] is a strange name.

[[image:Marziprom.png|ohhlala]] OHH LOOK AT THAT!

That's fan-freaking-tastic!

Scarfgirl

2006-08-03T16:34:59Z

Killbot:

[[Image:Scarfgirl.PNG|thumb|Fashion AND environment stuff?]]
'''Scarfgirl''' is a popular women's magazine which includes, among other things, fashion and environment [[Periodicals]]. [[Strong Bad]] writes a column for it under the [[Wikipedia:pseudonym|pseudonym]] "[[Secret Identities#Cara Carabowditbowdit|Cara Carabowditbowdit]]" in an attempt to make the girls of the world "cooler for all us dudes." [[Marzipan]] reads the magazine with [[Homestar Runner|Homestar]], though she doesn't approve of Strong Bad's column or his pseudonym. Homestar thought this was because Marzipan was jealous of Cara getting all the hot boys, though Strong Bad dissuaded him. Some other topics it discusses in the featured February issue are "Is Politics Bad?", "Hybrid Cars!", "Celeb Shockers!" and "A Purse!"

== Appearances ==
*'''Debut:''' Email [[secret identity]]

[[Category:Magazines]]

Scarfgirl

2006-08-03T16:34:04Z

Killbot: Added link

[[Image:Scarfgirl.PNG|thumb|Fashion AND environment stuff?]]
'''Scarfgirl''' is a popular women's magazine which includes, among other things, fashion and environment [[periodicals]]. [[Strong Bad]] writes a column for it under the [[Wikipedia:pseudonym|pseudonym]] "[[Secret Identities#Cara Carabowditbowdit|Cara Carabowditbowdit]]" in an attempt to make the girls of the world "cooler for all us dudes." [[Marzipan]] reads the magazine with [[Homestar Runner|Homestar]], though she doesn't approve of Strong Bad's column or his pseudonym. Homestar thought this was because Marzipan was jealous of Cara getting all the hot boys, though Strong Bad dissuaded him. Some other topics it discusses in the featured February issue are "Is Politics Bad?", "Hybrid Cars!", "Celeb Shockers!" and "A Purse!"

== Appearances ==
*'''Debut:''' Email [[secret identity]]

[[Category:Magazines]]

Periodicals

2006-08-03T16:33:02Z

Killbot: Made a mistake.

There are several different periodicals known to exist in the Homestar Runner universe, including newspapers, magazines and at least one catalog.

== Newspapers ==

[[sb_email 22]] - ''The Guardian''

[[stunt double]] - ''The Local Newspapes''

[[Strong Bad Is in Jail Cartoon]] - ''The Latest News''

[[candy product]] - ''Da NewsPapes''

== Magazines ==

[[privileges]] - Fretmagic

[[modeling]] - Stupid Coincidence Magazine

[[secret identity]] - [[Scarfgirl]]

== Catalogs ==

[[modeling]] - Husky Headed Boys' Back 2 School!! Catalog

Periodicals

2006-08-03T16:32:28Z

Killbot: Add link

There are several different periodicals known to exist in the Homestar Runner universe, including newspapers, magazines and at least one catalog.

== Newspapers ==

[[sb_email 22]] - ''The Guardian''

[[stunt double]] - ''The Local Newspapes''

[[Strong Bad Is in Jail Cartoon]] - ''The Latest News''

[[candy product]] - ''Da NewsPapes''

== Magazines ==

[[privileges]] - Fretmagic

[[modeling]] - Stupid Coincidence Magazine

[[secret identity]] - [[scarfgirl]]

== Catalogs ==

[[modeling]] - Husky Headed Boys' Back 2 School!! Catalog

User talk:Killbot

2006-08-03T16:19:58Z

Killbot:

=Why I rock=
*I beat peasents quest.

Icon References in Halloween Costumes

2006-08-03T16:15:28Z

Killbot: More additions.

[[Image:Homestar_GreatHero.PNG|thumb|150px|"Believe or not, I'm walking around. I never thought I could trick-or-tre-e-eat..."]]

During the [[Holidays#Halloween (October 31st)|Halloween toons]], the [[Characters#Main characters|characters]] dress up in [[Halloween Costumes|costumes]] in which to go 'trick or treating'. More often than not, such costumes are of an icon or celebrity from the 1970s, 80s and 90s. As a result, at least one character per toon occasionally speaks in dialogue or lines (or moves around) that somehow pertains to his/her respective costume.
==Occurrences==
===[[Homestarloween Party]]===
*'''Coach Z''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Flavor Flav|Flavor Flav]] of the rap group [[Wikipedia:Public Enemy|Public Enemy]], Homestar comments on his costume by saying, "Coach Z is down with the PE". This is a reference to the group's song, "Burn Hollywood Burn", wherein guest-rapper [[Wikipedia:Ice Cube|Ice Cube]] raps "Ice Cube is down with the PE".
*'''The Cheat''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Garfield|Garfield]], he holds his teddy bear, Pooky, which is actually Garfield's own teddy bear.
*'''Strong Bad''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Carmen Miranda|Carmen Miranda]] a famous actor from the 1940's.
*'''King of Town''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Captain Crunch|Captain Crunch]] a cereal mascot for a cereal of the same name.
===[[The House That Gave Sucky Treats]]===
*'''Coach Z''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Humpty Hump|Humpty Hump]], the rap he performs is from [[Wikipedia:Digital Underground|Digital Underground]]'s hit song, "The Humpty Dance," only Coach Z substitutes his own name for Humpty's.
*'''Strong Mad''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:William Perry (football)|William "Refrigerator" Perry]], he does a variation of that old prank phone call, "Is your refrigerator running?" In this case, he says, "Is your refrigerator perry running?"
*'''Marzipan''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Joey Ramone|Joey Ramone]] of the punk rock group, The Ramones, she says, "Hey ho, let's go!" This is part of the lyrics to their song, "Blitzkrieg Bop", and also both a reference and tribute to Joey after he died earlier in 2001.
*'''Homsar''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Popeye|Popeye]] comic strip character, [[Wikipedia:J. Wellington Wimpy|J. Wellington Wimpy]], who really adores hamburgers, he says, "I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for some candy today." This is a parody of Wimpy's catch phrase, "I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today," only Homsar substitutes "some candy" for "a hamburger".
*'''Strong Bad''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Carmen Sandiego|Carmen Sandiego]], he says, "Where in the world is my candy?" This is a reference to the computer game and TV show that features Carmen, "Where In the World Is Carmen Sandiego?"

===[[Pumpkin Carve-nival]]===
*'''The King of Town''' — Dressed as famous video game character [[Wikipedia:Mario|Mario]], he comments that he is a video game (which Marzipan wouldn't know, since she doesn't play video games). Later, after Homestar (or rather, Strong Bad dressed up as Homestar) gives him a worst prize, he laments, "Sorry, king, but our princess is in another castle." This is a reference to the [[Wikipedia:Super Mario Bros.|first Super Mario Bros. game]], in which, after clearing each level (prior to the eighth and final level), the mushroom people Mario saves say, "Thank you, Mario. But our princess is in another castle!"

===[[3 Times Halloween Funjob]]===
*'''The King of Town''' — Dressed as the [[Wikipedia:Hamburglar|Hamburglar]], he says that he is "dressed to 'hamburgle'" and even utters the Hamburglar's catchphrase, "Robble-robble!"
*'''Stinkoman''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Speed Racer|Speed Racer]], he declares that he's "a demon on wheels". This is directly lifted from the show's theme song, which also describes the title protagonist as "a demon on wheels".
*'''Strong Mad''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Magnum P.I.|Magnum P.I.]], he bellows "Higgins!", who is actually Tom Selleck's boss on that show.
*'''Strong Sad''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:David Byrne|David Byrne]], leader of new wave group [[Wikipedia:Talking Heads|Talking Heads]], he says, "This is not my beautiful house! This is not my beautiful wife!" These are lyrics from the song, "Once In a Lifetime," by Talking Heads.
*'''The Poopsmith''' — Dressed as ''[[Wikipedia:Street Fighter|Street Fighter]]'' character, [[Wikipedia:M. Bison|M. Bison]], he performs a flaming maneuver. This is actually M. Bison's Psycho Crusher attack.

===[[Halloween Fairstival]]===
*'''Strong Bad''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:The Joker|the Joker]], he calls his posse his "bad pennies", which is what the Joker calls his henchmen. Later, at the end, he says, "Hello, kiddies, a-meet the Joker!"
*'''Homsar''' — Dressed as Kumar from the movie ''[[Wikipedia:Bottle Rocket|Bottle Rocket]]'', he says one of the character's most famous lines, "AaAaAa... I blew it, man! I just lost my touch."
*'''The King of Town''' — Dressed as the Mayor from the movie ''[[Wikipedia:The Nightmare Before Christmas|The Nightmare Before Christmas]]'', he turns his head around to show a second face with a blue tint and difference expression. The Mayor in the movie changes his face around when his mood changes.
*'''Homestar Runner''' — Dressed as Carl Spackler from the movie ''[[Wikipedia:Caddyshack|Caddyshack]]'', Homestar comments, "So I got that going for me. Which is nice." This was a line spoken by Spackler in that movie.
*'''Marzipan''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Willie Nelson|Willie Nelson]], Strong Bad notices this by saying to her, "Hey Marzi, I just can't wait for you to get on the road again... and get hit by a schoolbus." The first part of this line is a reference to Nelson's song, appropriately titled "On the Road Again."

===[[Halloween Potion-ma-jig]]===
*'''Strong Bad''' — Dressed as Jambi the Genie from [[Wikipedia:Pee-wee's Playhouse|Pee-wee's Playhouse]], he says to The Cheat about Homestar, "Meka-leka-hi-meka-The Cheat, throw a TV on him...ho." This is a reference to Jambi's favorite incantation, "Meka-leka-hi-meka-hiney-ho." Later, when asked of what he is supposed to be, Strong Bad says he's Jambi and even says another of the character's signature lines to prove it: "Wish? Did somebody say 'wish'?"

== See also ==
*[[What are you supposed to be?]]

[[Category:Lists]]
[[Category:Halloween]]
[[Category:Inside Jokes]]

{{stub}}

Icon References in Halloween Costumes

2006-08-03T16:06:03Z

Killbot: Final fix

[[Image:Homestar_GreatHero.PNG|thumb|150px|"Believe or not, I'm walking around. I never thought I could trick-or-tre-e-eat..."]]

During the [[Holidays#Halloween (October 31st)|Halloween toons]], the [[Characters#Main characters|characters]] dress up in [[Halloween Costumes|costumes]] in which to go 'trick or treating'. More often than not, such costumes are of an icon or celebrity from the 1970s, 80s and 90s. As a result, at least one character per toon occasionally speaks in dialogue or lines (or moves around) that somehow pertains to his/her respective costume.
==Occurrences==
===[[Homestarloween Party]]===
*'''Coach Z''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Flavor Flav|Flavor Flav]] of the rap group [[Wikipedia:Public Enemy|Public Enemy]], Homestar comments on his costume by saying, "Coach Z is down with the PE". This is a reference to the group's song, "Burn Hollywood Burn", wherein guest-rapper [[Wikipedia:Ice Cube|Ice Cube]] raps "Ice Cube is down with the PE".
*'''The Cheat''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Garfield|Garfield]], he holds his teddy bear, Pooky, which is actually Garfield's own teddy bear.
*'''Strong Bad''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Carmen Miranda|Carmen Miranda]] a famous actor from the 1940's.
===[[The House That Gave Sucky Treats]]===
*'''Coach Z''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Humpty Hump|Humpty Hump]], the rap he performs is from [[Wikipedia:Digital Underground|Digital Underground]]'s hit song, "The Humpty Dance," only Coach Z substitutes his own name for Humpty's.
*'''Strong Mad''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:William Perry (football)|William "Refrigerator" Perry]], he does a variation of that old prank phone call, "Is your refrigerator running?" In this case, he says, "Is your refrigerator perry running?"
*'''Marzipan''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Joey Ramone|Joey Ramone]] of the punk rock group, The Ramones, she says, "Hey ho, let's go!" This is part of the lyrics to their song, "Blitzkrieg Bop", and also both a reference and tribute to Joey after he died earlier in 2001.
*'''Homsar''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Popeye|Popeye]] comic strip character, [[Wikipedia:J. Wellington Wimpy|J. Wellington Wimpy]], who really adores hamburgers, he says, "I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for some candy today." This is a parody of Wimpy's catch phrase, "I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today," only Homsar substitutes "some candy" for "a hamburger".
*'''Strong Bad''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Carmen Sandiego|Carmen Sandiego]], he says, "Where in the world is my candy?" This is a reference to the computer game and TV show that features Carmen, "Where In the World Is Carmen Sandiego?"

===[[Pumpkin Carve-nival]]===
*'''The King of Town''' — Dressed as famous video game character [[Wikipedia:Mario|Mario]], he comments that he is a video game (which Marzipan wouldn't know, since she doesn't play video games). Later, after Homestar (or rather, Strong Bad dressed up as Homestar) gives him a worst prize, he laments, "Sorry, king, but our princess is in another castle." This is a reference to the [[Wikipedia:Super Mario Bros.|first Super Mario Bros. game]], in which, after clearing each level (prior to the eighth and final level), the mushroom people Mario saves say, "Thank you, Mario. But our princess is in another castle!"

===[[3 Times Halloween Funjob]]===
*'''The King of Town''' — Dressed as the [[Wikipedia:Hamburglar|Hamburglar]], he says that he is "dressed to 'hamburgle'" and even utters the Hamburglar's catchphrase, "Robble-robble!"
*'''Stinkoman''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Speed Racer|Speed Racer]], he declares that he's "a demon on wheels". This is directly lifted from the show's theme song, which also describes the title protagonist as "a demon on wheels".
*'''Strong Mad''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Magnum P.I.|Magnum P.I.]], he bellows "Higgins!", who is actually Tom Selleck's boss on that show.
*'''Strong Sad''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:David Byrne|David Byrne]], leader of new wave group [[Wikipedia:Talking Heads|Talking Heads]], he says, "This is not my beautiful house! This is not my beautiful wife!" These are lyrics from the song, "Once In a Lifetime," by Talking Heads.
*'''The Poopsmith''' — Dressed as ''[[Wikipedia:Street Fighter|Street Fighter]]'' character, [[Wikipedia:M. Bison|M. Bison]], he performs a flaming maneuver. This is actually M. Bison's Psycho Crusher attack.

===[[Halloween Fairstival]]===
*'''Strong Bad''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:The Joker|the Joker]], he calls his posse his "bad pennies", which is what the Joker calls his henchmen. Later, at the end, he says, "Hello, kiddies, a-meet the Joker!"
*'''Homsar''' — Dressed as Kumar from the movie ''[[Wikipedia:Bottle Rocket|Bottle Rocket]]'', he says one of the character's most famous lines, "AaAaAa... I blew it, man! I just lost my touch."
*'''The King of Town''' — Dressed as the Mayor from the movie ''[[Wikipedia:The Nightmare Before Christmas|The Nightmare Before Christmas]]'', he turns his head around to show a second face with a blue tint and difference expression. The Mayor in the movie changes his face around when his mood changes.
*'''Homestar Runner''' — Dressed as Carl Spackler from the movie ''[[Wikipedia:Caddyshack|Caddyshack]]'', Homestar comments, "So I got that going for me. Which is nice." This was a line spoken by Spackler in that movie.
*'''Marzipan''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Willie Nelson|Willie Nelson]], Strong Bad notices this by saying to her, "Hey Marzi, I just can't wait for you to get on the road again... and get hit by a schoolbus." The first part of this line is a reference to Nelson's song, appropriately titled "On the Road Again."

===[[Halloween Potion-ma-jig]]===
*'''Strong Bad''' — Dressed as Jambi the Genie from [[Wikipedia:Pee-wee's Playhouse|Pee-wee's Playhouse]], he says to The Cheat about Homestar, "Meka-leka-hi-meka-The Cheat, throw a TV on him...ho." This is a reference to Jambi's favorite incantation, "Meka-leka-hi-meka-hiney-ho." Later, when asked of what he is supposed to be, Strong Bad says he's Jambi and even says another of the character's signature lines to prove it: "Wish? Did somebody say 'wish'?"

== See also ==
*[[What are you supposed to be?]]

[[Category:Lists]]
[[Category:Halloween]]
[[Category:Inside Jokes]]

{{stub}}

Icon References in Halloween Costumes

2006-08-03T16:05:05Z

Killbot: Made a mistake.

[[Image:Homestar_GreatHero.PNG|thumb|150px|"Believe or not, I'm walking around. I never thought I could trick-or-tre-e-eat..."]]

During the [[Holidays#Halloween (October 31st)|Halloween toons]], the [[Characters#Main characters|characters]] dress up in [[Halloween Costumes|costumes]] in which to go 'trick or treating'. More often than not, such costumes are of an icon or celebrity from the 1970s, 80s and 90s. As a result, at least one character per toon occasionally speaks in dialogue or lines (or moves around) that somehow pertains to his/her respective costume.
==Occurrences==
===[[Homestarloween Party]]===
*'''Coach Z''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Flavor Flav|Flavor Flav]] of the rap group [[Wikipedia:Public Enemy|Public Enemy]], Homestar comments on his costume by saying, "Coach Z is down with the PE". This is a reference to the group's song, "Burn Hollywood Burn", wherein guest-rapper [[Wikipedia:Ice Cube|Ice Cube]] raps "Ice Cube is down with the PE".
*'''The Cheat''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Garfield|Garfield]], he holds his teddy bear, Pooky, which is actually Garfield's own teddy bear.
*"'Strong Bad"' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Carmen Miranda|Carmen Miranda]] a famous actor from the 1940's.
===[[The House That Gave Sucky Treats]]===
*'''Coach Z''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Humpty Hump|Humpty Hump]], the rap he performs is from [[Wikipedia:Digital Underground|Digital Underground]]'s hit song, "The Humpty Dance," only Coach Z substitutes his own name for Humpty's.
*'''Strong Mad''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:William Perry (football)|William "Refrigerator" Perry]], he does a variation of that old prank phone call, "Is your refrigerator running?" In this case, he says, "Is your refrigerator perry running?"
*'''Marzipan''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Joey Ramone|Joey Ramone]] of the punk rock group, The Ramones, she says, "Hey ho, let's go!" This is part of the lyrics to their song, "Blitzkrieg Bop", and also both a reference and tribute to Joey after he died earlier in 2001.
*'''Homsar''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Popeye|Popeye]] comic strip character, [[Wikipedia:J. Wellington Wimpy|J. Wellington Wimpy]], who really adores hamburgers, he says, "I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for some candy today." This is a parody of Wimpy's catch phrase, "I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today," only Homsar substitutes "some candy" for "a hamburger".
*'''Strong Bad''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Carmen Sandiego|Carmen Sandiego]], he says, "Where in the world is my candy?" This is a reference to the computer game and TV show that features Carmen, "Where In the World Is Carmen Sandiego?"

===[[Pumpkin Carve-nival]]===
*'''The King of Town''' — Dressed as famous video game character [[Wikipedia:Mario|Mario]], he comments that he is a video game (which Marzipan wouldn't know, since she doesn't play video games). Later, after Homestar (or rather, Strong Bad dressed up as Homestar) gives him a worst prize, he laments, "Sorry, king, but our princess is in another castle." This is a reference to the [[Wikipedia:Super Mario Bros.|first Super Mario Bros. game]], in which, after clearing each level (prior to the eighth and final level), the mushroom people Mario saves say, "Thank you, Mario. But our princess is in another castle!"

===[[3 Times Halloween Funjob]]===
*'''The King of Town''' — Dressed as the [[Wikipedia:Hamburglar|Hamburglar]], he says that he is "dressed to 'hamburgle'" and even utters the Hamburglar's catchphrase, "Robble-robble!"
*'''Stinkoman''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Speed Racer|Speed Racer]], he declares that he's "a demon on wheels". This is directly lifted from the show's theme song, which also describes the title protagonist as "a demon on wheels".
*'''Strong Mad''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Magnum P.I.|Magnum P.I.]], he bellows "Higgins!", who is actually Tom Selleck's boss on that show.
*'''Strong Sad''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:David Byrne|David Byrne]], leader of new wave group [[Wikipedia:Talking Heads|Talking Heads]], he says, "This is not my beautiful house! This is not my beautiful wife!" These are lyrics from the song, "Once In a Lifetime," by Talking Heads.
*'''The Poopsmith''' — Dressed as ''[[Wikipedia:Street Fighter|Street Fighter]]'' character, [[Wikipedia:M. Bison|M. Bison]], he performs a flaming maneuver. This is actually M. Bison's Psycho Crusher attack.

===[[Halloween Fairstival]]===
*'''Strong Bad''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:The Joker|the Joker]], he calls his posse his "bad pennies", which is what the Joker calls his henchmen. Later, at the end, he says, "Hello, kiddies, a-meet the Joker!"
*'''Homsar''' — Dressed as Kumar from the movie ''[[Wikipedia:Bottle Rocket|Bottle Rocket]]'', he says one of the character's most famous lines, "AaAaAa... I blew it, man! I just lost my touch."
*'''The King of Town''' — Dressed as the Mayor from the movie ''[[Wikipedia:The Nightmare Before Christmas|The Nightmare Before Christmas]]'', he turns his head around to show a second face with a blue tint and difference expression. The Mayor in the movie changes his face around when his mood changes.
*'''Homestar Runner''' — Dressed as Carl Spackler from the movie ''[[Wikipedia:Caddyshack|Caddyshack]]'', Homestar comments, "So I got that going for me. Which is nice." This was a line spoken by Spackler in that movie.
*'''Marzipan''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Willie Nelson|Willie Nelson]], Strong Bad notices this by saying to her, "Hey Marzi, I just can't wait for you to get on the road again... and get hit by a schoolbus." The first part of this line is a reference to Nelson's song, appropriately titled "On the Road Again."

===[[Halloween Potion-ma-jig]]===
*'''Strong Bad''' — Dressed as Jambi the Genie from [[Wikipedia:Pee-wee's Playhouse|Pee-wee's Playhouse]], he says to The Cheat about Homestar, "Meka-leka-hi-meka-The Cheat, throw a TV on him...ho." This is a reference to Jambi's favorite incantation, "Meka-leka-hi-meka-hiney-ho." Later, when asked of what he is supposed to be, Strong Bad says he's Jambi and even says another of the character's signature lines to prove it: "Wish? Did somebody say 'wish'?"

== See also ==
*[[What are you supposed to be?]]

[[Category:Lists]]
[[Category:Halloween]]
[[Category:Inside Jokes]]

{{stub}}

Icon References in Halloween Costumes

2006-08-03T16:04:25Z

Killbot: Adding on to it!

[[Image:Homestar_GreatHero.PNG|thumb|150px|"Believe or not, I'm walking around. I never thought I could trick-or-tre-e-eat..."]]

During the [[Holidays#Halloween (October 31st)|Halloween toons]], the [[Characters#Main characters|characters]] dress up in [[Halloween Costumes|costumes]] in which to go 'trick or treating'. More often than not, such costumes are of an icon or celebrity from the 1970s, 80s and 90s. As a result, at least one character per toon occasionally speaks in dialogue or lines (or moves around) that somehow pertains to his/her respective costume.
==Occurrences==
===[[Homestarloween Party]]===
*'''Coach Z''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Flavor Flav|Flavor Flav]] of the rap group [[Wikipedia:Public Enemy|Public Enemy]], Homestar comments on his costume by saying, "Coach Z is down with the PE". This is a reference to the group's song, "Burn Hollywood Burn", wherein guest-rapper [[Wikipedia:Ice Cube|Ice Cube]] raps "Ice Cube is down with the PE".
*'''The Cheat''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Garfield|Garfield]], he holds his teddy bear, Pooky, which is actually Garfield's own teddy bear.
*""Strong Bad"" — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Carmen Miranda|Carmen Miranda]] a famous actor from the 1940's.
===[[The House That Gave Sucky Treats]]===
*'''Coach Z''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Humpty Hump|Humpty Hump]], the rap he performs is from [[Wikipedia:Digital Underground|Digital Underground]]'s hit song, "The Humpty Dance," only Coach Z substitutes his own name for Humpty's.
*'''Strong Mad''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:William Perry (football)|William "Refrigerator" Perry]], he does a variation of that old prank phone call, "Is your refrigerator running?" In this case, he says, "Is your refrigerator perry running?"
*'''Marzipan''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Joey Ramone|Joey Ramone]] of the punk rock group, The Ramones, she says, "Hey ho, let's go!" This is part of the lyrics to their song, "Blitzkrieg Bop", and also both a reference and tribute to Joey after he died earlier in 2001.
*'''Homsar''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Popeye|Popeye]] comic strip character, [[Wikipedia:J. Wellington Wimpy|J. Wellington Wimpy]], who really adores hamburgers, he says, "I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for some candy today." This is a parody of Wimpy's catch phrase, "I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today," only Homsar substitutes "some candy" for "a hamburger".
*'''Strong Bad''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Carmen Sandiego|Carmen Sandiego]], he says, "Where in the world is my candy?" This is a reference to the computer game and TV show that features Carmen, "Where In the World Is Carmen Sandiego?"

===[[Pumpkin Carve-nival]]===
*'''The King of Town''' — Dressed as famous video game character [[Wikipedia:Mario|Mario]], he comments that he is a video game (which Marzipan wouldn't know, since she doesn't play video games). Later, after Homestar (or rather, Strong Bad dressed up as Homestar) gives him a worst prize, he laments, "Sorry, king, but our princess is in another castle." This is a reference to the [[Wikipedia:Super Mario Bros.|first Super Mario Bros. game]], in which, after clearing each level (prior to the eighth and final level), the mushroom people Mario saves say, "Thank you, Mario. But our princess is in another castle!"

===[[3 Times Halloween Funjob]]===
*'''The King of Town''' — Dressed as the [[Wikipedia:Hamburglar|Hamburglar]], he says that he is "dressed to 'hamburgle'" and even utters the Hamburglar's catchphrase, "Robble-robble!"
*'''Stinkoman''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Speed Racer|Speed Racer]], he declares that he's "a demon on wheels". This is directly lifted from the show's theme song, which also describes the title protagonist as "a demon on wheels".
*'''Strong Mad''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Magnum P.I.|Magnum P.I.]], he bellows "Higgins!", who is actually Tom Selleck's boss on that show.
*'''Strong Sad''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:David Byrne|David Byrne]], leader of new wave group [[Wikipedia:Talking Heads|Talking Heads]], he says, "This is not my beautiful house! This is not my beautiful wife!" These are lyrics from the song, "Once In a Lifetime," by Talking Heads.
*'''The Poopsmith''' — Dressed as ''[[Wikipedia:Street Fighter|Street Fighter]]'' character, [[Wikipedia:M. Bison|M. Bison]], he performs a flaming maneuver. This is actually M. Bison's Psycho Crusher attack.

===[[Halloween Fairstival]]===
*'''Strong Bad''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:The Joker|the Joker]], he calls his posse his "bad pennies", which is what the Joker calls his henchmen. Later, at the end, he says, "Hello, kiddies, a-meet the Joker!"
*'''Homsar''' — Dressed as Kumar from the movie ''[[Wikipedia:Bottle Rocket|Bottle Rocket]]'', he says one of the character's most famous lines, "AaAaAa... I blew it, man! I just lost my touch."
*'''The King of Town''' — Dressed as the Mayor from the movie ''[[Wikipedia:The Nightmare Before Christmas|The Nightmare Before Christmas]]'', he turns his head around to show a second face with a blue tint and difference expression. The Mayor in the movie changes his face around when his mood changes.
*'''Homestar Runner''' — Dressed as Carl Spackler from the movie ''[[Wikipedia:Caddyshack|Caddyshack]]'', Homestar comments, "So I got that going for me. Which is nice." This was a line spoken by Spackler in that movie.
*'''Marzipan''' — Dressed as [[Wikipedia:Willie Nelson|Willie Nelson]], Strong Bad notices this by saying to her, "Hey Marzi, I just can't wait for you to get on the road again... and get hit by a schoolbus." The first part of this line is a reference to Nelson's song, appropriately titled "On the Road Again."

===[[Halloween Potion-ma-jig]]===
*'''Strong Bad''' — Dressed as Jambi the Genie from [[Wikipedia:Pee-wee's Playhouse|Pee-wee's Playhouse]], he says to The Cheat about Homestar, "Meka-leka-hi-meka-The Cheat, throw a TV on him...ho." This is a reference to Jambi's favorite incantation, "Meka-leka-hi-meka-hiney-ho." Later, when asked of what he is supposed to be, Strong Bad says he's Jambi and even says another of the character's signature lines to prove it: "Wish? Did somebody say 'wish'?"

== See also ==
*[[What are you supposed to be?]]

[[Category:Lists]]
[[Category:Halloween]]
[[Category:Inside Jokes]]

{{stub}}

H*R.com updates 2006

2006-08-03T15:51:14Z

Killbot: Podstar runner update

{{updates-box}}
This is a log of all of the '''updates''' to '''[[Homestar Runner (Flash cartoon)|H*R.com]]''' during '''2006'''.
==Thursday, August 3, 2006==
*[[Quote of the Week]]: [[Quote of the Week#QW-2006-08-03|"And the chumbly wumbly bear came a tumblin down! Did he sell beans? Lord no! Did he sell eggs? Lord no! But he couldn't...so he stapled it down!"]]
*[[Weekly Fanstuff]]: [[Weekly Fanstuff#WF-2006-08-3|who likes the fat bee?]]
*[[Sketchbook]]: [[Sketchbook#SK-2006-08-3|buy one get one half off]]
*[[Podstar Runner]]: [[best thing]]

==Monday, July 31, 2006==
*[[Strong Bad Email]] #154: [[keep cool]]
*[[Store]]: [[Store Front Page News 2006#July 31, 2006|Trogdor shirt sale]]

==Thursday, July 27, 2006==
*[[Quote of the Week]]: "[[Quote of the Week#QW-2006-07-27|"She was only 2017-She was a low res beauty queen-She was a brain sister-Texas Instruments all day-She remembers how they used to duet-Tha'll think you know what I mean.]]"
*[[Weekly Fanstuff]]: [[Weekly Fanstuff#WF-2006-07-27|painter's tape marshie]]
*[[Sketchbook]]: [[Sketchbook#SK-2006-07-27|leggin it out here boss]]
*Loading bubble added to [[Quote of the Week]] function
*[[Podstar Runner]]: [[Peasant's Quest Preview|Peasant's Quest Game]]

==Monday, July 24, 2006==
*[[Toons|Short]]: [[Summer Short Shorts]]
*[[Store]]: [[Store Front Page News 2006#July 24, 2006|Get Ye Flask T-shirt]]
*[[Store]]: [[Store Front Page News 2006#July 24, 2006|Strong Bad Beanie Cap sale]]
*[[Main Page Messages|Main Page message]]: ''New toon soon!''

==Thursday, July 20, 2006==
*[[Quote of the Week]]: "[[Quote of the Week#QW-2006-07-20|Oh, I can take my shirt off.]]"
*[[Weekly Fanstuff]]: [[Weekly Fanstuff#WF-2006-07-20|awesome fanart!]]
*[[Sketchbook]]: [[Sketchbook#SK-2006-07-20|9 to 5 homsar]]
*[[Podstar Runner]]: [[stunt double]]
*[[Store]]: [[Store T-Shirts|Get Ye Flask]] T-shirt announced

==Monday, July 17, 2006==
*[[Teen Girl Squad]]: [[Teen Girl Squad Issue 11|Issue 11]]
*[[Videlectrix]]: [[Kid Speedy|Kid Speedy version 1.new]] released with main page message, box art still unavailable.
*[[Store]]: [[Store Front Page News 2006#July 17, 2006|Trogdor Messenger Bag sale]]
*[[Store]]: Figurines and [[Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits|Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits CD]] sales end

==Thursday, July 13, 2006==
*[[Podstar Runner]]: [[trevor the vampire]]
*[[Quote of the Week]]: "[[Quote of the Week#QW-2006-07-13|Let the KOT have some!]]"
*[[Weekly Fanstuff]]: [[Weekly Fanstuff#WF-2006-07-13|sb appears in onion!]]
*[[Sketchbook]]: [[Sketchbook#SK-2006-07-13|the thnikkaking]]

==Monday, July 10, 2006==
*[[Strong Bad Email]] #153: [[redesign]]
*[[Scroll Button Songs|Scroll Button Song]]: "I'm scrollin' up high, you're scrollin' down low. I'm always late for school 'cause your moms drive slow. Oooooooooooooh!"
*[[Videlectrix]]: [[Kid Speedy]] released with main page message, box art unavailable.
*[[Store]]: [[Store Front Page News 2006#July 10, 2006|Patches sale]]

==Thursday, July 6, 2006==
*[[Podstar Runner]]: [[flag day]]
*[[Quote of the Week]]: "[[Quote of the Week#QW-2006-07-06|We are the Cool Tapes. We make some phat papes. Doley-O, doley-o, doley-o.(x3) Stop creepin' at me!]]"
*[[Weekly Fanstuff]]: [[Weekly Fanstuff#WF-2006-07-06|trogapult]]
*[[Sketchbook]]: [[Sketchbook#SK-2006-07-06|switchin em up]]

==Monday, July 3, 2006==
*[[Toons|Toon]]: [[Weclome Back]]
*[[Store]]: [[Store Front Page News 2006#July 3, 2006|Cool Tapes T-shirt]]
*[[Store]]: [[Store Front Page News 2006#July 3, 2006|Figurines sale]]
*"New" indicator removed from [[isp]] on [[Strong Bad Email|Denny's Menu]].

==Thursday, June 29, 2006==
*[[Quote of the Week]]: "[[Quote of the Week#QW-2006-06-29|You will note the artist's attention to fine wines, his masterful use of shadow...stevens. Circle gets the square.]]"
*[[Weekly Fanstuff]]: [[Weekly Fanstuff#WF-2006-06-29|i say there, monstrositea. do you know the times?]]
*[[Sketchbook]]: [[Sketchbook#SK-2006-06-29|work indeed]]
*[[Podstar Runner]]: [[army]]

==Monday, June 26, 2006==
*[[Store]]: [[Store Front Page News 2006#June 26, 2006|Homsar T-shirt sale]]

==Thursday, June 22, 2006==
*[[Store]]: [[Store Front Page News 2006#June 22, 2006|Support The Municipality T-shirts back in stock]]

==Monday, June 19, 2006==
*[[Store]]: [[Store Front Page News 2006#June 19, 2006|Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits CD sale]]

==Tuesday, June 13, 2006==
*[[Podstar Runner]]: [[crazy cartoon]]

==Tuesday, June 6, 2006==
*[[Podstar Runner]]: [[theme park]]

==Monday, May 22, 2006==
*[[Store]]: [[Store Front Page News 2006#May 22, 2006|Support the Municipality T-shirt]]
*[[Podstar Runner]]: [[Teen Girl Squad Issue 10]]

==Thursday, May 18, 2006==
*[[Quote of the Week]]: "[[Quote of the Week#QW-2006-05-18|I DON'T KNOW WHEN TO SAY WHEN!!]]"
*[[Weekly Fanstuff]]: [[Weekly Fanstuff#WF-2006-05-18|the difference? hardly.]]
*[[Sketchbook]]: [[Sketchbook#SK-2006-05-18|droolstar sleeper]]

==Tuesday, May 16, 2006==
*[[Strong Bad Email]] #152: [[isp]]

==Monday, May 15, 2006==
*[[Podstar Runner]]: [[death metal]]

==Thursday, May 11, 2006==
*[[Quote of the Week]]: "[[Quote of the Week#QW-2006-05-11|Hey! Watch those hands David Coppafeel!]]"
*[[Weekly Fanstuff]]: [[Weekly Fanstuff#WF-2006-05-11|12 pts. of articulation]]
*[[Sketchbook]]: [[Sketchbook#SK-2006-05-11|numba zero baller]]

==Monday, May 8, 2006==
*[[Store]]: [[Store Front Page News 2006#May 8, 2006|Bear Holding a Shark T-shirt back in stock]]

==Thursday, May 4, 2006==
*[[Quote of the Week]]: "[[Quote of the Week#QW-2006-05-04|Alright I gotta get out of here. I'm meetin Delelilia for some vietma- viamatese tunuffins!]]"
*[[Weekly Fanstuff]]: [[Weekly Fanstuff#WF-2006-05-04|pyrex trogdor]]
*[[Sketchbook]]: [[Sketchbook#SK-2006-05-04|coach 3 and friends]]

==Wednesday, May 3, 2006==
*[[Strong Bad Email]] #151: [[senior prom]] ([[Main Page Messages|Main Page Message]] reads: ''king of town toon'')
*[[Podstar Runner]]: [[Teen Girl Squad Issue 8]], [[Teen Girl Squad Issue 9]]
*[[Interviews and Public Appearances]]: [[TMBG Concert - 3 May 2006|TMBG Concert]]

==Tuesday, May 2, 2006==
*[[Store]]: [[Store Front Page News 2006#May 2, 2006|Kick The Cheat sale]]
*[[Main Page Messages|Main page message]]: ''new toon soon''

==Thursday, April 27, 2006==
*[[Quote of the Week]]: "[[Quote of the Week#QW-2006-04-27|Oh...I live a hard life.]]"
*[[Weekly Fanstuff]]: [[Weekly Fanstuff#WF-2006-04-27|seriously talented clown]]
*[[Sketchbook]]: [[Sketchbook#SK-2006-04-27|strong badmantis]]

==Monday, April 24, 2006==
*[[Games|Game]]: [[Thy Dungeonman 3]]
*[[Podstar Runner]]: [[Teen Girl Squad Issue 6]], [[Teen Girl Squad Issue 7]]
*[[Videlectrix]]: [[Thy Dungeonman 3]] added with synopsis, box art, and main page message.

==Monday, April 17, 2006==
*[[Store]]: [[Store Front Page News 2006#April 7, 2006|"Easter egg" sale]] ended.

==Saturday, April 15, 2006==
*[[The Brothers Chaps]]' father, [[Don and Harriet Chapman|Don Chapman]], passed away.

==Friday, April 14, 2006==
*[[Store]]: [[Store Front Page News 2006#April 14, 2006|Homsar T-shirt back in stock]]

==Wednesday, April 12, 2006==
*[[Podstar Runner]]: [[Everybody to the Limit]]

==Monday, April 10, 2006==
*[[Store]]: [[Store Front Page News 2006#April 10, 2006|Bear Holding a Shark T-shirt back in stock]]

==Friday, April 7, 2006==
*[[Store]]: [[Store Front Page News 2006#April 7, 2006|"Easter egg" sale]]

==Thursday, April 6, 2006==
*[[Quote of the Week]]: "[[Quote of the Week#QW-2006-04-06|You got the munch. The crisp and the crunch. Livin' in the gutter with Grandma. When Coach puts you in, you gotta go for the win. Y2K turned out alright...]]"
*[[Weekly Fanstuff]]: [[Weekly Fanstuff#WF-2006-04-06|35 year olds still get cakes?]]
*[[Sketchbook]]: [[Sketchbook#SK-2006-04-06|the cheat drawn from memory by missy p.]]

==Tuesday, April 4, 2006==
*[[Strong Bad Email]] #150: [[alternate universe]]
*[[Podstar Runner]]: [[sisters]]

==Sunday, April 2, 2006==
*[[April Fool's 2006]]: All pages returned to being the right-way up.

==Saturday, April 1, 2006==
*[[April Fool's 2006]]: All pages ([[April Fool's 2006#Remarks|with a few exceptions]]) flipped upside down.

==Thursday, March 30, 2006==
*[[Quote of the Week]]: "[[Quote of the Week#QW-2006-03-30|Oh, if you want it to be possessive it's just 'its,' but if it's supposed to be a contraction then it's I-T apostrophe S! ...scalawag.]]"
*[[Weekly Fanstuff]]: [[Weekly Fanstuff#WF-2006-03-30|homestar oilymens]]
*[[Sketchbook]]: [[Sketchbook#SK-2006-03-30|strong sadstronaut]]

==Monday, March 27, 2006==
*[[Toons|Short]]: [[Sbemail 150?!?]]
*[[Store]]: [[Store T-Shirts#tshirt_bear-shark|Bear Holding a Shark T-shirt]]
*[[Podstar Runner]]: [[personal favorites]]

==Friday, March 24, 2006==
*[[Quote of the Week]]: "[[Quote of the Week#QW-2006-03-24|Your computer room is now my tai chi space. And it doubles as my chai tea space, too!]]"
*[[Weekly Fanstuff]]: [[Weekly Fanstuff#WF-2006-03-24|metal hsr with bangs]]
*[[Sketchbook]]: [[Sketchbook#SK-2006-03-24|suudsu 5 months later]]
*[[Store]] footer changed to [[Store#Store Footer|summer]] theme.

==Tuesday, March 21, 2006==
*[[Strong Bad Email]] #149: [[candy product]]
*[[Podstar Runner]]: [[montage]]

==Monday, March 20, 2006==
*[[Store]]: [[Store Front Page News 2006#March 13, 2006|10% off sale]] ended.
*[[Main Page Messages|Main Page Message]]: ''email soon''

==Thursday, March 16, 2006==
*[[Quote of the Week]]: "[[Quote of the Week#QW-2006-03-16|You're doing great! Now shoulders down! One and two! Feel the burn and go to bed! Make some breakfast, talk to me!]]"
*[[Weekly Fanstuff]]: [[Weekly Fanstuff#WF-2006-03-16|jolly homestar roger]]
*[[Sketchbook]]: [[Sketchbook#SK-2006-03-16|poopertrooper sketches]]
*"Support the Municipality" [[Wallpaper|desktop]] available to download through the [[Main Pages]]. The button on the Main Page reads "Support the Municipality"; when clicked, it reads "we're onto you".

==Monday, March 13, 2006==
*[[Strong Bad Email]] #148: [[disconnected]]
*[[Podstar Runner]]: [[different town]]
*[[Store]]: [[Store Front Page News 2006#March 13, 2006|10% off sale]].

==Friday, March 10, 2006==
*[[Quote of the Week]]: [[Quote of the Week#QW-2006-03-10|Not Talkin' Bout Butter (remix by DJ Teh Cheat)]]
*[[Weekly Fanstuff]]: [[Weekly Fanstuff#WF-2006-03-10|hand knit tgs mittens!]]
*[[Sketchbook]]: [[Sketchbook#SK-2006-03-10|shaker homestar & mike]]

==Monday, March 6, 2006==
*[[Strong Bad Email]] #147: [[lady fan]]
*[[Podstar Runner]]: [[video games]], [[Teen Girl Squad]] Issues 1 through 5

==Thursday, March 2, 2006==
*[[Quote of the Week]]: "[[Quote of the Week#QW-2006-03-02|Uh, Strong Bad, were you just first basin' it with that piece of loose leaf?]]"
*[[Weekly Fanstuff]]: [[Weekly Fanstuff#WF-2006-03-02|homestar cubeheads]]
*[[Sketchbook]]: [[Sketchbook#SK-2006-03-02|12-string sad]]

==Tuesday, February 28, 2006==
*[[Interviews and Public Appearances]]: [[Flashforward 2006 Seattle - 28 Feb 2006|Flashforward 2006 Seattle]].

==Monday, February 27, 2006==
*[[Marzipan's Answering Machine]]: [[Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 13.2|Version 13.2]]
*[[Podstar Runner]]: [[guitar]]

==Saturday, February 25, 2006==
*[[Store]] [[Store Front Page News 2006#February 26, 2006|items of the week]]: [[Store Accessories#Messenger_Bags|Messenger Bags]]

==Thursday, February 23, 2006==
*[[Quote of the Week]]: "[[Quote of the Week#QW-2006-02-23|What?! Under Siege 2?? You got me this for like the last 3 years, man!]]"
*[[Weekly Fanstuff]]: [[Weekly Fanstuff#WF-2006-02-23|cheatar jr.]]
*[[Sketchbook]]: [[Sketchbook#SK-2006-02-23|2 more bubs]]

==Monday, February 20, 2006==
*[[Strong Bad Email]] #146: [[pop-up]]
*[[Store]] [[Store Front Page News 2006#February 20, 2006|items of the week]]: [[Store Other 2-D Stuff#Bumper Stickers|Bumper Stickers]], and [[Store Other 2-D Stuff#Patches|Patches]]. Other items on sale.
*[[Podstar Runner]]: [[virus]]

==Friday, February 17, 2006==
*[[Store]] [[Store Front Page News 2006#February 17, 2006|pledge drive week]]: [[Store Other 2-D Stuff#Bumper Stickers|Bumper Stickers]], [[Store Other 2-D Stuff#Static Clings|Static Clings]], [[Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits|Strong Bad Sings CD]], and [[Store Other 2-D Stuff#Patches|Patches]] on sale. Any other purchases also encouraged.

==Thursday, February 16, 2006==
*[[Quote of the Week]]: "[[Quote of the Week#QW-2006-02-16|I got it-I got everything you wan know. Everybody know me, my name Cornbread.]]"
*[[Weekly Fanstuff]]: [[Weekly Fanstuff#WF-2006-02-16|stinko handfoot sb]]
*[[Sketchbook]]: [[Sketchbook#SK-2006-02-16|none shall pass! eww.]]

==Tuesday, February 14, 2006==
*[[Museum]] updated

==Monday, February 13, 2006==
*[[Strong Bad Email]] #145: [[myths & legends]]
*[[Toons|Short]]: [[500 The Cheats]]
*[[Podstar Runner]]: [[caffeine]]
*[[Main Page Messages|Main Page Message]]: ''email soon''

==Friday, February 10, 2006==
*[[Store]] [[Store Front Page News 2006#February 10, 2006|items of the week]]: [[Store T-Shirts#tshirt_bubs_consessions|Bubs]], [[Store T-Shirts#tshirt_coachz|Coach Z]], [[Store T-Shirts#tshirt_scalding_lake|Scalding Lake]], and [[Store T-Shirts#tshirt_strong_sad|Strong Sad T-shirts]]
*[[Interviews and Public Appearances]]: [[Flashforward Interview - 10 Feb 2006|Flashforward Interview]].

==Thursday, February 9, 2006==
*[[Quote of the Week]]: [[Quote of the Week#QW-2006-02-09|Special Fanstuff Quote of the Day!! High school band actually playing the CGNU Fight Song!]]
*[[Weekly Fanstuff]]: [[Weekly Fanstuff#WF-2006-02-09|cheatcorn casserole]]
*[[Sketchbook]]: [[Sketchbook#SK-2006-02-09|nice inking, mike]]

==Monday, February 6, 2006==
*[[Strong Bad Email]] #144: [[narrator]]
*[[Podstar Runner]]: converted to [[Podstar:podcast.xml|RSS feed]]
*[[Podstar Runner]]: [[bottom 10]]

==Friday, February 3, 2006==
*[[Store]] [[Store Front Page News 2006#February 3, 2006|item of the week]]: [[Store#Kick The Cheat|Kick The Cheat]]

==Thursday, February 2, 2006==
*[[Quote of the Week]]: "[[Quote of the Week#QW-2006-02-02|The Cheatbot! Do you use that same mouth to kiss your...motherboard.]]"
*[[Weekly Fanstuff]]: [[Weekly Fanstuff#WF-2006-02-02|the cheat lard sculpture]]
*[[Sketchbook]]: [[Sketchbook#SK-2006-02-02|craig drawn homestar]]

==Tuesday, January 31, 2006==
*[[Main Page Messages|Main Page Message]]: ''sbemail podcast'' changed to ''sbemails on ipod!''

==Monday, January 30, 2006==
*[[Strong Bad Email]] #143: [[technology]]
*[[Podstar Runner]]: released with [[techno]], [[dragon]], [[japanese cartoon]], [[kids' book]], and [[crying]]

==Friday, January 27, 2006==
*[[Store]] [[Store Front Page News 2006#January 27, 2006|item of the week]]: [[Store Posters|Posters]]

==Thursday, January 26, 2006==
*[[Quote of the Week]]: "[[Quote of the Week#QW-2006-01-26|They flew on a sweet, sweet mushroom bridge to the...baseball...game.]]"
*[[Weekly Fanstuff]]: [[Weekly Fanstuff#WF-2006-01-26|clockin much dough]]
*[[Sketchbook]]: [[Sketchbook#SK-2006-01-26|homestar ice crusher]]

==Wednesday, January 25, 2006==
*[[Strong Bad Email]] #142: [[secret identity]]

==Friday, January 20, 2006==
*[[Store]] [[Store Front Page News 2006#January 20, 2006|item of the week]]: [[Store T-Shirts#tshirt_strong_sad|Strong Sad T-shirt]]

==Thursday, January 19, 2006==
*[[Quote of the Week]]: "[[Quote of the Week#QW-2006-01-19|I come for the wuggas, but stay for the jiggy juggas.]]"
*[[Weekly Fanstuff]]: [[Weekly Fanstuff#WF-2006-01-19|strong bad tubamaba]]
*[[Sketchbook]]: [[Sketchbook#SK-2006-01-19|orbs up, yo]]

==Tuesday, January 17, 2006==
*[[Store]]: [[Store Front Page News 2006#January 17, 2006|Strong Bad overkill combo becomes permanent]]

==Monday, January 16, 2006==
*[[Strong Bad Email]] #141: [[death metal]]

==Friday, January 13, 2006==
*[[Holidays|Holiday Toon]]: [[Happy Trogday]]
*[[Store]]: [[Store Front Page News 2006#January 13, 2006|Trogday sale]]

==Thursday, January 12, 2006==
*[[Quote of the Week]]: "[[Quote of the Week#QW-2006-01-12|Hey, Coach! Tell her I said, 'Hey!' No, no, just--Tell her I said, 'Bananas!' Tell her I said, 'A bluh-buncha bananas.']]"
*[[Weekly Fanstuff]]: [[Weekly Fanstuff#WF-2006-01-12|knitdor & strong bag]]
*[[Sketchbook]]: [[Sketchbook#SK-2006-01-12|teen homestars]]

==Monday, January 9, 2006==
*[[Store]]: [[Store Front Page News 2006#January 9, 2006|Strong Bad overkill combo sale]]

==Sunday, January 8, 2006==
*[[Strong Bad Email]] #140: [[highschool]]
*[[Scroll Button Songs|Scroll Button Song]]: "Scroll buttons, never looked so good! Scrollin' up and down like you knew they would!"
*[[Store]] footer changed to [[Store#Store Footer|winter]] theme.
*[[Main Pages]] copyright date changed from 2005 to 2006 (except for [[Main Page 23|"Backstage Pass"]] main page).
*[[Main Pages|Main page]] message: ''nothing else!''
__NOTOC__
[[Category: Regular Updates]]

H*R.com updates 2006

2006-08-03T15:50:09Z

Killbot:

{{updates-box}}
This is a log of all of the '''updates''' to '''[[Homestar Runner (Flash cartoon)|H*R.com]]''' during '''2006'''.
==Thursday, August 3, 2006==
*[[Quote of the Week]]: [[Quote of the Week#QW-2006-08-03|"And the chumbly wumbly bear came a tumblin down! Did he sell beans? Lord no! Did he sell eggs? Lord no! But he couldn't...so he stapled it down!"]]
*[[Weekly Fanstuff]]: [[Weekly Fanstuff#WF-2006-08-3|who likes the fat bee?]]
*[[Sketchbook]]: [[Sketchbook#SK-2006-08-3|buy one get one half off]]
*[[Podstar Runner]]: [[Best thing]]

==Monday, July 31, 2006==
*[[Strong Bad Email]] #154: [[keep cool]]
*[[Store]]: [[Store Front Page News 2006#July 31, 2006|Trogdor shirt sale]]

==Thursday, July 27, 2006==
*[[Quote of the Week]]: "[[Quote of the Week#QW-2006-07-27|"She was only 2017-She was a low res beauty queen-She was a brain sister-Texas Instruments all day-She remembers how they used to duet-Tha'll think you know what I mean.]]"
*[[Weekly Fanstuff]]: [[Weekly Fanstuff#WF-2006-07-27|painter's tape marshie]]
*[[Sketchbook]]: [[Sketchbook#SK-2006-07-27|leggin it out here boss]]
*Loading bubble added to [[Quote of the Week]] function
*[[Podstar Runner]]: [[Peasant's Quest Preview|Peasant's Quest Game]]

==Monday, July 24, 2006==
*[[Toons|Short]]: [[Summer Short Shorts]]
*[[Store]]: [[Store Front Page News 2006#July 24, 2006|Get Ye Flask T-shirt]]
*[[Store]]: [[Store Front Page News 2006#July 24, 2006|Strong Bad Beanie Cap sale]]
*[[Main Page Messages|Main Page message]]: ''New toon soon!''

==Thursday, July 20, 2006==
*[[Quote of the Week]]: "[[Quote of the Week#QW-2006-07-20|Oh, I can take my shirt off.]]"
*[[Weekly Fanstuff]]: [[Weekly Fanstuff#WF-2006-07-20|awesome fanart!]]
*[[Sketchbook]]: [[Sketchbook#SK-2006-07-20|9 to 5 homsar]]
*[[Podstar Runner]]: [[stunt double]]
*[[Store]]: [[Store T-Shirts|Get Ye Flask]] T-shirt announced

==Monday, July 17, 2006==
*[[Teen Girl Squad]]: [[Teen Girl Squad Issue 11|Issue 11]]
*[[Videlectrix]]: [[Kid Speedy|Kid Speedy version 1.new]] released with main page message, box art still unavailable.
*[[Store]]: [[Store Front Page News 2006#July 17, 2006|Trogdor Messenger Bag sale]]
*[[Store]]: Figurines and [[Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits|Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits CD]] sales end

==Thursday, July 13, 2006==
*[[Podstar Runner]]: [[trevor the vampire]]
*[[Quote of the Week]]: "[[Quote of the Week#QW-2006-07-13|Let the KOT have some!]]"
*[[Weekly Fanstuff]]: [[Weekly Fanstuff#WF-2006-07-13|sb appears in onion!]]
*[[Sketchbook]]: [[Sketchbook#SK-2006-07-13|the thnikkaking]]

==Monday, July 10, 2006==
*[[Strong Bad Email]] #153: [[redesign]]
*[[Scroll Button Songs|Scroll Button Song]]: "I'm scrollin' up high, you're scrollin' down low. I'm always late for school 'cause your moms drive slow. Oooooooooooooh!"
*[[Videlectrix]]: [[Kid Speedy]] released with main page message, box art unavailable.
*[[Store]]: [[Store Front Page News 2006#July 10, 2006|Patches sale]]

==Thursday, July 6, 2006==
*[[Podstar Runner]]: [[flag day]]
*[[Quote of the Week]]: "[[Quote of the Week#QW-2006-07-06|We are the Cool Tapes. We make some phat papes. Doley-O, doley-o, doley-o.(x3) Stop creepin' at me!]]"
*[[Weekly Fanstuff]]: [[Weekly Fanstuff#WF-2006-07-06|trogapult]]
*[[Sketchbook]]: [[Sketchbook#SK-2006-07-06|switchin em up]]

==Monday, July 3, 2006==
*[[Toons|Toon]]: [[Weclome Back]]
*[[Store]]: [[Store Front Page News 2006#July 3, 2006|Cool Tapes T-shirt]]
*[[Store]]: [[Store Front Page News 2006#July 3, 2006|Figurines sale]]
*"New" indicator removed from [[isp]] on [[Strong Bad Email|Denny's Menu]].

==Thursday, June 29, 2006==
*[[Quote of the Week]]: "[[Quote of the Week#QW-2006-06-29|You will note the artist's attention to fine wines, his masterful use of shadow...stevens. Circle gets the square.]]"
*[[Weekly Fanstuff]]: [[Weekly Fanstuff#WF-2006-06-29|i say there, monstrositea. do you know the times?]]
*[[Sketchbook]]: [[Sketchbook#SK-2006-06-29|work indeed]]
*[[Podstar Runner]]: [[army]]

==Monday, June 26, 2006==
*[[Store]]: [[Store Front Page News 2006#June 26, 2006|Homsar T-shirt sale]]

==Thursday, June 22, 2006==
*[[Store]]: [[Store Front Page News 2006#June 22, 2006|Support The Municipality T-shirts back in stock]]

==Monday, June 19, 2006==
*[[Store]]: [[Store Front Page News 2006#June 19, 2006|Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits CD sale]]

==Tuesday, June 13, 2006==
*[[Podstar Runner]]: [[crazy cartoon]]

==Tuesday, June 6, 2006==
*[[Podstar Runner]]: [[theme park]]

==Monday, May 22, 2006==
*[[Store]]: [[Store Front Page News 2006#May 22, 2006|Support the Municipality T-shirt]]
*[[Podstar Runner]]: [[Teen Girl Squad Issue 10]]

==Thursday, May 18, 2006==
*[[Quote of the Week]]: "[[Quote of the Week#QW-2006-05-18|I DON'T KNOW WHEN TO SAY WHEN!!]]"
*[[Weekly Fanstuff]]: [[Weekly Fanstuff#WF-2006-05-18|the difference? hardly.]]
*[[Sketchbook]]: [[Sketchbook#SK-2006-05-18|droolstar sleeper]]

==Tuesday, May 16, 2006==
*[[Strong Bad Email]] #152: [[isp]]

==Monday, May 15, 2006==
*[[Podstar Runner]]: [[death metal]]

==Thursday, May 11, 2006==
*[[Quote of the Week]]: "[[Quote of the Week#QW-2006-05-11|Hey! Watch those hands David Coppafeel!]]"
*[[Weekly Fanstuff]]: [[Weekly Fanstuff#WF-2006-05-11|12 pts. of articulation]]
*[[Sketchbook]]: [[Sketchbook#SK-2006-05-11|numba zero baller]]

==Monday, May 8, 2006==
*[[Store]]: [[Store Front Page News 2006#May 8, 2006|Bear Holding a Shark T-shirt back in stock]]

==Thursday, May 4, 2006==
*[[Quote of the Week]]: "[[Quote of the Week#QW-2006-05-04|Alright I gotta get out of here. I'm meetin Delelilia for some vietma- viamatese tunuffins!]]"
*[[Weekly Fanstuff]]: [[Weekly Fanstuff#WF-2006-05-04|pyrex trogdor]]
*[[Sketchbook]]: [[Sketchbook#SK-2006-05-04|coach 3 and friends]]

==Wednesday, May 3, 2006==
*[[Strong Bad Email]] #151: [[senior prom]] ([[Main Page Messages|Main Page Message]] reads: ''king of town toon'')
*[[Podstar Runner]]: [[Teen Girl Squad Issue 8]], [[Teen Girl Squad Issue 9]]
*[[Interviews and Public Appearances]]: [[TMBG Concert - 3 May 2006|TMBG Concert]]

==Tuesday, May 2, 2006==
*[[Store]]: [[Store Front Page News 2006#May 2, 2006|Kick The Cheat sale]]
*[[Main Page Messages|Main page message]]: ''new toon soon''

==Thursday, April 27, 2006==
*[[Quote of the Week]]: "[[Quote of the Week#QW-2006-04-27|Oh...I live a hard life.]]"
*[[Weekly Fanstuff]]: [[Weekly Fanstuff#WF-2006-04-27|seriously talented clown]]
*[[Sketchbook]]: [[Sketchbook#SK-2006-04-27|strong badmantis]]

==Monday, April 24, 2006==
*[[Games|Game]]: [[Thy Dungeonman 3]]
*[[Podstar Runner]]: [[Teen Girl Squad Issue 6]], [[Teen Girl Squad Issue 7]]
*[[Videlectrix]]: [[Thy Dungeonman 3]] added with synopsis, box art, and main page message.

==Monday, April 17, 2006==
*[[Store]]: [[Store Front Page News 2006#April 7, 2006|"Easter egg" sale]] ended.

==Saturday, April 15, 2006==
*[[The Brothers Chaps]]' father, [[Don and Harriet Chapman|Don Chapman]], passed away.

==Friday, April 14, 2006==
*[[Store]]: [[Store Front Page News 2006#April 14, 2006|Homsar T-shirt back in stock]]

==Wednesday, April 12, 2006==
*[[Podstar Runner]]: [[Everybody to the Limit]]

==Monday, April 10, 2006==
*[[Store]]: [[Store Front Page News 2006#April 10, 2006|Bear Holding a Shark T-shirt back in stock]]

==Friday, April 7, 2006==
*[[Store]]: [[Store Front Page News 2006#April 7, 2006|"Easter egg" sale]]

==Thursday, April 6, 2006==
*[[Quote of the Week]]: "[[Quote of the Week#QW-2006-04-06|You got the munch. The crisp and the crunch. Livin' in the gutter with Grandma. When Coach puts you in, you gotta go for the win. Y2K turned out alright...]]"
*[[Weekly Fanstuff]]: [[Weekly Fanstuff#WF-2006-04-06|35 year olds still get cakes?]]
*[[Sketchbook]]: [[Sketchbook#SK-2006-04-06|the cheat drawn from memory by missy p.]]

==Tuesday, April 4, 2006==
*[[Strong Bad Email]] #150: [[alternate universe]]
*[[Podstar Runner]]: [[sisters]]

==Sunday, April 2, 2006==
*[[April Fool's 2006]]: All pages returned to being the right-way up.

==Saturday, April 1, 2006==
*[[April Fool's 2006]]: All pages ([[April Fool's 2006#Remarks|with a few exceptions]]) flipped upside down.

==Thursday, March 30, 2006==
*[[Quote of the Week]]: "[[Quote of the Week#QW-2006-03-30|Oh, if you want it to be possessive it's just 'its,' but if it's supposed to be a contraction then it's I-T apostrophe S! ...scalawag.]]"
*[[Weekly Fanstuff]]: [[Weekly Fanstuff#WF-2006-03-30|homestar oilymens]]
*[[Sketchbook]]: [[Sketchbook#SK-2006-03-30|strong sadstronaut]]

==Monday, March 27, 2006==
*[[Toons|Short]]: [[Sbemail 150?!?]]
*[[Store]]: [[Store T-Shirts#tshirt_bear-shark|Bear Holding a Shark T-shirt]]
*[[Podstar Runner]]: [[personal favorites]]

==Friday, March 24, 2006==
*[[Quote of the Week]]: "[[Quote of the Week#QW-2006-03-24|Your computer room is now my tai chi space. And it doubles as my chai tea space, too!]]"
*[[Weekly Fanstuff]]: [[Weekly Fanstuff#WF-2006-03-24|metal hsr with bangs]]
*[[Sketchbook]]: [[Sketchbook#SK-2006-03-24|suudsu 5 months later]]
*[[Store]] footer changed to [[Store#Store Footer|summer]] theme.

==Tuesday, March 21, 2006==
*[[Strong Bad Email]] #149: [[candy product]]
*[[Podstar Runner]]: [[montage]]

==Monday, March 20, 2006==
*[[Store]]: [[Store Front Page News 2006#March 13, 2006|10% off sale]] ended.
*[[Main Page Messages|Main Page Message]]: ''email soon''

==Thursday, March 16, 2006==
*[[Quote of the Week]]: "[[Quote of the Week#QW-2006-03-16|You're doing great! Now shoulders down! One and two! Feel the burn and go to bed! Make some breakfast, talk to me!]]"
*[[Weekly Fanstuff]]: [[Weekly Fanstuff#WF-2006-03-16|jolly homestar roger]]
*[[Sketchbook]]: [[Sketchbook#SK-2006-03-16|poopertrooper sketches]]
*"Support the Municipality" [[Wallpaper|desktop]] available to download through the [[Main Pages]]. The button on the Main Page reads "Support the Municipality"; when clicked, it reads "we're onto you".

==Monday, March 13, 2006==
*[[Strong Bad Email]] #148: [[disconnected]]
*[[Podstar Runner]]: [[different town]]
*[[Store]]: [[Store Front Page News 2006#March 13, 2006|10% off sale]].

==Friday, March 10, 2006==
*[[Quote of the Week]]: [[Quote of the Week#QW-2006-03-10|Not Talkin' Bout Butter (remix by DJ Teh Cheat)]]
*[[Weekly Fanstuff]]: [[Weekly Fanstuff#WF-2006-03-10|hand knit tgs mittens!]]
*[[Sketchbook]]: [[Sketchbook#SK-2006-03-10|shaker homestar & mike]]

==Monday, March 6, 2006==
*[[Strong Bad Email]] #147: [[lady fan]]
*[[Podstar Runner]]: [[video games]], [[Teen Girl Squad]] Issues 1 through 5

==Thursday, March 2, 2006==
*[[Quote of the Week]]: "[[Quote of the Week#QW-2006-03-02|Uh, Strong Bad, were you just first basin' it with that piece of loose leaf?]]"
*[[Weekly Fanstuff]]: [[Weekly Fanstuff#WF-2006-03-02|homestar cubeheads]]
*[[Sketchbook]]: [[Sketchbook#SK-2006-03-02|12-string sad]]

==Tuesday, February 28, 2006==
*[[Interviews and Public Appearances]]: [[Flashforward 2006 Seattle - 28 Feb 2006|Flashforward 2006 Seattle]].

==Monday, February 27, 2006==
*[[Marzipan's Answering Machine]]: [[Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 13.2|Version 13.2]]
*[[Podstar Runner]]: [[guitar]]

==Saturday, February 25, 2006==
*[[Store]] [[Store Front Page News 2006#February 26, 2006|items of the week]]: [[Store Accessories#Messenger_Bags|Messenger Bags]]

==Thursday, February 23, 2006==
*[[Quote of the Week]]: "[[Quote of the Week#QW-2006-02-23|What?! Under Siege 2?? You got me this for like the last 3 years, man!]]"
*[[Weekly Fanstuff]]: [[Weekly Fanstuff#WF-2006-02-23|cheatar jr.]]
*[[Sketchbook]]: [[Sketchbook#SK-2006-02-23|2 more bubs]]

==Monday, February 20, 2006==
*[[Strong Bad Email]] #146: [[pop-up]]
*[[Store]] [[Store Front Page News 2006#February 20, 2006|items of the week]]: [[Store Other 2-D Stuff#Bumper Stickers|Bumper Stickers]], and [[Store Other 2-D Stuff#Patches|Patches]]. Other items on sale.
*[[Podstar Runner]]: [[virus]]

==Friday, February 17, 2006==
*[[Store]] [[Store Front Page News 2006#February 17, 2006|pledge drive week]]: [[Store Other 2-D Stuff#Bumper Stickers|Bumper Stickers]], [[Store Other 2-D Stuff#Static Clings|Static Clings]], [[Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits|Strong Bad Sings CD]], and [[Store Other 2-D Stuff#Patches|Patches]] on sale. Any other purchases also encouraged.

==Thursday, February 16, 2006==
*[[Quote of the Week]]: "[[Quote of the Week#QW-2006-02-16|I got it-I got everything you wan know. Everybody know me, my name Cornbread.]]"
*[[Weekly Fanstuff]]: [[Weekly Fanstuff#WF-2006-02-16|stinko handfoot sb]]
*[[Sketchbook]]: [[Sketchbook#SK-2006-02-16|none shall pass! eww.]]

==Tuesday, February 14, 2006==
*[[Museum]] updated

==Monday, February 13, 2006==
*[[Strong Bad Email]] #145: [[myths & legends]]
*[[Toons|Short]]: [[500 The Cheats]]
*[[Podstar Runner]]: [[caffeine]]
*[[Main Page Messages|Main Page Message]]: ''email soon''

==Friday, February 10, 2006==
*[[Store]] [[Store Front Page News 2006#February 10, 2006|items of the week]]: [[Store T-Shirts#tshirt_bubs_consessions|Bubs]], [[Store T-Shirts#tshirt_coachz|Coach Z]], [[Store T-Shirts#tshirt_scalding_lake|Scalding Lake]], and [[Store T-Shirts#tshirt_strong_sad|Strong Sad T-shirts]]
*[[Interviews and Public Appearances]]: [[Flashforward Interview - 10 Feb 2006|Flashforward Interview]].

==Thursday, February 9, 2006==
*[[Quote of the Week]]: [[Quote of the Week#QW-2006-02-09|Special Fanstuff Quote of the Day!! High school band actually playing the CGNU Fight Song!]]
*[[Weekly Fanstuff]]: [[Weekly Fanstuff#WF-2006-02-09|cheatcorn casserole]]
*[[Sketchbook]]: [[Sketchbook#SK-2006-02-09|nice inking, mike]]

==Monday, February 6, 2006==
*[[Strong Bad Email]] #144: [[narrator]]
*[[Podstar Runner]]: converted to [[Podstar:podcast.xml|RSS feed]]
*[[Podstar Runner]]: [[bottom 10]]

==Friday, February 3, 2006==
*[[Store]] [[Store Front Page News 2006#February 3, 2006|item of the week]]: [[Store#Kick The Cheat|Kick The Cheat]]

==Thursday, February 2, 2006==
*[[Quote of the Week]]: "[[Quote of the Week#QW-2006-02-02|The Cheatbot! Do you use that same mouth to kiss your...motherboard.]]"
*[[Weekly Fanstuff]]: [[Weekly Fanstuff#WF-2006-02-02|the cheat lard sculpture]]
*[[Sketchbook]]: [[Sketchbook#SK-2006-02-02|craig drawn homestar]]

==Tuesday, January 31, 2006==
*[[Main Page Messages|Main Page Message]]: ''sbemail podcast'' changed to ''sbemails on ipod!''

==Monday, January 30, 2006==
*[[Strong Bad Email]] #143: [[technology]]
*[[Podstar Runner]]: released with [[techno]], [[dragon]], [[japanese cartoon]], [[kids' book]], and [[crying]]

==Friday, January 27, 2006==
*[[Store]] [[Store Front Page News 2006#January 27, 2006|item of the week]]: [[Store Posters|Posters]]

==Thursday, January 26, 2006==
*[[Quote of the Week]]: "[[Quote of the Week#QW-2006-01-26|They flew on a sweet, sweet mushroom bridge to the...baseball...game.]]"
*[[Weekly Fanstuff]]: [[Weekly Fanstuff#WF-2006-01-26|clockin much dough]]
*[[Sketchbook]]: [[Sketchbook#SK-2006-01-26|homestar ice crusher]]

==Wednesday, January 25, 2006==
*[[Strong Bad Email]] #142: [[secret identity]]

==Friday, January 20, 2006==
*[[Store]] [[Store Front Page News 2006#January 20, 2006|item of the week]]: [[Store T-Shirts#tshirt_strong_sad|Strong Sad T-shirt]]

==Thursday, January 19, 2006==
*[[Quote of the Week]]: "[[Quote of the Week#QW-2006-01-19|I come for the wuggas, but stay for the jiggy juggas.]]"
*[[Weekly Fanstuff]]: [[Weekly Fanstuff#WF-2006-01-19|strong bad tubamaba]]
*[[Sketchbook]]: [[Sketchbook#SK-2006-01-19|orbs up, yo]]

==Tuesday, January 17, 2006==
*[[Store]]: [[Store Front Page News 2006#January 17, 2006|Strong Bad overkill combo becomes permanent]]

==Monday, January 16, 2006==
*[[Strong Bad Email]] #141: [[death metal]]

==Friday, January 13, 2006==
*[[Holidays|Holiday Toon]]: [[Happy Trogday]]
*[[Store]]: [[Store Front Page News 2006#January 13, 2006|Trogday sale]]

==Thursday, January 12, 2006==
*[[Quote of the Week]]: "[[Quote of the Week#QW-2006-01-12|Hey, Coach! Tell her I said, 'Hey!' No, no, just--Tell her I said, 'Bananas!' Tell her I said, 'A bluh-buncha bananas.']]"
*[[Weekly Fanstuff]]: [[Weekly Fanstuff#WF-2006-01-12|knitdor & strong bag]]
*[[Sketchbook]]: [[Sketchbook#SK-2006-01-12|teen homestars]]

==Monday, January 9, 2006==
*[[Store]]: [[Store Front Page News 2006#January 9, 2006|Strong Bad overkill combo sale]]

==Sunday, January 8, 2006==
*[[Strong Bad Email]] #140: [[highschool]]
*[[Scroll Button Songs|Scroll Button Song]]: "Scroll buttons, never looked so good! Scrollin' up and down like you knew they would!"
*[[Store]] footer changed to [[Store#Store Footer|winter]] theme.
*[[Main Pages]] copyright date changed from 2005 to 2006 (except for [[Main Page 23|"Backstage Pass"]] main page).
*[[Main Pages|Main page]] message: ''nothing else!''
__NOTOC__
[[Category: Regular Updates]]

HRWiki:Sandbox

2006-08-03T15:34:17Z

Killbot:

My mom looks pretty with a [[flask]].

Yet she cant get ye [[flask]].

[[homestar runner]] is a strange name.

HRWiki:Sandbox

2006-08-03T15:33:44Z

Killbot:

My mom looks pretty with a [[flask]].

Yet she cant get ye [[flask]].