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[[Image:compy_386_side_view.png|thumb|left|Side view seen in [[fingers]] (with "fingers" edited out)]]
[[Image:sbemail.png|thumb|right|Strong Bad checks his email.]]
The '''Compy 386''' was [[Strong Bad]]'s second computer, and in his words, "a spectacle of graphics and sound." He used this machine to answer his emails after the [[Tandy 400]] was thrown out at the beginning of [[invisibility]]. This machine was built by [[Compy, Inc]] and seemed to have [[couch patch#Easter Eggs|something against The Cheat]]. Strong Bad did 78 emails on the Compy, more than double the number of emails he checked on the Tandy (38). Also of note is that every Compy 386 email had Easter eggs. Although [[lures & jigs#Easter Eggs|lures & jigs]] didn't have any Easter Eggs when it was first released, they were added later.
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== Quick Facts ==
[[Image:Compy logo.PNG|thumb|right|The Compy 386 logo.]]
'''Debut:''' [[invisibility]]

'''Interactive Feature:''' You can click on the little wheels repeatedly to change the screen contrast from black to blue and then back to black again.
[[Image:End_compy.png|thumb|left|Slightly Shotgunned!]]
'''Death:''' Destroyed by [[Bubs' shotgun]] after being infected by 423,827 [[The Virus|viruses]] in the email "[[virus]]." [[Bubs]] later sold it to [[Homestar Runner]] as seen in the [[Broken Compy Menu]].

'''Font:''' [http://simplythebest.net/fonts/fonts/commodore_64.html Commodore 64]

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[[Image:flagrant_system_error.PNG|right|thumb|That's not a good prize!]]
'''Error Screen:''' The Compy had a blue [[Strong Bad's Computer Malfunctioning|Flagrant System Error]] screen that appeared when it encountered a major problem. Resembling the Windows 9x famous [[Wikipedia:Blue Screen of Death|Blue Screen Of Death]], it gave Strong Bad some vague information as to what went wrong. This screen appeared in "[[50 emails]]," when Homestar's many failed attempts to delete an email crashed the system. It later appeared in "[[virus]]," after Strong Bad learned that the Compy was infected with 423,827 viruses. It also was metioned in Biz Cas Fri 3, but not seen.
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== The Real Computer ==
[[Image:Powered_Compy.PNG|thumb|right|The Compy appearing in [[Powered by The Cheat]] form in [[mile]], under the name "Compa"]]
[[Image:Puppet_Compy.PNG|thumb|left|The Compy (or at least an Apple II monitor and a Dell keyboard) appearing in [[Puppet Time]]]]
Like the Tandy 400, this was an almost-reference to a real computer. There was a 386 processor, which was very popular in its day, but there was no company called "Compy" that made a 386 version of their computer. The "386" logo in "[[invisibility]]" is most likely a reference to the real-life logo of IBM, though the Compy 386 is running DOS (programs are .exe), the blue startup screen is a reference to the IBM PC-XT.

The design of the computer itself seems to be a take on the old Compaq Deskpro 386, which has a similar monitor and keyboard. However, the monitor in the [[Puppet Time]] movie is an old Apple II monitor. The keyboard is a recent model of the Dell QuietKey keyboard that came with earlier Dell computers.

Interestingly, both the exploded Compy 386 and [[Tandy 400]] contain identical gears and fans, despite being built by different manufacturers and being different generations of computer.
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{{Succession box | before = [[Tandy 400]] | title = [[Strong Bad Email|Strong Bad Emails]] | years = 41 - 118 | after = [[Lappy 486]]}}
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141.150.86.46 — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 23:15:14 GMT

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{{sbenav|65|english paper|the show}}

[[Image:Clavicus.png|thumb|"I think I broke my clavicus... majorus."]]

Strong Bad explains what happens to all the unused emails he gets every week.

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

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]], [[The Stick]], [[Strong Mad's Room]]

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

'''Date:''' March 3, 2003

'''Running Time:''' 1:38

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

== Transcript ==
'''STRONG BAD:''' Oooh! Check it out! Another one of those...sbemails!

''{reading}''

<blockquote class="compy email">Hey Strong Bad,<br />
I was wondering what you do with the<br />
emails that don't get showed on the<br />
weekly email.<br />
<br />
Dan Chase,<br />
Aurora, Illinois</blockquote>

''{Strong Bad stops and says "Hey!" after reading "Hey Strong Bad," and pronounces Illinois as "Illi-nwah"}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Ahh... ''{typing}'' Wha-hoah, Dan. You mean what do I do with the thousands and ''thousands'' of near unreadable emails I get every day? I like to mix it up!

''{Cut to The Cheat carrying some papers, organizing them into huge stacks}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' Sometimes I give them to The Cheat for filing. And archiving.

''{The Cheat sticks an email in the Medium category. Strong Bad sticks his head in the screen.}''

'''THE CHEAT:''' ''{squeaks}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' No man, that's a short.

''{The Cheat shrugs, and attempts to retrieve the email, but is too short to reach the top of the pile. Cut to Strong Bad and Bubs standing at the stick, facing away from each other. Strong Bad has a CD labeled "The Goods", Bubs has a bag of cash labeled "The Payoff".}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' Or if I'm strapped for cash, I'll sell the email addresses to Bubs for use in his free weekly spamvertisements.

''{Strong Bad drops the CD}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Oops! Lookit that! I dropped a CD of five-thousand email addresses!

''{Bubs throws the bag of money on the ground}''

'''BUBS:''' Whoops! I dropped a quarter for each one!

''{Cut to Strong Mad crumpling up papers}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' And sometimes I give them to my big brother Strong Mad, for the Japanese art of paper-folding.

''{Strong Bad walks on screen}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' So, how are your origamis? Is that one the crane?

'''STRONG MAD:''' ''{holds up two crumpled-up balls of paper}'' THIS IS A LOTUS FLOWER! THIS IS A PRAYING MANTIS!

'''STRONG BAD:''' Oh yeah, that's great, man. ''{sniffs}'' Incredible likeness.

''{Cut back to Strong Bad in front of the computer}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' But mostly the emails I don't use just get... ''{stops typing and stands up, backing up slowly}'' A-digga...a-digga...a-digga-digga...a-digga...a-diggity... ''{starts running back toward the desk}'' DIGGITY DIGGITY DIGGITY DIGGITY A-DELETEEEEEED!!!!!! ''{jumps and does an elbow drop on the keyboard, breaking the desk in half.}''

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

'''STRONG BAD:''' Ohhhhh....I think I broke my clavicus...majorus.

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

== Easter Eggs ==
[[Image:sbemail65.PNG|thumb|"No, man. That's a short."]]
*When you see The Cheat with the three stacks of emails, you can click on the top of each pile for a sample of some emails (click the close button to close each email.)
*You can click on the top of Strong Mad's pile of emails for another look at these wonderful emails Strong Bad gets.
*At the very end you can click on the words on Strong Bad's screen to bring up Bubs' Weekly Spamvertisement.
*You can click on the picture of the product in the Weekly Spamvertisement to see more products from Bubs.
**The products are:
***A plastic tape dispenser
***A small cup of ketchup
***A jar of three-bean salad

<pre>Bubs' Generous Weekly Free Spamvertisement
To: squealydee678@kindergartencop.edu
From: bubs@homestarrunner.com
cc:
Subject: Re: Grossly Overweight??? Need A New Porch??!!?

This new herbal supplement is healthy and JUST
WHAT YOU NEED!! Tired of losing sleep over
monthly payments? Below average performance
got you down? Slink on over to Bubs' Concession
Stand and try to see if you can believe your eyes.
THIS IS NOT A JOKE!! THIS IS REAL!!! It
happened to my friend's roommate. If you are lucky
enough to send this to 50 real live people before
morrow last, a dream geatway can be yours forever.
CONFIDENTIAL E-MAIL!!
If you received this e-mail in error, it must be your lucky day. To be removed from this
list, simply forward this to 50 people.</pre>

*Here are the unused emails which appear in this toon:
**Medium stack:
<pre>Dear Strong Bad,
This is my best one. Do you like it! I hope that you
do.</pre>
<pre>HOW DUMB IS IT BEING A DUMB ROBOT. I AM GLAD YOU ARE A
ROBOT NOT ME. GO AND KILL ANY ONE YOU HATE.

YOUR NOT BIGGEST FAN
EVAN</pre>
:*Tall stack:
<pre>Dear Strong Bad,
why don 't you do that thing?</pre>
<pre>hey i like ur e-mail and games i am stephanie and i am
10/f/nj and i play baseball cheerleader

from stephanie

poobears</pre>
:*Short stack:
<pre>Dear Strong Bad,
I tried to email you twice yesterday. You didn't email
back. 'Sup wit dat? I'm out like that.</pre>
<pre>Do you have a monkey if you do you are crap. If you
don't are still crap so leave me alone crap head. Stop
making me right this stupid crappy letter to you. So
buy craphead uh I mean crapface wait no crapnose
rrrrrghhh whatever you are stupid and have an ugly
butt and your stupid and a piece of crap. Oh yeah your
also stupid.

sincerely, me Andrew Shapiro

PS: Your still crap and always will be crap. And
please kill hamesturrunner please PLEASE PLEASE
PLEASE.
Bye bye.</pre>
:*Strong Mad's stack:
<pre>Dear, Strong Bad
Do you enloy reasing?</pre>

== Fun Facts ==
===Explanations===
*"It happened to my roommate" in the spam Easter egg probably refers to [[Wikipedia:Chain letter|chain letters]], and the fact that most chain letters involve some type of miracle happening, as well as saying "It happened to ''this person''," as well as the fact of forwarding it to 50 people in order for it "to happen to you."

===Trivia===
*The quarters that Bubs gives Strong Bad in exchange for the email addresses total $1,250 ($0.25 × 5,000), and would weigh 62.37lbs.
*The label on the disk in the floppy disk container reads "[[Floppy Disk Container#friendly ware|friendly ware]]".

===Remarks===
*Since Strong Bad clearly reads his emails on-screen using "strongbad_email.exe," it's curious as to why he would print out the bad ones before giving the pages to Strong Mad for his origami.
*When The Cheat is filing the emails into short, medium, and tall stacks, the paper is regular copy paper. Apparently, these emails were not printed using Strong Bad's dot matrix printer of [[The Paper]] fame.
*This is the first time we see Strong Bad with CDs. His computer, however, probably doesn't have a drive capable of burning CDs.
*There is a gap/small skip between "give them to my" and "big brother Strong Mad", hinting that [[The Brothers Chaps]] used two takes, and spliced them together.
*Although Strong Bad deletes the email, it can still be seen on the screen afterwards.

===Inside References===
*According to commentary on the [[strongbad_email.exe|DVD]], the "clavicus... majorus" line was originally to be used in the unfinished toon [[Tis True, Pom Pom, Tis True]].
*When Strong Bad runs toward the computer he passes the same door and window about four times, as in [[gimmicks]], when the [[Tandy 400|Tandy]] explodes.
*One of the unused emails in the Short Stack (Easter Egg) reads, in part: "you are stupid and have an ugly butt". This is based on a song in [[Strong Bad Sings]].

===Real-World References===
*The Brother Chaps do delete most of the e-mails they recieve.
*The email address the Weekly Spamvertisement is directed to (squealydee678@kindergartencop.edu), a reference to the [[Wikipedia:Arnold Schwarzenegger|Arnold Schwarzenegger]] film [[Wikipedia:Kindergarten Cop|Kindergarten Cop]].
*"Clavicus" is a play on the [[Wikipedia:clavicle|clavicle]] (also known as the collar bone).
**The word ''majorus'' doesn't actually exist in [[Wikipedia:Latin|Latin]]: the form of the adjective ''major'' that agrees with an ''-us'' ending such as ''clavicus'' is simply ''major''. The similar sounding ''majoris'' does exist, though, but only when used as a possessive.
*The background when Strong Bad is running to his computer is used in most cartoon shows during a chasing scene, where the hallway is very long and has repeating animation, such as a door or a window.

===Fast Forward===
*The "Digga-Digga-Digga... [[DELETED]]!" line is (almost) used again in [[car]].

== External Links ==
*[[HR:sbemail65.html|watch "unused emails"]]
*[[HR:sbemail65.swf|view the Flash file for "unused emails"]]

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Rafael Football League. -{{User:Marth 99/sig}} 21:28, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

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Cool Venusy! Although that goes to User subpages too. -{{User:Marth 99/sig}} 21:44, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

:Well yes, it picks a page at random from the user namespace, so subpages would be included as well. I wonder... --{{User:Venusy/Sig}} 21:57, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

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