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Talk:An Important Rap Song

4kai2lyn6 — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 02:59:22 GMT

4kai2lyn6: /* Y-Rock on XPN / TMBG */ I agree

==MP3==
Someone post a mp3 of the song LOL i laughed so hard

:Here you go: [http://www.homestarrunner.com/songs/Too%20Many%20Knives.mp3] {{User:Trey56/sig}} 23:29, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

== Song lyrics ==

Since this is a song, I think the transcript should show the lyrics in lyric style, like they've been done on other pages. How is that done, exactly? And how do we handle the visuals separately from the lyrics? (Or do we?) {{User:KieferSkunk/sig}} 23:38, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

:Hmm... I'd say do the lyrics like:

Poo-ha ha ha ha

Poo ha ha ha ha ha ha

Or however it goes, and then

Poo-ha ha ha ha

''{Cut to Bluebry's house}''

Poo ha ha ha ha ha ha

You know, something like that maybe. But, there's probably some standard I'm overlooking. {{User:Bluebry/sig}} 23:40, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
: For most songs, we write them like this:

Well you're a rich kid, living in the suburbs 
and there's not a whole lot to do. 
You're strolling to the kitchen and what do you find? 
A bunch of knives cold staring at you.

: And the visuals are separate. That's really how this one should have been transcribed. --{{User:Jay/sig}} 02:05, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
::Which I've just done... I agree, it does read a lot easier that way. {{User:Phlip/sig}} 12:28, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

== Humans! Ahhh! ==

Should we mention that this is the first time the Brothers Chaps animated a human? This is the first time we get to see Mike's skill as a real life artist! (ha ha ha.) --[[User:Strong Rose|~Rose]] 23:53, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

:We see his real life skillz all the time! Anyway, don't forget [[best thing]].{{User:Loafing/sig}} 23:56, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

:Hmm... well... It sorta counts. But that was supposed to be done in a different style, like some other guy drew it. And this is more realistic. (again, ha ha ha.)--[[User:Strong Rose|~Rose]] 00:17, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Don't forget [[for kids]]. That one was fairly realistic. [[User:71.231.56.40|71.231.56.40]] 00:23, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
:I don't think this is the first. Remember the guy from the Senor Cardgage commercials? The middle aged guy? And remember the girl from the PBTC segment in Strong Badathon? [[User:Spyrox6|Spyrox6]] 00:50, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

I think this is worth a mention, in that it's the first time a musician-type guy has been animated (outside of TGS). All the other guys have been live-action: Limozeen, Tarantula... I will admit that Limozeen was animated in [[best thing]], but that was the point and the "real" Limozeen was still live action. I'm pretty sure that Crack is the first in this category to have his "real" version animated. - [[User:Point7Q|Point7Q]] 01:02, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

:But how do you know this ''was'' the "real" version of Crack Stuntman? Maybe it was an animated rap video. : ) [[User:65.26.154.192|65.26.154.192]] 01:24, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

::Technically, this is the first time TBC animated an ''actual'' human. best thing had cartoons in it. This is fairly realistic. And I'm pretty sure the real Crack Stuntman stood up in this episode. [[User:Strong Devon|Strong Devon]] 01:36, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
:::Regardless of whatever sort of convoluted way you guys make this a breakthrough, I don't think it deserves a mention on the page. - {{User:Joshua/sig}} 01:57, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
::::I think it does. It really is the first time a human has been animated. Oh well, whatever -- [[User:Abelhawk|Abelhawk]] 02:06, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
:::::Excluding Limozeen, Balding Man, the Videlectrix Guy, Don Knotts, Teen Girl Squad, or Kid Speedy... some more than others. - {{User:Joshua/sig}} 02:15, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
::::::When I first saw it, I thought it was notable, but now I agree with Joshua. It's like an internal TTATOT.--[[User:Bobo the King|Bobo the King]] 03:59, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
:Can we call it the first realistic 3-D animation of a human? TGS had a 3D episode, but it was stick figure 3D. {{User:Csours/sig}} 11:05, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
::In what way are either 3D? - [[User:Point7Q|Point7Q]] 11:21, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
:::The animation on Crack Stuntman isn't really much more realistic than Limozeen-in-space... the only remotely 3D part of Crack's animation was him nodding his head in the "LOUD BASS" bit, and that was done with the same techniques they've done for years to make Strong Bad's head turn from side to side... {{User:Phlip/sig}} 12:09, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
::::TBC do humans pretty often. Crack Stuntman was probably meant to be a cartoon, like Limozeen and TGS. Not really notable. --{{User:NevaDie/sig}} 12:13, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
:I think it's the first human that isn't based on one of the Chaps, and isn't the guy from the Senor Mortgage commercial. I always forget to sign my things. --[[User:CertifiedArborist|CertifiedArborist]] 15:31, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
::Not that this is likely to settle anything, but it may be notable for the discussion that Crack Stuntman is animated in the Cheat Commandos style- fixed thickness lines, grainy bitmap backgrounds, etc. So it's almost certain that Crack was intended to be a cartoon (assuming that Cheat Commandos is a cartoon in the HR universe) rather than a "real" person like the central Homestar crew. --[[User:Fiasco|Fiasco]] 17:26, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
:the assumption that crack stuntman is a 'real' human is made because he claims to be the 'voice' of gunshaver. fictional cartoons are usually voiced by 'real' people.  {{User:Csours/sig}} 21:23, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
::Well, of course Crack is a 'real' person. I'm just saying the depiction of him in the video is meant to be a toon. Consider that in the '80s, Cheat Commandos' biggest inspiration, G.I. Joe, featured professional wrestler Sgt. Slaughter as a cartoon character and as a live action host. And Crack Stuntman looks like Duke. And... and... well, I'm not sure. But I can taste the parallel. Can you taste the parallel? --[[User:Fiasco|Fiasco]] 18:52, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
I am convinced. I withdraw my arguments and categorize this as "it sounded good in my head." I do still think this is the "real" Crack Stuntman, by which I mean the only version we'll ever see. - [[User:Point7Q|Point7Q]] 11:11, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
:Wait, the Videlectrix Guy, Don Knotts, Teen Girl Squad and Kid Speedy are humans? --[[User:Trogga|Trogga]] 05:51, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
::I'd like to take this moment to say that Strong Mad (even though he has no neck) is about as "human" as Crack [[User:MisteR t|mister t]] 04:36, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
:HOLY CRAP!! I relized I was wrong a long time ago, and was going to post it, but I kept forgetting. I didn't relize it would be such a big topic! Sorry about all this. --[[User:Strong Rose|~Rose]] 00:05, 31 March 2007 (UTC), the no0b who started it all. :(

== Just Wonderin' ==

About what time did this toon come out, eastern time? [[User:Homestar-winner|Homestar-winner]] 00:43, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
:I watched it shortly after 6:30 PM, and the first edits here are about then. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 08:58, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

== First mention ==
I noticed something. If the "Poo-ha-he-ha-he" is supposed to be Crack Stuntman laughing to the word "Poo", then wouldn't that be the first mention of the word "Poo" (aside from the Poopsmith)? All I remember is everyone either saying "Crap" or "Whatzit". [[User:Spyrox6|Spyrox6]] 01:04, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
:"Poo-ha-hoo-ha-hoo" (or whatever) is just him imitating the sound of drums, not laughing at the word poo.--{{User:NevaDie/sig}} 04:17, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
::Im laughing at it. I think its making fun of fake white rappers that try too hard, getting the words wrong. {{User:Csours/sig}} 11:07, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
:::I thought he was imitating record-scratching. This is implied by the shot of Crack Stuntman's arm scratching a record, seen just before "Holler for a dollar". Although you weren't the only one who was laughing. :) {{User:The Chort/sig}} 17:08, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

== Beats ==

Doesn't this sound sort of like that rap (I think it's Puff Daddy or P.Diddy or whatever) Losing My Head? Or is it just me?--[[User:CertifiedArborist|CertifiedArborist]] 01:55, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
::Heh, I can't imagine any two raps sounding the same :P -- [[User:Abelhawk|Abelhawk]] 02:06, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

I'd say that the first section, the "2 Many Knives" bit is cribbed from "The Message" by Grandmaster Flash - compare "Kids don't play wit' 2 many knives" with "Don't push me 'cause I'm close to the edge"

==Break==

The way he says "break" sounds like a specific Cheat Commandos cartoon. [[User:Retromaniac|Retromaniac]] 02:10, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

:Well, it could be in [[Let us give TANKS!]], when Gunhaver says "Thanksgiving break." I'm sure this is a complete and utter coincidence, though.--{{User:NevaDie/sig}} 12:11, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

::It would be fair enough, really, since Gunhaver is voiced by Crack Stuntman.. -- [[User:Mithent|Mithent]] 17:03, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

== Cheap Commandos? ==

When Crack is introducing himself, it also sounds like he says "Cheap" (Or Chief) Commandos.
Yes/No/Maybe? --[[User:Jrgilby|Jrgilby]] 02:47, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
:Maybe. It's hard to tell. I'll wait for confirmation from someone on that one. [[User:0rion|0rion]] 19:56, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
:I hear "cheap" but only once I had seen this, definitely not "chief" though [[User:DumbMuscle|DumbMuscle]] 22:29, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

==Email Styles==
I really think the line "Kidz don't play wit' 2 many knives, c'mon, c'mon" sounds almost identical to Strong Bad's "Can you see that I've got e-mail styles, c'mon, c'mon" from [[senior prom]]. Somebody agree with me on this one!--{{User:NevaDie/sig}} 04:21, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
:I was just thinking that, but it's probably a coincidence. {{User:Shwoo/sig}} 09:08, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
::I agree. It does sound very similar. [[User:Retromaniac|Retromaniac]] 16:09, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

== Clout? ==

Whassa clout mean? D'AAAAAAAAMM A CODFISH!
:http://m-w.com/dictionary/clout – see definition 4 in particular. {{User:Phlip/sig}} 11:20, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

:It means influence. [[User:Retromaniac|Retromaniac]] 17:07, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

:Unrelated to homestar, had I not read this article, I would have missed a government test question dealing with Russia's "clout" on the world stage. So thanks.

==Arthur==

The animation of the pictures on the dollar bills is similar to the intro of Arthur. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwzuQIgIQqk] (at 0:13). [[User:Retromaniac|Retromaniac]] 16:02, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

==King of the Hill==

Crack Stuntman resembles the characters from King of the Hill. [[User:Retromaniac|Retromaniac]] 16:02, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Both King of the Hill and Crack Stuntman are drawn in "realistic style" with black lines and no shading, but that's the only thing they share. Also, there's no thematic reason why TBC would make a King of the Hill reference in a kid's public service announcement parody. Not a reference. [[User:71.231.56.40|71.231.56.40]] 19:27, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

not really... KOTH characters are all ugly, while Crack is arguably sexy. ''This message was left unsigned by [[71.104.226.62]]''

Holy crap... Who said that? {{User:Visorbot 386/sig}}

[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:King_of_the_Hill_alley.jpg]] [[http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php/Image:AnImportantRapSong.PNG]] I'm not a registered user, so I can't post screenshots. Just compare these two. Not the same at all. [[User:71.231.56.40|71.231.56.40]] 19:49, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
==Blubry==

If I remember right, I think that a user worked on this transcript. -{{User:Viklas/sig}} 11:13, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

== Not exactly a politician ==

Rather than get into revision war, I figured I'd just take this straight here. One Fun Fact caught my attention on this article:

*This toon is a parody of various [[Wikipedia:Public service announcement|public service announcements]] in which prominent media figures (celebrities, politicians, etc.) attempt to give advice to children in the form of catchy songs, rap, etc. Common examples include campaigns against smoking and drug use.

If anything I'd say that this is ''much'' more along the lines of the public service announcements at the end of Saturday morning cartoon shows (such as G.I. Joe and Captain Planet) than political announcements. I think the fact is terribly misleading as it stands now. [[User:0rion|0rion]] 20:02, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
:I agree, because it showed the very end of a Cheat Commandos episode, followed by the rap. Come to think of it, it did kinda remind me of those Captain Planet-type announcements.--{{User:NevaDie/sig}} 20:49, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
::I agree with the Saturday Morning Cartoon fact. --{{User:TotalSpaceshipGuy3/sig}} 21:17, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
:::Ditto. The cartoon fact. --{{User:Theyellowdart/sig}} 21:18, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
::::I think that makes sense too: how does this version sound? {{User:Trey56/sig}} 21:48, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
<blockquote>This toon is a parody of various [[Wikipedia:Public service announcement|public service announcements]] at the end of cartoon shows (such as ''[[Wikipedia:G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (TV series)|G.I. Joe]]'' and ''[[Wikipedia:Captain Planet and the Planeteers|Captain Planet]]'') that attempt to give advice to children in the form of catchy songs, rap, etc. Common examples include campaigns against smoking and drug use.</blockquote>

I don't think that in this case it is specifically one or the other. I certainly don't remember captain planet or G.I. Joe rapping or singing. I seem to remember Paula Abdul singing. I don't remember any rapping about safety on TV in general. Rather, this seems to be a mismash of Public Service Announcements, After School Specials, end of show safety announcements, and even In-Class learning tools. I can't think of a particularly short way of summarizing this, but I think it does the toon injustice to refer to it as a direct parody of any of these.

::Well, I went ahead and changed it, per this discussion. If there are any major disagreements, we could always [[STUFF]] this one. Although it seems as though we're in reasonable tandem, so that probably won't be necessary. [[User:0rion|0rion]] 04:13, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
:::The revision sorta killed the joke to me. --{{User:Ang the Ephemeral/sig}} 06:19, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Actually, when I wrote that original fun fact, the politician reference I had in mind was Arnold Schwarzenegger, then Chairman for Bush Sr.'s position of President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports (1990-93). He and other political figures would occasionally appear on these Saturday morning PSAs saying things like "Hi, I'm (politician), here to remind you to just say No to drugs" and similar messages. They basically would try to serve as role models to children. They weren't allowed to campaign politically in these PSAs, though, and to my knowledge they still aren't. {{User:KieferSkunk/sig}} 04:51, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

::Wouldn't this fact be better in the Real World References rather than the Explanations section? [[User:MisteR t|mister t]] 04:44, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

== Delay ==

:Did anyone else notice that the new stuff bubble didn't appear for this toon until today (the 26th)? --[[User:CertifiedArborist|CertifiedArborist]] 00:25, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

== Incorrect Location!? ==

In the locations section, it lists Blue Laser Cottage. I assume this means that Blue Laser is supposedly in the cottage. However, The Commander and Minions appear to be in the Cheat Commandos HQ, as evidenced by Gunhaver's picture on the wall. This same background was used for the CC HQ in [[Let us give TANKS!]], when Gunhaver was ''staying behind'' at the base. Also, the Blue Laser Cottage was 'splown up. [[User:EYanyo|EYanyo]] 04:32, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

:Naw. Compare the kitchens shown in Tanks and Rap Song. They're obviously the same room.{{User:Bluebry/sig}} 04:35, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
::Yeah, okay. I got you now. I think when I first looked at it, Reynold's Parent's House was also there, so I thought it meant that Blue Laser Cottage is where Blue Laser and his minions were. In that case, is it notable that Blue Laser is in the Cheat Commandos HQ? [[User:EYanyo|EYanyo]] 03:46, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

== Possible Real World Reference ==

The lines "Meet a bunch of kids from Alabama/ beach volleyball slamma jamma!" may be a reference to a popular cheer for the Crimson Tide. (The Crimson Tide are the football team for the University of Alabama, and the cheer itself goes "Ramma jamma yella hamma, give 'em Hell, Alabama!") Crack's mispronunciation of certain things might explain why it's "slamma jamma" instead of "ramma jamma," but I also don't think the odds are very good that TBC would be familiar with that cheer so it may just be coincidence.

Just puttin' it out there.
:I think they were just rhyming things with "Alabama". {{User:Shwoo/sig}} 12:12, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

== Grandmaster Flash ==

I was wondering if anyone else noted the similarities to Grandmaster Flash's classic of rap, "The Message," particularly the way the line "Kids, don't play with too many knives," relates to the refrain "Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge." Dig:

[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/33/The_Message.ogg OGG Sample]

(Or perhaps you have to be of a certain age?)

Wonder if this merits mentioning in the article?

:I just watched this cartoon and the very first thing I thought of was that Grandmaster Flash tune...especially that Poo ha ha ha part.
:(and yes, perhaps you do have to be of a certain age) [[User:Ceilidthbear|Ceilidthbear]] 14:37, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

::That's what I thought of, too. And nah, you don't have to be of a certain age--I'm eighteen, and I like Grandmaster Flash and some of the earlier rap (not a big fan of most of the stuff today, though). I'm not sure if it's reference-worthy, but it certainly sounds a lot like "The Message." [[User:Mariko|Mariko]] 18:36, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

== Reversion Comment ==

There's a comment under "Goofs" stating that the second Pistols for Pandas visor is just a reversion of the first. However, I feel that this was more of an intended effect than a goof that TBC missed. Does it really belong there?

:It's a fuzzy area when you're talking about music videos, but since Crack is wearing both visors at the same time and they're not completely symmetrical on his head (ie. intentionally mirrored), I think it's more likely that he was just supposed to be wearing two identical visors and the cheap way to get the second one there was just to flip it horizontally.
:Keep in mind that there are other precedents for this sort of thing happening, too - [[Let us give TANKS!]] has a scene where one of the Blue Laser Minions has a fork stuck in one eye, but when he turns to face the other direction, the fork switches eyes. This is again due to the horizontal flip.
:That said, this seems like a common enough occurrence that we can validly debate about why it keeps happening - are TBC consciously doing the flip, hoping nobody will notice? Are they doing it to make fun of similar animation goofs elsewhere? Are they not aware of the goofs? Do they simply not care? Unfortunately, we don't know what they're thinking, and it's usually a bad idea to speculate in the article. {{User:KieferSkunk/sig}} 06:52, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

== Can anyone think of an example where this happened? ==

OK, I offer a preliminary slap in the back of the head to anyone who tries to push this into "breaking the 4th wall" category, but was there ever a cartoon where the voice of the cartoon came out at the end and said "Hi, I'm the voice of such and such?" We mentioned Seargent Slaughter, but there, they just animated a pro-wrestler, and the Spongebob guy does some live action promos...but never...actually acknowledges who he is, he pretends to be a pirate. The idea of a cartoon character's voice stepping forward in person, to a child, seems at first tantamount to Mickey Mouse taking off his head mask in front of kids at Disney World, but somewhere in the back of my head I vaguely remember, "Hi, you might remember me as the voice of such and such," then uses both their voice, and the cartoon voice for the PSA point. Was it the Roger Rabbit guy? Too long here, I know, but can anyone think of an example?
:Perhaps being the voice of "gun-shaver" is Crack's only claim to fame. [[User:MisteR t|mister t]] 04:40, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

== Poo hahahaha ==

Was that human guy laughing at the word poo? I'm laughing right now!--[[User:74.234.58.172|74.234.58.172]] 13:55, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

By the way, that was me who said that above, I just wasn't logged in.--[[User:Ava|Ava]] 13:56, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
:See [[Talk:An_Important_Rap_Song#First_mention|above]]. --{{User:TotalSpaceshipGuy3/sig}} 15:25, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

==Baywatch ref?==
The pink letters scrolling to the left with the beach in the background looks like a ref to baywatch. But I'm not sure. [[User:Gerkuman|Gerkuman]] 22:02, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

==TR-909?==
How sure are you that's a real TR-909 making the beats (see Trivia), for all we know it could be a VST, or samples, or clone...{{unsigned|69.55.193.129|1:50, 30 March 2007 (UTC)}}

:Hm, that was added {{p|l=http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=An_Important_Rap_Song&diff=435794&oldid=435793 here}}. You raise a good point, as it could easily be from [[Wikipedia:ReBirth RB-338|ReBirth RB-338]] or something like that (assuming that the sounds are unique to the TR-909). -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 01:59, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

== Sound Quality ==

OK, so there's been this fact in the [[An Important Rap Song#Remarks|Remarks]] section saying that the sound quality is significantly higher than in most other cartoons on the site. I really think this fact is questionable. Isn't the whole thing subjective? Can different people have differing opinions on the sound quality of this toon? And now someone has adding to it, saying that the character videos of [[The King of Town]] and [[Marzipan]] also have better sound. To be honest, I could not hear any difference at all. This fact should be removed. {{User:Has Matt?/sig}} 23:52, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

:I agree with you, however, methinks it need be STUFFed. {{User:Bluebry/sig}} 23:53, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
::Perhaps there is a technical reason for the claim that the quality is better (like a higher bitrate). Let's ask around about that before sending it to STUFF. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 00:09, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

== There's a difference? ==

I don't get out much so I'm kinda curious about something. In the hip-hop lingo, what's the difference between "Fresh" and "Fly"? - {{User:Ren Foxx/sig}} 18:50, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
:There used to be an explanation on this, but it was [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=An_Important_Rap_Song&diff=435731&oldid=435729 removed]. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]] 18:54, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
::I put it back 'cause it's interesting (on the assumption that it's true; if it's not true, someone please say so). — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 18:58, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
:Well, according to [http://www.urbandictionary.com/ urbandictionary.com], "fresh" means "cool, in style", whilst "fry" means "cool, in style". The joke is they mean the same thing. For example, the TV Show ''The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air'' and The Offspring's ''Pretty Fly (for a White Guy)''. {{User:The Chort/sig}} 18:57, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
::I agree. I believe that the joke of it is that there is no difference, thus is why he says "And trust me. There is a difference." Simply because he isn't exactly the smartest character on Homstar Runner. -Some person who does not yet have an account.

==Riggity Roll!==

Does anyone else thing Gunhaver changing the cathphrase to "Riggity Roll", possibly be beacuase of Crank Stuntman, who simply forgot then changed it? (After all, he can't remember his charecters name...)
-{{User:HeyMama/sig}}
:He would have had his lines memorized from a script, so I don't think it's possible... but who's Crank Stuntman? -- [[User:ChurchPunk|ChurchPunk]], 10:03 PM, March 31, 2007 (EST)
::[[Crack Stuntman]] does the voice of [[Gunhaver]] on the Cheat Command-show. {{User:Has Matt?/sig}}
:::No, I don't think it's Crack's bad knowledge of the show, and it's the script reason I think so. It seems improbable Crack'd remember it for, what, four toons and suddenly forget it. {{User:Bluebry/sig}} 02:08, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
::::Not remembering a character's name right could definitely be easy to do, depending on how the voice acting is done. A lot of times, especially with low budget stuff, people are just handed a paper with lines on it to read into the mic. No direction, no being told what you're saying a line in response to, nothing even resembling a script, and no actual dialogue with the other voice actors. Just read an entire episode's worth of lines, one after the other, then go home. Lot of low budget stuff, especially crappy computer games, you can really tell they did it that way, because their inflection will be off. Especially on one-word lines, like "who?" or "what?". Like "I figured out who murdered Joe!" "Who?" (inflected more like "who are you talking about? I don't know anyone named Joe," than the obviously intended "who was it that killed him?")

::::So anyway, a catchphrase, like "rock rock on!" would be said a lot, and the voice actor would probably remember it. But most characters don't say their own name that often. And if everyone's lines are all recorded seperately, and Stuntman never watches the show, he could conceivably have never heard Gunhaver's name actually said out loud, and may not even see it in print that often, if it's not written on his line-sheet. [[User:Arrkhal|Arrkhal]] 06:08, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

:::::I also don't think it's a flub. You don't memorize lines for an animated show; you read them. Stuntman would have the copy in front of him. The only way a flub makes sense is if he was completely unwilling to record the correct line, and so the producers had no choice but to use the flub, animate his arms in a funny way as he said it, animate the other Commandos' reactions to it, and record Silent Rip's line (which could possibly have been an ad lib if the recording session included more than one voice actor, but still). I think it makes more sense simply to attribute it to Gunhaver, not Stuntman. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 15:04, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

::::::This wouldn't be the first time in the H*R universe that editors have tried to pick up the slack for the characters. In the "first time here?" video homestar's bungled lines show up on screen magically, as though they were deliberately editted in there.
:::::::Plus, in [[Limozeen: "but they're in space!"]], the cancellation is announced ''during'' the pilot itself by [[Teeg Dougland]], and all the other characters react to his bad news. Since cartoons can't be live action, either the pilot was cancelled during production but was aired anyway, or it's a cartoon about dumb animal characters so illogical crap like this can happen all the time for the purpose of humor. {{User:The Chort/sig}} 15:24, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

== Plunges? ==

I'm looking at the definition [http://www.webster.com/dictionary/plunges in Webster's], and I can't really see where any of them fit. All of the definitions listed mention plunging ''into'' or ''off of'' something, which is not really the case here. [http://www.webster.com/dictionary/lunges Lunge], on the other hand, seems to fit the situation exactly. I'm curious as to how you're reading these definitions, Bluebry. {{User:Laramie/Sig}} 12:06, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

== The Sneeze? ==

In the popular humor blog [http://www.thesneeze.com The Sneeze] there has been a multi-instalment joke about a conversation the author had with his 4 year-old son. He asks, "Please put your pants on," and the son answers, "Fine. Pickles!" I'm not sure if the opening segment is a reference to this or not.

Other than putting pants back on... meh, I'd say it's a stretch. If BLC said "Fine. Pickles!", then I'd have considered it a reference. [[User:71.231.56.40|71.231.56.40]] 19:02, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

== Inside References error ==

"Although not explicitly stated as such, the knives that Reynold's brother finds are rather big."
*I dissagree. They are merely in the foreground. [[User:MetaStar|MetaStar]] 07:10, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

:With the background seen outside the frame if you look at the flash or have one of the viewer scripts, you can scale the knives to their appropriate size next to Reynold's brother. They're about 80% of the shown size (on each dimension). Still pretty big, at least the left two are. Of course it's real hard to define 'big' in terms of Cheat sized and shaped beings. [[User:70.146.127.129|70.146.127.129]] 15:47, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

"Bubs foot isn't giant, it's just in the foreground." [[User:KanineKommander|KanineKommander]] 19:33, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

== Summertime? ==

Did anyone else think that the lyrics might have been inspired by/poking fun at The Fresh Prince's [http://www.lyricsfreak.com/w/will+smith/summertime_20146987.html Summertime]? It didn't sound the same, but nevertheless I thought the lyrics seemed sort of modeled after it.--[[User:H-ko|H-ko]] 06:35, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

== The other Crack? ==
I noticed that during the lines:
Well you're a rich kid, living in the suburbs,
and there's not a whole lot to do.
Crack points to his name printed on his shirt on the word "do". Coincidence, or does this PSA have a deeper message? [[User:Arkyopterix|Arkyopterix]] 22:36, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
:Definitely noticed this. Seemed ''extremely'' blatant to me. I mean, "you're a rich kid living in the suburbs and there's not a whole lot to do"? Plus the fact that the ''actual'' message of the song is an extremely non-issue that an ironically placed allusion to a real issue seems somewhat appropriate (and quite funny). Don't really know if it's worth mentioning or anything. [[User:68.223.138.23|68.223.138.23]] 04:53, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

::Wait, I don't understand. He points to his name. So what? --{{User:Jangles5150/sig}} 19:52, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
:::They think he's referring to crack. Like, the drug. Personally, I think it's a ridiculous notion. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]] 19:55, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
::::It's probably just a stupid coincidence that he seems to point at his name. The rap song isn't about the dangers of drugs, it's about knife safety and spring break. He's just doing finger gestures in a futile attempt at being cool. {{User:The Chort/sig}} 17:03, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

== Thiiiiis is Crack Stuntman ==

I don't know if it's worth noting or not, but the way "BLAAAAH'm Crack Stuntman" is said is very similar to the way "Thiiiiis is Crack Stuntman" is said in [[Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 14.2]]. On the one hand, each character has a particular way of talking, and noting it each time they speak that way seems redundant. On the other hand the dragged out greeting seems to be a gimmick for Crack Stuntman, so should it be noted somewhere? — [[User:moeroris|moeroris]] ([[User talk:moeroris|talk]]) 18:51, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

== Senior Prom email song ==
The rhythm of the line "Kids don't play wit 2 many knives" is very similar to the e-mail song in the easter egg at the end of [[Senior Prom]]. Has anyone else noticed this?
[[User:74.114.133.55|74.114.133.55]] 05:13, 3 May 2007 (UTC) Unregistered User - Shard

== Numbers? ==

The numbers on the dolla (34678234678 and 67834jq8nds respectively) must mean something, right? If they were totally random, why do nine, five, and zero not apear, and why are the numbers always in order? Do they refer to dates (3/4/67, 8/23/46, 6/78 mean anything to anyone?) or possibly a representation of musical notes since it is base eight? Or am I looking too far into this?
:i think the jq and nds are supposed to be capital ( another thing that might need be here )--[[User:72.172.198.130|72.172.198.130]] 13:02, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
::That's already noted in Trivia. As to randomness, randomness does not mean you can't randomly get a string of 5s or not see 9 in a long series of random generations or anything like that. It's ''random'' - anything can happen. Dice have no memory. There may be dates or other numerological references within those numbers, but unless a '''strong''' association can be find, any connectionj proposed will most likely be seen as speculative. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 13:28, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
:::Re: "possibly a representation of musical notes since it is base eight" - Base 8 implies 8 different possibilities within a place. Music offers (depending on how you look at it) 7 or 12, so base 8 can't readily apply to music. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 13:32, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

== The Song MP3... ==

I've noticed that the song is a direct link...and I'd really want to download the song, but because the link is in flash, and it isn't in a zip folder, I can't download it. Does anyone have a copy of the song as an MP3 possibly? If so, I'd really appriciate it if you posted a link to a file hosting site (like filesend.net) with the song on it, so people with computers that play mp3 files in their browser can download it.
:That's easy to fix, simply right click the link and choose 'Save Link As...' or something similar, and it'll save as a .mp3. --{{User:TotalSpaceshipGuy3/sig}}
::<s>You can also see [[#MP3|this]] discussion (it contains a link to the mp3). Happy wiki-ing!</s> Nevermind. Listen to TSSG3. He is wise like the owl of night... {{User:Bluebry/sig}} 16:54, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
:::I have parental controls on my pc, so I can't save stuff like that. does anyone have the mp3 uploaded somewhere?
::::hmm, ill upload it to my site. tell ya when!--[[User:72.172.198.130|72.172.198.130]] 12:37, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
::::: As I posted in the above topic of mp3s, if you go to "Save Target As..." it saves as mpeg and not mp3. It really would be helpful if someone actually posted an mp3.
::::::You need to tell your browser to save it as an mp3, then it'll work just fine.{{User:Loafing/sig}} 21:25, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
:::::::Er....how exactly do I do that? And does the fact my default internet is Firefox have to do with it?

== Homestar and not www.homestar? ==

I've noticed the address is <nowiki>http://homestarrunner.com/2manyknives.html</nowiki> when most of the others have a www. at the beginning ( i.e. <nowiki>http://www.homestarrunner.com/lilbrudder.html</nowiki> ) maybe it's just my browser, but plz answer!--[[user:72.172.198.130 12:28|72.172.198.130 12:28]], 18 August 2007 (UTC)
:In many - perhaps most - cases, you don't need to add the "www" part of the address, as internet servers are usually configured to assume that you intend that. You'll find that <nowiki>http://homestarrunner.com/2manyknives.html</nowiki> and <nowiki>http://www.homestarrunner.com/2manyknives.html</nowiki> point to the same document. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 12:56, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
::cool thx!--[[User:72.172.198.130|72.172.198.130]] 13:03, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

== Ok... ==

So I find it kind of weird that the Cheat Commandos are all "the cheats" (which we can assume is an actual animal in the HR universe). So having someone do the voice of a Cheat Commando must mean that the Cheat Commandos are animated (in the HR universe), but why, then, would they have a human being doing the voice of a "the cheat"? I always saw the Cheat Commandos as other real-life "the cheats" on TV. '''I DON'T GET IT!!!''' Can anyone see what I'm saying? It's really hard to explain...--[[User:Original Nick|Nick]] 08:44, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
:It's never directly stated on the site, but it's quite clear from both references in the toons and the comments the Brothers Chaps make in the commentaries that the Cheat Commandos are animated characters. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]] 09:20, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
::Ok I guess that makes sense. Thanks for the response.--[[User:Original Nick|Nick]] 09:22, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

== Y-Rock on XPN / TMBG ==

This song was just featured on this radio program by non other than They Might Be Giants! If someone would like to help document this, check out the front page of the TMBG wiki: http://tmbw.net/wiki/Main_Page . {{User:4kai2lyn6/sig}} 02:42, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
:Unfortunately, that's still just a [[sighting]]. {{User:DeFender1031/sig}} 02:44, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
::Ah, yes. I've forgotten H*R wiki procedures. (I deserve to be slapped!) Still, it's rather unfortunate that it can't be mentioned here. Thanks for the redirect, Defender. {{User:4kai2lyn6/sig}} 02:53, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
:::Hm, I think TMBG are nearly crossing the line from being a sighting, since them and TBC have collaborated more than once. But I think this does have the nature of a sighting.{{User:Loafing/sig}} 02:57, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
::::That was and still is my line of thinking as well, Loafing. It's up to you guys. {{User:4kai2lyn6/sig}} 02:59, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

They Might Be Giants

4kai2lyn6 — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 02:57:20 GMT

4kai2lyn6: /* Fun Facts */ space

{{Infobox_Band |
band_name = They Might Be Giants |
image = [[Image:TMBG.jpg|200px|John Flansburgh and John Linnell]] |
origin = [[Wikipedia:Brooklyn|Brooklyn]], [[Wikipedia:New York|New York]] |
genre = [[Wikipedia:Alternative rock|Alternative rock]] [[Wikipedia:College rock|College rock]] [[Wikipedia:Children's music|Children's music]] |
member = [[TMBW:John Flansburgh|John Flansburgh]] [[TMBW:John Linnell|John Linnell]] |
backup = [[TMBW:Marty Beller|Marty Beller]] [[TMBW:Dan Miller|Dan Miller]] [[TMBW:Dan Weinkauf|Danny Weinkauf]] |
discography = Extensive listing at [[TMBW:Discography|TMBW.net]] |
producer = Pat Dillet |
}}
[[Image:John & John 2.png|thumb|220px|The Two Johns, [[Powered by The Cheat]]'d!]]

'''They Might Be Giants''' is an alternative rock band that has collaborated with [[The Brothers Chaps]] on several occasions.

The story of the Homestar Runner collaboration:
<blockquote>"It was very circuitous. ... A photograph was taken of me wearing a Homsar shirt, which is one of the more obscure characters in Homestar. I was at an in-store thing wearing this shirt and a fan had taken a photograph of me signing their book or whatever, and the photograph of me showed up in some blog, and somebody made them aware of it. They were like, 'Hey look, they're wearing your shirt, you guys,' and so [the Brothers Chaps] knew that we were fans. And I guess Linnell kind of reached out to them and said, 'You know, if there's anything you want us to do, if you have any musical needs for your site or whatever, we'd be certainly happy to help you guys out,' and they took us up on that offer. We did a bunch of things with them — we did a jam session with the Homestar puppet, and they did this video for 'Experimental Film' — and it's kind of a mutual admiration society. We really enjoy what they do." — John Flansburgh from an interview in the [http://www.tucsonweekly.com/gbase/music/Content?oid=oid:59640 Tucson Weekly], 19 August 2004</blockquote>

== Collaborations ==
*They composed and performed the music for the [[Strong Bad Email|email]] [[different town]].
*John, John, and Marty jam with [[Homestar Runner]] in the [[Puppet Jam|Puppet Jam series]].
*The Brothers Chaps animated the [[Experimental Film|video]] for [[TMBW:Experimental Film|Experimental Film]], one of the songs from their 2004 CD [[TMBW:The Spine|The Spine]] and [[TMBW:The Spine Hits The Road|The Spine Hits The Road]]. This video was listed as the official music video for the song, and it aired once on MTV.
**They also animated the video for [[TMBW:Figure Eight|Figure Eight]] for the band's upcoming children's DVD, [[TMBW:Here Come The 123s|Here Come The 123s]].
*Puppets Homestar and [[Marshie]] joined They Might Be Giants onstage in Atlanta for their [[TMBG Concert - 25 Sep 2004|September 25, 2004 concert]].
*Puppet [[Strong Bad]] joined They Might Be Giants onstage in Atlanta for their [[TMBG Concert - 3 May 2006|May 3, 2006 concert]].

== Fun Facts ==
*In [[Thy Dungeonman 3]], there is an excerpt from [[TMBW:Fingertips|Fingertips]] when you type something that doesn't compute with the game (beginning with "I don't understand you...").
*[[Strong Sad]] quotes They Might Be Giants lyrics for the song "[[TMBW: Don't Let's Start|Don't Let's Start]]" in his [[Strong Sad's Lament|journal]]; "Everybody dies, frustrated and sad, and that is beautiful".
*On January 30, 2008, They Migt Be Giants "took over" [http://www.yrockonxpn.org/index.php Y-Rock on WXPN 88.5 ] as DJs, and featured [[An Important Rap Song]].

== See Also ==
*[[Nicknames#Miscellaneous|Nicknames]]

== External Links ==
*[http://www.tmbg.com/ tmbg.com] - Official site
*[http://www.theymightbegiants.com/ TheyMightBeGiants.com] - Official online music store
*[[Wikipedia:They Might Be Giants|They Might Be Giants]] at [[Wikipedia:|Wikipedia]]
*[[TMBW:|This Might Be A Wiki]] - Unofficial knowledge base
*[http://www.tmbg.org tmbg.org] - Unofficial site
*[http://www.dialasong.com/ Dial-a-Song]

[[Category:Real Bands]]

They Might Be Giants

4kai2lyn6 — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 02:56:50 GMT

4kai2lyn6: /* Fun Facts */ Y-Rock on WXPN (I think this can go here with impunity)

Talk:An Important Rap Song

4kai2lyn6 — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 02:53:17 GMT

4kai2lyn6: /* Y-Rock on XPN / TMBG */ Ah yes....

Radio Sightings

4kai2lyn6 — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 02:50:44 GMT

4kai2lyn6: fix

{{sightingslanguagewarning}}
{{Template:sightingslist}}

== [http://www.102themountain.com/ 102.3 The Mountain] ==
*In mid-July, 2005, The Mountain, a classic rock radio station in northeastern Pennsylvania, featured a short sound bite from [[radio]].
*Again, in February, 2006, a snippet of [[radio]] was played, containing the lines about the "hour of chanting" and "dead air...um...dead air."

== [http://www.kllp.com/main.html/ Star 98.5] ==
*A sound clip from [[radio]] was heard consistently through summer 2006 on Star 98.5(Idaho), containing "Don't you touch that BLABBITABLOUGH!" "...Blabbitablough?" "Don't you ever make me do that again!"

== CD 101 ==
CD 101 (101.1 FM Columbus, OH) has clips from the e-mail [[radio]] in some of the bumps they use before playing songs.

== KJHK ==
KJHK (90.7 FM Lawrence, KS) uses clips from [[techno]] and [[dragon]] in their bumps.

== The Chris Moyles Show ==
On 5 May 2005, [[Wikipedia:Chris Moyles|Chris Moyles]] of [[Wikipedia:BBC Radio 1|BBC Radio 1]] fame was discussing the final episode of the UK version of [[Wikipedia:The Apprentice (UK)|''The Apprentice'']] with his colleagues. When he mentioned that it was "in the [news]paper", he added, "No, it's not a paper that comes down from the sky, and we watch the show on it!" This roughly fits the description of [[The Paper]]--it comes down from the sky, but one does not generally "watch the show on it."

== NPR ==

NPR's Talk Of The Nation program on March 9, 2004 discussed Internet animation and featured prominent mention of Homestar Runner as "the reigning king of animated sites" and "the closest thing the Web has now to an episodic hit show". It featured [[kind of cool]], as well as the email [[different town]]. Audio at [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1753401 NPR's website].

NPR's All Things Considered program on May 8, 2005 discussed the H*R site, described some of the characters, and featured a short interview with The Brothers Chaps. Audio at [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4634837 NPR's website].

== Oldies 102.9 ==
When the radio talks about its website, the phrase "Welcome to the greatest website" in a homestar voice appears.

== Podtacular Halo 2 Podcast ==
The co-host "spelchek" does some Homestar and Strong Bad impressions during [http://podtacular.blogspot.com/2005/10/episode-11-backwash-n-b-rs.html show 11].

== Q98 ==
On Q98- 98.7 FM (a radio station in Fargo, ND/Moorhead, MN), the DJ, Stash, told listeners to visit the radio's website "...at q98.net, it's dot com." This is a reference to the [[First Time Here?]] cartoon, in which Homestar says, "Welcome to HomestarRunner.net ... It's dot com!" They also played a sound clip from Strong Bad's character page cartoon, where Strong Bad says, "Ladies, form a line to my left for makeouts! Dudes, form a line to my right for high fives!"

== Radio U ==
Radio U (88.7 FM in Columbus, OH) has interviewed Strong Bad and the Brothers Chaps on two occasions, accessible at the bottom of [http://tvulive.com/radiou/riot2.htm this page].

== The Rock ==
There was a quote from [[Strong Bad]]'s character video on a La Crosse, Wisconsin radio station called "95.7 The Rock." It goes from the part
where Strong Bad says, "Ladies, form a line to my left for makeouts! Dudes, form a line to my right for high-fives," and stops at the part at which Homestar says, "Well, I was going to get a high-five, but I see that I'm already here."
*It seems that The Rock are frequent users of Homestar Runner quotes, around once a week or so you can hear one pop up.

== The Ron and Fez Show ==
[[Wikipedia:Ron Bennington|Ron Bennington]] and [[Wikipedia:Fez Whatley|Fez Whatley]] of XM Satellite Radio have stated publicly that they are huge fans of homestarrunner.com. They end each of their shows with an audio drop from [[the facts]] of Homestar Runner saying "And that's the end of my show, donk." On another occasion, when discussing crying at the movies, they discussed [[crying]]. Ron Bennington said that seeing [[Li'l Brudder]] made him cry and repeatedly said "He's got the heart of a champion."

== WBRU ==
When 95.5 WBRU FM out of Providence does their sports update, the quote "Get yer head in the game, The Chort," from [[mascot]], is played. Also, part of [[techno]] is in one of the bumps they use before playing songs.

== KUPS: The Sound ==
In one of their transitions between programming, the DJ said "You're listening to college radio, which means you probably just heard an hour of chanting" which is a reference to the e-mail [[radio]].

== [http://www.yrockonxpn.org/index.php Y-Rock on WXPN 88.5 ] ==
On January 30, 2008, [[They Might Be Giants]] "took over" Y-Rock on WXPN 88.5 as DJs, and featured [[An Important Rap Song]].

[[Category:Sightings]]

Radio Sightings

4kai2lyn6 — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 02:49:31 GMT

4kai2lyn6: TMBG on Y-Rock --- edit as you see fit please (I'm rusty)

{{sightingslanguagewarning}}
{{Template:sightingslist}}

== [http://www.102themountain.com/ 102.3 The Mountain] ==
*In mid-July, 2005, The Mountain, a classic rock radio station in northeastern Pennsylvania, featured a short sound bite from [[radio]].
*Again, in February, 2006, a snippet of [[radio]] was played, containing the lines about the "hour of chanting" and "dead air...um...dead air."

== [http://www.kllp.com/main.html/ Star 98.5] ==
*A sound clip from [[radio]] was heard consistently through summer 2006 on Star 98.5(Idaho), containing "Don't you touch that BLABBITABLOUGH!" "...Blabbitablough?" "Don't you ever make me do that again!"

== CD 101 ==
CD 101 (101.1 FM Columbus, OH) has clips from the e-mail [[radio]] in some of the bumps they use before playing songs.

== KJHK ==
KJHK (90.7 FM Lawrence, KS) uses clips from [[techno]] and [[dragon]] in their bumps.

== The Chris Moyles Show ==
On 5 May 2005, [[Wikipedia:Chris Moyles|Chris Moyles]] of [[Wikipedia:BBC Radio 1|BBC Radio 1]] fame was discussing the final episode of the UK version of [[Wikipedia:The Apprentice (UK)|''The Apprentice'']] with his colleagues. When he mentioned that it was "in the [news]paper", he added, "No, it's not a paper that comes down from the sky, and we watch the show on it!" This roughly fits the description of [[The Paper]]--it comes down from the sky, but one does not generally "watch the show on it."

== NPR ==

NPR's Talk Of The Nation program on March 9, 2004 discussed Internet animation and featured prominent mention of Homestar Runner as "the reigning king of animated sites" and "the closest thing the Web has now to an episodic hit show". It featured [[kind of cool]], as well as the email [[different town]]. Audio at [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1753401 NPR's website].

NPR's All Things Considered program on May 8, 2005 discussed the H*R site, described some of the characters, and featured a short interview with The Brothers Chaps. Audio at [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4634837 NPR's website].

== Oldies 102.9 ==
When the radio talks about its website, the phrase "Welcome to the greatest website" in a homestar voice appears.

== Podtacular Halo 2 Podcast ==
The co-host "spelchek" does some Homestar and Strong Bad impressions during [http://podtacular.blogspot.com/2005/10/episode-11-backwash-n-b-rs.html show 11].

== Q98 ==
On Q98- 98.7 FM (a radio station in Fargo, ND/Moorhead, MN), the DJ, Stash, told listeners to visit the radio's website "...at q98.net, it's dot com." This is a reference to the [[First Time Here?]] cartoon, in which Homestar says, "Welcome to HomestarRunner.net ... It's dot com!" They also played a sound clip from Strong Bad's character page cartoon, where Strong Bad says, "Ladies, form a line to my left for makeouts! Dudes, form a line to my right for high fives!"

== Radio U ==
Radio U (88.7 FM in Columbus, OH) has interviewed Strong Bad and the Brothers Chaps on two occasions, accessible at the bottom of [http://tvulive.com/radiou/riot2.htm this page].

== The Rock ==
There was a quote from [[Strong Bad]]'s character video on a La Crosse, Wisconsin radio station called "95.7 The Rock." It goes from the part
where Strong Bad says, "Ladies, form a line to my left for makeouts! Dudes, form a line to my right for high-fives," and stops at the part at which Homestar says, "Well, I was going to get a high-five, but I see that I'm already here."
*It seems that The Rock are frequent users of Homestar Runner quotes, around once a week or so you can hear one pop up.

== The Ron and Fez Show ==
[[Wikipedia:Ron Bennington|Ron Bennington]] and [[Wikipedia:Fez Whatley|Fez Whatley]] of XM Satellite Radio have stated publicly that they are huge fans of homestarrunner.com. They end each of their shows with an audio drop from [[the facts]] of Homestar Runner saying "And that's the end of my show, donk." On another occasion, when discussing crying at the movies, they discussed [[crying]]. Ron Bennington said that seeing [[Li'l Brudder]] made him cry and repeatedly said "He's got the heart of a champion."

== WBRU ==
When 95.5 WBRU FM out of Providence does their sports update, the quote "Get yer head in the game, The Chort," from [[mascot]], is played. Also, part of [[techno]] is in one of the bumps they use before playing songs.

== KUPS: The Sound ==
In one of their transitions between programming, the DJ said "You're listening to college radio, which means you probably just heard an hour of chanting" which is a reference to the e-mail [[radio]].

== [http://www.yrockonxpn.org/index.php] ==
On January 30, 2008, [[They Might Be Giants]] "took over" Y-Rock on WXPN as DJs, and featured [[An Important Rap Song]].

[[Category:Sightings]]

Talk:An Important Rap Song

4kai2lyn6 — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 02:42:44 GMT

4kai2lyn6: /**/Y-Rock on XPN / TMBG

Poms

4kai2lyn6 — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 06:13:58 GMT

4kai2lyn6: links, etc.

[[Image:isleofpom.PNG|thumb|A gathering of Poms, including an [[ABA Basketball]] Pom.]]
[[Image:Isle of Pom.png|thumb|100px|The Isle of Pom]]
While most of the [[characters]] in the [[Homestar Runner (body of work)|Homestar Runner]] body of work have physical characteristics unique to themselves, quite a few '''Poms''' have been depicted, suggesting that they are members of a well-defined species.

The overall body shape of Poms is quite consistent. Their bodies are large, spherical, and seem to be composed of a spongy matter capable of absorbing and containing objects (as seen in [[Where's The Cheat?]], [[Pom Pom]] keeps his [[cell phone]] inside his body). Poms' bodies are also very light, which causes [[Strong Bad]] to speculate in his email [[pom pom]] that Pom Pom may be filled with [[Helium|helium]] or [[Hydrogen|hydrogen]] (though neither one of these explanations has any firm grounding in fact). Poms have short nubs for arms and legs, and their heads are ellipsoidal in shape with two small eyes but [[Lack of Visible Body Parts|no other visible facial features]]. [[Pom Pom's girls]] are notable exceptions to the standard Pom anatomy, as they have typical Pom faces but human hair and bodies.

Poms are able to communicate, though with an utter [[Lack of Intelligible Speech|lack of intelligible speech]]. Pom Pom himself speaks only through bubble noises, while his girls haven't been seen to communicate with anything more than giggles. Nevertheless, characters have no trouble understanding Pom Pom, so it is evident that Poms' language is discernible among themselves as well as by other species.

Poms come from the Isle of Pom, where they seem to organize themselves in traditional families and social structures (as seen in [[Pom Pom, Too]], Pom Pom has both [[General and Fraulein Pom Pom|parents]] and neighbors).

==Notable Poms==
*[[Pom Pom]]
*[[Pom Pom's girls]]
*[[General and Fraulein Pom Pom]]

==See Also==
*[[Family Resemblence]]
*[[Pom Pom's Hypothetical Family]]

[[Category:Research]]

Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 5.0

4kai2lyn6 — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 06:35:57 GMT

4kai2lyn6: reword and a link

{{mamnav|5|Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 4.0|Version 4.0|Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 6.0|Version 6.0}}

[[Image:MarzipanAnsweringMachineV5.png|thumb|"Hello? Hellooooo? Marzipan? Hello?" ]]

Coach Z and Bubs are drunk, Homsar is numb, Strong Bad is British, Homestar is a telemarketer, and Strong Sad is as lonely as usual.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Marzipan}}, {{Film|Coach Z}}, {{Film|Bubs}}, {{Film|Homsar}}, {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|Homestar Runner}}, {{Film|Strong Sad}}

'''Places:''' [[Marzipan's House]]

'''Page Title:''' Marzipan's Answering Machine Volume 5

'''Release Date:''' c. December 2001 or January 2002

{{dvd|Everything Else, Volume 1}}

== Transcript ==
=== Marzipan's Greeting ===
'''MARZIPAN:''' Hi, this is Marzipan. ''{singing}'' Leave me a message, and I'll get right back to you. Hey! Leave me a message, and I'll get right back to you. Hey! Leave me a messa— ''{beep}''

=== Message 6 ===
'''COACH Z:''' ''{drunk}'' Hey there Marzipan, it's Coach Z... Wheeeee!

'''BUBS:''' ''{also drunk; in the background while Coach Z continues talking}'' Hey, Coach! Tell her I said, "Hey!" No, no, just—Tell her I said, "Bananas!" Tell her I said, "A bluh-buncha bananas." ''{continues making an unintelligible statement as Coach Z continues talking}''

'''COACH Z:''' Look at me, I'm Coach Z! Oh, I'm now, I'm a poet, though. I apologize. I-I-I'm over at Bubs's place. Uh, we're just hanging out here having a good time, you know.

'''BUBS:''' ''{in the background; singing}'' Good time plus twooooo!

'''COACH Z:''' ''{singing}'' Good times times 3... makes 1, 2, Coach Z! ''{stops singing}'' See I told you I was a poet, now. Uh, so anyways, like I say, we're just hanging out over here, having a great time, and I started thinking about you, ''{sniffs, starts to cry}'', 'cause I always have such a great time with you, 'cause you're such... you're such a beautiful person, and you're just... ''{sobs}'' You're so perfect, and, you know, I couldn't ask for more in a lady. ''{sniffs}'' Oh, geez. I'm sorry. I... ''{sniffs}'' I gotta go.

=== Message 5 ===
'''HOMSAR:''' DaAAahhh, hello, Marzypa-yun. It's Homsar! Dahhh, I was just calling to thank you for the ''flo''wers you sent me while I was in the hospital. Daahh, I'm feeling much better now, but I still can't feel my leeegs. Okay, bye-dee-bye.

=== Message 4 ===
'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{clears throat}'' Cheerio, there, Mrs. Pan. This is Constable Anybody over here at the Royal Society for Total Dorks. We would like to welcome you to our pres-tee-gee-us society. In fact, we would make you freakin' president! ''{snickers, clears throat again}'' Yes, so, all you have to do is, uh, go to your window and stick a couple of pencils up your nose, and ''{snickers}'' then you'll be the president! ''{more snickering}'' Okay... cheers, 'cause I'm so British!

=== Message 3 ===
'''COACH Z:''' ''{sober and a bit embarrassed}'' Hey, there, Marzipan, it's Coach Z, uh... ''{pause}'' So Bubs tells me I gave you a call last night, uh, in the wee hours, there. Um, I'm not too sure what I may have said, but I'd like to apologize... make kind of a blanket apology, cover the whole thing there, like one of them blankets you put on a fire, you know, when a, when you're burnin' leaves in the backyard and it gets out of hand and, you know, you gotta throw that blanket over there. That's what this apology is, here. So, uh... hope I didn't offend you or say anything out of turn, there. Though I suppose you can't really say nothing out of turn on a machine, right? 'Cause, you know, when's your turn on the answering machine, no-not till you call back. Okay, so now I'm just ramblin', but, uh... I ''am'' still a poet, and, uh... and don't I know it!

=== Message 2 ===
'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{clearly reading off text}'' Good evening Sir or Madam. My name is Homestar Runner. I represent Distinguished Businessman. Are you getting the lowest rates from your long distance provider? I can give you rates as low as anybody. Seriously. I don't know what they ''are''... ''{pause}'' but I probably could give them to you. Um, here's one: BEEP. Haha, no, that was just me pressing the phone. Okay, it wasn't even me pressing the phone, it was just me saying "BEEP." Uhh, I can provide you with other stuff, too, like this pen on my desk ''{whacks pen on desk}'', or, like, these post-its. This is great! Am I getting paid for this, really? Um... ''{singing}'' doodly dee deeby deedly dee...

=== Message 1 ===
'''STRONG SAD:''' Oh, hey Marzipan, guess-who-this-is-it's Strong Sad. I was just calling 'cause I figured you wouldn't be home, and I'd never done that thing, you know, where you call somebody and you're leaving a message on their machine, and then, while you're leaving the message, they pick up the phone and it's like: "Oh, hey! Hi! I was just leaving you a message, and, how're you doing?" and so... see, I never had that happen to me, so I thought I'd just call you and talk... talk to your machine 'til you got home... so that's what I'm gonna do. ''{repeats continually:}'' Hello? Hellooooo? Marzipan? Hello?

== Fun Facts ==
===Trivia===
*This is the first answering machine in which most (if not all) of the characters start to sound like they do today. This is especially evident with Bubs, Strong Bad and Homestar. Homsar's dialogue is in the old style and Strong Sad's voice is a cross between the old, fatigued style and the newer, more delicate style.
*This is the first answering machine to have the beep at the end of the message, unlike the previous versions, which had the beep at the beginning.

===Remarks===
*Homsar's message might be an explanation for why Homsar returned after the [[Heavy Lourde]] crushed him in the email [[homsar]].
*Cheerio is actually an informal British word for 'goodbye', rather than a greeting as Strong Bad seems to think.
*In message 3, Coach Z claims not to remember his escapade the night before, yet still recalls that he was a "poet".
*Unlike his tendencies in later toons, Homsar does not [[Analysis of Homsar's Speech Patterns|speak nonsense]] here.

===Inside References===
*This is another mention of [[Sticky Notes|Post-Its]].

===Fast Forward===
*Homestar's line "I represent Distinguished Businessman" is later used in [[An Open Forum]].

== External Links ==
*[[HR:answer5.html|watch "Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 5.0"]]
*[[HR:answer5.swf|view the Flash file for "Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 5.0"]]

{{Marzipan's Answering Machine}}

{{subtitlesLinks|answer5}}

[[Category:Marzipan's Answering Machine| 05]]

User:4kai2lyn6

4kai2lyn6 — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 03:37:05 GMT

4kai2lyn6: reword

I'm so boring. You should probably go do something else, instead of reading this load of nothing. Well, go on; how about a nice Homestar Runner cartoon? Or go and edit the wiki. It's okay. I'll just stay here, and be boring.

Alcohol

4kai2lyn6 — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 18:39:29 GMT

4kai2lyn6: small fixes

[[Image:Cold One Premium Alcoholic Screen Saver.png|thumb|Premium Alcoholic Cold Ones]]
'''[[Wikipedia:Alcoholic beverage|Alcoholic Beverages]]''' often find their way into conversations, households, hands, and yes, even mouths in the [[Homestar Runner (body of work)|Homestar Runner]] body of work.

==Appearances==
===Strong Bad Email===
*[[making out]] — In order to get the sender's boyfriend to [[Making Out|make out]] with her, [[Strong Bad]] proposes lighting "a few candles and maybe having a glass of wine".
*[[theme party]] — Strong Bad suggests getting "a couple of kegs of cheap cold ones" for the party. Also, one of the Easter eggs features a "Spring Drink'n Formal 2002" T-shirt with a picture of a [[bear]] wearing [[Cool Shades|sunglasses]], holding a beer mug, along with [[Wikipedia:Calvin and Hobbes|Calvin]], who appears to be passed out.
*[[personal favorites]] — Strong Bad claims that both he and [[The Cheat]] once became intoxicated from imbibing large quantities of [[Wikipedia:Soy sauce|soy sauce]], causing Strong Bad to think he could fly [[Bubs' Concession Stand]] to the [[The Moon|moon]], and The Cheat to try to eat it.
*[[dangeresque 3]] — Strong Bad asks the viewer not to throw "full wine bottles" at the screen.
*[[time capsule]] — An Easter egg features Coach Z Ale, a brand of (presumably alcoholic) ale that is either produced or endorsed by [[Coach Z]].
*[[radio]] — [[Homestar Runner]] throws a [[Wikipedia:Old fashioned glass|rocks glass]] while yelling "High-ball!"
*[[modeling]] — "Colognac" is a [[portmanteau]] formed by combining "[[Wikipedia:Cognac (drink)|cognac]]", a distilled liquor, and "[[Wikipedia:Eau de Cologne|cologne]]", a fragrance.
*[[space program]] — During the [[The Strong Badian Administration of Some Aluminum Foil|SBASAF]] slide show, the narrator says, "Somebody get that man a highball".
*[[myths & legends]] — [[Bubs]] states that the [[Bear holding a Shark]] [[Wikipedia:Shot glass|shot glasses]] are "always popular with the kids". Shot glasses are small glasses used to serve small amounts of (usually potent) liquor.
*[[senior prom]] — Strong Bad mentions consuming "[http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0308c&L=ads-l&D=1&F=&S=&P=6102 okratinis]", martinis served with a pickled okra pod instead of an olive.
**Also, Coach Z is seen spiking the punch with Listerine, an antiseptic mouthwash that contains alcohol.
*[[theme song]] - In one of the clips from the "unaired pilot", Strong Bad is seen filling his mouth with a Coldson Lite and a coffee via a beer helmet.
*[[your funeral]] — Strong Bad describes his funeral as being "off the wagon". "Falling off the wagon" is an idiom referring to a recovering alcoholic's relapse into alcoholism.
*[[rough copy]] — Homestar advertises his "Malinko Drinko", claiming it is "crystal clear like domestic beer".
*[[hygiene]] — Gene/Strong Bad's mother claims to have a "grown-up headache", a likely reference to a [[Wikipedia:hangover|hangover]].

===Other Appearances===
*[[Meet Marshie]] — [[Marshie]] recommends [[Fluffy Puff Marshmallows]] over a variety of other consumables visualized on a blackboard, one of which is a [[Wikipedia:Martini (cocktail)|martini]].
*[[Homestarloween Party]] — [[Pom Pom's girls]] are seen with beer, liquor, and other related paraphernalia.
*[[Dancin' Bubs]] — Background two includes a broken beer bottle and a beer mug.
*[[Nighttime Driving Type Game]] — Features "Drunk Drivers".
*[[The Luau]] — Among the phrases of "[[Wikipedia:Polynesia|Polynesian]] Prose" that [[Strong Sad]] recites is "[[Wikipedia:Kahlúa|Kahlúa]] and Creme", an alcoholic drink.
*[[The House That Gave Sucky Treats]] — Coach Z raps about [[Wikipedia:Hennessy|Hennessy]], a brand of cognac.
*[[The Best Decemberween Ever]] — Homestar sings "Coach Z's been drinking Listerine!"
*[[Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 5.0]] — Coach Z and [[Bubs]] leave messages while drunk. 
*[[Ballad of The Sneak]] — As mentioned in the song, [[The Sneak]] drinks bootleg [[Wikipedia:Moonshine|hooch]], a homemade whiskey usually produced and/or sold through illegal methods.
**Also, there is a [[Wikipedia:Editorial cartoon|political cartoon]] featuring the subjects of [[Wikipedia:Prohibition|prohibition]] and the [[Wikipedia:Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act|Hawley-Smoot Tariff]].
*[[New Boots]] — [[Powered by The Cheat]] Strong Bad made The Cheat's favorite: a picnic plate with wine and a baguette.
*[[That Time of Year]] — Strong Bad comments about martinis going to people's heads.
*[[That A Ghost]] — [[Fat Dudley]] is caught drinking hooch.
*[[Commandos in the Classroom]] — One of the [[Blue Laser Minion]]s asks [[Fightgar]] "to put these wine coolers down your pants... er, down your headband".
*[[Teen Girl Squad Issue 10]] — The [[Minor Teen Girl Squad Characters#Scotsmen|Scotsmen]] are seen standing around a beer barrel with 3 Xs on it (when regarding beverages, X is a symbol for an [[Wikipedia:Proof (alcohol)|alcoholic proof]] of 50; multiple X's indicate multiples of 50).
*[[Fan Costumes '06]] — Strong Bad comments that The Cheat's hot mom is giving out frozen margar-a-Cheat-a's.
*[[Decemberween Short Shorts]] — In the last short, Coach Z is seen inebriated by Listerine.
*[[Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 14.2]] — Marzipan is drinking a "wheatgrasstini", a [[portmanteau]] of wheatgrass and a martini.
*[[Drive-Thru]] — Strong Bad asks "Inviso-Jeeves" for a bottle of Château Prétende 1974, presumably wine.
*[[Where's an Egg?]] — One of the items the suspects have is a mug of beer.

==See Also==
*[[Cold One]]
*[[Listerine]]

[[Category:Activity running gags]]

User talk:Invisible Robot Fish

4kai2lyn6 — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 20:56:05 GMT

4kai2lyn6: Happy B!

{{User:Invisible Robot Fish/talk page box|Hey there, thanks for stopping by. Drop me a line, tell me what's on your mind. '''« « « « Archive » » » »''' 
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[[Image:mikechapman.jpg|left|09/20/1973...yeah for being 34!]]
It's almost Mike birthday folks. I am organizing a birthday card for Mike much like [[User talk:Invisible Robot Fish/Talk Archive Matt Chapman's Card|Matt's birthday card]]. I have learned a few lessons since last time, so here are a few ground rules.
**If you want your message in a specific font or format, you can (a) make it yourself and provide a link, or (b) use a FREE font and provide a link to where it can be easily downloaded (easily infers, no memberships, logging in, or installing new software)
**There is a clear time line giving you plenty of notice.
 
:::Mike's Birthday - September 20.....14 days left
:::Shipping Date - September 13.....7 days left
:::Deadline for submissions - September 11 (04:00 UTC).....'''4 days left'''

Happy signing, {{User:Invisible_Robot_Fish/sig}}
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== Sign Away ==

# {{todo}} [http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd151/Disambig/birfdaything-2.png Here] be mine. {{User:Has Matt?/sig}} 05:09, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
# {{todo}} [http://s108.photobucket.com/albums/n6/RedKnightBlue/?action=view&current=Mike-Bday.png This] is mine. --{{User:Slipstream/sig}} 06:10, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
# {{todo}} [http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v203/andsean/Signature.jpg My signature]. Please remove the '05, if you can. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]] 06:35, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
#*He already has one with the '05 removed. [[:Image:Matt card 06 Dorian Gray.png]]
# {{todo}} [http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee256/homestarwinner/mikesbirthday.jpg Here is one] that I made. Tell me if I need change it at all. {{User:Homestar-winner/sig}} 15:28, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
# {{todo}} My message [http://img122.imageshack.us/img122/1930/34thbr1.png here]. {{User:Mee/sig}} 16:42, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
# {{todo}} [http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee214/Kanjiro_photos/Mikescardthing.png Here] find you Mike's card thing.--{{User:Kanjiro/sig}} 05:31, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
#*Um, yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and insist that "From next door ''I'm watching you''" be edited out of this image. We already creep them out enough just by having all this info in the wiki, and there's no need to push it any further if we can help it. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 19:46, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
#** [[:Image:Mike_bday_07_Kanjiro.png]] This will be the image that is used if you do not offer another pic. {{User:Invisible_Robot_Fish/sig}} 15:45, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
# {{todo}} [http://www.gizburgduck.com/mikebday.png I'm in, bro.] --{{User:Johnny Jupiter/sig}} 21:46, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
# {{todo}} [http://www.freewebs.com/samfisher1022/Happy%20B%2C%20Mike%21.PNG Here's Sammy.] {{User:SamFisher1022/sig}} 20:21, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
# {{todo}} [http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/7448/lapperue8.png] Same signature as last time. Designed for ul or lr corners. — {{User:Lapper/sig}} 20:26, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
# {{todo}} [http://pics.livejournal.com/wbwolf/pic/0001b8e7 Birthday image] It's a number one jam! {{User:Wbwolf/sig}} 21:29, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
# {{todo}} Hey Mike! Even though you don't do voices, your sounds are awesome! Especially the original intro sounds. Rock on!-[[User:Runstar Homer|Runstar Homer]] 21:48, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
# {{todo}} [http://www.geocities.com/vabeach2002dgh/Mike_Bday_Trey56.png Here's mine]! {{User:Trey56/sig}} 22:55, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
# {{todo}} [http://img184.imageshack.us/img184/7665/mikesbdaycardtx4.png I made one!]{{User:16 BIT MARIO1/sig}} 23:51, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
# {{todo}} [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php/Image:Mike-birthday.png Here's] my message! {{User:TheCoolRobot/sig}} 00:21, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
# {{todo}} [http://i19.tinypic.com/4p48qr7.png Here's] My signature! {{User:Numa Numa/sig}}
# {{todo}} Hey Mike! Happy Birthday to yous and keep rocking on with those flash cartoons and sounds! - {{User:Znex/sig}} 02:43, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
# {{todo}} [http://hostfile.org/iamoverhere.png Here's mine]. It's a direct link, so just right-click and download. --{{User:Super Martyo Brother/sig}} 02:57, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
# {{todo}} [http://www.geocities.com/odysseus1138/happybirthdaymike.html Little crap flash clip I made for you!] [http://www.geocities.com/odysseus1138/happybirthdaymike.png The PNG image to go along with it] Happy Birthday Mike!! (I forgot to make a flash cake for you... sorry) - [[User:Odysseus1138|Odysseus1138]] 05:40, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
# {{todo}} Hi Mike. Happy Birthday :) Yes I find the toons and SBEmails interesting. Keep doing them :) --[[User:Addict 2006|Addict]] [[User talk:Addict 2006|2006]] 06:15, 31 August 2007 (UTC) (Don't take my name seriously; I'm all right)
# {{todo}} Happy Birthday Mike.//Make a wish and have some fun.//This is a haiku.// //—Cort ("BazookaJoe"), MI IRF: I don't care which font you use. New line every double slash. Thanks! —[[User:BazookaJoe|BazookaJoe]] 06:22, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
# {{todo}} Happy Birthday Mike! I love Homestar Runner and so do my friends. You spend a lot of work on Homestar Runner and I respect that. From a Fan, {{User:Sam the Man/sig}} From The Wiki. 11:57, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
# {{todo}} Happy Birthday Mike! I've loved Homestar Runner ever since I was 9 years old, and I'm due to be 14 on the 9/25! I really don't know what I'd do without Homestar Runner. I hope you keep working on the website for a really long time, because you and your brother Matt have really brought some change into my life. Have a rocking birthday! [[User:JasonDeLima|JasonDeLima]] 11:59, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
# {{todo}} Happy Birthday Mike! The Internet would not be the same without homestarrunner.com. Keep up the good work and have a great day. {{User:The Chort/sig}} 13:10, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
# {{todo}} Hello Mike! i love homestarrunner.com! it rules! ive liked it ever since i searched Star runner on google and clicked your site. i thought it was a t-shirt buying place. Anyway, happy birthday! hope you have fun! xxx - Josie Edwards 12 England. Oh and by the way i hope your "Very Very little girl is fine. shes super cute!
# {{todo}} Happy Birthday Mike! Isn't it nice to get a birthday card from people you don't know? Take a nice long break today! --Sherlockrunner
# {{todo}} [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php/Image:11bday.png MEH!] Here is mine. I love you Mike. --{{User:Theyellowdart/sig}} 20:28, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
# {{todo}} (Pick a fun font) I want PBTC Strong Bad to say to The Cheat "you're so awesome you break windows" - Happy B! - Qermaq
# {{todo}} Happy B-Day Mike! Homestarrunner.com is one of my favorite websites. Hope you keep on makin' em. Send me a message if you ever need some voice acting done! Crapfully Crap:) -Axel Hranov
# {{todo}} Great and happy salutations Sir Mike of the Chapmans. May your journeys be adventurous and... swell. I can't keep this up. Happy Birthday from down under! [[User:Stribbs|Stribbs]] 14:36, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
# {{todo}} Happy Hundwith Birthday, Stwong Bad! (Happy Birthday, Mike!) [http://s4.photobucket.com/albums/y114/aishalover7142/?action=view&current=StwongBasd.jpg This is Piccy.]
# {{todo}} [http://www.mrphlip.com/tmp/cornersig.png Same pic as last time]. Ideally kinda small and in the lower-right corner, if there's room. {{User:Phlip/sig}} 16:20, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
# {{todo}} [http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb113/Orangestar_12-11/MIKEDAY.jpg Happy Mikeday!] {{User:Orange_Star/sig}}
# {{todo}} Trying to think of someting memorable and clever and funny to say, but you took all the good lines, like "Happy Birthday", and "Mike". Anyway, Happy Birthday Mike. {{User:Lazylaces/sig}} 23:47, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
# {{todo}} [http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v390/Lemita/mikechapbday.jpg] A large, rambling message to Mike. Hope you guys like it. :) --[[User:MrsCommanderson|MrsCommanderson]] 02:02, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
# {{todo}} [http://elcool.pbwiki.com/f/mikebirthday07.png Here it is in all it's glory]. Thanks so much! {{User:E.L. Cool/sig}} 04:14, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
# {{todo}} [http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/6577/techgeekmbgmikebdayfh1.png Here it is!] So Good! {{User:Techgeekmbg/sig}} 04:36, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
# {{todo}} [http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/9473/gdsgsdgdsgsfp7.png Ere you go!] [[User:Sephiroth|Sephiroth]]
# {{todo}} (Comic Sans MS, or something similar) Happy Birthday, Mike! Hope you enjoy your special day! --{{User:Color Printer/sig}} 12:43, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
# {{todo}} Happy birthday Mike! I loved homestarrunner since i was 7! {{User:Slipknot6477/sig}} 13:31, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
# {{todo}} [http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v622/dynamicsonic/happymikeday.png Here's mine!] A nice and little card for cool, cool Mike.--{{User:Darkangel/sig}} 16:20, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
# {{todo}} (font: Alba. found [http://www.1001fonts.com/font_details.html?font_id=606 here.]) Happy Birthday, Mike! Homestar is far above awesome. I love the site, so keep the toons and SBEmails coming! {{User: Homestarmy Commando1/sig}} 20:10, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
# {{todo}} [http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m89/OakleyIsLoafing/combolations.png] - if I don't manage to fix this in time, please cut off the bottom line ;-) Thanks heaps!{{User:Loafing/sig}} 00:16, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
# {{todo}} Happy birthday, Mike! Here's lookin' at you, kid. {{User:Punching_Kittens/sig}} 09:03, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
# {{todo}} happy birthday, Mike! from all...of...me. [[User:Foogs|Foogs.]] 13:31, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
# {{todo}} (Any font is good) Hey Mike! Happy Birthday! Err... Sports... Team? [[User:D&d greg|D&d greg]] 14:35, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
# {{todo}} Mappy Hirthday, Mike! [[User:James Craven|James Craven]] 1:27 US EDT Sept 3 2007 (Labor Dabor)
# {{todo}} Happy Dappy B, Mike! Keep up the Powered By the Cheat styles. And, avoid upsetting people with grappling hooks duct taped to their arms. It could end somewhat badly. {{User:Shadow Scythe of Strongbadia?!/sig}}
# {{todo}} [http://img375.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sigyi7.jpg Eric the Rexman's signature]
# {{todo}} Happy birthday, Mike! Homestar Runner is the best! - [[User:Happy|Happy]] 23:54, 3 September 2007 (EST)
# {{todo}} Happy Birthday Mike, and sweet Tangerine Dreams!--{{User:DongleGoblin/sig}} 23:32, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
# {{todo}} Kicking A Mike! Hope you get someone screaming <strike>Onion Bubs</strike> Mike Chapman at their top their lungs. Happy Birthday from the best Bubs in the whole wide world, Onion Bubs. {{unsigned|Onion Bubs|01:55, September 5, 2007}}
# {{todo}} [http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v187/TurdFerguson/happybirfday.jpg] [[User:Bullschmidt|Bullschmidt]] 01:02, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
# {{todo}} [http://img394.imageshack.us/img394/9658/crappybirthdaydh6.png Here it be.] ¤ {{User:The Mu/sig}} 01:09, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
# {{todo}} Happy Freakin' Birthday, Mike! Keep putting the ween in Halloween... I mean, the day in birthday... eh, whatever. Have a great birthday! — {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 01:24, 6 September 2007 (UTC) (Use a font you think fits well.)
# {{todo}} Blessings on your big day! Over the years, I've grown to love your cartoons of dumb animal characters. Keep up the good work. [[User:IRF's wife|IRF's wife]] 04:44, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
# {{todo}} I love your cartoons!!! Keep up the good work as long as you can! --[[User:Brad|Brad]] 11:31, 6 September 2007 (UTC) (UTC)
# {{todo}} Happy Birthday and thanks. [[User:Mipsyx]]
# {{todo}} Best website I know. Rock, rock on. [[User:FactoidCow]]
# {{todo}} ''{in Storybok SB's voice}'' Hooray a-for youuu!!!! {{User:Im a bell/sig}} 00:38, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
# {{todo}} Congratulations on jumping the shark...toothed Bubs. ^_^ I think you just keep getting better. Enjoy your b-day! [[User:Danny Lilithborne|Danny Lilithborne]] 01:22, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
# {{todo}} Thanks so much for the highlight of my week, every week. Happy birthday Mike! - [[User:Abelhawk|Abelhawk]] 01:33, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
# {{todo}} Have a happy, non-crappy, birthday Mike! From, Badstar.
# {{todo}} Happy birthday, Mike Chapman! Check out the [[HRFWiki:Main Page|Fanstuff wiki,]] and this comic, [[HRFWiki:Stinkoman 20X6: Reloaded|Stinkoman 20X6: Reloaded]]. From, TheStick.
#* Do you realize that this will be a physical card? Links won't do. Please rethink your message. {{User:Invisible_Robot_Fish/sig}} 15:23, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
# {{todo}} Happy Mikeday, Mike. From [[User:Jnelson09|Jnelson09]].
# {{todo}} Happy birthday Mike! I really appreciate the work you've put into H*R.com. Thanks so much! Love, {{User:4kai2lyn6/sig}}
# {{todo}} Your message here?
# {{todo}} Your message here?

User:4kai2lyn6

4kai2lyn6 — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 02:40:04 GMT

4kai2lyn6: There really are better pages to visit.

I'm so boring. You should probably go do something besides read this. Well, go on; how about a nice Homestar Runner cartoon? Or go and edit the wiki. It's okay. I'll just stay here, and be boring.

original

4kai2lyn6 — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 02:36:34 GMT

4kai2lyn6: /* Easter Eggs */ link

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[[Image:Original.png|thumb|200px|"That's some great eyesight, Original Bubs!"]]
Strong Bad discusses Original Bubs, and how he came to be the one we know and love.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{film|Strong Bad}}, {{film|Homestar Runner}}, [[Original Bubs]], {{film|The King of Town}}, {{film|The Cheat}}, {{film|Senor Cardgage}}, [[Crack Stuntman]], [[Onion Bubs]], {{film|Bubs}}, {{film|Marzipan}} (Easter egg)

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]], [[Bubs' Concession Stand]], [[The Field]]

{{Comp|Lappy 486}}

'''Date:''' Monday, September 3, 2007

'''Running Time:''' 3:30

'''Page Title:''' Lappy 486

== Transcript ==
'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{singing}'' Gropin' around in the dark, tryin' ta find an email! Da-da-da-blue-got-a-now!  ''{brings up the email}''

<blockquote class="lappy email"><div>subject: Another Actor</div>
Hails and Horns Strong Bad ,\m/ 
Have you ever been watching your favorite shows and 
sequels, and suddenly realized that your favorite character 
has been unscrupulously replaced with another actor? 
Nicholas & Antonio 
Lansing, Michigan
</blockquote>

''{Strong Bad makes a rock-ish scream in place of the emoticon.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Wait, you guys are really asking me that? We do that to you people all the time. There've been like twelve King of Towns. ''{clears screen}'' And are you telling me you've already forgotten about the original Bubs?

''{Cut to Homestar Runner in front of Bubs' Concession Stand. A silhouette resembling Bubs is seen in the foreground.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Hiya, Original Bubs! How's original business?

''{Cut to in front of the stand. The character behind the counter only vaguely resembles Bubs; his head is dark blue and shaped as though it has hair, both of his eyes are the same shape and size, and his teeth are straight. His body is solid orange and hunched over. He has visible rectangular hands that are the same color as his face. "BY ORIGINAL BUBS" is seen on the stand's sign. Two papers are taped to the stand that read "CHEAP THRILLS!" and "CHEAPER TRICKS!"}''

'''ORIGINAL BUBS:''' ''{his voice is lower-pitched than Bubs's and not as gravelly; openings form in his mouth as he speaks}'' Hey, Homestar. I can see you from here! ''{holds his hands apart}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' That's some great eyesight, Original Bubs!

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' But it wasn't all good eyesight and cheap prices!

''{The screen becomes inverted grayscale and spooky music starts. The camera zooms in on Original Bubs.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' Behind the scenes lay a thick bubbling pit of crude turmoil!

''{As the colors return to normal, the scene cuts to the King of Town and Original Bubs standing behind a table with an iced tea container, paper cups, a box of [[Swiss Cake Rolls]], and a Tupperware box of a white substance. Original Bubs is pointing at the Tupperware box with an angry expression.}''

'''ORIGINAL BUBS:''' Who ate all the mayo off of my egg salad?! And how!

'''THE KING OF TOWN:''' It's a proprietary technique I can't reveal!

'''ORIGINAL BUBS:''' This is the first and last straw! I'm outta here, you amateurs!

''{Original Bubs walks away to music. For the first time, his bottom half is revealed. It is gray and similarly-shaped to Bubs's legs, but with tiny legs and pointed in the wrong direction from his upper body. There is no green stripe. He walks offscreen. Cut to the Lappy.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' With Original Bubs' ''{pronounced "Bubs's"}'' future uncertain, we had to come up with some pretty creative ways to write him into stories, so that viewers didn't know he was gone.

''{Cut to Original Bubs' Concession Stand. Homestar and Strong Bad are standing in front of it wearing lederhosen. Behind the counter is a large cardboard box that reads "FRIDGERATE AGAIN".}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Well, Original Bubs, who is totally behind that refrigerator box, says ''I'' won the yodelling contest.

''{Static briefly appears, and the scene cuts to one with Homestar and Strong Bad, dressed like Canadian Mounties, speaking to a box labeled "DEESH WARSH". The trees have changed to their fall colors.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Well, Original Bubs, who is totally behind that dishwasher box...

''{More static, cutting to a closeup of Homestar in a poncho and sombrero, with a box that reads "KLEENLOAD" behind him.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ...behind that washer/dryer box...

''{More static. Now Homestar is wearing a Russian police uniform, and the box reads "HOT2O". It is nighttime, and the landscape is covered in snow.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ...that hot water heater box...

''{More static. Homestar wears an African dashiki, and the stand has an upside-down shoe box labeled "[[freshley's]]" with a tower made out of toothpicks on top.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ...behind that... ''{clearly confused}'' toothpick sculpture?

''{More static, cutting to the Lappy.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Once it became apparent that Original Bubs was gone for good, there was an interim period of rotating guest Bubs. Like when talk show hosts have surgery, or go to jail.

''{Cut to the inside of Bubs' Concession Stand. Homestar walks up. The person behind the counter is Senor Cardgage wearing an orange shirt with a green stripe across it.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Hey there, Senator Cardgage Bubs, lemme get a manilla cheese Coke!

'''SENOR CARDGAGE:''' Oh...

''{Cut to the front of the stand.}''

'''SENOR CARDGAGE:''' I should eat a pony.

''{Homestar flinches with surprise. Static cuts to Strong Bad and The Cheat at the stand, with Crack Stuntman playing Bubs. The sign has "CRACK STUNT" posted over the word "ORIGINAL".}''

'''CRACK STUNTMAN:''' ''{pops up from behind the counter}'' BLAAAAAAAAAAH!! What can I get? For you fine gentlemen?

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{annoyed}'' Never mind, Crack Stunt-Bubs.

''{Cut to a closeup.}''

'''CRACK STUNTMAN:''' Oh... I should eat a pony.

''{Strong Bad flinches with surprise.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' And don't forget fan favorite,

''{Cut to an onion with Bubs's face drawn on it sitting on the stand's counter.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' Onion Bubs.

''{A crowd can be heard cheering, with one voice screaming "Onion Bubs!" over and over. Static cuts back to the Lappy.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Finally, we had to settle on a little known Bubs with zero experience. And it's been downhill ever since.

'''BUBS:''' ''{from offscreen}'' Ahem.

''{Cut back to show Bubs looking at Strong Bad angrily. He has the ends of his arms curled up as though they are fists and is waving them menacingly.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Oh, hey, New Bubs.

'''BUBS:''' We're gonna need a new Strong Bad in about two seconds!

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{reminiscing}'' Yeah, Original Bubs used to threaten me like that. It just doesn't sound the same coming out of you.

''{Bubs punches Strong Bad in the face four times and puts his hands on his hips.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Yeah, Original Bubs used to pummel me senseless like that. It just doesn't sound—

''{Bubs holds up his right "fist" menacingly.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' OKAY OKAY OKAY!!!

'''BUBS:''' You tell these people ''I'm'' the original Buh... b'zuh.

'''STRONG BAD:''' All right! You're the original Bubs!

''{Cut to a closeup of Bubs, no longer angry and looking at the camera. The background turns orange.}''

'''BUBS:''' That's right! ''{The following words appear above him:}'' 100% All Original Bubs! ''{And the following words appear below him:}'' If I had thumbs, I'd be sticking 'em up my armpits right now!

''{He puts the ends of his arms into his armpits as a demonstration. The camera closes out to encircle Bubs's face with a blue background.}''

'''ANNOUNCER:''' ''{voiceover}'' 100% all original Bubs! If he had thumbs, he'd be sticking 'em up his armpits right now! ''{queasy}'' Uhhhhh...

''{Cut to the Lappy.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' But we really do replace people. Take the New Paper, for instance. Come on, New Paper, disappoint me!

''{[[New Paper]] comes down and the entire page falls off the top of the screen.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Whoop! Ahh, when it comes to disappointment, you never disappoint.

== Easter Eggs ==
*At the end, click on "replace people" to see a field full of King of Town graves, including one for "Onion King of Town".
*At the end, click on the word "downhill" to see a short scene with Homestar Runner and Marzipan.
:''{Open at the Field. Homestar Runner is standing with a can by his feet}''
:'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{sigh}''
:''{Homestar Runner kicks the can to the right of screen as Marzipan enters}''
:'''MARZIPAN:''' What's the matter, Homestar?
:'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' I miss Original Bubs.
:'''MARZIPAN:''' Homestar, Strong Bad [[History according to Strong Bad|made all that stuff up]].
:'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' You can't make up eyesight that good. ''{Marzipan stares flatly}'' He could always see me ''{sobbing}'' from over there.

==Fun Facts ==
===Explanation===
*The .\m/ emoticon is intended to represent the "[[Wikipedia:Corna|rock horns]]".

=== Trivia ===
*The [[Floppy Disk Container]] reads "[[Floppy Disk Container#SWOTL|SWOTL]]".

===Remarks===
*Onion Bubs has differently-shaped eyes, like the real Bubs, instead of two identical eyes like Original Bubs, on which it was supposed to be based.
*[[New Paper]]'s "Click here to email Strong Bad" link is fully functional until it falls off the screen.
*The plural of "Bubs" should be "Bubses", as it was in [[Sketchbook_2005#SK-2005-02-27|the Sketchbook for February 27, 2005]].

===Goofs===
[[Image:neck disconnected - original.png|thumb|[[Disconnected]] again?]]
*On the second punch (when Strong Bad's head pops up) his head is for a very brief moment disconnected, mainly around at the right side of the neck.

*At the line "And are you telling me you've already forgotten about the original Bubs?", if you listen closely, you can hear a short "skip" in the sound between the end of the previous sentence, and the beginning of this one.

===Inside References===
*Homestar's lederhosen are from [[Main Page 2]]
*Original Bubs resembles a preliminary sketch of Bubs as seen in the [[Sketchbook (museum)|Sketchbook in the Museum]].
*The "original" Bubs' Concession Stand sign is similar to the design used in [[A Jumping Jack Contest]], [[The Best Decemberween Ever]] and [[Where's The Cheat?]].
*Bubs saying that he has no thumbs is a reference to his [[Lack of Visible Arms|lack of visible fingers]].
*The premise of this email, that Bubs is a character in what equates to a TV show, is a [[fourth wall break]].
*The back of [[Bubs' Concession Stand]] on this toon is the same one from [[A Jumping Jack Contest]]. Crack Stuntman's line "What can I get for you fine gentlemen?" echoes Bubs' similar line from the same toon the back of the stand came from.

===Real-World References===
*This email spoofs the [[Wikipedia:List of television show casting changes#Named forms of casting change|Darrin syndrome]], when an actor in a series is replaced without explanation, a prominent example being the replacement of [[Wikipedia:Dick York|Dick York]] with [[Wikipedia:Dick Sargent|Dick Sargent]] in the role of Darrin Stevens on ''[[Wikipedia:Bewitched|Bewitched]]''. Similarly to in the email, shortly after York left the show but before Sargent took his place, Darrin's character was frequently referred to but was never present on screen.
*The toothpick sculpture is in the shape of the [[Wikipedia:Statue of Liberty|Statue of Liberty]].
*Homestar asking Senor Cardgage for manilla cheese Coke is a play on the various flavored colas, especially [[Wikipedia:Coca-Cola Vanilla|Vanilla Coke]].
*The first scene involving Original Bubs having its colors inverted while zooming in on Original Bubs is a reference to documentary series such as [[Wikipedia:E! True Hollywood Story|E! True Hollywood Story]], which commonly detail the careers of actors who are currently or previously popular. E! True Hollywood Story in particular is known for focusing on scandals and failures in actors' lives.

== External Links ==
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{{Strong Bad Email}}

User:4kai2lyn6

4kai2lyn6 — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 00:36:15 GMT

4kai2lyn6: Just a quick 'Ello!

[[Experimental Film|Comin' up...]]

'''UPDATE:''' Hi every peoples! Just felt like droppin' by, and sayin' hi! Um, I haven't been active here for a bit, but I still check in every now and then, and ''someday'', I'll start editing again! Hope everyone's still as cool as I remember! Keep on tranglin', you crazy H*R geeks! XP

Love ya lots, 
{{User:4kai2lyn6/sig}} 00:36, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

Gibson Flying V

4kai2lyn6 — Wed, 30 May 2007 00:09:58 GMT

4kai2lyn6: /* Appearances */ I'm pretty sure it was this brother Strong who did that.

[[Image:Fretmagic magazine.PNG|thumb|Is it V or Vee?]]
The '''[[Wikipedia:Gibson Flying V|Gibson Flying V]]''' is a commonly seen and parodied guitar in the [[Homestar Runner universe]].

==Appearances==
*Email [[new hands]] (Easter egg) — One of the objects Strong Bad's hand can turn into is a Flying V.
*Email [[island]] (Easter egg) — One of the objects [[Homestar Runner]] can turn into is a Flying V.
*Email [[privileges]] — Homestar tries to sell [[Fretmagic]] magazines, each with a Flying V featured on the cover.
*[[Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits]] — The two guitars sticking out of [[Strong Bad]]'s head on the cover are Flying V's.
*Email [[haircut]] — Strong Bad draws a Flying V on the photo of [[Strong Mad]].
*[[Teen Girl Squad Issue 8]] — [[Cheerleader]] plays a Flying V.
*Email [[rock opera]] — The Flying V is heavily featured in the rock opera.
*[[Missing Lappy]] — A Flying V is pictured on Strong Bad's Missing Lappy poster.

[[Category:Instruments]]

Total

4kai2lyn6 — Mon, 28 May 2007 00:28:09 GMT

4kai2lyn6: added one, that's not a sbemail, move Homestar link up, and added quotes... because it's more funny that way...

[[Image:Total journalist.PNG|thumb|Strong Bad: Total Journalist]]
'''Total''' is a word often used by [[Strong Bad]], sometimes in strange contexts.

==Appearances==
*All [[Strong Badman]] comics are titled "The Total Adventures of Strong Badman".
*[[The Interview]] — The door outside the [[smoky office]] reads "Strong Bad: Total Journalist".
*Email [[trevor the vampire]] — Strong Bad opens the email with "I'm totally checking my email. Total, man."
*Email [[stand-up]] — The [[The VCR#The Older VCR|VCR]] is labeled "VHS TOTALTRONICS".
*Email [[CGNU]] — One of the degrees offered at [[Crazy Go Nuts University]] is "Total Spaceship Guy".
*Email [[lures & jigs]] — [[Fishing Challenge '91]] is made by [[Minor Companies|Totalsoft Electronicals LLC,,.]].
*Email [[website]] — The page title for [[Strong Bad's Website]] is "Total Grodal".
*Email [[the bet]] — After Strong Bad confirms either outcome of the bet, [[Homestar Runner]] replies "That's the deal, man. The total deal."
*[[Cheat Commandos (toon)|Cheat Commandos]] — When [[Blue Laser Commander]] threatens to blow up the ocean, the screen in the background reads "T-MINUS: TOTAL".
*[[Commandos in the Classroom]] — When asked if [[Fightgar]] should be shot, a [[Blue Laser minion]] replies, "Abso-total-lutely!"
*Email [[alternate universe]] — One of the ingredients Homestar uses to make a real fruit smoothie is a jar of "Total Load".
*Email [[keep cool]] — Homestar describes the huge displacement of water created by [[Strong Mad]] as a "total wave".
*[[Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 14.2]] — When pretending to be an automated phone robot, Strong Bad asks [[Marzipan]] to "press or say 'total yes'".

[[Category:Word running gags]]

G

4kai2lyn6 — Fri, 25 May 2007 00:41:45 GMT

4kai2lyn6: /* Notable Appearances */ punct.

[[The Brothers Chaps]] tend to toss the letter '''G''' around in places one would not normally expect to see it. For example, words that start with "G" are often pronounced with a "J" instead, e.g. [[A Decemberween Pageant|"gold" becomes "jold"]], [[the show|"guys" becomes "juys"]] and [[Homsar Main Page|"games" becomes "james"]], etc.

==Notable Appearances==
*[[Strong Sad]]'s plush lobster [[Gooblies]], first appearing in [[suntan]], has a tag labeled "G".
*In [[for kids]], [[Homsar]]'s letter of the day was "G". Homsar said it was "a healthy piece of real estate".
*In [[pizzaz]], [[Strong Bad]] said the secret to his pizzaz is the three G's: gumption, gum, and minty gargle.
*[[What's Her Face]] claimed that she could count to "G" in [[Teen Girl Squad Issue 7]].
*[[Happy Fireworks]] featured [[The Cheat]]'s firework display as "Plan G".
*[[Sundae Drivin']] — The game includes the quote "YOUR JAMES OVER". (see [[redesign]])

<gallery>
Image:Gooblies_Pet_Lobster.PNG|<center>'''[[suntan]]'''</center>
Image:homsar G.PNG|<center>'''[[for kids]]'''</center>
Image:3gs.png|<center>'''[[pizzaz]]'''</center>
Image:count to G.PNG|<center>'''[[Teen Girl Squad Issue 7]]'''</center>
Image:HappyFireworksCheatsHeadExplode.png|<center>'''[[Happy Fireworks]]'''</center>
</gallery>

[[Category:Word running gags]]

G

4kai2lyn6 — Fri, 25 May 2007 00:38:50 GMT

4kai2lyn6: Okay, how 'bout this instead? (I'm so sick of reading that "homestar universe" line in EVERY opening paragraph!)

[[The Brothers Chaps]] tend to toss the letter '''G''' around in places one would not normally expect to see it. For example, words that start with "G" are often pronounced with a "J" instead, e.g. [[A Decemberween Pageant|"gold" becomes "jold"]], [[the show|"guys" becomes "juys"]] and [[Homsar Main Page|"games" becomes "james"]], etc.

==Notable Appearances==
*[[Strong Sad]]'s plush lobster [[Gooblies]], first appearing in [[suntan]], has a tag labeled "G".
*In [[for kids]], [[Homsar]]'s letter of the day was "G". Homsar said it was "a healthy piece of real estate."
*In [[pizzaz]], [[Strong Bad]] said the secret to his pizzaz is the three G's: gumption, gum, and minty gargle.
*[[What's Her Face]] claimed that she could count to "G" in [[Teen Girl Squad Issue 7]].
*[[Happy Fireworks]] featured [[The Cheat]]'s firework display as "Plan G".
*[[Sundae Drivin']] — The game includes the quote "YOUR JAMES OVER". (see [[redesign]])

<gallery>
Image:Gooblies_Pet_Lobster.PNG|<center>'''[[suntan]]'''</center>
Image:homsar G.PNG|<center>'''[[for kids]]'''</center>
Image:3gs.png|<center>'''[[pizzaz]]'''</center>
Image:count to G.PNG|<center>'''[[Teen Girl Squad Issue 7]]'''</center>
Image:HappyFireworksCheatsHeadExplode.png|<center>'''[[Happy Fireworks]]'''</center>
</gallery>

[[Category:Word running gags]]

Deliberately Poor English

4kai2lyn6 — Fri, 25 May 2007 00:28:57 GMT

4kai2lyn6: cleanup and such

[[Image:gameoverstummyhurts.png|thumb|Bad English this is.]]
'''Poor English''' is often deliberately used in the [[Homestar Runner universe]].

==Appearances==

*Email [[english paper]] — Strong Bad spells English as "Englilsh" in the report's title, ridiculing the e-mail sender's spelling of the word.
*Email [[personal favorites]] — One of the sayings by the [[Grape Nuts Robot]] during the Easter egg at the end is "Now spell, 'Carp for brains'"; it really meant to say, "[[Crap]] [[For Brains|for brains]]".
*[[Population: Tire]] — The game's premise contains several instances of poor English, including "YOU ARE SOLDIER!" and "YOU ONE ARE OF BRAVE FEW".
*Email [[caffeine]] — When the caffeine's effect start to wear off, [[Strong Sad]] says, "...salad...salad...as a rock?"
*[[Thy Dungeonman]] — If the player beats the game, the game gives a "congraturation".
*[[Videro Games]] — [[Strong Bad]] complains about difficult video games that only reward with "a hearty CONGRATURATION!"
*[[Stinkoman 20X6]] — This game has many instances of "[[Wikipedia:Engrish|Engrish]]", such as "My stummy hurts" (pluralized as "Our stummies hurts") which also counts as a [[portmanteau]], "Keep try", and "Start Play".
*[[Vector Strong Bad]] often uses poorly-translated lines like "YOUR HEAD A SPLODE!" He also pronounces "hello" as "HELLOTE" (seen in the email [[alternate universe]]).
*[[Sundae Drivin']] — As seen in the email [[redesign]], the game includes quotes like "CHERRY GET!" and "YOUR [[G|JAMES]] OVER".
*Strong Bad's title at [[Crazy Go Nuts University]] is "Prinicpal".
*Email [[isp]] — Homestar, as an insincere telephone recording, says "Thank you for holding. Your call is very unportant to us."
*Email [[trading cards]] — When Strong Bad is describing The Cheat's trading card game, the phrase flashing on the screen is "PLAY GET!"
*Email [[strong badathlon]] — While advertising [[Minor Foods|Temporarios]], Strong Bad says, "'Cause I'm don't get paid!"

==See Also==
*[[Mans]]
*[[Non-inverted Questions]]
*[[Poorly Written Emails]]
*[[Be's]]

=A Lack of Intelligible Speech=

A few [[characters]], as well as their respective counterparts in [[1936]] and [[20X6]], have an apparent '''lack of intelligible speech'''. However, the audience is usually able to understand the basics what these characters attempt to communicate, either through their actions and facial expressions, through other intelligible-speaking characters' reactions, or, rarely, through on-screen subtitles.
==Appearances==
*[[The Cheat]] speaks only in squeaks and animal-sounding grunts and yelps. In [[cheat talk]], after failing to get him to say something normal like "Douglas", it is suggested that the viewers have to learn how to speak "The Cheat". Subsequently, in an Easter egg of that same email, a short recording teaches a few phrases of the indecipherable language. The Cheat's [[Old-Timey]] counterpart, [[The Sneak]], communicates only by wiggling his nose, and his [[20X6]] counterpart, [[Cheatball]], has yet to say anything beyond his own name, which may be in parody of Pokémon.
*[[Pom Pom]] speaks through sounds resembling bubbles. Like The Cheat, every character shows a clear and definitive understanding of his speech. In [[A Jumping Jack Contest]], Strong Bad attempts to pose as Pom Pom by, among other things, mimicking his speech: "Hey, give me that! Uh, I mean — bubble, bubble-dee-bubble. Dubble Bubble." Also, in [[senior prom]], Homestar accepts the prom king award on Pom Pom's behalf, and in doing so, gargles [[Listerine]] in an attempt to imitate his friend. Pom Pom's old-timey counterpart, [[Fat Dudley]], speaks by singing a simple, jazzy "boh-boh-boh" tune. His 20X6 counterpart, [[Pan Pan]], speaks by making a bouncing noise.
*[[Sherlock]], the helicopter/cow from Strong Bad's [[Sweet Cuppin' Cakes]], speaks only through indistinct mumbling. No other character has shown or demonstrated the ability to understand what Sherlock has ever "said".
*Although [[Strong Mad]] can be understood most of the time, his [[Old-Timey]] counterpart [[Strong Man]] does not speak, although he does growl and roar when appropriate.
*[[The Poopsmith]] has been noted as having taken a [[Wikipedia:Vow of silence|vow of silence]], but is still able to communicate in some ways. An ironic example of this was when, in [[senior prom]] The Poopsmith was the lead vocalist of [[All the King's Men!]]. Since, unlike other characters, The Poopsmith makes almost no vocal sounds at all, he seems to communicate mainly in the form of gestures such as shrugs of the shoulders and thumbs-up; additionally, he has communicated by holding up a written sign. In [[different town]], Strong Bad claimed that one thing he would change about his town is that "the Poopsmith ... could talk".

==See Also==

*[[Analysis of Homsar's Speech Patterns]]
*[[Non-inverted Questions]]

[[Category:Word running gags]]

G

4kai2lyn6 — Fri, 25 May 2007 00:27:43 GMT

4kai2lyn6: add sundae drivin'

In the [[Homestar Runner universe]], words that start with "'''G'''" are often pronounced with a "J" instead, e.g. [[A Decemberween Pageant|"gold" becomes "jold"]], [[the show|"guys" becomes "juys"]] and [[Homsar Main Page|"games" becomes "james"]], etc.

==Notable Appearances==
*[[Strong Sad]]'s plush lobster [[Gooblies]], first appearing in [[suntan]], has a tag labeled "G".
*In [[for kids]], [[Homsar]]'s letter of the day was "G". Homsar said it was "a healthy piece of real estate."
*In [[pizzaz]], [[Strong Bad]] said the secret to his pizzaz is the three G's: gumption, gum, and minty gargle.
*[[What's Her Face]] claimed that she could count to "G" in [[Teen Girl Squad Issue 7]].
*[[Happy Fireworks]] featured [[The Cheat]]'s firework display as "Plan G".
*[[Sundae Drivin']] — The game includes the quote "YOUR JAMES OVER". (see [[redesign]])

<gallery>
Image:Gooblies_Pet_Lobster.PNG|<center>'''[[suntan]]'''</center>
Image:homsar G.PNG|<center>'''[[for kids]]'''</center>
Image:3gs.png|<center>'''[[pizzaz]]'''</center>
Image:count to G.PNG|<center>'''[[Teen Girl Squad Issue 7]]'''</center>
Image:HappyFireworksCheatsHeadExplode.png|<center>'''[[Happy Fireworks]]'''</center>
</gallery>

[[Category:Word running gags]]

Deliberately Poor English

4kai2lyn6 — Thu, 24 May 2007 20:21:36 GMT

4kai2lyn6: Added one (plus some mdashes, 'cause I'm don't get paid!)

[[Image:gameoverstummyhurts.png|thumb|Bad English this is.]]
'''Poor English''' is often deliberately used in the [[Homestar Runner universe]].

==Appearances==

*Email [[english paper]] — Strong Bad spells English as "Englilsh" in the report's title, ridiculing the e-mail sender's spelling of the word.
*Email [[personal favorites]] — One of the sayings by the [[Grape Nuts Robot]] during the Easter egg at the end is "Now spell, 'Carp for brains'." It really meant to say, "Crap for brains."
*[[Population: Tire]] — The game's premise contains several instances of poor English, including "YOU ARE SOLDIER!" and "YOU ONE ARE OF BRAVE FEW."
*[[Cheat Commandos]] — Strong Bad's impression of Reynold includes the sentence, "I wish my girlfriend didn't leave me."
*Email [[caffeine]] — When the caffeine effects start to wear off, [[Strong Sad]] says, "...salad...salad...as a rock?"
*[[Thy Dungeonman]] — If you beat the game, the game gives you a "congraturation".
*[[Videro Games]] — [[Strong Bad]] complains about difficult video games that only reward you with "a hearty CONGRATURATION!"
*[[Stinkoman 20X6]] — This game has many instances of "[[Wikipedia:Engrish|Engrish]]", such as "My stummy hurts." (pluralized as "Our stummies hurts.") which also counts as a [[portmanteau]], "Keep try.", and "Start Play."
*[[Vector Strong Bad]] often uses poorly-translated lines like "YOUR HEAD A SPLODE!" He also pronounces "hello" as "HELLOTE" (seen in the email [[alternate universe]]).
*[[Sundae Drivin']] — As seen in the email [[redesign]], it includes quotes like "CHERRY GET!" and "YOUR JAMES OVER."
*Strong Bad's title at [[Crazy Go Nuts University]] is "Prinicpal".
*Email [[isp]] — Homestar, as an insincere telephone recording, says "Thank you for holding. Your call is very unportant to us."
*Email [[trading cards]] — When Strong Bad is describing The Cheat's trading card game, the phrase flashing on the screen is "PLAY GET!"
*Email [[strong badathlon]] — While advertising [[Minor Foods|Temporarios]], Strong Bad says, "'Cause I'm don't get paid!"

==See Also==
*[[Mans]]
*[[Non-inverted Questions]]
*[[Poorly Written Emails]]
*[[Be's]]

=A Lack of Intelligible Speech=

A few [[characters]], as well as their respective counterparts in [[1936]] and [[20X6]], have an apparent '''lack of intelligible speech'''. However, the audience is usually able to understand the basics what these characters attempt to communicate, either through their actions and facial expressions, through other intelligible-speaking characters' reactions, or, rarely, through on-screen subtitles.

==Appearances==
*[[The Cheat]] speaks only in squeaks and animal-sounding grunts and yelps. In [[cheat talk]], after failing to get him to say something normal like "Douglas", it is suggested that the viewers have to learn how to speak "The Cheat". Subsequently, in an Easter egg of that same email, a short recording teaches a few phrases of the indecipherable language. The Cheat's [[Old-Timey]] counterpart, [[The Sneak]], communicates only by wiggling his nose, and his [[20X6]] counterpart, [[Cheatball]], has yet to say anything beyond his own name, which may be in parody of Pokémon.
*[[Pom Pom]] speaks through sounds resembling bubbles. Like The Cheat, every character shows a clear and definitive understanding of his speech. This is shown in situations such as his conversations over his cell phone. In [[A Jumping Jack Contest]], Strong Bad attempts to pose as Pom Pom by, among other things, mimicking his speech: "Hey, give me that! Uh, I mean — bubble, bubble-dee-bubble. Dubble Bubble." Pom Pom's old-timey counterpart, [[Fat Dudley]], speaks by singing a simple, jazzy "boh-boh-boh" tune. His 20X6 counterpart, [[Pan Pan]], speaks by making a bouncing noise.
*[[Sherlock]], the helicopter/cow from Strong Bad's [[Sweet Cuppin' Cakes]], speaks only through indistinct mumbling. No other character has shown or demonstrated the ability to understand what Sherlock has ever "said".
*Although [[Strong Mad]] can be understood most of the time, his [[Old-Timey]] counterpart [[Strong Man]] does not speak, although he does growl and roar when appropriate.
*[[The Poopsmith]] has been noted as having taken a [[Wikipedia:Vow of silence|vow of silence]], but is still able to communicate in some ways. An ironic example of this was when, in [[senior prom]] The Poopsmith was the lead vocalist of [[All the King's Men!]]. Since, unlike other characters, The Poopsmith makes almost no vocal sounds at all, he seems to communicate mainly in the form of gestures such as shrugs of the shoulders and thumbs-up; additionally, he has communicated by holding up a written sign. In [[different town]], Strong Bad claimed that one thing he would change about his town is that "the Poopsmith ... could talk".

==See Also==

*[[Analysis of Homsar's Speech Patterns]]
*[[Non-inverted Questions]]

[[Category:Word running gags]]

Pseudocharacters

4kai2lyn6 — Thu, 24 May 2007 20:05:19 GMT

4kai2lyn6: /* Compy 386 */ rm - I don't think this was meant to be taken as "knowledge" or "awareness", just a (really cool) computer program.

{{tobediscussed}}
[[Image:Computers_in_harmony.png|thumb|I hate hushpuppies.]]
In [[Strong Bad]]'s world of [[Strong Bad's Technology|old technology]], he appears to love some of his technological implements, namely his computers as well as [[The Paper]], enough so that he '''treats them as though they were human beings'''. He refers to the [[Lappy 486]] as having body parts, as well as speaking to both it and the [[Compy 386]] and [[Tandy 400]] as if he were talking to any other character. He is also able to carry out conversation with The Paper.

Strong Bad is not the only one to treat technology as human. The members of the [[Homestarmy]] consider [[Frank Benedetto]] to be a real member, and to have truly died in the Battle of [[Strong Badia]].

==Personified Traits==

===Lappy 486===
*Appears in [[Lappy 486#Female Lappy 486|female form]] from time to time.
*Has a "little toe" (the comma key) as well as a "tail" (the AC cord). ([[cliffhangers]], [[retirement]])
*Uses [[Malapropisms#Lappy486|malaprops]] ("Tell whim I love" or "under stairs"). ([[Sbemail 150?!?]])
*Tell Strong Bad that she dislikes hushpuppies. ([[retirement]])

===Compy 386===
*Is able to kidnap the Lappy 486. ([[cliffhangers]], [[retirement]])
*"Speaks" with The Paper. ([[retirement]])
*Tells Strong Bad to "cut it out" when he is trying to print out a million dollar bill. ([[couch patch]])

===Tandy 400===
*Is able to kidnap the Lappy 486. ([[cliffhangers]], [[retirement]])
*Seemingly haunts Strong Bad in its "ghost" form. ([[ghosts]])
*Controls a fishing rod with a magnet on the end that causes the Lappy to enter "Teal Screen of Near Death". ([[retirement]])
*"Speaks" with The Paper. ([[retirement]])

===The Paper===
*Is able to get sick. ([[Sick Day]])
*Responds to Strong Bad's commands.
*Translates the wishes of the Compy 386 and the Tandy 400 for Strong Bad. ([[retirement]])

===Frank Benedetto===
*Is killed in the Battle of Strong Badia. ([[army]])
*Is honored with a "memorial statue". ([[more armies]])
*Has a "[[Mrs. Bennedetto|mother]]" from whom [[Homestar Runner]] tries to collect Frank's debt of five bucks. (army)

==Appearances==
*Email [[ghosts]]
*Email [[couch patch]]
*Email [[army]]
*Email [[dreamail]]
*Email [[cliffhangers]]
*Email [[retirement]]
*Email [[more armies]]
*[[Sick Day]]
*[[Sbemail 150?!?]]

==See Also==
*[[Robots]]

{{stub}}

[[Category:Electronics running gags]]

Talk:Pseudocharacters

4kai2lyn6 — Thu, 24 May 2007 20:02:18 GMT

4kai2lyn6: /* Inclusion */ Ya

{{tobediscussed}}
==What to include?==
Currently, the page is only about Strong Bad's relation to technology. Should we also include [[Frank Bennedetto]]?{{User:Loafing/sig}} 21:56, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
:That's a good point. I'll do that now.{{User:Ten Ten/sig}} 21:59, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

==Inclusion==
Okay, I'm not necessarily suggesting that this info should be deleted, but the focus of this article is too narrow and is a rehash of things we already have. The items currently on the page are not more important than the other [[:Category:Pseudocharacters|pseudocharacters]] save for the fact that we have seen them more often. I suggest we either move this page and expand it into a whole [[Pseudocharacters]] article or delete it and let the above category and respective articles speak for themselves. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 04:24, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
:I agree. I think it should be '''expanded and moved''' to [[Personification of Inanimate Objects]]. {{User:DeFender1031/sig}} 10:27, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
::The expansion part is given; observe the {{[[Template:stub|stub]]}} template at the bottom of the page. [[Personification of Inanimate Objects]] is a good title to move. And, on the topic of potential deletion, I disagree. This information is certainly valuable: it's inarguably a prevalent part of the website, as you can see based on the amount of facts that have been compiled already. The title of Pseudocharacters doesn't exactly create the correct focus for the article, as the point is that these inanimate objects are treated like and act like people, as opposed to just being characters. '''Move to Personification of Inanimate Objects'''.{{User:Ten Ten/sig}} 13:13, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
:::"Personification of Inanimate Objects" is cumbersome and wordy, whereas "Pseudocharacters" is concise and much easier to fit in a sentence when you want to hang a link. We've also been using the term ''psdeudocharacters'' just fine for over a year and a half. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 16:17, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
::::Dot Com, you miss the point. This is a different page than pseudocharacters. {{User:DeFender1031/sig}} 16:18, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
:::::I agree with DeFender. This page is not about Pseudocharacters. It's about objects that are treated like people.{{User:Ten Ten/sig}} 18:37, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
::::::And are thus pseudocharacters. {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 18:40, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
:::::::Heimstern, i think what he means to say is that this is about the running joke of personifying objects and their instances. The name "pseudocharacters" implies that it's about the objects themselves. {{User:DeFender1031/sig}} 18:43, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
::::::::The purpose is not to DESCRIBE them, which is what a Pseudocharacters page would do. This is to talk about how they are both treated like and act like people. Pseudocharacters would just be descriptions of the characters.{{User:Ten Ten/sig}} 18:44, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
:::::::::DeFender: Please don't claim that I missed the point without even offering any evidence to back it up. Ten Ten: One definition of "pseudocharacter" is "an object that is treated like a person". If this page is about objects that are treated like people, then it's about pseudocharacters. Yes, I get that there is a very subtle difference between describing the psdeudocharacters and describing the thought process that makes them pseudocharacters, but I think that is a very tenuous distinction at best, with quite a bit of overlap. If we renamed the page "Pseudocharacters", everything in the list would be good to go as-is, and the intro would only need to be reworded a little. It would still be a running gag (although, this whole phenomenon is more of a recurring theme than a running gag, but that's another discussion). — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 19:11, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
::::::::::Dot Com, that's true, I'm sorry. Anyway, it's not so subtle. A pseudocharacters page would have a description of what pseudocharacter means, a list of each one, maybe presented as a gallery. What we're talking about here is a description of how it often occurs, and a list of toons in which personification has occurred. these two things are as different as night and day. Don't you think that night and day are different? {{User:DeFender1031/sig}} 19:15, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
:::::::::::Apparently not, because I see both of the things you listed as two sides of the same coin, all of which would be appropriate on the Pseudocharacters page. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 19:26, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
::::::::::::The point is, the title is not meant to convey that this page is about the pseudocharacters. It's about how how the regular characters personify them. Yes, I realize that they indeed ARE pseudocharacters. But that's not what the title was meant to convey. If I wanted this to be about the fact that they were pseudocharacters, I would have made the title to reflect that. It's about how they are treated as people.{{User:Ten Ten/sig}} 19:39, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
:::::::::::::Regardless of what you meant, the fact remains that we have had for a relatively long time a word for the concept that is the subject of this article, which besides being an older term is also simpler to use. We should therefore use it. Moreover, the Pseudocharacters article can be whatever we make it. If we want to list how the pseudocharacters are treated as people (which seems perfectly natural to me), then we certainly can. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 19:50, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
::::::::::::::First, I'd like to say that, if the title were Pseudocharacters, the title would belie the content, creating the impression that the content was a list of Pseudocharacters and descriptions. Second, I'd like to point out that nobody will be swayed in this argument. Clearly we need more people to join in else we will never reach a conclusion.{{User:Ten Ten/sig}} 19:55, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
:::::::::::::::I think '''[[Pseudocharacters]]''' would be an excellent title. It does not imply that it's simply a list of characters. It woudl certainly include such a list, but that's a good thing.{{User:Loafing/sig}} 19:58, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
:::::::::::::::: Same here. {{User:4kai2lyn6/sig}} 20:02, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Talk:more armies

4kai2lyn6 — Tue, 22 May 2007 00:10:17 GMT

4kai2lyn6: /* Firebert to Trogdor */ Same here.

== Benedetto!==
Just making sure. Frank Bennedetto was not in this email, but rather a memorial to him. Right?

Uhm... no. Frank was revealed to be alive in Labor Dabor (and sign your name please.) -[[User:Everybody!|Everybody!]] 21:49, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

== I have made my decission ==

I can do the transcript luckaly say my parents. I can do the transcript. Can I do the transcript again? {{User:Sam the Man/sig}}

:[[User:Has Matt?|Has Matt?]] is {{p|l=http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=more_armies&curid=34763&diff=460758&oldid=460756&rcid=415474 working on it now}}. {{User:Trey56/sig}} 21:54, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

==Not-yet opened STUFF==

The third kid facing certain doom in the Homestarmy refers to military school.

- {{User:Gtxm78/sig}} 21:56, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

I think that, if anything, certain doom refers to the fact that Homestar is a ridiculously inept "commander" and will lead the Homestarmy to certain doom. - [[User:Chupaqueso|Chupaqueso]] 22:01, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

==Jumped in?==
What's that mean? Strong Bad said you can send your kid off to join the On Point Kings, but he'll have to be jumped in. Funny, usually by the time I come here, the e-mail page is already done. It's odd to see it so new :). [[User:Kvn8907|Kvn8907]] 22:11, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

: It's the standard gang initiation... urban legends about flashing headlights and assaulting random people in front of Wal-Mart notwithstanding, most gangs simply beat the $*#! out of prospective members to make sure they're tough enough. That's called being "jumped in". [[User:68.13.21.225|68.13.21.225]] 23:22, 21 May 2007 (UTC) (a no-account good for nothing so and so)

== #173! ==
It looks like they might [[montage|take The Paper out]] after all. [[User:Strong Devon|Strong Devon]] 22:26, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

==Firebert to Trogdor==
It's possible that The Cheat didn't change Firebert to Trogdor just because his name was awful. I think it's more to do with the popularity of Trogdor and the amount of fan contributions it has spawned.
:Same here. {{User:4kai2lyn6/sig}} 00:10, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

==Redheaded stepchild?==
Is it possible that "step-headed red-child" is a reference to the phrase "redheaded stepchild," meaning an unfavored child? -[[User:HotBees|HotBees]] 00:01, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
:If that's an actualy saying, then i'd say definately. Incidentally, i've never heard that before. {{User:DeFender1031/sig}} 00:03, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

User talk:The Joe

4kai2lyn6 — Thu, 10 May 2007 20:27:10 GMT

4kai2lyn6: /* Suspicious edit */ wow....

==No. Really.==
You can leave messages here. feel free. It's getting lonely... - {{User:The Joe/sig}} 21:06, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

:Well, a good way to get positive talk page messages is to actively be involved in wiki projects and large scale editing. See this [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=User_talk:Mibluvr13&curid=5644&diff=362913&oldid=362197&rcid=312764 one] for example. I don't think you want to get negative messages, but some users get them if they break wiki rules, like having too many personal images. Now, I've seen you edit on the wiki and talked to you on IRC and you seem like a very nice guy. I hope you continue contributing to this fine site. {{User:E.L. Cool/sig}} 21:27, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
:ah. Yeah. Sorry. Err... Yeah. Sorry. ooh. yeah. Umm... Thanks! - {{User:The Joe/sig}} 22:12, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
::Yeah, the bad thing is that I can't really do that much subtitling because I can't get a seekbar, plus I don't have firefox. Yeah, sorry. - {{User:The Joe/sig}} 22:15, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
:::Dude, don't be sorry! I wasn't accusing you of anything. Just giving some pointers :). And there's still alot to do on the wiki beside subtitles. {{User:E.L. Cool/sig}} 05:19, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
:::Thanks, I'll remember that. No Worries! - {{User:The Joe/sig}} 13:34, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

== Hi, The Joe ==

Hi there, The Joe! Keep up your editing. You're doing some fine gnome work for us here. Hope all's going well for you! {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 21:23, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
:Why thank you. - {{User:The Joe/sig}} 22:13, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

== Ellipsis points and our Manual of Style ==

Hi there The Joe. I noticed your recent edits dealing with some ellipsis points, and I just wanted to make sure that you were aware of our [[HRWiki:Manual of Style#Ellipsis points and suspension points|Manual of Style section on the topic]]. I'm no expert, and I certainly can't tell if a majority of your edits were correct or not, so I think the best course of action would be if you were to read through the Manual of Style. I expect it would explain things a bit better than I could. Thanks. -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 06:06, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
:Thanks for that. I'll read it through before continuing. All I was really doing was changing ".."'s to "..." and "...." to "..." - {{User:The Joe/sig}} 13:21, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

== HI IM TEMP ==
so.... GO to my user page eh... please yeah... IM AWASOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and crap okay?
:Hey Temp! Welcome to the HRwiki! I suggest that you follow the links I sent you, and take a look at all of the [[HRwiki:Standards|standards]]. You might also want to use the "show preview" button when editing your userpage so that it doesn't clog up [[special:Recentchanges|recent changes]]. Keep on tranglin, - {{User:The Joe/sig}} 16:22, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

== french ==

[[Image:Awesomeguy.JPG|thumb|You're a good friend, The Joe!]]
ding ding! --{{User:Super Martyo Brother/sig}} 23:51, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

:hooray! Thanks! - {{User:The Joe/sig}} 23:55, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

== Thanks. ==

Thanks for that welcome! - [[User:Homestar Cheetah|Homestar Cheetah]]

:No prob, Bob. - {{User:The Joe/sig}} 16:39, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

::Bob? Who's Bob? - [[User:Homestar Cheetah|Homestar Cheetah]]

== Thanks! ==

Thanks for the welcome, Joe! [[User:The HRJ|The HRJ]] 00:23, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

:You're very welcome, HRJ - {{User:The Joe/sig}} 00:25, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

::Hey, do I possibly know you from somewhere? Hmm... do you have a Wikipedia user account? <big>'''[[User:The HRJ|The]]'''</big> <big>'''[[User talk:The HRJ|HRJ]]'''</big> [[Image:Homestarteeth.png|25px]] 00:31, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

:::Nope. I recently discovered that there was a user on wikipedia called [[wikipedia:User:TheJosh|TheJosh]], and I'm on [[tmbw:|This might be a wiki]], but other than that, this is really the only wiki I've joined. - {{User:The Joe/sig}} 00:38, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

::::Okay, thanks - <big>'''[[User:The HRJ|The]]'''</big> <big>'''[[User talk:The HRJ|HRJ]]'''</big> [[Image:Homestarteeth.png|25px]] 00:40, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

== Good work ==

Thank you for handling the vandalism by Trogdor345, and sorry that a sysop didn't get to blocking him any earlier. Just for future reference, it's best to mark a vandal page with <nowiki>{{delete|Vandal page}}</nowiki> rather than <nowiki>{{tobedeleted}}</nowiki>, as the latter is meant for deletions that need to be discussed. Good work, at any rate. {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 18:37, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

== Another "Thanks"! ==

Thanks for helping me with my first- ever page! That was so much fun! [[User:4kai2lyn6|kai lyn]] 04:27, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

:No problem! Have fun on the wiki! - {{User:The Joe/sig}} 04:30, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

== Username ==

Hey The Joe. Normally I don't write people and ask them whether they're sure they want their name changed, but I'm doing so here because I have always liked your username and am wondering what all factored into your request to have it changed. If you'd rather not discuss it, that's okay too, but I just thought in this case I'd ask first. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 04:22, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
:Hmm, I've always had lots of trouble thinking of a username, and I thought of The Joe in a hurry. Just recently, I thought up the Commander Joe (Based off of commander keen), which I sort of liked. I was thinking of changing it to match up with my blog and KOL account, but now that I think about it, it's rather long for a wikiname, and it's not ''that'' hard to remember two usernames. Now that I reconsider it, it would all be a hassle, and I think that "The Joe" is more suitable for a wiki. I think I'll keep on going with The Joe, for now. I'm gonna stick with this gem. Commander Joe is a little awkward anyhow. :) - {{User:The Joe/sig}} 04:30, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
::Cool. If you should change your mind someday, then you can put another request on the name-change page, but for now I'ma remove the old one. Talk atcha later. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 05:59, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

==You have been added!==
*...to my [[User:Theyellowdart#Coolest People Ever|Cool People List!]] {{User:Theyellowdart/sig}}. P.S. Hey can you help me, I still need a little help about Snickjames55's talk page. P.S.S. Um, I really like your stupid coincidences on your userpage.

==No. Really. Trogdor strikes again.==
*Hey, I spent a whole '''4''' minutes making that!! {{User:Theyellowdart/sig}}
::My userspace is cluttered enough without needless things like that. Please remember about the [[hrwiki:Sandbox|Sandbox]]. - {{User:The Joe/sig}} 20:28, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
:::You're just jealous because Trogdor just pwned you! {{User:Theyellowdart/sig}}

== Thanks!! (note the alternate punctuation!) ==

Hey, thanks for featuring my edit summary there. I thought it was deep. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 01:51, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

:Well, I have always found myself strangly attracted to similes about punctuation... (no fooling). No prob. - {{User:The Joe/sig}} 01:54, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

== Um...thanks! ==

Oh, uh, sorry 'bout that. Thanks for being so understanding of my noob-ness. [[User:Petros86|Petros86]] 21:46, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
:No Problem. - {{User:The Joe/sig}} 21:54, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

== Hey dude. ==

Did you see my page? I pimped out some of my user boxes. Check it out. No, seriously. [[User:Andtrogdorcomesinthenight|AND TROGDOR COMES IN THE NIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT!]] 18:08, 25 February 2007 (UTC) I'll say that again. [[User:Andtrogdorcomesinthenight|AND TROGDOR COMES IN THE NIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT!]] 18:08, 25 February 2007 (UTC) Last time. [[User:Andtrogdorcomesinthenight|AND TROGDOR COMES IN THE NIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT!]] 18:08, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

== Strawberry Alarm Clock ==

Incense and Peppermints; the color of time! What a classic. Thanks for the memory jog. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 00:43, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

:Such a good song, if only it wasn't one of their only. :) - {{User:The Joe/sig}} 00:46, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

== Suspicious edit ==

Hi The Joe. I found {{p|l=http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=User:The_Joe&diff=450105&oldid=430259 this edit}} to be suspicious, like someone had gotten access to your account. My apologies if that really was you and you intended to make that edit. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 04:06, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

:No, that was totally me, just bein' silly. :P - {{User:The Joe/sig}} 04:22, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
::Um... You ''are'' still being silly, right? You'd better come back; I'd miss ya too freakin' much! {{User:4kai2lyn6/sig}} 20:27, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

Category talk:Toons with Dialogue Alternatives

4kai2lyn6 — Wed, 09 May 2007 18:44:51 GMT

4kai2lyn6: Oh yaaa...

{In a robotic voice} WHAT SHOULD THIS PAGE BE CALLED? {eND OF ROBOTIC VOICE}

Here is a list of toons which include alternative dialog lines.
*[[Marzipan# Character Video Transcript|Marzipan's character video]]
*[[The House That Gave Sucky Treats]]
*[[Halloween Potion-ma-jig]]
*Some freakin' email that I watched a couple of days ago as the result of the infamous "rando" button, where Coach Z was the one who spoke the alternative wouds I'm after, and I can't believe I can't remember what it WAS! GAH!!!

Yup... So here's a page idea... I have no idea what to call it (alternative dialog?)... Or what category to put it in (word running gags...? But that doesn't really fit)... It's not the best thing I've done, but that one email with Coach Z THAT I CAN'T REMEMBER really surprised me, and so I'd like to put a page together of all the thymes this occurs and I'm awesome BLAHHH! [[Monkey D|GUNS]] FOR [[Pistols for Pandas|GORILLAS]]!!!!!! {{User:4kai2lyn6/sig}} 15:20, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

I don't know about this page, or what email you watched, but there is also [[First Time Here?]] and [[kind of cool]].
:Um, perhaps a new category could help? (Like ''[[:Category:Toons with Dialogue Alternatives]]''?) Also, to narrow your search, there's the second half of [[:Category:Coach_Z_Filmography|this category]]. Do you remember if it was a long/short email? New/old? --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 16:53, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
::Ah ha! That's why I would like this page — I forgot about [[First Time Here?]], and I didn't even know about [[kind of cool]]!!! (I rarely read through the transcripts.) And Stux: ya, I already perused through Coach Z's filmography really quick and couldn't find it... I'll try again, and if I can't find it, I'll just conclude that I made it up.... ([[Talk:Marzipan#Boo!|Wouldn't be my first time]]). Do you think this would be worth an entirely new category?! I was going to suggest that, but wasn't sure if it'd hold in court, so to speak. {{User:4kai2lyn6/sig}} 17:40, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
:I have created this category for that purpose, knock yourself out in adding the pages to it. (I won't just yet.) --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 20:20, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
::Okay, I added them. I'm glad you made this a category thing, as opposed to a what would probably have been a crappy page thing. Thanks Stux! {{User:4kai2lyn6/sig}} 17:52, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
:::By the way, what are the dialogue alternatives in [[First Time Here?]]? I know there are ''visual'' alternatives... What I'm really getting at is, does this category have the right name, or if so does that toon fit in it? — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 18:34, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
::::Oops. You're right; I wasn't thinking properly. There are only ''visual'' alternatives in there. Hm. Would it be okay to simply extent the name of this category to something like "Toons with Dialogue and Visual Alternatives", perhaps changing "dialogue" to something more complimentary to "visual", like "audio"? (Because I still think "First Time Here?" should be grouped with these other toons, if you catch my thinking process.) {{User:4kai2lyn6/sig}} 18:44, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

User talk:Stux

4kai2lyn6 — Wed, 09 May 2007 17:57:38 GMT

4kai2lyn6: /**/Just hi

== Feel Free to Leave a message! ==
-The management.

<div class="usermessage">I could really use a massage. (from one of those professional masseuses)</div>
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Okay heres a message. Hi. You're on facebook too, huh... I'm so badly addicted to that site, and this site, and fanstuff, and homestarrunner.com... ok, so I barely get off the puter all day 'cept for classes, and barely for homework. Oh well. Oh, and flash... i'm addicted to flash. Maybe someday i'll be almost as famous as TBC for somethin in flash... like when pigs fly... but you never know. Get autographs now while they're cheap! Oh, cwap... I think maybe I wasn't supposed to put this here? Sorry. -[[User:Jenny|Jenny]]
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<div class="usermessage">Don't you just hate it when people do this, and make you think you really have a free massage (from one of those professional masseuses)... I mean, new message? </div>

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==ToolBox!/Welcome!==
Hey there, Stux! Welcome to the Homestar Runner Wiki!

''Here are some links to help you out:''

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Above all, be sure to '''be bold''' and have fun! Feel free to ask me if I can be of any assistance to you. And feel free to remove this message when you've checked out those links. Well, see ya round the wiki! — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 02:33, 23 Sep 2005 (UTC)

{{:HRWiki:The Stick/quick menu}}
=== Useful Documentation Links I've found ===
*http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Section
*http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Magic_words
*http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Table
*http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Template ([http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ParserFunctions Parser Functions])
*http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php/Special:Listadmins
*http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php/Category:Articles_needing_cleanup
*http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php/HRWiki:WikiTroll
*http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php/HRWiki:Da_Basement
*http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php/Help:Contents
*http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php/Help:Signature
*http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php/Category:Help
*[[User talk:It's dot com/The System Is Down]]
*http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php/Category:HRWiki_Templates

=== Other useful Links ===
* Search this site using [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Awww.hrwiki.org&btnG=Google+Search Google]. (I need a [http://www.google.com/custom?domains=www.hrwiki.org&sitesearch=www.hrwiki.org better link] than this one). [http://www.google.com/search?as_q=&hl=en&num=10&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hrwiki.org%2Findex.php&as_rights=&safe=images]
* Search the fanstuff using [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Afanstuff.hrwiki.org&btnG=Search Google]. (I need a [http://www.google.com/custom?domains=fanstuff.hrwiki.org&sitesearch=fanstuff.hrwiki.org better link] than this one).
* Search wikipedia using [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Awww.wikipedia.org&btnG=Google+Search Google]. (I need a [http://www.google.com/custom?domains=en.wikipedia.org&sitesearch=en.wikipedia.org better link] than this one).
*http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?hidepatrolled=1&title=Special%3ARecentchanges&namespace=0
*http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php/Special:Log/block
*http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php/Special:Log/move
*[[HRWiki:Featured articles|Featured articles]]
*Purging a page: ''<nowiki>http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=Main_Page&action=purge</nowiki>''
*[http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=User%3ATeh_Frossty_One&diff=206434&oldid=206432 How to link pictures]
*http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=Special:Unusedimages&limit=500&offset=0
*http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php/Special:Uncategorizedcategories
*[http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=Floppy_Disk_Container&diff=248829&oldid=248812 Sample table id] for use in anchor links.
*http://www.eltima.com/products/flashdecompiler/ [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=User_talk%3AIt%27s_dot_com&diff=250444&oldid=250443]
*A link to the [[Links]] page (itself full of [[Wikipedia:links|links]]).
*{{pl|l=http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=upload&user=Stux&page=&limit=500&offset=0 A list of my uploaded images}}. (Thanks [[User:Trey56|Trey56]] for the example!)
*CSS Links:
**[[MediaWiki:Common.css]]
**[[MediaWiki:Monobook.css]]
**[[MediaWiki:Monobook.js]]
**[[User:Venusy/monobook.css]]
**[[User:Thunderbird L17/monobook.css]]
**[[User:FireBird/monobook.css]]
**[[Special:Mypage/monobook.css|YOUR monobook.css]] (link might be red. That's ok! Chances are you don't need it.)

== TODO List ==
{{User:Stux/index}}
* All work stuff moved [[User:Stux/Work_In_Progress%3F|here]]. The talk is now just for Talking. Sort of.
* Here's a [[User:Stux/index|list of]] my subpages.
* Easy access to my [[User:Stux/sandbox|second sandbox]].
* Easy access to the [[HRWiki:Sandbox|wiki sandbox]].

== Contributions ==

* Cool! Wow! My first serious contribution! check out: [[The Geddup Noise]]. It's not yet complete, and it definitely it a lot of work! But all These guys you see in the history have worked hard at getting this list right! Amazing how much goes into one little article! I'm tired. I need to go back to the world of responsability again :(. Take care ppl! --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 04:32, 27 Sep 2005 (UTC)
**Great job with that article! ^-^ You and Joshua did great with it (although I helped. A little). Good luck with future articles too. I might suggest making note of it on your actual user page too, along with the talk page. (I like it on the talk page, though. It lets people--like me--give random and well-deserved congratulations.) In closing, keep up the nice work. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]
***Thank you for the kind comment DorianGray! You have a wonderful night! :) --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 04:50, 27 Sep 2005 (UTC)

*Ok Learning to do [[Template:Talk:Stinkoman_20X6|templates]], [[Talk:Stinkoman_20X6/Archive|archives]], and [[strongbad_email.exe_DVD_Artwork|image positioning]] is FUN! --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 16:43, 1 Oct 2005 (UTC)
*This template is very useful: <pre>{{clear}}</pre>

== Funky Random Links ==
''Based out of wiki stuff...''
*http://www.thundercross.freeserve.co.uk/html/gryzor.htm [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Contra_%28arcade_game%29&diff=28053277&oldid=28048805]
*http://www.tashian.com/multibabel/ [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=HRWiki:Sandbox&diff=205992&oldid=205780]
*http://www.snopes.com/language/misxlate/machine.htm [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=HRWiki:Sandbox&diff=206056&oldid=206050]
*http://www.menc.org/information/advocate/facts.html [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=Talk%3AFall_Float_Parade&diff=206209&oldid=206068]
:*http://www.menc.org/information/meandthelaw.html
*http://www.holidays.net/dailys.htm [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=User_talk:It%27s_dot_com&diff=207843&oldid=207838]
*http://urbanlegends.about.com/cs/historical/a/jfk_berliner.htm [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=User_talk:Heimstern_L%C3%A4ufer&diff=208414&oldid=208411]
*http://www.bartleby.com/61/43/T0214300.html [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=User_talk:Bill_Martinson&diff=prev&oldid=209780]
*http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/french/as-sa/ASSA-No8/YT1.html [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=User_talk:Bill_Martinson&diff=209836&oldid=209780]
*http://www.joke-archives.com/inspire/forgottencommand.html, [http://www.joke-archives.com/] found through: [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=User_talk:AbdiViklas&curid=13390&diff=210819&oldid=210589]
*http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=HRWiki:Sandbox&oldid=212829 [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=HRWiki:Sandbox&diff=212829&oldid=212581]
*http://snpp.com/episodes/7F19.html [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=User_talk:It%27s_dot_com&diff=214053&oldid=213822]
*http://www.sambakza.net/faq/faq_eng_top.htm#03_04 [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=HRWiki:Sandbox&diff=214420&oldid=214411]
*http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=HRWiki:Sandbox&diff=230874&oldid=230873
*http://www.whowasthursday.com/ [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=User_talk:MJ&diff=239173&oldid=229243]
*http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/cs_drives.shtml [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=Talk:technology&diff=254464&oldid=254459] [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=Talk:technology&diff=next&oldid=254467] [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=Talk:technology&diff=next&oldid=254482]
*[http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hrwiki.org%2Findex.php%2FUser%3AStux&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&verbose=1 this] [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=User_talk:The_thing&diff=272529&oldid=272374] [http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hrwiki.org%2Findex.php%2FUser_talk%3AStux&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&verbose=1] [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=User_talk%3AStux&diff=429512&oldid=429508]

===Bug hut===
:''{{pl|l=http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Stux http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Stux}}''
*<s>[http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php/Talk:Secret_Pages#Two_Questions: http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php/Talk:Secret_Pages#Two_Questions:]</s>
*http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=Secret_Pages&diff=210251&oldid=210250 [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=Secret_Pages&diff=prev&oldid=210250] [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=Secret_Pages&diff=prev&oldid=210249] [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=Secret_Pages&diff=prev&oldid=210248]
**http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=Secret_Pages&diff=210571&oldid=210570 [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=Secret_Pages&diff=prev&oldid=210570] [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=Secret_Pages&diff=prev&oldid=210569]
**[[User_talk:It%27s_dot_com/The_System_Is_Down#Diff_Problems]] [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php/User_talk:It%27s_dot_com#Diff_Problems.3F] [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=portrait&diff=211068&oldid=211067] [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=portrait&diff=next&oldid=211051]
*<s>http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php/User_talk:JoeyDay#Help [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=User_talk%3AJoeyDay&diff=210244&oldid=210243] [http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3805] </s>
*<strike>[[Category_talk:Character_Evolution#Some bug]] [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php/Character_Evolution]</strike>
*http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php/HRWiki:Da_Basement/Archive3#Bug_3231 [http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3231]
*<strike>http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php/HRWiki:Main_Page_Talk_Archive_9#Little_Help_Here.3F[http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=Talk%3AMain_Page&diff=259482&oldid=259477] [http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2607]</strike>
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Prelate_Zeratul/List_of_units_and_buildings_in_StarCraft [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Prelate_Zeratul/List_of_units_and_buildings_in_StarCraft&diff=100708241&oldid=100707932] 
*http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=Quote_of_the_Week&diff=450169&oldid=450168 
* [[HRWiki:Autopipe/Autoredirect]] [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=HRWiki_talk:Autopipe/Autoredirect&curid=34007&diff=450342&oldid=447625]
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<div class="usermessage">I really could use that free massage (from one of those professional masseuses) you promised.</div>
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== Geocities ==

If your website is hosted by geocities free then how you get a domain??? {{User:Pertmywert/sig}} 08:06, 30 Sep 2005 (UTC)

:Hehe! It's a secret! Actually, it's a little thing called domain parking! You register your domain (you gotta pay for that part) and "park it" -- you don't buy hosting. Many sites will offer free website redirection and will mask the real address (this is what I do). <s>Two</s> A good place is [http://www.godaddy.com godaddy.com] which is dirt cheap and offers lots of features, and is the only registrar I use at this moment. <s>and [http://www.namesdirect.com/ names direct] which offers a couple (not really that many) of other features but at a greater expense per year</s>. I hope this helps! Let me know if you have more questions. --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 14:02, 30 Sep 2005 (UTC)

::How much do you pay??? {{User:Pertmywert/sig}} 05:58, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

:::Well, the geocities page is one of their free ones (hence the ads and the limit on web space and traffic -- but mine's not a very big and important page so I don't care about that). All I pay for is the domain -- this one runs at about $40/year, while another one I have is $14/year and both include "domain protect" which keeps my personal information private in the Whois Database. --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 06:02, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

::::Well. This is awesome. {{User:Pertmywert/sig}} 06:28, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

''UPDATE: I am no longer a customer of namesdirect nor do I trust that company that much anymore. I have since switched exclusively to GoDaddy.'' --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 04:31, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

== Jackie C. ==

Just so you know, Jackie C. is [[Jackie Chapman]], Matt's wife.--{{User:bkmlb/sig}} 15:42, 1 Oct 2005 (UTC)

:OOOOOHH! Why thank you very much! Very, very much! --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 15:45, 1 Oct 2005 (UTC)

::Your very welcome!--{{User:bkmlb/sig}} 15:46, 1 Oct 2005 (UTC)

== Subpages ==

Hey Stux. I notice you have some stuff on this page that isn't really talk. My guess is that you don't want it on your main user page. May I suggest a subpage? Perhaps "User:Stux/to-do". You're allowed to have subpages for projects you're working on and other things that further the goals of the wiki. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 19:36, 1 Oct 2005 (UTC)

:Cool! Thanks for the tip! --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 19:38, 1 Oct 2005 (UTC)

I adjusted the formatting on the email table to the wiki format, which hopefully will make it easier for you to use. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 20:18, 1 Oct 2005 (UTC)

== Gray backgrounds ==

Oh! You were so close! When you first started uploading those, I looked to check them out, and realized that they were going to be very good. I was gonna leave you a note on your talk page, but when I noticed how fast you were uploading, I decided not to mess up the beauty of your string of edits. I can't believe you got all the way to 3 before it was interrupted... Man! And, before I forget to say it in all my ramblings, good jorb! — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 03:48, 2 Oct 2005 (UTC)
:LOL! Why thank you very much Hamstring, er Homegrown, er It's dot com! I didn't even see the string of edits uuntil I refreshed my Recent Changes tab... Wow! I got lucky that there was a lull too! Hehe I'm glad you liked the edits! --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 03:53, 2 Oct 2005 (UTC)
::BTW I learned from the best! I noticed you and BazookaJoe going at it with those page deletions earlier today! --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 03:58, 2 Oct 2005 (UTC)

== Thanks ==

Thanks for the congradulations. :){{User:Pertmywert/sig}} 21:08, 4 Oct 2005 (UTC)

== Finally I found it! ==

[[Image:RabidTheCheat.png|thumb]]
I really didn't look for it, but the other day I really wanted to post this picture in my user space. I finally found it and I'm posting it. It pretty much describes how I've been feeling all week. Meh!
--[[User:Stux|Stux]] 01:05, 8 Oct 2005 (UTC)

P.S. Kudos for whoever made the template <code><nowiki>{{clear}}</nowiki></code> found here [[Template:clear]]. Even '' '''THAT''' '' i had to dig for again cuz it didn't occur to me to bookmark it or copy it to my page. Oh well. Hope everyone has a good weekend!
{{clear}}
[[Image:strongbadsweater.PNG|thumb|left| Much better!]]
I feel better and more relaxed now!
{{clear}}

== In the news... ==

I think I will no longer be reading my current news from regular, hyped up news franchises, but instead from a '''truly''' unbiased ''(relatively speaking)'' source like the [[Wikipedia:Main_Page|Wikipedia]]. Case in point:
*The [[Wikipedia:2005_Indian_subcontinent_earthquake|2005_Indian_subcontinent_earthquake]] is a very recent, tragic event. This article on the wiki has been published the same day of the event. It cites the [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4321490.stm BBC] article among others, and you can tell the night and day difference in tone, sensationalism and objectivity. Wow.
* How I long for jounalists to attain the same level of true objectivity as encyclopedia writers are required ('''this''' wiki is a great example, beleive it or not). My apologies to those who are in the journaling business and also contribute/read the wiki. I am not trying to offend anyone but rather to make an observation.
* In the meantime I will keep the people in Pakistan, Afghanistan and India in prayer.
--[[User:Stux|Stux]] 17:07, 8 Oct 2005 (UTC)

Well it turns out there is a [http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Main_Page Wiki News] project out there already! It's early so I haven't read the articles, so I can't render a verdict. Good day all! --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 13:29, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

== Wha? ==
What are you talking about with "Thanks for catching my little swappage in the Stinkoman page"? [[User:Seek Bar|Seek Bar]]

==Stress==
Stux, what are those recent templates for? We have those images uploaded. {{User:Rogue Leader/sig}} 00:57, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

:The [[User_talk:Stux/Stress_Template|templates]] are meant for "easy coding" for the stress level images (they link to them directly), that way people just need to change the level simply by changing the stress level number. I wanted to try it out and see if people would like to use that for their pages. If they are too much trouble I can remove them. --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 01:01, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

::No trouble at all. Just curious. {{User:Rogue Leader/sig}} 01:07, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

== Heh ==

I caught that ''Robin Hood: Men in Tights'' edit summary. That's what it was, right? Anyway, I love that movie. {{User:Some HSR themed username/sig}} 17:04, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
:Lol! Awesome! Yup! that's right! Only that it's actually "D-E-E-D" but I'm used to saying it the other way. I wasn't sure if anyone would catch that! Yeah, it's an awesome movie. I gotta get my girlfriend to watch it, I know she'd like it! --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 17:08, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

== IDs ==

The IDs for the costumes page were to the individual years, which are now taken care of by the individual pages. That's why there aren't IDs on the new pages (although, if someone wanted to get ''really'' ambitious, he or she could put 'id="homestar"', etc. on all the pages. But that's a topic for another day, probably). Also, you don't need to put underscores in the links. The software takes care of that. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 18:17, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
:Sounds like a job for grape nuts {{User:Invisible_Robot_Fish/sig}} 18:21, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
:''Edit Conflict:'' I thought the one for Thy Dungeonman specifically was for the specific costume it was referring to (that is Strong Sad's costume? (LOL i didn't even catch the "pub" the first time I read it. ) Of course, SS is third on the list so it doesn't really matter as much now, does it? As for the underscores... um yeah... I was kinda lazy there, cuz I just copied and pasted the corresponding URLs and removed the header part of the url... :) *whistles* anyway... since you already fixed the old ones while I was typing, I'll keep an eye out for the new ones! ''(This will sound silly, but who's grape nuts!?)'' --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 18:25, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
::[[User:GrapeNuts]] is a bot belonging to JoeyDay. He's programmed for automated tasks and replacements and stuff like that. It's pretty wild. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]

== WikiTroll ==

Oops, sorry about that early post thing. Was an accident. But what I wanted to say is that if a troll has been blocked, it doesn't need to go on the WikiTroll page. That is simply to bring the troll to a sysop's attention, and especially with this WikiTikiTavi guy, it is just not worth the time and energy. This is probably good news for you eh? {{User:Some HSR themed username/sig}} 06:52, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
:LoL I thought that was an interesting message. I was thinking of leaving some smart quip like "nice message" but I figured I'd wait and see what developed. BTW you're fast on them reverts! Yeah, you're right, it really isn't worth my time and energy. But when I started noticing, I didn't know if there were sysops around so I did it anyway. Yeah at least I know now they're being block so yeah you bring an excellent point. The last ones I still wanted to make sure they didn't get 'missed' or whatever might've been going through my mind. Now to breathe... and then go to bed!
:On another note, the pages this guy targets are usually the same, only deviating slightly. The usernames seem generated and are fairly similar. He is pretty fast but I dunno if he's using a script. It seems like he/she is though. Oh well. --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 07:02, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
::I'll just answer my own questions with [[User_talk:Homestar_Coder#WikiTikiTavi:_The_new_WoW.3F|links]], how's that? --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 07:09, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

==All this blocking crap==

:Ok, problem solved, thanks for helping. But, what it said was something like, ''This IP adress has been blocked by [[User:Homestar Coder|Homestar Coder]] for some bad editing thingy. Initial something was "wow."''
'':There is the possabillity that we could've made a mistake, (Which is what i think happened), in which case, you can contact Homestar Coder. Sorry for the inconvienience.''
That's pretty much all I can remember. Sorry. {{User:Bubsty/sig}} 03:44, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

== +be ==

What does ''(+be)'' stand for?--[[User:Stephen923|Stephen923]]
:I'm not sure, it depends on the context, where did you see that? Was it one of my edits? If it was one of mine it most likely means I added the word "be" to the text. Can you provide a link to the edit? Thanks! --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 16:54, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
::Oh! Now I know what you're [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=Main_Page_9&diff=185439&oldid=175565 talking about]! At the time, some main pages had a "Button Effects" title, though most didn't. As a result I went ahead and added that title to all the main pages that didn't so that they would be uniform and would look better. The first change I'm sure I labeled "button effects", but all subsequent changes I made i labeled "+be" to refer to that first change (to mean that I was adding('''+''') a "'''b'''utton '''e'''ffects title) and to save time while I was doing all 20 or so pages. I hope that clears everything up! --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 21:24, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

== Proxies ==

Er, why aren't you filling in the data? Those shortcuts aren't accurate. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 05:25, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
: For example, on 62.101.126.223, you put 62.101.96.0/19. But I get 62.101.126.208 - 62.101.126.223, with a range of 62.101.126.208/ 28. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]]
:: In that case, the /19 domain does come up on the page as a parent to the range you put. So both appear. Better to use the more specific ones though. --{{User:Jay/sig}} 05:29, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
:'''Edit Conflict x2''' That is all of the information that is provided by the whois. As per my [[HRWiki_talk:ProxyBlocks#Different format|question]] on the talk page. Oh wait I just realized I got it backwards... GRRRRR!!!! Well I'm not going to bed anytime soon. --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 05:30, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
::So to be clear... use the /28 in the example above, NOT the /19 which is more general cuz it uses less bits that don't change... right!? --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 05:31, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
::: Right. --{{User:Jay/sig}} 05:33, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
::::Got it! --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 05:33, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
:::::Yeah, the bigger the number, the more specific the range. Anything below /24 may end up being too general for us to use, so the higher the number, the better. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 05:35, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
==my computer==
:Cool, thanks. I don't have a name for it, but I do now. I'm typing on aquamarine dreams right now! {{User:Bubsty/sig}} 23:34, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
::You're very welcome! Enjoy your new computer's name :). --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 00:42, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

== An electronically sent message! ==

Greetings, Sir Stux! '''Stop'''

It is I, '''Sir Strong Bad!''' '''Stop'''

I bid you greetings from the year 1938! '''Stop'''

Your aqcauintanceship is wanted! '''Stop'''

Please leave me an electronic reply! '''Stop'''

Dapperly yours,

[[User:Sir Strong Bad|Sir Strong Bad]]

:Hey! Old timey-man... Whaaaaat are you doooooing!!??? Are you asking for a chaleeeeenge!? Or you just wanna have some pudding? I love pudding! (And cheescake too! mmmmm!) --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 21:10, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

==Homestar User==
On the other hand, weren't you a little hard on [[User:Homestar|Homestar]]? (I can't believe nobody'd taken that name before now!) The word "panties" has, after all, itself appeared on H*R, and Marzipan's dubious anatomy makes it more of an improbability than an "obscenity." Of course the edit should have been deleted, but I was just going to do that without comment, or maybe with a somewhat gentler comment. —[[User:AbdiViklas|AbdiViklas]] 01:04, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
:Hmmmm you make a good point. I, myself don't remember the word panties, maybe I do ... vaguely, however the way he used it did not sound like something TBC would say in a H*R cartoon. I've been having a bit of a bad day so i'm feeling kind of enforcerish. I give you full permission to make my warning gentler as you see fit. I do beleive though, that some kind of warning should be necessary. I leave it in your capable hands. Thanks! --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 01:08, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
::And yes, I do myself wonder why no one ever took it before. --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 01:08, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
:::[[morning routine]] and the reference in the easter egg of [[rampage]] were what I was thinking of (which is pretty hilarious—in connection with Strong Mad), though a search shows that it's also in the radio show in [[geddup noise]]. —[[User:AbdiViklas|AbdiViklas]] 01:14, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
::::Huh? What? Whatcha' talking about Willis!? I mean Abdi...? O_o --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 01:17, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
:::::Concerning why the name hasn't been taken: I was under the impression that we weren't supposed to create user names that are the names of H*R characters (although I'm having a devil of a time finding the page that says that). [[User:Heimstern Läufer|Heimstern Läufer]] 01:17, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
::::::Ooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! I honestly don't know -- I hadn't heard that, and there's definitely a Homesar around. And a Coach B which doesn't count. I dunno. It would make sense though. I'll see if there's something in the guidelines, though I would doubt that, since ppl would likely read the guidelines ''after'' they've registered :). Also, Heimstern, I feel bad i'm not helping you out there in the ProxyBlocks field. At this rate you'll have section 5 finished in no time! --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 01:21, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
:::::::I was talking about where "panties" has been used on the site (such a strange word. I have several female friends who absolutely refuse to use it!). And as for the names, you're remembering the log in screen itself: "Avoid choosing a username that is identical to the name of a Homestar Runner character, toon, place, etc." So I guess that's why I've never seen it before! —[[User:AbdiViklas|AbdiViklas]] 01:24, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
::::::::Oh! I see what you mean now. Yeah they are pretty darn funny. But like I said before, those are still quite different in their meaning and taste. And you're right that's where it says that. I guess it hasn't been enforced? And its not in '''bold''', which most people likely would ignore?--[[User:Stux|Stux]] 01:33, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
:::::::::Yeah, as per the ones you mentioned. [[User_talk:Homsar]] shows how Interrupter Jones handled it about a year ago (though that user continued making edits until December, when they ended abruptly). —[[User:AbdiViklas|AbdiViklas]] 02:11, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
::::::::::Yeah that is to my shame... I'll see what I can retract, or add. Or something. I think my terseness did not help. Ugh I'm so not with it.--[[User:Stux|Stux]] 02:28, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
:::::::::::Nonsense; you've been "with it" all day (although the fact that I know that doesn't speak well for the state of my homework for tomorrow!). —[[User:AbdiViklas|AbdiViklas]] 02:45, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
::::::::::::Lol! Thanks I appreciate that. Though I definitely don't feel "with it". It even took me a while to get what Thunderbird was saying in his [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=User:Thunderbird_L17/Trivia&diff=202586&oldid=199625 latest trivia] (yeah I peeked). Let's just say it didn't make much sense at all at the time. :) As for your homework... well... um... get to it? I too am trying to force myself to get this networking homework done. Despite the fact that it's '''super easy''' and its not due till tommorrow before midnight, doesn't help much. --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 02:50, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
:::::::::::::I actually didn't get Thunderbird's message at first either: I missed the word "other", which, needless to say, changes the meaning quite a bit. Well, suffice to say my reaction would have been the same as Strong Bad's reaction to [[do over|Homestar's falling for him]]! But eventually I figured out what it really meant. And, like both of you, I really should be doing some homework (in my case, reading about neoclassicism and Stravinsky). [[User:Heimstern Läufer|Heimstern Läufer]] 03:06, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
::::::::::::::Sounds like fun! I'll stick to traceroutes and network routing algorithms for the time being, thank you very much! ;) ''Both'' of me wish you good luck. --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 03:14, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
:::::::::::::::Thunderbird's trivia was no doubt made more confusing by the fact that you ''aren't'' actually German, are you, Läufy? (And as for your homework, I can summarize for you:
*Stravinsky's neoclassicism was one of the earliest examples of corporate downsizing among composers. After the roaring success (?) of ''Rite'', he was planning a lavish production incorporating a Russian fable into grand pageant, as he had with ''The Firebird''. There were to be grand song-and-dance numbers showcasing the soldier and the devil, chorus scenes with the inhabitants of the soldier's native village, and a live jazz combo on stage in addition to the full pit orchestra. The task of casting the soldier and the devil was difficult, since they would need to be not only strong operatic vocalists, but skillful violinists and trained balletists as well. In the end war broke out, and Stravinsky was forced to settle for a few instruments and people talking. This dramatic reduction in artistic forces was to subsequently inspire that other wartime masterpiece, the ''[[Wikipedia:Quatuor_pour_la_fin_du_temps|Quartet for the End of Time]]''. —[[User:AbdiViklas|AbdiViklas]] 03:24, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
:*So, I was too busy with ProxyBlocks yesterday to respond to this, but now I will: Holy crap, Abdi, what a load of tripe! [[User:Heimstern Läufer|Heimstern Läufer]] 04:34, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
::LOL!!! Man you guys crack me up! --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 04:38, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
:::I thought you'd appreciate that. Sorry, Stux, for using your user talk page for inside jokes! (Though it does kind of make me want to see "A Soldier's Tale—On Ice," or "A Soldier's Tale!: The Musical"!) —[[User:AbdiViklas|AbdiViklas]] 04:40, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
::::No worries man! I love it! Even if it's slightly over my head ... slightly being in astronomical units (A.U.) of course. :) I have to see "A Solider's Tale 3" before I can get up to speed with the canon. --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 05:18, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

== ProxyBlocks ==

Well, that's all over at last. I thanks for being the other person to really keep on this project. Oh, and thanks for letting me finish it. You are my doge. [[User:Heimstern Läufer|Heimstern Läufer]] 06:32, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
:Lol! Any time Batman! --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 06:33, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

== Yo ==

Hi--[[Image:Homsar-in-motion.gif]]Homsarroks[[Image:kookysig.gif]] 19:50, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
:Hi. I'm curious, why doesn't your sig link to your page? --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 19:51, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
::I was wondering that too. {{User:Bubsty/sig}} 19:52, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
:::And me. {{User:Salty/sig}} 04:28, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
To be honest with you, I don't know. I'll try to find out.----[[Image:Homsar-in-motion.gif]]No Link Guy!!![[Image:kookysig.gif]]
:Lol. I see! Let us know if you need some help! --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 20:28, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

== Thanks! ==

I know absolutely no HTML so I'd been copying, pasting, and modifying text and colors. Those stray tags were quite a surprise. {{User:ACupOfCoffee/sig}} 02:58, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

:You're welcome! It was my pleasure. Yeah, tables can be a pain at times... I was thinking of changing them to wikitables which are ''slightly'' easier to use, but it would take a while. That'll be project #2! :) --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 04:17, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

==Sandbox dump==
'''''Here is the contents of the talk page for the Sandbox before it was deleted, in case you want to keep it.'''''

''I tried translating all the songs and feedback from "[[Audition With Marzipan]]" into Dutch and back to English again. Enjoy!''

Ideas on a bird

*were there a bird,/a real leuke real, real, real, real, real leuke bird bird./A.

your own taste of medicine

*a of your own taste medicine./A of your own geneeskunde/u deserves a taste of your own medicine.

The summer is here

*drawer, drawer, drawer, drawer, drawer/of the tik thuds and roomijs,/Waterfalls and sugar well sheer, drinks/Sugar and the mayonaise,/Summertime is here.

Feedbacl

Umm... Try perhaps again we improve. 
Umm... And what "I think again your ervaring?" 
was you largest drummer is who I ever." 
Umm have heard... I will call u."volgende weak" 
Bravo!" 
"you are ontzagwekkend." 
"I have also a dancing which I made omhoog with that to go." 
Umm... I my manager has you a question give. 
Umm... Uh, which not very goed."was

''Yes, you're right, Dutch Marzipan. That "which not ver goed was!" The moral: Free Translators are complete crap.''

:I've said it once and I'll say it again: Duth is a ''funny-lookin''' language. For more translational hilarity, examine [http://www.tashian.com/multibabel/ this] website, exploiting the services of free translators for the purposes of silliness. —[[User:AbdiViklas|AbdiViklas]] 21:46, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

::Hah! That site is great! ''"The Homestar Runner Wiki is a great place!"'' becomes ''"The corridor Wiki de Homestar is a great station of the work!"''. - {{User:Kookykman/sig}}

:::I can help you get a leg up on the pile = I can help to get you a bone on on the hope! Don't you just love foreign language? [[User:Has Matt?|Has Matt?]] 00:15, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

::::I'm reminded of a time when they were experimenting with early translation engines, and at one point they translated the phrase "Out of sight, out of mind" to I think German and back, and it came out as "Invisible idiot". :) {{User:KieferSkunk/sig}} 00:22, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
:::::<nowiki>*</nowiki>ahem* [http://www.snopes.com/language/misxlate/machine.htm Quality Is the First Occupation]. Quote from that page: "You'd think that the testers would favor more straightforward test data such as "We will bomb Washington D.C. at 6:00 PM on Thursday" over pithy English sayings that one rarely encounters in Russian scientific articles, but that doesn't make for amusing anecdotes." — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]]

:::Yeah! Duth is a funny language indeed Abdi! Now, again I ask, why does the Sandbox not have a discussion page filled with stuff? I mean it's not like we need it or anything, but still... it's the principle of the matter! --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 01:07, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
::::What, you want a Sandbox Archive pages? "The Sandbox's Greatest Hits"? --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]
:::::Actually, I wasn't even thinking of that when I wrote it, I just wanted a Sandbox talk page! ;) But now that you mention it, I did talk about something like that before once in someone's talk page (I tried to remember where but I can't, does anybody remember?) Someone made some weird edit (I think I called the section "trolls write the darndest things"), which was reverted, but we went on to talk about how we could keep an archive of stuff like this much like the Big wiki does. You know, this is what I get for making silly comments and then getting serious discussions out of them! I should stop shouldn't I? --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 01:24, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
::::::Is that more or less preferable to having a serious discussion and it just dissolves into silly comments? --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]
:::::::Lol! I don't know. That question is far deeper and more philosophical than what I'd like to take on right now :) --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 01:33, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
::::::::Having "The Sandbox's Greatest Hits" is a good idea, strangely similar to Wikipedia's "Best of Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense". - {{User:Kookykman/sig}}
:::::That was [[User talk:AbdiViklas#On Trolling and other Isomorphisms...|my talk page]]! And yeah, I think the "Best of The Sandbox" is a great idea! It could make a nice coffee table book; or maybe it's like one of those CDs you get from NPR with a $100 donation (dang NPR). I think I might just start culling those moments of fleeting hilarity myself wherever I find them and putting them in a user subpage. This thread would certainly be one. —[[User:AbdiViklas|AbdiViklas]] 02:51, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
::::::Oh, and about the Dutch thing: As far as I'm concerned, Dutch looks like German spelled by a two-year-old. I can usually read it fairly well because of the similarities in vocabulary and grammar, but the spelling is quite different. [[User:Heimstern Läufer|Heimstern Läufer]] 03:13, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
:::::::Oh ''that's'' where [[User talk:AbdiViklas#On Trolling and other Isomorphisms...|it]] was! I tried looking for it and I was sure I'd used the word darndest, but it wouldn't show up in the search! I just realized I misspelled the word as ''dardnest''. Oops. So yeah, ''darndest'' is misspelled in that entry and I'm not gonna fix it. Nope. Not at all. I'm just mention it here. Too bad the trolling I posted then doesn't sound as funny as it did the first time I posted it. I wonder what I was on back then. --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 04:59, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
::::::::No doubt if you ''hadn't'' been on it you'd remember! (I suspect [[Roach Killa!|roach foggers]].) —[[User:AbdiViklas|AbdiViklas]] 05:02, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
::::::::Jeez, it's turned into "sandbox-talk-o-mania" here. But, the sandbox's greatest hits would rule. I'd buy it. {{User:Bubsty/sig}} 05:13, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
:::::::So, let me get this straight. If I ''hadn't'' been on what I was on, I would've remembered what I was on that fateful night? Ok not fateful, but it does add some suspense doesn't it? Hey, I'm thinking this whole convo '''may''' need to be moved to the talk page until we find it a home. A nice, cozy, little home. Because it's cold, hungry, and without shelter. But it can make it on its own! ''Man, that skinny blonde girl's got me going in circles[[Circles|...]]'' --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 16:21, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
::::::::That sounds like a grood idea. We can help it get a leg up on the pile. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]

=== Purrty cool sandboxy type stuff ===
#http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=HRWiki:Sandbox&oldid=222784
#http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=HRWiki:Sandbox&oldid=221743
#http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=HRWiki:Sandbox&diff=222947&oldid=222784
#http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=HRWiki:Sandbox&diff=246152&oldid=245968
#http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=HRWiki:Sandbox&oldid=251699
#http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=HRWiki:Sandbox&diff=next&oldid=257905
#http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=HRWiki:Sandbox&diff=262037&oldid=262009
#http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=HRWiki:Sandbox&diff=next&oldid=447868 (also {{pl|l=http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=HRWiki:Sandbox&diff=prev&oldid=447868}}, {{pl|l=http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=HRWiki%3ASandbox&diff=449722&oldid=449719}})

=== Randomer stuff ===
#http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=some_kinda_robot&diff=246560&oldid=246559
#http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=bedtime_story&diff=187594&oldid=187593 [[User_talk:AbdiViklas#On_Trolling_and_other_Isomorphisms...|(x)]]

==quote?==
:Hey do you have a quote for my "Quote from some kinda user like thing" section of my user page? You can say anything, as long as it's not swear like or ugly... you know what I mean. {{User:Bubsty/sig}} 00:18, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
::I'm not quite sure I follow... I tried looking for ''"Quote from some kinda user like thing"'' but couldn't find it... Got a link? --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 00:22, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
:::Perfect. Thanks! (And by the way, it's on my userpage).{{User:Bubsty/sig}} 00:23, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
::::Wha? Uh... Eh... um... uhhhhh??? Um... Okay. Wow. I was totally oblivious to what you were asking! :) --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 00:34, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

== Sightings ==

Hey, congrats on starting to work on [[Sightings]]. I'm glad someone finally did that. I'd give you a [[User:Kookykman/vanburen|Van Buren Award]], but...well...okay. I'll give you a Van Buren Award. - {{User:Kookykman/sig}}

:Why thank you! Although I was just looking at a recent change and fixed one thing. Now there's other things i'm seeing... --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 00:41, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

::No, no, no, the [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=Animation_Sightings&diff=prev&oldid=207567 glory] goes to [[User:Homestramy20|Homestramy20]]. Not me, I have done nothing. --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 00:57, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

:::Check the message you left on my tork page. Homestramy got one, and you can keep yours or throw yours out, whatever you'd like. - {{User:Kookykman/sig}}

::::I know! She got one from, you and then I decided to give her mine. And now she has two. I know. I thought she deserved them. Besides, now I have this shiny new ''Gold'' Van Buren to display in my um... well ''virtual'' living room! Isn't it pretty!? --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 15:43, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

== You had to leave the IRC right then! ==

Hey Stuxy, you mind if I steal your "Martha Stuart" quote from [[User talk:Homestramy20|Pa-stramy's talk page]]? It's just about the funniest thing I've ever heard. Well, it's not stealing when I credit you when I use it, but wanted your permission. —{{User:Mibluvr13/sig}} 03:22, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
:LOL! Go right ahead! They do say immitation is the highest form of flattery :) --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 03:33, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

== GVBAoA ==

<div style="border:3px solid #fc0;padding:.5em 1em 1em 1em;color:000;background:#fff">

[[Image:Pewtervanburen.PNG|right|Pretend its golden, since I'm already pushing the one-personal-image rule.]]
Stux, you've just earned yourself the '''GVBAoA''' II: 
'''G'''old 
'''V'''an 
'''B'''uren 
'''A'''award 
'''o'''f 
'''A'''wesomeness 
and for being an all around nice person and not biting the newbies. There are only five in the entire world! (Three now.) - {{User:Kookykman/sig}}
:Why thank you very much! I don't know what to say. I am honored. I can bite newbies if you want me to. It shouldn't be that hard... ;) As for my other van Buren, it deserves to be in the Hands of Homestramy20. (Yup, that means she has 2). --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 03:45, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
:<nowiki>*</nowiki>Spits out coffee* Homestramy20's a girl??! {{User:Salty/sig}} 04:36, 30 November 2005 (UTC) !!!!
::<s>Yep and she has a pic of her in full Homestramy gear too!</s> {{User:Invisible_Robot_Fish/sig}} 15:52, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
:::I'm not even going to ask. - {{User:Kookykman/sig}}
::::I shall. *Achem* ''She'' has a pic of ''her''? How many females are we referring to? I presume you meant ''herself''? — {{User:Lapper/sig}} 22:20, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
:::::Wow, This is quickly becoming a strange conversation... :) Maybe there are two of her? --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 22:22, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
::::::Nevermind, nevermind... I was thinking of [[User:Jenny|Jenny]] because she was dress and Colonel Homestar. {{User:Invisible_Robot_Fish/sig}} 22:36, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
::Yup. Two of the most common assumptions that I knd of gather are pet peeves for her are that she's [[User_talk:Homestramy20#images|male]]] (this assumption gets made far too often with all users!) and, barring that, that [[User_talk:Homestramy20#Oh, it was a typo?|her name's Amy]]. —[[User:AbdiViklas|AbdiViklas]] 22:43, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
:::For the record, her name is ''Kelsey''. The second link you gave clarifies that. --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 23:09, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
::::Yeah, [[User_talk:Homestramy20#images|this]] was my fault. Why do people always assume someone's a guy? {{User:Bubsty/sig}} 18:53, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
:::::Dunno. Habit? Culture? The general (incorrect) assumption that all computer users are guys? We all make mistakes. I just happen to make big ones. --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 19:18, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
::::::Ok, first off, there is only ''one'' of me. Second of all, no, I have no picture around here of me dressed as a member of the Homestarmy. And third of all, yes, this is becomeing a very starnge conversation, about '''me'''. {{User:Homestramy20/sig}} 20:45, 3 December 2005 (UTC)


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== I don't know or care what a Hai-oo-koo is... ==

"—but we need to scare The Cheat."
I always found it comical that SB knows the grammar rules for it's vs its, but doesn't know what Haikus are. This might just nit-picking after all, it's your poem, but, I thought I'd share that traditionally Haikus have 5 syllables in the first line, 7 in the second, and 5 in the third line. {{User:Invisible_Robot_Fish/sig}} 17:02, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
:Lol! Ah! I knew someone would come to me with that! Just not this quickly. This I actually wrote (well assuming i got the first line right), during a workshop I had in college where one of the Biology Teachers (yes, Biology) who is an avid Haiku-ist gave us the task to write a [[Wikipedia:haiku|Haiku]]. Among some of the things that we were taught: Japanese haiku's do not always strictly follow the 5-7-5 rule. Some of these even portray some picture with irony or surprise in it. I'm not sure exactly where she got her style (since it was so long ago) but it was that style I was following when I wrote it! :) --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 17:12, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
::I'm no authority on Haikus. Thanks for sharing that; I didn't know that there were different styles. I think TBC need to do a lymric eventually. Now here's my Haiku.
:::wow, recent changes
:::must patrol, red marks all over!
:::no vandals today
:::{{User:Invisible_Robot_Fish/sig}} 17:19, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
::::I'll just share this, as it's been on my mind for a while. It's a haiku I made for ''Super Mario Bros.''
::::I don't like mushrooms.
::::They seem to make plumbers grow.
::::Turtles quake in fear.
::::This has been another haiku brought to you by [[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]
:::::N S M C sucks.
:::::There are no more usernames
:::::Ha! Take that you troll.
:::::{{User:E.L. Cool/sig}} 17:27, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
:Haha! Sweet! These are awesome! I thoroughly enjoyed reading them :) Do you mind if I post them on my userpage? If you do let me know and I will take them down. Thanks! --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 22:41, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
::Limozeen hair band
::Got the heart of a lion
::the wings of a bat
::{{User:Invisible_Robot_Fish/sig}} 23:52, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
 
::clueless no armed man
::prancing like an idiot
::I like Marshmellows
::{{User:Invisible_Robot_Fish/sig}} 23:52, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
:::Nonsense incarnate
:::Random quotes are his forte
:::Blue midget Homestar
:::Guess who this is of? --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]

:One-legged puppy
:The Heart of a Champion
:He's such a trouper - {{User:Salty/sig}} 00:21, 1 December 2005 (UTC) <nowiki>*sniff*</nowiki>

::Marzipan's machine
::Receives an unexpected call.
::Strong Bad's prank calling!

::And a sequel:

::"Marzipan!" says he,
::"I'll offer you one million
::(punches in the face)"
[[User:Heimstern Läufer|Heimstern Läufer]] 21:04, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

::The Homestar Runner.
::He's a terrific athlete.
::Homstar Runner rules.
:{{User:Bubsty/sig}} 03:47, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

::This is my first Homestar related hai-oo-koo, so it's not very good...
::Strong sad's severed head
::brightens up the window sill.
::It is still creepy. —{{User:Mibluvr13/sig}} 02:51, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

''' From Houdin654jeff:''' ''Thought you could use another one.'' 
Wrote intro transcript. 
Twenty seconds long, it is. 
Took me one half hour. 
-{{User:Houdin654jeff/sig}} 06:08, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

==Only part of ''The Usual Suspects''?==
Ach, Stux, you really should see all of it. If nobody's given the plot twists away to you, that is; I hope nobody'd be mean enough to do that. —[[User:AbdiViklas|AbdiViklas]] 02:33, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
:[http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=User_talk:JoeyDay&diff=prev&oldid=210284 Nah], I know what happens at then end. At least I kinda followed enough to know what a shock that was! But like in many movies, I end up missing the beginning and must play catchup as I watch. I still should see all of it so that it makes better sense. --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 02:37, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
==thank you...==
:Congratulations stux, for helping me with my "deleting spam" problem, and my image problem, and for being nice, you get... '''The Thank You Award!'''
::Thank you! {{User:Bubsty/sig}} 04:45, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
[[Image:Thankyouposter.PNG|thumb|The Thank You Award presented to '''Stux''']]
::Any time! Any time you need help just let me know, and I'll see what I can do. I appreciate the nice award you have left me. Thanks! --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 22:29, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

== well done on the template ==

<blockquote class="tandy email">Hey man, 
good job on your new template. I seem to love it so much that you will be 
thanked on about your job. Well done. 
{{User:The 386/sig}}</blockquote>
:Thanks The 386! Although all I did was get the ball rolling... :) --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 21:20, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

<blockquote class="tandy email">Maybe I'd love to see an template telling people 
about bad language. So, I have to do a little more editing. 
So, the template is good enough. 
{{User:The 386/sig}}</blockquote>

:There are currently [[:Category:Notice Templates|several templates]] regarding bad language in non-Homestar related components. If you were talking about a similar template for the actual transcript of a [[Homestar Runner (body of work)|Homestar Runner cartoon]], there has never been any bad language in one. — {{User:Lapper/sig}} 21:30, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

== Featured Article ==

Hey there, Stux. I don't really want to get into a revert war about whether the colors in [[Template:featuredarticle]] are the same or not, but you mentioned in [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=Template%3Afeaturedarticle&diff=213371&oldid=213364] that you found that they actually were the same. Well, I too have checked, on both a laptop (LCD) and a desktop (CRT) and the result has always appeared the same to me, in that the colors contrast slightly. I had found a near-perfect match with said converter, and I believe that it is the correct color. May I have your opinion? — {{User:Lapper/sig}} 20:44, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
:Sure no problem. Thank you for posting this, I did not want a revert war either. Unfortunately, this may be a more techincal issue than we both might have anticipated. I think I notice the slight tonal difference between the background and the image. (Actually, I think this might be for me a visual artifact). Unfortunately, the RGB combination that you gave presented an even higher contrast between the image and background colors, which is why I reverted it. If you see your RGB combination as the correct color in both your monitors, perhaps we might be running into some obscure problems with our hardware? It is certainly strange. I have GIMP installed on my machine at home and will inspect the RGB values that it gives me and compare them with what we have. Actually Windows paint gave me Red: 248 Green:216 Blue:163. Which converted to hex would equate to: Red: F8, Green: D8, Blue: A3. Which would mean that numerically #F8D8A3 would be the correct color code. (#FFD196 would give it too much red, and not enough blue). I don't think E.L.Cool would've created the template with color differences, so it baffles me that both of your monitors would show a difference in the color combinations for that page. From what i see #F8D8A3 has to be the right color combination. I'm wondering, have you modified your monobook.css file? Have you tried looking at the page as an anonymous user? --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 21:49, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
::Here's the wierd thing. I just rechecked it with my laptop and it looks like it is the right color. However, ever other computer at my school shows the subtle color difference. Perhaps there's a happy medium, or the image may need to be re-uploaded with a different background. — {{User:Lapper/sig}} 18:39, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
:::Someone should have told me about this discussion. Maybe there's another option. Someone with better image skilz could crop the image around Homestar and the star so it wouldn't be white, but simply not there. That way the background could simply be behind the picture. Can this be done? {{User:E.L. Cool/sig}} 19:42, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
::::I was going to suggest that we get someone else to chime in on this thing. Yes there is a way to do this, and that is to make the background of the image transparent (there is a "transparency color " that many formats (includnig PNG i'm pretty sure) can use). I think I can do that with the GIMP (the hard part is cutting the border "just right"), I'll see what I can do. I don't know why I didn't think of that before. --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 19:45, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
:::::Ok! I uploaded a version with a transparent background and it works! <s>Unfortunately, wikimedia has not cleared out the [http://www.hrwiki.org/images/thumb/c/ca/featured.png/100px-featured.png thumbnail version] and replaced it with the new one, and so ...</s> nevermind, it has been cleared but you will not see the changes until you go on your browser and either refresh the whole page or go to the image and refresh that. Otherwise you will not see the changes. One curious thing: my monitor at home displayed Lapper's colors lighter than the monitors at school did. Oh well, welcome to the wild world of color correction and tone. Just ask Dot com, or the guys that work with color with Dot com's magazine (not sure if he works with color himself). No two monitors display the same thing the same way (kinda like going to Best buy and looking at all the HDTV's and how different their image qualities are). But it's still strange that Lapper's school computers displayed different colors for pixels that were supposed to have the same RGB values. Anyway, let me know if it looks ok or what. --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 20:18, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
::::::Nice work dude. Now if we even wanted to change to background color it would be much easier. You rock. {{User:E.L. Cool/sig}} 20:48, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
:::::::Well, thank you E.L. Cool. I'm glad it works! Lapper, let me know if you can see the changes. --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 21:35, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

== AUGH! ==

Stux, that Homestar is severely evil! He scares me! {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 23:11, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
:Lol, does he, really!? --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 23:36, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
::OK, so it probably wouldn't be a big deal ''except'' that it's ''Homestar''. You know, nice, innocent, clueless Homestar. Having him look so like he crawled out of hell or Mordor like that is disturbing, to say the least. {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 23:48, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
:::He ''is'' wearing pink and blue you know? That makes it worse, doesn't it? And I haven't even mentioned yet the Bruins logo! (Apologies to the city of Boston. I used to be a great fan till I moved to Detroit.) I can remove him if you want me to. --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 23:54, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
::::Oh, don't worry; I can handle him. In fact, he's kind of growing on me. Who are the Bruins? Like, I know about the UCLA Bruins, but your mention of Boston makes me think we're talking about something different here. {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 00:02, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
:::::Lol, growing on ya eh? Coool. Anyway the Boston Bruins are their NHL hockey team. I dont think they've been doing well lately, but they're still around, and I think they're supposed to be a gag in H*R.com too! --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 00:05, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
::::::Ah, now that you mention it, I have heard of that team. It's just that, for a West Coaster like me, "Bruins" refers to UCLA unless specified otherwise. I imagine it's different if you live farther east. {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 00:07, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
:::::::Homestar wore a Bruins shirt in [[Superbowl Dealie]], if I recall correctly. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]
::::::::This is... going back in the conversation a bit, but I think that homestar is awesome. {{User:Bubsty/sig}} 00:18, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
:::::::::I wonder if he would be scarier if he were wearing Daisy Dukes... {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 00:20, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
::::::::::Or singing some *wavy green text* bread sing-a-longs *wavy text dissapears*. {{User:Bubsty/sig}} 00:24, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
:::::::::::If you'd like to know, you can make your own right [http://www.deviantart.com/view/2810064/ here]. {{User:E.L. Cool/sig}} 10:49, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
::::Oh my goodness! Daisy dukes... that would have to be like it's ultimate weapon and attack: ''the light globe attack!'' Thanks guys! And it wasn't anything tremendously laborious (in case you guys thought i had art skillz -- hopefully that wasn't the case.) El gave me the link to the site and it's quite a cool site! --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 15:27, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
:::::Wait. I did? When? {{User:E.L. Cool/sig}} 17:05, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
::::::Yeah! you did! Yesterday. Over IRC, remember? On another note: I just wanted to say that Boston's an amazing city to visit! Anyone who has the chance to should do so! --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 17:23, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

== A haiku! ==

Thanks for the coffee! 
Get on the wood davers train! 
Caffiene is awesome! 
{{User:Homestar Coder/sig}} 15:55, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

===A SECOND Haiku!===

My chocolates! 
Come back, my chocolates! 
I did not mean for you to be hurt... 
{{User:Homsarroks/sig}} 16:34, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

''Haiku'd!'' 
Nobody likes term papers. 
I think that they suck. 
Hooray for Strong Bad! 
{{User:Homsarroks/sig}} 16:31, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

=== Um... Level 10? ===
Where is level 10? 
We're waiting for the update. 
We don't want sbemails! 
{{User:The Chort/sig}} 18:17, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

:I want sbemails. Although you're right, it would be great to get level 10... someday... {{User:Bubsty/sig}} 00:26, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

The Chort, you are right. 
Where the crap is Level 10? 
Will last level come? 
[[User:LePorello|LePorello]] 21:51, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

===Evil Homestar===
Holy freaking crap! 
Stux, that homestar is evil! 
How could you do that!?! 
{{User:Rogue Leader/sig}} 03:45, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

===A Submitted Haiku===

Knowledge base complete

Someday it just might be so

When Homestar is done

''(My very first Haiku ever, I don't even know if the format is right)'' {{User:Thunderbird L17/Siggie}} 22:40, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

=== Gotta hi-ooh-ku for ya ===
I got the answer

for Has Matt's Impossible

Question. It was cool.

I doubt these lyrics are valid, but whatev. {{User: Seriously/sig}} 03:17, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

:Has Matt's WHAT? Is this on this page?? {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 03:19, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

::I have a haiku for ya!

::If you read this poem
::You owe me twenty dollars
::This is a contract

::Pay up! Just kiding{{User:Bluebry muffin/sig}} 03:22, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

<div align="center">There are haiku's [[User_talk:Invisible_Robot_Fish/Talk_Archive_database|everywhere]].</div>

==everyones goin on vacation...==
From recent changes:
<blockquote>rv. I'm flying to Puerto Rico tommorrow!</blockquote>
:Have fun on your trip! (And you may want to start archiving your talk page; it's gettin pretty long). {{User:Bubsty/sig}} 18:15, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
::Yeah, have a good time. o_o Boy, at this rate, I'm going to be the only one on th' wiki over the hols... Just the wiki and me. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]
:::And me. Except... the week after christmas I'll be in Idaho. {{User:Bubsty/sig}} 18:34, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
::::Thanks guys! I'll be back the week after January. Don't worry Dorian, I'll still be around the wiki though not as much. It's not as easy when what you got to work with is a 56K modem, but it's better that nothing, that's for sure! --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 20:17, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

== Randomness ==

To answer your [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=Strong_Bad_Email&curid=732&diff=235902&oldid=235881&rcid=180833 question], [[Random Toon]] and random.bat were introduced on September 12th, some time between [[lady...ing]] and [[geddup noise]]. Not during any specific email, which is kinda odd, yes? --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]
:Ah yes! odd indeed! I thought it was around [[geddup noise]] but wasn't really sure. That was like a looooong time ago now it seems! thanks Dorian! --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 16:25, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
::And for future chronological questions, see [[H*R.com updates 2006|the updates]] series of articles. {{User:Thunderbird L17/Siggie}} 02:55, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

== Hi there ==

Hey, Stux, how's going? I've been thinking that I haven't talked atcha in a while, so I just thought I'd leave you a little message. School's back in for me and it's quickly beginning to kick my butt. Too much Greek music theory. My French class is going OK. It's not too hard so far, although I'm quickly learning that having learned German is not a great aid to learning French. The skills you need for the two languages are so different. Anyway, I hope all's going well for you. Keep on tranglin'! {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 04:47, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
:Hey Heimstern! Thanks for dropping a note! It is very kind of you :). Anyway I am doing well, I got back from PR last week and I already have tons of stuff to do here. I'll be writing papers till tongue turns green. Speaking of which I have one that I gotta work on that I really don't feel like working on it. Which is why I'm editing the wiki! Go figure :). Greek music theory eh? I didn't even know such a class exited. How's that different from um, regular music theory? Is this music from the height of the Greek Empire? You'll be fine in french. If you know latin or spanish it might help a little. Someday I'd like to learn german, but someday I'd also like to learn one of Chinese (Cantonese or Mandarin), Japanese or Korean. Totally different languages so I'll have to pick one, but i dunno. So I take it things are going well for you? Save the gobs of work coming your way (mine too!) Take it easy! --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 16:30, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
::Today was our seminar on Greek music theory. It's music theory from ancient Greece. Basically the oldest Western music theory we have. It went OK, all things considered. Now it's time to work on medieval theory. As for French: the difficulty is that I don't have any real experience in Spanish or Latin. Learning German has had the positive effect of giving me the experience of having learnt another language, but also the negative effect of strengthening all the wrong points for learning a Romance language. What do I mean by that? I mean that where English has similarities with German, they are usually differences with French. (Already I remember several times when my teacher said, "That's like in English" and I thought to myself "Hmm. It's different in German".) But that class is still going pretty well. I just have to learn a new set of habits (like sticking adjectives after nouns). So that's the fun I've been up to lately. Sounds like you've had a dose of it yourself. Talk atcha later! {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 06:24, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

== Wiki ==

Heres a new wiki for ya [http://weirdal.wikicities.com/wiki/Main_Page My wiki!] {{User:The thing/sig}} 23:37, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
:Thanks for the wiki link. As you can imagine, I haven't gotten a chance to check it out. Did you create this wiki? Um wow, there is *definitely* a lot of work to be done in that wiki. Lots and lots of songs... :) --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 18:01, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

==Guessbook==
Hey! Over on the [[HRWiki:Guestbooks|ongoing-exercise-in-situational-irony page]], I just rearranged a couple of my ideas. Under [[HRWiki:Guestbooks#Other|Other]] I had started out with a suggestion to restrict guestbooks to talk pages, which I really only continued to entertain for a few more hours. A few comments later I made a second point that really applied more to the context of the section (''If'' the practice is ended, what?) about leaving them and tagging them like archived STUFF arguments instead of deleting. Now I've shifted it so the second suggestion is the one being voted on. Lower down you had entered a vote saying "I go for this option I'm voting for"; I've taken the liberty of keeping it intact; if you don't in fact like that idea please change it to a non-vote. Thanks! —[[User:AbdiViklas|AbdiViklas]] 08:42, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
:Hey Abdi! Took me a while but I put a vague 1-liner reply. --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 17:55, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

==Handiwork==
Would you comment on your handiwork [[Talk:secret_identity#Real-world_References|here]], por favor. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 15:27, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
:Comment'd! Thanks for the backup! (''No no! Don't back up!'' -- Ok I just ''had'' to say that.) :) --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 15:40, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

== New forum account ==

Hi, Stux! I couldn't help but notice that a new user with the name "Stux" signed up an account with my forum today. Would that be you? If so, thanks for joining and I hope to see you around StrongFans. If not, no worries. Thanks. {{User:The Paper/sig}} 17:30, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
:Well, actually, it's funny that you mention that! Yeah it was me trying to set up an account for research with regards to [[Talk:Strong_Bad_Email_Statistics#Updates|this]] request (I was trying to find the xls file) but I had a problem creating the account: when i hit register, it gave me the following error:
<pre>Persits.MailSender.4 error '800a0006'

550 not local host geocities.com, not a gateway

/portal2006/forum/functions/functions_send_mail.asp, line 269
</pre>
:So it turns out i'm registered, but I can never get my confirmation email to arrive for this reason. (I'm pretty sure I typed it in correctly). So I just gave up on that. I didn't know you ran strongfans.com! At least now I can like bug report to you or something. --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 17:35, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
::That happened to me too, but mine said "nerdshack.com, not a gateway". Then I tryed it with my netscape email, and that didnt work either. Sorry for using you talk page Stux {{User:Dantheburgerking/sig}} 17:42, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
:::Oh! Not a problem! By all means! --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 17:45, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
::::Thanks for letting me know about the registration bug. I have since enabled your account (no confirmation needed), so you should be able to log in without difficulty! {{User:The Paper/sig}} 15:04, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
:::::Cool, thanks! No problem. Glad to help. As a side note, do you still have the EmailDatabase.xls file linked from [[Strong Bad Email Statistics|this page]] I was asking about in its [[Talk:Strong_Bad_Email_Statistics#Updates|talk page]]? I'm going to try to search for it, but if you know where it's at, it would be a lot easier. --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 17:45, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

:::::I was searching through your site for the file, but most of the features in your site still treat me as a Guest user, even though it says successful login (cookie problems?) --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 17:48, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

== main page nav ==

Great idea are you doing that one? If not I don't mind I just don't want us both doing it at the same time. {{User:Invisible_Robot_Fish/sig}} 14:38, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

I was thinking something like this:
{{mainnav|1|23|2}}
:I've replied to your comment '''[[HRWiki:Projects#Main_Page_Nav_Template|here]]''' to keep things in one place. --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 17:42, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

==Filmography==

I don't really have much of an opinion on what you brought up, but there is something else I can pass on to you, if you're up to filmography problems. [[:Category:Limozeen]] compared to [[:Category:Limozeen Filmography]]. Just what do we do? Seperate film for each of them, for all of them together, a bit of both? I'm not really up to it right now, if you wanna take charge of it. Thanks. {{User:Thunderbird L17/Siggie}} 23:53, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
:I have made the filmography a subcat of limozeen and moved all strict filmographies to that cat and everything else to the other. Hopefully this should work. --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 01:31, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

== Thanks #2 ==

Thanks for fixing my sig, Stux! {{User:Bluebry muffin/sig}} 00:27, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
:No Probalo! --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 00:28, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

== Parody wiki ==

Go [http://hrwooky.wikicities.com/ here] I'll make you a sysop. --{{User:The thing/sig}} 17:58, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
:Um, sure, though I don't know how much help I can be. Thanks for the offer BTW. --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 18:05, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

== Hey, man! ==
Hi there, Stux! Nice to see you. After all, the last time I saw you was at the Hrwooky. But that place is kinda dead now. I hope you'll focus on contributing here more than you contribute there. I've given up on that place. — {{User: Seriously/sig}} 21:05, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
:You guys are quick! But I would expect no less from this wiki. Yeah I'm still keeping an eye out on the place but that's pretty much it. Not really trying to be productive there. I also have a busy summer so I won't be as <strike>addicted</strike> productive in this wiki either. --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 21:09, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
::Nice to see you around anyways. =) --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]
:::Yeah, even if you don't come around here that much, I hope you can come Sunday. Sunday. Someday. :P But seriously, we like to hear from you. — {{User: Seriously/sig}} 21:30, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
::::Well, though finals are over there's still research I must do :(... so time seems to be running scarce these days! But I will update more Suday! Sunday, Someday... soon. And thank you guys for welcoming me back :) --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 15:29, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

== [[Helscome|Greetings]], stranger! ==

[[Weclome Back|Weclome back]] to the Homestar Runner Wiki! — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 16:26, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
:Greetings! First, sorry for the long delay in replying. Second, thank you for welcoming me... [[User_talk:Stux#Welcome.21|twice!]] And third, yeah I've been gone quite a bit lately, been focusing mainly on school related stuff and its peripheries (I moved in to a nicer apt mid June!) And since I had been wiki-ing a LOT last semester, my wiki-avoidance system (having a separate account) worked all too well... ok a little TOO well actually. So my wiki-ing has been relegated to... well... minor stuff. very, Very, VERY minor stuff. Okay like ULTRA minor stuff. Hows life here in the wiki and treating ya? --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 22:27, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
::Oh, busy as always, but good. We recently upgraded to MediaWiki 1.6, and it looks as though we already have to start getting ready for 1.7. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 14:37, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
:::Well then, I guess I should ready the link to [[HRWiki:Upgrade_to_MediaWiki_1.7]] and prepare to add it to [[:Category:HRWiki History]] ;). Another thing, I had recently added smiley templates to wikipedia <nowiki>[</nowiki> [[Wikipedia:Template:(:|[1]]], [[Wikipedia:Template:):|[2]]], [[Wikipedia:Template:;)|[3]]] ] (not advertised just created) and was wondering if they'd be of any use/novelty in this wiki (and could be expanded as well). --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 20:16, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

== China ==

It is indeed fascinating here. I wish I could tell you more, but there's just so much to do, and it's almost bedtime here in Beijing time zone. Suffice to say I'm having a fabulous and challenging experience here in China. {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 14:27, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

== welcome back! ==

Hey there ol' buddy, ol' pal. We've missed you. Come back perminently soon. {{User:Invisible_Robot_Fish/sig}} 19:32, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
:Thanks for the well wishes! It's been a *very* tough semester, and more to come probably. So I dunno about permanence but it would be nice to chill here for a while. So it seems things are still in order here... how are things with you? --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 21:24, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
:: a ton of things are/were keeping me busy, see [[User:Invisible_Robot_Fish#About_Me|here]],[[User_talk:Invisible_Robot_Fish#Matt.27s_2006_Birthday_Card|here]], and [[User_talk:Invisible_Robot_Fish#The_12_Days_of_D.27ween_Contest|here]] to name a few things. {{User:Invisible_Robot_Fish/sig}} 21:48, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
:::Wow you really have been busy! Congrats on your new children! (I don't think you had any the last time I was really active, my how time flies! And great Job on the [[User talk:Invisible Robot Fish/Talk Archive Matt Chapman's Card|card!]] I saw that sometime in Mid-November, and was a bit sad I checked back in too late to sign it. Very very impressive! And I was still too busy relaxin' to participate in the contest. Last couple of days I've been <strike>once more addicted</strike> getting back in the swing of editing. It might not last too long (it shouldn't, since I still have more work to do), but hopefully my absences should be shorter and far fewer between. We'll see what happens. This has been a very tough year for me, and I hope I get to unwind and relax much! --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 19:37, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
:::: Well here's to hoping that you get unbusy soon. {{User:Invisible_Robot_Fish/sig}} 19:58, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
:::::Thank you! Same here! And same to you! (If applicable) :) --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 20:01, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

== You Little Cheater ^_~ ==

Thanks for getting in the spirit of my quote thing and I'm pretty honored that someone older than me copied one of my ideas. By the way, the hints you wanted are now at my talk page under That Quote Thing Continued. I have no idea what your song is, but I hope someone else does! See ya, -{{User:Brightstar Shiner/sig}} 19:00, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
:LOL, my pleasure. Thanks for the extra hints; I'm a little less lost now, but I'm still in the dark but it serves me right. I'll have to think of those for a while and see if I can come up with something... without Googling it! ;) BTW what's your favorite movie/movies? Wait didn't you just say Star Wars was it? How does Star Wars relate to teen movies? Oh well, I'll think about that one later. --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 19:26, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
::Yeah, I already said what my favorite movies were on my user talk page somewhere. Also, the teen movies aren't necessarily ''for'' teens, but at least ''have teens as main characters''. As for how Star Wars relates to teen movies, let's say a certain person by the name of George Lucas directed that movie. -{{User:Brightstar Shiner/sig}} 19:31, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

== Fought the law ==

Regarding [[User:Stux#Why Not?]], sounds like [[Wikipedia:I Fought the Law|you fought the law]]. And the law won. -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 19:45, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
:Man! I wasn't expecting an answer this quickly! Well, i thought it might be possible, but I was hoping it would stand a while! Tom, I bequeath thee a standard-issue cupcake and a special-issue cupcake! Many Combolations! --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 20:17, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

== Line break tags ==

Hey Stux. Just so you know, the system automatically converts to , so you don't have to. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 21:15, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
:Hey! Since when does that happen and why didn't anyone tell me before, eh!? :) Did you write another extension? Way to not have to teach people proper HTML coding! ;) I'll remember that in the future. I think. I'm kinda forgetful. What were we talking about? --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 21:23, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
::To answer your questions: Since as long as I can remember. I don't know. No, it came like that standard with MediaWiki. Don't forget laziness. I can't remember. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 21:29, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
:::Oh! Oh. Really (do you know the version)? Wait laziness... huh(?)... which question is this answering? I can't either. ;)
:::Anyway, How goes it? I'm on vaca killing time. --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 21:54, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

== Content warning ==

I noticed [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=First_Time_Here%3F&curid=1385&diff=428262&oldid=421083 this edit summary] — and thought I'd mention that [[Template:inlinecontentwarning]] has a feature for changing the warning if necessary. If you want to change the text, put the new text after a vertical bar, and if you also want to change the mouse-over message, put the new message after a second vertical bar, like so: <code><nowiki>{{inlinecontentwarning|illegal pony fight warning|This link contains VERY illegal pony fights}}</nowiki></code> produces {{inlinecontentwarning|illegal pony fight warning|This link contains VERY illegal pony fights}}. I didn't make the change myself 'cause I didn't know what you had in mind. Laters! {{User:Trey56/sig}} 17:39, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
:Ohhh! Now I get it! I looked at the template source but only briefly, so I didn't notice the parameter values. Sweet! Thank you mucho very! --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 02:44, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
::No problem :D {{User:Trey56/sig}} 02:47, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

== Substituting expressions ==

Expressions can be substituted. <code><nowiki>{{subst:#expr:101+2}}</nowiki></code> returns <code>103</code> (as wikitext). — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 02:39, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
:Hot dang! What a novel idea! I don't now why I didn't think of that... Oh! And you already handled it (in a smarter way than I would!) Sweet! Thanks again Dot com! Oh Except now, the switches are {{pl|l=http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=HRWiki:Sandbox&oldid=429246 subst'd}} also (the diff takes too long to load) :( --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 02:44, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
::Nevermind, Phlip {{pl|l=http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=User:Stux/PECLT_section&diff=next&oldid=429243 fixed}} it! Thanks Phlip! --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 02:48, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
:::Well, to be fair, he was the one who {{p|l=http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=User:Stux/PECLT_section&diff=prev&oldid=429243 broke}} it. :P — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 02:49, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
::::Unfortunately, because of how the template substitution thingies work, you can either make a template transclude nicely or subst nicely... ideally I'd make it so that {{tl|sbemail}} was subst'ed in that thing too, but to make it so that that happens nicely (without including the entire switch every time), I'd end up breaking all the times that {{tl|sbemail}} is transcluded anywhere (which is a lot of places). There is a way to make it work either way, but it's rather hackish and unstable and hard to use... I don't much like it. {{User:Phlip/sig}} 02:53, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
::::'''EDC:''' Lol. True. You guys are still [[virus|computer genious men]]! --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 02:55, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

== Contest #2 ==

This is a shot in the dark, but could it be ''[[Wikipedia:The Hudsucker Proxy|The Hudsucker Proxy]]''? They mention both gnus and "Bromo" in that movie. {{User:Trey56/sig}} 17:18, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
:Oh, and the scenes are the one where Jennifer Jason Lee is talking to the guy from ''The Evil Dead'' and simultaneously helping out the guy making the crossword puzzle ("Gnu! Or emu!"), and the scene with the cop and the cab driver who are talking to each other while watching Jennifer Jason Leigh con Tim Robbins. {{User:Trey56/sig}} 17:26, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
::Yeah quite a shot in the dark indeed! Your shot in the dark was quite as good as [[Wikipedia:Albert_Einstein|Einstein]] said ours with fission would be before the atomic age! (I'd post the quote if I could find it, but it was about the feasibility of extracting more energy from an atom that what was put in.) Anyway, '''YES''' you are absolutely ''correct!'' And here I thought these hints would be up for weeks to come! How did you figure it out? Anyway you get the rest of the cupcakes! Five cupcakes to share with your friends! Congratulations and enjoy! :) --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 06:06, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

:::Hehe, thanks. Fortunately, that's one of my [[User:Trey56#Other interests|all-time favorite movies]]; otherwise, I would've never gotten it! Way to come up with a tough challenge! (Excellent cupcakes, by the way.) {{User:Trey56/sig}} 06:32, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

== Plan G ==

If you don't want me to merge [[Email Intros]] with [[Strong Bad Email Intros]], please comment on [[Talk:Email Intros#Probably stupid, but...|my suggestion]] on how to revise it. [[User:Bad Bad Guy|Bad Bad Guy]] 20:08, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

== Hey ==

There's a {{t|mergefrom}} template too, you probably didn't even know about it. I switched out the one on [[Homestar Runner]] for ya. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 09:13, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
:Thanks for fixing that! I actually did know about it -- I just placed the wrong template by accident. :S I don't know what I was smoking cuz just two edits before I had used the right template, but on the wrong source article. I need a vacation. A nice, long, relaxing, and stress-free vacation! --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 13:29, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

== QOW ==
Okay, i'll give you brownie points for guessing the answer. This answer may be true (since you googled it), but it wasn't the answer i was looking for. This answer (or one of) is that cats don't have a collarbone. If you or I were to jump and land on all fours, we could break our collarbone. Cats don't have that risk, so they land on all fours with no injury. For getting a right answer, however, you and {{User:Super Martyo Brother/sig}} recieve this fine userbox.

{|
{{userbox|border=#000|mainbkgd=#FC0|codebkgd=#F03|codecolor=#FC0|code=QOW?|msg=This user has answered a [[User:Zerlock1124#Brain busters|question of the week]] correctly.}}
|}

Have fun and check back often.
-{{User:Zerlock1124/sig}}
:Thanks for thr userbox! Though what I actually said was it was just a guess and I didn't google it. So I really don't know how accurate this is. As for the inner ear thing, I'm not really sure if balancing from that is a human-only, mammal-only or vertebrate-only thing. Some research is in order. Again, thanks for the userbox! --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 05:42, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

'k, you got the question right. That's two in a row. if you answer the next one two, take a break. Below is the user box, along with another one dealing with VA Tech, since that was on your user page. If you don't want it, you can delete it.

-{{User:Zerlock1124/sig}}
{|
{{userbox|border=black|mainbkgd=#900|codebkgd=#F60|codecolor=#000|code=VT|msg=This user remembers those at Virginia Tech. Go Hokies!}}
|}

{|
{{userbox|border=#000|mainbkgd=#3FC|codebkgd=#069|codecolor=#0FF|code=2+2=4|msg=This user has answered a [[User:Zerlock1124#Brain busters|math problem of the week]] correctly.}}
|}
:Thanks for the userboxes! I don't usually have any on my homepage here, but that just might change. We'll see. Actually, I think I know where I'll put em. As for answering so many questions... sorry that wasn't my original intention. I wanted to answer a math one but then I figured I'd give a stab at the QOW (which again was just an [[Wikipedia:Ear|educated]] [[Wikipedia:Inner_ear|guess]] and I'm still not sure if it constitutes as a right answer). Anywho, when your math problem came up, I couldn't help but to answer it! Now to try to beat [[User:Trey56#NES Endings Trivia Challenge|Trey's quiz]]! BTW I dunno if you're aware or not, but this wiki's convention is to leave conversations in one page (different from wikipedia). The reason for this is that they're easier to read, and it's not a big problem since we don't get the volume of edits the big wiki does and so we can easily keep track of replies through the watchlist. --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 00:14, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

== Filmographies in character category ==

I'm a little confused as to why you just put all the filmographies in the character categories. I mean, the filmographies obviously aren't characters, and now you have to scroll through all the filmographies to get to the actual category content. Maybe we could make a "Main Character Filmography" category instead? {{User:Homestar Coder/sig}} 20:13, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
:Hmmm that's probably a better idea. Actually I was thinking about creating a {{tl|MainFilmographyCategory}} (smaller name would be better) template for these categories since they all have the same information, and then just change the template. What do you think? --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 20:16, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
::Meh, not so sure about the template. I think it's probably okay how it was (with maybe the new main filmography category added). But it probably wouldn't hurt either, so, uh... yeah. {{User:Homestar Coder/sig}} 20:22, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
:::Most of these categories have similar wording but inconsistent formatting (e.g. some have {{tl|CategoryTOC}}'s others don't). But for this case I'd like some "yes"/"no" feedback before proceeding. As for [[:Category:Main Character Filmography]] I'll start on that soon (later if I do the template). --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 20:30, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
::::All right then, the templates sound okay. {{User:Homestar Coder/sig}} 20:46, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

== Just hi ==

Hey there Stux! I just wanted to drop by and let you know that I think you're an incredibly valuable asset to the wiki! So yup. There it is. Keep on tranglin', and I'll see ya 'round! {{User:4kai2lyn6/sig}} 17:57, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Category talk:Toons with Dialogue Alternatives

4kai2lyn6 — Wed, 09 May 2007 17:52:07 GMT

4kai2lyn6: reply - I added them

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{In a robotic voice} WHAT SHOULD THIS PAGE BE CALLED? {eND OF ROBOTIC VOICE}

Here is a list of toons which include alternative dialog lines.
*[[Marzipan# Character Video Transcript|Marzipan's character video]]
*[[The House That Gave Sucky Treats]]
*[[Halloween Potion-ma-jig]]
*Some freakin' email that I watched a couple of days ago as the result of the infamous "rando" button, where Coach Z was the one who spoke the alternative wouds I'm after, and I can't believe I can't remember what it WAS! GAH!!!

Yup... So here's a page idea... I have no idea what to call it (alternative dialog?)... Or what category to put it in (word running gags...? But that doesn't really fit)... It's not the best thing I've done, but that one email with Coach Z THAT I CAN'T REMEMBER really surprised me, and so I'd like to put a page together of all the thymes this occurs and I'm awesome BLAHHH! [[Monkey D|GUNS]] FOR [[Pistols for Pandas|GORILLAS]]!!!!!! {{User:4kai2lyn6/sig}} 15:20, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
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I don't know about this page, or what email you watched, but there is also [[First Time Here?]] and [[kind of cool]].
:Um, perhaps a new category could help? (Like ''[[:Category:Toons with Dialogue Alternatives]]''?) Also, to narrow your search, there's the second half of [[:Category:Coach_Z_Filmography|this category]]. Do you remember if it was a long/short email? New/old? --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 16:53, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
::Ah ha! That's why I would like this page — I forgot about [[First Time Here?]], and I didn't even know about [[kind of cool]]!!! (I rarely read through the transcripts.) And Stux: ya, I already perused through Coach Z's filmography really quick and couldn't find it... I'll try again, and if I can't find it, I'll just conclude that I made it up.... ([[Talk:Marzipan#Boo!|Wouldn't be my first time]]). Do you think this would be worth an entirely new category?! I was going to suggest that, but wasn't sure if it'd hold in court, so to speak. {{User:4kai2lyn6/sig}} 17:40, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
:I have created this category for that purpose, knock yourself out in adding the pages to it. (I won't just yet.) --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 20:20, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
::Okay, I added them. I'm glad you made this a category thing, as opposed to a what would probably have been a crappy page thing. Thanks Stux! {{User:4kai2lyn6/sig}} 17:52, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

kind of cool

4kai2lyn6 — Wed, 09 May 2007 17:50:03 GMT

4kai2lyn6: add cat

{{sbenav|92|caffeine|army}}
[[Image:Senorsoup.PNG|thumb|"You smell like pea soooup!"]]
Strong Bad tells what he would be like if he wasn't the "stylish, buff, handsome man" that he is. It turns out to be a lot like someone [[The Brothers Strong]] used to know.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|Senor Cardgage}}, {{Film|Homestar Runner}}, {{Film|Pom Pom}}, {{Film|Bubs}}, {{Film|Strong Mad}}, {{Film|Strong Sad}}

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]], [[The Field]], [[Bubs' Concession Stand]], [[The Stick]] (Easter egg)

{{Comp|Compy 386}}

'''Date:''' Monday, December 15, 2003

'''Running Time:''' 2:57

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

{{dvd|strongbad_email.exe Disc Three}}

==Transcript==

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{monotone}'' Thanks for choosing Strong Bad Email. Would you like to try a combo meal?

''{reading}''

<blockquote class="compy email">Hey strong bad, 
Dude, I was just thinkin and wonderin 
what it would be like if you weren't 
the stylish, buff, handsome man in a 
wrestling mask that you are. 
 
Your devoted fan, 
Jordan</blockquote>

''{Strong Bad pronounces "Jordan" as "Jor-dan" to rhyme with the word "fan".}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' So you mean, like, what would it be like if I was an ugly dumpy guy with a beer belly and a comb-over? I'd still probably be the coolest guy in the world, just a different kind of cool. More of a "I'm so cool, you don't even know I'm cool" kind of cool. Or the kind of cool where I'm—

''{Cut to what is presumably Strong Bad walking in the field. We can only see him from the waist down. He is dragging a plastic [[Aldi Bag]]}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' —I'm always walking around with a plastic grocery bag full of mysterious unknown contents. Maybe it's cold pizza. Maybe it's rotten vegetables. Or maybe it's the shattered pieces of my former life.

''{Camera lifts up during the voiceover and we see this version of Strong Bad has a creepy comb-over, potbelly, goatee, and glasses. Cut to Bubs' Concession Stand, where Creepy Comb-Over Strong Bad gets in line.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' Or maybe it's just full of a bunch of melty candy bars that I eat really loudly while standing too close to you in line.

''{Creepy Comb-Over Strong Bad pulls out a partly melted candy bar and starts munching. Homestar turns to him and glares.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{to Pom Pom}'' Hey, Pom Pom! This guy smells like pea soup. ''{Singing, to Creepy Comb-Over Strong Bad}'' You smell like pea soooup!

''{Cut to a small bush. We see Creepy Comb-Over Strong Bad slowly rise up from behind it.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' And then I'd always be suspiciously coming out of bushes and shrubs a lot. Like, right when you walk by.

''{Homestar walks by the bush}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' And if I see you—

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{surprised}'' Whoa!

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' I'd say some cool phrase that's almost one word and not quite another.

'''CREEPY COMB-OVER STRONG BAD:''' ''{to Homestar Runner}'' Oh, excardon me!

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{singing}'' Um, I don't know what that means... And you still smell like pea soooup!

''{Cut to Creepy Comb-Over Strong Bad and Strong Mad standing in the field. CCOSB has dropped his glasses on the ground}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' And I'd be so cool, that even if you were a dude, I'd still call at you like you were a lady.

'''CREEPY COMB-OVER STRONG BAD:''' ''{To Strong Mad; one of the following lines is randomly selected:}'' 
''{1}'' I'm very sorry, ma'am, but could you help an old denominator, like me, gather his spectacles? 
''{2}'' I'm sorry, ma'am. Would you mind helping an old wintergreen gather his spectacles? 
''{3}'' Sorry to bother you, ma'am. Could you help an old Soderbergh gather his spectacles?

'''STRONG MAD:''' NOOOOOOOOO!

''{Strong Mad runs away. Cut to Strong Bad back in front of the computer.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' That's a pretty cool guy right there. It's good to know that if I ever let myself go and grow a couple feet...live behind a bush... I'll be sitting pretty.

''{Cut to Strong Sad standing next to Strong Bad}''

'''STRONG SAD:''' Uh, excardon me, but none of that stuff is cool, Strong Bad. You basically described that creep Señor Cardgage that lived down the street from us when we were little.

'''STRONG BAD:''' What!? You didn't think Senor ''{He pronounces it "seh-nor."}'' Cardgage was cool?

'''STRONG SAD:''' No! He was extremely sketchy and gave me nightmares.

'''STRONG BAD:''' And... What's not cool about giving you nightmares?

'''STRONG SAD:''' Oh, never mind. Go back to your creepy comb-over story.

'''STRONG BAD:''' Anyways, Jor-dan, creepy comb-over story Strong Bad is definitely a cool, cool guy. In fact, I wouldn't mind hanging out with a guy like that. Well, things certainly are looking up for the future. Me, I'm gonna go look up Senor Cardgage. ''{stops typing.}'' See where that guy ended up.

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

==Easter Eggs==

*At the end of the email, click on the word "Senor Cardgage" to see a milk carton describing Senor Cardgage.
<blockquote>
Have you seen this guy? 
Last seen: When you were little 
Goes by the name-a: Senor Cardgage 
Stands, I would say, about: Oh, so high 
Distinguishing features: Wicked comb-over
</blockquote>
*Also at the end of the email, click on the words "hanging out" to see Strong Bad chillin' with Senor Cardgage at The Stick.
:'''STRONG BAD:''' So, uh, you're really cool.

:'''SENOR CARDGAGE:''' Thank you, ma'am, would you care for a slice of gum?

:'''STRONG BAD:''' Yeah, totally, I'd be way into a slice of gum.

:''{Senor Cardgage hands Strong Bad a stick of gum.}''

:'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{to himself}'' Man! So cool! ''{to Senor Cardgage}'' Uh... Say something else.

:'''SENOR CARDGAGE:''' I have to be going, Ethel. I've got some important lines to stand in.

:'''STRONG BAD:''' Oh... Will I ever see you again?

:'''SENOR CARDGAGE:''' Ex-obably not.

:''{Senor Cardgage walks offscreen.}''

==Fun Facts==

===Trivia===
[[Image:ZAGNUT.png|thumb|A melty Zagnut bar.]]
*The label on the disk in the floppy disk container reads "[[Floppy Disk Container#nabunagas ambition|nabunaga's ambition]]".
*Creepy Comb-Over Strong Bad is eating a [[Zagnut Bars|Zagnut bar]].

===Remarks===

*Jordan asks what Strong Bad would be like if he, "weren't that buff, handsome, and stylish man in a wrestling mask that he is," but Creepy Comb-Over Strong Bad still has the wrestling mask. This is probably because with Strong Bad, it is given that he has the wrestling mask, it might even be his actual face (as evidenced in [[some kinda robot]] and again in [[the chair]]). It is as if someone asked a normal guy, "What if you weren't that buff, handsome, and stylish man that you are."
*When Senor Cardgage is eating the melted candy bar, the candy bar doesn't get any shorter.

===Goofs===

*In line, both Pom Pom and Creepy Comb-Over Strong Bad have a shadow, but Homestar doesn't.
*When Strong Sad comments on Strong Bad's story, the carpet on the right is not completely shaggy; part of it is flat.
*In the Senor Cardgage Easter egg, Strong Bad's eyes are not the same size - the one on the right is significantly larger.

===Inside References===

*Strong Bad stressing the "dan" in Jor-''dan'' is yet another reference to the running gag of [[Dan]].
*This is another mention of [[Pizza]] and [[Peas]], two food-related recurring themes.
*This is the first time Strong Bad uses the word "[[Senor]]" instead of the correct Spanish word "Señor".

===Real-World References===

*"Thanks for choosing Strong Bad Email. Would you like to try a combo meal?" is a take on the way fast-food cashiers greet customers at the drive-through.
*"Soderbergh" is most likely a reference to [[Wikipedia:Steven Soderbergh|Steven Soderbergh]], who has directed many films, including [[Wikipedia:Erin Brockovich (film)|''Erin Brockovich'']], and the 2001 remake [[Wikipedia:Ocean's Eleven (2001 film)|''Ocean's Eleven'']].

===Fast Forward===

*The half-eaten Zagnut bar appears again in [[flashback]] and [[rough copy]].

==DVD Version==

*The alternate pieces of dialogue for "calling at you like you were a lady" are still there, but now only viewable as Easter eggs at the end of the Email (by the hidden Strong Bad icons in the center-left and center-right of the bottom of the Compy 386 screen).

==External Links==

{{preforumsbemailextlinks|92}}
{{Strong Bad Email}}
[[Category:Toons with Dialogue Alternatives]]

First Time Here?

4kai2lyn6 — Wed, 09 May 2007 17:49:21 GMT

4kai2lyn6: add cat

<table width=100% border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2><tr><td>'''Toon Category: Uncategorized'''</td><td align=right>
{{watch|firsttime.html}}
</td></tr></table>
[[image:firsttimehere.png|200px|thumb|"Oh, I am Homestar, and this is a website!"]]

The welcome speech for first-time viewers of [[homestarrunner.com]]. Directed by Cherry Greg.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Homestar Runner}}, [[Unseen Characters|Clapper Loader]], [[Cherry Greg]], {{Film|Strong Bad}}

'''Places:''' [[The Field]]

'''Date:''' March 28, 2002

'''Running Time:''' 1:52

'''Page title:''' HomestarRunner.com Welcome Speech

{{dvd|Everything Else, Volume 1}}
__FORCETOC__
== Transcript ==
''{Homestar Runner stands in a field, with a [[Clapperboard|clapperboard]] obstructing the view. We see him through a video camera with a blinking red "Record" light.}''

'''CLAPPER LOADER:''' Homestarrunner dot com welcome speech, Take 1. ''{snaps clapperboard and moves it away so we can see Homestar}''

'''CHERRY GREG:''' Action!

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Oh, hello! ''{In bold are the words that appear on the screen as Homestar says them.}'' '''Welcome to Homestarrunner.net'''.

'''CHERRY GREG:''' It's "dot com".

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Oh, right. Homestarrunner dot net. '''"Its'' dot com!"'''

'''CHERRY GREG:''' Cut!

''{bip}''

'''CLAPPER LOADER:''' Homestarrunner dot com welcome speech, take 2. ''{snaps clapperboard and moves it away from Homestar}''

'''CHERRY GREG:''' Action!

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Oh, hello! I'm Homestar Runner. ... ''{whispers}'' Line?

'''CHERRY GREG:''' ''{whispers}'' Welcome.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' '''Welcome'''! ... ''{whispers}'' Line?

'''CHERRY GREG:''' ''{whispers}'' To.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' '''To'''! ... ''{whispers}'' Line?

'''CHERRY GREG:''' ''{whispers}'' Homestarrunner dot com.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' '''Something.com'''!

'''CHERRY GREG:''' Cut!

''{bip}''

'''CLAPPER LOADER:''' Take 6. ''{snaps clapperboard}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' '''Welcome aboard the USS Homestarrunner.com'''. I am your captain, Homestar Runner—

'''CHERRY GREG:''' Cut!

''{bip}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' '''Bienvenidos a Homestarrunner.com'''. ¿Conoces a Miguel? ¡Sí! Somos buenos amigos—

'''CHERRY GREG:''' ''{annoyed}'' English!

''{bip}''

'''CLAPPER LOADER:''' Take 13. ''{snaps marker}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Okay, this time I'm totally gonna get it. Seriously you guys.

'''CHERRY GREG:''' ... Go ahead, we're rolling.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Oh! I am Homestar, and '''This is A Website'''!

''{bip}''

'''CLAPPER LOADER:''' Take 25. ''{snaps clapperboard}''

''{Homestar Runner is revealed wearing one of four ridiculous costumes (see the Fun Facts below).}''

'''CHERRY GREG:''' Uhhh, no.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' What??

''{bip}''

'''CLAPPER LOADER:''' Take 126. ''{snaps clapperboard again}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Oh, hello! I'm Homestar Runner! ... Isn't that great?

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{shouting from off-camera}'' Oh, I can't take it anymore!

''{Strong Bad runs on camera and shoves Homestar Runner out of the frame.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{sarcastic, imitating Homestar}'' Hello, and welcome to I'm a Big Moron Who Can't Remember His Lines Dot Com! ''{not sarcastic}'' No, seriously. I'm Strong Bad, and you don't know it yet, but I'm the reason you're here.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{peeking in from off-camera}'' It's true.

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{spreads his arms out}'' Check me out! No, seriously, ''{spreads his arms again}'' check me out. Sooooo... Take a look around. I strongly suggest checking out the Strong Bad E-Mails. And this cartoon's not bad. And this game's pretty fun. ''{quietly}'' I mean, I played it...

''{Links to [[Strong Bad Email]], [[A Jorb Well Done]], and the [[Homestar Talker]] appear as Strong Bad says each of them.}''

== Fun Facts ==
===Trivia===
*The site "[http://www.something.com something.com]" does exist; the site contains nothing but the word ''Something'' and a few photos accessed via secret page. It has been that way for quite a while, according to [http://www.whois.sc/something.com Whois]. Incidentally, the ''related links'' section on the entry for ''something.com'' contains [[HR:index.html|Homestarrunner.com]].
*"[http://homestarrunner.net homestarrunner.net]", "[http://www.usshomestarrunner.com usshomestarrunner.com]" and {{inlinecontentwarning}} <nowiki>"http://www.imabigmoronwhocantrememberhislines.com"</nowiki> have all been real fansites.
**{{inlinecontentwarning}} <nowiki>"http://www.imabigmoronwhocantrememberhislines.com"</nowiki> apparently was not renewed and was snatched up by a domain reseller, but the site can still be viewed here: [http://www.pride.hofstra.edu/~stolid1/ www.pride.hofstra.edu/~stolid1/].
**"[http://homestarrunner.net/ homestarrunner.net]" currently hosts the Homestar Runner Network, a future hub of Homestar Runner fan sites. It used to host a forum, which can been seen at [http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://homestarrunner.net the Internet Wayback Machine].
*The Spanish dialog that Homestar Runner says translates to "Welcome to Homestarrunner dot com. Do you know Miguel? Yes! We are good friends!" It is the kind of phrase one would see in an introductory Spanish textbook.
*Homestar Runner wears a randomly selected costume in Take 25, including:
**[[Naked Homestar|Naked]] (pixellated)
**Witch
**Sailor
**Clown
* According to the Guinness book of world records, the record for most takes on a single scene with dialogue is ''[[Wikipedia:The_Shining|The Shining]]'', at 127. Therefore, this toon is one take short of breaking the record.

===Remarks===
*The [[Wikipedia:Clapper Loader|Clapper Loader]] may [[Lack of Visible Arms|lack visible arms]] because the clapperboard appears to operate without anyone holding it.
*When Homestar talks in Spanish, his speech impediment is much lighter. For example, when he says, "homestarrunner.com", he does so without a problem.
*In the same take, "Miguel" may be referencing [[Mike Chapman|Mike Chapman]], considering Miguel is roughly the Spanish equivalent of Michael.
*By the time they get to take 126, the clapperboard states that they are on roll 11. Assuming that they are filming with standard 1000-ft, 35mm rolls, which average about ten minutes of footage per roll, by this point they would have been trying to film scene one for nearly two hours. This makes sense because it is take 126, and each take would probably be a minute or less.

===Goofs===
*When "Its dot com" appears on the screen, it contains a punctuation error: It should be "It's dot com" because "It's" is a contraction of "It is".

===Inside References===
*The format of this cartoon is very similar to [[Fluffy Puff Commercial]], where Cherry Greg also has problems getting Homestar to read his lines correctly.

== DVD Version ==
*You can choose which costume Homestar wears in Take 25 by using the angle button:
**1=Clown
**2=Witch
**3=Naked
**4=Sailor

== External Links ==
*[[HR:firsttime.html|watch "First Time Here?"]]
*[[HR:firsttime.swf|view the Flash file for "First Time Here?"]]

{{subtitlesLinks|firsttime}}

[[Category: Toons]]
[[Category:Toons with Dialogue Alternatives]]

Halloween Potion-ma-jig

4kai2lyn6 — Wed, 09 May 2007 17:48:40 GMT

4kai2lyn6: add cat

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Homestar screws up Marzipan's potion. Choose-your-own-venture action ensues!

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

See '''[[Halloween Potion-ma-jig Costumes]]''' for more information on what everyone was wearing.

'''Places:''' [[Homestar Runner's House]], [[Spooky Woods]], [[Cliffs#Creepy Cliff|Creepy Cliff]]

'''Page Title:''' Choose it or Lose it!

'''Date:''' November 1, 2005

'''Running Time:''' 6:00 (Site Approximation)

{{dvd|Everything Else, Volume 2}}

==Transcript==
''{Spooky sounds play against a darkened wall. Homestar Runner's shadow appears from the left, and Homestar himself then appears suddenly.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Wah! You scared me! So, here's the deal: I'm lost inside this haunted mansion, and I need your help to find my costume and get outta here! So, what should we do first?

''{The screen displays: 'WHAT SHOULD WE DO?? 1. PET A GOAT 2. MAKE A STEW 3. "I'M SELLING THESE FINE LEATHER JACKETS..."' A "COSTUME LOCATOR" is in the lower left and a "HEALTH & BEAUTY" indicator, showing 100%, is in the lower right. Then, after a moment, the lights suddenly come on and the camera pans back, revealing the interior of Homestar's house, including pictures of Homestar's past costumes framed on the wall. Marzipan walks up with a wig and a pile of clothes. A sheet of paper can be seen in front of Homestar, with doodles all over it and several markers scattered around it.}''

'''MARZIPAN:''' What up, Homestar? Here's your costume!

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{taking the costume}'' Oh, thanks. You win!

'''MARZIPAN:''' ''{noticing the paper and markers}'' Homestar Michael Runner, what did you do—

''{A closeup of the paper is shown. It reads:}''

<div style="text-align:center; padding:8px; border: 1pt solid #000; width:300px">Halloween Potion 1. *****-Water 2. Powdered ********* 3. Essence of ********* Stir ingredients with a *********** Say this magic incantation: *****************************</div>

''{Drawings of bugs and [[Ducks|ducks]] obscure all of the important parts, asterisked. Also, Homestar has written [[:Image:Mean sean.PNG|"MEAN SEAN"]], "QUACK TIME", and "COOL DUCK" on various parts of the paper.}''

'''MARZIPAN:''' —to my Halloween Potion recipe?

''{Homestar and Marzipan appear again.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Oh, yeah. ''{turns away from Marzipan}'' Marzipaaan! Can I draw ducks and bugs all over the recipe for your Halloween Potion?

'''MARZIPAN:''' No way, Jorge. You're gonna figure out what those ingredients were and bring 'em back here before midnight. Now march your skinny white butt into those spooky woods, mister!

''{Music starts.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{humbly}'' Yes, Mom-zipan.

''{The screen displays "HALLOWEEN POTION-MA-JIG" and "A MAKE-YOUR-OWN-DECISION-VENTURE", followed by the usual credits (with the notable addition of "[[Jonathan Howe|Jonathan]] programs"), over the drawings of bugs and ducks. Then, cut to the spooky woods, where Homestar is now in costume.}''

===The Water===
'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' All right! These spooky woods gotta be chock full of spooky ingredients. Let's see, the first one is ''{pulls out the paper}'' "Something Water." Hmmmmmmmm...

'''COACH Z:''' ''{from a distance}'' Really?

''{cut to Coach Z and Pom Pom}''

'''COACH Z:''' Then how come they'll be all nice to ya and act like they like ya to your face?

'''POM POM:''' ''{bubbles}''

'''COACH Z:''' Guess I have a lot to learn about mailmen.

''{Homestar walks up}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Hey, what are you guys doin' out here? Did you ruin somebody's magic potion too?

'''COACH Z:''' Uh... nope. Unless Coach Z's life is a magic potion.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Cool, cool, depressing, cool. So, um...

''{A box shows up reading "CHOICE TIME!!!" and the three choices:}''

==== 1. Do either of you have any... ====
'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Do either of you have any cash on you? ''{imitating a shady drifter}'' I'm trying to get a me a sandwich or somethin'. Uh, my car broke down and I'm out of gas.

'''COACH Z:''' Oh, sorry, man. All I gots is this bottle of, uh, ghost water?

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' That's perfect! I was planning on blowin' that money on ghost water anyways.

''{A "scorecard" comes up with spaces for all the items you get. The first blank is filled with "Ghost Water". A victory sound plays.}''

==== 2. I need something that would be... ====
'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' I need something that would be good in a Halloween Potion.

'''POM POM:''' ''{bubbles and pulls a severed toe out of his pocket}''

'''COACH Z:''' Pom Pom can getcha a toe. With nail polish!

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Um... do you have anything waterier? Or... more waterish? Or waterian?

'''COACH Z:''' Please, Homestar, stop! Just take this bottle of questionable water that I keep on my person at all times for questionable reasons!

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' I won't question that!

''{A "scorecard" comes up with spaces for all the items you get. The first blank is filled with "Questionable Water". A victory sound plays.}''

==== 3. Taco-Man came by... ====
'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Taco-Man came by. He gave me some water, he gave me some water. What are you guys gonna do for me?

'''COACH Z:''' Pom Pom, give the man some stank water. I will not be upstaged by Taco-Man two years in a row!

''{A "scorecard" comes up with spaces for all the items you get. The first blank is filled with "Stank Water". A victory sound plays.}''

=== The Powder ===
'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Well, I gotta keep searchin'. ''{starts to walk offscreen to the right}'' Too bad I probably won't run into anybody else mysteriously hanging out in the woods.

''{Cut to The King of Town and The Poopsmith. The King of Town is holding a bucket of fried chicken. Holes are dug all over the place. Homestar walks up.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Oh! Whaddaya know! How ya diggin'?

'''THE KING OF TOWN:''' Oh! We're certainly not trying to unearth the ham sandwich that I buried here when I was nine.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Good. 'Cause I found that thing like two months ago. It wasn't that good. Too much mayo.

'''THE KING OF TOWN:''' Too much mayo?! I ''love'' too much mayo!

''{The choice dialogue comes up again.}''

==== 1. Hey! I've got it... ====
'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Hey, I've got it! I'll give you a detailed account of the consumption of your ham sammie if you give me a powdered item for this Potion-ma-jig!

'''THE KING OF TOWN:''' Sweet deal! Take some of this powdered Thanksgiving! Now let's hear it!

''{The screen starts to fade out.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Okay, so first I washed all the dirt off with some Windex. That made it blue and soggy...

''{It fades back in. The King of Town has his head lowered in emotion. His chicken bucket is empty.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ...and that last bite nearly made me puke it right back on my plate!

''{Homestar walks off and takes the powder as he goes.}''

'''THE KING OF TOWN:''' Oh, I wish you had. I surely wish you had!

''{The scorecard returns. The second blank is filled with "Powdered Thanksgiving".}''

==== 2. I say, is that a powdered... ====
'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' I say, is that a powdered wig you're wearing, your Kentucky Fried-ness? 'Cause I'm in the market for some powdery dealings!

'''THE KING OF TOWN:''' ''{pulls out a pouch}'' Well, I've got my secret blend of eleven herbs and spices. But, of course, you can't have that.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Aw, that's too bad. I guess I'll just go on home and— ''{starts popping in and out of the holes, snatching the powder while he hops around}'' Pyong-pyong-pyong-pyong-pyong! ''{appears from one of the holes, holding the powder}'' So long, suckers!

''{Homestar drops back into the hole.}''

'''THE KING OF TOWN:''' Ha! That blend was just a decoy! It only has ''ten'' herbs and spices!

''{The scorecard appears with "Powdered Herbs & Spices".}''

==== 3. Poopsmith, do I dare ask... ====
'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Poopsmith, do I dare ask what powdered delights you've unearthed?

''{The Poopsmith digs in the dirt and a pouch pops out, which Homestar catches.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Ooh, ground ground. Thanks thanks, guys guys.

''{The scorecard appears with "Powdered Ground Ground"}''

===Homsar===
''{This scene only happens if you click on the upper half of The Poopsmith as Homestar walks away (an Easter egg). Homsar is floating on a balloon, as per his costume (Tingle from [[Wikipedia:The Legend of Zelda series|The Legend of Zelda Series]].) Homestar walks up, and looks at him, annoyed.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Oh, great, the secret guy.

'''HOMSAR:''' AaAaA—

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Just gimme my choices!

''{Homsar throws confetti, and the bottom of the screen reads:}''

<blockquote>
HOISIN SAUCE! 
2TH: HORSE IT ON IN THERE! 
THAT'S A LOT! A LOT! A LOT! A LOT! 
> What wouldst thou deau?</blockquote>

''{With The Hornblower's head and some circus peanuts over it.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' What I'm supposed to do with ''that'' mess? I'm outta here!

''{The "ding" sound effect plays backwards as the box of text vanishes. Homestar walks away.}''

'''HOMSAR:''' Location, location, location!

=== The Essence ===
''{Strong Bad, Strong Mad, and The Cheat are standing around a cliff, with broken TVs littering the area. Strong Bad's face is obscured by the cabinet doors on his costume. Strong Mad grunts and tosses a broken TV. Homestar walks up.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Whoa. This is a cool new background!

''{The TV Strong Mad tossed falls in the background.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{opening his costume's doors}'' Yeah! We were just burying our problems here in the spooky woods when we found this creepy cliff! It's perfect for the chucking off of busted old TVs.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Essence of busted old TVs? 'Cuz I got a serious jones!

'''STRONG BAD:''' Uh, I think these TVs lost their essence in the seventies. What are you doing here, anyways?

''{The choice box returns:}''

==== 1. I've always felt that... ====
'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' I've always felt that essence of rose petals is my very most favorite essence.

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

'''STRONG BAD:''' Oh, I agree, The Cheat. Essence of doo doo meringue has always been my favorite. In fact... there's a whole bunch of it down at the bottom of this cliff you can have.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{jumping off the cliff}'' Cannonball!

''{The scorecard appears with "Essence of Doo doo meringue"}''

==== 2. I'm trying to ruin Marzipan's... ====
'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' I'm trying to ruin Marzipan's Halloween Potion. Got any leads?

'''STRONG BAD:''' That's a worthy cause if ever there was one! How about this essence of putting Strong Mad's hand in warm water while he's asleep?

'''STRONG MAD:''' MY SECRET SHAME!

''{The Cheat tosses a bottle off the cliff. Homestar jumps after it.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Thanks a lot you guuuuuuuuuys!

''{The scorecard returns with "Essence of Putting Strong Mad's hand in warm water while he's asleep".}''

==== 3. I'm in the mood for a... ====
'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' I'm in the mood for a Hovan roll!

'''STRONG BAD:''' Yeah, me too. Let's have a race to the food court. Here's the starting line. Ready, go!

''{The Cheat draws a line in dirt next to the cliff's edge.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{running over cliff}'' Eat my duuuuuuuust!

''{The scorecard returns with "Essence of Gullibility".}''

===The stirring utensil===
''{Cut back to Strong Bad's posse}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Meka-leka-hi-meka-The Cheat throw a TV on 'im...

''{The Cheat drops a TV over the cliff.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ...ho.

''{The doors on Strong Bad's costume close once more. Cut to Bubs, standing by a canister labeled "BUBS' MO'BILE CAN o' STIRRING UTENSILS". ("Bile" is in green.) Homestar bounces once on the ground and then lands on his feet next to Bubs. The TV crashes behind Homestar at the same spot where he had bounced off, narrowly missing him.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Hey, Bubs! Fancy runnin' into you in the middle of the spooky woods sellin' stirring utensils.

'''BUBS:''' It's a niche market.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' So, what kind of concoctions might one stir with your wares?

'''BUBS:''' Well, a little eye of newt, some toe of frog. Baby, you got a witches' brew goin'.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Hey, that's my line! So, how do I score one of those jobbies?

'''BUBS:''' Oh, they're free. But you gotta ''earn'' 'em!

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Uh, that doesn't sound free at all.

'''BUBS:''' Well you just gotta ''earn'' 'em.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' How should I do that?

''{The choice box returns:}''

==== 1. Do a dance ====
'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{dances}'' A little to the left, come on, come on, back to the right, shake it around. ''{he repeats it over Bubs's next line}''

'''BUBS:''' Oh, yeah! Stick and move, stick and move! You're pretty good, shorty. ''{pulls a red spoon from his canister}'' That's worth at least a ''Jurassic Park III'' collector's spoon.

''{The scorecard returns with "Stirring utensil: JP3 Collector Spoon".}''

==== 2. Sing a song ====
'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Okay, here goes. Two and three and four. ''{singing terribly while off-key music plays in the background, and Bubs covers his ears, agitated}'' Backyard peaches! Treats come true! Karate Summer, what wouldja do? The world is the egg, and diapers come true...

'''BUBS:''' Oh! Heard enough of that one! You... you get a chewed-up pen.

''{The scorecard returns with "Stirring utensil: Chewed Up Pen".}''

==== 3. Reagan impression ====
'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{leaning over, in a low voice}'' Well... well... Nancy and I... economics... well... rap music... jellybeans... well... we... probably had a... pet...

'''BUBS:''' That's the worst Ronald Reagan impression I've ever heard!

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{standing upright}'' ''Ronald'' Reagan?! I was doing my Keanu Reagan!

'''BUBS:''' Just take this terlet brush and get outta here!

''{The scorecard returns with "Stirring utensil: Terlet Brush".}''

===The magic words===
'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{walking off}'' Thanks, Great American Bubs!

''{Cut to a closeup of Homestar}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Now to find Strong Sad. Anything that guy says will make ''great'' magic words!

''{Cut to Strong Sad, half-buried and asleep. Homestar walks up.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Hey, Strong Sad. Nice fire hydrant costume!

'''STRONG SAD:''' Uh. Mineral water... ''{wakes up and looks at Homestar}'' What?

''{The choice box returns:}''

==== 1. I just graduated... ====
'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' I just graduated. What should my epitaph say?

'''STRONG SAD:''' Homestar, do you even have half a brain?

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Hot biscuits! Those are the best magic words I've ever heards!

''{The scorecard appears with "Magic Words: Do you even have half a brain".}''

==== 2. If you were at a party... ====
'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' If you were at a party, what would you rap?

'''STRONG SAD:''' Each day, we die a little more, yo! Betta ax somebod-ay!

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Ooh! Fresh beats! My favorite!

''{The scorecard appears with "Magic Words: Better Ax Somebod-ay".}''

==== 3. Taco-Man came by... ====
'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Taco-Man came by. We played a little foosball, played a little foosball. So, what are some of your favorite words?

'''STRONG SAD:''' In no particular order: Loquentia... Imbruglia... Precipitous... Saralee...cheesecake... Denouement...

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Those are great!

''{The scorecard appears with "Magic Words: Loquentia, Imbruglia, Precitpitous, Saraleecheesecake, Denouement".}''

=== The potion ===
'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Thanks for the words, half-man! ''{walks off}''

'''STRONG SAD:''' Go forward! Move ahead. Try to detect it! It's not too late.

''{Cut to Homestar's house, where Homestar and Marzipan are standing near a bubbling cauldron.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' All right, so here's what I came up with: a bottle of ''{"Ghost," "Questionable," or "Stank"}'' water, ''{he throws the bottle into the cauldron}'' ''{"A secret blend of eleven Herbs and Spices," "Some Ground Ground," or "Some Powdered Thanksgiving"; it's thrown into the cauldron too}'', and essence of ''{"Doo Doo Meringue", "Putting Strong Mad's Hand in Warm Water while He's Asleep", or "Gullibility, whatever that is"; again, he throws it into the cauldron}''. ''{Pulls out the stirring utensil}'' And give a little stir with this ''{"Jurassic Park III Collector's Spoon", "Chewed Up Pen", or "Terlet Brush"}''. And say these magic words. ''{He hands an index card to Marzipan.}''

'''MARZIPAN:''' ''{"Do you even have half a brain", "Better Ax Somebod-ay", or "Loquentia, Imbruglia, Precipitous, Saraleecheesecakia, Denouement"}''

''{The cauldron makes a "poof" sound and smoke emerges, and Marzipan dips a cup into it.}''

'''MARZIPAN:''' Here, Homestar. ''{hands the cup to Homestar and smiles}'' Have some Melonade!

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Don't mind if I do! ''{He drinks the contents of the cup.}''

''{See the fun facts section to see how the endings scenes are chosen. These are the different effects on Homestar:}''

====End 1: Tofu Homestar====
''{After drinking the potion, Homestar turns into the Tofu version of himself as seen in [[The Luau]].}''

'''MARZIPAN:''' Yay, Homestar! You're back to your old self again!

''{The tofu head slides off into the cauldron and a flame covers Tofu Homestar, who reverts back to his regular self without his Halloween costume}''

'''MARZIPAN:''' ''{disappointed}'' Yay, Homestar. You're back to your old self again...

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{singing and shaking his butt}'' That costume makes your butt look big.

====End 2: Cycloptic Homestar====
''{Homestar suddenly loses his wig and sprouts one enormous eye on his face.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{yelps}'' Marzipan! There's only one of you!

'''MARZIPAN:''' Don't tell me you forgot how to use your eyes again.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Are you trying to tell me that I haven't been dating twins this whole time?

'''MARZIPAN:''' Um, I don't think you're gonna have to worry about dating anyone from now on.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Hooray!

====End 3: French Homestar====
''{Homestar takes on the appearance of a suave foreigner.}''

'''MARZIPAN:''' Ooh, goody goody gumdrops!

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{in a bad accent}'' I say, Marzipan, let us away to my romantic chateau in the Fantastic mountains!

'''MARZIPAN:''' I'll go pack my pashmina. ''{walks offscreen}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{singing, in his regular voice}'' Oh, gettin' lucky toniiiiiiight...

====End 4: Freaky Marzipan====
''{After drinking the potion, Homestar turns into a normally-dressed Marzipan.}''

'''MARZIPAN:''' Hooray! I'm not the only girl!

''{As Freaky Marzipan speaks, her horrible teeth and wobbly mouth become visible.}''

'''FREAKY MARZIPAN:''' ''{very distorted voice}'' I think we're gonna become fast friends!

''{Marzipan shrieks and runs off; Freaky Marzipan makes a silly face.}''

====End 5: The Goblin====
''{Homestar transforms into The Goblin.}''

'''MARZIPAN:''' Ooh, he's so cute! Do it, do it, do it!

''{The Goblin dances as his organ chord plays.}''

'''MARZIPAN:''' ...annd  scene!

=== The finale ===

''{The screen fades to black. After a few seconds, one of Homestar's bug drawings appears in the center of the screen with "THE END". After a few more seconds, the screen fades back to Spooky Woods. All of the characters are standing around. "BACK" and "PLAY AGAIN (SKIP INTRO)" buttons are seen.}''

==Easter Eggs==

* Click on the upper half of The Poopsmith as Homestar is leaving to see a scene with Homsar (transcription [[#Homsar|above]]).
* At the end, click on Pom Pom:
*: '''STRONG BAD:''' So, what, Pom Pom? You're every guy at a truck stop?
*: ''{Pom Pom produces a gun.}''
*: '''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Uh oh, Strong Bad. You're entering a world of pain.
*: '''STRONG MAD:''' DONNY! YOU'RE OUT OF YOUR ELEMENT!
* At the end, click on Bubs:
*: '''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Hey, Bubs, I like your Lando Calrissian outfit!
*: '''BUBS:''' What are you talking about? I'm the master of disaster!
*: '''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Uh-oh. Poopsmith, get ready...
* At the end, click on Marzipan:
*: '''MARZIPAN:''' ''{Beaker-style meeps}''
*: '''STRONG BAD:''' The Cheat, can you understand her?
*: '''THE CHEAT:''' ''{The Cheat noises, turns to Marzipan}''
*: '''MARZIPAN:''' ''{Beaker-style meeps}''
*: '''THE CHEAT:''' ''{The Cheat noises}''
*: '''MARZIPAN:''' ''{Quicker Beaker-style meeps}''
*: '''THE CHEAT:''' ''{Angry The Cheat noises, turns away}''
*: '''MARZIPAN:''' ''{normal}'' Oh, I'm sorry. I thought that meant something else.
* At the end, click on Strong Bad:
*: '''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Strong Bad, Blanche from the Golden Girls? Genius!
*: '''STRONG BAD:''' I'm not Blanche from the Golden Girls.
*: '''BUBS:''' No, no, he's Phyllis Diller!
*: '''COACH Z:''' I thought you were supposed to be my hot mom!
*: '''STRONG BAD:''' No, I'm Jambi the genie! You know, "Wish? Did somebody say wish?"
*: '''THE KING OF TOWN:''' I wish you'd dress up as something I could recognize! Pop culture... mumble grumble...
* At the end, click on Homestar:
*: '''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Hey Strong Bad! ''{adopts "shady drifter" impression}'' Let me get a few dollars. I'm trying to catch a train. My wife, she's pregnant. And I have thirteen kids. I'm on hard times.
*: '''STRONG BAD:''' Well, at least your shady drifter impression is better than your Ronald Reagan.
*: '''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Ooh! I can hit you with some more of that too! ''{adopts Ronald Reagan impression}'' Well... well... Oliver Cromwell...
* At the end, click on Coach Z:
*: '''STRONG BAD:''' So Coach, how come you weren't a rapper this year? [[Image:Ween 2005 The Cheat Poomp.PNG|thumb|130px|Poomp!]]
*: '''COACH Z:''' But I am! Theo Huxtable is one of the greatest rappers of our time! ''{Hip-Hop Dances with his arms and head}'' Jammin' on the one! Jammin' on the one! J-J-Jammin' on the one! Jammin' on the one!
* At the end, click on The Cheat:
*: '''THE CHEAT:''' ''{The Cheat noises, which sound very similar in phrasing to Toad's catchphrase from Mario Kart 64, "I'm the best!"''}
*: ''{There is a soft explosion, and The Cheat blasts into the air; he does several flips and then lands in place with a POOMP.}''
*: '''THE CHEAT:''' ''{The Cheat noises}''

==Fun Facts==

===Explanations===
*Putting someone's hand in warm water while they sleep is a common prank believed to make the victim involuntarily urinate.
*[http://lysy2.archives.nd.edu/cgi-bin/words.exe?Loquentia Loquentia] is a Latin word whose root means to speak or to utter.
*[[Wikipedia:pashmina|Pashmina]] is the fleece of feral Himalayan goats that is used to make shawls that are referred to by the same name. It is similar to cashmere and was quite popular in the mid 1990s.
*To be [[Wikipedia:Precipitous|precipitous]] is to bring about especially abruptly, or to be very steep.
*[[Wikipedia:Denouement|Denouement]] is the resolution part of a story which comes after its climax.

===Trivia===
*The ducks and bugs Homestar drew on the potion are:
<gallery>
Image:Duck1.PNG|<center>'''Cool Duck'''</center>
Image:Duck2.PNG
Image:Duck3.PNG|<center>'''Quack Time'''</center>
Image:Duck4.PNG
Image:Duck5.PNG
</gallery>
<gallery>
Image:Bug1.PNG
Image:Bug2.PNG|<center>'''Mean Sean'''</center>
Image:Bug3.PNG
Image:Bug4.PNG
Image:Bug5.PNG
</gallery>
*The original potion read:
<div style="text-align:center; padding:8px; border: 1pt solid #000; width:300px">Halloween Potion 1. Ghost-Water 2. Powdered Pigs' Feet 3. Essence of Nightroot Stir ingredients with a wooden spoon Say this magic incantation: 
"Sip it down and swish it 'round"</div>
*This toon was released at about 1:30 a.m. on November 1, Atlanta time. All day the previous day, the [[Main Page Messages|button on the main page]] read, ''"workin' as fast as we can!"''. When the toon was finally released, the button read: ''"it's still halloween!"'' (when you moved your mouse over it, it switched to: ''"in certain timezones!"''). Later in the day, the button was changed to simply read: ''"halloween toon!"''
*The shirt Coach Z is wearing is from ''[[Wikipedia:The Cosby Show|The Cosby Show]]'''s first-season episode "[http://www.tv.com/the-cosby-show/a-shirt-story/episode/6802/summary.html A Shirt Story]," in which Denise tries to hand-make Theo a designer shirt and butchers it in the process. The fictitious brand of shirt was called a "Gordon Gartrelle," and the original cost Theo $95. The "Jammin' on the one" line is a reference to the episode "[http://www.tv.com/a-touch-of-wonder/episode/6836/summary.html|A Touch Of Wonder]," in which guest star [[Wikipedia:Stevie Wonder|Stevie Wonder]] sampled the voices of the Huxtable family and made them into a song.
* There are five endings to this toon. Which ending is seen is determined by adding together all the numbers of the choices made, dividing by five, taking the remainder (numbered zero to four), and adding one. Thus, if you choose 2, 1, 3, 3, and 2, you would get 2 + 1 + 3 + 3 + 2 = 11 / 5 = 2, remainder 1. Add 1 to that, and you get ending 2. (See the talk page for the source code.)
*If the remainder is:
:*0, then you see ending 1: Tofu Homestar. There are 53 combinations that yield this result.
::When the sum of the choices are 5, 10, or 15 this ending is displayed.
:*1, then you see ending 2: Cyclops Homestar. There are 50 combinations that yield this result.
::When the sum of the choices are 6 or 11 this ending is displayed.
:*2, then you see ending 3: French Homestar. There are 45 combinations that yield this result.
::When the sum of the choices are 7 or 12 this ending is displayed.
:*3, then you see ending 4: Freaky Marzipan. There are 45 combinations that yield this result.
::When the sum of the choices are 8 or 13 this ending is displayed.
:*4, then you see ending 5: The Goblin. There are 50 combinations that yield this result.
::When the sum of the choices are 9 or 14 this ending is displayed.
*The total number of possible sequences of potion ingredients is 35, or 243.
*According to the [[Quote of the Week#2005-11-03|Quote of the Week]] on November 3, Bubs originally gave out an ''[[IMDb:tt0114781|Under Siege 2]]'' collector's spoon instead of the ''Jurassic Park III'' collector's spoon.
* The Flash file appears to have been updated 12 hours after the toon was originally released. The update expanded the Tofu Homestar scene, which originally ended immediately after Marzipan's line "You're back to your old self again!", before Tofu Homestar's head fell into the cauldron, but with the animation suggesting it was about to do so. The change was likely made to remove any suggestion that Homestar had "died" by being transformed into an inanimate object. The update also added an extra "THE END" scene and an Easter Egg (The Cheat). It is possible that these elements were originally planned for the original release but left out due to time constraints (see Trivia).
*Apparently, Coach Z has a 'hot mom'.
*This is the most recent toon to include opening credits.

===Remarks===
* The pictures above Homestar's cabinet are changed for the holiday. They ordinarily show his changing appearance over the years. This time, they depict all his past [[Halloween Costumes|Halloween costumes]] from 2000 to the present.
* This is the first time Homestar is mentioned as having a middle name ("Michael") in a toon. (In the DVD commentary for [[time capsule]], however, Marzipan offhandedly remarked that Hal was his middle name.)
* All of the spooky trees in the background are the same shape, just in different sizes and orientations. Also, the first two backgrounds for Pom Pom, Coach Z, the Poopsmith, and the King of Town are identical.
* Besides stealing Homestar's [[Witches' Brew]] "line," as Homestar points out, Bubs also appropriates the "terlet" pronunciation of "toilet" that Coach Z has used in [[Halloween Fairstival]] and [[A Folky Tale]]. This spelling shows up on the scorecard as well, but Homestar still pronounces it as "toilet" when he hands it over to Marzipan. (Homestar's speech impediment causes a mispronunciation of the mispronunciation, making it correct again.)
* Homestar's costume includes a pair of shoes. When Marzipan gives him his costume, however, the shoes do not appear to be included.
* Strong Bad comments on Homestar's Reagan impression even if you use one of the other choices.
** Also, when Strong Bad comments on his Reagan impression, Homestar agrees that he was impersonating Ronald Reagan and not Keanu Reagan.
* When not wearing a costume, Bubs has no thumbs. Mysteriously, though, the thumbs on his white boxing gloves seem to move like he does.
* When Strong Bad said "burying our troubles", he was probably referring to half-buried Strong Sad.
* While in costume, Marzipan's mouth seems to be in [[Marzipan Evolution|an earlier version]], both in the actual cartoon and at the end with the whole ensemble.

===Goofs===
*[[Wikipedia:Gossamer_(Looney_Tunes)|Gossamer]] actually has a redder tint than the the bright orange color of Strong Mad's costume.
*When Strong Bad's cabinet doors are open, they appear to be symmetrical; they shouldn't be able to fit together when closed.
*When he looks directly into the camera, Strong Bad's left eye seems to jut a little into the V-shape on his mask.
*Homestar's [[Wikipedia:Chuck Taylor All-Stars|Converse All-Star Hi-Tops]] have stars on both sides of each shoe, when they should have stars [http://www.martyshoes.com/store/media/con-s049622-9160men500.jpg only on the inner side].
*When The Cheat pushes the television off of the edge of the cliff, the dent on the top is towards the right. When it lands, however, the dent has switched sides.
*If you choose "I'm in the mood for a..." when getting the Essence, the line disappears when it cuts back to the cliff.

===Glitches===
*You can see a "hiccup" in the animation of the pot's bubbling when the cartoon switches to one of the variables in the combination you made.
*Unlike the other characters, Homsar shows scroll-over information during the finale Easter eggs even while the rest of the characters comment on their costumes. This is because he is a movie clip that overlays the scene.
*When you click on The Cheat at the end, Strong Bad's head changes size and his mouth closes a bit, and everybody moves slightly.
*When clicking on most of the characters that activate Easter Eggs at the end, Marzipan's mouth changes expression unexpectedly.
*When Marzipan's angry expression is used, blinking causes her outline to be intruded.


===Inside References===
* Homestar's costume acne looks like the "bad zits" that he got when Strong Bad poked him with a pin in [[pom pom]].
* Pom Pom is wearing the same [[Homestar's Shades|shades]] that [[Dangeresque (character)|Dangeresque]] usually sports.
* The King's bucket of "KnF'nC" chicken is from [[monster truck]].
* The circus peanuts that appear in the Homsar Easter egg were also used when Homestar comes to the door in [[The House That Gave Sucky Treats]].
* This toon is also done in the style of a decision-making game, just like [[The House That Gave Sucky Treats]].
* "What wouldst thou deau?" is a reference to [[video games]] and [[Thy Dungeonman]].
* The broken TV sets look exactly the same as the TV from Pile of Electronics State after The Cheat smashed it in [[mascot]].
* Bubs's collection of stirring utensils includes the [[Orange Tupperware#Orange Spoon|orange Tupperware spoon]].
* Strong Sad's line, "Each day we die a little more," and Marzipan's line, "I'm not [[The Only Girl|the only girl]]," are references to their respective lines from the [[Who Said What Now?]].
* Cyclops Homestar's eye resembles the fake eye he wore in [[Malloween Commercial]].
* Tofu Homestar first appeared in [[The Luau]].
* French Homestar singing "Getting lucky tonight" is a reference to [[Cool Things]], where Strong Sad sings the same phrase.
* The gun Pom Pom draws at the end is from [[In Search of the Yello Dello]].
* When Strong Bad mentions that Coach Z didn't dress as a rapper this year (despite the Coach's comment about Theo Huxtable), he is referring to all of Coach Z's previous [[Coach Z#Halloween Costumes|costumes]].
* The exchange between several of the characters about Strong Bad's costume refers to previous [[Strong Bad#Halloween Costumes|Halloween Toons]] in which he had to [[What are you supposed to be?|explain his costume]] to the rest of the cast.
* Marzipan's Halloween potion is another example of a [[Concoctions|concoction]].
* This is the first instance of [[Hoisin Sauce]].

===Real-World References===

*The phrase "I'm selling these fine leather jackets" is a reference to multiple PC games created by [[Wikipedia:LucasArts|LucasArts]] which featured the line as a running gag. The line originated in ''[[Wikipedia:Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure|Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade]]'' and was repeated in ''[[Wikipedia:Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis|Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis]]'', the ''[[Wikipedia:Monkey Island|Monkey Island]]'' series, ''[[Wikipedia:Sam and Max|Sam and Max]]'' and ''[[Wikipedia:Full Throttle|Full Throttle]]''.
*Marzipan's line, "No way, Jorge." is a permutation of the more common "No way, José."; possibly a play on the spanish pronunciation of the name "George", even though "José" translates to "Joseph".
*The Cutters (on Homestar's T-shirt) is the name of the town group that was featured in the 1979 movie ''[[Wikipedia:Breaking Away|Breaking Away]]'', a movie about a group of bicyclists at [[Wikipedia:Indiana University Bloomington|Indiana University]] that race in the annual "[[Wikipedia:Little 500|Little 500]]" every spring. Homestar's character, Moocher, was a member of the group.
*"Taco-Man" is the signature character of the website [http://www.ebolaworld.com Ebolaworld], which has used Homestar in cameos on more than one occasion. Perhaps the Brothers Chaps have decided to repay the favor. (As a side note, the Halloween special that Ebolaworld had planned for the same year was also a choose-your-own adventure cartoon.)
*The secret blend of eleven herbs and spices is a reference to [[wikipedia:KFC|KFC's]] claim that [[Wikipedia:Colonel Sanders|Colonel Sanders']] recipe had eleven secret herbs and spices, although it curiously does not claim that this is the recipe in current use.
*[[Wikipedia:Windex|Windex]] is a trademark for a liquid glass and surface cleaning product made by [[Wikipedia:S. C. Johnson & Son|S. C. Johnson & Son]].
*Homsar throwing the confetti is a reference to his costume ([[Wikipedia:Tingle|Tingle]]), who also throws confetti when he says the magic words ("Tingle, Tingle, Kooloo-limpah!").
*[[Wikipedia:Hoisin Sauce|Hoisin sauce]], a fermented soy bean paste, is used as a condiment and also as a glaze for roasted meats, most commonly with [[Wikipedia:Peking Duck|Peking Duck]]. It is often referred to as "Chinese barbecue sauce."
*"THAT'S A LOT! A LOT! A LOT! A LOT!" is a reference to the bank teller in ''[[Wikipedia:The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask|The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask]]'' for the [[Nintendo#Nintendo 64|Nintendo 64]], who said it if you deposited more than fifty rupees all at once. This was the first game that Tingle appeared in, so it's quite appropriate.
*Homsar's line ("location, location, location") refers to the three most important things in [[Wikipedia:real estate|real estate]]. His costume character, Tingle, serves to help Link navigate by selling him maps in ''The Legend of Zelda'' series.
*Rose petal essence was an ingredient for the spell to turn into an eagle or fly in ''[[Wikipedia:King's Quest III|King's Quest III]]''. Especially given this allusion, the whole premise of the cartoon is likely based on the formulaic combination of ingredients, stirring, and magic words required to perform the [http://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/the_fairway/game_pages/kings_quest_3.html spells] in King's Quest III.
*[http://www.hovan.com Hovan] is a restaurant chain in Florida and Georgia, located in mall food courts, that sell [[Wikipedia:Gyro|gyro-style]] wraps.
*Strong Bad mixes up the quote of his costume character, Jambi the Genie (from ''[[Wikipedia:Pee-wee's Playhouse|Pee-Wee's Playhouse]]''). The original quote is "Meka Leka Hi, Meka Hiney Ho!"
*Strong Bad's quote "We were burying our problems here in the spooky woods" could be a reference to the movie Casino, in which the character Sam Rothstein mentions that mobsters get rid of their problems by burying them in the desert.
*Bubs's recommendation of "eye of newt" and "toe of frog" originated as magical ingredients in [http://www.bartleby.com/70/4141.html Act IV, Scene 1, line 16] of Shakespeare's ''[[Wikipedia:Macbeth|Macbeth]]'', one of the most famous and influential depictions of witches in Western culture.
*Bubs's quote "Baby, you've got a [[Witches' Brew|witches' brew]] goin'" is a reference to the television show ''[[Wikipedia:Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'', where [[Wikipedia:Carl Weathers|Carl Weathers]], the actor who played [[Wikipedia:Apollo Creed|Apollo Creed]], portrays himself as extremely cheap, and sometimes comments that if certain leftover foods are combined, "Baby, you've got a stew goin'."
* Bubs's comment about "Stick and move! Stick and move!" is a reference to the advice Duke gave Apollo Creed in [[IMDb:0075148|the original Rocky movie]]. [http://www.filmsite.org/rock5.html]
*''[[wikipedia:Jurassic Park III|Jurassic Park III]]'' is a movie in the ''[[wikipedia:Jurassic Park|Jurassic Park]]'' series.
*[[wikipedia:Ronald Reagan|Ronald Reagan]] was a movie actor and the 40th president of the United States. "Nancy" refers to his widow, [[wikipedia:Nancy Reagan|Nancy Reagan]]. [[Wikipedia:Jelly beans|Jelly beans]] were famously one of Reagan's favorite foods. Reagan was also known for usually starting his statements with the word "well." He was famous for his economic policies, called "[[Wikipedia:Reaganomics|Reaganomics]]." He also did have [[Wikipedia:List_of_presidential_pets|pets]], among them a [[Wikipedia:Cavalier_king_charles_spaniel|Cavalier King Charles Spaniel]] named [[Wikipedia:Rex (dog)|Rex]].
*"Keanu Reagan" is a reference to [[Wikipedia:Keanu Reeves|Keanu Reeves]], an actor most famous for his roles in ''Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure'', and the ''Matrix'' trilogy.
*Homestar's line "I just graduated. What should my epitaph say?" is a reference to the theme of many high school graduation speakers of "What will your epitaph say?"
*Homestar Runner's repeating himself, such as "We played a little foosball, played a little foosball," is very similar to the way the character Jimmy Two Times speaks in the [[Wikipedia:Martin Scorsese|Martin Scorsese]] film [[Wikipedia:Goodfellas|Goodfellas]] (e.g., "I'm gonna go get the papers, get the papers.").
*[[Wikipedia:Natalie Imbruglia|Natalie Imbruglia]] is an Australian-born singer and actress. However, Strong Sad and Marzipan both mispronounce her last name (the "g" is silent).
*"[[Wikipedia:Sara Lee|Sara Lee]]" is an American consumer-goods company and is also the brand name of a number of frozen and packaged foods, including cheesecake.
*Strong Sad's words as Homestar departs are taken from [[Wikipedia:Devo|Devo]]'s 1980 hit "Whip It."
*[[Wikipedia:Lando Calrissian|Lando Calrissian]] is a character from the ''[[Wikipedia:Star Wars|Star Wars]]'' films, played by [[Wikipedia:Billy Dee Williams|Billy Dee Williams]]. Some people (including, apparently, Homestar) mistakenly think that Lando and Apollo Creed were played by the same actor, but Apollo Creed was played by Carl Weathers.
*Walter Sobchak is a character from ''[[The Big Lebowski]]'', played by [[Wikipedia:John Goodman|John Goodman]]. The severed toe with nail polish is a plot device in this movie; Sobchak even says the line, "I can get you a toe, with nail polish," as does Coach Z on Pom Pom's behalf. "You're entering a world of pain" and "DONNY, YOU'RE OUT OF YOUR ELEMENT!" (said on behalf of Pom Pom by Homestar and Strong Mad respectively) were also repeated sayings of Sobchak's in the movie. Also, at one point in the movie Walter inappropriately draws a gun.
*[[wikipedia:Oliver Cromwell|Oliver Cromwell]] was a 17th century English military commander who became Lord Protector after leading the rebellion that resulted in the execution of Charles I. Homestar throws it in because it includes "-well", though it's possible he ''meant'' to say [[Wikipedia:Oliver North|Oliver North]], a prominent figure in the [[Wikipedia:Iran Contra Affair|Iran Contra Affair]].
*The surprisingly high jump The Cheat makes is the effect of getting hit by a shell, invincible character, etc., in the Nintendo 64 game ''[[Wikipedia:Mario Kart 64|Mario Kart 64]]'', in which the kart landed with a similar "POOMP". Also, the respective noises The Cheat makes sound very close to what Toad says when he wins a race ("I'm the best!") as well as Toad's cries when he has been hit.
*[[Wikipedia:The Golden Girls|The Golden Girls]] was a popular sitcom about four elderly women living in Miami that originally aired on NBC. Blanche, mentioned in the cartoon, is one of the main characters of the show. Strong Bad mentioned them in [[helium]].
*The kick performed by Homestar while singing appears to be a side thrust kick, a karate kick which involves thrusting the foot out from the side to hit with the heel.

== DVD Version ==
*The "CHOICE TIME!" sound effect plays after you choose your choice.
*The Homsar Easter egg is enabled automatically.
*Homestar doesn't say or show the stuff he gathered, or drop them in the cauldron, and Marzipan doesn't say the magic words.
*Homestar's transformation is now random.
*All of the ending Easter eggs play automatically.

==External Links==
*[[HR:ween05.html|Watch "Halloween Potion-ma-jig"]]
*[[HR:halloween2005mx.swf|View the Flash file for "Halloween Potion-ma-jig"]]
*[http://www.strongfans.com/upload/ThePaper/ween05_old.swf View the Flash file of an older version of "Halloween Potion-ma-jig"] (mirror)
*[[Forum:5769|Forum thread re: "Halloween Potion-ma-jig"]]

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The House That Gave Sucky Treats

4kai2lyn6 — Wed, 09 May 2007 17:47:31 GMT

4kai2lyn6: add cat

{{toonnav|Holiday Toon|halloween2001|A Mother's Day Message|Some Stupid Turkey}}
[[Image:halloween2001.png|thumb|"I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for some candy today!"]]

All the characters come to ''your'' house to trick-or-treat! You get to pick one of three treats to give them in an interactive game.

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

See '''[[The House That Gave Sucky Treats Costumes]]''' for more information on what everyone was wearing.

'''Places:''' [[The Halloween House]], [[Spooky Woods]]

'''Date: ''' October 27, 2001

'''Page Title:''' Trick, then treat, then smell feet

{{dvd|Everything Else, Volume 2}}

== Transcript ==
''{spooky music plays}''

A Homestar Runner Cartoon

"The House That Gave Sucky Treats"

Voices by Matt Chapman & Missy Palmer

Written, Directed and Animated by Los Brothers Chaps

''{Homestar's head pops up slowly, then lightning flashes and thunder cracks}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER''': Oh, hello. This year, we're going to do things a little differently. ''{scary voice, eyes slanted menacingly}'' We're all coming to your house to trick or treeeeat! ''{normal face and voice}'' So just answer the door, pick a treat, and drag it on top of us. We'll do the rest. ''{Pause}'' Okay, bye!

=== Coach Z ===
''{Knocks in a rhythm.}''

====Intro====
:''{rapping}'' Doot-doo-doot-doo, an' I'll drink up all the Hennessy ya got on your shelf, but first let me introduce myself. My name is Coach Z. Pronounced with an "oach Z."

====Jujyfruits====
:Ooh, Jorjyfruits! Oh, I mean Jerjyfrorts. I mean, ''{straining}'' GEORGIE FRORGIE! ''{pause}'' George Foreman?

====Boston Baked Beans====
:Ya know, I once knew a fellow in Boston 'could tell ya the time of the day at any time of the day. Ya'd say, "Say there Boston, what's the time of day?" And he'd say, "10:30." And you'd look at him and say, "But Boston, it's half past noon!" And he'd look back at ya and say, "Well, those are the breaks."

====Cherry Clan====
:Da Cherry Clan. Are they related to the Wu-Tang Clan? 'Cause ya know, their first album was the ''BAERMB''! In fact, you don't have a copy of "The 36 Chambers" in there, do ya? 'Cause I'd love to listen to it right now! Ya mind if I come in?

=== The King Of Town ===
''{Rings the doorbell instead of knocking.}''

====Intro====
:Trick or treat, I'm horrible! ''{Strong Bad pokes his head out from the right of the screen and says, "You got that right."}''

====Butterscotch====
:Ooh, butterscotch! Would you mind melting those down and pouring them over a ham? ''{pulls out a [[Ham|ham]]}''

====Fun size Butterfinger====
:That's it?! Well, if you think that I'll accept this paltry treat just because it has "butter" in the name... well, you'd be right! Give it here!

====Stick of Butter====
:Ooh, a stick of butter! ''{noisily scarfs the stick of butter} {still with butter in his mouth}'' Trick or treat. Again? Please??

=== Strong Mad and The Cheat ===
''{Bangs on door, creating yellow bursts.}''

====Intro====
:'''THE CHEAT:''' ''{The Cheat noises}''
:'''STRONG MAD:''' IS YOUR REFRIGERATOR PERRY RUNNING?

====Rock Candy====
:'''STRONG MAD:''' ''{staring at it, puzzled.}'' HALLOWEEN!

====Pop Rocks====
:''{The Cheat eats the Pop Rocks}''
:'''STRONG MAD:''' NO. NO! NOOO!!
:''{The Cheat takes a drink of cola}''
:'''THE CHEAT:''' ''{squealing The Cheat noises, head explodes}''

====Rocks====
:''{Strong Mad eats the rocks, then bites off half of a can of cola. The Cheat's head inexplicably explodes.}''

=== Marzipan ===
''{Also rings the doorbell.}''

====Intro====
:''{singing}'' Hey, ho! Let's go! Hey, ho! Trick or treat!

====Candy Corn====
:''Candy'' corn?? Do you have any real corn? Or Indian corn?

====Rice Cakes====
:Hey, rice cakes! I like to eat them without water.

====Steak====
:Is this a joke? It's not funny. ''{Strong Bad drops three more steaks into her bag with a grin on his face}''

=== The Poopsmith and Pom Pom ===
''{Knocks rapidly and softly.}''

{''They don't have an intro, as neither can really speak.''}

====Mary Jane====
:''{They look at each other, then The Poopsmith holds up a sign that says "Give us something good instead". Pom Pom laughs.}''

====Chick-O-Stick====
:''{The Poopsmith dunks it in a bucket labeled "dippin stuff", which looks suspiciously like [[Whatsit|whatsit]]. He offers it to Pom Pom, who shakes his head "no".}''

====Astropop====
:''{The Poopsmith shoots his gun at Pom Pom so it reflects off Pom Pom's "I ♥ Flint" button and his microphone and hits himself in the chest sensor. He falls off the side of the steps.}''

====Pumpkin====
:''{The "secret" music from the [[Wikipedia:The Legend of Zelda series|Zelda]] video game series plays. The pumpkin is firmly lodged in The Poopsmith's mouth. When the door closes, a pixelated caption reads "YOU UNLOCKED A SECRET CHARACTER!"}''

=== Homsar ===
''{Knocks "[[Wikipedia:Shave and a Haircut|Shave and a Haircut]]".}''

''{This is an Easter egg, only accessible if you give The Poopsmith or Pom Pom the pumpkin.}''

====Intro====
:I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for some candy today!

====Shavin' Creem====
:YaAaAaAh, I'm the original ladies' man!

====Black and Orange Taffy====
:''(singing)'' If you give me a treat, make sure that it's sweet, and I'll eeeat iiiiiit...

====Wrench====
:Oh no, I think this is my favorite!

=== Strong Bad ===
''{Instead of knocking or ringing, Strong Bad yells, "Open the freakin' door!"}''

====Intro====
:Where in the world is my candy?

====Fun Size Butterfinger====
:Oh, a "fun size" candy bar? Tell me this: what's fun about eating less candy? Maybe if you gave me an entire bag of them it would be fun. The only fun I'm going to have with this thing is smearing it all over your door when I leave. ''{If you choose this, the door is smeared with the Butterfinger when Strong Sad shows up.}''

====Marshmallow Bunny====
:Why you lazy crap for crap! All you've got is old freakin' Easter candy? This thing's rock hard, man! Well, you just made it onto my "People I gotta egg today" list. ''{He shows you the list:}''

<blockquote class="email" style="background-image:none;border:2px solid black;background:#FFFF99;color:#000;width:25%">
People to egg 
(in no particular order) 
 
ronnie pudding 
 
king of town 
 
kewpie dan 
 
homestar 
 
you lazy crap for crap
</blockquote>

====Apple====
:What is ''this'' crap?!? What are you, a dentist? Or a hippie? Or some kind of ''hippie dentist''?

=== Strong Sad ===
''{Knocks softly.}''

====Intro====
:Trick or treat, I guess.

====Necco candy wafers====
:Oh, Necco Wafers. These remind me of when I used to eat the colored chalk when I was in school. I was sick for a year and nearly died...

====Baking Chocolate====
:''{a bit surprised and bounces slightly}'' Oh! Baking Chocolate! I used to eat this stuff when there was no chocolate in the house. And now, it's my only friend.

====Campbell's Soup====
:Oh. While I do appreciate the relevance of this, given my costume, I was kind of hoping for something that I wouldn't have to prepare. You know, like Necco Wafers or baking chocolate...

=== Bubs ===
''{Knocks "[[New Boots|Hip Hop Dance]]"}''

====Intro====
:''{singing}'' Please, baby please, baby baby baby ''please''! Gimme some candy!

====Mallo Cup====
:''{singing}'' I got a shallow gup and a crallow nup, somebody give me dat Mallow Cup.

====Dum-Dums====
:Oh! ''{singing}'' I'm such a big dum-diddy-dum-diddy-diddy-diddy-dum-dum...my.

====Bazooka Gum====
:I never understand the comics that come in this bubble gum. I mean, the first frame is some guy saying,''{he unfolds the comic and shows it to you}'' "Look out, the sky is falling!" And the second frame is some guy getting hit on the head with a rock ''{he unfolds the comic and shows it to you again. The second frame is captioned "Fortune: The rock hit the guy in the sweater"}''. And I'm sitting there going, "What the heck just happened?", and before I know it, I swallowed my bubble gum!

=== Homestar Runner ===
''{Homestar continually knocks until you answer.}''

====Intro====
:''{singing}'' Believe it or not, I'm walkin' around, I never thought I could trick or tre-e-eat...

====Smarties====
:All right, Smarties! Marzipan said to eat lots of these this year. I'm not really sure why she said that though. ''{Crickets chirp, record scratches when Homestar breaks the silence.}'' Umm... trick or treat!

====Circus Peanuts====
:''{Dances and "doots" ''[[Wikipedia:Entrance of the Gladiators|Entrance of the Gladiators]]'' (known to most as a circus theme). You close the door, but Homestar rings the doorbell, and when you answer, he is still dancing and singing.}''

====Handful of Change====
:''{sounding slightly disappointed}'' Oh... a handful of change. I guess I can use this to go, um, buy some candy. So... thank you for adding a step to my Halloween process.

== Later that Night... ==

"'''Vote for your favorite costume!!'''" is written at the top. Everybody is standing around in his or her costume. Run your cursor over each to see a caption (shown here in parentheses after the character's name). If you click on one to vote for, an email is started to ween@homestarrunner.com, with a different subject line and text for each character:

*The Poopsmith (Lazer Tag):
**Subject: Teddy Poopspin
**Text: I Choose YOU, Poopachu

*The King of Town (Hagar The Horrible):
**Subject: King of Town, Now Sit Down
**Text: I Choose YOU, Kingachu

*Strong Mad (The Fridge):
**Subject: Strong Madden Football 99
**Text: I Choose YOU, Strong Madchu

*Coach Z (Humpty Hump):
**Subject: 1 2 3 Coach Z
**Text: I Choose YOU, Coach Zchu

*Pom Pom (Michael Moore):
**Subject: Pom Pom for Prez
**Text: I Choose YOU, Pom Pomchu

*Bubs (Mars Blackman):
**Subject: Bubs has got it goin ON
**Text: I Choose YOU, Bubsachu

*Strong Bad (Carmen San Diego):
**Subject: Why do you keep dressing up as girls
**Text: I Choose YOU, Strong Badchu

*The Cheat (Punchy):
**Subject: How bout a nice Hawaiian Cheat
**Text: I Choose YOU, Cheatachu

*Homestar Runner (The Greatest American Hero):
**Subject: Homestar Riggidy Riggidy Runner
**Text: I Choose YOU, Homestarchu

*Homsar (Wimpy):
**Subject: Homsar Salad Sandwich
**Text: I Choose YOU, Homsarchu

*Marzipan (Joey Ramone):
**Subject: Marzipan is a Laugh Riot Grrl
**Text: I Choose YOU, Marzychu

*Strong Sad (Andy Warhol):
**Subject: A vote for Strong Sad is a vote for America
**Text: I Choose YOU, Strong Sadchu

=== The Discussion ===

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Hey Strong Bad, I really like your costume. The Spanish Inquisition? That's great.

'''STRONG BAD:''' Look, for the last time, I'm not The Spanish Inquisition, I'm not Cab Calloway, and I'm not Strong Bad wearing a yellow turtleneck! I'm Carmen freakin' Sandiego!!

'''MARZIPAN:''' I like Cab Calloway.

'''STRONG BAD:''' Okay, Poopsmith, that's the worst costume I ever saw. I mean, you're ''Lazer Tag''? What, are you supposed to be dressed up as the product or is it more abstract than that, like you're supposed to be the concept of Lazer Tag? Come on man, you know you just found that old crap in a trunk in your basement.

'''THE KING OF TOWN:''' Ease off, Strong Bad! He's not the one that dressed up as a ''girl'' two years in a row.

'''STRONG BAD:''' Oh ho ho ho, you asked for it, King. ''{Strong Mad punches The King of Town}''

'''BUBS:''' Did any of you guys go to that house that was givin' out change? I changed my costume and went back ten times. I made 35 dollars!

'''STRONG SAD:''' Did you guys go to that house where they let you into this big room and there's all these people wearing black hoods and they ask you these questions about life and existence and if you answer them wrong you get eternal damnation, but if you answer them right you get a Twizzler?

'''STRONG BAD:''' Um... no.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' No.

'''COACH Z:''' Nope.

'''THE KING OF TOWN:''' No.

'''BUBS:''' Nope.

'''THE CHEAT:''' Meh.

'''STRONG MAD:''' NO.

'''STRONG SAD:''' Oh. Never mind.

'''MARZIPAN:''' I like your costume, Strong Sad, but you weren't invited this year.

'''COACH Z:''' Say, Pom Pom, check out this funky bass groove! A doo'rear, a doo'ri, a doo'rear, a doo'ri! ''{Grooves around a little}''

''{Pause}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Have they voted yet? I really have to pee.

'''STRONG BAD:''' Yeah, and the Poopsmith's not smelling any rosier, either.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Oh, oh! I've got an idea! Let's totally freak 'em out. ''Let's repeat the stuff that we just saaaaid!''

''{loops back to the start of the discussion}''

== Easter Eggs ==
*When Strong Bad's egging list is up, click on "[[Kewpie Dan|kewpie dan]]" to see.. something. (Note: although this egg appears to be glitched, it was intended to open [[HR:kewpiedan.html|this page]] in a new window.)
*When Pom Pom and the Poopsmith knock at your door, move the pumpkin that's sitting on your porch onto them to unlock Homsar. Homsar will only appear in the final scene if you unlock him, though he doesn't say anything.
*In the final scene when all of the characters are talking, you can roll over the skull, pumpkin and moon to see funny captions.
**Skull: Get offa me!
***This is a reference to the email [[vacation]] where the stickie note says "Get offa me!"
**Pumpkin: No costume. Just a pumpkin.
**Moon: Just pick a freakin' character already!

== Fun Facts ==
===Trivia===
*The length of this toon was originally listed as "?:??" on the Toons page, and now as 4 minutes.
**This is because you could sit there for hours on end doing ''no'' commands, and the length would be longer than 240 seconds.
*Marzipan's costume has a small hole in it and you can see her pink flesh beneath, giving further evidence to the theory that her body is actually skirt-shaped.
*Originally Coach Z's intro rap was: "Doot-doo-doot-doo, and I think I'll make ya fall right down on your face, but first let me introduce myself. My name is Hoodsey. Pronounced with an 'oodsey.'"
*This is the first instance of [[The Cheat's Head Exploding]].
*The Bazooka Joe comic you see when you give Bubs Bazooka Joe Bubble Gum originally came from an idea The Brothers Chaps thought up for a possible weekly feature. It was never released until they showed it at the [[NYU Talk - 1 Mar 2005|March 1st, 2005 NYU Talk]].
*This is the first toon to feature all the [[Characters#Main_characters|main characters]].

===Remarks===
[[Image:weirdedoutthecheat.PNG|thumb|Weirded out.]]
*Giving The Cheat and Strong Mad [[Wikipedia:Pop Rocks|pop rocks]] shows you a rare glimpse of The Cheat's mouth open without his teeth being visible.
*Bubs's comment about the house that was giving out change is interesting; he went back ten times (making a total of 11 trips) and made $35, implying that the inhabitant was giving out a surprisingly generous $3.18 per trick-or-treater, on average.
*The only candy that shows up twice is the Fun Size [[Wikipedia:Butterfinger|Butterfinger]].
*Clicking "Back" takes you to [[Main Page 7]], the Halloween Main Page.
*Strong Bad is seen during the King of Town's segment as well as in Marzipan's reaction to steak, but he is not in costume in either one.
*[[The Brothers Chaps]] didn't use the current style of animation on Strong Bad (his shadowed eyes), even though they used it in an earlier toon, [[A Mother's Day Message]].
*When The King of Town appears, Strong Bad has the new diamond but older eyes, and when he comes to the door, he is in his older style.

===Goofs===
*In the final scene where all of the characters are talking, Strong Bad's caption is misspelled: it should read "[[Wikipedia:Carmen Sandiego|Carmen Sandiego]]," not "Carmen San Diego."
**Bubs's caption is also misspelled as "Mars Blackman" instead of "Mars Blackmon."
*When Homestar says, "We're coming to your house to twick or treat!", the bottom outline on his cap moves.
*When Strong Bad smears the Butterfinger bar on the door and Strong Sad shows up, the melted chocolate on the door disappears when the choices of candy show up.

===Glitches===
*The light switch can be moved up and down, but it doesn't do anything. You can flip the switch even while the door is opened, and if you leave the light switch down, it will automatically go back up when the next person knocks.
*When viewed in [[Wikipedia:Mozilla Firefox|Firefox]], there are weird sounds related to the door opening and closing. They are always at the same place.
*After Strong Bad says, "Open the freakin' door!" we can hear the sound of the door opening.
*After Bubs says, "Gimme some candy!", the outline under his mouth vanishes, and the shading of his 'MARS' chain also changes.

===Inside References===
*The following are all references from the previous year's Halloween toon, [[Homestarloween Party]]:
**The music that plays when Homestar rises up at the start is the same one used when it was time for "Scary Flashlight Ghost Storytelling With a Flashlight".
**The skull and pumpkin are the same ones which served as the "play" button.
**Stuffing the pumpkin into the Poopsmith's mouth is a reference to when he was seen bobbing for pumpkins and holding them in his mouth.
**Marzipan noting at the end that "I like your costume, Strong Sad, but you weren't invited this year" refers to the fact that he had been uninvited by Marzipan the previous year.
**The King of Town's comment on Strong Bad dressing up as a girl for two years in a row refers to the previous Halloween toon where Strong Bad dressed up as [[Wikipedia:Carmen Miranda|Carmen Miranda]].
*Bubs's line when you give him the [[Wikipedia:Dum Dum Pop|Dum-Dum Pop]] is a reference to [[A Jumping Jack Contest]].
*Strong Mad attempted almost the same prank greeting as in this toon on [[Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 4.0]].
*Coach Z's rap is a reference to [[Alcohol|alcohol]].

===Real-World References===
*Coach Z raps a couple lines from [[Wikipedia:Digital Underground|Digital Underground's]] biggest hit song, "The Humpty Dance," substituting his own name for Humpty Hump's. The drink he mentions, [[Wikipedia:Hennessy|Hennessy]], is a brand of cognac, or brandy. Another line is used at the voting screen when Coach Z tells Pom Pom to "check out this bass groove right here."
*The joke involving The Cheat consuming Pop Rocks and soda is a reference to [http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/poprocks.htm an urban legend] that states that Mikey, the [[Wikipedia:Life (cereal)|Life cereal]] mascot, died when consuming Pop Rocks and soda caused his stomach to explode.
*When you drag the pumpkin onto Pom Pom and the Poopsmith, the music that is played is from the [[Wikipedia:The Legend of Zelda series|''Legend of Zelda'' games]], usually when you unlock something (like blowing up a wall with a bomb, thus creating a door). The particular sound music they use in the toon is from "[[Wikipedia:The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past|A Link to the Past]]", as you can hear the dungeon music after the sound plays.
*Ronnie Pudding, the first name on Strong Bad's list of houses to egg, is the name of [[Wikipedia:Spinal Tap|Spinal Tap's]] first bassist.
*Strong Bad greets you with "Where in the world is my candy?", a reference to the computer game and TV show "[[Wikipedia:List of Carmen Sandiego products#Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?|Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?]]" from which his costume comes.
*Strong Sad's comment on receiving the [[Wikipedia:Campbell Soup Company|Campbell's soup]] is a reference to [[Wikipedia:Andy Warhol|Andy Warhol's]] (whom Strong Sad is dressed as) series of paintings ''Campbell's Soup''.
*"Please baby, please baby, baby baby please" is a reference to Mars Blackmon's (whom Bubs is dressed up as) exact same line in [[imdb:tt0091939|She's Gotta Have It]].
*The skull's line at the end when you hold the mouse pointer over it ("Get offa me") is a quote from Murray, the Demonic Talking Skull from the [[Wikipedia:Monkey Island|''Monkey Island'']] games.
*Homsar's greeting is a play on [[Wikipedia:J. Wellington Wimpy|Wimpy's]] famous line "I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today."
*Marzipan's intro is "Hey, ho! Let's go!" from [[Wikipedia:The_Ramones|The Ramones']] 1976 hit, "Blitzkrieg Bop". This was also a reference/tribute to Joey's death earlier in 2001.
*Homestar's greeting is sung to the tune of (and is a play on) the theme song to the TV show [[Wikipedia:The Greatest American Hero|The Greatest American Hero]].
*[[Wikipedia:Cab Calloway|Cab Calloway]] was a famous jazz bandleader and singer whose career spanned many years.
*Homestar saying Strong Bad's costume is the "[[Wikipedia:Spanish Inquisition|Spanish Inquisition]]" is a reference to a [[Wikipedia:Monty Python|Monty Python]] [[Wikipedia:The Spanish Inquisition (Monty Python)|sketch of the same name]] in which [[Wikipedia:Michael Palin|Michael Palin]], [[Wikipedia:Terry Jones|Terry Jones]], and [[Wikipedia:Terry Gilliam|Terry Gilliam]] were dressed in similar costumes.
*The Poopsmith holding up a sign due to his inability to talk (or his vow of silence) is reminiscent of Wile E. Coyote of [[Wikipedia:Looney Tunes|Looney Tunes]] fame.
* The "I choose YOU, <insert character name here>chu" is an obvious reference to the show "[[Wikipedia:Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]," where one character, [[Wikipedia:Ash Ketchum|Ash]], has a similar famous line, "I choose YOU, Pikachu!"
* The subject line of the email when the Poopsmith is chosen for best costume, Teddy Poopspin, references [[Wikipedia:Teddy Ruxpin|Teddy Ruxpin]], a popular toy from the 80's made by Worlds of Wonder, the same company that made Lazer Tag.
* If you choose the King of Town for best costume, the subject line of the email is "King of Town, Now Sit Down." This is a reference to Sierra Online's [[Wikipedia: Quest for Glory|Quest for Glory]] (aka Hero's Quest), where the phrase "Hut of brown, now sit down" was used to gain access to Baba Yaga's magic hut.
* If you choose Strong Sad for best costume, the subject line of the email is "A vote for Strong Sad is a vote for America." This is a reference to 1984 Presidential Candidate Walter Mondale's Campaign slogan, which was "A vote for Walter Mondale is a vote for America." Mondale lost the election to Ronald Reagan in a landslide, winning only his home state (Minnesota) and the District of Columbia.


===Fast Forward===
*"Cheatachu" later became The Cheat's screen name in [[i she be]] and [[marzipan]].
*The music that was used as Homestar was rising would later be used in the Strong Bad Email [[theme park]] as background music for "The Strong Sad Gets Decked Repeatedly Stunt Spooktacular".
*"Your house" was later reused in [[3 Times Halloween Funjob]] where you could, once again, choose Coach Z's and Bubs's treats (and Stinkoman's, too).
*The phrase "Get offa me!" would later be said by a [[Sticky Notes|sticky note]] in the email [[vacation]].
*This toon started the [[Bubslegum Comics]].
*The jingle that Homsar sings when given candy sounds strangely like the jingle for [[SBLOUNSKCHED!]], in [[candy product]]
*The 2005 Halloween toon, [[Halloween Potion-ma-jig]], is also done in the style of a decision-making game, just like this Halloween toon.
*The result of the voting contest was finally revealed, 5 years after the toon's release, in [[Halloween Awards Show]].
*Bubs' knocking at the door would become the rhythm for Hip Hop Dance from [[New Boots]].
*The Cheat will again fully open his mouth in [[rough copy]].

== DVD Version ==
*The title and opening credits scene has been moved to after the first scene.
*Homestar does not ask the viewer to drag the treats on top of them.
*The doors open on their own.
*Coach Z no longer says "George Foreman?" when offered the Jujyfruits.
*The "unlocking" sound for Homsar is higher-pitched and cleaner.
*Homsar's lines for the shaving cream and wrench are inexplicably switched.
*Homsar appears in the ending whether he was unlocked or not.
*Marzipan adds "What's wrong with girls?" after Strong Mad punches The King of Town.
*Marzipan says "No" to Strong Sad's question just before Strong Sad replies.
*Homestar does not ask if the viewer has voted yet.
*As Homestar starts the repetition of the end scene, the scene fades out.
*If you wait too long without making a choice when Pom Pom and The Poopsmith are at the door, the Homsar scene is automatically unlocked.

== See also ==
*[[Strong Bad's Treat Snatcha]]

== External Links ==
*[[HR:halloween2001.html|watch "The House That Gave Sucky Treats"]]
*[[HR:halloween2001.swf|view the Flash file for "The House That Gave Sucky Treats"]]

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Marzipan

4kai2lyn6 — Wed, 09 May 2007 17:46:45 GMT

4kai2lyn6: add cat

{{charnav|Marzipan|marzy|Pom Pom|Coach Z}}
[[Image:NewestMarzipan.png|thumb|The only girl]]

{{aboutcharacter}} {{foremail|marzipan}}

== Biography ==
'''Marzipan''' is [[The Only Girl|the only female character]] among the [[Characters#Main Characters|primary residents]] of the [[Homestar Runner universe]]. She is tall and thin, wears her hair in a bright yellow ponytail, (although in [[Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 12.2]], she claims that blond is not her true hair color, suggesting that she [[Wikipedia: Hair colouring|dyes]] it), and is almost always seen wearing a purple dress embellished with white trim and gold buttons. Like [[Homestar Runner]], she does not appear to have [[Lack of Visible Arms|visible arms]]. Nevertheless, she is still able to pick up and handle objects without any hint of difficulty; for example, she can play the guitar fairly well. Marzipan is the only character voiced by [[Missy Palmer]].

Marzipan is Homestar's [[Homestar Runner and Marzipan's Relationship|girlfriend]] (humorously, Missy Palmer acting as Marzipan disclosed in the DVD commentary for [[date]] that Homestar is only her boyfriend while acting, and has "several other boyfriends" off stage). Early on in the site's history, this seemed to be the primary reason for her existence. Her character has developed greatly over time, however, and their dating no longer appears to be their main connection. Marzipan has actually broken up with Homestar on several occasions, some of which were due to the fact that she wished to demonstrate her independence. Other such times involve Homestar's unintentional mean streak; he has even been known to show feelings of contempt and resentment toward his girlfriend, as seen in the email [[narrator]] (where he calls her "some type of enormous alien cow") and [[Happy Fireworks]] (where he uses a [[Cardboard Marzipan|cardboard cutout]] to imitate her and then tells "her" to shut up). Luckily for Homestar, she continues to love him dearly, and the two always seem to end up together again.

Marzipan's status as the only girl in [[Free Country, USA]] has made her the target of quite a few prank messages on her [[Marzipan's Answering Machine|answering machine]] (most of them left by Strong Bad), as well as the unsolicited romantic attentions of several other characters (most notably [[Coach Z]] and [[Bubs]]). Despite all this, she is very kind and is friends with almost everyone (though she is not fond of [[The King of Town]], and she really doesn't like Strong Bad at all{{ref|1}}).

[[Image:Marzysign.png|thumb|left|"I'm off to the Chinchilla protest."]]
[[Strong Bad]] once described Marzipan as a "dirty hippie without the dirt"{{ref|2}}. She is a strict vegetarian — she especially enjoys [[Tofu|tofu]] and other soy products (though in the email [[coloring]] she teaches that "soy is also murder") — and she spends much of her time singing and playing her guitar. Most of her songs are about happiness and nature. She often makes protest signs to express her views on issues of varying and personal interest — among these are "[[Wikipedia:Chinchilla|Chinchillas]] OUT!! (of my basement)", "[[Decemberween|December Ween]] [''sic''] Kills Bunnies", and "Down with D'Ween".

[[Image:Marzycouchslouch.png|thumb|Marzipan relaxes]]
Marzipan has been mistaken for a baseball bat, a bell, and a broom. A rip in her "Joey Ramone" costume in [[The House That Gave Sucky Treats]] seems to suggest that she may actually be shaped like a bell. By contrast, the emails [[secret recipes]], [[date]] and [[secret identity]] all show her sitting in a manner that seems to contradict that possibility. In the email [[big white face]], Strong Bad mentions that her head is like a baseball bat. In the email [[long pants]], she claims that she is not a broom, much to Homestar's surprise. In [[highschool]], she is shown to have long, skinny legs like [[Wikipedia: Daphne Blake|Daphne]] from [[Wikipedia: Scooby-Doo|Scooby-Doo]], but due to the fact that Strong Bad has an "unphotographic memory" (or "doodle memory"), this may or may not be true. Though she is often mistaken for such distinctly shaped objects, Strong Bad claims that she is [[Wikipedia:Human|human]] in [[retirement]]. Her humanlike appearance in [[highschool]] seems to support this claim, (though once again, because of Strong Bad's "doodle memory", this example must be taken with a grain of salt).

Marzipan has a tendency to anthropomorphize inanimate objects — for example, she talks to her guitar, [[Carol]], asks [[Strong Sad]] to help resurrect her ficus plant, [[Credenza]], from the dead in [[3 Times Halloween Funjob]], and once names an ordinary sandwich "[[Homestar Jr.]]", proceeding to treat it as though it were a small child. In addition, she has occasionally been fooled by poor imitations of Homestar, such as [[Tofu Homestar]] from [[The Luau]] and [[The Cheat]]'s costume from the email [[do over#Easter Eggs|do over]]. Also, in [[Halloween Potion-ma-jig]], she created a potion that could transform Homestar into several different entities, including a strange clone of herself. Upon such instances, Marzipan tends to show more affection to (and quite possible ''receives'' more positive attention ''from'') these pseudo-Homestars than she does her real boyfriend. It is unclear if this reflect a desire to change or replace her current beloved.

Marzipan sometimes works with other characters on various projects. For example, The Cheat made a Flash video for her song "[[Oh yeah yeah]]". She has also teamed up with both The Cheat and [[Strong Mad]] to form a band called [[Cool Tapes]], in which she sings lead and plays Carol. She has appeared in the ''[[Dangeresque (film series)|Dangeresque]]'' series of short films as [[Cutesy Buttons]], and once attempted to teach Strong Bad how to make an [[lady_fan|attractive centerpiece]] out of junk mail and kitty litter. She has also hosted a [[Fall Float Parade]] with Coach Z and taught a "[[School|kindergarten]]" class with Homestar, Strong Mad, and [[Homsar]] as her students in [[coloring]].

*'''Domicile:''' [[Marzipan's House]]
*'''Debut:''' [[She Loves Me!]]
*[[:Category:Marzipan Filmography|Complete Filmography]]

===Sources===
# {{note|1}} Email [[marzipan]]
# {{note|2}} [[Yearbook Character Page#Marzipan|Marzipan's Yearbook Character Page]]

== Character Video Transcript ==
''{'''Page Title''': Oh Yeah Yeah!!}'' ''{'''Place:''' [[Marzipan's Gazebo]]}''

'''MARZIPAN''': Hi, I'm Marzipan, and this is my guitar Carol. Say hi, Carol. ''{performs a scale in E major}'' Ooh, E scale. Nice choice. When I'm not rockin' out, I like to dig in my garden and eat. I'm a fiercely independent woman, and I'm fiercely independent about the soy products that I choose. Homestar Runner and I ''{Homestar leans in frame}'' are one hot item when I say we are. And today we are/are not*.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER''': Yay!/Boo!* ''{leans out of frame}''

'''MARZIPAN''': I like baby animals, and cats and dogs. But it makes me sad to see cats and dogs in the same room together. Okay, bye. I'm off to the Chinchilla protest.
''{She pulls out a protest sign that reads "Chinchillas OUT!! (of my basement)" and walks away}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER''': ''{leaning in frame}'' Boo!/Yay!* ''{leans out of frame}''

<nowiki>*</nowiki>''Sometimes Marzipan says "And today we are", to which Homestar responds "Yay!" and sometimes she says "And today we are not", in which case Homestar says "Boo!" Whichever reply (yay or boo) he did not give will be his response at the end.''

== Fun Facts ==
[[Image:grinning marzipan.png|thumb|Yes, she does have teeth.]]
*The [[Old Characters Page]], now in the [[Museum|museum]], said The King of Town was Marzipan's father. However, it is the only such reference on the site, and [[The Brothers Chaps]] have since reported in interviews (such as [[Club Aquatica Interview - 29 Oct 2003|the Club Aquatica interview]]) that this was an idea they had early in the site's development but have since abandoned.
**In the [[Wonkavision Magazine Interview]], this [[Inconsistencies Within the Homestar Runner Universe|inconsistency]] was explained as a [[wikipedia:Retcon|retcon]]. When asked about the "rumors" of Marzipan being the King of Town's daughter, Marzipan herself replied that "those allegations are completely false. The King was trying to make himself look better by association. That poor man. That poor fat, filthy man."
*[[Wikipedia:Marzipan|Marzipan]] is also a confectionery consisting primarily of ground almonds and sugar that derives its characteristic flavor from bitter almonds. Most marzipan is also flavored with [[Wikipedia:rosewater|rosewater]].
*In an interview with Wired magazine, Missy Palmer said that Marzipan started out as a hippie, but over time her personality has changed to match Missy's own.
*The character page title is a reference to Marzipan's song "Oh yeah yeah" from the email [[marzipan]].
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== Variations ==
*[[Old-Timey Marzipan]] ([[Old-Timey]])
*[[20X6 Marzipan]] ([[20X6]])
*[[Cardboard Marzipan]]
*Marzipan Alien Cow ([[narrator]])
*[[Teenage Marzipan]] ([[highschool]])
*[[Trading Cards|Marzi-PANCAKE]] ([[trading cards]])

=== [[Halloween Costumes]] ===
*[[Wikipedia:I Dream of Jeannie|Jeannie]] in [[Homestarloween Party]].
*[[Wikipedia:Joey Ramone|Joey Ramone]] in [[The House That Gave Sucky Treats]].
*[[Wikipedia:Lisa Lopes|Left Eye Lopes]] in [[Pumpkin Carve-nival]].
*[[Wikipedia:Margaret Lanterman|The Log Lady]] in [[3 Times Halloween Funjob]].
*[[Wikipedia:Willie Nelson|Willie Nelson]] in [[Halloween Fairstival]].
*[[Wikipedia:Beaker (Muppet)|Beaker]] in [[Halloween Potion-ma-jig]].
*[[Wikipedia:Frida Kahlo|Frida Kahlo]] in [[Happy Hallow-day]].

==Quotes of the Week==
{{qotwstart}}
*{{qotw|"Word Booty!"|[[looking old]]|Mirror:marzy_booty.mp3}}
*{{qotw|"Want some bread and butter pickles. Ooo-ahh! Give me that bread and butter pickle, bread and butter pickle. You are."|Fuller version of song from [[Happy Hallow-day]]|Mirror:marzy_dub.mp3}}
*{{qotw|"Oh yes, folks, there's no better way to be brutally honest with someone than to construct a hate float and put it in a televised parade."|[[Fall Float Parade]] outtake|Mirror:marzy_hatefloat.mp3}}
*{{qotw|"We are the [[Cool Tapes]]. We make some phat papes. Doley-O, doley-o, doley-o.(x3) ''{[[Strong Mad]]: DOLEY-O! [[The Cheat]]: (The Cheat noises)}'' Stop creepin' at me."|QotW exclusive|Mirror:doley-o.mp3}}
*{{qotw|"Hey! Watch those hands David Coppafeel!"|[[senior prom]] outtake|Mirror:marzy_copafeel.mp3}}
*{{qotw|The [[Cool Tapes]] song|[[Cool Things]]|Mirror:marzy_cooltapes.mp3}}
*{{qotw-nd|"I'm the only girl"|[[Who Said What Now?]]}}
|}

==See Also==
*[[Marzipan Evolution]]
*[[Marzipan Other Costumes|Other Costumes]]
*[[Nicknames#Marzipan|Nicknames]]

== External Links ==
*[[HR:vcr_marzy.html|watch Marzipan’s character video]]
*[[HR:vcr_marzy.swf|view the Flash file for Marzipan’s character video]]

{{Characters|Marzipan}}

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{In a robotic voice} WHAT SHOULD THIS PAGE BE CALLED? {eND OF ROBOTIC VOICE}

Here is a list of toons which include alternative dialog lines.
*[[Marzipan# Character Video Transcript|Marzipan's character video]]
*[[The House That Gave Sucky Treats]]
*[[Halloween Potion-ma-jig]]
*Some freakin' email that I watched a couple of days ago as the result of the infamous "rando" button, where Coach Z was the one who spoke the alternative wouds I'm after, and I can't believe I can't remember what it WAS! GAH!!!

Yup... So here's a page idea... I have no idea what to call it (alternative dialog?)... Or what category to put it in (word running gags...? But that doesn't really fit)... It's not the best thing I've done, but that one email with Coach Z THAT I CAN'T REMEMBER really surprised me, and so I'd like to put a page together of all the thymes this occurs and I'm awesome BLAHHH! [[Monkey D|GUNS]] FOR [[Pistols for Pandas|GORILLAS]]!!!!!! {{User:4kai2lyn6/sig}} 15:20, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

I don't know about this page, or what email you watched, but there is also [[First Time Here?]] and [[kind of cool]].
:Um, perhaps a new category could help? (Like ''Category:Toons with Dialogue Alternatives''?) Also, to narrow your search, there's the second half of [[:Category:Coach_Z_Filmography|this category]]. Do you remember if it was a long/short email? New/old? --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 16:53, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
::Ah ha! That's why I would like this page — I forgot about [[First Time Here?]], and I didn't even know about [[kind of cool]]!!! (I rarely read through the transcripts.) And Stux: ya, I already perused through Coach Z's filmography really quick and couldn't find it... I'll try again, and if I can't find it, I'll just conclude that I made it up.... ([[Talk:Marzipan#Boo!|Wouldn't be my first time]]). Do you think this would be worth an entirely new category?! I was going to suggest that, but wasn't sure if it'd hold in court, so to speak. {{User:4kai2lyn6/sig}} 17:40, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

animal

4kai2lyn6 — Tue, 08 May 2007 15:52:27 GMT

4kai2lyn6: Actually, putting those quotation marks in there makes it seem as though it were a direct quote. Changing to subjunctive mood instead.

{{sbenav|119|virus|radio}}
[[Image:Strong Bad Email 119.png|thumb|"Finally, a computer for your lap!"]]

Strong Bad has a new computer! Introducing... Lappy 486! Meanwhile, Spud Jr. asks Strong Bad what he would like as if he were his own made up animal.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, [[Made-Up Strong Bad Animals#Monstrosity|Monstrosity]], {{Film|Homestar Runner}}, [[Made-Up Strong Bad Animals#Deep Sea Fangly Fish|Deep Sea Fangly Fish]], [[Baby Styles]], [[Made-Up Strong Bad Animals#Da Huuuuuudge|Da Huuuuuudge]], {{Film|Marzipan}}, [[Made-Up Strong Bad Animals#The Red Steckled Elbermung|The Red Steckled Elbermung]], [[Made-Up Strong Bad Animals#El Pardack|El Pardack]], [[Sterrance]], {{Film|The Cheat}}

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]], [[The Show]], [[The Field]], [[Da Huuuuuudge's Enclosure]], [[Strong Badia]]

{{Comp|Lappy 486}}

'''Date:''' Monday, November 29, 2004

'''Running Time:''' 4:02

'''Page Title:''' Compy 386?? Not No More.

{{dvd|strongbad_email.exe Disc Four}}

== Transcript ==

''{Both Strong Bad and the [[Compy 386]] are absent from their usual place at the desk. Silhouettes of the Compy monitor and the keyboard are evident against the slightly faded wall and table. Wind can be heard, and a tumbleweed rolls past.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{offscreen}'' It is a time of desolation, chaos, and uncertainty. Brother pitted against brother; babies havin' babies. Then one day, from the right side of the screen,—

''{Strong Bad walks on from the right, carrying the folded-up Lappy.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' —came a man.

''{He sits down at the desk and places the Lappy on it.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' A man with a plastic rectangle... I MEAN LAPTOP COMPUTER!

''{He unfolds the Lappy; the words "Lappy 486" appear on the screen with an accompanying note, then the Lappy's logo appears above; the screen becomes a black screen with a square bracket in the top left.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Now that is a classy start-up noise! ''{imitating the start-up noise}'' Dong...ding! And check out all these speculations!

''{Some music starts playing. Cut to the set of The Show, with a silhouetted Lappy on the pedestal. As Strong Bad speaks, the camera zooms in and the Lappy becomes visible.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' The Lappy 486 weighs in at an extremely portable forty-two pounds—

''{The words "42 POUNDS!!! (LBS.)" appear in the top right.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' —and features an impressive battery life—

''{The words "Several" color monitor" and "2 MB Hard Drive!" appear at the top of the screen.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' —of one half of ten minutes.

''{The words "WARNING: +/- FIVE MINUTE BATTERY LIFE" appear under the first slogan.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' The Lappy 486—

''{"512k RAM" appears next to the battery life warning}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' —by Compy.

''{The slogan "Finally, a computer for your lap!" appears at the bottom of the screen next to a Compy logo. An applause accompanies the scene. Cut back to the computer room.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' All right! Let's see if this bad boy can check some emails.

''{He types in "strongbad_email.exe" as with the Compy.}''

<blockquote class="lappy email">
<div>subject: made up animal</div>
Dear Strong Bad, 
What would you like as if you were your own made up 
animal 
Sincerely, 
Spud Jr.</blockquote>

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Come now, Spud Jr. What would Spud Sr. think of such nightmarish grammar and punctuation? And poor Spudmom. ''"What would you like as if..."'' I at least hope you're good at sports, for their sake. ''{He stops typing.}'' All right, I'm done. ''{He clears the screen and resumes typing.}'' Well Stu-Pud Jr., If I was my own made up animal I would probably like as the coolest made up animal ever made up. I would have all the cool animal options and accessories:

:Claws
:Horns
:Tusks
:Tentacles
:Power Doors
:15 Year Drivetrain Warranty
:Proboscis
:Segmented Eyes

''{Cut to the field, where Strong Bad stands with three compound eyes (see [[animal#Goofs|Goofs]]), two antlers, two tusks, a proboscis, four claws on each hand, and four tentacles. Homestar Runner is also present.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' I say there, Monstrosity! Do you know the times?

''{Strong Bad attempts to respond and makes gargling sound while foaming at the mouth. Homestar steps back, looking shocked. Cut back to the Lappy.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Oh. I guess I couldn't really talk with that proboscis. Not that I'd have much of an answer for "Do you know the times," anyway. Hmmm. Maybe I could be one of those deep-sea fangly fishes.

''{Cut to the sea, rendered in [[Powered by The Cheat]] style.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' You know, the kind that have Christmas lights all over them, and those custom lures hanging over their heads.

''{An anglerfish with flashing lights adorning its body and Homestar's head for a lure appears.}''

'''HOMESTAR LURE:''' Right this way, everyone! Free puppies, ginger snaps ''{a fish version of The Cheat swims past}'', Pocket PCs...

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' 'Cept I'd also have an awesome back deck on me for dinner and dancing!

''{A deck appears on the fish's back. Zoom in to see a woman dancing on it with Strong Bad, with some typical Powered-by-the-Cheat techno-ish music playing.}''

'''PbTC STRONG BAD:''' Hey there, Baby Styles, do you want to watch me bench-press a lot...of weights?

'''HOMESTAR LURE:''' ''{lowers onto the deck}'' Turn it out, Strong Bad, turn it out!

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' Oh, wait. ''{The Strong Bad on the deck disappears.}'' How could I enjoy the dinner and dancing if I'm already the fanglyfish?

''{Zoom out to see the full view of the "fanglyfish". Cut back to the Lappy.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Maybe I'm overthinking this. I should just come up with a cool name and the rest will like as itself. I would be called ''{considers}'' da huuuuuudge. ''{He pronounces each letter of huuuuuudge, as if to say "huh-duh-juh."}''

''{Cut to Da Huuuuuudge's Enclosure. A sign on the front of the enclosure reads:}''

<pre>Please, for the love of Pete,
DO NOT feed Da Huuuuuudge</pre>

'''STRONG BAD:''' Da Huuuuuudge! ''{Pronounced as "hudge."}''

''{A large, pus-colored, gelatinous, bubbling creature with Strong Bad's face lands in the enclosure.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Eew! No. No Huuuuuudge. ''{Pronounced as "hudge" again.}''

''{Marzipan enters from the right, silhouetted, outside the enclosure.}''

'''MARZIPAN:''' Oh, wow! Look at the Huuuuuudge! ''{Pronounced as "hudge" again.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' Um... How about...the red steckled elbermung?

''{An open book descends into the frame with a picture of a red gastropod with a pattern like Strong Bad's mask around its eyes and huge lips. The text in the book reads:}''

<pre> R is for
Red steckled elbermung</pre>

'''STRONG BAD:''' No no no.

''{The lips, the eyes and the tail become annotated with the word "No" each time Strong Bad says the word.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Um...the pardack?

''{Some yellow lined paper descends into the frame. On it is a picture of a large blobby creature with Strong Bad's eyes, horns, duck feet, one of Strong Bad's arms and Strong Sad's leg for the other arm. Text under it reads: "el pardack."}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' What the? ''{The pardack gains a speech bubble with the text "what the?"}'' Why do these keep coming out as nasty blob things?

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

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Okay, okay, okay. Gotta look good for the Lappy. My made up animal ''{slight pause}'' would be called

''{Cut to Strong Badia.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' Sterrance.

''{A blue creature with stick arms and legs, red hands, orange feet, angel wings, an orange tongue, buck teeth, and a pattern like Strong Bad's mask around its eyes appears. Some music starts playing.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Hey, I did it! ''{Sterrance starts dancing}'' Look at Sterrance. Aw, Sterrance! I want one! Sterrance is way cuter than that stupid ugly old washed-up The Cheat I used to have.

''{Cut back to the computer room. The Cheat is standing by Strong Bad, looking angry.}''

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

'''STRONG BAD:''' Oh, Captain Past-His-Prime himself.

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

'''STRONG BAD:''' Yeah, I know you heard me. And I stand by it.

'''THE CHEAT:''' ''{angry Cheat noises; walks away}''

''{Strong Bad turns back to the Lappy, affectionately stroking it.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Don't worry about him, Lappy. That's just The Cheat. He uses ''{dismissively} new'' computers. Psssh! The Paper, come on down and meet your new brother!

''{The Paper begins to edge down.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Come on!

''{It edges down a bit more.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' It's okay!

''{It edges back a bit.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' No, ah! Come on!

''{It edges down a bit.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Lappy's not going to bite you or tear at your perforated edges!

''{It comes down a bit more.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' That's it!

''{It comes all the way down.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Lappy, this is The Paper. He lets me know when I've stopped being funny!

''{The Paper comes down even more so that it now reads:}''

{| cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" style="text-align:center;font-family: courier new, monospace;width:350px"
|- style="background:#E0F5E1;"
| Enough already, Strong Bad
|- style="background:#F8F8F8;"
| > Click here to e-mail strong bad
|- style="background:#E0F5E1;"
| strongbad@homestarrunner.com
|}

'''STRONG BAD:''' Oops! Sorry. Bye, everybody.

== Easter Eggs ==
*At the end, click on the word 'cuter' to show a small movie of Homestar's head on a lure next to the dancing girl in a dance club.
:''{The Homestar lure and the dancing woman are at a disco, Powered by The Cheat style. Two disco balls hang from the ceiling and a rough approximation of music is playing.}''
:'''HOMESTAR LURE:''' Hey there, Baby Styles. This is a nice dancing club, right? Do you have a phone at your house?
*At the end, click on the words 'The Cheat' to see what the runners-up get.
:''{Cut to the pedestal of The Show again. The fanglyfish is on it.}''
:'''VOICEOVER:''' Second-place contestants receive deep sea fanglyfish. Promotional considerations by Sterrance. Strong Bad's wardrobe furnished by Styles Upon Styles. ''{Some text appears on the screen reading:}''
<pre>MR. BAD'S WARDROBE
PROVIDED BY
Styles
Upon
Styles</pre>
'''HOMESTAR LURE:''' Steep prices and trees! ''{these words appear on the bottom of the screen as he says them}''

== Fun Facts ==


===Explanations===
*The Christmas lights he mentioned on the fish refer to [[Wikipedia:Bioluminescence|bioluminescence]], which is used by various deep sea creatures to attract prey, among other functions.
*The "lure" he mentioned is a feature of many different "fanglyfishes", including the [[Wikipedia:Anglerfish|anglerfish]], in which the lure gives off a small amount of light in order to attract fish in close enough to its mouth in order to eat it. Note that only ''female'' anglerfishes have lures.

===Trivia===
*This email was sent in by HRWiki member [[User:kerrek slaya|kerrek slaya]].
*The table has been re-drawn with thinner lines with no shadow along the back edge. The obvious differences can be seen with comparison to the table in "[[virus]]."
*The label on the disk in the floppy disk container reads "[[Floppy Disk Container#future wars|future wars]]".

===Remarks===
*Since the [[Wikipedia:proboscis|proboscis]] is where the monstrosity's nose should be, it shouldn't prevent him from speaking at all, but it does anyway.
*The wall behind the computer had been expertly mended, leaving no seams or cracks, and matching perfectly with the silhouetting from where Compy used to be. It is impossible to tell where the shot entered the wall after destroying Compy in [[virus]].
*Despite its supposed portability, the Lappy is plugged into the same socket that both [[Tandy 400|Tandy]] and Compy used to occupy—which is good, since well over 75% of its battery life would have been exhausted during the email. However, we never see Strong Bad plug in the Lappy. The Lappy was plugged in after Strong Bad cut away from the speculations back to the [[Computer Room|computer room]].
*Strong Bad refers to [[The Paper]] as a male. (In the email [[invisibility]], the [[Tandy 400]] says that the ''printer'' is a female.)
**Similarly, at the end of this email, Strong Bad refers to the Lappy 486 as the Paper's brother, but refers to it as female in later emails.
*Strong Bad's mention of "Christmas lights" is one of the few references to Christmas on the site, since [[Free Country, USA]] celebrates [[Decemberween]].
*Although Strong Bad usually only types what he is saying when his computer is visible, his voiceover for Sterrance's appearance is visible on the Lappy at the end of the email.
*The background "disco music" (used when Strong Bad is dancing on the back deck of the fanglyfish and in the dance club Easter egg) sounds similar to "Papa's Got a Brand New Pigbag" by Pigbag.
*In the opening of the e-mail, when you see the silhouettes of the Compy and the keyboard, you can see the shadow of a connecting cable from the keyboard to the Compy, even though there was never a visible cord that plugged in the keyboard.
*In the Powered by The Cheat sequence with the fangly fish, The Cheat fish swims between the fangly fish and the christmas lights.

===Goofs===
*In the scene with Sterrance in Strong Badia, the [[Stop Sign]] and [[Cinder Block]] are on the ''left'' side of Strong Badia.
*The first animal Strong Bad makes up has antlers, not horns.
*On the list of Strong Bad's animal options and accessories is "Segmented Eyes." The proper terminology for the multi-faceted eye found on many insects is "[[Wikipedia:Compound eye|Compound Eye]]." On the [[strongbad_email.exe]] [[#Commentary Transcript|DVD commentary]], [[The Brothers Chaps]] admit this goof and say that they found out about it by reading it "on [[Main Page|the wiki]]."
*In the [[The Show]] Easter egg, there is no back deck on the fangly fish.

===Inside References===
*The Lappy was mentioned in the commentary on the DVD for the email [[invisibility]] when the Tandy was replaced by the Compy.
*Strong Bad's pronunciation of "lure" when envisioning the fangly fish comes from [[lures & jigs]].
*The fact that horns is the second accessory listed for the Monstrosity is a reference to [[3 Wishes]], when Strong Bad says his second wish would be horns.
*When Homestar greets Strong Bad's first animal, he says "I say there, Monstrosity," just as he does in the [[The King of Town DVD]] when asking about the sheep. (i.e. "I say there, fair Blacksmith, ...)
*[[Style|"Baby styles" and "Styles Upon Styles."]]

===Real-World References===
*The new email client bears a strong resemblance to a Unix/Linux email client, [http://www.sfsu.edu/~helpdesk/docs/using/upine.htm PINE].
*The Lappy's classic startup noise sounds somewhat like the startup tone on the older Macintoshes. The sound was created on the Brothers Chaps' Casio keyboard, using the "Funny" preset. The first note is the lowest C, the second note a C one octave higher.
*Sterrance's feet look remarkably like the feet of Mickey Mouse.
*The way Strong Bad describes Lappy is in the style of many game shows.
*The Lappy's logo is a reference to the Apple Powerbook's logo.


*The word "color" in "'Several' color monitor" is the same font and color as the symbol for the Game Boy Color.
*"Babies Having Babies" is a 1988 hit by Terry Tate; as well as an [[IMDB:tt0088759|After School Special]] on ABC in 1986.
*"Brother pitted against brother" is a term used to describe civil war. It originated in the Bible as a description of the end times.
* Styles Upon Styles is a reference to a lyric from "Buggin' Out", a song on the seminal 1991 album "[[Wikipedia:Low End Theory|The Low End Theory]]" by hip-hop group [[Wikipedia:A Tribe Called Quest|A Tribe Called Quest]].

===Fast-Forward===
*[[Styles Upon Styles]] is later mentioned in [[modeling]].
*Both Da Huuuuuudge and Sterrance reappear in [[alternate universe]] along with other Strong Bad-related faces.

== 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]])

'''MIKE:''' So here we have the unveiling of Strong Bad's new computer after it was destroyed in the last episode.

'''MATT:''' Mike, what is a tumbleweed doing in Strong Bad's computer office?

'''MIKE:''' I can't— I can't even imagine.

'''MATT:''' Look, "Future Wars." Is that symbolic because this is the future of Strong Bad Emails?

'''MIKE:''' It's definitely symbolic. I thought about that for a long time.

'''MATT:''' ''{laughs}'' You didn't just think of some old game we used to have?

'''MIKE:''' No! Was that a game?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, Future Wars? By Del— Delphine ''{pronounces it, "Del-feen"}''? Delphine ''{pronounces it, "Del-fine"}''?

'''MIKE:''' I was just kidding.

'''MATT:''' Oh. And a classy logo, Mike.

'''MIKE:''' Thanks.

'''MATT:''' —I might add.

'''MIKE:''' That comes to, um—

'''MATT:''' —Life.

'''MIKE:''' Comes to life, with the yellow wig on.

'''MATT:''' ''{as [[Lappy 486#Female Lappy 486|Female Lappy 486]]}'' Strong Bad! Don't—! Stave it off! It's best time!

'''MIKE:''' So this is, of course, the background from "[[the show]]" email.

'''MATT:''' Yes.

'''MIKE:''' The game show background that I like so much.

'''MATT:''' Looks like it might be a prize that you win when you appear on the show.

'''MIKE:''' ''{laughs}'' Yes.

'''MATT:''' Uh, I think that was very heavily inspired by when, uh, Kevin on ''Starcade'' is announcing the prizes on ''Starcade'', ''{Mike laughs}'' and so, I was like— What's that game? There was one that was a controller that they always did.

'''MIKE:''' Uh, I—

'''MATT:''' I can't remember.

'''MIKE:''' A kind of joystick.

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

'''MIKE:''' A spud is, uh, is another word for a potato.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, they probably know that already.

'''MIKE:''' Who's "they"?

'''MATT:''' Those watching— the viewers.

'''MIKE:''' I bet— I bet at least one person watching this didn't know that a spud was also a potato.

'''MATT:''' Well, that's probably a four-year-old—

'''MIKE:''' There you go, buddy. I just taught you something. Pay me later. Oh, we messed up here, like, he says "segmented eyes," but he actually has compound eyes.

'''MATT:''' Ohhh.

'''MIKE:''' Read that on the wiki.

'''MATT:''' Good job.

'''MIKE:''' Goofs.

'''MATT:''' Goofs. That's a total goof. Strong Bad messed up, Mike. ''We'' knew our stuff.

'''MIKE:''' That's true. We did that on purpose.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. What is "segmented eyes" like?

'''MIKE:''' I dunno.

'''MATT:''' Is that a made-up thing?

'''MIKE:''' Maybe.

'''MATT:''' I remember originally—

'''MIKE:''' "Segmented bodies."

'''MATT:''' The line said, "segmented eyes" and "segmented butt," but we cut out "segmented butt."

'''MIKE:''' That's too risqué. Too risky.

'''MATT:''' Uh, so, look! The Cheat, out of nowhere! Look! There's ''my'' voice! There's the Cheat-whale.

'''MIKE:''' It must feel a little weir—

'''MATT:''' That Cheat-whale looks kinda like the Jaguar shark from ''The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou''.

'''MIKE:''' It does.

'''MATT:''' This was before that.

'''MIKE:''' ''{simultaneously}'' Before that.

'''MATT:''' Yes, see? We're suing Wes Anderson as we speak. ''{Mike laughs}'' Litigation Jackson is on the case. ''{Mike laughs}'' ''{Pause}'' Um... I think Powered by The Cheat-style thing should assist in Strong Bad Emails more often.

'''MIKE:''' Alright, let's do that for next week's email.

'''MATT:''' All— All— Calling all Powered by The Cheats. ''{Mike laughs}'' Sorry. That thing is gross, Mike.

'''MIKE:''' It is.

'''MATT:''' Look, it's like, look at the ground around it. It's greasing out everywhere.

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

'''MATT:''' It's really gross. That thing's ''as'' gross—

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

'''MATT:''' —if not grosser.

'''MIKE:''' He's happy, though.

'''MATT:''' —or more gross. And that thing has a Strong Sad leg coming out of it, Mike.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, his mouth is kinda like, um, Neo's mouth in, uh, ''The Matrix'' when it closes up, and it becomes like...

'''MATT:''' Ohhh, GUI? ''{pronounced "gooey"}''

'''MIKE:''' GUI. GUI mouth.

'''MATT:''' Graphic user interface mouth?

'''MIKE:''' Look at little Sterrance!

'''MATT:''' ''{simultaneously}'' Oh, Sterrance!

'''MIKE:''' He appears on the cover of this very DVD on the back!

'''MATT:''' Um, will we ever see him again?

'''MIKE:''' I dunno. Very possibly not.

'''MATT:''' I remember, uh, some people thinking we were gonna ditch The Cheat after this email, that Sterrance was going to—

'''MIKE:''' Yeah. They really thought that Sterrance was gonna be the new sidekick for Strong Bad.

'''MATT:''' He is pretty harsh to him. That'd be a sad way for The Cheat to go out. The Cheat ain't goin' out like that. Over the years, The Paper definitely has become more and more of a—

'''MIKE:''' A character.

'''MATT:''' It should have been on [[Everybody Everybody Poster|that big characters poster]] we made, I think.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah. It definitely has a personality.

===Real-World References===
*''[[Wikipedia:Starcade|Starcade]]'' is an early 80s game show where teams played arcade games to win one of their own. "Kevin" is a reference to Kevin McMahon, the show's announcer.
*''[[Wikipedia:The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou|The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou]]'' is a 2004 film about an [[Wikipedia:Oceanography|oceanographer]] who tries to avenge his dead partner.

== External Links ==
{{sbemailextlinks|119|1394}}
*[[Podstar:sb_email_animal.m4v|download "animal" for the iPod]] (see [[Podstar Runner]])
{{Strong Bad Email}}
[[Category:Powered by The Cheat]]
[[Category:Emails With DVD Commentary]]
[[Category:Podstar Runner]]

HRWiki:Sandbox

4kai2lyn6 — Tue, 08 May 2007 15:20:45 GMT

4kai2lyn6: I'll put it here in the sandbox for now, hoping that someone will help me clean it up and add to it and give it a good title and yes, I ''am'' (not) awesome....

Alcohol

4kai2lyn6 — Mon, 07 May 2007 18:51:53 GMT

4kai2lyn6: That's cool... I'll put this here then too.

[[Image:Cold One Premium Alcoholic Screen Saver.png|thumb|Premium Alcoholic Cold Ones]]
There are many references to '''[[Wikipedia:Alcoholic beverage|alcohol]]''' in the [[Homestar Runner (body of work)|Homestar Runner]] body of work.

==Appearances==
===Strong Bad Email===
*[[making out]] — In order to get the sender's boyfriend to [[Making Out|make out]] with her, [[Strong Bad]] proposes lighting "a few candles and maybe having a glass of wine".
*[[theme party]] — Strong Bad suggests getting "a couple of kegs of cheap cold ones" for the party. Also, one of the Easter eggs features a "Spring Drink'n Formal 2002" T-shirt with a picture of a [[Bears|bear]] wearing [[Cool Shades|sunglasses]], holding a beer mug, along with [[Wikipedia:Calvin and Hobbes|Calvin]], who appears to be passed out.
*[[personal favorites]] — Strong Bad claims that both he and [[The Cheat]] once became intoxicated from imbibing large quantities of [[Wikipedia:Soy sauce|soy sauce]], causing Strong Bad to think he could fly [[Bubs' Concession Stand]] to the [[The Moon|moon]], and The Cheat to try to eat it.
*[[dangeresque 3]] — Strong Bad asks the viewer not to throw "full wine bottles" at the screen.
*[[time capsule]] — An Easter egg features Coach Z Ale, a brand of (presumably alcoholic) ale that is either produced or endorsed by [[Coach Z]].
*[[radio]] — [[Homestar Runner]] throws a [[Wikipedia:Old fashioned glass|rocks glass]] while yelling "High-ball!"
*[[modeling]] — "Colognac" is a [[Portmanteaus|portmanteau]] formed by combining "[[Wikipedia:Cognac (drink)|cognac]]", a distilled liquor, and "[[Wikipedia:Eau de Cologne|cologne]]", a fragrance.
*[[space program]] — During the [[The Strong Badian Administration of Some Aluminum Foil|SBASAF]] slide show, the narrator says, "Somebody get that man a highball".
*[[myths & legends]] — [[Bubs]] states that the [[Bear holding a Shark]] [[Wikipedia:Shot glass|shot glasses]] are "always popular with the kids". Shot glasses are small glasses used to serve small amounts of (usually potent) liquor.
*[[senior prom]] — Strong Bad mentions consuming "[http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0308c&L=ads-l&D=1&F=&S=&P=6102 okratinis]", martinis served with a pickled okra pod instead of an olive.
**Also, Coach Z is seen spiking the punch with Listerine, an antiseptic mouthwash that contains alcohol.
*[[your funeral]] — Strong Bad describes his funeral as being "off the wagon". "Falling off the wagon" is an idiom referring to a recovering alcoholic's relapse into alcoholism.
*[[rough copy]] — Homestar advertises his "Malinko Drinko", claiming it is "crystal clear like domestic beer".

===Other Appearances===
*[[Meet Marshie]] — [[Marshie]] recommends [[Fluffy Puff Marshmallows]] over a variety of other consumables visualized on a blackboard, one of which is a [[Wikipedia:Martini (cocktail)|martini]].
*[[Homestarloween Party]] — [[Pom Pom's girls]] are seen with beer, liquor, and other related paraphernalia.
*[[Dancin' Bubs]] — Background two includes a broken beer bottle and a beer mug.
*[[Nighttime Driving Type Game]] — Features "Drunk Drivers".
*[[The Luau]] — Among the phrases of "[[Wikipedia:Polynesia|Polynesian]] Prose" that [[Strong Sad]] recites is "[[Wikipedia:Kahlúa|Kahlúa]] and Creme", an alcoholic drink.
*[[The House That Gave Sucky Treats]] — Coach Z raps about [[Wikipedia:Hennessy|Hennessy]], a brand of cognac.
*[[The Best Decemberween Ever]] — Homestar sings "Coach Z's been drinking Listerine!"
*[[Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 5.0]] — Coach Z and [[Bubs]] leave messages while drunk. 
*[[Ballad of The Sneak]] — As mentioned in the song, [[The Sneak]] drinks bootleg [[Wikipedia:Moonshine|hooch]], a homemade whiskey usually produced and/or sold through illegal methods.
**Also, there is a [[Wikipedia:Editorial cartoon|political cartoon]] featuring the subjects of [[Wikipedia:Prohibition|prohibition]] and the [[Wikipedia:Hawley-Smoot Tariff|Hawley-Smoot Tariff]].
*[[New Boots]] — [[Powered by The Cheat]] Strong Bad made The Cheat's favorite: a picnic plate with wine and a baguette.
*[[That Time of Year]] — Strong Bad comments about martinis going to people's heads.
*[[That A Ghost]] — [[Fat Dudley]] is caught drinking hooch.
*[[Commandos in the Classroom]] — One of the [[Blue Laser minion]]s asks [[Fightgar]] "to put these wine coolers down your pants... er, down your headband".
*[[Teen Girl Squad Issue 10]] — The [[Minor Teen Girl Squad Characters#Scotsmen|Scotsmen]] are seen standing around a beer barrel with 3 Xs on it (when regarding beverages, X is a symbol for an [[Wikipedia:Proof (alcohol)|alcoholic proof]] of 50; multiple X's indicate multiples of 50).
*[[Decemberween Short Shorts]] — In the last short, Coach Z is seen inebriated by Listerine.
*[[Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 14.2]] — Marzipan is drinking a "wheatgrasstini", a [[Portmanteaus|portmanteau]] of wheatgrass and a martini.
*[[Drive-Thru]] — Strong bad asks "Inviso-Jeeves" for a bottle of Château Prétende 1974, presumably wine.

==See Also==
*[[Cold One]]
*[[Listerine]]

[[Category:Activity running gags]]

Alcohol

4kai2lyn6 — Mon, 07 May 2007 18:48:04 GMT

4kai2lyn6: rv - it's already linked at the top (otherwise, I would've put it in too)

[[Image:Cold One Premium Alcoholic Screen Saver.png|thumb|Premium Alcoholic Cold Ones]]
In addition to [[Cold One|Cold Ones]] (and other varieties of Ones), there are many references to '''[[Wikipedia:Alcoholic beverage|alcohol]]''' in the [[Homestar Runner (body of work)|Homestar Runner]] body of work.

==Appearances==
===Strong Bad Email===
*[[making out]] — In order to get the sender's boyfriend to [[Making Out|make out]] with her, [[Strong Bad]] proposes lighting "a few candles and maybe having a glass of wine".
*[[theme party]] — Strong Bad suggests getting "a couple of kegs of cheap cold ones" for the party. Also, one of the Easter eggs features a "Spring Drink'n Formal 2002" T-shirt with a picture of a [[Bears|bear]] wearing [[Cool Shades|sunglasses]], holding a beer mug, along with [[Wikipedia:Calvin and Hobbes|Calvin]], who appears to be passed out.
*[[personal favorites]] — Strong Bad claims that both he and [[The Cheat]] once became intoxicated from imbibing large quantities of [[Wikipedia:Soy sauce|soy sauce]], causing Strong Bad to think he could fly [[Bubs' Concession Stand]] to the [[The Moon|moon]], and The Cheat to try to eat it.
*[[dangeresque 3]] — Strong Bad asks the viewer not to throw "full wine bottles" at the screen.
*[[time capsule]] — An Easter egg features Coach Z Ale, a brand of (presumably alcoholic) ale that is either produced or endorsed by [[Coach Z]].
*[[radio]] — [[Homestar Runner]] throws a [[Wikipedia:Old fashioned glass|rocks glass]] while yelling "High-ball!"
*[[modeling]] — "Colognac" is a [[Portmanteaus|portmanteau]] formed by combining "[[Wikipedia:Cognac (drink)|cognac]]", a distilled liquor, and "[[Wikipedia:Eau de Cologne|cologne]]", a fragrance.
*[[space program]] — During the [[The Strong Badian Administration of Some Aluminum Foil|SBASAF]] slide show, the narrator says, "Somebody get that man a highball".
*[[myths & legends]] — [[Bubs]] states that the [[Bear holding a Shark]] [[Wikipedia:Shot glass|shot glasses]] are "always popular with the kids". Shot glasses are small glasses used to serve small amounts of (usually potent) liquor.
*[[senior prom]] — Strong Bad mentions consuming "[http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0308c&L=ads-l&D=1&F=&S=&P=6102 okratinis]", martinis served with a pickled okra pod instead of an olive.
**Also, Coach Z is seen spiking the punch with [[Listerine]], an antiseptic mouthwash that contains alcohol.
*[[your funeral]] — Strong Bad describes his funeral as being "off the wagon". "Falling off the wagon" is an idiom referring to a recovering alcoholic's relapse into alcoholism.
*[[rough copy]] — Homestar advertises his "Malinko Drinko", claiming it is "crystal clear like domestic beer".

===Other Appearances===
*[[Meet Marshie]] — [[Marshie]] recommends [[Fluffy Puff Marshmallows]] over a variety of other consumables visualized on a blackboard, one of which is a [[Wikipedia:Martini (cocktail)|martini]].
*[[Homestarloween Party]] — [[Pom Pom's girls]] are seen with beer, liquor, and other related paraphernalia.
*[[Dancin' Bubs]] — Background two includes a broken beer bottle and a beer mug.
*[[Nighttime Driving Type Game]] — Features "Drunk Drivers".
*[[The Luau]] — Among the phrases of "[[Wikipedia:Polynesia|Polynesian]] Prose" that [[Strong Sad]] recites is "[[Wikipedia:Kahlúa|Kahlúa]] and Creme", an alcoholic drink.
*[[The House That Gave Sucky Treats]] — Coach Z raps about [[Wikipedia:Hennessy|Hennessy]], a brand of cognac.
*[[The Best Decemberween Ever]] — Homestar sings "Coach Z's been drinking Listerine!"
*[[Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 5.0]] — Coach Z and [[Bubs]] leave messages while drunk. 
*[[Ballad of The Sneak]] — As mentioned in the song, [[The Sneak]] drinks bootleg [[Wikipedia:Moonshine|hooch]], a homemade whiskey usually produced and/or sold through illegal methods.
**Also, there is a [[Wikipedia:Editorial cartoon|political cartoon]] featuring the subjects of [[Wikipedia:Prohibition|prohibition]] and the [[Wikipedia:Hawley-Smoot Tariff|Hawley-Smoot Tariff]].
*[[New Boots]] — [[Powered by The Cheat]] Strong Bad made The Cheat's favorite: a picnic plate with wine and a baguette.
*[[That Time of Year]] — Strong Bad comments about martinis going to people's heads.
*[[That A Ghost]] — [[Fat Dudley]] is caught drinking hooch.
*[[Commandos in the Classroom]] — One of the [[Blue Laser minion]]s asks [[Fightgar]] "to put these wine coolers down your pants... er, down your headband".
*[[Teen Girl Squad Issue 10]] — The [[Minor Teen Girl Squad Characters#Scotsmen|Scotsmen]] are seen standing around a beer barrel with 3 Xs on it (when regarding beverages, X is a symbol for an [[Wikipedia:Proof (alcohol)|alcoholic proof]] of 50; multiple X's indicate multiples of 50).
*[[Decemberween Short Shorts]] — In the last short, Coach Z is seen inebriated by Listerine.
*[[Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 14.2]] — Marzipan is drinking a "wheatgrasstini", a [[Portmanteaus|portmanteau]] of wheatgrass and a martini.
*[[Drive-Thru]] — Strong bad asks "Inviso-Jeeves" for a bottle of Château Prétende 1974, presumably wine.

[[Category:Activity running gags]]

Alcohol

4kai2lyn6 — Mon, 07 May 2007 18:42:56 GMT

4kai2lyn6: /* Strong Bad Email */ partial rv - there's nothing wrong with learning a new word...

Alcohol

4kai2lyn6 — Mon, 07 May 2007 18:34:51 GMT

4kai2lyn6: /* Appearances */ various rewords, links, etc.

[[Image:Cold One Premium Alcoholic Screen Saver.png|thumb|Premium Alcoholic Cold Ones]]
In addition to [[Cold One|Cold Ones]] (and other varieties of Ones), there are many references to '''[[Wikipedia:Alcoholic beverage|alcohol]]''' in the [[Homestar Runner (body of work)|Homestar Runner]] body of work.

==Appearances==
===Strong Bad Email===
*[[making out]] — In order to get the sender's boyfriend to [[Making Out|make out]] with her, [[Strong Bad]] proposes lighting "a few candles and maybe having a glass of wine".
*[[theme party]] — Strong Bad suggests getting "a couple of kegs of cheap cold ones" for the party. Also, one of the Easter eggs features a "Spring Drink'n Formal 2002" T-shirt with a picture of a [[Bears|bear]] wearing [[Cool Shades|sunglasses]], holding a beer mug, along with [[Wikipedia:Calvin and Hobbes|Calvin]], who appears to be passed out.
*[[personal favorites]] — Strong Bad claims that both he and [[The Cheat]] once got drunk from imbibing large quantities of [[Wikipedia:Soy sauce|soy sauce]], causing Strong Bad to think he could fly [[Bubs' Concession Stand]] to the [[The Moon|moon]], and The Cheat to try to eat it.
*[[dangeresque 3]] — Strong Bad asks the viewer not to throw "full wine bottles" at the screen.
*[[time capsule]] — An Easter egg features Coach Z Ale, a brand of (presumably alcoholic) ale that is either produced or endorsed by [[Coach Z]].
*[[radio]] — [[Homestar Runner]] throws a [[Wikipedia:Old fashioned glass|rocks glass]] while yelling "High-ball!"
*[[modeling]] — "Colognac" is a [[Portmanteaus|portmanteau]] formed by combining "[[Wikipedia:Cognac (drink)|cognac]]", a distilled liquor, and "[[Wikipedia:Eau de Cologne|cologne]]", a fragrance.
*[[space program]] — During the [[The Strong Badian Administration of Some Aluminum Foil|SBASAF]] slide show, the narrator says, "Somebody get that man a highball".
*[[myths & legends]] — [[Bubs]] states that the [[Bear holding a Shark]] [[Wikipedia:Shot glass|shot glasses]] are "always popular with the kids". Shot glasses are small glasses used to serve small amounts of (usually potent) liquor.
*[[senior prom]] — Strong Bad mentions consuming "[http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0308c&L=ads-l&D=1&F=&S=&P=6102 okratinis]", martinis served with a pickled okra pod instead of an olive.
**Also, Coach Z is seen spiking the punch with [[Listerine]], an antiseptic mouthwash that contains alcohol.
*[[your funeral]] — Strong Bad describes his funeral as being "off the wagon". "Falling off the wagon" is an idiom referring to a recovering alcoholic's relapse into alcoholism.
*[[rough copy]] — Homestar advertises his "Malinko Drinko", claiming it is "crystal clear like domestic beer".

===Other Appearances===
*[[Meet Marshie]] — [[Marshie]] recommends [[Fluffy Puff Marshmallows]] over a variety of other consumables visualized on a blackboard, one of which is a [[Wikipedia:Martini (cocktail)|martini]].
*[[Homestarloween Party]] — [[Pom Pom's girls]] are seen with beer, liquor, and other related paraphernalia.
*[[Dancin' Bubs]] — Background two includes a broken beer bottle and a beer mug.
*[[Nighttime Driving Type Game]] — Features "Drunk Drivers".
*[[The Luau]] — Among the phrases of "[[Wikipedia:Polynesia|Polynesian]] Prose" that [[Strong Sad]] recites is "[[Wikipedia:Kahlúa|Kahlúa]] and Creme", an alcoholic drink.
*[[The House That Gave Sucky Treats]] — Coach Z raps about [[Wikipedia:Hennessy|Hennessy]], a brand of cognac.
*[[The Best Decemberween Ever]] — Homestar sings "Coach Z's been drinking Listerine!"
*[[Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 5.0]] — Coach Z and [[Bubs]] leave messages while drunk. 
*[[Ballad of The Sneak]] — As mentioned in the song, [[The Sneak]] drinks bootleg [[Wikipedia:Moonshine|hooch]], a homemade whiskey usually produced and/or sold through illegal methods.
**Also, there is a [[Wikipedia:Editorial cartoon|political cartoon]] featuring the subjects of [[Wikipedia:Prohibition|prohibition]] and the [[Wikipedia:Hawley-Smoot Tariff|Hawley-Smoot Tariff]].
*[[New Boots]] — [[Powered by The Cheat]] Strong Bad made The Cheat's favorite: a picnic plate with wine and a baguette.
*[[That Time of Year]] — Strong Bad comments about martinis going to people's heads.
*[[That A Ghost]] — [[Fat Dudley]] is caught drinking hooch.
*[[Commandos in the Classroom]] — One of the [[Blue Laser minion]]s asks [[Fightgar]] "to put these wine coolers down your pants... er, down your headband".
*[[Teen Girl Squad Issue 10]] — The [[Minor Teen Girl Squad Characters#Scotsmen|Scotsmen]] are seen standing around a beer barrel with 3 Xs on it (when regarding beverages, X is a symbol for an [[Wikipedia:Proof (alcohol)|alcoholic proof]] of 50; multiple X's indicate multiples of 50).
*[[Decemberween Short Shorts]] — In the last short, Coach Z is seen inebriated by Listerine.
*[[Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 14.2]] — Marzipan is drinking a "wheatgrasstini", a [[Portmanteaus|portmanteau]] of wheatgrass and a martini.
*[[Drive-Thru]] — Strong bad asks "Inviso-Jeeves" for a bottle of Château Prétende 1974, presumably wine.
[[Category:Activity running gags]]

User:4kai2lyn6

4kai2lyn6 — Sat, 05 May 2007 19:02:38 GMT

4kai2lyn6: black ''und'' white

[[Experimental Film|Comin' up...]]

(In the meantime, behold some black-und-white field!)

Talk:Main Page

4kai2lyn6 — Sat, 05 May 2007 16:52:50 GMT

4kai2lyn6: /* About the "what's new" section */ okay

{{Main Page Talk}}

== New quote/fanstuff/sketch of the week ==

Just thought I should say so, since it seems I was the first one to notice. I'm in a hurry or I would add the information to the articles.--[[User:Tally Solleni|Tally Solleni]] 22:24, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

== Secret Collect ==

I seem to be noticed sooner here, so: Has anyone else noticed Secret Collect lately? It appears to have been fixed. --[[User:Jnelson09|Jnelson09]] 20:49, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
:Fixed? It was broken? --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]] 20:53, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
::By "fixed," I mean levels 1-14 have returned. --[[User:Jnelson09|Jnelson09]] 18:03, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

== Forum-Appropriate Topics ==

I'm thinking of maybe removing all forum-appropriate topics from toons and emails and the like. Would this be a good idea, or is it just left best as it is? --{{User:TotalSpaceshipGuy3/sig}} 21:45, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

:I wouldn't go through any previously existing posts looking for them — for example, a lot of them are leftover from days before we were so strict about this, and we'd like to keep those for historical reasons. But it would be great to keep an eye out for and remove any new posts that fit that category. {{User:Trey56/sig}} 21:48, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
::Alright, that seems fair. Good thing I checked before I started, that could have been nasty. :P --{{User:TotalSpaceshipGuy3/sig}} 21:49, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

:::Okay, cool. By the way, I assume you're talking about articles' talk pages, right? {{User:Trey56/sig}} 21:50, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
::::Yes. The "Great email!" and "I think they're stalling!" topics. --{{User:TotalSpaceshipGuy3/sig}} 21:51, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

:::::Aha, yes. {{User:Trey56/sig}} 21:52, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
::::::In some extreme cases, we might remove a topic completely, but that's unusual. Normally we just ask people to stay on topic on the talk page and leave whatever discussion is already there in place. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 21:57, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
:::::::Yeah, good call — keeping the topics there with the suggestion to stay on topic rather than (removing them) helps prevent other people from starting the same topic again later on. {{User:Trey56/sig}} 22:02, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
::::::::''{written in reply to DC}'' I feel this is the better way to go about it. Remember, lots of people just don't understand the purpose of talk pages. A friendly note about how they're for discussing article content is a lot more newbie-friendly than removing it completely, especially when they may not understand why you would write an edit summary like "rm forum-style comment" or "take it to the forum". {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 22:04, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

== Did the quadratic formula explode? ==

I tried to go to this site 3 or 5 times last Sunday and it never worked. Was the problem with the site or with my laptop? [[User:Bad Bad Guy|Bad Bad Guy]] 16:56, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
:I typed in the site myself, I Googled the site, I tried to enter the site through Wikipedia and none of those worked. Did this happen to anyone else? [[User:Bad Bad Guy|Bad Bad Guy]] 22:59, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
::The site was down for a bit. It's back now. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 23:05, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

== ?hrwiki_mwiki6_session=4e39526d2071ea0ffd15b2ecaedaa5f9 ==

I see this or something like this added to the URL whenever I use a link from my userpage or from the first page I visit when I access this site. What does it mean, and how can I prevent it? --[[User:Jnelson09|Jnelson09]] 18:03, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
:That happens sometimes. It's nothing to worry about. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 23:06, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

== Article Request ==

See [[Talk:Marzipan and Strong Sad's Relationship]]. [[User:Bad Bad Guy|Bad Bad Guy]] 02:20, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

== Licensing stuff ==

A discussion [[Talk:Georgia Tech - 26 Apr 2007#Use_of_intro_paragraphs_in_GT_Library_newsletter|over here]] got me thinking about licensing issues on the HRWiki. A few thoughts:

# We should "upgrade" our license to [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ CC 3.0] (it even says we should on our [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ current license's page]).
# We should make the [[HRWiki:General disclaimer|licensing info]] more prominent, say at the bottom of every page.
# We should make it clear on the editing page that by writing something, users are automatically licensing that content to the HRWiki, and that HRWiki will in turn distribute it under our CC license.

Copyright issues on a wiki can be very, very tricky, so I think we need to be as clear as possible about how we will license the content people contribute. Thoughts? — [[User:InterruptorJones|InterruptorJones]] 15:53, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
:As I have [[HRWiki_talk:Spoken_Articles#Legality_Issues|mentioned before]] (despite that project being abandoned) these licensing clarifications should extend to non-textual media such as original images and/or audio. (This might be even more applicable in the [[HRFWiki:|fanstuff wiki]]). Of course I don't think everyone would be willing to license their media that way, but most people I don't think would mind. --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 17:37, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
::I strongly disagree with being required to license original images under a CC license. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 18:02, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

== About the "what's new" section ==

I know it's really only for what's new to the official site, but what about public appearances? I just watched the Georgia Tech video (''awesomenessssss'') and was wondering if I've missed anything else... I don't really know what I'm trying to suggest here — a new section for recent public appearances (ex. Georgia Tech), side projects (ex. that They Might Be Giants video sample come readily to mind), etc.? — but I thought I'd just bring it up. Perhaps it'd be too small, what with these instances being far and few, but I'd still find something like that beneficial.... {{User:4kai2lyn6/sig}} 15:38, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

:I don't know. We're all used to having What's New not being cluttered with TBC's public activities; it's really a site updates thing. — {{User:Lapper/sig}} 16:05, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
::I don't think it'd be too cluttered, their appearances are pretty rare and spread out. - {{User:Joshua/sig}} 16:14, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
:::The [[H*R.com updates 2007|site updates]] page that the What's New section links to includes public appearances. We should at least be consistent in what we consider an "update". {{User:Has Matt?/sig}} 16:27, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
::::Fair enough. {{User:4kai2lyn6/sig}} 16:52, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Talk:Main Page

4kai2lyn6 — Sat, 05 May 2007 15:38:30 GMT

4kai2lyn6: /**/About the "what's new" section

User talk:Invisible Robot Fish

4kai2lyn6 — Thu, 03 May 2007 15:53:40 GMT

4kai2lyn6: /**/BABY!

{{User:Invisible Robot Fish/talk page box|Hey there, thanks for stopping by. Drop me a line, tell me what's on your mind. '''« « « « Archive » » » »''' 
[[User talk:Invisible Robot Fish/Talk Archive 1|1-20]] « » [[User talk:Invisible Robot Fish/Talk Archive 2|21-40]] 
[[User talk:Invisible Robot Fish/Talk Archive database|the ''non-''guestbook]] « » [[User talk:Invisible Robot Fish/Talk Archive Matt Chapman's Card|Matt's birthday card]]}}

== Astrid Renee ==

Hey [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=Little_Girl&curid=2834&diff=383047&oldid=349853&rcid=333354 this] is cool — verified in your birthday card conversations with her? {{User:Trey56/sig}} 17:00, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

:Yeppers, I had delightful conversation. I even got Mike birthday. She laughed and said that it is already passed. She said 9/28, and the said, "oh wait, that's Donnie's birthday." Then she said that Mike's in 9/20. {{User:Invisible_Robot_Fish/sig}} 17:21, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

::GOSH. Lucky... Way to have awesome telephone skillz. {{User:Trey56/sig}} 17:28, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

== Better Late Than Never ==

Ok wikifolks, I just off the phone with UPS and the birthday card saga is over. The card was delivered today at 2:02 pm. I'm sure Matt will appreciate the thought and the fact that we tried to get the card to him before his birthday. Anywho, for all future ventures I now know the correct addresses in which to send packages...and now we now we know Mike birthday too! {{User:Invisible_Robot_Fish/sig}} 20:23, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
:Huzzah! Good to know the card is finally in the right hands. (So... when do we get to see it?) {{User:Phlip/sig}} 20:56, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
::I didn't want to post it until he got a chance to see it. Karen said that she will give it to him this weekend. I will post the pictures tonight. {{User:Invisible_Robot_Fish/sig}} 21:12, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
:::Hey, that looks great! Thanks for all the hard work! :-){{User:Loafing/sig}} 00:04, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

== Hi ==

Just wanted to say hi. I have a weekly "saying hi" thing. Your first. See the list [[User:The thing/hi|here]]. {{User:The thing/sig}} 00:46, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
:right back at you. {{User:Invisible_Robot_Fish/sig}} 01:07, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
::I'm here to say hi, too. :3 I haven't been here in a while. I used to write you haikus, remember? :D It's good to see that you all are still active on here. I hoped I wouldn't come back and see that you had all like...died. [[User:Powered by The Kate|Powered by The Kate]]
:::PBTK, glad to see you back. I was wondering where you went. No, I'll never leave. I'll be chronicling H*R until the hereafter. {{User:Invisible_Robot_Fish/sig}} 15:23, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
::::Eh, I went to the land of High School, where they make the assumption that you have no life outside of school, and have the magical ability to take up every second of your free time. [[User:Powered by The Kate|Powered by The Kate]]
:::::Ah, I remember that land. I too had no free time but it wasn't because of homework (I just didn't do that stuff), it was all the extra carricular stuff. I did [[wikipedia:American football|football]], [[wikipedia:Baseball|baseball]], [[wikipedia:Taekwondo|Tae Kwon Do]], [[wikipedia:Ward_Melville_High_School#Co-Curricular_Program|D.A.F.Y.]], [[wikipedia:Ward_Melville_High_School#Co-Curricular_Program|Invictus (Yearbook club)]], [[wikipedia:Ward_Melville_High_School#Co-Curricular_Program|Cinnabar (Poetry Magazine)]], and [http://www.3villagecsd.k12.ny.us/wmhs/clubs/sites/webmasters.html Webmasters] for the [http://www.3villagecsd.k12.ny.us/wmhs/index.php school website]. It's amazing that I had time to breathe.
:::::...and all of that pales in comparison, to try raise one small little boy. [[wikipedia:James Dobson|Dr. James Dobson]] described thes little guys in the book [[wikipedia:James_Dobson#Books|Bringing Up Boys]] as "all rocket, no rudder". How true, how true. {{User:Invisible_Robot_Fish/sig}} 04:23, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
I too just want to say "hi," so hi! I like your user page, (I'm dreading the 1oth email from now - I'll miss The Paper if he does end up gettin' booted) and your "12 Days of Decemberween" contest! That's a really fun idea! Okay... byefornow! [[User:4kai2lyn6|kai lyn]] 22:21, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
:Oh, Kai Lyn, I overlooked your comment. Hi. I'm glad that you like my page. also I've noticed that you have made a lot of quality edits right out of the gate, great jorb! {{User:Invisible_Robot_Fish/sig}} 21:47, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

== [[User:Trey56#NES Endings Trivia Challenge|NES Endings Trivia Challenge]] ==

[[Image:Googlypumpkin.png|thumb|125px|Most Improved!]]
After carefully evaluating [[User talk:Trey56#15 November 2006|your contributions]] to this week's [[User:Trey56#NES Endings Trivia Challenge|NES Endings Trivia Challenge]], I've realized that you earned the award on the right. Congraturation! {{User:Trey56/sig}} 19:41, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

:Yaaaay! {{User:Invisible_Robot_Fish/sig}} 21:49, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
{{clear}}

==See n Say==

Based on your edit of [[Why Come Only One Girl?]] do we need to change that site-wide? - [[User:Ilko Skevüld's Teh C|Ilko Skevüld's Teh C]] 13:40, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

:I have asked them to clarify their original request. I am awaiting further instructions from the Homestar Runner office and will pass their request on to a sysop. {{User:Invisible_Robot_Fish/sig}} 13:42, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

::Check. Just seeing if I could be of any use with it. "Now back to my regularly scheduled day of Greek and waiting for someone to screw up the server." - [[User:Ilko Skevüld's Teh C|Ilko Skevüld's Teh C]] 13:46, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

== Today's Edition of Stupid Coincidence Magazine ==

Today I tried to make a wikipedia account and it told me that there was already a Invisible Robot Fish, I thought first "how odd...that someone else would have that name" then I thought "perhaps I already made an account and forgot." Then today, when going through Tampo's old userpage I came across {{p|l=http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=User:Tampo&diff=next&oldid=335875 this edit}}. I guess that I shouldn't expect much from someone as annoying as Tampo, but I'm puzzled why he chose me since I can't remember having any dialogue with him.
anyways. One, two, four, email me more. {{User:Invisible_Robot_Fish/sig}} 21:09, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

:Ouch. Maybe you could go as "IRF", though. — {{User:Lapper/sig}} 21:15, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

::That was taken too, I just went as calitopgun, which is my normal s/n outside of Homestarry Land. {{User:Invisible_Robot_Fish/sig}} 21:16, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

:::Maybe he just also liked [[band names]]. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 21:21, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

::::It's dot com: will you be on later tonight? Me's wants to here about your phone call today. {{User:Invisible_Robot_Fish/sig}} 21:24, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

== The Brother's Strong - help wanted ==

Hey everyone. I am working on a little project and one small component of it is to capture a screen shot with Strong Bad, Strong Sad, and Strong Mad, in it with no other characters in the shot. Do you haas? What it takes to find such a PNG. This isn't realy a contest but you can treat it like one if you so fancy. {{User:Invisible_Robot_Fish/sig}} 23:15, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
:You can get almost get all three faces alone in a screenshot from the couch scene in [[extra plug]], but [[The Cheat]] probably gets too much in the way. I'll keep looking... {{User:Trey56/sig}} 23:35, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
::Oh... [[:Image:thebrothersstrong.png|here you go]]. {{User:Trey56/sig}} 23:37, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
:::Sweeeet! That's perfect. Rondleman, you are the man, my D.O.G.E.. {{User:Invisible_Robot_Fish/sig}} 23:45, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
::::I'm sorry ma'am; free bagels just happened. ''{skates offscreen to the left}'' :) {{User:Trey56/sig}} 23:52, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

== Some Award ==

[[Image:SomeAward.PNG]]
I'm happy to announce, that you are the first ever recipient! I hereby present you with '''[[HRWiki:Barnstars|Some Award]]''', in recognition of your [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=User_talk:Bluebry&oldid=393895#Math exemplary math skills]

Congratulations! {{User:Bryanc/sig}} 06:08, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

:Thank you. {{User:Invisible_Robot_Fish/sig}} 16:19, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
{{clear}}

== The 12 Days of D'ween Contest ==

Over the next 11 days I will be posting a verse a day. You play along and try to guess the next days' verse. I have already written out all of the verses so you won't be influencing them, but let see who can get the closest. '''Prize: self respect/pride... and maybe a muffin'''

===Day 2 Predictions===

#Um... two lame Nobots? [[User:4kai2lyn6|kai lyn]] 22:24, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

===Day 3 Predictions===

#Three [[The Brothers Strong|Brothers Strong]]? {{User:Trey56/sig}} 15:29, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
#[[The Barbershop Trio]] ? [[User:4kai2lyn6|kai lyn]] 15:44, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
#.....Three [[Strong Bad Email|Strong Bad - email - checkin'est- type computers]] (maybe)????!!!!! [[User:4kai2lyn6|kai lyn]] 20:03, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

===Day 4 Predictions===
*[[4 branches]], or [[Looking at a Thing in a Bag|4 drinks for 4 cool guys?]] {{User:Theyellowdart/sig}}

===Day 5 Predictions===
# [[local news|Best five bucks I ever spent]] {{User:Trey56/sig}} 18:35, 17 December 2006

===Day 6 Predictions===
#[[Biz Cas Fri 1|five or six appe "teasers"]] - {{User:The Joe/sig}} 23:27, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

===Day 7 Predictions===

#Seven [[Puppet Jam]] sessions? (Okay, that's a stretch, I know...) [[User:4kai2lyn6|kai lyn]] 23:22, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
#Nah, gotta be 7 Years of Halloween toons - [[User:Ilko Skevüld's Teh C|Ilko Skevüld's Teh C]] 03:05, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

===Day 8 Predictions===
# Eight Decemberween Pagent Characters? - [[User:Ilko Skevüld's Teh C|Ilko Skevüld's Teh C]] 17:25, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

===Day 9 Predictions===
#Oh man!!! I got 7 right!!! (woot. woot. woot!) And I must say, day 6 and day 8 quite simply crack me up! Good one...s... I R F! ... And now for my guess... [[crazy cartoon|Strong Bad can do it! He will do it nine times]]. (I know he technically does it ten times, but this's alls I gots for now!) [[User:4kai2lyn6|kai lyn]] 18:34, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
#Dang, she stole mine. I'd have to agree: Nine kicks in Homestar's face. - [[User:Ilko Skevüld's Teh C|Ilko Skevüld's Teh C]] 18:38, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

===Day 10 Predictions===
#9 Stinko levels!!! Oh man! It's soooo obvious now that it's up there!!!! Darn! Okay... On the 10th day of D'ween... something about Strong Bad's [[bottom 10]], like dry t-shirt contests? [[User:4kai2lyn6|kai lyn]] 16:36, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

===Day 11 Predictions===

Sorry, I didn't give you a chance here

===Day 12 Predictions===

#[[army|Twelve of Them?]] - {{User:The Joe/sig}} 20:45, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
#Everybody everybody's [[Characters#Main characters|12 favorite characters]]? [[User:4kai2lyn6|kai lyn]] 22:46, 24 December 2006 (UTC) (Happy Decemberween I R F! Thanks for the great game!)

== Hey low! ==

Left ya a [[User_talk:Stux|reply]] on my talk page! (Used to wikipedia messages now.) Merry Christmas! And a Happy New year. :) ! --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 19:42, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
:reply'd {{User:Invisible_Robot_Fish/sig}} 20:00, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

== Concensus ==

Re: [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=Subtitles:arcadegame/en&curid=28370&diff=400957&oldid=400939&rcid=351738] - why don't you teach me right here what the hell concensus means? {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 01:22, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
:Well...[[wikipedia:Consensus|consensus]] generally means that a group a has come to a common decision. In [[Talk:Arcade_Game#Trogador|this]] page the opinions differ greatly and the users at the time was 5-3 in their opinions. That wouldn't even be good enough for STUFF. So no, there was not a consensus. Of those users that weighed in Tom, It's dot com, and Phlip, thought it was Trogdor, to whose opinion I give much weight. {{User:Invisible_Robot_Fish/sig}} 12:52, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

==Thanks!==
Thanks for all the help and for welcoming me Invisible Robot Fish, I appreciate it very much.

P.S. I just saw the [[Strong Bad Email]] where you got your name. {{User:Saddy_Dumpington/sig}} 01:35, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

:Yes, [[band names]] is a classic. [[Limozeen]], [[Taranchula]], and to a lesser extent Z-nuff. Good Fun. Oh, and you're very welcome. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask. {{User:Invisible_Robot_Fish/sig}} 12:54, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

== ? ==

What is P-Mail? [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php/User:Lazylaces http://www.hrwiki.org/images/thumb/3/37/grinning_marzipan.png/19px-grinning_marzipan.png] 15:13, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
:Hi there Lazylaces, lemme start by saying that I'd be happy to help with your sig since it looks like you are having trouble. First, you can't trick media wiki by using the ascii characters in lieu of things like <nowiki>[[ | ]] or ://</nowiki>. It will interpret them as seperate characters. I see that you are trying to put a picture in your sig. Might I suggest that you see [[Help:Signature|this page]]. Once you have the sig setup on a subpage and have followed the steps in the above help page, then all you'll have to do is type <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki> to stamp your name and date. Also I think the desired effect that you are looking for can be gained by typing <code><nowiki> [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php/User:Lazylaces http://www.hrwiki.org/images/thumb/3/37/grinning_marzipan.png/19px-grinning_marzipan.png]</nowiki></code>. Now, as for P-mail, [[The Paper]] has been a staple of SBEmails for like, forever. Actually forver is accurate. This is a count-down to when the paper is supposedly replaced. Some might think that nothing will happen on email #173, but I am not one of them. {{User:Invisible_Robot_Fish/sig}} 15:24, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
::P.S. take a look at [[User:Invisible_Robot_Fish/sig|my sig]] for more help as I also use images in this way. {{User:Invisible_Robot_Fish/sig}} 15:34, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

== RE:? ==

Also, Do you know of any Marzipan and Strong Sad thumbnails? [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php/User:Lazylaces http://www.hrwiki.org/images/thumb/3/37/grinning_marzipan.png/19px-grinning_marzipan.png] 15:18, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
:Here is a little tip that I learned from [[User:Phlip|Phlip]], any image, when scaled down saves a smaller image on our server. You can go to the [[HRWiki:Sandbox|sandbox]], take the image that you want, then scale it down to the desired size and don't forget to use show preview. Then right click that image and click properties. The image location should be displayed. When using this image, use the full path and only one <nowiki>[, instead of [[</nowiki>. {{User:Invisible_Robot_Fish/sig}} 15:30, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

==Username==
Thanks for changing it. Don't know why I had it that way. {{User:Geshmalderborgen/sig}} 19:37, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
:No problem, anytime. {{User:Invisible_Robot_Fish/sig}} 20:44, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

== Happy Bday ==

<s>Looks like your son is totally not getting older, unlike you ;-){{User:Loafing/sig}} 03:29, 5 March 2007 (UTC)</s> Yay, party!{{User:Loafing/sig}} 03:29, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
: :o) {{User:Invisible_Robot_Fish/sig}} 04:08, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
::Happyday for the both of yous! {{User:E.L. Cool/sig}} 05:24, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
:::Yes, indeed, have a great invsible robotly birthday. {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 05:33, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
::::I agree — have some invisible robot worms :) {{User:Trey56/sig}} 05:37, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

== April Fools ==

Hey! That was MY idea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! [[User:Homestar-winner|Homestar-winner]] 11:09, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
:and what a good idea it was. {{User:Invisible_Robot_Fish/sig}} 11:25, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

== BABY! ==

So cute!!!! Yay for offspring! Many combolations from me to ye! {{User:4kai2lyn6/sig}} 15:53, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Talk:Main Page

4kai2lyn6 — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 18:56:28 GMT

4kai2lyn6: /* And what, pray tell, might those be? */ I see.

{{Main Page Talk}}

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== Main Page Templates ==
Is there a page for the Main Page templates I can copy for the [http://flash.wikia.com Flash Wiki?] Or is it part of the .css file?

:The classes used for the Main Page templates are indeed part of the [[MediaWiki:Common.css|CSS]] file. If you wish to use this code, you'll have to attribute it to HRWiki in accordance with our [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ creative commons deed]. — {{User:Lapper/sig}} 21:23, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

::I promise I will. But can somebody copy the code for me? PLEASE? [[User:63.230.104.26|63.230.104.26]] 22:29, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

:::Click on CSS in Lapper's post for the CSS file itself. You can copy it from there. And, by the way, it's not really "code", it's a style sheet which styles HTML markup. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 05:52, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

== Update... March 8 ==

Theres a new quote of the week by the KOT >.> --[[User:124.185.236.202|124.185.236.202]] 17:21, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
:Thanks! — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 19:31, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

== Toon: ==
Perhaps, for every page that has links to a Toon, it should have "Toon:". Like how it is for every toon that has a link to an email. This could help make all of the pages cleaner and presentable towards everyone that comes here.--[[User:Dr. Watson|Dr. Watson]] 20:48, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
:I don't think that's necessary. They're all toons. We use the email label to highlight them, for some reason. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 20:52, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
::Then why not just get rid of the email label. Maybe it's just me, but I was noticing that it would look better either way. Either way meaning, also with the toon label, or with out the email label.--[[User:Dr. Watson|Dr. Watson]] 20:59, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Dr. Watson is right. It would look better, probably without the 'toon' or'email' label or whatever. {{User:Visorbot 386/sig}} 01:53, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
:Actually, I've seen it without the email label (generally right before I add it), and I just don't like it. It doesn't look as good. I think it needs it oftentimes because, in a list, it looks slightly off, due to the lowercaseness of the email titles. Also, toons, games, and other such items have more title-like names, whereas the emails are titled with just simple words. The email qualifier in the title makes it look better. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]] 03:57, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

== Two That Need To Be Revisited ==

I've been checking up on [[HRWiki:Spoken Articles]] and [[HRWiki:Favicon]] for a long time now to see if anyone else cares about them besides me. Both of these projects began about a year ago, were overshadowed by other issues, and forgotten. I've been trying to get these pages noticed again (a posted note on Spoken Articles about a month ago yielded no response), but it seems they might be in limbo forever. I'd like to revisit these projects again and make the decisions that we put off. Are Spoken Articles beneficial and useful? Should we change our favicon and, if so, what to? These are unsettling questions that we shouldn't forget about. Let's not let these projects gather dust. -{{User:Brightstar Shiner/sig}} 21:12, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
:I've been dying to help out with the Spoken Articles. We ''do'' need to bring these projects back! new sig!--{{User:Theyellowdart/sig}} 21:48, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
::Thank you! If it were socially acceptable (or even possible) to hug you, I would! Now I hope ''this'' topic doesn't get ignored or I might just have to resort to asking users in their talk pages to help me out on this one. If we start these projects up again, we can finally resolve some of these issues. By the way, your sig looks great. It changed on my userpage, too. -{{User:Brightstar Shiner/sig}} 21:53, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
:::Why, thank you. Heh heh, yeah. Just some advice though: once you get a microphone, make sure it is a headset. I have a real good headset, and it only cost me 12 dollars at Wal-Mart. Because normal mics sometimes tend to be unclear. Good jokes, {{User:Theyellowdart/sig}} 21:59, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
::::The hug thing? I just say that a lot. It has nothing to do with you personally. As for the advice, thanks for it. If we can get a couple more people in here (or better yet, a couple dozen people), maybe the ball could get rolling again with these projects. -{{User:Brightstar Shiner/sig}} 22:05, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
:::::I've always been confined to gnome work around here. I'd love to finally do something major, but I don't own a microphone of any kind, so I guess I could help with the Favicon thing. — {{User:SamFisher1022/sig}} 18:08, 11 March 2007
::::::<laughs> Join the club. I don't own a microphone either. But by the looks of it it should be pretty easy to get one. -{{User:Brightstar Shiner/sig}} 22:16, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
I intend to pick the favicon discussion up very soon, but I think the spoken articles project fell by the wayside because it should have. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 01:34, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
:Ah, c'mon, Dot Com. We'll do it one day. When the Wiki is a little more wealthier. Brightstar, I know, I was just teasing you. ;-). I like the favcon as it is, actually. --{{User:Theyellowdart/sig}} 01:44, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
::Dot Com, we may not actually record many articles, but this is giving us an excuse to work on the FAs to make them perfect. Once you see how great they look, maybe you'll see our point in this. As for the favicon, Yellowdart, we need to change it because of copyright reasons. -{{User:Brightstar Shiner/sig}} 01:48, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

== Suggestions for articles ==
Question: does anyone think I should make some kind of article on how things like "Marshie", "Musty", and Delicious "Bag" all have quotes around a word? They are all food items, and it seems like more than just a coincidence...feedback?--{{User:NevaDie/sig}} 20:59, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

== NEW EMAIL! ==
I new email was put up litterally like 5 minutes ago from when I am typing this. I THINK I MAY HAVE BEEN THE FIRST VIEWER TO SEE IT! WOO! It's called '''FUNERAL'''. --[[User:TheDenzel|The Denzel]] 01:36, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
:Actually, it's called [[your funeral]]. I wonder if TBC had heard about the Bluffton bus accident when they made this. It really made me think of it... -{{User:Brightstar Shiner/sig}} 01:41, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
::As I have no idea what you're talking about, I think it's likely that's irrelevent to the email. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 02:02, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
:::Umm... don't worry about it. It's most likely irrelevent and if you don't know what it is, that's a good thing. -{{User:Brightstar Shiner/sig}} 02:08, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
== Problems ==
My friend (Supremoace970 on the HRFWiki) is having viewing problems and cannot view anything on the H*R site? Any info? {{User:Count X/sig}} 07:20, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
* I seem to be having the same problem. Argh! The site has been giving me trouble the past couple weeks, but nothing this bad. --[[User:Positatewithoutpizzaz|Positatewithoutpizzaz]] 08:43, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

== New weeklies ==

There's a new Quote, Fanstuff, and sketch book.
That will be all.
--[[User:Collin Diver|Collin Diver]] 22:33, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

== Homestar Runner (body of work) ==

I'd like to go ahead and move [[Homestar Runner (body of work)|Homestar Runner (Flash cartoon)]] to [[Homestar Runner (body of work)]] soon. I'm posting here to give some visibility to the discussion linked below. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 00:29, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
:''Please direct any comments to [[Talk:Homestar Runner (body of work)#body of work (revisited)|Talk:Homestar Runner (Flash cartoon) → body of work (revisited)]].''
::This is now done. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 08:39, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
:Note: ''There is a discussion on appropriate linking [[HRWiki talk:Manual of Style#Body of work|here]].''

== Conjecture template ==

Anyone think it's time to make one of those templates that says that the title of an article isn't official? I got the idea from [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Template:Conjecture Wookiepedia's template], and I think it would apply to a bunch of articles, like [[Balding Man]], [[Shadowy Figure]], and others. {{User:Dr._Clash/sig}} 20:30, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
:I'm... hesitant. I don't really like th' idea... I can't say why, but it just doesn't sit right with me. Templates aren't supposed to stay on pages for an extended period of time. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]] 20:36, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
::I don't think we need it. We ought to be able to word an article such that merely reading it leaves you with the correct impression of whether the title is a name or not. We could also move those to "Balding man" and "Shadowy figure" so that it's easier to tell. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 20:55, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

== Whodunnit? ==
Who changed the captchas? There all H*R related now. Sweet! --SD...not signed in.

== April 1 Update? ==

Anybody spied an April Fools update yet on the main site?--[[User:AtionSong|AtionSong]] 14:22, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Nope. I think they keep updating late because of the baby. {{User:Strong Devon/sig}}
:Baby? -[[User:Brightstar Shiner|Like, it's totally Brightstar!]]
::[[Very, Very Little Girl]]. —[[User:BazookaJoe|BazookaJoe]] 16:44, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
:::Do you still think they will update? I'm beginning to get doughtful. [[User:Homestar-winner|Homestar-winner]] 16:51, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
::::...or maybe not making an April Fool's joke is the whole joke... --{{User:Theyellowdart/sig}} 17:09, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
:::::Well, they hardly EVER update on weekends, so I'm hoping for one tomorrow.--{{User:X66x66/sig}} 19:03, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
::::::UPDATED!!! {{User:The thing/sig}} 20:23, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
:::::::<nowiki>*</nowiki>raises eyebrow* That wasn't funny...--{{User:Color Printer/sig}} 20:25, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
::::::::Yeah, I think they'll just update tomorrow...maybe even late tomorrow.--Zephiel
:::::::::Dang! Still nothing?! Oh well... They'd better not skimp out on us tomorrow!... (just kidding!) Anyways, great job with that "Shut Down" screen immediately redirecting to the donations page! Already got a ton of dough, yo! [[User:4kai2lyn6|Not me at all]]

== April One side effect? ==

Hey, you guys know the neat little Capthca images put up for April One also work on pages that NEED them right? The move page to name one. Just saying, it's a little alarming. But, I've been known to overreact. OH MY GOD SOMEONE SENT ME AN EMAIL! {{User:Bluebry/sig}} 00:21, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
:Why is it alarming? They're still captcha images. They're still not machine-readable. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 00:26, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
::Willy on Wheels can now constructively edit twice as fast. ;-) But, seriosuly, I'm probably just overreacting. Although, I do think it kinda weakens security. Of course, there are sysops here a lot, so, yeah. {{User:Bluebry/sig}} 00:28, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
:::This is a seriously alarming affair. I recommend weeping into your pillow. Often. Numerously. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 00:58, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

== Getting nervous ==

I admit that I freak out easily, but the lack of an April Fools joke, and a lack of anything on Monday is making me nervous. Are they okay? --[[User:Jnelson09|Jnelson09]] 18:41, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
:Look, The Brothers Chaps aren't the only people in their family. If something bad happened, then another member of their family would probably tell us on the website. Don't forget, they have a baby now. --{{User:TotalSpaceshipGuy3/sig}} 18:44, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

I know. I just... Boy, am I a jerk. Never mind. --[[User:Jnelson09|Jnelson09]] 18:47, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
:No, no, it's okay. Everyone's a little nervous that nothing's come up in a few weeks. I sure hope nothing bad really ''did'' happen... -{{User:Brightstar Shiner/sig}} 20:27, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
::A few weeks? The latest update was on March 26, a mere 7 days ago. --{{User:TotalSpaceshipGuy3/sig}} 20:32, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
:Remember that really long Summer break thing when they updated really infrequently? Maybe they're like on a trip or something. It is spring Break here in America, anyway. - [[User:Zephiel|Zephiel]]
::People, relax. These is a couple of folks with busy lives outside their jobs. There have been times, and there will again be times, when a very long time will pass with no updates. There's absolutely no sense in getting nervous. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 21:28, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
:::I agree with Qermaq. I'm sure they are busy, so they'll probably just update later. We can wait another week (even though some of us don't want to). --[[User:Collin Diver|Collin Diver]] 22:45, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

== April 3 update? ==

the HSR webpage says the last update was april 3.
What was it? don't they normally only say they've updated it when something is released?
this page doesnt even list anything as april 3 -[[User:JamesDean|JamesDean]] 05:55, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
:My nearest guess would be the [[Store]] update(s). --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]] 05:56, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

== New EMAIL!! ==
A new email was posted not five minutes ago! YES! It's called [[from work]]--{{User:NevaDie/sig}} 21:25, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

New one just out. [[hr:sbemail169.html|Number 169]]. --[[User:Jnelson09|Jnelson09]] 21:26, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

== how on earth are people this obsessive? ==

I like the cartoon, and I have to admit that I'm glad that this wiki exists, because I look up stuff every now and again, but the level of detail in this things is really staggering considering that it's all centered on this funky little internet cartoon. Crazy times.
:It's not as much of a devotion of time to homestar runner, as it is lack of anything else to devote time to. [[User:DeFender1031|DeFender1031]] 08:23, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
::Well, while that is partly true, I'd add that since there are many contributors, only a few minutes of new material a week isn't a terrible chore to document. That said, it's a hobby for some, as stamp collecting or skateboarding is for others. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 08:52, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
: Meh. I enjoy it. There's nothing wrong with being a little obsessive with your fandom.{{User:Bassbone/sig}} 08:55, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

==A New EMAIL!! ==
''rough copy''
http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail170.html

== Okay, what is the deal. ==

I know I am not a big contributor to the wiki as a random IP editor, but I have noticed something on the Wiki that should not be. On the Main Page there is an updates section where it shows all of the recent add-ons to www.homestarrunner.com, but suddenly on this talk page there are users celebrating the new add-on to the website like it is the best thing that has ever happened to them. I just think the update notifications should be only on the Main Page. [[User:74.245.20.195|74.245.20.195]] 00:21, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
:Actually, they ''are'' supposed to be only on the Main Page. The problem is that many new users and IPs do not know that they are supposed to add the update to [[Template:whatsnew]], so they put the notice on this page instead. Then, usually a more experienced editor sees the notice, and does what needs to be done. {{User:Has Matt?/sig}} 00:26, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

::'''EDIT CONFLICT:''' Usually they're random users (a good portion of which is IPs who neglect to sign their comments, see above) who either don't know how to edit templates or don't know that the "What's New" template isn't protected. Also, on a talk page, items can be discussed, whereas we can't have discussion on the Main Page. ¤ {{User:The Mu/sig}} 00:28, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

== And what, pray tell, might those be? ==

Hi everyone! I just logged on quickly and, well... what are those light-gray numbers in parentheses on the "Recent Changes" page? They ''are'' new, right? I haven't been missing them this '''whole''' thyme, have I? Does it have to do with that MediaWiki 1.9 thing? {{User:4kai2lyn6/sig}} 18:53, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
:It is new to MediaWiki 1.9. It represents the number of bytes added to or taken away from a page. --{{User:TotalSpaceshipGuy3/sig}} 18:54, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
::Oh, that's cool. Thank you! {{User:4kai2lyn6/sig}} 18:56, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Talk:Main Page

4kai2lyn6 — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 18:53:25 GMT

4kai2lyn6: /**/And what, pray tell, might those be?

Talk:Strong Bad checking more than one email

4kai2lyn6 — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 18:02:55 GMT

4kai2lyn6: /* Merge */ yup

==Rename==
Should we rename this to [[Strong Bad answering more than one email]]? And what about capitalization?{{User:Loafing/sig}} 11:09, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
:Well he doesnt really answer several of them (in spring cleaning all of them just get deleted) so "checking" may be better. As for the capitalization...I dunno. {{User:Homestar-winner/sig}} 11:17, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
::Ah, yes, good point. I've removed the renaming template now. "Checking" is definitely better.{{User:Loafing/sig}} 11:21, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

==Cleanup==
The appearances list needs some work.

== image ==

Anyone have any ideas of a picture we could put on the page? {{User:Homestar-winner/sig}} 12:33, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

== Merge ==

This page is a more wordy duplicate of [[Strong Bad Email Statistics#Strong Bad Emails Featuring More Than One Email]]. It should be redirected and it's content merged. {{User:E.L. Cool/sig}} 15:58, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
:This page should not be merged. We can just merge the [[Strong Bad Email Statistics#Strong Bad Emails Featuring More Than One Email]] onto this page. {{User:Sam the Man/sig}}
::Replace "checking" with "featuring" and capitalise all the words. We can provide a link to this article on Strong Bad Email Statistics. {{User:The Chort/sig}} 17:46, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
:::I agree with Elcool: '''merge and redirect'''. {{User:4kai2lyn6/sig}} 18:02, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

TV Time Toons Menu

4kai2lyn6 — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 02:27:08 GMT

4kai2lyn6: /* Easter Eggs */ small reword and link

{{about|toons menu itself}} {{for|list of all toons|Toons}}

[[Image:NewToonsMenu.PNG|thumb|300px|The new Toons menu]]

The '''menu''' in which all the [[Toons]] are listed on a ''[[Wikipedia:TV Guide|TV Guide]]''-like [[Periodicals|magazine]] entitled '''TV Time'''.

'''Place:''' [[Homestar Runner's House]]

'''Date:''' July 14, 2002

'''Page Title:''' Fun in the Living Room!

==Easter Eggs==

*Placing the mouse over the tape "[[Joy of Painting]]" displays a small clip of [[Marzipan]] dressed as [[Wikipedia:Bob Ross|Bob Ross]] painting with a [[Marzipan's Art Supplies|palette knife]].

*Clicking on the top left corner of the ''TV Time'' booklet will close it and show one of four different covers:
{| align="center" width="90%" border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 style="border-collapse:collapse"
|- bgcolor=#eeeeee
! Cover !! Caption !! Description
|-
| [[Image:1tvtime.png|100px]] || Homestar Runner and Company: Eating [[Pie]] and Getting [[Glossary#D|Doppy]] || The main characters of Homestar Runner (except [[Homsar]])
|-
| [[Image:2tvtime.png|100px]] || Homestar Runner: Ummm...Seriously || [[Homestar Runner]]
|-
| [[Image:3tvtime.png|100px]] || Strong Bad: The Last Great Guy? || [[Strong Bad]]
|-
| [[Image:Strong Mad and The Cheat TV Time Cover 4.png|100px]] || Strong Mad & the Cheat: The Next Bosom Buddies? || [[Strong Mad]] hugging [[The Cheat]]
|-
|}

*By placing the mouse over the Strong Bad Email button and holding it there for a short while, the TV will show Strong Bad sitting at the [[Tandy 400]] soundlessly checking his email, receiving the following message:
<blockquote class="tandy email">Dear Strong Bad, 
I drank too much salty plum soda. 
 
 
-Stu</blockquote>
to which Strong Bad replies, "No such thing, Stu. No such thing."

*If the mouse is held over [[Teen Girl Squad]] for a while, it will show an intro.
**[[Cheerleader]]'s shirt says. "li'l brat". Her card says, "hair products!".
**[[So And So]]'s card says, "plaid skirt!".
**[[What's Her Face]]'s card says, "baggy clothes!".
**[[The Ugly One]]'s card says, "drill team!".

==Fun Facts==
===Trivia===

*The toons menu layout changed on June 22, 2004, and divided all the toons into eight categories. (The old version can be seen [http://www.homestarrunner.kitkorp.com/toons-pre-new-remote.html here].) It displayed [[Strong Bad Email]], [[Marzipan's Answering Machine]], and [[Teen Girl Squad]] in a section called [[Features]]. [[Powered by The Cheat]] and [[Puppet Stuff]] were listed under Shorts.
*The Back button will always go to [[Main Page 4]].
*[[Homestar Runner]]'s TV is called [[TeeBee]].
*During the sample of [[The Reddest Radish]] on the TV, Strong Bad jumps and spins. He does not do this in the actual toon.
*Likewise, during the sample of [[Kick the Can]], [[The Homestar Runner]]'s body sinks onto his legs and his head sinks into his body. Then his head and legs sprout out of the can. This also does not happen in the toon.
*The preview of [[The System is Down]] has Homestar running past the 404 error. He does not do this in the toon.
*The Strong Bad Email Easter Egg comes from an abandoned project called [[Wireless Bizness]].
*On February 12, 2007, a "[[New Stuff]]" tape replaced one of the (non-interactive) "Joy of Painting" videos. When clicked, it lists the toons released in 2007.

===Goofs===
[[Image:Whitenoise_goof.png |thumb|What's with all the noise?]]
*During the following toon previews, the preview overlaying the static doesn't completely cover it, and so some white noise can be seen on the tv screen:
**[[Cool Things]]
**[[Summer Short Shorts]]
**[[500 The Cheats]]
**[[TrogdorCon '97]]
**[[The Li'l Brudder Show]]
**[[Happy Trogday]]
**[[Snowglobe]]
**[[Homestar vs. Other Little Girl]]
**[[Biz Cas Fri 1]], [[Biz Cas Fri 2|2]] and [[Biz Cas Fri 3|3]]
**All the [[Puppet Jam|Puppet Jams]]
**[[New Boots]]
**[[unnatural]]
**[[Teen Girl Squad Issue 12|Teen Girl Squad 12]]

===Glitches===

*Sometimes, on older computers, clicking Toons, Shorts, or Holiday does not open the closed TV Time booklet, so the cover must be clicked on to open it. All it shows is a blank page with the title "[[Dennis]]" on it.

==External Links==

*[[HR:toons.html|Go to the toons menu]]
*[[HR:tvguide.swf|View the Flash file for the toons menu]]
*[http://www.homestarrunner.kitkorp.com/toons-pre-new-remote.html View the old version of the toons menu]

{{start box}}
{{Succession box | before = [[Chinese Food Toons Menu]] | title = [[Toons]] Navigation | years = Summer 2002-Present | after = N/A}}
{{end box}}

{{H*RNav}}
[[Category: H*R Navigation]][[Category:Not Quite Strong Bad Emails]]

Poms

4kai2lyn6 — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 16:15:37 GMT

4kai2lyn6: link

[[Image:isleofpom.PNG|thumb]]
While most of the [[Characters|characters]] in the [[Homestar Runner (body of work)|Homestar Runner]] body of work have physical characteristics unique to themselves, quite a few '''Poms''' have been depicted, suggesting that they are members of a well-defined species.

The overall body shape of Poms is quite consistent. Their bodies are large, spherical, and composed of a spongy matter capable of absorbing and containing objects (as seen in [[Where's The Cheat?]], [[Pom Pom]] keeps his [[Cell Phone|cell phone]] inside his body). Poms' bodies are also very light, which causes [[Strong Bad]] to speculate in his email [[pom pom]] that Pom Pom may be filled with helium or hydrogen (though neither one of these explanations has any firm grounding in fact). Poms have short nubs for arms and legs, and their heads are ellipsoidal in shape with two small eyes but [[Lack of Visible Arms#Other Apparently Invisible Body Parts|no other visible facial features]]. [[Pom Pom's girls]] are notable exceptions to the standard Pom anatomy, as they have typical Pom faces but human hair and bodies.

[[Image:Isle of Pom.png|thumb|100px|The Isle of Pom]]
Poms are able to communicate, though with an utter [[Deliberately Poor English#A Lack of Intelligible Speech|lack of intelligible speech]]. Pom Pom himself speaks only through bubble noises, while his girls haven't been seen to communicate with anything more than giggles. Nevertheless, characters have no trouble understanding Pom Pom, so it is evident that Poms' language is discernible among themselves as well as by other species.

Poms come from the Isle of Pom, where they seem to organize themselves in traditional families and social structures (as seen in [[Pom Pom, Too]], Pom Pom has both [[General and Fraulein Pom Pom|parents]] and neighbors).

==Notable Poms==
*[[Pom Pom]]
*[[Pom Pom's girls]]
*[[General and Fraulein Pom]]

==See Also==
*Email [[Family Resemblence]] — Strong Bad [[History according to Strong Bad|inaccurately imagines]] what Pom Pom's family might be like.

[[Category:Research]]

Poms

4kai2lyn6 — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 16:11:11 GMT

4kai2lyn6: hmm... Maybe that sounds better...

[[Image:isleofpom.PNG|thumb]]
While most of the [[Characters|characters]] in the [[Homestar Runner (body of work)|Homestar Runner]] body of work have physical characteristics unique to themselves, quite a few '''Poms''' have been depicted, suggesting that they are members of a well-defined species.

The overall body shape of Poms is quite consistent. Their bodies are large, spherical, and composed of a spongy matter capable of absorbing and containing objects (as seen in [[Where's The Cheat?]], [[Pom Pom]] keeps his [[Cell Phone|cell phone]] inside his body). Poms' bodies are also very light, which causes [[Strong Bad]] to speculate in his email [[pom pom]] that Pom Pom may be filled with helium or hydrogen (though neither one of these explanations has any firm grounding in fact). Poms have short nubs for arms and legs, and their heads are ellipsoidal in shape with two small eyes but [[Lack of Visible Arms#Other Apparently Invisible Body Parts|no other visible facial features]]. [[Pom Pom's girls]] are notable exceptions to the standard Pom anatomy, as they have typical Pom faces but human hair and bodies.

[[Image:Isle of Pom.png|thumb|100px|The Isle of Pom]]
Poms are able to communicate, though with an utter [[Deliberately Poor English#A Lack of Intelligible Speech|lack of intelligible speech]]. Pom Pom himself speaks only through bubble noises, while his girls haven't been seen to communicate with anything more than giggles. Nevertheless, characters have no trouble understanding Pom Pom, so it is evident that Poms' language is discernible among themselves as well as by other species.

Poms come from the Isle of Pom, where they seem to organize themselves in traditional families and social structures (as seen in [[Pom Pom, Too]], Pom Pom has both [[Parents|parents]] and neighbors).

[[Category:Research]]