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Biz Cas Fri 3

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[[Image:BisCasFri3.JPG|thumb|"I didn't ''do'' anything!"]]
Strong Bad and his computer have domestic problems, and naturally, Homestar is the cause.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' [[Puppet Character Variations|Puppet]] {{Film|Strong Bad}}, [[Puppet Character Variations|Puppet]] {{Film|The Cheat}}, [[Puppet Character Variations|Puppet]] {{Film|Homestar Runner}}

'''Places:''' [[The Office]]

'''Date:''' Friday, August 5, 2005

'''Running Time:''' 2:10

'''Page Title:''' Biz Cas Fri 3

{{dvd|Everything Else, Volume 1}}

==Transcript==
''{Close-up of a water cooler. The title words, "Biz Cas Fri" appear. Air bubbles rise into the cooler. Cut to Puppet The Cheat and Puppet Strong Bad standing in front of his computer. Strong Bad is wearing his customary Friday shirt, and The Cheat has on a tie. Smoke is coming out of the computer.}''

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

'''STRONG BAD:''' I didn't ''do'' anything! I just turned it on, tried to check my email, and then it started smokin' and shakin' like it was Friday night!

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

'''STRONG BAD:''' Back up my files?! Are you kidding? Is that a real thing you have to do? I always thought that that was just like... you know, a figure of speech.

'''THE CHEAT:''' ''{irate, incredulous The Cheat noises}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' I dunno, like "Wake up and smell the coffee," or "See ya later, alligator!"

'''THE CHEAT:''' ''{makes angry The Cheat noises and leaves}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Oh, great! So my computer's dead. This almost never happens to me!

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{enters room}'' What's up, my homay? Ew, what's that smell? Did Mancuso at Accounting put his three-hole punch in the microwave again? That guy sucks!

'''STRONG BAD:''' Oh, get outta here, man!

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' No, not yet. So, did you get that email that I forwarded to everyone in the company and their families and their high school friends?

'''STRONG BAD:''' No! Can't you see my computer and I are having domestic problems?

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Oh, man, you should check it out right now. It has a 3-gig hilarious file attachment attached to it. It's one of the funniest emails I've forwarded this week!

'''STRONG BAD:''' 3-gig attachment?! Oh, no wonder!

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' When you get that mess fixed, check out that attachment. The file's called ''{filename appears on the screen as Homestar says it}'' "catonfire_fallingfromanairplane.exe". I'm not gonna tell you what it is, but trust me you ''got'' to check it out! I was ROTF all over the place when I saw that. Anyways, I'm gonna go see what Gunderson thought of it. That guy doesn't suck. See ya later, alligator! ''{leaves}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Yeah, back up your files.

''{He presses a key, and the computer explodes, leaving ashes and a demolished tape dispenser.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{coughs}'' Wah! That's the worst computer explosion I've ever seen! Is there anything I can salvage?! Oh, I think I can see some of the third-quarter analysis spreadsheet in there. Oh! Is that my buddy list?! I gotta back that up!

''{Strong Bad pulls out a manilla envelope and begins scooping the ashes into it.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{muttering}'' Sweep some of this in here... my buddy list... The Cheat, Strong Mad... buddies...

''{"end."}''

== Easter Eggs ==
*At the end, click the 'd' or the period to view Homestar's attachment.
:''{Two men skydive from an airplane together and tumble a few times in midair.}''
:'''JUMPING MAN 1:''' Wooooo!
:'''JUMPING MAN 2:''' Dude, is that falling cat on fire?
:''{A flaming cat (obviously drawn and edited in) falls past the camera, meowing as it falls.}''

== Fun Facts ==

===Explanations===
* ROTF is an [[Internet Slang]] abbreviation for "'''R'''olling '''O'''n '''T'''he '''F'''loor", implying uncontrollable laughter.
*[[Wikipedia:FYI|FYI]] is a common acronym for "'''F'''or '''Y'''our '''I'''nformation."

===Trivia===
* "FYI!" is written on the [[Sticky Notes|Post-it]] note stuck to Strong Bad's cubicle wall.
* [[Mike Chapman]] voices Jumping Man 2.

===Remarks===
*The "Yeah, back up your files" line that Strong Bad says appears to have been dubbed in later in production, as the audio quality sounds "muffled". The DVD version of the short appears to have a different inflection of the phrase (with a more irritated Strong Bad).

===Inside References===
*The video player is called "Medi-a-lectrix Playa," a reference to the company [[Videlectrix]].
*Hanging on the wall is a real-life version of an Easter egg in the DVD version of [[dullard]] (method 3) and a real-life version of a poster from [[no loafing]].
*The third-quarter projection analysis spreadsheets were mentioned in [[Biz Cas Fri 1]].
*Gund[[Names ending in -erson|erson]] was the name of a city on Limozeen's "[[Limozeen#Zeenin' Across the Country 2001|Zeenin' Across the Country 2001]]" tour.
**Gunderson was also the name of one of the characters in [[Bubslegum Comics]].
*[[Mancuso]] is the name of a character in the Videlectrix video game [[Where's an Egg?]].
*This is another instance of [[Strong Bad's Computer Malfunctioning]].
*The [[font]] that comes up when Homestar says the file of his email is Westminster, the [[Tandy 400]] font.

===Real-World References===
*The "Medi-a-lectrix Playa" is also a reference to [[Wikipedia:Windows Media Player|Windows Media Player]], a [[wikipedia:Microsoft|Microsoft]] computer application that renders audio and video content.
*The "Cat on Fire Falling From an Airplane" video is a spoof of the infamous "Burning Cat" video that began circulating on the internet about a year before this 'toon was made.

===Fast Forward===
*Strong Bad tries to check his email at work again in the email [[from work]].

==DVD Version==
*The "Cat On Fire" Easter egg is displayed on a [[Wikipedia:Windows 95|Windows 95]] main menu.
*When Strong Bad says "Back up your files" to Homestar, it sounds more angry, as though it were an insult.

== External Links ==
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Georgia Tech - 26 Apr 2007

Bvisness — Sun, 31 Aug 2014 19:10:34 GMT

Bvisness: /* External Links */ Fixed a broken link to the streaming video of the event.

{{redirects|Georgia Tech}} {{for-nothe|references made to the university in the [[Homestar Runner (body of work)|Homestar Runner]] body of work|Georgia}}
[[Image:20070426 GA Tech event poster.png|thumb|Event poster]]
On April 26, 2007, [[The Brothers Chaps]] appeared at a talk at the Multimedia Studio of [[Wikipedia:Georgia Institute of Technology|Georgia Tech]]. The event was scheduled to include Q&A, background info, a [[Flash]] demo and more. The Flash demo presented was a preview of the music video animated by The Brothers Chaps for the song [[TMBW:Figure Eight|Figure 8]] by [[They Might Be Giants]].

The event took place in the Library on the Georgia Tech campus. It was organized by Alison Valk and Joel Linderman. It took place in the multimedia studio that houses all of their high end multimedia software and equipment, as well as being "homebase" for the Georgia Tech iMovieFest. The studio is currently decked out as "[[wikipedia:Mario|Mario]]-land" and discussions have taken place regarding the possibility of doing a [[Homestar Runner (body of work)|Homestar Runner]] theme for the summer months.

Due to various programs on campus and the high interest of many of the students there in Flash animation, Alison and Joel felt The Brothers Chaps would be ideal speakers. Alison focused on the idea of collaborating with her management to bring in some "nontraditional speakers" to the library, such as "the guys from Homestar Runner".

==Transcript==
<noinclude>{{uncensored|Georgia Tech - 26 Apr 2007 (censored)}}</noinclude>
===Part I: Demo===
''{The video fades in to a shot of the event poster, where it lingers for a few seconds before cross-fading to the Georgia Tech Multimedia Studio. Ryan, Matt and Mike are sitting near a row of computers, and Alison and Joel are standing behind them. Mike has his laptop in front of him, which is connected to a projector displaying his monitor on a screen to his left. The audience surrounds them on three sides.}''

'''ALISON VALK:''' —he heads up the Multimedia Studio here, and uh, we are really, really lucky to have the guys from Homestar Runner here. Um, if you don't know what Homestar Runner is, it is one of the most popular, uh, Flash-animated cartoons on the web, and, uh, these guys have been written up in the ''New York Times'', ''Wired'', been interviewed for ''All Things Considered''. Um, you guys have worked with They Might Be Giants, is that right?

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' Mmm-hmm.

'''ALISON:''' And anyways, but, um, we're really, really lucky to have them here. They're going to, uh, do a Flash demo for us and answer a few questions that you guys might have. So, without further ado, Mike and Matt Chapman.

'''MIKE:''' Thanks, Alison.

''{Applause}''

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' And this, this is Ryan, uh, Sterritt. ''{Points to Ryan on his right}'' He works with us and does, uh, authors all our DVDs and does all our video stuff also.

'''MIKE:''' Um... Matt?

'''MATT:''' Hi everybody.

'''MIKE:''' Um, thanks for having us by the way, guys. This place is pretty awesome. Uh, Alison was trying to get me to do it, and I am generally really, uh, nervous about doing this kind of stuff, but when she showed me pictures of how it's all decked out like Mario Land, I decided it would make me feel very comfortable, which it really hasn't because I'm still pretty nervous, but anyway...

''{Some members of the audience let out a collective "Awwww..."}''

'''MIKE:''' Um...

'''MATT:''' It's good to be back in the Mushroom Kingdom.

'''MIKE:''' ''{Laughs}'' And the last time I was on the Georgia Tech campus was probably in like 1986 for the Science Olympiad when, uh, which was just kind of math—mathletes kind of, but uh, I had to do this event called Bottle Music where you filled up bottles with different amounts of water and make a song hitting them with a spoon and I didn't want to do it, so we pushed the kid that was holding our box of bottles so that they broke so that we didn't have to compete.

''{Laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' Um, so...

'''MATT:''' Good job!

'''MIKE:''' Yeah. ''{Laughs}''

'''MATT:''' One time I went to Bobby Cremin's basketball camp in fourth grade. It was a stay-overnight camp.

'''MIKE:''' ''{Laughs}''

'''MATT:''' It was awesome. And these kids trying to get me to cuss and I wasn't cussing yet.

'''MIKE:''' ''{Laughs}''

'''MATT:''' ''{With Mike laughing throughout}'' And they were like, "Say a cuss." And they were like, "You never cuss, Chapman," and I was like, "You don't know, I cuss all the time. What are you talking about?" And they were like, "Well then, say a cuss word," and so, uh, so that everything would be okay, and I would still go to heaven, I was like, I go, "Shet," and in—in my head it was S–H–E–T, but they totally bought it and thought I said "{{{swear|shit}}}" and then I was cool.

''{Laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' Um, so anyway, we do a website called homestarrunner.com. We've been doing it for seven, over seven years now, and it is, uh, it's pretty much been our sole job for like the last five now. Um, and it's just Flash-animated cartoons on the web. We make money by selling T-shirts. We don't have any ads on the site or anything like that. The only revenue is from people buying shirts and DVDs and the merchandise that we sell, uh, on the site. Um, and so anyway, we were just, they asked us to just to do a little demo about how we do stuff, and it's pretty funny because all these computers are decked out and much nicer than the computers that we make Homestar on. Um, we use Flash 5, which, I think, they're on Flash 8 now, so the version of Flash we use is about four, four years outdated. Um, for various lazy reasons, mostly, just not wanting to, uh, you know, get used to the minor changes and interface and things like that.

'''MATT:''' Well, we definitely work faster. There's, uh, several things that we can do way faster in Flash 5 than we can in 8. Uh, we, we publish everything in Flash 8 because it compresses everything so much more. Like, we'll make a cartoon in Flash 5, and it'll be, like, one and a half megs, and then you put it in Flash 8, and it's 700k or something, so it, it really makes a difference, so, uh, to keep bandwidth under control, we do that sort of thing. But, um...

''{Mike brings up Flash 5 on the screen. The animation window is blank except for an image of Homestar on the far right.}''

'''MIKE:''' So there's beautiful Flash 5, and it was back before Adobe sued Macromedia, so they could have tabbed folders over here. ''{Starts clicking around the tabs in the right-hand menus in the Flash interface}''

'''MATT:''' Yeah, that's another—

'''MIKE:''' ''{simultaneously}'' That's another thing we like.

'''MATT:''' Well, I guess now that they've merged, or, you know, that, that Adobe bought Macromedia, the next version of Flash supposedly is going to bring back the little tabs over there, but that's, that was one of the biggest reasons why we kept using 5 was because it was so much easier to use from an organizational standpoint. Um...

'''MIKE:''' So I was just going to show, what we generally do is we've got, um, you know, several hundred cartoons at this point, so obviously we don't need to redraw all the characters for every cartoon. We can reuse graphics, so I'll just open up this library. Um... something that has, say, the background in it. And, um... ''{peruses through library}''

'''MATT:''' We never organize things in folders because that would make it too easy to find.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, so there's just like 200 something items.

'''MATT and MIKE:''' ''{simultaneously}'' There it is, "Ground".

'''MIKE:''' So I'll make a thing down here and drag it in. ''{Drags an image of the Field onto the animation window. He clicks inside the library, specifically on a symbol that is Andy Griffith's head. He then continues to scroll through the library.}'' And sky is for some reason called "Sky2". ''{He chuckles as he says this}'' There's Andy Griffith!

''{Laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' "Sky2". It's been called "Sky2", that symbol probably for six years for no reason. We've never changed it to just "Sky". ''{drags an image of the sky down and arranges it behind the Field}'' And then we also have a, uh... little border that we put over everything to give everything a nice rounded edge. ''{Places a black rectangular border with rounded corners over the animation window. }'' Because round things are nice.

'''MATT:''' Homestar's on top of the border.

'''MIKE:''' Well, I'll drag the border up in front of him. ''{Rearranges the border so that it's in front of Homestar}'' So, anyway, um, this is the magic of making Homestar walk. So we've got this "walk" clip. ''{Plays a looping clip of Homestar walking}'' It's its own ten-frame graphic that just loops, and so we'll just tween it from there to there, and then at that point I've already broken him apart into four, um, layers, with each part being on a layer. And I'll flip that foot and make him so that he's sort of facing that way. And we animate everything at 12 frames a second, um—

'''MATT:''' —cause that's what you did in 1999.

'''MIKE:''' In 1999, that's, that's all—

'''MATT:''' —all the Internet could handle.

'''MIKE:''' Um, and that's how we learned to animate, so we have rarely... done a few things at 18 or 24 frames a second, and of course it takes us way longer, so we, we stick with 12. Um...

'''MATT:''' Its funny we, for when we do DVDs, there's a, we do a, a fake FBI warning thing at the beginning, you know, like the one from the '80s with that fading background, and then one of the characters will always come out over it, and in order for that fadey background to look good in Flash, we'd have to make it at 30 frames per second, and I think that was just easy, too, because all video's at 30 frames, obviously, or 29.97 ''{says as "twenty-nine nine seven"}''or whatever. And, uh, and so then we have to animate the characters at 30 frames per second, and that's a huge pain in the {{{swear|ass}}}.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah.

'''MATT:''' It's just like, it takes, like, The Cheat...

'''MIKE:''' ''{simultaneously}'' Yeah. It takes like three days.

'''MATT:''' ...usually, like, The Cheat, when he turns around, it's, like, two frames, and he just goes, like, "doink" and flips around the other side, so this way we'd have to, like, make some real frame of The Cheat turning. And, anyways, it's a, it's, we're, we're glad that the things were the way they were in '99. So we, uh, definitely makes it much quicker. Plus we do, you know, we're trying to make a three-to-five-minute cartoon pretty much every week, and so animating it at 12 frames per second definitely makes that possible. I feel like if we tried to animate quicker, at least for us, I'm sure there's people that can, that do it, but for us, that's, that's the way we can get something done.

''{Mike, who has been modifying with the animation the entire time Matt's been talking, now plays it. Homestar walks in from the right and stops in the middle of the animation window.}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{dryly}'' So, did you see that, guys? Look, he's stopped walking. Isn't that amazing?

''{Laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' And this is a, this is a, a trick that Matt patented, it's called the "Doink", where it just kind of goes up and down when you're transitioning from one thing to another, just make him kind of pop up a little bit. For some reason, it makes it look better.

'''MATT:''' We learned that people call that in the cartooning industry, we met a guy that just graduated from SCAD, and it's called "squash and stretch" ''{Mike laughs}'' in the animation industry. But I was like, "No, that's doinking."

''{Laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' And that's another thing, we, um...

'''MATT:''' "You can't fool me."

'''MIKE:''' We're totally self-taught animators and illustrators. Uh, I was a photography major at uh, University of Georgia, and Matt went to film school at Florida State, um, and then we both kind of realized we didn't want to do ''that'' as our careers and just started teaching ourselves Photoshop and Illustrator and Flash. And Homestar was originally just a, a tool, something to learn Flash with because we were going to try to get jobs, you know, making banner ads for, you know, icebox.com ''{Matt laughs, followed by the audience for a short period of time}'' or whatever was the, um, Flash-animated—

'''MATT:''' ''{interrupts}'' Yeah, I got one of those jobs.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, Matt, Matt worked at MindSpring and then, which became EarthLink, um, for several years.

'''MATT:''' Made some sweet banner ads for EarthLink.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, we just discovered, uh, buried in some EarthLink pages, there's still some icons that you made like six years ago or something.

'''MATT:''' If you go to the EarthLink personal start page in the accounting section, or banking section, there's a few of my icons still up there. ''{Laughter}'' I was proud. My legacy lives on. ''{Laughter}'' I'm not going to show my kids Homestar Runner when they grow up. I'm going to be, like, ''{raises voice to higher pitch}'' "Hey, you know what your dad did? He made this, this, like, market sign that has a, one graph going up and it's red, and the green graph is going down." Which is wrong, cause the green graph should probably be growing.

''{Matt turns to Mike, who's still editing the Flash clip.}''

'''MATT:''' So are you going to make him say a line?

'''MIKE:''' We're going to make him say a line of dialogue, and I will—

'''MATT:''' ''{Who had briefly interrupted}'' Sorry.

'''MIKE:''' No no no no.

'''MATT:''' I was just going to say why, uh, this is one of the things that we love about Flash, uh, 5, and again, there's, there's probably several things. We've tried to have people tell us this, like, oh, you know, you can do that in Flash 8, we just didn't know how to do it. This is something that I don't think you can do, is that...

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{on screen}'' Oh, hello.

'''MATT:''' Like, show him, so like, um...

'''MIKE:''' Um, so his head is here on frame 2. Another thing that, you know, people know Flash, if you make everything a symbol and put every symbol on its own layer, it just makes things a lot easier from an organizational standpoint. So, um, to make Homestar talk, he's got three faces: closed mouth, that mouth, and that mouth. The "O" mouth.

'''MATT:''' The roundy mouth.

'''MIKE:''' The roundy mouth, squarey mouth, and closed mouth. So it's really easy to animate. We accidentally made all these characters very easy to animate. Most of them don't have arms or legs. Several of them don't have mouths or anything like that. We, you know, created the characters in 1996 before we were ever going to animate them, so we totally lucked out. The characters that do have arms and, like, elbows and things, you know, we just tend not to put into cartoons very much.

'''MATT:''' ''{Laughs}'' That's why Bubs is always behind a concession stand.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah.

'''MATT:''' So you don't have to mess with his legs.

'''MIKE:''' Bubs's frickin' elbows. Um, but, so anyway, it's three frames, and I've got it set to single frame at 1, so when he's not talking, it's just going to stay closed. If I put a... um, not on that frame... if I put a key frame and make it go to frame 3, that's his "O" mouth, and so I can just click on this frame. And this is one of the things that's different between Flash 8 and Flash 5. In Flash 5, I can just click on these frames, and I can still hear the sound. ''{Clicks in individual frames, producing a frame's worth of dialogue with each click.}'' So I know right there he's stopped saying "oh", and so I can put that, and he's starting to say "heh", so I can make that. And then I can just cut and paste. He's saying "oh". ''{Starts rapidly cutting and pasting frames.}'' Right now, I'm just cut-and-pasting frames rather than keep going back down here to type in frame 2 or 3. I know which ones are which.

'''MATT:''' We don't necessarily, we, most of you can probably, that do Flash animation can probably animate way better than we can, and we're, so we're not saying this is how you have to do it. But this is, this is just our process.

'''MIKE:''' I don't even know what he's saying here, so it would help if I listened to the soundbyte ''{Laughter}'' so I knew what he was saying.

'''MATT:''' We recorded this right before we left.

''{Mike plays the audio clip.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{on screen}'' Oh, hello guys. This is my talk and mouth move.

'''MIKE:''' "This is my talk and mouth move" is what it sounds like he's saying..."Hello guys." And do we have volume? ''{Turns up the volume and continues cutting and pasting mouth movements to the audio clips. Notably at a fast rate.}''

'''MATT:''' There we go.

'''MIKE:''' So I can just sit here and click until he starts to say "my."

'''MATT:''' So yeah in, uh, Flash, uh...

'''MIKE:''' In Flash 8, I would have to sit here and do that. ''{drags the marker across the audio clip}''

'''MATT:''' Yeah, if you drag it across, you'll hear the sound, but when you click on the frame, you don't hear that one little, like, you know, frame's worth of sound, which is, makes it so much easier when you're lip-syncing dialogue. Um, and that's, that's, like, that alone is one of the reasons why we, we still use this five-year-old, six-year-old version of Flash.

'''MIKE:''' So he's saying "mouth," so I'll get the "m"— or the "o". "Mouth"... "Great times."

'''MATT:''' That's another thing with, with Homestar, uh, in doing it at 12 frames per second, I mean, uh, you could, we could add a mouth, you know, a half-closed mouth, or, like a, another in between the "o" and the, the square mouth or something like that, but like, it actually, at 12 frames per second, I mean, you're not going to get that much more in between. You're not going to see that much more.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, its already hard enough now. Sometimes you have to decide where he closes his mouth, because he sort of closes his mouth halfway in between two frames.

''{Mike finishes syncing Homestar's mouth movements to the audio and now plays the entire clip.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{on screen}'' Oh, hello guys. This is my talk and mouth move. Great times.

''{Laughter}''

'''MATT:''' There you go.

'''MIKE:''' ''{still modifying the animation}'' And so what I would do probably is go ahead and give him a little... and he's kind of... So I can make him move around a little bit, maybe. For an interesting line, like...

''{Mike plays the clip again.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{on screen}'' Oh, hello guys. ''{doinks}'' This is ''{leans forward}'' my ''{turns his upper body around}'' talk— ''{resumes his normal posture as the audience laughs}''

'''MIKE:''' I might try a little harder to make that look better, but... actually, I might, I probably wouldn't try. Matt's generally a better animator, so that anytime you see really, like, just like, "Hi, I'm Strong Bad" animation, that's me, and Matt will make him, like, move around a little more. I'm just trying to plow through these things. ''{Laughs}'' Matt, generally, I do about, like, I don't know, 70%—

'''MATT:''' —75—

'''MIKE:''' —60 to 75% of the cartoon I do, and then Matt does any complicated scene with a lot of characters where there's actually some kind of action other than just characters talking Matt will do, and spend, like, five days on them, and then I'll just plow through the rest of the cartoon. Um...

'''MATT:''' And Mike also, while I'm recording stuff, Mike starts to do, you know, the rest of the cartoon, so I'll be—

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, I'll do—

'''MATT:''' —recording the dialogue and breaking apart and all that stuff, and then Mike's just getting busy on starting the cartoon or placing scenes.

'''MIKE:''' Doing new graphics, if there's any unique, you know, new drawings, we try to reuse stuff as much as possible, but inevitably, there's going to be some objects or backgrounds or something that we need to draw new.

'''MATT:''' We'll start out a week and be like, "All right, this, you know, last week was rough. We did, like, three all-nighters to get this cartoon done, so it's, this one will try and stick with just," you know, not to make it jokes we've done before, but just, "oh, all take place in Bubs' Concession Stand or places we've already established," and then inevitably, we end up, like, inventing a movie theater for this cartoon, or, like, having some new thing happen that we have to make a bunch of new graphics, or, um... We're always shooting ourselves in the foot that way.

'''MIKE:''' Um... What else, Matt?

'''MATT:''' Why don't you just show, show them that uh, the cartoon, so show them something in, in action a little more.

'''MIKE:''' Um, like "The Accent"?

'''MATT:''' ''{simultaneously}'' The accent one, yeah.

'''MIKE:''' So this is—

'''MATT:''' We have a, an HTML?

'''MIKE:''' I do. Why don't you tell them what this is?

'''MATT:''' Uh, so this is just, uh, we're putting out another DVD, uh, it's time, we're, we've gotten another 30 Strong Bad Emails done, and so we're, we've, we've compiled them onto a, uh, DVD at that point, uh, and add them with extra features and commentary and all that crap, and so, we try to put, you know, bonus stuff on it to make it worthwhile, and, uh, so this is a, a bonus email that's going on the new Strong Bad Email DVD.

'''MIKE:''' This is a question that Strong Bad gets asked a lot, and so we've finally just, as a bonus thing, we've decided we'd answer it. Um...

''{Plays the Strong Bad Email [[Accent]].}''

'''MIKE:''' So that's that. That's kind of a, um—

''{Mike is interrupted as everybody applauds.}''

'''MIKE:''' That's what we do. That's, Strong Bad Emails are the cartoons we do probably, I don't know, two or three out of every four updates is one of those. We've done, uh, 170-something at this point? ''{Turns to Matt.}''

'''MATT:''' Mmmm hmmm.

'''MIKE:''' Um, over the last five or six years. Um, making Strong Bad's head waggle around in front of the text and making the text animate, that's one of the, my specialties. That is really not fun to animate text being typed across the screen. But, um, anyway...

'''MATT:''' We've tried to, we've tried a couple of times to figure out a way to automate that, but Flash can't, can't look at a wav file and, uh, and, like, interpret what it is. We were like, wanted to figure out a way where we could just bring in the the sound file of Strong Bad and just have it be like, okay, when he gets loud, his head goes up.

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

'''MATT:''' When he gets soft, his head waggles And then we could just, like, plug it in and the ActionScript would do the rest, but nobody could, nobody could figure that out for us. Um...

'''MIKE:''' I found a few things laying around my file fol—uh, my folder that we've never done anything with, and most of them, I don't even know why I made them.

''{Mike plays a looping animation that shows Homestar leaping up into the air and then turning around and falling back to the ground head-first. He's wearing a yellow helmet covering his eyes and matching kneepads.}''

'''MATT:''' What's this one?

'''MIKE:''' It's just Homestar, just with a helmet and kneepads on flying up in the air.

''{Laughter}''

'''MATT:''' What is that from?

'''MIKE:''' I don't know. ''{Laughs}''

'''MATT:''' That, a nice ''{inaudible}''. That's from uh, from uh...

''{Offscreen, an audience member suggests "[[monster truck]]."}''

'''MATT:''' Monster truck one, yeah?

'''MIKE:''' Yeah.

'''MATT:''' Who said that? ''{Offscreen, an audience member behind The Brothers Chaps says "yeah" and raises his hand.}'' Nice.

''{Laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' Impressive. Um...

'''MATT:''' That's another thing, is there's a, uh, there's a Wikipeda, a Home—it's its own thing, a Homestar Wiki online, that is, uh, amazing and ridiculous and kind of frightening.

''{Laughter}''

'''MATT:''' And uh, and we use it, like, anytime they have, like, a, a drive, they'll have a drive because it's all just, uh, whatever, just people volunteering to do it, and so that their cost of bandwidth and everything is, is just, uh, out of pocket, and so anytime they have a drive, we try and donate to it, because we use it probably more than—

''{Stops and laughs along with the audience at another looping animation clip that Mike is playing. This one shows a squat, boxy Homestar falling headfirst into a line with three other identical Homestars and a similarly-shaped Strong Bad. He then bounces across the screen with the words "Going Away" in the background.}''

'''MATT:''' It's going away!

'''MIKE:''' Another thing I made for no reason.

''{Laughter}''

'''MATT:''' Yeah. But so, we uh, we use that wiki all the time because we'll be like, we'll look, you know, start to make a cartoon and be like, "All right, what's the one where Bubs has a toilet brush, why he has a toilet brush in some cartoon?" and then, uh, so you just look up toilet brush on the, uh... What is that?

''{Mike and the audience laugh at a looping animation of a sketch of Homestar doing the Keep On Truckin' walk.}''

'''MIKE:''' I'm not done animating that, though.

'''MATT:''' That's the Keep On Trucking guy. Yeah, uh... isn't that from that sketchbook drawing?

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, there's a sketchbook drawing Matt made of that, and I just decided to, I haven't gotten very far, but I at least got the rough—

'''MATT:''' You're keeping all these secrets from me.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, this is the one I, I found this this morning. I had no idea why I made it or what it is.

''{Mike plays a looping animation of a squat, black-and-white shaded Strong Bad shaded in blue punching the air in a ready fighting position. The audience laughs}''

'''MIKE:''' It's called "SB style".

'''MATT:''' Let's make a T-shirt of that.

'''MIKE:''' ''{Laughs}''

'''MATT:''' I like that.

'''MIKE:''' Um...Yeah, uh, and then there's the...

''{Mike tries to open up a file in Flash 5 but receives an error message.}''

'''MATT:''' Oh, that's in Flash 8.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah... We're gonna do one where it looks like, it's kind of a rough animatic, you know, you see the pencil in-between drawings of, like, Disney cartoons and stuff before they...

''{Mike plays a looping animation that shows a sketch of Strong Bad bobbing his head to the side.}''

'''MATT:''' Is that all it does?

'''MIKE:''' That's all it does. ''{Laughs with audience.}'' I spent like, five minutes on that one. But I was just making sure it could work, and it looked, you know, looked okay.

'''MATT:''' How to draw Strong Bad the Marvel way.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah ''{Laughs.}''...Um, by the way, anyone if you've got questions during this, you can feel free to ask questions now.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, are we done showing other things we need to show?

'''MIKE:''' Um...

'''MATT:''' Show them that, show them the, uh, the, uh, the Atari game real quick.

'''MIKE:''' Oh yeah.

'''MATT:''' You have that?

'''MIKE:''' That's one of our, um... lifelong dreams. We've got a friend who programs, uh, games for the 2600, and he actually makes cartridges and so, I don't know, we started talking to him three or four years ago, and we wanted to, you know, actually make an Atari game, you know, 2004 or whatever. Still hasn't come out yet, so it'll be even funnier when it comes out in in 2012...

'''MATT:''' ''{Laughs with audience.}''

'''MIKE:''' ...producing that, the Atari 2600 game. ''{Staring at his computer.}'' Um, how do I do this?

'''MATT:''' Uh, just... uh, I guess try and drag it on top of it, try and drag "HS" onto that... ''{Windows error sound plays.}'' Ah, no.

'''MIKE:''' Can I just do this?

'''MATT:''' ''{inaudible}'' ''{Windows error sound plays}'' I don't know. Ah, you probably have to install it.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah.

'''MATT:''' You can't do it.

'''MIKE:''' All right. Sorry. False alarm. But anyway, its um, you know really is on a, a cartridge and so we, with the graphics, we're like, uh, 8 by 8 grid of asterisks that you had to...

'''MATT:''' Yeah, so he sent us, he'd be like, "Here, make some graphics and send us the template," and it was just a text file that had, yeah, it was like, there was like 16 by 8 gr—sideways grid of asterisks, and then you made the stuff you wanted to be pixels be, uh, dashes instead or something, and so you're making them sideways and stretched out, and then he'd put them in the game, and then it's like, "Oh, there's Strong Sad." That's pretty cool.

'''MIKE:''' Um, this is the, um, Georgia Tech reference on the site. We made a video game that's tried to be, like, the worst video game ever, ''{Audience laughs}'' and, um, it was like track-and-field, one of those games where you have to mash buttons really fast, but it was a race-walking game, and, um...

''{The camera pans out to reveal that the game in question is [[50K Racewalker]].}''

'''MIKE:''' You have to press left and right alternately, but you can't go too fast or you foot fault, and literally, it would take like a day to win, to go 50 K.

'''MATT:''' Oh, no, more than that!

'''MIKE:''' It's like several days—

'''MATT:''' —three weeks—

'''MIKE:''' —or something. But anyway, so we made it so, for no reason, you can totally customize the way the character looked. And uh....

'''MATT:''' Only the, the only fun part of the game.

'''MIKE:''' And there's four or five um, four or five people that we made, uh, where if you make it look a certain way, and I think it's... yellow... black... yellow...

''{Mike selects these colors for the runner's shirt, shorts and shoes respectively. The words "Luke Schenscher" appear on the bottom of the screen.}''

'''MIKE:''' ...I think that's right. Yeah, it becomes Luke Sen—Luke Schenscher, who was the—

''{The audience laughs.}''

'''MIKE:''' —center for Tech a few years ago. Um...

'''MATT:''' There's, there's a, what, there's...

'''MIKE:''' So then here's playing it. Oh wait.

'''MATT:''' Go.

''{Mike faults. The audience lets out a collective "Awwwww".}''

'''MATT:''' Awwwwww! You kick its {{{swear|ass}}}.

'''MIKE:''' Now watch how long... ''{Faults and the audience laughs}'' {{{swear|Damn}}}! I want to at least get to... yeah, this next hash mark...

''{Laughter}''

'''MATT:''' Gooooo!

''{Mike reaches the hash mark.}''

'''MIKE:''' And that's point one ''{Faults and laughs}'' oh one, so that's a hundredth of one kilometer, so that's, like, 1/5000 of the game or something.

''{Laughter}''

'''MATT:''' We eventually made it to where, if you get to, if you get to, if you actually do a whole kilometer, then, uh, like, the screen starts to black out, and he walks into blackness.

'''MIKE:''' Oh yeah.

'''MATT:''' It's like, oh, we didn't program this far. ''{Audience laughs.}'' We added that one when somebody, like, emailed us a few days later and was like, "Hey, I got up to three kilometers," and we're like, "Wait! Really?"—

'''MIKE:''' ''{Laughs}''

'''MATT:''' —"People are doing that?" ''{Mike gets to 0.02km, then faults.}'' So we figured we should add something.

'''MIKE:''' Anyway—

'''MATT:''' And that's, uh—

'''MIKE:''' So you gotta, you gotta factor in a few faults, too, cause it sits, sits you there for like five seconds after you make a foot fault.

'''MATT:''' Um... What else? What was the, oh yeah, there was some email where, where someone announces Strong Bad as "The Ramblin' Wreck of Email Check".

'''MIKE:''' Yeah.

'''MATT:''' Which is, that's the only other, we tried to figure out if there were any Georgia Tech references on the website.

'''MIKE:''' Which is pretty good because there's no, like, Georgia references or Florida State. I mean, it's not like we've got references to everything.

'''MATT:''' There's one that's, you know, where somebody, they're from Tallahassee, and he pronounces it "Gainesville".

''{Mike and the audience laugh.}''

'''MATT:''' ...just to {{{swear|piss}}} off... Um, so let's take questions.

'''MIKE:''' Questions.

'''MATT:''' We, we're out of things to show.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, we're done.

===Part II: Q & A===
'''Q: Where did y'all come up with the idea for Trogdor?'''

'''MIKE:''' Trogdor. Um...

'''MATT:''' It's based on, uh, Ed Emberley drawing books, um, which is the, these things when we were kids, a series of drawing books where it's like "draw", you know, to draw an alligator, you draw a, a um, uh, triangle and you draw a rectangle and a bunch of triangles on the back for the scales and two lines, you know, and broke it all down. And so originally the email was gonna be mostly about like how to draw crappy drawings, and um, and so it was Strong Bad's version of that doing this, this dragon. And, um, we had somewhere, we tried to find it, actually, to bring it up here, um, just the sheet of Mike and I trying to draw worse dragons than the others, so it's just a sheet of terribly drawn dragons.

''{Laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' You can see—

'''MATT:''' —And we just decided on that one.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah you can see like the sort of the evolution of, you know, like, "Oh, well we like the beefy arm sticking out of the back and we", you know, so it's sort of like 20 or 30 different variations, some of which are pretty hilarious. Some of them are just flat out alligators, like, crocodiles.

'''MATT:''' And then the, the, it's funny, though, because the song at the end of it was a complete afterthought, sort of. Like, we had, were making the email, and essentially it was an email about bad drawings. It was more like this illustration email, and then Mike was, um—

'''MIKE:''' —We're—

'''MATT:''' —finishing up the email? We had worked all night, so it was, like, breakfast, and I was in the kitchen making eggs, I think, and, uh, and started, and just started, started singing that song, like, as a joke, just singing this Trogdor song, and Mike was like, "Well, now we have to make that."

''{Laughter}''

'''MATT:''' And so then we made the, the end. Um, you know...

'''MIKE:''' Here's, um, something else I forgot to show. The, um, There's a fake, um, heavy metal band that's Strong Bad's favorite band called Limozeen.

''{Someone in the audience shouts "whoo"}''

'''MIKE:''' And so, um, in making, we made a real album and had to make some fake album covers, and one ''{laughs}'' one of the things I made was that I wanted to make, uh, Limozeen, like, doing, like, gang symbols out of fingers, and so I tried to do it. And originally the idea was going to be, like, a hot woman—

'''MATT:''' —with like red—

'''MIKE:''' —with like red fingernails—

'''MATT:''' —Yeah—

'''MIKE:''' —and, like, make spelling Limozeen with her fingers somehow, so I did a test to see how it would look, and...

'''MATT:''' It's the most obscene....

''{Laughter washes out their speech. The camera pans to the screen to show an image of the word "LIMOZEEN" spelled out with cut-outs of photos of a person's fingers.}''

'''MATT:''' It's so gross.

'''MIKE:''' And, like, the "e"s are all fat and stubby!

''{More laughter.}''

'''MIKE:''' It just looks—

'''MATT:''' —for the Saw movies.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah. I thought we might get arrested if we publish that.

'''MATT:''' That is pornographic. I don't know why.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah.

'''MATT:''' ...Obscene... Uh any other, anybody else have a question? No?....

'''Q: Who does the voices?

'''MATT:''' ''{raises his hand}'' I do.

'''Q: ''Guitar Hero II'', you've got this song in there. So, um, how did that come about?'''

'''MATT:''' Um, the guy from Harmonix, Alex Rigopulos, uh, just emailed. He's a big fan, and, uh, emailed us and was like, "Hey, would you guys be willing to put a, you know, a track in as a bonus track?" He asked about, uh, one of, the song, Trogdor song, uh, ''Guitar Hero II'' for the Playstation 2 as, uh, as an unlockable track. And uh, so yeah, they were just fans and contacted us, which was pretty awesome. And uh, what else happened with that? Um, oh, it's funny, cause he, I was like, you know, you know, wanted to, like, repay the favor, and I was like, "Well, is there anything? You know, I'll send you whatever," and he was like, "Oh, I've already got everything," and I was like, "Oh, I'll send you some T-shirts and some DVDs," and he was like, "I've already gotten it all".

''{Laughter}''

'''MATT:''' "Really? All of the T-shirts?" and he was like, "Well, kind of, pretty much." So that was pretty cool to find out that. Most of the stuff, we've, we've rarely sought out any of the cool collaborations that we've been able to do over the years and have just lucked out that people were psyched and, and contacted us which was so... It's a nice, lazy, totally like, um, what do you call it, uh, non-confrontational way to do it. Sit there and wait for cool people to come to you. ''{Mike laughs.}'' That's the moral... Uh, anybody else? ''{Points.}'' Yes.

'''Q: Uh, I know a lot of Flash and webcomic sites now, it's becoming common for creators to have a news or a blog page where they just talk about pending projects, things going on in their personal lives, they answer questions from the fans, things like that. They have a comments section. Have you guys ever thought about adding a page like that to your site?

'''MATT:''' ''{Turning to Mike}'' We were just...

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, we, just, just talked about that in the last week or two.

'''MATT:''' But what we wanted to make it was the Excuses Blog, and we would only update it when we don't update the website.

''{Laughter}''

'''MATT:''' Because we always, always have a really good reason. We never just, like, blow it off. It's always, like, we're working on, like, we're working on some other project, or, like, there's something going on in our lives like—

'''MIKE:''' —having a baby or something. ''{Laughs.}''

'''MATT:''' ''{Smiling and pointing to Mike.}'' Yeah, and so, uh, we were just like, "We need to start the Excuses Blog section," and just, like, every time we don't update it, it's like, "Hey, look, you know, maybe it's, show a little bit of what we're, the other thing we're working on, or something," or like, "We need to take this week off to work on the DVD." Uh, like, like the week when we made that "Accent" email, it just sucks, like, we made this awesome email, and then the next Monday we had to make another cartoon for it, and it was like, "No, we just made a cartoon—"

'''MIKE:''' —So, yeah, we—

'''MATT:''' "—Now we have to make two." Uh, so we, we're thinking about it. Uh, because it's the sort of thing where we felt like it would sort of appease people if they knew that, like, you know, so the, maybe hate mail wouldn't come in—

''{Laughter}''

'''MATT:''' —when we don't update, and, uh, and people wouldn't be {{{swear|pissed}}} off, like, "Oh, I'm not going back to Homestar anymore, man, they don't update anymore," or something like that which, uh... So, maybe. The Excuses Blog. Look, look for it in '07.

'''MIKE:''' ''{leaning over and pointing to his right}'' Question behind someone. I can't see... yep?

'''Q: Um, I know you guys have worked with They Might Be Giants several times in the past.Are you all going to keep collaborating?'''

'''MIKE:''' Yep.

'''MATT:''' ''{Turns to Mike}'' We're trying to, you don't have any, can we show a small clip of that? We can turn the audio down. Maybe they wouldn't care about that.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah.

'''MATT:''' We don't know. It's so cool working with them. It's, it's another thing that they just came to us, which was amazing. Like, in the same day we got a package from, uh, from, um, Jim Mallon, who is one of the producers of Mystery Science Theater. He operated Gypsy—I don't know of anybody knows—uh, and he sent us a Tom Servo, so in the same day, we got a Tom Servo puppet and then got an email from John Linnell from They Might Be Giants, and we were just, like, uh, could have died the next day and been happy. Uh...

''{Laughter}''

'''MATT:''' So, um, but they're so cool! They're really laid back and, like, just never, we've never had any contacts or agreements in any of the stuff we've done, I mean, like, we made a video for them. It was on MTV. It's on DVDs. Their stuff, you know, their song is on our DVD, and, like, they've never made us sign any of those things, so it's funny, cause we're working on this thing for them now, and I, I have no idea, we haven't, we haven't talked about whether we're getting paid for it. We haven't, uh, there's been no discussion of contract, or we didn't have to sign a non-disclosure agreement or anything, so it's funny. I was like, I'd like to show, just sort of show...

'''MIKE:''' It's just—

'''MATT:''' ''{Simultaneously}'' You can let it play for a little bit.

'''MIKE:''' It's uh, a k—

'''MATT:''' —the song, the song might be, maybe they wouldn't want people to hear the song.

''{The camera pans upward to reveal the music video being played. The first scene shows and overhead shot of cars racing down a [[TMBW:Figure Eight|figure-eight]] track (see [[They Might Be Giants]]). Cut to a boy in a red cap and blue coat and pants ice skating in a figure eight and moving toward the camera.}''

'''MIKE:''' It's a kid's, they've got some kid's DVDs. There's one called "Here Come the ABCs" and this is called, "Here comes the 123s," and so...

''{Someone in the audience lets out an "Awww." The scene cuts to an overhead shot of the skating boy.}''

'''MIKE:''' ...it's a video for that.

''{The camera cuts to a wide overhead shot to show several small figures skating on a frozen pond, some of which are etching a figure eight into the ice.}''

'''MATT:''' The number eight.

'''MIKE:''' And so, it's just lots of race car driving and kids ice skating...

''{Cut to an overhead shot of race cars racing around a figure-eight racetrack in the middle of a desert as a bird flies overhead.}''

'''MIKE:''' ...things like that.

''{Cut to a driver-side view of one of the race cars. As the car races along the track, a turn left sign springs up in his windshield. The screen then goes blank as Mike closes the music video.}''

'''MIKE:''' This was actually something we animated at 18 frames—

'''MATT:''' —oh yeah—

'''MIKE:''' —um, kind of just to, cause we knew—

'''MATT:''' —the robot, show 'em the robot.

'''MIKE:''' Oh, the robot. Matt's proud of his robot.

''{Matt laughs}''

'''MIKE:''' Don't nobody talk about these robots on your blog now.

''{Mike starts rapidly fast-forwarding through scenes in the music video.}''

'''MATT:''' But so hopefully, I mean, yes, we're actively doing this for them right now, and hopefully, I mean, it's been cool cause they've treated us like, not just like some kids that at one time did something with these guys, like, they, like, treat us like we're, like, they want to collaborate with us, which has been, like, hugely boundmoving and awesome, so hopefully, you know, we'll continue to work with them.

'''MIKE:''' Hey Matt, here are your robots.

''{The scene has frozen on an image of a spaceship following the path of a sideways rainbow figure eight in space.}''

'''MATT:''' Oh, awesome. Thanks, Mike. I wanted them to see them.

''{The scene shows four robots standing in a row on a glowing purple grid against a dark blue sky. One by one, the robots fold up into a shape, the first and third into a circle that's two-thirds complete and the second and fourth into small rectangles. The four then merge together to form the number 8, which then sprouts a robot head, two arms, and two legs. The robot then flies upward with its left fist raised. Laughter.}''

'''MATT:''' Yeah. They're kind of Tron transformer robots. Um, uh any other questions? ...Yes.

'''Q: It's probably to be expected, but I know a lot of us probably want to hear some of the voices.'''

''{Laughter as Matt grins humbly}''

'''MATT:''' Um, sure, does somebody have a question for a character? That's always easy, easier to do than to just start talking like them. Do you have a question for a character?...''{as several audience members start talking at once}'' Yeah, put your money where your mouth is. What?

'''Q: ''{Several members of the audience speak up at once}'' How do you type with boxing gloves on?

'''MATT:''' That's a, that's the last question you should ask.

''{Laughter}''

'''Q: ''{The same student who asked Matt to do voices}'' How does the Cheat do voices for his own cartoons?'''

'''STRONG BAD:''' That's what I'd like to know, because from what I can tell, the guy's got two throats.

''{Laughter}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' There's this one throat, it's, like, monkeys, you know, that can't talk, like, no matter what. Their vocal cords can't support human speech, you know, and I would, from what I, I've, you know, and I've had to pull stuff out of this throat several times, and he chokes on things and stuff, and it doesn't look like he could talk. And then all of a sudden, he starts making cartoons and he do—he goes into this secret room when he does the voices, so I never see how he does it. And he comes out, and he sounds just like this:

''{Matt looks at Mike.}''

'''PBTC HOMESTAR:''' Hi, Strong Bad. I can do it all the time.

''{Laughter}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' It's amazing. I don't know how he does it.

''{Laughter}''

'''MATT:''' ''{Points}'' Yeah.

'''Q: I have a question for Homestar.'''

'''MATT:''' Oh. ''{Laughs with audience}'' Does anybody have any more questions for human people?

'''MIKE:''' ''{raises his hand}'' 'Cause I'll leave if not.

'''Q: ''{Same audience member}'' Did, did he, did he ever get a new cow lamp?'''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Um, I've been to every thrift store and vintage store and antique store in the country, ''{voice raises as if on the verge of tears}'' and I've not found another cow lamp. ''{voice returns to normal}'' So if anyone wants to make me a custom cow lamp, uh, that would be great. Uh, just so you know, it's made of out, like, dried, I don't know if it's animal skin or something, and it has the leather, like, binding around the top. It was three of those with, like, caveman drawings of, of cows. It was my favorite lamp.

'''MATT:''' ''{Pointing}'' Did, did you have a, a human question?

'''Q: Yeah. Speaking of voices, what do you do for recording voices?'''

'''MATT:''' Uh, we, uh, have a little, uh, like, a, a sound room, a fairly, it's not soundproof by any means, but it's better than, better than sitting in front of the computer in our old crappy apartment, which is what we used to do. Um, and so we've run into, we just have a decent, you know, um, mike. We've got, um, it's, whatever, a low impedance one that, like, you know, after like three feet, it just stops recording sound. Uh, and, uh, and we go, we go to USB Preamp, uh, that M-Audio makes, um, which is great. It's got XLR and quarter-inch inputs, and that just goes USB into the computer, and we use, uh, ''{laughs}'' I, again, we use, like, a five-year-old copy of Cool Edit Pro to do, uh, all the stuff. Now it's all Adobe Audition, and we also have new versions of that, but, um, and that's just, that's worked out for us, so...

'''MIKE:''' Um...

'''MATT:''' Nothing fancy.

'''MIKE:''' It's good that it doesn't record sound after about three feet, because then old recordings, when we had an apartment together, you could hear me, like, doing the dishes. There's one sound—

'''MATT:''' —Find the, find the, uh, find the worms. Squishiness.

'''MIKE:''' Oh, the worms... ''{starts looking for the file}''

'''MATT:''' Uh, do you have the main page or something? ''{turns to audience}'' There's a wor—there's a sound of this, like ''{makes squishing noises}'' of, like, squishing, uh, that we've used forever, and you can hear, I think, ''{points to Mike}'' you recorded that sound, actually.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah.

'''MATT:''' And you can hear me whistling in the background. And we still use it, it's great. I've tried to sort of get the whistle out of it, but I kind of like that.

'''MIKE:''' Which one is that?

'''MATT:''' ...whistle. Uh, what's the, the...

''{Audience member suggests the Halloween Main Page.}''

'''MATT:''' Is there anyone from the Wiki here? ''{Turns toward screen, where Mike has the [[Main Pages|Wiki page "Main Pages"]] up}'' Yeah, see, main, main pages. Which is the Halloween one?

'''MIKE:''' Graveyard. Seven.

'''MATT:''' Seven! Okay, there you go.

''{Laughter}''

'''MATT:''' See, that's what we do, like, as, as we're making cartoons, we'll do that about a hundred times. There is worm, so crank it, crank it.

''{The camera pans up to the screen as Mike turns up the volume.}''

'''MATT:''' Look at, listen at the end, you'll hear, you'll hear, uh, me whistling.

''{Mike plays the squishy sound heard when the mouse passes over "Toons" or "Games" on [http://www.homestarrunner.com/main7.html Homestar Runner Main Page 7]. At the end of the sound clip is a faint whistle. The audience laughs. Mike plays the sound again. More laughter.}''

'''MATT:''' So that's, uh...

''{Mike closes the main page window, revealing another window with Strong Bad and The Cheat standing in Homestar's house. Homestar's broken cow lamp is on the floor, and Strong Bad's face is sticking out from the side of his head.}''

'''MIKE:''' There's one working now—

'''MATT:''' —sound has improved.

'''MIKE:''' There's one where you can clearly hear a truck driving by because the window was open. We had this apartment that no air conditioning, I mean, it was just awful in the summertime, so you just had the window open, and you could hear dogs barking and trucks driving by and stuff.

'''MATT:''' ''{Gets out of his chair and points at the screen}'' Look, there's a goof. The—

'''MIKE:''' —What?—

'''MATT:''' —shadow of Homestar's little table is going over the cow lamp.

'''MIKE:''' Oh, yeah.

''{Matt returns to his chair as Mike moves the image of the cow lamp slightly to the right.}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{playfully}'' Not anymore...

''{Laughter}''

'''MATT:''' ...re-upload that. Uh, any other questions?

'''Q: Is there any, um, Easter eggs that we don't know about yet?'''

'''MATT:''' Probably not. I don't think, I think it, with, I know with the advent of the Wiki, there's nothing, we can't hide anything. It's, it's funny, because people started watching it, um, like they watch it full screen, and so you can see all this other crap that we kind of don't want you to see on the side that's just, like, you know, the edges of graphics and things, and so like. When Homestar walks in, and he just disappears, you know, when he, like, leaves the frame or whatever, and so if you watch it, and it's nice to watch it full screen, I understand, but they, you get all this extra crap that kinda makes the cartoon ugly, and so that's why for a while, we made that border huge, like, the symbol was gigantic so that, like, when you, even if you watched it all the way, like, it's still black on the edges if you watch it full screen. Um, but so, uh, because people are, they just start poking around, they, like, you know, decompile our Flash files and look at stuff, and so we've started adding a few things here and there for the, the, the nerds that do that stuff—

''{Laughter}''

'''MATT:''' —And so there's one where these two Homestars appear, uh, like, it appears that there's two Homestars, like, you can barely see the edge of his feet on that side of the frame, like, that's in the actual cartoon, but then, so then to make it consistent with, uh, in the universe, one of them has a mustache, but you only see it if you, like, decompile the Flash thing and be like, "Oh, that's Homestar with a mustache." Um, and then, what else? There's something where recently Strong Bad almost showed you his, uh, a picture. People always ask about the character's parents, and we just, that's something that we don't want to touch, We're just like, "Who cares what their parents look like?"

'''MIKE:''' ''{Turns to Matt}'' Is it, is it this one? Which one is it?

'''MATT:''' It's, no, it's the chair. He gets the new chair.

'''MIKE:''' Oh. Chair.

'''MATT:''' And so he, uh, we decided we, we would, he acts like he's showing you his parents, but something's in the way, so you can't see this photograph, and so, uh if you decompile it, though, and look at that symbol, it says, it's like "Nice try" or something like that on it, uh, knowing that people were going to do it. We've had to, the Easter eggs have had to go into this, like, technical Flash level just to hide stuff. ''{points to an audience member}'' Yeah?

'''Q: Is that why you guys did the, uh, the widescreen for the special email, I think it was, maybe it was the hundredth one?'''

'''MATT:''' Oh, the virus one.

'''MIKE:''' No, no, it was—

'''MATT:''' Yeah, it was—

'''MIKE:''' —hundred, hundredth—

'''Q: ''{Same audience member}'' Where, where he goes, "Whoa, where have you been?" and he said, "I al—I'm always here."

'''MATT:''' Right.

'''Q: ''{Same audience member}'' "I think I've lived here."

'''MATT:''' ''{Laughs}'' Yeah, exactly.

'''MIKE:''' I don't have that email.

'''MATT:''' You don't have one hundred on here?

'''MIKE:''' No, one sixty-two. I was looking for the, uh, "Nice Try Dodongo."

'''MATT:''' Oh, oh.

''{Audience member says "It's on the Wiki."}''

'''MATT:''' It is?

''{Same audience member says "Yeah." Mike laughs.}''

'''MATT:''' If we don't have it here, look on the Wiki.

''{Laughter}''

'''MATT:''' Anybody else. ''{Points}'' Yeah?

'''Q: Will there be more Peasant's Quest games?'''

'''MATT:''' We were just, we went on a big long walk yesterday and were talking about the future of Peasant's Quest. So, it's a long, I mean, it takes a long time to do that one. It took us, like, six months to make or something but yeah, {{{swear|hell}}} yeah.

'''MIKE:''' Peasant's quest is a, um, King's Quest-like graphic text adventure, and most of our video games and most of the games we make on the side are intentionally, like, 1985-to-1989-era graphics.

'''MATT:''' We try to make them fun, unlike the one we, we showed you.

'''MIKE:''' ''{Laughing}'' Yeah.

'''MATT:''' They look like old graphics. We're trying to actually make—

'''MIKE:''' They're more fun than that one, but anyway, uh, yeah, so, I was just lamenting the fact, I think it's been almost three years since the first one came out, and we, you know, just not gotten around. It, it was like a six month pro—you know, uh, process to make the whole thing, so... We'll make another one.

'''MATT:''' When we have time.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah.

'''MATT:''' ''{Turns around and points behind him}'' Yeah, somebody else over here?

'''Q: Where's Stinkoman level 10?'''

''{Mike laughs}''

'''MATT:''' That's also coming. Now, it will probably will come before Peasant's Quest, actually. That's totally in the works, and, and, uh, what we're going to do is add, uh, maybe add difficulty levels and midpoints to each of the levels too, because people were always complaining that it was too annoying and hard, so we're going to add midpoints to the level and maybe difficulty levels so maybe people will actually play it. Uh...

'''MIKE:''' Here's a Stinkoman theme song that we've never used. ''{Plays an audio file as the camera pans upward to the screen.}''

'''DA VINCI's NOTEBOOK:''' ''{singing}'' 
Stinkoman ''{A silhouette of Stinkoman posing is superimposed behind the "Stinkoman 20X6" title.}'' 
Stinkoman ''{The scene pans left to a silhouette of Stinkoman running. The same title starts out small in front of the silhouette and grows increasingly larger.}'' 
Fight fight fight fight fight ''{With each "fight," the scene switches to Stinkoman in a different running or fighting pose. The scene cuts to a blank white screen at the end.}'' 
Challenge challenge challenge challenge challenge

'''MIKE:''' I didn't do any more animation.

'''DA VINCI'S NOTEBOOK:''' ''{singing}'' 
...20X6 ''{Brief cut to Stinkoman in a fighting pose pulling out his knife, then back to the blank screen.}'' 
All over the universe, the victims he has ''{inaudible}'' 
Number one. Double deuce.

'''MIKE:''' ''{Stops the audio file}'' Anyway, some people—

'''MATT:''' The guys from Da Vinci's Notebook who is this, uh, um, these aca—humorous a cappella band that I, that's kind of broken up now?

'''MIKE:''' Yeah.

'''MATT:''' Uh, did that a long time ago. They're the same guys who did this, uh, cartoon called the "Ballad of the Sneak" on the website. ''{Points}'' Uh, yes?

'''Q: How do you all do the writing? Is it just, you look at the emails, and if one strikes you as really funny, you go with it? Or do you have to think in advance?'''

'''MATT:''' Um, both, both ways. We'll do, we'll, we'll look through the emails. Um, we have a good ones folder that when we find one we think is good, we'll just separate it and just be, like, we don't not, not necessarily that right then it starts to write itself, but just like, "Oh, that has potential," um, and so we'll always go back and look at the good ones folder. Or, uh, sometimes there's time where it's like, we want to do an email about this, uh, so let's search. Fortunately, we, he gets enough emails that you can usually just go—

'''MIKE:''' —we reverse engineer it.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, do a search for that word and see that, you know, they'll be five or six emails of that, pick the one that's the best. Uh, like that, that "Accent" one, cause like I said, that was one that we wrote a long time ago cause we get that question all the time, so it's like, "Oh, that will be an easy one to find," so just looked up "Accent" in, uh, you know, whatever, in Thunderbird, and it brought up, like, there were, like, that one has like 30 results for things, so just pick the one that we like the best and, uh, so yeah. And then as far as just straight-up writing for, like, cartoons and even for emails we usually, uh, we're pretty tapped out by Monday or Tuesday, whenever we put up the cartoon, so we, you know, take it easy one of those days, and then, uh, starting on Wednesday, we just, like, go for long walks and try and eat at, eat at weird places to make us think of funny stuff or just try, you know, just trying to get inspiration from whatever, just trying. Where we work is, is pretty, you know, we work in a kind of a depressing strip mall which is always good.

'''MIKE:''' Kind of depressing?

'''MATT:''' No, in a good way.

'''MIKE:''' No, the other places of business are, uh, Piccadilly Cafeteria, a hearing-aid store—

'''MATT:''' —yeah—

'''MIKE:''' —a medical supply store—

'''MATT:''' —like canes and walkers—

'''MIKE:''' —yeah, a, yeah, an adult diaper store—

'''MATT:''' —adult diaper ware—like, wholesaler—

'''MIKE:''' —yeah, yeah, scooters, and then there's, like, a Family Dollar and Big Lots, I mean, everything is, like, for old people or, you know...

'''MATT:''' That's right.

'''MIKE:''' ...yeah, so it's pretty good. So we're in the basement there and nobody knows what we do. We just walk in there and lock the door and people, like, always try to open the door. There's been a couple of times when we don't lock the door, and people just poke their head in and, like, thinking we're, I don't know what they think we are, but they are just like come in and, it's like, "Hey, leave, please." ''{Laughs}''

'''MATT:''' Um, any—anybody else? ''{points behind him}'' Yes?

'''Q: How much time do you actually spend checking emails?'''

'''MATT:''' Uh, there will be, I mean, the days when we're looking for one if we're, like, don't have an idea to, to, to go for, I mean, they'll, we'll both sit there for an hour or more just, like, reading emails. I mean, they, unfortunately, they, they break down into, like, you know, five categories that are all the same, so it's, like, having to find the ones that aren't that, and especially at, like, you know, now that we're at 170, it's like even, if it's like, yeah, it's a different question, but it's kind of treading the same territory. We're trying to, you know, we gotta try and keep it fresh for us, too, in addition to trying to keep it for the viewer. I mean, people will just want him to draw Trogdor again. I mean, that's, like, 50% of the emails he gets.

''{Laughter}''

'''MATT:''' "Draw another dragon" or "draw Trogdor again" or "draw a girlfriend for Trogdor."

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, a girlfriend for Trogdor.

'''MATT:''' So... uh, ''{points in front of him}'' Yes?

''{Audience member behind him says "Things for what not to email about."}''

'''MATT:''' ''{Looks behind him}'' What?

''{Same audience member says "These are hints for what not to email about." Matt laughs.}''

'''MATT:''' Yeah, exactly.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, did we ever do that?

'''MATT:''' ''{Simultaneously}'' We've been talking about making an email that's him doing that. Like here's the—

'''MIKE:''' —asking about his parents—

''{Audience member says in a mock-Strong Bad voice, "Never email me these things"]

'''MATT:''' There you go. Yeah, get him to do the voices.

''{Laughter}''

'''MATT:''' ''{Points in front of him}'' Yeah?

'''Q: Uh, I was just curious what kind of staff you guys have ''{inaudible—audience member continues to ask about the size and composition of the Homestar Runner staff}'' '''

''{Matt leans back in his chair and puts one arm behind Mike and the other behind Ryan. Mike points both fingers between Ryan, Matt and himself.}''

'''MATT:''' Uh, our sister does all of the business. She runs the online store, um, and that's, that's it. Four of us, basically... So not much on our staff.

'''MIKE:''' ''{points to his right}'' Yep.

'''Q: Uh, what's Homsar up to these days?'''

'''MATT:''' Homsar? ''{Mike laughs}'' Uh, you know, lurking in the shadows, floating around probably, somehow defying the laws of physics.

''{Laughter}''

'''MATT:''' Those are some of his hobbies. Uh, he's doing pretty good.

'''HOMSAR:''' Don't touch my severance package.

''{Laughter}''

'''MATT:''' That's a little more obscene than I wanted.

''{Laughter. Matt points in front of him.}''

'''Q: Um, one of the things I admire about the site is that, I know you do voices for 95% of the characters, and each one is distinctive, different. Did you study voice acting in college?'''

''{Mike laughs}''

'''MATT:''' Uh, no, it was, uh, Mike always says it was just cause I was the youngest and wanted attention the most when I was a kid, so I had to invent some way to make people pay attention to me. Uh...

'''MIKE:''' We also just watched, I, I mean, watched, like, Bugs Bunny cartoons, and he's got a very good memory, so he was, he was just always, you know, talking, quoting Simpsons or old Bugs Bunny cartoons and doing the voices, and...

'''MATT:''' In Mr. Turnipseed's algebra class, they would have, I did— I didn't even realize my voice was changing—

'''MIKE:''' —You had a teacher named Mr. Turnipseed?!

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

'''MIKE:''' Really?!

''{Laughter}''

'''MATT:''' Uh, I could do, when my voice was changing, it was only then, it was this short window of opportunity, I could do a really good Marge, and Mr. Turnipseed would, like, have me do it for the class, ''{Mike laughs}'' and I was just, it was just, I think, I would just say, like, "Oh Bart" or something like that, and, and my voice was, like, pubescent enough that I could squelch it out. Uh, but, so, no, I never got any formal training or anything like that. Um, uh, but, uh, I don't know, we start—when we first started making the cartoon, Mike was just like, "Well, I'm not doing these voices, so you make something up." ''{Mike laughs}'' And, like, "All right, well, what about Coach Z?" and he was like, "I'm not doing that either."

'''MIKE:''' Well, Coach Z was a char—he used to do this really depressing Midwestern guy or something. We'd just be hanging out or something, and Matt would just turn into this really depressing guy and like, ''{voice switches to an imitation of Coach Z}'' "Oh geez, I don't, things aren't going so good."

''{Laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' And so he's actually, I mean, Coach Z's become pretty depressing. Um, he'll just, like, get drunk instantaneously sometimes, and things like that, and this guy was even more depressing than Coach Z is, ''{Matt laughs}'' but...

'''MATT:''' Um, yeah... Anybody else? Questions? ''{Looks around the room}''

'''MIKE:''' We've got 17 minutes left, guys. C'mon.

'''MATT:''' ''{points behind him}'' Yeah?

'''Q: Where did Teen Girl Squad come from?'''

'''MATT:''' That really, that came from a, an email, I mean, it was an email that somebody sent. Actually, that's one of the, I think that's the only Strong Bad Email that was not sent to Strong Bad. It was actually sent to, uh, Mike and I, and they didn't, so it didn't say, "Dear Strong Bad" that was something we changed. It was just like an email, and they were like, and I, you know, what she meant was, "Will you make a cartoon of me and my friends?" is what I'm assuming, and so it's just this girl that was like, "Oh hey, will you make a cartoon of my friends? Here are their names." And so I was like, "Oh, this, I gotta forward this to Strong Bad."

''{Laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' Did you actually do that?

'''MATT:''' No. No, I for—I don't think I did forward it to him. I try to not treat the characters like they're real people, too.

''{Laughter}''

'''MATT:''' And, uh, and so the that was just, uh, uh, you know, we just really did it, and, um, and then decided that this could be something that would be fun to keep doing. And actually, that's one of my favorite, like, we, that's another thing that we don't do as often, and it's really, it's much easier, you know, obviously to make, because there's not a lot, there's no animation. There's just drawings. And, uh, but we've tried, so we could crank those out like crazy, but we try to keep it, I don't know, so it, it, it feels like that's something we could have made, gotten, some people already think it's already gotten old, but, like, we try, and I feel like the, the girls have taken on these, these much more, uh, in-depth lives than, than, than we ever thought possible.

''{Laughter. An audience member remarks, "They're probably not teens anymore."}''

'''MATT:''' Yeah. They wouldn't be if we were going by, like...

'''MIKE:''' Well, it's possible.

'''MATT:''' ''{Simultaneously}'' But see, Bart, Bart Simpson's been ten, ten years old for, like, whatever, for 15 years or something. So...

'''MIKE:''' They're 18 now.

'''MATT:''' Was there another...''{Points behind him}'' Yes.

'''Q: Yeah, the, the kind of style of humor that you guys have, has that, has that developed over the years, or has it just always been inane as brothers, like, just kind of, you know, because I have, I have a little brother, and we have a weird style of humor.'''

'''MATT:''' Right.

'''Q: It's just always how it's been, like, in that, ends up reflected in the way that you guys have favorite jokes, in a way, kinda quirky humor that you guys had background, and like...?'''

'''MATT:''' Yeah, I think it's definitely just, that's just the way we were, I mean, we've just been screwing around with each other and, like, in our whole family, like—

'''MIKE:''' —Hey now—

'''MATT:''' —there were all these dumb whole family inside jokes and stuff like that, and so, like, we just started making the cartoons just sort of to amuse ourselves.

'''Q: ''{same audience member}'' And that's, that's what I really found interesting about it was you were able to take that strange dynamic that is like, like, how do you express the weird family humor action so well and make it relate to other people. I thought that was really good.'''

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, we were, I was always encouraged when people would say that exact thing. It's like, you've, you know, I don't know, if there's just being shows and cartoons and being overwritten and written by ten people over a period of months, it sort of loses any sort of that, that, that was once there.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, not to, uh, I don't mean this in a derogatory way, uh, but it's sort of a commentary, no to, to diss on, uh, the Happy Tree Friends, but here was one episode of Happy Tree Friends where the, this, I think, it was the squirrel falls off of a cliff, and his guts just keep coming out, and, like, and, you know, it gets down to where it's, like, his toe or something comes out of his mouth. And it's pretty, you know, it's just like, very Itchy and Scratchy style, I mean, like that whole cartoon is. And, uh, at the end, it, there were 20 writers ''{Mike laughs}'' uh, for this cartoon. There was, it was like a 3-minute long cartoon, and it was mainly just a cat getting his, you know, a squirrel getting his guts ripped out, which is, you know, if that's, if that's your thing, that, that's great, that's funny, you know, whatever, but I was like, "Really? It took 20 people to be like, 'Oh wait, and ''then'' his stomach comes out'?"

''{Laughter}''

'''MATT:''' "Oh, I never thought his stomach would come out. I just had his, I stopped at his lungs. And then we keep going down to his toe." And, like, it took this room full of 20 people writing that.

''{Audience member says something inaudible. Mike laughs.}''

'''MATT:''' Well, there you go. I didn't like, he's, I'm not trying to diss on them. It was just surprising to me that it was like, uh, yeah, like Mike said, I feel like a lot of stuff gets overwritten, and maybe more...

'''MIKE:''' The other thing is, we do all our stuff, pretty much, we try to put out a new cartoon on Monday. Back in the day, it used to be written and produced all day Sunday, but these days, it's a little more, usually, we're writing Thursday, and Friday and Saturday we're sort of recording and getting stuff done, and then Sunday is a mara—marathon session of animating. Um, so everything's written and produced, like, within 2 or 3 days of you seeing it, so it's sort of an immediacy to it that wouldn't be there. That's why we've always not been interested in doing TV where you've got to write episodes six months in advance, and it's just, would lose some of, kinda some of the, uh, I don't know, spontaneity of the writing. You'd, you'd overthink something and not put in there. Whereas now, we're just like, four in the morning, and like, yeah let's just do that and, you know, it's, it's a double-edge sword. Sometimes that's probably yields terrible results but sometimes its good.

'''MATT:''' ''{looking around the room}'' Is there anybody that hasn't asked a question. ''{points to an audience member with his hand raised who's asked a question before}'' Not to... Yes. ''{points behind him}'' Yes.

'''Q: Yeah, um ''{inaudible}'' my question was since you don't have any financial sponsors or go into advertising, what kind of pressures do you put on yourself ''{inaudible}''?'''

'''MIKE:''' Well, it's mostly the pressure, we, you know, we try and not to disappoint fans. I mean, I think that for me, anyways, is more incentive to do something, to stay up late, to, um, you know, just give the people that have supported us, you know, what they're expecting. So it's not, you know, we're not trying, not to let any financial things influence what we do. Um...

'''MATT:''' Yeah, cause remember, we got, we, we didn't get, we got to this point by not caring. We didn't set out to start a business. We were just kind of amusing ourselves and so, it was like, that works to get it to where it is, so it's like, if we started to think about, like, "Oh well, we should bring this character back because it was a big seller," then that would, you know, change it and probably make it worse. So...

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, so it's definitely been a challenge, you know, going from it being a spare time, something we do for fun into our job. There is that sort of balance that you've got to, um, deal with, but we try not to let the, you know, money side affect any of the creative side at all.

'''MATT:''' Our sister lives in Alpharetta and works out of there, so we, we rarely see her. She does all the business stuff., so ''{Laughs}'' Keep her physically far away from us. ''{Mike laughs. Matt points in front of him}'' Yeah, and you had another question.

'''Q: Who made the puppets?'''

'''MATT:''' Uh, our friend, uh, Lucky Yates. Uh, he, uh, is a local, he used to work at the Center for Puppetry Arts, and now he, like, works, he's an improviser in Dad's Garage, and him and this guy Chris Brown—who are both just local puppeteer guys—um, made all our puppets.

'''MIKE:''' Again, we were friends with them before, you know, we just had friends that were good puppeteers, so like, "Hey, make us some puppets", and if it wasn't for that, we would have never gotten puppets made.

'''MATT:''' Yeah....''{Points in front of him}'' Yes?

'''Q: Um, I know you guys—'''

'''MATT:''' ''{Pointing to the current audience member speaking to stop another member who was about to speak}'' —No, um—

'''Q: —show up at, like, conventions sometimes, like, how's your relation—'''

'''MATT:''' —One time. ''{Mike laughs}''

'''Q: ...um, how's your relationship with, like, other, um, like, artists in, like, the online comic community, and...'''

'''MATT:''' Um, there's a, we don't talk to a lot of them. We have to be kind of heads down in trying to do something every week, you know, uh, for us anyways. And, um, but—

'''MIKE:''' —we talked to the Red vs. Blue people.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, we met the guys from Red vs. Blue. They were all nice, um, dudes. We met them, actually, we did met them at a, at like, where was that? At South by Southwest.

'''MIKE:''' ''{Simultaneously}'' At South by Southwest, yeah.

'''MATT:''' And, um, the guy that does Dinosaur comics. Anybody know Dinosaur comics?

''{A couple of audience members in the back shout "Yeah."}''

'''MATT:''' Um...

'''MIKE:''' it's really good.

'''MATT:''' That's, uh, qwantz.com, I think is the website. Um, we, Mike just bought me some stuff for, uh, Christmas from there and the guy was like, saw his email address and was like, "Hey, Homestar Runner. That's awesome." And so we became, became just sort of email friends with that guys. So we, um, but, uh, yeah, I don't really, it's the sort of thing where we're not trying to be, like, antisocial, but we don't, uh, if we, if we sought, like, support from the rest of the, like, you know, web comic, web cartoon community, we could hopefully find it, but I don't, we, we just haven't, like, we're just three dudes.

'''MIKE:''' We're trying to put all of, uh, all of them out of business anyways, so, it's best if we don't—

'''MATT:''' That's not—

''{Laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' —know who they are.

'''MATT:''' ''{Points in front of him}'' Um, there was a question over there?

'''Q: ''{inaudible}'' '''

'''MATT:''' ''{Cups his ears to hear better}'' Do we have new what?

'''Q: ...T-shirts here?'''

'''MATT:''' With us? Not, well, I can take... ''{pretends to take his T-shirt off}''

''{Laughter. A woman in the back yells "whoo".}''

'''MATT:''' Uh, no, we didn't bring any, any merch. I'm sorry. Uh, ''{looks at Ryan}'' will you run the merch table next time?

''{Laughter. Ryan says something inaudible.}''

'''MATT:''' ''{Turns around and points behind him}'' Yes?

'''Q: Do you find it hard not to wear your own T-shirts? '''

'''MATT:''' Uh, it's, it's pretty easy. Most of the ones with the characters now, we, we've started making these shirts that aren't, like, a character, it's like, there's one that says, "My baby got stole by a bear holding a shark." There's one that, uh, I saw ''{points to an audience member behind him with a Videlectrix shirt on}'' yeah, the one with the Videlectrix 500—

'''MIKE:''' —Yeah, I noticed.

'''MATT:''' —disk on it. Uh...

''{Laughter.}''

'''MATT:''' ...Like, we're now, we're making shirts more that we would wear. I mean, not that we didn't want to wear the, the characters before, and we used to, uh, back in the day before, like, anybody knew what we were doing, uh, but now, it is, you know, I mean, not that people ever know who we are or recognize us, but it would be weird, to be like, you know, you're wearing your shirt, and someone's like, "Oh hey, are you one of the Homestar Runner guys?" and you're just like, "Yeah..." ''{Bows his head in mock embarrassment}''

''{Laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' I saw a, I saw "Stone Cold" Steve Austin in the airport a few years ago, and he had a hat and jacket on, and I saw him from afar and thought, "Oh, he's trying to, you know, blend in," and then, until I noticed he was wearing a Stone Cold shirt and a WWF hat.

''{Laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' It's like, "Oh wait, he's not trying to blend in at all." ''{Laughs}''

'''MATT:''' Anybody else? ''{Points to his right}'' Yes.

'''Q: Okay, this is kind of a, uh, personal request. I don't know how familiar you guys are with, uh, Georgia Tech traditions or anything like that, but, uh, could you get, uh, Strong Bad to say, "What's the good word?" '''

''{Laughter}''

'''MATT:''' Who, what is, what, can you explain briefly what the...?

'''Q: ''{same audience member}'' Um, the tradition is, um, you say, um, "What's the good word?" and then, uh, the response will be "To {{{swear|hell}}} with Georgia." '''

'''MATT:''' Oh, okay.

'''Q: You say, "What's the good word?" We say, "To {{{swear|hell}}} with Georgia" again. You say "What's the good word," "To {{{swear|hell}}} with Georgia." And then you say, "How bout them Dawgs?" and you'll find out what the response to that is.'''

''{Laughter}''

'''MATT:''' Um, should I do it, Mike? Is this...

'''MIKE:''' I'm not comfortable with this, being a UGA alumn.

'''MATT:''' Mike went to UGA. I don't, don't know. Um...

''{An audience member says "Maybe we should submit, George P. Burdell send you guys an email."}''

'''MATT:''' Who?

''{Same audience member says "George P. Burdell." Another audience member says "Yeah, he's our fake student. We have a fake student at Georgia Tech." Matt laughs.}''

'''MIKE:''' Nice.

''{Another audience member says, "A long story." The previous member says, "He's better than anyone else at this school." Matt laughs.}''

'''MATT:''' Um, I don't know. Should I do this?

''{An audience member says, "Yes."}''

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, do it. Sure.

'''MATT:''' And so I say, "What's the good word?"

''{An audience member says, "Yeah."}''

'''MATT:''' Um...

'''STRONG BAD:''' What's the good word?!

''{Audience cries out in unison, "To {{{swear|hell}}} with Georgia!" After a second, someone in the audience says, "Say it again."}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' What—?

'''MIKE:''' Say ''{inaudible}'' again.

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{Simultaneously}'' Again?

''{Laughter}'''

'''STRONG BAD:''' What's the good, what is again the good word?!

''{Audience cries out in unison, "To {{{swear|hell}}} with Georgia!" }''

'''STRONG BAD:''' I'm supposed to say it a third time?!

''{An audience member says, "Yes."}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{hesitates}'' WHAT'S THE GOOD WORD?!

''{Audience cries out in unison, "To {{{swear|hell}}} with Georgia!" }''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Then wh—then what's my next line?!

''{An audience member replies, "How 'bout them Dawgs?"}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' How 'bout them Dawgs?!

''{Audience cries out in unison, "{{{swear|Piss}}} on 'em."}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' That was...

'''MIKE:''' That's it?

'''STRONG BAD:''' Is this suppos—like, so am I supposed to envision a picture of a yellow jacket taking a leak on a bulldog?

''{Laughter}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' That's the most disturbing thing ever.

''{Continued laughter}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' You should make those, like, they have the Calvin {{{swear|pissing}}} on Hobbes, Calvin peeing on, you know, Dale Earnhardt, Sandra Bernhard. ''{Matt looks at Mike}'' I'm gonna settle that one. Young man's daughter, maybe.

''{Continued laughter}''

''{The audience member who asked the original question says, "Thanks, though. That was awesome." Audience applauds.}''

'''MATT:''' That'll be five hundred dollars.

''{Laughter}''

'''MATT:''' Uh, anything else? I think we're almost out of time here. ''{Points in front of him}'' Yes.

'''Q: I mean, you guys were talking about things ''{inaudible}''. Outside of Homestar Runner cartoons, what do you guys do for fun?'''

'''MATT:''' Uh, what do we do for fun? We are, we live in Decatur and all are homeowners, so we hang out at each other's, so Ryan's got an awesome porch. We grill out. Ryan's a home brewer, so we go to drink Ryan's beer at his house, which is good. ''{Ryan nods}'' We, uh, I got a, I got a Nintendo Wii that I don't play as often as I'd like to.

''{An audience member says, "Yeah."}''

'''MATT:''' Uh, so we, you know, we like video games. We, um...

'''MIKE:''' We play basketball sometimes.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, we play, we can shoot hoops in the morning, sometimes. We, uh, try and do other dumb creative stuff on the side, like Mike just got this awesome—

'''MIKE:''' ''{Points to Ryan}'' —like Ryan's shirt.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. Ryan's shirt ''{Ryan pulls out the front of his shirt}'' that says, "Orange is {{{swear|shit}}}." Mike made that. ''{Mike laughs}'' It's a, it's an orange that's smiling. It says, "Orange is {{{swear|shit}}}." Uh, so we're always trying to do other dum—you know, if we're not doing Homestar. It does sometimes, not necessarily tap you out, but it's a nice thing, like doing that, um, that, uh, They Might Be Giants, like, videos is actually fun sometimes to do something that's not, you know, on the website.

'''RYAN STERRITT:''' ''{Turns to Matt}'' ''{inaudible}'' made, made real quick.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah.

'''MATT:''' Uh, yeah, we were making, we were trying to, like, daring each other to just make short films and edit them and be, like, the idea was that, like, within two hours you had to make a movie and edit it and have a DVD that you could bring over to somebody's house, and called that "Made Real Quick". Um, I don't know. What else? Where do we hang out? Do we hang out?

'''MIKE:''' Our houses, yeah.

'''MATT:''' ''{Laughs}'' We never leave Decatur.

'''MIKE:''' We're... becoming domesticated.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. Mike's got a baby. I've got one on the way. Um, so, uh, so you gotta come over, if you...

''{Laughter}''

'''MATT:''' If you want to hang out with us.

'''MIKE:''' We're a load of fun.

'''MATT:''' At our house... Um...

'''Q: What's the address?'''

''{Laughter}''

'''MATT:''' Uh, anything else?

''{Laughter. Mike points to a student at a terminal behind him who's been working relentlessly on an architecture project since before the Brothers Chaps arrived.}''

'''MIKE:''' This guy's a master of SketchUp over here.

''{Ryan and Matt turn around to look at the student. Student says, "No, I'm not." Laughter.}''

'''MIKE:''' Look at that.

''{Joel says something inaudible and then stands up from behind the Brothers Chaps.}''

'''JOEL LINDERMAN:''' Is there any more questions? Anybody else? Well, uh, I have, I have a poster over here, and you guys are welcome to sign it. I've got Sharpies, so you can show your appreciation for Homestar Runner. Uh, write little notes, but don't write a book, cause, like, there's a lot of people, so might need some room on there. And, um, the, if you just want to give them a hand for coming, taking the time...

''{Audience applauds}''

'''MIKE:''' Thanks, guys.

''{Matt waves and says something inaudible. Fade out.}''

==Photos==
<gallery>
Image:20070426 GA Tech event venue.jpg|The venue
</gallery>

==Fun Facts==
===Inside References===
*Andy Griffith's head is from [[extra plug]].

===Real-World References===
*[[Wikipedia:Dale Earnhardt|Dale Earnhardt]] was a noted [[Wikipedia:NASCAR|NASCAR]] driver. [[Wikipedia:Sandra Bernhard|Sandra Bernhard]] is an American entertainer.
*[[Wikipedia:Google SketchUp|Google SketchUp]] is a 3D modeling program used mainly for architectural design.

==External Links==
*[http://hdl.handle.net/1853/14302 download the video of the event] (148 MB)
*[https://smartech.gatech.edu/bitstream/handle/1853/14302/homestar_streaming.html view the streaming video of the event]
*[http://www.library.gatech.edu/ visit the Georgia Tech Library website]
*[http://www.library.gatech.edu/calendar/functions/popup.php?ev=2454217&readFile=1&readSQL=0&showCat=16|18|21&oc=1 visit the Georgia Tech Library Calendar info for the event]
*[http://smartech.gatech.edu/bitstream/1853/14302/1/homestar.pdf view the poster for the event (PDF)]
*[http://theubiquitouslibrarian.typepad.com/the_ubiquitous_librarian/2007/04/homestar_takes_.html read the Ubiquitous Librarian post on the event]
*[[Forum:11324|forum thread re: "Georgia Tech - 26 Apr 2007"]]

<noinclude>[[Category: Interviews and Public Appearances]]</noinclude>

costumes

Bvisness — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 16:01:18 GMT

Bvisness: Changed the redirect to go to the comprehensive costume page instead of the first costume toon.

#REDIRECT [[Fan Costumes]]

Xeriouxly Forxe

Bvisness — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 21:51:54 GMT

Bvisness: /* Transcript */

{{toonnav|Holiday Toon|aprilfool10|Punkin Show|Homestarloween Party}}
[[File:HSR Xeriouxly Forxe.png|thumb|250px|Xeriouxly, Pom. Xeriouxly.]]
Homestar and the other main characters get xtreme new forms for the nineties!

'''Cast:''' {{film|Homestar Runner}}/H. Star, {{film|Strong Bad}}/S. Bad, {{film|Pom Pom}}/Pom, {{film|Marzipan}}/M.Z. Pan, {{film|Coach Z}}/Zoach C, {{film|The Poopsmith}}/The Smith, {{film|Strong Sad}}/S. Sad, {{film|The Cheat}}/Ch8t, {{film|Strong Mad}}/S. Mad, {{film|Bubs}}/Bubz, {{film|The King of Town}}/Xing Town, {{film|Homsar}}/Still Homsar

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

'''Date:''' March 31, 2010 (around 23:00 ET)

'''Running Time:''' 0:54

'''Page Title:''' Exerybody! Exerybody!

==Transcript==
''{Homestar Runner is running across The Field. The singers sing along, as with the [[Intro]].}''

'''SINGERS:''' Everybody! Everybody!

''{The scene starts to skip.}''

'''SINGERS:''' Eh-! Eh-! Eh-!

''{The scene skips faster before a rock version of the Intro takes over. The aspect ratio expands from standard to widescreen. During the rock intro, it shows slides of the characters. Then, lightning turns the characters into their [[Xeriouxly Forxe Character Variations|Xeriouxly Forxe forms]].}''

'''SINGER:''' Everybody! E-e-e-everybody! 
Everybody! E-e-e-everybody! 
Everybody! E-e-e-everybody! 
Revamped for the nineties! 
So much more exciting!

Pointy elbows and lots of lightning! 
Edgy and angry, so zesty and tangy! 
There's new demographics 
When nobody asked for it! 

Everybody! E-e-e-everybody! 
Right now!

''{The sides of the screen come together with an explosion. All twelve main characters in Xeriouxly Forxe style appear around the title "HSR Xeriouxly Forxe".}''

'''H. STAR:''' ''{struggling, through gritted teeth}'' Xeriouxly Forxe! ''{turning around}'' Did I say that right?

'''S. BAD:''' ''{also through gritted teeth}'' Xhut up and juxt xay your linex! ''{mumbling, in Strong Bad's voice}'' Aah, it's really hard to talk like xhix.

''{After a few moments, the viewer is redirected to [[Main Page 21]].}''

==Fun Facts==
===Explanations===
*The whole toon is based on the phenomenon of cartoons that gain [[tvtropes:DarkerAndEdgier|unnecessarily edgy revamps]]. 

===Trivia===
*The [[FeedBurner Page#Toons - Homestar Runner: XERIOUXLY FORXE!|RSS description]] of this toon is:
<blockquote>Homestar and Strong Bad are BACK like you've never seen them before! Pointier, angrier, pre-teenier!! The 6-12 demographic won't know what hit em when they witness Xeriouxly Forxe, the all-new adventures of Homestar Runner and friends with a bold new look and an edgier style that just screams, "Hey 6-12 demographic! Do you know what hit you? Can you tell our focus group person that you don't know what hit you, please?" With all those X's in the name, it has to be cool! </blockquote>
*This toon marked the first time in nearly five months that [[homestarrunner.com]] received a new toon, the longest hiatus to date.
*[[Appearances by All 12 Main Characters|All 12 main characters]] appear in this toon.
*This is the third toon in the site to be in [[Widescreen Toons|widescreen]], and the first non-[[Strong Bad Email]] toon to be in said format (not counting [[Main Page 22]]).
* This toon has exactly [[Wikipedia:Number of the Beast|666]] frames, though the viewers are redirected to [[Main Page 21]] in frame number 645, and nothing else happens in the extra frames.
**666 was previously referenced in [[Jibblies 2]] and its [[Jibblies 2 Teaser|teaser]].

===Remarks===
*Except for Homsar (who doesn't change at all), every character that normally [[Lack of visible arms|lacks visible arms]] gains some sort of arms (Marzipan gains tentacles) when upgraded.
*Coach Z and the King of Town have [[Lack of Visible Body Parts|gained visible mouths]].
*Homestar's eyes blink in their usual pattern, even though the video at the beginning is supposedly skipping.
**The background also only slightly skips back and then continues as normal, not matching the audio skip.

===Goofs===
*While The Smith raises his ax, you can see a small part of it through his forehead.

===Fixed Goofs===
*After The Poopsmith is transformed, the cutaway to the next character showed The Poopsmith in non-transformed form. This was fixed within a half-hour of release.

===Inside References===
*S. Sad has the head of an [[elephant]].
*[[Seriously|Xeriouxly]] is in the new name.
*The Cheat used "Ch8t" previously in [[mile]] and [[bedtime story]].
*The [[Teen Girl Squad]] were said to be "revamped for the nineties" in [[Homestarrunner.com PAY PLUS!]]
*Zoach C's boots bear a similarity to [[Stinkoman]]'s.
*Zoach C's name is a [[spoonerism]].
*The [[explosion]] behind the logo is the same one used when the [[Visor Robot]] malfunction in [[Senor Mortgage]].

===Real-World References===
*H. Star has [[Wikipedia:Doctor Octopus|Doctor Octopus]]-style mechanical arms strapped around his neck.
*S. Bad has a variation of the [[Batman]] emblem on his mask.


===Fast Forward===
*Soon after this toon was released, Xeriouxly Forxe got its own Main Page, [[Main Page 26]], where they would X-ify [[Marshie]] and [[The Stick]].

==External Links==
{{extlinks|aprilfool10|16234}}

[[Category:April Fools]]

Translation Subtitles

Bvisness — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:30:14 GMT

Bvisness: /* Appearances */

{{tbd}}
:{{for|subtitles project|HRWiki:Subtitles}}

From time to time, '''subtitles''' are used in the Homestar Runner cartoons to translate [[Lack of Intelligible Speech|unintelligible speech]].

==Appearances==
*[[The Cheat's Character Video]] — All of [[The Cheat]]'s lines are subtitled.
*Email [[little questions]] — Strong Bad gets an e-mail from Sweden, and because it is written in [[deliberately poor English|poor English]], he replies in poor English, with subtitles in proper English, although the proper and improper subtitles do not often match up.
*Email [[local news]] — During the SkyCheat scene, The Cheat's lines are subtitled.
*Email [[rock opera]] — When a word is spoken in the rock opera, it appears on the bottom of the screen.
*Email [[looking old]] — When [[Strong Bad]] gets a "lace-lift", his speech becomes so mumbled, it is done in subtitles.

{{stub}}

[[Category:Word running gags]]

Talk:Flashlights

Bvisness — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:04:41 GMT

Bvisness:

{{tbd}}
== Creating for the sake of creating ==
I see nothing interesting or out of the ordinary in any of the instances. This seems like another case of people creating pages because there's nothing better to do. {{User:DeFender1031/sig}} 17:59, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
:This a banner example what [[HRW:Spoons]] is trying to convey. [[HRW:IG]] states that a generic item has to have 5 to 10 appearances, and have moderate importance. [[Bikes]] I could let pass, since it was the focus of at least one SBEmail, and was a plot point for a couple others. But flashlights have not been used unusually in any of their appearances. It's basically a typical prop. Not notable = '''DELETED'''. {{User:Wbwolf/sig}} 18:06, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
:: I'd call it a spoon, [[Spoons|but...]] regardless, this is not nearly notable. Not a food, not a gag, not a person. Items which are common to real life and appear in appropriate uses are defined as "generic" by our standards. Generic pages need more uses than this. That said, I don't think I'd like this page if it had 30 uses. It just isn't notable.--[[User:Jellote|Jellote wuz here]] 20:17, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
::::When I first created this page, I didn't know their were only a few appearances, but before I knew it,I went ahead and pressed save. So hypothetically, this page was an accident. --{{User:Wasd98/sig}} 22:16, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
:::::Flashlights aren't really anything common on homestarrunner or made up by TBC anyway. '''Delete it!'''

Talk:Flag Day Visuals

Bvisness — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:02:44 GMT

Bvisness:

{{tbd}}
== Unnecessary ==
We generally only do visuals pages for songs with many quick cuts and montages and such that would clutter the transcript if we tried to put them there. Here, we already have everything in the transcript for the toon, and it's not cluttered at all. This says strongly to me that this page is unnecessary, and should be '''deleted'''. {{User:DeFender1031/sig}} 10:06, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
:I agree with DeF. Delete. {{User:Elcool/sig}} 10:32, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
::<s>Yeah it's pretty nicely covered [[flag day#Strong Badian National Anthem|here]]. Therefore I think we should make this a Redirect to that link. {{User:The Knights Who Say Ni/sig}} 21:24, 25 January 2010 (UTC)</s>
:::Okay, i just saw my edit summaries on [http://www.hrwiki.org/w/index.php?title=flag_day&diff=678400&oldid=678399 flag day's] [http://www.hrwiki.org/w/index.php?title=flag_day&diff=678440&oldid=678401 history page]. and what i said then was get rid of them there and move them over here. now i'm not sure what should be done. {{User:The Knights Who Say Ni/sig}} 21:46, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
::::Yeah, already noted on the original page, don't need another copy.--{{User:Record307/sig}} 21:48, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
:::::Y'know, I'm surprised the visuals weren't added till three months ago. Why could that be? [[User:RickTommy|RickTommy]] 09:44, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
::::::Why not just put this into the actual flag day page? And is this level of detail really necessary in a transcript? --[[User:Bvisness|Bvisness]] 23:02, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Talk:Experience the fury of

Bvisness — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:59:56 GMT

Bvisness:

{{tbd}}
Searching for the exact phrase "fury of" in the Wiki's search engine doesn't turn up a third instance that begins with "experience". Just "That doesn't need to feel the fury of a Dragon Man doing Kung-Fu", which doesn't really match the ones listed here. {{User:Bad Bad Guy/sig}} 03:27, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
: He actually does say it more than twice. It's just... every single instance except in [[boring (really)]] is in [[theme park]] during the "boat" ride. There's really nothing more to say about it, so '''deleted'''. --{{User:Jay/sig}} 07:01, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
::When I saw this page, I was really hoping there'd be three appearances to justify it. I really do like this phrase. Alas, there's really only two (counting all of the ones in [[theme park]] as one). I can't really see this is quite worth an exception to the rule of three. So, a fun phrase, and by the way, TBC, would you use it again so we can have this article? But for now, delete. {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 07:04, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
:::{imitating The Cheat}Meh-hehhh [[User:StarFox|StarFox]] 01:39, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
::::Does that mean you support or oppose this article's deletion??? {{User:Bad Bad Guy/sig}} 02:42, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
:::::::It's Cheatspeak for "Oh, go ahead". [[User:StarFox|StarFox]] 07:46, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
:::::::::I say go ahead and get rid of it. There's only two, so it really shouldn't be necessary to make an entire page devoted to a phrase that's only in two cartoons. --[[User:Bvisness|Bvisness]] 22:59, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

your funeral

Bvisness — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:55:49 GMT

Bvisness: Made boomboxes a non-orphaned page

{{sbenav|168}}
[[Image:Sbemail 168.png|thumb|"Peaceful is ''not'' how I roll!"]]

Strong Bad makes plans for his funeral.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|Strong Sad}}, [[Shut up, Lady|Lady]], {{Film|Homestar Runner}}, {{Film|Marzipan}}, [[Taranchula]], {{Film|The Cheat}}, {{Film|Strong Mad}}, {{Film|Bubs}}, {{Film|Coach Z}}, {{Film|Pom Pom}}, {{Film|The King of Town}}

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]], Visitation Room, [[Marzipan's House]], [[The Field]], Futuristic Warehouse (Easter egg)

{{Comp|Lappy 486}}

'''Date:''' Monday, March 12, 2007

'''Running Time:''' 3:56

'''Page Title:''' Lappy 486

{{dvd|strongbad_email.exe Disc Six}}, {{dvd|Sbemails' 50 Greatest Hits DVD|notitle=true}}

==Transcript==
'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{singing}'' Strong Bad, how you gonna check that email? With my boxing gloves, with my boxing gloves!

<blockquote class="lappy email">
<div>subject: funeral</div>
Dear Screaming Yellow Strong Bad, 
What do you think your funeral would be like? 
Sincerely Yours, 
Bibendum
</blockquote>

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Oh man, Addendum. My funeral's going to be off all of the following: the hook, the chain, the charts, the grid, and most importantly, the wagon. ''{clears screen}'' First, I'll have to deal with the most difficult decision a newlydead faces: what to do with my stinking, rotten remains. I don't want to be just lying there surrounded by sweet-smelling flowers—

''{Cut to Strong Bad with his eyes blacked out and paler skin lying surrounded by flowers in a coffin with the word "COUGHIN'" on the side. Organ music is heard. Behind him is a noticeably fat person wearing a ducky shirt.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' —and sweat-smelling followers.

'''LADY:''' Oh, he looks ''so'' peaceful.

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{turns his head}'' Shut up, lady! Peaceful is ''not'' how I roll.

''{Cut back to the Lappy}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' That's why I'm gonna be taxidoimied! Nothing sums up my life's achievements quite like my stuffed corpse—

''{Cut to a white background. Strong Bad is standing on a log that says "Yosemite National Park" and holding a cougar}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' —suplexing a cougar. ''{high voice}'' Mrow! ''{normally}'' It'll be kept in a place of honor for ''{fade to Marzipan's house}'' all the world to want to make out with.

''{Homestar Runner enters from the right with a brown hat and jacket; he hangs them on the Strong Bad statue.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Marzipan, I'm home!

'''MARZIPAN:''' ''{leaning in from the left}'' Did you find the DNA evidence?

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Not yet, but I'm getting close!

''{Cut back to the Lappy}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Well, maybe I'll just preserve myself fetal pig-style in a mason jar filled with the salty tears—

''{Cut to a jar filled with a liquid looking like water with a mostly-preserved Strong Bad inside. The corpse is missing several pieces of flesh and has an exposed ribcage.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' —of all the heartbroken private school girls that will pine-uh for me-uh.

''{Cut back to the Lappy}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' That way, there'll be something left to re-animate once the zombie uprising cometh. ''{speaks hurriedly, pausing between sentences}'' In 2046. On March 31st. At 2:03 pm. ''{clears screen, talks normally}'' And while I'm a big fan of the classic ''{sings to the tune of Chopin's funeral march}'' "dunh-dunh-da-dunh-Dunh-da-dunh-da-dunh-da-dunh," ''{normally}'' my funeral dirge would be written and performed by Taranchula!!

''{Cut to the Field. Strong Sad is wearing a black tie and carrying the jar containing Strong Bad's remains. Metal music begins to play.}''

'''TARANCHULA:''' Ooh hoo ha ha haaa.

''{Pan out; Strong Sad and the jar are silhouetted and The Cheat is following behind, whipping Strong Sad with a whip. Strong Mad and Bubs follow.}''

'''TARANCHULA:''' ''{singing}'' Brother in a jar! Brother in a jar! Brotherinajar!

''{Cut back to the Lappy}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Since I'm not very confident in Strong Mad or The Cheat's public speaking abilities, I'll pre-record my own eulogy and have it played back on 5 boomboxes—

''{Cut back to the field: five [[boomboxes]], including the [[booOOMbox]] and one made of cardboard, are stacked between two large vases with roses in them.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' —stacked on top of each other!

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{playing off of boom boxes}'' Greetings, blubbering masses! Pull yourselves together! And turn off the snot works! We are gathered here to di— ''{electronic noises}''

'''COACH Z:''' ''{playing off of boom boxes}'' I hope I'm not recording over anything important! OK, drap it! ''{rhythmically}'' Coach, Z, Coach, Z, 1, 2—

''{Cut to Bubs and Coach Z. Both are wearing ties, and Coach Z notably is sulking his head, has bags under his eyes, with eyelids depressingly lowered. While Coach Z's voice continues, Bubs turns slowly to angrily glare at Coach Z, who begins to doink and move his arms to the beat without changing his expression.}''

'''COACH Z:''' —3, 4, I said Coach, Z, Coach, Z, 1, 2—

''{Cut to Homestar Runner in a black suit and propeller cap standing behind a pulpit between two vases of roses.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{sadly}'' Thank you, Strong Bad. ''{Coach Z's music is replaced with organ music}'' And now, a reading from the book of phone. ''{places and opens a phone book on the pulpit}'' Chapter 16, ''{turns page}'' Pizza Places. Aardvark Pizza. Abraham Lincoln's Pizza Cabin. ''{turns page}'' Acupuncture and Pizza: ''{voice begins to waver}'' Open late, free delivery! ''{closes and puts phone book away}'' And now, Strong Sad will perform an interpretive dance based on his brother's life.

''{A gong sounds, followed by drums. Cut to Strong Sad dancing onto the scene wearing a leotard. Strong Sad and the music stop at the sound of shattering glass; some drops of water fly in from the left. Cut to Strong Bad's corpse, which has broken open the jar. His eyes remain black and his body disfigured. The audience gasps. Strong Bad shakes his head dry.}''

'''ZOMBIE STRONG BAD:''' ''{speaking in a distorted voice}'' Sorry, everybody. Funeral's over. Not even death can stop me from stopping my leotarded brother prancing around in my honor.

''{Cut back to Strong Sad}''

'''STRONG SAD:''' But you never got to see my Chaup au Fan!

''{Cut to Strong Bad}''

'''ZOMBIE STRONG BAD:''' You keep your chappy thong to yourself, Mister!

''{Cut back to the Lappy}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Hordes of locusts and famine got nothing on the sight of Strong Sad dancing interpretively. So, in order to spare the world, I guess I can just never die. Okay! Man, I hope the zombies still let me fight on their side. I've got my own tattered jeans and mouthful of grape jelly. Anyone? ''{softer and with progressively smaller text}'' Zombies? Jelly? Grapity?

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

==Easter Eggs==
[[Image:Chapaufan.PNG|thumb|CHAUP AU FAN!!]]
[[Image:Acupuncturepizza.png|thumb|From the Book of Phone, Chapter 16, Pizza Places.]]
*Click on "Bibendum" to see a picture of Strong Sad as the Michelin Man (aka Bibendum) with a caption that reads "Chaup Au Fan!!".
*Click on the phone book when Homestar says "Acupuncture and Pizza" to see an ad for it.
*At the end of the email, click on the word "zombies" (the first occurrence) to see a clip of [[Pom Pom]] and [[Strong Sad]] in their 2046 forms.
:''{Cut to a scene with a future Pom Pom and Strong Sad in a purple room with cardboard boxes and flickering lights. Both are smoking cigars. Pom Pom has a gray [[Wikipedia:flattop|flat top]] and is wearing an ammo belt. Strong Sad's arms are muscular and he is covered with scars; his face is covered in stubble. The phrase "THE YEAR 2046..." is subtitled onscreen. Heavy metal music is heard in the background.}''
:'''FUTURE STRONG SAD:''' ''{deep voice}'' Fall back. The zombies have broken through our defenses!
:''{Cut to a pale orange room with Strong Bad standing in front of an open door. Strong Bad has stuck part of a brain on the left side of his head and is wearing ripped denim jeans.}''
:'''STRONG BAD:''' BLAUGHRG! ''{grape jelly oozes out of his mouth}''
:''{Cut back to Strong Sad and Pom Pom.}''
:'''FUTURE STRONG SAD:''' We need to activate the doomsday device. ''{zoom in on Strong Sad's face}'' Get the leotard!
:''{Taranchula is heard singing "Brotherinajar!"}''

==Fun Facts==

===Explanations===
*"[[Wikipedia:Off-the-grid|Off the grid]]" is a method of providing power, water and other utilities to a building that does not use the public utility grids. It is also a slang term for living outside of normal society, so that one cannot be traced by the government or other authorities.
*"Off the wagon" is a phrase meaning a recovering alcoholic has started drinking again.
*A [[Wikipedia:Suplex|suplex]] is an offensive move often used in professional, olympic, and collegiate wrestling where a wrestler essentially flips their opponent over their shoulders.
*[[Wikipedia:Taxidermy|Taxidermy]] is the practice of preserving dead animals (usually sport game shot by a hunter) by stuffing them full of sand or sawdust to retain their natural posture for display as trophies.
*An [[Wikipedia: addendum|addendum]] is "something added or to be added, especially a supplement to a written work."
*A [[Wikipedia: leotard|leotard]] is a one-piece dance outfit or a swimsuit.
*Strong Bad's reference to "fetal-pig style" refers to the use of unborn [[Wikipedia:Fetal pig|pigs]], a by-product of the meat packing industry, being commonly packaged in formaldehyde and used for study in high school biology.
* A [[Wikipedia: Thong (clothing)|thong]] is an underwear item.
* [[Wikipedia: Acupuncture|Acupuncture]] is a technique of inserting and manipulating filiform needles into "acupuncture points" on the body with the aim of restoring health and well-being.
*The reading of the phone book during the funeral refers to the practice of reading out of the [[Wikipedia:Bible|Bible]] or other religious text during most religious funerals.

===Trivia===
*This email was actually available several hours before the official "New Strong Bad Email" button appeared. It was accessible by clicking on the "email soon" button or by typing in the URL.
*This email originally did not have a visible loading screen at the beginning or the Bibendum Easter egg. Both were added several hours after the email was released.
*The tape in the [[booOOMbox]] reads "my COOLogy". COOLogy is a [[portmanteau]].
* "Chaup Au Fan" is intended to sound like [[French]], but doesn't really mean anything. It probably refers to the French names for many [[Wikipedia:Glossary of ballet|ballet dance steps]].
*The summary for the [[Podstar Runner]] RSS feed reads, "Strong Bad details his off the hook funeral plans."

===Remarks===
[[Image:Homestar eulogy your funeral.png|thumb|A reading from the book of phone.]]
*Chapter 16 of the phone book contains pizza places because P is the 16th letter in the English alphabet.
*The Easter egg is the first time we see Strong Sad with visible teeth (although it is a different incarnation than usual).
*When Strong Sad carries the jar, the liquid inside defies the laws of physics: it ought to be level with the horizon, but is at the same angle as the jar.
*The coat that Homestar hangs on the stuffed cougar has sleeves for arms, but Homestar [[Lack of Visible Arms|has no visible arms]].
*When Strong Bad is dead, his eyes are [[Strong Bad Evolution|that of his 5th design, but black.]]
===Goofs===
*When Strong Sad is carrying the jar before the funeral, the image of Strong Bad as a corpse has been reversed (the ribs on Strong Bad's right side are exposed rather than the ones on his left side) compared to the other two times he's shown like that (on the table and when he breaks out of the jar).
*When Strong Sad is carrying the jar, Strong Bad's leg bones are visible through the rips at his knees, but when he breaks out, there is skin on both legs.
*The first shot in Strong Sad's Easter egg shows 2046 Strong Sad with scars on his body and no belly button. However, his body in the close-up shot has a belly button and no scars.
*On the same easter egg, viewing the flash file shows when Strong Sad lifts his arm, he grows another arm.

===Glitches===
*One pixel's worth of Homestar's eyes is visible when he closes his eyes as he reads his eulogy, at the bottom of where his left eye is (on the viewer's right) when it is open. The pixel blinks at the normal Homestar rate.
**This is not visible when zooming in any way into the Flash file, whether the viewer is on the HTML file or the Flash file itself.

===Inside References===
*This is the fourth email in a row mentioning [[DNA evidence (running gag)|DNA evidence]].
*This is another mention of [[How do you type with boxing gloves on?|Strong Bad typing with boxing gloves on]] (though not directly addressed).
*The fat man at Strong Bad's funeral is wearing a [[duckie shirt]].
*The lady commenting on Strong Bad's peacefulness and Strong Bad saying, "[[Shut up, lady]]!" is a reference to [[bottom 10]], when a lady with a similar voice commented on the "desserts with dangerous names", with the same response by Strong Bad.
*"Coughin'" is a [[homophone]].
*Strong Bad performing a suplex on the cougar is another example of a [[professional wrestling]] move.
*This is another reference to [[Prancing]].
*2046 Strong Sad and Pom Pom are shown [[smoking]]. Strong Sad also appears with a cigar in the Bibendum Easter egg.
*Abraham Lincoln's Pizza Cabin is another mention of both [[pizza]] and [[Presidents]].
*In the Bibendum Easter egg, Strong Sad has the same carefully arranged row of [[peas]] and corn on his dinner plate as in [[looking old]].
*Strong Bad's comment about his party being "off the wagon" is another reference to [[alcohol]].
*This email heavily involves [[death]].
*The 2046 version of Pom Pom has the same style of hair as the wig he wore in [[Halloween Potion-ma-jig]].
*Strong Bad's desire to record his own eulogy alludes to his previously expressed doubts regarding the coherency of The Cheat's and Strong Mad's speech in [[cheat talk]].
*The vocal effect used for Strong Bad after he breaks out of the jar is the same one used by Strong Bad, Homestar, and Bubs as paramecia in [[highschool]].
*Strong Sad says "Chaup Au Fan" with the same accent and hand motions he used to say "Chaperone" in [[senior prom]].
*Coach Z's recording (Coach Z, Coach Z, 1-2-3-4) is similar to the first few lines of [[These peoples try to fade me]].

===Real-World References===
*"Screaming Yellow Strong Bad" is a reference to [[Wikipedia:Screaming Yellow Zonkers|Screaming Yellow Zonkers]], which was a snack product consisting of yellow glaze-covered popcorn. They were discontinued in 2007.
*The Bibendum Easter egg is a direct reference to [http://artfiles.art.com/images/-/Le-Pneu-Michelin-Nunc-Est-Bibendum-Giclee-Print-C12046037.jpeg the classic ad] in which [[Wikipedia:Michelin|Michelin]] introduced [[Wikipedia:Michelin#Bibendum|Bibendum]], later to become the company's mascot.
*[[Wikipedia:Yosemite National Park|Yosemite]] is a national park located in California.
**One of the most common predators in the area is the [[Wikipedia: mountain lion|mountain lion]], which is featured on the statue.
*The classic funeral march Strong Bad sings is from the third movement of [[Wikipedia:Frédéric Chopin|Frédéric Chopin]]'s [[Wikipedia:Piano Sonata No. 2 (Chopin)|Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, op. 35]].
*[[Wikipedia:Abraham Lincoln|Abraham Lincoln]] was born in a one-room log cabin, and the concept of the log cabin is often associated with him.
*Coach Z's dance and facial expression are reminiscent of Michael Jackson's [[Wikipedia:Thriller (music video)|music video for Thriller]], which also featured zombies.
**The video is also referenced by Strong Bad claiming to have his own "mouthful of grape jelly". Grape jelly was used for the gory effects in the video, and in one shot of a zombie, a mouthful of "gore" drips from its mouth.
*Homestar reading from "the book of phone" refers to the various books in the [[Wikipedia: Holy Bible|Bible]], typically read from at [[religion|Christian]] funerals.

===Fast Forward===
*The DNA scene would be revisited in the big toon [[DNA Evidence]], which also includes a scene where Homestar actually wears the trenchcoat while visiting The [[House of the Brothers Strong]].
* Coach Z would again start a rap song by saying "Drap it!" in the email [[being mean]].

==DVD Version==
{{commentary|email=true}}
=== Commentary Transcript ===
('''Commentary by:''' [[Mike Chapman]], [[Matt Chapman]])

'''MIKE:''' Hey, get this. "Hey man, your funeral. Heh."

'''MATT:''' What?

'''MIKE:''' "Hey man, your funeral. Heh."

'''MATT:''' Why do you think that's funny?

'''MIKE:''' "Hey man, your funeral."

'''MATT:''' Stop saying that! ''{Mike laughs}'' Why do you think that's funny?

'''MIKE:''' Oh, that's the title of this cartoon. "Hey man, your funeral."

'''MATT:''' Augh! Stop saying! Gonna start this over ''{Mike laughs}'' if you're not careful. You better start saying something good and interesting. And insightful.

'''MIKE:''' ''{reading off the screen}'' "...the wagon. First, I'll have to deal with the most..." ''{Matt screams}'' Come on, come on, come on! Alright, sorry.

''{pause}''

'''MIKE:''' Um, have you ever thought about Strong Bad's funeral?

'''MATT:''' I like that guy's sweat-smelling follower. That guy's disgusting. ''{laughs}''

'''MIKE:''' He was not very, um... well-dressed for Strong Bad's funeral.

'''MATT:''' Hey, wearing a duck shirt to Strong Bad's funeral is pretty... appropriate.

''{pause}''

'''MATT:''' Oooh, the DNA evidence.

'''MIKE:''' What episode is this of the DNA? We're doing these commentaries out of order.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, this is a few episodes in, I think.

'''MIKE:''' Two or three in.

'''MATT:''' Unnatural I think is the first one.

'''MIKE:''' Okay.

'''MATT:''' Maybe. I dunno.

'''MIKE:''' So is that a really small Strong Bad or a really giant counter and jar?

'''MATT:''' Well, in that picture it's just supposed to make you think that there's a really small Strong Bad. But then he's, later on, in a really giant jar.

''{pause as Strong Bad sings the funeral march}''

'''MATT:''' ''{singing the punchline tune}'' Doo doot doot doo doot doot!

'''MATT and MIKE:''' Dink!

'''MATT:''' Is that a King's Quest that did that, or Space Quest?

'''MIKE:''' Oh yeah... I think it was a King's Quest?

'''MATT:''' Oh yeah, brother in a jar!

''{pause while the "Brother in a Jar" song plays}''

'''MATT:''' That was a good song!

'''MIKE:''' Mm hmm.

'''MATT:''' ''{imitating guitar}'' Waaaaooo. ''{Mike laughs}'' Oo, I like Strong Sad's thin black tie.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah. You think it was leather? We have a thin black leather tie, right?

'''MATT:''' I had one.

'''MIKE:''' Used to wear it with a red shirt, I think?

'''MATT:''' Red, yeah, there's a picture.

'''MIKE:''' Maybe to Uncle John's...

'''MATT:''' Cousin Jim's...

'''MIKE:''' Cousin Jim's graduation, maybe?

'''MATT:''' No, Cousin Jim's, uh...

'''MIKE:''' Wedding?

'''MATT:''' Wedding!

'''MIKE:''' You think, no...

'''MATT:''' No, that's the one where we both have navy blazers with khaki pants ''{Mike laughs}'' and red ties.

''{pause}''

'''MATT:''' "D" batts, yo! That's what you put in that jambox. I like how Coach Z's very forlornly starts busting a move.

'''MIKE:''' He can't help it!

'''MATT:''' Bubs has a pretty nice wide tie there, too. Short tie.

'''MIKE:''' It's got one of those, what do you call it, a Windsor knot?

'''MATT:''' Is that Windsor?

'''MIKE:''' Really thick...

'''MATT:''' I learned, I learned... that's the only one I can really tie. I think I know how to tie a Windsor knot well. 'Cause there was instructions included with my...

'''MIKE:''' One of your ties?

'''MATT:''' ...H&M suits that I bought.

'''MIKE:''' Oh.

'''MATT:''' It told me how to tie a tie.

''{pause}''

'''MATT:''' Say. Say. Oh that's good. I like that music in the background. Some random bongos and a gong.

''{pause as Strong Bad breaks out of the jar and Strong Sad wants to demonstrate his chaup au fan}''

'''MIKE:''' It's, uh..., what do you think his chaup au fan is?

'''MATT:''' Uh, it's where you put your hands over your head in a little, in a little half circle, or a circle.

'''MIKE:''' Is that it though? So did he show us his chaup au fan right there? Or more?

'''MATT:''' No no no, but I'm sure... I think you're probably prancing at the same time.

'''MIKE:''' We can talk about the Easter egg that you, we won't have commentary over, with the zombie-killer Pom Pom and Strong Sad that's pretty good.

'''MATT:''' I'd like to make a cartoon with them someday.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, we should.

'''MATT:''' I like that. ''{The Paper comes down}'' Dook.

=== Fun Facts ===
*The first email mentioning DNA evidence was [[strong badathlon]], not [[unnatural]] as Matt guesses.
*King's Quest and Space Quest are classic Sierra games, referenced in several places throughout the website, especially [[Peasant's Quest]].

==External Links==
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{{Strong Bad Email}}
[[Category:Podstar Runner]][[Category:strongbad email.exe Disc Six]]

8-Bit is Enough

Bvisness — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:10:26 GMT

Bvisness: Removed the remark about Strong Bad saying that they were pineapple slices instead of whole pineapples. While there are whole pineapples in the container backstage, the gun fires pineapple slices.

{{pn|Dangeresque 3: The Criminal Projective|Homestar Ruiner}}
[[Image:Sbcg4ap105 trogdorstrongbadia.png|thumb|"Uhh... Anybody know how to kill a dragon?"]]

[[Image:Sbcg4ap105 235x225.png|125px|left]][[Image:8-Bit is Enough Logo.png|125px|left]]
'''8-Bit is Enough''' is the fifth and final Episode of [[Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People]], Season One. Written by Chuck Jordan, Mike Stemmle, Mark Darin and [[The Brothers Chaps]]. Rated E10+ for [[alcohol]] and [[tobacco]] reference, comic mischief, mild cartoon violence, and mild suggestive themes by the ESRB.

When Strong <strike>Bad's</strike> [[Blatant Lies|Sad's]] botched-up stunt damages the [[TROGDOR!|Trogdor Arcade Machine]], [[Trogdor]] makes his debut, doing what he does best: burninating the countryside! What's more, other 8-bit games are leaking into the real world, throwing [[Free Country, USA]] into chaos! Only [[Strong Bad|High Lord Awesome]] can take back the night and conquer this scorching menace, once and for all! Only question is: anybody know how to kill a dragon?

A brief trailer for this episode is included in [[Dangeresque 3: The Criminal Projective]].

'''Cast:''' {{film|Strong Bad}}, {{film|The Cheat}}, {{film|Strong Sad}}, {{film|Homestar Runner}}, {{film|Bubs}}, {{film|Marzipan}}, {{film|Strong Mad}}, {{film|Coach Z}}, {{film|The Poopsmith}}, {{film|The King of Town}} (as [[Munchox]]), {{film|Trogdor}}, {{film|Stinkoman}}, [[Videlectrix Guys]], [[Bear Holding a Shark]], [[Gel-Arshie]][[Category:Marshie Filmography]], [[Snake Boxer 5|Boxer Joe]], [[Math Kickers|The Algebros]], [[Space Circus Catastrophe|Dancing Bear]], {{film|Limozeen}}, {{film|Rather Dashing}}, [[Old Man]], miscellaneous [[peasants]], [[Browntant]], [[Chorch]], [[Horrible Painting]], [[ULTIMATE TROGDOR!!!]], [[Ultimate Strong Bad]], {{film|Drive-Thru Whale}}

{| cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"
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| '''Places:'''
|- valign="top"
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[[House of the Brothers Strong]] 
[[Basement of the Brothers Strong|Basement]] 
[[Laundry Room of the Brothers Strong|Laundry Room]] 
[[Strong Bad's Room]] 
[[Living Room of the Brothers Strong|Living Room]] 
[[Kitchen of the Brothers Strong|Kitchen]] 
[[Strong Mad's Room]] 
[[Bathroom of the Brothers Strong|Bathroom]] 
[[Strong Sad's Room]] 
[[Computer Room]]
| style="padding-right: 36px" |

[[The Field]] 
[[Bubs' Concession Stand]] 
[[Strong Badia]] 
[[Gremlin|Cool Car]] 
[[Snap Shak]] 
[[Drive-Thru Whale|The Drive-Thru Whale]] 
[[The Stick]] 
[[The Brick Wall]] 
[[TROGDOR!|Trogdor Arcade Machine]] 

|
[[Videlectrix Mainframe]] 
[[Gel-Arshie's Pro Fruitboarder]] 
[[Peasantry]] 
[[Planet K]] 
[[Halfathlon]]/[[Race Track]] 
[[Trog-Cave]]

|}

'''Date:''' December 15, 2008

{{dvd|SBCG4AP Collector's DVD}}

==Preview Transcript==
[[Image:TrogdorintheBasement.png|thumb|"Aw, crapsicles!"]]
''{"in the next episode of STRONG BAD'S COOL GAME FOR ATTRACTIVE PEOPLE" is displayed in the [[Fonts#Joystix|Joystix font]]. Cut to the back of the television, with a short bit of dramatic music. Pan up to show Strong Bad on the couch, playing Space Circus Catastrophe, with the music also heard.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Ha-ha! Missed me! ''{Puts down the controller, squints his eyes}'' Aw, crapsicles.

''{Stinkoman pops up from behind the viewer's left side of the couch, Strong Bad looks at him}''

'''STINKOMAN:''' Ha ha ha ha! ''{Stinkoman points at Strong Bad}'' One day you'll get your baby turn! ''{Cut to a close up of Stinkoman}'' For babies! ''{The camera zooms in closer and angles in on Stinkoman}'' Who have a turn!

''{Cut back to couch. Strong Bad is still squinting his eyes.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{Tilts his head down}'' Okay! Man, ''{Tilts his head up}'' shut up!

'''STINKOMAN:''' ''{Drops back down and reappears on the other side of the couch, with his shoulders shrugging, Strong Bad looks at him}'' YOU shut up! You're dumb! ''{Stinkoman lowers his shoulders. Strong Bad lowers his eyelids.}'' And your head is wide ''{Stinkoman makes a distance with his hands.}'' like the river! ''{Points at Strong Bad. Strong Bad looks away from him, eyelids still lowered}'' You have the river head! ''{While laughing, he appears on the left side of the couch, then the top of the screen, then the bottom right corner of the screen, and last the bottom-left-center corner of the screen.}'' Ha ha ha ha!

''{The 8-Bit Is Enough logo appears on a swirling kamikaze background with a shing sound effect. An orchestra-themed music plays. Strong Bad and Stinkoman collide in the center of the screen, replacing the logo with "STRONG BAD'S COOL GAME FOR ATTRACTIVE PEOPLE" and with "New episode every month!" in yellow in Joystix as in a black strip in the same swirling kamikaze background. The screen goes black. Thunder and brief glimpses reveal Trogdor. Trogdor roars. The Trogdor theme from the Peasant's Quest plays. There is then a cut to Stinkoman and Trogdor on the couch. Trogdor is holding the Fun Machine controller in his beefy arm. Stinkoman is laughing inaudibly, and Trogdor is roaring. There is a pan left, to see Strong Bad.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Uh, anybody know how to kill a dragon?

''{Cut to a black screen, fading in the text "www.telltalegames.com" or "Play it on WiiWare" in Joystix. "www.telltalegames.com" appears on the PC version or on the online video, while "Play it on WiiWare" will be shown on the Wii version.}''

== Screenshots ==
<gallery>
Image:Sbcg4ap105 knockedout.png|<center>The arcade classic comes to life</center>
File:live via stolen cell phone.png|<center>"What was option number four?"</center>
File:Flickerin' and flashin'.png|<center>Flickerin' and flashin' in the sky</center>
File:Homespam.png|<center>"Im in your interface!"</center>
Image:Videlectrix Mainframe.png|<center>Videlectrix Mainframe</center>
Image:Sbcg4ap105 ghosts.png|<center>Colonial Ghosts</center>
Image:ProFruitboarder.png|<center>[[Gel-Arshie's Pro Fruitboarder]]</center>
Image:8-Bit Stinkoman20X6.png|<center>Stinkoman 20X6</center>
</gallery>
{{sectionstub}}

== Inventory ==
*???
*Cell Phone
*Key
*8-Bit Key
*8-Bit Lantern
*Light Musket
*Logic Board
*Med Kit
*Quarter
*Quest Thingie
*8-Bit Quill
*Scorpion Food
*Snakes
*[[Taranchula Black Metal Detector]]
*8-Bit Tea Bag
*TrogSword(TM)
*Trophy

===Party Members===
*Algebros
*Boxer Joe
*Gel-Arshie
*The Innkeeper
*Limozeen's Space Machine
*Mista Fixit (The Poopsmith)
*Peasants
*Performing Bear
*Putchnya Shotski (Strong Mad)
*Rather Dashing

== Ranks ==
#''(blank)''
#Creepy Adult Software
#Games "For Girls"
#Sub-Text Adventure
#Point 'n' Sick Stories
#Buisness Casual Game
#Weird Japanese RPG
#Flight Stimulator 2009
#2nd Person Shooter
#Non-Lame Movie Tie-In
#Omnisensory VR Netskin
#SBCG4AP MMORPG!!

==Fun Facts==
===Explanations===
*[[Wikipedia:Shovelware|Shovelware]] is low quality, quickly ported or programmed computer programs, usually done to capitalize on a trend or make a quick profit.
*In the intro, Strong Sad says that the arcade game's fan needs to be serviced, and Strong Bad asks where he can find any fan service. [[Wikipedia:Fanservice|Fanservice]] is content added mainly to please the fans. It is quite appropriate, then, that Trogdor starts to break out of the arcade immediately after Strong Bad's question.
*"Yatta!" is a Japanese word which means "I did it!", or "All right!" in English.
*Placing a pineapple slice in gelatin will cause the gelatin to dissolve.
*A [[Wikipedia:Slush fund|slush fund]] is a reserve of money set aside for illegal or dishonest purposes.
*Strong Bad calls Strong Mad "Red Square", referring to the [[Wikipedia: Red Square|Red Square]] in the [[Wikipedia: Soviet Union|Soviet Union]].

===Trivia===
*This is the only episode to lack [[Pom Pom]]; since [[Homsar]] is also missing, this means that this episode has the fewest main characters at 10; all of the others had 11 or 12.
*This and [[Dangeresque 3: The Criminal Projective]] are the only two episodes to happen on the same day.
**Despite this, there is a calendar on the [[Computer Room]] wall despite the fact it was missing from the present-day opening of Dangeresque 3.
*In 2010, in celebration of [[Trogday]], the PC version was made available for free for the whole day.

===Remarks===
*In the preview for this episode, Strong Bad has a black outline, and his arms look oddly deformed for some reason.
*Even in extended play, you cannot go outside with a costume in this episode.
**This is likely because you will become Rather Dashing if you visit Peasantry in Extended Play.
*When the difficulty slider is set to "high" but the lever hasn't been pulled to make Professor Pineapple shoot fruit in Gel-Arshie's Pro Fruitboarder, there is a steady stream of pineapple slices, but no other changes to the game. However, when both are set, there is an extremely high amount of fruit even discounting the fruit Professor Pineapple shoots.
*If you click the main menu button near the peasants running around at the inn they turn around and look at you.
*In Stinkoman 20X6, extra lives appear as multiple Stinkomans (one per life). However, in the actual Stinkoman 20X6 game, a Stinkoman head with a number next to it is used to list extra lives, rather than each extra life being represented by a Stinkoman clone.
*When Chorch runs into Stinkoman, Stinkoman loses all four of his energy units instead of just one.
*In the preview for this episode, both Stinkoman and Trogdor enter the real world, but only Trogdor enters the real world in the actual game.
*When used in the fight against the Ultimate Trogdor, Gel-Arshie claims that he can't be burninated because he's inflammable. However, inflammable actually means the same thing as flammable.
*Homestar remarks that his favorite Olympic hero competed in the "1982 Winter Olympics". There were no Olympics held in 1982, as both the Summer and Winter Olympics were held in the same year until 1994. Since the Olympics were held in 1980, the next Olympics weren't until 1984.
*The trophy resembles the [[Atari Dragon]]'s chalice.
*This episode is unusual in that in Extended Play, all the [[main characters]] mysteriously disappear (except of course, for Strong Bad).

===Goofs===
*During the credits, when RoboKingofTown is shown, he is not wearing the sunglasses he wore earlier in the game.
*Also during the credits, [[Nebulon]] is not shown even though the Space Clown and Algebraic Expression are.
*The credits subtitle for Stinkoman says "THE POOPSMITH" for a second before he reaches the vertical center.
*One of the emails will still be marked as unread even after Strong Bad reads it.

===Glitches===
*The costume items from Dangeresque 3: The Criminal Projective, excluding the Dangeresque Glasses, are not available in the Snap Shak in the PC version, apparently due to a writing error in Episode 4.
*During the cutscene when Gel-Arshie is obtained, the Gel-Arshie game cartridge can be seen floating where The Cheat was holding it before the lights went out. It disappears after the game saves.
*Sometimes during the fight against Ultimate Trogdor, you cannot use a Peasant on the upper left-hand pedestal.
*In the Stinkoman 20X6 location, if you click the really tall ladder when it's built while on the starting platform, the cutscene will play and you'll be on the lower platform, next to the ladder. Clicking anywhere warps you back to the left edge of the starting platform.

===Inside References===
*Trogdor has previously appeared in Free Country USA in [[Trogday 08]].
*Stinkoman and Strong Bad previously met in the email [[alternate universe]], and Stinkoman also previously appeared in Free Country USA in [[3 Times Halloween Funjob]].
**Stinkoman also insulted Strong Bad in [[alternate universe]], saying he has a big nose.
*References to the first four SBCG4AP episodes include:
**The [[Taranchula]] standee that Strong Bad "fights" in [[Strong Badia the Free]] returning, but without the fire and ice heads.
**Homestar stating that quarters taste like butterscotch, like he did in [[Dangeresque 3: The Criminal Projective]] when the hole in the [[Strong Badia|Strong Borneo]] fence is examined in extended play.
**Strong Bad talking about the [[Fluffy Puff Jela-Ton]] he won during the Race to the End of the Race, a reference to [[Homestar Ruiner]].
**When Strong Bad collects the scorpion food, he sings, "Puttin' scorpion food in my pants; hope I don't get stung!", echoing his singing "Puttin' bat hutches in my pants; hope I don't get bit!" in [[Baddest of the Bands]].
**When the Limozeen [[The Space Machine|Space Machine]] picks up "Marzy-Kong", [[Larry]] exclaims, "Oh, crap! It's that crazy lady from the Battle of the Bands!!" as another reference to [[Baddest of the Bands]].
**Strong Bad mumbling, "[[Rhinofeeder]]", which he also mumbled in the beginning of [[Homestar Ruiner]].
**Trogdor claiming that he can't handle Strong Bad's style, which Strong Bad said that nobody could in [[Homestar Ruiner]], unless they are a pretty lady.
*The introductory narration is similar to the one used in [[fingers]]. The announcer of said introduction also appeared in the same email.
**Homestar also mispronounced "Previously" in [[DNA Evidence]].
**The word "People" is mispronounced as "Peppel", which was previously heard in the [[coloring#Commentary Transcript|DVD commentary]] for [[coloring]]. It specifically refers to a possible color name that The Brothers Chaps discuss.
*When Strong Bad goes through a video game portal, his last two transformations are [[Atari Strong Bad]] and [[Secret Collect.]] Strong Bad, respectively.
*[[Mr. Shmallow]] can be seen on the Pineapple Gun.
*Upon entering the Peasantry area, Strong Bad will remark on the game's status as "the best-selling video computer TV game of all time", as it was previously referred to as in [[Peasant's Quest Movie Trailer]].
**Likewise, the music from the trailer plays as background music in Peasantry and at the final battle, and Rather Dashing speaks exactly as he does in the trailer.
*The [[wikipedia:Pitfall!|Pitfall!]] Scorpions from [[In Search of the Yello Dello]] return in Halfathlon.
*In addition to the four historical figures, the puzzle wheel in the Videlectrix Mainframe depicts Trogdor, the [[Jhonka]], [[Thy Dungeonman (character)|Thy Dungeonman]], and [[Kid Speedy]].
*The loading screen for the first-person segment reads "Get [[SBLOUNSKCHED]]!", a reference to [[candy product]].
*In Extended Play, when trying to get ye flask, the text on the bottom reads "[[seriously]], get ye flask".
*When Chorch gets angry, he says he will make Stinkoman wish he was never born. This phrase was mentioned in Chorch's description in the [[Stinkomanual]].
*Clicking on the pennants in Extended Play will show a credits sequence that mentions [[Cherry Greg]], [[A. Chimendez]], [[Lem Sportsinterviews|"Lem" Sportsinterviews]], [[Douglas]], [[Levert Burtmore]], [[The Deke]], and [[Dennis]], along with [[Strong Sad]] and [[The Cheat]].
*The "ultimate" form of Strong Bad was mentioned numerous times during the production of SBCG4AP, namely the [[SBCG4AP Advertisement]] and the [[SBCG4AP Dev Blog]]. Strong Bad complained numerous times about [[Telltale Games]] not using the "concept art", explaining Strong Bad's remark of "Whoa! They ''finally'' listened to me!"
**The concept art appears again during and after the credits.
*The final cutscene has an instance of [[couch mumbling]].
*Homestar previously ate coins (albeit more deliberately) in [[do over]].
*Homestar mentions his [[hremail]]s in one of the hints he gives.
*When Strong Bad first enters Stinkoman 20X6, he says, "Now I want to be the guy too.", paraphrasing [[1-Up]]'s line in [[japanese cartoon]]: "Everybody says you're the guy. But I wanna be the guy too!"
*On the title screen and during the credits, the music is an instrumental version of [[Please Stop Trying To Handle My Style]].
*The 8-bit lantern resembles the one in [[Peasant's Quest]].
*Strong Bad asks Strong Sad to "shut up [[nine times]]".
*The dual inclusion of the Roman helmet and Old Timey [[Free Country, USA]] background in the photo booth may refer to an Easter egg in [[highschool]].
*When Stinkoman is defeated by Browntant and Chorch, he says "You made my stummy hurt!". This is a reference to the game over screen of Stinkoman 20X6.
*[[Homestar]] says that [[Coach Z]] bet him a "moist Benjamin" that he couldn't catch Lucky George in his mouth, an obvious reference to [[shapeshifter]].

===Real-World References===
*The title is a reference to [[Wikipedia:Eight Is Enough|Eight Is Enough]], a television comedy-drama from the late 1970s and early '80s.
*Lady Crate Ape is a take off of [[Donkey Kong]], possibly, in the same trend as [[Wikipedia:Ms. Pac-Man|Ms. Pac-Man]].
**When Marzipan is possessed by the spirit of the game, her expression is similar to Kong's expression on the original video game cabinet. Strong Bad also frequently refers to her as "Marzy-Kong".
**The way the portions of the scaffolding are put together and fall down when she stomps on the roof mimics the way the game begins in most versions, minus the part where the entire thing collapses.
*Strong Bad complains about taking a [[Wikipedia:The Color Purple|''The Color Purple'']] personality quiz when answering an email.
*Strong Bad climbing the vine with the smiling cloud on the Awesomeness screen is modeled after [[Wikipedia:Super Mario Bros. 2|Super Mario Bros. 2]].
**Similarly, the bushes with eyes in the intro screen are another reference to the ''[[Mario]]'' series.
**Homestar saying "Hurray! You win! Ptoo! Ptoo!" could also be a reference to Mario, because when you win a level in [[Wikipedia:Super Mario Bros.|Super Mario Bros.]], fireworks would go off with a similar sound.
**When Strong Bad first enters Peasantry, he assumes hitting his head on things will make coins come out, a reference to the theme of making coins come out of blocks by jumping into them in said series.
***This could also refer to the act of somersaulting into trees to get various objects in [[The Legend of Zelda]] series, also by [[Nintendo]].
**The music and appearance of the ghosts haunting the House of Strong (particularly the ghosts flying out the front when outside) is reminiscent of the ghost houses in [[Wikipedia:Super Mario World|Super Mario World]].
*Some of the games depicted on the Awesomeness screen are [[Wikipedia:Pong|Pong]], [[Wikipedia:Tetris|Tetris]], and [[Wikipedia:Asteroids (video game)|Asteroids]].
*At one point, Gel-Arshie says "Hi! I'm Gel-Arshie!" in exactly the same way Hugh Bliss says his catchphrase "Hi! I'm Hugh Bliss!" in ''[[Wikipedia:Sam And Max Episode 102: Situation: Comedy|Sam And Max Episode 102: Situation: Comedy]]''.
*"The ladder is a lie" may be a reference to [[Wikipedia:Portal (video game)|Portal]], where the phrase "the cake is a lie" is written all around the testing facility.
*Homestar mentions that he used his lucky quarter to beat [[Wikipedia:Street Fighter|Street Masher]], [[Wikipedia:Street Fighter 2|Street Masher 2]], and [[Wikipedia:Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo|Street Masher 2: Slightly Different Costumes Edition]]; these games seem to be based on the [[Street Fighter]] series, and indeed, ''Street Fighter II'' was infamous for having many minor variations before ''Street Fighter III'' came out.
*Homestar will, at one point, pop up and say "Hey! Listen!" He does so in the same fashion as Navi in [[Wikipedia:The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time|The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time]].
**The locked door at the end of the game is similar to the locked doors in Ocarina of Time, too.
*If Strong Bad shoots at a ghost in The Field and misses, The Cheat pops up to laugh at him. This is similar to [[Wikipedia:Duck Hunt|Duck Hunt]], where the player's hunting dog does the same.
*Strong Sad saying "You shall not pass!" is a reference to Gandalf's confrontation with the Balrog in [[Wikipedia:The Lord of the Rings|The Fellowship of the Ring]].
*Also, Strong Sad's line "Abandon all hope, ye who enter" is a reference to what is written above the entrance to the gates of Hell in Dante's epic poem [[Wikipedia:Divine Comedy|The Divine Comedy]].
*The first person section is a reference to [[Wikipedia:Wolfenstein 3D|Wolfenstein 3D]] by iD Software; the King of Town's appearance and death speech are references to that game's depiction of Hitler.
**In addition, the name of the castle where this takes place is "Castle Poopenstein".
**When switching to first person perspective, Strong Bad says "Quake and fear". [[Wikipedia:Quake|Quake]] and [[Wikipedia:F.E.A.R.|F.E.A.R.]] are two popular first person shooters.
**In addition, the "Get Sblounskched" loading bar is from Wolfenstein 3D (in which it reads "Get Psyched!").
**The King of Town carries two machine guns, similar to the final boss in Wolfenstein 3D.
*The show that Strong Bad says on TV, "Videlectrix Saturday Mornideo Games", refers to the Saturday Morning cartoon series ''[[Wikipedia:Saturday Supercade|Saturday Supercade]]'' which aired on [[Wikipedia:CBS|CBS]] from 1983 to 1985.
*The words "ALL WORK AND NO FRUIT MAKES GEL-ARSHIE A DULL BOY" that fill up the TV screen after beating the Gel-Arshie game with the kill screen is a reference to the movie ''[[Wikipedia:The Shining (film)|The Shining]]''.
*Strong Bad looking through the TrogSword in 20X6 is a reference to ''[[Wikipedia:Thundercats|Thundercats]]'', in particular Lion-O's transformation sequence. He also makes a reference to [[Wikipedia:He-Man|He-Man]] during this sequence.
**The TrogSword also looks very similar to Lion-O's sword with a symbol of Trogdor in the hilt instead of the Thundercats symbol.
*Several historical figures appear in the "Spirit of '76" game, including [[Wikipedia:John Hancock|John Hancock]], [[Wikipedia:Benjamin Franklin|Benjamin Franklin]], [[Wikipedia:Samuel Adams|Samuel Adams]], and [[Wikipedia:Paul Revere|Paul Revere]]. All figure significantly in the American Revolution.
**Samuel Adams saying he "probably invented beer" refers to the [[Wikipedia:Boston Beer Company|Samuel Adams]] brand of beer.
**When you give John Hancock the item, he says to make sure your family is insured, a reference to the [[Wikipedia:John Hancock Insurance|John Hancock Insurance]] company.
*Interacting with the mirror in the bathroom will make Strong Bad reference the [[Wikipedia:Bloody Mary (folklore)|Bloody Mary legend]].
*The Gel-Arshie portion of the game is likely a reference to [[Wikipedia:Cool Spot|Cool Spot]], a 1993 product placement game for 7-Up that featured its red mascot on a surf board.
*After using Gel-Arshie on the brick wall, he says the line "What's in the box?", a reference to the movie ''[[Wikipedia:Seven (film)|Se7en]]''.
*The "Bloodstone" in Trogdor's Lair is a reference to the game [[Wikipedia:Return to Krondor|Return to Krondor]], in which there is a "Nightstone" that casts everything in red light and reveals a hidden place, which holds the secret to destroying your enemy forever.
*Strong Bad's remark about the peasants starting a commune is a reference to [[Monty Python|''Monty Python and the Holy Grail'']], specifically the scene in which Dennis explains that he and his fellow peasants are an [[wikipedia:Anarcho-syndicalism|anarcho-syndicalist]] commune.
*When Strong Mad is in Halfathlon, he will exclaim "[[Wikipedia:Glasnost|GLASNOST]]! [[Wikipedia:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn|SOLZHENITSYN]]!"
**When Strong Bad responds, his pronunciation of "Puttin'" likely refers to [[Russia|Russian]] prime minister and former president, [[Wikipedia:Vladamir Putin|Vladamir Putin]].
**"Zhivago" is a reference to [[wikipedia:Doctor Zhivago|Doctor Zhivago]].
*When Strong Bad gives the trophy to Strong Mad, he says "ich bin ein [[donut]]". This is a spoof of [[Wikipedia:Ich bin ein Berliner|Ich bin ein Berliner]]. Furthermore, it is a play on the urban legend that the [[German]] phrase means "I am a jelly donut."
*When entering Peasantry from the Videlectrix Mainframe any time after solving the code wheel, Strong Bad says, "Load p-quest comma eight comma one" referencing LOAD“FILE”,8,1 the command needed to load games and programs into many [[Wikipedia:Commodore International|Commodore]] computers.
*When summoning Boxer Joe, Strong Bad sometimes says "Round 1, FIGHT!" the same way the announcer does in [[Mortal Kombat]].
*When Strong Bad finally uses the performing bear, he shouts "I choose you." This is a reference to [[Pokémon]].
*In the game's music files, Halfathlon is referred to as [[Wikipedia:Summer Games|Summer Games]].
*"The Videlectrix Halfathlon" title mimics the similarly named The Activision Decathlon.
*The box art for Mista Fixit is modeled after the "album cover" boxes of early [[Wikipedia:Electronic Arts|Electronic Arts]], complete with an incorporation of the company's logo into the artwork.
*The Mista Fixit game and character may be a reference to the online building game [[Wikipedia:Roblox|Roblox]], as he wears a hard hat and asks Strong Bad if he wants to build something.
*Revealing the ghosts with the camera is a parody of the [[Wikipedia:Fatal Frame|Fatal Frame]] series of games, where you also reveal and defeat ghosts in a similar fashion.
*The Videlectrix Power magazine is a reference to the real-world [[Wikipedia:Nintendo Power|Nintendo Power]] magazine.
*The music and the jump celebration by Strong Bad after defeating Ultimate Trogdor may be a reference to the [[Wikipedia:Final Fantasy|Final Fantasy Series]].
*The scene where Strong Bad wakes up and tells everybody they were in his dream is a parody of the ending scene from ''[[The Wizard of Oz]]''.
*Strong Bad calling Strong Sad a "dumpla-lumpa" references the Oompa Loompas, the little men that work for [[Wikipedia:Willy Wonka|Willy Wonka]].
*When trying to use the Lappy during the Redcoat Ghost Patrol minigame, Strong Bad declines, saying that he "might get sucked into the screen or something". This is a possible reference to ''[[Wikipedia:Poltergeist (film)|Poltergeist]]''.
*Asking about Stinkoman's robot boots will unleash a diatribe ending with "And I can kick!", which is taken from an infamous 1987 [[Wikipedia:Late Night With David Letterman|Late Night With David Letterman]] interview with [[Wikipedia:Crispin Glover|Crispin Glover]] which also featured large shoes.
*Sometimes when Strong Bad is kicked out of the house by the redcoat ghost, Homestar will pop up and say "The ghosts are coming from inside the house!", a reference to the movie "[[Wikipedia:When a Stranger Calls (1979 film)|When a Stranger Calls]]".
*When Strong Sad walks off with Rather Dashing, he remarks, "I think is the beginning of a beautiful friendship", which is the last line of the film [[Wikipedia:Casablanca (film)|Casablanca]].
*When Strong Bad says, "It's starting to knock the husk out of my naturally husky head", this is a reference to [[Wikipedia:A Charlie Brown Christmas|A Charlie Brown Christmas]] when Frieda says, "It's taking the curl out of my naturally curly hair!"
*One of the Drive-Thru Whale responses, saying that their "fatty melts come scattered, smothered, covered, and humiliated," includes hash brown styles from [[Wikipedia:Waffle House|Waffle House]] (also seen in [[Main Page 5]]).
*Strong Bad calling Homestar a "Pinball Wizard" is a reference to [[The Who]]'s song [[Wikipedia:Pinball Wizard|Pinball Wizard]].

==External Links==
*[[Telltale:community/blogs/id-398|Telltale blog entry confirming Trogdor's appearance]]
*[[Telltale:strongbad/8bitisenough|Official episode page]]
*[[Forum:14934|forum thread re: "8-Bit is Enough"]]
*[http://www.telltalegames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7349 Telltale forum thread re: "8-Bit is Enough]

===Reviews===
*[http://www.wiiware-world.com/reviews/2008/12/strong_bad_episode_5_8_bit_is_enough WiiWare World review]
*[http://wii.ign.com/articles/938/938668p1.html IGN review]
*[http://www.adventureclassicgaming.com/index.php/site/reviews/440/ Adventure Classic Gaming review]
*[http://www.gameshark.com/reviews/3184/Strong-Bad-Episode-5-8-Bit-is-Enough.htm GameShark review]
*[http://gamebrainspew.com/2009/01/strong-bads-cool-game-for-attractive-people-e5/ GameBrainSpew review]
*[http://www.gamesradar.com/wii/strong-bads-cool-game-for-attractive-people-8-bit-is-enough-wiiware/review/strong-bads-cool-game-for-attractive-people-8-bit-is-enough-wiiware/a-20090106151416192261/g-200812091643093064 GamesRadar review]
*[http://www.cheatcc.com/wii/rev/strongbadscoolgameforattractivepeopleepisode58bitisenoughreview.html Cheat Code Central review]
*[http://www.1up.com/do/reviewPage?cId=3171893&p=44 1Up.com review]
*[http://pc.gamezone.com/gzreviews/r37090.htm GameZone review]
*[http://pc.vggen.com/reviews/review.php?id=438&p=1 Video Game Generation review]

{{SBCG4AP}}

Doomy Tales of the Macabre Teaser

Bvisness — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:00:30 GMT

Bvisness: /* Fun Facts */

:''The title of this article is just a description. This toon is a teaser for [[Doomy Tales of the Macabre]] and has no official name.''
{{watchtoon|ween09 teaser.html}}
[[File:Ween 09 Teaser.png|thumb|"I really like your covered all in black ink costumes."]]
A teaser for the [[Halloween]] toon of 2009.

'''Cast (left to right):''' {{Film|Coach Z}}, {{Film|Bubs}}, {{Film|Strong Mad}}, {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|The Cheat}}, {{Film|Homestar Runner}}, {{Film|Marzipan}}, {{Film|Pom Pom}}, {{Film|Strong Sad}}, {{Film|The Poopsmith}}, {{Film|The King of Town}}, {{Film|Homsar}}

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

'''Date:''' Monday, October 26, 2009

'''Running Time:''' 0:43

'''Page Title:''' Boond you like to take a guess?

==Transcript==

''{cut to the characters standing in a field. Crickets chirp for several seconds.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Hey everybody, I really like your covered all in black ink costumes. Kinda stole my idea, though. Don't you think?

''{Crickets' chirping fades out.}''

==Easter Eggs==
[[File:SorryCharlie.png|thumb|300px|Nice try, Charlie.]]
*When the Flash file is decompiled, there is a hidden message that reads "[[Nice Try|sorry charlie]]" revealing several previously used and [[rejected costumes]]:
**Marzipan is dressed as a rejected [[Wikipedia:Velma Dinkley|Velma Dinkley]], a character from the [[Wikipedia:Scooby-Doo|Scooby-Doo]] franchise, originally intended for [[The House That Gave Sucky Treats]].
**Coach Z is dressed as a rejected [[Wikipedia:Noid|Noid]].
**Pom Pom dressed as [[Wikipedia:Michael Moore|Michael Moore]] in The House That Gave Sucky Treats.
**The King of Town is dressed as Sonny Crockett from [[Wikipedia:Miami Vice|Miami Vice]].

==Fun Facts==
[[File:Bubs' Hidden Soda Cup.PNG|thumb|Hidden Soda]]
*The [[FeedBurner Page#Ween - Costumes Teaser|RSS description]] of this toon is:
<blockquote>'''Homestar says''' - Pointy silhouettes! It must mean it's almost time for a new Hallowed Ween cartoon! Gather round the water cooler or water fountain or keg and discuss among friends and coworkers who you think everybody's dressed up as this year! Is it an obscure 70's reference? 80's reference? NINETIES reference?!?! Or is it just more dumb crap from a video game? Only times will tells!</blockquote>
*This teaser continues several gags from the previous two years, [[Jibblies 2 Teaser]] (2007) and [[Most in the Graveyard Teaser]] (2008):
**Silhouetted characters (in the same order as the previous teasers)
**Action that occurs after waiting
**Hidden text behind the characters
**Strong Bad depicted in an outrageous costume ([[Wikipedia:RoboCop (character)|RoboCop]])
*The back button always returns to [[Main Page 7]].
*Homestar's remark about the costumes is yet another reference to [[What are you supposed to be?|what one is supposed to be for Halloween]].
*The phrase "Boond you like" was previously used in the sbemail [[more armies]] on a poster for the [[Homestarmy]].
*Homestar previously interpreted a silhouetted character as being covered in ink in [[Hremail 2000]].
**Strong Mad was covered in black paint to give him the silhouetted look as [[Killingyouguy]] in [[Dangeresque 3]].
*"Sorry, Charlie" was the response [[Wikipedia:Charlie the Tuna|Charlie the Tuna]] would always receive after not being good enough to be canned into [[Wikipedia:StarKist Tuna|StarKist]] brand tuna in commercials from the '60s to the present.
*Using a Flash decompiler reveals that Bubs is holding a soda cup.

==External Links==
{{extlinks|ween09 teaser|15860}}

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[[Category:Halloween]][[Category:Secret Pages]]

Imaginary Friends

Bvisness — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:52:07 GMT

Bvisness: /* Frishy Freshy Dragonman */

In the Strong Bad Email [[imaginary]], it was revealed that several residents of [[Free Country, USA]] have or have once had '''imaginary friends'''. [[Strong Bad]] considers many of their names to be very creepy, which he claims is one of the reasons they were outlawed by "insane parents".
==Scotty Titi==
[[File:scotty titi.png|150px||thumb|"Scotty Titi is just a lump? A mound? A pile?"]]
''Main Article: [[Scotty Titi]]''
{{clear}}

==Rubby Plop-Plop==
[[File:rubby plop-plop.png|150px||thumb|]]
This was [[The King of Town]]'s imaginary friend. He has the appearance of a man wearing a top hat. He may be meant to resemble the [[Wikipedia:Mad Hatter|Mad Hatter]].
{{clear}}

==Sir Zabblepants==
[[File:sir zabblepants.png|150px||thumb|]]
This was [[Homestar Runner]]'s imaginary friend. He has the appearance of a human with a very large head and mouth.
{{clear}}

==Dingy Donger==
[[File:dingy donger.png|150px||thumb|]]
This was [[Bubs]]' imaginary friend. He has the appearance of a rabbit. He is probably a reference to [[Wikipedia:Harvey (play)|''Harvey'']], a play and movie about a man who insists that he has a 6 foot invisible rabbit named Harvey as a friend.
{{clear}}

==[[Allegedly Real Things|Real Live Actual]] Mr. Blangcaster Next Door==
[[File:blangcaster.png|150px|thumb|]]
This was [[Coach Z]]'s imaginary friend. He has the appearance of a man wearing a large coat. He constantly shivers and seems to make a creaking sound when he moves. Judging by his name, it is possible that Mr. Blangcaster actually existed, although Coach Z has been known to [[blatant lies|blatantly lie]] about people's existence.
{{clear}}

==Frishy Freshy Dragonman==
[[File:dragon man.PNG|150px||thumb|"Can I go now?"]]
''Main Article: [[Frishy Freshy Dragonman]]

Frishy Freshy Dragonman was Lil' Strong Bad's imaginary friend. He was nearly identical to the "dragon-man" incarnation of Trogdor from dragon, although he lacked visible teeth and spoke in a voice very much unlike Trogdor's own. He was created in order to fight Lil' Strong Sad's imaginary friend, Scotty Titi to the imaginary death.
{{clear}}

==Pumpy Clumpy==
[[File:pumpy clumpy.png|150px|thumb|]]
Strong Bad signs his reply off with "Your imaginary pal, Pumpy Clumpy". This friend is visible in an [[Easter egg]]. It appears to have three large dripping fingers on each hand, and is covered with lumps and spikes. It may be wearing a hat, but it is difficult to tell. He may shaped after Freddy Krueger.
{{clear}}

[[Category:Pseudocharacters]]

Punkin Show

Bvisness — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:24:23 GMT

Bvisness: Added Bvisness as a contest winner

{{toonnav|Holiday Toon|punkinshow|Fan Costumes '09|Homestarloween Party}}
[[Image:Punkin Show.PNG|thumb|"Lets get this style train a-rollin'!"]]
Homestar hosts a pumpkin carving game show.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Homestar Runner}}

'''Pumpkins depicted (in order of first appearance):''' [[Coach Z]]'s logo from [[redesign]], [[Homestar Runner]], [[Thy Dungeonman (character)|Thy Dungeonman]], [[Strong Bad]], [[Stripèd Green Rabbit]], [[Peacey P]], [[Bubs]], [[Bubs' Concession Stand]], [[Homestar Jr.]]

'''Places:''' [[The Show]]

'''Date:''' Tuesday, November 10, 2009

'''Running Time:''' 1:46

'''Page Title:''' Climb Aboard the Style Train!

==Transcript==
''{It's [[The Show]]! There's a big pumpkin up on the marquee. Homestar stands in the middle of the set as a crowd cheers with semi-enthusiasm.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Welcome back, gentlemadies! Without further Mountain Dew, let's get this style train a-rollin'!

''{A short tune plays in the background. Cut to a close-up on Homestar}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' First up, brand-new for 2009—

''{Cut to a slideshow with flashing lights around the edge and the words "Fadey Screen!" in the background. A image of a pumpkin with Coach Z's logo from [[redesign]] carved into it comes from the left of the screen.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' —it's the 2006 Coach Z logo!

''{The crowd cheers again as music plays.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Let's go to the ding board for that one.

''{Cut to a board with three flipping panels that together form an image of a large blue ribbon. Across the top panel is the word "Ding!". The middle panel rotates to reveal "3rd Style!" as it dings.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Third Style!

''{An "Ahh..." rises from the crowd. Cut back to Homestar.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' If our next pumpkin answers insurrectly, it'll win a trip to—

''{The next pumpkin is revealed; it's a shouting, wingaling Homestar Runner with angry eyebrows. The crowd begins to cheer.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' —Angry Homestar Between Two Mountains!

''{Cut back to Homestar.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Everyone, please give a warm hand to our next guest pumpkin—

''{The Fadey Screen shows a pumpkin of Thy Dungeonman holding up a bag of candy instead of ye flask. The words ">get ye candy" are carved across the top. The lights flicker out and the glowy inside of the pumpkin is visible.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Thy ''{pronounced like "thigh"}'' Dungeonman.

''{"Aw yeah..." is heard from the crowd along with clapping. Cut to the Ding Board.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Ding board says—

''{The middle panel flips to reveal "ACAPULCO".}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Acapulco?

''{The crowd oohs. Cut back to the Fadey Screen.}

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' While this pumpkin—

''{A picture of a painted Strong Bad pumpkin with yellow smoke emanating from its mouth and eyes appears. Near it is a bottle labeled "Very Hot Ones"}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' —features fine European yellow smoke, I'm sorry—

''{Cut to Homestar. He looks mildly upset.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' —no paint daubs.

''{The [[DELETED]] buzzer is heard as "NO PAINT DAUBS!" appears in red in front of Homestar.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Ladies look out for our next bachelor pumpkin—

''{Cut to the Fadey Screen, and the [[Stripèd Green Rabbit]] from [[New Boots]] is carved in a pumpkin. As Homestar continues, the ladies get excited.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' —a stripèd green rabbit with two butts!

''{Cut to a close-up of Homestar, who looks embarassed}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Our next pumpkin may contain material that is unsuitable for childrens:

''{Cut to the slideshow showing a grotesque, poorly sculpted pumpkin with Homestar's face carved on it. It begins to speak.}''

'''CREEPY PUMPKIN HOMESTAR:''' ''{in a garbled, nasaly voice}'' HELLO HOMESTAR, THANKS FOR HAVING ME—

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' {hastily cutting in in front of the pumpkin} I'm sorry, we're out of time. ''{suddenly chipper}'' Ding board?

''{The ding board dings and displays "DONG!".}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Donnnng!

''{Cut to Homestar, who looks annoyed}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{irritated}'' Next time—

''{Cut to a pumpkin with [[Peacey P]] and his logo painted on it.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' —please phrase your pumpkin in the form of—

''{Cut back to Homestar. He leans in angrily toward the camera.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' —NO PAINT DAUBS!

''{"NO PAINT DAUBS!" reappears in front of Homestar, with the [[DELETED]] buzzer and a "lose" musical cue. Cut to a wide shot of the studio.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' And finally, everyone in today's audience—

''{Cut to a pumpkin with the [[Homestarmy]] "DO YOU HAS?" slogan and Col-o-nel Homestar.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' —gets to have to give me five bucks!

''{"FIVE BUCKS!" appears as Homestar says it. The crowd gives a very dissastified cheer; cut to Homestar.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Until next time, as always—

''{The words "Chant Words Together!" appear as they're chanted.}''

'''HOMESTAR AND CROWD:''' CHANT! WORDS! TOGETHER!

''{Cut back to the slideshow, which displays a pumpkin shaped like [[Bubs' Concession Stand]]. The following words are on the screen as Homestar speaks.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{quickly}'' Homestar Runner's wardrobe furnished by Bubs' Concession Stand—

''{Cut to a pumpkin shaped like Bubs inside a pumpkin shaped like Bubs' Concession Stand. The subtitle updates to include the word "scary".}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' —and Scary Bubs' Concession Stand.

''{Cut to a [[Homestar Jr.]] (going for 99¢) pumpkin. The subtitle is "Brought to you by the Homestar Jr."}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Today's program was brought to you by the Homestar Jr.—

''{Cut to a pumpkin with an artist's painting palette behind a "NO" circle with a line through it, labeled "Council Against Paint Daubs".}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' —and the Council Against Paint Daubs.

''{Fade out. Fade back in to show "Today's Big Winners!": Natalie Cunningham (Thy Dungeonman), Jonathan Berner (wingaling Homestar), Andrew Colbert (Homestarmy), Benjamin Visness (Coach Z new logo), and Prentice Osborne (Stripèd Green Rabbit with two butts).}''

==Fun Facts==

===Trivia===
*The [[FeedBurner Page#Ween - The_Pumpkin Show and Contest Winners!|RSS description]] of this toon is:
<blockquote>'''Homestar says''' - Welcome back to The Punkin Show, ladies and gentletypes! We've taken our tried and true approach to having no formula and added a whole 12oz can of punkin puree! The result is a mixed bag of mixed metaphors, carved punkins, and FABULOUS PRIZES!! This episode of The Show features real fan-carved punkins from real carved-fans. Did yours make the cut? Or did you just paint some stuff on a pumpkin and take a tiny .25 megapixel photo of it with your phone? This is the last of the Halloween related updates! I promise!</blockquote>
*The person who carved the 2006 Coach Z Redesign Logo pumpkin is wiki user [[User:Bvisness|Bvisness]].
*The person who carved the first pumpkin themed as Bubs' Concession Stand is wiki user [[User:Timohtep|Timohtep]].
*The person who carved the pumpkin themed as Scary Bubs' Concession Stand is wiki user [[User:Unmutual|Unmutual]].


===Remarks===
*The [[FeedBurner Page]] shows a pumpkin of Strong Bad eating what appears to be a small Strong Sad pumpkin, not seen in the toon.

===Inside References===
*This toon features [[pumpkins]] very prominently.
*The page title contains [[style]]. Also, the Coach Z logo pumpkin gets "3rd Style".
*Homestar hosts another variant of [[The Show]].
*The ribbons were first seen in [[Pumpkin Carve-nival]], also a pumpkin contest toon.
*The Coach Z logo is from [[redesign]].
*Homestar mentions [[Mountain Dew]].
*"Chant Words Together" was also mentioned in [[Non-Sequitur Champion]].
*"Gentlemadies" is another [[Portmanteau]].
*The stripèd green rabbit with two butts is from [[New Boots]].
*The show is sponsored by [[Homestar Jr.]]
*Homestar tells people they have to give him five bucks, as he always does when recruiting people to the [[Homestarmy]].

===Real-World References===
*Homestar says "ding-board says", which is similar to "survey says", a famous line from ''[[Wikipedia: Family Feud|Family Feud]]''.
*"Please phrase your pumpkin in the form of" is a reference to ''[[Wikipedia: Jeopardy!|Jeopardy!]]'', where contestants must phrase their response in the form of a question.
*Homestar calling the Stripèd Green Rabbit as the next bachelor is a reference to ''[[Wikipedia:The Dating Game|The Dating Game]]''.
*[[Wikipedia:Acapulco|Acapulco]] is a real city in Mexico which was previously referenced in [[privileges]], and trips to Acapulco are often given away as prizes on real-life [[Game Show References|game shows]].
*"Everyone in today's audience gets to have to give me five bucks!" refers to [[Wikipedia:Oprah Winfrey|Oprah Winfrey's]] giveaways to her studio audience.
*"Chant Words Together" is a reference to ''[[Wikipedia: Wheel_of_Fortune_(U.S._game_show)|Wheel of Fortune]]'', the opening of which features the studio audience chanting the show's title in unison.
*The revealing of text on the blue ribbon is accomplished by means of a [[Wikipedia: Trilon|trilon]], a gameboard element found on older game shows such as ''[[Wikipedia: Pyramid_(game_show)|The $25,000 Pyramid]]''.
*The "fadey screen" is a reference to several game shows that used small screens with [[Wikipedia: Slide_projector|slide projectors]] to display game elements. The one here appears to be styled after those seen on ''[[Wikipedia: Press_Your_Luck|Press Your Luck]]''.
*"Homestar Runner's Wardrobe furnished by Bubs' Concession Stand" refers to a practice on some game shows of placing the manufacturer of the host's (and sometimes models') wardrobe at the end of the credits.

==External Links==
*[[HR:punkinshow.html|watch "Punkin Show"]]
*[[HR:punkinshow.swf|view the Flash file for "Punkin Show"]]
*[[Forum:15897|forum thread re: "Punkin Show"]]

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User:Bvisness

Bvisness — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:22:57 GMT

Bvisness: Created page with 'Just your average Homestar Runner fan, except for one thing. I'm one of the five winners of the 2009 Halloween pumpkin carving contest! My pumpkin was the 2006 Coach Z Redesign…'

Just your average Homestar Runner fan, except for one thing. I'm one of the five winners of the 2009 Halloween pumpkin carving contest! My pumpkin was the 2006 Coach Z Redesign logo. Click [http://picasaweb.google.com/bvisness/HomestarRunnerPumpkinCarvingContest# here] for proof.