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Talk:Mashing

Ianiceboy — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 04:48:59 GMT

Ianiceboy: I'm a button-masher

I don't know if this is an official running gag yet or not, but ""Mashing go/play" on something is seen in Everybody Knows It, flashback, alternate universe, and the introduction to Disc One of strongbad_email.exe" is pretty ugly. {{User:SBLOUNSKCHED!/sig}} 07:03, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
: Yeah. In fact i don't know how this counts as a page. It doesn't really tell us anything. So... '''BALLETED''' [[User:Sbmaniac|Sbmaniac]] 19:46, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
::No, I think this page is legitimate. And it's been cleaned up a bit. Let it stay. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]
:::You're probbably right. But i think we need a few more appearences to make this a solid page. [[User:Sbmaniac|Sbmaniac]] 22:46, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
::::Six is more appearances than for a lot of pages we have. --{{User:Jay/sig}} 22:48, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
:::::OK OK, i get it,I will keep it. [[User:Sbmaniac|Sbmaniac]]

"Mash" as opposed to "press" as in "mash go" is typical in the South. Since the brothers Chaps are from Atlanta, I think it makes sense that they say "mash." Just thought it was worth mentioning. The same applies to "nana" instead of "grandma."
:I'm from the South and I've never heard this in my life. [[User:Crystallina|Crystallina]] 21:14, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
::Ditto. Well, outside of Homestar Runner. - {{User:Joshua/sig}} 21:27, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
:::I live about an hour away from TBC, and while "Mash go" is not a staple of the Georgian vocabulary, it is by no means considered unusual for someone to use the phrase. --[[User:James|JamesGecko]] 21:46, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
::::I live a very long away from TBC, and my brother always tells me I'm a button-masher when we play video game fisticuffs. -- [[User:Ianiceboy|Ianiceboy]] 04:48, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

I think the page title should be changed... maybe to something like just "mash." After all, in TGS Issue 13, it appears as just "m.a.s.h." instead of "mash go" or "mash [whatever]" like in the other instances. {{User:Lux Acerbus/sig}} 15:18, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
::You're right. '''Mashing''' or even just '''Mash''' would be enough. {{User:The Chort/sig}} 15:22, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

:::Yeah, I agree as well — [[Mashing]] sounds the best to me. {{User:Trey56/sig}} 15:24, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

Bathroom of the Brothers Strong

Ianiceboy — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 13:01:27 GMT

Ianiceboy: Shuffled sentence again for all of those Decemberween Strong Sads out there. Think of the adverbials!

[[Image:SB_bathroom.PNG|thumb|right|"For hundreds of years it has haunted mankind."]]
[[The Brothers Strong]] are rarely seen using the '''bathroom''' of the [[House of the Brothers Strong|their house]]. Despite this, [[Strong Sad]] is locked in its bathtub every [[Decemberween]].

The bathroom includes a mirror, bathtub and a sink, and the tiling is similar to that found in the bathroom of [[Homestar's House]] (as seen in [[Main Page 14]]). It is safe to assume there is a [[Toilets|toilet]] as [[Strong Bad]] has been seen sitting in there with a newspaper.

==Appearances==
*'''Debut:''' [[Experimental Film]]
*[[Homestar Presents: Presents]]
*Email [[narrator]]
*Email [[candy product]]
[[Category:Individual Rooms]]

Talk:what i want

Ianiceboy — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:55:34 GMT

Ianiceboy: /* Meant? */ Link to bloody Wikipedia article

== Homestar Filmography ==

If [[Nebulon]] is listed in the filmography of [[senior prom]], then [[Homestar Runner]] should be listed in the filmography here...I don't have a strong opinion which way it goes, as long as it's consistent. {{User:Trey56/sig}} 17:58, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
:Concur, senior prom is a good example, we don't list Senor Cardgage there, and if I remember correctly Nebulon is also just depicted in a decoration, thusly should not be in the cast list. I can't view the toon to confirm that at the moment so I won't change it, but if that's the case, then Nebulon we must erase! (but he should be noted as a decoration and linked there). [[User:Ilko Skevüld's Teh C|Ilko Skevüld's Teh C]] 18:02, 11 December 2006
::Yes, I say take them both out. —[[User:BazookaJoe|BazookaJoe]] 18:10, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
::Yes, he's just a decoration. I tend to agree with you that they shouldn't be listed in the Filmography (they're not actually acting). I'll delort it. {{User:Trey56/sig}} 18:11, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
::Note, however, that [[Trivia Time]] does list his appearances as a cookie jar. [[User:Starblind|Starblind]] 18:46, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
:::Yes, but he is not included in the cast lists for the toons (see [[army]] for example.) - [[User:Ilko Skevüld's Teh C|Ilko Skevüld's Teh C]] 18:53, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
What about some other sub-filmography category for appearances like this? Something like "other appearances" maybe, for when a character's image is used but the character cannot really be said to be in the toon. it could also include things such as the dead Strong Sad easter eggs in [[fingers]] (where a character is seen but does not move or talk) [[User:DumbMuscle|DumbMuscle]] 22:53, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
:I think that a character should be reconized if they actually appear in person (Such as the dead Strong Sads in fingers), but with the Nebulon decoration and the Homestar Runner Decemberween Gift, I agree with you guys.
{{User:Bubsty/sig}} 00:21, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

== Suave? ==

I'm almost positive he says ''swaying'' hips. I've watched it thrice now, and that's what I hear every time. I'll be '''bold''' and change it, so you know who to blame. -- [[User:4.244.215.164|4.244.215.164]] 19:09, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

== Green Tongue ==
Is it worth mentioning that the googly eyed reindeer ornament has a green tongue? [[User:4kai2lyn6|kai lyn]] 17:53, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

== Mainpage ==

Should we mention that there is no mention of an update on the mainpage?
It still says last updated the 4th, and click on the new Strong Bad Email takes you too the chair one.
What do you think?
:Clear your cache. --{{User:Venusy/Sig}} 23:31, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
:And learn how to use "too" and "to" properly. -LYNX

== Meant? ==

Did they mean to say bloody? Cause isn't that like bad in the commonwealth. The US no, but Australia or UK
:I'm an Australian, and bloody is about as bad as 'darn'. I'd say the constant use of 'friggn' is worse.
:Like the person above said, it's not a very strong word. Although I'd say it's closer to "damn" than "darn". And I don't know about how it's used in the UK. Anyway, bloody is only a swear if it's used as an adjective, and isn't used to mean "covered in blood". The way Strong Bad used it was fine. And please sign your posts. You use four of these things: ~. {{User:Shwoo/sig}} 02:14, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
:See "[[Wikipedia:So_where_the_bloody_hell_are_you%3F|So where the bloody hell are you?]]" for a very recent discussion of this issue. -- [[User:Ianiceboy|Ianiceboy]] 12:55, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

== Part Numbers ==

The second and third numbers have already been identified, but it was the first one that really stuck out to me. I found myself saying the last numbers in the series before I even read them: "zxj481-78b." I just wish I could recall where it came from! Could it be related to networking like the other two?

==Pheromone==
I'm tempted to add back in the note that they're used to communicate with their own species. That is their natural purpose. Other animals (or plants) can sense them sometimes, but that's more an adaptation for predatory or defense purposes, the actual purpose of a pheromone is normally to communicate with one's own species. - [[User:Ilko Skevüld's Teh C|Ilko Skevüld's Teh C]] 15:10, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
:I agree, based on my limited knowledge of them. By itself, the term implies species specific interaction — when used otherwise biologists explicitly qualify them as ''heterospecific pheromones'' or less commonly ''exopheromones''. {{User:Bryanc/sig}} 16:08, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

== Stonk? ==

Okay, not just one but two separate users have attempted to add separate "Facts" (both of them very suspect) relating to the word "Stonk" now. To ''this'' page, not to [[the chair]]. Um... is there something I'm missing, or have people just suddenly grown clueless? --{{User:Jay/sig}} 02:47, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
:Unless you and I are ''both'' missing something, (highly unlikely), I think people just suddenly grew clueless.
{{User:Bubsty/sig}} 01:57, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

==Xmas==

The X in Xmas was used to represent the Holy Cross of Jesus Christ since the letter X is a cross itself. [[User:Retromaniac|Retromaniac]] 22:45, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
:No, its actually a capital [[Wikipedia:Chi_(letter)|chi]] (a Greek letter) which has been used as an abbreviation for Christ (such as the C in the [[Wikipedia:Ichthys|ICHTHYS]] (fish symbol) which is the initials of the phrase "Jesus Christ, God's Son, Savior" in Greek). The chi just happens to look the same as a Roman (i.e. the letters used in English) X. Which is also the roman numeral for 10 (decem) hence the Xberween - [[User:DumbMuscle|DumbMuscle]] 23:16, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
::Wow. I've been through a decade and two years worth of Christmas's, and I've never even thought about where "xmas" came from. {{User:Bubsty/sig}} 23:56, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
::Never knew that. Thanks. [[User:Retromaniac|Retromaniac]] 06:13, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

==Nobots==

I remember many "nobots", such as a Santa cactus singing Feliz Navidad, and simply a Santa Claus saying "Ho Ho Ho, Merry Christmas!" or "Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!" [[User:Retromaniac|Retromaniac]] 22:49, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Bathroom of the Brothers Strong

Ianiceboy — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 11:36:52 GMT

Ianiceboy: Added a comma for all of those Decemberween Strong Sads out there

[[Image:SB_bathroom.PNG|thumb|right|"For centuries of years it has haunted mankind."]]
'''[[The Brothers Strong]]'s Bathroom''' is the bathroom in the [[House of the Brothers Strong]]. It has not appeared often. Every [[Decemberween]], [[Strong Sad]] is locked in its bathtub. The tiling is similar to that found in the bathroom of [[Homestar's House]] (as seen in [[Main Page 14]]).

The bathroom includes a mirror, bathtub and a sink. It is safe to assume there is a [[Toilets|toilet]] as [[Strong Bad]] has been seen sitting in there with a newspaper.

==Appearances==
*'''Debut:''' [[Experimental Film]]
*[[Homestar Presents: Presents]]
*Email [[narrator]]
*Email [[candy product]]
[[Category:Individual Rooms]]

alternate universe

Ianiceboy — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 08:52:14 GMT

Ianiceboy: /* Inside References */ "pouring" typo

{{sbenav|150|candy product|some kinda robot}}

[[Image:Doppelgangers.png|thumb|"Save the last email for Strong Bad..."]]

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|Strong Sad}}, {{Film|The Cheat}}, {{Film|Strong Badman}}, {{Film|Old-Timey Strong Bad}}, {{Film|Vector Strong Bad}}, {{Film|Stinkoman}}, [[Made-Up Strong Bad Animals#Da Huuuuuudge|Da Huuuuuudge]], {{Film|Homestar Runner}}, {{Film|Senor Cardgage}}, {{Film|Sterrance}}, {{Film|Coach Z}} (Easter Egg)

'''Places:'''

{{Comp|Lappy 486}}

'''Date:''' April 4, 2006

'''Running Time:''' 5:53

'''Page Title:'''

==Transcript==
'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{singing over a guitar tune}'' I've been walking on clouds and flipping off rainbows on wiiiiings; of an emaiiil...

''{Cut to a wide view of the desk. Strong Sad is standing to the right of Strong Bad with a classical guitar. Strong Bad turns to face him.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Thanks, man.

'''STRONG SAD:''' No prob., Bob.

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

<blockquote class="lappy email">
<div>subject: alternate univer$e</div>
Dear Strong Bad, <br />
Got some ?'s for you: <br />
1. What would you do with a hundred million dollars? <br />
2. What would you do if you suddenly found yourself in an alternate universe somehow? <br />
Jody (not a gir), TX
</blockquote>

''{Strong Bad says "question marks" for "?'s", "girl" for "gir", and "Texas" for "TX".}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{says everything inside parentheses normally}'' Ya know, you could probably ditch that (not a girl) thing, if you just replaced it with something tough and cool and kool and tuff. Like (Bulldozer). Jody (Bulldozer). Nobody's gonna think that guy's a girl.

Well Ms. Dozer, you pretty much answered question mark #1 with question mark #2. Cuz a hundred million dollars is exactly how much The Cheat spent on our alternate universe portal.

''{Cut to a wide view of the desk. The Cheat is standing to the right of the Lappy with a blender. A Nintendo Gamebody is in the blender.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Isn't that right The Cheat?

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

'''STRONG BAD:''' What? This thing only cost us forteen bucks?

'''THE CHEAT:''' ''{Agreement noise}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Well... that's like a hundred million dollars in... dog years, right?

'''THE CHEAT:''' ''{Single "squeak"}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{leans towards The Cheat suddenly}'' All right! Mash go on that blender!

''{Camera zooms out a little as The Cheat presses a button on the blender, which causes it to activate. The blender shoots out white bolts as the the lighting in the room flashes. Soon after, the blender stops (Gamebody intact), and there is a large swirl to the right of the desk.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Oh-ho-ho! Swirly photoshopped magic! I bet this thing could release some serious Cacodemons. So... ''{The Cheat turns to face Strong Bad}'' what? I ju-just jump in?

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

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{leaning backwards}'' Obi-kabi! ''{Strong Bad jumps off the stool and towards the swirl}'' Jump!

''{As soon as Strong Bad touches the swirl, everything turns black and white with the exception of the swirl and Strong Bad, who distorts horizontally and vertically. He "springs" into the swirl. Cut to a panel of a comic strip. There is a picture of some buildings. At the top of the panel is a caption saying "IN A BUILDING..."}''

'''NARRATOR:''' In a building-

'''NARRATOR:''' In a balding-

''{Comic shifts left, next panel is an empty room. Strong Bad appears, with "VOIP!" appearing next to him briefly. Everything Strong Bad says while in the comic appears next to him in a speech bubble.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Whoa! Where am I?

''{Next panel. Strong Badman is in an action pose on a yellow background. Everything he says is not lip-synced and also appears in a speech bubble.}''

'''STRONG BADMAN:''' STINY! ''{"Stiny!" is in large red text}'' We have a visitor from an alternate universe!

''{Next panel. Strong Bad is in the same room.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{looking to the right}'' It's Strong Badman! And his well drawn abs! ''{loooks to the left}'' But... why are we in a crappy apartment instead of a secret underground lair... ''{looks back to the right}'' ...filled with secret underground gadgets?

''{Next panel. Strong Badman's upper body and head is in front of a blue background.}''

'''STRONG BADMAN:''' Because mere mortal... this apartment...

''{Next panel. Strong Badman is in front of a red background with his arms in the air.}''

'''STRONG BADMAN:''' ''{speech bubble is large, yellow and pointy}'' ...is rent controlled! ''{next speech bubbles are regular}'' And... water's included.

''{Next panel. There is a kitchen sink and a bathroom sink visible. The bathroom tap has a "FROSH!" next to it.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{not visible}'' Is that why all your faucets are running?

''{Next panel. Strong Badman is standing in a room.}''

'''STRONG BADMAN:''' ''{each syllable appears individually in red text and is not in a speech bubble}'' Mu-hu-ha-ha-hah! ''{regular speech bubble and text}'' Those dimwits down at the public works won't know what hit them!

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{walking in from left}'' So, that's your evil plan? To waste water?

'''STRONG BADMAN:''' And not pay for it!!

'''STRONG BAD:''' I gotta tell ya, Strong Badman... this part of your comic is pretty boring. I'm gonna see what's going on furthur down the page. ''{Strong Bad jumps out of the current panel and falls down three panels. There is a woman with a sword sitting on a giant robotic snake.}'' Oh! Now we're talkin'!

''{Next panel. Strong Badman is in the left of the panel, Strong Bad in the center, and there is a TV with the previous panel on it (minus Strong Bad) to the right.}''

'''STRONG BADMAN:''' You're not kidding!

'''STRONG BAD:''' Wha?

'''STRONG BADMAN:''' Now we have expanded basic cable...

''{Next panel. Close-up of the wall. There is a hole in it, and there is a cable running through the hole.}''

'''STRONG BADMAN:''' ''{not visible}'' Stolen from my neighbor!

==Easter Eggs==

==Fun Facts==
===Inside References===
*Putting a gameboy in a blender to access an alternate reality was discovered by Homestar in [[2 years]], when he made a time machine in this way.
*Strong Bad also confused the value of money and lengths of time in [[space program]].
*Strong Bad's "Mash go on that blender" is based on a similar line from [[flashback]]: "The Cheat mashed play on an extremely expensive jambox".
*The "In a building" line, including its accent and pronounciation, is straight from the [[Sketchbook (video)|DVD Sketchbook]].
*Strong Bad visits many previous emails in his travels:
**[[Strong Badman]] originated in [[superhero name]].
**[[Vector Strong Bad]] is from [[video games]].
**[[Stinkoman]] originated in [[japanese cartoon]].
**"Tiny-handed Strong Bad" is from [[flashback]].
**Strong Badwith a keybaoard for a head originated in [[crazy cartoon]]
**Da Huuuuuudge and [[Sterrance]] are both from [[animal]]
**Teenage Strong Bad is from [[highschool]]
**[[Senor Cardgage]] originated in [[kind of cool]]
*Coach Z with coffee pouring down his face in the Easter egg was suggested by Strong Sad in [[Sbemail 150?!?]]
*The fishing boat, lake and background sounds are all from [[lures & jigs]]

=== Real World References ===
* "Cacodemons" are an enemy from Doom and Doom 2, popular computer games from the early nineties.
* "Photoshop" is a widely used image editor from Adobe Systems Incorporated.
* "Oba Kaybe" is a reference to The Cosby Show, a popular sitcom from the 80s.

==External Links==
{{sbemailextlinks|150|7671}}
{{Strong Bad Email}}

Flashforward 2006 Seattle - 28 Feb 2006

Ianiceboy — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 07:50:04 GMT

Ianiceboy: /* A question about the Podcasts. - Red Touque */ Typo: "hoasting"

[[Image:Flashforward 2006 Seattle logo.PNG|thumb|300px|Flashforward 2006 Seattle Logo]]

==Introduction==
From the Flashforward web site:

<blockquote>Take a step back in time as Mike and Matt Chapman show how they still use Flash® 5 to make the weekly cartoons featured on HomestarRunner.com. Learn the secrets and not-so-secrets of making a 3-5 minute cartoon every week. Hear abour their six years on the web, watch some of their stuff, and learn how they've managed to make a living doing something they like.</blockquote>

[[The Brothers Chaps]] appeared at '''Flashforward 2006,''' a conference for Flash designers and developers, on February 28, 2006, in Seattle, Washington. They conducted a session called "How and Why [[Homestar Runner (Flash cartoon)|Homestar Runner]] Cartoons Get Made" in Room 6B from 3:45 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. [[User:Thunderbird L17|Thunderbird]] was generously given a media pass from the people at Flashforward to cover the event on behalf of the wiki.

==The Presentation==

===Introductions - 3:45 p.m.===

[[Image:Flashforward Convention.JPG|thumb|The presentation]]The presentation was hosted by [[Mike Chapman|Mike]] and [[Matt Chapman]]. While booting up their laptop, one could glimpse "3726 unread emails" on Matt's user profile. After setting up and introducing themselves, they announced that they had each brought a [[Wikipedia:Nintendo DS|Nintendo DS]], and had started a [[Wikipedia:PictoChat|PictoChat]] which they would carry on intermittently throughout the presentation. Before long two members of the audience had joined the conversation. Matt then showed what he had been working on during they keynote address: A humorous sketch of Mike and two gorillas. After explaining that they were Flash animators for their website, [[Homestar Runner (flash cartoon)|Homestarrunner.com]], they showed a sample of their work: [[virus]].

===Early History - 3:50 p.m.===

First they began with the site history, showing the early progression of the site.
*Stills from the [[Original Book]], and related the history of making the book during the Olympics of August 1996.
*A clip from the next thing they had made, [[Super NES]].
*A clip of a toon they made to teach themselves Flash: [[Marshmallow's Last Stand]]. They froze this clip and pointed out various animation problems, such as the jagged edges and inconsistent colors.
*A clip from the beginning of [[The Luau]]; from 2001. Mike commented on stealing the lens flair idea from ''[[Wikipedia:The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask|The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask]]'', and pointed out the bottom edge of the cube of Tofu disappearing early.
*In late 2001 they started the [[Strong Bad Emails]], along with the original intention of replying to every email in character, and animating a select email each week. That plan was quickly abandoned, but they did decide to start making a Strong Bad Email weekly around January 2002. They then showed a favorite clip of theirs, the love song from [[montage]]. They generally consider early 2002 being the point where their animation reached a "style plateau".

===Samples of Styles - 3:55 p.m.===

They went on to relate how the website is kept creatively interesting, through various animation styles. They showed stills from various animation styles, namely:
*[[Teen Girl Squad]] - A badly drawn comic book about four teenage girls.
*[[The Cheat Commandos]] - A play on [[Wikipedia:G.I. Joe|G.I. Joe]] and [[Wikipedia:Transformers|Transformers]], with [[Wikipedia:Adobe Photoshop|Photoshopped]], grainy backgrounds and hairline strokes around the characters.
*[[20X6]] - The anime version of [[Strong Bad]], akin to a [[Wikipedia:Speed Racer|Speed Racer]] or [[Wikipedia:Robotech|Robotech]] style.
*[[Old-Timey]] - Their earliest alternate style, which was originally intended to make a fake mythology for the site. This was described as a spoof of [[Wikipedia:Steamboat Willie|Steamboat Willie]], from 1933.
*[[Saddy Dumpington]] - A character [[Strong Sad]] made up, drawn in a watercolor style.
Because they are self-employed and thus don't answer to a boss, creatively they are able to do really whatever they want, such as a "bad heavy metal song"; they can do it and call it Homestar Runner.

===More History, The Store, and Related Topics - 4:00 p.m.===

They then returned to their history of the website, starting in 2001.
*In 2001 they began selling T-shirts.
*In August of 2003 Matt quit his job at earthlink, and began working on the site fulltime. Earlier Matt had gone on the earthlink website, and found a page that still featured many of his images he had made for the company, such as a calculator and a wad of money.
They also mentioned the [[Store]], and how they sell products such as CDs, DVDs, Figurines and T-shirts. They try to keep the store a separate entity, without ramming it down visitors' throats. They recalled, with distaste, sites that would play an ad to buy some crap, and another ad after that would link you directly to the store. Their method of building their business ended up building a fan base first out of their own pocket, and then introducing merchandise, which they admit isn't traditionally a good business model. They mentioned that they now live in different houses, with wives, instead of in their parents' basement as some may believe. They showed a still from the [[Pulse Interview - May 2004|2004 Pulse Interview]]; which was them pixilated wearing fake mustaches, posing as the [[Videlectrix]] programmers. They also mentioned that they still do all of their animation in Flash 5, and began relating the process of creating a cartoon.

===Pre-animation Process - 4:05 p.m.===

After being momentarily distracted by the continuing Nintendo DS chatroom, they began relating the process of creating a cartoon, "which will just piss you off even more that this is what we do for a living". When they first started creating weekly cartoons they both still had full time jobs, and therefore created the entire cartoons sometimes after watching the Falcons game in its entirety at 2:00 pm Sunday afternoon. Nowadays a typical four minute cartoon takes the entire week, with animation taking place during the last three or four days.
*Mondays or Tuesdays they begin looking through submitted Strong Bad emails; it sometimes takes four or five hours to find a usable email. They also showcased 5 different groups of emails that would most likely not be answered:
**[[How Do You Type With Boxing Gloves On?|How do you type with boxing gloves on?]]
**What do you look like without your mask?
**What do your parents look like?
**Redoing a favorite email, usually redrawing a [[dragon]].
**Referencing current events. In this case they showcased emails concerning the Olympics, but they also mentioned emails regarding [[Wikipedia:Spider-Man (film)|Spider-Man]], [[Wikipedia:The Matrix|The Matrix]], and [[Wikipedia:The Lord of the Rings|The Lord of the Rings]] during their respective releases.
*They then demonstrated their brainstorming process using two small foam balls. Matt laid on the floor and threw a half-size basketball up in the air, suggesting, "So Strong Bad's going to be in like a box, a cardboard box. That The Cheat peed in." Mike agreed with him throughout this ("Okay, okay, I like it"), then threw his foam baseball at him. They also mentioned that they have been in their office for around two years, and vacuumed it for the first time three weeks ago, so laying on the floor is much nicer now.
*In addition to brainstorming, they also wander around their neighborhood (and the depressing adult diaper and hearing aid stores found in the strip mall their offices are in) searching for inspiration.
*After they have an idea of what the cartoon will be about, they usually write separately. After their writing is done they will compare their scripts, and merge them using the best ideas. According to Mike, his writing is usually better. They once again referred to their continuing Nintendo DS conversation, saying that one person said they were giving "too much info".
*Next is recording the sound, which is done using a fairly soundproof sound room and an audio mobile USB pre-amp with an XLR mic running into it. It used to be Matt just sitting at the computer holding an old Super H film microphone or something, never a system mike. This resulted in numerous background noises, such as Matt's hand moving around, the hum of the computer fan, or Mike doing dishes in the background. In the later days Matt draped a blanket over his head and the mike to minimize background noises.

===Animation Process - 4:10 pm===

Matt mentioned a little intro cartoon that they made for "the Festival"; Mike corrected that it was a convention (festivals are more fun). They showed a still of the end of the intro toon, and explained Easter Eggs, and how they are the extent of the action script that they use. According to Matt: "So we made a little intro, so anyways we're gonna put on the site, uh, later on this week..." To date, the intro still has not materialized. Then they began to demonstrate the animation process, by adding an [[Easter eggs|Easter egg]] to the end of the finished toon.
*The Easter Egg is a scene of Homestar Runner and Strong Bad crouched down behind a podium labeled "Podium Excellens". Homestar says to Strong Bad "Strong Bad, I think the elevator's broke."
*[[Image:Flashforward Desktop.JPG|thumb|Matt Chapman's Desktop]]They began by recording the line using the old method of Matt wearing a blanket over his head, and speaking Homestar's line into the mic. Matt also pointed out his laptop's background, which is a screenshot of the [http://www.sq7.org/omnipedia/index.php/Deltaur Deltaur] from [[Wikipedia:Space Quest#Space Quest I: The Sarien Encounter (Original: 1986/ Remake: 1991)|Spacequest 1]], another 1980's era video game.
*After revealing that he doesn't label any of his Flash layers, Mike demonstrated lip synching the toon. Mike first mixes up Homestar and Strong Bad, then clarifies that ''Homestar's head'' is 3 frames, which gives three different facial expressions to work with. Mike would layer the sound down first, then click on various points of the audio. In Flash 5, this plays a microsecond of the audio, which gives them an indication of what mouth layer to cut and paste into that point. This is one of the reasons they continue to use Flash 5. At least MX 04 does not play a short sound from the point in the audio. They did challenge anybody to make Flash 8 look and act exactly like Flash 5, and they would gladly switch over. Lip syncing the entire scene only took a few minutes to complete.
*They also talked about the design of the characters, and how they are easy to animate. Although they didn't originally design their characters with animating in Flash in mind, they lucked out that many of their characters don't have arms or legs, and none of their characters are overly complex. That's just how they generally draw and design.
*Then also talked about the technical aspects of their animation. They have always animated at 12 frames per second, in a 550 x 400 window, because both of those options were the Flash 5 defaults.
*They also demonstrated "doinking", by making Homestar flinch at certain stresses of the sentence.
*They demonstrated Strong Bad's Mask design, and how they can easily turn his head just by moving the mask and having it cut off at the edge of his head.
*They also briefly explained that they storyboard their toons, then opened the floor to audience questions.

===Graphics and the Wiki - 4:20 pm===
====Who does all the voices?====
:'''Matt:''' I doos all the voices. Except for [[Marzipan]], the girl character, which is Mike's wife [[Missy Palmer|Melissa]].
:'''Mike:''' Today's our second wedding anniversary, and I'm here.
:'''Matt:''' She's at home, and pregnant. ''{sarcastically}'' Husband of the year...
:'''Mike:''' I did remember to send her flowers.
*After that first question, Mike went on to talk about something he ment to cover earlier, their drawing. They draw everything in Flash, using drawing tools and a wacom tablet. Mike first learned with illustrator, and by the time Flash 5 came out Mike was comfortable using program drawing tools. They generally try to always break the lines apart, which doesn't leave a rounded edge and allows you to vary the line width. Mike began to demonstrate his artistic skills by drawing something in Flash 5.
*Mike carried on talking about early Flash animations, and how everything ''looked'' like it was drawn in Flash, with gradiants everywhere, line tools running into each other, and for that reason they shyed away from drawing stuff in Flash, either by tracing in bitmap or scaning it in. Nowadays they are comfortable enough with drawing things in Flash without it looking like it's drawn in Flash. At this point Matt identifies Mike's drawing as a piece of toast.
*They were again sidetracked by the continuing PictoChat conversation, pointing out a drawing of Mike saying "harrump" that somebody drew on the DS.
*Mike went on to clarify the process of making a new toon, that while he records the voices Mike will generally draw any new graphics that are needed for that email or cartoon. Once Matt is done recording, Mike is generally done the graphics, they split up the scenes, work towards the middle, and finish up by 5 am Sunday night.

====What part of creating a toon is the most fun? - Green Shirt====
*Matt explains that early writing is always hard, sometimes throwing a baseball against a wall for hours on end with no good ideas. Then usually a walk around the "creepy depressing shopping mall" their offices are at and seeing a guy at the adult diaper store, gives them inspiration of what should happen in the toon. That inital flood of creativity is generally the most fun part of the animation process. He also mentions that not speaking for sometimes 18 hours straight with headphones on as they animate things such as the text and Strong Bad's head in a Strong Bad Email gets redundant at times, but they still enjoy it somewhat. He reiterates that the initial sparks of writing ideas are always the most fun. Sometimes in the last three hours of animating a cartoon, they will come up with something else and completely rewrite it.
*Matt also explains that there isn't a whole lot of quality control. They watch the toon a couple times, tweak small parts and cut out others, and then put it right up on the website. Generally they finish the day they should be uploading the toon.
*At this point Mike chips in that he enjoys drawing toast more, as he puts the finishing touches on his toast graphic. Matt comments on the toast, that it looks a bit thin, like [[Wikipedia:Pepperidge Farm|Pepperidge Farm]] toast. Mike mentions that sometimes he'll spend hours just tweaking graphics, likening it to peeling dried glue off the nub of a thing of glue, describing it as "very theraputic". Mike mentions that "no one would ever be able to see this", and Matt suggests "Somebody... I don't know, maybe you should look at the..."

====The Homestar Runner Wiki====
'''Matt:''' That's another thing, is that when we're animating, um, we have another resource that we have absolutely nothing to do with, something that's totally fan driven, it's awesome, the Homestar Runner Wiki, uh, that appeared, one day, and it's so exhaustive, it's wonderful. Mike and I, like we don't—we never figured out what the hell a shared library is or how to use it and so we will go, uh, you know "this one has Strong Bad sitting on a couch," so we have be like, "all right, which one has him on a couch," and we'd have to go back and figure it out, but now we have the Homestar Wiki and we just go on and write "couch" or "orange couch" and it brings up like five emails that have Strong Bad on the couch. ''{audience laughter}'' And so, it's pretty great. It's very, very, uh, it's extremly all inclusive and sometimes scary. There are pictures of friends that we had never seen on there and they're like, ''{imitates wiki user voice}'' "Oh, and this is their best friend!" ''{slight pause, now with a questioning tone}'' How, did you—are these people in our house taking pictures of our friends?

===Music and Video - 4:25 pm===
At this point Mike takes stock of the time, and mentions another factor that adds to the time needed to create an email, the music. *Almost every cartoon has one piece of original music, which is usually done in either ''audition'' or ''garage band'', often with their casio keyboard.
*At this point Mike finishes drawing his piece of toast, mentioning that this is usually at four in the morning when Mike finishes his graphic.
*Matt mentions that they also have puppet versions of some of their characters, which they sometimes do small skits or musical things with. They generally try to keep the videos short, put them into a tiny window, and compress them using a newer version of Flash. They try to keep their files at around one Megabyte, which helps to keep their bandwidth costs consistant. They also demonstrated their compressed video files, by showing a clip of [[death metal]]: "the half hour death metal dungeon hour".
*Mike mentioned that Matt is an award winning stop motion claymation animator, from a [[1987]] international media festival in 7th grade. Matt clarified that they may have been stretching on it being international; that one kid maybe having an aunt from Canada was as international as it got.
*Matt also mentioned that doing stuff like the death metal hour, putting on dumb heavy metal wigs and speaking in Swedish accents helps them branch out.
*They also mentioned the DVDs, how they came from fan demand of people wanting to watch them on a larger screen or over at a friend's house, and not limited to a computer. They use Flash AM's SWF to AVI to convert to the DVD, without having to worry about any formatting. Then they extrappolate the frame rate to twentynine-nine or whatever the video standard is, and hand it over to [[Ryan Sterritt]] to finish up with the DVD magic.
*Mike mentions that they made the decision to hire their friend Ryan, make him learn the flash to broadcast conversion, having somebody in house who can do all stuff keeps them from having to go to somebody outside and being charged an arm and a leg.

===Games - 4:30 pm===
[[Image:Flashforward Stinkoman Level.PNG|thumb|TBC's sample 20X6 level]]
*Mike also began talking about the numerous games on the site, namely [[Stinkoman 20X6]]. He described how he used to just get a flash book, find a sample of a flash game, and just change the graphics, which resulted in ''really crappy'' flash based games.
*Eventually they were contacted by [[Jonathan Howe]] from [[Wikipedia:Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]] via email, who said "hey, I noticed that your games suck. I like your website, and I would like to make your games better". After showing them some samples, they decided to collaborate with him on [[TROGDOR!]], and subseqently several other games.
*They talked in detail about Stinkoman 20X6, which is a [[Wikipedia:Mega Man|Mega Man]] type game based on the character of [[Stinkoman]]. They wanted to have a lot of input in the game without having to stand over Jonathan's shoulder, and finally got him to make a level editor for them using Flash. They demonstrated this by creating the pictured level.
:*Demonstrated choosing character.
:*Made ground and platform.
:*Added Chorch (at Mike's suggestion).
:*Added Stobat, the large bone throwing chicken.
:*Added ladder (also at Mike's suggestion).
*As Matt booted up the level, Mike explained that they made most of the graphics for the games pixely in Photoshop, then import them into Flash, as there isn't a way to create pixely graphics in Flash that they know of.
*Matt then proceded to demonstrate the game by playing the level, easily defeating the Chorch (which was stuck in place) and Stobat, and exploring to the edge of the map.
*'''Mike:''' What's up that ladder?
*'''Matt:''' I dunno Mike, let's find out.
*They explained that for the early games they would have to send them back and forth, with Jonathan changing things with his action script magic, their critiqeing it, Jonathan changing more things, etc. Matt also mentioned that with Jonathan's object library with all the level elements, his action script, and his XML files, it's way more technical than what they know.
*At this point Mike added that the orange stretch bracelets that come with the admission package to Flashforward smell really funny, and almost knocked him out. After that, they invited the audience to ask any more questions.

===More Questions & Answers - 4:35 pm===
====Did you do the 3D menus on the DVDs yourself?====
*The answer is a strong ''no''. They were contacted by some people who work for a company called "UV Phactory" in New York, who sent them a short sample of something they did with Homestar and Strong Bad in 3D. The Brothers Chaps decided to hire them for the DVD menus, and sent them a Flash animation of what they wanted to happen.

====Can you play the cartoon you made for the Flashforward conference?====
*They agreed, and after some technical difficulties, showed the [[Flashforward Intro]] toon.
*After the toon they explained that the PowerPoint slides shown in the toon was based on Mike's old job at Decision Quest (which sounds like a magical place, but really isn't), as he made pie charts and graphs, and tried to make them fun. Matt related an annecdote where Mike had to make a chart based on Lady Justice with the scales. Mike had one side of the scales hold words like "Justice: Good thing. Family"; and the other side with things like "Evil, breaking the law, etc". Apparently a lawyer really used this visual aid in his case.

====Where do you see yourself in five years?====
*They mentioned that they would like to return to Seattle eventually, or see the Grand Canyon. Five years ago they would never have guessed they would be doing Homestar Runner for a living, and they explained that they don't usually look too far ahead into the future. Matt offered the insight that "Having no plan and low expectations always makes the future look brighter". They don't usually look further ahead than the following Monday, with the exception of the [[Games]] which take several months of preperation; and Homestar Runner's 10th anniversary, which was coming up in around 6 months from then, in August of 2006.
*Matt also mentioned that while doing Homestar Runner, they have met many cool people from the Flash and entertainment industries. He mentioned that they had got an email from somebody asking if they wanted to direct a commercial of some kind. He wasn't sure if it was a car lot or something, but mentioned that a local car lot would be even better. Matt has been to film school, and they've both grown up making dumb movies, so they have other ideas they might explore one day. Mike clarified that they might still be doing Homestar with other stuff mixed in in the future.

====A question about the Podcasts. - Red Touque====
*Mike explained that a few weeks ago they began putting five or six Strong Bad Emails up for download to your video iPod. He mentioned that Apple linked to them, and they even went to number one download at one point. However in making the download available for the iPod, the files become way bigger, from 1 Megabyte to upwards of 10 Megabytes. Yesterday they took down the backlog of downloads and only make them availible one at a time in order to keep their bandwidths cost steady while they figure out if there is an alternative to the high bandwidth cost.
*Matt added that being on the iPod store seems like good exposure in terms of getting new fans, but they have to first see if those people are buying T-shirts or not, and if they can justify paying that much for bandwidth. Matt was also surprised that they managed to beat The Onion and the Ricky Germain show, which he never thought they would do, and which was pretty awsome. They asked offhand if anyone had any bright ideas or free bandwidth to throw their way. An audience memeber called out asking if they would be around afterwards, they replied that they would if free bandwidth would be around.
*Mike related a funny story related to bandwidth. In Janury of 2003 the site actually shut down due to bandwidth issues. For three years previous they had been on Yahoo shared hosting for $30 a month, and supposedly never went over their 20 Gigabyte bandwidth limit. Eventually realized they were doing several Terrabytes of transfer, and still just being charged $30 a month. As it turned out, some people at Yahoo were fans and wer just letting it slide. After their site went down, some fans contacted them and offered them bandwidth services. They shopped around, and realized these people were offering around $1 less per Gigabyte of transfer than anywhere else.

====Who are the bandwidth providers?====
*They're called Zeggonet, and they're based out of Tampa Bay, Florida. They're a small outfit, but they can be called at 3:00 in the morning on Sunday with a problem, and they will fix it. The company bought an old Haverdeen down there, painted it green, and put a data center inside. Matt remarked that this setup goes along perfectly with The Brother's Chaps' working in a depressing shopping center.

====Why do people love your site and characters so much? - Rainbow Touque====


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[[Image:Flashforward TBC.JPG|thumb|After the comvention meet & greet]]

==See Also==

*[[Flashforward Interview - 10 Feb 2006]]

==External Links==

*[http://www.flashforwardconference.com/home Flashforward Conference official web site]

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[[Category:Interviews and Public Appearances]]

Talk:Biscuitdoughhandsman

Ianiceboy — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 05:48:43 GMT

Ianiceboy: "Biscuitdoughhandsman"

Does anyone else think that BDHM's head looks like that famous mugshot of Nick Nolte after he got arrested for drunk driving?

see here: [http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/38252000/jpg/_38252665_nolte_300.jpg]
-Shiin

I think BDHM should be moved into pseudocharacters. He's only ever been a drawing, and only been mentioned twice. He has far less character than the Wagon Fulla Pancakes.
-Meedelede

== "Biscuitdoughhandsman" ==

Strong Bad used the spelling ''Biscuitdoughhandsman'' in [[myths & legends]] after being called ''Strongbad''. "Two words. Two different words. That are not one word." I don't thing that there's any reason to believe that the ''Biscuitdoughhandsman'' spelling is anything more than a jab at Cephas Cornwall, to which he was replying at the time. -[[User:Ianiceboy|Ianiceboy]] 05:48, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

Matt Chapman

Ianiceboy — Wed, 18 May 2005 13:26:32 GMT

Ianiceboy: /* Misc. */ Added link to Jackie_Chapman stub.

[[Image:mattchapman.jpg|thumb|Chapman the Younger]]
[[Image:matt2.gif|thumb|Fan of a man indeed!]]

'''Matt Chapman''' (born November 1, 1976), the younger of [[The Brothers Chaps]], is the voice actor for all of the characters on [http://www.homestarrunner.com homestarrunner.com] (except for [[Marzipan]] and her counterparts, played by [[Missy Palmer]], as well as the voices in [[Powered by The Cheat|The Cheat's cartoons]], done by [[Mike Chapman]].) Although a famously native "Atlantian", he is a born [[Wikipedia:Hoosier|Hoosier]], as admitted in [[Club Aquatica Interview - 29 Oct 2003|this interview]].
== Food of Significant Interest ==
*Egg salad sandwiches (with bits of bacon). [http://members.shaw.ca/kevinscott/Homestar/page4.html]
*When they were toddlers, Mike fed Matt cupcakes with toothpaste in them. [http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,59261,00.html] Matt retaliated by feeding Mike vinegar toast.
*Matt has a new-found enthusiasm for [[Wikipedia:Poutine|poutine]]. [http://www.thesheaf.com/newspub/comments.cgi?view=1062]
*He also likes Onion Straws. He describes them as "Dismantled Awesome Blossoms." [http://www.theinkhole.com/homestar1.htm]

== Careers ==

* Matt used to work for Earthlink, an Internet company. [http://www.legionstudios.com/interviews/views/homestar/homestar.html]
* Matt also did voices for Preschool Protocops and some voices for webtoons and radio commercials for [[Mellow Mushroom]]. [http://www.retrocrush.com/homestar/index2.html]
* The first day Matt quit his job (as the sales of merchandise were so high) he got jury duty. "It sucked. My first day of self-employment and I got put on a jury." Said Matt [http://www.legionstudios.com/interviews/views/homestar/homestar2.html]

== Acting ==
* The Brothers Chaps' friend, David Green, made a movie called ''[[IMDb:tt0299458|All The Real Girls]]''. Matt ended up being in it, but has no speaking part. He's in the background at one point, just sitting on a couch. In the credits, he's listed as [[Strong Bad]]. Mike, [[Craig Zobel]] and Missy were also involved in the movie.
*He has a [http://oracleofbacon.org/cgi-bin/oracle/movielinks?firstname=Bacon%2c+Kevin&game=1&secondname=Chapman%2c+Matt+%28II%29&using=1 Bacon Number] of 2.
*Will be in the movie, ''[[IMDb:tt0441799|Stick It In Detroit]]'', playing the role of Gary Reily.
*He has composed [[Songs#Songs_by_Matt_Chapman_from_Sealab_2021|music for Sealab 2021]].

== Favorite Music ==
*Matt's top 5 favorite records of all time (in no particular order):
**Vince Guaraldi Trio — A Charlie Brown Christmas
**The Minutemen — Double Nickels on the Dime
**Neil Young — Rust Never Sleeps
**De La Soul — De La Soul is Dead
**Sebadoh — Bubble & Scrape

== Misc. ==
[[Image:sbemail51.png|thumb|290px|right|Mabel]]
*He and his wife [[Jackie Chapman|Jackie]] own a cat named Mabel (seen in [[website]]) together. Jackie helped write "[[Tis True, Pom Pom, Tis True]]" with Matt.

*On the Burning Horizon Forum, Matt Chapman posted a little message on the forum's one year anniversary.
:<tt>Happy anniversary to each and all of ya'lls. You got a great little fansite here. High fives to everybody. Here's a treat from Strong Bad and Coach Z that'll be up for a little while.

:www.videlectrix.com/bhz.mp3

:Has Fun,
:Matt C</tt>
:*[http://hrwiki.org/mirror/bhz.mp3 Listen to the message] (mirror)

===Transcript===
'''STRONG BAD:''' Happy anniversary, ''bhuuuuzz''.

'''COACH Z:''' Don'tch ya mean B.H.Z.? I tell ya got a case of the B.H.Z. once, you don't wanna see the needle they gotta use to ornorculate you for that one!

'''STRONG BAD:''' Ew!

== External Links ==

*[http://www.lsureveille.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/11/06/3fa9e1d30b7dd LSU Reveille Online, 6 Nov 2003]
*[http://www.thedailyeasternnews.com/news/2004/04/23/TheVerge/holy-Crap-669677.shtml Daily Eastern News, 23 Apr 2004]
*[http://members.shaw.ca/kevinscott/Homestar/index.html Kevin Scott interviews the brothers, 20 May 2003]
*[http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,59261,00.html Wired Interview, 23 Jun 2003]
*[http://www.thesheaf.com/newspub/comments.cgi?view=1062 The Sheaf (includes poutine mention) 12 May 2004]
*[http://www.retrocrush.com/homestar/index2.html Retrocrush interview, date unknown (17 Jun 2004?)]
*[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1480095/ Matt's IMDb page]

[[Category: People|Chapman, Matt]]