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This answers my question, I guess we are going to be tracking all 4th wall breaks. [[User:Drhaggis|<nowiki></nowiki>]]- [[User:Drhaggis|Dr Haggis]] - [[User talk: Drhaggis|Talk]] 16:36, 29 Nov 2004 (MST)

Can we at least be grammatical and call this something like "Fourth Wall Violations"?

I was going for [The] Fourth Wall Breaks, actually, as in "Fourth Wall Breaks! Details at 11." But if you think it's confusing, by all means change it. I'm just not going to go through the effort. :) --[[User:Vannav|Vannav]]

I think this should at the very least be separated into two categories: "Audience Acknowledgement" in which the characters talk about the audience, and "Total Breakage", which consists of e-mails like "virus" that make fun of them being on a website. It's important to realize that somebody could theoretically make a real website in which they read e-mails sent in to them, so acknowledgement of an audience is not necessarily the same as acknowledgement of "cartoondom". So audience acknowledgement might not even qualify. --Tom H.

I argee, since "audience acknowledgement" could refer to all the emails. "Fourth Wall Breaks" should be limited to "Total Breakage".--[[User:Hysterical Woman|Hysterical Woman]] 15:33, 30 Nov 2004 (MST)

."Total breakage"... don't know what I was thinking with that one. As with "cartoondom." --Tom H. (I actually signed up for the wiki but forgot my username.)

I don't think this page is necessary. --[[User:Upsilon|Upsilon]]

For Homestar Runner dot com, breaking the fourth wall is the rule rather than the exception. Except during the main toons (and even at times during them) the characters all seem to be fairly aware of an audience. Many references are made to the site, to sending Strong Bad emails, and there are few instances of characters being concerned that others are talking to the audience. Therefore, I don't think this page should exist. --[[User:Tim333|Tim333]]

Hey: Is there a reason this page has initial caps on all the words? It's not the title of a 'toon. Wikipedia caps the first letter of the ''first'' word of all articles without exception; our policy seems to be to do the same except on sbemails. (Perhaps page-naming conventions could be added to [[HRWiki:Standards]]? —[[User:AbdiViklas|AbdiViklas]] 02:52, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

== Are these really fourth-wall breaks? ==

To quote Wikipedia:

"The term breaking the fourth wall is used in film, theater, television, and literary works; it refers to a character directly addressing an audience, or actively acknowledging (through breaking character or through dialogue) that the characters and action going on is not real."

This page should not exist if one's definition of fourth wall breakage includes audience awareness through participation. It should exist (in some form or another) if one only counts the complete breakages (i.e. references to "the black").

In my opinion, this should only list total breakages. However, just implying that you're essentially watching a cartoon is NOT breakage in my opinion (they never say it really IS fake, just that it's not a live broadcast), so to me, only [[flashback]] (Homestar says he's usually behind the black) and [[virus]] (if you need THAT one explained, you need to go watch it) is breakage.

I completely disagree with you. First off... all... a "Total Breakage" isn't really a fourth wall break, because the audience isn't addressed. It doesn't make a difference if it's possible or not, a fourth wall break is simply when the audience is addressed in a play, movie, T.V. show, cartoon, ect. So, if someone made this page only "Total Breakages", the page would have true breaks. I think that this page should only have "Audience Acknowledgements" and a new page with the "Total Breaks". But with a different name.-- [[User:Slowbar|Slowbar]]

I'll gladly detail WHY I don't think the rest are breakages if anyone requests it for a particular e-mail. --[[User:83.88.139.108|83.88.139.108]] 13:21, 6 Dec 2004 (MST)

* I concur. If we refer to every time Strong Bad recognizes he's being watched in a Strong Bad e-mail, we have to list every single last Strong-Bad e-mail!!! --[[User:Jay|Jay]] 11:17, 7 Dec 2004 (MST)

* One could assume he's doing a Jennycam style live webcam show. Featuring him. Answering emails.
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*That seems to be the most likely scenario. -[[User:Clever Ben|Clever Ben]]

You know, this is a very interesting question, and I'm happy to see so many people debating it. As a major in film and a minor in drama, however, I can certainly attest to the fact that "breaking the fourth wall" is an important concept to at least TRY to point out. For folks in the trade and in the scholarly-studies, it basically translates to "acknowledging the 'real' world outside of the filmworld or playworld." In film, this rule is hardly ever broken -- actors are rarely directed to look directly into the camera. 99% of the time, they're often looking just to the side of it. When an actor DOES directly address the audience, because breaking the rule is SO strange and SO "not done," it's usually used for kooky humor, as in ''Ferris Bueller's Day Off'', or for jarring psychological effect, as in ''Psycho''. H*R being a cartoon only makes this page more interesting, because it's taking a pretty intellectual concept and putting it to use for the masses. Voila. -- [[User: Queenie-C|Queenie-C]]

:I say point out that the whole concept of SBEmails points out that Strong Bad knows he's on a cartoon, and then delete all the boring ones where he mentions the viewers and stuff. The only exceptions should be the really interesting ones which go beyond simple dialogue, like The Cheat watching an Email on his computer. Besides that, I think all the other mentionings of fourth wall breakage are fine. --[[User:Joshua|Joshua]] 18:01, 17 Mar 2005 (MST)

::I may have a way out of all this: Strong Bad is running a small operation ''inside'' the homestar-verse for the benefit of those within it. That is to say, Strong Bad is an internet star inside the world of Homestar and Friends, which is why The Cheat can watch on his computer (or Strong Bad do the show ''from'' The Cheat's computer). In this context, we are not watching Strong Bad answer email for our benefit, but for those inside; we just get to watch, explaining why we can follow Strong Bad around when he leaves his computer. -- [[User:TheRealZajac|The Real Zajac]] 10:08, 11 May 2005 (PDT)

:::According to [http://tvtropes.org TVTropes.org], a wiki devoted to things like this, this type of thing is called a [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FourthWallMailSlot Fourth Wall Mail Slot]. The fourth wall isn't broken, it just has a convenient prefabricated hole in it to let in emails.

:::Note that I would still mention that at least some people would refer to this a breaking the fourth wall, but, as Joshua says, let's only do it once, on [[Strong Bad Emails]]. [[User:Trlkly|Trlkly]] 13:21, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

::::Hey Trlkly, thanks for mentioning that site, I think I'll enjoy perusing it. I wanted to point out that this particular thread of discussion is over 3 years old. When you see that, you should strongly consider whether it's worthwhile to resurrect such an old discussion thread, or if maybe there's some more recent relevant chatter, or if maybe a a new topic is warranted. There's a lot more in depth discussion of fourth walls in the body of work below that gets more detailed than this initial thread from 3 years ago. That said, this article has been tagged for clean up for a long time, and it's good to not let the discussion die — and bring fresh viewpoints into it. I do appreciate the link you gave, and a few of the related Tropes may be very helpful in categorizing this phenomena in this knowledge base. There seems to be a bit of the "No Fourth Wall" idea going on in some contexts in the H*R world, but it depends on the context, nature of the specific toon, and of course, where one assumes the wall to be. {{User:GreenHelmet/sig}} 14:08, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

I don't know if [[2 years]] neccessarily breaks the fourth wall, since [[Homestar's Website]] is not www.homestarrunner.com. --[[User:GregHosting|GregHosting]] 06:43, 14 May 2005 (UTC)

== Closed STUFF ==

These were on the [[HRWiki:STUFF|STUFF]] page and declined. If you wish to contest these, leave a note here, but don't allow it to be confused with any of the original votes.

===Strong Bad wants a cartoon (Declined)===
In the King of Town DVD comentary, Strong Bad complains about the King of Town having his own cartoon while he dosen't have his own.
*'''Decline.''' The fact that he's doing a commentary seems to point he knows they have cartoons.--[[User:Joshua|Joshua]] 18:17, 17 Mar 2005 (MST)
**'''Second'''. --[[User:Eujensc|Eujensc]] 05:35, 18 Mar 2005 (MST)
*'''Decline.''' What is it with these obvious Fun Facts showing up all over the place? This one ought to be in the transcript, if it isn't already... which means this one doesn't even warrant voting. --[[User:TheEggman|TheEggman]] 20:30, 17 Mar 2005 (MST)
*I'm the one who STUFF'd this, and it was mentioned in [[Fourth Wall Breaks]], not [[The King of Town DVD]]. This fact is supposed to apply to a fourth wall breakage. --[[User:Joshua|Joshua]] 07:19, 18 Mar 2005 (MST)
**And it still deserves a '''Decline,''' because it's a pointless fun fact. [[User:ISlayedTheKerrek|ISlayedTheKerrek]] 10:53, 18 Mar 2005 (MST)
*'''Decline with a vengence''' The entire idea of the characters doing commentaries is a fourth wall breaking excercise. [[User:Donny vs Universe|Donny vs Universe]]
*'''Decline''' I'm ready to "decline" the entire idea of logging "fourth wall breaks"... Strong Bad is constantly making it clear that he knows he's performing for an audience (e.g. "So, until next week, keep sending me those emails...") - Dingell
*'''Decline''' But then, I think the whole "Fourth Wall Breaks" page is a waste of webspace for reasons I think are probably mentioned on its Talk page. --[[User:Jay|Jay]] 03:21, 5 Apr 2005 (MDT)
**I don't think its bad, it just needs a clean up... badly. --[[User:Trogga|Trogga]] 14:50, 5 Apr 2005 (MDT)
*'''DECLINED!''' How about Homestar saying "What happened to my website?" in [[The System is Down]] or the fact that Strong Bad getting 400,000+ viruses caused everything in the Homestar Runner world to go haywire in [[virus]]? I'm sure there are several other instances of fourth wall breaking too. Comedies tend to do that a lot. -[[User:Upset_Your_Balance|Upset_Your_Balance]]

===Hello, Viewers! (Declined)===
In [insert Strong Bad Email here], Strong Bad says [insert speech here], which hints that he knows he's being watched by an audience.
*'''Decline.''' There are too many of these out there, and they're almost all boring. --[[User:Joshua|Joshua]] 05:21, 24 Mar 2005 (MST)
*'''Strong Decline.''' I agree. This fun fact can not be placed anywhere. Could it be that he is so self-esteemed that he believes that he will have an audience for anything he does? [[User: Pop_tire|Pop_tire]] 24 Mar 2005
*'''Decline''' See vote for "Strong Bad wants a cartoon" --[[User:Jay|Jay]] 03:21, 5 Apr 2005 (MDT)
*'''DECLINE''' In addition to the poor spelling, this fact doesn't even say anything! "[insert Strong Bad Email here]"??? Is this some kind of a joke?
**'''Second''' this unsigned vote. So whoever, sign your vote next time. [[User:Fizz123|Fizz123, who is not logged in]]
** You don't get it. This is a general fact - the Fourth Wall page used to have a LOT of Fun Facts in this style, so this is a vote on ALL the facts of this sort. Though I do agree with your vote, I don't with your reasoning. --[[User:Jay|Jay]] 14:46, 10 Apr 2005 (MDT)

==Toons! Games! Island==
The first break on [[island]] is subtle, but it's there. Strong Bad doesn't say, "I suspect it would be like most '''cartoons'''," but rather, "I suspect it would be like '''most''' cartoons." Why would Strong Bad suggest it as an appropriate analogy? Because he himself is a cartoon. Later, when Homestar makes the effects from the [[Main Page 3]] happen, it too is obviously a break. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 21:31, 22 Jul 2005 (UTC)

:Err, maybe if Strong Bad said "I suspect it would be like '''other''' cartoons," I'll believe you. And how does Homestar break the fourth wall? Are the [[Main Pages]] breaks? --[[User:Trogga|TROGGA!]] 00:31, 23 Jul 2005 (UTC)

::Strong Bad's emphasis is the key. Let's put it in different terms:
:::*Consider the human brain, which is like a personal computer but is not one. In describing it, one could say: "The human brain is like most '''computers.''' It takes in information, processes it, and signals the body to respond." Note that the emphasis in the first sentence is on the ''last'' word.
:::*Now consider my desktop computer. If someone asked me to describe it, I could say: "Well, it's like '''most''' personal computers; it's got a monitor and a keyboard and a mouse and it lets me run programs and access the Internet." Notice that "''most other''" is strongly implied by stressing the word "most".
::Strong Bad's emphasis in the sentence, again while subtle, matches the ''second'' example here.<div style="text-indent:1.5em">As for Homestar's wall break, this one is more clear-cut. Even if you take the stance that homestarrunner.com exists in their world and that Homestar posed for each of the main pages, he ''still'' shouldn't be able to make the effects occur at will. If he could, why wouldn't he just summon the ship to come pick them up off the island? Even if he didn't want to, surely Strong Bad would make him. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 01:40, 23 Jul 2005 (UTC)</div>
:::Correction, Homestar would be too dimwitted and would probably mess up and make the ship sink the island lol. But it is a fourth wall break, because for us, you just scroll on the buttons and that stuff happens on the main page, but in the cartoons, whenever Homestar says "email", "game(s)", and such, none of that happens, even if it were on purpose, assuming that he has to be in a main page environment for it to happen like on the island.

==Homestar's Theme==
Would Homestar singing his theme song be a fourth wall break? {{User:Rogue Leader/sig}}
:Hm, I don't think so. I can make up a theme song describing myself without implying I'm a cartoon.--[[User:T3H CH3K7 888|T3H_CH3K7_888]] 21:08, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

==Dicuss Amongst Yourselves!==

It seems to me like we need to nail down some official policy about what will be considered 4th-Wall-breaks and what won't, and then bring this page up to speed. For instance, I don't think [[huttah!]], [[monument]], or [[part-time job]] should be there, but I think [[geddup noise]] should, and [[Main Page 23]] ''definitely'' should. I didn't want to go in deleting and adding recklessly until some kind of official consensus is reached, though. --[[User:notstrongorbad|notstrongorbad]] 20:25, 2 Oct 2005 (UTC)
:Quick note: [[part-time job]] should be there. Strong Bad peers around the black before walking into frame. There's no corresponding object in his world for him to be looking around. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 06:25, 6 Oct 2005 (UTC)

==[[monument]]==
Is Homestar singing "The Thnikkaman" song at the end really a fourth wall break? Isn't it implied that the song that's triggered upon his entrance & exit (as well as calling and hangups) is heard by the characters and just a part of the Thnikkaman's story? --[[User:Come back, chocolates!|Come back, chocolates!]] 15:21 2 Nov 2005 (EST)
:It's the fact that he puts his head back into the frame to say it, indicating he had to get himself in view of the audience. {{User:Some HSR themed username/sig}} 20:24, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

==Why is it called the "Fourth" Wall?==
What happened to the first three walls? [[User:Ian911299|Ian911299]]
:You might check [[Wikipedia:Fourth wall|the Wikipedia article]] for that. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]

It's just a general expression, mainly. It's not just here. --{{User:Salty/sig}} 03:57, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
:Should we add an explination? {{User:Bubsty/sig}} 03:03, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

::No, that's what the Wikipedia article is for. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 03:06, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

To be blunt, the term "The fourth wall" originated from onstage performances, where the "fourth wall" in the "room" where the play is taking place is the one which the audience sees all the action through.

== Big Problem ==

*Strong Bad actually recieves real emails.
*He is appearantly aware that the video of his replies are seen by people on the web site.
*This implies that Strong Bad thinks that he has a [[Wikipedia:webcam|webcam]] that follows him around.
*Therefore, the times when Strong Bad addreses the viewer(s) are not breaking the fourth wall. Only references to "being in a cartoon" would be breaking the fourth wall.
*I have emailed Strong Bad about this issue, (see my [[User:Nerd42|user page]]) and I hope that the Bros Chaps will someday make a cool cartoon with my email in it. --{{User:Nerd42/sig}} 18:54, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
:And the big, previously unaddressed problem is...? - {{User:Joshua/sig}} 18:57, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
::The page currently says that every time the characters talk to the viewer, they are breaking the fourth wall. I was just trying to explain that this is not nessicarily the case. --{{User:Nerd42/sig}} 19:01, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
:::Do you even know what breaking the fourth wall is? Even if it's common, it's still a breakage. You better go to the Wikipedia article. - {{User:Joshua/sig}} 19:13, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
::::Yeah, I know what breaking the fourth wall is. I'm saying that if Strong Bad believes he has a (fictional) webcam following him around or some such thing then he's not breaking the fourth wall when he talks to the audience any more than Homestar does when he says "seriously folks they're the best". There are other explanations for many of the supposed fourth wall breaks. Not that there aren't fourth wall breaks in Homestar Runner, but there aren't nearly as many as this article indicates. -{{User:Nerd42/sig}} 19:45, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

==Cheat Comandos==
I think we should take off the one about "Buy our playsets and toys". It's supposed to be an ad. {{User:Dacheaatbot/sig}} 01:20, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
:I agree.--[[User:T3H CH3K7 888|T3H_CH3K7_888]] 21:10, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

== Note ==

According to my view, saying "It's been three emails in a row" isn't specifically breaking the fourth wall. Plus, I'm adding one about [[candy product]]. Strong Bad says "I'll surely have a candy product at '''the end of this email'''.

::I agree about the "three emails in a row". [[User:Retromaniac|Retromaniac]] 17:09, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

:::I second that, completely. It's not as if he doesn't know he's answering emails! You have to consider the fact that they know what they're doing inside the Homestar Universe - fourth wall breaks are when they acknowledge that there are people watching them (Strong Bad appears to have constant awareness of his "viewers," so I presume that he's aware of it within the HR Universe, but that's another argument...). Anyway, I agree. Whatever it was. ;) [[User:Michelle Mabelle|Michelle Mabelle]] 19 August 2006

== Thing about the "Island" Email ==

It states in the page that saying that the situation will be like "most cartoons" is somehow a reference to the fact that Homestarrunner.com is a website of cartoons. This is simply not the case; the events about which Strong Bad speaks happens in classic cartoons, specifically starring Bugs Bunny, etc. I vote for "Island"'s removal.
:Reference the [[#Toons! Games! Island|eighth discussion above]] this one. [[User:So makey outy|So makey outy]] 07:15, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

== senior prom ==

At the end of senior prom, after leaving his computer, Strong bad is seen on-screen slightly from the black, then jumps over behind it, like he knows that you can't see him there. Would that count? - [[User:Young Roy/Young Roy]]

You know what? You're right. I guess it should be included. Besides, Strong Bad does appear surprised when he sees the camera.

== keep cool ==

In "keep cool", Strong Bad emerges from the bottom of the screen and addresses to the viewers what Strong Badia is. In the article for [[keep cool]], it says that this is one of the most "abrupt" fourth wall breaks to date. But is it technically a fourth wall break anyway? Strong Bad might be talking to the viewers on this "webcam" I keep hearing so much about.

Should that part be kept or '''DELETED'''? [[User:Jimmy91|Jimmy91]] 15:15, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

== It's kind of like there's two fourth walls ==

A lot of even the complete 4th wall breaks couldn't technically be called such, depending on which 4th wall we're talking about. The characters have acknowledged that they are "cartoon characters," but in a ''universe'' which is nothing but cartoons, being a character in a "cartoon" is probably not that different from being a character in a "movie," in the real world. Do we count real commentaries as 4th wall breakages when an actor says "oh, yeah, in one take of this scene I pooped my pants," or whatever? No, because that's completely outside of the movie, and inside what the actor considers to be real life.

In other words, there's a difference between the "real" characters admitting they're actors in a bunch of cartoons, and them acknowledging that they are completely fictional. Some of the DVD commentaries seem to indicate that all the characters fully believe that they are "real," and that they're just actors. And some comments like "Little known fact: Homestar gained a hundred pounds and shrank two feet for this role" also strongly imply that the characters believe themselves to be real people. Thus, breaks of the "first" 4th wall are quite common, but the real 4th wall have yet to happen as far as I can recall.

A breach of the real 4th wall would require a character to distinguish between their cartoon world, and the "real" world, ''and'' to admit that their world is less real in comparison. Just the former doesn't cut it. So for instance, if a character were to complain about how poorly drawn they are, that ''could'' be considered a "real" 4th wall breach, depending on how it's argued. There are a bunch of unknowns.

Like whether or not they're aware of any differences between their cartoon universe, and the real world. They may think that all their viewers are cartoons, and thus operate under the same wacky laws of physics. Being poorly drawn may be as fundamental a quality as being ugly or transparent or whatever, to us.

Yes, this is looking into it way too much, but it's not like any of us have anything better to do.

:Well, let's first explore what the fourth wall really is. In theater, it is a dramatic device which involves the actor suddenly stopping relating to the box of the stage-world and begins addressing the audience, often with meta-commentary on the action, conditions, or other facts of the proceedings beyond the "facts of the scene". One could rightly call Strong Bad's description of what Strong Bad actually is (from [[keep cool]]) is a classic fourth wall break. A character referring to himself as a "cartoon character" should not limit the definition of a fourth wall break - in fact, it is in itself a fourth wall break!

:I think the qualification that the real world be better than the cartoon world is not necessary for a fourth wall break. A simple comment saying "I am in a cartoon you're watching, and here's some info that is not plot-related and is kinda behind-the-scenes" is enough. The fourth wall, after all, is the imaginary barrier between the action and the audience - betwen the play and the players, if you will - and no further qualification is needed.

:That said, I think some are too liberal with "fourth wall" attribution. In a Strong Bad Email, SB is so clearly playing to an audience that his actions and speech cannot be considered a break. However, Homestar's might be ("See you after the flashback" ([[flashback]]) might be considered a break if we assume he's addressing the viewer, not SB), or any other characters', and even his own might be if it transcends both the context of a toon and the context of a toon presented as a toon.

:Great topic for discussion. Please [[Special:Userlogin|sign up]] and continue these observations. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 00:13, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

::That's the classical definition of the 4th wall, but it seems like in modern usage, it refers to absolutely any instance where a character acts as if they know that they are part of a work of fiction (or that they, themselves, are entirely fictional); that's also the definition used on the page itself. One thing I was thinking of when I wrote the above, was the comic strip One Over Zero, which really explores the concept of a fourth wall from the perspective of a fictional character (among other things). http://www.undefined.net/1/0/

::It should probably be decided, then, exactly which definition of 4th wall is to be used for the article. -[[User:Arrkhal|Arrkhal]] 20:26, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

::I think the above is indeed a very interesting observation, but when I was writing my comment about the Yello Dello cartoon, I was thinking of another problem of essentially locating where the fourth wall is. In particular, there's the question of cartoons within cartoons. The mention of fourth wall breaks in Cheat Commandos cartoons are indeed fourth wall breaks, but in my opinion they only break the fourth wall of that cartoon, not the HomestarRunner.com website. I'm not sure whether this means it should be removed or even commented, I only note it as interesting. -[[User:Brucker|Brucker]]

:::Fairly similar is the problem of whether the commentaries for the Yello Dello and King of Town DVD should be mentioned. Commentaries are completely outside of the 4th wall of the tune itself as well, but within the 4th wall of the homestarrrunner.com website. Many are even worse offenders though, like the "more fan costumes" toon. That one can't even be considered a toon proper, so there really is no "internal" 4th wall to be broken. -[[User:Arrkhal|Arrkhal]] 20:26, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

== Yello Dello narrator ==

I notice that it lists the narrator referring to "this cartoon" as a fourth wall break. I'm finding myself doubting that. Can a narrator break the fourth wall? I think narrators are, for lack of a better way to phrase it, already on the other side of the fourth wall. A fourth wall breaking involving a narrator seems to me to have to involve characters in a cartoon/movie/play/whatever interacting with the narrator in an unnatural way. (For those who have seen the play "Into the Woods", there is a point in the play when the characters drag the narrator onto the stage and bring him into the plot. *That's* breaking the fourth wall.)

Actually, if people agree, it might call into question a number of other items on this page, such as characters speaking in DVD commentaries, but that's more of a grey area.-[[User:Brucker|Brucker]]

== Double Post ==

Why is First Time Here in this twice?

:It's not anymore. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 01:20, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

==Transfer==

<blockquote>
I'm sorry, I simply don't see the connection between the location and the fourth wall break. And all occurances are already covered on [[Fourth Wall Breaks]].{{User:Loafing/sig}} 21:58, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
:I agree. I don't see why this info should be organized in this way, on its own page. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 22:04, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
::I concur with loafing. . .normally I'm all for new articles which interest people, but I just don't get this one. . .if someone can tell me what they're aiming at, it may be helpful. . .but right now I think there's nothing here that isn't already covered in whole in Fourth Wall Breaks. - [[User:Ilko Skevüld's Teh C|Ilko Skevüld's Teh C]] 22:06, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
:::I think it's about places that wouldn't exist if it wasn't for the fourth wall breaking, like the [[error page]]. I could be wrong, though. {{User:Shwoo/sig}} 22:09, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
::::Nonetheless, that is notable with ease on [[Fourth Wall Breaks]] so no new page is needed to do that. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 22:13, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
:::::I created this page because of the reason Shwoo suggested. The idea was not for the Fourth Wall Break angle, but for pages that mention locations like these, but have no links to explain about those locations. I assumed that this would be a better solution than creating a page for each location, although it is arguable that a Real-World Reference on the page would probably be best. --{{User:Venusy/Sig}} 22:42, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
::::::Indeed. I argue that it should remain a Real-Word Reference, or something else similarly minimal. — {{User:Lapper/sig}} 22:59, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
</blockquote>

==Possible fourth wall break?==

In [[redesign]], strong bad says "no, pan up!"
[[User:The Big Eye|The Big Eye]] 16:28, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
:Directing the camera/viewer's eyes. Yeah. I could go for that. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]

== Literal caption ==

What's wrong with using the word "literally" in the image caption? --[[User:Trogga|Trogga]] 19:35, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
:It's unnecessary and too leading. You don't have to hit people over the head with the joke; leave room for subtlety. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 23:08, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
::I actually think it's more amusing that way. --[[User:Trogga|Trogga]] 23:13, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
:::I agree with Trogga: the caption without the "literally" tells us no more than the page title does. It's like captioning the pic for [[the chair]] with "the chair". {{User:Dr._Clash/sig}} 23:23, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
::::You mean the pic where the glass is being smashed and it says/said "Breaking the fourth wall, literally"? I think it's funnier with the "literally".--[[User:T3H CH3K7 888|T3H_CH3K7_888]] 21:24, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

== Actually Fourth Wall Breaks? ==

I just thought of something... It's not really breaking the fourth wall if, for example, The Cheat watches a Strong Bad Email. It may be a break that it seems to be a live feed, but the fact is, everyone ''knows'' they are in ''something'' that is being recorded. Addressing the camera (or audience) isn't really breaking the fourth wall either, because in the H*RU (not Homestar Runner University), as far as the characters are concerned, all of their exploits are being recorded for all to watch. While I agree that if they mention being in a ''cartoon'', that's breaking the fourth wall, but I think we should reconsider some of these alleged fourth wall breaks. --{{User:TotalSpaceshipGuy3/sig}} 10:35, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
:I agree. I've always thought that a forth wall break was only when it was written in the actual story for the characters to realize their world is fictitious. Commenting to the audience directly is just narration. If I was in charge of the H*R Wiki for a day, I'd boil this page down to just [[virus]] and toons that take place on the [[Error Page]] and [[Under Construction]] (which isn't even mentioned here now.) It might also include instances where characters interact with the black and the edge of the screen, but it definitely would not include narration or announcements like in [[keep cool]], or mentions of the "email show".

:I say delete the folowing:
<blockquote>
*[[DNA Evidence]]: Homestar does a voiceover for the "previously on homestarrunner.com" part.
*[[In Search of the Yello Dello]] and [[The King of Town DVD]]: The characters do commentaries and are in previews for these toon "DVDs", showing that they know they were cartoons. Strong Bad even calls one of the toons a cartoon several times.
*[[Sbemail 169 Deleted Scene]]: The DVD style, especially the commentary, imply that what we see is written and filmed.
*[[Halloween Potion-ma-jig]]: Throughout the [[Wikipedia:cold open|cold open]], Homestar directly addresses the viewer. When he comes upon Homsar, he remarks "Oh, great. The secret guy." and then comments on the choices that Homsar "gives" him. Then when he reaches the [[Cliffs#Creepy Cliff|Creepy Cliff]], he refers to it as a "cool new background." Finally, in the [[The Goblin|Goblin]] ending, Marzipan declares the end of the scene.
*[[Homestar Presents: Presents]]: Strong Bad informs the viewers that Homestar runs around frantically from [[Decemberween]] to New Year's; then, in the Easter egg, there is a poster on the wall that reads, "Left Out Characters' Support Group & Buffet."
*[[A Mother's Day Message]]: Homestar and Strong Bad directly talk to the viewers.
*[[A Holiday Greeting]]: the main characters wish the viewers "[[Wikipedia:Happy Holiday(s)|Happy Holidays]] from all of us to all of you".
*[[rough copy]]: Strong Bad comments that "we should star in our own action-packed credit sequence". An action-packed credit sequence follows.
*[[unnatural]]: Strong Bad talks to the camera as he performs a public service announcement.
*[[strong badathlon]]: [[Whatsit]] gets on the camera.
*[[4 branches]]: Strong Bad says that he'll have to get more specific to be able to cover stupid Homestar ground in one email.
*[[cliffhangers]]: Strong Bad tells the narrator to get to the resolution of the second cliffhanger.
*[[road trip]]: Strong Bad declares the end of the email.
*[[theme song]]: Besides the whole idea of a theme song for his show, Strong Bad says he gives the viewers "a new email song every freakin' week".
*[[keep cool]]: Strong Bad interrupts the email (he rises up from below the frame) to explain the difference between [[Strong Badia]] and the rest of [[Free Country, USA]]. He then offers a [[high five]]. He also says "Note to viewers" before everything else.
*[[candy product]]: Strong Bad says he'll have a candy product "by the end of this email".
*[[narrator]]: Strong Bad said that Strong Sad had made corrections in three emails in a row, the first two being [[secret identity]] and [[technology]].
*[[virus]]: The effects of [[the virus]] cause several fourth wall breakages.
*[[extra plug]]: As Strong Bad tells the others to hold their poses, he reminds them that "it's going to be a long week."
*[[old comics]]: Strong Bad says that he and Homestar were used in a comic that was printed at least 60 years ago. Since they are obviously not that old, he is pointing out the fact that he and Homestar are unaging cartoon characters.
*[[crying]]: Strong Bad states (or rather sings) that he "will not sing an email song this week."
*[[dangeresque 3]]: When Dangeresque 1 begins, The Cheat holds up a card that reads "not in 3D" (Dangeresque 3 was supposed to be in 3D).
*[[video games]]: Strong Bad turns and yells directly at the camera saying "'Cause you can't control me!"
*[[couch patch]] ''the first part of this one is acceptable'' ...and Homestar says he got confused about the title of the e-mail.
*[[mile]]: Strong Bad tells the viewers that he won't answer an email this week. The Cheat creates one, complete with a loading screen.
*[[stunt double]]: Strong Bad throws floppy disks at the viewers and then pretends to give and take them away.
*[[big white face]]: The Poopsmith pokes [[The Paper]] with his shovel.
*[[huttah!]]: [[The Cheat]] actually watches the email on his own computer.
*[[your friends]]: Strong Bad states that he's giving the fans what they want.
*[[little animal]]: Strong Bad talks about the people watching the e-mail at home.
*[[stand-up]]: Strong Sad tells the viewers to come with him.
*[[Teen Girl Squad Issue 8|Issue 8]]: Cheerleader sings "It's over! It's over! Strong Bad says it's over" at the end of the issue.
*[[strongbad_email.exe]] (all discs): Either Homestar or The Cheat walks by an FBI warning. Also, if the viewer doesn't make a selection in the Bonus Stuff menu, Strong Bad will enter and say "Time's up, choosy! I'm playing Trogdor!", and plays [[TROGDOR!]] for a little bit.
*[[strongbad_email.exe Disc One]]: Strong Bad tells [[The Paper]] to "show these morons what to do". Then, The Paper will tell the viewer to make a choice.
*[[strongbad_email.exe Disc Three]]: Homestar and Strong Bad wonder where the viewer is and Homestar suggests that perhaps they are making a sandwich. Strong Bad orders the viewer to bring them some cold ones.
*[[strongbad_email.exe Disc Four]]: The [[Lappy 486#Female Lappy 486|Female Lappy 486]] asks Strong Bad what's taking the viewers so long.
*[[strongbad_email.exe Disc Five]]: Strong Bad complains the viewer took so long the Lappy's screensaver turned on.
*[[Everything Else, Volume 1]]: Strong Bad says there are no emails on the DVD. Homestar tells the viewer to make a choice.
*[[Everything Else, Volume 2]]: Coach Z raps the FBI warning. Homestar complains that the viewer is taking too long deciding and tries to eat some of the menu items.
*[[Legal]]: Homestar walks by and comments on the boringness of the disclaimers.
*[[The Paper]]: The Paper always descends from the top of the screen, no matter where that may be at the time.
*[[Strong Sad#Character_Video_Transcript|Strong Sad]]: On Strong Sad's character page, he complains about making a "character page" and ... ''the second part of this is acceptable''
*[[First Time Here?]]: Sets the stage for fourth wall breakages, especially when Strong Bad says "I'm the real reason you're here" and asks people to "check him out".
</blockquote>

:Especially [[Sbemail 169 Deleted Scene]], since it's TBC that are showing us the scenes, not the actual characters. Also, especially ones like [[4 branches]], where Strong Bad doesn't even say "email ''show''", he just refers to the content of an email and the answer thereof.
:--{{User:Johnny Jupiter/sig}} 07:32, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
::Wikipedia says:
<blockquote>The term "breaking the fourth wall" in theatre generally means when a character is showing his/her awareness of the audience.</blockquote>
::So, technically, breaking the fourth wall ''is'' commenting to the audience directly. {{User:Mee/sig}} 10:33, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
:::But only when it's part of the story. Is it a fourth wall break on a variety show when someone like Bob Hope talks to the TV audience? The fact that the H*R Characters frequently refer to their "website" or the "email show" shows that it's likely the same. They're consciously putting on a show for people to watch, so when Strong Bad says something like "Alright, people. This week we got some cool crap for you guys," that's just him announcing. It's like in that instance, the fourth wall is the back wall of the auditorium, and the audience is part of what's going on. It only becomes a fourth wall break when a story begins where a suspension of disbelief requires the characters to assume the audience isn't there.
:::Maybe this is just my interpretation of fourth wall breaks, but it makes perfect sense to me.--{{User:Johnny Jupiter/sig}} 18:33, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
::::<blockquote>The term "breaking the fourth wall" in theatre generally means when a character is showing his/her awareness of the audience.</blockquote>

:::::It's important to emphasize a couple things from the definition above, (which appears in the wikipedia article), "'''in theatre'''", and "'''generally'''". "In theatre" is particular important, because the format and expectations of a theatrical production are very different from much of h*r, especially the e-mails. There is some room for ambiguity at times, depending on context and expectations. I would argue that expectations is a primary criteria, which can be quite subjective. If you're watching TV and a severe weather bulliten flashes across the bottom of the screen, and the people on TV react to it, is that a fourth wall break? Depends, if you are watching a newscast it certainly is not, but if characters in a sitcom do, it is.
:::::That said, many of the listings on this page are unambiguously ''not'' fourth wall breaks and should be removed without question. There are others that need some justification (from either side), whether they should stay or go. [[User:74.136.209.156|74.136.209.156]] 14:16, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
Please boldface any others you would like me to remove. (do not boldface any where a character talks to the viewers) [[User:Bad Bad Guy|Bad Bad Guy]] 02:57, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

== Sbemail 150?!? ==

Why doesn't it count when the Lappy tells us Strong Bad is understairs? [[User:Bad Bad Guy|Bad Bad Guy]] 18:58, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

== Cheat Commandos ==
I just thought of something. We now know that Cheat Commandos is a cartoon on TV, after seeing Crack Stuntman. There's a few fourth wall breakages in Cheat Commandos toons, but if they're implying that they're in a TV show rather than an internet cartoon, then would they really be listed here? If not, than is this page for all fourth wall breakages, including the fourth wall breakages that don't imply that they're on the internet? {{User:Spyrox6/sig}}
:Hmm. I always assumed that Cheat Commandos was a TV cartoon in the H*R universe; are you referring to the recent addition of Crack Stuntman? Anyway, good point. They still break the fourth wall, but, (and I don't know how well I'm about to describe this), they're breaking the 4th wall with regard to the H*R universe, while H*R, Strong Bad, etc. themselves would be breaking the 4th wall with regard to ''our'' universe. I say we keep them, but maybe try to specify the difference, or add a note saying something like "Note: The Cheat Commandos are a TV show existing within the Homestar Runner universe." (Maybe that's not even needed. I dunno.) {{User:4kai2lyn6/sig}} 23:39, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
:Since we currently list with no differentiation several instances of Strong Bad breaking the fourth wall of his "email show" while not actually breaking the fourth wall of the H*R Universe, I don't see any reason to treat the Commando's show-within-a-cartoon any differently.{{User:Bryanc/sig}} 00:14, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
::Also, when they say mentioning playsets and toys, they are just a long commercial, like gi joe, so that isn't breaking the fourth wall either.-Strongor_Rador 7493
:::But how often do GI Joe characters refer to their encounters as "episodes", their headquarters as a "Headquarters playset", or whatever? --{{User:Jay/sig}} 21:14, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

== [[One Two]]: Just might be a Homsar oddity but does his thing count? ==

--[[User:Addict 2006|Addict]] [[User talk:Addict 2006|2006]] 13:43, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
:If you're referring to Strong Bad making a Homsar solo appear I was going to ask about that as well. [[User:Bad Bad Guy|Bad Bad Guy]] 04:29, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

== Fourth Wall Breaks by Fans ==
It is currently mentioned on [[Talk:the paper#Continuity reference|the paper Talk Page]] that I may have broken the "Fourth Wall", should this be referenced or not? {{user:Thewi2kbug/sig}} 03:57, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
:Hmm, I think we normally don't say stuff about what fans do (i.e., when someone named Dan sends in an email, it's not part of the running gag [[Dan]]. However, it might be notable that TBC/Strong Bad selected your email, thus proving that they/he knows that fans have more knowledge than they could logically have. Another words, if Strong Bad wasn't in a cartoon, he would have said, "What makes you think the Paper's going to leave?" or after the Paper quit, "Hey! How did you know that??" Another words, I hope that makes sense and isn't just more of my deranged ramblings. [[User:So makey outy|So makey outy]] 04:39, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
:: the section in yellow is the key break...
<blockquote class="lappy email"><div>
subject: The Paper...</div>
Dear Strongbad, 
Is the Paper really quitting? Could you tell me the best 
moment that you had with the paper? 
Thank You 
Kyle Williams 
North Ogden, Utah 
 
 
] No, The Paper's not quitting, Kyle, you total Ogdenite. Ol' Papes is at the top of his game, the prime of his time, the cusp of his stuff!
</blockquote>

then the paper falls on him, therefore he was completely oblivious to the fact [[The Paper]] was quitting. Also at the end of [[more armies]], [[The Paper]] was paper jammed, but it is strongly assumed that it was just a [[The Paper]] quirk. {{user:Thewi2kbug/sig}} 05:05, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

To be fair, after The Paper came down in more armies, Strong Bad states, "That's a bad sign." In addition, I know that quite a few H*R fans, including myself, were counting down the "Dreaded SBemail #173" and took the paper's jam as an ominous omen. I haven't heard anyone except you question this. Plus, wouldn't the "prophecy" (I have nothing better to call it) count as a Fourth Wall Break? {{User:waferman/sig}} 18:05, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

== reverse chronological order ==

<nowiki></nowiki>

Isn't the convention for every other list on the wiki most recent last? Why reversed on this page? {{User:GreenHelmet/sig}} 00:14, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
:I too have been wondering this for quite some time. {{User:DeFender1031/sig}} 00:22, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
::The best person to ask would be Invisible Robot Fish, as he's the one who [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=Fourth_Wall_Breaks&direction=next&oldid=194801 initially added the message] to the sections when it went through serious revision. (Hit the "edit" tab to actually see them added.) --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]] 04:25, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
:::Well, seeing no objection, and having noticed other things that don't quite fit with our usual page layouts, i'm gonna be bold and say that i'll start on it tomorrow, unless someone voices an objection by then. {{User:DeFender1031/sig}} 01:00, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

== Most Fourth Wall breakages ==

Which of the whole Homestar website has the most fourth wall breakages? If you ask me, virus has the most wall breakages of them all. Considering it happens throughout the whole cartoon. --[[User:Pretztailfan95|Pretztailfan95]] 20:16, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
:That;s more of an opinion rather than something we could actually use in the article. {{User:Acam30/sig}} 20:18, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
::There, I fixed it. This would make a good Fun Fact...if that's even possible for this article...--[[User:Pretztailfan95|Pretztailfan95]] 21:23, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
:::It still seems hardly relevant. {{User:DeFender1031/sig}} 23:08, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
::::Well then why would they bother making a Fun Facts section for all the sbemails and other cartoons? Explain that to me. I think they should put which one has the most fourth wall breakages as a Fun Fact. End of discussion. --[[User:Pretztailfan95|Pretztailfan95]] 00:31, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
:::::If you want us to explain to you, you probably shouldn't end the discussion... xD (Sorry, not trying to be a pain, but it was hard to resist.) {{User:Acam30/sig}} 01:00, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
::::::Fine, explain away, but I still think it should be put up as a fun fact... --[[User:Pretztailfan95|Pretztailfan95]] 01:19, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

== rated ==

I'm not sure whether this could be considered a 4th wall break or not:
In the Easter Egg for the sbemail [[rated]], where the King Of Town is watching Strong Bad's email show on a TV (commenting on the eating puppies for breakfast.)
It acknowledges that he has a show that other people watch... but is that breaking the fourth wall, or just bending it?
:The interesting thing, I think, in this case is that he's watching it on a TV. Now, we've disincluded things where Strong Bad's been watched before ([[huttah!]]), because we seem to base this on a premise that Strong Bad believes he is followed by some sort of webcam or something. In this case, though, he's being watched not on a computer, but on a TV. It's different than huttah!.
:I'm not sure if this lends itself more one way or another towards fourth wall breaks, but I felt it was worth remarking on and considering. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]] 06:21, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

==Categorization==
Shouldn't this article be categorized under Running Gags or Running Themes?

Talk:Fourth Wall Breaks

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This answers my question, I guess we are going to be tracking all 4th wall breaks. [[User:Drhaggis|<nowiki></nowiki>]]- [[User:Drhaggis|Dr Haggis]] - [[User talk: Drhaggis|Talk]] 16:36, 29 Nov 2004 (MST)

Can we at least be grammatical and call this something like "Fourth Wall Violations"?

I was going for [The] Fourth Wall Breaks, actually, as in "Fourth Wall Breaks! Details at 11." But if you think it's confusing, by all means change it. I'm just not going to go through the effort. :) --[[User:Vannav|Vannav]]

I think this should at the very least be separated into two categories: "Audience Acknowledgement" in which the characters talk about the audience, and "Total Breakage", which consists of e-mails like "virus" that make fun of them being on a website. It's important to realize that somebody could theoretically make a real website in which they read e-mails sent in to them, so acknowledgement of an audience is not necessarily the same as acknowledgement of "cartoondom". So audience acknowledgement might not even qualify. --Tom H.

I argee, since "audience acknowledgement" could refer to all the emails. "Fourth Wall Breaks" should be limited to "Total Breakage".--[[User:Hysterical Woman|Hysterical Woman]] 15:33, 30 Nov 2004 (MST)

."Total breakage"... don't know what I was thinking with that one. As with "cartoondom." --Tom H. (I actually signed up for the wiki but forgot my username.)

I don't think this page is necessary. --[[User:Upsilon|Upsilon]]

For Homestar Runner dot com, breaking the fourth wall is the rule rather than the exception. Except during the main toons (and even at times during them) the characters all seem to be fairly aware of an audience. Many references are made to the site, to sending Strong Bad emails, and there are few instances of characters being concerned that others are talking to the audience. Therefore, I don't think this page should exist. --[[User:Tim333|Tim333]]

Hey: Is there a reason this page has initial caps on all the words? It's not the title of a 'toon. Wikipedia caps the first letter of the ''first'' word of all articles without exception; our policy seems to be to do the same except on sbemails. (Perhaps page-naming conventions could be added to [[HRWiki:Standards]]? —[[User:AbdiViklas|AbdiViklas]] 02:52, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

== Are these really fourth-wall breaks? ==

To quote Wikipedia:

"The term breaking the fourth wall is used in film, theater, television, and literary works; it refers to a character directly addressing an audience, or actively acknowledging (through breaking character or through dialogue) that the characters and action going on is not real."

This page should not exist if one's definition of fourth wall breakage includes audience awareness through participation. It should exist (in some form or another) if one only counts the complete breakages (i.e. references to "the black").

In my opinion, this should only list total breakages. However, just implying that you're essentially watching a cartoon is NOT breakage in my opinion (they never say it really IS fake, just that it's not a live broadcast), so to me, only [[flashback]] (Homestar says he's usually behind the black) and [[virus]] (if you need THAT one explained, you need to go watch it) is breakage.

I'll gladly detail WHY I don't think the rest are breakages if anyone requests it for a particular e-mail. --[[User:83.88.139.108|83.88.139.108]] 13:21, 6 Dec 2004 (MST)

* I concur. If we refer to every time Strong Bad recognizes he's being watched in a Strong Bad e-mail, we have to list every single last Strong-Bad e-mail!!! --[[User:Jay|Jay]] 11:17, 7 Dec 2004 (MST)

* One could assume he's doing a Jennycam style live webcam show. Featuring him. Answering emails.
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*That seems to be the most likely scenario. -[[User:Clever Ben|Clever Ben]]

You know, this is a very interesting question, and I'm happy to see so many people debating it. As a major in film and a minor in drama, however, I can certainly attest to the fact that "breaking the fourth wall" is an important concept to at least TRY to point out. For folks in the trade and in the scholarly-studies, it basically translates to "acknowledging the 'real' world outside of the filmworld or playworld." In film, this rule is hardly ever broken -- actors are rarely directed to look directly into the camera. 99% of the time, they're often looking just to the side of it. When an actor DOES directly address the audience, because breaking the rule is SO strange and SO "not done," it's usually used for kooky humor, as in ''Ferris Bueller's Day Off'', or for jarring psychological effect, as in ''Psycho''. H*R being a cartoon only makes this page more interesting, because it's taking a pretty intellectual concept and putting it to use for the masses. Voila. -- [[User: Queenie-C|Queenie-C]]

:I say point out that the whole concept of SBEmails points out that Strong Bad knows he's on a cartoon, and then delete all the boring ones where he mentions the viewers and stuff. The only exceptions should be the really interesting ones which go beyond simple dialogue, like The Cheat watching an Email on his computer. Besides that, I think all the other mentionings of fourth wall breakage are fine. --[[User:Joshua|Joshua]] 18:01, 17 Mar 2005 (MST)

::I may have a way out of all this: Strong Bad is running a small operation ''inside'' the homestar-verse for the benefit of those within it. That is to say, Strong Bad is an internet star inside the world of Homestar and Friends, which is why The Cheat can watch on his computer (or Strong Bad do the show ''from'' The Cheat's computer). In this context, we are not watching Strong Bad answer email for our benefit, but for those inside; we just get to watch, explaining why we can follow Strong Bad around when he leaves his computer. -- [[User:TheRealZajac|The Real Zajac]] 10:08, 11 May 2005 (PDT)

:::According to [http://tvtropes.org TVTropes.org], a wiki devoted to things like this, this type of thing is called a [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FourthWallMailSlot Fourth Wall Mail Slot]. The fourth wall isn't broken, it just has a convenient prefabricated hole in it to let in emails.

:::Note that I would still mention that at least some people would refer to this a breaking the fourth wall, but, as Joshua says, let's only do it once, on [[Strong Bad Emails]]. [[User:Trlkly|Trlkly]] 13:21, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

::::Hey Trlkly, thanks for mentioning that site, I think I'll enjoy perusing it. I wanted to point out that this particular thread of discussion is over 3 years old. When you see that, you should strongly consider whether it's worthwhile to resurrect such an old discussion thread, or if maybe there's some more recent relevant chatter, or if maybe a a new topic is warranted. There's a lot more in depth discussion of fourth walls in the body of work below that gets more detailed than this initial thread from 3 years ago. That said, this article has been tagged for clean up for a long time, and it's good to not let the discussion die — and bring fresh viewpoints into it. I do appreciate the link you gave, and a few of the related Tropes may be very helpful in categorizing this phenomena in this knowledge base. There seems to be a bit of the "No Fourth Wall" idea going on in some contexts in the H*R world, but it depends on the context, nature of the specific toon, and of course, where one assumes the wall to be. {{User:GreenHelmet/sig}} 14:08, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

I don't know if [[2 years]] neccessarily breaks the fourth wall, since [[Homestar's Website]] is not www.homestarrunner.com. --[[User:GregHosting|GregHosting]] 06:43, 14 May 2005 (UTC)

== Closed STUFF ==

These were on the [[HRWiki:STUFF|STUFF]] page and declined. If you wish to contest these, leave a note here, but don't allow it to be confused with any of the original votes.

===Strong Bad wants a cartoon (Declined)===
In the King of Town DVD comentary, Strong Bad complains about the King of Town having his own cartoon while he dosen't have his own.
*'''Decline.''' The fact that he's doing a commentary seems to point he knows they have cartoons.--[[User:Joshua|Joshua]] 18:17, 17 Mar 2005 (MST)
**'''Second'''. --[[User:Eujensc|Eujensc]] 05:35, 18 Mar 2005 (MST)
*'''Decline.''' What is it with these obvious Fun Facts showing up all over the place? This one ought to be in the transcript, if it isn't already... which means this one doesn't even warrant voting. --[[User:TheEggman|TheEggman]] 20:30, 17 Mar 2005 (MST)
*I'm the one who STUFF'd this, and it was mentioned in [[Fourth Wall Breaks]], not [[The King of Town DVD]]. This fact is supposed to apply to a fourth wall breakage. --[[User:Joshua|Joshua]] 07:19, 18 Mar 2005 (MST)
**And it still deserves a '''Decline,''' because it's a pointless fun fact. [[User:ISlayedTheKerrek|ISlayedTheKerrek]] 10:53, 18 Mar 2005 (MST)
*'''Decline with a vengence''' The entire idea of the characters doing commentaries is a fourth wall breaking excercise. [[User:Donny vs Universe|Donny vs Universe]]
*'''Decline''' I'm ready to "decline" the entire idea of logging "fourth wall breaks"... Strong Bad is constantly making it clear that he knows he's performing for an audience (e.g. "So, until next week, keep sending me those emails...") - Dingell
*'''Decline''' But then, I think the whole "Fourth Wall Breaks" page is a waste of webspace for reasons I think are probably mentioned on its Talk page. --[[User:Jay|Jay]] 03:21, 5 Apr 2005 (MDT)
**I don't think its bad, it just needs a clean up... badly. --[[User:Trogga|Trogga]] 14:50, 5 Apr 2005 (MDT)
*'''DECLINED!''' How about Homestar saying "What happened to my website?" in [[The System is Down]] or the fact that Strong Bad getting 400,000+ viruses caused everything in the Homestar Runner world to go haywire in [[virus]]? I'm sure there are several other instances of fourth wall breaking too. Comedies tend to do that a lot. -[[User:Upset_Your_Balance|Upset_Your_Balance]]

===Hello, Viewers! (Declined)===
In [insert Strong Bad Email here], Strong Bad says [insert speech here], which hints that he knows he's being watched by an audience.
*'''Decline.''' There are too many of these out there, and they're almost all boring. --[[User:Joshua|Joshua]] 05:21, 24 Mar 2005 (MST)
*'''Strong Decline.''' I agree. This fun fact can not be placed anywhere. Could it be that he is so self-esteemed that he believes that he will have an audience for anything he does? [[User: Pop_tire|Pop_tire]] 24 Mar 2005
*'''Decline''' See vote for "Strong Bad wants a cartoon" --[[User:Jay|Jay]] 03:21, 5 Apr 2005 (MDT)
*'''DECLINE''' In addition to the poor spelling, this fact doesn't even say anything! "[insert Strong Bad Email here]"??? Is this some kind of a joke?
**'''Second''' this unsigned vote. So whoever, sign your vote next time. [[User:Fizz123|Fizz123, who is not logged in]]
** You don't get it. This is a general fact - the Fourth Wall page used to have a LOT of Fun Facts in this style, so this is a vote on ALL the facts of this sort. Though I do agree with your vote, I don't with your reasoning. --[[User:Jay|Jay]] 14:46, 10 Apr 2005 (MDT)

==Toons! Games! Island==
The first break on [[island]] is subtle, but it's there. Strong Bad doesn't say, "I suspect it would be like most '''cartoons'''," but rather, "I suspect it would be like '''most''' cartoons." Why would Strong Bad suggest it as an appropriate analogy? Because he himself is a cartoon. Later, when Homestar makes the effects from the [[Main Page 3]] happen, it too is obviously a break. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 21:31, 22 Jul 2005 (UTC)

:Err, maybe if Strong Bad said "I suspect it would be like '''other''' cartoons," I'll believe you. And how does Homestar break the fourth wall? Are the [[Main Pages]] breaks? --[[User:Trogga|TROGGA!]] 00:31, 23 Jul 2005 (UTC)

::Strong Bad's emphasis is the key. Let's put it in different terms:
:::*Consider the human brain, which is like a personal computer but is not one. In describing it, one could say: "The human brain is like most '''computers.''' It takes in information, processes it, and signals the body to respond." Note that the emphasis in the first sentence is on the ''last'' word.
:::*Now consider my desktop computer. If someone asked me to describe it, I could say: "Well, it's like '''most''' personal computers; it's got a monitor and a keyboard and a mouse and it lets me run programs and access the Internet." Notice that "''most other''" is strongly implied by stressing the word "most".
::Strong Bad's emphasis in the sentence, again while subtle, matches the ''second'' example here.<div style="text-indent:1.5em">As for Homestar's wall break, this one is more clear-cut. Even if you take the stance that homestarrunner.com exists in their world and that Homestar posed for each of the main pages, he ''still'' shouldn't be able to make the effects occur at will. If he could, why wouldn't he just summon the ship to come pick them up off the island? Even if he didn't want to, surely Strong Bad would make him. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 01:40, 23 Jul 2005 (UTC)</div>
:::Correction, Homestar would be too dimwitted and would probably mess up and make the ship sink the island lol. But it is a fourth wall break, because for us, you just scroll on the buttons and that stuff happens on the main page, but in the cartoons, whenever Homestar says "email", "game(s)", and such, none of that happens, even if it were on purpose, assuming that he has to be in a main page environment for it to happen like on the island.

==Homestar's Theme==
Would Homestar singing his theme song be a fourth wall break? {{User:Rogue Leader/sig}}
:Hm, I don't think so. I can make up a theme song describing myself without implying I'm a cartoon.--[[User:T3H CH3K7 888|T3H_CH3K7_888]] 21:08, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

==Dicuss Amongst Yourselves!==

It seems to me like we need to nail down some official policy about what will be considered 4th-Wall-breaks and what won't, and then bring this page up to speed. For instance, I don't think [[huttah!]], [[monument]], or [[part-time job]] should be there, but I think [[geddup noise]] should, and [[Main Page 23]] ''definitely'' should. I didn't want to go in deleting and adding recklessly until some kind of official consensus is reached, though. --[[User:notstrongorbad|notstrongorbad]] 20:25, 2 Oct 2005 (UTC)
:Quick note: [[part-time job]] should be there. Strong Bad peers around the black before walking into frame. There's no corresponding object in his world for him to be looking around. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 06:25, 6 Oct 2005 (UTC)

==[[monument]]==
Is Homestar singing "The Thnikkaman" song at the end really a fourth wall break? Isn't it implied that the song that's triggered upon his entrance & exit (as well as calling and hangups) is heard by the characters and just a part of the Thnikkaman's story? --[[User:Come back, chocolates!|Come back, chocolates!]] 15:21 2 Nov 2005 (EST)
:It's the fact that he puts his head back into the frame to say it, indicating he had to get himself in view of the audience. {{User:Some HSR themed username/sig}} 20:24, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

==Why is it called the "Fourth" Wall?==
What happened to the first three walls? [[User:Ian911299|Ian911299]]
:You might check [[Wikipedia:Fourth wall|the Wikipedia article]] for that. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]

It's just a general expression, mainly. It's not just here. --{{User:Salty/sig}} 03:57, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
:Should we add an explination? {{User:Bubsty/sig}} 03:03, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

::No, that's what the Wikipedia article is for. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 03:06, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

To be blunt, the term "The fourth wall" originated from onstage performances, where the "fourth wall" in the "room" where the play is taking place is the one which the audience sees all the action through.

== Big Problem ==

*Strong Bad actually recieves real emails.
*He is appearantly aware that the video of his replies are seen by people on the web site.
*This implies that Strong Bad thinks that he has a [[Wikipedia:webcam|webcam]] that follows him around.
*Therefore, the times when Strong Bad addreses the viewer(s) are not breaking the fourth wall. Only references to "being in a cartoon" would be breaking the fourth wall.
*I have emailed Strong Bad about this issue, (see my [[User:Nerd42|user page]]) and I hope that the Bros Chaps will someday make a cool cartoon with my email in it. --{{User:Nerd42/sig}} 18:54, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
:And the big, previously unaddressed problem is...? - {{User:Joshua/sig}} 18:57, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
::The page currently says that every time the characters talk to the viewer, they are breaking the fourth wall. I was just trying to explain that this is not nessicarily the case. --{{User:Nerd42/sig}} 19:01, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
:::Do you even know what breaking the fourth wall is? Even if it's common, it's still a breakage. You better go to the Wikipedia article. - {{User:Joshua/sig}} 19:13, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
::::Yeah, I know what breaking the fourth wall is. I'm saying that if Strong Bad believes he has a (fictional) webcam following him around or some such thing then he's not breaking the fourth wall when he talks to the audience any more than Homestar does when he says "seriously folks they're the best". There are other explanations for many of the supposed fourth wall breaks. Not that there aren't fourth wall breaks in Homestar Runner, but there aren't nearly as many as this article indicates. -{{User:Nerd42/sig}} 19:45, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

==Cheat Comandos==
I think we should take off the one about "Buy our playsets and toys". It's supposed to be an ad. {{User:Dacheaatbot/sig}} 01:20, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
:I agree.--[[User:T3H CH3K7 888|T3H_CH3K7_888]] 21:10, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

== Note ==

According to my view, saying "It's been three emails in a row" isn't specifically breaking the fourth wall. Plus, I'm adding one about [[candy product]]. Strong Bad says "I'll surely have a candy product at '''the end of this email'''.

::I agree about the "three emails in a row". [[User:Retromaniac|Retromaniac]] 17:09, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

:::I second that, completely. It's not as if he doesn't know he's answering emails! You have to consider the fact that they know what they're doing inside the Homestar Universe - fourth wall breaks are when they acknowledge that there are people watching them (Strong Bad appears to have constant awareness of his "viewers," so I presume that he's aware of it within the HR Universe, but that's another argument...). Anyway, I agree. Whatever it was. ;) [[User:Michelle Mabelle|Michelle Mabelle]] 19 August 2006

== Thing about the "Island" Email ==

It states in the page that saying that the situation will be like "most cartoons" is somehow a reference to the fact that Homestarrunner.com is a website of cartoons. This is simply not the case; the events about which Strong Bad speaks happens in classic cartoons, specifically starring Bugs Bunny, etc. I vote for "Island"'s removal.
:Reference the [[#Toons! Games! Island|eighth discussion above]] this one. [[User:So makey outy|So makey outy]] 07:15, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

== senior prom ==

At the end of senior prom, after leaving his computer, Strong bad is seen on-screen slightly from the black, then jumps over behind it, like he knows that you can't see him there. Would that count? - [[User:Young Roy/Young Roy]]

You know what? You're right. I guess it should be included. Besides, Strong Bad does appear surprised when he sees the camera.

== keep cool ==

In "keep cool", Strong Bad emerges from the bottom of the screen and addresses to the viewers what Strong Badia is. In the article for [[keep cool]], it says that this is one of the most "abrupt" fourth wall breaks to date. But is it technically a fourth wall break anyway? Strong Bad might be talking to the viewers on this "webcam" I keep hearing so much about.

Should that part be kept or '''DELETED'''? [[User:Jimmy91|Jimmy91]] 15:15, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

== It's kind of like there's two fourth walls ==

A lot of even the complete 4th wall breaks couldn't technically be called such, depending on which 4th wall we're talking about. The characters have acknowledged that they are "cartoon characters," but in a ''universe'' which is nothing but cartoons, being a character in a "cartoon" is probably not that different from being a character in a "movie," in the real world. Do we count real commentaries as 4th wall breakages when an actor says "oh, yeah, in one take of this scene I pooped my pants," or whatever? No, because that's completely outside of the movie, and inside what the actor considers to be real life.

In other words, there's a difference between the "real" characters admitting they're actors in a bunch of cartoons, and them acknowledging that they are completely fictional. Some of the DVD commentaries seem to indicate that all the characters fully believe that they are "real," and that they're just actors. And some comments like "Little known fact: Homestar gained a hundred pounds and shrank two feet for this role" also strongly imply that the characters believe themselves to be real people. Thus, breaks of the "first" 4th wall are quite common, but the real 4th wall have yet to happen as far as I can recall.

A breach of the real 4th wall would require a character to distinguish between their cartoon world, and the "real" world, ''and'' to admit that their world is less real in comparison. Just the former doesn't cut it. So for instance, if a character were to complain about how poorly drawn they are, that ''could'' be considered a "real" 4th wall breach, depending on how it's argued. There are a bunch of unknowns.

Like whether or not they're aware of any differences between their cartoon universe, and the real world. They may think that all their viewers are cartoons, and thus operate under the same wacky laws of physics. Being poorly drawn may be as fundamental a quality as being ugly or transparent or whatever, to us.

Yes, this is looking into it way too much, but it's not like any of us have anything better to do.

:Well, let's first explore what the fourth wall really is. In theater, it is a dramatic device which involves the actor suddenly stopping relating to the box of the stage-world and begins addressing the audience, often with meta-commentary on the action, conditions, or other facts of the proceedings beyond the "facts of the scene". One could rightly call Strong Bad's description of what Strong Bad actually is (from [[keep cool]]) is a classic fourth wall break. A character referring to himself as a "cartoon character" should not limit the definition of a fourth wall break - in fact, it is in itself a fourth wall break!

:I think the qualification that the real world be better than the cartoon world is not necessary for a fourth wall break. A simple comment saying "I am in a cartoon you're watching, and here's some info that is not plot-related and is kinda behind-the-scenes" is enough. The fourth wall, after all, is the imaginary barrier between the action and the audience - betwen the play and the players, if you will - and no further qualification is needed.

:That said, I think some are too liberal with "fourth wall" attribution. In a Strong Bad Email, SB is so clearly playing to an audience that his actions and speech cannot be considered a break. However, Homestar's might be ("See you after the flashback" ([[flashback]]) might be considered a break if we assume he's addressing the viewer, not SB), or any other characters', and even his own might be if it transcends both the context of a toon and the context of a toon presented as a toon.

:Great topic for discussion. Please [[Special:Userlogin|sign up]] and continue these observations. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 00:13, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

::That's the classical definition of the 4th wall, but it seems like in modern usage, it refers to absolutely any instance where a character acts as if they know that they are part of a work of fiction (or that they, themselves, are entirely fictional); that's also the definition used on the page itself. One thing I was thinking of when I wrote the above, was the comic strip One Over Zero, which really explores the concept of a fourth wall from the perspective of a fictional character (among other things). http://www.undefined.net/1/0/

::It should probably be decided, then, exactly which definition of 4th wall is to be used for the article. -[[User:Arrkhal|Arrkhal]] 20:26, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

::I think the above is indeed a very interesting observation, but when I was writing my comment about the Yello Dello cartoon, I was thinking of another problem of essentially locating where the fourth wall is. In particular, there's the question of cartoons within cartoons. The mention of fourth wall breaks in Cheat Commandos cartoons are indeed fourth wall breaks, but in my opinion they only break the fourth wall of that cartoon, not the HomestarRunner.com website. I'm not sure whether this means it should be removed or even commented, I only note it as interesting. -[[User:Brucker|Brucker]]

:::Fairly similar is the problem of whether the commentaries for the Yello Dello and King of Town DVD should be mentioned. Commentaries are completely outside of the 4th wall of the tune itself as well, but within the 4th wall of the homestarrrunner.com website. Many are even worse offenders though, like the "more fan costumes" toon. That one can't even be considered a toon proper, so there really is no "internal" 4th wall to be broken. -[[User:Arrkhal|Arrkhal]] 20:26, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

== Yello Dello narrator ==

I notice that it lists the narrator referring to "this cartoon" as a fourth wall break. I'm finding myself doubting that. Can a narrator break the fourth wall? I think narrators are, for lack of a better way to phrase it, already on the other side of the fourth wall. A fourth wall breaking involving a narrator seems to me to have to involve characters in a cartoon/movie/play/whatever interacting with the narrator in an unnatural way. (For those who have seen the play "Into the Woods", there is a point in the play when the characters drag the narrator onto the stage and bring him into the plot. *That's* breaking the fourth wall.)

Actually, if people agree, it might call into question a number of other items on this page, such as characters speaking in DVD commentaries, but that's more of a grey area.-[[User:Brucker|Brucker]]

== Double Post ==

Why is First Time Here in this twice?

:It's not anymore. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 01:20, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

==Transfer==

<blockquote>
I'm sorry, I simply don't see the connection between the location and the fourth wall break. And all occurances are already covered on [[Fourth Wall Breaks]].{{User:Loafing/sig}} 21:58, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
:I agree. I don't see why this info should be organized in this way, on its own page. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 22:04, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
::I concur with loafing. . .normally I'm all for new articles which interest people, but I just don't get this one. . .if someone can tell me what they're aiming at, it may be helpful. . .but right now I think there's nothing here that isn't already covered in whole in Fourth Wall Breaks. - [[User:Ilko Skevüld's Teh C|Ilko Skevüld's Teh C]] 22:06, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
:::I think it's about places that wouldn't exist if it wasn't for the fourth wall breaking, like the [[error page]]. I could be wrong, though. {{User:Shwoo/sig}} 22:09, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
::::Nonetheless, that is notable with ease on [[Fourth Wall Breaks]] so no new page is needed to do that. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 22:13, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
:::::I created this page because of the reason Shwoo suggested. The idea was not for the Fourth Wall Break angle, but for pages that mention locations like these, but have no links to explain about those locations. I assumed that this would be a better solution than creating a page for each location, although it is arguable that a Real-World Reference on the page would probably be best. --{{User:Venusy/Sig}} 22:42, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
::::::Indeed. I argue that it should remain a Real-Word Reference, or something else similarly minimal. — {{User:Lapper/sig}} 22:59, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
</blockquote>

==Possible fourth wall break?==

In [[redesign]], strong bad says "no, pan up!"
[[User:The Big Eye|The Big Eye]] 16:28, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
:Directing the camera/viewer's eyes. Yeah. I could go for that. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]

== Literal caption ==

What's wrong with using the word "literally" in the image caption? --[[User:Trogga|Trogga]] 19:35, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
:It's unnecessary and too leading. You don't have to hit people over the head with the joke; leave room for subtlety. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 23:08, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
::I actually think it's more amusing that way. --[[User:Trogga|Trogga]] 23:13, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
:::I agree with Trogga: the caption without the "literally" tells us no more than the page title does. It's like captioning the pic for [[the chair]] with "the chair". {{User:Dr._Clash/sig}} 23:23, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
::::You mean the pic where the glass is being smashed and it says/said "Breaking the fourth wall, literally"? I think it's funnier with the "literally".--[[User:T3H CH3K7 888|T3H_CH3K7_888]] 21:24, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

== Actually Fourth Wall Breaks? ==

I just thought of something... It's not really breaking the fourth wall if, for example, The Cheat watches a Strong Bad Email. It may be a break that it seems to be a live feed, but the fact is, everyone ''knows'' they are in ''something'' that is being recorded. Addressing the camera (or audience) isn't really breaking the fourth wall either, because in the H*RU (not Homestar Runner University), as far as the characters are concerned, all of their exploits are being recorded for all to watch. While I agree that if they mention being in a ''cartoon'', that's breaking the fourth wall, but I think we should reconsider some of these alleged fourth wall breaks. --{{User:TotalSpaceshipGuy3/sig}} 10:35, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
:I agree. I've always thought that a forth wall break was only when it was written in the actual story for the characters to realize their world is fictitious. Commenting to the audience directly is just narration. If I was in charge of the H*R Wiki for a day, I'd boil this page down to just [[virus]] and toons that take place on the [[Error Page]] and [[Under Construction]] (which isn't even mentioned here now.) It might also include instances where characters interact with the black and the edge of the screen, but it definitely would not include narration or announcements like in [[keep cool]], or mentions of the "email show".

:I say delete the folowing:
<blockquote>
*[[DNA Evidence]]: Homestar does a voiceover for the "previously on homestarrunner.com" part.
*[[In Search of the Yello Dello]] and [[The King of Town DVD]]: The characters do commentaries and are in previews for these toon "DVDs", showing that they know they were cartoons. Strong Bad even calls one of the toons a cartoon several times.
*[[Sbemail 169 Deleted Scene]]: The DVD style, especially the commentary, imply that what we see is written and filmed.
*[[Halloween Potion-ma-jig]]: Throughout the [[Wikipedia:cold open|cold open]], Homestar directly addresses the viewer. When he comes upon Homsar, he remarks "Oh, great. The secret guy." and then comments on the choices that Homsar "gives" him. Then when he reaches the [[Cliffs#Creepy Cliff|Creepy Cliff]], he refers to it as a "cool new background." Finally, in the [[The Goblin|Goblin]] ending, Marzipan declares the end of the scene.
*[[Homestar Presents: Presents]]: Strong Bad informs the viewers that Homestar runs around frantically from [[Decemberween]] to New Year's; then, in the Easter egg, there is a poster on the wall that reads, "Left Out Characters' Support Group & Buffet."
*[[A Mother's Day Message]]: Homestar and Strong Bad directly talk to the viewers.
*[[A Holiday Greeting]]: the main characters wish the viewers "[[Wikipedia:Happy Holiday(s)|Happy Holidays]] from all of us to all of you".
*[[rough copy]]: Strong Bad comments that "we should star in our own action-packed credit sequence". An action-packed credit sequence follows.
*[[unnatural]]: Strong Bad talks to the camera as he performs a public service announcement.
*[[strong badathlon]]: [[Whatsit]] gets on the camera.
*[[4 branches]]: Strong Bad says that he'll have to get more specific to be able to cover stupid Homestar ground in one email.
*[[cliffhangers]]: Strong Bad tells the narrator to get to the resolution of the second cliffhanger.
*[[road trip]]: Strong Bad declares the end of the email.
*[[theme song]]: Besides the whole idea of a theme song for his show, Strong Bad says he gives the viewers "a new email song every freakin' week".
*[[keep cool]]: Strong Bad interrupts the email (he rises up from below the frame) to explain the difference between [[Strong Badia]] and the rest of [[Free Country, USA]]. He then offers a [[high five]]. He also says "Note to viewers" before everything else.
*[[candy product]]: Strong Bad says he'll have a candy product "by the end of this email".
*[[narrator]]: Strong Bad said that Strong Sad had made corrections in three emails in a row, the first two being [[secret identity]] and [[technology]].
*[[virus]]: The effects of [[the virus]] cause several fourth wall breakages.
*[[extra plug]]: As Strong Bad tells the others to hold their poses, he reminds them that "it's going to be a long week."
*[[old comics]]: Strong Bad says that he and Homestar were used in a comic that was printed at least 60 years ago. Since they are obviously not that old, he is pointing out the fact that he and Homestar are unaging cartoon characters.
*[[crying]]: Strong Bad states (or rather sings) that he "will not sing an email song this week."
*[[dangeresque 3]]: When Dangeresque 1 begins, The Cheat holds up a card that reads "not in 3D" (Dangeresque 3 was supposed to be in 3D).
*[[video games]]: Strong Bad turns and yells directly at the camera saying "'Cause you can't control me!"
*[[couch patch]] ''the first part of this one is acceptable'' ...and Homestar says he got confused about the title of the e-mail.
*[[mile]]: Strong Bad tells the viewers that he won't answer an email this week. The Cheat creates one, complete with a loading screen.
*[[stunt double]]: Strong Bad throws floppy disks at the viewers and then pretends to give and take them away.
*[[big white face]]: The Poopsmith pokes [[The Paper]] with his shovel.
*[[huttah!]]: [[The Cheat]] actually watches the email on his own computer.
*[[your friends]]: Strong Bad states that he's giving the fans what they want.
*[[little animal]]: Strong Bad talks about the people watching the e-mail at home.
*[[stand-up]]: Strong Sad tells the viewers to come with him.
*[[Teen Girl Squad Issue 8|Issue 8]]: Cheerleader sings "It's over! It's over! Strong Bad says it's over" at the end of the issue.
*[[strongbad_email.exe]] (all discs): Either Homestar or The Cheat walks by an FBI warning. Also, if the viewer doesn't make a selection in the Bonus Stuff menu, Strong Bad will enter and say "Time's up, choosy! I'm playing Trogdor!", and plays [[TROGDOR!]] for a little bit.
*[[strongbad_email.exe Disc One]]: Strong Bad tells [[The Paper]] to "show these morons what to do". Then, The Paper will tell the viewer to make a choice.
*[[strongbad_email.exe Disc Three]]: Homestar and Strong Bad wonder where the viewer is and Homestar suggests that perhaps they are making a sandwich. Strong Bad orders the viewer to bring them some cold ones.
*[[strongbad_email.exe Disc Four]]: The [[Lappy 486#Female Lappy 486|Female Lappy 486]] asks Strong Bad what's taking the viewers so long.
*[[strongbad_email.exe Disc Five]]: Strong Bad complains the viewer took so long the Lappy's screensaver turned on.
*[[Everything Else, Volume 1]]: Strong Bad says there are no emails on the DVD. Homestar tells the viewer to make a choice.
*[[Everything Else, Volume 2]]: Coach Z raps the FBI warning. Homestar complains that the viewer is taking too long deciding and tries to eat some of the menu items.
*[[Legal]]: Homestar walks by and comments on the boringness of the disclaimers.
*[[The Paper]]: The Paper always descends from the top of the screen, no matter where that may be at the time.
*[[Strong Sad#Character_Video_Transcript|Strong Sad]]: On Strong Sad's character page, he complains about making a "character page" and ... ''the second part of this is acceptable''
*[[First Time Here?]]: Sets the stage for fourth wall breakages, especially when Strong Bad says "I'm the real reason you're here" and asks people to "check him out".
</blockquote>

:Especially [[Sbemail 169 Deleted Scene]], since it's TBC that are showing us the scenes, not the actual characters. Also, especially ones like [[4 branches]], where Strong Bad doesn't even say "email ''show''", he just refers to the content of an email and the answer thereof.
:--{{User:Johnny Jupiter/sig}} 07:32, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
::Wikipedia says:
<blockquote>The term "breaking the fourth wall" in theatre generally means when a character is showing his/her awareness of the audience.</blockquote>
::So, technically, breaking the fourth wall ''is'' commenting to the audience directly. {{User:Mee/sig}} 10:33, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
:::But only when it's part of the story. Is it a fourth wall break on a variety show when someone like Bob Hope talks to the TV audience? The fact that the H*R Characters frequently refer to their "website" or the "email show" shows that it's likely the same. They're consciously putting on a show for people to watch, so when Strong Bad says something like "Alright, people. This week we got some cool crap for you guys," that's just him announcing. It's like in that instance, the fourth wall is the back wall of the auditorium, and the audience is part of what's going on. It only becomes a fourth wall break when a story begins where a suspension of disbelief requires the characters to assume the audience isn't there.
:::Maybe this is just my interpretation of fourth wall breaks, but it makes perfect sense to me.--{{User:Johnny Jupiter/sig}} 18:33, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
::::<blockquote>The term "breaking the fourth wall" in theatre generally means when a character is showing his/her awareness of the audience.</blockquote>

:::::It's important to emphasize a couple things from the definition above, (which appears in the wikipedia article), "'''in theatre'''", and "'''generally'''". "In theatre" is particular important, because the format and expectations of a theatrical production are very different from much of h*r, especially the e-mails. There is some room for ambiguity at times, depending on context and expectations. I would argue that expectations is a primary criteria, which can be quite subjective. If you're watching TV and a severe weather bulliten flashes across the bottom of the screen, and the people on TV react to it, is that a fourth wall break? Depends, if you are watching a newscast it certainly is not, but if characters in a sitcom do, it is.
:::::That said, many of the listings on this page are unambiguously ''not'' fourth wall breaks and should be removed without question. There are others that need some justification (from either side), whether they should stay or go. [[User:74.136.209.156|74.136.209.156]] 14:16, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
Please boldface any others you would like me to remove. (do not boldface any where a character talks to the viewers) [[User:Bad Bad Guy|Bad Bad Guy]] 02:57, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

== Sbemail 150?!? ==

Why doesn't it count when the Lappy tells us Strong Bad is understairs? [[User:Bad Bad Guy|Bad Bad Guy]] 18:58, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

== Cheat Commandos ==
I just thought of something. We now know that Cheat Commandos is a cartoon on TV, after seeing Crack Stuntman. There's a few fourth wall breakages in Cheat Commandos toons, but if they're implying that they're in a TV show rather than an internet cartoon, then would they really be listed here? If not, than is this page for all fourth wall breakages, including the fourth wall breakages that don't imply that they're on the internet? {{User:Spyrox6/sig}}
:Hmm. I always assumed that Cheat Commandos was a TV cartoon in the H*R universe; are you referring to the recent addition of Crack Stuntman? Anyway, good point. They still break the fourth wall, but, (and I don't know how well I'm about to describe this), they're breaking the 4th wall with regard to the H*R universe, while H*R, Strong Bad, etc. themselves would be breaking the 4th wall with regard to ''our'' universe. I say we keep them, but maybe try to specify the difference, or add a note saying something like "Note: The Cheat Commandos are a TV show existing within the Homestar Runner universe." (Maybe that's not even needed. I dunno.) {{User:4kai2lyn6/sig}} 23:39, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
:Since we currently list with no differentiation several instances of Strong Bad breaking the fourth wall of his "email show" while not actually breaking the fourth wall of the H*R Universe, I don't see any reason to treat the Commando's show-within-a-cartoon any differently.{{User:Bryanc/sig}} 00:14, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
::Also, when they say mentioning playsets and toys, they are just a long commercial, like gi joe, so that isn't breaking the fourth wall either.-Strongor_Rador 7493
:::But how often do GI Joe characters refer to their encounters as "episodes", their headquarters as a "Headquarters playset", or whatever? --{{User:Jay/sig}} 21:14, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

== [[One Two]]: Just might be a Homsar oddity but does his thing count? ==

--[[User:Addict 2006|Addict]] [[User talk:Addict 2006|2006]] 13:43, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
:If you're referring to Strong Bad making a Homsar solo appear I was going to ask about that as well. [[User:Bad Bad Guy|Bad Bad Guy]] 04:29, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

== Fourth Wall Breaks by Fans ==
It is currently mentioned on [[Talk:the paper#Continuity reference|the paper Talk Page]] that I may have broken the "Fourth Wall", should this be referenced or not? {{user:Thewi2kbug/sig}} 03:57, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
:Hmm, I think we normally don't say stuff about what fans do (i.e., when someone named Dan sends in an email, it's not part of the running gag [[Dan]]. However, it might be notable that TBC/Strong Bad selected your email, thus proving that they/he knows that fans have more knowledge than they could logically have. Another words, if Strong Bad wasn't in a cartoon, he would have said, "What makes you think the Paper's going to leave?" or after the Paper quit, "Hey! How did you know that??" Another words, I hope that makes sense and isn't just more of my deranged ramblings. [[User:So makey outy|So makey outy]] 04:39, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
:: the section in yellow is the key break...
<blockquote class="lappy email"><div>
subject: The Paper...</div>
Dear Strongbad, 
Is the Paper really quitting? Could you tell me the best 
moment that you had with the paper? 
Thank You 
Kyle Williams 
North Ogden, Utah 
 
 
] No, The Paper's not quitting, Kyle, you total Ogdenite. Ol' Papes is at the top of his game, the prime of his time, the cusp of his stuff!
</blockquote>

then the paper falls on him, therefore he was completely oblivious to the fact [[The Paper]] was quitting. Also at the end of [[more armies]], [[The Paper]] was paper jammed, but it is strongly assumed that it was just a [[The Paper]] quirk. {{user:Thewi2kbug/sig}} 05:05, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

To be fair, after The Paper came down in more armies, Strong Bad states, "That's a bad sign." In addition, I know that quite a few H*R fans, including myself, were counting down the "Dreaded SBemail #173" and took the paper's jam as an ominous omen. I haven't heard anyone except you question this. Plus, wouldn't the "prophecy" (I have nothing better to call it) count as a Fourth Wall Break? {{User:waferman/sig}} 18:05, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

== reverse chronological order ==

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Isn't the convention for every other list on the wiki most recent last? Why reversed on this page? {{User:GreenHelmet/sig}} 00:14, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
:I too have been wondering this for quite some time. {{User:DeFender1031/sig}} 00:22, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
::The best person to ask would be Invisible Robot Fish, as he's the one who [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=Fourth_Wall_Breaks&direction=next&oldid=194801 initially added the message] to the sections when it went through serious revision. (Hit the "edit" tab to actually see them added.) --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]] 04:25, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
:::Well, seeing no objection, and having noticed other things that don't quite fit with our usual page layouts, i'm gonna be bold and say that i'll start on it tomorrow, unless someone voices an objection by then. {{User:DeFender1031/sig}} 01:00, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

== Most Fourth Wall breakages ==

Which of the whole Homestar website has the most fourth wall breakages? If you ask me, virus has the most wall breakages of them all. Considering it happens throughout the whole cartoon. --[[User:Pretztailfan95|Pretztailfan95]] 20:16, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
:That;s more of an opinion rather than something we could actually use in the article. {{User:Acam30/sig}} 20:18, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
::There, I fixed it. This would make a good Fun Fact...if that's even possible for this article...--[[User:Pretztailfan95|Pretztailfan95]] 21:23, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
:::It still seems hardly relevant. {{User:DeFender1031/sig}} 23:08, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
::::Well then why would they bother making a Fun Facts section for all the sbemails and other cartoons? Explain that to me. I think they should put which one has the most fourth wall breakages as a Fun Fact. End of discussion. --[[User:Pretztailfan95|Pretztailfan95]] 00:31, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
:::::If you want us to explain to you, you probably shouldn't end the discussion... xD (Sorry, not trying to be a pain, but it was hard to resist.) {{User:Acam30/sig}} 01:00, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
::::::Fine, explain away, but I still think it should be put up as a fun fact... --[[User:Pretztailfan95|Pretztailfan95]] 01:19, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

== rated ==

I'm not sure whether this could be considered a 4th wall break or not:
In the Easter Egg for the sbemail [[rated]], where the King Of Town is watching Strong Bad's email show on a TV (commenting on the eating puppies for breakfast.)
It acknowledges that he has a show that other people watch... but is that breaking the fourth wall, or just bending it?
:The interesting thing, I think, in this case is that he's watching it on a TV. Now, we've disincluded things where Strong Bad's been watched before ([[huttah!]]), because we seem to base this on a premise that Strong Bad believes he is followed by some sort of webcam or something. In this case, though, he's being watched not on a computer, but on a TV. It's different than huttah!.
:I'm not sure if this lends itself more one way or another towards fourth wall breaks, but I felt it was worth remarking on and considering. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]] 06:21, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

==Categorization==
Shouldn't this article be categorized under Running Gags or Running Themes?

Talk:Fourth Wall Breaks

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This answers my question, I guess we are going to be tracking all 4th wall breaks. [[User:Drhaggis|<nowiki></nowiki>]]- [[User:Drhaggis|Dr Haggis]] - [[User talk: Drhaggis|Talk]] 16:36, 29 Nov 2004 (MST)

Can we at least be grammatical and call this something like "Fourth Wall Violations"?

I was going for [The] Fourth Wall Breaks, actually, as in "Fourth Wall Breaks! Details at 11." But if you think it's confusing, by all means change it. I'm just not going to go through the effort. :) --[[User:Vannav|Vannav]]

I think this should at the very least be separated into two categories: "Audience Acknowledgement" in which the characters talk about the audience, and "Total Breakage", which consists of e-mails like "virus" that make fun of them being on a website. It's important to realize that somebody could theoretically make a real website in which they read e-mails sent in to them, so acknowledgement of an audience is not necessarily the same as acknowledgement of "cartoondom". So audience acknowledgement might not even qualify. --Tom H.

I argee, since "audience acknowledgement" could refer to all the emails. "Fourth Wall Breaks" should be limited to "Total Breakage".--[[User:Hysterical Woman|Hysterical Woman]] 15:33, 30 Nov 2004 (MST)

I completely disagree with you. First off... all... a "Total Breakage" isn't really a fourth wall break, because the audience isn't addressed. It doesn't make a difference if it's possible or not, a fourth wall break is simply when the audience is addressed in a play, movie, T.V. show, cartoon, ect. So, if someone made this page only "Total Breakages", the page would have true breaks. I think that this page should only have "Audience Acknowledgements" and a new page with the "Total Breaks". But with a different name.-- [[User:Slowbar|Slowbar]]

."Total breakage"... don't know what I was thinking with that one. As with "cartoondom." --Tom H. (I actually signed up for the wiki but forgot my username.)

I don't think this page is necessary. --[[User:Upsilon|Upsilon]]

For Homestar Runner dot com, breaking the fourth wall is the rule rather than the exception. Except during the main toons (and even at times during them) the characters all seem to be fairly aware of an audience. Many references are made to the site, to sending Strong Bad emails, and there are few instances of characters being concerned that others are talking to the audience. Therefore, I don't think this page should exist. --[[User:Tim333|Tim333]]

Hey: Is there a reason this page has initial caps on all the words? It's not the title of a 'toon. Wikipedia caps the first letter of the ''first'' word of all articles without exception; our policy seems to be to do the same except on sbemails. (Perhaps page-naming conventions could be added to [[HRWiki:Standards]]? —[[User:AbdiViklas|AbdiViklas]] 02:52, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

== Are these really fourth-wall breaks? ==

To quote Wikipedia:

"The term breaking the fourth wall is used in film, theater, television, and literary works; it refers to a character directly addressing an audience, or actively acknowledging (through breaking character or through dialogue) that the characters and action going on is not real."

This page should not exist if one's definition of fourth wall breakage includes audience awareness through participation. It should exist (in some form or another) if one only counts the complete breakages (i.e. references to "the black").

In my opinion, this should only list total breakages. However, just implying that you're essentially watching a cartoon is NOT breakage in my opinion (they never say it really IS fake, just that it's not a live broadcast), so to me, only [[flashback]] (Homestar says he's usually behind the black) and [[virus]] (if you need THAT one explained, you need to go watch it) is breakage.

I'll gladly detail WHY I don't think the rest are breakages if anyone requests it for a particular e-mail. --[[User:83.88.139.108|83.88.139.108]] 13:21, 6 Dec 2004 (MST)

* I concur. If we refer to every time Strong Bad recognizes he's being watched in a Strong Bad e-mail, we have to list every single last Strong-Bad e-mail!!! --[[User:Jay|Jay]] 11:17, 7 Dec 2004 (MST)

* One could assume he's doing a Jennycam style live webcam show. Featuring him. Answering emails.
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*That seems to be the most likely scenario. -[[User:Clever Ben|Clever Ben]]

You know, this is a very interesting question, and I'm happy to see so many people debating it. As a major in film and a minor in drama, however, I can certainly attest to the fact that "breaking the fourth wall" is an important concept to at least TRY to point out. For folks in the trade and in the scholarly-studies, it basically translates to "acknowledging the 'real' world outside of the filmworld or playworld." In film, this rule is hardly ever broken -- actors are rarely directed to look directly into the camera. 99% of the time, they're often looking just to the side of it. When an actor DOES directly address the audience, because breaking the rule is SO strange and SO "not done," it's usually used for kooky humor, as in ''Ferris Bueller's Day Off'', or for jarring psychological effect, as in ''Psycho''. H*R being a cartoon only makes this page more interesting, because it's taking a pretty intellectual concept and putting it to use for the masses. Voila. -- [[User: Queenie-C|Queenie-C]]

:I say point out that the whole concept of SBEmails points out that Strong Bad knows he's on a cartoon, and then delete all the boring ones where he mentions the viewers and stuff. The only exceptions should be the really interesting ones which go beyond simple dialogue, like The Cheat watching an Email on his computer. Besides that, I think all the other mentionings of fourth wall breakage are fine. --[[User:Joshua|Joshua]] 18:01, 17 Mar 2005 (MST)

::I may have a way out of all this: Strong Bad is running a small operation ''inside'' the homestar-verse for the benefit of those within it. That is to say, Strong Bad is an internet star inside the world of Homestar and Friends, which is why The Cheat can watch on his computer (or Strong Bad do the show ''from'' The Cheat's computer). In this context, we are not watching Strong Bad answer email for our benefit, but for those inside; we just get to watch, explaining why we can follow Strong Bad around when he leaves his computer. -- [[User:TheRealZajac|The Real Zajac]] 10:08, 11 May 2005 (PDT)

:::According to [http://tvtropes.org TVTropes.org], a wiki devoted to things like this, this type of thing is called a [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FourthWallMailSlot Fourth Wall Mail Slot]. The fourth wall isn't broken, it just has a convenient prefabricated hole in it to let in emails.

:::Note that I would still mention that at least some people would refer to this a breaking the fourth wall, but, as Joshua says, let's only do it once, on [[Strong Bad Emails]]. [[User:Trlkly|Trlkly]] 13:21, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

::::Hey Trlkly, thanks for mentioning that site, I think I'll enjoy perusing it. I wanted to point out that this particular thread of discussion is over 3 years old. When you see that, you should strongly consider whether it's worthwhile to resurrect such an old discussion thread, or if maybe there's some more recent relevant chatter, or if maybe a a new topic is warranted. There's a lot more in depth discussion of fourth walls in the body of work below that gets more detailed than this initial thread from 3 years ago. That said, this article has been tagged for clean up for a long time, and it's good to not let the discussion die — and bring fresh viewpoints into it. I do appreciate the link you gave, and a few of the related Tropes may be very helpful in categorizing this phenomena in this knowledge base. There seems to be a bit of the "No Fourth Wall" idea going on in some contexts in the H*R world, but it depends on the context, nature of the specific toon, and of course, where one assumes the wall to be. {{User:GreenHelmet/sig}} 14:08, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

I don't know if [[2 years]] neccessarily breaks the fourth wall, since [[Homestar's Website]] is not www.homestarrunner.com. --[[User:GregHosting|GregHosting]] 06:43, 14 May 2005 (UTC)

== Closed STUFF ==

These were on the [[HRWiki:STUFF|STUFF]] page and declined. If you wish to contest these, leave a note here, but don't allow it to be confused with any of the original votes.

===Strong Bad wants a cartoon (Declined)===
In the King of Town DVD comentary, Strong Bad complains about the King of Town having his own cartoon while he dosen't have his own.
*'''Decline.''' The fact that he's doing a commentary seems to point he knows they have cartoons.--[[User:Joshua|Joshua]] 18:17, 17 Mar 2005 (MST)
**'''Second'''. --[[User:Eujensc|Eujensc]] 05:35, 18 Mar 2005 (MST)
*'''Decline.''' What is it with these obvious Fun Facts showing up all over the place? This one ought to be in the transcript, if it isn't already... which means this one doesn't even warrant voting. --[[User:TheEggman|TheEggman]] 20:30, 17 Mar 2005 (MST)
*I'm the one who STUFF'd this, and it was mentioned in [[Fourth Wall Breaks]], not [[The King of Town DVD]]. This fact is supposed to apply to a fourth wall breakage. --[[User:Joshua|Joshua]] 07:19, 18 Mar 2005 (MST)
**And it still deserves a '''Decline,''' because it's a pointless fun fact. [[User:ISlayedTheKerrek|ISlayedTheKerrek]] 10:53, 18 Mar 2005 (MST)
*'''Decline with a vengence''' The entire idea of the characters doing commentaries is a fourth wall breaking excercise. [[User:Donny vs Universe|Donny vs Universe]]
*'''Decline''' I'm ready to "decline" the entire idea of logging "fourth wall breaks"... Strong Bad is constantly making it clear that he knows he's performing for an audience (e.g. "So, until next week, keep sending me those emails...") - Dingell
*'''Decline''' But then, I think the whole "Fourth Wall Breaks" page is a waste of webspace for reasons I think are probably mentioned on its Talk page. --[[User:Jay|Jay]] 03:21, 5 Apr 2005 (MDT)
**I don't think its bad, it just needs a clean up... badly. --[[User:Trogga|Trogga]] 14:50, 5 Apr 2005 (MDT)
*'''DECLINED!''' How about Homestar saying "What happened to my website?" in [[The System is Down]] or the fact that Strong Bad getting 400,000+ viruses caused everything in the Homestar Runner world to go haywire in [[virus]]? I'm sure there are several other instances of fourth wall breaking too. Comedies tend to do that a lot. -[[User:Upset_Your_Balance|Upset_Your_Balance]]

===Hello, Viewers! (Declined)===
In [insert Strong Bad Email here], Strong Bad says [insert speech here], which hints that he knows he's being watched by an audience.
*'''Decline.''' There are too many of these out there, and they're almost all boring. --[[User:Joshua|Joshua]] 05:21, 24 Mar 2005 (MST)
*'''Strong Decline.''' I agree. This fun fact can not be placed anywhere. Could it be that he is so self-esteemed that he believes that he will have an audience for anything he does? [[User: Pop_tire|Pop_tire]] 24 Mar 2005
*'''Decline''' See vote for "Strong Bad wants a cartoon" --[[User:Jay|Jay]] 03:21, 5 Apr 2005 (MDT)
*'''DECLINE''' In addition to the poor spelling, this fact doesn't even say anything! "[insert Strong Bad Email here]"??? Is this some kind of a joke?
**'''Second''' this unsigned vote. So whoever, sign your vote next time. [[User:Fizz123|Fizz123, who is not logged in]]
** You don't get it. This is a general fact - the Fourth Wall page used to have a LOT of Fun Facts in this style, so this is a vote on ALL the facts of this sort. Though I do agree with your vote, I don't with your reasoning. --[[User:Jay|Jay]] 14:46, 10 Apr 2005 (MDT)

==Toons! Games! Island==
The first break on [[island]] is subtle, but it's there. Strong Bad doesn't say, "I suspect it would be like most '''cartoons'''," but rather, "I suspect it would be like '''most''' cartoons." Why would Strong Bad suggest it as an appropriate analogy? Because he himself is a cartoon. Later, when Homestar makes the effects from the [[Main Page 3]] happen, it too is obviously a break. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 21:31, 22 Jul 2005 (UTC)

:Err, maybe if Strong Bad said "I suspect it would be like '''other''' cartoons," I'll believe you. And how does Homestar break the fourth wall? Are the [[Main Pages]] breaks? --[[User:Trogga|TROGGA!]] 00:31, 23 Jul 2005 (UTC)

::Strong Bad's emphasis is the key. Let's put it in different terms:
:::*Consider the human brain, which is like a personal computer but is not one. In describing it, one could say: "The human brain is like most '''computers.''' It takes in information, processes it, and signals the body to respond." Note that the emphasis in the first sentence is on the ''last'' word.
:::*Now consider my desktop computer. If someone asked me to describe it, I could say: "Well, it's like '''most''' personal computers; it's got a monitor and a keyboard and a mouse and it lets me run programs and access the Internet." Notice that "''most other''" is strongly implied by stressing the word "most".
::Strong Bad's emphasis in the sentence, again while subtle, matches the ''second'' example here.<div style="text-indent:1.5em">As for Homestar's wall break, this one is more clear-cut. Even if you take the stance that homestarrunner.com exists in their world and that Homestar posed for each of the main pages, he ''still'' shouldn't be able to make the effects occur at will. If he could, why wouldn't he just summon the ship to come pick them up off the island? Even if he didn't want to, surely Strong Bad would make him. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 01:40, 23 Jul 2005 (UTC)</div>
:::Correction, Homestar would be too dimwitted and would probably mess up and make the ship sink the island lol. But it is a fourth wall break, because for us, you just scroll on the buttons and that stuff happens on the main page, but in the cartoons, whenever Homestar says "email", "game(s)", and such, none of that happens, even if it were on purpose, assuming that he has to be in a main page environment for it to happen like on the island.

==Homestar's Theme==
Would Homestar singing his theme song be a fourth wall break? {{User:Rogue Leader/sig}}
:Hm, I don't think so. I can make up a theme song describing myself without implying I'm a cartoon.--[[User:T3H CH3K7 888|T3H_CH3K7_888]] 21:08, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

==Dicuss Amongst Yourselves!==

It seems to me like we need to nail down some official policy about what will be considered 4th-Wall-breaks and what won't, and then bring this page up to speed. For instance, I don't think [[huttah!]], [[monument]], or [[part-time job]] should be there, but I think [[geddup noise]] should, and [[Main Page 23]] ''definitely'' should. I didn't want to go in deleting and adding recklessly until some kind of official consensus is reached, though. --[[User:notstrongorbad|notstrongorbad]] 20:25, 2 Oct 2005 (UTC)
:Quick note: [[part-time job]] should be there. Strong Bad peers around the black before walking into frame. There's no corresponding object in his world for him to be looking around. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 06:25, 6 Oct 2005 (UTC)

==[[monument]]==
Is Homestar singing "The Thnikkaman" song at the end really a fourth wall break? Isn't it implied that the song that's triggered upon his entrance & exit (as well as calling and hangups) is heard by the characters and just a part of the Thnikkaman's story? --[[User:Come back, chocolates!|Come back, chocolates!]] 15:21 2 Nov 2005 (EST)
:It's the fact that he puts his head back into the frame to say it, indicating he had to get himself in view of the audience. {{User:Some HSR themed username/sig}} 20:24, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

==Why is it called the "Fourth" Wall?==
What happened to the first three walls? [[User:Ian911299|Ian911299]]
:You might check [[Wikipedia:Fourth wall|the Wikipedia article]] for that. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]

It's just a general expression, mainly. It's not just here. --{{User:Salty/sig}} 03:57, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
:Should we add an explination? {{User:Bubsty/sig}} 03:03, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

::No, that's what the Wikipedia article is for. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 03:06, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

To be blunt, the term "The fourth wall" originated from onstage performances, where the "fourth wall" in the "room" where the play is taking place is the one which the audience sees all the action through.

== Big Problem ==

*Strong Bad actually recieves real emails.
*He is appearantly aware that the video of his replies are seen by people on the web site.
*This implies that Strong Bad thinks that he has a [[Wikipedia:webcam|webcam]] that follows him around.
*Therefore, the times when Strong Bad addreses the viewer(s) are not breaking the fourth wall. Only references to "being in a cartoon" would be breaking the fourth wall.
*I have emailed Strong Bad about this issue, (see my [[User:Nerd42|user page]]) and I hope that the Bros Chaps will someday make a cool cartoon with my email in it. --{{User:Nerd42/sig}} 18:54, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
:And the big, previously unaddressed problem is...? - {{User:Joshua/sig}} 18:57, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
::The page currently says that every time the characters talk to the viewer, they are breaking the fourth wall. I was just trying to explain that this is not nessicarily the case. --{{User:Nerd42/sig}} 19:01, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
:::Do you even know what breaking the fourth wall is? Even if it's common, it's still a breakage. You better go to the Wikipedia article. - {{User:Joshua/sig}} 19:13, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
::::Yeah, I know what breaking the fourth wall is. I'm saying that if Strong Bad believes he has a (fictional) webcam following him around or some such thing then he's not breaking the fourth wall when he talks to the audience any more than Homestar does when he says "seriously folks they're the best". There are other explanations for many of the supposed fourth wall breaks. Not that there aren't fourth wall breaks in Homestar Runner, but there aren't nearly as many as this article indicates. -{{User:Nerd42/sig}} 19:45, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

==Cheat Comandos==
I think we should take off the one about "Buy our playsets and toys". It's supposed to be an ad. {{User:Dacheaatbot/sig}} 01:20, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
:I agree.--[[User:T3H CH3K7 888|T3H_CH3K7_888]] 21:10, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

== Note ==

According to my view, saying "It's been three emails in a row" isn't specifically breaking the fourth wall. Plus, I'm adding one about [[candy product]]. Strong Bad says "I'll surely have a candy product at '''the end of this email'''.

::I agree about the "three emails in a row". [[User:Retromaniac|Retromaniac]] 17:09, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

:::I second that, completely. It's not as if he doesn't know he's answering emails! You have to consider the fact that they know what they're doing inside the Homestar Universe - fourth wall breaks are when they acknowledge that there are people watching them (Strong Bad appears to have constant awareness of his "viewers," so I presume that he's aware of it within the HR Universe, but that's another argument...). Anyway, I agree. Whatever it was. ;) [[User:Michelle Mabelle|Michelle Mabelle]] 19 August 2006

== Thing about the "Island" Email ==

It states in the page that saying that the situation will be like "most cartoons" is somehow a reference to the fact that Homestarrunner.com is a website of cartoons. This is simply not the case; the events about which Strong Bad speaks happens in classic cartoons, specifically starring Bugs Bunny, etc. I vote for "Island"'s removal.
:Reference the [[#Toons! Games! Island|eighth discussion above]] this one. [[User:So makey outy|So makey outy]] 07:15, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

== senior prom ==

At the end of senior prom, after leaving his computer, Strong bad is seen on-screen slightly from the black, then jumps over behind it, like he knows that you can't see him there. Would that count? - [[User:Young Roy/Young Roy]]

You know what? You're right. I guess it should be included. Besides, Strong Bad does appear surprised when he sees the camera.

== keep cool ==

In "keep cool", Strong Bad emerges from the bottom of the screen and addresses to the viewers what Strong Badia is. In the article for [[keep cool]], it says that this is one of the most "abrupt" fourth wall breaks to date. But is it technically a fourth wall break anyway? Strong Bad might be talking to the viewers on this "webcam" I keep hearing so much about.

Should that part be kept or '''DELETED'''? [[User:Jimmy91|Jimmy91]] 15:15, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

== It's kind of like there's two fourth walls ==

A lot of even the complete 4th wall breaks couldn't technically be called such, depending on which 4th wall we're talking about. The characters have acknowledged that they are "cartoon characters," but in a ''universe'' which is nothing but cartoons, being a character in a "cartoon" is probably not that different from being a character in a "movie," in the real world. Do we count real commentaries as 4th wall breakages when an actor says "oh, yeah, in one take of this scene I pooped my pants," or whatever? No, because that's completely outside of the movie, and inside what the actor considers to be real life.

In other words, there's a difference between the "real" characters admitting they're actors in a bunch of cartoons, and them acknowledging that they are completely fictional. Some of the DVD commentaries seem to indicate that all the characters fully believe that they are "real," and that they're just actors. And some comments like "Little known fact: Homestar gained a hundred pounds and shrank two feet for this role" also strongly imply that the characters believe themselves to be real people. Thus, breaks of the "first" 4th wall are quite common, but the real 4th wall have yet to happen as far as I can recall.

A breach of the real 4th wall would require a character to distinguish between their cartoon world, and the "real" world, ''and'' to admit that their world is less real in comparison. Just the former doesn't cut it. So for instance, if a character were to complain about how poorly drawn they are, that ''could'' be considered a "real" 4th wall breach, depending on how it's argued. There are a bunch of unknowns.

Like whether or not they're aware of any differences between their cartoon universe, and the real world. They may think that all their viewers are cartoons, and thus operate under the same wacky laws of physics. Being poorly drawn may be as fundamental a quality as being ugly or transparent or whatever, to us.

Yes, this is looking into it way too much, but it's not like any of us have anything better to do.

:Well, let's first explore what the fourth wall really is. In theater, it is a dramatic device which involves the actor suddenly stopping relating to the box of the stage-world and begins addressing the audience, often with meta-commentary on the action, conditions, or other facts of the proceedings beyond the "facts of the scene". One could rightly call Strong Bad's description of what Strong Bad actually is (from [[keep cool]]) is a classic fourth wall break. A character referring to himself as a "cartoon character" should not limit the definition of a fourth wall break - in fact, it is in itself a fourth wall break!

:I think the qualification that the real world be better than the cartoon world is not necessary for a fourth wall break. A simple comment saying "I am in a cartoon you're watching, and here's some info that is not plot-related and is kinda behind-the-scenes" is enough. The fourth wall, after all, is the imaginary barrier between the action and the audience - betwen the play and the players, if you will - and no further qualification is needed.

:That said, I think some are too liberal with "fourth wall" attribution. In a Strong Bad Email, SB is so clearly playing to an audience that his actions and speech cannot be considered a break. However, Homestar's might be ("See you after the flashback" ([[flashback]]) might be considered a break if we assume he's addressing the viewer, not SB), or any other characters', and even his own might be if it transcends both the context of a toon and the context of a toon presented as a toon.

:Great topic for discussion. Please [[Special:Userlogin|sign up]] and continue these observations. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 00:13, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

::That's the classical definition of the 4th wall, but it seems like in modern usage, it refers to absolutely any instance where a character acts as if they know that they are part of a work of fiction (or that they, themselves, are entirely fictional); that's also the definition used on the page itself. One thing I was thinking of when I wrote the above, was the comic strip One Over Zero, which really explores the concept of a fourth wall from the perspective of a fictional character (among other things). http://www.undefined.net/1/0/

::It should probably be decided, then, exactly which definition of 4th wall is to be used for the article. -[[User:Arrkhal|Arrkhal]] 20:26, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

::I think the above is indeed a very interesting observation, but when I was writing my comment about the Yello Dello cartoon, I was thinking of another problem of essentially locating where the fourth wall is. In particular, there's the question of cartoons within cartoons. The mention of fourth wall breaks in Cheat Commandos cartoons are indeed fourth wall breaks, but in my opinion they only break the fourth wall of that cartoon, not the HomestarRunner.com website. I'm not sure whether this means it should be removed or even commented, I only note it as interesting. -[[User:Brucker|Brucker]]

:::Fairly similar is the problem of whether the commentaries for the Yello Dello and King of Town DVD should be mentioned. Commentaries are completely outside of the 4th wall of the tune itself as well, but within the 4th wall of the homestarrrunner.com website. Many are even worse offenders though, like the "more fan costumes" toon. That one can't even be considered a toon proper, so there really is no "internal" 4th wall to be broken. -[[User:Arrkhal|Arrkhal]] 20:26, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

== Yello Dello narrator ==

I notice that it lists the narrator referring to "this cartoon" as a fourth wall break. I'm finding myself doubting that. Can a narrator break the fourth wall? I think narrators are, for lack of a better way to phrase it, already on the other side of the fourth wall. A fourth wall breaking involving a narrator seems to me to have to involve characters in a cartoon/movie/play/whatever interacting with the narrator in an unnatural way. (For those who have seen the play "Into the Woods", there is a point in the play when the characters drag the narrator onto the stage and bring him into the plot. *That's* breaking the fourth wall.)

Actually, if people agree, it might call into question a number of other items on this page, such as characters speaking in DVD commentaries, but that's more of a grey area.-[[User:Brucker|Brucker]]

== Double Post ==

Why is First Time Here in this twice?

:It's not anymore. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 01:20, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

==Transfer==

<blockquote>
I'm sorry, I simply don't see the connection between the location and the fourth wall break. And all occurances are already covered on [[Fourth Wall Breaks]].{{User:Loafing/sig}} 21:58, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
:I agree. I don't see why this info should be organized in this way, on its own page. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 22:04, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
::I concur with loafing. . .normally I'm all for new articles which interest people, but I just don't get this one. . .if someone can tell me what they're aiming at, it may be helpful. . .but right now I think there's nothing here that isn't already covered in whole in Fourth Wall Breaks. - [[User:Ilko Skevüld's Teh C|Ilko Skevüld's Teh C]] 22:06, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
:::I think it's about places that wouldn't exist if it wasn't for the fourth wall breaking, like the [[error page]]. I could be wrong, though. {{User:Shwoo/sig}} 22:09, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
::::Nonetheless, that is notable with ease on [[Fourth Wall Breaks]] so no new page is needed to do that. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 22:13, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
:::::I created this page because of the reason Shwoo suggested. The idea was not for the Fourth Wall Break angle, but for pages that mention locations like these, but have no links to explain about those locations. I assumed that this would be a better solution than creating a page for each location, although it is arguable that a Real-World Reference on the page would probably be best. --{{User:Venusy/Sig}} 22:42, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
::::::Indeed. I argue that it should remain a Real-Word Reference, or something else similarly minimal. — {{User:Lapper/sig}} 22:59, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
</blockquote>

==Possible fourth wall break?==

In [[redesign]], strong bad says "no, pan up!"
[[User:The Big Eye|The Big Eye]] 16:28, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
:Directing the camera/viewer's eyes. Yeah. I could go for that. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]

== Literal caption ==

What's wrong with using the word "literally" in the image caption? --[[User:Trogga|Trogga]] 19:35, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
:It's unnecessary and too leading. You don't have to hit people over the head with the joke; leave room for subtlety. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 23:08, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
::I actually think it's more amusing that way. --[[User:Trogga|Trogga]] 23:13, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
:::I agree with Trogga: the caption without the "literally" tells us no more than the page title does. It's like captioning the pic for [[the chair]] with "the chair". {{User:Dr._Clash/sig}} 23:23, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
::::You mean the pic where the glass is being smashed and it says/said "Breaking the fourth wall, literally"? I think it's funnier with the "literally".--[[User:T3H CH3K7 888|T3H_CH3K7_888]] 21:24, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

== Actually Fourth Wall Breaks? ==

I just thought of something... It's not really breaking the fourth wall if, for example, The Cheat watches a Strong Bad Email. It may be a break that it seems to be a live feed, but the fact is, everyone ''knows'' they are in ''something'' that is being recorded. Addressing the camera (or audience) isn't really breaking the fourth wall either, because in the H*RU (not Homestar Runner University), as far as the characters are concerned, all of their exploits are being recorded for all to watch. While I agree that if they mention being in a ''cartoon'', that's breaking the fourth wall, but I think we should reconsider some of these alleged fourth wall breaks. --{{User:TotalSpaceshipGuy3/sig}} 10:35, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
:I agree. I've always thought that a forth wall break was only when it was written in the actual story for the characters to realize their world is fictitious. Commenting to the audience directly is just narration. If I was in charge of the H*R Wiki for a day, I'd boil this page down to just [[virus]] and toons that take place on the [[Error Page]] and [[Under Construction]] (which isn't even mentioned here now.) It might also include instances where characters interact with the black and the edge of the screen, but it definitely would not include narration or announcements like in [[keep cool]], or mentions of the "email show".

:I say delete the folowing:
<blockquote>
*[[DNA Evidence]]: Homestar does a voiceover for the "previously on homestarrunner.com" part.
*[[In Search of the Yello Dello]] and [[The King of Town DVD]]: The characters do commentaries and are in previews for these toon "DVDs", showing that they know they were cartoons. Strong Bad even calls one of the toons a cartoon several times.
*[[Sbemail 169 Deleted Scene]]: The DVD style, especially the commentary, imply that what we see is written and filmed.
*[[Halloween Potion-ma-jig]]: Throughout the [[Wikipedia:cold open|cold open]], Homestar directly addresses the viewer. When he comes upon Homsar, he remarks "Oh, great. The secret guy." and then comments on the choices that Homsar "gives" him. Then when he reaches the [[Cliffs#Creepy Cliff|Creepy Cliff]], he refers to it as a "cool new background." Finally, in the [[The Goblin|Goblin]] ending, Marzipan declares the end of the scene.
*[[Homestar Presents: Presents]]: Strong Bad informs the viewers that Homestar runs around frantically from [[Decemberween]] to New Year's; then, in the Easter egg, there is a poster on the wall that reads, "Left Out Characters' Support Group & Buffet."
*[[A Mother's Day Message]]: Homestar and Strong Bad directly talk to the viewers.
*[[A Holiday Greeting]]: the main characters wish the viewers "[[Wikipedia:Happy Holiday(s)|Happy Holidays]] from all of us to all of you".
*[[rough copy]]: Strong Bad comments that "we should star in our own action-packed credit sequence". An action-packed credit sequence follows.
*[[unnatural]]: Strong Bad talks to the camera as he performs a public service announcement.
*[[strong badathlon]]: [[Whatsit]] gets on the camera.
*[[4 branches]]: Strong Bad says that he'll have to get more specific to be able to cover stupid Homestar ground in one email.
*[[cliffhangers]]: Strong Bad tells the narrator to get to the resolution of the second cliffhanger.
*[[road trip]]: Strong Bad declares the end of the email.
*[[theme song]]: Besides the whole idea of a theme song for his show, Strong Bad says he gives the viewers "a new email song every freakin' week".
*[[keep cool]]: Strong Bad interrupts the email (he rises up from below the frame) to explain the difference between [[Strong Badia]] and the rest of [[Free Country, USA]]. He then offers a [[high five]]. He also says "Note to viewers" before everything else.
*[[candy product]]: Strong Bad says he'll have a candy product "by the end of this email".
*[[narrator]]: Strong Bad said that Strong Sad had made corrections in three emails in a row, the first two being [[secret identity]] and [[technology]].
*[[virus]]: The effects of [[the virus]] cause several fourth wall breakages.
*[[extra plug]]: As Strong Bad tells the others to hold their poses, he reminds them that "it's going to be a long week."
*[[old comics]]: Strong Bad says that he and Homestar were used in a comic that was printed at least 60 years ago. Since they are obviously not that old, he is pointing out the fact that he and Homestar are unaging cartoon characters.
*[[crying]]: Strong Bad states (or rather sings) that he "will not sing an email song this week."
*[[dangeresque 3]]: When Dangeresque 1 begins, The Cheat holds up a card that reads "not in 3D" (Dangeresque 3 was supposed to be in 3D).
*[[video games]]: Strong Bad turns and yells directly at the camera saying "'Cause you can't control me!"
*[[couch patch]] ''the first part of this one is acceptable'' ...and Homestar says he got confused about the title of the e-mail.
*[[mile]]: Strong Bad tells the viewers that he won't answer an email this week. The Cheat creates one, complete with a loading screen.
*[[stunt double]]: Strong Bad throws floppy disks at the viewers and then pretends to give and take them away.
*[[big white face]]: The Poopsmith pokes [[The Paper]] with his shovel.
*[[huttah!]]: [[The Cheat]] actually watches the email on his own computer.
*[[your friends]]: Strong Bad states that he's giving the fans what they want.
*[[little animal]]: Strong Bad talks about the people watching the e-mail at home.
*[[stand-up]]: Strong Sad tells the viewers to come with him.
*[[Teen Girl Squad Issue 8|Issue 8]]: Cheerleader sings "It's over! It's over! Strong Bad says it's over" at the end of the issue.
*[[strongbad_email.exe]] (all discs): Either Homestar or The Cheat walks by an FBI warning. Also, if the viewer doesn't make a selection in the Bonus Stuff menu, Strong Bad will enter and say "Time's up, choosy! I'm playing Trogdor!", and plays [[TROGDOR!]] for a little bit.
*[[strongbad_email.exe Disc One]]: Strong Bad tells [[The Paper]] to "show these morons what to do". Then, The Paper will tell the viewer to make a choice.
*[[strongbad_email.exe Disc Three]]: Homestar and Strong Bad wonder where the viewer is and Homestar suggests that perhaps they are making a sandwich. Strong Bad orders the viewer to bring them some cold ones.
*[[strongbad_email.exe Disc Four]]: The [[Lappy 486#Female Lappy 486|Female Lappy 486]] asks Strong Bad what's taking the viewers so long.
*[[strongbad_email.exe Disc Five]]: Strong Bad complains the viewer took so long the Lappy's screensaver turned on.
*[[Everything Else, Volume 1]]: Strong Bad says there are no emails on the DVD. Homestar tells the viewer to make a choice.
*[[Everything Else, Volume 2]]: Coach Z raps the FBI warning. Homestar complains that the viewer is taking too long deciding and tries to eat some of the menu items.
*[[Legal]]: Homestar walks by and comments on the boringness of the disclaimers.
*[[The Paper]]: The Paper always descends from the top of the screen, no matter where that may be at the time.
*[[Strong Sad#Character_Video_Transcript|Strong Sad]]: On Strong Sad's character page, he complains about making a "character page" and ... ''the second part of this is acceptable''
*[[First Time Here?]]: Sets the stage for fourth wall breakages, especially when Strong Bad says "I'm the real reason you're here" and asks people to "check him out".
</blockquote>

:Especially [[Sbemail 169 Deleted Scene]], since it's TBC that are showing us the scenes, not the actual characters. Also, especially ones like [[4 branches]], where Strong Bad doesn't even say "email ''show''", he just refers to the content of an email and the answer thereof.
:--{{User:Johnny Jupiter/sig}} 07:32, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
::Wikipedia says:
<blockquote>The term "breaking the fourth wall" in theatre generally means when a character is showing his/her awareness of the audience.</blockquote>
::So, technically, breaking the fourth wall ''is'' commenting to the audience directly. {{User:Mee/sig}} 10:33, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
:::But only when it's part of the story. Is it a fourth wall break on a variety show when someone like Bob Hope talks to the TV audience? The fact that the H*R Characters frequently refer to their "website" or the "email show" shows that it's likely the same. They're consciously putting on a show for people to watch, so when Strong Bad says something like "Alright, people. This week we got some cool crap for you guys," that's just him announcing. It's like in that instance, the fourth wall is the back wall of the auditorium, and the audience is part of what's going on. It only becomes a fourth wall break when a story begins where a suspension of disbelief requires the characters to assume the audience isn't there.
:::Maybe this is just my interpretation of fourth wall breaks, but it makes perfect sense to me.--{{User:Johnny Jupiter/sig}} 18:33, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
::::<blockquote>The term "breaking the fourth wall" in theatre generally means when a character is showing his/her awareness of the audience.</blockquote>

:::::It's important to emphasize a couple things from the definition above, (which appears in the wikipedia article), "'''in theatre'''", and "'''generally'''". "In theatre" is particular important, because the format and expectations of a theatrical production are very different from much of h*r, especially the e-mails. There is some room for ambiguity at times, depending on context and expectations. I would argue that expectations is a primary criteria, which can be quite subjective. If you're watching TV and a severe weather bulliten flashes across the bottom of the screen, and the people on TV react to it, is that a fourth wall break? Depends, if you are watching a newscast it certainly is not, but if characters in a sitcom do, it is.
:::::That said, many of the listings on this page are unambiguously ''not'' fourth wall breaks and should be removed without question. There are others that need some justification (from either side), whether they should stay or go. [[User:74.136.209.156|74.136.209.156]] 14:16, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
Please boldface any others you would like me to remove. (do not boldface any where a character talks to the viewers) [[User:Bad Bad Guy|Bad Bad Guy]] 02:57, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

== Sbemail 150?!? ==

Why doesn't it count when the Lappy tells us Strong Bad is understairs? [[User:Bad Bad Guy|Bad Bad Guy]] 18:58, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

== Cheat Commandos ==
I just thought of something. We now know that Cheat Commandos is a cartoon on TV, after seeing Crack Stuntman. There's a few fourth wall breakages in Cheat Commandos toons, but if they're implying that they're in a TV show rather than an internet cartoon, then would they really be listed here? If not, than is this page for all fourth wall breakages, including the fourth wall breakages that don't imply that they're on the internet? {{User:Spyrox6/sig}}
:Hmm. I always assumed that Cheat Commandos was a TV cartoon in the H*R universe; are you referring to the recent addition of Crack Stuntman? Anyway, good point. They still break the fourth wall, but, (and I don't know how well I'm about to describe this), they're breaking the 4th wall with regard to the H*R universe, while H*R, Strong Bad, etc. themselves would be breaking the 4th wall with regard to ''our'' universe. I say we keep them, but maybe try to specify the difference, or add a note saying something like "Note: The Cheat Commandos are a TV show existing within the Homestar Runner universe." (Maybe that's not even needed. I dunno.) {{User:4kai2lyn6/sig}} 23:39, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
:Since we currently list with no differentiation several instances of Strong Bad breaking the fourth wall of his "email show" while not actually breaking the fourth wall of the H*R Universe, I don't see any reason to treat the Commando's show-within-a-cartoon any differently.{{User:Bryanc/sig}} 00:14, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
::Also, when they say mentioning playsets and toys, they are just a long commercial, like gi joe, so that isn't breaking the fourth wall either.-Strongor_Rador 7493
:::But how often do GI Joe characters refer to their encounters as "episodes", their headquarters as a "Headquarters playset", or whatever? --{{User:Jay/sig}} 21:14, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

== [[One Two]]: Just might be a Homsar oddity but does his thing count? ==

--[[User:Addict 2006|Addict]] [[User talk:Addict 2006|2006]] 13:43, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
:If you're referring to Strong Bad making a Homsar solo appear I was going to ask about that as well. [[User:Bad Bad Guy|Bad Bad Guy]] 04:29, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

== Fourth Wall Breaks by Fans ==
It is currently mentioned on [[Talk:the paper#Continuity reference|the paper Talk Page]] that I may have broken the "Fourth Wall", should this be referenced or not? {{user:Thewi2kbug/sig}} 03:57, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
:Hmm, I think we normally don't say stuff about what fans do (i.e., when someone named Dan sends in an email, it's not part of the running gag [[Dan]]. However, it might be notable that TBC/Strong Bad selected your email, thus proving that they/he knows that fans have more knowledge than they could logically have. Another words, if Strong Bad wasn't in a cartoon, he would have said, "What makes you think the Paper's going to leave?" or after the Paper quit, "Hey! How did you know that??" Another words, I hope that makes sense and isn't just more of my deranged ramblings. [[User:So makey outy|So makey outy]] 04:39, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
:: the section in yellow is the key break...
<blockquote class="lappy email"><div>
subject: The Paper...</div>
Dear Strongbad, 
Is the Paper really quitting? Could you tell me the best 
moment that you had with the paper? 
Thank You 
Kyle Williams 
North Ogden, Utah 
 
 
] No, The Paper's not quitting, Kyle, you total Ogdenite. Ol' Papes is at the top of his game, the prime of his time, the cusp of his stuff!
</blockquote>

then the paper falls on him, therefore he was completely oblivious to the fact [[The Paper]] was quitting. Also at the end of [[more armies]], [[The Paper]] was paper jammed, but it is strongly assumed that it was just a [[The Paper]] quirk. {{user:Thewi2kbug/sig}} 05:05, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

To be fair, after The Paper came down in more armies, Strong Bad states, "That's a bad sign." In addition, I know that quite a few H*R fans, including myself, were counting down the "Dreaded SBemail #173" and took the paper's jam as an ominous omen. I haven't heard anyone except you question this. Plus, wouldn't the "prophecy" (I have nothing better to call it) count as a Fourth Wall Break? {{User:waferman/sig}} 18:05, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

== reverse chronological order ==

<nowiki></nowiki>

Isn't the convention for every other list on the wiki most recent last? Why reversed on this page? {{User:GreenHelmet/sig}} 00:14, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
:I too have been wondering this for quite some time. {{User:DeFender1031/sig}} 00:22, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
::The best person to ask would be Invisible Robot Fish, as he's the one who [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=Fourth_Wall_Breaks&direction=next&oldid=194801 initially added the message] to the sections when it went through serious revision. (Hit the "edit" tab to actually see them added.) --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]] 04:25, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
:::Well, seeing no objection, and having noticed other things that don't quite fit with our usual page layouts, i'm gonna be bold and say that i'll start on it tomorrow, unless someone voices an objection by then. {{User:DeFender1031/sig}} 01:00, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

== Most Fourth Wall breakages ==

Which of the whole Homestar website has the most fourth wall breakages? If you ask me, virus has the most wall breakages of them all. Considering it happens throughout the whole cartoon. --[[User:Pretztailfan95|Pretztailfan95]] 20:16, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
:That;s more of an opinion rather than something we could actually use in the article. {{User:Acam30/sig}} 20:18, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
::There, I fixed it. This would make a good Fun Fact...if that's even possible for this article...--[[User:Pretztailfan95|Pretztailfan95]] 21:23, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
:::It still seems hardly relevant. {{User:DeFender1031/sig}} 23:08, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
::::Well then why would they bother making a Fun Facts section for all the sbemails and other cartoons? Explain that to me. I think they should put which one has the most fourth wall breakages as a Fun Fact. End of discussion. --[[User:Pretztailfan95|Pretztailfan95]] 00:31, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
:::::If you want us to explain to you, you probably shouldn't end the discussion... xD (Sorry, not trying to be a pain, but it was hard to resist.) {{User:Acam30/sig}} 01:00, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
::::::Fine, explain away, but I still think it should be put up as a fun fact... --[[User:Pretztailfan95|Pretztailfan95]] 01:19, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

== rated ==

I'm not sure whether this could be considered a 4th wall break or not:
In the Easter Egg for the sbemail [[rated]], where the King Of Town is watching Strong Bad's email show on a TV (commenting on the eating puppies for breakfast.)
It acknowledges that he has a show that other people watch... but is that breaking the fourth wall, or just bending it?
:The interesting thing, I think, in this case is that he's watching it on a TV. Now, we've disincluded things where Strong Bad's been watched before ([[huttah!]]), because we seem to base this on a premise that Strong Bad believes he is followed by some sort of webcam or something. In this case, though, he's being watched not on a computer, but on a TV. It's different than huttah!.
:I'm not sure if this lends itself more one way or another towards fourth wall breaks, but I felt it was worth remarking on and considering. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]] 06:21, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

==Categorization==
Shouldn't this article be categorized under Running Gags or Running Themes?

Smoking

Slowbar — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:46:43 GMT

Slowbar:

'''Smoking''' is one of the occasional vices indulged in by the [[Homestar Runner (body of work)|Homestar Runner]] crew.
==The Cheat's Smoking==
[[Image:Thecheatsmoking.png|right|thumb|Smoke 'em if ya got 'em]]
[[The Cheat]] is addicted to smoking. While he usually smokes cigarettes, he also smokes the occasional old-style pipe. He normally smokes [[Trophies|Trophy Lights]] cigarettes, usually after a period of stress or fatigue. Though sometimes his [[Characters#Main characters|friends]] will try to get him to stop smoking, their attempts are never too successful. The [[Trophy Lights]] have been seen in a locker in [[Coach Z]]'s locker room, where The Cheat reportedly sleeps sometimes.

===Appearances===

*[[The Cheat's Smoking Challenge]] — The player must help The Cheat quit with nicotine gum.
*[[Where's The Cheat?]] — [[Strong Bad]] finds a pack of Trophy Lights in The Cheat's [[Coach Z's Locker Room|locker]], which violates his [[Holidays#New Year's Day (January 1st)|New Year's resolution]].
*Email [[big white face]] — A pixelated drawing of The Cheat shows him holding a smoking pipe.
*Email [[montage]] — The Cheat can be seen smoking after a day of door-to-door selling with the [[Wagon Fulla Pancakes]]. Marzipan is suprised that he smokes in the [[montage#Commentary Transcript|secret commentary for montage]]

==Cigars==
[[Image:Cigar.PNG|thumb|A cigar from [[Meet Marshie]].]]
*[[Hairstyle Runner]] — One of the pictures in the gallery features [[Homestar Runner|Homestar]] smoking.
*[[Meet Marshie]] — "Pinner" has a cigar in the pile of marshmallows (this also appears as an Easter egg in [[island]]).
*[[Pigs on Head]] — Hank and Frank are both smoking cigars.
*Email [[fingers]] — Strong Bad has a lit cigar on his left hand.
*[[That A Ghost]] — [[Fat Dudley]] smokes a cigar.
*[[Teen Girl Squad Issue 8]] — [[Cheerleader]] had a bowler derby hat, sunglasses, a mustache, a tie, and a cigar.
*Strong Bad and The Cheat's [[Store Thank You Messages#Strong Bad and The Cheat.27s Thank You|Store Thank You Message]] — Strong Bad lights a cigar with a burning pile of money.
*Email [[lady...ing]] — Strong Bad tries to smoke a cigar, but it explodes in his face.
*Email [[pop-up]] — [[Bubs]] is smoking a cigar in the Easter egg.
*[[Sketchbook 2006#SK-2006-07-06|Weekly Sketchbook]] — [[The Sneak]] is holding a cigar in one of the images.
*Email [[your funeral]] — In an Easter egg, [[Strong Sad]] is seen holding a cigar. In another Easter egg, future versions of [[Pom Pom]] and Strong Sad are smoking cigars.
*[[Dangeresque 3: The Criminal Projective]] — A cigar can be seen sitting in the ashtray on the desk in the Smoky Office during the game introduction, but by the time the game proper starts, it appears to have changed to a cigarette.

==Cigarettes==
[[Image:Picture_2.png|thumb|"AaAaA'm open for [[3 Times Halloween Funjob|interpretation]]."]]
*[[Thorax Corporation]] — [[Thorax:stardom.html|Leg Delabor's page]] has an animated GIF that at one point shows a lit cigarette.
*[[The Interview]] — the [[Smoky Office]] has an ashtray with a lit cigarette in it.
**The Smoky Office has also been seen with the lit cigarette [[Smoky Office#Appearances|many other times]].
*[[3 Times Halloween Funjob]] — [[Homsar]] appears dressed as Slash in an Easter Egg with a cigarette in his mouth.
*[[Teen Girl Squad Issue 5]] — [[The Ugly One]] sticks her head in the ground, where her lungs proceed to fill up with sand and cigarette butts.
*[[Peasant's Quest Preview]] — the [[Videlectrix Mascot]] holds a cigarette while leaning on the [[Videlectrix]] logo.
**This is also seen in [[Peasant's Quest Animatic]].
*[[Puppets on the Road]] — The start is the experimental film Staple-Down Life, which features a line about smoking cigarettes.
*[[Teen Girl Squad Issue 10]] — the party scene is introduced by a man smoking a cigarette with "AT THE PARTY" imprinted on it.
*Email [[space program]] — the filmstrip announcer wonders why [[Tire|Ted Averill]] isn't enjoying a "smooth, relaxing cigarette".
*[[Happy Hallow-day]] — At the end, Strong Bad is seen holding a cigarette.
*Email [[mini-golf]] — All Homestar finds in the Blue Family Recreation Water are cigarette butts and a [[Underwear|bra.]]
*[[Limozeen vs. Sloshy]] — After learning that their flying tour bus doesn't have any shields, a member of [[sloshy]] asks if they have any cigarettes. The bassist hands him a box of them as their van is destroyed by [[Limozeen]]'s hot lixx.
*[[Fan Costumes '07]] — The 5th picture shown is of a man in a Strong Sad costume holding a cigarette.
*Email [[environment]] — Strong Bad's New Year's Resolution is to start watering Marzipan's flowers with recycled cigarette butts.
*[[DNA Evidence]] — [[Strong Bad]] has an ashtray with a lit cigarette in it.

==Miscellaneous==
*[[Scroll Button Songs]] — In one of the songs, [[Coach Z]] raps, "And if you're tryin' to fade me then ya must smoke crack!"
*Email [[pizzaz]] — The Strong Bad dressed like a ship's captain is holding a corncob pipe.
*[[Commandos in the Classroom]] — Teachers are advised to "catch a nap or have a smoke" during the slide show. Later on in the show, the [[Blue Laser Commander]] tempts [[Firebert]] by asking if he wants to "smoke some candy."
*Email [[myths & legends]] — Strong Bad's "fence drawings" show a man smoking a pipe.
*[[Teen Girl Squad Issue 11]]— [[So and So]] asks for some "smokes".
*[[Sketchbook 2007#SK-2007-10-04|Sketchbooks]] — One image shows a representation of Strong Bad with a large mustache, smoking a pipe.
*[[A Death-Defying Decemberween]] — Homestar holds a pipe throughout his televised Decemberween special.

[[Category:Activity running gags]]

Hungry Shark

Slowbar — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:12:52 GMT

Slowbar:

[[Image:Hungryshark.png|thumb|"I'm gonna eat your kids."]]

'''Hungry Shark''' is a [[shark]] who [[Strong Bad]] claims that Nice Dad sent an email to, asking Hungry Shark to teach his "wounded, bleeding sea lions that tearing other creatures apart is not the answer". Hungry Shark seems to have his own [[email show]] called "Hungry Shark Emails".

== Appearances ==
*'''Debut:''' Email [[being mean]]

[[Category:Characters]]

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Slowbar — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 21:10:31 GMT

Slowbar: uploaded a new version of "Image:Stickgoof.PNG": The stick is wrong.

A picture of a shadow goof of The Stick from [[Lookin at a Thing in a Bag]].
==License==
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2 emails

Slowbar — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:08:53 GMT

Slowbar: /* Easter Eggs */ add picture

{{sbenav|71}}
[[Image:sbemail71.PNG|thumb|"Where could the ladies be?"]]

Jimmy from MN asks Strong Bad to do 2 emails. Then Dave Nienaber asks Strong Bad what he would do with a time machine.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|Homestar Runner}}, {{Film|Coach Z}}, {{Film|Strong Mad}}, {{Film|Bubs}}, {{Film|Strong Sad}}, {{Film|Old-Timey Strong Bad}} (Easter egg), {{Film|The Sneak}} (Easter egg)

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]], [[Living Room of the Brothers Strong]]

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

'''Date:''' Monday, April 28, 2003

'''Running Time:''' 2:26

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

{{dvd|strongbad_email.exe Disc Two}}

== Transcript ==
'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{singing}'' What do you get when you email Strong Bad? You get a world of hurt.

''{reading}''

<blockquote class="compy email">Hey Strong Bad, 
I think that you should do more 
e-mails every week. Like two. Then 
we could have double the Strong Bad, 
and double the fun. 
 
Jimmy, MN</blockquote>

''{Strong Bad temporarily stops reading and says, "Ooh! That's like Strong Bad gum!" after "double the fun," and reads "MN" as "Minini"}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Okay little Jimmy. I'll do two emails this week. ''{stops typing, long pause}'' Number two.

''{reading}''

<blockquote class="compy email">Hey Strong Bad, 
If you could time travel, what period 
in time would you travel to? 
 
Dave Nienaber 
Antioch, IL</blockquote>

''{Strong Bad draws out the "CH" in "Antioch" and pronounces "IL" as "Ill-annoy-us"}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Well Naber, I'd definitely travel ahead about 15 minutes to when all the ladies show up for my "2003 Ladies' Choice Awards."

''{A logo flashes on screen saying "Ladies' Choice Awards" and a little ditty of music plays}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' About 70 or 50 fine women will be showing up to vote on which one gets to dance with yours truly. But since I don't have a time machine, I'll just have to wait it out.

''{After a few seconds, everything starts going in fast-forward. We only get brief glimpses of [[#Events During the Fast Forward|all the stuff that happens]] as Strong Bad forwards ahead, and we stop the fast-forward on a screen that's typed: "Now, On to the ladies!!!" Cut to Strong Bad, Coach Z, Strong Mad, Bubs, and Strong Sad awaiting the females. The room is decorated with a banner that says "weclome ladies/girls" and balloons reading "Ladies' Choice" and "Vote Strong Bad". Many nametags are set out on a tray for the ladies; however, there are no ladies to be seen.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' I don't get it! Where could the ladies be?

'''BUBS:''' You said there'd be the ladies!

'''STRONG BAD:''' I know! I know! Maybe their bus flew off a bottomless cliff... and into, like... a bottomless pit. Strong Sad, did anybody call and say they weren't coming?

'''STRONG SAD:''' Oh yeah, I forgot—

'''STRONG BAD:''' Or mention anything about a bottomless pit?

'''STRONG SAD:''' Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you. About a million ladies called while you were checking your email and said they'd be a few minutes late.

'''STRONG BAD:''' Oh, good! So their bus is okay.

'''STRONG SAD:''' No, I'm just kidding! But Homsar called and said he was a million ladies tall.

'''STRONG BAD:''' What?! Oh, this has gone from bad to worse!

'''COACH Z:''' Hey, guys, check it out! ''{puts a nametag on}'' I'm hot girl number 37!

'''STRONG BAD:''' Oh, Coach, don't do it! This is depressing enough as it is.

'''COACH Z:''' No, lookit me! ''{starts dancing}'' I'm shakin' it to the left and to the right!

'''STRONG BAD:''' Auuuuuuuuuuugh! ''{starts walking off}''

'''COACH Z:''' ''{humming}'' Doo doo duh DOO doo doo doo duh doo doo!

'''STRONG MAD:''' I WANT ACTION!

''{The same ditty that played before plays again, except this time the logo reads "No Ladies Showed Up!" The banner falls from the wall. Cut back to the Compy.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' I'm sorry you had to see that. I shoulda played it safe and gone ''back'' in time to where I ''know'' I'm awesome. But, since I don't have a time machine I guess I'll just have to wait it out. ''{stops typing}'' Umm... ''{starts typing again}'' Backwards.

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

== Easter Eggs ==
*In the beginning when after Strong Bad says, "double the Strong Bad", one can click on the words, "double the fun" to see "Strong Bad's Double Deuce-blemint Gum". The top reads "Strong Bad's Double Deuce-blemint Gum" and a "25¢" sticker, and the bottom reads "'It's light green!!!' Strong Bad's Double Deuce-blemint Gum is the product of choice."
*Before the "Fast Forward", one can click on "2003 [[Ladies' Choice Awards]]" to bring up the logo and play the music again.
*At the end, one can click on the word "Backwards" to see a mirror-image "Backwards" logo. The music also plays in reverse.
*Also at the end, one can click on the word "back" (as in "gone ''back'' in time") to see an Easter egg featuring Old-Timey Strong Bad and The Sneak.

:''{The egg begins in the [[Old-Timey]] era. Old-Timey Strong Bad is standing in front of a microphone. The background is standard Old-Timey fare.}''
:'''OLD-TIMEY STRONG BAD:''' I'm no apothecary, but before you trek long and wide on the Muskeegee trail, don't forget to try Uncle Strong Bad's Flavor Taste Style Chewing Powders!
:''{Old-Timey Strong Bad holds up a tin of the stuff.}''
:'''OLD-TIMEY STRONG BAD:''' Nothing else increases brain juice quite like it! Once again, that's ''{holds the tin to the camera}'' Strong Bad's Flavor Taste Style Chewing Powders. ''{pulls the tin back to normal view}'' Whisk away the worries!
[[Image:chewingpowder.png|thumb|250px|Whisk away the worries!]]
:''{The Sneak enters from the right.}''
:'''OLD-TIMEY STRONG BAD:''' ''{turns to The Sneak}'' How was that phraseology, The Sneak? Are your worries adequately whisked?
:''{The Sneak responds in typical The Sneak-fashion by wiggling his nose.}''
:'''OLD-TIMEY STRONG BAD:''' Smashing! ''{pause}'' No, I mean... start smashing!
:''{The Sneak darts off-camera to the right, and the sound of glass shattering is heard.}''
:'''OLD-TIMEY STRONG BAD:''' Yes! It's curtains for you, ''{shakes fist}'' Ming vase!
:''{Cut to a closeup of the tin of Uncle Strong Bad's Flavor Taste Style Chewing Powders.}''
:'''OLD-TIMEY STRONG BAD:''' Uncle Strong Bad makes good!
:''{The words, "Strong Bad Powdertory, St. Louis, MO" appear beneath the can.}''
:'''OLD-TIMEY STRONG BAD:''' ''{in a lower tone of voice and quicker than normal}'' Strong Bad Powdertory, Saint Louis Mo!

== Fun Facts ==

=== Events During the Fast Forward ===
*Strong Bad writes a [[Wikipedia:BASIC programming language|BASIC]] program.

<blockquote class="short compy email">10 print"STRONG BAD IS COOL!" 
20 goto 10 
30 end</blockquote>

*He types "run", and the screen fills with "STRONG BAD IS COOL!"
*He is also seen with the drink from [[interview]], a Thai iced tea.
*Strong Bad plays with the [[Peanut Strong Bad]] he created in [[action figure]].
*Strong Bad's computer screen shows the text "Wanna fight? Huh?" Strong Bad punches the screen.
*Strong Bad opens an email (his third today):

<blockquote class="short compy email">Hey Strongbad. 
I was just wondering what you 
thought of Delaware. 
 
Danny
</blockquote>

*The above email gets
<blockquote class="email" style="background:#003893; text-align:center">[[DELETED|DELETED]]!!!</blockquote>
*Strong Bad sticks a [[Sticky Notes|Post-it note]] on his computer that says "[[Van Buren]]".
*Strong Bad starts looking at the camera.
*Strong Bad stands up in front of the computer.
*Homestar Runner sits down and writes:

<blockquote class="email" style="background-image:none">Hey Strong Bad, I built a time 
machine by putting a Gameboy 
in a blender. I used your 
blender and also your Gameboy. 
I will go into the future and 
buy you new ones.</blockquote>
*Strong Bad types
<blockquote class="short compy email">Only a few minutes left. I 
think I can hear some of the 
ladies giggling and saying how 
they like me and stuff. Or 
maybe that's just The Cheat. 
</blockquote>
*Strong Bad plays a game called "[[Pigs on Head]]", later made into an LCD game by [[Videlectrix]]. (He gets a Score of 1,200 on level 8.)
*Strong Bad puts on a sombrero.
*Strong Bad types, "Now, on to the ladies!!!"

=== The Nametags ===
Most start with "Hello, my name is hot girl #". Exceptions noted:
*48
*v2.14
*4077 ("hot lips" instead of "hot girl")
*00
*18
*7 (written as "hotgirl")
*Sue (written as "hotgirl")
*40
*2
*8 (written as "hotgirl")
*13
*[[20X6|X6]]
*37
*26c
*26

===Explanations===
*An [[apothecary]] is similar to a modern-day [[Wikipedia:pharmacist|pharmacist]]. Apothecaries sold medicines, tobacco, cure-alls, and other such goods.

===Trivia===
*This is another instance of [[Strong Bad checking more than one email]].
*Strong Bad's Double Deuce-blemint Gum in the Easter egg (costing 25¢) has the slogan "It's light green!!!", and the package's fine print reads "Strong Bad's Double Deuce-blemint Gum is the product of choice".

===Remarks===
*The third line in Strong Bad's BASIC program is unreachable because the second line will make the program display "Strong Bad is cool" an infinite number of times.
*The contrast buttons on the Compy work during the fast forward sequence.
**If you freeze the Flash file during the fast forward sequence when Homestar comes and types about a time machine, you can adjust the contrast and Homestar's reflection will be affected, unlike in [[anything]] and [[50 emails]].
*The Compy's frame appears distorted during the fast-forward, yet the fast-forward has no effect on the screen features such as the text, Strong Bad's reflection, and the DELETED! screen. (See image below.)
*The Delaware email (copying [[sb_email 22]]) is an example of one of the [[Flashforward 2006 Seattle - 28 Feb 2006#Pre-animation Process - 4:05 p.m.|five things not to email Strong Bad about]].
*When Coach Z is "shakin' it to left and to the right" he faces left and right from the viewer's perspective, not his own.
*Homestar misspelled [[Nintendo#Game Boy|Game Boy]] as "Gameboy". It is properly spelled as two words.

===Goofs===
*At the end, the back button extends to the left of the text.

===Glitches===
[[Image:Sbemail 2-emails goof.PNG|thumb|Distortion Displacement]]
[[Image:2-faced Strong Bad.png|thumb|2-faced?]]
*After the backwards Easter egg, the word "backwards" doesn't fade out entirely, but remains on the screen for a second before disappearing.
*During the fast-forward sequence:
**Where the screen is filled with "Strong Bad is Cool", the text sometimes sticks out of the monitor.
**As Strong Bad takes a sip from his drink, there is no reflection of the drink on the screen.
**You can see Strong Bad's mouth is gone after he drinks.
**When Strong Bad punches the Compy, the distortion from the fast forward remains in the same spot of the frame, despite the fact it has left where the distortion logically occurs.
***When Strong Bad punches the screen, his arm is detached from his body.
**When Strong Bad turns around to look at the camera, the reflection on the Compy still shows his face instead of the back of his head.
**Strong Bad's reflection goes off the Compy's screen when he stands on the stool.

===Inside References===
*The "[[Double Deuce]]" on the gum is a reference to the email [[the bird]] and [[20X6]].
*The Welcome sign reads "[[Unusual Greetings#Weclome|Weclome]]".
*The [[name tags]] Strong Bad prepared for the hot ladies can also be seen in [[The Luau]].
*This is another mention of a [[bottomless pit]].
*This is another reference to [[Van Buren]].
*This is another reference to [[Nintendo]].

===Real-World References===
*Double Deuce-blemint Gum is based on Wrigley's [[Wikipedia:Doublemint|Doublemint]] gum.
**"Double the Strong Bad ... double the fun" is a reference to the old Doublemint gum slogan "double your pleasure, double your fun".
*"Hot lips #4077" is a reference to the [[wikipedia:M*A*S*H (novels)|book]], [[imdb:tt0066026|movie]] and [[imdb:tt0068098|TV show]] M*A*S*H. All chronicled life at the 4077th [[wikipedia:Mobile army surgical hospital|Mobile Army Surgical Hospital]] during the Korean War. Major Margaret [[Wikipedia:Major Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan|"Hot Lips"]] Houlihan was a major character.
*A [[Wikipedia:Chinese ceramics|Ming vase]] is a vase produced by the Ming Dynasty in ancient China, and are therefore very valuable.
* The "Muskeegee trail" may be a reference to the Muskogee Trail, or the [[Wikipedia:Trail of Tears|Trail of Tears]].

===Fast Forward===
*Homestar's time machine is seen as an "alternate universe portal" in [[alternate universe]].
*Although a Strong Bad gum is seen in an Easter egg, in the email [[candy product]] Strong Bad claims he has not made a candy product.
*In the [[TV Time Toons Menu|Toons menu]], the short [[Mr. Shmallow (toon)|Mr. Shmallow]] has the description, "He's no apothecary.", a reference to Old-Timey Strong Bad in this email's Easter egg.
*A similar BASIC program from the fast-forward (however, written in [[Wikipedia:Applesoft BASIC|Applesoft BASIC]]) was seen again in [[Workin' on the Game]].

== DVD Version ==
*The gum and event logo Easter eggs are viewable using the angle button on your DVD remote.
*The "Backwards" Easter egg plays twice when activated.

== External Links ==
*[[HR:sbemail71.html|watch "2 emails"]]
*[[HR:sbemail71.swf|view the Flash file for "2 emails"]]

{{Strong Bad Email}}
[[Category:Compy 386 Emails]]
[[Category:Old-Timey]]

Items

Slowbar — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:15:30 GMT

Slowbar: /* Other Foods */

Here is a gallery of '''items''' seen and/or used by the [[characters]]. Some are used frequently while others are seldom seen.

== Clothing ==
<gallery>
Image:blue ones.PNG|<center>'''[[The Blue Ones]]'''</center>
Image:bowler derby.PNG|<center>'''[[Bowler Hats]]'''</center>
Image:s capitain hat.png|<center>'''[[Captain's Hat]]'''</center>
Image:Shades.png|<center>'''[[Cool Shades]]'''</center>
Image:Gross old wig.png|<center>'''[[Gross Old Wig]]'''</center>
Image:FairstivalCostumes.PNG|<center>'''[[Halloween Costumes]]'''</center>
Image:homestar.PNG|<center>'''[[Homestar Runner#Homestar's Clothing|Homestar Runner's Clothing]]'''</center>
Image:homestardukes.PNG|<center>'''[[Homestar Runner's Daisy Dukes]]'''</center>
Image:homestarpants.PNG|<center>'''[[Homestar Runner's Pants]]'''</center>
Image:HRwearingbunnyslippers.png|<center>'''[[Homestar Runner's Sleepwear]]'''</center>
Image:Dolph Haudhagen The Instruct-TOR.PNG|<center>'''[[Horned Helmet]]'''</center>
Image:Lotionman.PNG|<center>'''[[Lotionman]]'''</center>
Image:Strongs Decemberween card.png|<center>'''[[Other Costumes]]'''</center>
Image:Ovenmitts.PNG|<center>'''[[Oven Mitts]]'''</center>
Image:TragicClownDog.PNG|<center>'''[[Tragic Clown Dog|Tragic Clown Dog Costume]]'''</center>
Image:Homely boy brand huge tube socks.PNG|<center>'''[[Tube Socks]]'''</center>
</gallery>

== Computers ==
=== Strong Bad's Computers ===
The computers [[Strong Bad]] has used for his [[Strong Bad Email|emails]], and some more obscure ones.
<gallery>
Image:sbemail1.PNG|<center>'''[[Tandy 400]]'''</center>
Image:sbemail.png|<center>'''[[Compy 386]]'''</center>
Image:sbemail119.PNG|<center>'''[[Lappy 486]]'''</center>
Image:block computer.PNG|<center>'''[[Block]]'''</center>
Image:Corpy NT6.png|<center>'''[[Corpy NT6]]'''</center>
Image:ZappyXT6.png|<center>'''[[Zappy XT6]]'''</center>
</gallery>

=== Other Computers ===
<gallery>
Image:Blue Laser Supercomputer.PNG|<center>'''[[Blue Laser Supercomputer]]'''</center>
Image:Box Computer.PNG|<center>'''[[Strong Mad's Computer]]'''</center>
Image:Datum Center.PNG|<center>'''[[Datum Center Computers]]'''</center>
Image:pompilot.PNG|<center>'''[[Pom Pilot]]'''</center>
Image:tangerine dreams.PNG|<center>'''[[Tangerine Dreams]]'''</center>
Image:New iMac.png|<center>'''[[Monosodium Dreams]]'''</center>
Image:sfd.png|<center>'''[[The Screen]]'''</center>
Image:Happy8600.png|<center>'''[[Happy 8600]]'''</center>
Image:Snacky.png|<center>'''[[Snacky 186]]'''</center>
</gallery>

== Food/Drinks ==

=== Fluffy Puff ===
<gallery>
Image:fluffy puff air-puffed sugar delights.PNG|<center>'''[[Fluffy Puff Air-Puffed Sugar Delights|Air-Puffed Sugar Delights]]'''</center>
Image:Fluffy Puff Bitesize Nibblers.png|<center>'''[[Fluffy Puff Bite-Size Nibblers|Bite-Size Nibblers]]'''</center>
Image:fluffypuffmalloweens.png|<center>'''[[Fluffy Puff Malloweens|Malloweens]]'''</center>
Image:fpmarsh.png|<center>'''[[Fluffy Puff Marshmallows|Marshmallows]]'''</center>
Image:fp mayo.png|<center>'''[[Fluffy Puff Mayo|Mayo]]'''</center>
Image:Redflavoredfluffypuff.png|<center>'''[[Fluffy Puff Translucent Dessert Related Substance|Translucent Dessert Related Substance]]'''
</gallery>

=== Other Foods ===
<gallery>
Image:breadsingalong.png|<center>'''[[Bread]]'''</center>
Image:bronco t.PNG|<center>'''[[Bronco Trolleys]]'''</center>
Image:50cake.PNG|<center>'''[[Cake]]'''</center>
Image:TheCheatCakes.png|<center>'''[[The Cheatcakes|Cheatcakes]]'''</center>
Image:homsar shirt logo back.PNG|<center>'''[[Coffee]]'''</center>
Image:sbemail39.PNG|<center>'''[[Cold One]]s'''
Image:ryansterrit and sb.JPG|<center>'''[[Croissants]]'''</center>
Image:Stuffinged Ham and Gravied Yams.png|<center>'''[[Decemberween Food]]'''</center>
Image:French Fries.png|<center>'''[[French Fries]]'''</center>
Image:Tao Chicken.PNG|<center>'''[[General Tso's Chicken]]'''</center>
Image:PBTC Grumblecake.jpg|<center>'''[[Grumblecakes]]'''</center>
Image:Ham.png|<center>'''[[Ham]]'''</center>
Image:homestarjr2.PNG|<center>'''[[Homestar Jr.]]'''</center>
Image:Strongbad actionfigure.png|<center>'''[[Hotcakes]]'''</center>
Image:homestar ice cream.jpg|<center>'''[[Ice Cream]]'''</center>
Image:Melanade.png|<center>'''[[Melonade]]'''</center>
Image:TeddyGraham.PNG|<center>'''[[Minor Foods]]'''</center>
Image:Mountain Dew.png|<center>'''[[Mountain Dew]]'''</center>
Image:pastasalad.png|<center>'''[[Pasta Salad]]'''</center>
Image:Pea-Buried.PNG|<center>'''[[Peas]]'''</center>
Image:bluelazerpizza.PNG|<center>'''[[Pizza]]'''</center>
Image:Potate bag.png|<center>'''[[Potate]]'''</center>
Image:Steak.PNG|<center>'''[[Steak]]'''</center>
Image:Swiss Cake Rolls.PNG|<center>'''[[Swiss Cake Rolls]]'''</center>
Image:awpotatoes.PNG|<center>'''[[The King of Town's Food]]'''</center>

</gallery>

== Instruments ==
<gallery>
Image:Bubs with Keytar.png|<center>'''[[Bubs's keytar]]'''</center>
Image:carol.PNG|<center>'''[[Carol]]'''</center>
Image:Homestar floor tom.PNG|<center>'''[[Instruments|Homestar's Floor Tom]]'''</center>
Image:keyswordtar in action.PNG|<center>'''[[Keyswordtar]]'''</center>
Image:Ukulele and Poetry.png|<center>'''[[Marzipan's Ukulele]]'''</center>
Image:SMBass.PNG|<center>'''[[Strong Mad's Bass]]'''</center>
Image:ssguitar.png|<center>'''[[Instruments|Strong Sad's Guitar]]'''</center>
Image:Strong Sad Violin.PNG|<center>'''[[Strong Sad's Violin]]'''</center>
Image:Cheatdrum.PNG|<center>'''[[Characters' Instruments#The Cheat's Instruments|The Cheat's Drums]]</center>
Image:cheat keyboard.png|<center>'''[[The Cheat's keyboard]]'''</center>
Image:Worshboard.PNG|<center>'''[[Washboard]]'''</center>
</gallery>

== Toys ==
<gallery>
Image:Aunt gert doll.PNG|<center>'''[[Aunt Gert]]'''</center>
Image:qod 25 - Doreauxgard.PNG|<center>'''[[Doreauxgard]]'''</center>
Image:Gooblies Pet Lobster.PNG|<center>'''[[Gooblies]]'''</center>
Image:grabbo arm.png|<center>'''[[Grabbo Arm]]'''</center>
Image:Lord Quackingstick.PNG|<center>'''[[Lord Quackingstick]]'''</center>
Image:donkis.png|<center>'''[[Poodonkis]]'''</center>
Image:Santaman.png|<center>'''[[Santaman]]</center>
Image:Sbrocket.PNG|<center>'''[[Strong Bad's Rocket]]</center>
Image:Thedenzel.png|<center>'''[[The Denzel]]'''</center>
Image:Tony Stony 2.png|<center>'''[[Tony Stony]]'''</center>
</gallery>

== Media ==

=== Books ===
<gallery>
Image:BooksinRampageEmail.PNG|<center>'''[[Authorless Books]]'''</center>
Image:Beverlybooks.png|<center>'''Books authored by [[Beverly Sportsinterviews]]'''</center>
Image:worldly record book.png|<center>'''[[Count Longardeaux's Book]]'''</center>
Image:sbemail84.png|<center>'''[[kids' book|Everyone is Different]]'''</center>
Image:Limozeen coloringbook.png|<center>'''[[Limozeen Coloring Book]]'''</center>
Image:Little jakey pleasanthanks.png|<center>'''[[Little Jakey Pleasenthanks]]'''</center>
Image:Comeback.PNG|<center>'''[[More Like You Write A Book About Come-back Jokes, NERD!!]]'''</center>
Image:Sbemail146.png|<center>'''Strong Bad [[pop-up]] book'''</center>
Image:That Time of Year.png|<center>'''[[That Time of Year]]'''</center>
Image:Fishwasdelish.PNG|<center>'''[[The Fish was Delish and it made Quite a Dish!]]'''</center>
Image:lemcover.jpg|<center>'''[[Bookazon.com|This Book is Better Than 1st, 2nd, and Quite Possibly Even 3rd Base]]'''</center>
Image:TTOM One.PNG|<center>'''How to play [[Three-to-One Marny]]'''</center>
</gallery>

=== Magazines ===
<gallery>
Image:Fretmagic magazine.PNG|<center>'''[[Fretmagic]]'''</center>
Image:huskyheadedboysback2school.PNG|<center>'''[[Husky Headed Boys Back 2 School Catalog]]'''</center>
Image:nerdularnerdence.gif|<center>'''[[Nerdular Nerdence]]'''</center>
Image:Scarfgirl.PNG|<center>'''[[Scarfgirl]]'''</center>
Image:Hundredaire Socialite.png|<center>'''[[Stookley's Hundredaire Socialite]]'''</center>
Image:stupidcoincidencemagazine.PNG|<center>'''[[Stupid Coincidence Magazine]]'''</center>
Image:Strong Mad and The Cheat TV Time Cover 4.png|<center>'''[[TV Time]]'''</center>
Image:HaveEdgeTimes.png|<center>'''Have Edge Time Magazine'''</center>
</gallery>

== Music Players ==
<gallery>
Image:boom box.png|<center>'''[[booOOMbox]]'''</center>
Image:Homestar clock radio.png|<center>'''[[Clock Radio]]'''</center>
Image:djcheatequipment.png|<center>'''[[DJ Teh C.'s Equipment]]'''</center>
Image:ghettoblastro.png|<center>'''[[Ghetto Blastro]]'''</center>
Image:FlashbackJamBox.PNG|<center>'''[[Jam Box]]'''</center>
Image:Old Timey Radio.png|<center>'''[[Old Timey Radio]]'''</center>
Image:Ray-Jo.png|<center>'''[[Ray-Jo]]'''</center>
Image:Seedees.PNG|<center>'''[[SeeDees]]'''</center>
Image:Sports Use.png|<center>'''[[Sports Use]]'''</center>
Image:strongsads ipod screenshot.png|<center>'''[[Strong Sad's iPod]]'''</center>
Image:StrongSadTapePlayer.PNG|<center>'''[[Strong Sad's Tape Player]]'''</center>
Image:Limozeen vs Sloshy.png|<center>'''[[The Cheat's Record Player]]'''</center>
</gallery>

== Other Electronics ==
<gallery>
Image:atm.png|<center>'''[[ATM]]'''</center>
Image:TheBlender.PNG|<center>'''[[Blender]]'''</center>
Image:Video Camera.PNG|<center>'''[[Cameras]]'''</center>
Image:cellphone.png|<center>'''[[Cell Phones|Cell Phone]]'''</center>
Image:Cow Lamp.PNG|<center>'''[[Cow Lamp]]'''</center>
Image:fiendish freddys.png|<center>'''[[Floppy Disk Container]]'''</center>
Image:Frank Bennedetto.PNG|<center>'''[[Frank Bennedetto]]'''</center>
Image:gn robot.png|<center>'''[[Grape-Nuts Robot]]'''</center>
Image:AWFy.PNG|<center>'''[[Animatronic Strong Bad]]'''</center>
Image:homestarclock.png|<center>'''[[Homestar's Clock]]'''</center>
Image:lectric boots2.png|<center>'''[['Lectric Boots]]'''</center>
Image:mrsbenedetto.png|<center>'''[[Mrs. Bennedetto]]'''</center>
Image:Old Answering Machine.png|<center>'''[[Answering Machine|Old-tech Answering Machine]]'''</center>
Image:Marzipans Answering Machine.png|<center>'''[[PhoneTime XL8]]'''</center>
Image:Telebision Remote.PNG|<center>'''[[Remote Control]]'''</center>
Image:Smoke Detector.png|<center>'''[[Living Room of the Brothers Strong|Smoke Detector]]'''</center>
Image:Telegraph.PNG|<center>'''[[Supra Modern Telegram]]'''</center>
Image:Taranchlua Metal Detector.png|<center>'''[[Taranchula Black Metal Detector]]'''</center>
Image:teebee.PNG|<center>'''[[TeeBee]]'''</center>
Image:teebee remote.PNG|<center>'''TeeBee Remote'''</center>
Image:Caleb Rentpayer.png|<center>'''[[Telebision]]'''</center>
Image:KoT Typing.PNG|<center>'''[[Typing Tutor Turbo]]'''</center>
Image:VCR.PNG|<center>'''[[The VCR]]'''</center>
</gallery>

== Power Tools ==
<gallery>
Image:Strong Mad Chainsaw.PNG|<center>'''[[Strong Mad's Chainsaw|Chainsaw]]'''</center>
Image:Compress-OR.png|<center>'''[[CompressOR]]'''</center>
Image:bellybutton.PNG|<center>'''[[Strong Bad's Drill|Drill]]'''</center>
Image:Jack Hamma.PNG|<center>'''[[Jack Hamma!]]'''</center>
Image:111cheatsolderingiron.png|<center>'''[[Laser Lemon#The Cheat's soldering iron|The Cheat's soldering iron]]'''</center>

</gallery>

== Products ==
<gallery>
Image:Ab-Abber 2000.png|<center>'''[[Ab-Abber 2000]]'''</center>
Image:Cloitsterizer.PNG|<center>'''[[The Cloitsterizer]]'''</center>
Image:C'mon It's FOG!.PNG|<center>'''[[C'mon! It's FOG!]]'''</center>
Image:Ethicalchick'nbeaks.PNG|<center>'''[[Ethical Chick'n Beaks]]'''</center>
Image:s shoe box.png|<center>'''[[Freshley's]]'''</center>
Image:r Menu.PNG|<center>'''[[Grout Clean'r]]'''</center>
Image:hamburger shampoo.png|<center>'''[[Hamburger Shampoo]]'''</center>
Image:Jimmyshobbykit.PNG|<center>'''[[Hollerin' Jimmy's Hobby Kit]]'''</center>
Image:jobars headache medicine.PNG|<center>'''[[Jobar's Big Ol' Headache Medicine]]'''</center>
Image:pencil moistener.png|<center>'''[[King Castlefunny Pencil Moistener]]'''</center>
Image:Listerine item.png|<center>'''[[Listerine]]'''</center>
Image:1ohnoyoudent.png|<center>'''[[Oh No You Dent! Denture Tablets]]'''</center>
Image:yella paint.png|<center>'''[[Paint]]'''</center>
Image:Portly Washboy.gif|<center>'''[[Portly Washboy Fancy Laundry Paste]]'''</center>
Image:Roach killa.png|<center>'''[[Roach Killa!]]</center>
Image:SBLOUNSKCHEDbar.png|<center>'''[[SBLOUNSKCHED! Bar]]'''</center>
Image:School Paste.PNG|<center>'''[[School Paste]]'''</center>
Image:Super mud.png|<center>'''[[Super Mud]]'''</center>
</gallery>

== Weapons ==
<gallery>
Image:bigknife.png|<center>'''[[Big Knives]]'''</center>
Image:bubs shotgun.png|<center>'''[[Bubs's shotgun]]'''</center>
Image:Guillotine.PNG|<center>'''[[Guillotine]]'''</center>
Image:Gunhaver'sGun.PNG|<center>'''[[Gunhaver's Gun]]'''</center>
Image:heavy lourde.png|<center>'''[[Heavy Lourde]]'''</center>
Image:JRBRR.PNG|<center>'''[[Justice Rocket Backpack Rocket Rocket]]'''</center>
Image:keyswordtar in action.PNG|<center>'''[[Keyswordtar]]'''</center>
Image:OldTimeyMarzipanWeapon.PNG|<center>'''[[Old-Timey Marzipan's Contraption]]'''</center>
Image:StalkerSpray.png|<center>'''[[Stalker Spray]]'''</center>
Image:Bazooka.PNG|<center>'''[[Strong Bad's Bazooka]]'''</center>
Image:Nunchuck Action.PNG|<center>'''[[Strong Bad's Nunchucks]]'''</center>
</gallery>

== Misc. ==
<gallery>
Image:aldi bag.png|<center>'''[[Aldi Bag]]'''</center>
Image:Baloneytruck.PNG|<center>'''[[Baloney Sammich Truck]]'''</center>
Image:lighter1.png|<center>'''[[BMW Lighter]]'''</center>
Image:watersoupcans.png|<center>'''[[Can of Water Soup]]'''</center>
Image:cinderblock.jpg|<center>'''[[Cinder Block]]</center>
Image:Clapperboard.PNG|<center>'''[[Clapperboard]]'''</center>
Image:Credenza.png|<center>'''[[Credenza]]'''</center>
Image:Crisperdrawer.PNG|<center>'''[[Crisper Drawer]]'''</center>
Image:Gardenhose.PNG|<center>'''[[Garden Hose]]'''</center>
Image:gremlin homestarloween.png|<center>'''[[Gremlin]]'''</center>
Image:Homestarposter.PNG|<center>'''[[Hanging Objects]]</center>
Image:Le Restige.png|<center>'''[[Le Restige]]'''</center>
Image:Marzipaint.PNG|<center>'''[[Marzipan's Painting Tools]]'''</center>
Image:Nametag.png|<center>'''[[Name Tags]]'''</center>
Image:New Paper.png|<center>'''[[New Paper]]'''</center>
Image:No Loafing Sign.png|<center>'''[[No Loafing Sign]]'''</center>
Image:spoon.png|<center>'''[[Orange Bowl and Spoon]]'''</center>
Image:finetimepermamarker.png|<center>'''[[Permanent Marker]]'''</center>
Image:minerthecheat.PNG|<center>'''[[Pickaxe]]'''</center>
Image:Deckhandbill.png|<center>'''[[Playbills]]'''</center>
Image:Sbemail138.PNG|<center>'''[[The Proud Anselmo]]'''</center>
Image:Redwhiteandbanana.PNG|<center>'''[[Red, White, and Banana]]'''</center>
Image:Space Machine.PNG|<center>'''[[The Space Machine]]'''</center>
Image:stopsign.png|<center>'''[[Stop Sign]]'''</center>
Image:fondue pot.PNG|<center>'''[[Strong Bad's Fondue Pot]]'''</center>
Image:Sbtowel.png|<center>'''Strong Bad's Towel'''</center>
Image:Styleronecochair.PNG|<center>'''[[Styleron Ecochair]]'''</center>
Image:Glowstick.PNG|<center>'''[[The Cheat's Glowsticks]]'''</center>
Image:grill.PNG|<center>'''[[The King of Town's Grill]]'''</center>
Image:close Paper.png|<center>'''[[The Paper]]'''</center>
Image:TheStick.png|<center>'''[[The Stick]]'''</center>
Image:sbemail115.png|<center>'''[[The Time Capsule]]'''</center>
Image:trivia time jar.PNG|<center>'''[[Rejected Characters#Trivia Time|Trivia Time]]''' cookie jar</center>
Image:Uss flirtini.PNG|<center>'''[[USS Flirtini]]'''</center>
Image:wagon fulla pancakes.PNG|<center>'''[[Wagon Fulla Pancakes]]'''</center>
Image:WaterCooler.PNG|<center>'''[[Water Cooler]]'''</center>
Image:Whatsit Blob.PNG|<center>'''[[Whatsit]]'''</center>
Image:X-Pensive White.PNG|<center>'''[[X-Pensive White]]'''</center>
Image:Drexperimento.PNG|<center>'''[[Ruby Powered Rocket]]'''
</gallery>

== See also ==
*[[Electronic Media and Film]]
*[[Action Figure Character Variations]]
*[[Store]]

[[Category: Lists]][[Category: Items|*]]

Lookin at a Thing in a Bag

Slowbar — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:00:25 GMT

Slowbar: /* Goofs */

{{toonnav|Shorts|whatsinthebag|Arcade Game|Ballad of The Sneak}}
[[Image:thinginabag.png|200px|thumb|"Just lookin' at a thing in a bag..."]]

Strong Bad and the gang find a new way to get free drinks.

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

'''Places:''' [[Basement of the Brothers Strong]], [[The Stick]], [[Bubs' Concession Stand]]

'''Date: ''' Tuesday, April 8, 2003

'''Running Time:''' 3:50

'''Page Title: ''' T-TV, TV Show!

{{dvd|Everything Else, Volume 1}}

== Transcript ==
''{Strong Bad, The Cheat, and Strong Mad are all being lazy around the couch while the TV repeats "T-TV, TV Show, watch the TV Show"}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' The Cheat The Cheat The Cheat The CheatTheCheatTheCheatTheCheatTheCheatTheCheatTheCheatTheCheatTheCheatTheCheat! Get me a drink!

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

'''STRONG BAD:''' Hey Strong Mad! Get... get me a drink!

'''STRONG MAD:''' ''{raises his fist from behind the couch}'' MORE LIKE, YOU GET ME A DRINK!

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{sits up, yells over the back of the couch}'' Hey! Don't sass back with me! ''{returns to his original position}'' Augh. We need to figure out how to get some drinks...like...without having to actually get some drinks!

''{The Cheat leaps up and makes excited noises}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Ooh! The man with the plan!

''{Wipe to the stick. Strong Bad, Strong Mad, and The Cheat are all looking in some brown paper bags. Homestar walks up to them.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Hey guys! Whatja doin?

'''STRONG BAD:''' Oh, just lookin' at a thing in a bag.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Oh cool! Can I see?

'''STRONG BAD:''' No. ''{closes his bag}'' It's for me. And The Cheat. ''{The Cheat closes his bag}'' And Strong Mad to look at. ''{Strong Mad closes his bag}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Oh. I'm not any of those.

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

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Yes sir!

''{Homestar backs up in response to The Cheat, and the three guys stand there looking in the bags for a while as Homestar looks on. An unseen bird chirps in the background}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{softly, to himself}'' Lookin' at a thing in a bag!

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Hey Homestar! Whatcha doin'? Oh, you know, hanging out with the guys. Hey guys, this is the life, right?

'''STRONG BAD:''' Sure is, man! Lookin' at a thing in a bag...drinkin' drinks...oh! Oh yeah. Homestar! Why don't you go get us cool guys some drinks?

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Okay, cool guy!

''{He runs off toward Bubs' concession stand. While he is running, the same music from the TV plays in the background. He gets there and Bubs is dancing while saying "Checkitout!" Homestar starts dancing along.}''

'''BUBS:''' Checkitout checkitout checkitout checkitout checkitout checkitout checkitout checkitout checkitout checkitout checkitout checkitout checkitout checkitout checkitout checkitout checkitout checkitout checkitout checkitout checkitout checkitout!

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Whoa! Check it out!

'''BUBS:''' What can I get for ya?

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Umm...four drinks for four cool guys!

'''BUBS:''' You mean for you, Strong Bad, Strong Mad, and The Cheat?

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Yeah! How did you know that?

'''BUBS:''' ''{quickly looks left, and then right}'' Oh, I don't know nothin' about nothin'!

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Yeah but how did you—

'''BUBS:''' ''{leans in}'' Nothin'!

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' But that's weird that you—

'''BUBS:''' ''{leans in closer}'' Nothin'!

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ...Okay, you're weird.

'''BUBS:''' So what kind you want?

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{pops to the right, then back to his normal position while talking}'' Um, how about two reds, a blue, and an orange.

'''BUBS:''' Comin' right up! ''{he starts making the drinks}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' So Bubs...have you seen that thing in a bag?

'''BUBS:''' Oh yeah! It's freakin' awesome!

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Oh, right. Me too. Yeah, I think so...that it is...too.

'''BUBS:''' ''{giving him the drinks}'' Here you go!

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Thanks, Bubsy! ''{starts walking away, then turns back}'' One more time!

''{they both start dancing again}''

'''BUBS:''' Checkitout checkitout checkitout checkitout checkitout checkitout checkitout checkitout checkitout...

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Thanks, Bubsy!

''{Homestar walks off. Cut back to the stick, where the trio are still lookin' at a thing in the bags.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Appears that I'm still looking at this thing in a bag...

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Drinks, cool guys!

'''STRONG BAD:''' Just put 'em down right there!

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Check!

'''STRONG BAD:''' Now, leave.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Check! ''{he leaves}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Wow, it worked! Free drinks! Good thinking, The Cheat! Lookin' at a thing in a bag. I am truly the greatest guy.

''{Bubs walks on}''

'''BUBS:''' Did the plan work?

'''STRONG MAD:''' LIKE A CHARM!

'''STRONG BAD:''' Yeah, drink up! Thanks for donating these drinks to our cause!

''{Homestar walks back in}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Oh, I forgot my blue dri—Sweet Mother of Mystery! What's going on here?

'''STRONG BAD:''' Umm...drinkin' drinks at the stick.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' But what about looking at a thing in some bags?

'''STRONG BAD:''' It escaped. Into the mountains.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Aw, shucks. I never got to see it!

'''BUBS:''' I thought you said you had!

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' I lied. I was trying to be a cool guy.

'''BUBS:''' Liar!

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Oh well.

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

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Of course! ''{he does a flip}''

'''BUBS:''' Nice trick, LIAR!

''{Homestar picks up one of the bags and starts looking in it.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Oh wow! Cool!

'''STRONG BAD:''' Um, that bag's empty, Homestar.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Super cool!

'''STRONG BAD:''' Yeah, there's nothing in it.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' This is freakin' awesome!

'''STRONG BAD:''' Augh! ''{Bubs, Strong Mad, and The Cheat walk away}'' Almost makes the free drinks not worth it. ''{he walks away too}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Oh yeah! Lookin' at a thing in a bag! I mean...I think...I'm a cool guy. ''{Looks around, then sticks the bag on his head}''

''{Cut to black with the words "The End" on the screen. Bubs can be heard repeating "the end" over and over like Strong Bad's "The Cheat" at the beginning of the toon.}''

== Fun Facts ==
=== Trivia ===
*Bubs's "Checkitout" song was inspired by a street seller [[The Brothers Chaps]] saw during a trip to New York City.

=== Remarks ===
*This "short" is actually longer than four of the "full-length" toons, perhaps due to its premiere as a [[Strong Bad Email#Not Quite Strong Bad Emails|"not quite Strong Bad Email"]].
*The "back" link at the end of the toon leads to [[Main Page 14]], instead of the Toons menu as is normal.
*When The Cheat tells Homestar to do a flip, his teeth show, unlike when he normally talks.
*The name of the SWF is whatsinthebag2 despite the toon being located at whatsinthebag.html. There is no whatsinthebag.swf.

=== Goofs ===
[[Image:Stickgoof.PNG|200px|thumb|The Stick is wrong.]]
*When Homestar puts the bag on his head, the propeller on his cap disappears.
*The bag in front of Strong Mad disappears after Homestar asks why they aren't looking in the bags anymore.
*The shadow of The Stick is backwards during the entire short.
*When the scene changes from the Strongs' basement to The Stick, The Stick is in the wrong place and slightly bigger for a few frames.

===Fixed Goofs===
*The link on the toons page to Looking at a Thing in a Bag used to not work, but it was fixed a while ago.

=== Inside References ===
*Strong Bad's line "the greatest guy" is a reference to the [[TV Time Toons Menu]] cover, which reads "Strong Bad- the last great guy?"
*The silhouette of Homestar running to Bubs's is a reference to [[Old Intro 2]].

=== Fast Forward ===
*The "Checkitout" animation is used on the [[Store#Store Footer|footer]] at the [[Store]].
*The scene where Strong Bad, Strong Mad, and The Cheat are laying around the couch would later be seen as a drawing in [[mascot]].
*The sound that The Cheat makes when he tells Homestar to go away would be the same sound he makes in [[crazy cartoon]] before he shows Strong Bad his new animation.

== DVD Version ==
*The DVD version features hidden creators' commentary. To access it, switch your DVD player's audio language selection while watching.

===Commentary Transcript===
('''Commentary by:''' [[Matt Chapman]], [[Mike Chapman]], [[Ryan Sterritt]])

'''MIKE:''' So this is a short, but it's pretty long.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, it's pretty much a full featured cartoon Mike. We've got Ryan Sterritt with us here in the broadcasting booth.

'''RYAN:''' I'm right here.

'''MIKE:''' He's gonna offer some insight, some criticism, some unique perspectives on this cartoon.

'''RYAN:''' The color commentary if you will.

'''MIKE:''' Matt and I will do the play by play. So The Cheat is laying on the couch and so is Strong Bad. It looks like Strong Mad might be, uh, laying down behind the couch.

'''MATT:''' The T TV Show song in the background is me and my friend Rene.

''{a deep voice}'' TV Show

'''MATT:''' Who you can also see on this DVD playing the [[Jhonka]] in the [[Peasant's Quest Movie Trailer]], isn't that right listen.

''{deep voice again}'' Watch the TV Show

'''MIKE:''' That's great, he does a great job there.

'''MATT:''' Words from Ryan.

''{long pause}''

'''MIKE:''' Go Ryan, go!

'''RYAN:''' Oh. When ''I'' looked in the bag guys, I saw a lot.

'''MIKE AND MATT:''' Yeah?

'''RYAN:''' I got insight.

'''MIKE:''' We love the silhouette Matt. We lo- I love the silhouette.

'''MATT:''' Where did we learn that from, from Sunday comics?

'''MIKE:''' Yep, from Dennis the Menace. The third frame of Dennis the Menace.

'''MATT:''' Yep.

'''MIKE:''' Old Hank Ketcham. ''{short pause}'' Homestar's voice is a little different in this one.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah I think both Homestar and Bubs are both a little off in this cartoon. Were you sick, or was it, were you just off- off your game...

'''MATT:''' Uh, I jus-, I made a conscious decision to make them a little different I think, Mike.

'''MIKE:''' ''{amused}'' Really.

'''MATT:''' Yeah

'''MIKE:''' Interesting.

'''MATT:''' As a pr- as a consummate professional

''{Mike laughs}''

'''RYAN:''' Hey Mike

'''MATT:''' Tell them the story about that.

'''MIKE:''' Aah, it's the checkitout checkitout. I was in New York and there was some guy hawking, watches or something on the street saying "checkitoutcheckitoutcheckitout", we came by the same place about three hours later and he was still saying "checkitoutcheckitoutcheckitout".

'''RYAN:''' It's true

'''MIKE:''' So if you're a street vendor in New York watch what you say, 'cause I'm gonna put it in the cartoon.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, and if you're Ryan, don't say anything on this commentary track.

''{they laugh}''

'''RYAN:''' Was he really dancing... when he was, sellin' his stuff?

'''MIKE:''' Uh, no, he wasn't dancing, he wasn't doing the uh, arm motion that Bubs was doing. ''{pause}'' But I was doing the little dance that Homestar did. Yeah. On my way by.

'''MATT:''' Those drinks.

'''MIKE:''' I'd like to have a sip of that blue. That blue juice.

'''MATT:''' Those do not look fit for human consumption.

'''RYAN:''' It looks like...

'''MIKE:''' There's always those cleaners, like, household cleaners now they make in those really bright, really delicious colors, that just seems extremely irresponsible

'''MATT:''' Yeah the new, the new nutrient of orange, the new orange, essence of orange.

'''MIKE:''' Well there's purple ones too, like, if I was a kid, that would...

'''MATT:''' Juice!

'''MIKE:''' Yeah

'''MATT:''' It spells juice.

'''MIKE:''' This party is going to be off the chain!

''{they laugh, then pause}''

'''MATT:''' This is a cockamamie scheme ''{they chuckle}'' just to get drinks.

'''MIKE:''' It's all a big conspiracy.

'''MATT:''' I don't know if I can even unravel what exactly their plan was.

'''MIKE:''' Bubs was a double agent, involved somehow.

''{pause}''

'''MATT:''' Yeah, Homestar definitely sounds more, he sounds more at ease. Closer to my normal voice than usual I think

''{pause, Homestar does his flip.}''

'''MATT:''' This thing, another part of the weird conspiracy. Are we led to believe that The Cheat can just-

'''MIKE:''' ''{overlapping}''The Force can just make him
''{overlapping}'' Yeah that he can just be commanded

'''MATT:''' ''{quickly}'' Do a flip!

'''MIKE:''' ''{whining}'' OK, I'll do it, I'm sorry.

'''MATT:''' I remember uh, hearing a lot of people sort of were a little depressed by this one at the end, where Homestar was not only dumb like he usually is but it was, kinda realized that he was dumb...put it.

'''MATT:''' Up, hrt, uch, ut- The end! Ut! Go!

'''MIKE:''' Um.

== External Links ==
*[[HR:whatsinthebag.html|watch "Thing in a Bag"]]
*[[HR:whatsinthebag2.swf|view the Flash file for "Thing in a Bag"]]

{{subtitlesLinks|whatsinthebag}}

[[Category:Shorts]][[Category:Not Quite Strong Bad Emails]][[Category:DVD Commentary]]

Hanging Objects

Slowbar — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 13:34:10 GMT

Slowbar: /* From no loafing */

Some of the residents in [[Free Country, USA]] have '''posters, pictures and signs''' in their domiciles, as well as three posters visitors of [[homestarrunner.com]] can [[Store Posters|buy]].

==[[House of the Brothers Strong]]==
===[[Computer Room]]===
<gallery>
Image:Poster Calligraphy Scroll.PNG|<center>'''Calligraphy Scroll and [[Wikipedia:Yin and yang|Taijitu]]'''</center>
Image:Log gnawing.PNG|<center>'''Log-gnawing (from [[portrait]])'''</center>
Image:Medium sign.png|<center>'''Medium sign (from [[unused emails]])'''</center>
Image:No Loafing Sign.png|<center>'''[[No Loafing Sign]]'''</center>
Image:Short sign.png|<center>'''Short sign (from [[unused emails]])'''</center>
Image:Sbsmtcpics.PNG|<center>'''[[Strong Bad]]''', '''[[Strong Mad]]''' and '''[[The Cheat]]'''
Image:Tall sign.png|<center>'''Tall sign (from [[unused emails]])'''</center>
Image:close Paper.png|<center>'''[[The Paper]]'''</center>
</gallery>

===From [[no loafing]]===
<gallery>
Image:Failureposter.PNG|<center>'''Failure'''</center>
Image:Puppypicture.PNG|<center>'''Hush puppy'''</center>
Image:Friendsposter.PNG|<center>'''I have friends!'''</center>
Image:Tiviesposter.PNG|<center>'''Remember the 'Tivities:'''</center>
Image:Horsepicture.PNG|<center>'''Wooden [[horse]]'''</center>
Image:No Loafing 2.png|<center>'''No Loafing 2'''</center>
</gallery>

===[[Strong Sad's Room]]===
<gallery>
Image:Poster The Cure.PNG|<center>'''[[Wikipedia:The Cure|The Cure]] album "[[Wikipedia:Boys Don't Cry (album)|Boys Don't Cry]]"'''</center>
Image:StyleronEcochairPoster.PNG|<center>'''Danube-Largo Styleron Ecochair poster'''</center>
Image:Poster Some Kind of Wonderful.JPG|<center>'''The movie "[[IMDB:tt0094006|Some Kind of Wonderful]]"'''</center>
Image:Poster The Promise Ring.PNG|<center>'''"[[Wikipedia:The Promise Ring|The Promise Ring]]"'''</center>
Image:ss gimmicks poster.jpg|<center>'''Unknown'''</center>
</gallery>

===[[Strong Mad's Room]]===
<gallery>
Image:Stromgmadrd.PNG|<center>'''Strong Mad Rd.'''</center>
</gallery>

===[[Basement of the Brothers Strong]]===
<gallery>
Image:Navratilova.PNG|<center>'''Navratilova Comin' Atcha!! poster'''</center>
Image:ComicMoviePoster.PNG|<center>'''[[Comic Book Movie]] poster'''</center>
</gallery>

===[[Strong Bad's Room]]===
<gallery>
Image:Farrahposter.PNG|<center>'''[[Wikipedia:Farrah Fawcett|Farrah Fawcett]]'''</center>
Image:Homestarposter.PNG|<center>'''[[Homestar Runner]]'''</center>
Image:Unicornposter.PNG|<center>'''A unicorn'''</center>
Image:Dangeresque3TeaserPoster.png|<center>'''Dangeresque 3 Teaser Poster'''</center>
</gallery>

===[[Email Processing Room]]===
<gallery>
Image:Backtoworkposter.PNG|<center>'''Get back to work!'''</center>
Image:Pridedetailethicspictures.PNG|<center>'''Pride Detail Ethics'''</center>
</gallery>

==[[Homestar Runner's House]]==
<gallery>
Image:Homestarpicture.PNG|<center>'''[[Homestar Runner Evolution|Homestar's Evolution]]'''</center>
Image:Homestarcostumepicture.PNG|<center>'''Homestar's [[Halloween Costumes|Past Costumes]]'''</center>
</gallery>

==[[Marzipan's House]]==
<gallery>
Image:Thankyouposter.PNG|<center>'''Thank you'''</center>
</gallery>

==From [[Marshmallow's Last Stand]]==
<gallery>
Image:MLS Sign EGGS-TREME.PNG|<center>'''EGGS-TREME!'''</center>
Image:MLS Sign GET TOASTED.PNG|<center>'''GET TOASTED'''</center>
Image:MLS Sign LETTUCE PRAY.PNG|<center>'''LETTUCE PRAY'''</center>
Image:MLS Sign NICE TO MEAT YOU.PNG|<center>'''NICE TO MEAT YOU'''</center>
Image:MLS Sign PIE-FECT.PNG|<center>'''PIE-FECT!!'''</center>
Image:MLS Sign SAY CHEESE.PNG|<center>'''SAY CHEESE'''</center>
Image:MLS Sign War Star.PNG|<center>'''The War for the Star'''</center>
</gallery>

==From [[portrait]]==
<gallery>
Image:Trailer_pony.PNG|<center>'''Blacklight Unicorn on Snowmobile'''</center>
Image:Deutch masters.PNG|<center>'''Deütsch mästers'''</center>
Image:Trailer_SB.PNG|<center>'''Strong Bad With Skunk'''</center>
</gallery>

==[[Old-Timey]]==
<gallery>
Image:LoafingNoPermitted.png|<center>'''Loafing Not Permitted'''</center>
Image:Supra Modern Telegram.png|<center>'''Old-Timey The Paper'''</center>
Image:dapplerswindler.png|<center>'''The Dapper Swindler wanted poster'''</center>
</gallery>

==[[The Field]]==
<gallery>
Image:Fairstivalposter.png|<center>'''[[Halloween Fairstival]] events'''</center>
Image:Missing Cheat Poster.png|<center>'''Missing [[The Cheat]]'''</center>
Image:Strongest man in the world contest banner.PNG|<center>'''[[Strongest_Man_in_the_World|Strongest man in the world contest banner]]'''</center>
Image:Lookalike contest banner.PNG|<center>'''[[Strong Sad Lookalike Contest]] banner'''</center>
</gallery>

==[[Gymnasium]]==
<gallery>
Image:newscoreboard.png|<center>'''[[Scoreboard]]'''</center>
Image:Entrapment banner.PNG|<center>'''Entrapment All Up On The Moon Dance banner''' (from [[senior prom]])</center>
Image:Disconnected Easter egg.PNG|<center>'''Support [[The Municipality]] poster''' (from [[more armies]])</center>
Image:Do you has.PNG|<center>'''Do You Has? poster''' (from [[more armies]])</center>
Image:Boond you like.PNG|<center>'''Boond You Like? poster''' (from [[more armies]])</center>
</gallery>

==From [[The Li'l Brudder Show]]==
<gallery>
Image:Mawpicture.PNG|<center>'''Maw'''</center>
Image:Pawpicture.PNG|<center>'''Paw'''</center>
</gallery>

==[[Strong Badia]]==
<gallery>
Image:Space_captianface_sign.png|<center>'''Space Captainface'''</center>
</gallery>

==[[The Classroom]]==
<gallery>
Image:SB_Classroom.PNG|<center>'''The Chalkboard'''</center>
Image:Byte.PNG|<center>'''Computers don't BYTE''' (from [[technology]])</center>
Image:How_come.PNG|<center>'''A Projector Screen''' (from [[space program]])</center>
</gallery>

==Other==
<gallery>
Image:Poster_Jumpman.png|<center>'''[[Wikipedia:Jumpman|Jumpman]]''' (from the [[Videro_Games|Video Game]] Make Place)</center>
Image:Marshie Mother.PNG|<center>'''[[Marshie|Marshie's]] mother'''</center>
Image:Ehsteve_ornament.PNG|<center>'''Eh Steve, in gold ornamental glory from [[what I want]]'''</center>
Image:Internetdotcom.PNG|<center>'''Snowman Surfing the internet from [[what I want]]'''</center>
Image:Coach z wanted poster.PNG|<center>'''[[Coach Z]] Wanted poster from [[Decemberween Short Shorts]]'''</center>
Image:Character Ornaments.PNG|<center>'''All of the ornaments on [[The Decemberween Tree]]'''</center>
Image:TC junior exec.png|<center>'''The picture of [[The Cheat]]'s promotion from [[business trip]]'''</center>
</gallery>

==[[Store Posters]]==
<gallery>
Image:everybody-poster.PNG|<center>'''[[Everybody Everybody Poster]]'''</center>
Image:Homestar Runner and Strong Bad Poster.PNG|<center>'''[[Homestar and Strong Bad Poster]]'''</center>
Image:Homestarrunner 1966 198755.jpeg|<center>'''The [[Trogdor Poster]]'''</center>
</gallery>

[[Category: Items]][[Category: Lists]]

Stinkomanual

Slowbar — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 13:24:13 GMT

Slowbar: /* Level 2 - Pick a Bone! */

[[Image:Stinkomanual-full.png|thumb|Check out my new gameplay!]]
The [[Stinkomanual]] is the instruction manual for [[Stinkoman 20X6]]. It can be seen by hovering the mouse below "Controls" on the main menu.

==Stinkomanual==

STINKOMAN
20X6

Instruction
Stinkomanual Videlectrix

'''Welcome to Stinkoman GAME!'''
Stinkoman is trying very hard to win this exciting challenge! Only YOU can help him. Keep striving until you REACH YOUR GOALS or you'll be stuck with the same dead end friends you've had since HIGH SCHOOL. This game will prove a challenge...

:''...but can you prove it back?!?!''

'''The Story'''
STINKOMAN and his pals 1-UP and PAN PAN live on Planet K in the year 20X6. This game is all about that. Don't expect any weepy princess crap, this is a STINKOMAN game! Or at least it was last time we checked! Maybe fighting? Maybe challenge?
THE CHOICE IS OURS!!

'''The Controls'''
This game keeps using ARROW KEYS to move Stinkoman around. It won't stop making him JUMP with the A key or SHOOT with the S key, either. You won't find this kind of quality in other countries!!

===[[Stinkoman 20X6 Walkthrough Level 1|Level 1 - Go Home!]]===

Stinkoman fighted a challenge and WINS! Help him get back home for some fave treats.

'''JARO''' - A bouncing cup, Jaro will hop around until he's pounded you down!

'''GREGGO''' - This robot will become indestructible if you stare at him. Shoot, jive, GET OUTTA THE WAY!

'''POORU-POORU''' - This punk cucumber is no cactus! Land on one and it's DOINK for you!

'''CHORCH''' - A flying mecha with pinching fingers, Chorch will make you wish you were never even born!!

'''BROWNTANT''' - This little robot is no mecha. He'll shoot you down with his mecha antenna! Takes a lickin!

====Boss 1 - Tampo====

Tampo is as mean as he is delicious! Stinkoman already beat Tampo before you started playing the game only now his brain has decided to get revenge! Dodge his attacks and shoot him or you'll never amount to anything

''"I wish I still had a lungs!"
:-Tampo '89''

===[[Stinkoman 20X6 Walkthrough Level 2|Level 2 - Pick a Bone!]]===

Stinkoman found a chicken bone in his dumpling soup. Battle throughout the kitchen for revenge!

'''TERRELL''' - A baby chick with no body? That's freaky. Blast em up [[Dan]]!

'''ROSE BLAKE''' - A 'Lectric burner with a taste for human flesh!

'''KOLKARYU''' - A UFO that zips in and is always shooting at you. I honestly don't think you can kill it.

'''GRUNDY''' - A jogging chicken? That has to be a bold faced lie.

'''LUNDSFORD''' - Natural gas is the name of the game when Lundsford is in town. Learn his habits, have him followed, hunt down his family.

'''STOBAT''' - The fattest chicken plays fly, hocking up old bones. Stay outta range and BLAMMO: Stobat tenders.

'''OLD SAGE''' - These are sharp tips! They'll kill ya dead! DEAD I SAY!

'''TORTAN''' - Tortan is a drippy bottle of poisonous Tortan. Don't drink! Is no good for you!

''"I am waiting a good while for you to help me win this game! What's the hold up? Help me out already!"
:-Stinkoman''

====Boss 2 - Brody====

Brody is stompin' mad! Keep from squished, ya know? Shoot him in the eye when he tries to come in for the kill. You're not chicken, are you?

''"My feet are orange feet."
:-BRODY, FL''

===[[Stinkoman 20X6 Walkthrough Level 3|Level 3 - Up 'n Down]]===

Stinkoman goes up, up, up and then down, down
down

'''CLOWDER''' - Steer clear of this crotchety old cloud. He won't die and doesn't say hello.

'''MR. UBBERS''' - A rain drop that releases golden nuggets when punched. Go for the GOLD!

Stinkoman loves BREAD, but boy does he hate SOAP, APPLES, EARS and P's.
Falling from the skies and bove.

1 BREAD results in 1 ITEM POINT! SOAP, APPLES, EARS, and P's result in minus 1 ITEM POINT!

EVASIVE ACTION!!

====Boss 3 - Stlunko====

Stlunko gonna pound you!! Shoot the wall on top of Stlunko's head to send him packing. His fists hurt you, but you can't hurt thems.

''"Stlunko need a reason to live"
:-Stlunko, 404''

===[[Stinkoman 20X6 Walkthrough Level 4|Level 4 - Fisticuff!]]===

Use some giant hand to protect 1up the extra man!

'''POORBT''' - Man! 'Poorbt' is hard to say! This guy shoots straight from the fist.

'''GOKUL''' - Dear Throbbing Mass, If you gotta go, gokul.

'''GASPEAU''' - Gaspeau flies in like a lion and out like Gaspeau!

'''PINK CHAM CHAM''' - STAY AWAY FROM CHAM CHAM! He's rolled in coconut and highly delicious.

'''FROTZER''' - If you think Frotzer is different from Gaspeau, that's okay.

'''1UP''' - Apparently you've gotta save this guy. (No, there aren't five of them in real life! Jeez! Quit writing already!)

====Boss 4 - Saargtsson====

Saargtsson rarely plays fair. He'll often employ the help of his firey hot friend, Firey-Hot. Smash his tail bit by bit by bit by bit until he doesn't have a head to stand on. Watch out for those fierce laser blasts and you'll be sure to have a blast with Saargtsson.

(GRAPHICS TOO AWESOME TO BE DEPICTED)

''"Saargtsson is an equal opportunity employer." Saargtsson-Bosch, GmbH''

===[[Stinkoman 20X6 Walkthrough Level 5|Level 5 - Oh the Moon!]]===

1up takes matters into this own torso!

'''ASTROMUND''' - This little astro style mund has a shield that can't be beat! Or maybe it's a trashcan lid.

'''THE BENDINI SISTERS''' - This family of asteroids are meteors! Hit the breaks when you feel them comin in the air tonight. Hold on!

'''DOWNTANT''' - This guy thinks you killed his Browntant cousin. Well, DID YOU?!?! Better think twice, or pay the price. UPTANT sold seperately.

'''PIEDMONT''' - At least little Piedmont knows how to keep a guy laughing. This little comedian scans for intruders and open mic nights with a hot fry lamp!

====Boss 5 - Nebulon====

Nebulon's been working out and it shows. He's had it with scenes and cliques. He's ready to be accepted for WHO HE IS!!

''"Another green salad, another iced tea..." -Nebulon''

===[[Stinkoman 20X6 Walkthrough Level 6|Level 6 - Stratosfear!]]===

Stinkoman is back in style and vacationing in the clouds where he can challenge all the plugs and saws he wants! Is it getting warmer in here?!?

'''PORCHI''' - This round-about lives inside the clouds, waiting for the perfect opportunity to make his IPO. Incision Puncture OUCH! Yeah, he's invincible.

'''STAFULTER''' - Man, can't you kill ANYTHING on this level? This flying plug-duck saunters around like it's goin outta style!

'''POSTLETHWAITE''' - A gloomy, dark cloud, ol' P-thwaite is real jealous of the pink clouds and zaps them to and fro! Don't get caught in the middle of this domestic cloud-spute!!

'''PROTEK''' - Watch out for the 3-pronged, 2-prong attack! Take out his cord first, then go for the face!

'''HASH-HAW''' - What kind of a name is Hash-haw for anyone to have anyway? Time your jumps! Take your lumps!

====Boss 6 - The Liekand====

You will probably not be able to beat this guy. I'm sorry. He is a truly great warrior with firm resolve and sweet shades. And I mean, come on, he shoots bubbles. BUBBLES!

''"Fashion first, ask sections later." -The Liekand''

===[[Stinkoman 20X6 Walkthrough Level 7|Level 7 - Ice 2 Meet U]]===

Someone zapped Stinkoman with red button lightning, and now he's freezing it off in the Ice Zone! Remember to keep the faucet running or your pipes will burst!

'''MY BENJ''' - These little cuties are hoppin mad! They gather in groups and have roundtable discussions about all things kill-Stinkoman. Aim low, sweet chariot!

'''STOTHOS''' - Part tank, part tank robot, Stothos shoots both ways and hopes to get into a good school. Shoot. Jump. Repeat!

'''FULLBIDE''' - Fullbide has one of the best names in this game. Better than Chorch or Tortan even! He'll swoop down on Stinkoman from either side and spin around like he belongs in a top-down shooter!

'''SEEPER MO''' - These ice crystals will stop at nothing. Stinkoman better think seriously about jumping o'er thems.

'''DITMARS''' - Contrary to this drawing, Ditmars is NOT a tree and a blanket. She is a vent that shoots froze-jets that will turn you into town square!

'''BIZTAR''' - Aw, man, Biztar didn't do nothin'. Come on, let's go.

====Boss 7 - An Ice Machine====

An Ice Machine shoots ice and frozen style at you. Cryptic messages in the sand. Shoot him in the eyes like most bosses in this game.

''"LOOK! I'M TRYING! OKAY?!" -An Ice Machine''

===[[Stinkoman 20X6 Walkthrough Level -0|Level 8 - Negatory]]===

DON'T BLOW INTO YOUR CARTRIDGE!! YOUR GAME PAK IS NOT BROKE! Stinkoman has just been zapped into the fabled Negative Zone where everything is screwed up. Ump is down and black is right in this crazy, mixed-up label. Don't trust your senses! Only quick timing and short tempers can get our hero out of this one. Negative great!

====Boss 8 - Ekersby====

Poor Ekersby. He's a jumble of good, good graphics from the rest of the game. Don't let his ham-heartedness get you down!

''"You were NEVER there for me." - Ekersby''

===[[Stinkoman 20X6 Walkthrough Level 9|Level 9 - Turbolence]]===

Stinkoman hops inside his mostly cool ship, The Stinkowing, hoping to take a shortcut through an evil jungle. But the mysterious challenger sends out an entire seafood platter. Man the tartar cannons!!

'''PRUDENCH''' - Peeled, deveined, and totally INSANE! These skrimps are butterflied and ready to die. Great with butter but I prefer ceviche!

'''DOLMERLAY''' - This is a robotic clam but that's just between you and me. Dolmy's shell will deflect your shots, but get him talking about work or his kids and it's all over.

'''ROLDHAP''' - These anemones are always firing their mouths off. LITERALLY! Watch out for their stinging mouth shots. The red light knows all and tells all!

'''SEMULADE''' - These shark-ships fear no Stinko and will hurl themselves at our hero after a moment's rest. Head down, power through!

'''FUNDLAKE''' - You can shoot a Fundlake, boh yes, but a Fundlake will come back. Shoot late, hurry on!

'''SACKASTANO''' - These goldfish ships travel in schools! Be careful after 1st period or they'll try and sell you an elevator pass!

'''QUORVEKT''' - That is a great drawing of a stingray with guns on it. I really like the perspective. This might be my favorite drawing in this manual. hard2kill.

'''BROODACRE''' - A jungle-ized bolcano with extra rocks! Broody has 2 flaming boulders to juggle. Get all up in his business and figure out that pattern!

'''REID''' - Reids are punk jellyfish with high GPA's. They ALWAYS travel single file except when it is determined that they are NOT traveling single file. Watch for their trademark Reid-thrust!

====Boss 9 - Harvax XVII====

Named after the moon on which he was born, Harvax XVII is a small but speedy octopus or squid. His ink attacks won't come off so dodge carefully. His beak just might hold the key.

''"That description is ALL WRONG!" -Harvax XVII''

===Giving Up Already?!===

Stinkoman must be ashamed of you! Get back in the game and try out these rules and hints!!

*play the game every day, even after mom says no 
*new and exciting recipes 
*hold B 
*ask your parents 
*walk and talk 
*table the label! wear your own brand!

==Fun Facts==

===Explanations===

*[[Wikipedia:Gmbh|GmbH]] is the German acronym for "Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung", literally translating as "Company with limited liability", and roughly comparable to the abbreviations "Ltd." or "LLC."
*[[Wikipedia:Ceviche|Ceviche]] is a dish that originated in Peru and primarily consists of chunks of raw fish and sliced onion in lime or lemon juice.

===Remarks===

[[Image:hamheart.png|thumb|''Left:'' Ekersby's heart ''Right:'' The King of Town's heart]]
*[[Stinkoman_20X6_Enemies#Bosses|Ekersby]] has a [[ham]] for a heart, just as it is shown that [[The King of Town]] does (in [[Halloween Fairstival]]).
*The description for [[Stinkoman 20X6 Enemies#Bosses|Harvax XVII]] matches that of an enemy in level 9 not shown in the Stinkomanual.

===Goofs===

*When version 5 (up to level 7) of the game was first released, the level 6 portion of the Stinkomanual mysteriously vanished (and no level 7 portion was put in its place.) It was replaced later in the day.
*When Level 9 was first released, Levels 6, 7, and -0 mysteriously disappeared on some computers.
*The manual lists Level 3 as "Up'N'Down", while its true title is "Dumb Wall".

===Inside-References===

*In the Level 6 section another mention of [[Ducks]] is used.
*The line "Blast em up [[Dan]]!" is an adaptation of "fry 'em up, Dan!" from [[TROGDOR!]]
*[[1-Up]] "taking matters into his own torso" refers to his [[lack of visible arms]].
*Postlethwaite being abbreviated to "P-thwaite" refers to [[Piemonade]] being shortened to "P-nade" in [[other days]].

===Real-World References===

*The description of the Bendini Sisters refers to the [[Wikipedia:Phil Collins|Phil Collins]] song [http://www.philcollins.co.uk/air.htm "In the Air Tonight"].
*The phrase "Table the Label" is from a motivational video hosted by [[Wikipedia:Mr. T|Mr. T]] called ''[[Wikipedia:Be Somebody... or Be Somebody's Fool!|Be Somebody... or Be Somebody's Fool!]]
*Postlethwaite is likely named after [[IMDb:nm0000592|Pete Postlethwaite]], an actor best remembered from the film "The Usual Suspects" from 1995.
*"Another green salad, another iced tea" is a lyric from [http://www.xs4all.nl/~bigron/sonic/sylgoo.html#02 "Tunic (Song For Karen)"] by [[Wikipedia:Sonic Youth|Sonic Youth]].
*Gokul's description holds a line from [[Wikipedia:Leonard Bernstein|Leonard Bernstein's]] musical ''[[Wikipedia:West Side Story|West Side Story]]''.
*The quote on Saargtsson's page is attributed to Saargtson-Bosch GmbH. [http://www.bosch.com/content/language2/html/index.htm Robert Bosch GmbH] is an actual German company.
*The phrase "aim low, sweet chariot" in the My Benj entry is a reference to the song [[Wikipedia:Swing Low, Sweet Chariot|Swing Low, Sweet Chariot]].
*Gaspeau's description "In like a lion and out like Gaspeau" refers to the saying, "In like a lion, out like a lamb."
*In the description for level 8/-0, the Stinkomanual advises you not to blow into your cartridge. This refers mainly to the original [[Wikipedia:Nintendo Entertainment System|Nintendo system]], which was extremely sensitive to dust. One of the most popular ways to "fix" a game that had dust collect in it was to blow into it.
*The negatory world is a reference to the famous [[Wikipedia:Minus World|minus world]] in [[Wikipedia:Super Mario Bros.|Super Mario Bros.]], which was a glitch world obtained through jumping through a wall in world 1-2, explaining the quote "IN SIDE A WALL!!"
*"Hold B" is likely another reference to [[Wikipedia:Super Mario Bros.|Super Mario Bros.]], in which holding B causes Mario to run faster.
*"Stlunko, 404" probably refers to HTTP error [[404'd]] (file not found).
*"Up 'N' Down" may refer to a video game called "[http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=U&game_id=10273 Up'n Down].

==External Links==

*[[HR:stinkogame/v7/externalSwf/stinkomanual.swf|See the Stinkoman 20X6 manual (Flash file)]]

{{Template:Stinkoman 20X6}}
[[Category:Stinkoman 20X6]]

Items

Slowbar — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 13:01:50 GMT

Slowbar: /* Other Electronics */

Here is a gallery of '''items''' seen and/or used by the [[characters]]. Some are used frequently while others are seldom seen.

== Clothing ==
<gallery>
Image:blue ones.PNG|<center>'''[[The Blue Ones]]'''</center>
Image:bowler derby.PNG|<center>'''[[Bowler Hats]]'''</center>
Image:s capitain hat.png|<center>'''[[Captain's Hat]]'''</center>
Image:Shades.png|<center>'''[[Cool Shades]]'''</center>
Image:Gross old wig.png|<center>'''[[Gross Old Wig]]'''</center>
Image:FairstivalCostumes.PNG|<center>'''[[Halloween Costumes]]'''</center>
Image:homestar.PNG|<center>'''[[Homestar Runner#Homestar's Clothing|Homestar Runner's Clothing]]'''</center>
Image:homestardukes.PNG|<center>'''[[Homestar Runner's Daisy Dukes]]'''</center>
Image:homestarpants.PNG|<center>'''[[Homestar Runner's Pants]]'''</center>
Image:HRwearingbunnyslippers.png|<center>'''[[Homestar Runner's Sleepwear]]'''</center>
Image:Dolph Haudhagen The Instruct-TOR.PNG|<center>'''[[Horned Helmet]]'''</center>
Image:Lotionman.PNG|<center>'''[[Lotionman]]'''</center>
Image:Strongs Decemberween card.png|<center>'''[[Other Costumes]]'''</center>
Image:Ovenmitts.PNG|<center>'''[[Oven Mitts]]'''</center>
Image:TragicClownDog.PNG|<center>'''[[Tragic Clown Dog|Tragic Clown Dog Costume]]'''</center>
Image:Homely boy brand huge tube socks.PNG|<center>'''[[Tube Socks]]'''</center>
</gallery>

== Computers ==
=== Strong Bad's Computers ===
The computers [[Strong Bad]] has used for his [[Strong Bad Email|emails]], and some more obscure ones.
<gallery>
Image:sbemail1.PNG|<center>'''[[Tandy 400]]'''</center>
Image:sbemail.png|<center>'''[[Compy 386]]'''</center>
Image:sbemail119.PNG|<center>'''[[Lappy 486]]'''</center>
Image:block computer.PNG|<center>'''[[Block]]'''</center>
Image:Corpy NT6.png|<center>'''[[Corpy NT6]]'''</center>
Image:ZappyXT6.png|<center>'''[[Zappy XT6]]'''</center>
</gallery>

=== Other Computers ===
<gallery>
Image:Blue Laser Supercomputer.PNG|<center>'''[[Blue Laser Supercomputer]]'''</center>
Image:Box Computer.PNG|<center>'''[[Strong Mad's Computer]]'''</center>
Image:Datum Center.PNG|<center>'''[[Datum Center Computers]]'''</center>
Image:pompilot.PNG|<center>'''[[Pom Pilot]]'''</center>
Image:tangerine dreams.PNG|<center>'''[[Tangerine Dreams]]'''</center>
Image:New iMac.png|<center>'''[[Monosodium Dreams]]'''</center>
Image:sfd.png|<center>'''[[The Screen]]'''</center>
Image:Happy8600.png|<center>'''[[Happy 8600]]'''</center>
Image:Snacky.png|<center>'''[[Snacky 186]]'''</center>
</gallery>

== Food/Drinks ==

=== Fluffy Puff ===
<gallery>
Image:fluffy puff air-puffed sugar delights.PNG|<center>'''[[Fluffy Puff Air-Puffed Sugar Delights|Air-Puffed Sugar Delights]]'''</center>
Image:Fluffy Puff Bitesize Nibblers.png|<center>'''[[Fluffy Puff Bite-Size Nibblers|Bite-Size Nibblers]]'''</center>
Image:fluffypuffmalloweens.png|<center>'''[[Fluffy Puff Malloweens|Malloweens]]'''</center>
Image:fpmarsh.png|<center>'''[[Fluffy Puff Marshmallows|Marshmallows]]'''</center>
Image:fp mayo.png|<center>'''[[Fluffy Puff Mayo|Mayo]]'''</center>
Image:Redflavoredfluffypuff.png|<center>'''[[Fluffy Puff Translucent Dessert Related Substance|Translucent Dessert Related Substance]]'''
</gallery>

=== Other Foods ===
<gallery>
Image:breadsingalong.png|<center>'''[[Bread]]'''</center>
Image:bronco t.PNG|<center>'''[[Bronco Trolleys]]'''</center>
Image:50cake.PNG|<center>'''[[Cake]]'''</center>
Image:TheCheatCakes.png|<center>'''[[The Cheatcakes|Cheatcakes]]'''</center>
Image:homsar shirt logo back.PNG|<center>'''[[Coffee]]'''</center>
Image:sbemail39.PNG|<center>'''[[Cold One]]s'''
Image:ryansterrit and sb.JPG|<center>'''[[Croissants]]'''</center>
Image:Stuffinged Ham and Gravied Yams.png|<center>'''[[Decemberween Food]]'''</center>
Image:French Fries.png|<center>'''[[French Fries]]'''</center>
Image:Tao Chicken.PNG|<center>'''[[General Tso's Chicken]]'''</center>
Image:PBTC Grumblecake.jpg|<center>'''[[Grumblecakes]]'''</center>
Image:Ham.png|<center>'''[[Ham]]'''</center>
Image:homestarjr2.PNG|<center>'''[[Homestar Jr.]]'''</center>
Image:Strongbad actionfigure.png|<center>'''[[Hotcakes]]'''</center>
Image:homestar ice cream.jpg|<center>'''[[Ice Cream]]'''</center>
Image:melonade.png|<center>'''[[Melonade]]'''</center>
Image:TeddyGraham.PNG|<center>'''[[Minor Foods]]'''</center>
Image:Mountain Dew.png|<center>'''[[Mountain Dew]]'''</center>
Image:pastasalad.png|<center>'''[[Pasta Salad]]'''</center>
Image:Pea-Buried.PNG|<center>'''[[Peas]]'''</center>
Image:bluelazerpizza.PNG|<center>'''[[Pizza]]'''</center>
Image:Potate bag.png|<center>'''[[Potate]]'''</center>
Image:Steak.PNG|<center>'''[[Steak]]'''</center>
Image:Swiss Cake Rolls.PNG|<center>'''[[Swiss Cake Rolls]]'''</center>
Image:awpotatoes.PNG|<center>'''[[The King of Town's Food]]'''</center>

</gallery>

== Instruments ==
<gallery>
Image:Bubs with Keytar.png|<center>'''[[Bubs's keytar]]'''</center>
Image:carol.PNG|<center>'''[[Carol]]'''</center>
Image:Homestar floor tom.PNG|<center>'''[[Instruments|Homestar's Floor Tom]]'''</center>
Image:keyswordtar in action.PNG|<center>'''[[Keyswordtar]]'''</center>
Image:Ukulele and Poetry.png|<center>'''[[Marzipan's Ukulele]]'''</center>
Image:SMBass.PNG|<center>'''[[Strong Mad's Bass]]'''</center>
Image:ssguitar.png|<center>'''[[Instruments|Strong Sad's Guitar]]'''</center>
Image:Strong Sad Violin.PNG|<center>'''[[Strong Sad's Violin]]'''</center>
Image:Cheatdrum.PNG|<center>'''[[Characters' Instruments#The Cheat's Instruments|The Cheat's Drums]]</center>
Image:cheat keyboard.png|<center>'''[[The Cheat's keyboard]]'''</center>
Image:Worshboard.PNG|<center>'''[[Washboard]]'''</center>
</gallery>

== Toys ==
<gallery>
Image:Aunt gert doll.PNG|<center>'''[[Aunt Gert]]'''</center>
Image:qod 25 - Doreauxgard.PNG|<center>'''[[Doreauxgard]]'''</center>
Image:Gooblies Pet Lobster.PNG|<center>'''[[Gooblies]]'''</center>
Image:grabbo arm.png|<center>'''[[Grabbo Arm]]'''</center>
Image:Lord Quackingstick.PNG|<center>'''[[Lord Quackingstick]]'''</center>
Image:donkis.png|<center>'''[[Poodonkis]]'''</center>
Image:Santaman.png|<center>'''[[Santaman]]</center>
Image:Sbrocket.PNG|<center>'''[[Strong Bad's Rocket]]</center>
Image:Thedenzel.png|<center>'''[[The Denzel]]'''</center>
Image:Tony Stony 2.png|<center>'''[[Tony Stony]]'''</center>
</gallery>

== Media ==

=== Books ===
<gallery>
Image:BooksinRampageEmail.PNG|<center>'''[[Authorless Books]]'''</center>
Image:Beverlybooks.png|<center>'''Books authored by [[Beverly Sportsinterviews]]'''</center>
Image:worldly record book.png|<center>'''[[Count Longardeaux's Book]]'''</center>
Image:sbemail84.png|<center>'''[[kids' book|Everyone is Different]]'''</center>
Image:Limozeen coloringbook.png|<center>'''[[Limozeen Coloring Book]]'''</center>
Image:Little jakey pleasanthanks.png|<center>'''[[Little Jakey Pleasenthanks]]'''</center>
Image:Comeback.PNG|<center>'''[[More Like You Write A Book About Come-back Jokes, NERD!!]]'''</center>
Image:Sbemail146.png|<center>'''Strong Bad [[pop-up]] book'''</center>
Image:That Time of Year.png|<center>'''[[That Time of Year]]'''</center>
Image:Fishwasdelish.PNG|<center>'''[[The Fish was Delish and it made Quite a Dish!]]'''</center>
Image:lemcover.jpg|<center>'''[[Bookazon.com|This Book is Better Than 1st, 2nd, and Quite Possibly Even 3rd Base]]'''</center>
Image:TTOM One.PNG|<center>'''How to play [[Three-to-One Marny]]'''</center>
</gallery>

=== Magazines ===
<gallery>
Image:Fretmagic magazine.PNG|<center>'''[[Fretmagic]]'''</center>
Image:huskyheadedboysback2school.PNG|<center>'''[[Husky Headed Boys Back 2 School Catalog]]'''</center>
Image:nerdularnerdence.gif|<center>'''[[Nerdular Nerdence]]'''</center>
Image:Scarfgirl.PNG|<center>'''[[Scarfgirl]]'''</center>
Image:Hundredaire Socialite.png|<center>'''[[Stookley's Hundredaire Socialite]]'''</center>
Image:stupidcoincidencemagazine.PNG|<center>'''[[Stupid Coincidence Magazine]]'''</center>
Image:Strong Mad and The Cheat TV Time Cover 4.png|<center>'''[[TV Time]]'''</center>
Image:HaveEdgeTimes.png|<center>'''Have Edge Time Magazine'''</center>
</gallery>

== Music Players ==
<gallery>
Image:boom box.png|<center>'''[[booOOMbox]]'''</center>
Image:Homestar clock radio.png|<center>'''[[Clock Radio]]'''</center>
Image:djcheatequipment.png|<center>'''[[DJ Teh C.'s Equipment]]'''</center>
Image:ghettoblastro.png|<center>'''[[Ghetto Blastro]]'''</center>
Image:FlashbackJamBox.PNG|<center>'''[[Jam Box]]'''</center>
Image:Old Timey Radio.png|<center>'''[[Old Timey Radio]]'''</center>
Image:Ray-Jo.png|<center>'''[[Ray-Jo]]'''</center>
Image:Seedees.PNG|<center>'''[[SeeDees]]'''</center>
Image:Sports Use.png|<center>'''[[Sports Use]]'''</center>
Image:strongsads ipod screenshot.png|<center>'''[[Strong Sad's iPod]]'''</center>
Image:StrongSadTapePlayer.PNG|<center>'''[[Strong Sad's Tape Player]]'''</center>
Image:Limozeen vs Sloshy.png|<center>'''[[The Cheat's Record Player]]'''</center>
</gallery>

== Other Electronics ==
<gallery>
Image:atm.png|<center>'''[[ATM]]'''</center>
Image:TheBlender.PNG|<center>'''[[Blender]]'''</center>
Image:Video Camera.PNG|<center>'''[[Cameras]]'''</center>
Image:cellphone.png|<center>'''[[Cell Phones|Cell Phone]]'''</center>
Image:Cow Lamp.PNG|<center>'''[[Cow Lamp]]'''</center>
Image:fiendish freddys.png|<center>'''[[Floppy Disk Container]]'''</center>
Image:Frank Bennedetto.PNG|<center>'''[[Frank Bennedetto]]'''</center>
Image:gn robot.png|<center>'''[[Grape-Nuts Robot]]'''</center>
Image:AWFy.PNG|<center>'''[[Animatronic Strong Bad]]'''</center>
Image:homestarclock.png|<center>'''[[Homestar's Clock]]'''</center>
Image:lectric boots2.png|<center>'''[['Lectric Boots]]'''</center>
Image:mrsbenedetto.png|<center>'''[[Mrs. Bennedetto]]'''</center>
Image:Old Answering Machine.png|<center>'''[[Answering Machine|Old-tech Answering Machine]]'''</center>
Image:Marzipans Answering Machine.png|<center>'''[[PhoneTime XL8]]'''</center>
Image:Telebision Remote.PNG|<center>'''[[Remote Control]]'''</center>
Image:Smoke Detector.png|<center>'''[[Living Room of the Brothers Strong|Smoke Detector]]'''</center>
Image:Telegraph.PNG|<center>'''[[Supra Modern Telegram]]'''</center>
Image:Taranchlua Metal Detector.png|<center>'''[[Taranchula Black Metal Detector]]'''</center>
Image:teebee.PNG|<center>'''[[TeeBee]]'''</center>
Image:teebee remote.PNG|<center>'''TeeBee Remote'''</center>
Image:Caleb Rentpayer.png|<center>'''[[Telebision]]'''</center>
Image:KoT Typing.PNG|<center>'''[[Typing Tutor Turbo]]'''</center>
Image:VCR.PNG|<center>'''[[The VCR]]'''</center>
</gallery>

== Power Tools ==
<gallery>
Image:Strong Mad Chainsaw.PNG|<center>'''[[Strong Mad's Chainsaw|Chainsaw]]'''</center>
Image:Compress-OR.png|<center>'''[[CompressOR]]'''</center>
Image:bellybutton.PNG|<center>'''[[Strong Bad's Drill|Drill]]'''</center>
Image:Jack Hamma.PNG|<center>'''[[Jack Hamma!]]'''</center>
Image:111cheatsolderingiron.png|<center>'''[[Laser Lemon#The Cheat's soldering iron|The Cheat's soldering iron]]'''</center>

</gallery>

== Products ==
<gallery>
Image:Ab-Abber 2000.png|<center>'''[[Ab-Abber 2000]]'''</center>
Image:Cloitsterizer.PNG|<center>'''[[The Cloitsterizer]]'''</center>
Image:C'mon It's FOG!.PNG|<center>'''[[C'mon! It's FOG!]]'''</center>
Image:Ethicalchick'nbeaks.PNG|<center>'''[[Ethical Chick'n Beaks]]'''</center>
Image:s shoe box.png|<center>'''[[Freshley's]]'''</center>
Image:r Menu.PNG|<center>'''[[Grout Clean'r]]'''</center>
Image:hamburger shampoo.png|<center>'''[[Hamburger Shampoo]]'''</center>
Image:Jimmyshobbykit.PNG|<center>'''[[Hollerin' Jimmy's Hobby Kit]]'''</center>
Image:jobars headache medicine.PNG|<center>'''[[Jobar's Big Ol' Headache Medicine]]'''</center>
Image:pencil moistener.png|<center>'''[[King Castlefunny Pencil Moistener]]'''</center>
Image:Listerine item.png|<center>'''[[Listerine]]'''</center>
Image:1ohnoyoudent.png|<center>'''[[Oh No You Dent! Denture Tablets]]'''</center>
Image:yella paint.png|<center>'''[[Paint]]'''</center>
Image:Portly Washboy.gif|<center>'''[[Portly Washboy Fancy Laundry Paste]]'''</center>
Image:Roach killa.png|<center>'''[[Roach Killa!]]</center>
Image:SBLOUNSKCHEDbar.png|<center>'''[[SBLOUNSKCHED! Bar]]'''</center>
Image:School Paste.PNG|<center>'''[[School Paste]]'''</center>
Image:Super mud.png|<center>'''[[Super Mud]]'''</center>
</gallery>

== Weapons ==
<gallery>
Image:bigknife.png|<center>'''[[Big Knives]]'''</center>
Image:bubs shotgun.png|<center>'''[[Bubs's shotgun]]'''</center>
Image:Guillotine.PNG|<center>'''[[Guillotine]]'''</center>
Image:Gunhaver'sGun.PNG|<center>'''[[Gunhaver's Gun]]'''</center>
Image:heavy lourde.png|<center>'''[[Heavy Lourde]]'''</center>
Image:JRBRR.PNG|<center>'''[[Justice Rocket Backpack Rocket Rocket]]'''</center>
Image:keyswordtar in action.PNG|<center>'''[[Keyswordtar]]'''</center>
Image:OldTimeyMarzipanWeapon.PNG|<center>'''[[Old-Timey Marzipan's Contraption]]'''</center>
Image:StalkerSpray.png|<center>'''[[Stalker Spray]]'''</center>
Image:Bazooka.PNG|<center>'''[[Strong Bad's Bazooka]]'''</center>
Image:Nunchuck Action.PNG|<center>'''[[Strong Bad's Nunchucks]]'''</center>
</gallery>

== Misc. ==
<gallery>
Image:aldi bag.png|<center>'''[[Aldi Bag]]'''</center>
Image:Baloneytruck.PNG|<center>'''[[Baloney Sammich Truck]]'''</center>
Image:lighter1.png|<center>'''[[BMW Lighter]]'''</center>
Image:watersoupcans.png|<center>'''[[Can of Water Soup]]'''</center>
Image:cinderblock.jpg|<center>'''[[Cinder Block]]</center>
Image:Clapperboard.PNG|<center>'''[[Clapperboard]]'''</center>
Image:Credenza.png|<center>'''[[Credenza]]'''</center>
Image:Crisperdrawer.PNG|<center>'''[[Crisper Drawer]]'''</center>
Image:Gardenhose.PNG|<center>'''[[Garden Hose]]'''</center>
Image:gremlin homestarloween.png|<center>'''[[Gremlin]]'''</center>
Image:Homestarposter.PNG|<center>'''[[Hanging Objects]]</center>
Image:Le Restige.png|<center>'''[[Le Restige]]'''</center>
Image:Marzipaint.PNG|<center>'''[[Marzipan's Painting Tools]]'''</center>
Image:Nametag.png|<center>'''[[Name Tags]]'''</center>
Image:New Paper.png|<center>'''[[New Paper]]'''</center>
Image:No Loafing Sign.png|<center>'''[[No Loafing Sign]]'''</center>
Image:spoon.png|<center>'''[[Orange Bowl and Spoon]]'''</center>
Image:finetimepermamarker.png|<center>'''[[Permanent Marker]]'''</center>
Image:minerthecheat.PNG|<center>'''[[Pickaxe]]'''</center>
Image:Deckhandbill.png|<center>'''[[Playbills]]'''</center>
Image:Sbemail138.PNG|<center>'''[[The Proud Anselmo]]'''</center>
Image:Redwhiteandbanana.PNG|<center>'''[[Red, White, and Banana]]'''</center>
Image:Space Machine.PNG|<center>'''[[The Space Machine]]'''</center>
Image:stopsign.png|<center>'''[[Stop Sign]]'''</center>
Image:fondue pot.PNG|<center>'''[[Strong Bad's Fondue Pot]]'''</center>
Image:Sbtowel.png|<center>'''Strong Bad's Towel'''</center>
Image:Styleronecochair.PNG|<center>'''[[Styleron Ecochair]]'''</center>
Image:Glowstick.PNG|<center>'''[[The Cheat's Glowsticks]]'''</center>
Image:grill.PNG|<center>'''[[The King of Town's Grill]]'''</center>
Image:close Paper.png|<center>'''[[The Paper]]'''</center>
Image:TheStick.png|<center>'''[[The Stick]]'''</center>
Image:sbemail115.png|<center>'''[[The Time Capsule]]'''</center>
Image:trivia time jar.PNG|<center>'''[[Rejected Characters#Trivia Time|Trivia Time]]''' cookie jar</center>
Image:Uss flirtini.PNG|<center>'''[[USS Flirtini]]'''</center>
Image:wagon fulla pancakes.PNG|<center>'''[[Wagon Fulla Pancakes]]'''</center>
Image:WaterCooler.PNG|<center>'''[[Water Cooler]]'''</center>
Image:Whatsit Blob.PNG|<center>'''[[Whatsit]]'''</center>
Image:X-Pensive White.PNG|<center>'''[[X-Pensive White]]'''</center>
Image:Drexperimento.PNG|<center>'''[[Ruby Powered Rocket]]'''
</gallery>

== See also ==
*[[Electronic Media and Film]]
*[[Action Figure Character Variations]]
*[[Store]]

[[Category: Lists]][[Category: Items|*]]

Items

Slowbar — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 14:22:11 GMT

Slowbar: /* Other Electronics */

Here is a gallery of '''items''' seen and/or used by the [[characters]]. Some are used frequently while others are seldom seen.

== Clothing ==
<gallery>
Image:blue ones.PNG|<center>'''[[The Blue Ones]]'''</center>
Image:bowler derby.PNG|<center>'''[[Bowler Hats]]'''</center>
Image:s capitain hat.png|<center>'''[[Captain's Hat]]'''</center>
Image:Shades.png|<center>'''[[Cool Shades]]'''</center>
Image:Gross old wig.png|<center>'''[[Gross Old Wig]]'''</center>
Image:FairstivalCostumes.PNG|<center>'''[[Halloween Costumes]]'''</center>
Image:homestar.PNG|<center>'''[[Homestar Runner#Homestar's Clothing|Homestar Runner's Clothing]]'''</center>
Image:homestardukes.PNG|<center>'''[[Homestar Runner's Daisy Dukes]]'''</center>
Image:homestarpants.PNG|<center>'''[[Homestar Runner's Pants]]'''</center>
Image:HRwearingbunnyslippers.png|<center>'''[[Homestar Runner's Sleepwear]]'''</center>
Image:Dolph Haudhagen The Instruct-TOR.PNG|<center>'''[[Horned Helmet]]'''</center>
Image:Lotionman.PNG|<center>'''[[Lotionman]]'''</center>
Image:Strongs Decemberween card.png|<center>'''[[Other Costumes]]'''</center>
Image:Ovenmitts.PNG|<center>'''[[Oven Mitts]]'''</center>
Image:TragicClownDog.PNG|<center>'''[[Tragic Clown Dog|Tragic Clown Dog Costume]]'''</center>
Image:Homely boy brand huge tube socks.PNG|<center>'''[[Tube Socks]]'''</center>
</gallery>

== Computers ==
=== Strong Bad's Computers ===
The computers [[Strong Bad]] has used for his [[Strong Bad Email|emails]], and some more obscure ones.
<gallery>
Image:sbemail1.PNG|<center>'''[[Tandy 400]]'''</center>
Image:sbemail.png|<center>'''[[Compy 386]]'''</center>
Image:sbemail119.PNG|<center>'''[[Lappy 486]]'''</center>
Image:block computer.PNG|<center>'''[[Block]]'''</center>
Image:Corpy NT6.png|<center>'''[[Corpy NT6]]'''</center>
Image:ZappyXT6.png|<center>'''[[Zappy XT6]]'''</center>
</gallery>

=== Other Computers ===
<gallery>
Image:Blue Laser Supercomputer.PNG|<center>'''[[Blue Laser Supercomputer]]'''</center>
Image:Box Computer.PNG|<center>'''[[Strong Mad's Computer]]'''</center>
Image:Datum Center.PNG|<center>'''[[Datum Center Computers]]'''</center>
Image:pompilot.PNG|<center>'''[[Pom Pilot]]'''</center>
Image:tangerine dreams.PNG|<center>'''[[Tangerine Dreams]]'''</center>
Image:New iMac.png|<center>'''[[Monosodium Dreams]]'''</center>
Image:sfd.png|<center>'''[[The Screen]]'''</center>
Image:Happy8600.png|<center>'''[[Happy 8600]]'''</center>
Image:Snacky.png|<center>'''[[Snacky 186]]'''</center>
</gallery>

== Food/Drinks ==

=== Fluffy Puff ===
<gallery>
Image:fluffy puff air-puffed sugar delights.PNG|<center>'''[[Fluffy Puff Air-Puffed Sugar Delights|Air-Puffed Sugar Delights]]'''</center>
Image:Fluffy Puff Bitesize Nibblers.png|<center>'''[[Fluffy Puff Bite-Size Nibblers|Bite-Size Nibblers]]'''</center>
Image:fluffypuffmalloweens.png|<center>'''[[Fluffy Puff Malloweens|Malloweens]]'''</center>
Image:fpmarsh.png|<center>'''[[Fluffy Puff Marshmallows|Marshmallows]]'''</center>
Image:fp mayo.png|<center>'''[[Fluffy Puff Mayo|Mayo]]'''</center>
Image:Redflavoredfluffypuff.png|<center>'''[[Fluffy Puff Translucent Dessert Related Substance|Translucent Dessert Related Substance]]'''
</gallery>

=== Other Foods ===
<gallery>
Image:breadsingalong.png|<center>'''[[Bread]]'''</center>
Image:bronco t.PNG|<center>'''[[Bronco Trolleys]]'''</center>
Image:50cake.PNG|<center>'''[[Cake]]'''</center>
Image:TheCheatCakes.png|<center>'''[[The Cheatcakes|Cheatcakes]]'''</center>
Image:homsar shirt logo back.PNG|<center>'''[[Coffee]]'''</center>
Image:sbemail39.PNG|<center>'''[[Cold One]]s'''
Image:ryansterrit and sb.JPG|<center>'''[[Croissants]]'''</center>
Image:Stuffinged Ham and Gravied Yams.png|<center>'''[[Decemberween Food]]'''</center>
Image:French Fries.png|<center>'''[[French Fries]]'''</center>
Image:Tao Chicken.PNG|<center>'''[[General Tso's Chicken]]'''</center>
Image:PBTC Grumblecake.jpg|<center>'''[[Grumblecakes]]'''</center>
Image:Ham.png|<center>'''[[Ham]]'''</center>
Image:homestarjr2.PNG|<center>'''[[Homestar Jr.]]'''</center>
Image:Strongbad actionfigure.png|<center>'''[[Hotcakes]]'''</center>
Image:homestar ice cream.jpg|<center>'''[[Ice Cream]]'''</center>
Image:melonade.png|<center>'''[[Melonade]]'''</center>
Image:TeddyGraham.PNG|<center>'''[[Minor Foods]]'''</center>
Image:Mountain Dew.png|<center>'''[[Mountain Dew]]'''</center>
Image:pastasalad.png|<center>'''[[Pasta Salad]]'''</center>
Image:Pea-Buried.PNG|<center>'''[[Peas]]'''</center>
Image:bluelazerpizza.PNG|<center>'''[[Pizza]]'''</center>
Image:Potate bag.png|<center>'''[[Potate]]'''</center>
Image:Steak.PNG|<center>'''[[Steak]]'''</center>
Image:Swiss Cake Rolls.PNG|<center>'''[[Swiss Cake Rolls]]'''</center>
Image:awpotatoes.PNG|<center>'''[[The King of Town's Food]]'''</center>

</gallery>

== Instruments ==
<gallery>
Image:Bubs with Keytar.png|<center>'''[[Bubs's keytar]]'''</center>
Image:carol.PNG|<center>'''[[Carol]]'''</center>
Image:Homestar floor tom.PNG|<center>'''[[Instruments|Homestar's Floor Tom]]'''</center>
Image:keyswordtar in action.PNG|<center>'''[[Keyswordtar]]'''</center>
Image:Ukulele and Poetry.png|<center>'''[[Marzipan's Ukulele]]'''</center>
Image:SMBass.PNG|<center>'''[[Strong Mad's Bass]]'''</center>
Image:ssguitar.png|<center>'''[[Instruments|Strong Sad's Guitar]]'''</center>
Image:Strong Sad Violin.PNG|<center>'''[[Strong Sad's Violin]]'''</center>
Image:Cheatdrum.PNG|<center>'''[[Characters' Instruments#The Cheat's Instruments|The Cheat's Drums]]</center>
Image:cheat keyboard.png|<center>'''[[The Cheat's keyboard]]'''</center>
Image:Worshboard.PNG|<center>'''[[Washboard]]'''</center>
</gallery>

== Toys ==
<gallery>
Image:Aunt gert doll.PNG|<center>'''[[Aunt Gert]]'''</center>
Image:qod 25 - Doreauxgard.PNG|<center>'''[[Doreauxgard]]'''</center>
Image:Gooblies Pet Lobster.PNG|<center>'''[[Gooblies]]'''</center>
Image:grabbo arm.png|<center>'''[[Grabbo Arm]]'''</center>
Image:Lord Quackingstick.PNG|<center>'''[[Lord Quackingstick]]'''</center>
Image:donkis.png|<center>'''[[Poodonkis]]'''</center>
Image:Santaman.png|<center>'''[[Santaman]]</center>
Image:Sbrocket.PNG|<center>'''[[Strong Bad's Rocket]]</center>
Image:Thedenzel.png|<center>'''[[The Denzel]]'''</center>
Image:Tony Stony 2.png|<center>'''[[Tony Stony]]'''</center>
</gallery>

== Media ==

=== Books ===
<gallery>
Image:BooksinRampageEmail.PNG|<center>'''[[Authorless Books]]'''</center>
Image:Beverlybooks.png|<center>'''Books authored by [[Beverly Sportsinterviews]]'''</center>
Image:worldly record book.png|<center>'''[[Count Longardeaux's Book]]'''</center>
Image:sbemail84.png|<center>'''[[kids' book|Everyone is Different]]'''</center>
Image:Limozeen coloringbook.png|<center>'''[[Limozeen Coloring Book]]'''</center>
Image:Little jakey pleasanthanks.png|<center>'''[[Little Jakey Pleasenthanks]]'''</center>
Image:Comeback.PNG|<center>'''[[More Like You Write A Book About Come-back Jokes, NERD!!]]'''</center>
Image:Sbemail146.png|<center>'''Strong Bad [[pop-up]] book'''</center>
Image:That Time of Year.png|<center>'''[[That Time of Year]]'''</center>
Image:Fishwasdelish.PNG|<center>'''[[The Fish was Delish and it made Quite a Dish!]]'''</center>
Image:lemcover.jpg|<center>'''[[Bookazon.com|This Book is Better Than 1st, 2nd, and Quite Possibly Even 3rd Base]]'''</center>
Image:TTOM One.PNG|<center>'''How to play [[Three-to-One Marny]]'''</center>
</gallery>

=== Magazines ===
<gallery>
Image:Fretmagic magazine.PNG|<center>'''[[Fretmagic]]'''</center>
Image:huskyheadedboysback2school.PNG|<center>'''[[Husky Headed Boys Back 2 School Catalog]]'''</center>
Image:nerdularnerdence.gif|<center>'''[[Nerdular Nerdence]]'''</center>
Image:Scarfgirl.PNG|<center>'''[[Scarfgirl]]'''</center>
Image:Hundredaire Socialite.png|<center>'''[[Stookley's Hundredaire Socialite]]'''</center>
Image:stupidcoincidencemagazine.PNG|<center>'''[[Stupid Coincidence Magazine]]'''</center>
Image:Strong Mad and The Cheat TV Time Cover 4.png|<center>'''[[TV Time]]'''</center>
Image:HaveEdgeTimes.png|<center>'''Have Edge Time Magazine'''</center>
</gallery>

== Music Players ==
<gallery>
Image:boom box.png|<center>'''[[booOOMbox]]'''</center>
Image:Homestar clock radio.png|<center>'''[[Clock Radio]]'''</center>
Image:djcheatequipment.png|<center>'''[[DJ Teh C.'s Equipment]]'''</center>
Image:ghettoblastro.png|<center>'''[[Ghetto Blastro]]'''</center>
Image:FlashbackJamBox.PNG|<center>'''[[Jam Box]]'''</center>
Image:Old Timey Radio.png|<center>'''[[Old Timey Radio]]'''</center>
Image:Ray-Jo.png|<center>'''[[Ray-Jo]]'''</center>
Image:Seedees.PNG|<center>'''[[SeeDees]]'''</center>
Image:Sports Use.png|<center>'''[[Sports Use]]'''</center>
Image:strongsads ipod screenshot.png|<center>'''[[Strong Sad's iPod]]'''</center>
Image:StrongSadTapePlayer.PNG|<center>'''[[Strong Sad's Tape Player]]'''</center>
Image:Limozeen vs Sloshy.png|<center>'''[[The Cheat's Record Player]]'''</center>
</gallery>

== Other Electronics ==
<gallery>
Image:atm.png|<center>'''[[ATM]]'''</center>
Image:TheBlender.PNG|<center>'''[[Blender]]'''</center>
Image:Video Camera.PNG|<center>'''[[Cameras]]'''</center>
Image:cellphone.png|<center>'''[[Cell Phones|Cell Phone]]'''</center>
Image:Cow Lamp.PNG|<center>'''[[Cow Lamp]]'''</center>
Image:fiendish freddys.png|<center>'''[[Floppy Disk Container]]'''</center>
Image:Frank Bennedetto.PNG|<center>'''[[Frank Bennedetto]]'''</center>
Image:gn robot.png|<center>'''[[Grape-Nuts Robot]]'''</center>
Image:backsassingsb.png|<center>'''[[back-sassin' animatronic Strong Bad]]'''</center>
Image:homestarclock.png|<center>'''[[Homestar's Clock]]'''</center>
Image:lectric boots2.png|<center>'''[['Lectric Boots]]'''</center>
Image:mrsbenedetto.png|<center>'''[[Mrs. Bennedetto]]'''</center>
Image:Old Answering Machine.png|<center>'''[[Answering Machine|Old-tech Answering Machine]]'''</center>
Image:Marzipans Answering Machine.png|<center>'''[[PhoneTime XL8]]'''</center>
Image:Telebision Remote.PNG|<center>'''[[Remote Control]]'''</center>
Image:Smoke Detector.png|<center>'''[[Living Room of the Brothers Strong|Smoke Detector]]'''</center>
Image:Telegraph.PNG|<center>'''[[Supra Modern Telegram]]'''</center>
Image:Taranchlua Metal Detector.png|<center>'''[[Taranchula Black Metal Detector]]'''</center>
Image:teebee.PNG|<center>'''[[TeeBee]]'''</center>
Image:teebee remote.PNG|<center>'''TeeBee Remote'''</center>
Image:Caleb Rentpayer.png|<center>'''[[Telebision]]'''</center>
Image:KoT Typing.PNG|<center>'''[[Typing Tutor Turbo]]'''</center>
Image:VCR.PNG|<center>'''[[The VCR]]'''</center>
</gallery>

== Power Tools ==
<gallery>
Image:Strong Mad Chainsaw.PNG|<center>'''[[Strong Mad's Chainsaw|Chainsaw]]'''</center>
Image:Compress-OR.png|<center>'''[[CompressOR]]'''</center>
Image:bellybutton.PNG|<center>'''[[Strong Bad's Drill|Drill]]'''</center>
Image:Jack Hamma.PNG|<center>'''[[Jack Hamma!]]'''</center>
Image:111cheatsolderingiron.png|<center>'''[[Laser Lemon#The Cheat's soldering iron|The Cheat's soldering iron]]'''</center>

</gallery>

== Products ==
<gallery>
Image:Ab-Abber 2000.png|<center>'''[[Ab-Abber 2000]]'''</center>
Image:Cloitsterizer.PNG|<center>'''[[The Cloitsterizer]]'''</center>
Image:C'mon It's FOG!.PNG|<center>'''[[C'mon! It's FOG!]]'''</center>
Image:Ethicalchick'nbeaks.PNG|<center>'''[[Ethical Chick'n Beaks]]'''</center>
Image:s shoe box.png|<center>'''[[Freshley's]]'''</center>
Image:r Menu.PNG|<center>'''[[Grout Clean'r]]'''</center>
Image:hamburger shampoo.png|<center>'''[[Hamburger Shampoo]]'''</center>
Image:Jimmyshobbykit.PNG|<center>'''[[Hollerin' Jimmy's Hobby Kit]]'''</center>
Image:jobars headache medicine.PNG|<center>'''[[Jobar's Big Ol' Headache Medicine]]'''</center>
Image:pencil moistener.png|<center>'''[[King Castlefunny Pencil Moistener]]'''</center>
Image:Listerine item.png|<center>'''[[Listerine]]'''</center>
Image:1ohnoyoudent.png|<center>'''[[Oh No You Dent! Denture Tablets]]'''</center>
Image:yella paint.png|<center>'''[[Paint]]'''</center>
Image:Portly Washboy.gif|<center>'''[[Portly Washboy Fancy Laundry Paste]]'''</center>
Image:Roach killa.png|<center>'''[[Roach Killa!]]</center>
Image:SBLOUNSKCHEDbar.png|<center>'''[[SBLOUNSKCHED! Bar]]'''</center>
Image:School Paste.PNG|<center>'''[[School Paste]]'''</center>
Image:Super mud.png|<center>'''[[Super Mud]]'''</center>
</gallery>

== Weapons ==
<gallery>
Image:bigknife.png|<center>'''[[Big Knives]]'''</center>
Image:bubs shotgun.png|<center>'''[[Bubs's shotgun]]'''</center>
Image:Guillotine.PNG|<center>'''[[Guillotine]]'''</center>
Image:Gunhaver'sGun.PNG|<center>'''[[Gunhaver's Gun]]'''</center>
Image:heavy lourde.png|<center>'''[[Heavy Lourde]]'''</center>
Image:JRBRR.PNG|<center>'''[[Justice Rocket Backpack Rocket Rocket]]'''</center>
Image:keyswordtar in action.PNG|<center>'''[[Keyswordtar]]'''</center>
Image:OldTimeyMarzipanWeapon.PNG|<center>'''[[Old-Timey Marzipan's Contraption]]'''</center>
Image:StalkerSpray.png|<center>'''[[Stalker Spray]]'''</center>
Image:Bazooka.PNG|<center>'''[[Strong Bad's Bazooka]]'''</center>
Image:Nunchuck Action.PNG|<center>'''[[Strong Bad's Nunchucks]]'''</center>
</gallery>

== Misc. ==
<gallery>
Image:aldi bag.png|<center>'''[[Aldi Bag]]'''</center>
Image:Baloneytruck.PNG|<center>'''[[Baloney Sammich Truck]]'''</center>
Image:lighter1.png|<center>'''[[BMW Lighter]]'''</center>
Image:watersoupcans.png|<center>'''[[Can of Water Soup]]'''</center>
Image:cinderblock.jpg|<center>'''[[Cinder Block]]</center>
Image:Clapperboard.PNG|<center>'''[[Clapperboard]]'''</center>
Image:Credenza.png|<center>'''[[Credenza]]'''</center>
Image:Crisperdrawer.PNG|<center>'''[[Crisper Drawer]]'''</center>
Image:Gardenhose.PNG|<center>'''[[Garden Hose]]'''</center>
Image:gremlin homestarloween.png|<center>'''[[Gremlin]]'''</center>
Image:Homestarposter.PNG|<center>'''[[Hanging Objects]]</center>
Image:Le Restige.png|<center>'''[[Le Restige]]'''</center>
Image:Marzipaint.PNG|<center>'''[[Marzipan's Painting Tools]]'''</center>
Image:Nametag.png|<center>'''[[Name Tags]]'''</center>
Image:New Paper.png|<center>'''[[New Paper]]'''</center>
Image:No Loafing Sign.png|<center>'''[[No Loafing Sign]]'''</center>
Image:spoon.png|<center>'''[[Orange Bowl and Spoon]]'''</center>
Image:finetimepermamarker.png|<center>'''[[Permanent Marker]]'''</center>
Image:minerthecheat.PNG|<center>'''[[Pickaxe]]'''</center>
Image:Deckhandbill.png|<center>'''[[Playbills]]'''</center>
Image:Sbemail138.PNG|<center>'''[[The Proud Anselmo]]'''</center>
Image:Redwhiteandbanana.PNG|<center>'''[[Red, White, and Banana]]'''</center>
Image:Space Machine.PNG|<center>'''[[The Space Machine]]'''</center>
Image:stopsign.png|<center>'''[[Stop Sign]]'''</center>
Image:fondue pot.PNG|<center>'''[[Strong Bad's Fondue Pot]]'''</center>
Image:Sbtowel.png|<center>'''Strong Bad's Towel'''</center>
Image:Styleronecochair.PNG|<center>'''[[Styleron Ecochair]]'''</center>
Image:Glowstick.PNG|<center>'''[[The Cheat's Glowsticks]]'''</center>
Image:grill.PNG|<center>'''[[The King of Town's Grill]]'''</center>
Image:close Paper.png|<center>'''[[The Paper]]'''</center>
Image:TheStick.png|<center>'''[[The Stick]]'''</center>
Image:sbemail115.png|<center>'''[[The Time Capsule]]'''</center>
Image:trivia time jar.PNG|<center>'''[[Rejected Characters#Trivia Time|Trivia Time]]''' cookie jar</center>
Image:Uss flirtini.PNG|<center>'''[[USS Flirtini]]'''</center>
Image:wagon fulla pancakes.PNG|<center>'''[[Wagon Fulla Pancakes]]'''</center>
Image:WaterCooler.PNG|<center>'''[[Water Cooler]]'''</center>
Image:Whatsit Blob.PNG|<center>'''[[Whatsit]]'''</center>
Image:X-Pensive White.PNG|<center>'''[[X-Pensive White]]'''</center>
Image:Drexperimento.PNG|<center>'''[[Ruby Powered Rocket]]'''
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== See also ==
*[[Electronic Media and Film]]
*[[Action Figure Character Variations]]
*[[Store]]

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