FAQ

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The current FAQ, based on Highlights for Children.

Page Title: FAQ - Ouch. What do you do?

Contents 1 Contents 2 Puzzle Solutions 2.1 What's Wrong with This Mess? 2.2 Fill-In-The-Blanks 3 Easter Eggs 4 Fun Facts 4.1 Trivia 4.2 Inside References 4.3 Glitches 5 External Links

Contents

Other than the FAQs, the page also contains the following:

• A randomized "What's Wrong with This Mess?" puzzle
• A fill-in-the-blanks puzzle about the characters' eyes
• A set of static figures that you can place on a field background. These figures are
  • Homestar Runner
  • Strong Bad
  • Pom-Pom
  • Marzipan
  • Strong Sad
  • The Poopsmith
  • A 1 Ton weight (hidden beneath Pom Pom)
  • A chicken leg (hidden beneath Strong Sad)

Puzzle Solutions

What's Wrong with This Mess?

The What's Wrong with This Mess? puzzle is randomized. Among the things that can be potentially wrong in the picture:

• Character head and/or body floating in the sky in upper-left
  • Strong Sad
  • Strong Mad
• Strong Bad's right arm replaced.
  • The Stick
  • A kite
  • A The Cheat arm
• Object in bushes that doesn't belong
  • The King of Town's moustache
  • The plug-socket under Strong Bad's computer desk
  • Coach Z's Z
  • A t-bone steak
• Population: Tire sign wrong
  • Strong Sadia Likes: Corn
  • Coach Z's Lot Pop: Tore
  • Wrong Badia Pop: Type
  • Stop Sign Top: Pire
  • Super Place Pop: Mark
• Strong Sad's head has been replaced by another character's
  • Coach Z
  • The King of Town
• Character floating in upper-right, upside down
  • Bubs
  • Homestar Runner

Fill-In-The-Blanks

Starting in the top left and going left to right in rows:

• Homestar Runner
• Pom Pom
• Marzipan
• Strong Sad
• Marshie
• Biscuit Dough Hands Man

Easter Eggs

• The static figures can be rotated and scaled using the arrow keys.
  • If you make the static figures too small, they will turn upside down and start getting bigger.
  • If you move the static figures onto the corners of the page, the static figures go between the page and the page corner, and the corners are still visible.

Fun Facts

Trivia

• The page title is a reference to the NES game Goonies II. The Namco game Bravoman featured the same sentence.
• The left side of the cover of the magazine says "Picature by Audrey".

Inside References

• The question "Who does the voices for your dumb animal characters?" is based on one of Mike's lines from the DVD video Sample of Style or one of Matt's lines from the 2003 Wired News Interview that preceded Sample of Style.
• The activity is based on the stylized "Everybody! Everybody!" wallpaper in the Downloads section.

Glitches

• If you go to the SWF File for the FAQ, near the right side of the screen (outside the black border) there appears to be a clickable (but invisible) box, although it doesn't seem to activate any easter eggs.
  • This is box is only clickable after you've opened the 'magazine'.

External Links

• See the FAQ
• See the Flash file for the FAQ

Preceded by: Email FAQ

Site FAQ Page 2005-Present

Succeeded by: N/A