BMW Lighter
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The BMW Lighter is Strong Bad's handheld naphtha-type fire starter. It prominently displays the logo of BMW, an abbreviation of "Bayerische Motoren Werke" (Bavarian Motor Works), a German company and manufacturer of automobiles and motorcycles. When the lighter was first introduced in the Homestar Runner body of work, a "real world" BMW lighter was unavailable, as The Brothers Chaps attest to on the DVD commentary for dragon. There are now several styles of BMW lighter available.
It resembles a Zippo brand lighter, a naphtha lighter that flips open and lights with the flick of a wheel, which is not actually present on Strong Bad's lighter.
A variation on this gag appears in portrait, in which Homestar Runner uses a Saab Lighter. In the chair, Lil' Strong Bad is shown using a Duplo lighter as well.
Appearances
- Email guitar - Strong Bad holds it up at the end. After some time it scorches The Paper.
- Email dragon - Strong Bad uses it to burn Strong Sad's drawing of a dragon.
- Email privileges - First it is mentioned on the list of "Medallion Gold Plus Club" privileges, where it is referred to as a "Beamer Lighter." ("Beamer" is used as a general slang term for a BMW.) Then it actually appears in an Easter egg, in which The Cheat uses it to torch Homestar's guitar magazines.
- Strong Bad is in Jail Cartoon - The Cheat uses it to light huge bundle of Fthoom-Bang bottle rockets.
- Email pom pom - Strong Bad uses the lighter during his attempt to cause Pom Pom's death, to pop him with a pin while he's on fire.
- Email other days - Strong Bad uses it to burn up Bubs' letter. Here it is first referred to as his "BMW".
- Email long pants - The Cheat uses the lighter to burn Homestar's Daisy Dukes.
- Real-Live E-Mails - Strong Bad uses a real one to literally burn his new DVD.
- Email pop-up - It appears on the last page of the book as a tab.
- Email lady fan - Strong Bad uses it to burn Marzipan's arts and crafts supplies in a fiery inferno of pyrotechnics. Her hair was also burned, and the whole table was covered in ash.
- Date Nite - Strong Bad uses it to light the Fthoom-Bang rockets on the USS Flirtini.
- Email the paper - Strong Bad uses it to incinerate The Paper after it 'dies'.
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 Again in "privileges" |
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 Saab variation |
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 Duplo variation |
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