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A soon-to-be randomized template for the soon-to-be Main Page. This should have 60-80 facts, ideally. Currently at 80.

• Homestar Runner and Strong Bad appeared briefly in a Kickstarter video for The Aquabats in July 2018 (pictured).
• The @StrongBadActual Twitter account was registered in 2011, three years before its first activity.
• Everybody to the Limit was played at the Field Day concert at Giants Stadium on June 7, 2003. A special introduction was shown for the occasion.
• The phone number at the end of Strong Bad Sings was originally 1-800-BAD-SONG, rather than 1-800-555-SBSINGS. However, it turned out that was a real number for a Limousine service.

• A secret cartoon (pictured) can be found in the program Macromedia Central by going into "Help → About Central" and Ctrl-doubleclicking on the "C" logo, then typing "sbemail" into the password field.
• Strong Bad has more appearances than Senor Cardgage, Homsar, The Poopsmith, Pom Pom, and The King of Town combined.
• The Old Characters Page said that the King of Town was Marzipan's father. However, this idea has since been abandoned.
• Everybody to the Limit was played at the Field Day concert at Giants Stadium on June 7, 2003. A special introduction was shown for the occasion.

• On Coach Z's emblem (pictured), the darker blue shine streak under the gold Z makes an additional Z formation.
• The Cheat is always referred to with the "The", with very few exceptions.
• The King of Town is shown to possess either powers of teleportation or skills as a ninja, as he can appear and disappear in a puff of smoke.
• Marzipan is named after marzipan, a confectionery consisting primarily of ground almonds and sugar.

• Blue Laser Commander was originally going to be an Ungurait, a rejected species of bandit-like characters (pictured).
• Coach Z is named after Craig Zobel (as revealed in the Wonkavision interview).
• Strong Sad's comment about vinegar toast was based on Matt Chapman feeding it to his brother when they were kids.
• Sketches for the Strong Bad Email vacation show places such as "Egg or Rice", "Fake Palms Resort", "Giant Book", "Cruckscrew Bend's Fairly Oversized Elbow Macaroni", "No Dumping and No Dumping Street", and "Not A Very Big Ball O' Belts".

• The scales on Trogdor's body (pictured) are not consummate V's, but rather regimented U's, as revealed multiple times on Twitter.
• Strong Bad and Strong Mad, and their original role as tag team wrestlers, came from the 1986 Nintendo video game Tag Team Wrestling, in which one of the teams is called "The Strong Bads".
• The Brothers Chaps wrote a script for a toon called Soap Box Doiby. This toon was never finished, and the script was emailed to the Homestar Runner Wiki administrators.
• The Brothers Chaps had originally named the Dangeresque series Danger Man. However, they changed the name after learning that the name had already been used as the title of the 1960s precursor to classic British television series The Prisoner.

• Pom Pom is the only main character whose parents, General and Fraulein Pom Pom (pictured), have been seen in the body of work.
• According to the Old Characters Page, Coach Z wasn't much of a coach at the time, and he just added the title because it sounded "cooler than just Z".
• Combined, there is over 24 hours' worth of Homestar Runner content, as of the Trogdor Live Playtest @ GenCon livestream. Strong Bad Emails make up ten hours of the total.
• The live SBCG4AP Playthrough is the longest official Homestar Runner content, at an hour and 48 minutes.

• Pigs on Head was originally going to get a sequel entitled Butcher Bros. (pictured), in which the player delivers sausages to cooks and delis.
• Homsar is the only main character with no Old-Timey or Dangeresque counterpart.
• The Old Characters Page said that the King of Town was Marzipan's father. However, this idea has since been abandoned.
• Marzipan's latest stepfather as of A Death Defying Decemberween is named Seth, and works in a philosophy department.

• Marzipan has apparently had questionable surgery to have her nose removed (pictured).
• Trogdor!! The Board Game originally included items such as "Ball of Fire", "Pauldrons of Greg", and "Bones of Luckman".
• The 136th Strong Bad Email, geddup noise, was originally going to be about kitchen appliances.
• The Brothers Chaps have used our articles on Headbands, Googly Eyes, and Pie as examples of the Homestar Runner Wiki's exhaustiveness.