Tangerine Dreams

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Tangerine Dreams was The Cheat's iMac G3 computer. He used it to make Flash cartoons including The Cheat Theme Song, Everybody to the Limit, Main Page 15, and many more. It has also been used by Strong Bad, in lieu of the Tandy 400 due to its inoperability, to check his email in weird dream. In redesign, it was replaced with Monosodium Dreams.

Contents 1 Known Installed Applications 2 The Real Computer 3 Fun Facts 3.1 Trivia 4 Appearances

[edit] Known Installed Applications

• SB Email (email client w/ Dream Viewer)
• AOL Instant Messenger
• Macromedia Flash 5 or earlier
• An Image-Editing Program
• SimpleText

[edit] The Real Computer

The computer that appears in Labor Dabor appears to be a Tangerine colored second-generation slot-loading iMac G3, possibly a DV or Special Edition, running Mac OS 9. The computer featured either a 350, 400 or 500 MHz PowerPC G3 processor, supported up to 1 GB of ram, and contained a 6, 10, or 13 GB hard drive. The first slot loading iMacs were released October 4, 1999 and were offered in six colors, including Tangerine.

The logo on Tangerine Dreams (the same logo as on the Tandy 400)—a rainbow-colored star with a bite taken out of its side—is a play on the old Apple logo, a rainbow apple with a bite missing.

The Tangerine Dreams' logo.	Tangerine Dreams appearing in puppet form in Labor Dabor	Tangerine Dreams appearing in Powered By The Cheat form	The virus'd Tangerine Dreams shown in Main Page 22.
A shot of the entire Tangerine Dreams from huttah!.	Tangerine Dreams from the back.

[edit] Fun Facts

[edit] Trivia

• Tangerine Dream is a German electronica group active since 1967. The band is famous for pioneering the use of synthesizers in electronic music.
• Although the computer is never explicitly referred to as "Tangerine Dreams" within the Homestar Runner body of work, the name is seen in the page title of the Strong Bad Email weird dream. Mike Chapman referred to Tangerine Dreams by name in the DVD commentary for redesign.
• The fonts used for Tangerine Dreams are Chicago for the menu and Courier New for the email client.

[edit] Appearances

• Debut: Email i she be
• Email weird dream
• The Cheat Theme Song
• Main Page 15
• Email huttah!
• Email crazy cartoon
• Everybody to the Limit
• Labor Dabor
• New Boots
• Main Page 22
• Loading Screens

The Cheat's computers
Tangerine Dreams (2002–2004) · Monosodium Dreams (2006–2014) · Intel-based iMac (2018–)