Heavy Lourde
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The Heavy Lourde is an extremely large weight that drops on various characters. The most frequent victim of this weight is Homsar. In French, "lourde" is a feminine adjective meaning "heavy", making the name redundant. "Lourde" might also be a deliberate mispronunciation of "load".
This gag is a reference to countless classic cartoons in which characters were incapacitated by a falling weight or anvil.
The bilingual labeling on the weight may refer to the bilingual labeling of items required in Canada and becoming more prevalent in the United States since the advent of NAFTA. When a bag is over a certain weight, a label is added to the bag saying "Heavy Lourd" on two lines in the same way it appears on the large weight. "Lourd" is the masculine form of "Lourde" and is the correct form to appear on such a tag.
In the FAQ, a similar weight (labeled "1 TON") appears in the activity on the last page. Also, in Teen Girl Squad Issue 4, What's Her Face is squashed by a similar weight reading "NO Pounds".
Appearances
- Debut: Email homsar — Homsar is squished.
- Homsar Main Page — Homsar is again squished when the "Games" button is selected.
- Email stunt double — Strong Sad, while acting as a stunt double for Strong Bad's character Dangeresque, gets the Heavy Lourde dropped on him and suffers "what [he] like[s] to call a broken neck".
- Email garage sale — The Heavy Lourde is for sale (a steal at $2) at Strong Bad's garage sale.
- Homestar Ruiner — In the second part of the Triannual Race to the End of the Race, competitors must carry the Lourde while jumping on a pogo stick.
- Doomy Tales of the Macabre (Easter egg) — Strong Sad mentions it squished Homsar in Strong Bad Email #2, and then drops a "Heavy Gourd" on him.
- 2022 Costume Pack Now Available (Easter egg) — Homsar is squished by a printer labeled "PC LOURDE LETTER".
