Carol
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- This article is about the guitar owned by Marzipan. For other uses of the word "guitar", see Guitar (disambiguation).
Carol is Marzipan's guitar, on which she plays syrupy songs. In the Powered by The Cheat music videos "Oh Yeah Yeah" (from the email marzipan) and Seasonal Sweaters (from Decemberween in July), she is called "Carl". She is modeled after a nylon-string classical/Spanish guitar. Carol features a drawing of a snake and the word "carol", written in the font MotterFemD. In monster truck, Strong Mad was going to smash her over Homestar Runner's head. Marzipan played Carol in the band Cool Tapes with The Cheat (drums) and Strong Mad (bass). The sound Carol makes in Cool Things and One Two, One Two has a Fuzztone-like distortion effect applied to it. This means Carol is either an acoustic-electric guitar, or there was a microphone used in these instances so that the effect could be applied. Carol also appears when Strong Bad auditions for people to take over checking emails when he retires. Marzipan plays two scroll button songs, both of which Strong Bad dislikes. However, he later uses one of them.
According to Marzipan in the commentary for the email marzipan, Carol is not her real guitar; her real guitar is named Joan. However, in these commentaries, Marzipan takes the rare position that the Homestar Runner characters are actors, and that the events we see in their cartoons are performed for us, and not, as everything else would imply, their actual "lives". It is debatable how literally the "Joan" comment can be taken.
Other than "Carl" in Powered by The Cheat and the skeleton guitar in different town, no alternate versions of Marzipan had an equivalent of Carol. This changed in 2020 with a redesign of Marzi-Mei. The 20X6 incarnation of Carol has a flower-shaped body, with a long neck like that of a shamisen. Like the original guitar, 20X6 Carol incorporates a snake in its design. The black snake spirals up along the instrument's neck, resting its head on top, forming a saber-like handguard; its appearance is similar to the keyblades of the Kingdom Hearts series. This version of Carol serves as a weapon, shooting destructive laser beams when strummed.
Appearances
- Debut: Email marzipan
- Marzipan's Character Video
- Email monster truck
- Email replacement
- Seasonal Sweaters
- Homestar and Marzipan's Store Thank You Message
- Halloween Fairstival
- Cool Things
- Weclome Back
- Happy Hallow-day
- One Two, One Two
- Quality Time with Cardboard Homestar
- Baddest of the Bands
- Email dictionary
- Stinkoman 20X6 (20X6 version)
