Homophones

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Sometimes when text appears in a cartoon or game, a word that would be expected is replaced by a homophone, a word that is pronounced the same, but has a different spelling and meaning.

Appearances

• Thorax Corporation — There are various examples of homophones across the site. The list is as follows:
  • "Our Gentle Staph" (Seen on the page of the same name)
  • "[...] we can't weight!" (Seen on the second old pop-up)
  • "Take the Rode less haggled with LEG DELABOR!" (Seen on Leg's "Path's to Total Stardom" page)
  • "We don't want to waist our time or yours so we'll get ride to the point. [...] Due to Fedeal Income Tacks Laws, [...]." (Seen on the PROGRAM CONGRATULATION(TM)(R)(C) PRODUKT)
  • "The water cooler just down the hall from my ofice-cubikle provides me now with great sustenance and pried." (Seen on Sted Delabor's page)
• The King of Town DVD — The page title for the commentary reads "The King of Town Common Tation".
• In Search of the Yello Dello — Marzipan's watering can reads "H2Oh!"
  • The page title for the commentary reads "YELLO-DELLO COMMON TATERS".
• Email dullard — Dullard has "THE BEST BOSS IN THE WHOLE WHIRLED."
• Malloween Commercial — Homestar offers the trick-or-treating Marshie CAN D.
• Email couch patch — The Poopsmith wears a Has Matt? suit.
• Email colonization — The book on the history of Strong Badia shows the area as "The Neu Wirlde".
• Stinkoman 20X6 — FLASH 7 OR HIRE REQUIRED. This is also an example of deliberately poor English.
• Email garage sale — The can of peas that Senor Cardgage buys reads "Canopys."
• Sick Day — Strong Bad's box of tissues is labeled "Tish, You!"
• Thy Dungeonman 3 — A veggie cart dude says, "Visualize whirled peas."
• Email coloring — Marzipan's class is known as "L.U.R.N.."
• Email strong badathlon — The poster for the "Homestar vs. Homestar?" fight says the match is available on Paper View!
• Email your funeral — Strong Bad is buried in a "Coughin'".
• Email more armies — Strong Bad holds up a Bro, Sure! at his On Point Kings booth. Inside, it mentions their fourfathers.
• Rap Song — Music plays from a Mick's Tape.
• Happy Dethemberween — The high pitched singers are singing from book called "Hims."
• Email specially marked — Corn Krunch is IOWA GROAN, one box of cereal has OH! T'MEEL in it, and Chocolate Breakfast Candy Bar Pops are "PART OF THIS NEW, TRITIOUS BREAKFAST".
• Most in the Graveyard — The page title reads "Ketchup Fountain SOUL'd Separately".
• Dangeresque Roomisode 1: Behind the Dangerdesque — Upon entering the Smoky Office, Strong Bad as Dangeresque remarks that "that warehaus was full of action and suspense!"
• 4 Gregs — Sci-Fi Greg says "halftime" as "Halph-Thyme".
• Kick-a-Ball — When Strong Bad asks The Cheat to check the Cheaters' Almanac to avoiding stepping on their "cheat toes", The Cheat holds up a bag of Cheat-toes.
• Where U Goin' 2? — The book of "Hims" reappears.

See Also

• SeeDees
• Thyme