Editing Irregular Loading Screens

{{about|word-related running gag}} {{fortoon|Loading Screens}}
In many [[Toons|toons]] and [[Games|games]], the '''loading screen''' has something on other than the standard "Loading...". Many of these have some relevance to the toon/game they appear in.

==List==
===Load===
In addition to the typical "Loading...", some loading screens (especially in recent toons) will simply read "Load". Below is a list of these loading screens.

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! Toon/Game !! Loading Screen !! Relevance to toon/game !! Picture

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| [[Best Caper Ever]] || LOAD || None || [[Image:Best Caper Load.png|150px]]

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| [[Career Day]] || L.O.A.D. || The toon takes place at [[L.U.R.N.]] || [[Image:L.O.A.D..png|150px]]

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| [[Characters from Yonder Website]] || load || None || [[Image:YonderWebsiteLoad.png|150px]]

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| [[A Decemberween Mackerel]] || LOAD || [[Marzipan]] and [[Homestar Runner]] give [[Senor Cardgage]] a casserole dish full of green bean sprouts in the toon.  || [[Image:DecemberweenMackerelLoad.png|150px]]

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| [[Fish Eye Lens]] || LOAD || The toon starts with Strong Bad asleep on [[the couch]]. || [[File:WaughmpWaughmpLoad.png|150px]]

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| [[Haunted Photo Booth]] || LOAD || The words come out of the photo slot of the [[Photo Boooth]]. || [[File:PhotoBooothLoad.png|150px]]

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| [[The Homestar Runner Enters the Spooky Woods‎]] || load || The toon features eyeballs in a bathtub. || [[File:SpookyBookLoad.png|150px]]

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| [[The House That Gave Sucky Tricks]] || LOAD || The toon begins by showing a tennis racket leaning against a bookshelf with a wig, eyes and a post-it note with [[fangs]] drawn on it. || [[Image:SuckyTricks_load.png|150px]]

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| [[I Killed Pom Pom]] || Load || The toon starts with an inflatable pumpkin attached to the wall outside. || [[File:LoadingIKPP.png|150px]]

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| [[Loading Screens]] || load || The toon shows nearly every loading screen on the website. || [[Image:Loading_Screens.png|150px]]

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| [[Place ya Bets!]] || L O A D || The loading screen is in the style of the [[Deleteheads]] hats. || [[File:DeleteheadLoading.png|150px]]

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| [[Record Store Day]] || Load || "Load" is spray painted onto the closed front of [[Bubs' Concession Stand]]. || [[File:LOADLOADLOAD.png|150px]]

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| [[Somber Vacation]] || LOAD || Strong Sad shows a slideshow of his vacation at the beach. || [[Image:ILS_Load.PNG|150px]]

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| [[Squintmojis]] || LOAD || The toon is related to emojis, which are commonly used in texts. || [[Image:Loadmoji.png|150px]]

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| [[Toikey TV]] || LOAD || None || [[Image:Toikeyload.png|150px]]

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| [[Trudgemank]] || LOAD || There is meat in the music video. || [[File:TrudgemankLoad.png|150px]]

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| [[Which Ween Costumes?]] || LOAD || The pumpkin wearing a [[Santaman]] hat references the fact that there was no Halloween cartoon, so this [[Decemberween]] cartoon was made to compensate for that fact. || [[File:WWCLoading.png|150px]]
|}

===Others===
{| class="wikitable"

! Toon/Game !! Loading Screen !! Relevance to toon/game !! Picture

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| [[2 Part Episode: Part 2]] || RELOADING... || This is part 2 of a 2-part [[Cheat Commandos]] episode. || [[Image:Reloading.png|150px]]

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| [[50K Racewalker]] || loada... || None || [[Image:Loada.png|150px]]

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| [[April Fool 2014]] || ''{No loading text}'' || Homestar Runner standing in a dimly lit [[Index Page]] is looped until toon is finished loading, in lieu of a loading screen. The toon begins here, with the background peeling. || [[Image:AprilFools2014.png|150px]]

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| [[The Cheatar]] || COMIN' UP... || The font is reminiscent of the logo of the heavy metal band [[Wikipedia:Iron Maiden (band)|Iron Maiden]]. || [[Image:Comin' up (Cheatar).png|150px]]

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| [[Crystal Fortress]] || loading it || None || [[Image:loadingscreen_crystalfortress.png|150px]]

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| [[Dangeresque Roomisode 1: Behind the Dangerdesque]] || Loading from Drive 8<br>Insert Disk 5 || Refers to older computer games, which this game is in the style of. || [[Image:Dangeresque Roomisode 1 Loading Screen.PNG|150px]]

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| [[Doomy Tales of the Macabre]] || loadink || The word appears on [[Strong Sad]]'s inkwell. || [[Image:loading_screen_ween09.png|150px]]

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| [[Eggs (toon)|Eggs]] || legging... || The toon is about [[eggs]]. || [[Image:Legging.PNG|150px]]

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| [[Ever and More!]] || loading, friend. || This is likely a reference to the fact that the toon parodies various brotherhoods and fraternities. The loading screen seems to be a parody of fraternal greetings. || [[Image:loadingfriend.png|150px]]

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| [[Experimental Film]] || comin' up || None || [[Image:Comin' up.png|150px]]

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| [[Flash is Dead!]] || This plugin is vulnerable and should be updated. Activate Flash. || The short is about the supposed discontinuation of [[Flash]] due to security issues. The Flash blocked pop-up image loops for 15 frames until it is finished loading. || [[Image:PluginVulnerable.png|150px]]

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| [[Hallrunner]] || LOADALING... || None || [[Image:Loadaling.png|150px]]

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| [[Happy Fireworks]] || loafing... || What [[Coach Z]] and [[Bubs]] are doing at the start of the toon. || [[Image:Loafing.png|150px]]

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| [[Homestar Runner Goes For the Gold]] || ''{No loading text}'' || The star is present at the start of the toon. || [[Image:Goes4GoldLoading.png|150px]]

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| [[Homestarloween Party]] || loading the Halloween deal... || It's a [[Halloween]] toon. || [[Image:Loading the Halloween deal.png|150px]]

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| [[HomestarRunner.com PAY PLUS!]] ''[[HomestarRunner.com PAY PLUS!#Strong Bad "Trap Door" Sample|The Email Show]]'' sample || loading free pay sample... || A free sample of the PAY PLUS content. || [[Image:Loading free pay sample.png|150px]]

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| [[Hremail 49]] || ''{no loading text}'' || This [[hremail]] is about a pillow fight. || [[File:Hremail49Load.png|150px]]

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| [[Jibblies 2]] || the LOADING || Written on and in the style of a tarot card, seen during [[Pom Pom]] and Strong Sad's scene. || [[Image:TheLoading.png|150px]]

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| [[Kick The Cheat]] || loadin... || None || [[Image:Loadin.png|150px]]

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| [[Kid Speedy]] || WIDE LOADING || The main character of the game is a "little fatso". || [[Image:Wideloading.PNG|150px]]

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| [[Make-O Your Own Stinko]] || FIND THE LOADBEARER... || Strong Bad had played a game called "Find the Load Bearer" in the [[slumber party|email preceding the one this is from]]. || [[Image:Loadbear.png|150px]]

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| [[Marshie's Malloween Mix-Up]] || lourding... || None, but it may refer to the [[Heavy Lourde]]. || [[Image:Lourding.png|150px]]

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| [[More Fan Costumes]] || loadems... || None || [[Image:Loadems.png|150px]]

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| [[Most in the Graveyard]] || R.I.P. LOADING || A reference to the other gravestones in the toon itself, referring to "Loading" as a person. || [[Image:Arealload.PNG|150px]]

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| [[No Hands On Deck!]] || loadinate || May be a reference to [[Trogdor|Burninate]]. || [[Image:Loadinate-deck.png|150px]]

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| [[Non-Sequitur Champion]] || THE LOAD || This is a scene from [[The Show]]. || [[Image:Non-Sequitur Load.png|150px]]

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| [[Peasant's Quest Movie Trailer]] || rather loading... || The main character is [[Rather Dashing]]. || [[Image:Rather Loading.png|150px]]

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| [[Peasant's Quest Movie Trailer]] Old Version || loading a fairly big deal... || [[The Brothers Chaps]] made a big deal of this toon, so much that their server crashed by the initial onslaught of viewers. || [[Image:Loading a fairly big deal.png|150px]]

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| [[Peasant's Quest Preview]], [[Snowglobe]] || Voading... || It's a preview of a [[Videlectrix]] game. || [[Image:Voading.png|150px]]

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| [[Play Date]] || load it || None || [[Image:PlayDateloadit.png|150px]]

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| [[Punkin Stencils|Punkin Stencils 2007]] || LOOOOOADING || Simulates a moan, appropriate for Halloween. || [[Image:punkin2007 loading.png|150px]]

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| [[Rap Song]] || Loadry || The toon begins in a laundromat. || [[Image:loadry.png|150px]]

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| [[Seasonal Sweaters]] || LOAD IT! || None || [[Image:Load it.png|150px]]

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| [[Stinkoman 20X6]] || LOAD IT UP... || The game uses [[deliberately poor English]] throughout. || [[Image:Load it up.png|150px]]

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| [[Stinkomanual]] || LOADING MANUÉL || It's an instruction manual, and the spelling displays poor English. || [[Image:Loading manuel.PNG|150px]]

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| [[Store Thank You Messages]] || load 'er up... || None (but it is similar to "fill 'er up", a phrase used frequently at gas stations). || [[Image:load'erup.png|150px]]

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| [[Strong Bad's Message Bored]] || Hang on... || None || [[File:Message Bored Loading Screen.PNG|150px]]

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| [[Strong Bad's Website]] || LO-DING || None || [[Image:Lo-Ding.PNG|150px]]

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| [[Strong Bad Sings]] || And Now A Word From Our Sponsor... || This references the quote that used to be used by TV channels and radios before commercials started. || [[File:BluebirdLoadin.png|150px]]

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| [[Superbowl Dealie]] || ''{No loading screen}'' || None ||height=100px|

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| [[Trogdor Was Dragon Man]] || SIZE X-LOAD || None || [[File:SizeXLoad.png|150px]]

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| [[Yearbook Character Page]] || Loading the Memories... || The page is in a yearbook style. || [[File:YearbookLoad.png|150px]]

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| [[Workin' on the Game]] || Loading || The "L" is done in the same style as the "V" from [[Videlectrix]]. || [[Image:Videlectrix loading.PNG|150px]]

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