Tangerine Dreams

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Tangerine Dreams is The Cheat's iMac computer. He uses 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.

Contents 1 Known Installed Applications 2 The Real Computer 3 New Computer 4 Fun Facts 5 Appearances

Known Installed Applications

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

The Real Computer

The computer that appears in Labor Dabor appears to be a Slot-Loading Tangerine iMac DV running Mac OS 9. The first slot-loading iMacs were released in the fall of 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.

New Computer

Main article: The Cheat's iMac (2006)

In the email redesign, The Cheat was shown designing a new No Loafing Sign graphic with a new 5th Generation iMac.

The new computer features an Apple wireless mouse, as Strong Bad tells The Cheat to "quit rubbin' that plastic bar of soap on the desk." Despite Strong Bad's clear misunderstanding of the purpose of a mouse, he clearly uses a mouse (or at least a cursor) in lunch special. Also, because it has a flat panel display, Strong Bad criticizes it for not being able to print, because "Somebody sliced off the back of [The Cheat's] monitor." The new computer features an integrated iSight webcam.

Fun Facts

• Tangerine Dream is a famous German prog rock turned ambient group from the last 4 decades that still records to this day.
  • It is also the name of an early song/single by the now-disbanded Japanese group Do As Infinity.

• The name "Tangerine Dreams" references a lyric in The Beatles' 1967 song Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds.

• Fonts: Menu-Chicago; Email client-Courier New

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