@StrongBadActual Tweets 2016 Aug

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STRONG BAD: And you know what that means: things are about to get... bulbous. {waughmp waughmp} I bought a fisheye lens, and make a rap video With a couple of friends. It goes, {waughmp waughmp} {simultaneously} waughmp waughmp! All the ladies and mens, they know everything is better with a fisheye lens!

Fun Facts

• Strong Bad sings Fish Eye Lens.

This Tweet is a reply to @EdbotnikThe, who imported Ultimate Strong Bad from 8-Bit is Enough into Super Smash Bros. for Wii U. The video shows him in the Animal Crossing stage.

Fun Facts

• Tom Nook is a character from Animal Crossing who operates the village store.
• Strong Bad mentions robopants.

Fun Facts

• "I'm livin' the Strong Bad life, I take an email for my wife" is the Strong Bad Email intro for myths & legends.
• The image shows a nunchuck gun, a box of Cheat Commandos... O's, and Limozeen guitar picks (which were thrown into the audience during the first Homestar Runner 20th Anniversary Show).

This Tweet is a reply to @makingislands and @edzelyago. @makingislands added a beefy arm and fire to a green Ethernet cable, making it resemble Trogdor. @edzelyago replied with new lyrics to TROGDOR using TCP/IP terminology.

Fun Facts

• "7r09d0r" is an instance of leet.
• Strong Bad Pings is a reference to Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits.
  • ping is a computer network administration software utility used to test the reachability of a host on an IP network.

This Tweet links to the Get Ye Flask T-shirt.

This Tweet is a reply to @nihaho13, who wanted a Get Ye Flask T-shirt after seeing that it was not yet being sold as part of the "Wave o' T-Shirts". It went on sale shortly thereafter.

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STRONG BAD: {singing} He works alone, except when he works with Renaldo, which is all the time, Dangeresque. He's a private eye, a crooked cop, a secret agent, and a celebrity pharmacist, Dangeresque. That guy is Dangeresque, Dangeresque, Dangeresque, Dangeresque! Or did I?

Fun Facts

• Strong Bad sings The theme from DANGERESQUE II: This time, it's not Dangeresque I.
• "Bandgeresque" is a portmanteau of band and Dangeresque.
• Strong Bad mentions his husky head.

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Fun Facts

• This tweet announces the second Homestar Runner 20th Anniversary Show.
• The image is an edited version of the previous announcement Tweet.
  • Like the first, this scene is reminiscent of the final storybook scene in flashback.

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{A wave of T-shirts is about to fall on What's Her Face}

HAWAIIAN GUY: wave o' t-shirts!

Fun Facts

• This Tweet announces the Store's 20th Anniversary Wave o' T-Shirts.
• The GIF is a reference to the "wave o' babies" from Teen Girl Squad Issue 6.
• A bit of the T-shirts can be seen through the Hawaiian Guy's right ear.

This Tweet is a reply to @lizzylizzard04, who asked if the events of each Strong Bad Email (such as invisibility) were canon.

This Tweet is a reply to @dan_r_parsons, who pointed out that Tech from the previous Tweet seems like Ms. Tompkinsrobotmomerson's ex-husband.

Fun Facts

• The picture includes baby Tompkins from Teen Girl Squad Issue 7.

This Tweet is a reply to @OsakaJack, who asked what "Tech N Olive" is, referring to the hashtag from the previous Tweet.

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#Tech 'n Olive

Fun Facts

• The drawing style is similar to Teen Girl Squad.

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STRONG BAD: Doo doo doo {clicks button with his foot} doo doo doo doo {his mouth stops moving, but the noises repeat throughout the song} Duddle-up-dup. {his mouth stops moving, but the noises repeat throughout the song} The system... {again, these words repeat throughout the song}

{Cut to Puppet The Cheat walking up to a lightswitch, then back to Puppet Strong Bad}

STRONG BAD: ...is down. {repeats throughout song}

{Cut back to The Cheat, who is switching the lights on and off} Doodle-ba-doo-diddle, doodle-ba-doo-diddle, doodle-ba-doo-diddle, doodle-ba-doo-diddle {repeats throughout song} {stops all sounds as the lights turn back on} Da-da-do-da-da-da-doo-doo-da-{cut to a Teen Girl Squad-style drawing of a hairy arm holding a cigarette, with "DOOJ" written on it} DOOJ!

Fun Facts

• Strong Bad sings The System is down.
• This is the first video appearance of the new Puppet Strong Bad.
• The "DOOJ" arm is similar to the scene transitions in Teen Girl Squad, in which the scene or place is usually written on a person in some shape or form.
• "Techno live" refers to the Homestar Runner 20th Anniversary Show, where the song would later be performed.

Fun Facts

• This is an edited version of an Instagram post by the US Department of the Interior, who posted the original, unaltered version of this photo of a lightning bolt on Instagram. Rather than resembling Trogdor, it was in the shape of a Tyrannosaurus Rex head.
• This was also posted on Strong Bad's Instagram account.

This Tweet is a reply to @Wazzaldorp, who created the fanart in the top half of the image seen here.

Fun Facts

• Bionic Commando is a video game franchise consisting of an original arcade game released in 1987, and several later versions and sequels.
• "Looks like I'm gonna have to jump" is one of Dangeresque's catch phrases.

This Tweet is a reply to BatteryStaple Games, who were asked by @OoruTech to reference Stinkoman 20X6 presumably in their upcoming game 20XX. They liked the idea enough to request The Brothers Chaps' permission.

Fun Facts

• Metroidvania is a subgenre of action-adventure games, using game design and mechanics that are similar to Metroid and Castlevania.
• "Metroidvania'd" ends with -'d.
• "Roguelywhatev" is a portmanteau of roguelike and whatev.
  • Roguelike is a subgenre of role-playing video games, characterized by a dungeon crawl through procedurally generated game levels, turn-based gameplay, tile-based graphics, and permanent death of the player-character.
  • "Whatev" is an instance of words with omitted syllables.

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See Social Media Crap Compilation 2#Early Craig Zobel Character Designs

Fun Facts

• The drawings were seen in an Instagram post, except in this video, the Homestar design is facing towards the Strong Bad design, and the lines under the Strong Bad design have been removed.
• The audio is reused from Fan Costumes 2015.
• Craig Zobel replied to the tweet, saying "dunno, but I clearly drank a lot of em. I'ma go ahead and say that say Miyazaki stole my mask idea in Spirited Away tho..."

This Tweet is a reply to @CaulinLucas, who made a remastered MIDI of the Peasant's Quest theme.

Fun Facts

• Strong Bad mentions cheese.

This Tweet is a reply to @kitty8mysundae, who replied to Strong Bad's previous Tweet, asking him to bring back some of the previous merchandise sold at the Store.

This Tweet is a reply to @JamesAttridge, who claimed that the phrase "gZ gRXS g htgh dtz", found in the previous Tweet in place of the Original Book's cover, was a classic quote from Homestar.

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gZ gRXS g htgh dtz

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Everyone loves the Homestar
runner. He is a terrific athlete.

r gZ gRXS g
htgh dtz

One day his friend, Pom-Pom, asked
him to enter the Strongest Man in the
World Contest.

not hold up.

Suddenly, th{obscured}ot shut down and dropped
his grapes. Th{obscured} Homestar Runner knew
something was up.

the homestar run
enters the strongest man in the world con

CHILDREN'S STORY

Fun Facts

• This is an image of pages from the Original Book.

This Tweet is a reply to @Phantomazing, who replied to Strong Bad's previous reply, asked if "that big fish" could survive when pitted against the elephant seal.

Fun Facts

• Strong Bad mentions BBC Natural History broadcaster David Attenborough.
• The image depicts Penguin Strong Bad, the Deep Sea Fangly Fish, and Elephant Seal Strong Sad.

This Tweet is a reply to @pullahoko, who drew two interpretations of Strong Bad's unusual mouth shape from his "Rushmore" image Tweet. The second interpretation was a still drawing of the Big Mouth Billy Bass parody shown in this GIF.

Fun Facts

• Both the GIF and the Tweet itself are references to animal.

This Tweet is a reply to @HeyitsThorny, who replied to Strong Bad's Instagram link with a picture of Strong Bad's head with a slice of pizza for a mouth, saying "mouthflesh belongs in a triangle" in reference to the "breadtangle of pizza" Teen Girl Squad Issue 8.

This Tweet is a reply to his previous Tweet.

Fun Facts

• The image is the same as the Instagram photo that was linked to.

Fun Facts

• This Tweet links to an Instagram post.

This Tweet is a reply to @lennysundahl, who replied to Strong Bad's Li'l Brudder Tweet and remarked that, due to mistaking the 80th anniversary for the 5th, Strong Bad wasn't "very good at math".

This Tweet is a reply to @NoMoreSpearows, who replied to Strong Bad's Li'l Brudder Tweet, asking why he drew himself, rather than Homestar, in a wedding dress.

Fun Facts

• Vera Wang is an American fashion designer.
• David's Bridal is a clothier in the United States that specializes in wedding dresses, prom gowns, and other formal wear.
• Strong Bad in a wedding dress may also be a reference to senior prom.

This Tweet is a reply to @RoboNinja103, who replied to Strong Bad's previous Tweet, explaining that it would actually be the 80th anniversary of Homestar Runner in Li'l Brudder years rather than the 5th anniversary.

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See Social Media Crap Compilation 3#Homestar at 20

Fun Facts

• Gene Simmons appears.
• Li'l Brudder is noted to have "chronic jibblies".
• "Brudyear" is a portmanteau of Brudder and year.
• RPWLCP is an acronym for "regular people with, like, cell phones".
• The Homestar Runner and Tiny-Handed Strong Bad's wedding is an instance of odd marriages.
• Strong Bad's wedding dress is an example of cross-dressing.
• If a brudyear is a fourth of a year, that means it would be Homestar Runner's 80th anniversary rather than its 5th, as noted in future Tweets.

Fun Facts

• Strong Bad noting his name is two words refers to the fact that his name is spelled "Strongbad" on the tickets page.
  • He has also corrected this mistake in myths & legends.