Mashing

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And so, The Cheat mashed play on an extremely expensive jambox.

There have been many occurrences of mashing go/play throughout the Homestar Runner body of work. This phrase generally replaces the term "push" or "press" in relation to a button. In the southern United States (including Georgia, home of The Brothers Chaps), this is a common slang usage of the term, so initially the Chaps may have been using the word naturally rather than intending for it to become a recurring gag.

[edit] Appearances

• Debut: Email 1 step ahead — "Mash spacebar" to peg Strong Sad.
• Everybody Knows It — "Mash play on that jambox."
• Email flashback — "And so, The Cheat mashed play on an extremely expensive jambox..."
• The introduction to Disc One of strongbad_email.exe — "Make your selection and mash GO, moron!"
• Email alternate universe — "Mash go on that blender!"
• Email senior prom — "...when I mash go on it, everybody's pants will POOF AWAY!"
• Weclome Back — "...when I mash record on that camera...", then later "...Mash stop when you think you're mashing record and mash record when you think you're mashing stop..."
• Marshmallow's Last Stand (DVD commentary) — "Pom Pom hit 'mash play' on the... jambox."
• Blue Laserdisc Challenge — "Take control of Blue Laser Commander by mashing left or right on your laserdisc remote when you see this flashing style."
• Guitar Hero — On the loading screen for the song Trogdor in Guitar Hero II, Strong Bad tells the player, "For squeadlies, mash on the trembalo. For meadlies, tone up on your chord surpassers. Oh, and I'm awesome."
• Viidelectrix version of Duck Guardian One — "Point hereabouts and mash A to start."
• Teen Girl Squad Issue 13 — Tompkins presses buttons on his Game Boy; as he does, the word "m.a.s.h." appears intermittently.
• Telltale Games — A press release describes TROGDOR! as an "arcade peasant-masher".
• Nintendo Power Interview - July 2008 — "Anyone who can't figure out how to mash a bunch of buttons on a game pad shouldn't be indulging in video-gamery in the first place."
• Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People — The tutorials explain the controls by telling the player to mash specific buttons on their controller.
• Homestar Ruiner — Strong Bad wonders what will happen if he mashes the erase button on the camera at the race track.
• CollegeHumor Interview - 15 Sep 2008 — Matt says that Homestar's favorite video game would be Microsoft Decathlon, "a game where you just mashed keys as fast as you could, and Homestar would love doing that with his head."
• 8-Bit is Enough — Homestar mentions he used his lucky quarter to beat the game Street Masher.
• Email too cool — Senor Cardgage asks Strong Bad to mash play on the air freshener to record his character video.
• Disk 4 of 12 - FriendlyWare — Strong Bad, amused that FriendlyWare keeps asking him to "strike" keys, suggests that the words "press" and "mash" hadn't been invented by the early eighties.