@@ShuRugalWhen I worked as cashier, sometimes I'd have to look up a loyalty card with a person's SSID. I have said "last 4 digits of your dog" more than a few times.
i think "homestar is the main character, strong bad is the narrator" is my favorite structure for these toons. like, it's way funnier to see strong bad find homestar somehow stuffed into the water cooler with no explanation than having followed homestar there. it's this level of enigma homestar has that really endears him to me and focusing on him through another character's lens really juxtaposes that quality. oh yeah strong bad is great too but we all knew that
What I'd like to know is the story behind "So I was in Barbados, hanging a picture on the wall", and how that told Strong Bad everything he needed to know.
I thought "please explain to me what you were _trying_ to do" was just a funny line. I've since lost count of the number of times I've legitimately had to ask this.
@@brianrunyon266 I think he's just too stupid to realize that he needs air to breathe and talk, so being in a cartoon universe, that lets him continue to do both without any issue. It's like if a cartoon character runs right off a cliff, but they don't actually fall until they look down and, as long as they're smart enough to put two and two together (and not get 22 as the answer, unlike Homestar), realize that they're standing on nothing.
I love the little nonsensical details they add in. Like the box homestar was standing on just said "fourteen times". I'm not sure why, but I just find it hilarious.
2:15 “Just explain to me what you were trying to do when this happened” “Well I was in Barbados hanging a picture on the wall” “Ok that tells me everything I need to know” *comedy gold*
I don't quite know why, but now that I'm older this is legitimately one of the most hilarious sbemails for me. The set ups, that pay offs, and the pacing is just peak Brother Chaps. Also I've come to appreciate Homestar Runner himself more over the years and love it whenever he gets the focus and is utilized so ridiculously.
Me too, I think it's that the Chaps were/are serious fans of comedy so they understood that stuff, they weren't just goofing around. Despite the style of the toons being really simple and sometimes intentionally crappy (for humor's sake). A lot like South Park I think. The makers legit know how to write funny and voice-act it.
Lately, every time I've seen one of those transformation Tuesday photos on various social media, the phrase "from drab to fab with nothin but mustard" echoes in my head. Which sucks, because nobody that is currently in my life would appreciate the reference.
The fact that SB addresses the caller differently every sentence (“No, ma’am,” “Yes, sir,” “Yes, baby,” “I’m sorry, ma’am”) is a highly underrated joke.
I once worked at a place where I got agreement on my statement that the quickest way to evacuate the building in a hurry in case of an emergency was to declare that there was free food in the parking lot.
I tell the kids "move it along, hot tub" and forgot about the dusty riding my bike four miles to the library in middle school to see the new sbemail part of my brain. Until today.
The best part of this email was the easter egg for clicking "spreadsheet". It showed a fake Excel doc with a picture of Homestar's head covered in beef and said "Mongolian Beef Wig" ...I have no idea why it made me cackle so loudly.
"No, ma'am. This would be a password YOU gave to US. Yes, sir. It could be the last 4 digits of your dog, or your mother's maiden credit card number..."
The best two are definitely "stupid things at the office" and "stupid things in a mascot costume". Those two bits are so dense with back-to-back jokes.
Can't say I was expecting to see you here. Though in hindsight I probably shouldn't have found it that surprising considering you talked about Homestar Runner in one of your videos.
Has anyone else found certain phrases used on Homestar Runner to be actually kinda useful in other contexts? For an example from this sbemail, "scratch the surface of the tip of the iceberg" is one I've gotten a lot of mileage out of.
"Well, the force between any two charges is equal to the absolute value of the multiple of the charges, divided by 4pi times the ... times the distance squared between the two charges!" "No no no, stupid. That's Coulomb's law." "Oh, why. Sorry. 2 + 2? That's easy. 22." My favorite part from this entire series
2:49 I remember looking up the wiki and finding out that not only did a few games actually did that back in the day but the term for it was Integer overflow. When the integer underflow bug happened to a bunch of apple phones I had this to thank for instantly understanding what had just happened.
That's why Ghandi used to nuke people in the original Civilization. His kindness level was so high, that it would cause an integer overflow and he'd become the evilist SOB on the planet.
@@seatcheeks4242 I always thought it was because his aggression level was zero by default, and trying to lower it caused the game to interpret the negative integer by setting his aggression level to the absolute maximum.
With integers being stored in a binary format, one consequence of going over the limit of displayable digits while not yet overflowing was that the game would start reading whatever chunks of memory came after the number graphics and display those instead of numbers. You see stuff like that in Super Mario Bros when getting over 99 lives, or in the Gen 1 Pokémon games with the Missingno glitch increasing the count of an item in the inventory to a large number.
Does anyone else consistently hear "from drab to fab with NOTHIN' BUT MUUUSTAAARD!" in their head every time they make a sandwich now or is that just me
I first watched this like a decade ago or so when I was still in high school. Now I WORK at a call center and Strongbad talking to the customer on the phone about the password was fucking SPOT ON. Laughed my fucking ass off right there.
Oh, these are just the major branches. There's also the Cabinet of Doing Stupid Things on a Date with Marzipan, the Department of Doing Stupid Things at the Grocery Store, and the Antique Wardrobe of Doing Stupid Things in the Bathroom, among others in the vast, sprawling bureaucracy of Homestar's stupidity.
@@FriendlyLocalGeek It might be 2 years later, but I just want to say: I wish I could upvote your comment multiple times for sounding like something that could have been in the video. I even read it in Strong Bad's voice, and it fit *mwah* perfectly!
It took me 10 years to notice that at 4:39, the third category is missing the word "joint" while blurred but it comes back as it regains focus, creating a fourth line.
I found myself singing "Polymascotfornulate" a few months ago along with "feed it to the baby" and had no idea what it qas from. Then this came up on my feed today and I bust a gut. Funny how something can buy itself into your subconscious and randomly resurface without any prompt.
The Brothers Chaps I hope know just how many vocabularies they have influenced. I legitimately say "Sweet GENIUS" and match Homestar's inflection completely replacing "Sweet Jesus".
@@jadethenidoranit's a reference to "Do The Right Thing", a Spike Lee movie, discussing racial tensions in Brooklyn. The part with the trashcan happens at the climax.
