I can relate to this. I tried so hard to impress my girl with the finest mongolian aftershave lotion, but all she really wanted was a guy with a face and head.
This is what's so great about the homestar universe. This isn't just being done as a 'haha remember our old cartoons?' gag, it's authentic to the experience of other media we had growing up. By the time you got to a show, you had no idea how long it had been going, whether you've missed some old episodes, whether perhaps the earliest stuff is just plain lost or not airing anymore...
Given how much humor changes over time, it's amazing how well this stuff has aged, especially for stuff on the internet which at that time was mostly hyper-aggressive trash.
In all fairness, the "hyper-aggressive trash" part hasn't changed much. Though neither has the implied part about it aging badly. Or being bad. Those are also true.
I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR THAT LASERDISC SONG FOR MONTHS Someone commented it on a video about laserdiscs and I could sorta hear it in my memory but not enough to have closure. So I went looking in old SBemails to find it and got sidetracked because they’re all really entertaining
this sbemail has so many incredible sound bites that have been seared into my brain. "strongest of the bads", "the cheat's playing something on a lazer disc", just the word "lady-ing", "the ramblin' wreck of email check", the list goes on and on
Despite the jokiness, this email is in fact extremely legit. Takeaways for ladying: 1. Aspire to look physically fit 2. Smell nice 3. Display athleticism when possible 4. Introduce easy topics like family and pets 5. Know how to plan intimate dinners 6. Have face and hands
Over the years I've gone to appreciate the brothers willingness to make fun of themselves, especially in their early years of animation. And I like how this sbemail both pays homage and parodies their really old work on the site. Just like how the first two Brady Bunch movies made fun of the show and still managed to be faithful adaptations in order to hold up as movies in the 90s.
The fact he fell asleep to his own email is a pretty good gag in and of itself, but for him to walk offscreen at the end only to immediately fall asleep again is comedy gold
"I'm wearing tight pants to accentuate all my .... bubble teas..." When I first watched this, I didn't know what bubble teas were, never heard of them, and never got this joke... until today.
I don't think so. If you were consumer back in the day, You would spend (tons of) money on something that could record TV and playback rented movies instead of read-only mutant discs. That's why VHS was the thing. People wanted to record TV with biggest capacity and lowest price, so that's why Beta lose format war as well. And I? Still wants to play some Video8's of mine.
@@CEzikMaj Too bad the studios didn't use broadcast quality tapes. They were 10 times better than regular VHS. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-P00QS3lXJeI.html
I once asked an auditorium of people to please rise for the presentation of our national colors before singing the Strongbadian anthem. Thankfully, it was 2004 so a few people understood and cheered me on.
I think this actually was the first Strong Bad email I ever saw! I remember being unreasonably distressed by the fact that Strong Bad's face was destroyed in the flashback, especially since it was inexplicably intact in the present. I was, um... 23 at the time... Anyway, now that it's on RU-vid I'm delighted to see a recommendation in the sidebar for a video explaining precisely whatever happened to the LaserDisc!
Stink Man Ooh, that’s actually more accurate than “holy crap”! Let me try! (Ahem) in the word of internet cartoons, Homestar Runner has no COM PA TI SHON!
Homestar, with a fake moustache, explaining how: his "tight pants" extenuate all of his "bubble teas", absolutely slays me. I suspect that I will still find it funny, even in 2062.
Nice call-back to Marshmallow's Last Stand. With The Cheat happening to play it on a laserdisc, I interpret that 1:06 segment as a Powered-By-The-Cheat cartoon that's more elaborate than usual. Man everything is better on the laserdisc.
The standard Laserdisc is 12 inches in diameter. From this we can conclude that the entirety of the Homestar Runner cast is shorter than 4 feet tall, with most of them shorter than 3 feet. Granted, this contradicts SBemail "the facts" which claims Strong Mad is 88 inches tall, but that email wasn't even consistent with two different measurements _on-screen at the same time_ (two different lines of different lengths were both claimed to be 88 inches)
People were not interested in them over VHS. They did not wanted additional format which was read-only and required another player for it. VHS (as well as Beta and Video8) could do this too, but it could also record programs.
They involved into the laser diskette format of CD, which involved into using a better laser and became DVD, which moved from a red laser to a blue laser and became HD-DVD, which refined to a better blue laser and became Blue-ray, which later got a even better laser that was still in the blue light frequency which is known as 4k Blue-ray.
Ah, Hremail 35. Where Homestar takes Marzipan to watch wrestling. A Classic An Original A Regular A New Original An Old Classic An Isosceles Fish Sandwich Wait, Fish Sandwich?
