David and Mark discuss deodorant, product placement, grocery store coupons, the price of nuclear warfare, Gerard Butler and Gérard Depardieu, inappropriate peer-to-teen choice behavior, the juvenile behavior of Reynolds, teachers showing videos, Gun-haver's ridiculousness, and more!

Shopping for Danger/ Commandos in the Classroom

David and Mark discuss the origins of Cheat Commandos, the theme song, the toys, G.I. Joe and GI Joes, Rambo, the A Team, Star Wars toys, Cold War cartoons, educational TV programming, the Cheatar at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and more!

Cheat Commandos, Cheat Commandos... O's, The Cheatar

David and Mark discuss the band They Might Be Giants and their guest appearance for Puppet Jams! Homestar has Bad Jokes and he reminds us to take our vitamins, consider tropical laser beams, beware of celebrities, and we discuss the old PC and Mac games Spectre and Spectre Challenger, TRON, and the ever-changing artwork of 3D landscapes...

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David and Mark talk about the passage of time, the King of Town and food gorging on Thanksgiving, the Olympics on NBC and NHK as well as other cable sports coverage, prank phone calls, Cableman Jorge, the creepy words of Coach Z, Strong Bad's alibi, hefty bags, Homestar's sassy anger and surprising eloquence, Homestar's impressions of Strong Sad and other characters including himself, answering machine tapes, and more!

What is the best cure for the hiccups? David and Mark this and other topics including the Batman TV show from the '60s, George Carlin and Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Bubbs's standup comedy, Strong Sad's and Strong Bad's haiku performance, autumnal vegetables in chorus, turducken, dogs in costumes, taking pictures of dogs, and more!

Halloween Fairstival and More Fan Costumes

Does Strong Bad have a car? When did Homestar get his propellor cap? If Strong Bad had a jillion emails every jillion seconds, is that a lot…? David and Mark discuss these mysteries and more! Also mentioned: Inspector Gadget, Doraemon, 2 E-Z, NEVA DIE, Popular Science, Superman, Bubbs’s lunch specials, General Tso’s Chicken, funnel cake, Pikachu, duck and mammal biology,  the Jungle Cruise at Disneyland and upside down rides at Great America and Six Flags and other theme parks…

Happy Decemberween! David and Mark discuss the humor of Homestar and Homsar and oddity of Sweet Cuppin' Cakes, what it means to plan ahead, oversleeping, good presents, linguistics and homonyms and homophones and homographs, festive music vs. creepy music, Mickey's Christmas Carol and Goofy as Jacob Marley, buying gifts at Walgreen's, Tony Stoney, Coach Z being sadly disconnected, arrows in bananas and green vs. yellow vs. brown bananas, Marzipan freeing the baby seals, countdowns to Christmas, Decemberween as a holiday, Christmas miracles, and more!

Mark and David talk about Thanksgiving toons including big meals and snacking, band's holiday tie-ins, PSAs, fish-corn, Hardee's and Carl's Jr, drive-in and mobile apps for fast food, Coach Z is a jerk, two Homsars, floats, bands and parades and other holiday stuff!

Some Stupid Turkey/Strong Bad Email 90/Fall Float Parade/Limozeen Thanksgiving E-Cards/Happy T!

David and Mark discuss outdated answering machines, text messages, voicemails, and podcasts, the continued weirdness and creepiness of Coach Z in approaching Marzipan, Strong Bad's prank phone calls, Stinkoman's interest in a challenge, Strong Bad (current) and Old-timey Strong Bad and their fighting abilities, the Strong Bad action figure, Strong Sad's interest in tai chi, robot voices and talk-to-speech and speech-to-text messages and miscommunication, the Speak & Spell, radio promotions, and DJ promos, French language, chocolate and crispy chocolate (Crispy, Crackle) and dark chocolate and chocolate with nuts, burglary and robbery attempts, fireworks, The Price is Right, crime and spy movies with hidden items in cakes, baklava, biscuit dough hands man, the trail of the Poopsmith, puppet Homestar and The Cheat, the old Atari, electric guitar, physical comedy, squeegees, and more!

David and Mark reflect on the pauses and delays in the website, the Thnikkaman, Snickers, Homestar saying dumb stuff, Kevin Grumbles, hsmgngnbh, grumble cakes and Cheat cakes, They Might Be Giants adding some musics, the Poopsmith speaks, Marzipan rocks, Homsar as a moderately hot girl, the King of Town and the Prince of Town, imitation chocolate, Bubbs, evil Strong sad, Pom Pom basketball, fake sbemail100, Homestar and his (lack of) pants, laying an egg and rotten eggs, punk rock, No Hamsters, Discount Flashback Warehouse, Stock Footage Warehouse, widescreen on the site, and Strong Bad reaches 100 emails both written and spoken.

We talk popcorn, in-universe graphics for games, typing and math games, dropping a heavy arcade game, video game text translation, dust on the computer in Strong Bad emails 93-96. After the credits we go in depth on JD dates or Julian Date numbering.

David and Mark discuss Strong Bad presenting the news, including sports, weather, traffic, the WORLD in CRISIS!!!, coffee, caffeine and more!

Strong Bad Emails 88-89 and 91-92.

We talk about the Main Pages 15&17, 20x6 vs 1936, Looking at a Thing in a Bag, 404 pages throughout the years and also discuss Flash tweens, Japanese language in the toons, the dark origin of the word "robot", Bub's "check-it-out", the ridiculous of Strong Bad's thing in a bag plan, Torani Italian Ice Syrup, old Yahoo pages, guessing URLs, RSS and more!

Topics and Side Topics: the cinderblock and the tire and the stop sign, boxing matches, Mike Tyson v. Evander Holyfield, how weak Strong Sad is, barbecue pits, bbq, Doctor Who, the etymology of marshmallows, frozen food vs. fresh food, disgusting food, websites and wedsites, broken HTML, </>, the "No Loafing" sign, motivational posters and de-motivational posters, memes, Powered by The Cheat, Flash animation, Nokia phones and flip phones vs. smartphones, freestyle rap and hip-hop, messing around on Casio keyboards, Whale in Space, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, the Strong Bad Twitter account and more!

After the credits there's a longer discussion on Star Trek.

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David and Mark talk about the awkward realities of Homestar on a date with Marzipan and Strong Bad's awkward game simulator, the sizes of bulky cameras and mini camcorders, video club, Sword Cam!, impersonations and impressions, Labor Day-bor, children's books and grammar jokes, the gelatinous monster, being fangoriously devoured, and more!

David and Mark talk about how music goes viral, how Homestar is better with others, how NOT to suntan, how META the emails get, and Dangeresque! Side topics include Singing in the Rain, The NeverEnding Story, Stranger Things 3, Mountain Dew, grammar and the English language, words like cupboard, stunt doubles, Acme anvils, dirty keyboards, the original iPod and the iPod Shuffle, old school technology and tapes and tape decks!

Mark and David go on a long on-topic and off-topic discussion of a single toon: Marzipan Answering Machine 6.0. There's voicemails vs answering machines, keeping up on video games and music, the Beatles, why no-one likes the King of Town, a deep dive into Director Craig Zobel and his connection to the Brothers Chaps, and Valentines Day in Japan and US.

David and Mark discuss SB #71-75, including a bonus email - Double the Strong Bad!

Topics and Tangents: The 2003 Lady's Choice Awards, crazy cartoons, trophies, flash animation, video editing interfaces, pizza trophy, vector graphics, disco, Crazy Go Nuts University, crazy mascots, Japanese mascots, Doraemon, the Kurume city fugu, Saga Bank, Tom & Jerry, Coach Z and The Cheat & The Chort, Homsar, Homestar, college marching band fight songs and theme songs, East Tech, privileges and "privaleges", rewards cards, picking the pizza toppings, prizes for selling magazine subscriptions, lying down in the crisper, Steven Spielberg and Stephen King and Stephen Fry, Duel, attacking appliances, the hardest guitar chord to play, musical notations, Ibanez guitars, gibberish, purple ketchup, Shrek green ketchup, Crystal Pepsi, The Super Bowl, The Simpsons, blue and pink and orange and teal Heinz condiment, yellow and dark yellow honey mustard and dijon, floppy disks, the Save icon, hard floppy disks, Oregon Trail, labyrinth maze games, computer technology, Fry's Electronics, the Lucas Arts sampler, .7 megapixel cameras, Best Buy, Fry's Grocery Stores, podcast formats, why Stitcher kinda stinks, Anchor, Libby, and more!