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* [#The_Bar 1 The Bar]
** [#Appearances 1.1 Appearances]
* [#Rich_Trott 2 Rich Trott]
** [#External_Links 2.1 External Links]
* [#Main_Page_13 3 Main Page 13]
** [#Button_Effects 3.1 Button Effects]
** [#Fun_Facts 3.2 Fun Facts]
*** [#Remarks 3.2.1 Remarks]
*** [#Goofs 3.2.2 Goofs]
*** [#Inside_References 3.2.3 Inside References]
*** [#Real-World_References 3.2.4 Real-World References]
*** [#Fast_Forward 3.2.5 Fast Forward]
** [#External_Links_2 3.3 External Links]
* [#Peasantry 4 Peasantry]
** [#History 4.1 History]
** [#Locations 4.2 Locations]
** [#Appearances_2 4.3 Appearances]
* [#too_cool 5 too cool]
** [#Fun_Facts_2 5.1 Fun Facts]
*** [#Explanations 5.1.1 Explanations]
*** [#Trivia 5.1.2 Trivia]
*** [#Remarks_2 5.1.3 Remarks]
*** [#Inside_References_2 5.1.4 Inside References]
*** [#Real-World_References_2 5.1.5 Real-World References]
*** [#Fast_Forward_2 5.1.6 Fast Forward]
** [#Fun_Facts_3 5.2 Fun Facts]
*** [#Explanations_2 5.2.1 Explanations]
*** [#Trivia_2 5.2.2 Trivia]
*** [#Remarks_3 5.2.3 Remarks]
*** [#Inside_References_3 5.2.4 Inside References]
*** [#Real-World_References_3 5.2.5 Real-World References]
*** [#Fast_Forward_3 5.2.6 Fast Forward]

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The Bar in [[Summer Short Shorts]] and in the [[Theme Song Video]]

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The Bar in [[Strong Bad is a Bad Guy]]

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'''The Bar''' has appeared in a few different toons. It seems to always feature [[Cold One|Cold Ones]] or 'old ones and a bowl of peanuts on the table. It has a dartboard and a [[LEMKE]] pennant on the wall. Stairs are visible through one door, so it might be in a basement, or it might have a second story. It serves as the meeting place for the [[Broternal Order of Different Helmets]].

Its second [[Flash]] appearance in [[Summer Short Shorts]] was almost identical to its first in the [[Theme Song Video]], with an updated look to the bar and the characters.

In the DVD commentaries for [[Summer Short Shorts]] and [[Ever and More]], the Brothers Chaps suggest that the bar is in [[Pom Pom]]'s basement, referring to it as his "rumpus room".

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== <span class="mw-headline">Appearances</span> ==

* '''Debut:''' [[Theme Song Video]]
* [[Strong Bad is a Bad Guy]]
* [[Summer Short Shorts]]
* [[Ever and More]]
* Email [[business trip]]
* [[Jibblies 2]]
* Email [[hiding]]
* [[Loading Screens]]
* [[Trogdor!! The Board Game (video)]]
* [[Stack 'Em to the Heavens!]]
* [[Expando Deck Promo]]

[[Category: Places of Business|Bar, The]]

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"It’s official. Trott was the one who went mad with power."

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Rich Trott

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[[User:Trott|Rich Trott]] is a composer and playtester for [[Dangeresque: The Roomisode Triungulate]].

Throughout December 2022, Rich Trott reinterpreted the daily songs from the [[Decemberweenvent Calendar]] "sorta mostly in the style of [[A Charlie Brown Christmas (soundtrack)|the soundtrack to A Charlie Brown Christmas]] by the [[Vince Guaraldi|Vince Guaraldi Trio]]" and shared them on Twitter ([https://twitter.com/trott @trott]), most were retweeted by [[@StrongBadActual]]. In May 2023, Strong Bad tweeted a jazz/funk remix of [[Homestar Runner Original Soundtrack Volume 1|the theme from]] [[Strong Bad is in Jail Cartoon]] as a teaser for [[Dangeresque Roomisode 2: The Intersection of Doom & Boom]]; he then retweeted Trott's remix of the song, and challenged him to [[@StrongBadActual Tweets 2023|"jazz-interpret (a) little song I made up as I was reading the instructions for this shelf"]]. Trott responded with multiple covers of the song.

In August 2023, Rich Trott's [[Decemberweenvent Calendar]] covers of [[Stave It Off]] and [[Strong Bad is a Bad Guy]] were used in [[Dangeresque: The Roomisode Triungulate]]. [[Dangeresque: The Roomisode Triungulate Soundtrack|The game's soundtrack]] was released later that month, containing 13 new arrangements of the music by Rich Trott, in addition to the two tracks that were used in the game.

Trott has been a Node.js maintainer since 2015. He started the practice of [https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Anodejs%2Fnode+fhqwhgads&type=code using fhqwhgads in the code base] when an arbitrary string or variable name is called for.

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== <span class="mw-headline">External Links</span> ==

* [https://palacefamilysteakhouse.bandcamp.com/ Rich Trott's Bandcamp page]
** ''Songs in the Key of Decemberween'' [https://palacefamilysteakhouse.bandcamp.com/album/songs-in-the-key-of-decemberween-volume-1 Volume 1] and [https://palacefamilysteakhouse.bandcamp.com/album/songs-in-the-key-of-decemberween-volume-2 Volume 2]

[[Category:People|Trott, Rich]]

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The Atari 2600.

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An [[Atari 2600]] Main Page.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' [[Atari Homestar]], [[Atari Strong Bad]], [[Retro Gaming Character Variations|Atari Marzipan]], [[Atari Dragon]]

'''Places:''' Atari [[The Field]]

'''Icon:''' Atari joystick

'''Date:''' Monday, June 25, 2001 or earlier

'''Page Title:''' Homestar Runner Game Pac

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* '''[[TV Time Toons Menu|Toons]]''' — The color of the sky changes for each rollover: first, from its original blue to orange; then to purple; red; lavender; and back to blue.
* '''[[Scrolling Shooter Games Menu|Games]]''' — An airplane flies by and drops a bomb onto the field.
* '''[[Character Videos|Characters]]''' — Strong Bad jumps on screen. He disappears pixel-by-pixel when the cursor moves off the button.
* '''[[Downloads]]''' — Background is turned into a moving road from a racing game.
* '''[[Store]]''' — Marzipan goes across the screen chasing a butterfly with a net.
* '''[[Email|E-mail]]''' — Strong Bad, holding the Enchanted Chalice from [[Adventure (Atari 2600)|Adventure]], runs away from Yorgle the Atari Dragon while yelling, "Somebody get this freakin' duck away from me!"

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=== <span class="mw-headline">Remarks</span> ===

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[[8-Bit is Enough|8-bit is enough]], right?

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* The scrolling road is like a daytime version of [[Nighttime Driving Type Game]] from [[Strong Bad's Message Bored]].
* In the .swf, an 8-bit mouse cursor is visible outside the frame. This could possibly be from a scrapped idea to have a "custom cursor" in this page.

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The plane isn't low. It's just in the foreground.

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* The wing of the airplane will pass over any action happening in The Field. The only thing it does not pass over is Homestar Runner's head.
* After Strong Bad runs across the screen when the cursor rolls over "E-mail", the Flash file restarts itself, causing the What's New, Main Page, and Weeklies links to disappear for one frame and the What's New button cycle to restart.

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* Strong Bad's line is a reference to Homestar Runner's line from the first [[In Search of the Yello Dello Deleted Scenes|deleted scene]] from [[In Search of the Yello Dello DVD|In Search Of The Yello Dello DVD]].

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* The sound effects for the "Games" and "E-mail" buttons are taken from the Atari 2600 games [[Combat (video game)|Combat]] and [[Seaquest (video game)|Seaquest]].
* The sound effect for the "Characters" button is from the Atari 2600 game [[Pitfall!]], when Pitfall Harry would collect a gold bar, diamond ring, etc.
* The effect when Strong Bad disappears is from [[Pac-Man]] for the Atari 2600. The first sound effect made on the "Downloads" button is the sound Pac-Man makes when eating a pellet.

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* Strong Bad calling a dragon chasing him a "Freaking Duck" would later be redone with [[Trogdor]] as the Downloads mouseover effect for [[Main Page 27]].

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As seen in [[Main Page 27]]

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The Map of Peasantry

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'''Peasantry''' serves as the primary setting of the [[Videlectrix]] games [[Peasant's Quest]] and (presumably) [[TROGDOR!]], as well as the [[Board Games|board game]] [[Trogdor!! The Board Game]]. It is a medieval land mainly filled with [[Peasants|peasants]], [[Mendelev and Dongolev|archers]], and [[The Red and Blue Knights|knights]], though creatures such as the [[Dragons|dragon]] [[Trogdor]], the ogre-like [[Kerrek]], and the primitive [[Jhonka]] also abound. Most of the peasants reside in small [[Thatched-Roof Cottage|thatched-roof cottages]], many of which have been burninated by Trogdor. Its name is based on the land of Daventry, from the [[King's Quest]] games by [[Sierra]].

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The history of Peasantry is a dark one indeed. For untold ages, the chivalrous realm of Pageantry (the kingdom that owns [[Scalding Lake]]) had been at war with their adjacent neighbor, the deplorable kingdom of Bigotry. Their borderlands were a permanent battlefield, and those unfortunate peasants caught in the midst of it all did their best to eke out an existence while the war raged around them. Eventually, just before the Age of Trogdor, the land on which the armies fought became so ravaged and war-torn that neither side would claim it. With no realm to call their own, the peasants of the borderlands grumbled together a meager government and began calling themselves the kingdom of Peasantry.

In the early days, life was simple and happy. [[Baby Lady & Her Baby|Baby ladies]] stole money. Creepy [[Old Man|old men]] fished in the lakes. The Jhonka, a troll-like being that lived in a cave, hoarded its treasure. A vile giant known as the Kerrek invaded the land, squashing all who trespassed his fields. Then, a dragon known as Trogdor the Burninator came. Trogdor ravaged fields, squashed peasants, destroyed huts, and spread burnination all over the land. Ever since this day, while most of the peasants of Peasantry have lived in peace with Trogdor for centuries, some people did indeed live in fear.

It is revealed in the [[Peasant's Quest Movie Trailer]] that Peasantry has a monarchy—namely, the heretofore nameless [[King of Peasantry]]. There is another place called Parchmenty, a few kingdoms over in the "uppity, know-it-all realm" of Frillscholar.

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Locations in Peasantry include:

* [[Rather Dashing]]'s Burninated Cottage
* Mountain Pass
* Cliff
* [[Trog-Cave|Trogdor's Lair]]
* Baby Lady's Cottage
* [[Naked Ned]]'s Cottage
* The Inn
* Jhonka's Cave
* Pebble Lake
* Hidden Glen
* Archery Range
* Old Well
* [[Poor Gary]]'s Pasture
* The Haystack

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Peasantry comes alive

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Also, in the Movie Preview, there is a new map shown which slightly resembles the old one, and reveals new places such as:

* Clackum Falls
* The Frumpish Mountains
* Trogdor's Keep
* The Slightly Dangerous Fields
* That Weird Tree (you know)

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* [[TROGDOR!]]
* [[Peasant's Quest]]
* [[Peasant's Quest Preview]]
* [[Peasant's Quest Movie Trailer]]
* [[Snowglobe]]
* [[Baddest of the Bands]] (mentioned)
* [[8-Bit is Enough]]
* [[Trogdor!! The Board Game]]
* [[Main Page 27]]

{{Trogdor}} [[Category:Foreign Lands]] [[Category:Peasant's Quest Places]]

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* [[Tom Brokaw]] is a journalist who anchored the ''[[NBC Nightly News]]'' from 1982 to 2004.
* Primary investments are buying an initial offering of stocks or bonds directly from a corporation. Secondary investments are buying stocks that have already been created by primary investments. Tertiary investments are buying stocks from other stockholders.
* [[Polenta]] is an Italian food made from boiled cornmeal.
* [[Regolith]] is a scientific term for loose material covering bedrock, including dust, soil, and broken rock.

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Also not too cool to smile.

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Homestar's ''other'' new mouth

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* [[@StrongBadActual Tweets 2017|According to @StrongBadActual]], a few friends of [[The Brothers Chaps]] recorded the lackluster crowd sounds in 2017.
* This email was sent in [https://twitter.com/StrongBadActual/status/867413867294535682 via Tweet] by [https://twitter.com/@El_Buendonado @El_Buendonado], using the template suggested by [[@StrongBadActual]] (including the closing "Woefully yours").
* This is the first appearance of Homestar's new mouth on the website, indicating curiosity or confusion. Its first documented usage was in a [[Dad's Garage & Friends - 13 Jun 2015|Dad's Garage presentation on June 13, 2015]].
* This is the first time Senor Cardgage has smiled.
* The Exact Same's YouTube autoplay preview can be found in the Flash file using a seek bar.
* The short-lived format Betaflop-D had a [http://www.betaflop.com/ website]. It is currently unknown if the The Brothers Chaps actually made this site, or a dedicated fan. It has since been taken down, but is available through Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.

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=== <span class="mw-headline">Remarks</span> ===

* For about two weeks, this email's title linked to [[sbemail 206]] on the [[New Stuff]] menu. As a result, [[sbemail 206]]'s [[TV Time Toons Menu]] preview was shown instead of this email's preview, which could only be viewed through the URL. This was fixed on August 31, 2017.
* On October 2nd, 2022, the [[Flash]] file was updated to one named "'''sbemail207_new3.swf'''". This lowered the target Flash and ActionScript versions for better compatibility with [[Ruffle]], which at the time did not support ActionScript 3.

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* "Thang ding" is a [[Spoonerisms|spoonerism]].
* "Betaflop-D" is a [[Portmanteaus|portmanteau]] (see below).
* Senor Cardgage instructs Strong Bad to [[Mashing|mash play]].
* [[The Robot (storybook)|The Robot]]'s power outlet is used in the chain of adapters between the "beige enough device" and the [[Telebision]].
* "Family Might/Could" is very similar to "[[Might Could|might could]]".
* Homestar uses [[Cinnamon|cinnamon]] as facial hair once again.
* Strong Sad pronounces "cursed" as "curs[[èd]]".
* Strong Sad [[Strong Sad Smiling|smiles]] when he finds out that he's been cursed.
* "[[Hot Jones]] Investment" shares a name with the warm drink from [[A Death Defying Decemberween]].
* Homestar last addressed someone with the surname "Jankroe" in [[Costume Commercial]].
* Homestar calls Cardgage's character video "[his] first rated-R movie", echoing his being banned from playing M-rated video games in [[slumber party]].
* Cardgage's character video being rated R, as well as the difficulty in watching it, echoes a similar situation in [[rated]].
* "Couch Z" is reminiscent of Homestar's faux-backwards pronunciation of "Coach Z" in an Easter egg in [[alternate universe]].
* [[Kevin]]'s camera shows up again as the camera Strong Bad plans to use for Cardgage's video.

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=== <span class="mw-headline">Real-World References</span> ===

* The page title is a play on the term "[[Holier-than-thou|holier-than-thou]]".
* The cursed Betaflop-D tape is a reference to ''[[The Ring (2002 film)|The Ring]]'', a 2002 adaptation of a 1998 Japanese horror movie about an unsettling cursed VHS tape that would kill whoever watched seven days later.
* Betaflop-D is a reference to three data formats that have faded into obscurity. Two of them tried and failed to supplant VHS tapes; [[Betamax]], a video format by Sony which is best known for failing to compete in the 1980s despite being technically superior, and [[D-VHS]], a last-ditch effort to put higher-quality digital video on a cassette in the face of the growing threat of DVD. Both were ultimately flops, and traditional VHS remained commonplace until the mid-2000s. Then there's the 5.25 inch floppy disk inside the cassette, the outdatedness of which had been alluded to previously.
** In addition, the name "Betaflop" also alludes to [[FLOPS|floating point operations]], a measure of computer performance in sizes such as "teraflop".
* Cardgage's line to Coach Z is a mangled version of a line from the song "Centerfield" by [[John Fogerty]]: "Put me in, coach, I'm ready to play!"
* The VHS box at the end greatly resembles the typical [[Sony Pictures Home Entertainment|RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video]] box used around the early to late 1980s, with the font and the red border on the front and side alluding towards it.

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* Strong Bad says "thang ding" again in [[Trogdor!! The Board Game Playthrough]].

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* [[Tom Brokaw]] is a journalist who anchored the ''[[NBC Nightly News]]'' from 1982 to 2004.
* Primary investments are buying an initial offering of stocks or bonds directly from a corporation. Secondary investments are buying stocks that have already been created by primary investments. Tertiary investments are buying stocks from other stockholders.
* [[Polenta]] is an Italian food made from boiled cornmeal.
* [[Regolith]] is a scientific term for loose material covering bedrock, including dust, soil, and broken rock.

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* [[@StrongBadActual Tweets 2017|According to @StrongBadActual]], a few friends of [[The Brothers Chaps]] recorded the lackluster crowd sounds in 2017.
* This email was sent in [https://twitter.com/StrongBadActual/status/867413867294535682 via Tweet] by [https://twitter.com/@El_Buendonado @El_Buendonado], using the template suggested by [[@StrongBadActual]] (including the closing "Woefully yours").
* This is the first appearance of Homestar's new mouth on the website, indicating curiosity or confusion. Its first documented usage was in a [[Dad's Garage & Friends - 13 Jun 2015|Dad's Garage presentation on June 13, 2015]].
* This is the first time Senor Cardgage has smiled.
* The Exact Same's YouTube autoplay preview can be found in the Flash file using a seek bar.
* The short-lived format Betaflop-D had a [http://www.betaflop.com/ website]. It is currently unknown if the The Brothers Chaps actually made this site, or a dedicated fan. It has since been taken down, but is available through Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.

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* For about two weeks, this email's title linked to [[sbemail 206]] on the [[New Stuff]] menu. As a result, [[sbemail 206]]'s [[TV Time Toons Menu]] preview was shown instead of this email's preview, which could only be viewed through the URL. This was fixed on August 31, 2017.
* On October 2, 2022, the [[Flash]] file was updated to one named "'''sbemail207_new3.swf'''". This lowered the target Flash and ActionScript versions for better compatibility with [[Ruffle]], which at the time did not support ActionScript 3.

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* "Thang ding" is a [[Spoonerisms|spoonerism]].
* "Betaflop-D" is a [[Portmanteaus|portmanteau]] (see below).
* Senor Cardgage instructs Strong Bad to [[Mashing|mash play]].
* [[The Robot (storybook)|The Robot]]'s power outlet is used in the chain of adapters between the "beige enough device" and the [[Telebision]].
* "Family Might/Could" is very similar to "[[Might Could|might could]]".
* Homestar uses [[Cinnamon|cinnamon]] as facial hair once again.
* Strong Sad pronounces "cursed" as "curs[[èd]]".
* Strong Sad [[Strong Sad Smiling|smiles]] when he finds out that he's been cursed.
* "[[Hot Jones]] Investment" shares a name with the warm drink from [[A Death Defying Decemberween]].
* Homestar last addressed someone with the surname "Jankroe" in [[Costume Commercial]].
* Homestar calls Cardgage's character video "[his] first rated-R movie", echoing his being banned from playing M-rated video games in [[slumber party]].
* Cardgage's character video being rated R, as well as the difficulty in watching it, echoes a similar situation in [[rated]].
* "Couch Z" is reminiscent of Homestar's faux-backwards pronunciation of "Coach Z" in an Easter egg in [[alternate universe]].
* [[Kevin]]'s camera shows up again as the camera Strong Bad plans to use for Cardgage's video.

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* The page title is a play on the term "[[Holier-than-thou|holier-than-thou]]".
* The cursed Betaflop-D tape is a reference to ''[[The Ring (2002 film)|The Ring]]'', a 2002 adaptation of a 1998 Japanese horror movie about an unsettling cursed VHS tape that would kill whoever watched seven days later.
* Betaflop-D is a reference to three data formats that have faded into obscurity. Two of them tried and failed to supplant VHS tapes; [[Betamax]], a video format by Sony which is best known for failing to compete in the 1980s despite being technically superior, and [[D-VHS]], a last-ditch effort to put higher-quality digital video on a cassette in the face of the growing threat of DVD. Both were ultimately flops, and traditional VHS remained commonplace until the mid-2000s. Then there's the 5.25 inch floppy disk inside the cassette, the outdatedness of which had been alluded to previously.
** In addition, the name "Betaflop" also alludes to [[FLOPS|floating point operations]], a measure of computer performance in sizes such as "teraflop".
* Cardgage's line to Coach Z is a mangled version of a line from the song "Centerfield" by [[John Fogerty]]: "Put me in, coach, I'm ready to play!"
* The VHS box at the end greatly resembles the typical [[Sony Pictures Home Entertainment|RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video]] box used around the early to late 1980s, with the font and the red border on the front and side alluding towards it.

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* Strong Bad says "thang ding" again in [[Trogdor!! The Board Game Playthrough]].

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