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| '''[[Strong Bad Email]] #4'''
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| [https://homestarrunner.com/sbemails/4-homestar-hair watch]
| [[butt IQ|← butt IQ]]
| [[making out|making out →]]
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"How come you people never play my game, man?"

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Instead of a regular message, Strong Bad receives a [[Hairstyle Runner]] design.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' [[Strong Bad]]

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]]

'''Computer:''' [[Tandy 400]]

'''Date:''' Thursday, September 27, 2001

'''Running Time:''' 0:55

'''Page Title:''' Tandy 400!!!

'''DVD:''' [[strongbad email.exe Disc One]]

'''SBEmail Menu Description:''' When he gets an email meant for Homestar, Strong Bad becomes "all cheesed off" as the kids say... in the 50's maybe.

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== Contents ==

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* [#Transcript 1 Transcript]
* [#Fun_Facts 2 Fun Facts]
** [#Trivia 2.1 Trivia]
** [#Remarks 2.2 Remarks]
** [#Inside_References 2.3 Inside References]
** [#Real-World_References 2.4 Real-World References]
* [#DVD_Version 3 DVD Version]
** [#Commentary_Transcript 3.1 Commentary Transcript]
** [#Fun_Facts_2 3.2 Fun Facts]
* [#YouTube_Version 4 YouTube Version]
* [#External_Links 5 External Links]

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

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{singing, types "run Strongbad's__email"}'' I check the email once, I check the email twice, doo doo doo, doo doo doo... ''{stops singing}'' Okay, let's see what we got here...

<blockquote>Homestar Hair<br />
downloading...</blockquote>
'''STRONG BAD:''' Home...star...Hair...? What the...

''{A graphic from Hairstyle Runner appears, with oddly shaped hair, sideburns and an outline of a beard.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Oh man! I swear if I get another one of these ''{types "delete that crap"}'' freakin' "Hairstyle Runners" from one of you guys,—

''{The image shrinks until it disappears, and a message reading "crap deleted." appears onscreen.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' —I'm gonna have to start busting some heads, okay? I mean, how come you people never play ''my'' game, man? I never get any Strong Libs in my email. I mean, there's this whole game out there that's all for me that you guys can fill out, you know, and like, send me some hilarious crap or something. Now you got me all cheesed off! I'm gonna play some "Temple of Apshai". ''{types "run"temple__of__apshai""}'' Forget you guys. ''{brings up Temple of Apshai}''

''{Temple of Apshai features a little white warrior walking back and forth in a pink-walled 8-bit dungeon with a blue monster and a green box. To the right are a bunch of statistics. [[The Paper]] comes down.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Oh, my hit points are, like, inexcusable in this dungeon, man. I need to find some elixir or something.

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== <span class="mw-headline"> Fun Facts </span> ==

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

* The text on the Temple of Apshai game is as follows. Note that some characters are obscured by Strong Bad's head and others are uncertain, as the font contains many identical-looking characters.

<blockquote>ROOM NO=28<br />
WOUNDS= 91%<br />
FATIGUE=97%<br />
WEIGHT= 87<br />
<br />
ARROWS= 97<br />
MAG ARROWS 9<br />
SKELETON<br />
APPEARS!<br />
TOTAL SLAIN<br />
9
</blockquote>
* This is the only email that is not a letter of some kind, and the first one to feature an attachment.
* This is the first time Strong Bad deleted something in anger, although we don't see the now-standard "[[DELETED]]" screen.
* It is also the first Strong Bad Email to feature dialogue that takes place after The Paper comes down.
* This is also the first instance of Strong Bad's computer [[Strong Bad's Computers Surpassing Their Assumed Capabilities|exceeding its technical boundaries]] — in this case, displaying Temple of Apshai and the Hairstyle Runner in full color and resolution on a supposedly monochrome monitor.
* This is the first email to use the word "[[Crap|crap]]".

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

* When Strong Bad is playing Temple of Apshai, his figure keeps moving in the same pattern.

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=== <span class="mw-headline"> Inside References </span> ===

* The game Strong Bad refers to as his game is [[Strong Libs]].

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

* [[Temple of Apshai]] is a real role-playing computer game from [[Epyx]].

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== <span class="mw-headline"> DVD Version </span> ==

* The DVD version features hidden creators' commentary. To access it, switch your DVD player's audio language selection while watching.

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=== <span class="mw-headline"> Commentary Transcript </span> ===

('''Commentary by:''' [[Mike Chapman]], [[Matt Chapman]])

'''MATT:''' This has a big inconsistency in it with the abilities of his old computer—

'''MIKE:''' ''{laughs}'' Yeah, displaying the color picture.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. Not only can it display JPEGs, it can display a full-color one. Yeah. And there's also a reference to, uh, to Strong Bad Libs in it, huh?

'''MIKE:''' Yeah. We still occasionally get a Strong Bad Lib if someone's watched this email and then...

'''MATT:''' And then does one.

''{long pause}''

'''MATT:''' Say—

'''MIKE:''' Not a lot of animation going on in this one.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, this was, uh...

'''MIKE:''' This one would probably take us— we could probably do this in under 20 minutes nowadays.

'''MATT:''' ''{laughs a little}'' Probabl—

'''MIKE:''' It probably took us 6 hours at the time, but...

'''MATT:''' Yep. And then now here it's color, color for ''Temple of Apshai'', too.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah.

'''MATT:''' Why? I mean, he could be playing, like, ''Final Fantasy'' on this according to—

'''MIKE:''' That's a skeleton. That's a skeleton. That blue, isn't that? Isn't that the skeletons from—

'''MATT:''' Yeah. I always thought it looked like that blue thing, you know, ''{quickly}'' The ''Close Encounters of the Third Ki''—

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=== <span class="mw-headline"> Fun Facts </span> ===

* Matt mentions the ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' series of role-playing games.
* Matt compares the skeletons to the aliens seen in ''[[Close Encounters of the Third Kind]]'', a sci-fi movie directed by [[Steven Spielberg]].

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== <span class="mw-headline">YouTube Version</span> ==

* At the start of the email, the Windows XP "Hardware Remove" sound can be heard briefly.

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

* [https://homestarrunner.com/sbemails/4-homestar-hair watch "homestar hair"]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxkUl-JFdIo watch "homestar hair"] on [[YouTube]]
* [https://old.homestarrunner.com/sbemail4.html watch "homestar hair"] on the old [[Flash]] site
* [https://old.homestarrunner.com/sbemail4.swf view the Flash file for "homestar hair"]

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[/wiki/Special:Categories Categories]: <span dir="ltr">[[Category:Strong Bad Filmography|Strong Bad Filmography]]</span> | <span dir="ltr">[[Category:Tandy 400 Emails|Tandy 400 Emails]]</span> | <span dir="ltr">[[Category:strongbad email.exe Disc One|strongbad email.exe Disc One]]</span> | <span dir="ltr">[[Category:Emails With DVD Commentary|Emails With DVD Commentary]]</span>

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	* [[Temple of Apshai]] is a real role-playing computer game from [[Epyx]].		* [[Temple of Apshai]] is a real role-playing computer game from [[Epyx]]. However, the graphics on Strong Bad's screen are '''not''' from Temple of Apshai, but are actually a cut-and-paste job from an old [[ZX Spectrum]] game called [[Chaos (video game)\|Chaos: Battle of the Wizards]].

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	'''MIKE:''' It probably took us 6 hours at the time, but...		'''MIKE:''' It probably took us 6 hours at the time, but...

	'''MATT:''' Yep. And then now here it's color, color for ''Temple of Apshai'', too.		'''MATT:''' Yep. And then now here it's color, color for Temple of Apshai, too.

	'''MIKE:''' Yeah.		'''MIKE:''' Yeah.

	'''MATT:''' Why? I mean, he could be playing, like, ''Final Fantasy'' on this according to—		'''MATT:''' Why? I mean, he could be playing, like, Final Fantasy on this according to—

	'''MIKE:''' That's a skeleton. That's a skeleton. That blue, isn't that? Isn't that the skeletons from—		'''MIKE:''' That's a skeleton. That's a skeleton. That blue, isn't that? Isn't that the skeletons from—

	'''MATT:''' Yeah. I always thought it looked like that blue thing, you know, ''{quickly}'' The ''Close Encounters of the Third ~~Ki''—~~		'''MATT:''' Yeah. I always thought it looked like that blue thing, you know, ''{quickly}'' The Close Encounters of the Third Ki—

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	* Matt mentions ~~the ''~~[[Final Fantasy]]'' series of role-playing games.		* Matt mentions [[Final Fantasy]], a popular series of role-playing games created by [[Square Enix]] (formerly [[Square (video game company)\|Squaresoft]]).
	* Matt ~~compares the skeletons to the aliens seen in ''[~~[Close Encounters of the Third Kind]~~]''~~, a ~~sci-fi~~ movie directed by [[Steven Spielberg]].		* Matt also references [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075860 Close Encounters of the Third Kind], a science fiction movie about alien abductions directed by [[Steven Spielberg]].

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	== <span class="mw-headline">YouTube Version</span> ==		== <span class="mw-headline">YouTube Version</span> ==

	* At the start of the email, ~~the~~ Windows XP "Hardware Remove" sound can be heard briefly.		* At the start of the email, a Windows XP "Hardware Remove" sound can be heard briefly.

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