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+* Email [[senior prom]] — A "[[New Toon Soon|new toon soon]]" message was put up on May 2, 2006, despite the eventual update being a new [[Strong Bad Email]]. When the email came out the next day, the Main Page message changed to "king of town toon" in an effort to dupe viewers into thinking they would be watching a toon about [[The King of Town|the King of Town]].

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''Or is it...?''

Sometimes, [[The Brothers Chaps|the Brothers Chaps]] use intentionally '''misleading [[Main Page Messages|Main Page messages]]''' in attempts to deceive viewers into thinking they will be getting a different type of toon than they really end up with.

== Instances ==

* Email [[senior prom]] — A "[[New Toon Soon|new toon soon]]" message was put up on May 2, 2006, despite the eventual update being a new [[Strong Bad Email]]. When the email came out the next day, the Main Page message changed to "king of town toon" in an effort to dupe viewers into thinking they would be watching a toon about [[The King of Town|the King of Town]].
* [[Sbemailiarized!]] — The toon was released under the message "new strong bad email", but scrolling over the message changed the text to "new strong bad email?" as a hint that something was off.
* Email [[hremail 3184]] — A "new toon soon" message was put up on June 29, 2009, despite the eventual update being the first new Strong Bad Email in months. It was released under the message "new hremail!" because the opening of the email deceptively resembles that of a [[Hremails|Hremail]].
* [[Halloween Hijinks]] — The toon was released under the Main Page message "ween toon soon", despite being a full toon. This was to mislead viewers into believing they were just getting a [[Halloween Teasers|Halloween teaser]].

== See Also ==

* [[New Toon Soon]]

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! style="text-align:center;background:#ccccff;" | [[Main Pages]]
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| style="text-align:center;font-size:smaller;" | [[Main Page 1|The Moon]] · [[Main Page 2|Mountains]] · [[Main Page 3|Island]] · [[Main Page 4|Bowling]] · [[Main Page 5|Waffles]] · [[Main Page 6|Heaven]] · [[Main Page 7|Graveyard]] · [[Main Page 8|Falling]] · [[Main Page 9|Notebook]] · [[Main Page 10|Old-Timey]] · [[Main Page 11|News]] · [[Main Page 12|4th of July]] · [[Main Page 13|Atari]] · [[Main Page 14|Shower]] · [[Main Page 15|Powered by The Cheat]] · [[Main Page 16|Winter]] · [[Main Page 17|20X6]] · [[Main Page 18|Sweet Cuppin' Cakes]] · [[Main Page 19|The Show]] · [[Main Page 20|Flashback]] · [[Main Page 21|Vector]] · [[Main Page 22|Virus]] · [[Main Page 23|Backstage Pass]] · [[Main Page 24|Nearsighted]] · [[Main Page 25|Puppets]] · [[Main Page 26|Xeriouxly Forxe]] · [[Main Page 27|Peasantry]] · [[Main Page 28|Yonder Website]]<br />
'''Other Main Pages:''' [[Luau Main Page|Luau]] · [[Strong Bad Main Page|Strong Bad]] · [[Homsar Main Page|Homsar]] · [[King of Town Main Page|King of Town]]
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| style="text-align:center;font-size:smaller;" | '''Related:''' [[Weeklies]] ([[Quote of the Week|Q]] · [[Weekly Fanstuff|F]] · [[Sketchbook|S]] · [[Random Toon|R]]) · [[Main Page Messages|Messages]] ([[Main Page Pop-Ups|Pop-Ups]] · [[New Toon Soon]] · '''Misleading''') · [[First Time Here?]] · [[Main Page Glitches|Glitches]]
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