Main Page Glitches

More than 2 problems.

More than 1 harp.

The Main Pages can produce some odd glitches by clicking and holding down a button, and then dragging off them. This is due to the limits of the Flash software, which have since been recreated by Ruffle for the sake of emulation accuracy. Specifically, any image or animation that only appears while the cursor stays over a button will remain if you click the left mouse button and hold it down, then drag the cursor away from the Main Page button before letting go.

This is a list of oddities and inconsistencies in the Main Pages caused by this glitch. In the list below, "&" is used if it doesn't matter which is done first and "→" if they must be done in order.

Main Page 19 and Main Page 25 are glitch-free because the videos will be interrupted if the viewer hovers over another button while one is playing. Also, under older builds of Ruffle, all pages were free of click-and-drag glitches, as the link would send the viewer to another page even if the cursor was no longer on the button.

Glitches

Main Page	Glitch	Result
1	Toons & Store	The dots connecting the Marzipan constellation appear over the top of the rocket.
	Store → Characters	The Strong Bad constellation appears over Nebulon as he bounces by.
2	Store → anything	The rain falls behind the objects.
	E-mail → Toons	The eagle flies behind the yodeler's horn.
3	Downloads → E-mail	When Homestar's head falls back, the glasses don't move with him.
	Characters & E-mail	Two monkeys! Doesn't require click and drag.
4	Characters → Toons	The pins on the far left turn back to white.
	Characters → Games	The Games animation and its sound effects don't play.
	Toons or Games → Characters	The bowling balls disappear. Strangely, this does not work with Store or E-mail.
	Games → Characters	The pins reappear.
5	Games & Store	The waffle iron quickly changes from having no batter to being covered with batter or from being covered with batter to having no batter.
6	Toons & Downloads	Homestar holds two harps.
8	Characters & Downloads	Homestar's star falls back, but there's no wind.
	Characters → Store	Homestar's propeller isn't moving, even though he is flying upwards. When you move the mouse off Store, the propeller isn't moving, even though he is flying downwards.
	Downloads & Store	Homestar's star flies against the wind.
	Store → Games	Homestar's going upwards, but the blimp and smoke continues to stay on the normal passway.
	Store → Characters	When you move the mouse off Characters, the clouds on the screen get speed lines below them, even though they're moving down. The newly created clouds coming in the top of the screen are correct, though.
9	Characters → E-mail	When the paper football goes by, the word KISS appears in front of the football, not behind it.
	Characters & Games	The band logos always appear on top of the grades no matter which one appears first.
	Store → E-mail	When the paper football goes by, it flies behind the sticky note.
	Downloads → anything	Not really an oddity, but Homestar's head speaks properly even when elevated.
10	Store → anything	Again, not really an oddity, but The Homestar Runner's head speaks properly backwards.
	Store → Downloads	The Homestar Runner eats the bomb when not facing it. When the bomb blows up in The Homestar Runner, the puff of smoke comes out from the back of his head.
	Store → Store	The Homestar Runner's head moves back into position... a little bit behind where it should be. Moving the mouse off without clicking causes his head to face backwards, but still be disconnected.
	Store → Store → Downloads	Part of the bomb is missing in the last frame it appears.
	Store → Characters	A soup can flies out of the back of The Homestar Runner's head.
11	Downloads → Store	Strong Bad appears in front of Homestar's landscape.
	Downloads & E-mail	The Homestar Runner logo appears over Strong Bad's weather map.
	Downloads & Characters	The news stories appear over the weather map.
	Downloads & Toons	Homestar's name appears over Strong Bad. He will stay on screen until you place your cursor on "Downloads" again.)
	Everything (downloads first, games last)	All effects stay on-screen (except for weather map)
13	Characters & E-mail	Two Strong Bads! (This doesn't require click-and-drag, though that makes it easier.)
	Characters & Games	The plane flies in front of Strong Bad's head, and looks smaller as a result. (Again, this doesn't require click and drag, but it makes it easier.)
	Downloads → anything	Objects and characters go through the street lamps and also appear to be moving at the same speed as the road.
14	Store → Games (move the cursor off Games without the click-and-drag method)	The water turns off, but it's still foggy.
	Games → Characters → Store (move the cursor off Store without the click-and-drag method)	One stream of water automatically disappears.
	Characters → Games, Games → Characters or Characters → Store (Click and drag first button, hover on and off second button)	The shower will still be on, but it will also be dripping.
	Characters & Games or Store (Click and Drag both buttons)	Two streams of water.
	Downloads & Store	Homestar apparently writes "Lemke" through the shower curtain.
	E-mail → Downloads (move the cursor off Downloads without the click-and-drag method)	The towel is on, but the pixels are visible around the edges.
15	Downloads → E-mail	PbtC Strong Bad can be heard over The Cheat and Strong Bad's conversation.
16	E-mail → anything	Homestar's voice is full and clear, even under the snow.
	Store → Toons	The effect of Toons doesn't happen.
	Store & E-mail	The snow that falls on Homestar is still bright, though the snow in the background is dimmed.
	E-mail → Games	You can see Homestar knocked back by the snowball behind the pile of snow. His eyes, however, don't move.
	Over and off E-mail quickly	Homestar says "Email" quietly without the snow covering him.
17	Store → E-mail	1-Up's hair disappears as the screen turns to black-and-white, and then reappears.
	Store → anything except E-mail	Part of 1-Up's hat is briefly visible through his hair.
	Games → Toons	If you hover the cursor over Toons at just the right time, Stinkoman will appear behind the spaceship.
18	Toons → E-mail	The floor continues to flash, but the music stops. Does not occur in the post-April Fools' 2006 version.
22	Downloads → anything	You might not be able to see the buttons or their effects after the screen blanks, but you can still hear them.
	Downloads → Store	You can still see Homestar's head near the "Edgar" pop-up. Additionally, if the store button is wide enough, its edge will still be visible.
	Downloads & E-mail	You can see the HTML hole and virus'd Strong Bad near the Edgar popup as well.
23	Store & Downloads	The Cheat is behind the second Homestar despite being much closer, causing him to appear very large. (Also doesn't require click and drag.)
24	Store → anything	The glasses stay on, allowing the rest of the actions to be seen in greater clarity.
27	Store → anything	The text box remains on-screen, covering up the other actions.
28	Characters & Games or Downloads	Character 3 is behind the others despite being in the foreground.
	Store & E-mail	A white box under Character 2's spiral eyes overlaps his eye expressions from the Store effect. If his mouth is taped over, his round mouth from the E-mail effect overlaps it in a similar fashion.
Luau	Characters → anything	Homestar's flame remains, but his head turns pale.
	Characters → Characters	The flame disappears, but Homestar's head turns dark anyway.
	Characters → Downloads	Homestar's Head falls off, but the flame stays.
Strong Bad	E-mail → Characters	The poster immediately flips back down - only really notable because it still curls up if you go the other way.
	Characters → E-mail	The poster turns dark for a moment before curling up.
Homsar	E-mail → Characters or Downloads	The dinosaur/boat never appears. If you hover the cursor over Characters again, the mustache appears and stays until you hover the cursor over another button.
	Games → anything except Downloads	The top of Homsar's head and his hat appear from behind the Heavy Lourde he's supposedly crushed underneath. The Heavy Lourde doesn't disappear.
	Games	Not really an oddity, but if you roll on games and roll off before the Heavy Lourde falls, the sound can be heard but Homsar won't be crushed. Also, his hat jumps up and then momentarily disappears.
King of Town	Toon & Game & Download	You are able to see all three dragons appear, stacked on top of each other.