Unnecessary Quotation Marks

"Not" "really" "magic"

From the DVD commentary to Kick the Can:

MIKE CHAPMAN: So the "'cartoon' for kids" in misused quotes...
MATT CHAPMAN: There was... some moving company, or something, and it said: We're "glad you called", and "glad you called" was in quotes.

Sometimes, The Brothers Chaps will put "unnecessary quotation marks" in their cartoons. This is quite common in Old-Timey toons. Many of these uses are to imply sarcasm or untruthfulness.

Appearances

• Kick the Can — "Cartoon" is in quotes.
• Fortune Cookies — One of the fortunes reads, "'They' say 'you' are 'stupid.' Whatever that means."
• Parsnips A-Plenty — In the opening, "cartoon" and "kids" are in quotes.
• Email lackey — Strong Bad puts the following statements regarding The Cheat in quotes:
  • "knows what's best"
  • "doesn't want to get left by the side of the road during a thunderstorm"
  • "taped to Pom-Pom again"
  • "treat him like a brother that's not Strong Sad"
  • "little yellow squeaky thing that somethetimes steals my ladytypes"
  • "thinks pencil shavings are legal tender"
• That a Ghost — "Scary" is in quotes during the opening.
• Halloween Fairstival — Pom Pom and The Poopsmith hold a "Creeping" Silent "Death" Auction.
• Commandos in the Classroom — Gunhaver uses hand gestures to put "teenage situation" and "appropriate inappropriate whatever thingies" in quotes.
• Email portrait — A newspaper is shown with one headline reading "Banks have 'money'".
• Email magic trick — There is a sign that reads "street" "magic" "today". The Brothers Chaps point this out in the DVD commentary.
• Quote of the Week — In an outtake from The Baloneyman, Bubs points out that the word "shaped" in "shaped like there's a bite taken out of it" is in quotes.
• Costume Commercial — Each costume comes with its own "cheap" ""costume-ish"" """pullover""". Also, the "help" in "staying at home to help Mom & Dad give out treats" is given progressively more quotation marks as the announcer clears his throat.
• Email videography — All of Strong Bad's professions (such as "heart surgeon", "licensed technician", and "fireman") have quotation marks around them and also somehow involve a chainsaw.

Sarcastic Quotation Marks

• Main Page Messages — The announcement for the release of Where's an Egg? said "'new' videlectrix game!", because the game first appeared on the Videlectrix website over two years earlier.
• Email lady fan — Strong Bad remarks that Buck Webb "sound[s] like one of those boring soap-opera comics from the, quote-un-quote, 'funny' pages".
• Email coloring — Strong Bad uses hand gestures when he says, "I never had any doubts that all your students were 'special', Marzipan."
• Baddest of the Bands — When Strong Bad is talking to cardboard Limozeen, he puts quotation marks around "Limozeen" and "real".
• I Killed Pom Pom — Bubs says, "We've all made, quote-un-quote, 'mistakes'!" Coach Z then says, "Who hasn't slipped up and engaged in a little, quote-un-quote, 'premeditated murder in cold blood'?"