“And you just have to sit there and imagine why on Earth you can’t get ye flask, because the game’s certainly not going to tell you.” I came into computers at the tail end of text adventures, but now that I have started playing several that we had and never finished, I never realized until now how painfully accurate that is.
I remember e-mailing Strong Bad when I was in Grade 4 about making a Stinkoman beat-em up game (like Double Dragon). That was almost 15 years ago, and this e-mail aired six months later. The Stinkoman 20X6 game was on their website three months after that. Maybe a lot of other people had sent similar e-mails, but my inner child always feels proud for feeling somewhat responsible.
Shining Yoshi man I feel, but when I was elementary school age and my siblings would be on this site, I'd watch it with them and play some games and barely understand half the shit that went on.
Ooh! Ooh! What about one of those cool point and click games where each segment of the game is sold separately! That would be a cool game....for attractive people...
Too bad they'd never come out with anything like that. On the Wii. In 2008. Or anything. Also, hello man from 4 years ago. I'm theNightStar from right now. How do you do?
Been a fan since summer of '10. Since then, I've bought every DVD, watched every cartoon, and found every easter egg. Yes, it really is a great cartoon.
I remember when this came out in the early 00s that I was expecting him, at some point, to get to then-modern day graphics, like the GameCube and Xbox. It was only when I was a few years old that I realized the obvious limitations that Flash put on what kind of video game graphics they could make. And in hindsight it’s funny how they poke fun at themselves, like when Strong Bad talks about the SNES-looking Rhino Feeder being a super high tech game that takes tons of migs and megs of graphics.
The wireframe vector graphics were never really a thing on PCs, which always had raster displays. I think the Vectrex was literally the only home console with a vector display (because, of course, televisions are raster and converting between the two was prohibitive at the time). There were a lot of arcade machines that used vector displays though, like the original Asteroids, Tempest and Lunar Lander.
I swear this email had extra content if you waited long enough. Strongbad commenting on how long the drink was pouring. Something to that effect. Really sad that flash is ending soon. I hope homestar runner lives on forever.
@@poopsmith6853 No. The soda does quickly end, and then transition to an image showing off the four games Strong Bad demonstrated here, and you could play them yourself by clicking on them.
@@Doughboy123x the toons and site could change very quickly in those days too. It was also years ago. I'll admit I don't exactly remember. What's on it now may not be what was the first time though. I checked the site probably daily or more in those days. Changing from looping to an image going to the games page would be as simple as editing some key frames.
as a 27 year old trying to un-freak my linux install, i find myself remembering this joke. i don't know why on earth i can't uninstall jack2, and the linux certainly isn't going to tell me.
I just google "Strongbad asplode" and Google brought me here. That's honestly pretty amazing. Asplode is not a word, so I don't think it would be indexed properly. And it's not in the subtitles, either.
>Get ye flask I do not understand >Examine flask The flask is in front of you, in easily grapsing distance >Pick up flask You fail to pick up the flask >Look under flask I do not understand 'under' >Look at underside of yonder enigmatic drinking receptacle Well why didn't you say so in the first place! There is nothing. > Pick up ye flask with thine hands making sure to first take off thine boxing gloves. Ask nicely >Quit Was it something I said? Hey, baby, I can change. Just give me one more chance ...
And then we got a series of video games with strong bad in them and we now know what he would be like in a video game and what it would be like. Thanks, Taylor
This to me is the definitive SBemail. The one that always comes to mind when I think about HSR. In my college dorm, "your head a splode" and "you cannot get ye flask" were go-to lines on an almost daily basis.
OH MY GOD, I FINALLY REALIZED A HAT IN TIME'S CORGI ADVENTURE THING WAS REFERENCING THIS SBEMAIL WITH THE DENNIS THING- OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH MY GOOOOOOOOD
Hmm... SBZ (the vector game) seems to be a mashup of both Vectrex/X (a Japan-exclusive Gameboy game) visual styles, but the idea of the floating head shooting polygons out of its mouth brings to mind Andross’s appearance in Starfox/Starfox 2... The closest thing I could think of to those would probably be Sigma’s final form from Megaman X2...
I like how Strong Bad is stuck with past tech, to make it more timely and not painfully meta. However, it did came out at a earlier years than today, so I don’t know what happen.
Well now we know it would be a beloved 5 episode Point and Click series that about 10 years later would be in desperate need of a proper remaster for modern systems like the Switch or whatever.
I played SBCG4AP before I ever watched any of the Homestar Runner content online and the way Strong Bad pronounced "Save/Load" when I highlighted the option, I was automatically in love with the character. X)
I've been working on a video game for several years and it JUST, JUST occurred to me that this is why I named some in-game hotel rooms "A," "B," "C," and "Dennis."
Can't know for sure but the Rhino sound effects sound eerily similar to sound effects used in Digimon World 1, the crying noise and the walking/running effects especially. Makes me want to replay that and compare...
If I had the Hitman's Heatmaker, a Name Tag, and a Description Tag in Team Fortress 2, then I'd rename the weapon “Vector Derezzer” and have the description say: “Your head a splode.”
This was the origin of the word "asplode". It really can't be overstated how deeply this site influenced internet culture.
Not quite so much as my doge from my boy's next appearance.
I've only heard "asplode" here.
@@lucash8234i thought it was all over the early internet
My language will never be the same.
No. I definitely heard it from my friend Mike in 2nd grade back in the 80s.
Same with ‘aposta’ (supposed to).
My golden rule for SBEmails was always that if they made Strong Bad say "Ooh! Ooh!", they reeeeally enjoyed making the cartoon.
Someday, we'll all get ye flask.
In Thy Dungeonman III, if I recall.
Then just buy ye flask
you can't get ye flask
Watch out, it might be a load bearing ye flask
Fun fact, A Hat In Time references this text game (specifically, it has Dennis as an option in a little text adventure minigame).
“And you just have to sit there and imagine why on Earth you can’t get ye flask, because the game’s certainly not going to tell you.” I came into computers at the tail end of text adventures, but now that I have started playing several that we had and never finished, I never realized until now how painfully accurate that is.
I could see myself actually enjoying a text based adventure game if they weren't so ding darn cryptic.
You'd enjoy the latest Disk 4 of 12 then.
@@lizardguyNA Watched it yesterday. 🥊💾
Ye flask is bolted to ye wall, which is bolted to ye dongeon, which is bolted to ye castle, which is probably bolted to ye ground.
"I shalt only tell ye one more time. Ye CANNOT GET, ye GOD DAMNED flask."
YOU CAN'T CONTROL ME!!!!!!
Telltale would like to speak to you.
No one left to do so.
Funny they tried. Now they shut down
Shut up ye TellTales!
@@Mr_Putts Well at least they did work on a strong bad with five episode before that happen
His tone of voice makes it sound not literal.
I remember e-mailing Strong Bad when I was in Grade 4 about making a Stinkoman beat-em up game (like Double Dragon).
That was almost 15 years ago, and this e-mail aired six months later. The Stinkoman 20X6 game was on their website three months after that. Maybe a lot of other people had sent similar e-mails, but my inner child always feels proud for feeling somewhat responsible.
I love your avatar
Shining Yoshi man I feel, but when I was elementary school age and my siblings would be on this site, I'd watch it with them and play some games and barely understand half the shit that went on.
You were blessed :)
What was it like growing up in Alcatraz? Seems like a rough childhood.
@@yukiandkanamekurandude that was me, my cousins we’re really into it but I had no idea what was going on 😂 I’m older now but yeah
I Still want Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People on the Nintendo Switch.
telltale got shut down
@@applesyrupgaming PlayStation Now has it
*inhales*
Y E S
It would be better than most of what's on the Switch.
It's on Steam! And it's great.
"Email is like a prison"
*Reads that the sender is from Alcatraz*
I think it's actually Arizona
@@grenien4109 I know, but Strong Bad read "AZ"as "Alcatraz".
@@TheInkPitOx umm... no
@@grenien4109 0:18
@@TheInkPitOx he definitely said Alcatraz
The end result: Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People.
Available in WiiWare June 2008!
Drew C which delayed to August
WIIWARE!
~Homestar
Has it been that long? Hoi!
The end-end result: WiiWare shop shutting down and the game getting pulled off of Steam.
What a shame 😔
@@MantaRaydiated It is on PS Now though so there is hope! 😄
Well now we know, the reason you can't get ye flask is because you needed to specify "Get ye Flask of Oil"
Actually, you just had to type "get ye flask" twice because the game was poorly programmed.
You can't get ye flask because you didn't open DENNIS.
Pretty obvious.
You can't get ye flask. It is firmly bolted to a wall which is probably bolted to a castle, never you mind.
You can't get ye flask because "ye flask" is not an object, it wants "flask" as the argument, because text parsers suck.
@@CybeastID That's a good'n
>not dennis
You can’t get ye flask because its a load bearing flask!
YOUR HEAD A SPLODE
Naturally there'd be some problems with bad translations.
I've been playing my Trogdor the Boardgame, and one of the movement cards has a Dennis joke. I love all the jokes to other videos in the game!
That’s wight, wight, wight!
WHAT, SHOW US, TELL US
@@fleshdadbot6852 it’s the ye flask. it’s called the ye flask of dennis
Ooh! Ooh! What about one of those cool point and click games where each segment of the game is sold separately! That would be a cool game....for attractive people...
Too bad they'd never come out with anything like that. On the Wii. In 2008. Or anything.
Also, hello man from 4 years ago. I'm theNightStar from right now. How do you do?
And you just have to sit there and imagine why on Earth there's no Season 2!
@@qoyote Because the developers certainly aren't going to tell you!
@@the-NightStar Now you're the man from four years ago.
YOU CAN'T CONTROL ME!
Your head a splode!
Yes we can, Strong Bad
Except in most of the other games he talked about.
"An e-mail is like a prison. A prison with no walls...and no toilet."
Been a fan since summer of '10. Since then, I've bought every DVD, watched every cartoon, and found every easter egg. Yes, it really is a great cartoon.
"YOU CAN'T CONTROL ME!"
Looks like someone didn't predict SBCG4AP ^_^
It wasn't supposed to be literal
looks like you didnt predict telltale getting shut down
get necroposted
@@applesyrupgaming This has been happening so much recently. I blame coronavirus
@@cheetah672 nah, it's mostly just telltale doing bad business decisions
"Email is like a prison... a prison with no walls...and no toilet" EPIC!
I remember when this came out in the early 00s that I was expecting him, at some point, to get to then-modern day graphics, like the GameCube and Xbox. It was only when I was a few years old that I realized the obvious limitations that Flash put on what kind of video game graphics they could make. And in hindsight it’s funny how they poke fun at themselves, like when Strong Bad talks about the SNES-looking Rhino Feeder being a super high tech game that takes tons of migs and megs of graphics.
The announcement of SBCG4AP back then must've been a big one for you then, eh?
It was for me.
Plus it works with the running gag that all of Strong Bad’s electronics are thirty years old
Man I remember back when this email debuted on the site and they had the games up and running. I still play Dungeon Man.
I like how Strong Bad’s only concept of video games is super early pc games
Which ironic because he mentions a lot of console games in his sleep "super Contra, Chrono Trigger" for example
The wireframe vector graphics were never really a thing on PCs, which always had raster displays. I think the Vectrex was literally the only home console with a vector display (because, of course, televisions are raster and converting between the two was prohibitive at the time).
There were a lot of arcade machines that used vector displays though, like the original Asteroids, Tempest and Lunar Lander.
@@rfmerrill The vector game is a parody of the Virtual Boy
@@TheInkPitOx Well the fact that it's red is, yeah, but I think the virtual boy had a raster display, so it's kind of a double parody.
He finally got it. The son a gun finally got ye flask. I always believed in him.
I swear this email had extra content if you waited long enough. Strongbad commenting on how long the drink was pouring. Something to that effect.
Really sad that flash is ending soon. I hope homestar runner lives on forever.
You might be thinking of the sbemail "anything" where homestar comments on the "Neverending soda"
They did make games out of these on the games page of the site. Some of their uploads are lacking the Easter eggs for sure.
@@felixcroc I think the soda pour on this one just looped the frames and sound but didn't have an Easter egg.
@@poopsmith6853 No. The soda does quickly end, and then transition to an image showing off the four games Strong Bad demonstrated here, and you could play them yourself by clicking on them.
@@Doughboy123x the toons and site could change very quickly in those days too. It was also years ago. I'll admit I don't exactly remember. What's on it now may not be what was the first time though. I checked the site probably daily or more in those days. Changing from looping to an image going to the games page would be as simple as editing some key frames.
Had to brush up on this classic after the latest Disk 4 of 12!
Best one yet!
"YOUR HEAD A SPLODE"
All these years later, and I still cannot get YE FLASK!
It was today that we all got ye flask
Ah, yes. I remember back when that rhinoceros game was cutting-edge awesomeness. Oh, how I miss Thy Dungeonman 3.
as a 27 year old trying to un-freak my linux install, i find myself remembering this joke.
i don't know why on earth i can't uninstall jack2, and the linux certainly isn't going to tell me.
I just google "Strongbad asplode" and Google brought me here. That's honestly pretty amazing. Asplode is not a word, so I don't think it would be indexed properly. And it's not in the subtitles, either.
You've never successfully found a song by typing "doo doo"s and "na na"s, have you?
WHY CAN'T I GET YE FLASK
It is firmly bolted to a wall, which is probably bolted to a castle. Never ye mind.
>Get ye flask
I do not understand
>Examine flask
The flask is in front of you, in easily grapsing distance
>Pick up flask
You fail to pick up the flask
>Look under flask
I do not understand 'under'
>Look at underside of yonder enigmatic drinking receptacle
Well why didn't you say so in the first place! There is nothing.
> Pick up ye flask with thine hands making sure to first take off thine boxing gloves.
Ask nicely
>Quit
Was it something I said? Hey, baby, I can change. Just give me one more chance
...
I've been saying 'your head a splode' for so long I forgot where it came from
"Ye find yeself in yon dungeon."
Go Dennis.
You go Dennis. Dennis tells you he got his jimberjam at the marketplace.
Get ye flask.
You can’t get ye flask
"You can't get ye flask" always gets me
North, South, and DENNIS
*[ Y O U R H E A D A S P L O D E ]*
1:05 Strong Bad: CUZ YOU CAN'T CONTROL ME!
It wasn't supposed to be literal
@@TheInkPitOx did you reply to the wrong comment?
@@micahlehrke9 I don't know why I replied here.
So i'm totally waving my mouse around the screen during the video, trying to catch an easter egg...then i remember that this is TH-cam.
I found this by searching "Get ye flask".
And then we got Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People
" cause you can't control me!" rofl!
And yet in most games you can actually control Strong Bad.
You just think you're controlling him. In reality, Strong Bad is controlling YOU!
1:07 Oh, man, I had a keyboard with that specific sound on it growing up as a kid.
And then we got a series of video games with strong bad in them and we now know what he would be like in a video game and what it would be like.
Thanks, Taylor
8 people can't get ye flask
>tfw vector bad was referenced by an anime
>tfw this is how popular homestar runner is
I love this, to the umpteenth degree.
+Simple Curiosity What anime referenced this?
In Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood's blooper reel, Scar grabs Father's face, and he screams "YOUR FACE ASPLODE!!"
+Simple Curiosity so... the dub version?
Jyes.
Because 1:24
This to me is the definitive SBemail. The one that always comes to mind when I think about HSR. In my college dorm, "your head a splode" and "you cannot get ye flask" were go-to lines on an almost daily basis.
OH MY GOD, I FINALLY REALIZED
A HAT IN TIME'S CORGI ADVENTURE THING WAS REFERENCING THIS SBEMAIL WITH THE DENNIS THING-
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH MY GOOOOOOOOD
Never knew that was in there. That's awesome!
And then we got Peasant's Quest.
Hmm... SBZ (the vector game) seems to be a mashup of both Vectrex/X (a Japan-exclusive Gameboy game) visual styles, but the idea of the floating head shooting polygons out of its mouth brings to mind Andross’s appearance in Starfox/Starfox 2... The closest thing I could think of to those would probably be Sigma’s final form from Megaman X2...
Bismuth83 tron
BECAUSE YOU CAN'T CONTROL ME
It wasn't supposed to be literal
This channel deserves more subscribers than Taylor Swift.
Happy 20th, Ye Flask
I didn't realise that everything had been reuploaded here in better quality, that's awesome! Fifteen years late to the party LOL
2:58 HACKS!!!!!!!!!! HE GOT YE FLASK TOO EARLY
Email is like a prison. A prison with no walls. And no toilet.
Ye flask! Could it be... Ye flask of oil?
One of the coolest things about this e-mail is that if you go to the site and wait long enough, You can play all 4 games StrongBad Explained!
-Email- ALL TECHNOLOGY *is* a prison, Strong Bad!
... What does that even MEAN?!
@@Bismuth83X Strong Bad was referencing Pete Rose's book
Queen Creek is a pretty cool town name.
Secret Collect!
The player would only look kinda like me.
Once I collect the final secret, the sweepstakes will be mine!
I really wish I was 9/10 years old again, and I wish I was back in 2003/2004 again so I can relive my memories with shit like this
Suffer old man
@@dontsubfortheloveofgod How so?
Like I have to live with living?
Huh. Going back and watching these for no particular reason and I just noticed that the rhino might be a Chrono Cross reference.
I like how Strong Bad is stuck with past tech, to make it more timely and not painfully meta. However, it did came out at a earlier years than today, so I don’t know what happen.
Well now we know it would be a beloved 5 episode Point and Click series that about 10 years later would be in desperate need of a proper remaster for modern systems like the Switch or whatever.
i LOVE the sound quality of the podcasts
I finally get that pouring one out joke.
And all my peoples got sent up the river ...
I came here from TV tropes. I am not disappointed.
One small video spawned two whole tropes!
I read those sometimes.
I played SBCG4AP before I ever watched any of the Homestar Runner content online and the way Strong Bad pronounced "Save/Load" when I highlighted the option, I was automatically in love with the character. X)
This caused me to go back and rewatch every CGI Palz video.
"Email is like a prison...a prison with no walls..and no toilet".
Okay, but for real... we all know what the best Strong Bad video game is...
*Stinkoman 20X6*
*ARE YOU READY FOR A CHAAAALLENGE?*
Some of Homestar's most iconic lines in one email
Wow after 13 Years stil watching this
I really get a wave of nostalgia watching these.
16 people found theyselves in yon dungeon, and could not get ye flask
ah yes, the obvious exists,
NORTH, SOUTH, and DENNIS
I've been working on a video game for several years and it JUST, JUST occurred to me that this is why I named some in-game hotel rooms "A," "B," "C," and "Dennis."
I can't imagine cold one is easy to clean out of the carpet.
I feel bad for Strong Bad, for having to play video games like these 😂
Can't know for sure but the Rhino sound effects sound eerily similar to sound effects used in Digimon World 1, the crying noise and the walking/running effects especially. Makes me want to replay that and compare...
Most amazing was that you could actually play each of these games by clicking on certain words in the email. They actually made playable games!
Back when the internet was a wondrous place.
Ye cannot get ye flask. Ye flask is welded to ye pedestal, which is bolted to the floor.
One of my absolute favorite sbemails.
Strong Bad: "And in this one the player wouldn't control me. Cause' YOU can't control ME!!!!!!!!!"
Me: LOL
Strong Bad: You can’t control me!
Telltale Games: Challenge accepted.
It wasn't supposed to be literal
You can't get ye daughter.
the best part was you could play these games on the site!
If I had the Hitman's Heatmaker, a Name Tag, and a Description Tag in Team Fortress 2, then I'd rename the weapon “Vector Derezzer” and have the description say: “Your head a splode.”
He made like 6 games just for this video.
6 people can't get ye flask.
14
Five bucks says you _can_ get ye flask.
Not until Thy Dungeon Man 3.
Oh my gosh...I remember when this came out. I was sick in 6th grade. I'm now a sophomore in college now
Are you still a sophomore in college?
Its been almost 2 decades and we still haven’t gotten ye flask
you were able to get Ye Flask in Thy Dungeonman 3 afaik. in fact that's the whole point of the game i think
head asplode was referenced in Empire by Orson Scott Card. Did anyone else read that book?
YE CAN'T GET YE FLASK!
To this day, if I have a headache I exclaim "my head asplode".
From,
Taylor R.
Queen Creek, AZ
Strongbad: From Taylor R. Spring Creek, Alacatraz. Woah. We got somebody on the inside.
I'm So Glad These Games Exist In The games Menu : ]