🙋🏻♀️ I saw this sbemail when it first came out and ever since then I've referred to angler fish as "deep sea fanglyfish." I almost never use their real name.
This episode fundamentally changed my entire family’s lexicon. To this day, we refer to omelettes as hudges, and I think not a week goes by that we don’t refer to one of the cats as “Mr Past-His-Prime himself.”
At the time I think he thought it wasn't worth thinking about all that much. (But then again further-more in conclusion, I'm not sure how familiar he is with the times).
Last year, I was working at my university's cafeteria, which had recently changed its name to "The Hub", and I was always tempted to call it "Da Huuuuuuuub". Truly, this series changes lives.
There was another great one that you could click after the email was done - something along the lines of “hey, this is a pretty great party, don’t ya think? Do you have a phone at your house?” I’ve pulled that one out once or twice.
I'm always delighted by the PBTC Homestar voice. I hope that if Strongbanglerfish were real, his lure would still have that voice and not regular Homestar's voice.
I JUST bought a new laptop, and the very first thing that popped into my mind when I was unboxing it was Strong Bad’s description of all the cool features of the Lappy 486.
A few months before COVID, I had to hastily get a new computer because my old desktop finally gave up the ghost (thankfully not because it got 400,000 viruses and had to be put down with a shotgun at least), and what I ended up with was my dad's spare laptop, which he'd put through the wringer before moving on to the new model. One half of ten minutes was an accurate description of its battery life.
It never occurred to me till just now, but with the Lappy weighing 42lbs, Strong Bad must be pretty damn... strong... to be walking around so casually with it and even jumping as high as he did to sit.
SavageGreywolf I guess Strong Bad couldn’t really talk with all of that proboscis. Not that he’d have much for an answer for “Do you know the times?”, anyways
Can't tell you how many times I've said "I say there monstrosogy, do you know the times?" And NO ONE has ever gotten the reference. When that say comes though, it will be glorious!
I remember showing this to my younger brothers back when it was still fresh, and I had an older desktop at the time. When my bros had a new computer before I did, I would quote Strong Bad's "He uses "new" computers (scoff!)" every chance I get. Great times!
So, for ages, whenever I've had to come up with a name, for some reason I always started it with an "st" sound, "stedge" "storf" etc. And it's only now that I watch that that I'm fairly sure it started with Sterance.
The fact that I now realize that all these creatures and iterations of Strong Bad exist in alternate dimensions makes me realize that those skits aren’t skits. They are actually moments from alternate dimensions.
I kinda like the Red Steckled Elbermung; it looks and sounds like a creature from Pikmin. Red Steckled Elbermung _Strongus Baddicus_ Part of the grub-dog family This lowdown beast snaps up its prey using all sorts of dirty tricks, namely hanging from a tether of silk produced from its tail on ceilings of dark caves and plummeting down with its maw wide open. Luckily for the player, there will be a red reticle to indicate that they've reached its spot, giving them time to move out of the way once it lands. Then, you can have your Pikmin swarm the Red Steckled Elbermung from behind or from the side. It crawls on the ground rather slowly, making it easy to outmaneuver.
The Lappy 486 is my favorite thing of all time. You think all the specs are silly, but I distinctly remember there being a giant "portable computer" that weighed about 20 pounds and cost something ridiculous like $9,000. It folded up and it had a carrying case. I think it's an 80's model.
I loved that book as a kid! iirc, the boy in it would think up different animal parts he could have that would have been really cool, but then he realized there would be downsides to having them as well and decided against it. As a kid, I always thought that having horns or a tail would outweigh the downsides they would bring though XD
I used to love that book, but I'm dyslexic so one time I went to the school library to rent it out, but walked up the the teacher and asked for "I wish that I had f***ed eet" and ended up getting suspended. So I don't read that book any more.
The Lappy 486 Weighs in at an extremely portable 42 pounds and features an impressive battery life of one half of ten minutes, (with 521 KB of RAM and 2 Megs of hard memory.) The Lappy 486, by Compy.
not gonna lie that is a really shitty computer... I mean nowadays most laptops have a terabyte or two of hard memory, 16 gb of ram at the least, and are like a pound and have hours and hours of battery life
With all the crap going on in the world, it's nice to know one can unwind with the antics of Strong Bad and the Homestar Runner crew. Thanks, Brothers Chaps, for the awesomeness!
"Its nice to know one" My brain: "Its nice to no one can unwind.." Hey! Whaddya MEAN no one can unwind to-.. oh... uh, never mind me. (And that brings us to where we are, now)
This email happened like a decade ago, and I only now realized that Sterrance has one angel wing! is he a one winged angel? maybe he needs his own song sung in Latin.
*"Do you know the times?"* I've yet to come up with or hear a good response to this at this point, and believe me, I've asked quite a few people over the years. Any potential answers are welcome.
I wish these had the extra clips. The deep sea fangly fish bonus has a slogan i will never forget. "Steep prices, and Treeeeeeeees" (On the original website, press Tab to highlight hyperlinks in flash videos, each email end has multiple clickable extras.)
The first time i heard of homestar was through the video game, so it's always weird to me when people enter strong bads computer room from the right because in the game the door is at the left and a window is at the right.
lol a friend of mine sent this email. We met in college. She sent it in high school. It was the most extraordinary discovery of my life. I tried so hard to send a stupid enough email but it never happened. She is the best person I will ever meet.
"An impressive battery life of one half of ten minutes" Sums up pretty much every gaming laptop out there, which is kind of why I always keep mine plugged in.
"One half of ten minutes" has been part of my vocabulary when describing time since I first saw this all those years ago. I have also described my gaming laptop as being an "extremely portable 42 pounds" Thing is *heavy*
Walking round the mall in a Sterrence costume That you made for your kid Think of all the time and hard work you put into that Sterrence costume And how nobody knows what it is...
It is a time of desolation, chaos, and uncertainty. Brother pitted against brother; babies havin' babies. Then one day, from the right side of the screen, came a man. A man with a plastic rectangle... I MEAN LAPTOP COMPUTER!
Raise your hand if you can’t remember a time when you didn’t refer to them as “fangly fish” 🙋🏻♂️
Fun fact: to look like that, String Bad would have to be a *female* deep sea fangly fish.
@proud hufflepuff I always referred to them as angler fish
🙋🏻♀️
I saw this sbemail when it first came out and ever since then I've referred to angler fish as "deep sea fanglyfish." I almost never use their real name.
I remember that because I was in college when this came out. Anyway, *steps into coffin*
I also can’t stop referring to their light up bit as “kostom lyuuuuures”
This episode fundamentally changed my entire family’s lexicon. To this day, we refer to omelettes as hudges, and I think not a week goes by that we don’t refer to one of the cats as “Mr Past-His-Prime himself.”
This e-mail made me a life-time fan of homestarrunner because I wrote it and the bad-man himself answered it.
~ Metomunc (Spud Jr.)
... But are you good at sports?
Sometimes.
Isn't moving little pieces of plastic around and taking pictures of them considered a sport somewhere?
What did Spud Sr think about this?
At the time I think he thought it wasn't worth thinking about all that much.
(But then again further-more in conclusion, I'm not sure how familiar he is with the times).
@@Metomunc cool. Nice how your accoubnt is still up after 13 years
Last year, I was working at my university's cafeteria, which had recently changed its name to "The Hub", and I was always tempted to call it "Da Huuuuuuuub". Truly, this series changes lives.
This is now what I'll say anytime I go to the internet hub if you know what I mean 😂
They should have called it The Pizz
Please, for the love of Pete, DO NOT feed yourself at Da Huuuuuuuub.
No. No Hub.
(Even though I’m a That '70s Show fan.)
ew no father figure headass
Now I always refer to my laptops as a "Lappy"
Been doing it for a bit my self
My new pick up line: "Hey there, baby style. Do you want to watch me bench-press alot.... of weights?"
Turn it out, CtrlAltPhreak, turn it out!
If you had a wingman, he should follow up with that.
@@MaesterMike How can he enjoy the dinner and dancing if he's already the fangly fish?
There was another great one that you could click after the email was done - something along the lines of “hey, this is a pretty great party, don’t ya think? Do you have a phone at your house?” I’ve pulled that one out once or twice.
I don't remember that
Please, for the love of Pete, DO NOT feed Da Huuuuuudge
this always makes me giggle
Not even you, zookeepers.
Oh, wow, look at the hudge!
@@micahnewman Um, how about the red steckled elbermung? NO NO NO!
@proud hufflepuff For the love of Pete, do not feed the hudge
@@agen335 Um, the Pardack?
I'm always delighted by the PBTC Homestar voice. I hope that if Strongbanglerfish were real, his lure would still have that voice and not regular Homestar's voice.
If the strong bad anglerfish was real, I would love to see him at a aquarium, if they had a tank that can keep deep sea animals
I think the episode where he drew the Cheatviathan may have confirmed that to be the case.
Excellent
i think Mike Chapman does all the PBTC voices. i wonder how they came to that decision lol
I JUST bought a new laptop, and the very first thing that popped into my mind when I was unboxing it was Strong Bad’s description of all the cool features of the Lappy 486.
Did you check your email on it first?
Every new laptop I get is named "Lappy", and I must regale my wife about its impressive battery life and portability.
Seriously, send help
A few months before COVID, I had to hastily get a new computer because my old desktop finally gave up the ghost (thankfully not because it got 400,000 viruses and had to be put down with a shotgun at least), and what I ended up with was my dad's spare laptop, which he'd put through the wringer before moving on to the new model. One half of ten minutes was an accurate description of its battery life.
@@cameoflage So five minutes then?
@@TheInkPitOx Honestly mine got more like three minutes. But yes.
I like that at 2:04 it switches to being animated by The Cheat for no discernible reason
Right this way everyone. Free puppies, ginger snaps, pocket PCs.
All these years later I still have the ingrained impulse to drag my curser over the words to click on an easter egg
I never looked for them with my cursor. I used the tab trick.
"I say there, monstrosity, do you know the times?" 🤣 God every one of these unlocks a new forgotten memory from my childhood.
We don't see Strong Bad plug in the Lappy, so this would've easily drained most of its battery life.
"A man with a plastic rectangle."
The perfect way to describe 'an adult with a school dinner plate'.
lunchtray
5 people wouldn't like as if.
Good thing this video can like as itself.
Right this way, everyone!
Free puppies!
Ginersnaps!
Pocket PCs!
hey there babystyle do you want to watch a bench press a lot
of
weights?
+blitzball420 turn it out man, turn it out.
How can he enjoy the dinner and dancing if he's already the fangly fish?
because he's strong bad, and can do everything
Pocket PCs = iPaq
It never occurred to me till just now, but with the Lappy weighing 42lbs, Strong Bad must be pretty damn... strong... to be walking around so casually with it and even jumping as high as he did to sit.
foomp STRONG Bad
foomp Believe me, laptops were heavy until around 2010. You had to get a bag just to carry it easily.
The Commodore SX-64 featured a built-in five-inch composite monitor and a built-in 1541 floppy drive. It weighed 20 pounds.
He can’t even do one push-up, though
@@joeywomer Maybe he can't get proper leverage for a push-up thanks to his husky head
“The Red Steckled Elbermung... No No No!”
The Pardack?
@@micahlehrke9 What the?!
Why do these keep coming out as nasty blob-things?!
@@pikminfan6778 Okay okay okay. Gotta look good for the lappy.
@@agen335 I would be called...Sterrance
"Do you know the times?"
Butts twelve by pies, naturally.
You said something stupid! The Cheatcakes will be mine!
SavageGreywolf I guess Strong Bad couldn’t really talk with all of that proboscis.
Not that he’d have much for an answer for “Do you know the times?”, anyways
SavageGreywolf ten o’clock and two o’clock!
Is it possible that SavageGreywolf was outsmarted by Keith Pixton?
Ryan G. DRIVERS ED’ED!!!!
I’m surprised he didn’t imagine himself as something resembling Trogdor.
Because that's his imaginary friend
Can't tell you how many times I've said "I say there monstrosogy, do you know the times?" And NO ONE has ever gotten the reference. When that say comes though, it will be glorious!
Lappy, this is The Paper. He lets me know when I've stopped being funny.
Enough already Strong Bad.
Oh, sorry. Bye everybody.
This thread stopped being funny before it started
2:11
Right this way, everyone! Free puppies! Gingersnaps! Pocket PCs!
Turn it out, Strong Bad!
Turn it out!
holy god i almost spat out my coffee at "portable 42 lb laptop."
Don’t forget the impressive battery life of one half of ten minutes.
and the 2mb
When I first saw the pardack back then, I nearly collapsed from laughing too much.
Oh dear. I hope you are constructed from more robust materials, now.
*El Pardack
2:35 Easy, a mini-Strong Bad connected by a gross tube!
You mean like the time he had one attached to him?
Da Huuuuuuuudge slays me every time.
Claws, horns, tusks, tentacles, power doors, 15 year drivetrain warranty, proboskis, segmented eyes.
I say there monstrosity, do you know the times?
@@bentowers7743 (Monster noises)
Good thing he didn’t go for that, the warranty would have long expired by now.
Well that would look more like a some kind of bug if you ask me
@@bentowers7743 I actually heard it as monstrosigy.
If "I say monstrosity, do you know the times" isn't part of your lexicon than you're doing it wrong
I remember showing this to my younger brothers back when it was still fresh, and I had an older desktop at the time. When my bros had a new computer before I did, I would quote Strong Bad's "He uses "new" computers (scoff!)" every chance I get. Great times!
I still call those light up deep sea fish "fanglyfish". I've actually forgotten what they're really called.
Fanglyfish. What do you mean "actually called" - you mean there's another name for them that's better than this?
That's bupkiss!
anglerfish
So, for ages, whenever I've had to come up with a name, for some reason I always started it with an "st" sound, "stedge" "storf" etc. And it's only now that I watch that that I'm fairly sure it started with Sterance.
1:45 “I say there monstrosity. Do you know…the times?”
*Me making freakish fossil abominations in Pokemon Sword/Shield* "I say there, Monstrosity!"
Do you know the times?
“how can i enjoy the dinner and dancing when i’m already the fangly fish?”
Easy. A miniature Strong Bad, connected to the main body by a gross tube!
The fact that I now realize that all these creatures and iterations of Strong Bad exist in alternate dimensions makes me realize that those skits aren’t skits. They are actually moments from alternate dimensions.
To this day, I can't look at the Red steckled elbermung without bursting into laughter.
No no no!
I kinda like the Red Steckled Elbermung; it looks and sounds like a creature from Pikmin.
Red Steckled Elbermung
_Strongus Baddicus_
Part of the grub-dog family
This lowdown beast snaps up its prey using all sorts of dirty tricks, namely hanging from a tether of silk produced from its tail on ceilings of dark caves and plummeting down with its maw wide open. Luckily for the player, there will be a red reticle to indicate that they've reached its spot, giving them time to move out of the way once it lands. Then, you can have your Pikmin swarm the Red Steckled Elbermung from behind or from the side. It crawls on the ground rather slowly, making it easy to outmaneuver.
Kinda looks like a cousin to the Water Dumple.
The Lappy 486 is my favorite thing of all time. You think all the specs are silly, but I distinctly remember there being a giant "portable computer" that weighed about 20 pounds and cost something ridiculous like $9,000. It folded up and it had a carrying case. I think it's an 80's model.
Osbourne. A "Luggable" computer. 5 inch display, two 5 1/4 floppies. maybe a small hard disk.
Finally, a computer for your lap!
Lappy's not gonna bite you, or tear at your perforated edges.
That's it! Lappy, this is the paper. He lets me know when I've stopped being funny.
@@agen335 Enough already Strong Bad
@@TheInkPitOx Ooh sorry. Bye everybody.
@@agen335 brrrrrrrrup
Has anyone heard of a Dr. Seuss book called "I Wish That I Had Duck Feet"? I recall it having a similar theme to this SBEmail.
I loved that book as a kid! iirc, the boy in it would think up different animal parts he could have that would have been really cool, but then he realized there would be downsides to having them as well and decided against it.
As a kid, I always thought that having horns or a tail would outweigh the downsides they would bring though XD
@@drygonfyre Horns and tails can get caught in things!
I used to love that book, but I'm dyslexic so one time I went to the school library to rent it out, but walked up the the teacher and asked for "I wish that I had f***ed eet" and ended up getting suspended.
So I don't read that book any more.
@@knightofarkronia8652 They'd be cool though! _~worth it~_
I did not read that book when I was a kid. I just watched a video of it. Pretty good.
“Ohh look at Da Huuuuuudge” is still my favorite line
extended battery life of one half of ten minutes
The Lappy 486 Weighs in at an extremely portable 42 pounds and features an impressive battery life of one half of ten minutes, (with 521 KB of RAM and 2 Megs of hard memory.) The Lappy 486, by Compy.
Applause!
not gonna lie that is a really shitty computer... I mean nowadays most laptops have a terabyte or two of hard memory, 16 gb of ram at the least, and are like a pound and have hours and hours of battery life
@@aliensguy4291 That's the joke. Strong Bad likes old, crappy computers.
I'd love to have a pet like The Cheat. I wouldn't mind having a Sterrance either
"Oh, Captain past-his-prime himself...
yeah I know you heard me, and I stand by it." This gets me everytime i stg
With all the crap going on in the world, it's nice to know one can unwind with the antics of Strong Bad and the Homestar Runner crew. Thanks, Brothers Chaps, for the awesomeness!
"Its nice to know one"
My brain:
"Its nice to no one can unwind.."
Hey! Whaddya MEAN no one can unwind to-.. oh... uh, never mind me.
(And that brings us to where we are, now)
@@Loctorak Beautifully done!
This is the most hilarious SBEmails ever. I laughed the entire way through. Like as.
Keep in mind, if Strong Bad wants to have a custom lure, he'd have to be a FEMALE Fanglyfish.
What the? Why do these keep coming out as nasty blob things?!
So does anyone actually know the times?
8:00
New York
Hair past a freckle.
edwarddlp fihasoifhasiofhSAIOFhsiofhisoafhiodshfiodshfiodshfiodshsdhiosdhiof --Weird version of Strong Bad
Can't know the times. As Dylan said, they are a-changin'.
This email happened like a decade ago, and I only now realized that Sterrance has one angel wing! is he a one winged angel? maybe he needs his own song sung in Latin.
Brian L "Thanks to Goku,
Now ten sheep know Uni
Shooow them your shin, Barney, no way!"
"Is this the pain you felt before, Strong Sad?"
He has two
As a zoo trainer i think this video is awesome
The red...speckled....Elbermung.... No no no.
Um...the Pardack?
Keith Pixton What the? Why do these keep coming out as nasty blob things?
Ok, gotta look good for the Lappy. I would be called...Sterrance.
Hey, I did it! Look at Sterrance, aww, Sterrance, I want one!
Sterrance is way cuter than that stupid, washed-up The Cheat I used to have.
Did anyone else see The Cheatfish?
me
I think everyone did.
He looked more like a shark to me
I call all of my friends Stu-pud Jr, because of this episode.
Thanks, Strong Bad!
Right this way everyone. Free puppies, ginger snaps, pocket PC's.
*Homestar Runner: "I say there, Monstrosity... do you know the times?"*
Monstrosity: "Gyguedhgquywquiwygvsxbahsuyxsagvusjhxhsgdujwsgydjkhuehfvjw."
@@MyDayAstonTheMuppetsFan I guess I couldn't really talk with that proboskis.
@@TheInkPitOx Not like I’d have much of an answer for “do you know the times”
Ohhh yeah... So this is where I got "fangly fish" from. Still using that one!
Roxfox Well done, my friend :D
Haha same. Many years later I found out about the "angler fish" and it slowly dawned on me...
I dunno, I really like that jam at 2:20. It's solid.
EL PARDACK? Is my favorite animal that Strong Bad like as if could be
What the? Why do these keep coming out as nasty blob things?
"I say there monstrosity, do you know the times?"
He actually was a monstrosity. And I don't know an answer to "do you know the times?" anyway.
I don't know why, but Homestar's delivery of that line cracks me up.
Been feeling nostalgic and rewatching some old sbemails. I now know why I've been saying "do you know the times?" for years.
*"Do you know the times?"*
I've yet to come up with or hear a good response to this at this point, and believe me, I've asked quite a few people over the years. Any potential answers are welcome.
I wish these had the extra clips. The deep sea fangly fish bonus has a slogan i will never forget. "Steep prices, and Treeeeeeeees"
(On the original website, press Tab to highlight hyperlinks in flash videos, each email end has multiple clickable extras.)
Not exactly "each", though.
Strong Bad is pretty strong if he can carry a 42 pound computer under one arm.
Man, what a debut for the Lappy.
"He lets me know when I've stopped being funny"
*Paper: Enough already Strong Bad*
I still say "babies having babies" in our good year of 2023
The first time i heard of homestar was through the video game, so it's always weird to me when people enter strong bads computer room from the right because in the game the door is at the left and a window is at the right.
lol a friend of mine sent this email. We met in college. She sent it in high school. It was the most extraordinary discovery of my life. I tried so hard to send a stupid enough email but it never happened. She is the best person I will ever meet.
You missed the bit where she found $5
Wait, so is that commenter up top who said they sent the email your friend?? Or is one of you lying?
Strong Bad: the OG roastmaster of the internet
This email is the reason iv called my computers Lappy 486 for the past 20ish years
1:05 Is my mind according to The Rubbish World of Dave Spud during this?
OOH DAVE SENT AN EMAIL
NO NO NO! 3:02
The Elbermung and Pardack make for great sci-fi creature names
"Well, Stu-pud Jr.,"
Babies having babies
If I was my own made up animal, I would probably like as the coolest made up animal I ever made up
I never realized how hilarious this is!
🤣
Fresh off the heels of 2021's M Night Shyamalan's "Old," and "babies havin' babies" is even funnier.
Someone should make a DVD of every Strong Bad email episode ever made, I would definitely buy it O:
Get sbemail.exe.
They sell them.
www.amazon.com/Homestar-Runner-Strongbad_email-exe-Hundred-Emails/dp/B0009811ZG
There’s a few exclusive emails in those too!
That memory to storage ratio on the Lappy though... 🤔👌
"An impressive battery life of one half of ten minutes"
Sums up pretty much every gaming laptop out there, which is kind of why I always keep mine plugged in.
"One half of ten minutes" has been part of my vocabulary when describing time since I first saw this all those years ago.
I have also described my gaming laptop as being an "extremely portable 42 pounds"
Thing is *heavy*
Walking round the mall in a Sterrence costume
That you made for your kid
Think of all the time and hard work you put into that Sterrence costume
And how nobody knows what it is...
I miss not having to pretend that shit grammar is okay.
"Well Stu-pud Jr."
very funny line.
When I was a kid I read a kids book that starred a kid named Hudge, except it was spelled Hugh.
Then it wasn’t hudge.
2:44 I wish there's a rapper named 'da huuuuuudge'.
I love that HSR says "monstrosigy" instead of "monstrosity". It just makes it even better!
Love the Deep Sea Cheatshark at 2:14
2:53 that looks like strong bad made out of eggs
da huuuuuudge, Da Hudge!
*Splat*
Ewww. No Hudge.
Yoshiman 363 oh wow look at da hudge
That always kills me. XD
@@zacharymendelsohn3740 Um, how about the red steckled elbermung? NO NO NO!
@AGEN335 umm el pardack? What the? Why are these keep coming out as nasty blob things?!
@@zacharymendelsohn3740 Okay okay okay! Gotta look good for the Lappy!
It is a time of desolation, chaos, and uncertainty. Brother pitted against brother; babies havin' babies. Then one day, from the right side of the screen, came a man. A man with a plastic rectangle... I MEAN LAPTOP COMPUTER!
Copypasta times have no meaning.
I know notice the howling wind at the beginning is the same sound as the ghost monitor from "ghosts".
I have to say...I appreciate the attention to detail the the place where the laptop would go is not faded.
Lappy 486 prevents from the 400000 viruses.
I turned on the automatic captions, and at 1:25 it says: "I was my own mind up at a mall are probably like I did to polish my knob"
Homsar made the subtitle
For me, it said "how's my own made of animal are probably like added the coolest made of platinum or whatever right up"
for ME the auto captions say: “house my own made-up animal i’ll probably like as the coolest made-up animal ever write up”
it's learning.
I can't stand these people who find it so amusing to turn on the captions. Just watch the dang video.
*polish my knob*
Styles upon styles upon styles is what I have
You want to diss the Phifer but you still don't know the half