StrongBadEmail/japanese cartoon/EasterEggs (2004.07.11 22:32:33)

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Easter Eggs

• At the very end you can click on the words, "Japanese Cartoons" and see "Stinkoman K 20X6" in action.
• At the end of "Stinkoman K 20X6" you can click on "Japanese Cartoons" again to see Homestar watching it and singing along to the theme song.
• While or after Homestar is watching the intro to Stinkoman, you can click on the "NES Endings" video tape to see various ending to NES games.
• Once the NES Endings window opens you can click on it to show more.

Fun Facts

The endings for the Nintendo games are as follows:

1. Rad Racer (Rad Racer is also the source of the Stinkoman theme song)
2. Castlevania 2: Simon's Quest (Normal Ending)
3. Megaman 2
4. Super Mario Bros. 2 (Super Mario USA in Japan)
5. Arch Rivals: A Basket Brawl!
6. Ghosts N' Goblins (Good Ending)
7. Blaster Master
8. The Legend of Zelda (First Quest)
9. Metroid (1-3 Hours Finishing Time)
10. Jackal
11. Rygar

• In the third slide of the "credits", you can see a parody of Vegeta, all Strong Bad'd up.

According to Strong Bad, the steps to making a cartoon character into a japanese cartoon character are:

1. Make the head a little bean
2. Have real-real big eyes
3. Get rid of the thumbs
4. Make it all shiny
5. The shoes would be a whole lot cooler, like robot boots
6. And for some reason, they'd have blue hair. You gotta have blue hair!
7. Then there's the mouth. Real-real small when closed, ridiculously huge when open
8. Then you just put them in space and have them fly around in cool poses

• This is one of two StrongBadEmails in which the paper doesn't come down. The other is StrongBadEmail/superhero name.

• For some reason, when Stinkoman is running on Homestar's TeeBee, he will stop running in mid pose at one point.

• The name Stinkoman is a reference to StrongBadEmail/island. Homestar suddenly calls Strong Bad "Stinkoman."

• 20x6 is actually a reference to the first Metroid game, which is set in the year 20x5.

• The spaceship looks a lot like [this] spaceship from the videogame Galaxy 5000

• The credits for Stinkoman K are lifted from The Legend of Zelda for NES.

• The theme music is lifted directly from [Rad Racer], an old NES game. Rad Racer's music was composed by Nobuo Uematsu, who, of course, would later go on to become famous for his Final Fantasy soundtracks.

• At the begining of the email, Strong Bad recites a Haiku, which is very fitting:
  • So cool an email
  • I thought you would enjoy it
  • Ding dong Dear Strong Bad

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Document last modified Sun, 11 Jul 2004 22:32:33