History VideoGame / StrongBadsCoolGameForAttractivePeople

* {{Pun}}: Strong Sad remarks that the Trogdor machine sounds like it needs its cooling fan serviced.
-->'''Strong Bad:''' Where am I supposed to get {{fan service}} around here?

* {{Retirony}}: Lampshaded to hell and back with [[spoiler:Renaldo]].

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* VillainProtagonist: Strong Bad straddles the line between this and AntiHero.

* TheProblemWithLicensedGames: A rather ironic InUniverse example occurs in this episode with "Gel-arshie's Pro Fruit-Boarder". Doubles as HypocriticalHumor, since Strong Bad being able to play a licensed game ("Limozeen's Hot Babelien Odyssey") in ''Baddest of the Bands'' is the entire reason he puts himself through everything that happens in that game. Not to mention that this ''is'' a licensed video game.

** In "Homestar Ruiner", Strong Bad has to clear Homestar's criminal record for indecent exposure, win him the trophy for the Race to the End of the Race, and repair his relationship with Marzipan (which is undoing the damage Strong Bad did earlier while trying to get into the Race).

** In "Baddest of the Bands", Strong Bad havs to find three bands and convince them to sign up for his Battle Royale of the Bands. Getting the Two-O-Duo to join requires framing Coach Z for a series of pranks to convince Bubs his old band mate is still "hardcore". Then, when Strong Bad is forced to join the Battle Royale himself, he has to sabotage the other three bands. Again, one of the bands requires three objectives themselves; sabotaging Cool Tapes leads to Strong Bad framing celebrity judges Limozeen for three things Marzipan is feeling preachy about (polluting wetlands, objectifying women, and abusing sea mammals) to turn her against the judges.

* GameGourmet: One of the many video game tropes skewered. At one point, Homestar's eating tons of food items because they're just lying all over the place.

%% * MetalScream: Used on occasion.

* ComplexityAddiction: How the whole game gets started. Strong Bad needs money to get his console fixed. Bubs offers him a (crappy) job to raise it. "No, there has to be a way that's a lot more convoluted..."

* CopyProtection: {{Parodied|Trope}}. To get into Peasant's Quest, Strong Bad needs to solve a copy protection puzzle. However, he doesn’t have the actual copy protection [[{{Feelies}} feely]], so you’ll have to find a way to improvise.

-->'''Strong Bad:''' Hey, brother Strong Mad! Are you here to help me steal Homestar's record? ''[cut to outside where a screaming Strong Bad is thrown out a window]'' I'll take that as a no.

** In ''8-Bit Is Enough'', Strong Bad can respond to an e-mail about [[HypocriticalHumor video games where you can't die]].

* BatmanGambit: In this episode, [[spoiler: the King of Town levies an intentionally unfair email tax and then places Strong Bad under house arrest for not paying it. Strong Bad is infuriated, decides to rebel, and stages a coup to overthrow the KOT's authority. Turns out that this was exactly what the KOT was anticipating- he was tired of being the King of Town and set up the whole scheme just so he'd be dethroned.]] Strong Bad turns the tables by [[spoiler: using the King of Town's own scheme against him, levying an intentionally unfair tax on Creamy Ding Snack Cakes in order to provoke the KOT into staging a coup and taking his old job back. Then he throws in some BriarPatching to make the King repeal the e-mail tax.]]

* GeographicFlexibility: A LampshadeHanging is applied on this by the map system. You can move all the notable locations around on the map and put them wherever you want. Very amusing when doing this to a ''world'' map in Dangeresque 3. Nothing's stopping you from placing Tokyo in Africa, for starters.

* GeographicFlexibility: A LampshadeHanging is applied on this by the map system. You can move all the notable locations around on the map and put them wherever you want. Very amusing when doing this to a ''world'' map in Dangeresque 3. Nothing's stopping you from placing Tokyo in Africa, for starters. Averted in Strong Badia the Free, where Strong Bad uses the board from a ''TabletopGame/{{Risk}}''-like game as his map to replace the one eaten by the King of Town at the start of the game.

* AllAbusersAreMale: Averted. If you have Strong Bad tell Marzipan to make an autograph out to Homestar, she'll instantly assume (from something ''[[ConsummateLiar Strong Bad]]'' said no less) that Homestar was too lazy to actually see her himself, and so she writes something that we don't see extremely angrily on the band photo. Whatever it was she wrote, [[EvenEvilHasStandards Strong Bad]] is so horrified by it that he wonders if there's such a thing as "Written Domestic Abuse".

* MetalScream: Used on occasion.

** Strong Mad's Country, simply called [[ShapedLikeItself Country]], has a white flag that is simply the word [[RedundancyOfRedundancyDepartment Country]].

** Marzistar (or Homezipan if you prefer) has a split flag. One half is yellow and features a green peace sign with Marzipan's hair. The other half is blue with a duck.

* KnowWhenToFoldEm: The second fight between Homestar and Coach Z in the Maps & Minions game consists solely of the latter saying "Fair enough. I'll go," and walking away.

* PretentiousPronunciation: This is parodied when the news-reel reporter comments on Strong Bad conquering Country, describing Strong Bad as a "Red Menace", which he pronounces "men-ah-chay", before the reporter [[VerbalBackspace quickly corrects himself]].

* RandomlyGeneratedQuests: Parodied. Strong Sad has been [[TrappedInTvLand warped into the world of a video game]] that exists [[ShowWithinAShow within the series]] and when you find him, he has taken up the mantle of quest-giver. He'll ask for a randomly named item, which is always just the same cube, or "pixel" as characters within the game refer to it. After delivering the cube to him, he "rewards" you by giving you another quest, which is just to find the same cube, in the same place you found the first one, under a different name. This can be done infinitely many times, and nothing will ever be accomplished by doing so. [[spoiler:The real solution is to deliver a cube of scorpion bait, which causes the King of Town who has been merged with a scorpion monster from the game world to attack him, letting you get him out of the way of the path he was blocking.]]

* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler:Strong Bad does (literally) near the end. And just in time, too, because Trogdor just transformed into [[OneWingedAngel Ultimate Trogdor]].]]\\

* AndYouWereThere: Strong Bad says this at the end, after he wakes up and sees everybody standing over him.

* RevistingTheRoots: Strong Bad can check his emails and answer them, with the segments being formated like classic Strong Bad emails where his mouth is visible in the reflection and he answers the whole thing with no cutaways.

-->'''Strong Bad:''' Congratulations, Coach! I just spent the last few hours carrying my brother's [[OrganTheft internal organs in a jar]] and you ''still'' managed to top that on the creepy scale!

** The Homsar reservation is a blue flag that features a cookie, a cup of coffee, and Homsar's hat.

* {{Retraux}}: The games for Strong Bad's Funmachine.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: Dangeresque comments that "Homestar" sounds like the kind of guy whose butt he'd kick on an evil secret underwar aircraft carrier. While this ''sounds'' like a lot of the stuff that Dangeresque makes up to make himself sound cool, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_aircraft_carrier Underwater Aircraft Carriers were actually a thing]] that saw use during the second World War.

* ImmediateSequel: The previous episode ends with Strong Bad jumping off his couch to escape being surrounded by the other characters, who were not happy with the changes he made to the movie compared to what he promised them. This episode opens with Strong Bad landing from that very jump, crashing into and damaging the Trogdor arcade machine in the process.

** The Concession Stand is closed due to damages sustained during the filming of the previous episode.