The structure of the "Strong" house.
I know I shouldn't care, but I'm really confused by the structure of Strongbad/sad/mad's house.
The only bathroom is sandwiched between Strongsad's and Strongmad's rooms. Really the only exit from any of these rooms is through Strongsad's room due to the lack of a hallway. I feel bad for Strongmad. Unless there's an unseen hallway to the south of the screen, hmm....
Also, where is the observatory that's in nearly all the Strong Bad emails?
The only bathroom is sandwiched between Strongsad's and Strongmad's rooms. Really the only exit from any of these rooms is through Strongsad's room due to the lack of a hallway. I feel bad for Strongmad. Unless there's an unseen hallway to the south of the screen, hmm....
Also, where is the observatory that's in nearly all the Strong Bad emails?
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And it's true, there are going to be people who ponder the design of their house. But at this point I'd say that we didn't even know how the house looked period before the game came out, because you never saw enough of it at one time. I mean, the email where his original computer exploded "Gimmicks" he flew backwards into a wall, into Strong Sad's room. But in later emails and in the game, it shows their rooms side by side with a hallway in between. So there's already inconsistency.
And take note of Strong Sad and Strong Bad's conversation about buring the house down. I seem to recall that Strong Sad said "again." Meaning that the house may have gone through several remodels over the years.
Yeah, I bet his house got a-sploded several times. Maybe during the most recent reconstruction they got a bit mixed up. BTW, I still don't know that observitory.
You know, the observatory where Strongbad observes comets, asteroid belts, and constellations in the shape of Kurt Russell. Why would I make that up?
And nope, no hallway to the left of the stairs, just a wall. A wall that mocks and steals various amounts of lunch moneys.
So how do you know there is no hallway there? Because you're not allowed to go into it? That doesn't say much. That's like saying Strong Mad's room doesn't exist yet because we haven't seen it. But I get the feeling we'll be seeing it (his room) in the next episode if what Strong Bad said was accurate.
In regards to the hallway, I was thinking from a design standpoint of building a house with logical placement.
...how...does he....
*Jibblies*
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*joins the jibblies-ing*
I could have sworn the locker room had a toilet, at least in the cartoons.
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(Also joins the jibbls)
ARCHITECTURE RELATED DRAIN BAMAGE!!!!!!!
BRAIN HURT!!!!
It's possible that Strong Sad's room is a hallway, or at least used to be. He's the youngest of the three, so he would've had last dibs on rooms.
That'd fit with his character, as well, having to live in the hall.
No, I'm talking about the fact that the Strong House has a hovering area where the bathroom and Strong Mad's Room is.
Where does the toilet lead then? How has the house not collapsed? Who is the idiot who designed this strange Architecture?
If you catch my drift. :cool:
Sb is alien mother is babbs sb was not original owner of house
The rooms are on four tiny yet Graw Mad-like rabbits, continuously changing positions to disable canon of anything relevant to the Brother's Strong household.
The house is on concrete foundations like every other house, moron. Jeez, what did you expect, floating points?
Personally I like that the layout is clearly and intentionally "wrong" in the game. Like the lack of a map that shows where anything really is in relation to anything else, it keeps there from being any "right" layout that would make any of the toons that break the rules "wrong." Because we know the toons are inconsistent.
Embracing the inconsistencies was important to Mark when the game started out, and I'm glad that we went that way instead of trying to actually make sense of anything.
Is it? I guess it sorta is...
I think it's in the mystical land of "only showed up once for a joke and was never referenced again"...town.
Or that. Yeah, that's it.
And technically, Jake, both the tree-window and the "Douglass" joke have been referenced at least once since that email, in one of the DVD menus.
SB looks to the left when the tree says Douglas, so it can't be the window to the right.
Aww man you blocked Strong Mad's room.
Also www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail33.html
Strong Sad's room is to the right of Strong Bad's Computer room.
While in the game, as shown in the picture, it's on the left.
Just showing another House problem.
Anyway, Email Thunder shows that Strong Bad has a door to the right of the computer, Gimmicks has him blasting straight backwards into Strong Sad's room and Environment shows the window next to his computer. He could have just moved the room around a few times. So in Email Thunder the desk faces the "fourth wall" that we can't see, and in Environment and Gimmicks it's facing the right wall.
And also, it would appear that there is a hallway leading to Strong Mad's room in Sick Day, so now you don't have to stay awake all night worrying about the poor guy having to go through Strong Sad's room and the bathroom to get to his room.