The Pipes

When a character (usually Homestar Runner or the characters from Dangeresque) is preparing to attack, they'll often say some variation of "The pipes are broken!" from dangeresque 3.

Appearances

 * Dangeresque 4 &mdash;
 * Before fighting the No-Armed Bandit, Dangeresque Too proclaims "The pipes are being replaced!"
 * Dangeresque Too hits the Armed Bandits with a spin-kick, saying "THE PIPES WILL NEVER BE REPAIRED!"
 * Dangeresque Too prefaces his final move against the evil clones with "THE PIPES ARE IN DESPERATE NEED OF A REPLACEMENT AND WE SHOULD PROBABLY CALL A PLUMBER!!"
 * Strong Badman Meets the Helmet Squad &mdash; Ratsemoh Rennur prepares to fight the Broternal Order of Different Helmets by saying "The pipes are broken!" backwards.
 * The Broternal Movie: Order vs. Chaos &mdash;
 * Ratsemoh Rennur fights the BODH again, this time saying "The pipes are broken again!" backwards.
 * After is turned evil, he begins fighting the good half of the BODH by saying "The pipes are in a state of extreme disrepair!"
 * During the battle against dark clones, Dark Dangeresque Too approaches Homestar and says "At this point, I'm fairly certain the pipes have ceased to exist."
 * Meanwhile, During the Movie &mdash; Dangeresque asks the No-Armed Bandit if he's going to "say something about the disrepaired state of the pipes and do a cool spin-kick move", claiming that it's kind of a tradition at this point.