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Something doesn't seem right about the missing toe and Bubs.... It just doesn't fit.
Bubs has never left the concession stand before (except for holidays and vacations), and TBC made it a point to show that the key was cut off.
Why would the Compy be willing to give up its own toe? I rewatched "cliffhangers" in order to look more closely at the note left by the computing duo, and discovered something so shocking I had to rub my eyes before I believed it: THERE IS NO TOE, it was a graphic printed onto the paper along with the "Y" in "LAPPY", which suggested that this was not glued together from magazines and newspapers, as it seems... it was printed out.
Before I get to that, however, I'll stick with the image of the Lappy's toe. Where could they get the image, along with... computer blood? The answer is: They can't. The image is of the Compy's toe... covered with computer ketchup. A reminder of one of Strong Bad's greatest abuses to the Compy, perhaps one of the motives behind stealing Strong Bad's lappy in the first place.
Back to the printer... how could the computers get an image printed? The only printer around would be the Paper, but as we can see, the note was on blank white paper, with great color abilities. An inkjet printer could make that image. The inkjet printer, the Paper's worse nightmare, would eventually replace him in Sbemail 173- as prophesied in the email Montage.
The computers knew they needed to make a deal with the Paper, in order for it to convey their messages to Strong Bad. In order to intice the Paper to work with them, they promised that the Paper would gain favor in the eyes of Strong Bad by seemingly helping him, while the inkjet lost favor, being the writer of that note, which Strong bad probably noticed. Strong Bad would have seen the inkjet printer as a tool of evil, and the Paper as a loyal companion, through thick and thin (it seemed as though the Paper was there all-too conveniently).
The computers would have gotten such an inkjet printer from the only store in town, Bubs'. Now Bubs would not be benefitting from this conspiracy, in his own eyes he would be paying his debt to the Compy for shotgunning it, or be doing the ghost of the Compy, or the Tandy's bad graphics ghost, or both, a favor in exchange for his immortal soul (or any combination of the two).
The Compy, through perhaps a note by the paper, would tell Bubs what he wanted him to do, and would have gotten the man to give them the printer, leave a ladder conveniently by the stand, and run as far away from the stand as he could.
Bubs would comply.
I know this is all pretty much overthought and crap, but it was fun. By any small chance that all this is right, then I'll delve fully into another possibility tomorrow:
Bubs escaped wearing his Thnikkaman costume, in order to avoid people seeing him and wondering why Bubs was fleeing. He was intercepted in the locker room by Coach Z, and the scene was played out in "Cliffhangers". Hmm... Coach Z has been involved with some of the most strange cover-ups and conspiracies in the H*R universe, including the couch patch mystery. With a little leap of faith that perhaps the easter egg in "myths and legends" was a scene of the future... then it would all add up. The Thnikkaman, in a very frightened state after seeing the ghosts of the Compy and the Tandy... could very understandably struggle against anyone who tried to stop him, perhaps cutting off a hand in the process...
Maybe Coach Z wasn't the one who first intercepted the frightened Thnikkaman. Perhaps someone else tied the Thnikkaman up and shoved him in a locker, just to keep him quiet. Perhaps that person could be behind the entire thing... thus making the Biscuitdoughhandsman conspiracy a very real possibility.
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