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Homestar Runner (Web Animation)
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Homestar Runner, the namesake series of the Homestar Runner family, is a surreally comedic web-based Adobe Flash cartoon by two guys from the state of Georgia, Mike and Matt Chapman ("The Brothers Chaps"). Starting as a dead-tree children's picture book, The Homestar Runner Enters the Strongest Man in the World Contest, it eventually found its way to the internet and spread through word of mouth.The main character is the eponymous Homestar Runner, a goodhearted athlete with no arms and no clue. However, Strong Bad, a narcissistic, loudmouthed "wrestleman" with a Luchador mask for a face and boxing gloves for hands, seems to have exceeded the title character in popularity. Along with his pint-sized lackey The Cheat and hulking brute older brother Strong Mad, Strong Bad constantly pushes everybody around, especially his gray, depressed younger brother Strong Sad. Other characters include Homestar's on-and-off hippie girlfriend Marzipan, Homestar's best friend and Only Sane Man Pom Pom, the verbally challenged and slightly creepy Coach Z, greedy concession stand owner Bubs, the ever-hungry King of Town, and the Poopsmith, whose occupation is self-explanatory. To round out this wacky cast, we also have Homsar, an Oddball Doppelgänger of Homestar who speaks in non-sequiturs and seems to be able to openly defy physics. Over the years, the series has come to include many recurring and minor characters, many of which simply debuted as one-off jokes.What made the cartoon's website truly stand out was how it handled content. While a good chunk of Flash content at the time was incredibly vulgar and offensive, Homestar Runner deliberately wasn't (according to The Brothers Chaps, this was done as a personal challenge); the worst language you'd hear on the site would be something like "crap" or "sucks", and the worst thing you'd see them do was drink beer — and even then, they would rarely get drunk. Most of the humor came from the surreal nature of the world around the characters (and sometimes, from the characters), and from the clever wordplay that would come up on the site. While most Flash content was hosted on websites like Newgrounds and maybe mirrored to the creator's own website, everything on Homestar Runner was hosted on its own website and would include easter eggs ranging from the simple "click here on this spot at the right time" to "typing the URL of a seemingly made-up page a character mentioned" and even "decompiling the Flash cartoon itself".The most popular part of the site is the Strong Bad Email (aka "sbemails"), where Strong Bad responds to viewers' questions and suggestions, such as "Why don't you creat a montage?", "What would you do different, if you could do it all over again?", and the ever-popular "How do you type with boxing gloves on?" This usually involves mocking the sender's spelling and grammar mistakes (in fact, the character of Homsar was actually created this way), and quite often not actually answering the question.Other features on the site include Teen Girl Squad, a comic about shallow teenage girls dying in improbable and hilarious ways, which is written, drawn, and narrated by Strong Bad; Old-Timey Homestar, what Homestar Runner would be like if it was made in the 1930s; and the Cheat Commandos, a parody of Merchandise-Driven shows in general and G.I. Joe in specific. The Brothers Chaps have also collaborated with They Might Be Giants a few times.Following the birth of Matt Chapman's second child in November 2009, the site's flow of new content trickled to a halt. However, in late 2011, Matt confirmed via his Twitter page that the series had not been cancelled and that future updates were coming "sporadically and without warning" (and went so far to say that nobody in their right mind would voluntarily quit making Homestar Runner altogether). The Brothers Chaps worked on other projects during the hiatus, including the game Poker Night at the Inventory, in which Strong Bad meets up with Tycho (Penny Arcade), Max (Sam & Max: Freelance Police), and the Heavy (Team Fortress 2), as well as a special guest appearance by Strong Bad and Homestar at W00tstock 2013. More recently, Matt became a writer and director for Nick Jr.'s Yo Gabba Gabba!, The Hub's The Aquabats! Super Show!, and Disney's Gravity Falls. Matt and Mike would also go on to create Two More Eggs for Disney XD, which would air in between breaks on that channel. As of 2014, new episodes finally began to trickle back in, beginning with a new April Fool's Day intro and the music video "Fish Eye Lens". The website, while not updated weekly like it was in the 2000s, still sees new content, mostly around Halloween.In addition to new content, they've been uploading more and more older content such as the first SBEmails along with older toons and shorts to their official YouTube channel.If you find the speech hard to understand, or want to experience H*R in another language, the wiki has subtitled versions of most toons; however, since the retirement of Flash, they have not been supported.A series of episodic point-and-click adventure games by Telltale Games, Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People (or SBCG4AP), was additionally released for PC and WiiWare between August and December of 2008, and later ported to PlayStation Network in 2010.There is currently a page recapping the series.Also, for Strong Bad Email-only tropes, see Strong Bad Email. | |
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Floating Advice Reminder | |
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Floating Advice Reminder: Played with in Haunted Photo Booth. When Strong Bad notices The Cheat's gold tooth is missing and realises that it was what was causing the "ghost" to appear in everyone's photographs, the camera zooms in on Strong Bad's face while Homestar's voice is heard saying "Orange and black loose tooth removers... loose tooth removers... loose tooth removers..." Then the camera zooms out again to reveal that Homestar is standing behind Strong Bad, saying "loose tooth removers" for some reason. | |
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Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other | |
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Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Although Strong Bad all too often torments his younger brother Strong Sad (or vice-versa, in some cases), there have been some toons where they genuinely love each other, or, at the very least, get along well. There is a special toon that shows how Strong Sad and Strong Bad used to get along when they were younger. Moreover, in "Jibblies 2", Strong Bad considers Strong Sad to be one of the "good characters". | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed: Some of the band members of Sloshy resemble members of Weezer. Bubs' voice was originally a very blatant Redd Foxx impression before it evolved into a more distinctive form. Likewise, Strong Sad's voice was originally inspired by Michael Stipe. | |
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Drunk Driver | |
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Drunk Driver: In one of the hidden games on the "Message Bored", there's a game mechanic — drivers looking to be going one way then swerving to the other — explained as "drunk drivers". (Occasionally, the game will give you a run where you don't have to touch the controls at all — this extends to "drunk drivers" who would normally present that problem driving towards the player's car, then away.) | |
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Kinder and Cleaner | |
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Kinder and Cleaner: The original version of the Poot-Slap song is less than family-friendly. | |
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The Artifact | |
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The Artifact: Pom-Pom was originally created to be Homestar's best friend and sidekick. However, his personality was never developed much beyond that, and with the shift of focus from Homestar to Strong Bad, he's pretty much superfluous these days. (The fact that he speaks only in bubbles probably makes it hard to write dialogue for him as well.) Not to mention that he's generally been the Straight Man in a series that doesn't often have much use for one, as the other characters went through Flanderization. | |
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Scenery Censor: Done to hide the fact that one Limozeen member was played by a woman in one live-action sequence. | |
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Darker and Edgier | |
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Darker and Edgier: Parodied in the new intro for April Fool's Day 2010, with HSR Xeriousxly Forxe. ([1]) Played straight, however, with the the Twitter account, which has darker humour than the site. | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything? | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything?: Inverted when matters of dating are explained by comparison to sports. This tends to be Coach Z's answer to everything, as Homestar finds out in "The Best Decemberween Ever", when Homestar comes to Coach Z asking about what gift to give Strong Bad and again Coach Z responds by comparing the buying of gifts to sports. | |
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So Long, Suckers! | |
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So Long, Suckers!: Homestar says this in one of the yearly Halloween episodes after tricking the King of Town (whose Halloween costume is Colonel Sanders) out of his secret blend of eleven herbs and spices needed to make Marzipan's Halloween potion. | |
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Calvinball | |
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Calvinball: The nebulous and nameless sport Coach Z coaches and Homestar plays, as shown in the opening of "In Search of the Yello-Dello" and "A Jorb Well Done". Lampshaded in the "Yello Dello" commentary by Strong Bad. | |
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Your Head A-Splode | |
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Your Head Asplode: In Strong Bad Zone, the spiky-headed 3D cyber-shield guy's head explodes when he is hit, which prompts Strong Bad to say the trope-naming line. | |
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All There in the Manual | |
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All There in the Manual: Several of the character's names are only mentioned on DVD Commentaries. | |
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Swallowed a Fly | |
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Swallowed a Fly: "Bug In Mouth Disease" features Homestar distraught because he accidentally swallowed a bug. "The good times are over!" | |
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Cheated Angle | |
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Cheated Angle: Homestar and The Cheat are never seen from the front in the cartoons. But in the game and the 3d figurines, they can be seen from any angle you please. It becomes the main gag in "The Name of This Cartoon Would Ruin It", where Homestar (and later The Cheat) finally face forwards. | |
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Title Drop | |
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Title Drop: Both versions of Where My Hat Is At? have Homestar asking this every few pages, typical of the kids' books it's meant to parody. | |
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Ode to Apathy | |
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Ode to Apathy: Strong Sad's favorite band sloshy's big song is called "We don't really even care about you", which is also the Title-Only Chorus. | |
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The Brute | |
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The Brute: Strong Mad is incredibly strong and has a hair-trigger temper to match. Strong Bad generally uses him as the Dumb Muscle, as such. | |
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Indubitably Uninteresting Individual | |
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Indubitably Uninteresting Individual: Strong Sad, while originally a one-note depressed character, now seems to have developed into a more-rounded character. Yet, his brother, Strong Bad, thinks that his interests are lame and have no punch. Strong Sad likes to listen to public radio (Similar to NPR). His favorite pasttime is writing poetry and prose. On the other hand, ironically, he also hosts a fan club based on Strong Bad Email, called "The Deleteheads". Marzipan, to a point. She tends to be about on the same level as Strong Sad, except she has a hippie vibe to match. | |
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The Ghost | |
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The Ghost: Stiny from the Strong Badman comics, who is always yelled at by Strong Badman. | |
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Inappropriate Speak-and-Spell | |
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Inappropriate Speak-and-Spell: Strong Bad had Bubs make a crude robot version of himself out of an old Speak and Spell and an empty box of Grape-Nuts, according to the Strong Bad Email "personal favorites". The "Grape-Nuts Robot" was shown saying "Now spell: double deuce" in an easter egg, and in an episode of Marzipan's Answering Machine Strong Bad tries (and fails) to get the robot to say "Kiss my butt". | |
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Mugshot Montage | |
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Mugshot Montage: Used in the title sequence for "Strong Bad is in Jail Cartoon" when Strong Bad is arrested for trying to break into Bubs' Concession Stand. | |
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Self-Parody | |
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Self-Parody: The Storybook universe, which parodies the writing of the original books. While the text itself doesn't look out of place, it's Strong Bad's narration that really puts it into this territory. | |
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Cool Shades | |
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Cool Shades: A running staple of the series, most notably worn by Dangeresque and Dangeresque Too. In fact Dangeresque Too's shades are so cool, they can be worn in Team Fortress 2 by the Demoman. | |
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Heterosexual Life-Partners | |
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Heterosexual Life-Partners: Strong Mad and The Cheat, and Bubs and Coach Z. Homestar and Pom Pom are supposed to be this, but in recent cartoons it's not nearly as apparent. | |
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Papa Wolf | |
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Papa Wolf: Strong Mad is very defensive of The Cheat. A perfect example of this occurs in Strong Bad Email #23: "little animal", when Strong Bad, asked what he would do if a little animal comes up to him, answers by kicking The Cheat and arousing Strong Mad's wrath as a result. | |
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Self-Applied Nickname | |
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Self-Applied Nickname: In the toon "79 seconds left", Strong Bad announces that he wishes to be known as "The Leg" (pronounced like "Ledge", short for "The Legend") from now on. It doesn't catch on. This name is classic Strong Bad, a poorly-thought-out attempt to seem awesome with obvious flaws. | |
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Fishing Minigame | |
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Fishing Minigame: There's one hidden as an Easter Egg in the email "lures and jigs", but being that this is Homestar Runner, it's an...unusual...take on the idea. "Come on and get in the boat!" | |
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Angrish | |
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Angrish: Strong Bad devolved into a pretty hilarious example of this when his new computer, the Compé, crashed on him as soon as he turned it on. Luckily for him, it was all just a joke. According to the wiki, it went something like this: Coach Z speaks somewhat incoherently by default, but his getting frustrated while trying to correct his speech only makes it worse. | |
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"No. Just… No" Reaction | |
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"No. Just… No" Reaction: Storybook Homestar and Storybook Strong Bad's reaction to Storybook Strong Sad flying - with long woman's legs. | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: Too many to list here. Here's a list for all the examples from the Homestar Runner Wiki. | |
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MST3K Mantra | |
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MST3K Mantra: invoked The Brothers Chaps provide their own take on this in the 'FAQ' section of the site. | |
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Ambiguous Situation | |
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Ambiguous Situation: History Lesson Part II of Strong Sad's Lament is written in a distinctly Strong Bad-y style, calling Johnny Appleseed a "freakin' weirdo" and an "ungreatful hippie" and ending off with the writer's attention to the subject withering and talking about something else entirely by the end, alongside the fact that Strong Sad posted his password on his blog, but at the same time Strong Sad created Saddy Dumpington in "A Folky Tale" and the picture of Saddy Dumpington accompanying the post has his signature, making it unclear if Strong Bad hacked into his brother's blog and wrote the post or if Strong Sad did write it and was just acting particularly Strong Bad-like at the time. | |
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The Compliance Game | |
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The Compliance Game: "Play Date": Homestar tries to plan a meet-up with others in the cast, but it seems they're all busy with other plans or in-trouble, and the only one left is Strong Mad. Unfortunately, Strong Mad's idea of "playing games" is too intense for Homestar, and tries to tone it down: | |
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Nigh-Invulnerability | |
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Nigh-Invulnerability: In the 2018 Halloween cartoon "Mr. Poofers Must Die", Homestar tries to tell a story where he kills a cloud-like dog named Mr. Poofers. Even though he can say he's going to kill him, he can't kill him in a story. Coach Z, Marzipan, Strong Sad, and Strong Bad all try to as well but can't, as their stories derail into Non Sequitur when they try. The Rocoulm can't give Mr. Poofers the Jibblies, either; he, too, sings a Non Sequitur song. | |
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Second Episode Introduction | |
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Second Episode Introduction: Bubs and Coach Z were introduced in the second book, Where my Hat is at?. | |
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Menace Decay | |
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Menace Decay: Strong Bad. Lampshaded in "your edge", where Strong Bad tries to get his edge back. And fails. Epically. | |
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Themed Party | |
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Themed Party: In "The Luau", Marzipan hosts a Luau, a party featuring tropical island decor, the roasting of a giant block of tofu on a spit (the vegetarian equivalent of roasting a pig) and Polynesian poetry accompanied by Marzipan on a Ukulele. The thing is considered boring by Strong Bad and some other characters. | |
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Black Comedy | |
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Black Comedy: While the majority of the series is surreal and silly, some surprisingly dark moments get slipped in, equally Played for Laughs. | |
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Ambiguously Human | |
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Ambiguously Human: It's never stated whether any of the characters are human. And even the ones that do look human have Fingerless Hands, seemingly missing limbs or other parts, and weird skin colors. As a Running Gag, the creators jokingly refer to them as "dumb animal characters". | |
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Revenge via Storytelling | |
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Revenge via Storytelling: In the Halloween toon "Doomy Tales of the Macabre", Strong Sad writes a story about each of the main cast suffering a horrible fate (except Coach Z because his life is already a horrible fate). At the beginning of the toon, he admits outright that he's doing this out of spite toward the other characters for not inviting him to their Halloween party. | |
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Only Sane Man | |
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Only Sane Man: Admiral Flashfight, when Blue Laser's latest scheme is revealed to be that he's ultimately caused skeeball prizes to cost more tickets. | |
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Companion Cube | |
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Companion Cube: Quite a few, most notably "Frank Bennedetto" the popcorn maker, who serves as first officer in the Homestarmy, and The Wagon Fulla Pancakes. | |
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Animated Actors | |
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Animated Actors: Characters have a high degree of Medium Awareness and sometimes seem to be actors. "The King of Town" and "In Search of the Yello Dello" have DVD Commentary tracks by the characters, implying that the events are fictional and that they were acting (albeit As Themselves.) Teen Girl Squad, Dangeresque and Sweet Cuppin' Cakes have characters portrayed or voice-acted by members of the main cast. | |
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Anachronism Stew | |
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Anachronism Stew: The "Old-Timey" era, supposedly the 1930s, contains elements from the 19th century (such as a political cartoon referencing "Boss" Tweed) to the 1950s (with references to things such as early Space Age aesthetics and the Red Scare). Strong Bad's computers are Anachronism Stews all on their own, from a Tandy with a monochrome display that can display a full-resolution image of the Hairstyle Runner Flash game, to the new Compé, an all-in-one widescreen flat-panel that's apparently limited to VGA-level graphics. Videlectrix is a pretty good example of this Trope too, a modern company that produces Atari-level games. Which they consider "good graphics". How about Bubs' internet service, whose lone customer is (surprise) Strong Bad? Strong Bad claims his normal connection speed is "1200 baud" (equivalent to 1.2 kilobits per second), a measurement of connection speed so outdated, there are Bachelor of Computer Science graduates who've never even heard of it. | |
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Failure Is the Only Option | |
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Failure Is the Only Option: In the easter egg game Super Kingio Brothers, The King of Town is too out of shape to jump over the first goomba, making it impossible to survive for more than a few seconds. | |
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Spiritual Successor | |
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Spiritual Successor: The Dangeresque Roomisode game feels like a spiritual successor to Peasant's Quest | |
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Phone Number Jingle | |
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Phone Number Jingle: 555-55-5585-555-SENOR-MORTGAGE-TODAY. | |
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Small Name, Big Ego | |
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Small Name, Big Ego: Show Within a Show and In-Universe example- Crack Stuntman, the voice of Gunhaver in Cheat Commandos, who insists on script changes and even voicing different characters because he "likes that guy's lines better." | |
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Non-Indicative Name | |
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Non-Indicative Name: While every other track in Kid Speedy has a flowery name, track #7 is simply named "The Loop". It is a straight line. | |
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Halloween Episode | |
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Halloween Episode: These are an annual tradition of the website, starting back in 2000. The characters all dress up as various pop-culture icons (complete with summaries at the end, for those who don't recognize them), and the plot of each episode involve thematically-relevant events (trick-or-treating, sharing horror stories, dealing with more macabre characters than the cartoons usually handle). | |
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Easter Egg | |
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Mid-toon Easter Eggs became less common in later toons, with almost no post-hiatus toons having them, bar one throwback in the Flash release of sbemail parenting. | |
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Stopped Clock | |
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Stopped Clock: In the Strong Bad Email "vacation", Strong Bad sends a postcard from (among several other places) "It's that CLOCK (Look at it go!)". Of course, the clock isn't going at all. | |
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Lampshade Hanging | |
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Lampshade Hanging: Lots of it. A good example is the beginning of 8-Bit is Enough. | |
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The Scrappy | |
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The Scrappy: In-universe, Homestar Runner and Strong Bad cannot stand Marshie, the mascot of Fluffy Puff Marshmallows. Homestar's hatred is justified: he did commercials for them and got paid for it, but Marshie since took his job. | |
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Orphaned Series | |
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Orphaned Series: The website went without a single update in 2012 and 2013, with only a few sparse updates the year before that. New content has finally begun to trickle back in; it remains to be seen how long that will last since Matt Chapman is still working on various TV shows. | |
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Offending a Foreign Country | |
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Offending a Foreign Country: In the Strong Bad Email sbemail_22, Strong Bad's opinions of England are apparently so offensive they bring the Royal Family to tears. At a subsequent press conference, when asked about the offending remarks, he casually responds "Screw all of y'all", drawing a round of gasps and an "I can't believe he said that!". | |
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Potty Emergency | |
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Potty Emergency: Happens to Homestar in the long-lost short "A Jumping Jack Contest", after being tricked into drinking too much melonade. He then relieves himself in a jar provided by the Poopsmith. | |
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Vocal Evolution | |
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Vocal Evolution: Most notably Strong Bad and Strong Sad. Homestar is pretty noticeable, too. And Bubs, who started out as a Redd Foxx impression. | |
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Boring Vacation Slideshow | |
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Boring Vacation Slideshow: One toon is entitled "Somber Vacation", in which Strong Sad shows some of the other characters some slides from his trip to the beach (it's the only way he can remain miserable since summer is generally a happy time and thus his least favorite time of year). The other characters all react in disappointment, thinking the reason he called them was for something else, Strong Bad only coming because he thought there would be a dead body. They react listlessly to many of the pictures he shows, which include burying himself alive in the sand (and winning third place in a sand sculpture contest) and collecting pieces of old Styrofoam coolers, which he made into little people by attaching googly eyes and pipe cleaners for arms and legs, and then playing beach volleyball with them (they beat him apparently). However, the other characters' interests are piqued on the last slide, which shows Strong Sad on his last night at the beach, in which he takes a midnight walk on the beach, only to get burned by the moon because he forgot to put on moonscreen. They all laugh at the way he got burned, but he insists that it's a skin condition and it's how he tans. | |
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Distaff Counterpart | |
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Distaff Counterpart: According to the toon "Why Come Only One Girl?", Champeen was originally going to be this to Homestar. Unfortunately, she never showed up in any toons (though she does appear in one of the backgrounds of the Dancin' Bubs game). | |
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Missing Steps Plan | |
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Missing Steps Plan: "Best Caper Ever." Step 1: steal Homestar's melonade. Step 2: pee in said melonade. Step 4: Homestar is now on an ice floe in the middle of the Arctic Ocean. | |
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Word Salad Philosophy | |
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Homsar and Senor Cardgage. Both speak in Word Salads and seem to have little to no grasp on any given situation. Both do bizarre, inexplicable things (Homsar floating randomly, Senor Cardgage walking in place causing the sounds of traffic to occur - indoors). It's suggested in SBCG4AP that Homsar is actually quite intelligent, but is speaking a language that nobody else can understand, but it's played straight in the cartoons proper. | |
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Memetic Mutation | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_316e9da2 | comment |
Strong Bad has poked fun at both Memetic Mutations (here's his take on the Trogdor phenomenon) and the darker side of fandom. Funnily enough, the fans haven't been offended. This is probably because it's Strong Bad, who's supposed to be a jerk about these things, and because it's really funny. | |
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Elmuh Fudd Syndwome | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_318bdacf | comment |
Elmuh Fudd Syndwome: Homestaw suffows fwom this. "I have twouble with my aw's." Lampshaded when he tells Coach Z to "Say words right", while the chalkboard behind him writes this the way he says it, aka "Say wouds wide." | |
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Old-Timey Cinema Countdown | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_32251696 | comment |
Old-Timey Cinema Countdown: When you select one of the reels in the Old-Timey toon "Kick the Can", after it finishes loading, the projector shows a circle and a number that goes from 5 to 2 before the short starts. | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_32251696 | |
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The Unintelligible | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_32821ceb | comment |
The Unintelligible: The Cheat speaks in high-pitched mumbles, and Pom Pom just sounds like someone blowing bubbles in a glass of water, but everyone else can understand him just fine. Although Marzipan's grasp of The Cheat speak is a bit rusty. | |
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Elongating Arm Gag | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_32cf4364 | comment |
Elongating Arm Gag: One of the Powered by the Cheat cartoons has Strong Bad and the Cheat stretching their arms far above the earth to high five in outer space. | |
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Out of Focus | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_32da91b8 | comment |
Out of Focus: Pom Pom is hardly used at all anymore. | |
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Dastardly Whiplash | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_32e69b5f | comment |
Dastardly Whiplash: The Old-Timey version of Strong Bad plays this trope about as straight as can be - Antiquated Linguistics, handlebar mustache, and villainy for the sake of villainy all accounted for. This makes sense, of course; Old-Timey Homestar Runner generally uses tropes more common in the 1930s, and usage of these kinds of villains was in full swing at that time. | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_32e69b5f | |
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Hammerspace | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_356b1efb | comment |
Hammerspace: Constantly used. Understandable given that none of the characters have visible pockets. | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_356b1efb | |
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Gentle Giant | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_36c64123 | comment |
Gentle Giant: Strong Mad, for all his muscle and hostility, nevertheless has a big heart and a soft side, especially towards The Cheat, to whom he is quite defensive (see also: Papa Wolf). Also, while Strong Mad is the oldest of the Strong brothers, he is also the most childish and naïve. | |
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Ruder and Cruder | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_3767d6f9 | comment |
Ruder and Cruder: Whilst usually in Gosh Dang It to Heck! territory, with "crap" being used most often, the web animations are this to the original books, which lacked any and were parodies of children's picture books. | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_3767d6f9 | |
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TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_378039e | comment |
The Last Of These Is Not Like The Others: A borderline example in one of the DVD toons, "Why Come Only One Girl?", in a montage of Strong Bad meeting different ideas for a new girl character. | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_378039e | |
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Comic Trio | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_380df4da | comment |
Comic Trio: Strong Bad is the schemer and Strong Mad the dumb muscle. The helpless one can vary, but is most commonly The Cheat, followed by Strong Sad. | |
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Pac-Man Fever | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_38d3a0f7 | comment |
Pac Man Fever: Strong Bad has never been seen using a computer or video game system that could have been made after the early 1990s, with the possible exception of his new Compé, which appears to have a flat, widescreen monitor but still runs what looks like Windows 95 at best. Likewise, nearly all of the games on the site are pastiches of games from the '80s and '90s. To the point where they might be responsible for inspiring the modern retro indie game fad. | |
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Reality Warper | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_3b99a9e0 | comment |
Reality Warper: Homsar is such a Cloudcuckoolander that he defies the laws of physics, floating, shapeshifting, talking like normal in an Atari 2600 game, and even distorting the scenery. Senor Cardgage recently completed his transformation into a second Homsar in hremail3184, in which he manages to walk in place as if the carpet had no friction and make ambient city sounds appear out of nowhere. Strong Bad put it best: "I'm ... quite scared right now." The Paper might also qualify, subverting the laws of perspective. Heck, even Strong Bad might qualify. Several things he's imagined have become real, including the future of his entire world. Sufficient quantities of viruses on one computer cause reality to go mad until the computer is shut off and/or destroyed. | |
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Noodle Incident | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_3c0a4666 | comment |
Noodle Incident: A couple of them, like the incident that somehow gave Strong Sad the nickname Dairy Queen. That one is (almost certainly) a reference to that disturbing soft-serve flip on his head. Strong Bad's mentioned it before. | |
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Pistol-Whipping | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_3c111ce6 | comment |
Pistol-Whipping: In "That Time of Year", one of the pages in the book shows a boy building a snowman, which Strong Bad then defaces to include a gun in the boy's hand to make it look like the snowman is getting hit by it and adds in a giant mantis. | |
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Blessed with Suck | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_3c3f28a5 | comment |
Blessed with Suck: Bubs used to have the ability to fly, but he could only float a few inches above the ground because of his weight and would lose the power any time he said his name backwards minus the first "b" ("sbu"). By the time Strong Bad was trying to get him to say it, he cared so little about the power that he didn't even think twice about saying it just because Strong Bad asked him to. | |
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Zany Scheme | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_3c51db1c | comment |
Zany Scheme: In the short "Pistols for Pandas," the titular "charity" operates on one of these. For every five dollars donated, Crack Stuntman buys a specially-marked box of cereal. When he saves up enough box tops, he sends them in to get new computers for a school. He then steals the computers and sells them at a pawn shop, using the money to buy guns, which he smuggles into the panda habitat at a zoo. | |
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Flat "What" | |
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Flat "What": The Homestar Runner says this repeatedly when Strong Bad challenges him to a duel in the Old-Timey toon "Parsnips-a-Plenty". He also ends "Ballad of The Sneak" with this. | |
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Badbutt | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_3cc07613 | comment |
Badbutt: Strong Bad. To a lesser extent, Strong Mad. | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_3cc07613 | |
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Acme Products | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_3cd71723 | comment |
Acme Products: Cheap As Free is the go-to company for most products. They've put out food, toys, books (comic or otherwise), records, and even have their branding on some of the real-world merchandise in the site's shop (such as on Strong Bad Sings or various DVDs). In spite of the name, most of their products retail for $11.01. For video games specifically, there's Videlectrix, a company run by two guys with an old-as-dirt computer, intent on making games with "good graphics". | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_3cd71723 | |
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Embarrassing Voicemail | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_3dfeaa1c | comment |
Embarrassing Voicemail: Thanks to a misunderstanding, Homestar leaves an angry breakup message in "Marzipan's Answering Machine" 9.2. He then tries to erase it by talking backward, and finally steals the answering machine tape, replacing it with one full of his own terrible impersonations of other characters leaving messages (including himself). | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_3dfeaa1c | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_3ece9e25 | type |
Konami Code | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_3ece9e25 | comment |
Konami Code: Used to unlock the 30 Lives cheat in Trogdor. | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_3ece9e25 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_4033e213 | type |
Crack Pairing | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_4033e213 | comment |
Crack Pairing: A number of in-universe examples. Homsar's "parents" are a cup of coffee and a Chipwich. Lil' Brudder's Maw and Paw are, respectively, a dog and a unicycle. | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_4033e213 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_40bb59d0 | type |
Blatant Lies | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_40bb59d0 | comment |
Blatant Lies: So common, the Homestar Wiki has a page to list nearly every occasion of an obvious lie. Most of them are from Strong Bad. Parodied in the toon "Cool Things" where Homestar falls into a random pit marked "Death Hole". The fact that the pit's, like, three feet deep doesn't stop him from yelling like he's still falling. | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_40bb59d0 | |
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Stylistic Suck | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_415b3315 | comment |
Stylistic Suck: Basically any time the characters attempt anything artistic, though Strong Sad is sometimes an exception. Notable examples are The Cheat's cartoons, the Teen Girl Squad, and Dangeresque. | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_415b3315 | |
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Malaproper | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_4192763e | comment |
Malaproper: Senor Cardgage is perhaps the most evident example, but Strong Bad, Homestar, and other characters do this on occasion, as a lot of the series' humor revolves around wordplay. | |
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| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_44938457 | type |
The Strongman | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_44938457 | comment |
The Strongman: In the Old Timey setting, an Alternate Universe set in a vaguely 1930's-ish setting, Strong Mad's equivalent is called Strong Man and he dresses in the costume of a circus strongman. | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_44938457 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_44990492 | type |
Parody Commercial | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_44990492 | comment |
Parody Commercial: Oh so many, most notably "Senorial Day". | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_44990492 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_450d0973 | type |
Smart Jerk and Nice Moron | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_450d0973 | comment |
Smart Jerk and Nice Moron: Later episodes have this dynamic between Strong Bad and Homestar. Originally, they were enemies, but over time develop into something more like Vitriolic Best Buds. Homestar is a kind, loveable idiot who thinks he's Strong Bad's friend, while the schemer Strong Bad constantly tells Homestar he hates him, but the message never appears to sink in. Of course, Strong Bad tends to overhype his own cleverness, and Homestar is often Too Dumb to Fool, but the distribution of brains between the two is clearly unequal. | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_450d0973 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_45eed9a5 | type |
Not This One, That One | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_45eed9a5 | comment |
Not This One, That One: An inversion in an unproduced script ("Soap Box Doiby") that was given to the Homestar Runner Wiki. Homestar looks at Pom Pom's racer, which looks like a hideous beat up wreck, and mocks it, saying that it looks like a cow built it. Pom Pom then reminds him that that racer is Homestar's, while Pom Pom's own racer, in Homestar's own words, "looks like several very smart cows built it." | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_45eed9a5 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_47be8002 | type |
Silent Offer | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_47be8002 | comment |
Silent Offer: In Stong Bad Email #182, the King of Town and Strong Bad negotiate in this way. What is being negotiated over is never revealed, and the King of Town's offer is "a piece of lasagna." | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_47be8002 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_47fea76b | type |
Butt-Monkey | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_47fea76b | comment |
Butt-Monkey: Strong Sad, The King of Town, Coach Z, and such, usually because of Strong Bad. This is somewhat balanced out by Strong Bad being one from time to time. Also Nebulon. Whenever the space alien appears, he's almost always told to go away, as no one likes his style, at which point he'll float away with a distinctive sound effect and a goofy frown on his face. Reynold in the Cheat Commandos episodes. In an troop full of hardened mercenaries, he's the only obvious office worker of the group; he thus is the butt of many jokes, and never gets to go on any missions, much to his chagrin. | |
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| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_48b9731f | type |
Paper-Thin Disguise | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_48b9731f | comment |
Paper-Thin Disguise: When dressed like The Thnikkaman, Bubs dresses the same way he normally does, only with a pair of shades and a piece of paper with "tH" written on it taped to his chest. Sometimes he even takes the shades off. Despite this, most of the main characters (save Homestar in "Happy Dethemberween") are completely oblivious to The Thnikkaman's true identity. Coach Z actually claims to be the Thnikkaman to Bubs at one point. Bubs is unamused. | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_48b9731f | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_49b3ebe5 | type |
Special Effect Failure | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_49b3ebe5 | comment |
Special Effect Failure: Parodied in the Dangeresque films; for example, Strong Bad uses his considerably larger, gray brother Strong Sad as a stunt double and has a scene where he and his costar "climb a skyscraper" that is clearly a piece of cardboard lying flat on the ground... and then Homestar's sunglasses fall off while the camera is still rolling. | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_49b3ebe5 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_4dbd3706 | type |
Clap Your Hands If You Believe | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_4dbd3706 | comment |
Clap Your Hands If You Believe: Characters Strong Bad made up in his emails become actual characters. Example; Señor Cardgage was a theoretical older Strong Bad, but now is a character in his own right. | |
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1.0 | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_4dbd3706 | |
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Downer Ending | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_4e3d253b | comment |
Downer Ending: In-universe, Strong Sad's ending of the scary story in the 2000 Halloween cartoon, "Homestarloween Party." Everyone breaks out in tears | |
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1.0 | |
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The Alleged Computer | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_4e690511 | comment |
The Alleged Computer: Strong Bad apparently loves computers like this and uses them by choice. He mocks The Cheat for using a modern Apple that doesn't have a text-based interface, he thinks a flat screen means someone cut half of the monitor away, and he thinks the Apple mouse is a bar of soap. His first computer, the Tandy, fits this trope after Strong Bad continues to use it after it explodes. The Compy doesn't show any negative qualities other than general obsolescence for its time. The Lappy is known for being too heavy to be portable and has a battery life of five minutes. While the Compé was current when the cartoon was made, it still fits this trope due to its incredible pixelation and the fact that its OS resembled the controversial Windows Vista. The Lappier is probably better than its predecessor, but it is unclear how much better it is. Hilariously lampshaded in the 2014 April Fool's update, in which he records a new startup sound for his Compy (oddly without contrast knobs, and the Compé is apparently gone). *Starts humming tune and then stands up and yells* "WHY ARE YOU STILL USING WINDOWS 98??! WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU??!! STOP BUYING COMPUTERS FROM THRIFT STORES, MAN!!" | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_4e690511 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_4f328cb3 | type |
Invisible Anatomy | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_4f328cb3 | comment |
Invisible Anatomy: Most characters have no visible arms, yet are completely capable of manipulating objects as if they did. This is often Lampshaded. | |
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1.0 | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_4f328cb3 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_4f4372e9 | type |
Early-Installment Weirdness | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_4f4372e9 | comment |
Early-Installment Weirdness: "Homestarloween Party", the first Halloween Episode, doesn't end with the traditional recap of everyone's costumes. They would lampshade this 22 years later in "2022 Costume Pack Now Available", which updates elements of the previous cartoon with "DLC". | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_4f4372e9 | |
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You Say Tomato | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_5076ccdb | comment |
You Say Tomato: Coach Z's schtick | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_5076ccdb | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_50b05d30 | type |
Disproportionate Retribution | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_50b05d30 | comment |
Disproportionate Retribution: "Where's an Egg?" is a detective game in which you have to figure out who stole a single egg. What do you do once you suspect someone of being guilty? Immediately shoot them on the spot, and if they drop the egg while falling to the ground you're golden. | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_50b05d30 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_517f8d71 | type |
Delusions of Eloquence | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_517f8d71 | comment |
Delusions of Eloquence: Many of the characters often "try" this, which leads to them creating new mangled words or portmanteaus. In fact, these portmanteaus and Buffy Speak are a staple of the series' humor. | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_517f8d71 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_52b23b66 | type |
Pseudolympics | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_52b23b66 | comment |
Pseudolympics: One Strong Bad Email is about the "Strong Badathalon", with events such as "Greco-Roman Homestar Crud-Out-Of-Beating", the "Clean and Jerk Strong Mad's Underwears Over His Head" ("fortunately, you don't really have to clean them") and "Probably Something with Guitars, Lasers, Robots, and Hot Girls". | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_52b23b66 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_535156bc | type |
Christmas Special | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_535156bc | comment |
Christmas Special: One every year while the site was active. | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_535156bc | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_541c0283 | type |
Jumping the Shark | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_541c0283 | comment |
Jumping the Shark: Referenced in-universe. | |
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1.0 | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_541c0283 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_54fdbff5 | type |
The Eeyore | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_54fdbff5 | comment |
Strong Sad's status as The Eeyore? He goes out of his way to find reasons to be that depressed. | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_54fdbff5 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_553c910e | type |
This Isn't Heaven | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_553c910e | comment |
This Isn't Heaven: An Easter Egg in the program Macromedia Central features a cartoon where Homestar and Strong Bad are stuck in "blue-fadey-land." Homestar thinks they died and went to heaven, and Strong Bad agrees after they find a Twinkie. Then Homestar says that it's just Strong Bad and him, forever! It suddenly dawns on Strong Bad that they're definitely not in heaven. He pounds on the edge of the frame screaming frantically as the background turns red... | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_553c910e | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_55cd4012 | type |
"Everybody Dies" Ending | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_55cd4012 | comment |
"Everybody Dies" Ending: In "Homestarloween Party", Strong Sad ends the group's round-robin story by killing everyone off, which ends up depressing everybody. In Doomy Tales of the Macabre, Strong Sad takes revenge on the entire cast for not inviting him to their Halloween party, by writing a tale in which every character but himself either dies horribly or faces some other horrible fate. | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_55cd4012 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_56572916 | type |
Bedtime Brainwashing | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_56572916 | comment |
Bedtime Brainwashing: "A Jorb Well Done". Coach Z keeps mispronouncing the word "job", and all Homestar's attempts to correct this fail. Eventually, Strong Sad loans Coach Z a tape of himself saying "job" hundreds of times, and tells Z to listen to it as he sleeps. The next morning, Coach Z has no trouble saying "job"... but he can no longer pronounce Homestar's name. | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_56572916 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_58019946 | type |
Anvil on Head | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_58019946 | comment |
Anvil on Head: The Heavy Lourde, which has a habit of dropping on Homsar. | |
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1.0 | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_58019946 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_587a084f | type |
Spoofy-Doo | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_587a084f | comment |
Spoofy-Doo: The Homestar Runner Mystfit-steries by Youbetterbelieveit Chimenez is a big parody of Scooby-Doo. They first appeared in the Strong Bad Email "high school" as a "flashback" to the Homestar gang's high school years, but they appear later in the 2020 Halloween special Halloween Hijinks after the "real" short has nothing of note to offer. Both appearances have them be Better than a Bare Bulb lampoons of a typical SD episode, with their second appearance having the group, now A Group of Random Teens, trying to solve the mystery of a masked villain who had killed Councilman Zonepermit (the King of Town). They also have a band they play in, and invite that episode's culprit to play with them despite knowing he just killed a man. Homestar is the clueless but fearless leader, Strong Bad plays the skinny snarker who keeps trying to take off Homestar's pants, Marzipan is the eye candy of the group, and Strong Mad mostly just hung around Strong Bad. | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_587a084f | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_58f20f50 | type |
Minsky Pickup | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_58f20f50 | comment |
Minsky Pickup: Strong Bad starts off his song in "Some Stupid Turkey" with a "Dun dun dadun dun DUN!" | |
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1.0 | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_58f20f50 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_59938d30 | type |
Better than Sex | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_59938d30 | comment |
Better than Sex: This Book is Better Than 1st, 2nd, and Quite Possibly Even 3rd Base from the sbemail "studying." | |
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1.0 | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_59938d30 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_5a310772 | type |
Standard Office Setting | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_5a310772 | comment |
Standard Office Setting: It sometimes features an office filled with cubicles, where characters fulfil generic white collar responsibilities but spend most of their time avoiding work by playing video games, checking email, breaking the computers, etc. | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_5a310772 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_5a3b8032 | type |
The Un-Reveal | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_5a3b8032 | comment |
The Unreveal: Strong Bad's face and the appearance of his parents, as the eventual response to numerous emails about it. The Brothers Chaps have gone on record as stating that these two questions, in addition to the issue of how Strong Bad types with boxing gloves on, will in all likelihood never be given a serious response. Played for laughs in-universe in sbemail "cliffhangers". "You missed unmasking the Thnikkaman!!!" | |
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1.0 | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_5a3b8032 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_5ad19153 | type |
Phone Word | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_5ad19153 | comment |
Phone Word: A fake advert features Senor Cardgage Mortgage inviting you to "come along down and dial 555-55-55855-55-5-SENOR-MORT-GAGE-TODAY!" | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_5ad19153 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_5c982007 | type |
Chocolate-Frosted Sugar Bombs | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_5c982007 | comment |
Chocolate-Frosted Sugar Bombs: "Cheat Commandos...O's", featured in its own short cartoon. Part of this ridiculous breakfast! | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_5c982007 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_5d6710a | type |
Pixellation | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_5d6710a | comment |
Pixellation: This happens whenever Homestar's shirt is removed because without it he's totally nakers. The funny thing about this being that the entire area his shirt normally covers is pixellated, implying everything there isn't fit for all ages. | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_5d6710a | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_5d6fc273 | type |
Misplaced Sorrow | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_5d6fc273 | comment |
Misplaced Sorrow: Done with Frank Bennedetto (a popcorn popper), complete with the standard "he owes me $5" lament. | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_5d6fc273 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_5d753b19 | type |
The Smurfette Principle | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_5d753b19 | comment |
The Smurfette Principle: Enforced Trope. Marzipan is the only girl character in the main cast because her voice actor, Missy Palmer, can't do nearly as many unique voices as Matt Chapman can. The situation was lampshaded in the DVD exclusive toon "Why Come Only One Girl?" | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_5d753b19 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_5e4fa749 | type |
Crossdresser | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_5e4fa749 | comment |
Crossdresser: For Halloween, Marzipan has been Prince, Willie Nelson and Joey Ramone, just to name a few. Lampshaded by Homestar in the 2008 Halloween toon. There are also other instances of this, such as Pom Pom as the Statue of Liberty, Strong Bad as "Carmen freakin' Miranda" and "Carmen freakin' Sandiego", Coach Z as Queen Latifah, or The King of Town as Hello Kitty. Coach Z does this inside his mind. Constantly. | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_5e4fa749 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_5e57282b | type |
Fake Video Camera View | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_5e57282b | comment |
Fake Video Camera View: A number of examples, including the "videos" on the character page and Strong Bad's "most amazing e-mail" from "Weclome Back". | |
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1.0 | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_5e57282b | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_5fcedca | type |
Big Eater | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_5fcedca | comment |
Big Eater: The King of Town will eat anything - even things that are clearly not meant to be eaten, like Halloween decorations. | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_5fcedca | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_5fcedca | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_60ab69b4 | type |
Elseworld | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_60ab69b4 | comment |
Elseworld: Old-Timey and 20X6 versions of the cast and setting. Interestingly, the two elseworlds have met at least once. | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_60ab69b4 | featureApplicability |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_60ab69b4 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_62259825 | type |
Nintendo Hard | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_62259825 | comment |
Nintendo Hard: Pretty much every game with the Videlectrix logo is extremely difficult. Stinkoman 20X6 takes more than just its visual style from Mega Man. Duck Guardian requires insanely quick reflexes and multi-tasking skills, Kid Speedy has a tendency to to randomly make your character's maximum speed slower than any of your opponent's minimum speeds, making the race impossible, Rhino Feeder sometimes crowds just about every pixel of the screen with snakes, making the game unwinnable, and 50K Racewalker literally cannot be beaten in anything less than 20 hours of continuous playing. | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_62259825 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_6439de78 | type |
Heroic Sacrifice | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_6439de78 | comment |
Heroic Sacrifice: In The Jibblies 2, Homestar commits to a Fate Worse than Death to cure everyone else's jibblies. He gets better. | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_6439de78 | featureApplicability |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_6439de78 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_6627695f | type |
Author Appeal | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_6627695f | comment |
Author Appeal: The holiday of Halloween seems to be a case for the Brothers Chaps, since the annual Halloween toon has been the most consistent feature of the post-hiatus Homestar work, being the only holiday they've made a toon for every year after the hiatus. | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_6627695f | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_67b9dd47 | type |
Repeating So the Audience Can Hear | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_67b9dd47 | comment |
Repeating So the Audience Can Hear: Done with Pom-Pom and The Cheat, eventually lampshaded in Strong Badia the Free. Justified in "The Best Caper Ever". For once, he's not informing the audience of what The Cheat's saying — he's trying to work out how they got from "[The Cheat] made peepee in [Homestar's] melonade" to watching him via satellite feed (which they also don't know how they got) on an ice floe in another hemisphere entirely. | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_67b9dd47 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_67f2c837 | type |
The Pig-Pen | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_67f2c837 | comment |
The Pig-Pen: The Poopsmith, due to his job. Coach Z as well, who among other things, leaked what could only be crude oil after taking off a ratty thong in the swimming pool. | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_67f2c837 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_6a643799 | type |
Expressive Mask | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_6a643799 | comment |
Expressive Mask: Strong Bad's mask is his face. | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_6a643799 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_6a643799 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_6ad2442a | type |
Pseudo-Santa | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_6ad2442a | comment |
Pseudo-Santa: "Happy Dethemberween" introduces the "Dethemberween Thnikkaman", a variant of the Thnikkaman (himself a Paper-Thin Disguise alter ego of Bubs) associated with Decemberween. He borrows people's hedge clippers (which in Homestar's case is tucked under his pillow like teeth left for the Tooth Fairy), puts blank cassettes and discs in their slippers, gives people discount travel packages, and flies around in a battered van. | |
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Adipose Rex | |
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Adipose Rex: The King of Town is a king (allegedly) and has a serious eating disorder rendering him quite chubby. Just to hammer this in, a younger version of him appears in "flashback", the Prince of Town, who is quite thin indeed - at least, until nobody claims the lifetime supply of fish sticks from the egg Strong Bad won. | |
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Loud Gulp | |
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Loud Gulp: The Cheat Commandos parodies it by Saying Sound Effects Out Loud. Homestar also says it in "Date Nite", when he learns that Marzipan is going on a date with The Cheat instead of him ("What're you trying to say? That you — Gulp. — want his bod?"). | |
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Parody Magic Spell | |
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Parody Magic Spell: Halloween Potion-Ma-Jig has Homestar gathering ingredients for a Halloween potion, including one of three possible incantations: | |
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Meaningful Name | |
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Meaningful Name: This is how a lot of the characters got their original names. Homestar Runner had no arms, is an athlete, and wears a star on his shirt. Strong Bad is mean, Strong Mad is frequently angry, and Strong Sad is constantly depressed. The Cheat was originally created to help Strong Bad, well... cheat. | |
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Punny Name | |
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Punny Name: They show up every now and then. For example, the protagonist of Peasant's Quest is Rather Dashing and the stealth expert of the Cheat Commandos is Silent Rip. | |
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Fake Band | |
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Fake Band: Limozeen, Taranchula, Cool Tapes, Sloshy, K.o.T. High School Marching Band, Kissy Boots, Fatty's Big Chance, Brainkrieg...this is one of their favorite jokes, actually. | |
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Extreme Omnivore | |
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Extreme Omnivore: The King of Town will eat extreme quantities of things like eggs, butter, rolls of toilet paper, and deodorant, but hates peas and "whatsit". Strong Mad will eat nails, rocks, computers and The Cheats. At one point, Strong Mad is actually seen eating bandwidth from a wire hooked to a group of computer towers. And it acted like helium, while actual helium had no effect on him when he tried it earlier. | |
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Grammar Nazi | |
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Grammar Nazi: Strong Bad often mocks the spelling mistakes and grammer of the emails he receives, despite making many spelling and grammatical errors of his own. | |
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Honest John's Dealership | |
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Honest John's Dealership: Bubs deliberately sells crap at his legal business front to save the good stuff for his black market, and even then half of the "legal" stuff he does is so blatantly illegal and/or anti-consumerist that his customers are expecting him to pull something shady. Senor Cardgage isn't much better, but it's hard to tell if it's on purpose. | |
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Funny Answering Machine | |
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Funny Answering Machine: Marzipan's Answering Machine is mostly about the funny calls she gets, but some of her answering machine messages can be pretty unusual, too. Some examples: | |
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Performance Anxiety | |
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Performance Anxiety: In the short "A Decemberween Pageant", Strong Sad gets the part of The First Decemberween in the titular pageant. He gets so nervous that he locks himself in the bathroom before his scene, and the rest of the cast are forced to improvise to extend the play. When Strong Sad finally does come on-stage, it turns out that The First Decemberween's entire part consists of walking on-stage and saying "What?" (or alternately, that Strong Sad's part was supposed to be larger, and no one in the audience noticed or cared that he messed it up). | |
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Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs | |
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Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: When Strong Bad critiques a particularly obscure character choice for a fan's Halloween costume in "Fan Costumes '09": "Alright, that is a) amazing, b) depressing, and c) amazingly depressing." In the interactive Halloween 'toon "The House That Gave Sucky Treats", Strong Bad comes to someone's house for trick-or-treat. If given an apple, he protests, "What are you, a dentist? Or a hippie? Or some kind of hippie dentist?" Strong Sad's interests include listening, books, and listening to books. And also arts, crafts, and arts b/w crafts. | |
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Clothes for Christmas Cringe | |
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Clothes for Christmas Cringe: Played with in the episode "Decemberween Short Shorts". The first short of the episode has Strong Bad writing a letter to "tube socks". He claims the socks will hear some hurtful things from him, cutting to a montage of his disappointment in getting them as gifts. He states that the socks shouldn't believe a word of it; he loves the socks but he has an image to keep up. A later short in the episode has Strong Sad starting to write a letter to "argyle socks". | |
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"Not Making This Up" Disclaimer | |
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"Not Making This Up" Disclaimer: On the main page, the ticker for the very long awaited Decemberween 2010 cartoon says "for real!" when moused over. | |
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Impossible Shadow Puppets | |
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Impossible Shadow Puppets: In "theme song", Strong Bad makes a "Trogdor" shadow that breathes fire. Wearing gloves without fingers. | |
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Quack Doctor | |
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Quack Doctor: In the toon "Bug in Mouth Disease", Homestar swallows a bug and goes into a panic over it. He eventually asks Bubs if he is a doctor, which Bubs says yes upon finding a card that says Dr. Bubs note really a card for VCR repair/fashion consultant. After examining Homestar, he tells him he doesn't have a pancreas before offering to sell him one. Homestar is not amused. | |
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Missing the Good Stuff | |
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Missing the Good Stuff: Zig-zagged in "Bug In Mouth Disease"; Strong Bad insists there's no way he's missing the "Who Shot Caleb" episode of Caleb Rentpayer, and we get a fade-out and -in to the empty couch. Turns out Strong Bad was still there, he'd just duct-taped his head to the TV. Then Homestar goes and spoils the ending of "Who Shot Caleb?" | |
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The Woobie | |
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The Woobie: Lil' Brudder is an in-universe example: a parody of this Trope with a hint of Glurge that Strong Bad created to drive others to tears. It works a bit too well. | |
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Arc Words | |
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Arc Words: "DNA evidence", which started as a mere Running Gag before being worked into an actual story. At least half the scenes where it was first mentioned still don't really make sense in context, though. | |
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Put on a Bus | |
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Put on a Bus: Happens to Crack Stuntman when he makes one too many frivolous demands on the producers, although apparently he eventually gets his job back. | |
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Business of Generic Importance | |
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Business of Generic Importance: Played with, as the main setting itself of the series is "Free Country, USA", and the locations in the series are just as generic. For a few examples, Homestar has a show called... ..."The Show", which seems to be a mix of a comedy talk show, game show, and interview program. In the Strong Bad Email titled "business trip", the setting takes place at the "Annual Symposium Conference Lecture Seminar Series". And finally, Homestar, Strong Bad, Pom Pom, and Bubs all work at a nondescript, no-name generic cubicle office. | |
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Straw Loser | |
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There's also Gene in the email "Hygiene", until Strong Bad's hygiene film takes an odd turn and has the Straw Loser played by Homestar get his life together and turn out successful while Strong Bad's Marty Stu Gene falls from his high pedestal. | |
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Cowboy BeBop at His Computer | |
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Cowboy BeBop at His Computer: In-universe. On multiple occasions, Crack Stuntman has referred to Gunhaver (the character he plays on "Cheat Commandos") with names such as "Gunshaver" and "Cheat Commander." | |
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Phrase Catcher | |
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Also Nebulon. Whenever the space alien appears, he's almost always told to go away, as no one likes his style, at which point he'll float away with a distinctive sound effect and a goofy frown on his face. | |
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Real Life Writes the Plot | |
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Real Life Writes the Plot: There's a bonus scene at the end of "Homestar Runner Goes for the Gold" where Strong Bad starts making the episode in Mario Paint, and gets as far as a one three-frame animation of Dijjery Doo waving when he realizes just how long it's going to take at this rate and decides to just go back to Flash animation. This really happened to the Brothers Chaps when they set out to make the episode. | |
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Gretzky Has the Ball | |
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Gretzky Has the Ball: The series was named for a friend of the Chaps getting confused about baseball. | |
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A Wild Rapper Appears! | |
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A Wild Rapper Appears!: Parodied with Peacey P, to the point that he's a guest star on one of his own albums. Lampshaded even further in "Rap Song". First: Second: | |
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Spill Stain Sabotage | |
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Spill Stain Sabotage: Strong Bad as Dangeresque considers this trick by spilling either really old coffee or nasty Chinese takeout on the case file he has to solve before he leaves his office so it'll be unreadable and wash his hands of responsibility. This gets him landed in prison instead. | |
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Later-Installment Weirdness | |
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Later-Installment Weirdness: In "Flash is Dead", the "Homestar Runner's Dating Profile" Easter egg has Homestar read the profile out loud. Had the toon been made during the site's height of activity, it almost certainly would have opened in a separate window, with the voiced version being reserved for the DVD release, not unlike similar Easter eggs in various Strong Bad Emails (most notably "english paper"). Mid-toon Easter Eggs became less common in later toons, with almost no post-hiatus toons having them, bar one throwback in the Flash release of sbemail parenting. | |
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Big Anime Eyes | |
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Big Anime Eyes: In "japanese cartoon", Strong Bad speculates about how he'd look if he were an anime character. Naturally, giant eyes are one of the first things he brings up. | |
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Potty Failure | |
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Potty Failure: Strong Sad has been hinted to wet the bed a number of times, mainly from Strong Bad. Also, "Halloween Potion-ma-jig" has "The Essence of Putting Strong Mad's Hand in Warm Water While He's Asleep. | |
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Rapid-Fire Comedy | |
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Rapid-Fire Comedy: Used very often, especially in self parodies of the original kids' book like this. | |
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Slice of Life | |
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Slice of Life: Surreality aside, this is the vibe of the site 90% of the time. The site's premiere series is a side character checking his email, and the Toons run the gamut from a Luau to Homestar swallowing a bug. The most significant things to happen in Free Country, USA occur in Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, much in the same vein as a Big Damn Movie. | |
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Her Code Name Was "Mary Sue" | |
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Her Code Name Was "Mary Sue": Dangeresque and the Powered By The Cheat cartoons are prominent examples. The definitive example, however, has to be Strong Sad's original character Twelve-Times-A-Day Man from the "fan fiction" Strong Bad Email. There's also Gene in the email "Hygiene", until Strong Bad's hygiene film takes an odd turn and has the Straw Loser played by Homestar get his life together and turn out successful while Strong Bad's Marty Stu Gene falls from his high pedestal. | |
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Portmanteau | |
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Portmanteau: The series is very, very fond of these, to the extent that it's practically a defining feature of the dialogue. As with other gags, there's a complete list on the wiki. | |
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Vague Age | |
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Vague Age: On the one hand, they have their own houses and some of them drink Cold Ones; on the other, they don't seem to have much choice about going to swimming lessons. In one email, Strong Sad is referred to as an "18-to-24-year-old", and in another the King of Town says he is in his 60s. Bubs and Coach Z are implied to be old men, but exactly how old isn't clear. | |
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Actually Pretty Funny | |
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Actually Pretty Funny: In this Career Day cartoon, Homestar makes a joke at the end asking what happens if Space Captainface goes poo in his suit. SCF/Strong Bad scolds him for not showing respect before laughing in earnest after thinking about the question at length. | |
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Straight Man | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_83b464fb | comment |
Not to mention that he's generally been the Straight Man in a series that doesn't often have much use for one, as the other characters went through Flanderization. | |
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin | |
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The one that's occasionally seen hanging around the King of Town's castle looks like a lavender kangaroo with elements of bug and Roswell Gray mixed in. Its stomach scales are also labeled with various functions (such as "sanitize", "puree" and "pots n pans"), presumably to control the strength of its fire breath, but the only one that's shown is the one labeled "instant death", which does Exactly What It Says on the Tin. | |
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Inherently Funny Words | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_8426d2ac | comment |
Inherently Funny Words: The cartoons' gratuitous misuse of "twice" seems to stem from this. Really anything Coach Z says is an example of this. One toon focuses entirely on his inability to say the word "job". | |
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Alternate Universe | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_8430699a | comment |
Alternate Universe: Several, each with its own version of the cast. Many of the universes appeared in Strong Bad Email #150, aptly titled "alternate universe". | |
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Logging onto the Fourth Wall | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_850d901 | comment |
Logging On To The Fourth Wall: Something.com and Homestarrunner.net from First Time Here? are both real websites (the latter just redirects to the Homestar Runner Wiki). Thoraxcorp.com from one of the fortune cookies actually exists. It's even made by the Bros. Chaps. "3uSyK2RdlUY" and "_Z-C8NU3SVM" from Sbemails "shapeshifter" and "videography" respectively are both.YouTube hashes. Virtualpizz.biz from the Sbemail "pizza joint" is an actual website. However, clicking the join now button just leads to the e-mail in question. "The Coolest Stuff Ever" from the Sbemail "credit card" was at one point a real website, but the domain is now parked. | |
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Prank Call | |
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Prank Call: Strong Bad repeatedly prank calls Marzipan on her answering machine in, what else, Marzipan's Answering Machine. | |
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Creepy Crossdresser | |
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Creepy Crossdresser: Strong Bad dressed up as a woman for Halloween two years in a row. Sadly for him, this resulted in the King of Town making fun of him. | |
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Bait-and-Switch | |
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Bait-and-Switch: Done in "Strong Bad Sings". In "Trogday 08": At the end of her character video, Marzipan says that she's "off to the chinchilla protest." Given her personality, you'd assume she's protesting mistreatment of chinchillas, but she then holds up a sign reading "Chinchillas OUT!! (of my basement)". | |
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Signing-Off Catchphrase | |
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Signing-Off Catchphrase: In-universe, Homestar Runner says at the end of every episode of his show "The Show", "CHANT! WORDS! TOGETHER!" | |
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Surreal Humor | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_87d7e9fa | comment |
Surreal Humor: Huge doses of it. In fact, this is all Sweet Cuppin' Cakes is. Especially in the DVD-exclusive content, this being a prime example, being about the Brothers Chaps making a few surreal exaggerations of a few lines from the early shorts. | |
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What the Hell Is That Accent? | |
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What the Hell Is That Accent?: Played for laughs—Bubs and Coach Z speak in such severe exaggerations of American Accents that it's no longer clear which ones they're based on. | |
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Lazy Alias | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_894f9af7 | comment |
Lazy Alias: In the Strong Bad Email "Secret Identity", Strong Bad discusses various aliases he goes under starting with Tip Tappers. An Easter Egg reveals some of the other cast to also have some lazy aliases that the audience is easily able look at and figure out who is who. Strong Bad chooses some pretty outlandish names for his personas when prank-calling Marizpan, such as Professor Tor Coolguy, Constable Anybody, and Dean Prankcaller. They're usually thematically linked to the nature of the prank. When Strong Bad gives Homestar a lesson in prank-calling, he fails even in the minimal alias requirements needed to prank-call someone. In his first attempt, he gives his own name, then he uses Strong Bad's name for the second attempt, and the name he finally settles on, "Sugarface", is even less realistic than the ones Strong Bad usually chooses. | |
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Villain Protagonist | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_898ff050 | comment |
Villain Protagonist: Strong Bad, although his status as a villain is mainly in his head. If you disregard his periodic abuse of people, especially The Cheat and Strong Sad, anyway. | |
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Spell My Name with an S | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_89a17726 | comment |
Spell My Name With An S: The character is named Stinkoman, but his anime series is called "Stinko Man K 20X6". And although the character's name is usually spelled "Coach Z", it was originally intended to be "Coach Zee". | |
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JuxtaposedStore | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_89f73163 | comment |
Juxtaposed Store: Bubs' Concession Stand sells a lot more than just food. | |
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Desires Prison Life | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_89fab6b | comment |
Desires Prison Life: In the "Blubb-O's Commercial" short, Coach Z (who is usually depicted living in the locker room of a gym) makes aggressive comments toward kids while dressed as the Blubb-O's mascot in a bid to get arrested for this reason. | |
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Cool Car | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_8a295a46 | comment |
Cool Car: In his contribution to the Halloween story, Bubs describes a cool car the Goblin owns: a pimped-out AMC Gremlin that includes, among other things, a flux capacitor. The same car appears in later cartoons and is decidedly less cool. And decidedly less functional. Shark Mobile! Can it work? Don't forget the chainsaw car! (Which, sadly, has only ever appeared in the form of a toy prize from a box of cereal.) | |
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Fire and Brimstone Hell | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_8acbc572 | comment |
Fire and Brimstone Hell: Seen in the Easter egg from "Parsnips A-Plenty", where Sir Strong Bad supposedly winds up after falling off the cliff. | |
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Cartoon Whale | |
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Cartoon Whale: There's the Drive-Thru Whale, mascot of the Blubb-O's fast food chain, who resembles a blue sperm whale with large, flat teeth. | |
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Stalker with a Crush | |
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Stalker with a Crush: Coach Z, towards Marzipan. It's hinted at but seldom explored in the cartoons, though in this Marzipan's Answering Machine: It's also implied that she's not the only one to have been creeped out by him... invoked In Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, it gets turned up to eleven and then some. | |
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Crunchtastic | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_8b69997a | comment |
Crunchtastic: Mocked on many occasions, most notably on the sbemail "Dictionary", which is overflowing with made-up words. | |
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Unwinnable Joke Game | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_8c58b9bb | comment |
Unwinnable Joke Game: Super Kingio Bros is a version of Super Mario Bros. with the King of Town replacing Mario. Unfortunately, he can't jump high enough to pass the first Goomba, so it's probably just as well that you don't actually get the three lives shown. | |
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Bears Are Bad News | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_8d718b9e | comment |
Bears Are Bad News: The Bear Holding A Shark combines this trope with Threatening Shark, scaring the crap out of the Cheat despite just being a cardboard cut out. | |
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Fantasy Twist | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_8dc1206 | comment |
Fantasy Twist: Not that the Homestar Runner 'verse is mundane, but it doesn't stop Strong Bad from imagining it being more fantastic. | |
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Finger in the Mail | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_8e0ceaf5 | comment |
Finger in the Mail: Parodied when Strong Bad's old computers kidnap his Lappy, they send him her "toe" (a keyboard key) through the mail. | |
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Minimalist Cast | |
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Minimalist Cast: Usually the only characters to appear in Homestar Runner are the main characters, though there are several alternate universes. | |
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Revisiting the Roots | |
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Revisiting the Roots: For the short "Hremail 7" (which retcons the origins of the Strong Bad Emails), the characters reverted back to older models (and for some of them, older voices), and the dialogue features a bunch of catch phrases or running gags that hadn't been used in years. | |
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Sickeningly Sweet | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_8ee72ccd | comment |
Sickeningly Sweet: "Crystal Fortress", a song that tells Strong Bad that people love him and that he denies it. He even describes the song as "vomit-inducing". | |
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Knife-Throwing Act | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_8ee823b6 | comment |
Knife-Throwing Act: The old theme song video ("old" as in "replaced within a year of launch at the Turn of the Millennium") has Strong Bad as the knife thrower and Strong Sad as the (unwilling) target. It's obvious that Strong Bad is trying to hit Strong Sad, but the camera cuts away before the knife hits. | |
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Cargo Ship | |
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Cargo Ship: invoked In-universe, Strong Sad wishes he had a date with a wall in "Cool Tapes". Homestar encourages it and wishes him luck. | |
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Overly Long Name | |
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Overly Long Name: Fhqwhgadshgnsdhjsdbkhsdabkfabkveybvf. It has a string of sixteen consonants in a row. Strong Bad manages to pronounce it just fine, but quickly shortens it to "Fhqwhgads" because in the time it took him to say that, he could have made a painting of a guy with a big knife...which he does at the end of the email. | |
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Saying Sound Effects Out Loud | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_9014df71 | comment |
The Cheat Commandos parodies it by Saying Sound Effects Out Loud. | |
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Art Shift | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_912b24c4 | comment |
Art Shift: Several different versions of the characters, including Old Timey, 20X6 Animesque, Powered By The Cheat, and Puppet stuff. | |
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In-Character Let's Play | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_9258beab | comment |
In-Character Let's Play: The Halloween Waggle has two Videletrix employees play the Atari game, Haunted House. | |
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The Speechless | |
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The Speechless: The Poopsmith. Subverted, when he broke his vow of silence for Strong Bad's 200th email and was voiced by John Linnell of They Might Be Giants fame. | |
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Greatest Hits Album | |
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Greatest Hits DVD: "Sbemails' 50 Greatest Hits", which contained both well-known emails like "dragon" and "fan club", and other assorted hidden gems, including 5 bonus emails (not new ones, but already existing emails added as bonuses). It was made to resemble an infomercial mocking less popular sbemails; among other things, it claimed to cut through "caked on tape-leg". The DVD is no longer purchasable, which is unfortunate, as it was the only way to get creators' commentary for certain emails. | |
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Propeller Hat of Whimsy | |
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Propeller Hat of Whimsy: The titular character wears a baseball cap with a propeller on it, which he refers to as a "buzzer". He's goofy, childish, and not too bright in personality. | |
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Deadly Prank | |
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Deadly Prank: In I Killed Pom-Pom!, Strong Bad tricks Homestar into thinking he killed Pom-Pom. Unfortunately, he decides to "Fight murder with murder"... | |
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Loads and Loads of Loading | |
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Loads and Loads of Loading: Depending on your internet connection, especially true back in the days of dial-up. Taken quite literally in this short. | |
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Riddle for the Ages | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_96a33f11 | comment |
Riddle for the Ages: There are a number of mysteries about the Homestar Runner universe which the creators have said will likely never be given a serious answer. "How does Strong Bad type with boxing gloves on?" "What do the characters' parents look like?" Often thought to be an example by the fans is the question "What does Strong Bad look like without his mask?" However, this one actually has been answered: That's not a mask- it's his face! | |
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Chirping Crickets | |
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Chirping Crickets: A running gag in the Puppet Stuff shorts, used to represent both Lame Pun Reaction and Dead Air. | |
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Elective Mute | |
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Elective Mute: The Poopsmith, who has taken a vow of silence (for no explained reason). | |
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Throw the Dog a Bone | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_98576799 | comment |
Throw the Dog a Bone: Subverted in the 2009 Halloween toon. Strong Sad, upset at not being invited to any Halloween parties, turns around to discover all of his friends standing behind him to throw him a surprise party. Or so it seems. Turns out that his "friends" are actually a large cardboard prop, and their cheering is provided by a tape recorder. The whole thing was set up by Strong Sad himself to make himself seem more popular to the viewers. | |
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Excrement Statement | |
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Excrement Statement: Strong Bad recalls being annoyed by Strong Sad's imaginary friend Scotty Titi. He tried to oust him in several ways; in one, he tried to "Titi. On Scotty Titi." | |
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Money, Dear Boy | |
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Money, Dear Boy: In-Universe, this is the reason Peacey P agrees to be a guest rapper on Taranchula's song "Trudgemank". | |
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Luck-Based Mission | |
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Luck-Based Mission: The Cheat's Smoking Challenge on the "Strong Bad's Message BORED", wherein The Cheat must collect nicotine gum pieces. Catch is, the gum pieces spawn randomly and despawn rather quickly, and there is absolutely no checking if the spawning pattern is possible, making the game a gamble with the Random Number God. | |
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Poke the Poodle | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_991af300 | comment |
Poke the Poodle: Strong Badman's "evil schemes" turn out to be this sort, to Strong Bad's disappointment. Strong Bad catches himself heading down this path in the email "Your Edge". | |
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Character Blog | |
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Character Blog: Strong Bad has an official Twitter account in real life. It can be found here. | |
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Villains Out Shopping | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_9ae0ead1 | comment |
Villains Out Shopping: One Cheat Commandos episode had the Commandos trying to stop the Blue Lasers from shopping at the supermarket, believing their activities were cover for some nefarious scheme, like trying to "make it snow at the beach or something". However, it turned out that the Blue Lasers truly were just buying groceries. Then, it's subverted because the latest computer analysis pointed to mold in the showers as the reason the Cheat Commandos remained uncrushed. | |
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Repeated Rehearsal Failure | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_9b030fac | comment |
Repeated Rehearsal Failure: In "Fluffy Puff Commercial", Homestar tries to record a testimonial commercial for Fluffy Puff Marshmallows. Being The Ditz, he messes up a different way every single take (except for the take where he delivers his lines perfectly, but a bird poops on his head, ruining the take). Eventually, Homestar ends up improvising by shouting, "I like marshmallows!" and the rest of the presumed commercial starts. "First Time Here?" reuses the premise, but this time, Homestar's recording an intro video for first-time visitors to his website. His repeated flubs get even more ridiculous—until Strong Bad gets fed up, shoves Homestar away from the camera, and just records the intro himself. | |
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I Can't Believe It's Not Heroin! | |
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I Can't Believe It's Not Heroin!: "Characters from Yonder Website" ends with most of the cast stoned out of their minds from... drinking expired juice. The label on it even has a list of side-effects such as drowsiness, euphoria and (hallucinating that you're starring in an) unbelievably soothing children's programming. | |
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Word-Salad Humor | |
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Word-Salad Humor: Homsar and, more recently, Senor Cardgage (although his dialog is a mix of this and malapropisms). | |
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Unfortunate Search Results | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_9c1e591e | comment |
Unfortunate Search Results: In "Bug in Mouth Disease," Strong Bad pretends that all of Strong Sad's underwear — including his favorite, "The Blue Ones" — have somehow wound up for sale on an Internet auction. Strong Sad tries to find the auction so he can buy them back, and even does an image search for "the blue ones," which turns up "nothing. Or... nothing pleasant, anyway." In "Marzipan's Answering Machine 17," the King of Town was searching for "Marzipan Glazed Ham," and got some "weird results" that lead him to wonder if Marzipan was his daughter.note This is an allusion to an idea that the creators toyed with early in the series' existence. It's mentioned on the Old Characters Page, but is no longer considered canon. | |
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Kill It with Fire | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_9c1f758a | comment |
Kill It with Fire: Trogdor the Burninator, as in he kills everything else with fire. | |
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A Day in the Limelight | |
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A Day in the Limelight: After a fake-out in the Strong Bad Email episode "senior prom", the King of Town gets an entire toon dedicated to him and his servants in "The King Of Town's Very Own Quite Popular Cartoon Show". | |
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Continuity Nod | |
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Continuity Nod: Mainly averted but some of the Halloween cartoons have these. At the end of the 2000 toon "Homestarloween Party", Marzipan tells Strong Sad he can't come to next year's Halloween Party. Strong Sad shows up with the cast at the end of the following year's toon, "The House That Gave Sucky Treats", where Marzipan compliments his costume and adds that he wasn't invited. The house Coach Z and Bubs trick-or-treat at in "3 Times Halloween Funjob" is the same one all the main characters go to in "The House That Gave Sucky Treats". Bubs even says, "I rememeber this house from a couple of years ago." | |
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This Is Gonna Suck | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_9dfb8296 | comment |
This Is Gonna Suck: Reynold in "Shopping for Danger" after he falls backward onto the rocket pack he's wearing | |
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Fridge Logic | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_9dfd7154 | comment |
This appears to be the modus operandi of the Arrow'd Guy from Teen Girl Squad. He enjoys killing the girls for no reason whatsoever and has no reason for his actions. (Fridge Logic suggests he might be a very angry Author Avatar of Strong Bad) | |
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Most Definitely Not a Villain | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_9e08b900 | comment |
Most Definitely Not a Villain: Strong Mad's attempt at impersonating Strong Bad in the "Jumping Jacks" toon involves putting a red bag on his head and proclaiming "I'm Strong Bad!" over and over. | |
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Long Pants | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_9eec827b | comment |
Long Pants: Homestar is the trope namer. Lampshaded in a Sbemail. We do eventually learn that he is wearing shoes, at least, and that they're way more detailed in a closeup. And pretty badly worn out. | |
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Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_9fe35833 | comment |
Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Strong Bad, as evident in this interview in which he warns the interviewer not to talk about his mother. | |
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The Dog Was the Mastermind | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_a08199ec | comment |
The Dog Was the Mastermind: Appears in the "DNA Evidence" arc. After being Arc Words in a number of otherwise unrelated shorts, we get a story about a vial of green DNA Evidence that keeps changing hands and getting stolen. Turns out that it was from Strong Sad, who doesn't want anyone to find out if he's part-elephant. | |
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Overly Long Gag | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_a188ac4b | comment |
Overly Long Gag: The old-timey cartoon "Sickly Sam's Big Outing" ends with Sickly Sam eating Strong Bad. | |
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Merchandise-Driven | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_a19cce82 | comment |
Merchandise-Driven: Cheat Commandos...sort of, as there actually isn't much real CC merchandise, but they're meant to be this way as a spoof of G.I. Joe. | |
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My God, What Have I Done? | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_a1b141f4 | comment |
My God, What Have I Done?: An Easter Egg in the 2010 Decemberween cartoon spoofs this in their introduction of a new drink, the Hot Pooey. The tagline: "Dear god, what have we done?" | |
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Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_a236dd4c | comment |
Half-Dressed Vaguely-Humanoid-Being: Lampshaded endlessly, especially being the trope namer for Long Pants. | |
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Jail Bake | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_a3556278 | comment |
Jail Bake: Parodied in "Strong Bad is in Jail", where Strong Mad bakes a cake with a jackhammer in it for Strong Bad and The Cheat. The jackhammer is very obviously sticking out of the cake. | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_a4c37cbe | comment |
Mood Whiplash: On Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits, the song "Let's Get Started On All Those Awesome Things I Suggested", a fairly calm love ballad, abruptly ends at the beginning of the first chorus and transitions to "Moving Very Slowly", the heaviest track on the album. | |
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Authority in Name Only | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_a5398aba | comment |
Authority in Name Only: The King of Town was the former Trope Namer. Despite apparently being the king, living in a castle and having both a Blacksmith and a Poopsmith under his command, pretty much nobody else in Free Country USA gives him the time of day, least of all Strong Bad. This changes up a bit in Episode 2 the SBCG4AP; he actually shows some authority there, implementing and enforcing a tax on Strong Bad's email usage, although it's all part of a ploy to goad Strong Bad into to ousting him from power, as he's tired the responsibilities that come with said authority. | |
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Fingerless Hands | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_a5949dfd | comment |
Fingerless Hands: Strong Bad (who has boxing gloves for hands), Pom Pom, Bubs, and The Cheat. Coach Z counts as well, as his hands are mitten-like. Lampshaded and played for laughs in Strong Bad's case with the emails asking how he types with boxing gloves on. | |
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As Himself | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_a5e0c01 | comment |
"The King of Town" and "In Search of the Yello Dello" have DVD Commentary tracks by the characters, implying that the events are fictional and that they were acting (albeit As Themselves.) | |
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1.0 | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_a5e0c01 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_a68421bb | type |
Animated Adaptation | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_a68421bb | comment |
Animated Adaptation: Bizarrely enough, but yes. "Strongest Man in the World" and "Where My Hat Is At?" started as physical book and a digital book respectively. They got more detailed and more sarcastic. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_a68421bb | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_a73cfb7f | type |
Animate Inanimate Object | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_a73cfb7f | comment |
Animate Inanimate Object: The series is not averse to these. Most notable instances would be The Paper, a sentient printer floating off the top of the screen, usually just to print "click here to e-mail Strong Bad" but occasionally capable of conversing with Strong Bad directly if the need arises, and Strong Bad's various computers, which have personalities of their own and similarly can talk to Strong Bad if the situation warrants it; for the Tandy and Compy, this is mostly post-mortem, but the Lappy has a proper voice synthesis program and directly converses with Strong Bad semi-frequently. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_a73cfb7f | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_a7beb2c5 | type |
Non-Human Head | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_a7beb2c5 | comment |
Non-Human Head: 'Keyboard Strong Bad' is a version of Strong Bad who has a... keyboard for a head. He appears in the Show Within a Show cartoon "Sweet Cuppin' Cakes"; music plays from the keyboard when he gets angry. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_a7beb2c5 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_a806691d | type |
Casanova Wannabe | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_a806691d | comment |
Casanova Wannabe: Strong Bad insists he's really popular with the ladies, but there has been no evidence in-universe that actually supports this assertion, and plenty that contradicts it. Homestar Runner is also one, though to his credit he has got the only woman around. Some of the time. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_a806691d | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_a8d644f6 | type |
Bizarre Beverage Use | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_a8d644f6 | comment |
Bizarre Beverage Use: Not directly shown, but discussed in the short "hremail 7". Homestar mentions that "[A]s a national spokesmodel for the Ethical Advancement of Melonade, I am contractually unable to drink, talk about, or bathe in any other liquid!" Then at the end, Homestar walks off to take a bath, singing to himself, "A-gonna take a bath in some Melonade... oh it kinda stings my skin..." | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_a8d644f6 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_a8d6bd1f | type |
Reality-Breaking Paradox | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_a8d6bd1f | comment |
Reality-Breaking Paradox: Don't point a Fish-Eye Lens at a real fish's eye. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_a8d6bd1f | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_a8f3e2f6 | type |
Worst. Whatever. Ever! | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_a8f3e2f6 | comment |
Worst. Whatever. Ever!: Strong Bad is heard randomly saying this in the Trogdor game when he loses a level. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_a8f3e2f6 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_a9dc5293 | type |
Development Hell | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_a9dc5293 | comment |
Development Hell: In-universe: Dangeresque 3: The Criminal Projective, was in production for 4 1/2 years before finally being released in SBCG4AP Episode 4. | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_a9dc5293 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_a9dc5293 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_aa368af0 | type |
Two Scenes, One Dialogue | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_aa368af0 | comment |
Two Scenes, One Dialogue: The opening scene in "Date Nite". Hilariously, the final word exchange somehow manages to swap The Cheat (who Strong Bad was yelling at) and Homestar (who was yelling at Marzipan), resulting in Homestar and Strong Bad yelling at each other. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_aa368af0 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_aa8d0ef0 | type |
Spell My Name with a "The" | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_aa8d0ef0 | comment |
Spell My Name with a "The": The Cheat, The King of Town, The Poopsmith, etc. Even Homestar started off being called "The Homestar Runner", and his Old-Timey counterpart is still called that. | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_aa8d0ef0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_aa8d0ef0 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_aaa1fa9 | type |
Captain Space, Defender of Earth! | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_aaa1fa9 | comment |
Captain Space, Defender of Earth!: Strong Badia's space program has Space Captainface. Pretender of the Galaxy. | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_aaa1fa9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_aaa1fa9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_aaa1fa9 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_ab1064b3 | type |
Modesty Towel | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_ab1064b3 | comment |
Modesty Towel: Subverted, while Coach Z is talking to Homestar about girls, an alien is shown in the background showering, while wearing a modesty towel... and then the towel falls down to reveal the alien's butt. | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_ab1064b3 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_ab1064b3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_ab1064b3 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_ab2e5fde | type |
Fun with Flushing | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_ab2e5fde | comment |
Fun with Flushing: In one email toon, Bubs turns into a large Godzilla-like monster after accidentally flushing himself down the toilet while shaving. Strong Bad tries to do this himself at the end. | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_ab2e5fde | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_ab2e5fde | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_ad362cc1 | type |
Dead Air | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_ad362cc1 | comment |
Dead Air: When Clark from sloshy records a backing track on Marzipan's Answering Machine #17.2, he points out that there's "gonna be a lot of Dead Air". | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_ad362cc1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_ad362cc1 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_ad641426 | type |
Trademark Favorite Food | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_ad641426 | comment |
Trademark Favorite Food: Marshmallows, especially of the Fluffy Puff variety, even though Marshie is creepy as sin. There's also Melonade, contractually speaking. | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_ad641426 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_ad641426 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_adfd3165 | type |
For the Evulz | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_adfd3165 | comment |
For the Evulz: This appears to be the modus operandi of the Arrow'd Guy from Teen Girl Squad. He enjoys killing the girls for no reason whatsoever and has no reason for his actions. (Fridge Logic suggests he might be a very angry Author Avatar of Strong Bad) | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_adfd3165 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_adfd3165 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_ae0063fa | type |
Stylistic Self-Parody | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_ae0063fa | comment |
Stylistic Self-Parody: Characters usually comment on missing anatomy, usually arms. | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_ae0063fa | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_ae0063fa | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_af616e40 | type |
Accidental Misnaming | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_af616e40 | comment |
Accidental Misnaming: Senor Cardgage routinely addresses other characters with incorrect (female) names. | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_af616e40 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_af616e40 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_af616e40 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_afd181c7 | type |
Xtreme Kool Letterz | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_afd181c7 | comment |
Xtreme Kool Letterz: Parodied with such uses as "awexome", "Videlectrix Kidx" and "Xeriouxly Forxe" | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_afd181c7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_afd181c7 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_aff1ee2e | type |
Small Reference Pools | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_aff1ee2e | comment |
Small Reference Pools: Averted, especially during the Halloween specials. They will come up with some of the most bizarrely obscure characters and mascots from decades ago. How many people honestly could recognize Marzipan's "log lady" costume at the first glance? Lampshaded on multiple occasions, with the other characters frequently unable to identify what their friends are dressed as. | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_aff1ee2e | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_aff1ee2e | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_affbcbb | type |
Cool Helmet | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_affbcbb | comment |
Cool Helmet: Various styles are worn by "The Broternal Order of Different Helmets," introduced in "Ever and More." | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_affbcbb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_affbcbb | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_b067ddfe | type |
Animated Music Video | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_b067ddfe | comment |
Animated Music Video: Including one (Experimental Film) with They Might Be Giants. | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_b067ddfe | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_b067ddfe | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_b067ddfe | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_b0a5540d | type |
Era-Specific Personality | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_b0a5540d | comment |
Era-Specific Personality: The 1936 (and Romans), storybook, early 2000s and 20X6 characters. | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_b0a5540d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_b0a5540d | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_b0fd0c24 | type |
Your Answer to Everything | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_b0fd0c24 | comment |
Your Answer to Everything: Coach Z's advice to Homestar is always "It's like a great sports play. You can't just rush into the score zone." Lampshaded by Homestar in "The Best Decemberween Ever" when he tells Coach Z that's his answer to everything. | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_b0fd0c24 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_b0fd0c24 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_b1346878 | type |
Fate Worse than Death | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_b1346878 | comment |
In Doomy Tales of the Macabre, Strong Sad takes revenge on the entire cast for not inviting him to their Halloween party, by writing a tale in which every character but himself either dies horribly or faces some other horrible fate. | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_b1346878 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_b1346878 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_b3198876 | type |
Simpleton Voice | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_b3198876 | comment |
Simpleton Voice: Strong Mad and Homsar are an extreme version of this. Homestar is slightly less extreme. | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_b3198876 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_b3198876 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_b3335725 | type |
Mascot Villain | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_b3335725 | comment |
Mascot Villain: It's easy to forget that Strong Bad was supposed to be a villain (albeit not a very good one) thanks to practically usurping the main character role from the character the site is named after. | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_b3335725 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_b3335725 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_b368e2f4 | type |
Holiday Ceasefire | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_b368e2f4 | comment |
Holiday Ceasefire: In the Cheat Commandos' cartoon "Let us give TANKS!", the Cheat Commandos invite Blue Laser over for Thanksgiving. | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_b368e2f4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_b368e2f4 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_b43a129e | type |
Bob Ross Rib | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_b43a129e | comment |
Bob Ross Rib: An Easter Egg in the Toons menu shows a clip of Marzipan painting a picture while dressed up as Bob Ross, complete with afro wig and goatee. | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_b43a129e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_b43a129e | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_b53077b3 | type |
Take That! | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_b53077b3 | comment |
Take That!: Strong Bad has poked fun at both Memetic Mutations (here's his take on the Trogdor phenomenon) and the darker side of fandom. Funnily enough, the fans haven't been offended. This is probably because it's Strong Bad, who's supposed to be a jerk about these things, and because it's really funny. While the Brothers Chaps are usually more quiet about their political views, the Strong Bad Email "environment" as well as their Earth Day toon made it clear that they don't particularly care for the environmentalist movement. The SBEmail "independent" pokes fun at Le Film Artistique, but also mocks pretentious "indie" movies where, according to Strong Bad, the producer will "spend a 30 million dollar budget, trying as hard as he can to make it look like he only spent a few hundred thousand."note Also portrayed as Hypocritical Humor, as Strong Bad has no problems with making indie films of his own: see the Dangeresque trilogy. | |
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1.0 | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_b53077b3 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_b58b4e3c | type |
Too Dumb to Live | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_b58b4e3c | comment |
The King of Town's ditziness and Too Dumb to Live nature? He has a panic attack when he believes Marzipan might really be the child he forgot he had and screws with his genetics to the point he'd be dead if not for Negative Continuity. | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_b58b4e3c | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_b5b4b077 | type |
The Ace | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_b5b4b077 | comment |
The Ace: Pom-Pom. He was once named Prom King at a dance he wasn't even attending, has beaten up Strong Bad, is a master ninja, and knows all the cute girls' phone numbers. | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_b5b4b077 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_b5b4b077 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_b6cebad3 | type |
Double Standard | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_b6cebad3 | comment |
Double Standard: Homestar and Marzipan's relationship is a curious example of this at work. For all that Marzipan gets offended and dumps Homestar on a weekly basis, other evidence would suggest that he's actually a much better boyfriend than she is a girlfriend; Homestar appears to actually pay attention to her when he isn't inadvertently insulting her in a half-aware fit of ditziness, while Marzipan is just about aware that Homestar is, in fact, rather dim. He does enjoy kicking her shins under the table and denying he's the one who does it. | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_b6cebad3 | featureApplicability |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_b6cebad3 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_b707726f | type |
Hypocritical Humor | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_b707726f | comment |
Hypocritical Humor: In April Fools 2014, while recording a new startup theme to replace the one from his Windows 98 theme that was recorded with his old voice acting, he shouted, "Why are you still using Windows 98!? What is wrong with you?! Stop buying from thrift stores, man!" in spite of the fact that he has history of buying outdated computers. Not to mention the fact that the computer he used to record the startup sound is running on Windows 98. | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_b707726f | featureApplicability |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_b707726f | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_b81d4e9d | type |
Dramatic Ellipsis | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_b81d4e9d | comment |
Dramatic Ellipsis: Spelled out by Stinkoman as "Dot dot dot!" | |
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| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_b9117b12 | type |
It's the Best Whatever, Ever! | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_b9117b12 | comment |
It's the Best Whatever, Ever!: Strong Bad is heard randomly saying this in a hushed tone in the Trogdor game when he wins a level. | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_b9117b12 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_b9561236 | type |
A Good Name for a Rock Band | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_b9561236 | comment |
A Good Name for a Rock Band: The appropriately-titled Strong Bad Email "band names", in which Strong Bad explains how to pick a good one. Two in-world bands, Limozeen and Taranchula, got their names in this email. When Homestar writes Cool Tapes on Marzipan's wall she is at first upset, but then decides she likes it and makes it the name for her band. According to the commentary for Experimental Film, Strong Bad thinks "Real Smooth Moves" is the best band name ever. In the twelfth issue of Teen Girl Squad, What's Her Face tells two boys that she likes music and cloth, in a failed attempt to get a Valentine from them. In response, the two boys say that "she likes cloth", which they think is a good band name. In "underlings", Strong Bad suggests he'd watch TV shows called "Dart-Mouth" and "Stink's Reach". | |
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Parodic Table of the Elements | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_bac258ae | comment |
Parodic Table of the Elements: The Periodic Table of Candy Elements. | |
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Tyrant Takes the Helm | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_bbe740e2 | comment |
Tyrant Takes the Helm: Played with in the Cheat Commandos toon 2 Part Episode, where Admiral Flashfight shows up to take over command of the Cheat Commandos from Gunhaver. Unlike your typical Tyrant arc, Admiral Flashfight actually makes the Cheat Commandos effective (the very first thing he does is arrest Blue Laser, who at the time had been invited over to play video games), but since the Commandos are used to goofing off (and he summarily fired Gunhaver, Silent Rip, and Crackotage) they chafe under his leadership. | |
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Precision F-Strike | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_bc00493f | comment |
Precision F-Strike: That is some [BLEEP] up [BLEEP], man! It's obviously bleeped out to keep the family friendly appeal, but...damn! | |
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Berserk Button | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_bc74ef27 | comment |
Berserk Button: It's probably not a good idea to question Homestar about his apparent lack of pants. Also, don't hurt The Cheat whenever Strong Mad is around, as Strong Bad learned the hard way in the Strong Bad Email #23 "Little Animal". This even applies to hurting people clearly disguised as The Cheat, as evidenced in "do-over." Pronounce pseudonym as "pseudo-name" in front of Strong Sad. I dare you. In "A Folky Tale" Strong Sad tells a long-winded tall tale in order to get out of doing Coach Z's rope-climbing exercise: | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_bc74ef27 | |
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Fictional Flag | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_bc9ddc86 | comment |
Fictional Flag: The flag for the country of Strong Badia — really just a barren patch of dirt behind a fence — consists of white for said fence, brown for said dirt, and red for Strong Bad himself. Its coat of arms is a tire (one of Strong Badia's few "residents"), housing a snake holding a big knife for in-universe Rule of Cool. | |
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Official Cosplay Gear | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_bdf3977a | comment |
Official Cosplay Gear: Parodied in "Costume Commercial" | |
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Mind Screw | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_bef696dd | comment |
Mind Screw: An attempted invoking with Sbemaliarized Entertainment. ("Uhhh, can you say 'mindblow?'") The ending of this toon. One of Marzipan's answering machine messages: "Please leave me a message and I'll leave you with this thought: is a penguin a bird or a duck?" | |
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Discredited Meme | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_bf6da1b1 | comment |
Discredited Meme: Invoked by Strong Bad, who complains in "Trogday '08" that the internet ruined Trogdor, along with "zombies, pirates, ninjas, and Strong Bad!" | |
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Better than a Bare Bulb | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_c01027a6 | comment |
Better than a Bare Bulb: Some of the weirder monents have characters questioning them, but rarely with explanation. | |
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What Do You Mean, It's for Kids? | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_c104b27e | comment |
What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: An in-universe example occurs in "The Homestar Runner Enters the Spooky Woods" when Homestar encounters a decomposing raccoon carcass being carried around by pigeons. Narrator Strong Bad seems taken aback by this and emphasizes that the story is for children. | |
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Soda-Candy 'Splosion | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_c1283c | comment |
Soda-Candy 'Splosion: "The House That Gave Sucky Treats" has Pop Rocks as an option to give to The Cheat and Strong Mad for their trick-or-treat candy. Doing so will cause The Cheat to eat them and drink a soda, leading to his head exploding. Giving actual rocks to them will have Strong Mad eat them, along with eating half a can of soda... and The Cheat's head will still explode. | |
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Character Title | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_c23525d4 | comment |
Character Title: Although funnily enough, despite Homestar being the character whose name's in the title, Strong Bad's more often the star of the show. | |
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Show Within a Show | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_c2393191 | comment |
Show Within a Show: Quite a few, including Sweet Cuppin' Cakes, Limozeen—But They're In Space!, and Stinko Man K 20X6. Teen Girl Squad started out as one of these before it became a feature of its own, as did Cheat Commandos. | |
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Kids' Meal Toy | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_c27fb069 | comment |
Kids' Meal Toy: invoked In "Drive Thru," Strong Bad orders a "crappy toy meal" for The Cheat at the whale-shaped drive-through restaurant speaker (despite there not being any restaurant). Being told that he can only get a brown crappy toy instead of a blue one with his meal causes The Cheat to burst into tears. | |
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Ribcage Stomach | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_c299ce05 | comment |
Ribcage Stomach: Played straight in Teen Girl Squad 6 (where they jump into a lion's mouth) and Sickly Sam's Big Outing (where Old Timey Strong Bad gets eaten by Sickly Sam); averted in the Stinkoman Thanksgiving special (where Stinkoman and One-Up get sucked into Pan Pan's gullet so One-Up could teach Stinkoman how to give thanks). | |
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No Inner Fourth Wall | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_c58e6eb4 | comment |
No Inner Fourth Wall: There are numerous crossover gags involving the main cast and characters from the Show Within a Shows. The best example is probably 8-Bit Is Enough, which features Strong Bad hopping in and out of many in-universe video games, as well as several characters from said games showing up in Free Country USA. | |
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Offscreen Moment of Awesome | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_c5b47b36 | comment |
Offscreen Moment of Awesome: In Weclome Back (sic), Strong Bad states he recorded his very first, very awesome mid-air SBemail check. Unfortunately, he pulled the old mash-Stop-when-you-think-you're-mashing-Record-and-mash-Record-when-you-think-you're-mashing-Stop routine. | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_c5b47b36 | |
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Strong Family Resemblance | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_c5fe6c81 | comment |
Strong Family Resemblance: Averted. Members of the Strong Family have no resemblance to one another. Lampshaded in the DVD exclusive email "family resemblence"note It's misspelled in the title as well as whenever Strong Bad types the word.. | |
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Fan Disservice | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_c660bc15 | comment |
Coach Z as well, who among other things, leaked what could only be crude oil after taking off a ratty thong in the swimming pool. | |
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Knights and Knaves | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_c6fa273c | comment |
Knights and Knaves: The premise of Where's an Egg?, and you're not limited in how many queries you can make, but if you run out of bullets before you locate an egg, you lose and are sent to Siberia. | |
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Way Past the Expiration Date | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_c7502712 | comment |
Way Past the Expiration Date: Strong Bad and company consume some juice that is this in Characters from Yonder Website, causing Unbelievably Soothing Children's Programming | |
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Oddball Doppelgänger | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_c75b90fb | comment |
Oddball Doppelgänger: Homsar for Homestar, and Senor Cardgage for Strong Bad. Strong Bad actually has more than one, as highlighted in the sbemail "alternate universe". | |
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Shout-Out | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: TONS. To the point where we didn't even bother making a separate page for them like we normally do. The Homestar Runner Wiki did a far better job of keeping track of them all than we ever could, anyway. Special mention goes to the Halloween cartoons, in which entire cast dress up as pop culture references of some sort, often quite obscure ones. | |
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Stimulant Speedtalk | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_c919e48d | comment |
Stimulant Speedtalk: In the sbemail “caffeine,� a viewer suggests to Strong Bad that he slip Strong Sad some caffeine to make him less whiny. He stirs a few heaping spoonfuls of Sanka into Strong Sad’s orange juice, which makes him hyperactive, twitchy and chattery. | |
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Self-Deprecation | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_c9597a03 | comment |
Self-Deprecation: The Flash adaptations of The Homestar Runner Enters the Strongest Man in the World Contest and Where My Hat Is At? make a point to have the cast lampshade how ridiculous the plots and scripts are. Example: | |
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Halloween Costume Characterization | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_c99045f3 | comment |
Halloween Costume Characterization: Every Halloween, the main characters dress up as characters or celebrities that often reflect their own personalities in some way. For example, Coach Z almost always dresses up as rappers from the 80s and 90s, the King of Town typically dresses as food mascots or characters with prominent facial hair, and the Poopsmith shows rather nerdy interests by dressing up as sci-fi and video game characters. | |
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Product-Promotion Parade | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_c9bc521a | comment |
Product-Promotion Parade: Cheat Commandos is a deliberate parody of this, with the sets being literally referred to in-universe as "playsets" and a theme song that ends in "Buy all our playsets and toys!" | |
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Cloudcuckoolander | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_caa28b82 | comment |
Homsar is such a Cloudcuckoolander that he defies the laws of physics, floating, shapeshifting, talking like normal in an Atari 2600 game, and even distorting the scenery. | |
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Scary Stitches | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_cbef1592 | comment |
Scary Stitches: "I Killed Pom Pom" shows a hypothetical scenario after Pom Pom is popped, where a zombie Pom Pom, crudely stitched together, comes back for revenge. | |
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Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_ccb97ff2 | comment |
Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion: In "Fish Eye Lens" — | |
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Numbered Sequels | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_cdb965a9 | comment |
Numbered Sequels: Played with in Jibblies 2, as a possible Shout-Out to Zombi 2. Also discussed at the end. | |
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Hyper-Competent Sidekick | |
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Hypercompetent Sidekick: The Cheat, on more than one occasion. Pom-Pom also has his moments. | |
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Hostile Show Takeover | |
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Hostile Show Takeover: Strong Sad in this episode of Marzipan's Answering Machine; he apparently considers recording over people's outgoing voicemail messages as one of the best perks of house-sitting. | |
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GoshDangItToHeck | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_d0b60f23 | comment |
Gosh Dang It to Heck!: Cursing is very rare and only mostly shows up in the site's earlier content. This means the worst language most characters use are euphemisms like "freaking," "crap," "sucks," "screw." unintelligible Angrish, or bizarre phrases like "sweet genius!" They manage to wring a lot of mileage out of it without sounding hokey. As they said in their interview with Tastes Like Chicken: In Poker Night at the Inventory, there is the option to keep swears in the dialogue, or bleep them out. Even if you keep them in, Strong Bad's are still bleeped out. | |
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Mundane Made Awesome | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_d148b019 | comment |
Mundane Made Awesome: E-MAIL. CHECKING. Is the most popular feature on the site! Also this sbemail, epically the one which made a Seinfeldian Conversation about a napkin some type of action apocalyptic movie. Loading Screens. Discussed in "Fish Eye Lens", where Strong Bad and Coach Z discover they can make even the most boring things look cool if they're filmed with the eponymous device. | |
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Sexy Whatever Outfit | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_d1c3f8dd | comment |
Sexy Whatever Outfit: Parodied with the "authentic" Marzipan costume that's nothing but a purple Bikini with inexplicable cat ears and devil tail. Several costumes sent in by fans on the Costume Commentaries fit the bill too. Strong Bad is generally pleased, except when he finds a "Hot Homestar". | |
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1.0 | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_d1c3f8dd | |
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Just Here for Godzilla | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_d295a79e | comment |
Just Here for Godzilla: invoked Lampshaded by Strong Bad in the introduction to first time viewers. | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_d295a79e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_d295a79e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_d295a79e | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_d2aa7d09 | type |
Littlest Cancer Patient | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_d2aa7d09 | comment |
Littlest Cancer Patient: Lil' Brudder. He's... he's such a trouper... got such a strong... one... leg... sniff... | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_d2aa7d09 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_d2aa7d09 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_d2e4d95 | type |
Magnet Hands | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_d2e4d95 | comment |
Magnet Hands: Not only can The Cheat use objects as if he had opposable thumbs, Strong Bad can type with boxing gloves on, and Homestar Runner can interact with and move objects around him as if he did have arms. Which, he doesn't. This is occasionally lampshaded. | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_d2e4d95 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_d323d090 | type |
Incendiary Exponent | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_d323d090 | comment |
Incendiary Exponent: Strong Bad loves things being on fire. Science fair projects, kids in children's books, the car in his album cover concept... | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_d323d090 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_d323d090 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_d332bf54 | type |
Lampshaded | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_d332bf54 | comment |
Lampshaded in the email "the paper". Strong Bad finds himself on a sinking island and exclaims "How is this island sinking? I didn't even kill any end bosses!" | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_d332bf54 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_d332bf54 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_d45812ba | type |
Fake Faint | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_d45812ba | comment |
Fake Faint: In "A Folky Tale," Strong Sad tells a long-winded story to get out of gym class, then faints when it doesn't work. When Coach Z dances away in a panic over having "killed the elephant man," Strong Sad lifts his head to mention that he's pulled this before and that it always works. | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_d45812ba | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_d45812ba | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_d4bb4e51 | type |
Walking Shirtless Scene | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_d4bb4e51 | comment |
Walking Shirtless Scene: Strong Bad never wears a shirt, and Homestar gets a few of these as well, but unfortunately he doesn't seem to wear pants. | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_d4bb4e51 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_d4bb4e51 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_d5dec29e | type |
It's Popular, Now It Sucks! | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_d5dec29e | comment |
It's Popular, Now It Sucks!invoked: Strong Sad firmly believes this, since he's a poseur. For example, during SB Email #136, he complains the Geddup Noise used to be cool, but became a sell out, first wearing a t-shirt saying "This Is Not A The Geddup Noise T-Shirt" then a "Corporate The Geddup Noise Still Sucks" t-shirt. | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_d5dec29e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_d5dec29e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_d5dec29e | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_d6f284a3 | type |
Anti-Frustration Features | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_d6f284a3 | comment |
Anti-Frustration Features: The 2020 update for Stinkoman 20X6 adds "New Mode", an easier version of the game that implements checkpoints, six health bars instead of the usual four, edge-fall respawn, and (to quote the game itself) a "less annoying Level 3". | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_d6f284a3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_d6f284a3 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_d72a426c | type |
PigeonholedVoiceActor | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_d72a426c | comment |
Pigeonholed Voice Actor: Missy Palmer. For the rest of her life, it will probably be impossible for anybody to hear her speak and not think "Marzipan". Possibly the reason why all her DVD commentary appearances are in-character as Marzipan. Not that she could voice other characters because the DVD-exclusive cartoon "Why Come Only One Girl?" and its commentary show that she does not have a wide vocal range. She provided the voice of Scrandina, one of the rejected ideas of a female character. However, she sounds too much like Marzipan, much to The Cheat's horror. | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_d72a426c | featureApplicability |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_d72a426c | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_d848560f | type |
Unusual Euphemism | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_d848560f | comment |
Unusual Euphemism: Strong Bad has a lot of them, like "ample hind-bosom". Everyone refers to the brown stuff the Poopsmith shovels as "whatsit". | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_d848560f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_d848560f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_d848560f | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_d88e125e | type |
Our Dragons Are Different | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_d88e125e | comment |
Our Dragons Are Different: Trogdor has one helluva beefy human arm sticking out of his back, "for good measure". The one that's occasionally seen hanging around the King of Town's castle looks like a lavender kangaroo with elements of bug and Roswell Gray mixed in. Its stomach scales are also labeled with various functions (such as "sanitize", "puree" and "pots n pans"), presumably to control the strength of its fire breath, but the only one that's shown is the one labeled "instant death", which does Exactly What It Says on the Tin. | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_d88e125e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_d88e125e | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_d8c10bd9 | type |
Ensemble Dark Horse | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_d8c10bd9 | comment |
Ensemble Dark Horse: Strong Bad. This is lampshaded in this toon for anyone who has never been to the website before: Eh! Steve! is an in-universe parody of this phenomenon. So is Onion Bubs. | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_d8c10bd9 | featureApplicability |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_d8c10bd9 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_d9ce79de | type |
Only Shop in Town | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_d9ce79de | comment |
Only Shop in Town: Not only is his Concession Stand this, Bubs also seems to control every form of business in Free Country, USA. | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_d9ce79de | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_d9ce79de | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_d9f639b7 | type |
Nerdy Nasalness | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_d9f639b7 | comment |
Nerdy Nasalness: The Four Gregs who all embody different nerd stereotypes, all speak with a similar nasally voice. | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_d9f639b7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_d9f639b7 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_da0eeab5 | type |
Breakout Character | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_da0eeab5 | comment |
Breakout Character: Strong Bad, who was introduced as a one-dimensional villain/rival character to Homestar Runner, quickly developed into the most prominent character when the Strong Bad Emails really took off. By the mid-2000s, there were some signs that the Brothers Chaps lamented him eclipsing most of the other characters and made several toons and shorts where he either barely appears ("Date Nite") or doesn't appear at all ("No Hands on Deck"), and made a point of shoehorning Homestar into every new Strong Bad Email as if to remind everyone who the real main character was. However, they eventually came back around to embracing him as the site's most popular character and he became the star of Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People and also appeared in Poker Night at the Inventory. Even the official Twitter is in his name. | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_da0eeab5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_da0eeab5 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_da4a8208 | type |
Progressive Instrumentation | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_da4a8208 | comment |
Progressive Instrumentation: The toon "One two, one two". This one uniquely features a custom mixer that lets you add or remove instruments interactively. | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_da4a8208 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_da4a8208 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_da4a8208 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_da4f8f0 | type |
The Blacksmith | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_da4f8f0 | comment |
The Blacksmith: One works under The King of Town, only known as "The Blacksmith". Despite wearing a metal apron and welding mask, he's never really shown actively doing any forging; in fact, he almost never shows up at all, mostly being a mere cameo character. | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_da4f8f0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_da4f8f0 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_db212ca9 | type |
Did I Just Say That Out Loud? | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_db212ca9 | comment |
Did I Just Say That Out Loud??: Coach Z's reaction in an Easter Egg on the cartoon "Trogday 08", when he has said to "Wormdingler" (his snake-like drawing of a "dragon" from the Sbemail of the same name): "You don't need no consummate V's ta be my bride..." | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_db212ca9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_db212ca9 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_dc115332 | type |
Scrubbing Off the Trauma | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_dc115332 | comment |
Scrubbing Off the Trauma: Mentioned by Strong Bad when he and Homestar Runner are bemoaning the fact that The Cheat and Marzipan are going on a date. | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_dc115332 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_dc115332 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_dc115332 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_dc26326 | type |
Two Decades Behind | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_dc26326 | comment |
Two Decades Behind: Parodied — Strong Bad acts like he's still living in The '80s or The '90s (depending on which one the creators think would be funnier), but everyone else is fully aware of how behind the times he is and has no problem reminding him. | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_dc26326 | featureApplicability |
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1.0 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_dc26326 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_dd26fd14 | type |
Man of a Thousand Voices | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_dd26fd14 | comment |
Man of a Thousand Voices: Matt Chapman voices pretty much every character on the site except Marzipan (save for one unfinished toon in that instance). And the times when his brother does intentionally bad impressions of the characters for The Cheat's cartoons. | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_dd26fd14 | featureApplicability |
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1.0 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_dd26fd14 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_de763115 | type |
Hollywood Board Games | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_de763115 | comment |
Hollywood Board Games: In "Where's the Cheat?", Homsar and Strong Sad are playing what looks to be Calvin Ball but is actually Connect Four. This is meant to highlight Homsar's obliviousness and randomness. | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_de763115 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_de763115 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_dfa71e43 | type |
Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_dfa71e43 | comment |
Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Strong Badman's idea of villainy involves wasting water and stealing cable from his neighbors while bossing around his sidekick Stiny. Strong Bad himself sometimes qualifies as his idea of villainy are pathetic in the first place and still backfire on him. | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_dfa71e43 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_dfa71e43 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_e1721fd1 | type |
Antiquated Linguistics | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_e1721fd1 | comment |
Antiquated Linguistics: Much of the Old-Timey version of Strong Bad's speech is comprised of this. | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_e1721fd1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_e1721fd1 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_e3def52f | type |
Egopolis | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_e3def52f | comment |
Egopolis: Strong Badia. Even more so in "Strong Badia the Free", which had seven "countries" named for their founder... or founders in the case of Marzistar/Homezipan. There are even more if you count inanimate objects like The Stick as characters (it has a country called Sticktenstein). | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_e3def52f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_e3def52f | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_e43c66bd | type |
Art Evolution | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_e43c66bd | comment |
Art Evolution: The earliest cartoons feature noticeably different art styles than the majority of the post-2001 ones; the designs are generally the same, but Homestar got taller and got a more angular mouth, Strong Bad's mask went from all red/white/black to sporting green eyes and a blue diamond, the outlines of various characters became darker and more-defined, etc. The Brothers Chaps are not averse to spoofing just how different the characters used to look, such as in the Strong Bad Emails "flashback" (where the designs revert to that of the original book) and "lady...ing" (which reverts the designs to that of "Marshmallow's Last Stand", the first full-length cartoon to be put on the site, complete with accompanying voice changes). | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_e43c66bd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_e43c66bd | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_e4cf1ef0 | type |
Load-Bearing Boss | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_e4cf1ef0 | comment |
Load-Bearing Boss: Ultimate Trogdor in 8-Bit is Enough, with the entire game world collapsing on his defeat. Homestar even calls him a load-bearing dragon. Lampshaded in the email "the paper". Strong Bad finds himself on a sinking island and exclaims "How is this island sinking? I didn't even kill any end bosses!" | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_e4cf1ef0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_e4cf1ef0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_e4cf1ef0 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_e54227fc | type |
Gasp! | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_e54227fc | comment |
Gasp!: The webtoon uses a "GASP!" stock effect whenever a character declares they're going to do something daring (or what they think is daring.) A good example is Decemberween. | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_e54227fc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_e54227fc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_e54227fc | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_e572b14b | type |
No Budget | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_e572b14b | comment |
No Budget: invoked Strong Bad's Dangeresque films were clearly made with whatever he had handy — to the point where the prop used for a car phone is an entire VCR. Strong Sad managed to go even further by financing his latest independent film with Monopoly money — or as he calls it, "faux budget". | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_e572b14b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_e572b14b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_e572b14b | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_e58e0124 | type |
Pokémon Speak | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_e58e0124 | comment |
Pokémon Speak: Eh! Steve!'s entire schtick on Sweet Cuppin Cakes is to show up and shout his name. The 20X6 universe turns the Cheat into Cheatball, a parody of Pokémon. Unique in that this trait has only ever been shown once, with him only saying his name one time, while otherwise staying silent in every other appearance. | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_e58e0124 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_e58e0124 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_e5e6640b | type |
Flanderization | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_e5e6640b | comment |
Flanderization: Arguably for the better, in that the series took several characters with somewhat generic personalities and gave them memorable quirks which could be mined for humor, and giving them much better chemistry with each other. This reaches the other end of the spectrum however in the site's later years, particularly when Strong Bad becomes goofy all the time and is no longer the straight man compared to everyone else in the setting. | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_e5e6640b | featureApplicability |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_e5e6640b | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_e6a83fb0 | type |
Telegraph Gag STOP | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_e6a83fb0 | comment |
Telegraph Gag STOP: | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_e6a83fb0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_e6a83fb0 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_e7a2c0c4 | type |
Masked Luchador | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_e7a2c0c4 | comment |
Masked Luchador: Strong Bad started out as a tag team wrestler with his brother Strong Mad, and occasionally still shows off his wrestling skills by, say, suplexing Homestar's radio. | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_e7a2c0c4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_e7a2c0c4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_e7a2c0c4 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_e7bfbb3b | type |
Clingy Costume | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_e7bfbb3b | comment |
Clingy Costume: Strong Bad revealed in the very first email that his mask and boxing gloves are literally his face and hands, and has since then responded rather glibly to requests to take them off. | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_e7bfbb3b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_e7bfbb3b | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_e85e99ee | type |
It Meant Something to Me | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_e85e99ee | comment |
It Meant Something to Me: Strong Bad LOVES his computers. Just watch his breakdown in "virus"... | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_e85e99ee | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Right Now Montage | |
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Right Now Montage: The cartoon "No Hands on Deck!" has a montage of Homestar going around announcing his plans to build a deck for all and sundry. | |
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Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth | |
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Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: The Jibblies Painting doesn't give Homsar the jibblies, Homsar gives the painting the jibblies. | |
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Crossover | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_eb7c34cf | comment |
Crossover: Telltale's Poker Night at the Inventory, which crosses over with Team Fortress 2, Penny Arcade, and Sam & Max. | |
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Jerkass | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_eb8ec7c8 | comment |
Strong Sad has been hinted to wet the bed a number of times, mainly from Strong Bad. | |
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Stupid Sexy Flanders | |
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Stupid Sexy Flanders: In a Halloween Costume cartoon, Strong Bad freaks out at the sight of a hot girl dressed as Homestar. | |
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Disco Dan | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_ebe5d89c | comment |
Disco Dan: The Videlectrix guys are ridiculously behind the times, releasing Atari 2600-style games in the present day. Strong Bad himself, as far as video games and technology are concerned. His computers are all hopelessly outdated, and his most current system is a TurboGrafx-16. To put that into perspective, Old-Timey Strong Bad is still using the telegraph in 1936, when the telephone had seen widespread use for over 50 years. That, and only in 2009 has he upgraded to a computer with a graphical interface, having used command prompts on all his previous computers, including his (16-pound!) laptop. Not very surprising when his favorite manufacturer, Compy, still makes house-sized computers. The Cheat, on the other hand... Bubs too. Strong Bad's internet connection (and, thus, Bubs' internet service) is so out of date it's still measured in baud (a measurement of connection speed so small in comparison to actual bytes-per-second that it would literally be faster to just wait until you next met up with any given friend and talk about whatever was on the webpage you wanted to see). Then again, Bubs is probably doing this deliberately, in order to take advantage of Strong Bad's unfamiliarity with modern technology. | |
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Deconstructed Character Archetype | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_ec9a5f50 | comment |
Deconstructed Character Archetype: "Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 17.2" takes a surprisingly deep look at the characters involved. Homsar's tendency for rambling nonsense? He just needs some way to concentrate to speak clearly, like over the phone. He's also well-aware he's speaking "garbage" and just wants a proper conversation someday. The Poopsmith's occupation and voiceless nature? He seriously wonders if what he's doing has been a huge waste of time and secretly misses being able to talk to others. Coach Z's creepy nature? It eventually gets him landed in jail for a crime so heinous, even his best friend Bubs doesn't believe he didn't do it. The King of Town's ditziness and Too Dumb to Live nature? He has a panic attack when he believes Marzipan might really be the child he forgot he had and screws with his genetics to the point he'd be dead if not for Negative Continuity. Strong Sad's status as The Eeyore? He goes out of his way to find reasons to be that depressed. | |
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Have I Mentioned I Am Sexually Active Today? | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_eddb470c | comment |
Have I Mentioned I Am Sexually Active Today?: Strong Bad, from his "girlfriends", to his theoretical situations with many hot girls. | |
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Malicious Misnaming | |
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Malicious Misnaming: Strong Bad often employs this, calling Strong Sad a host of demeaing nicknames like "Dump-O", or making fun of the names of e-mail senders. | |
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Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick | |
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Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: Homestar, back during an "early" hremail, remarked that Melonade was not only his favorite drink, but he was contractually unable to drink, talk about, or bathe in any other liquid. | |
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Alternate Species Counterpart | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_ef2b9e28 | comment |
Alternate Species Counterpart: In the Strong Bad Email "animal," a fan asks what Strong Bad would "like as if" he were his own made-up animal. Unfortunately, all of Strong Bad's ideas are either nonsensical or "nasty blob things" like da Huuuuuudge. He settles on a cutely dopey critter named Sterrance. Da Huuuuuudge makes a reappearance in "alternate universe," where it joins in the other Strong Bads in their number-one jam and has a high-pitched singing voice. Sterrance also makes a brief cameo in the same cartoon. | |
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NO INDOOR VOICE | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_f15c2859 | comment |
No Indoor Voice: Strong Mad has, as his brother points out, zero volume control. "I CAN BE THE QUIETEST MOUSE!" | |
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Burger Fool | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_f197c220 | comment |
Burger Fool: "Blubb-O's." It doesn't seem to exist, but that doesn't stop the garbled drive-thru mascot microphone from both taking orders and not making any sense. Its marketing department is stuck figuring out new names for "regular burger" so they don't have to put anything else on the menu (besides a fish sandwich that most employees don't know exists). | |
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Bad "Bad Acting" | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_f19e8a55 | comment |
Bad "Bad Acting": Happens pretty much any time a character is given a script to read. Two very prominent examples are the Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People tutorial and Coach Z's performance in the Dangeresque installments. | |
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Suddenly Speaking | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_f1e6402d | comment |
Suddenly Speaking: The Poopsmith sang Strong Bad's 200th sbemail intro, voiced by John Linnell of They Might Be Giants. Later, he left a message on Marzipan's Answering Machine #17.2, again voiced by John Linnell, explaining how he was tired of his vow of silence. | |
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Serendipitous Symphony | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_f274e716 | comment |
Serendipitous Symphony: The "One, Two, One, Two" music video is a collection of disconnected looping vignettes that perfectly sync up with each other. | |
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Incredibly Lame Fun | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_f2875814 | comment |
Incredibly Lame Fun: In the e-mail "slumber party", the only video game Homestar is supposedly allowed to play is one called "Clapping Party" | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_f2875814 | |
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True Meaning of Christmas | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_f3909f81 | comment |
True Meaning of Christmas: Appears various times, all Played for Laughs, and all being about Decemberween, the variant of Christmas celebrated only by the citizens of Free Country, USA. Examples: In one cartoon, Homestar and Strong Bad are watching a Sweet Cuppin' Cakes holiday special, which leads to this exchange: In another toon, Homestar sleeps in on Decemberween until almost the last minute and spends time running around trying to buy last-minute gifts for everyone: | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_f3909f81 | |
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Ten Paces and Turn | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_f7bd624c | comment |
Ten Paces and Turn: In the Old-Timey cartoon "Parsnips A-Plenty", Strong Bad challenged The Homestar Runner to a five-pace duel. The Homestar Runner just stood there and said "What?" Somehow (we never find out due to a "missing scene") the duel ends with Strong Bad falling off a cliff. | |
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Economy Cast | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_f8702398 | comment |
Economy Cast: There's a core of twelve main characters, and whenever a role needs to be filled, there's a 95% chance it will be filled by one of those main characters (or maybe Senor Cardgage). | |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_f8702398 | |
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Impossibly Delicious Food | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_f8fe0279 | comment |
Impossibly Delicious Food: The Sblounskched! bar, which is made of (are you ready for this?) marshmallow vapor wrapped in licorice colloid in a sea of nougat rolled in a cookie log covered with rich, creamy pepperoni sprinkled with entire tiny bowls of puffy rice cereal covered in Boring Brown Chocolate. In the shape of a pair of pants. With a bite taken out of them. For security. Because who would want to steal a half-eaten pair of choco-pants? (Homestar.) | |
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Girlfriend in Canada | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_f93d8d52 | comment |
Girlfriend in Canada: Strong Bad claims to have many, many girlfriends... whom we never see because they're supposedly visiting other planets. | |
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1.0 | |
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Running Gag | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_f9f2c33 | comment |
Running Gag: A good third of the dialogue consists of in-jokes at this point. Based on the Homestar Runner Wiki, there are over five-hundred. Especially in 8-bit Is Enough. With the inclusion of gamer in-jokes, practially any joke in that game requires you know what they're referencing. | |
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I Call It "Vera" | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_faf5732b | comment |
I Call It "Vera": Marzipan calls her guitar Carol. | |
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Doomy Dooms of Doom | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_fb1fb07f | comment |
Doomy Dooms of Doom: The 2009 Halloween cartoon, "Doomy Tales of the Macabre". | |
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Talking to Themself | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_fb8b5014 | comment |
Talking to Themself: Homestar frequently seems to forget who he is and behaves as if that "Homestar Runner" guy is someone else, leading to several instances where he will argue with or even fight himself. This also happens to be a fairly regular occurence anyway, what with the old-timey and 20X6 incarnations coexisting with the main Free Country USA citizens. | |
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Comically Missing the Point | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_fbd285b7 | comment |
Comically Missing the Point: Most main characters happen to do this regularly, but Homestar, being an outright ditz, deserves mention. Hell, it happens right in the first few seconds of the welcome video. | |
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Department of Redundancy Department | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_fc151e9d | comment |
Department of Redundancy Department: Several minor jokes, mostly in labeling products. For instance, "Heavy Lourde" means "Heavy Heavy" ("Lourde" is French for "heavy"). They could, however, simply be using a bilingual label, such as are required on many products in Canada. Nevertheless, the object has officially become known as a "Heavy Lourde". Lampshaded in "Where U Goin 2?": Order! I hear by call this meeting of the Broternal Order of Different Helmets... to order! | |
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Go-Karting with Bowser | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_fc4f5f19 | comment |
Go-Karting with Bowser: The Thanksgiving-themed Cheat Commandos toon, "Let Us Give TANKS", in which Blue Laser invites the Cheat Commandos over for Thanksgiving dinner. | |
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You Mean "Xmas" | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_fd497586 | comment |
You Mean "Xmas": They call it Decemberween, but it's otherwise pretty much indistinguishable from a secular American Christmas. Bonus points for shortening it to "X-berween" at one point, which actually makes sense because "X" can also stand for the number 10, or "decem", in Latin. Despite this, there's still a character named Doctor Christmas in the titular pageant in "A Decemberween Pageant", and the term "Christmas lights" is still used (for example, in Brainkrieg's "If I Don't Get Video Games"). | |
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Accidental Murder | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_fd497706 | comment |
Accidental Murder: The Halloween short "I Killed Pom-Pom!" revolves around Homestar mistakenly believing he killed Pom-Pom. Ends up being subverted in the ending when he intentionally kills Pom-Pom, regardless of whether or not he was actually a zombie or vengeful spirit. | |
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-0.3 | |
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Brick Joke | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_fe0330fb | comment |
Brick Joke: One of the site's most common joke formats. If something odd or mildly humorous is mentioned at the beginning of a toon, chances are it'll be referenced, expanded upon, or become important later, or be an easter egg after the story's over. In sbemail #38, titled helium, we discover that Strong Mad's voice doesn't change at all when he sucks helium, to his annoyance. Exactly 114 emails later in sbemail #152, isp, we find out that Strong Bad's internet connection is so slow because Strong Mad is siphoning his bandwidth through a garden hose. Apparently bandwidth acts like "super helium" and Strong Mad finally gets his helium voice. The short "The Luau" begins with Homestar peeing behind Marzipan's gazebo. Later on in the short, when Homestar visits Strong Bad's party, and finds out that he can't get the wood to start on fire, Homestar then asks if Strong Bad got the wood from behind the gazebo, in which Strong Bad answers "Yes, why?". Homestar then explains "Well it all started when I drank 32 glasses of melonade..." In email #55, cheat talk, Strong Bad waits patiently for Strong Mad (and The Cheat) to say the word "Douglas", but to no avail (he jams his keyboard into Strong Sad's stomach to get him to say the word). Twenty-one sbemails later, in an Easter Egg, Strong Bad tries to get other characters to say "Fhqwhgads". But instead, Strong Mad says, "DOUGLAS!", to which a surprised Strong Bad says, "Whoa! We've just had a breakthrough! You get a gold star." In "The Best Decemberween Ever", Coach Z chugs mouthwash at the midpoint of the cartoon. At the very end of the song, he faints due to having too much Listerine. In the Strong Bad Email "pom pom", Strong Bad is asked what would happen if you poked Pom Pom with a pin, and concludes that he would explode in a big fiery ball. Much, much later, in the Halloween toon "I Killed Pom Pom", this is exactly what happens (though it's a sharp bit of costume instead of a pin). On two separate occasions, Homsar says he's the son of a Chipwich and the son of a cup of coffee. Years later, Homsar's flag depicts a Chipwich and a cup of coffee. | |
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Real Name as an Alias | |
| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_fe26cb03 | comment |
When Strong Bad gives Homestar a lesson in prank-calling, he fails even in the minimal alias requirements needed to prank-call someone. In his first attempt, he gives his own name, then he uses Strong Bad's name for the second attempt, and the name he finally settles on, "Sugarface", is even less realistic than the ones Strong Bad usually chooses. | |
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Female Rockers Play Bass: sloshy has a female bassist, unlike Limozeen, but much like some of the other artsy alt-rock bands it parodies such as Sonic Youth. The short "Record Store Day b/w B-est of B-sides" includes a montage of sloshy's cover art. One of those covers is an album or EP titled because girl bassist, that's why. (Oddly, the "girl" in the cover photo appears to be the band members' mother instead.) The rest of Sloshy are male. | |
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Buffy Speak: About a third of the jokes in the series is characters accidentally dropping Shout-Outs when using Buffy Speak. | |
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Bragging Theme Tune | |
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Bragging Theme Tune: Trogdor's theme is a rock ballad explaining how he Was Once a Man (before quickly backpedaling and deciding he was always a dragon), then going into detail about his unstoppable village-burninating tendencies. | |
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Alternate Music Video: Matt and Mike Chapman created an Animated Music Video featuring the characters for "Experimental Film" by They Might Be Giants. In an interview prior to its release, John Flansburgh said there would be a second music video for MTV, but ultimately, the Homestar Runner music video was also the one released on MTV. | |
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