Holidays

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Holiday In Free Country

Holidays are a big part of Free Country, USA, with holidays such as Mother's Day and Flag Day. Some of the more prevalent holidays are unlikely choices, such as April Fool's Day and Labor Day, also known as Labor Dabor. The most celebrated holidays however, are Halloween and Decemberween, the latter of which is a parody of Christmas, possibly created for viewers of other religions.

Holidays

New Year's Day (January 1st)

A day to set goals for the next year, with no intention whatsoever of following them.

• Homestar Presents: Presents (Mentioned by Strong Bad near the end)
• Where's The Cheat? (The Cheat's resolution mentioned)
• Strong Sad's Lament (Strong Sad talks about several people's resolutions, and his own)

April Fool's Day (April 1st)

A time of tomfoolery for Homestar Runner.

• kingoftown.com (2003)
• Under Construction (2004)
• HomestarRunner.com PAY PLUS! (2005)

Cheatday (April 18th)

Free Country's biggest birthday bash is Cheatday.

• cheatday (The only day that is certainly not The Cheat's birthday)
• Strong Bad's Room Main Page (refers to Cheatday)

Birthdays

General birthday references also abound. All of these toons mention someone's "birthday".

• In Search Of The Yello Dello DVD (Marzipan's birthday)
• Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 1 (refers to Marzipan's birthday)
• Strong Bad Sings (Strong Mad sings "Happy Birthday", or at least tries to)
• anything (refers to Marzipan's birthday)
• origins (refers to Strong Bad's birthday)
• The Secrets That I Keep (refers to Strong Sad's birthday)
• flashback (Homestar Runner mistakenly thinks it's Strong Bad's birthday)

Mother's Day (second Sunday in May)

A day to recognize the hard work of the women who never have, and likely never will, appear in Free Country USA.

• A Mother's Day Message (2002)

Senorial Day (last Monday in May)

A day that seems to correspond to Memorial Day. Apparently, all the big stores in town (at least, Senor Cardgage's and Bubs') have sales that weekend.

• Senorial Day (2005)

Flag Day (June 14th)

A day to proudly raise the Strongbadia flag, and sing along to the Strongbadia national anthem.

• flag day (2002)

Fourth of July/Independence Day (July 4th)

A time of patriotism, retrospect, and, of course, fireworks.

• Flag Intro
• Main Page 12
• Happy Fireworks (2005)

Labor Day (first Monday in September)

Labor Day (aka Labor-Dabor) is a day of no work, enforced by the Homestarmy.

• labor day (2003)
• Labor Dabor (2004)

Halloween (October 31st)

A popular holiday in Free Country. The main characters are always seen in a different costume at this time.

• Homestarloween Party (2000)
• halloweener (2001)
• The House That Gave Sucky Treats (2001)
• Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 7 (2002)
• Pumpkin Carve-nival (2002)
• ghosts (2002)
• Malloween Commercial (2003)
• 3 Times Halloween Funjob (2003)
• Fan Costume Commentary (2003)
• Pumpkin Stencils (2004)
• That A Ghost (2004)
• Homestar vs. Little Girl 2 (2004)
• Halloween Fairstival (2004)

Thanksgiving (fourth Thursday in November)

A time of feasting and reminiscing.

• Some Stupid Turkey (2001)
• Happy T (2002)
• Limozeen Thanksgiving E-Cards (2003)
• colonization* (2003)

*Strong Bad is asked if he celebrates Thanksgiving, but tells us about his own Thanksgiving-like holiday.

Decemberween (December 25th)

A strange made-up holiday that takes place 55 days after Halloween. It is no doubt parodying Christmas, or avoiding religious issues for the non-Christian audiences.

• A Holiday Greeting (2000)
• The Best Decemberween Ever (2001)
• A Decemberween Pageant (2002)
• Decemberween In July (2004)
• Snow Globe (2004)
• Homestar Presents: Presents (2004)