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Homestar is slowly taking over the world. If you don't believe me, just take a look at the sightings we've seen so far. If you have any that aren't here, please add them.  If you have a picture for a sighting that does not have one already, please feel free to load it up.
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The [[Homestar Runner (body of work)|Homestar Runner]] body of work has become quite popular and widespread during its time on the Internet. With dozens of references in websites, comics, and animations, Homestar Runner is a favorite of many Internet animators. It has even shown up in far more mainstream places, such as a demo at a major [[Flash|Macromedia Flash]] conference, and even on the series finale of a popular TV show.  
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<p>Pick a category to find out more!
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*[[Television Sightings]]
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*[[Radio Sightings]]
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*[[Advertisement Sightings]]
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*[[Magazine Sightings]]
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*[[Musical Sightings]]
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*[[School Sightings]]
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*[[Game Sightings]]
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*[[Website Sightings]]
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*[[Web Animation Sightings]]
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*[[Webcomic Sightings]]
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*[[Skins Sightings]]
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*[[Comics Sightings]]
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*[[Animation Sightings]]
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*[[Other Sightings]]
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== TELEVISION ==
 
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In New Zealand there is a show called Squirt and each week they have a featured website (the "Hot Spot").  One week it was...you guessed it...Homestarrunner.com.  They talked about it for awhile and then switched on to some other crap they play on the show.  Its a really dumb show and I just happened to be watching it then. -Spud 'Reinforced Steel' O'Connor
 
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=== ''Buffy'' ===
 
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer referenced Trogdor as a villain in a game of Dungeons and Dragons.
 
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=== ''Megas XLR'' ===
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In an episode called "Breakout", Coop tried to use an attack called Double Duece by jumping and putting two fists in front of him.
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=== ''ANGEL'' ===
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In an episode of "ANGEL" entitled "The Girl In Question", (also entitled "An Italian job for Spike and Angel") Angel and Spike were looking for Buffy overseas.  They come to the apartment where Buffy lives, but Andrew was the only one there.  He was talking to them about someone named "The Immortal", and he was wearing a Black STRONGBAD T-Shirt!  He was also wearing it as he had a pore strip on later on in the episode. It was season 5. Written by: Steven S. !DeKnight and Drew Goddard. Directed by: David Greenwalt.
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=== ''Monster House'' ===
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In an Episode of Monster House, the Host, Steve is wearing a Strong Bad T-shirt during the introductions. The episode is [http://www.tvtome.com/MonsterHouse/season1.html#ep18 Sports House] which first aired February 2, 2004.
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=== ''Pulse Interview'' ===
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In early 2004 the show Pulse on G4TechTV talked with the brothers chaps, and asked them about their new game that they are developing for the Atari 2600.  They showed many video clips of their Atari game.  The Chaps told about how they record their voices and how successful they have been.  They announced that later this year they are going to release a DVD with the First 100 emails.  Later after the commercial break they went to interview the company that is developing the homestarrunner game.  The company was Videlectrix of course.  The whole interview was weird because you could tell that the videlectrix owner was just one of the brothers Chaps in a mustache but the whole making an Atari game was real.  (I don't know if you can find any of this episode on the internet but I did record it, but I don't know how I would be able to put it on the internet.  Contact me at corneli23@hotmail.com if you want to)
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=== ''Cheat'' ===
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On one episode of Cheat on G4TechTV, they were talking about a random name generator on a game and if you made names long enough, Homsar would show up.  The host said his name wrong though.
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=== ''Survivor: Pearl Islands'' ===
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When Ryan Shoulders (known on the show as Ryan S.) picks up some tree mail (the show's system of getting messages to the castaways), he sings the opening to SB Email [[techno]], singing it as "the tree mail, the tree mail, what, what, the tree mail." This may also explain Ryan S.' name appearing in the SB Email [[theme park]].
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== RADIO ==
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=== ''Quizno's and Homestar on NPR'' ===
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On March 9th, Homestarrunner.com was featured on NPR's Talk of the nation. You can find the radio segment  [http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1753401 Here]. You have to listen a little bit to get to the segment. It features [[kind of cool|StrongBadEmail/kind of cool]], as well as the email [[different town]]. It starts around 9:15 into the clip and lasts until the end.  Of note: a kid, Simon, calls at 12:20 and asks about [[The Brothers Chaps]].  Sounds like these guys could have used a visit to the [[Main Page|Homestar Runner Wiki]]...
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== ADVERTISING ==
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=== ''Soap Box Commercial'' ===
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A Soap Box racing commercial on Cartoon Network decorated a car with Teen Girl Squad.
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On a picture messaging advertisement in NZ/Aus, while it flicks through various picture messages/cellphone wallpapers, a picture of Trogdor pops up.
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The face of a car stereo display in the Crutchfield catalog and the Crutchfield.com website reads "STRONG BAD"  [http://www.crutchfield.com/S-9NLqsuV6KND/cgi-bin/ProdView.asp?s=0&cc=01&g=186750&id=morephotos&pi=4&i=113MPV5025&display=XL#Tab See the display] -  "Click the colored display views"
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=== ''Game-Now Magazine'' ===
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*The now-defunct Game-Now magazine featured Homestar Runner in the "Hot or Not" section of its Issue 12. ([http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/5953/gamennow1.jpg Scan])
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In Wired magazine, under a Transformers ad, It showed a picture of Homestar's new atari game and some more stuff.
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=== ''Computer Source Magazine'' ===
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In Seattle there's a magazine called "Computer Source." The January 2004 issue mentions a group of people who, for fun, determined how many browser windows they could open to homestarrunner.com before the computer crashed.
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[[They Might Be Giants]] were interviewed and talked about Homestar and the Experimental Film toon, among other things.
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=== ''Entertainment Weekly'' ===
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In 2003, Entertainment Weekly proclaimed The Brothers Chaps were the "It Web Cartoonists" as part of their annual "It List," which names off who they consider to be the most significant entertainers of the year. They asked Matt whether or not they would ever consider putting Strong Bad and Homestar on TV, to which he replied: "It's more punk rock if you do it yourself." This article also mentioned the upcoming DVDs.
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[http://www.tucsonweekly.com Tucson Weekly] had [http://www.tucsonweekly.com/gbase/music/Content?oid=oid:59640 an interview] of [[They Might Be Giants]] in their August 19, 2004 issue that included information on their relationship with [[The Brothers Chaps]].  Of particular note was the corroboration that a special [[Experimental Film]] video was being made for MTV. However, a new develpment is that the current internet version "is getting played on MTV in England, so it is finding some legitimate video life."
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=== ''Strong Bad Live!'' ===
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On June 7th, 2003 at Giants Stadium, Radiohead, the Beastie Boys, and other big name bands of that sort played, but the best part was the showing of Strong Bad emails over the JumboTron in between acts. They also showed [[Everybody to the Limit]] and it had a special new introduction wherein Strong Bad complained that he wasn't allowed on stage even though he had been the #1 hit for two summers in a row.
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[http://millionmanmerch.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=RK00034&Category_Code=rk_shirts site that sells the shirt]
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[http://millionmanmerch.com/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/rk_homestar_blue.jpg rk_homestar_blue.jpg]
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The Christian ska band Five Iron Frenzy has a picture in their latest CD release's booklet of their lead singer, Reese Roper, wearng a The Cheat shirt.
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=== ''Very Low Sodium Band!'' ===
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The Very Low Sodium Band ([http://www.verylowsodium.com www.verylowsodium.com]) has a song that praises Homestar Runner. Hear the song [http://www.verylowsodium.com/band/ Here]
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=== ''!ApologetiX'' ===
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In the booklet for !ApologetiX's newest CD "Adam Up," their guitarist is wearing a Strong Bad shirt.  Also, at a show in Cincinnati, Ohio, the guitarist, Karl, wore his Strong Bad shirt (the mask shirt).  In the booklet, he is wearing the full body shirt.  He's got both!
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The Ithaca, NY band [http://sonsofpitches.com Sons of Pitches] had a concert at the Cornell Business & Technology Park on July 24, 2004. Before their second set started, they were doing the thing at the end of the Theme Park where Homestar is on the Strongbadian Riverboat Superfun.. ride. It sounded just like Strongbad! I didn't realize until it was over that it was from H*R but the part I know they did was "Please keep your arms legs and valuables inside the vehicle at all times".
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=== ''Skee-ball!'' ===
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[http://www.wustl.edu/ Washington University]'s carnival in St. Louis boasted a wooden skee-ball game made by the [http://encouncil.wustl.edu/main/ Engineering Student Council] with some help from ((bkmlb)) and his family.
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[http://userfs.cec.wustl.edu/~bdr1/thurtene/photos/Dscn0772.jpg Dscn0772.jpg]
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[http://userfs.cec.wustl.edu/~bdr1/thurtene/]  more pictures
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A little way through the game there is a quiz on basic game knowledge. One of the answers to a multiple-choice question is "Parts Burninator".
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On page 9/10 of the manual, there are instructions on creating a new character. Whoever took the picture had named his character Homestar.
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One of the default name choices at the beginning is "Homsar".
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=== ''Cyborg Livestock from Outer Space'' ===
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If you defeat the alien mothership from Shockwave's [http://www.shockwave.com/sw/content/cyborglivestock Cyborg Livestock from Outer Space], the end text says that the ship "asplode," just as your head does in the game [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?page=StrongBadZone StrongBadZone].
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=== ''Hershey Park PA face painting''===
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At Hershey Park you can get a face painting of Homestar, Strong Bad, Marzipan, Pom Pom, or The Cheat.
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=== ''Eric Conveys The Brothers Chaps?'' ===
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Eric at [http://www.emotioneric.com Eric Conveys an Emotion] got together with The Brothers Chaps for a rough and tumble game of football, complete with Eric's warped and hilarious sense of humor. See a step-by-step progression of [http://www.emotioneric.com/ae/?adv=thefootballgame The Game].  On page 1 Trogdor is in the background, on page 2 The Ugly One is in the background, on page 3 1936 Homestar is in the background, on page 4 Homestar is in the background, on page 5 Strongbad is in the background, on page 6, The Cheat is actually in the foreground, on page 7, The Cheat and Strong Mad are in the background, and on page 8, Stinkoman is in the background.
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*Also, in "getting a great idea...  while falling to your doom" Eric has a Homsar shirt on. [http://www.emotioneric.com/greatideafalldoom.jpg greatideafalldoom.jpg]
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At [http://www.redvsblue.com Red vs Blue] they made a public service announcement about tattoos (It appears every 4 weeks or so in the season 1 archive). When Church suggests you get a tattoo of a character from you favorite online comic, Strong Bad's face appears.
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=== ''Live Action Dangeresque!'' ===
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Some guys at Strongfans.com made [http://www.strongfans.com/stuff/dangeresque_sf.wmv this] awesome rip-off of Strong Bads big-time Blockbuster.  Complete with orchestrated music!"
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=== ''The 2004 Cartoonist's Choice Awards'' ===
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At [http://www.flashplayer.com Flashplayer.com], there is a movie entitled [http://www.flashplayer.com/animation/metroidconfusion_movie.php "Metroid Confusion"], and at the beginning there are three computers and one has the H*R page displayed on its monitor.  The end also borrows "Because It's Midnight" and credits a band named "Limozeen."  Also when you them talking about how sammus is deffenseless without her suit zoom in on the second shelf a book is the homestarunner enters the strongest man in the world contest.
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Also at [http://www.flashplayer.com Flashplayer.com], there is movie entitled [http://www.flashplayer.com/animation/kerrisbiginvention.html "Kerri's Big Invention"] and about halfway through the movie Kerri is drawing on a blackboard. When the whole blackboard is visible, in the lower left corner is a poorly drawn Homestar and Strongbad. In the upper right you can see the carrot shaped thing from the scrapbook on the Coach Z page. Its labeled Carrot Top on the black board. (This flash cartoon was created by [http://www.legendaryfrog.com/ Legendary Frog]).
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=== ''Trogdor: MIT Hacker'' ===
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The Burninator was the subject of one of the famous MIT Hacks! [http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/2003/vidwall_postits/ The hack itself.] [http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/Gallery.html More about hacks.]
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Current revision as of 05:33, 2 February 2021

Look familiar?

The Homestar Runner body of work has become quite popular and widespread during its time on the Internet. With dozens of references in websites, comics, and animations, Homestar Runner is a favorite of many Internet animators. It has even shown up in far more mainstream places, such as a demo at a major Macromedia Flash conference, and even on the series finale of a popular TV show.

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