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{{abouttoon}}  ''For the video game system, see [[Nintendo#Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES)|Nintendo]].''
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[[Image:snes.png|thumb|"Homestar run, run..."]]
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This is the first Homestar Runner cartoon ever made, using [[Wikipedia:Mario Paint|Mario Paint]]. Unlike the other toons, this runs in QuickTime instead of Flash.
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This is the first animated Homestar Runner cartoon ever made, using ''[[Mario Paint]]''.
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'''Cast (in order of appearance):'''  {{Film|Homestar Runner}}, {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|Pom Pom}}, {{Film|The Cheat}}, {{Film|Strong Mad}}, {{Film|Strong Sad}}
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'''Cast (in order of appearance):'''  {{Film|The Homestar Runner (storybook)}}[[Category:Homestar Runner Filmography]], {{Film|Tiny-Handed Strong Bad}}[[Category:Strong Bad Filmography]], {{Film|Pom Pom}}, {{Film|The Cheat}}, {{Film|Strong Mad}}, {{Film|Strong Sad}}
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'''Places:''' [[The Field]], [[Arena]], Various Houses, A Workout Room, [[The Athletic Field]], [[The Stage]], [[Outer Space]], A Rocket, A Basketball Court
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'''Places:''' [[The Field]], [[Arena]], Various Houses, A Workout Room, [[The Athletic Field]], [[Stages|The Stage]], [[Outer Space]], A Rocket, A Basketball Court
'''Page title:'''  Super Homestario Bros.
'''Page title:'''  Super Homestario Bros.
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'''Date:''' 1996
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'''Date:''' December 1996
'''Running Time:''' 1:26
'''Running Time:''' 1:26
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== Transcript ==
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{{dvd|Everything Else, Volume 2}}
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==Transcript==
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'''TEXT:''' THE FIRST HOMESTAR CARTOON EVER<br>
'''TEXT:''' THE FIRST HOMESTAR CARTOON EVER<br>
MADE ON THE SNES USING MARIO PAINT
MADE ON THE SNES USING MARIO PAINT
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1996 AND 2000
1996 AND 2000
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== Japanese Phonetics Transcript ==
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== Fun Facts ==
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===Explanations===
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*''{{w|Mario Paint}}'' is a video game made for the [[Nintendo#Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES)|Super Nintendo Entertainment System]] that allows players to create their own art, as well as animations and music, being packaged with a {{w|Super NES Mouse|mouse designed for the system}}. The game lets the player use the mouse to paint a large 16-color (15 actual colors plus {{w|Transparency (graphic)|transparency}}) picture with various tools, as well as place a smaller animation on top of it. A music-making mode is also available, allowing one to create songs to play over their animations. The game was highly popular, resulting in Nintendo releasing a Player's Guide containing information on how to get the most out of the game.
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アホチスーカヲ (Strong Bad and Homestar in the wrestling ring.)
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==== Japanese Phonetics Transcript ====
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*''Mario Paint'' included a "Text Stamp" tool, allowing users to insert both English letters and Japanese characters into scenes (see pages 17{{-}}18 of [https://archive.org/details/snes_Mario_Paint_USA/page/17/mode/2up the ''Mario Paint'' instruction booklet]). Many early [[Homestar Runner (body of work)|Homestar Runner]] works were designed [[Adventure Gamers Interview - 12 Dec 2008|"to feel like [they were] from another country or poorly translated from Japanese maybe,"]] hence the use of non-English text. The Japanese "words" in this toon are all untranslatable nonsense; transliterations are nevertheless provided for each moment.
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** Strong Bad and Homestar in the wrestling ring {{--}}
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***アホチスーカヲ
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*** Ahochisūka o
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** Pom Pom floating {{--}}
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***ソコカオヲタス: ウコスキテ ホ.
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*** Sokokao o tasu: Ukosukite ho.
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** Homestar closeup on yellow background {{--}}
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***えおか: せきひ
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*** Eoka: Sekihi
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** "Homestar Runner" ending splash {{--}}
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***クキカアシネ オスセーホヌツネ!
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*** Kukikaashine Osusēhonutsune!
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ソコカオヲタス<br>
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===Trivia===
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ウコスキテ ホ. (Pom Pom floating by. . .)
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*[[Matt Chapman]], [[Mike Chapman]] and [[Craig Zobel]] made this animation for [[Donnie Chapman]] as a [[Christmas]] present.
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**In [https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/craig-zobel-film-production an interview with ''The Gothamist''], Craig alternatively states that he and Matt made it as a Christmas present for Mike.
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*The vocals are [[the Brothers Chaps]]', sped up to be higher-pitched. This was inspired by the Japanese children's chorus in the "{{p|l=https://wikizilla.org/wiki/Gamera_March Gamera March}}" (which was famously parodied in ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]''), as explained in [[retroCRUSH Interview|a 2001 interview]].
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*This toon marks the debut of [[Strong Mad]] and [[Strong Sad]]. They had been designed earlier in 1996 for the book ''[[Homestar Runner Goes For The Gold!|Homestar Runner and The Brothers Strong]]'', which ultimately went [[Unfinished Toons|unfinished]].
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えおか?
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===Remarks===
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せきひ (Homestar with a yellow background.)
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* Though the individual animated scenes were created in ''Mario Paint'', some post-production was undertaken to assemble the entire toon.
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**''Mario Paint'' can only handle one scene at a time, so each scene must have been created and recorded individually, and then spliced together at the end.
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***Almost all of the animations are possible in ''Mario Paint''. ''Mario Paint'' allows for looping four-, six-, or nine-frame animations; these animations are rendered as {{w|Sprite (computer graphics)|sprites}} that can follow a user-defined path, which is what most of the animations do. The last animation (the "drip") is one of the full-screen erase effects in ''Mario Paint''.
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***The only animations that do not look possible in ''Mario Paint'' are the intro text, the outro "Copyright" text in the old version, both with accompanying fades, and the close up of Homestar with the moving horizontal black moving lines which cover the entire screen. A ''Mario Paint'' animation can only be 1/4 of the screen at its largest {{--}} and, indeed, the scene is zoomed in relative to the others (check the larger pixels)
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**The music that accompanies this toon could not have been made using ''Mario Paint'', which has a fixed note length and can only play notes in the [[Wikipedia:C major|C major]] [[Wikipedia:Musical scale|scale]]. Singing also cannot be recorded ingame.
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***The music was created on the MT-100 [[Casio keyboard]]. The accompanying bass and percussion line consists of pre-programmed riffs which are supplemented with a single-line melody.
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クキカ? アシネ
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*The Japanese characters are mainly written in [[Wikipedia:Katakana|katakana]], a character set used in written Japanese primarily to transcribe foreign words and [[onomatopoeia]]. The exception is the "Homestar with yellow background" screen, which is written in [[Wikipedia:Hiragana|hiragana]], a more general-purpose character set used in conjunction with [[Wikipedia:Kanji|kanji]].
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オスセーホヌツネ! (The Homestar Runner splash.)
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*Several characters are [[Stylized Character Designs|colored differently from their standard designs]]. For example, Pom Pom is shown with a white head in the soccer scene, Homestar's visor is blue, and Strong Sad is orange.
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=== Transliteration of the above ===
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===Inside References===
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Ahochisūka o<br>
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*In this toon, Strong Bad is depicted with a [[green tongue]].
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Sokokao o tasu:<br>
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:ukosukite ho.<br>
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Eoka?<br>
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Sekihi<br>
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Kukika? Ashine<br>
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Osusēhonutsune!<br>
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''No translation exists (nonsense text)''
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===Real-World References===
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* The page title references the classic [[Nintendo#Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)|NES]] game ''[[Mario|Super Mario Bros.]]''.
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* The animation of Homestar swinging a bat mimics one of the sample animations included in the manual for the [[Wikipedia:Etch A Sketch|Etch A Sketch Animator]].
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== Fun Facts ==
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===Fast Forward===
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===Explanation===
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*The [[Homestar Runner Theme Song]] heard in this video would continue to be revisited throughout [[Homestar Runner (body of work)|the body of work]], beginning with a [[Flash]] reimagining in [[Theme Song Video]].
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*Mario Paint was a video game made for the Super NES, and upon its initial release was packaged in a larger box with the Super NES Mouse, a two-button peripheral that perfectly emulated a real computer mouse. (The mouse came with its own plastic pad.) A few other Super NES games also worked with the mouse. Mario Paint itself was not so much a game, as it was an art program. It worked like similar computer programs marketed for kids, such as [[Wikipedia:Kid Pix|Kid Pix]]. The game let you use the mouse to paint a large 16-color picture with various tools, as well as place a smaller animation on top of it. It also had a simple music-making mode. One picture, animation, and music track could collectively be saved onto the cartridge's memory. Mario Paint was quite popular for its time, enough so that Nintendo released a Player's Guide shortly after Mario Paint hit stores. This long guide contained tons of information on how to get the most out of the game.
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*''[[Mario Paint]]'' is used again in [[Strong Bad is a Bad Guy]], the Easter egg of [[Homestar Runner Goes for the Gold]], and [[Mario Paint Thursdays Compilation|Mario Paint Thursdays]].
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*Strong Bad and other characters would continue to be depicted with [[green tongues]] on occasion.
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===Trivia===
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== DVD Version ==
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*[[The Brothers Chaps]] made this for their older brother's birthday.
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*The text at the beginning and end (with the copyright) are gone.
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*The framerate is a lot better on the DVD, due to bandwidth restrictions on the website. In some scenes where the characters are moving freely around, the animation looks "smoother".
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*The DVD version features creators' commentary. To access it, switch the DVD player's audio language selection while watching.
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===Remarks===
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=== Commentary Transcript ===
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*Strong Bad's tongue appears to be green.
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('''Commentary by:''' [[Matt Chapman]], [[Mike Chapman]])
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*The Japanese characters are mainly written in [[Wikipedia:Katakana|katakana]], which is a character set used in written Japanese used primarily to write foreign words and [[Wikipedia:Onomatopoeia|onomatopoeias]]. The exception is the "Homestar with yellow background" screen which also contains [[Wikipedia:Hiragana|hiragana]], which are used in a more general-purpose fashion in conjunction with [[Wikipedia:Kanji|kanji]].  The Brothers Chaps seem, however, to be expressing gibberish. A possible reason for this is that they may not know Japanese.
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*The music that accompanies this toon could not possibly have been made using Mario Paint, which has a fixed note length and can only play notes in the C-major scale. Furthermore, depending on the size of the animation frame, Mario Paint only lets you play four, six, or nine frames consecutively, indicating that this animation would have had to be recorded to an external source over and over again to achieve the many effects present.
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**There ARE various tools in Mario Paint that can create effects seen in the cartoon. For instance, the "drip" at the end is quite clearly one of the erase tools. In addition, many of the animations (like Homestar with the bat) were clearly looping AND less than 9 frames long. The picture quality varies— a sign that the sequences were recorded at different times and linked together.
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*There seems to be several discolorations within the movie. For example, Pom Pom is shown with a white head in the soccer scene, Strong Mad's singlet is black a la [[Marshmallow's Last Stand]], Homestar's visor is blue and Strong Sad is orange.
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=== Real-World References ===
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'''MATT:''' Merry Christmas, Donnie.
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* The page title references the classic [[Wikipedia:Nintendo Entertainment System|NES]] game [[Wikipedia:Super Mario Bros.|Super Mario Bros.]]
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'''MIKE:''' Aw, this looks beautiful!
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*This song is re-made with higher-quality sound and Flash graphics in [[Theme Song Video]].
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*Mario Paint is used again in [[Strong Bad is a Bad Guy]].
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*In [[Stinkoman 20X6]], [[Stinkoman]]'s tongue is green when his "stummy" hurts.
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== External Links ==
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'''MATT:''' Yeah, it's a good thing we filmed the TV so nicely! 
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'''Note: [[Wikipedia:QuickTime|Apple QuickTime]] is needed to view the older version of this toon.''' [http://www.apple.com/quicktime/]
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'''MIKE:''' Yeah!
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'''MATT:''' So this was done in Mario Paint for the Super Nintendo.  The first animated footage of Homestar.
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'''MIKE:''' So why didn't we just... was it so... ah.  I don't even know.
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'''MATT:''' Why we filmed the TV and just outputted each individual scene?  Look at that smooth animation there.
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'''MIKE:'''  That's nice!
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'''MATT:''' Oh, he struggled there a little.  And Pom Pom's got a white head there for some reason.  He's green.  I don't think that's just discoloration, I think it's green... like neon green.  Aw, Homestar's in a rocket!  So there were some limitations to Mario Paint.
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'''MIKE:''' Apparently.
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'''MATT:''' Yes.  It's a... it flip-flopped between being pretty impressive what you could do with it, and then being really unimpressive, what you couldn't do with it.
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'''MIKE:''' Yeah.
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'''MATT:''' There's a lot of Japanese kanji characters you had access to. 
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'''MIKE:''' Kanji?  Is that what it's called?
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'''MATT:''' I don't know.  Look, it's flesh-colored Strong Sad!
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'''MIKE:''' That's horrible.  Look at that...
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'''MATT:''' The tongue!
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'''MIKE:''' And teeth for that matter!
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'''MATT:''' Yeah.  There was some nice transitions like this one you could do. 
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'''MIKE:''' Rain. 
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'''MATT:''' Undodog.
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'''MIKE:''' Undo{{--}}''{barks like a dog}''
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''{Matt sneezes}''
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'''MATT:''' He'd sneeze occasionally.
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===Fun Facts===
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*The Undodog that Matt refers to was a button in Mario Paint with the image of a dog on it that, when clicked, barked while the previous action was undone.  The Undodog would also sneeze at random.
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*Undodog later made an appearance in the game Super Mario Maker, and just like in Mario Paint, it was used as an undo button. In Super Mario Maker 2, he was given a full-body render.
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*Matt is incorrect about the Japanese letters - they are kana, not kanji, which are letters taken from Chinese but used in Japanese.
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== See Also ==
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*The [[Super NES Visuals|visuals]] that occur during this music video.
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== External Links ==
*[[HR:supernes.swf|watch the new Flash version of "Super NES"]]
*[[HR:supernes.swf|watch the new Flash version of "Super NES"]]
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*[[HR:secrets.html|watch "Super NES" (old version)]]
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*[[OldHR:secrets.html|watch "Super NES" (old version)]]
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*[[HR:oldstar.mov|view the old QuickTime file for "Super NES"]]
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*[[OldHR:oldstar.mov|view the video file for "Super NES" (old version)]] (.mov file)
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Current revision as of 20:27, 23 January 2026

This article is about the toon. For the video game system, see Nintendo.
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"Homestar run, run..."

This is the first animated Homestar Runner cartoon ever made, using Mario Paint.

Cast (in order of appearance): The Homestar Runner (storybook), Tiny-Handed Strong Bad, Pom Pom, The Cheat, Strong Mad, Strong Sad

Places: The Field, Arena, Various Houses, A Workout Room, The Athletic Field, The Stage, Outer Space, A Rocket, A Basketball Court

Page title: Super Homestario Bros.

Date: December 1996

Running Time: 1:26

DVD: Everything Else, Volume 2

Contents

[edit] Transcript

TEXT: THE FIRST HOMESTAR CARTOON EVER
MADE ON THE SNES USING MARIO PAINT

Homestar Run GO!
Hooomestaaaar! Run! Run!
Hooomestaaaar! Run! Run!

Homestar Runner really great,
Homestar Runner, ath -ah- late
Homestar Runner, Pom Pom too
Homestar Runner, we love you!

Hooomestaaaar! Run! Run!
Hooomestaaaar! Run! Run!

Homestar Runner, do your best
Homestar Runner, pass the test
Homestar Runner, Mom and Dad
Look out, Homestar! It's Strong Bad!

Hoooomestaaaar Run!
Weekdays.

TEXT: COPYRIGHT HOMESTARRUNNER.COM
1996 AND 2000

[edit] Fun Facts

[edit] Explanations

  • Mario Paint is a video game made for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System that allows players to create their own art, as well as animations and music, being packaged with a mouse designed for the system. The game lets the player use the mouse to paint a large 16-color (15 actual colors plus transparency) picture with various tools, as well as place a smaller animation on top of it. A music-making mode is also available, allowing one to create songs to play over their animations. The game was highly popular, resulting in Nintendo releasing a Player's Guide containing information on how to get the most out of the game.

[edit] Japanese Phonetics Transcript

  • Mario Paint included a "Text Stamp" tool, allowing users to insert both English letters and Japanese characters into scenes (see pages 17–18 of the Mario Paint instruction booklet). Many early Homestar Runner works were designed "to feel like [they were] from another country or poorly translated from Japanese maybe," hence the use of non-English text. The Japanese "words" in this toon are all untranslatable nonsense; transliterations are nevertheless provided for each moment.
    • Strong Bad and Homestar in the wrestling ring —
      • アホチスーカヲ
      • Ahochisūka o
    • Pom Pom floating —
      • ソコカオヲタス: ウコスキテ ホ.
      • Sokokao o tasu: Ukosukite ho.
    • Homestar closeup on yellow background —
      • えおか: せきひ
      • Eoka: Sekihi
    • "Homestar Runner" ending splash —
      • クキカアシネ オスセーホヌツネ!
      • Kukikaashine Osusēhonutsune!

[edit] Trivia

[edit] Remarks

  • Though the individual animated scenes were created in Mario Paint, some post-production was undertaken to assemble the entire toon.
    • Mario Paint can only handle one scene at a time, so each scene must have been created and recorded individually, and then spliced together at the end.
      • Almost all of the animations are possible in Mario Paint. Mario Paint allows for looping four-, six-, or nine-frame animations; these animations are rendered as sprites that can follow a user-defined path, which is what most of the animations do. The last animation (the "drip") is one of the full-screen erase effects in Mario Paint.
      • The only animations that do not look possible in Mario Paint are the intro text, the outro "Copyright" text in the old version, both with accompanying fades, and the close up of Homestar with the moving horizontal black moving lines which cover the entire screen. A Mario Paint animation can only be 1/4 of the screen at its largest — and, indeed, the scene is zoomed in relative to the others (check the larger pixels)
    • The music that accompanies this toon could not have been made using Mario Paint, which has a fixed note length and can only play notes in the C major scale. Singing also cannot be recorded ingame.
      • The music was created on the MT-100 Casio keyboard. The accompanying bass and percussion line consists of pre-programmed riffs which are supplemented with a single-line melody.
  • The Japanese characters are mainly written in katakana, a character set used in written Japanese primarily to transcribe foreign words and onomatopoeia. The exception is the "Homestar with yellow background" screen, which is written in hiragana, a more general-purpose character set used in conjunction with kanji.
  • Several characters are colored differently from their standard designs. For example, Pom Pom is shown with a white head in the soccer scene, Homestar's visor is blue, and Strong Sad is orange.

[edit] Inside References

[edit] Real-World References

[edit] Fast Forward

[edit] DVD Version

  • The text at the beginning and end (with the copyright) are gone.
  • The framerate is a lot better on the DVD, due to bandwidth restrictions on the website. In some scenes where the characters are moving freely around, the animation looks "smoother".
  • The DVD version features creators' commentary. To access it, switch the DVD player's audio language selection while watching.

[edit] Commentary Transcript

(Commentary by: Matt Chapman, Mike Chapman)

MATT: Merry Christmas, Donnie.

MIKE: Aw, this looks beautiful!

MATT: Yeah, it's a good thing we filmed the TV so nicely!

MIKE: Yeah!

MATT: So this was done in Mario Paint for the Super Nintendo. The first animated footage of Homestar.

MIKE: So why didn't we just... was it so... ah. I don't even know.

MATT: Why we filmed the TV and just outputted each individual scene? Look at that smooth animation there.

MIKE: That's nice!

MATT: Oh, he struggled there a little. And Pom Pom's got a white head there for some reason. He's green. I don't think that's just discoloration, I think it's green... like neon green. Aw, Homestar's in a rocket! So there were some limitations to Mario Paint.

MIKE: Apparently.

MATT: Yes. It's a... it flip-flopped between being pretty impressive what you could do with it, and then being really unimpressive, what you couldn't do with it.

MIKE: Yeah.

MATT: There's a lot of Japanese kanji characters you had access to.

MIKE: Kanji? Is that what it's called?

MATT: I don't know. Look, it's flesh-colored Strong Sad!

MIKE: That's horrible. Look at that...

MATT: The tongue!

MIKE: And teeth for that matter!

MATT: Yeah. There was some nice transitions like this one you could do.

MIKE: Rain.

MATT: Undodog.

MIKE: Undo—{barks like a dog}

{Matt sneezes}

MATT: He'd sneeze occasionally.

[edit] Fun Facts

  • The Undodog that Matt refers to was a button in Mario Paint with the image of a dog on it that, when clicked, barked while the previous action was undone. The Undodog would also sneeze at random.
  • Undodog later made an appearance in the game Super Mario Maker, and just like in Mario Paint, it was used as an undo button. In Super Mario Maker 2, he was given a full-body render.
  • Matt is incorrect about the Japanese letters - they are kana, not kanji, which are letters taken from Chinese but used in Japanese.

[edit] See Also

  • The visuals that occur during this music video.

[edit] External Links

Museum
Sketchbook | Original Book | Super NES | Where My Hat Is At? | Fan Stuff | Old Flash Stuff
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