Website Sightings

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Revision as of 10:18, 2 December 2005

8BitJoystick.com

In this article about how to literally burn CDs, the author notes to "burn it properly like Trogdor burninates the peasants."

8-Bit Theater

• In 8 Bit Theater 3, In the bloopers, The Cheat is "summoned" in one, and Strong Bad appears on a Mega Man II Boss Screen in another.

8-Bit-Theater on Flashplayer.com

• In one of the 2005 e3 strips, the one of the characters wears a Strong Bad mask to fool a shady vendor, see it here:

8-Bit-Theater

• In Twinkin' out with RedMage 21:Errata!, a once weekly advice column, a reader inquires: "How does strong bad type with boxing gloves"

Acquisition X

In the screenshot on this page, you used to be able to see some Homestar Runner stuff, like Homsar & Limozeen.

Addicting Games

The site features Stinkoman 20X6 and Trogdor. Plus, Awexome Cross and Population: Tire were on the site before it got redesigned. View it here.

All Your Base parody list

The TmsT Zero Wing Parodioes Emporium features All Your HomeStarRunner[sic] are belong to Trogdor.

Attack of the Cheese Eating Robots

Made by "Dangerskew" a reference to Dangeresque.

Double-Tongued Word Wrester

Neolinguist Grant Barrett has done an entry on "asplode" on his site. It looks like "asplode" was not coined by the Brothers Chaps, but he agrees that its appearance in the toons and games is probably responsible for its recent popularity.

Atari Age

At this site, someone hacked the Atari "Donkey Kong" game. Player, Enemy, and Object sprites have been changed to resemble characters from Homestar Runner. You can find it here.

"Audition With Marzipan" Remix

The Thilo run The 2nd Best Page In The Universe made a remix of "Thoughts Of A Bird" from the Audition With Marzipan game. A download of the remix is available here And the article about it Here

BB-Spot-Which website are you?

In the website personality test at www.bbspot.com, one of the possible answers you can get is Homestarrunner.com.

Best Page In The Universe

In one of Maddox's rants about the amount of emails he gets, he makes a little ode to The Chapman Brothers. This must mean he is aware of homestarrunner.com. The actual quote is "I know there are other big websites out there that generate a lot of email (my sympathies to the Chapman brothers)".

Blanca face

An image of Strong Bad to be used on the Animal Crossing cat, Blanca, appears at Animal Crossing Ahead.

Bryan Waterman Interview

Bryan Waterman, who does the series "Waterman" had an interview and he mentioned the best internet cartoon was Homestar Runner:

Who is your favorite flash movie artist or flash artists if you have more than one? What are some of your favorite flash movie series? BRIAN WATERMAN: Above all else Homestar Runner not only do I love the cartoon, Mike and Matt are two good friends of mine. Bonus Stage is another one I really like and I do look forward to Joseph's animations.

See It Here

Choose your own change

If you submit a story, the following message appears: "Your article has been received... If Instructions on the previous page have been followed your story will be posted soon, if not it will be baleeted!"

Dr. Fruitcake

Dr. Fruitcake, a famous video game music sequencer and remixer, has created a song called "The Occasional Beat (Strong Bad Remix)" in tribute to new hands. Check it out here.

Duct Tape

On this webpage there is a picture of a duct tape backpack featuring Strong Bad, Marzipan, and Homestar.

Episode Comparisons

The anime episode comparison site Mew Mew Power Uncensored sometimes uses the term Baleeted and frequently uses the Teen Girl Squad-esque term DELET'D in their comparisons to say when a scene was cut out.

Europa Universalis Forums

This site has a large number of fanfiction entries for Paradox Entertainment games, such as Europa Universalis and Hearts of Iron. The author Prufrock451 put a "Private Benedetto" in this Hearts of Iron 2 After Action Report. He's told to "keep that mess down".

Eric Conveys The Brothers Chaps?

• Eric at 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 humour. See a step-by-step progression of The Game. On page 1 Trogdor is in the background, on page 2 The Ugly One is in the background, on page 3 Old-Timey Homestar is in the background, on page 4 Homestar is in the background, on page 5 Strong Bad is in the background, on page 6, The Cheat is actually in the foreground, on page 7, The Cheat, Strong Mad and a keg of melonade are in the background, and on page 8, Stinkoman is in the background.
• Also, in "getting a great idea... while falling to your doom" Eric has a Homsar shirt on. greatideafalldoom.jpg

Fake Domain Registration Info

The registration information provided for "olene.net" references Mundelow, Schenectady Crispies, Abdi LaRue, Cheap as Free, Cory, ND, The Cheat, Strongbadia, Free Country, USA, Coach Z, and his locker room.

Flying Omelette's Kitchen

According to this site, Strong Bad may have been switched at birth with Viewtiful Joe, as well as the Red Power Ranger. Also, The Cheat is compared to Pikachu. Direct links to the articles are available here for Strong Bad and here for The Cheat.

Fred The Monkey

Fred the Monkey.com is a Flash animation site that is greatly influenced by Homestar Runner. It's been around for three years now. Like Homestar Runner, the site features a "First Time Here"-video and a mailbag, very much like Strong Bad's e-mail. Another more obvious reference is displayed in this toon, where Fred The Monkey wears a Strong Bad mask at the end.

Funny Junk

In a flash cartoon here(warning: adult material), Strong Bad is dancing in the middle of the screen at about the middle of the flash cartoon. He dances like he does in The Luau.

Futurama Madhouse

At the Futurama Madhouse, they have a regular feature on "Uses for a hacker". Use #498 is entitled "Homsar's Translator" and features everyone's favorite blue midget Homestar, Homsar! Also notable is the fact that the copyright reads "C Tandy 400, Chapman Bros". Use #667 is entitled "Homestar Runner's Evil Twin", and features, just that. Use #669 "Strong Bad's Torture Victims Who Misspell Repeetedli" is the final Homestar-related use for a hacker.

GameFAQs

• On the GameFAQs video game database, there are pages for Peasant's Quest and Stinkoman 20X6, where each game has user-submitted walkthroughs, reviews and more, as well as its own message board!
• Also, The Unofficial Homestarrunner board can be found here.

GEOWeasel

• In the first episode of this flash webcomic, when you first see the computer, the screen reads "run sb_email.exe," an obvious reference to the opening of all SB E-mails.
• In the filler episode, the computer is "Compy 387".

History of the Internet

• The "archivists" make a reference to H*R, saying that because of them, "The internet is finally given purpose."

• View History of the Internet

Homokaasu.org

A Homestar Runner wall-size printout demonstrating homokaasu.org's Rasterbator software (Web service)

I-Mockery: EVOLUTION OF JACK!

After Pjalne pretends to have stabbed himself in the arm there is a picture of Andy with a caption of "Halloween'd", which is a direct reference to Teen Girl Squad.

IGN

On the article about hooking up a Nintendo Wifi Adapter, the image behind the setup screen is from a TGS comic.

I-Mockery: Bishop of Battle

On the second page of his review, the image of the Bishop swallowing J.J. is captioned with a reference to StrongBadZone, "YOUR HEAD A SPLODE!" A direct link to the page is available here. Contains profanity.

Insert Disc Two

In the sketch My Dream Date with James Joyce, Lori Williams' character has a The Cheat doll on her bed.

JengaJam.com

This website always puts up links to the latest Homestar updates. The name of the site came from Homsar's quote in Where's The Cheat?

Kid Radd!

At the Kid Radd web page, (www.kidradd.com)in one of the first comics, Kid Radd is upset because, as ha puts it, "My world a-splode!"

Mind Body Guide

Strong Bad is the featured image of a slightly tongue-in-cheek tally of the body’s many muscles on this site. Strong Bad Email suntan is quoted when the article states "let’s not forget the cloits and dloits!"

MoreAwesomeThanYou.com

• At the time of writing, this page (warning: graphic under construction graphic) was still under construction, but the index.html page title is "More Awesome Than You PAY PLUS!", an obvious reference to HomestarRunner.com PAY PLUS!. Five of the sub-forums are marked as been in the "Burnination" parent forum. One of the child forums in the "Burnination" parent forum is entitled "Peasantry". Another is titled "Bowels of Trogdor".
• Several phrases used are similar, or based on Homestar Runner phrases. Examples include: "Game exploding in a big firey ball that is visible from space" and "GameCube is no place for a mighty warrior."

Neglected Characters

This is a site where the Neglected Characters of Mario games are honored. One of them, Dr. Donez, answers questions regularly (much like Strong Bad) at Ask Dr. Donez. He repeatedly gets asked how he types with boxing gloves on. Also, in the current 'election' for president, one of the reasons you should vote for Bowser is that he was 'friends with Trogdor'.

Neopets

• View Neopets released a new avatar with the caption "Your Lupe A Splode" which is an obvious reference to video games and StrongBadZone.

• In this avatar, the caption reads "Garlic'd!" at the end-an obvious Teen Girl Squad reference.

• Neopets also has an avatar reserved for theneopetsteam, a staff username, which references the "a splode."
• There is also a petpet labaratory, that can change your petpet's image, and one thing that can happen is your petpet's name can change to So and So.

NoSlang.com

The NoSlang.com "commonly misspelled words" page has a statement saying "Since not everybody owns a copy of 'Strong Bad's Rythm N' Grammar,' we've tried to do our part to help by compiling a list of common internet misspellings."

Olde English

In their General Procrastination sketch, Razin was holding off going to battle by going on the internet and watching the new Strong Bad Email. (which really wasn't even an email, he opened up the Strong Bad bio 'toon and the email menu.)

View Oldeenglish.

Real Ultimate Power

Parodies of Real Ultimate Power are everywhere. A fan made one featuring TROGDOR.

Red vs Blue

• At 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 your favorite character from your favorite online comic (obviously referring to himself), Strong Bad's face appears on-screen instead.
• A Strong Bad and a Homestar sticker is also seen during the Red vs. Blue segment in the Halo 2 Limited Collectors Edition DVD, on the window of a door.

Rinkworks Graffiti

On one of the Rinkworks graffiti pages, the text "Baleted" can be seen. [1] On another, an image of Strong Bad has been crudely pasted in to all the other crazy stuff going on. [2]

Shenmue II : The Gang Edition

In the fan-movie Shenmue II : The Gang Edition, when Ryo arrives at Guilin, he is distracted by a The Cheat Talking Plush Doll, which is the guardian of the village where Shenhua lives.
Later, Ryo kicks the Plush Doll, making it complain.

Shoot the Cliche

Trogdor appears in this game from another site. Blast Away!

Star Harbor Nights

The authors of these stories are apparently fans... their characters have started making Homestar and Strong Bad references in conversation, including the use of the word "Decemberween" in one story and a reference to Strong Bad singing from A Holiday Greeting.

Stinkoman 20X6 on VGMusic.com

• VGMusic.com have done a remix of some of the Stinkoman 20X6 soundtrack. However, since VGMusic doesn't allow direct linking to MIDI files, the creator has put them up on his website for download. The links can be found here:
• Level Select
• Level Start
• Level 1
• Boss Theme
• Level 2
• Level 8

These files were sequenced by Tyler Prevost.

Strong Bad Pilots an F/A-22 Raptor

For a short time, Strong Bad could be seen on the Lockheed Martin F/A-22 Raptor Team Web Site F/A-22 Raptor.

Superdickery.com

• In a "Bizzaro letters" segment, one guy writes "Dear Strongbad: How do you type with boxing gloves on?" [3]
• Also, the creator says "head a'splode" in a little blurb following this comic cover

Technopets

On technopets00.tripod.com, the tpemail ICONS makes 2 references. 1. "Bad emails will be burninated, er burned" is the weekly email message. 2. An easter egg link says "link 'em up dan!"(check the tpemails)

The 2004 Cartoonist's Choice Awards

Homestar Runner won in the Best Use of Flash category at "The 2004 Cartoonist's Choice Awards"

The Force.net Humor

At a Star Wars Fansite's humor section one of their "Top 46 lists" titled 'Top 47 lesser known goals of the evil empire' says "Secret co-production of Dangeresque 1, 2, & 3". The List The Site

The Homestar Runner.com

This domain name and web hosting site, which says it is "Not affiliated with Homestarrunner.com", uses the Homestar Runner (flash cartoon) logo and part of the "Spoof on Apple Computer 'Think Different' campaign" Wallpaper. The site's banner also features the <head><href>No loafing!</href></body> sign.

The Schumin Web

The splash page for November 2005 showed an image of Ben Schumin dressed up as The Thnikkaman. The same image also appears in the Splash Page Archives.

The Straight Dope

The StrongBadZone was submitted for Weird Earl's on The Straight Dope, a category featuring strange and/or awesome sites.

Uncyclopedia=

• On the ever-popular factually-inaccurate encyclopedia Uncyclopedia, the VfD (vote for deletion) template reads "Baleeted! This article is total crap. Please VFD." For two examples, see here, and here.
• According to their article on Trogdor, he is a deceased heavy metal artist, actually named Trogdor Combledon Emtarkanderundersgunderson.

Urban Dictionary

On July 1st, 2005, the main page "word of the day" on Urban Dictionary was biz cas fri. (It is misspelled as "bis cas fri.") [4]

Variousimmers

On this site dedicated to modding The Sims 2, two of the objects are a Painting of a guy with a big knife (here), and a Strong Bad monument (here).

VG Mix

Here there is a remix of the first racing tune from Rad Racer (which is also Stinkoman's theme). The title references to japanese cartoon and the song itself contains quotes from said e-mail.

Wikipedia's April Fool's Day Article 2005

Homestar in his Daisy Dukes was eventually added to the somewhat lengthy Wikipedia April Fool's Day 2005 article detailing a hostile takeover of Wikipedia by Encyclopedia Britannica. He was part of Wikipedia's "new corporate structure" as the Minister of Long Pants. He was then pictured lower on the page in the "Immediate Aftermath" section, then moved to the "Related Information" section, then finally dropped altogether. The page as it exists now can be found here, and the edit history for the page here. Strongbad was also named Minister of Deleting email, and is found directly under Homestar's listing.