2022 Costume Pack Now Available

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Strong Sad's take on the tale, now with extra graphics

Thanks to the power of downloadable content, Homestar's very first Halloween cartoon gets some new features.

Cast (in order of appearance): The King of Town, Coach Z, Bubs, Homestar Runner, Strong Bad, Strong Mad, The Cheat, Pom Pom, Marzipan, Strong Sad, The Poopsmith, Homsar, The Goblin, Visor Robot, The Sad Kids, Stave It Off Guy (easter egg), The Homestar Runner (storybook) (easter egg), The Homestar Runner (easter egg), Fat Dudley (easter egg) Old-Timey Strong Bad (easter egg), The Arrow Smith (easter egg)

Places: Spooky Woods

Date: Sunday October 23, 2022

Running Time: 6:29 (Flash), 11:57 (YouTube)

Page Title: 2022 Costume Pack Now Available!

Transcript

{Spooky music plays.}

Homestarloween
Party

Written, drawn,
and directed by
Matt, Mike, and Craig

Voices by
Matt Chapman
and Missy Palmer

Animation by
the Brothers Chaps

(But now "(C) 2000 homestarrunner.com" is written on the lower-right)

{Cut to The King of Town, Coach Z and Bubs.}

COACH Z: Oh jeez, I don't know, I think I prefer his work with the Furious 5 much more. Uh, he had more street cred back then...

{Homestar walks by, and continues to do so throughout the scene.}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Hey, thanks for coming to my party, guy-

{The cartoon pauses with a blue bar appearing in the upper-left. It reads "New DLC is available for this cartoon!"}

{The bar then reads "Downloading "2022 Costume Pack"", as a white line appears to download the pack.}

{The pack finishes downloading. The bar reads "DLC downloaded!"}

{The bar then reads "The cartoon will now restart.}"

{Cut to The King of Town, Coach Z and Bubs, who now are wearing different costumes.}

COACH Z: Oh jeez, I don't know, I think I prefer his work with the Furious 5 much more. Uh, he had more street cred back then...

{Homestar walks by, and continues to do so throughout the scene. His costume gushes blood and his voice has a reverb.}

HOMESTAR: Hey, thanks for coming to my party, guys. {rapping; Coach Z dances} Ahh, it's Coach Z to rock around, to rock around on time ah yeah, it's Coach Z!

{Switch to Strong Bad, Strong Mad and The Cheat.}

STRONG BAD: ...you know, I think it turned out pretty good. I mean Mom helped me do the boots {gestures to hat}, and I did the sewing—

{Homestar walks by.}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Oh, lookin' good, Strong Bad. Death Clock forever, that's great!

STRONG BAD: Oooh, Death Clock ih- d—?! {shouting} For the last time, I'm some freakin' guy I chose at random from {not shouting} WarioWare.

STRONG MAD: YOU SHOULD HAVE PICKED THE DISCO GUY.

{Switch to Marzipan, Strong Sad, Pom Pom and The Poopsmith, who is bobbing for pumpkins. He picks up a pumpkin and spits it into the bucket twice.}

MARZIPAN: Yesterday, I was out in the garden, and I was weeding, and there was this little worm... and...

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Aww, everybody looks so great! {stops walking} You know, there's more punch over there, if anybody... wants any.

{At the last second of the shot, Homsar pops up from the pumpkin-bobbing pool.}

{Cut to Homestar.}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: All riiiiiight, everybody! Line up! {holds up flashlight} We're gonna play {clicks flashlight on and off} Flashlight Ghost-Story-Telling with a Flashliiight! {thunder booms}

{Cut to Homestar at the front of the line, with Bubs and Pom Pom behind him.}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Okay, okay, okay! I'll go first.

{A circle forms around him so his picture is now an inset of a new scene. The story begins in the Spooky Woods.}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Umm... okay! {talking spooky} Once, there was this green gobliiiin... {a goblin appears, accompanied by a musical sting} and um, he used to... look aroooound... {the goblin looks around, accompanied by a musical sting} And um, I guess he did a daaance. {the goblin dances to a short song} {breaking character} Oh man, that was terribl-

{The blue bar re-appears. It reads "Downloading "Goblin Dance Moves Upgrade".}

{The bar finishes downloading. It then reads "DLC downloaded!".}

{It then reads "The cartoon will now restart."}

{The screen briefly fades to black, before fading back in.}

{The bar reads "Just kidding."}

{The goblin now does a more well-animated dance to the remix from Most In The Graveyard. Homestar onlooks.}

{Homestar passes the flashlight to Bubs.}

BUBS: And... the goblin, he had a Grem-

{The blue bar re-appears. It reads "Downloading "Lesser Characters Ghost Story Expansion"}

{The bar finished downloading. It reads "DLC downloaded!" Coach Z now takes Bubs' place.}

COACH Z: Had this gorblin! He bought a new fridge!

{The car turns into a fridge. As Coach Z speaks, the fridge is morphed to fit his description. The goblin nods.}

COACH Z: And he tricked it out with a drawer freezer, French doors, and an ice-maker that dispenses ballpark ice! Y'know, the kind that kinda looks like little icy tater-torts. {A pile of ice cubes dispenses from the fridge.} 36 by 65 inches, 28 cubic feet of food storage, I mean we're talking some freaking hus-tle! {A few elements from Bubs' Gremlin are added to the fridge.}

{Coach Z passes the flashlight to The Cheat, who makes Cheat noises throughout his segment. As he does, a zombie bursts out from the fridge. Another zombie emerges from behind, as does a pair of eyeballs from the ice pile, another zombie from a tree, and a drawing of the sun on the fridge. The Cheat passes the flashlight to Strong Mad.}

STRONG MAD: Ummm... THE GOBLIN IS WEARING A HAT! {A chef's hat appears on the goblin.} And... THE FRIDGE IS WEARING A HAT! {A wizard's hat appears on the fridge.} Duh... uh, A PILE OF HATS IS WEARING A HAT! {A pile of hats appears, and a large maroon top hat plops on top of the pile.}

STRONG BAD: Oh, brother! Gimme that! {snatches the flashlight from Strong Mad} So then the robot came—

{The Visor Robot appears onscreen, to the right.}

STRONG BAD: —and he started vaporizing everybody with his vapor-gu-

{The blue bar re-appears. It reads "Downloading "Robot Graphical Upgrade".}

{The bar finishes downloading. It reads "DLC downloaded!". The Visor Robot is now given a sleak black shiny coat.}

{the Visor Robot blasts everything but the fridge with red laser vision}

STRONG BAD: And he was like "You take this, and you'd better, you, and you take this, everybody's gonna die!" And then he said, {jumping backwards to crush the fridge underfoot} "Oh, the Gremlin! I hate the Goblin Gremlin! Bah!"

{The Visor Robot kicks the fridge over the trees. However, the Goblin, who has evaded the attack, stays behind.}

{The blue bar re-appears. It reads "Downloading "Strong Bad Human Nose Pack".}

{The bar finishes downloading. It reads "DLC downloaded!" The circle zooms in to the center of the screen, as the nose of Strong Bad's costume is replaced with a more CG-looking one, with doingle boingle physics.}

STRONG BAD: Oh man, this nose is amazing! Look at it doingle boingle! {Strong Bad rocks his head back and forth} Doingle boingle doingle boingle dongle boingle… I need to get some more punch.

{The circle zooms back out to its original position. Strong Bad passes the flashlight to the King of Town and walks off}

THE KING OF TOWN: Oooh, oooh!

{The Visor Robot and Goblin stand across from each other and all the food appears that the King mentions in between them.}

THE KING OF TOWN: And then there was fried fish and Heavenly Ha-

{The blue bar re-appears. It reads "Nerf The King Of Town's Food Dumbness?" Two options are presented; "Yes" and "Very Yes". The latter is selected.}

{All the food inexplicably disappears. Strong Sad instantly takes his place.}

STRONG SAD: And so it turns out the robot had a human brain {a circle showing the interior of the Robot's head shows a human brain inside it} that was stolen from a ki-

{The blue bar re-appears. It reads "Downloading "Strong Sad's Less Pathetic Voice Sound Pack"}

{The bar finishes downloading. It reads "DLC downloaded!"

{A boy and a girl walk in from the left.}

STRONG SAD: {Now with his modern voice} -kindly old man. And the children of that old man came to the robot looking for their father, and they called out to him.

{A speech bubble with an exclamation point in it appears on the girl. They move in closer.}

STRONG SAD: And the robot's human brain remembered his children and his stolen life, and he was moved to tears.

{Tears drip down from the robot's visor, which causes sparks to appear on his exterior.}

STRONG SAD: But the tears shorted out his circuits, and fried his brain.

{The robot topples over, crushing the two kids and the goblin. The robot's brain is thrown clear and begins to slide in a pool of brain juice.}

STRONG SAD: And the robot toppled over, and he crushed his children, and the Goblin, too. And none of them lived.

{Cut to Bubs, Coach Z, and The King of Town crying.}

COACH Z: {crying} Oh, jeez, what a total downer!

{They walk away, still crying.}

{Cut to a wide shot as everyone begins leaving.}

STRONG BAD: Oh man, I'm outta here!

{The Poopsmith sighs deeply and walks away.}

MARZIPAN: {crying} That's the saddest story I've ever heard! You can't come to next year's party.

{Marzipan walks away crying, }

HOMESTAR RUNNER: {sadly} Gee... thanks for coming to my party, Strong Sad.

{Homestar sighs and walks away.}

{Everyone except Strong Sad leaves, and crickets start chirping. An owl hoots as Strong Sad clicks the flashlight on and off a few times.}

{The blue bar re-appears. It reads "Downloading "Modicum of Effort on the Animation Pack"}

{The bar finishes downloading. It reads "DLC downloaded!"}

{Strong Sad is now animated like he is clicking the flashlight on and off. A close-up circle is added to the right for emphasis.}

{Cut to the ending screen, showing the moon behind the trees. A far-off wolf howls.}

{The old-style costume list screen pops up. The blue bar re-appears. It reads "Downloading "Later That Night"}

{The bar finishes downloading. It reads "DLC downloaded!". The scene changes to the since-2001 standard stand-around-and-comment-on-each-others'-costume screen.}

STRONG BAD: Woah! I forgot this cartoon didn't have a stand around and comment on each other's costumes part.

STRONG SAD: The tradition of standing around in the spooky woods after a Halloween cartoon and commenting on one other's costumes began in 2001 with the cartoon The House—

STRONG BAD: Ugh! Pipe down, you walking Homestar Runner Wiki!

STRONG SAD: This cartoon contains another reference to the Homestar Runner Wiki.

STRONG BAD: This cartoon's about to contain another instance of blood if you don't shut up.

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Ooh, I can help with that!

{He leans over and spurts blood out of his arm hole, then alternating to the other side, then both}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Ptoo! Ptoo! Instance of blood!

Easter Eggs

• At the end, click on The Cheat:

HOMESTAR RUNNER: {singing} Cheatclif! Cheatclif! No one should be in a third-rate Garfield cartoon!

• At the end, click on Coach Z:

STRONG BAD: Well, it finally happened, Coach Z ran out of rappers to dress up as and had to repeat one.

COACH Z: No, no! I've never dressed up as somebody from Run DMC! Honest!

HOMESTAR RUNNER: There's no way, Coach Z. You definitely did in like, 2003, 2005, maybe.

STRONG BAD: Yeah, I specifically remember there being like a "King of Rork" joke or maybe it was "Work this way".

COACH Z: {scatting and dancing to the tune of Walk this Way}

STRONG SAD: {speaking concernedly and rapidly} Are we really not going to address how Coach Z has fingers in this cartoon?!?!

• At the end, click on Pom Pom:
• At the end, click on the King of Town:
• At the end, click on Strong Mad:
• At the end, click on Strong Sad:
• At the end, click on Bubs:
• At the end, click on the Poopsmith:
• At the end, click on Homestar:
• At the end, click on Homsar:
• At the end, click on Marzipan:
• At the end, click on Strong Bad:
• At the end, click on the moon:
• At the end, click on the skull:
• At the end, click on the jack-o'-lantern:

Fun Facts

Inside References

• The options for nerfing the King of Town are "Yes" and "Very Yes", the latter of which calls back to the error message in virus.

External Links

• watch "2022 Costume Pack Now Available"
• watch "2022 Costume Pack Now Available" on YouTube
• view the Flash file for "2022 Costume Pack Now Available"