Fan Costumes 2016

From Homestar Runner Wiki

"Oh... my idea for a Halloween costume that anyone would recognize died."

Strong Bad critiques and expresses outrage over this year's obscure and outright lame costumes.

Cast (in order of appearance): Strong Bad, Strong Badman, Portrait-of-a-Catman, Homestar Runner, Anonymous, Homsar, Japanese Culture Greg, Coach Z

Costumes depicted (in order of first appearance): Stiny, Strong Bad, Gunhaver, Bubs, Homestar Runner, Anonymous, Marzipan, Homestar Jr., Modestly Hot Homsar, Japanese Culture Greg, The King of Town, Coach Z

Places: Basement of the Brothers Strong

Date: Friday, November 18, 2016

Running Time: 5:00

Page Title: Gently grasp by the haunches!

Transcript

{As usual, the toon starts in the basement of the Brothers Strong; the light dims and the projector screen comes down. The first image displayed is a person in a fancy shirt and a face mask, wearing a "Hello my name is STINY" name tag and holding a plastic pastry box.}

STRONG BAD: {as Strong Badman} Stiny! I said get me a danish! That is clearly a coffee cake! Also, watch out for Portrait-of-a-Catman! {As he says this name, a Strong Badman comic book appears, captioned, "Oh my! It's PORTRAIT-OF-A-CATMAN!!"}

PORTRAIT-OF-A-CATMAN: Meow peow! {These words are added to the comic book cover.}

{The next image appears. It shows someone posing dressed as Strong Bad wearing an Ab-Abber T-shirt, and a woman in a brown jacket, a hat, sunglasses, boots, and a The Cheat-patterned skirt, making a finger-gun.}

STRONG BAD: Is that Ab-Abber Strong Bad with limited-edition Gunhavette? {During the next sentence, a Cheat Commandos action figure package appears of Gunhavette: Gunhaver with brown hair added, with the words "Takes No Guff!" under the name.} Oh man, she was only available by mail order until she got recalled, because Cheap As Free Toys mistakenly printed, {the following words appear as a sticker on the package} "Ob'm know. Maybe eat it, kids." on the package. An honest mistake.

{The next image appears. It's a boy dressed in the Bubs costume from Costume Commercial, with a mask, a "BUBS!" apron, and a brown paper bag with CANDY! written on it.}

STRONG BAD: Not a Bubs costume, but a Bubs costume costume. You gotta love those second-and-third generation ideas.

{The next image appears. It's a man dressed as Homestar Runner dressed as Strong Sad, with a gray star shirt, a sock taped to his head, hippo slippers, and a downcast expression.}

STRONG BAD: Like this one: a perfect Homestar's-impression-of-Strong-Sad costume.

{The real Homestar dressed as Strong Sad appears beside the photo.}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: {doing his Strong Sad impression} Oh... my idea for a Halloween costume that anyone would recognize died. So I dressed up like this.

{The next image appears. It's a person wearing a white shirt, with a paper plate over his face with a question mark written on it and eyeholes.}

STRONG BAD: Um... uh... hang on. {the sound of typing is heard; Strong Bad mutters to himself} Question mark face... maybe Strong Sad? {He hits enter, and a clip of a Homestar Runner Wiki-esque Anonymous Contributor article is shown.} What? Anonymous Contributor? Look, when I have to look your costume up on the Homestar Wiki, that is probably a little too obscure.

{The next image appears. It's a woman and man in costumes that vaguely resemble Marzipan and Homestar respectively, holding a child between them who appears to be dressed as a veggie burger.}

'STRONG BAD: {as if speaking on a telephone} Hello, yes, this is... Clarence... Childprotectionson. Uh, I—I got a pair of parents here who dressed their kid up as a Homestar Jr. Uh, they appear to be at some kind of square dance, or maybe a Cracker Barrel. ??? out in a hurry. The mother is armed and Marzipan'd. I repeat: the mother is armed and Marzipan'd.

{The next image appears. It's a boy wearing a red T-shirt with a painted star, and a music player cord hung around his neck.}

STRONG BAD: Come on! Can't you at least make the effort to take your shuffle off? Or were you like, listenin' to that podcast: "How to Paint a Star with a Chipmunk Tail"? {A music player screen appears, with a podcast cover featuring Strong Bad smiling and holding a chipmunk tail, against the background of the basement. Music plays as Strong Bad speaks in a western voice.} And now, grabbin' your chipmunk by the haunches, gently dip the tail into your white paint, and slather it sloppily on the red T-shirt. If you like what you hearin', don't forget to donate to support this podcast. Last month, I made-a four dollars.

{The next image appears: a girl dressed as Modestly Hot Homsar costume in a cardboard box filled with Styrofoam peanuts.}

STRONG BAD: BLAAH! How did you dress up as my worst nightmare?!

HOMSAR: IIIiiiII baked myself in the shipping supplies!

STRONG BAD: Stop it! I won't sleep for weeks!

{The next image appears. It's a blurry picture of a boy in a white dress shirt with his face painted white, holding some sort of apparatus. "Japanese Culture greg" appears to be written on his shirt.}

STRONG BAD: No stop it again! I won't sleep for weeks! {The "real" drawing of Japanese Culture Greg is superimposed on the screen.}

JAPANESE CULTURE GREG: And now I'll just apply this looking-through-filthy-swamp-water filter on my selfie, {he points to a "swamp water" icon, alongside "marsh water", "bog water", and "snake water" icons that have also appeared} and send it all to Strong Bad!

{The next image appears. It's a person with no shirt on with a paper cut-out Strong Bad mask and a boxing glove. As Strong Bad speaks, the picture switches to the same person in costumes of the King of Town, Marzipan, and Coach Z.}

STRONG BAD: This kid seems to have invented his own line of "I have five minutes and zero dollars to make a Halloween costume" costumes. Are you just wearing a green long-sleeve shirt as pants?

COACH Z: Yup! Just like the real thing!

STRONG BAD: Nor— then what is the neck-hole for?!

COACH Z: Not what you'd think, actually!

STRONG BAD: Blah! Coach Zibblies!

{The next image appears, showing a foam Strong Bad mask with two Everlast-brand boxing gloves beside it.}

STRONG BAD: This mask is fantastic! I'm not even gonna make fun of it! But you did get the boxing gloves totally wrong. I'm not an Everlast man! {He shows one of his boxing gloves during the next line, which now have a brand name on them.} Everybody knows I only rock A+ #1 All-Pro Panache! {quickly} Makers of fine biological boxing gloves since 1973.

{The next image appears. It's a tall person dressed as Strong Bad with a skin-colored shirt, and carrying a pumpkin with Strong Bad's face carved in it.}

STRONG BAD: Technically I guess this is a "good" Strong Bad costume. But, let's see what happens when I match proportions with ya. {During this sentence, a picture of Strong Bad appears next to the picture, then moves to the center of the image, stretching to fit the costume-wearer's proportions. The result is an extremely long-bodied, long-legged Strong Bad with a very small head. He's holding a cartoon version of the pumpkin.}

RE-PROPORTIONED STRONG BAD: {in a high-pitched version of Strong Bad's voice} Want some pumpkin?

STRONG BAD: Duah! That's what I thought.

{The next image appears. It's a woman in a smiley-face shirt and a flowered skirt, holding a guitar that's decorated to look like Carol, with the lettering and the snake image.}

STRONG BAD: Well, that's a totally nonexistent Marzipan costume. But you did dress your guitar up as Carol pretty well. Got the coily snake on there, and... you even downloaded that font: "MotterFemD". I think there's like a hair salon nearby that uses that font. Called "Luscious Wavey... {falters} Waveings"... {a business card for the salon appears: "Luscious Waveiñgs by Bubs"} way... is that "waveing"? Do people do that to their hair? In a luscious fashion? Nailed this one!

Fun Facts

Trivia

• This is the first time the HRWiki has been referenced in a toon.

Remarks

• Strong Bad is disgusted with the woman dressed up as Homsar, despite his not having an issue with Modestly Hot Homsar in both different town and Fan Costumes '06.
• The end of the toon does not fade to black, and simply dims.

Inside References

• The person dressed up as Bubs has a costume similar to the one Homestar dressed up as in Costume Commercial.
• The opening with Strong Bad teaching the viewers how to draw a star is similar in dragon.