Charles Dickens

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Influential literature author Charles Dickens has been referenced several times in the Homestar Runner body of work.

References

• A Holiday Greeting — Strong Sad says, "And God bless us every one", a quote from A Christmas Carol.
• Pumpkin Carve-Nival — Homsar calls himself the "Ghost of Christmas Past", who originated in A Christmas Carol.
• Email senior prom — Marzipan says, "Watch those hands, David Coppafeel!", referring to David Copperfield.
• Let Us Give Tanks! — Oliver Smidgen is based on Oliver Twist. In the DVD commentary, The Brothers Chaps call Smidgen "that little Dickens's's boy".
• The Homestar Runner Gets Something Stuck in His Craw — Strong Bad calls Strong Sad the "Ghost of Christmas Suck".
• Strong Badia the Free — Under Strong Sad's rule, the house of the Brothers Strong is referred to as Bleak House, the name of a novel by Dickens. Also, when Homestar Runner drafts himself into the Homestarmy, he refers to himself as an "Artful Draft Dodger", a reference to Dickens' character, the Artful Dodger.