Hiatuses

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Occasionally, The Brothers Chaps put all or part of the Homestar Runner website on hiatus. This has been happening particularly recently, especially with Strong Bad Emails.

Minor hiatuses

"What is it, like, mid-May or something?"

With the exception of its early years, the first time Homestar Runner went on a hiatus of at least a month was December 2005/January 2006, starting with the release of the Strong Bad Email portrait and ending with the release of the Strong Bad Email highschool. Despite being short compared to the current hiatus, it caused almost as much discussion, as can be seen here. It again went on hiatus in May/June 2006, after the release of the Strong Bad Email isp. This was because of a baby that Mike Chapman and Missy Palmer gave birth to. This hiatus ended with Weclome Back, which also explained what the Homestar Runner characters were up to during that time. The next hiatus was in December 2006/January 2007, between the releases of Decemberween Short Shorts and looking old, and in July 2007, Matt and Jackie Chapman also gave birth to a baby and stated that Homestar Runner would be taking a break for this reason, but Where's an Egg? was released shortly after this announcement. The next hiatus was in December 2008/January 2009, between the releases of A Death-Defying Decemberween and Hremail 62.

Strong Bad Emails

A comeback... or was it?

The first long Strong Bad Email hiatus was in between email thunder and hremail3184, lasting 280 days (nine months and one week). It was the longest Sbemail gap when it came out, and for a while afterwards, one Strong Bad email came out each month. The last Strong Bad email, videography, came out on October 5, 2009, and as of now it is the longest Strong Bad email gap in the history of the site (over two years). As of April 16, 2024, the hiatus is still ongoing. However, The Brothers Chaps do not seem to have forgotten about Strong Bad Email, as they have released drafts for the email that eventually became geddup noise as well as a calendar that documents the release dates of all Strong Bad Emails and shows an image and a quote from selected emails.

2010

The original reason for the hiatus

During 2010, after the April Fools' Day toon Xeriouxly Forxe came out (itself the first major update in nearly five months), barely any material was produced on the website. Most of the articles presented on the main page were Store offers. This may be because of a new baby in the family, as noted on the FeedBurner page, and the possibility they were busy working on a different project. For the first time in the site's history, no Halloween cartoon was produced in 2010. After over seven months of no updates, on November 22, Poker Night at the Inventory was released. On December 14, 2010, A Decemberween Mackerel was released, temporarily ending the hiatus. This was shortly followed by Which Ween Costumes? on December 22.

2011-2012

How 2011 can be summed up for Homestar Runner

Following the holiday break into the new year, the site was back on hiatus, though Puppet Strong Bad did appear at an Aquabats concert in January. There have been no updates since (with the exception of a Store offer), and for the third time in its history since the trend began, the site was not updated for April Fools' Day in any way. In September, Matt created a Twitter account in which he stated that Homestar Runner would sooner be updated "sporadically and without warning", and that he works for the Nickelodeon program Yo Gabba Gabba, for which he had previously created an animated segment. No Halloween toon was released in October, and no Decemberween toon was released in December. December 22, 2011, marked the first time in the site's history that an entire year passed with no new content.

Records Set

• Least amount of toons in a year: 0
• Fewest weekly updates: 0
• Fewest big toons in a year: 0
• Longest time between updates: 8 months (with the current hiatus exceeding one year).

See also

• Acknowledged Update Delays