Lack of Visible Arms
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One of the ultimate mysteries of the series is that Homestar Runner, Marzipan, The King of Town and Homsar, as well as many other characters, all lack visible arms and hands, yet in spite of this they have the ability to pick stuff up and carry it around. The most common explanations for the phenomenon are that they either have invisible arms or can manipulate objects with some kind of psychokinesis. Usually none of the other characters seem to pay attention to this curiosity, although sometimes their lack of hands is referenced.
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References
- Armless Invaders - Homestar is the "armless invader" of the title.
- Email vacation - Strong Bad imagines, in a hypothetical email from Monkey D, "How does Homestar pick stuff up if he's not wearing any Marzi-pants?"
- Email action figure - Homestar's action figure box reads "No arms! Like real life!"
- The Interview - Strong Bad refers to Homestar as a "no-armed whitey".
- Email fingers - Homestar makes himself a pair of fake arms.
- Strong Bad is a Bad Guy - Strong Mad starts to say that Homestar doesn't have arms, but is cut off by the end of the cartoon.
- Stinkomanual- Level 5's intro reads, "1-Up takes matters into his own, um, torso!"
Oddities
- In Search of the Yello Dello — Marzipan slaps Homestar across the face, leaving a visible handprint.
- In the commentary, Strong Bad says that Marzipan has really nice hands and Homestar replies, "Yeah, I suppose she does."
- The Reddest Radish — Marzipan knocks on the door of Homestar's house with her head, despite the fact she could have used her invisible arms/telekinetic powers instead.
- Likewise, in 3 Times Halloween Funjob, Homestar knocks on Marzipan's door with his head, although he's probably just being silly, or possibly because he's holding his bagful of candy with both 'hands'.
- Homestar vs. Little Girl 2 — When Puppet Homestar plays Tag with Little Girl, he touches her with his head.
- Email the bird — Strong Bad flips Homestar off, and after Homestar replies "Right back atcha," Strong Bad exclaims, "He just gave me the bird!"
- Email your friends — Strong Bad asks Marzipan to hold out her hands; instead of replying that she doesn't have any, she just says she doesn't want to.
- Strong Bad Sings — One of Strong Bad's songs is titled "This One Time I Saw Homestar Punching a Kitten in the Throat".
- Email marzipan — Strong Bad remarks that "Marzipan can't keep her hands offa" him.
- Email time capsule — Homestar is able to manipulate the box, box lid, and wig all at the same time, as if he has multiple invisible arms.
- This is also seen in email the show and Main Page 19, where Homestar holds a microphone and sorts through a stack of index cards at the same time.
- Puppet Jam: Everybody Knows It — Puppet Homestar gives high fives to They Might Be Giants.
- Homestar can type on a keyboard, as shown in 50 emails and anything, and the short Arcade Game.
- Similarly, in the King of Town Email (reached via the King of Town Main Page), the King of Town is heard typing on the keyboard of the broken Tandy 400.
- Puppet Jam: Apple Juice Blues - Homestar says "my arm really really hurts."
- Email highschool - In Strong Bad's "unphotographic memory", Homestar sings "Shaking hands with my man".
- Biz Cas Fri — When Homestar "helps" Strong Bad with his spreadsheet, Homestar types with his head, when he could type with his "hands" in 50 emails, anything, and Arcade Game
- Email virus — Homestar's head falls off his body, and then the head picks up the links in the navigation bar.
References to Other Apparently Invisible Body Parts
- Email alternate universe — Tiny-Handed Strong Bad attempts to dig to China with his ear, despite not having visible ears. Also, Stinkoman refers to Strong Bad's "big nose".
- Email impression — In a tape recording, Strong Sad tells Strong Bad to stop flicking his ear. Like Strong Bad, Strong Sad does not appear to have visible ears.
- Fall Float Parade — Coach Z claims to have "fairly good teeth", despite his apparent lack of a visible mouth (as explicitly mentioned in Sbemail 150?!?).
- Emails stunt double and dangeresque 3 — Dangeresque wears cool glasses which are apparently held on his head by invisible ears.
- This is also true of Homestar, who wears sunglasses in Cool Things.
- The Thnikkaman also wears sunglasses but does not appear to have ears.
- Email narrator — Coach Z claims a napkin has his "snot balls" on it, and Bubs tells him he doesn't have a nose.
