Parents' Basement
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The location of someone's parents' basement has been mentioned in a several cartoons. The phrase is typically used by Strong Bad as a means to ridicule other people, suggesting a lack of personal or professional success. Sometimes the phrase is used in a singular possessive case ("parent's" with the apostrophe before the s), implying that there is only one parent in possession of the basement.
The Brothers Chaps have used the phrase as well in interviews. Prior to February 2003, when they began working with a fulfillment company, distribution of Homestar Runner merchandise was done out of the Chapman parents' basement; the brothers have repeatedly emphasized that they never lived in said basement, as the running gag had led some fans to believe.
Appearances
- Thorax Corporation — The CEO, Gent Delabor, Sr. manages Delabor family affairs from his parents' basement.
- UMFM Interview - 20 May 2003 — Matt Chapman refers to a time when they were running the store out of his parents' basement.
- Wired News Radio Interview - 23 Jun 2003 — Matt says they put their friends to work in his parents' basement.
- Email virus — Edgarware is "programmed entirely in mom's basement".
- Flashforward 2006 Seattle - 28 Feb 2006 — The Brothers Chaps mention that they do not live in their parents' basement.
- Email road trip — Strong Bad refers to an email sender as "Pete from Pete's parents' basement."
- Email coloring (DVD Commentary) — Larry Palaroncini confirms that the members of Limozeen all live in "the same woman's basement", and that they think she is their mother.
- Email environment — Strong Bad says he's making out with the environment in the parent's basement of a solar-powered house.
- Limozeen Live! — The link to the video read "Watch us practicing in our
parents'basement." - Email magic trick — In an Easter egg, D n' D Greg asks Coach Z to leave his parent's basement.
- Strong Badia the Free — Strong Bad tells an email sender to figure out where in his parents' basement to hang his Bob Marley poster when they move back in after inevitably failing out of college.
- Fan Costumes '08 — Strong Bad describes a costumed fan as portraying a character who lives "in the basement of his parents' basement".
- Ron & Fez Show Interview - 19 Dec 2008 — Matt again remarks that the running gag led fans to believe the brothers lived in their parents' basement, which they never did.
