Sightings

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Homestar is slowly taking over the world. If you don't believe me, just take a look at the sightings we've seen so far. If you have any that aren't here, please add them. If you have a picture for a sighting that does not have one already, please feel free to load it up.

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TELEVISION

The Screen Savers

On an episode of The Screen Savers on G4TechTV there was a guest on there that knows how to make Atari 2600 games and he is making a Homestar Runner game, he isn't done with it though. He's only been able to make homestar walk around so far.

The Geek Show

On The Geek Show, Strong Bad Emails are frequently shown as an example of "Whats funny on the internet"

Junkin

On the television show Junkin' one of the hosts, Dave, appeared in one episode wearing a Trogdor shirt.

Squirt TV

In New Zealand there is a show called Squirt and each week they have a featured website (the "Hot Spot"). One week it was...you guessed it...Homestarrunner.com. They talked about it for awhile and then switched on to some other crap they play on the show. Its a really dumb show and I just happened to be watching it then. -Spud 'Reinforced Steel' O'Connor

Buffy

In the series finale of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (ep. 7-22) Trogdor was referenced as beeing a villain in a game of Dungeons and Dragons. The following is a transcript of the reference.

GILES: I'm—I'm—I'm all turned around. You're here?

XANDER: By the pillar, yeah. I'm protecting this area.

GILES: That puts me over by the door. Demons around the perimeter— Right! I open the door.

Pan over to show Andrew is also at the table, but he's wearing a red hooded cloak.

ANDREW: (reading from a book) You go through the door and are confronted by Trogdor the Burninator.

GILES: Oh, bugger it. Fight. (rolls dice, sips wine)

ANDREW: Adios to 5 hit points. Trogdor has badly wounded you.

GILES: Well, wait a minute. What about my... (puts on glasses) bag of illusions?

ANDREW: (scoffs) Illusions against a Burninator? Silly, silly british man. (Giles sips his wine again)

AMANDA: I invoke a time flux on Trogdor.

ANDREW: (looks at Amanda) Step down, girlfriend, you can't just—

AMANDA: Ninth level sorcerer, and I carry the emerald chalice. Trogdor is frozen in time. Deal with it. (writes something down)

Megas XLR

In an episode called "Breakout", Coop tried to use an attack called Double Duece by jumping and putting two fists in front of him.

Angel

In an episode of "Angel" entitled "The Girl In Question", (also entitled "An Italian job for Spike and Angel") Angel and Spike were looking for Buffy overseas. They come to the apartment where Buffy lives, but Andrew was the only one there. He was talking to them about someone named "The Immortal", and he was wearing a Black STRONGBAD T-Shirt! He was also wearing it as he had a pore strip on later on in the episode. It was season 5. Written by: Steven S. !DeKnight and Drew Goddard. Directed by: David Greenwalt.

Monster House

In an Episode of Monster House, the Host, Steve is wearing a Strong Bad T-shirt during the introductions. The episode is Sports House which first aired February 2, 2004.

Pulse Interview

In early 2004 the show Pulse on G4TechTV talked with the brothers chaps, and asked them about their new game that they are developing for the Atari 2600. They showed many video clips of their Atari game. The Chaps told about how they record their voices and how successful they have been. They announced that later this year they are going to release a DVD with the First 100 emails. Later after the commercial break they went to interview the company that is developing the homestarrunner game. The company was Videlectrix of course. The whole interview was weird because you could tell that the videlectrix owner was just one of the brothers Chaps in a mustache but the whole making an Atari game was real. (I don't know if you can find any of this episode on the internet but I did record it, but I don't know how I would be able to put it on the internet. Contact me at corneli23@hotmail.com if you want to)

Cheat

On one episode of Cheat on G4TechTV, they were talking about a random name generator on a game and if you made names long enough, Homsar would show up. The host said his name wrong though.

Survivor: Pearl Islands

When Ryan Shoulders (known on the show as Ryan S.) picks up some tree mail (the show's system of getting messages to the castaways), he sings the opening to SB Email techno, singing it as "the tree mail, the tree mail, what, what, the tree mail." This may also explain Ryan S.' name appearing in the email "theme park".

X-Play

On an episode of G4TechTV's X-Play, the wrestling game "WWE: Day of Reckoning" is reviewed, and when the "create your own wrestler" mode is being demoed, the created wrestler (presumably created for the show, not by the game's developers) looks suspiciously like Strong Bad, and appears to be named alternately "SB" and "Essbee". You can see the video here.

RADIO

Quizno's and Homestar on NPR

On March 9th, Homestarrunner.com was featured on NPR's Talk of the Nation. You can find the radio segment here. You have to listen a little bit to get to the segment. It features StrongBadEmail/kind of cool, as well as the email different town. It starts around 9:15 into the clip and lasts until the end. Of note: a kid, Simon, calls at 12:20 and asks about The Brothers Chaps. Sounds like these guys could have used a visit to the Homestar Runner Wiki...

ADVERTISING

Soap Box Commercial

A Soap Box racing commercial on Cartoon Network decorated a car with Teen Girl Squad.

SMS Advert

On a picture messaging advertisement in NZ/Aus, while it flicks through various picture messages/cellphone wallpapers, a picture of Trogdor pops up.

Car Stereo Ad

The face of a car stereo display in the Crutchfield catalog and the Crutchfield.com website reads "STRONG BAD" See the display - "Click the colored display views"

MAGAZINES

Game-Now Magazine

• The now-defunct Game-Now magazine featured Homestar Runner in the "Hot or Not" section of its Issue 12. (Scan)

Wired Magazine

In Wired magazine, under a Transformers ad, It showed a picture of Homestar's new atari game and some more stuff.

Computer Source Magazine

In Seattle there's a magazine called "Computer Source." The January 2004 issue mentions a group of people who, for fun, determined how many browser windows they could open to homestarrunner.com before the computer crashed.

More Wired Magazine

They Might Be Giants were interviewed and talked about Homestar and the Experimental Film toon, among other things. Read it here

Entertainment Weekly

In 2003, Entertainment Weekly proclaimed The Brothers Chaps were the "It Web Cartoonists" as part of their annual "It List," which names off who they consider to be the most significant entertainers of the year. They asked Matt whether or not they would ever consider putting Strong Bad and Homestar on TV, to which he replied: "It's more punk rock if you do it yourself." This article also mentioned the upcoming DVDs.

Tucson Weekly

Tucson Weekly had an interview of They Might Be Giants in their August 19, 2004 issue that included information on their relationship with The Brothers Chaps. Of particular note was the corroboration that a special Experimental Film video was being made for MTV. However, a new develpment is that the current internet version "is getting played on MTV in England, so it is finding some legitimate video life."

BANDS AND MUSIC

Strong Bad Live!

On June 7th, 2003 at Giants Stadium, Radiohead, the Beastie Boys, and other big name bands of that sort played, but the best part was the showing of Strong Bad emails over the JumboTron in between acts. They also showed Everybody to the Limit and it had a special new introduction wherein Strong Bad complained that he wasn't allowed on stage even though he had been the #1 hit for two summers in a row.

Relient K

The band Relient K has a h*r-like shirt logo.

site that sells the shirt

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Five Iron Frenzy

The Christian ska band Five Iron Frenzy has a picture in their latest CD release's booklet of their lead singer, Reese Roper, wearing a The Cheat shirt.

During their performance at the 2003 Cornerstone Music Festival, the lead singer asked the crowd if they were "ready to achieve burnination".

Very Low Sodium Band!

The Very Low Sodium Band (www.verylowsodium.com) has a song that praises Homestar Runner. Hear the song Here

Tripleside

Tripleside (www.tripleside.net) wrote a song called "Legitimate Business" as an homage to Homsar, including many classic Homsar quotes. You can download the song from their downloads page or read the lyrics here.

!ApologetiX

In the booklet for !ApologetiX's newest CD "Adam Up," their guitarist is wearing a Strong Bad shirt. Also, at a show in Cincinnati, Ohio, the guitarist, Karl, wore his Strong Bad shirt (the mask shirt). In the booklet, he is wearing the full body shirt. He's got both!

Sons of Pitches

The Ithaca, NY band Sons of Pitches had a concert at the Cornell Business & Technology Park on July 24, 2004. Before their second set started, they were doing the thing at the end of the Theme Park where Homestar is on the Strongbadian Riverboat Superfun.. ride. It sounded just like Strongbad! I didn't realize until it was over that it was from H*R but the part I know they did was "Please keep your arms legs and valuables inside the vehicle at all times". Also, they once noticed my Strongbad shirt during a concert at this local hospital's picnic.

GAMES

Skee-ball!

Washington University's carnival in St. Louis boasted a wooden skee-ball game made by the Engineering Student Council with some help from ((bkmlb)) and his family. Dscn0772.jpg [1] more pictures

Custom Robo

A little way through the game there is a quiz on basic game knowledge. One of the answers to a multiple-choice question is "Parts Burninator".

Amazing Island

On page 9/10 of the manual, there are instructions on creating a new character. Whoever took the picture had named his character Homestar.

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

One of the default name choices at the beginning is "Homsar". Hmm, Brave Jedi Knight that one be... "Kerrek" will show up as well.

Cyborg Livestock from Outer Space

If you defeat the alien mothership from Shockwave's Cyborg Livestock from Outer Space, the end text says that the ship "asplode," just as your head does in the game StrongBadZone.

Hershey Park PA face painting

At Hershey Park you can get a face painting of Homestar, Strong Bad, Marzipan, Pom Pom, or The Cheat.

World of Warcraft

Homestarrunner.com appears in the "Additional Thanks" section of the credits

OTHER SITES

Eric Conveys The Brothers Chaps?

Eric at Eric Conveys an Emotion got together with The Brothers Chaps for a rough and tumble game of football, complete with Eric's warped and hilarious sense of humor. See a step-by-step progression of The Game. On page 1 Trogdor is in the background, on page 2 The Ugly One is in the background, on page 3 1936 Homestar is in the background, on page 4 Homestar is in the background, on page 5 Strongbad is in the background, on page 6, The Cheat is actually in the foreground, on page 7, The Cheat and Strong Mad are in the background, and on page 8, Stinkoman is in the background.

• Also, in "getting a great idea... while falling to your doom" Eric has a Homsar shirt on. greatideafalldoom.jpg

Red vs Blue

At Red vs Blue they made a public service announcement about tattoos (It appears every 4 weeks or so in the season 1 archive). When Church suggests you get a tattoo of a character from you favorite online comic, Strong Bad's face appears.

Live Action Dangeresque!

Some guys at Strongfans.com made this awesome rip-off of Strong Bads big-time Blockbuster. Complete with orchestrated music!"

The 2004 Cartoonist's Choice Awards

Homestar Runner won in best use of flash category at "The 2004 Cartoonist's Choice Awards".

Homestar gets a Summer Job

At this web site, they made a homestar cartoon entitled "Jorbs a Plenty." Be sure to click on the bucket at the end after the credits.

newgrounds.com

If you search for homestar on this site, there will be a bunch of fan made homestar flash games and stuff.

zone38

This blog entry links to a Fark Photoshop thread which featured several Homestar Runner-related parodies of Magic: The Gathering cards, with local copies of the now-defunct images from the thread.

Google Blog

Google Blog mentioned the Homestarism 'Asplode' in this entry.

OTHER ANIMATIONS

ClaveMan

ClaveMan (Episode 1) - A Dino Wax Production. Claveman poses as Homestar as one of his diguises to obtain free Popeye's biscuits.

High Score

By Matt Wilson, the person who did the cartoon "Not without my application" a.k.a Homestar Gets A summer job & Bonus Stage, High Score Episode 4 has a parents Day spectacular. with "special guest star" Whats-her-face. also later, we see a newspaper montage one of the sub-titles says "Strong Sad Still A Loser" see it Here

Metroid Flash

At Flashplayer.com, there is a movie entitled "Metroid Confusion", and at the beginning there are three computers and one has the H*R page displayed on its monitor. The end also borrows "Because It's Midnight" and credits a band named "Limozeen." Also when you them talking about how Samus is defenseless without her suit zoom in on the second shelf a book is the Homestar Runner enters the Strongest Man in the World contest.

Kerri's Big Invention

Also at Flashplayer.com, there is movie entitled "Kerri's Big Invention" and about halfway through the movie Kerri is drawing on a blackboard. When the whole blackboard is visible, in the lower left corner is a poorly drawn Homestar and Strongbad. In the upper right you can see the carrot shaped thing from the scrapbook on the Coach Z page. Its labeled Carrot Top on the black board. (This flash cartoon was created by Legendary Frog).

Bush Bash

On this very weird flash animation at tlchicken.com, you can see a picture of President Bush and a flaming Earth that says "Burninating the Peasants since 2000".

VG Cats

At the end of the 100th strip(a flash special so I can't post it here), click on the middle '0' in '100', to see an easter egg with one of the characters answering an e-mail SB-style, and a cameo by the man himself!

8-bit theater 3

on this flash animation based on the 8-bit Theatre comics, at the ending outtakes, strong bad and the cheat appear. the cheat appears on the table when cloud does a sumoning in the outtakes, and strong bad appears in one of the Mega Man boxes and says "HOLY CRAP"

Bonus Stage

• In episode 8, there is a passing reference to Strong Bad making video games. This episode came out not long after the email video games, so that's probably what it refers to.
• In episode 9, Joel dies and goes to hell. Phil and Elly then die so they can rescue him, and while there, they meet Strong Bad, Homestar, and Coach Z. After they rescue Joel, Phil starts typing on a Compy 386 about how Bubs won the race, and Strong Sad shows up. Note: This episode is not currently viewable on www.bonusstages.com. The Homestar appearances are being removed for legal reasons.
• In episode 19, there is a rather long easter egg in which Joel and Phil try to prank call some people. One of their targets is Strong Bad... or is it?
• In episode 30, there is a commercial for a candy called "Kandy Commandoz". A small disclaimer flashes across the screen proclaiming "Not a ripoff of Homestar Runner".

One Ring To Rule Them All 2

In the middle you see Wayne the Goblin pull out a screen and shows Sauron a movie and the background music sounds like "Kick the Can".

• no, i belive that music is "the Entertainer" a Rag time jazz song from the early 1890's by Scott Joplin.

Also, when they're singing about Bilbo the middle elf chick has a pin that says "Wear a Bikini." watch it here!

Decline of Video Gaming 2

On Flashplayer.com, there are slight references to Homestar Runner. While watching it, put on creator's notes.

Lost in Tijuana

at Jaydonaldson.com and on Newgrounds.com if you're not willing to pay the membership costs, you see SB's face on a wanted poster about halfway through the animation.

Waterman

at Waterman Studios, the SB ice pop is advertised for sale on the side of the icecream truck that shows up in several of the episodes.

SCHOOL

Trogdor at An Ivy school?

At the Yale Princeton game halftime show in November 2004 the anouncer was listing villans (I wont explain why) the last one on the list was TROGDOR THE BURNINATOR. The band then played the homestar runner theme.

Trogdor: MIT Hacker

The Burninator was the subject of one of the famous MIT Hacks! The hack itself. More about hacks.

Trogdor goes to Duke

I was at Duke University earlier this year, I believe it was April. As my group was walking to lunch, I turned around and saw the side of an underpass painted advertising an "Inside Joke" Fair or something. The centerpiece was a large, beautiful Trogdor (with majesty).

Strong Bad the Politician

At North Carolina State University in 2002, life sized posters of Strong Bad with the words "Strong Bad for Student Body Presdient" appeared on campus. Sadly, he was not listed on the student council ballot.

COMICS

Theater Hopper

Tom Brazelton of Theater Hopper had himself in his comics a few days ago, with a Homestar shirt. 040623.jpg

Commander Kitty

In a Commander Kitty comic, one of the characters is wearing a Strong Bad mask. ck20020816.jpg

8-bit Theatre

A dark elf explains how evil a monster is, and Trogdor comes to mind. 030520.png

Bruno the Bandit

American politics are parodied by comparing them with other regimes. Few places are as oppressive as Strongbadia. [2]

Zelda comic

Tons of sightings here.

• Comic 164 is actually called "Yet Another Subtle Homestar Reference." The reference is "shut it up, you."
• Comic 170 is entitled "I'm So Glad the Bub is Not Dead."
• In comic 191, the baddies show their coolness by donning sunglasses and saying "Sup." This comic came out a few days after the bet.
• On the 200'th comic, they used the "Its almost over!" screen from Teen Girl Squad.
• Comic 212 is entitled "Yeah, Shut Up, Kid."
• On comic 225, Link asks what would happen if Bub fights Lloyd. Bub answers saying "his head a splode?"
• Also in the bonus section, there is a thing called "Flame War 04" the first comic is a reference to the Strong Bad email dragon, and the state with the underwear is a reference to Strong Bad email weird dream

Witch's Brew

The origin of the Witch's Brew name came from Homestar's famous Halloween line ("witch's brew"). Also on the first comic, Homestar appears on the last panel.

Final Stupidity

In the fourth comic, "Obligatory Pop Culture Reference," Dangeresque too makes a small cameo on the last panel.
The fifth comic's title, "Burninated", is an obvious reference to Trogdor.
The seventh comic's title, "Got Witch's Brew?" is a reference to Homestar's obsession with witch's brew.

Sluggy Freelance

The weekly filler Meanwhile in the Dimension of Pain shows the demons deathmatching. When Horribus uses the Unholy Hand grenade and the demons are all incinerated, the panel reads "And all was laid to burnination." link

SMAX

The Top Ten spin-off comic SMAX puts Jaafs Macksun and his partner Toybox in a world of fantasy. There are several references to Lord of the Rings, Star Wars and Homestarrunner.com. A wanted poster for Trogdor is on a pole and the silhouette of Homestar and Pom Pom are seen in town.

Ten Bucks

Explore Roy the Duck's math book to find Homestar Runner and to learn how to count.