Sightings
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Homestar is slowly taking over the world, as evidenced by some of these documented sightings.
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TELEVISION
Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends
During the episode "Bloo's Brothers" a Bloo clone that looks freakishly similar to Homestar appears. It's only breef so blink and you'll miss it!
Codename: Kids Next Door
On the Kids Next Door episode T.R.A.I.N.I.N.G. Numbuh 60's destination is their moon base, yet he calls it The Moon in a similar way as a soy-sauce-drunk Strong Bad did in the SB Email personal favorites.
NFL Films: Game of the Week ('05 NFC Divisional Championship St Louis Rams Vs. Atlanta Falcons)
About three-quarters through this hour-long recap of the game (a Falcons' victory), one of the defensive linemen for Atlanta - Patrick Kearny perhaps? - points to his family in the stands. One of them is holding up a sign that says "GOOD JORB!", an unmistakable reference to Coach Z.
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 RPG, which is still in development.
The January 24th episode of The Screen Savers had an interview with The Brothers Chaps. Also featured on this episode, puppet Strong Bad made his debut to answer questions from fans. The article also mentions that in order to learn more than one ever thought possible about Homestar Runner, one can head over to the Homestar Runner Wiki.
G4tv.com
On this episode of G4tv.com on G4, an unnamed person, playing the role of Laura Foy's date, was seen wearing a "Trogdor" shirt.
The videoclip, entitled Gamer Dating Do's And Don'ts is now available for viewing at this location.
The Geek Show
On "The Geek Show", Strong Bad Emails are frequently shown as an example of "What's funny on the internet." They have played both "japanese cartoon" and "dullard" on their show.
Junkin
On the television show Junkin', the host "Dave" has appeared wearing Trogdor and Strong Bad T-shirts.
Buffy
In the series finale of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Ep 7x22) Trogdor was used as a creature 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)
Angel
In a season five 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 arrived at 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 Strong Bad t-shirt. Later in the episode, Andrew wore the same SB shirt with a pore strip plastered on his nose.
Incidentally, Andrew is the very same character who appeared in the Trogdor-laden Buffy reference. Since both shows are the brainchildren of creator/writer/executive director Joss Whedon, we can probably assume that the creator of the Buffyverse is also a fan of Homestarverse.
Monster House
In an episode of Monster House called "Sports House," the host Steve is wearing a Strong Bad T-shirt during the introductions. This episode 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 Homestar Runner 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.
Cheat
On one episode of Cheat on G4TechTV, they were talking about a name generator on "Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic" and if you made names long enough, Homsar's name would show up.
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.
Super Size Me
In the movie Super Size Me, there are a group of kids at the computer where one is watching an old Tandy era Strong Bad Email.
CNN Student News
On CNN Headline News, there is this short news magazine called CNN Student News. On the December 15th 2004 edition, in one of the stories it shows what appears to be a trooper in Iraq getting a toy for Christmas from someone. The toy is The Cheat plush toy.
Daytona 500 2005
In the 2005 Daytona 500, an announcer was heard to refer to the occasion as "Crazy Go Nuts" several times over the week.
d'FUSED
March 12th, 2005 at approximately 1:20 pm
Featured on Addict'd to Gaming
A segment on Red Vs. Blue showed the cast of Homestar Runner in their real-world, plastic figurine state atop the preview moniter for a Red Vs. Blue episode.
RADIO
Quizno's and Homestar on NPR
On March 9th 2004, 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 kind of cool, as well as the email different town. It starts around 9:15 into the clip and lasts until the end.
The Rock
There was also a quote from Strong Bad's character page on a La Crosse, Wisconson radio station called "95.7 The Rock." It goes from the part where strong bad says, "Ladies form a line to my left for makeouts! Dudes, form a line to my right for high-fives," and stops at the part where Homestar says, "Well, I was going to get a high-five, but I see that I'm already here."
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/cell phone wallpapers, a picture of Trogdor pops up.
U.S Air Force Website Ad
A U.S Air Force ad on http://cube.ign.com features a picture of a man playing guitar. He is wearing a Trogdor t-shirt.
Bernardin Print Ad
A national print campaign in Canada for Bernardin home canning featured a young woman wearing a Trogdor T-shirt.
AdultSwim Ad
Anyone familiar with the Cartoon Network is definitely aware of how they promote their AdultSwim line-up: by answering viewer email during the 15 sec B&W spots. During a late-night promo for AdultSwim, one viewer wrote in with this question: "How do you type with boxing gloves on?"
Numb Thumbs Ad
A TV spot for the Video Game store/website Numb Thumbs featured a man wearing a Fluffy Puff T-Shirt
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 development is that the current internet version "is getting played on MTV in England, so it is finding some legitimate video life."
Time Magazine
On June 30, 2003, Time Magazine ran a short article called "A Star Is Born - On The Web" (access restricted) which featured a picture of Homestar from Where's The Cheat?, and said he was part of a funny cartoon website, namely homestarrunner.com. The article also mentions Strong Bad, and compares Homestar and his friends to a post-modern Peanuts gang. (preview of the article)
Muse Magazine
In their article about Dragons, they had the URLs for "Trogdor" the game and "Dragon" the email.
BANDS AND MUSIC
Karl Olson/Ultraklystron
Karl Olson(Also known as Ultraklystron) recorded two homestar-related songs, a cover of The Skate Party song Strong Sad Rocks Outand an original song, He's Homsar.
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.
Beastie Boys 2004 Pageant Tour
On December 16th 2004 at the Zenith in Munich, Germany, the Beastie Boys used two JumboTron screens on the left and right side of the stage to present to the crowd the first one and a half minutes of Everybody to the Limit. Even though most of the listeners might have never heard of Homestar Runner or Strong Bad the crowd was cheering and clapping their hands rhythmically with the music. Everybody to the Limit and other Homestar Runner footage might have been part of other Beastie Boys shows during the 2004 Pageant Tour, but no other sightings were reported up until now. The JumboTron screens were an essential part of the show and were also used during the concert to show live footage of the stage as well as other pop culture reference material like accelerated footage of some Atari 2600 video games gameplay such as Frogger's and scenes from Battlestar Galactica (during their song Intergalactic).
Relient K
- The band Relient K has a h*r-like shirt logo.
- They also link to h*r from their website
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".
Also in the CD Booklet, in their Thank Yous, Andy thanks Strong Bad.
Very Low Sodium Band!
The Very Low Sodium Band (www.verylowsodium.com) has a song that praises Homestar Runner. Hear the song Here. There is also a song called "A Tribute to Teen Girl Squad", but I'm not 100% sure if it's made by the "Very Low Sodium Band". It's about in the middle of the page here.
They also have songs about Trogdor and Homestar Runner on that page.
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 Super-fun ride. It sounded like Strong Bad including the line "Please keep your arms legs and valuables inside the vehicle at all times".
Time For Living
The San Francisco hardcore punk band Time For Living has a Homestar themed album with the title track "The Cheat is not Dead". They have songs called "Discount Brick", "Just A Friendly Reminder", "Population: Tire", and "The King Of Town." Beyond the titles, the songs don't have any relationship to Homestar Runner, which for legal reasons is good for the band.
Salsa Commodity
Salsa Commodity has three Homestar Runner related songs, "A Tribute to Homestar Runner", "Trogdor", and "Teen Girl Squad". The song "A Tribute to Homestar Runner" can be downloaded here.
KJ-52
On his new album, "Behind the Muzik (A Boy Named Jonah)", Christian rapper KJ-52 lists Homestar Runner in his song "Things I Like."
GAMES
Counter-Strike
In some Counter-Strike servers there is a message that comes up saying "(username) was burninated by Trogdor, er by (username)"
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 Livestoc 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.
X-Men Legends
"Strong Bad and Friends" are thanked in the "Special Thanks" section of the End Credits.
Kings of Chaos
When your army wins a battle, one of the phrases is "You burninated the enemy!" Likewise, when your army is beaten, one of the phrases is "The enemy burninated your army!" Kings of Chaos
Urbz Sims in the City
One of the Xizzles you can get is called 'All up ons' a reference to suntan
Final Fantasy I & II: Dawn of Souls
A man in Hellfire Chasm says "This is private property. Trespassers will be burninated."
In Whisperwind Cove one of the items you obtain in one of the floors from a dwarf is called 'Witches Brew"
(Both these areas were exclusively for the GBA version of the games, and were not on the original copies for the NES.)
The Kingdom of Loathing
On The kingdom of loathing, when you smash the hippy stone at the campground you will go to player vs player combat. One of the ways to attack a player is to "BURNINATE".
In The Barrel Full Of Barrels, one of the events is entitled "Your Barrel A Splode".
In The Hidden Temple, one of the events is entitled "Arrowed!".
In the chat function, the chat command '/baleet username' carries out the same affect as '/ignore username'.
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Driving around Las venturas, one can find a "Bub's Hardware." The sign also seems to say something about "Cheats." A map is included here.
Adventure Quest
In the free flash RPG Adventure quest, occasionally when a guardian summons the guardian dragon, the dragon will say: "BURNINATE!!! (Please don't sue us)"
Tony Hawk's Underground
In the Moscow level, if you jump into a certain chimney, you die and the screen gives you a message. One of the messages is "BURNINATED!".
In the Vancouver level, when you drive the limo, the license plate on the back of it says "LimoZeen".
Neverwinter Nights
The demo modules that illustrate new creatures added in patches are typically fairly silly. The bulette demo module ("Land Sea-Puma") has a signpost with following directions:
- North - Certain Dhoom
- East - Most Likely Dhoom
- West - Fair to Excellent Conditions for Dhoom
- Dennis - Ye Will Find Nothing of Yon Interest Here Aye
Goblin Commander: Unleash the Horde
In the credits it says "Additional Thanks To: Strongbad"
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
The fuel tank for the flamethrower is identified as "Burninator" brand.
SKINS
Winamp Skins
One of the available skins at Winamp.com is "Tandy AMP 400". Other SB skins - "Compy 386" and "Teen Girl Squad". Also, if you find the SMB3 skin, you'll find the songs from Strong Bad sings on the preview's playlist. Whoever made that skin must have bought the CD from the Store.
OTHER SITES
Olde English
In their General Procrastination sketch, Razin was holding off going to battle by going on the internet and watching the new Strong Bad Email. (which really wasn't even an email, he opened up the Strong Bad bio 'toon.)
G4tv.com
The 404 message that comes up when the G4 site can't retrieve an ad includes a graphic featuring a panda - and the Teen Girl Squad-esque message "ERROR'ed!!"
"Audition With Marzipan" Remix
The Thilo run The 2nd Best Page In The Universe made a remix of "Thoughts Of A Bird" from the Audition With Marzipan game. A download of the remix is available here And the article about it Here
"Asplode" on Double-Tongued Word Wrester
Neolinguist Grant Barret has done an entry on "asplode" on his site. It looks like "asplode" was not coined by the Brothers Chaps, but he agrees that its appearance in the toons and games is probably responsible for its recent popularity.
All Your Base Are Belong To Homestar
An "All Your Base" parody starring Homestar can be seen here
Weebl & Bob
- A fan made a piece of art with Trogdor burninating Bobs' style of animation
Bryan Waterman Interview
Byan Waterman, who does the series "Waterman" had an interview and he mentioned the best internet cartoon was Homestar Runner!:
- Who is your favorite flash movie artist or flash artists if you have more than one? What are some of your favorite flash movie series?
BW: Above all else Homestar Runner not only do I love the cartoon, Mike and Matt are two good friends of mine. Bonus Stage is another one I really like and I do look forward to Josephís animations. See It Here
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 humour. 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 your favorite online comic, Strong Bad's face appears.
A Strong Bad sticker is also seen during the Red vs. Blue segment in the Halo 2 Limited Collectors Edition DVD, on the window of a door.
Live Action Dangeresque!
Some guys at Strongfans.com made this awesome rip-off of Strong Bad's 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".
BB-Spot-Which website are you?
In the website personality test at www.bbspot.com, one of the posible answers you can get is Homestarrunner.com.
newgrounds.com
If you search for Homestar on New Grounds, there will be a bunch of fan made Homestar flash games and short films..
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.
Shoot the Cliche
A certain infamous burninator “Trogdor” appears in this game from another site. Blast Away!
Your phone a splode
The website Fark.com linked to a Yahoo News story about exploding cell phones under the headline "Your phone a splode."
Also, Fark linked to this story about the same thing back in July.
The Force.net Humor
At a Star Wars Fansite's humor section one of their "Top 46 lists" titled 'Top 47 lesser known goals of the evil empire' says Quote "Secret co-production of Dangeresque 1, 2, & 3" End Quote. The List The Site
Homokaasu.org
A Homestar Runner wall-size printout demonstrating homokaasu.org's Rasterbator software (Web service)
Battleon.com
The free game Adventure Quest has a weapon called the Guardian Blade. It's special move is "Call Forth the Guardian Dragon", and one of the phrases the dragon says is "BURNINATE!!!!!! (please dont sue us)".
Star Harbor Nights
The authors of these stories are apparently fans... their characters have started making Homestar and Strong Bad references in conversation, including the use of the word "Decemberween" in one story and a reference to Strong Bad singing from A Holiday Greeting.
Gamecheetz Comics
A comic featuring the characters of Super Smash Brothers Melee. As Link is returning to Final Destination, the "Scene Missing" image from Parsnips-A-Plenty appears. It even says "If you don't recognize this then you need to visit HomestarRunner.com" The comic can be seen here:
Best Page In The Universe
In one of Maddox's rants about the amount of emails he gets, he makes a little ode to The Chapman Brothers. This must mean he is aware of homestarrunner.com. The actual quote is "I know there are other big websites out there that generate a lot of email (my sympathies to the Chapman brothers)"
Real Ultimate Power parody site: TROGDOR
Parodies of Real Ultimate Power are everywhere. A fan made one featuring TROGDOR.
Strongbad Pilots an F/A-22 Raptor
For a short time, Strongbad could be seen on the Lockheed Martin F/A-22 Raptor Team Web Site F/A-22 Raptor.
The Straight Dope
The Strong Bad Zone was submitted for Weird Earl's on The Straight Dope, a category featuring strange and/or awesome sites. Be careful, or your head may a-splode!
Futurama Madhouse
At the Futurama Madhouse, they have a regular feature on "Uses for a hacker". Use #498 is entitled "homsar's translator" and features everyone's favourite blue midget Homestar, Homsar! Also notable is the fact that the copyright reads "C Tandy 400, Chapman Bros". Use #667 is entitled "Homestar Runner's Evil Twin", and features, just that. Use #669 "Strongbad's Torture Victims Who Misspell Repeetedli" is the final Homestar-related use for a hacker.
Flying Omelette's Kitchen - Switched At Birth?
According to this site, Strong Bad may have been switched at birth with Viewtiful Joe, as well as the Red Power Ranger. A direct link to the article is available here.
OTHER ANIMATIONS
Artificial High 3
In one scene the message "Computer Over. Virus = very yes" shows up In another scene, Strong Bad is checking an unknown email.
Homestar in chris.exe
Homestar makes a cameo in episode "Chris, zanda and the treasure of captain no beard" of the popular flash series chris.exe
Albino Black Sheep Cartoons
On an Albino Black Sheep Animation There is a flash "Animutation" and sometime in the animation there is a screenshot from "Strong Bad Zone" and your can hear "STINY! GET ME A DANISH!" This is no suprise seeing as the URL says: /Your_Head_Asplode.swf see it Here
Another Amunation is one with Elvis' song and in the start of the movie you can see the Homestar Runner AIM icon where he is running across the screen See it here
And yet another Amuation has the text "Burninating the countryside & has strong bad looking at an altered email, see it here.
Another animation is "SMURFS: The Lost Episode" where at one point, you can see Strong Bad dancing. WARNING: Profanity! You can view the animation here.
ClaveMan
ClaveMan (Episode 1) - A Dino Wax Production. Claveman poses as Homestar as one of his disguises to obtain free Popeye's biscuits.
Metroid Confusion: Parts 1 and 2
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 defenceless without her suit zoom in on the second shelf a book is the Homestar Runner enters the Strongest Man in the World contest. Also, also on that shelf is a book that's titled "Gelatinous Eyebrows." The word gelatinous is possibly a reference to kids' book, in which you could possibly construe those tilde (~) looking things as eyebrows.
Also, in Metroid Confusion Part 2, if you right-click, one option is "Send Trogdor to my House", and at the end of the movie, if you click on the fine-print giving homestarrunner.com some credit, you will see a funny Homestar-Metroid crossover. They also mention "E3 20X6". In addition to all of that, if you watch the commentary, it mentions that he got the inspiration for the "Claymation Simulator" from Strong Mad's Doug the Dino, in strong bad email the facts. Also in Fox Mcloud's arwing, there is a book called "TROGDOR The musical". The back (or front?) of the book reads, "[T]he Burninator himself [s]tars in his first-ever musical [t]hat won three Academy [a]wards and a couple of [fr]ee coffees at Starbucks. [E]xperience the magic, the [ma]gesty, the consumate V's!" (The word fragments in the square brackets are letters that I guessed because they weren't showing. Also, 'majesty' is incorrectly spelled 'magesty' on the book.)
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 Strong Bad. In the upper right you can see the carrot shaped thing from the scrapbook on the Coach Z page. It’s labelled Carrot Top on the black board. (This flash cartoon was created by Legendary Frog).
Waterman
In Waterman, when you watch the intro to some of the latest cartoons, you can see a Strong Bad ice cream on the side of the Ice Cream Truck! It is hard to catch, and you can only see it when the camera is moving from side to side on the truck.
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!
VG Cats comic #135 has a The Cheat doll in Ye Olde Comic Bookerys' display case(Frame 6)
Thier "First Time Here" also has blatant references and a link to Homestar Runner.
8-bit theatre 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 summoning in the outtakes, and Strong Bad appears in one of the Mega Man boxes and says "HOLY CRAP!"
High Score
At High Score Online they made a Homestar cartoon entitled "Not Without My Application, AKA Jorbs a Plenti." Be sure to click on the bucket at the end after the credits.
In Episode 3, there is a set of really fast moving credits with a Strong Bad reference: Seen here
High Score Episode 4 has a Parents Day spectacular, with "special guest star" What's Her Face. Later in a newspaper montage one of the subtitles says "Strong Sad Still A Loser."
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 11, Joel says he wants to move to Atlanta where "those guys that make that cartoon" live. He is probably referring to the Brothers Chaps.
- 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
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 ice-cream truck that shows up in several of the episodes.
In the 6th episode [2], the voice-over says "syringe'd!", like the TGS voice-over.
Ebolaworld
Haloween Special At Ebolaworld.com, there is a Weekly Update titled Halloween Special. Taco-Man hosts a costume party for Halloween and Homestar makes an appearance at the very end. watch it
Other Cartoons in "Weekly Update: March 15, 2004 they have a Awards program and during the 2nd part of the film, a crowd of many cartoon characters and among them is Homestar Runner. See It here
Dr. Wily Shorts Collection
At planet-megaman.com, there is a flash animation called "Dr. Wily Shorts Collection." If you click on Dr. Wily's shorts, a short animation of Strong Bad and Homestar pops up. click here to see it
The Matrix Has You
At this site, there is a cartoon called The Matrix Has You. At the end of The Final Fight, Oracle's daughter says "It's Over" in a voice that sounds kind of like Cheerleader's. Also at the end of the episode Zion rave the character says "What the crap" and The End comes up. Followed by w00t!
Checkerboard Nightmare
At Checkerboard Nightmare, Chex does a parody of different internet cartoons, including a "web animation" done in the style of a Strong Bad E-mail.
Neopets
On Neopets.com, a super rare avatar used only by the staff, features a bomb with the words "A splode." It can be viewed here. Also, in [this comic] from the Neopian Times, someone is PILLOW'D.
Robotbox and Cactus
On Robotbox and Cactus episode 13 "Internet", Cactus receives a computer that crashed down from space, and he's boasting to Robotbox that he's on the internet now. Robotbox goes into his own segment much similar to a Strong Bad E-mail. Other parodies include random appearances by 'Pole' (Bonus Stage's Joel) 'Gil' (Bonus Stage's Phil) and Coach F who says "BLOOOORGHHH!" and his head explodes.
The Great Eggscape 2
On this animation at [3] has a "No Loafing" sign in one of the rooms.
Pom Pom Dances
In this little ditty, Pom Pom dances to The theme from DANGERESQUE II: This time, it's not Dangeresque I. Four Different backgrounds!
Weebl and Bob
In the Weebl and Bob episode, Ouch, (explaining how Weebl (the lead animator for Weebl and Bob) broke his arm and thus can't animate the episode as planed) Weebl (the animator) snowboards down a mountain, performing a 'Triple word score' before he's hit by a Whale and complains, "Ow! My Spleen or my Arm....arm" in the vein of Teen Girl squad. Weebl is also drawn like a Teen Girl Squad character.
SCHOOL
MIT Mystery Hunt Puzzle: The Property of Ones
MIT Mystery Hunt is an annual weekend-long challenge featuring over one hundred difficult puzzles. The 2004 Mystery Hunt featured a Strong Bad Email themed puzzle entitled "The Property of Ones". (warning: language)
Trogdor at An Ivy school?
At the Yale-Princeton football game halftime show in November, 2004, the Princeton Band announcer was listing villains (I wont explain why), and the last one on the list was TROGDOR THE BURNINATOR. This show also included a formation based on Email 100: "This joke is of such historical significance that it can only be told in... WIDESCREEN. Left side BWAAAAAH. Right side BWAAAAAAH." (at which the left and right sides of the band formation went wide-screen)
Also, the Yale Anti-Gravity Society's fall 2004 juggling/fire show was basically an entire trogdor narrative: one guy, starring as Trogdor, complete with a huge muscular arm and green clothing, played the Limozeen version of "Trogdor!" while breathing fire-- there was also a peasant involved, who, throughout the course of the show, became on fire like a peasant. Good times at Yale.
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
At Duke University in around April of 2004, the side of a painted underpass displayed an advertisement for an "Inside Joke" comedy troop. The centrepiece was a large, majestic Trogdor.
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.
Strong Bad Viewings
At North Brandywine Middle School, on the last day before Summer Break, the school shows all the currently available Strong Bad E-mails over the Closed-Circuit TV Network.
Strong Bad At The Naval Academy
Before every home football game, the Naval Academy freshman (known as Plebes) decorate a monument of a Native American chief nick-named Tecumseh on the campus in some sort of disguise. Last year for the Navy-Central Michigan game, the monument was painted up as Strong Bad. [4]
Strong Bad's Electoral Success
Student elections at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in spring 2004 were won overwhelmingly by the 'S.badia' party, which used a tire as its logo. Article from winning S.Badia GM candidate, Mike Dillon.
COMICS
The Neopian Times
In this comic from Neopet's Neopian Times, someone is "Pillow'D". Someone else is "Dunged" in the same issue. Check that one out here. These are both references to Teen Girl Squad, and the things that happen to the girls.
Theater Hopper
Tom Brazelton of Theater Hopper had himself in his comics on June 23, with a Homestar shirt. 040623.jpg
Teen Titans Go!
In the issue "Finding Nero" there is a fair game, and it has Strong Sad stuffed animals. If you win the game, you get them.
Commander Kitty
In a Commander Kitty comic, one of the characters is wearing a Strong Bad mask. ck20020816.jpg
8-bit Theater
A dark elf explains how evil a monster is, and Trogdor comes to mind. 030520.png
In Twinkin' Out, a confused fan asks Red Mage how Strong Bad types with boxing gloves on (Last letter on the page). Twinkin' Out 21
In the 2004 Christmas special Black Belt asks for "the Marzipany kind" of cookie.
Bruno the Bandit
American politics are parodied by comparing them with other regimes. Few places are as oppressive as Strongbadia. [5]
Zelda comic
Tons of sightings here.
- In Comic 136, Bub says "Ow! my stomach lining!!!"
- 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."
- On the 200th comic, they used the "Its almost over!" screen from Teen Girl Squad.
- Comic 212 is entitled "Yeah, Shut Up, Kid."
- On comic Comic 217, Link says "Rock, rock on!"
- 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 witch's brew line. (Alas, however, the phrase is not spelled correctly in the comic.) Also, in the first comic, Homestar appears on the last panel, and the third comic uses the CHILDREN! panel from Teen Girl Squad.
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.
Roy the Duck
- Explore Roy the Duck's math book to find Homestar Runner and to learn how to count (see page 4 especially).
- The new Ye Castle's Final Houre book says "...don't throw full glass wine bottles at the screen."
- This should really be under websites, and it also has two references to homestarrunner.com on the zBay page. On it Bubs is selling the Slightly Shotgunned Compy. It also contains a link to bookazon.com which is part of homestarrunner.com
- The Palm State Times on the site contains an article about Thorax Corporation.
Universal Voyage
In comic #2 there are sprites of Strong Bad and Trogdor as a team called "Burninators!" link
Aminal Crossing
In the 16th comic, "Were taking this baby to the mooooon!" is a reference to Strong Bad Email personal favorites
At the bottom of the 18th comic you can find the text "Oh, there are two of them."
Zebra Girl
In this Sandra's Journal! comic, Sandra answers an oddly-familiar reader email in a novel manner.
Sore Thumbs
A drugged director quotes Strong Bad's "H*R and Marzipan Dating Simulation XR" from Strong Bad Email date. st20041220.gif
Hawkman
In the December 2003 issue of DC Comic's Hawkman (page 16 of issue 20, volume 4), an abusive spouse is seen wearing a black teeshirt featuring Strong Bad's face and gloves, and the text "FHGWHGAS." Unfortunately you'll have to pick up an old issue of the comic to see it. Oh well. date. [6]
Room
A recent update of this puzzling pixelart webcomic has an appearance of a pixelart Strong Bad and The Cheat. He's looking at a computer, but it doesn't appear to be any of the ones he's owned. [7]
The Wotch
In the June 24, 2003 comic, Lilly and Jennie are playing with Homestar Runner action figures. In particular they are acting out a scene from Teen Girl Squad Issue 3. 062403.html
Natch Evil
Comic#109God mentions getting an email about how he types with boxing gloves on. Extra menu Rather remiscent of the main menu and it even says apologies to Homestar.
Dominic Deegan
In the September 23, 2002 comic, Strong Bad makes a cameo appearance as one of Dominic's customers in the last panel. 20020923.html
Under Power
In the May 19, 2004 comic, Strong Bad and the Cheat are the DJs in panel 2. [8]
Slackers
The title of the 92nd is "Teen Girl Squad"
Questionable Content
In comic #265 [9], while Faye and Marten are discussing what will be the next indie rock band to break up, Faye mentions that the head of Win Butler (from The Arcade Fire) will explode during a live performance, forcing them to replace him with a Homestar Runner puppet. Also, in comic #317 Steve is wearing an "Eh Steve!" T-shirt.
El Goonish Shive
In a filler comic posted on February 3, 2005, an alien character shows up to answer reader e-mails, telling the readers to just call him "Strong Minion." [10]
Random Access
The title of the 35th is "Everything is fine, nothing is ruined"
Random Codes
At Codejunkies.com they have a webcomic called Random Codes. The first two lines of the 16th comic are "So from then on, it was all pork and beans." and "That's not very healthy..." which are close to the two lines of dialogue said by Homestar and Marzipan in helium.
PvP
On the Sept. 11, 2003 comic, Francis is forced to write an apology letter and notes that he is sorry, even if the individuals he's apologizing to give him the jibblies
OTHER
Halo 2 Dvd
The people who make Halo funnies have pics of Homestar and Strong Bad on the voice room door windows.
505 Unbelievably Stupid Web Pages
On page 125 of this book, "Strongbad E-Mail" is listed as link number 256.He claims "...the answers to these questions require as much thought as you'd expect from a baboon."
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