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The 2004 Cartoonist's Choice Awards
Homestar Runner won in the Best Use of Flash category at "The 2004 Cartoonist's Choice Awards"
Choice of Games: Dragon
This game asks "Why do you want to start with the nearest village?" One of the choices is "I just want to burn peasants! (And their thatched-roof Cottages). This is a direct reference to Trogdor.
The $39 Experiment
On a site called The $39 Experiment a man named Tom Locke sent 100 letters to 100 companies asking for free stuff. In one letter to "Del Monte Pet Products" Tom claims that he has a dog named Li'l Brudder.
8-Bit Theater
- In Twinkin' out with RedMage 21:Errata!, a once-weekly advice column, a reader inquires: "How does strong bad type with boxing gloves"
8BitJoystick.com
In this article about how to literally burn CDs, the author notes to "burn it properly like Trogdor burninates the peasants."
Addicting Games
- The site features Stinkoman 20X6 and TROGDOR!
- Awexome Cross and Population: Tire were on the site before it was redesigned.
- In the game Track Master, if you get a good score it says good jorb.
- In the game Slacker 2, after you beat the game there is an epilogue, and if you zoom in on Slacker's nametag, it has a picture of Homestar Runner.
- In the game Scribble 2, Level 17 you draw an arrow, and the description reads "Arrow'd."
- In the game Dress Up Barack, of the things you can put on Barack Obama, a Strong Bad Mask and Boxing Gloves are avalible. If you enter this code then you will see Barack as Strong Bad: {d:5013,c:hat,y:0.849999999999994,x:29.7,mc:hat009},{d:4011,c:glasses,y:209.75,x:-8.19999999999999,mc:glasses009},{d:4012,c:glasses,y:208,x:91.85,mc:glasses008},{f:2,mc:_level0.background_mc},{d:2007,c:pants,y:196.65,x:27.55,mc:pants005}
- For the game Terrascape, when it was displayed in the new features, it said "Do you fight for good, or awesome?".
- In the description for Portal Flash Version it asks "Do you has?"
All Your Base parody list
The TmsT Zero Wing Parodies Emporium features "All Your HomeStarRunner are belong to Trogdor".
Amazing Superpowers
- The websites logo, at one point, will change to a white worm wearing a red and blue beanie, and a red star shirt.
- In the comic time machine, the machine reads '20X8', which is plausibly a reference to 20X6.
An Audience With O-Kami-Sama-sama
The blog post for December 3, 2008, entitled "man of mystery", is a screenshot from Dangeresque Roomisode 1: Behind the Dangerdesque. The screenshot was specifically the room with its lights off and the shades open, and the screen was cropped around the door, while keeping the window in full view. The title of the blog post links to the game.
Animalxing.com
- On the Textures page, They have many Homestar related designs such as Homestar, Strong Bad, The Cheat, etc. that can be found by typing in the search box.
- An image of Strong Bad to be used on the Animal Crossing cat, Blanca, appears here.
AsherWycoff.com
The site's 403 (Forbidden) error page contains a picture of the gatekeeper from the Peasant's Quest Movie Trailer saying, "Access to this directory is strictly for peasants!" The error page's title reads, "More like... Rather Homely!" which is also a reference to the Peasant's Quest Movie Trailer.
Atari Age
At this site, someone hacked the Atari "Donkey Kong" game. Player, Enemy, and Object sprites have been changed to resemble characters from Homestar Runner. It can be found here.
Aviary.com
In the Raven image editor window, the title of the page is "Sweet Cuppin' Cakes WIP"
BB-Spot-Which website are you?
In the website personality test at www.bbspot.com, one of the possible answers you can get is homestarrunner.com.
Best Page In The Universe
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In one article, Maddox rants about the amount of emails he gets, and remarks "I know there are other big websites out there that generate a lot of email (my sympathies to the Chapman brothers)". This must mean he is aware of homestarrunner.com, and according to his book signing tour in 2006, he likes Strong Bad.
Bethesda Game Studio Forums
- On the Bethesda Game Studio Forums you can add a The Cheat emoticon to your posts.
Brooks TV
- Homestar can be seen in the bottom left panel in this comic. Also in that panel, it says "fall'd off!", a reference to Teen Girl Squad.
- The main character, Brooks, kills Strong Bad by order of Homestar in a comic which can be seen here.
- In this comic, Brooks mentions Butt IQ when answering fan mail.
Bryan Waterman Interview
Bryan Waterman, who does the series "Waterman" had an interview, and he mentioned that his favorite 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?
- BRYAN WATERMAN: 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 Joseph's animations.
Bulbapedia
The source page for Bulbapedia's Main Page lists source codes for past Main Pages created and used for certain holidays and events. The Main Page for the 4th of July is listed under "Happy Fireworks Main Page" and the Christmas Main Page is under "Decemberween Main Page".
Burning Sand
A Trogdor icon was made in the Burning Sand thread in the Falling Sand Game Forum. You can find the page that displays the icon here and you can download the most recent version of Burning Sand here.
Buzzin
- This is a page full of strange Google suggestions, look under the, "my head" suggestion, one of them says "my head asplode" with 23,000 results. HERE
BZPower
- There is a whole section under the forum 'Completely Off Topic' dedicated completely to Homestar Runner.
- There is a Homestar Runner Chimrou Kit being made out of Dark709's Chimrou Kit by member Kafei Vachu. However, he has stopped production on it, and is waiting for some things to clear up, first, before he continues.
- There are also several other instances in which a line or two from HSR is mentioned. Mostly, it is in comedies and comics, such as Dark709's.
Charm City Cakes
At Charm City Cakes one of the cakes in the Kids Stuffs page is titled "Trogdor". The cake, however, does not resemble Trogdor at all.
Charlie Clay And The Clay Crew
At this site created by Teh Cartoonist Productions, all of Season 1's episodes contain Homestar cameos.
- Episode 1 A Trogdor arcade game can be seen behind the Sonic arcade game that the crew is playing.
- Episode 2 The crew finds a gray monster, but when they put the flashlight on it, they find out it is actually Homestar, and he helps them get their power back.
- Episode 3 Jacob wears Homestar's shoes and gets beat up by Homestar, the text "ROCK'D" pops up when Charlie is hit by a rock in the head, the text "ROCK'D AGAIN!" pops up as a guy who commented on the grammar error gets a rock thrown at his head, and Trogdor gets defeated by Charlie doing homing attack on him.
- Episode 4 "Thief'd" is the episode name, and Homestar gets stolen by the thief.
- Episode 5 Homestar escapes from the thief with Charlie.
CHIKARA Pro King of Trios 2012
If you right click on one of the images of the trios on this page, and replace the 1 or 2 with 3, you'll find a hidden trio consisting of "The Strong Bads", featuring the Strong Bads from Tag Team Wrestling and, of course, our trusty old Strong Bad.
Choose your own change
If you submit a story to Choose Your Own Change, the following message appears: "Your article has been received... If Instructions on the previous page have been followed your story will be posted soon, if not it will be baleeted!"
Chris Creamer's Sports Logo Page
A few years ago, on the board for Chris Creamer's Sports Logo page, someone did a custom logo based on Trogdor. website is chriscreamer.com.
CNET Webware 100
On June 18, 2007, CNET published a listing of the top 100 Web applications. Homestar Runner was one of the ten selected for the Entertainment category.
Collegehumor.com
A poll on the site asked what the best holiday was, out of 50 options. Decemberween ranked 41st.
Comcast.net
On June 10, 2004, homestarrunner.com was featured on Comcast.net's main page as the icon for its "FUN FOR ALL AGES" news article, where Homestar Runner's image was displayed, along with a link to the website and The Brothers Chaps' meeting with G4TechTV.
Crash Mania
The ALT text for the bottom left image of this page reads "I just lost my jengajam", a reference to Homsar's line in Where's The Cheat?
CubeeCraft.com
Website that specializes on papercraft models of characters, cubeecraft.com. One of the models you can create is Strong Bad [1].
DaiKaiju Acadamy
- In the DaiKaiju Acadamy art section of Twisted Kaiju Theater/neomonsterisland.com, Dizzy's profile lists under her dislikes the fact that "Red Lobster" restaurants give her the jibblies.
The Daily WTF
One listing describes a programmer who had an ASCII art image of Trogdor somewhere in his code, reason unknown.
Dan Brown's Universe
- In Episode 10 of Dan Brown's Universe Dan is asked "How do you type with boxing gloves on?"
- In Episode 12 David wears a Stinkoman t-shirt.
Dance Dance Immolation
On a site for Dance Dance Immolation, a flaming DDR, a gallery contains a picture of a man on fire with the caption "BURNINATED!!". [2]
Dangerskew
- A Flash developer on Albino Black Sheep, Dangerskew, is a reference to Dangeresque.
deviantART
- A fan made a Flash animation for the Fourth of July, although a couple days late.
Devon M
- In Summer Song, the grave reads "1996 - 20X6."
Double-Tongued Word Wrester
Neolinguist Grant Barrett has done an entry on "asplode" on his site. It looks like "asplode" was not coined by the Brothers Chaps, but he agrees that "This term was popularized in 2004 by the character Strong Bad on the HomestarRunner web site."
Duct Tape Guys
At DuctTapeGuys.com on this webpage there is a picture of a duct tape backpack featuring Strong Bad, Marzipan, and Homestar.
Ebolaworld.com
In a parody of the video game Night Trap, Homestar can sometimes be seen in empty rooms—usually the bedroom. The game can be found here. In the Halloween episode (Found in the Taco-Man DVD), Homestar appears at the door after Smokey, the cigarette. In the 2nd episode of Ask Taco-Man, he appears to be checking one of his emails the Strong Bad way. Homestar appears to be mistaken for Strong Bad instead of Taco Man.
The Escapist
On an episode of Unskippable, a weekly show where Graham Stark and Paul Saunders mock video game cut-scenes, they claim a man draped in a hood sounds like Senor Cardgage. This happens again in another episode, and they also say "I should eat a pony."
Etsy
In this handmade craft site there are several Homestar Runner character pendants.
Engrish.com
The image featured on this page is Strong Bad's "Eating Five Batteries" illustration from english paper.
Episode Comparisons
The anime episode comparison site Mew Mew Power Uncensored sometimes uses the term Baleeted and frequently uses the Teen Girl Squad-esque term DELET'D in their comparisons to say when a scene was cut out.
Eric Conveys an Emotion
- 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 Old-Timey Homestar is in the background, on page 4 Homestar is in the background, on page 5 Strong Bad is in the background, on page 6, The Cheat is actually in the foreground, on page 7, The Cheat, Strong Mad and a keg of Melonade 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
- In one episode, Eric gets a job at Videlectrix. [3]
Europa Universalis Forums
This site has a large number of fanfiction entries for Paradox Entertainment games, such as Europa Universalis and Hearts of Iron. The author Prufrock451 put a "Private Benedetto" in this Hearts of Iron 2 After Action Report. He's told to "keep that mess down".
Factorize
One of their randomized slogans reads "_______ can count to purple." A reference to Teen Girl Squad Issue 7.
Fail!
On the FAQ page of this website, the ever-popular boxing glove question is asked.
Fake Domain Registration Info
The registration information provided for "olene.net" references Mundelow, Schenectady Crispies, Abdi LaRue, Cheap as Free, Cory, ND, The Cheat, Strong Badia, Free Country, USA, Coach Z, and his locker room.
FeedBurner
On the FeedBurner website, in the section in which you can manage your feeds, random messages show up. One of them is this: "To the nearly 140,000 customers using FeedBurner... we are totally crushing (in a good way)." The link takes you to Teen Girl Squad Issue 2.
Fhqwhgads.com
The entire website is a copy of the 9th sbemail, i love you, except for mousing over the place where one would type brings up the flashing white phrase, 'OMG PRIZE', which turns out to be a link to the fhqwhgads music video.
Here is the link. rapidly flashing lights (site currently down)
Finding Sushi
In Part 4 of Finding Sushi, the opening is a complete rip-off of the email senior prom, with JarJar (Bubbles) getting his very own cartoon show, very akin to The King Of Town's Very Own Quite Popular Cartoon show, complete with matching music. The first segment involves Marlin checking an email that is very similar to the sbemail different town. A music video is then done with The Different Town Song. Also, when Yoda throws the rocks at Nemo, the "Throw baby" sound clip from Peasant's Quest Movie Trailer plays. Also, in Part 5, Homsar's quote "Alms for the pudgy" from Homestar Presents: Presents and Coach Zs quote "JEAOOOOOOOOORB" from A Jorb Well Done is used in the fake intermissions. Both have been apparently removed by the owner on YouTube.
Flame Warriors
The entry for Garble includes a reference to a certain infamous question often asked of Strong Bad.
Flipnote Hatena
Flying Omelette's Kitchen
- According to this site, Strong Bad may have been switched at birth with Viewtiful Joe or the Red Power Ranger as found in this article.
- Also, The Cheat is compared to Pikachu in this article.
For The Win Lite
- One "figurine" that a player can obtain in this web-based game is "AL-20X6". The site
- Another is "Trogados", who is a dragon-like "Seizumon" with a beefy arm sticking out of his neck.
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 "Secret co-production of Dangeresque 1, 2, & 3" at number 8. The List The Site
Forum Stage
On the main page, the description for episode 1 is "Idiot gets sucked into the internet creating a cartoon so bad, Homestar Runner died." It can be seen here.
The Four Word Film Review
One of the reviews for Mars Attacks! contains the review "Their hed a splode".
Fred The Monkey
Fred the Monkey.com is a Flash animation site that is greatly influenced by Homestar Runner. It's been around for six years now. Like Homestar Runner, the site features a "First Time Here"-video and a mailbag, very much like Strong Bad's email, and in the sixteenth mailbag, he comments on how he gets a lot of emails from people pretending to be Strong Bad. Also, in the second mailbag, Sceb receives an email commenting about how FredTheMonkey.com reminds the sender of HomestarRunner.com. Another similarity is that certain characters are able to pick up and manipulate objects without having visible arms. However, in one of the earlier mailbags, it is explicitly explained that these characters do in fact possess psychic powers. Another more obvious reference is displayed in this toon, where Fred The Monkey wears a Strong Bad mask at the end. Also, during the end credits, it says that " Strong Bad is (obviously) property of h*r".
Fruitcake MIDI
Dr. Fruitcake, a famous video game music sequencer and remixer, has created a song called "The Occasional Beat (Strong Bad Remix)" in tribute to new hands. Check the song out here. Fruitcake MIDI
Funny Junk
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- The image here depicts a Panda holding a machine gun with the Pistols for Pandas logo below it.
Funny Part
Funny part, a website with numerous funny pictures, cartoons, and jokes, had Teen Girl Squad issues 2 and 3 on their website, though they have since been removed.
Funny or DIE
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This video, which is a fan-animation by brentalfloss, depicts a recently-dumped-by-Marzipan Homestar as a drunk, making a video for an online dating service apparently run by Bubs.
FunOrb
In the game Miner Disturbance, death by volcano explosion can yield the message "Burninated."
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 favorite blue midget Homestar, Homsar! This is a direct reference to for kids.
- The copyright reads "© Tandy 400, Chapman Bros".
- Use #667 is entitled "Homestar Runner's Evil Twin", and features just that.
- Use #669, entitled "Strong Bad's Torture Victims Who Misspell Repeetedli", is the latest Homestar-related use for a hacker.
G4TV
When under construction, the official site for G4TV displayed an error message which read "ERROR'ed!"
Gamecheetz
- Homestar Runner is mentioned on the GameCheetz link page under "Excellent Humorous Sites".
- In the comic "Buzz Buzz", there's a caption in the 7th frame that reads "If you don't recognize this, then you need to go to homestarrunner.com".
- One of the Forum avatars is a picture of Ilko's head.
GameFAQs
- On the GameFAQs video game database, there are pages for Peasant's Quest here and Stinkoman 20X6 here, where each game has user-submitted walkthroughs, reviews and more, as well as its own message board.
- Homestar Runner is listed as a company here.
- Also, The Unofficial Homestarrunner board can be found here.
- On April Fools 2006, a poll on GameFAQs listed a series of internet phrases, one of which being "YOUR HEAD A SPLODE".
- In the list of top 10 box art misrepresentations], #10 mentions "Often, you'll find epic drawings of spaceships and dragons on a cover, only to find they've been reduced to mediocre triangles and 'fhwqwgads' [sic] within the game."
The Game Rag
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In My 24 Hours With G4TV, the author writes at 3am: "[I]t's late and I'm getting tired. I begin to go slightly insane, and draw Trogdor on the bottom of my foot." A photo of his drawing is included in the article, sans wings.
GamesRadar
GamesRadar featured a video for Ultimate Ninja 2 with the headline "Burninate!"
Gamespot
In Gamespot's review for Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing, several Series 1 Homestar Runner figurines can be seen on the reviewer's desk.
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 "japanese cartoon", "dullard", "theme party" and "Strong Bad Sings" on their show.
Gizmodo
- A picture of Strong Bad is shown on a 4th generation iPod Touch.
- In the news story about the Fossil Palindrome Too, the watch is compared to "the face of a monster or a Homestar Runner character."
- In describing the Trashbot, Gizmodo throws in a couple H*R puns and the Youtube video of crying, for good measure.
- In a news story about the iPhone's file system being hacked, Gizmodo adds, "like Strong Bad would say: P0wned!"
- The DLO Homedock Deluxe is tested by watching a few Strong Bad Emails.
- While reviewing the iRiver E10, it is mentioned that one can watch Homestar Runner videos with it on-the-go.
- The Homestar Sega Planetarium Compy 386's name is compared to Strong Bad's own Compy 386.
Gnash Project
- The "Examples of GNU Gnash" section on their main project page features a screen shot of the Strong Bad Email videography.
Golo Theme song
In this song, D.J. Silver and his little brother Diego both mention the email privileges.
- During development, Google Page Creator was codenamed "Trogdor".
- On an episode of Google Current, the host (Conor Knighton) wears a Strong Bad shirt. Video
- The Google Personalized Home Page Content Directory contains a Homestar Runner piece that you can add to your personalized home page.
HALOLZ
- A person submitted a picture of the Milkman from the game Psychonauts with a caption with altered lyrics of Trogdor (song).
Hardcore Gaming 101
In the Bionic Commando article, the writer mentions a "strong Badd" (the name of the enemy army), and then proceeds to laugh over his gag and pointing it out.
Head Injury Theater
- During February '05, Jared painted Strong Bad as a snake, strangling Homestar.
- During March '05, Jared painted Trogdor.
- During "Art Crash Desperation", Jared painted a bizarre painting of Strong Bad after the suggestion "How do you type with boxing gloves on?"
- During October '07, Jared painted Trogdor again.
- During October '08, Jared made the Marzipumpkin, the last of a series of surreal jack-o-lanterns.
Holy Bibble
- On the comic page of comic #93, Cannan mentions "Every time somebody gets burninated in Holy Bibble, I get the most awesome dreams..."
Homokaasu.org
- A Homestar Runner wall-size printout demonstrating homokaasu.org's Rasterbator software (Web service)
- A printout of The Cheat is also used as another example.
IGN
- The image behind the Nintendo Wi-Fi Registration Tool is from a Teen Girl Squad comic in this article.
- In the Animal Crossing: Wild World video review at the 2:52 mark, there is a selection screen where you pick the design for your clothes. There are three Homestar-inspired designs, including the red star shirt, a Homestar head, and Strong Bad. The video selection page is found here, and the actual video is on the top left, or here.
- Concerning a Video Game Law in Oklahoma, IGN titled the article "Oklahoma Burninates Game Law" found here.
- IGN mentions Homestarrunner.com in their review of the Nintendo DS Web Browser.
- In a 20-year Game Boy retrospective found here, one of the speakers is wearing a "Crazy Go Nuts" T-shirt bearing the Jolly Dumple.
IMDb
- Due to the releases of DVDs, IMDb has entries for all of the Homestar Runner cast, as well as the brothers Chaps, Missy Palmer, Craig Zobel, etc.
I-Mockery
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- Pickleman and the Green Thumb of Triumph
- When you are bitten by the vampire bat, you become a block of cheese, accompanied with the message "CHEESED!". See the page here.
- I-Mockery's Great American Road Trip
- EVOLUTION OF JACK!
- After Pjalne pretends to have stabbed himself in the arm, there is a picture of Andy with a caption of "Halloween'd", which is a direct reference to Teen Girl Squad. See the page here.
- Bishop of Battle
- On the second page of his review, the image of the Bishop swallowing J.J. is captioned with a reference to StrongBadZone, "YOUR HEAD A SPLODE!" A direct link to the page is available here.
Insert Disc Two
In the sketch My Dream Date with James Joyce, Lori Williams' character has a The Cheat doll on her bed.
Inspirational Posters
A website cataloging inspirational posters based on role-playing games includes one titled "Artistry", which features the "S is for Sucks" from dragon.
Instructables
User GorillazMiko made a page about how to draw Trogdor. On the intro page of the instructable, there is video of dragon from YouTube.
Jay is Games
- Jay is Games is a site that reviews a large number of online games. They have had reviews of Peasant's Quest [4], Thy Dungeonman 3 [5], and Dangeresque Roomisode 1: Behind the Dangerdesque [6].
- The review for Broken Picture Telephone is illustrated with a screenshot from the game, depicting a drawing of Trogdor playing minigolf and sneezing while a laser shoots at him.
- Peasants Quest was featured in an October 2010 listing of The Vault, a weekly article on the site created to highlight memorable games the reporters have encountered over the years. It was praised for its storyline, "retro visuals", and "absurd sense of humor".
JengaJam.com
This website always puts up links to the latest Homestar updates. The name of the site came from Homsar's quote in Where's The Cheat?, and the sub heading "The Pride of the Peaches" is derived from a quote by Strong Bad imitating Homsar in the sbemail interview.
Joe Wuz Here!
In Comic 2 of the main series, the police car that Joe was put in has the license plate "BURNIN8R." The comic can be found here.
The Joshua Childers Show!
The Joshua Childers Show! is a webshow on YouTube where a teenager parodies different TV show genres. In the first episode, Joshua is seen wearing a Stinkoman shirt.
Joystiq
- One of the articles is entitled "Nyko's Intercooler may burninate the Xbox 360" and features a picture of the pencil-drawn Trogdor (from dragon) next to an Xbox 360 with an Intercooler unit.
- The "Today's hottest game video" article for December 15, 2006 features a screen capture from Sample of Style Too at the beginning of the article.
- The release of Where's an Egg? was announced on the website on July 18, 2007.
Kevin & Kell
- Lindesfarne, one of the fictional characters in the comic, has her own blog. One of the entries in the blog is called TRADEMARK'D.
Kings of Chaos
After attacking an enemy in the MMORPG Kings of Chaos, the victory page will sometimes say "You burninated the enemy!" an obvious reference to Trogdor.
Klick! Holiday Video
This video contains over 50 viral video parodies, including a man with a Strong Bad mask typing on his keyboard with boxing gloves.
Kotaku
- On the page showing Splinter Cell: Double Agent "Fishtank Gameplay", the author mentions that "PETA is going to get all up ons".
- On the page listing just how easy it is to comment on Kotaku, the word "BANNINATE" is used, which is a pun on burnination.
- In the "Rainbow Six Vegas Demo Out On Live, But Not In Vegas" article, the term "double deuce" is used.
- Kotaku also reported on the debut of Viidelectrix.
La La La
The video "La La La" on UGOplayer contains a few Homestar Runner characters, including Strong Bad and Homestar Runner. It also includes the Homestarmy wallpaper image, edited to suit the cartoon.
Laser Dragon University
In Students, there is a character who wears a T-shirt with the logo for Taranchula.
Legendaryfrog.com
- In Kerrigan's Big Invention there is a picture of Strong Bad and Homestar on the chalk board.
- In Senya's movie review: Alien V.S. Predator there are several Cheat Commandos toys by the toy box.
- In When Gnomes Fly the main characters name is Brudder, a reference to Lil' Brudder.
- In The Matrix Has You, the little girl yells "It's Over", at the very end of Legendary Frog's part, like Strong Bad does at the end of almost every Teen Girl Squad episode.
Lemmy's Land
- In one of Lemmy's Funnies called "Superstar Mario in Too Much Water" By Drew, we see the classic "Scene missing" bit from Parsnips A-Plenty and The Homestar Runner says, "What?" while Mario was still drinking water to become fat.
- Eight of Lemmy's Interviews have Homestar Runner characters as the interviewers: HOMESTAR RUNNER AND POM POM interview GOOMBA, STRONG BAD AND THE CHEAT interview ROY KOOPA, HOMESTAR interviews BOWSER, HOMSAR interviews HAMMER BRO, STRONG SAD AND POM POM interview X-NAUT, STRONG BAD AND STRONG MAD interview GOOMBA, STRONG SAD AND POM POM interview X-NAUT, and STRONG SAD interviews LUIGI.
LoadingReadyRun
- In the video entitled AWESOME:We ... Shot This!, G Unit's (Graham Stark's) lyrics include the word "Homestar".
- In the video entitled The Rant - Scenesters and Snobbery, figurine sets one and two can be seen on top of the television.
- In the video entitled Sleep Dep Experiment, Morgan says he's been making stnanks.
- In the video entitled The Bet, Graham cracks and teleports around the room repeating the same word over and over, as Homestar does in long pants.
- In the bloopers in the DVD extras for ZOMGies!!!1, when Graham flubs the line "You don't understand!", he follows it up with "You all understand! I mean don't understand!"
Loldogs
- In the background of this picture, a young boy is watching some type of interaction between Strong Bad and Bubs. (site currently down)
"The Lost Experience" ABC's Official Blog
- In Speaker's "Reader Mail 2", after one question was repeated one too many times, Speaker angrily responds, "Grah! What? Who? GAH! Is this my 'How do you type with boxing gloves on?' question?"
- Later, Speaker posted a "Video Reader Mail" on YouTube, which prominently featured the Kick The Cheat doll in the background and referred to "e-mail personalities" having raspy voices (like Strong Bad).
ManCrush
Homestar Runner, Strong Bad, The Cheat, and Coach Z are all listed, currently rated at #1102, #674, #1271, and #933, respectively.
The Man of 101 Voices
"Brock" released a video on Myspace called "The Man of 101 Voices" where he did impressions of Teen Girl Squad, Bubs, Coach Z, The Cheat, and Larry from Limozeen as numbers 91-95. The video can be seen here.
The video "The Man of 101 More Voices" also features impressions of Strong Bad, Homestar Runner, and Marshie as 88-90. Video here
There is also a video named "The Man of 101 More...er Voices" featuring impressions of Crack Stuntman and Homsar as numbers 92-93. Video here.
In November 2012, he also released a video of impressions entitled "Fifty Impressions of Grey," in which Strong Bad (referred to as 'strongbad') was impersonated. Video here (Warning: strong language).
Media Molecule
On this post, there is a .gif image with the line "Your head asplode", a quote from Vector Strong Bad.
MindBlasters Tripod
There is a page on the main site titled "Homestar", that features cartoons from the website. Also, the blog "Ramdom Exployts" has very many Homestar Runner references. The main Mindblasters Tripod site can be found here.
Mind Body Guide
- Strong Bad is the featured image of a slightly tongue-in-cheek tally of the body's many muscles on this site.
- Strong Bad Email suntan is quoted when the article states, "let's not forget the cloits and dloits!"
- The footnote says "There are no such thing as cloits or dloits. This is a reference to anatomy according to Strong Bad, which is hilarious, and included here entirely for the sake of comic relief. Kind of like the whole article, come to think of it."
More Awesome Than You!
- This page (warning: explicit "under construction" graphic) the index.html page title is "More Awesome Than You PAY PLUS!", which is a reference to HomestarRunner.com PAY PLUS!.
- The main logo has a picture of Trogdor on it.
- Seven of the sub-forums are marked as been in the "Burnination" parent forum. One of the child forums in the "Burnination" parent forum is entitled "Peasantry". Another is titled "Bowels of Trogdor". Yet another is titled "Planet K 20X6". A child forum under the "Peasantry" forum is "Made-Up Animals", with the description: "If you were a sim, what would you like as if?". Another forum in Peasantry bears the description "Ask me your questions, and I will make fun of you." The description for the "Playsets & Toys" forum references the catchphrase of the Cheat Commandos.
- Several phrases used are similar, or based on Homestar Runner phrases. Examples include: "Game exploding in a big fiery ball that is visible from space" and "GameCube is no place for a mighty warrior."
- One of the available objects is the Trogdor topiary from Weclome Back ([7]).
- Part of the forum footer reads "Powered by The Cheat".
- Another available object is the Kick The Cheat toy ([8]).
- A member is named Li'l Brudder and used to have an avatar of Li'l Brudder and a signature containing Li'l Brudder quotes ([9]).
- Another member, Inge, has the custom title of round mound of gray fatness.
- When you type a false file in the site bar like (www.moreawesomethanyou.com/anything) you will get 404'd.
Mozilla
- There is an extension for Mozilla Firefox called Full Screen Homestar Runner and another one called the H*R Toolbar. Each appears to be popular, with tens of thousands of downloads.
MSN
- Homestarrunner.com appears on two MSN lists: it occupies slot #7 of Ten Ways to Waste Time Online, and occupies slot #40 of Forty Fantastic Time-Wasting Web Sites (from PC World).
NationalReview.com
In an article posted August 27, 2003, entitled "Everybody to the Limit", Peter Wood reviews homestarrunner.com.
Natrium42.com
In a blog post, Natrium42 uses dragon as the test Flash file for porting GPLFlash to the Nintendo DS.
Neglected Characters
- This is a site where the Neglected Characters of Mario games are honored. One of them, Dr. Donez, answers questions regularly (much like Strong Bad Email) at Ask Dr. Donez.
- In question 595, question 1412, and question 1842 he gets asked how he types with boxing gloves on his hands, which he responds differently each time.
- He is also frequently asked how he types with wings.
- In question 595, question 1412, and question 1842 he gets asked how he types with boxing gloves on his hands, which he responds differently each time.
- In one of Bowser's speeches, Koopa asks Bowser, "How do you know Trogdor?" and he replies "We went to Burniniation classes together."
Neopets
- Neopets released a new avatar with the caption "Your Lupe A Splode" which is a reference to video games and StrongBadZone.
- In this avatar, the caption reads "Garlic'd!" at the end, which is a Teen Girl Squad reference.
- Another avatar features a Scorchio (a dragon-like Neopet) with the caption "Burninate!", a reference to Trogdor.
- Neopets also has an avatar reserved for theneopetsteam, a staff username, which references the "a splode."
- The end for the description for tomb chips is "GOTHD!", a reference to Teen Girl Squad.
NES Buckle
- On this site, one person is wearing a Teen Girl Squad Shirt.
NES Horsemen
- On this site, this page has several references, including a variation on the "dot dot dot" quote from Under Construction and a reference to the Extra Real Dating Sim XR ("featuring the most polygonal of technoligies"). 20X6 is also mentioned.
Newgrounds
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Newgrounds user Shadow-Panda made a music video of Ebay by Weird Al. It has a picture of Homestar as one of the items bought off of Ebay, out of its box as the camera pans through the items.
There is a game called "Homestar Hunt" on Newgrounds, where you chase Homestar and shoot him.
Also, in the first episode of the cartoon trilogy Kingdom Hearts Chronicles there is a reference to Homestar, in the scene in which Sora enters a cave there is a carved etch of Homestar Runner on the wall.
In addition, there is a game called "Yeowi the Pervert" on Newgrounds in which the Entrance theme of the Brothers Strong is randomly chosen during gameplay.
Nintendojo
As an April Fools' prank, Nintendojo put up a fake list of characters for the upcoming Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Trogdor is among the characters listed.
NLCast
There are many references made throughout the podcast.
NoSlang.com
The NoSlang.com "commonly misspelled words" page has a statement saying, "Since not everybody owns a copy of 'Strong Bad's Rythm N' Grammar,' we've tried to do our part to help by compiling a list of common internet misspellings." It also posted a "Happy Birthday Trogdor" link from January 13 through January 16, 2006. And, in the Internet Slang Dictionary, one of the user-submitted words is h*r, meaning "homestar runner"
Olde English
In their General Procrastination sketch, Raizin 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 and the email menu).
Omegle
When your connection is lost during a chat, one of the error messages is "Your connection asploded."
OMG Facts
For fact #19401 detailing Vocaloid's Hatsune Miku, the last two lines of the first paragraph read "Naturally, she has blue hair. You gotta have blue hair!"
OrbiTouch
On the website for OrbiTouch, a new, safe way to type, they mention that you can "Type with Boxing Gloves On" in the lower right-hand side of one of their pages.
Otaku Revolution: The Strip
The October 31, 2009 strip was titled "The 2009 Otaku Revolution: The Strip Secondary and Obscure Homestar Runner Universe Characters Halloween Spectacular!" with the characters of the strip dressed up as the characters in question. The usual logo for OR:TS was replaced with a parody of the Homestarrunner.com logo, and the page title was "Sorry Homestar, but your Strong Bad is in another comic!" Previous strips included the character Rob saying "Clear the launchway, man. We're taking this baby to the moon!" and another strip featured a group sing-along of "The Cheat is Not Dead" as well as a character shouting "Hey, Rob! You're not Strong Bad!"
Panda Smash
At 01:20 of A Tribute to Every Video Site, the scene shows the man and woman as Strong Bad and Marzipan.
Platypuscomix.net
- An entire page, titled Homestar Freakers! informs readers how to find homestarrunner.com's Secret Pages.
- The article Incredible Items for Sale! includes a picture of Strong Bad exclaiming, "Hey, check me out! No seriously, check me out..." and mentions the burrito Homestar auctioned in the email english paper.
- The Applepalooza section's menu includes a photo of an Apple II computer with a weird dream quote ("Your computer has too much computer in it and not enough typewriter") written on its screen.
- When moderator Peter Paltridge added videos of his homemade RPG, the main page linked to the videos through a logo reading "Peter Paltridge's Cool Game for Attractive People", a reference to Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People.
- After Steve Jobs died, the Platypus Comix homepage boasted a picture of Eh! Steve crying while delivering his catch phrase.
- "Creating the Perfect Tagline" makes one comment on the iconic value of the Alien tagline ("In space, no one can hear you scream.") by challenging readers to recall the slogan of Aliens. Paltridge dismisses it as generic and forgettable ("This time, it's war.") by showing an Aliens poster with a tagline reading, "This time, it's not Dangeresque 1."
Plush Puffs
Plush Puffs list Mr. Shmallow (toon), Fluffy Puff Commercial, and Meet Marshie as Company Training Videos on their about us page.
Polas' Goodtime Retro Cafe
In the Commodore 64 "Classics" review, Trogdor lyrics are used as the opening paragraph for the review of the game Thantos.
Progressive Boink
- In The 100 Greatest Christmas Shows list, the Homestar Runner Decemberween toons are grouped together and ranked at #79.
- In The 50 Worst Halloween Costumes list, Strong Bad is among those as "Any costume that may lead to poor voice impressions".
- In Kyle's Top 20 Video Games list (part of the site's 100 Favorite Video Games), Kyle criticizes the voices of the enemies in Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee (his 9th favorite game) as sound "identical to Strong Bad".
- In Jon's Top 20 Most Beautiful Women list (part of the site's (100 Most Beautiful Women: 2003), Jon describes his #1 pick, Shakira, as being famous for "the ability to sing like both a Latina schoolgirl and Homsar in the same verse."
- The entry for Cheese (from the cartoon series "Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends") in the Internet Hanna-Barbera Fashion Database describes the show as being "located just down the block from Trogdor the Burninator and across the street from Juggernaut calling people b****es."
- In a review of Lamb Chop's Special Chanukah, the character Charlie Horse's use of a computer is compared to Strong Bad in the form of an email asking how he types with hooves on his hands. The email is signed, "crapfully yours, crapface mccrappington, asbury park, nj."
- Volvagia's HySpace profile lists two reasons why he was revived by Ganondorf, one of them is to "burninate the countryside."
- On the final page of Rob Liefeld's 40 worst drawings the author notes, "We'll ignore the elephantine Strong Sad leg that he's given Franklin Richards in the first panel."
Pure Pwnage
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Rareware.com
In the December 24, 2003 edition of the letters page Scribes, one letter states:
Can you answer emails in Flash like Strong Bad does? I think it would be funny because we could all hear you speak with an English accent, which us North Americans find amusing. :) Also, we could hear you groan when you get a bad one, like those other e-mails you get... you know, the ones that aren't sent by me.
The response:
British accent, Arse, British accent. Anyway, no. That would be a terrible error.
Real Ultimate Power
Parodies of Real Ultimate Power are everywhere. A fan made one featuring TROGDOR.
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 your favorite character from your favorite online comic (actually referring to himself), Strong Bad's face appears on-screen instead.
- A Strong Bad and a Homestar sticker is also seen during the Red vs. Blue segment in the Halo 2 Limited Collectors Edition DVD, on the window of a door.
RetroWare TV
- The Happy Video Game Nerd's [Mega Man 10 review] mentions Mega Man's blue hair, and goes on to say that "The Chapman Brothers are probably laughing their asses off", whilst displaying a picture of Stinkoman.
- On the Game Quickie for Adventure on Atari 2600, the dragons are referred to as "ducks" at one point, and at the end, the line "Somebody get this freakin' duck away from me!" is uttered.
RiffTrax
- In the RiffTrax for the movie Eragon, upon seeing a cottage on fire, Kevin Murphy quips "Another burninated victim of TROGDOR!"
- And in the Batman and Robin Rifftrax, when they are placing the mask on Bane's face, Bill Corbett states "Next they're going to put boxing gloves on him and force him to read emails," in reference to the ever popular sbemail feature. It should be noted that that particular Rifftrax was written by the fans.
- In the RiffTrax of the Harrison Ford movie Firewall, Mike Nelson quips as Harrison Ford works at a computer, "Now that I've watched every single Strong Bad Email..."
- In the Troll 2 RiffTrax, guest riffer Lowtax comments on a particularly 80s-sounding midi loop playing in one scene, asking "Are they listening to the soundtrack of a Homestar Runner cartoon in there?"
- In the October 27, 2008 blog entry, webmaster Conor posted his version of the Homestar Runner Pumpkin. He also mentions that Ballad Of The Sneak is his favorite toon, and wonders how Da Vinci's Notebook got to work with The Brothers Chaps.
- In the Rifftrax for the film Tron, riffed by Paul and Storm and Jonathan Coulton, Paul of Paul and Storm spies a popcorn air popper and exclaims, "Bennedetto!" It is interesting to note that Paul and Storm were two of the founding members of Da Vinci's Notebook, creators of the Ballad of the Sneak.
RinkWorks Graffiti
Homestar is referenced twice on the RinkWorks graffiti pages.
- The text "Baleted" can be seen here.
- An image of Strong Bad has been crudely pasted in to all the other crazy stuff going on here.
ROBLOX
- Numerous places, models, decals, shirts, and pants have been modeled after Homestar Runner.
Robot Bastard
- robotbastard.com has a clip of Strong Bad saying, "This is Strong Bad. and you're listening to the smooth, soft sounds of Robot Bastard delight FM... with zombies!" Robot Bastard was a short film made by Rob Schrab, creator of Scud: The disposable assassin.
Rocketboom
- On the 3/15/2005 episode, a clip of the March 14th SXSW Panel and Amanda interviewing Homestar are seen.
- On the 12/5/05 episode of the v-log Rocketboom, Amanda Congdon is wearing a Homestar Runner shirt.
- On the 4/12/2006 episode, after Amanda reports about humanclock, she comments that she still likes her Strong Bad Clock better.
Salon.com
Strong Bad made Salon.com's "Sexiest Man Living" list for 2007. [10]
Sam & Max Season One
On the FAQ page for the new Sam & Max games, Homestar Runner is mentioned--praised, even.
The Schumin Web
The splash page for November 2005 showed an image of Ben Schumin dressed up as The Thnikkaman. The same image also appears in the Splash Page Archives.
Shenmue II : The Gang Edition
In the fan-movie Shenmue II : The Gang Edition, when Ryo arrives at Guilin, he is distracted by a The Cheat Talking Plush Doll, which is the guardian of the village where Shenhua lives.
Later, Ryo kicks the Plush Doll, making it complain.
Shirt.Woot
The description for the shirt "pencildellic" was entitled "my head asplode" on Thursday September 27, 2007
Shoot the Cliché
Trogdor appears as one of the clichés in this game from another site. Click here to play the game.
Smash Bros. MOJO!!
For this Super Smash Bros. Brawl parody site, The King of Town is listed as a playable character, and he is referenced from the game Super Kingio Bros.
Another playable character, Paint Pixel, is seen surrounded by many characters in a screenshot. One of these characters is Trogdor.
Smokescreen
The Strong Bad Email techno is used as a demo to showcase the capabilities of HTML5.
Something Awful
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Strong Bad, Homestar, Strong Mad, The Cheat and Marzipan appear as grotesque caricatures in Tub Bites vol. 2.. The computer used in the toon appears to be a parody of the Compy 386. The first email is "Recycle Binned!". Homestar returns Strong Bad's "'80s reference" (a Tag Team Wrestling cartridge), as well as some of his "crappy catchphrases" (the one used as an example is "holy crap!"). Also, this is reprised with a parody of a "How do you type with boxing gloves on?"-style Strong Bad email in Karnov Bites.
- The Easter egg in Tub Bites 2 is a parody of Marzipan's Answering Machine, featuring calls from parodies of Strong Bad, the King of Town, Homsar, Coach Z and Strong Sad.
The update of March 1, 2007, Steve's Movie Review Blog, contains reference to the Strong Bad Emails. The article is written as if the writer is unfamiliar with internet trends; he writes that he just discovered the site, thinks the cartoon's title is "The Strong Bads", and thinks its web address is www.strongbad.com.
Homestar appears in Funny Housemates 2 and Funny Housemates 999. He looks like Homestar, but acts more like Homsar.
On October 22, 2010, Homestar Runner cast is featured in Photoshop Phriday as Abstract Pixel Art [11]
The Photoshop Phriday for May 11, 2012 featured a screenshot of "PalinZone," a parody of StrongBadZone. The playable game is located here.
South Park Studios
Somebody at South Park Studios is a fan, as a January 28, 2006 FAQ update contains the following:
Q. - How do you type with boxing gloves on?
A. - I'm sorry, this is "Ask South Park" not "Ask StrongBad ."
the show with zefrank
On the September 7, 2006 episode of the show, zefrank included a link to duck pond as a "silly thing".
Moreover, on the May 1, 2006 episode, the game can be seen on zefrank's monitor in the background.
There's also a reference to Strong Bad here.
Tumblr
- After the w00tstock 2013 appearance, a ton of Homestar Runner related ask blogs were made.
Stinkoman 20X6 on VGMusic.com
- VGMusic.com have done a remix of some of the Stinkoman 20X6 soundtrack. However, VGMusic doesn't allow direct linking to MIDI files. The files were sequenced by Tyler Prevost.
The Straight Dope
The StrongBadZone was submitted for Weird Earl's on The Straight Dope, a category featuring strange and/or awesome sites.
Stick RPG 2
On the news post for May 17 (of what year?), there is a line that says "what are you using, a 386?", with "386" being a link to invisibility.
Stick Shorts
On this site, episode 11 includes a short that is about a guy who sees Homestar, and kicks him, which results in Homestar falling on the guy. This is also a coincidence, since this series is created by Teh Cartoonist Productions like Charlie Clay and the Clay Crew. Even the Homestar sprite is the same as the one used in Charlie Clay.
Strong Bad Pilots an F/A-22 Raptor
For a short time, Strong Bad could be seen on the Lockheed Martin F/A-22 Raptor Team Web Site F/A-22 Raptor.
Suave
This Suave page is about Trogdor, Strong Bad, and The Cheat.
Superdickery.com
- In a "Bizzaro letters" segment, one guy writes "Dear Strongbad: How do you type with boxing gloves on?" [12]
- Also, the creator says "head a'splode" in a little blurb following this comic cover
Technopets
On technopets00.tripod.com, in the tpemail Icons, the email message at the bottom says "Email me. Bad emails will be burninated, er burned"
TED
In his lecture about new types of robots My seven species of robot, Dennis Hong shows an example of a six-legged robot balancing a Kick The Cheat of top of it (at 5:45).
Templelooters.com
- On the July 30, 2007 column on the Ask Mandy column on the Billy and Mandy-fan-site-part of Templelooters.com, ([13]) (site currently down) someone asks
Dear Mandy,
How do you type with boxing gloves on?
Crapfully Yours,
Sephiroth from the H*R Wiki.
Mandy answers, "I give up. How DO you type with boxing gloves on?"
- On the August 13, 2007 column, Mandy receives an email by a person claiming to be the King Of Town.
Oh, hello, Mandy. This is the King of Town. Doo, hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo. Uh, I just emailed you to tell you that, Josh N is not the guy
who you all of these emails asking to make fun of Brandi Ervan,okay? Uh, it was me all along! Doo, diddy hoo, diddy hoo, diddy hoo.
Um, so next time you see me, give me a kick in the shins! And next time you see Josh N, give him a list of why Cookie (from the
cancelled Rayman TV series) worrys about everything in the world and should be claimed an official Ogdenite, and a very rare Rayman TV
series videotape, why don't you? Um, okay, I have to go eat everything on it, especially whatsit and lose my lunch, because I'm the
King of Town. Doo, hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo.
That Guy with the Glasses
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- In Ask ThatGuy Episode 36, Doug Walker answers the question, How could you type with boxing gloves on?
- In the Nostalgia Critic's review of Ernest Scared Stupid, the Critic remarks that Trantor is not as impressive as Trogdor, followed by a scene of Trantor's revival with an image of Trogdor over it, set to his theme.
- In part two of Pushing Up Roses' Let's Play Shorty of The Amazon Trail, Roses opens with an impression of Marzipan. Paw doesn't get it, but mumbles up an old-school Homestar imitation.
- In Todd in the Shadows' review of Deuces, Todd mocks Taiga's use of "Valentimes" with a clip from Teen Girl Squad Issue 12.
- He also compares Wyclef Jean's yodeling to Homsar in his review of We Are the World 25 for Haiti.
- In the Nostalgia Chick's Top Ten Viral Videos from the Ancient Internet (aka Before YouTube), #1 is Trogdor.
The Morning News
In an article where they outline 30 tricks from 30 different trades; under cartographer it details this trick: Mapmakers will often use "copyright traps," bits of information in their maps that are purposefully wrong. They might label a body of water "Lake Strongbad," for instance, and then examine the next editions of competitors' maps to see if the incorrect information makes an appearance.
The-Coolest-Stuff-Ever.com
This website is a direct reference to homestarrunner.com. The name and main page both come from the Strong Bad Email credit card, and they also have an Easter egg with a fan-made, Homestar Runner Space Invaders game. The site is currently down.
There, I Fixed It.
One of the entries on the site is labeled "Trogdor Proof" [14].
ThinkGeek
- There is a picture on one page showing some plastic toys dressed up for Halloween. One of the toys is dressed up as Strong Bad (or, as they call him, "Strong Bob").
- At the bottom of another page, a Kick The Cheat doll is shown in a short video. Additionally, the man in the video is wearing an "I Love Toxic Waste" t-shirt, which could be a reference to Homestar's reference.
- The advertisement for one of ThinkGeek's t-shirts includes an image with handwriting that causes the shirt to read "im in ur MEDIEVAL VILLAGE BURNINATing ur PEASANTS".
- A recruitment poster for Battlestar Galactica's military has the caption "Do You Has?", referring to the Homestarmy.
- A page for a "Media Tank" uses the word "Grumblecakes".
- The December 21 e-mail newsletter has a section describing the "Looftlighter". The last few sentences talk about Hot Jones.
- In Tell Me Your Secrets Bear, The man in the video is wearing a Strong Bad shirt.
TobyTurner.com
The "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks
- In this entry for the blog, a man named Glenn was called "'Our Great Friend'" on a sign thanking him. The blogger comments, "Poor Glenn[...]has the clunkiest nickname I have encountered. I think he should lobby for 'The Yellow Dart'."
The Spriters Resource
- There is a category of rips from Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People. So far, the only sheet is from Snake Boxer 5.
- There are also rips from the unreleased Homestar Runner RPG.
Transformers Wiki
- Inferno (from the Beast Wars series) gets his own take on the Trogdor theme song.
- An image caption in the episode summary for "TransWarped, Part 2" references An Important Rap Song.
- The image caption for the Generation 1 Starscream Secret Version toy rewrites Secret Song in Starscream's honor.
- The quotes section for the Robots In Disguise episode "Attack from Outer Space" declares that X-Brawn sings worse than Strong Bad.
- An image caption mocks Blurr's speech patterns by comparing them to Hyperactive Strong Sad's.
- Another image caption (fifth on that page) references A Splode.
- The image caption for Joan references japanese cartoon.
- The image caption for Overcast references the classic question "How do you type with boxing gloves on?" (in this case, it's slightly rephrased).
- The image caption for Firebot adapts a quote from army about Firebert.
TV Squad
Wil Wheaton mentions a load-bearing flask in a Star Trek review.
TV Tropes Wiki
- The TV Tropes Wiki has an article about Homestar Runner.
- It is also often mentioned when examples of tropes are needed.
- There are tropes named for such subjects as The King of Town and
content warningYour Head A Splode. A full list of tropes named for Homestar Runner subjects is on the Homestar Runner page on TV Tropes.
Uncyclopedia
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- On the ever-popular factually-inaccurate encyclopedia Uncyclopedia, the VfD (vote for deletion) template reads "Baleeted! This article is total crap. Please VFD."
- The template for articles that contain too much information reads: "This article contains way too much information. Absorbing all of it may cause one's head to asplode. You can help Uncyclopedia by removing stuff."
- A second template simply reads: "THIS ARTICLE A SPLODE", which is one of Uncyclopedia's dozens of inside jokes. Alas, the picture for it refers to Scanners.
- In this image, one of the error messages is the "Everything is fine. Nothing is ruined." error from 50 emails.
- One of the user awards includes Burninator.
- In the Recentnews template, one of the news items reads that "An astremely astonishing asperiment has show that acessive asposure to Strong Bad Zone has an astraordinarily affect on grammar."
- If you attempt to restore File 1 of Zork, you have some Grumblecakes in your inventory. You are also wearing the Kerrek's belt.
- Also, trying to get/take the sword in the kitchen prompts the message "You can't get/take ye sword!"
- Fake (or at least, mostly fake) descriptions of the characters have been entered.
- Homestar Runner: "A prolific actor (famous for playing the role of Matt Chapman in the 2000 movie "Flash Cartoonists")"
- Strong Bad: One of "the most notable and prolific singer/songwriters of the past decade".
- Coach Z: "An athletic genius" and "a prolific writer and rapper".
- Pom Pom: "A large, balloon-like alien from the planet Inflatrosis".
- Trogdor: "The son of the Friendly Giant and Puff, The Magic Dragon".
- homsar has been "sporked" from this Wiki (see [15] here). There is also an article on the Tandy 400, as well as one on this Wiki.
- 50K RaceWalker is listed as the 43rd-worst computer game of all time.
- In addition, Kid Speedy is listed as -27th.
- There are 5 Homestar Runner variations of the phrase "You have two cows", as well as a Coach Z variation.
- The start of Game Online is a direct rip-off of the start of Thy Dungeonman.
- Three of the choices for the monster template are "a Yello Dello", "a cavalry of dongrels" and "a bear holding a shark".
- Two of the choices on the random "killed by" template are "burninated" and "BALEETED!"
- The page on Nowhere starts with the Flagrant System Error message.
- The Beowulf image has Strong Bad (with abs, a keyswordtar, and a horned helmet) and The Cheat (again, with a horned helmet) teaming up to fight Trogdor.
- This page, part of a clicking game, reads "THIS PAGE HAS BEEN SHUT DOWN BY THE NCAA FOR SEVERE CUSSING AND VERY ILLEGAL PONYFIGHTS."
- If you get banned, It says "Baninated", which refers to burninated.
- On Uncyclopedia's article on Christianity, Trogdor is "the logo of Jesus' personal choice."
- Adobe.jpg, "Another happy Photoshop user," has one of the Strong Bad freebie patches Photoshopped.
- For the "On this day..." section on the Uncyclopedia Main Page on March 22, 2008, one of the items listed was under the year "20X6", and linked to page (without the anchor, however)
- The article on "you" contains the sentence "You are also nothing like the coolest guy in the universe, Homestar Runner."
- Homsar is listed as a member of "The Axis of Evil", a fake conspiracy group, and a "wannabe terrorist and rulers of the world", as seen on his page ([16]).
Uni Watch
- Uni Watch, a blog devoted to following the trends of sports logos, jerseys, and other sports-related designs, links to the email redesign in the December 1 blog entry "Keep Your Pants On". The "little animation", as it is referred to, is mentioned as a "good commentary on logo updates". [17]
Unofficial mobile version of the Original Book
An unofficial version of The Homestar Runner Enters the Strongest Man in the World Contest, viewable by many mobile devices, is available here.
Urban Dictionary
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On July 1, 2005, the main page "word of the day" on Urban Dictionary was biz cas fri. (It is misspelled as "bis cas fri.") [18]
Various other phrases and words are defined on the site (with varying degrees of accuracy in spelling and content) such as Teen Girl Squad, Strong Bad, Homestar Runner, fhqwhgads, Pfargtl, and "Somebody get this freakin' duck away from me!".
On April 4, 2012, clicking Urban Dictionary's logo resulted in audio of multiple people saying words that had been defined on the site, including "fhqwhgads" and "homsar."
Variousimmers
On this site dedicated to modding The Sims 2, two of the objects are a Painting of a Guy with a Big Knife (here), and a Strong Bad monument (here).
VG Mix
Here there is a remix of the first racing tune from Rad Racer (which is also Stinkoman's theme). The title references to japanese cartoon and the song itself contains quotes from said email.
Videogame Scrapbook
This site has a page with various Videlectrix music available for download.
Visitmypiczosite.piczo.com
- On Life On Sedna's Weekly Fanstuff for The Last Week Of August, the official logo for Life On Sedna (See Comic Sightings) is drawn on a whiteboard. Also, a funny drawing of Homestar is there.
Weffriddles
- One level involves a certain Homestar Runner character.
Wikipedia
- In Wikipedia's April Fool's Day Article 2005, Homestar in his Daisy Dukes was eventually added to the somewhat lengthy Wikipedia April Fool's Day 2005 article detailing a hostile takeover of Wikipedia by Encyclopedia Britannica. He was part of Wikipedia's "new corporate structure" as the Minister of Long Pants. He was then pictured lower on the page in the "Immediate Aftermath" section, then moved to the "Related Information" section, then finally dropped altogether. The page as it exists now can be found here, and the edit history for the page here. Strong Bad was also named Minister of Deleting email, and is found directly under Homestar's listing.
- On another April Fools Day, the deleted tab on the home page was renamed "baleeted".
w00tstock
- In his spoof of another internet hoax involving a girl quitting her job with a whiteboard, Wil Wheaton references Strong Sad's line "I'm sad that I'm flying" as he "quits" w00tstock.
Xgenstudios
In one of the websites games called "Graffiti" one of the example pictures contains a dragon that looks very similar to, or is, Trogdor. The dragon (Trogdor) is also breathing a flame that is similar to Trogdor's way of Burninating.
X-treme Geek
The word 'fangoriously' appears on a page selling Venus Fly Traps.
Yahoo!
One of Yahoo! Mail's random subject lines is "Do you use them for good, or for awesome?".
YouTube
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- While YouTube was down for maintenance on August 17, 2006, pictures of the youtube offices were posted on the youtube homepage. Two of them showed a Kick The Cheat doll. photo 1, photo 2.
- Internet People, part of a series called "The Meth Minute 39", is viewable on YouTube and mentions Homestar Runner. See also: Animation Sightings#Channel Frederator
- The title-cel to user SPUDS-TUBE's cover of Devo's song, Time Out For Fun, features drawings of Homestar and Strong Bad. The caption next to Homestar's head reads "sewwiously" and the one next to Strong Bad reads "a-jigga-muh-WHA...?!". Also, the video description contains "Total co-incidence! Not intentional!"
- A video on a Wii Shop Channel hack has the background music as The System is Down some of the comments notably replied relating to the song saying: "WTF is this song called? its freaking awsome?," and, "one of the oddest songs i have ever heard". Some comments include various questions of where it is from, while some clearly remember it from the email, and some complaints.
- FALCOR - the URiNATOR, a parody of TROGDOR, was featured on July 16, 2007, shortly after it was released on the 12th. Coincidentally, it was featured on a Monday. It quickly got over 25 video responses, and has 1,307,406 views as of October 15, and now has 60 video responses. It has gotten over 19,000 clicks from links on webpages. It also holds the #12 slot on "Most Discussed (All Time) - Pets & Animals." It has recently gotten a ringtone version. The email is mentioned as his inspiration of the description.
- Mario Paint renditions, a compilation of Mario Paint segments, shows one of them being Homestar Runner slowly running, with an attempt at the Intro song done in Mario Paint as background music to the animation, and the theme to Stinkoman 20X6.
- Sherifam's videos make reference to Homestar Runner.
- The first one is the Tait-imation theatre videos. The first one ever created featured Tait beating Homestar senseless with nunchucks, a reference to Fall Float Parade. At the end of this cartoon, Homestar says as he goes flying into a probable hammerspace, "And that's how I became a law!", a reference to 4 branches.
- Tait-imation being Kobatsu Emails, a parody of Strong Bad Emails, in which Kobatsu, a chibi animated version of Tait with no arms on, checks his email. In result of it being bad, it gets DELETED.
- Second video series is the Cal Email Show (or C-mails, a reference to "sbemails"), of which Cal, the main operator of the channel, answers emails. In the 2nd and most recent, Prank mail, he gets asked a familiar question and results in a familiar answer.
- The channel message states that viewing one of sherifam's videos will "quite literally leave your computer in smoldering crater. (Views will not quite literally leave your computer in smoldering crater)" in a parody to SBCG4AP.
- There are also three videos on YouTube, entitled "The Man with 100 Voices", "The Man of 100 Voices" and "The Man of 101 More Voices" respectively. All three feature Homestar Runner impersonations.
- Video 1:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMV0fHinHaA numbers 48 to 52
- Video 2:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5CmqC1E-Ag Numbers 91 to 95
- Video 3:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRzBtTcnh5c Numbers 88 to 90
- There are various user accounts active on YouTube with Homestar Runner references in their account names, such as Burnin8r55555.
- User HomeStarRunnerTron, whose real name is Skye, has many references to the Homestar Runner Body of work in his uploaded videos. Some notable reference include this video, which includes Skye doing some of the voices he used for the Pokémon Abridged Series, with his test sentence being "The fish was delish and it made quite a dish.". One of his Pokémon Abridged Series episodes, taken down due to a Terms of Use Violation, included a scene where Professor Oak, Officer Jenny, Nurse Joy, and Ash's Mom, "nodded in agreement" to Skye's voiceover comments. He then repeated the scene except all of them were wearing Dangeresque glasses, and Oak was wearing a Homestar Runner Shirt.
- In sonicthehedgehog2222's video adam h. 2 preview, Adam can be seen with a black Trogdor the Burninator shirt on, and has a Trogdor poster in his room.
- This Magfest video briefly shows Strong Bad in his Carmen Sandiego Halloween costume.
- In Episode 3 of Naruto the abridged series, Sasuke throws Shurikens at a log, and the sound effect played is "LOGG'D!", a reference to Teen Girl Squad.
- Every Class Is Different, a review of the classes of Team Fortress 2, directly spoofs Everyone Is Different.
- Donut Unto Others was remade on ROBLOX and posted onto YouTube.
- Similarily to the Donut Unto Others as mentioned above, The Best Caper Ever was also remade on ROBLOX.
- In TurboJUK's video, he made a fan made music video using Michael Jackson's Thriller and also used audio from the beginning part from mile and another toon. The animation in the video is completely made by himself.
- masterofhomestar, referred to as Electricstar, made a series of random fan made Homestar Runner videos. His most noticeable video is Strong Bad roll, which uses various clips that have Strong Bad from various toons, shorts, SBEmails, and SBCG4AP, and "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley, known as the music used for "Rickrolling". Here, he used the Strong Bad clips and mashed them up to make sound like he's singing to the song.
- PoisonRainVornado, referred to as "Vornado", is the creator of the series Internet Memes: Homestar Style!, in which he takes certain scenes from Homestar games and cartoons and sets them to audio from popular web phenomenon. He has also created the mash-up Strong Bad Sings "Chocolate Rain".
- LuigiMario2009's "The Super Luigi Show" has many Homestar Runner references. In the episode "Back To School", Patamon watches being mean, and replies to Luigi saying: "I'm watching Strong Bad Email!". Also in "Dinoween", once Luigi encounters Reptar, he gets the jibblies, and he also steals Strong Bad's line:
Luigi: "All the good characters are gone!"
Patamon: What about Shadow?
Luigi: "all the GOOD characters!"
Once Shadow has been eaten, Luigi says: "Now all the good AND the bad characters are gone!"
Patamon replies: "eh-hem!", Luigi states: "oh sorry, all but one." Also in "Bad's Look Day", Patamon mention that "stickanie flowers only exist in the Homestar Runner World". In "My Last 101 Things", Patamon makes impressions of Strong Bad, Homestar, Coach Z and Bubs.
- A YouTube user named SonikDude101 said jorb in this video.
- Also, he made videos on walkthroughs on SBCG4AP from episodes 1 through 5.
- In YouTube user Ray William Johnson's January 3, 2010 video, he uses the word "assplode" when playing a video of a man getting blown off of his couch.
- [19] YouTube user BinkySuperStar recreated Dangeresque 1 on Roblox, starring himself as Renaldo, Dangeresque Too, and Perducci, while user theultimatedonut starred as Dangeresque, KillingYouGuy, and Cutesy Buttons.
- A video of Beaker from The Muppets trying to perform "Dust In The Wind" parodies of negative YouTube comments and misspellings. When Beaker knocks over a candle and starts a fire, one of the comments is BURNINATION!
- A video on the 100 ways to die on The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion shows "Highwayman'd" and "Black Horse Courier'd" as deaths.
- Caught Chatting Episode 4 has Phil, when giving out points at the end, award "Homestar Runner" as a number of points.
- Salad Fingers and Homestar Runner meet.
[[20]] has a video entitled "Ipod Akwardness" in which one of the characters in the video is wearing the Homsar shirt from the HR Store.
- A YouTube user named SpinyMcSpleen3264 has created two music-related videos based on Homestar Runner. The first is called Golf Club Team? (based on the CGNU Fight Song) and features a short musical piece done using the Easter Egg from mascot. The second is a simple version of the Teen Girl Squad background theme done in the DSiWare app, Rhythm Core Alpha. The latter uses the typeface, AhnbergHand, and features Cheerleader being "WiNDOWS MOViE MAKER'D!".
ytmnd
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Many Homestar Runner-related You're The Man Now, Dog pages have been created, such as this one, which involves the Cheat Commandos, this one which is an anniversary site, this one, which includes a scene from dangeresque 3, and these, which all reference Main Page 13. OH NOOOOOOES!!! MISSINGNO!(cache) had one of the System Sounds looping.
Zero Punctuation
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In the review of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, the text "Time Paradox'd" is displayed when Yahtzee describes Darth Vader and Anakin Skywalker fighting each other. The reference is seen at 3:01 here.
Zingtech
The paintings section of the website features an acrylic painting entitled "Guy With a Big Knife".