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Addicting Games

The site features Stinkoman 20X6 and TROGDOR!. Plus, Awexome Cross and Population: Tire were on the site before it got redesigned.

AddictingGames.com

History of the Internet

The "archivists" make a reference to H*R, saying that because of them, "The internet is finally given purpose".

History of the Internet

Neopets

Neopets released a new avatar with the caption "Your Lupe A Splode" which is an obvious reference to video games and Strong Bad Zone yourlupeasplode.gif

Neopets.com

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 and the email menu.)

Oldeenglish.org

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


Bryan Waterman Interview

Bryan 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 Joseph's animations. See It Here

Waterman Studios Main Page

On The Main Page When you put your mouse over Behind the Scenes, A guy catches a toaster and out flies a bunch of syringes and it says, "Syringe'd!"

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, 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

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 (obviously 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.

Live Action Dangeresque!

Some guys at Strongfans.com made this awesome parody 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.

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."

File:headline on fark.png

Also, Fark linked to [1]

NPR's All Things Considered

NPR has a basic rundown of the H*R site and characters on this page, run on the air as part of their All Things Considered program on May 8, 2005.

8-Bit Theater Reference

In 8 Bit Theater 3, In the bloopers, The Cheat is "summoned" in one, and Strong Bad appears on a Mega Man II Boss Screen in another.

8-Bit-Theater on Flashplayer.com

In one of the 2005 e3 strips, the one of the characters wears a strong bad mask to fool a shady vendor, see it here: 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"

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.

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)

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.


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 favorite 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. Also, The Cheat is compared to Pikachu. Direct links to the articles are available here for Strong Bad and here for The Cheat.

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.

I-Mockery : Bishop of Battle

On the second page of his review, the image of the Bishop swallowing J.J. is captioned with a reference to StrongBad Zone, "YOUR HEAD A SPLODE!" A direct link to the page is available here. Contains profanity.

Stinkoman 20X6 on VGMusic.com

VGMusic.com have done a remix of most of the Stinkoman 20X6 soundtrack. The links can be found here: Level Select, Level Start, Level 1, Boss Theme, and Level 2. These files were sequenced by Tyler Prevost.

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 is part of Wikipedia's "new corporate structure," a Communist entity, as the Minister of Long Pants. He is also pictured slightly lower in the page in the "Related information" section.

The Matrix Online FAQ on gamefaqs.com

In this FAQ, the author notes that "ya gotta have blue hair!"

8BitJoystick.com

In this article about how to literally burn CDs, the author notes to "burn it properly like Trogdor burninates the peasants."

GEOWeasel

In the first episode of this flash webcomic, when you first see the computer, the screen reads "run sb_email.exe," an obvious reference to the opening of all SB E-mails.

In the filler episode, the computer is "Compy 387".

Funny Junk

In a flash cartoon here(warning: adult material), Strong Bad is dancing in the middle of the screen at about the middle of the flash cartoon. He dances like he does in The Luau.

Technopets

On technopets00.tripod.com, the tpemail ICONS makes 2 referances. 1. "Bad emails will be burninated, er burned" is the weekly email message. 2. An easter egg link says "link 'em up dan"(check the tpemails)


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. You can find it here.

Acquisition X

In the screenshot on this page, you used to be able to see some Homestar Runner stuff, like Homsar & Limozeen.

starmen.net

On this page you can see a clay Homestar Runner!

YTMND

On YTMND, if you search "Homestar" you'll find tons of pages about Homestar.

Dr. Fruitcake

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 it out here.

The Homestar Runner.com

This domain name and web hosting site, which says it is "Not affiliated with HomeStarRunner.com", uses the Homestar Runner (flash cartoon) logo and part of the "Spoof on Apple Computer 'Think Different' campaign" Wallpaper. The site's banner also features the <head><href>No loafing!</href></body> tag from virus and Main Page 22. Check it out here.

H*R Games on GameFAQs

On the GameFAQs video game database, there are pages for Peasant's Quest and Stinkoman 20X6, where each game has user-submitted walkthroughs, reviews and more, as well as its own message board!

Also, The Unofficial Homestarrunner board can be found here.

Uncyclopedia

On the ever-popular factually-inaccurate encyclopedia Uncyclopedia, the VfD (vote for deletion) stub reads "Baleeted! This article is total crap. Please VFD." For two examples, see here, and here.

superdickery

In a "Bizzaro letters" segment, one guy writes "Dear Strongbad: How do you type with boxing gloves on?" [2]

In a recent update of the "Stupid Comic Covers" section, there is a cover of cowboys fighting nazis in space. The commentator (the guy who writes comments under every cover) indirectly states how it is too many genres, saying his "head a'splode" [3]

Urban Dictionary

On July 1st, 2005, the main page "word of the day" on Urban Dictionary was biz cas fri. (It is misspelled as "bis cas fri.") [4]

MoreAwesomeThanYou.com

At the time of writing, this page (warning: graphic under construction graphic) was still under construction, but the index.html page title is "More Awsome Than You PAY PLUS!", an obvious reference to HomestarRunner.com PAY PLUS!. Three of the sub-forums are marked as been in the "Burnination" parent forum.

Blue Rules Email

At this site, the emails are parodies of Strong Bad emails. Also, in bonus video 7, Homestar Runner is the first cameo and Strong Bad is the third cameo.

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