Let's talk about Homestar Runner. What is it about it that makes it so perfect?
Let's talk about Homestar Runner. What is it about it that makes it so perfect?
Jaxson Ramirez
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Leo Morgan
>What is it about it that makes it so perfect?
Long pants.
Jayden Thompson
You mean stripe-ed pants.
Matthew Allen
Originality. It captured the emotional zeitgeist of the time, but without copying or rehashing anything.
Luke Barnes
It's entirely self contained. It doesn't rely on pop culture references or current events for jokes, so there's no chance of jokes losing humor with time.
Plus, it doesn't use shock or disgust to try to get cheap reactions either.
Jason Torres
this
Camden Flores
>It doesn't rely on pop culture references or current events for jokes
Well, it occasionally does, but the jokes are done so subtly that oftentimes you wouldn't even notice.
The Internet will be much more sad when Flash goes down and H*R goes with it.
Robert Price
well sort of, the popculture it references is intentionally out of date
and the few times it mentions modern trends, it's from the POV of a character who already doesn't understand them
Jacob Hill
>The Internet will be much more sad when Flash goes down and H*R goes with it.
but H*R is porting their cartoons over to YouTube with the easter eggs at the end, though.
Gabriel Russell
>decompile the latest halloween toon teaser
>the secret letters behind each flash sprite say 'can't do this on youtube'
Jose Myers
Brody White
H*R is something that needs Flash. Half the fun is trying to find the hidden click-spots for the Easter Eggs (which YouTube doesn't always get all of). Plus some of the Fourth-wall-breaking jokes (like Homestar pulling menu icons off the bottom of the screen in "virus") only make sense in the Flash-built format of the website.
Asher Mitchell
Can't they, like, convert it into HTML or something?
Joseph Flores
you can't see the secret letters on youtube
Ethan Green
dont forget the bits where one of several options is randomly chosen for you, or the ones like potion-ma-jig where you make the choices
i swear that one 'cardgage or homsar' deleteheads one, I got cardgage every single time for like 10 views
Dominic Ramirez
the most they can do is convert them to javascript
Robert Foster
Everyone loves the Homestar Runner. He is a terrific athlete.
Also, I think a lot of it is that it is a very natural humour, the kind that exists when friends are just goofing about- silly voices, bad impressions, jokes about old commercials...
Nolan Hall
It's simple, original and charming
Grayson Howard
and it's standing on one foot
Jacob Hall
It's got the heart of a champion! You just keep on scraping along!
Jordan Sanchez
It's funny but it knew it ran its course and died gracefully b4 people could get sick of it.
Leo Scott
Ohhhhh, Li'l Brudder!
Easton Jenkins
I'm the hoppity frog of value!
Angel Taylor
It is what it is. It doesn't try to be anything more than what it is. It is completely self-contained. The humor requires no context. It doesn't try to be edgy, or progressive, or anything. Other than a vague nostalgia for the world between 1982-1994, it doesn't rely on pop-culture references. It's innocent enough for children, but isn't afraid of making "adult" jokes. But even when it does, they're so innocent that no one reasonable could be offended by them.
It's basically a cartoon for everybody, while being "for" nobody, and if someone *doesn't* like it, you should regard them with suspicion and distrust.
Colton Sanchez
I feel like I'm a crossroads, and there's, like, a Denny's on one corner...and an IHOP on the other!
Xavier Reed
The utter lack of mainstreamosity.
Jaxon Campbell
I say there, mainstreamosity, do you know the times?
Christian Fisher
That, and you just can't bring yourself to hate Humidibot!
They did bring that up once... and then Homestar confused it for some kind of ointment.
Luis Wright
*garbled by proboscis*
Jose Price
>Steep prices.. and trees!
Levi Taylor
I wouldn't say it died since H*R's been getting a resurgence of new material as of late.
Liam Anderson
And they do it without being even slightly mean spirited. I mean, any other animator would look at a concept like Limozeen and make jokes at the expense of hair metal bands without any kind of appreciation for them. Only H*R takes the concept, pokes fun at it, then turns around and gives us genuinely enjoyable songs like Because It's Midnite or Colorin' (Outside The Lines).
They understand that good satire makes funny jokes, excellent satire makes jokes while simultaneously celebrating its subject matter.
Hunter Bell
>tfw Homestar will never lovingly embrace you
Adam Cox
It genuinely feels like you're going out with a group of friends and make a bunch of inside jokes with each other that you'll never forget because they're that unique. It has a type of humor that's special compared to anywhere else.
Ryder Phillips
I love little things like 'sega tapes' and that thing where you act like one leg is shorter than the other so it's able to swing..
Evan Hernandez
he wears long pants Strong Bad, the longest pants
Alexander Young
In my life I haven't met very many people who are familiar with Homestar Runner, but I have met exactly 0 people who actively dislike it
Ian Long
legit question, what was it about Homsar and Senor Cardgage that their nonsense was actually funny instead just being so randum crap? It's such thin ice to tread
Dominic Parker
It helps that they are more or less TERTIARY or below characters so you don't see them too often, therefore you don't get burned out on AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
David Johnson
>TERTIARY
how could you bring this evil in here? I'm not gonna be able to stop saying it for days now
Brandon Walker
you were 12 when you first watched it
Sebastian Foster
In Homsar's case, consider that most "random" characters just say dumb shit mixed in with their normal speech. Homsar on the other hand is literally incapable of forming a coherent sentence. Unless he's on the phone.
Cardgage is funnier. He actually stays on topic most of the timem, but his dialect is this unending stream of mangled portmanteaus.
Blake Barnes
>mode 7
Easton Reed
>the popculture it references is intentionally out of date
I love their date out of touch references.
IT'S CALLED JAPANIMATION!
Aiden Sullivan
Because even if we don't get it they do have an internal logic.
Isaiah Morris
Um...No. He wears NO pants, and looks like he has blue soles glued to the bottom of his feet.
Camden Wilson
I wish they'd restock all the old DVDs on their store
Cooper Brooks
He's a terrific airthleet
Leo Young
...
Brody Garcia
I love this image
Joshua Flores
Good graphics.
Austin Perez
Would you a Marzipan?
John Taylor
Jason Ward
stop inserting your creepy fetishes into everything
Christopher Nelson
Show what you know. I was 17 when it first went online.
Caleb Perry
...
Jack Adams
My younger brother hates it and loves Rick and Morty.
Andrew Evans
It's the truth, he wear long pants, he said so himself, it's only in your perverted mind he strolls around naked.
Angel Rodriguez
SBCG4AP is the best Telltale game
Prove me wrong
Pro tip: you can't
Ryan Phillips
then why don't we ever see his pants? are they hidden under his shirt?
Christopher Smith
Editing tricks.
youtube.com
Zachary Nelson
They just happen to be about the same color as his skin, duh.
Justin Peterson
Once again, I put the blame squarely on tight pants.
Easton Powell
How can you disprove TRUTH?
Adam Sanders
Hey, 12-Times-A-Day Man, you gonna eat all them Twizzlérs?
Justin Price
I need to go binge watch all the sbemails. I hate that I can't really remember much of the series
Jordan Anderson
escardon me
Andrew Foster
Jackson Carter
You decided to take, at face value, something the guy who lives in a bush and talks to melty candy bars said.
Christopher Nelson
Adam Fisher
You can't just start making up terrible new words!
Colton Rivera
Oliver Reyes
Benjamin Carter
HOLY FUUUUUCK
WHY DIDN'T ANYONE NOTICE UNTIL NOW
Isaac Turner
>Poopsmith is a Instant Martian from Looney Tunes
>Bubs is Grunkle Stan from Gravity Falls (Matt worked with Alex on Gravity Falls, plus the ears and fez give it away)
>Coach Z is Parappa the Rappa
>And Homsar might be Greg from Over the Garden Wall
Can't guess the others. But I'm glad they still doing Halloween specials.
Luke Adams
The Cheat kinda looks like the kid from Scribblenauts
Jacob Taylor
stream of conciousness is different from inherently-funny-words and surprise
though i have always loved all 'randumb' so..
Zachary Flores
WHAT'D I SAY?
Josiah Powell
there is strong evidence that she is basically a talking cock and balls.
Tyler Turner
they did. It's just you who didn't know.
Connor Parker
>Humor is universal but is adult enough to give it a very subtle edge
>Rarely does references and when it does they're not current events
>Moderately large cast of uniquely identifiable characters
>Voicework and comedic timing is excellent and mostly done by only one dude
>Kept strictly as a passion project despite the audience being ripe for exploitation
>Iconic brand of humor that hasn't been replicated anywhere else
The Brothers Chaps
are simply masters of their craft.
Easton Harris
>>Voicework and comedic timing is excellent and mostly done by only one dude
Literally done by only one dude. The only other VA is Missy Palmer as Marzipan and that's it.
Adam Adams
Cardgage is actually mildly coherent once you get used to his speech pattern. Homsar might not make a lick of sense but the words are arranged in a way that make it sound like he's forming a complete sentence in his own mind. SBCGFAP is a perfect example of this.
Joshua Perez
it's about time, i've been waiting for some cartoon costume crossovers
Anthony Taylor
hey don't overlook matt's hilarious intentionally crummy voices
>ohhkayy hot soup is on my eyes
Jayden Walker
It's usually Mike who does the crummy voices
Colton Murphy
Are the Chapman bros out of job? They're more involved in HR now more than ever
Christian Gutierrez
Senor Cardgage's whole bit is that he's a creep, and his bizarre speech patterns help to sell it.
Jose Bailey
I think their Disney gigs have run their course for the moment, and it's possibly that Two More Eggs revitalized their desire to do Homestar stuff, as there's a fair amount of overlap in the humour.
Eli Taylor
agh, right. i can never tell the names mike and matt apart. i used to know two sets of twins named mike and matt
Jeremiah Fisher
>Come on down for a free canceltation with one of our handsome talking experts!
>One of them said they'd buy me lunch, but I don't see nobody taking me to Chick-Fil-A.
Sebastian Moore
The full on return is eminent. They're about to set up a Patreon.
Anthony Perez
If they do set up a Patreon, I just hope the content will keep being quality
Brayden Reed
555-55-55855-55-5-SENOR-MORT-GAGE-TODAY
Robert Ramirez
No probalo!
Kevin Brown
I voted for ew gross
Josiah King
I'm surprised you haven't killed yourself. Hang in there old man.
Isaac Watson
Man, Homestar Runner is the only thing on the internet I would ever help financially support via Patreon. They've given me enough laughs over the years that they have earned my support, especially since they would expressly make everything free either way.
Camden Gonzalez
>I'M SUPPOSED TO RELEASE A VIDEO COMPUTER GAME ON TV WITHOUT THIS GRAPHIC!
>...what?
>YOU HEARD ME!!
I don't think I laughed at anything harder in my teenage years.
Daniel Morales
Probably to help them fund a way to keep the website alive when Flash goes down.