History WebAnimation / HomestarRunner

--? '''Strong Bad:''' According to Coolguy's law, the popularity of the host is inversely proportional to the amount of fun you can have at their house.

** Free Country, USA might as well be CloudCuckooland.

* CoolCar: In his contribution to the Halloween story, Bubs describes a cool car the Goblin owns: a pimped-out AMC Gremlin that includes, among other things, a [[BackToTheFuture flux capacitor]].

* CuckoolandianCounterpart: Homsar for Homestar, and Senor Cardgage for Strong Bad. Strong Bad actually has more than one, as highlighted in the sbemail "alternate universe".

Since the birth of Matt Chapman's second child in November 2009, the site's flow of new content has trickled to a halt. However, in late 2011, Matt confirmed via his Twitter page that the series has not been cancelled and that future updates are coming "sporadically and without warning" (and went so far to say that nobody in their right mind would voluntarily quit making ''Homestar Runner'' altogether). The Brothers Chaps have worked on other projects, including the [[http://www.gamestooge.com/2010/09/03/poker-night-at-the-inventory-announced/ game]] ''VideoGame/PokerNightAtTheInventory'', in which Strong Bad meets up with Tycho (''Webcomic/PennyArcade''), Max (''VideoGame/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice''), and the Heavy (''VideoGame/TeamFortress2''), during the hiatus. More recently, Matt has become a writer and director for NickJr's ''YoGabbaGabba'' and TheHub's ''TheAquabatsSuperShow''. Matt Chapman recently posted the beginning of the script for Sbemail 206, which has been inactive since the start of the hiatus, stating "Someday, when you least expect it" confirming the site ain't dead.

Unfortunately, the Brothers Chap closed down the site on August 5th, 2012.

[[tearjerker Unfortunately]], the Brothers Chap closed down the site on August 5th, 2012.

** Considereing that the show is pretty much a soft PG rating (even ''TeenGirlSquad'' got by with an E10 in the second and third installments of ''Strong Bad's Cool Game For Attractive People'' due to the StylisticSuck making the FamilyUnfriendlyViolence a bit more palatable), it's more like The Brothers Chaps enforce their own Radar on themselves through self-censorship.

**** "And here's a picture of my parents" *photo is also covered by the chair*[[hottip:*:[[TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything Decompile the Flash file, and]] all the photo has is the words "Nice try, [[TheLegendOfZelda Dodongo!]]"]]

'''Strong Bad:''' Ohh, you can't fool me. This thing's top of the line! It's got ''[[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome two]]'' [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome contrast knobs]]!

* {{GASP}}: The webtoon uses a "GASP!" stock effect whenever a character declares they're going to do something daring (or [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome what they think is daring.]]) A good example is [[http://homestarrunner.com/xmas08.html Decemberween]].

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome: E-MAIL. CHECKING.
** Also [[http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail144.html this sbemail]], epically the one which made a SeinfeldianConversation about a napkin some type of action apocalyptic movie.
** [[http://www.homestarrunner.com/loadingscreens.html Loading Screens.]]
** Also, Strong Bad seems to idolize and admire Senor Cardgage, while everyone else is creeped out by him.

* ISeeLondon: Strong Bad's pants poofed away [[CaughtWithYourPantsDown at the senior prom]] because when he tried to make everyone else's pants disappear, he forgot that he was the only one at the prom who was technically wearing pants.

-->'''Original Children's Book, ''The Homestar Runner Enters the Strongest Man in the World Contest'''''

-->'''Homestar Runner, being [[TheDitz himself]]'''

* CashCowFranchise: Not to the extent of [[ScoobyDoo other]] [[{{Pokemon}} cash]] [[TheSimpsons cows]], but when co-creator Matt Chapman looked at all the T-shirt orders he received, he wondered "Are there even this many people in '''''the world!?'''''" The creators now live entirely off of the sales of their merchandise.

''[[http://www.homestarrunner.com Homestar Runner]]'' is a comedic and sort-of surreal [[WebAnimation web-based]] [[AdobeFlash Flash cartoon]] by two guys from the state of Georgia, Mike and Matt Chapman ("The Brothers Chaps"). Starting as a dead-tree children's picture book, it eventually found its way to the internet and spread through word of mouth.

'''Lead Singer:''' Because you're the drummer! You're the PluckyComicRelief!