History WebAnimation / HomestarRunner

* FanFic: An episode, "[[http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail188.html fan club]]" was devoted to it.
-->'''Strong Bad:''' So that's fan clubs, the next worst word you can couple with the word 'fan' is, you guessed it ''(ominous, eerie music plays)'' the word ''(Strong Bad's voice slows way down, and the camera zooms in on the word as he types it)'' '''[[Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned fiction]].'''

* DescendingCeiling: Mentioned by Strong Bad as a means of motivation in the April Fools 2018 toon. The scene then shows Strong Sad trying to beat a game while a spiky ceiling closes in on him and Strong Bad.

* EldritchLocation: The Sweet Puttin' Cakes miniature golf course. You get there by desiring to play miniature golf. It goes downhill from there.

* DumbAndDrummer: In the Limozeen cartoon, the following exchange takes place:
-->'''Drummer:''' How come they made me fat and have orange hair? \\
'''Lead Singer:''' Because you're the [[PluckyComicRelief comic relief-uh!]]

* ADayInTheLimelight: "[[http://www.homestarrunner.com/kotpopshow.html The King Of Town's Very Own Quite Popular Cartoon Show]]". The King was so [[UnpopularPopularCharacter unpopular]], however, that [[http://www.homestarrunner.com/kotpoptoon.html the pilot episode was canceled in favor of more Strong Bad]].

* CurseCutShort: In the sbemail, "trevor the vampire", Strong Bad types "what the f--" before interrupting himself with another train of thought.

* CrazyPrepared: Strong Sad, of all people, [[http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail170.html here]] when he counters Strong Bad's earlier barrage of water balloons with a barrage of snowballs. When there was no snow anywhere. That he removed from a giant notebook.
-->'''Strong Bad:''' Where did you get ''snowballs'' at this time of year?? And how did you fit them in that notebook?!?\\
'''Strong Sad:''' ''[[TheDogBitesBack I've been saving these in the freezer since I was eight!!]]''

* FanworkBan: Done in-universe in ''[[http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail170.html Rough Copy]]'', though the motivations appear to be little more than pure sadism - Strong Bad's "lawsuits" actually involve mugging someone and/or pelting them with water balloons.

* ConsolationWorldRecord: Strong Bad spends an email trying to get into a world record book, and his plan for doing this involves writing his own. This takes so long, however, that he gets sidetracked and forgets to set a record himself. At the last minute he achieves Longest Saying of "Bull Honkey". Strong Mad also achieves Most Macaronis Nailed to a Paper Towel Tube (just one).

** Pictured and quoted above: Strong Bad is leafing through a book of world records and finds one of his younger self having the "[[ToiletHumor Most Dirtiest Diapey]]". He instantly makes breakfast on it to save face.

* ConfusingMultipleNegatives: When Strong Bad is trying to prove to his fans that [[BlatantLies Marzipan is totally hot for Strong Bad]]. "Do you don't not dislike not Strong Bad?"

* ComedicUnderwearExposure: 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.

* FakeOutOpening: The sbemail "[[http://www.homestarrunner.com/kotpoptoon.html senior prom]]" starts with an opening for "The King of Town's Very Own Quite Popular Cartoon Show", which is quickly pre-empted by the email.

* TheNudifier: In the Strong Bad E-mail "senior prom", Strong Bad tries to prank the prom by bringing in a device that makes everyone's pants "poof away".

* CollegeRadio: Mocked in the Strong Bad Email [[http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail120.html "radio"]]. As far as he's concerned, letting any confused freshman inside to run the show wouldn't be much of a downgrade.

* DeadAir: Name-dropped. In the Strong Bad email "radio", he sums up CollegeRadio in five words: "DeadAir, 'um', DeadAir".
** When Clark from sloshy records a backing track on Marzipan's Answering Machine #17.2, he points out that there's "gonna be a lot of DeadAir".

* DumbassDJ: In the email "radio", regarding morning drive deejays: "These guys are like bad stand-up comics that you can't [[ShoutOut heckle... or jeckle]]... or throw highball glasses at."

* ChattyHairdresser: Strong Sad acts like one in the sbemail "pet show", when he's getting The Cheat ready for the pet competition.

* DickDastardlyStopsToCheat: In the sbemail "pet show", Strong Bad should be able to win the pet show in a walk since his entry, The Cheat, is the only one resembling an actual pet. (The other contestants are a dog-shaped cookie jar, a George Foreman grill, and... Homestar Runner.) Yet he feels compelled to cheat anyway, and proceeds to sabotage the other contestants. And then he almost gets away with it, only to be disqualified for an unrelated rule infraction (The Cheat's unauthorized use of "relish foot", which based on the opening of the short, is implied to be the work of Homestar, meaning the Cheat was outcheated in the end).

* CargoShip: [[invoked]]
** In-universe, Strong Sad wishes he had a date with a wall in "Cool Tapes". Homestar encourages it and wishes him luck.
** From "[[http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail136.html Geddup Noise]]".
--->'''Homestar:''' ''(when the Chairscoot noise is made, little hearts flutter from Homestar, as he swoons dreamily)'' Ah! There it is! It's positively dreamy! ''(faints)''

* FollowTheLeader: Made fun of by the sbemail "geddup noise". The "Geddup Noise", the noise Strong Bad's stool makes when he gets out of it, is apparently a huge hit, and a lot of furniture shifting type sound effect shows try to cash in on the wagon. [[invoked]]

* {{Squee}}: Homestar's [[http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail136.html reaction]] to "Chairscoot".

* ByTheLightsOfTheirEyes: Happens to Strong Bad and The Cheat in Strong Bad Email #197, "your edge", when they saw a hole in the floor and fall in through it and into total darkness:
-->'''Strong Bad:''' Whoa! Where are we? I suddenly feel so... easy to animate.

* BreakingTheFourthWall: Of the BeyondTheImpossible type, since the series has NoFourthWall anyway. In Sbemail #118, "[[http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail118.html Virus]]". Strong Bad's attempt to run to the next room for help results in him running outside of the ''frame'' (into the surrounding black background) instead. Homestar then starts playing with the toolbar links that appear at the bottom of the page.
--> '''Strong Bad:''' No! Wait! Stop! That's not supposed to be possible...!!"

* HeroicBSOD:
** Induced on Homestar by Strong Bad when the latter claims that Homestar doesn't wear pants, just blue soles glued to the bottoms of his feet. Homestar essentially has an emotional breakdown. Homestar [[UnexplainedRecovery gets over it]], however, when Marzipan tells him that [[spoiler:everyone thinks she is a broom, and Homestar is surprised (and upset) to learn that she isn't]].
%%** Strong Bad when Bubs shoots his computer.
** He had another one when when one of his computers got 423,827 viruses. (A new record!)

* InterfaceScrew: Strong Bad's computer gets a virus that [[http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail118.html quickly spreads to the site itself.]]

* BreadEggsMilkSquick:
** In "candy product", the ingredients of SBLOUNSKCHED! include marshmallow, licorice, nougat, and rich creamy... pepperoni.
** Homestar, back during an [[RetroactiveLegacy "early" hremail]], remarked that Melonade was not only his favorite drink, but he was contractually unable to drink, talk about, or bathe in any other liquid.

** In the WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail "lackey", Bubs has a sign on his concession stand reading "We Gladly Accept: Cash, Money, or Cash Money."

* TheBore: Sbemail #37 "Dullard" is about preventing the office dullard (a clever foe!) from destroying your mood and productivity.

* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:The Paper inexplicably returns in "email thunder", only to catch fire and burn up from Homestar's sparking computer]].

* FlashbackWithTheOtherDarrin: The sbemail 200 flashbacks are done with Strong Bad's current model.

* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: Apparently Strong Badia gets {{Kaiju}} attacks instead of natural disasters. Behold [[http://homestarrunner.com/sbemail166.html King Bubsgonzola Supreme!]]

* DepthDeception: Marzipan teaches a lesson about this to Strong Sad in [[http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail166.html unnatural]]. Bubs immediately shows up to prove that, sometimes, the giant object really is giant.

** In the Strong Bad Email "original," not only are the characters implied to be actors but Strong Bad claims they are frequently [[ActorSwap replaced]]. He reminisces about the "original Bubs," a clearly-different animated character playing the "role" of Bubs. However by the end of the toon, Bubs arrives and claims Strong Bad is lying and that ''he'' is the original, one-and-only Bubs. Homerstar also misses Original Bubs, to which Marzipan states Strong Bad made him up.

* FakeShemp: Parodied in the email "original"; after Original Bubs quit, they tried to hide his non-presence. Literally. Behind large objects.
-->'''Homestar:''' Original Bubs, who is totally behind that dishwasher box (''cut'') behind that washer/dryer box (''cut'') that hot water heater box (''cut'') behind that... toothpick sculpture?

* AnimatedAdaptation:
** Bizarrely enough, but yes. "[[http://hrwiki.org/wiki/Strongest_Man_in_the_World Strongest Man in the World]]" and "[[http://hrwiki.org/wiki/Where_My_Hat_Is_At%3F_%28Short%29 Where My Hat Is At?]]" started as physical book and a digital book respectively. They got more detailed and more sarcastic.
** And on [[ShowWithinAShow the in-universe subject]] we get ''Limozeen, [[http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail126.html But They're in SPACE!]]''

* WidgetSeries: When asked to create "a CRAZY cartoon", Strong Bad comes up with one of these called "Sweet Cuppin Cakes", which consists of a collection of random characters like a hovering blob who spends every episode [[WesternAnimation/USAcres trying to get a worm out of the ground]] and a sketchily-drawn wheelchair inexplicably voiced by Bubs.

* AlternateSpeciesCounterpart: In the Strong Bad Email "[[Recap/StrongBadEmailE119Animal animal]]," a fan asks what Strong Bad would "like as if" he were his own made-up animal. Unfortunately, all of Strong Bad's ideas are either [[BizarreAlienBiology nonsensical]] or "[[BlobMonster nasty blob things]]" like da Huuuuuudge. He settles on a cutely dopey critter named Sterrance. Da Huuuuuudge makes a reappearance in "[[Recap/StrongBadEmailE150AlternateUniverse alternate universe]]," where it joins in the other Strong Bads in their number-one jam and has a [[VocalDissonance high-pitched singing voice]].

** 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 [[Film/BackToTheFuture flux capacitor]]. The same car appears in later cartoons and is [[TheAllegedCar decidedly less cool]]. And decidedly less functional.

Thanks to TheWikiRule and to its Internet longevity, a disturbingly comprehensive wiki has been built up by fans over the years, seen [[http://hrwiki.org/ here]].