History WebAnimation / HomestarRunner

[[caption-width-right:350:Is this what the internet was invented for? Some say yes. [[TheInternetIsForPorn It's certainly better than the alternative!]]]]

->''"Everybody loves the me! I'm a terrific athlete!"''

->''""Well I folk say you're a terrific liar!"''

[[caption-width-right:350:Is this what the internet was invented for? Some say yes.]]

->''"Everybody loves the Homestar Runner. He is a terrific athlete."''
-->-- Original Children's Book, ''The Homestar Runner Enters the Strongest Man in the World Contest''

** In another toon, Homestar sleeps in on Decemberween until almost the last minute and spends time running buying last-minute gifts for everyone, including a pair of wire cutters for Marzipan. Enter Strong Bad:

** In another toon, all PlayedForLaughs, Homestar sleeps in on Decemberween until almost the last minute and spends time running buying last-minute gifts for everyone, including a pair of wire cutters for Marzipan. Enter Strong Bad:

* EnsembleDarkhorse: [[ShowWithinAShow Eh! Steve!]] is an in-universe parody of this phenomenon. So is Onion Bubs.

* ManOfAThousandVoices: Matt Chapman voices pretty much every character on the site except Marzipan. And the times when his brother does [[StylisticSuck intentionally bad]] impressions of the characters for the Cheat's cartoons.

** King of Town certainly qualifies.

* Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: When Strong Bad critiques a particularly obscure character choice for a fan's Halloween costume. "That is a) amazing, b) depressing, and c) amazingly depressing."

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

* {{Ridiculympics}}: The Strong Badathlon, from the [=SBEmail=] of the same name.

* {{Ridiculympics}}: One Strong Bad Email is about [[http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail165.html the "Strong Badathalon"]], with events such as "Greco-Roman Homestar Crud-Out-Of-Beating", the "Clean and Jerk Strong Mad's Underwears Over His Head" ("fortunately, you don't really have to clean them") and [[BlatantLies "Probably Something with Guitars, Lasers, Robots, and Hot Girls"]].

* VillainProtagonist: Strong Bad, although his status as a villain is mainly in his head.

* StalkerWithACrush: Coach Z, towards Marzipan. It's hinted at but seldom explored in the cartoons; in VideoGame/StrongBadsCoolGameForAttractivePeople, it gets turned UpToEleven [[SerialEscalation and then some]].

-->'''Peacey P''': I'm the best guest rapper in the rapping biz/I don't even know whose song this is!

* ItsPopularNowItSucks: Strong Sad firmly believes this, since he's a poseur. For example, during SB Email #136, he complains the Geddup Noise used to be cool, but became a sell out, first wearing a t-shirt saying "This Is Not A The Geddup Noise T-Shirt" then a "Corporate The Geddup Noise Still Sucks" t-shirt.

* DoubleStandard: Homestar and Marzipan's relationship is a curious example of this at work. For all that Marzipan gets offended and dumps Homestar on a weekly basis, other evidence would suggest that he's actually a much better boyfriend than she is girlfriend; Homestar appears to actually pay attention to her when he isn't inadvertently insulting her in a half-aware fit of ditziness, while Marzipan is just about aware that Homestar is, in fact, rather dim.

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->''And da Trogdor comes in da'' '''''NIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITE!!!''''' ♪