Airdate: October 2022
Costumes (in order of appearance): The King of Town as Quaker Oats, Coach Z as DMC, Bubs as Office Space, Homestar as The Black Knight, Strong Bad as Dr. Crygor, Strong Mad as Operation, The Cheat as Riff-Raff, Pom Pom as Timer, Marzipan as John Lennon, Strong Sad as Guillermo de la Cruz, the Poopsmith as Rinzler, and Homsar as A Light in the Attic.
The original Homestarloween Party is back with new DLC.
Tropes
- Adaptation Expansion: As Strong Bad notes, the original lacked a "stand around and comment on each others' costumes" Later That Night part, which this version has.
- Adapted Out: The King of Town's story is skipped upon reaching it. Bubs, Pom Pom, and Marzipan have their storytelling parts replaced completely.
- Animation Bump:
- One of the DLC packs is this, upgrading the Goblin's dance from a simple jaunt to something longer, more fluid, more complex and has some flips that showcase a three-dimensionality rarely seen in the Homestar Runner body of work outside of SBCG4AP.
- Another DLC pack is a downplayed example, where Strong Sad's finger and the flashlight switch now move.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: During the cartoon's "Later That Night" segment, Strong Bad remarks that he completely forgot how the older version of the cartoon didn't have a part where the characters stood around and commented on each other's costumes.
- But Thou Must!: The DLC asks if you want to skip the King of Town's story segment. The possible answers are "Yes" and "Very Yes".
- Call-Back:
- The Goblin's upgraded dance uses the "dance remix" music from "Most in the Graveyard".
- The option for whether or not to cut down on the King of Town's food related dialogue are "Yes" and "Very Yes".
- Didn't We Use This Joke Already?: The rest of the cast call out Coach Z for dressing as a member of Run-DMC for the second time—but Coach Z has no idea what they're talking about, because this is the first time he's done it. Since dressing as 80's-to-early-90's rappers is Coach Z's gimmick, Run-DMC are such an obvious pick for him that nobody believes this is actually the first time.
- Elmuh Fudd Syndwome: Homestar always had a lisp, but it is really made fun of when he is saying the classic Monty Python and the Holy Grail line "It's just a flesh wound", which Strong Bad hears as him saying "Just a fresh wound."
- High-Pressure Blood: Homestar is dressed as the Black Knight... specifically after his arms have both been cut off, and he bleeds through the wounds a lot throughout this cartoon. Somehow.
- The Hilarity of Hats: Strong Mad's turn in the story has him just give everything a hat, including a pile of hats.
- Joke and Receive: Homestar attempts to do his usual botching of people's costumes with the Poopsmith by calling him Evil Tron. As Strong Bad points out, that is exactly what Rinzler is.
- Rapid Hair Growth: Towards the end of the Easter Egg portraying "The Homestar Runners and the Yellow Bathyscaphe", Marzipan-as-John-Lennon's hair (facial hair included) turns white and grows out at an accelerated rate, echoing the "When I'm 64" scene from Yellow Submarine.
- Recognition Failure: As per tradition, Homestar does his "delightful misinterpretations" of the others' costumes. He misidentifies Strong Bad as "Death Clock", Marzipan as Ringo and Sonny Bono, Pom Pom as an overweight Twinkie the Kid, and his 2000 self misidentifies Strong Sad's Gorbachev costume as the dad from ALF with gravy on his head. This trope ends up subverted when he calls the Poopsmith's Rinzler costume "Evil Tron", only for Strong Bad to point out that was a completely correct description, leaving Homestar disappointed in his fumbling of this Running Gag.
- Sudden Anatomy: Much to Strong Sad's discomfort, Coach Z's DMC costume gives his normally mitten-like hands visible fingers stuck in a perpetual pointing pose.
- Take That!: Homestar’s comment on The Cheat’s Riff-Raff costume:Homestar: Cheatcliff, Cheatcliff, no one should, be in a third-rate Garfield cartoon.
- Vocal Evolution: Since the cartoon uses both old voice clips and the more modern versions of the characters' voices, it's made very obvious just how much their voices have changed over the years. This is lampshaded with the "DLC" of the "Strong Sad's Less Pathetic Voice Pack" (which replaces Strong Sad's old voice with his newer one), and there are some points where Homestar and Strong Bad do impressions of their old voices in the original "Homestarloween Party".
- Waxing Lyrical: Old-Timey Strong Bad paraphrases a line from "Sweet Emotion" while talking to the Arrow Smith in an Easter Egg.Old-Timey Strong Bad: Indeed, my backstaged boogie will set trousers aflame!
