Canada

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"Of-age" Canadian girls!

The Homestar Runner toons mostly take place in the United States, but occasionally they reference the Great White North, often in strange and various ways.

Appearances

• Homestar Quiz — One of the answer choices for where Bubs attends night classes is Canada.
• Revenge of the King — When lowered into the vat of butter after losing the game, the King of Town says, "The punishment is not too bad, eh?", referring to a line from "Beerhunter", a routine on the Bob & Doug McKenzie Great White North album where the "punishment" for opening a non-shaken beer is to drink it.
• Ballad of the Sneak — The Dapper Swindler is known as The Sneak in the Northwest Territories.
• Email colonization (Easter egg) — Strong Bad sings "O Shanama" to the tune of "O Canada".
• Email do over — When Strong Bad sees the email sender Richie Z as being from Canada, he wonders if Coach Z is called Coach Zed in Canada and calls the sender a nickname for a Canadian: a "Canuck".
• Email narrator — Strong Sad is hit in the face with a Canada goose.
• Email coloring — The two "of-age" girls in the coloring book both have a Canadian flag on their shirts.
• Decemberween Sweet Cuppin' Cakes (DVD commentary) — As Mike Chapman and Strong Bad discuss where Sweet Cuppin' Cakes was made, they say that it could be from Europe or maybe even Canada. Strong Bad then makes a remark about the Film Board of Canada.
• Happy Hallow-day — Homsar's Halloween costume is Ed Grimley, who is played by Martin Short on both SNL and Canada's own SCTV.
• Emails new hands, trading cards, theme song, redesign, myths & legends, Sick Day, do over, Email Birds, dangeresque 3, lackey, fingers, 50 emails — All emails were sent by Canadians.
• Email original — Both Homestar and Strong Bad are at Bubs' Concession Stand dressed as Canadian Mounties.
• Homestar Ruiner — Strong Bad calls Jela-ton, "Pixy Stix's ugly Canadian cousin".
• Baddest of the Bands — When clicking on Strong Bad's bed, he says he'll even take Canadian coins at this point.
• Hremail 62 — Homestar and Marzipan encounter a honeymooning couple whom Homestar believes to be either Canadian or Cancun-adian.