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Homestar is slowly taking over the world, as shown by some of these documented sightings.

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• Television Sightings
• Radio Sightings
• Advertisement Sightings
• Magazine Sightings
• Musical Sightings
• Game Sightings
• Skins Sightings
• School Sightings
• Comic Sightings

OTHER SITES

Addicting Games

The site features Stinkoman 20X6 and Trogdor!. Addicting Games.com

History of the Internet

The "archivists" make a reference to H*R, saying that because of them, "The internet is finally given purpose".

History of the Internet

Neopets

Neopets once released a new avatar with the caption "Your Lupe A Splode" which is an obvious reference to video games and Strong Bad Zone

Neopets.com

Olde English

In their General Procrastination sketch, Razin was holding off going to battle by going on the internet and watching the new Strong Bad Email. (which really wasn't even an email, he opened up the Strong Bad bio 'toon and the email menu.)

Oldeenglish.org

G4tv.com

The 404 message that comes up when the G4 site can't retrieve an ad includes a graphic featuring a panda - and the Teen Girl Squad-esque message "ERROR'ed!!"

"Audition With Marzipan" Remix

The Thilo run The 2nd Best Page In The Universe made a remix of "Thoughts Of A Bird" from the Audition With Marzipan game. A download of the remix is available here And the article about it Here

"Asplode" on Double-Tongued Word Wrester

Neolinguist Grant Barret has done an entry on "asplode" on his site. It looks like "asplode" was not coined by the Brothers Chaps, but he agrees that its appearance in the toons and games is probably responsible for its recent popularity.

All Your Base Are Belong To Homestar

An "All Your Base" parody starring Homestar can be seen here

Weebl & Bob

• A fan made a piece of art with Trogdor burninating Bobs' style of animation

See It Here

Bryan Waterman Interview

Bryan Waterman, who does the series "Waterman" had an interview and he mentioned the best internet cartoon was Homestar Runner!:

• Who is your favorite flash movie artist or flash artists if you have more than one? What are some of your favorite flash movie series?

BW: Above all else Homestar Runner not only do I love the cartoon, Mike and Matt are two good friends of mine. Bonus Stage is another one I really like and I do look forward to Joseph's animations. See It Here

Waterman Studios Main Page

On The Main Page When you put your mouse over Behind the Scenes, A guy catches a toaster and out flies a bunch of syringes and it says, "Syringe'd!"

Eric Conveys The Brothers Chaps?

Eric at Eric Conveys an Emotion got together with The Brothers Chaps for a rough and tumble game of football, complete with Eric's warped and hilarious sense of humour. See a step-by-step progression of The Game. On page 1 Trogdor is in the background, on page 2 The Ugly One is in the background, on page 3 1936 Homestar is in the background, on page 4 Homestar is in the background, on page 5 Strongbad is in the background, on page 6, The Cheat is actually in the foreground, on page 7, The Cheat and Strong Mad are in the background, and on page 8, Stinkoman is in the background.

• Also, in "getting a great idea... while falling to your doom" Eric has a Homsar shirt on. greatideafalldoom.jpg

Red vs Blue

At Red vs Blue they made a public service announcement about tattoos (It appears every 4 weeks or so in the season 1 archive). When Church suggests you get a tattoo of your favorite character from your favorite online comic (obviously referring to himself), Strong Bad's face appears on-screen instead.

A Strong Bad, and a Homestar sticker is also seen during the Red vs. Blue segment in the Halo 2 Limited Collectors Edition DVD, on the window of a door.

Live Action Dangeresque!

Some guys at Strongfans.com made this awesome parody of Strong Bad's big-time blockbuster. Complete with orchestrated music!

The 2004 Cartoonist's Choice Awards

Homestar Runner won in best use of flash category at "The 2004 Cartoonist's Choice Awards".

BB-Spot-Which website are you?

In the website personality test at www.bbspot.com, one of the posible answers you can get is Homestarrunner.com.

newgrounds.com

If you search for Homestar on New Grounds, there will be a bunch of fan made Homestar flash games and short films..

zone38

This blog entry links to a Fark Photoshop thread which featured several Homestar Runner-related parodies of Magic: The Gathering cards, with local copies of the now-defunct images from the thread.

Google Blog

Google Blog mentioned the Homestarism 'Asplode' in this entry.

Shoot the Cliche

A certain infamous burninator "Trogdor" appears in this game from another site. Blast Away!

Your phone a splode

The website Fark.com linked to a Yahoo News story about exploding cell phones under the headline "Your phone a splode."

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Also, Fark linked to [1]

NPR's All Things Considered

NPR has a basic rundown of the H*R site and characters on this page, run on the air as part of their All Things Considered program on May 8, 2005.

8-Bit-Theater-Reference

In 8 Bit Theater 3, In the bloopers, The Cheat is "summoned" in one, and Strong Bad appears on a Mega Man II Boss Screen in another.

8-Bit-Theater on Flashplayer.com

Episode Comparisons

The anime episode comparison site Mew Mew Power Uncensored sometimes uses the term Baleeted and frequently uses the Teen Girl Squad-esque term DELET'D in their comparisons to say when a scene was cut out.

The Force.net Humor

At a Star Wars Fansite's humor section one of their "Top 46 lists" titled 'Top 47 lesser known goals of the evil empire' says Quote "Secret co-production of Dangeresque 1, 2, & 3" End Quote. The List The Site

Homokaasu.org

A Homestar Runner wall-size printout demonstrating homokaasu.org's Rasterbator software (Web service)

Star Harbor Nights

The authors of these stories are apparently fans... their characters have started making Homestar and Strong Bad references in conversation, including the use of the word "Decemberween" in one story and a reference to Strong Bad singing from A Holiday Greeting.

Gamecheetz Comics

A comic featuring the characters of Super Smash Brothers Melee. As Link is returning to Final Destination, the "Scene Missing" image from Parsnips-A-Plenty appears. It even says "If you don't recognize this then you need to visit HomestarRunner.com" The comic can be seen here:

Best Page In The Universe

In one of Maddox's rants about the amount of emails he gets, he makes a little ode to The Chapman Brothers. This must mean he is aware of homestarrunner.com. The actual quote is "I know there are other big websites out there that generate a lot of email (my sympathies to the Chapman brothers)"

Real Ultimate Power parody site: TROGDOR

Parodies of Real Ultimate Power are everywhere. A fan made one featuring TROGDOR.

Strongbad Pilots an F/A-22 Raptor

For a short time, Strongbad could be seen on the Lockheed Martin F/A-22 Raptor Team Web Site F/A-22 Raptor.

The Straight Dope

The Strong Bad Zone was submitted for Weird Earl's on The Straight Dope, a category featuring strange and/or awesome sites. Be careful, or your head may a-splode!

Futurama Madhouse

At the Futurama Madhouse, they have a regular feature on "Uses for a hacker". Use #498 is entitled "homsar's translator" and features everyone's favourite blue midget Homestar, Homsar! Also notable is the fact that the copyright reads "C Tandy 400, Chapman Bros". Use #667 is entitled "Homestar Runner's Evil Twin", and features, just that. Use #669 "Strongbad's Torture Victims Who Misspell Repeetedli" is the final Homestar-related use for a hacker.

Flying Omelette's Kitchen - Switched At Birth?

According to this site, Strong Bad may have been switched at birth with Viewtiful Joe, as well as the Red Power Ranger. A direct link to the article is available here.

Shenmue II : The Gang Edition

In the fan-movie Shenmue II : The Gang Edition, when Ryo arrives at Guilin, he is distracted by a The Cheat Talking Plush Doll, which is the guardian of the village where Shenhua lives.
Later, Ryo kicks the Plush Doll, making it complain.

I-Mockery : Bishop of Battle

On the second page of his review, the image of the Bishop swallowing J.J. is captioned with a reference to StrongBad Zone, "YOUR HEAD A SPLODE!" A direct link to the page is available here. Contains profanity.

Stinkoman 20X6 on VGMusic.com

VGMusic.com have done a remix of most of the Stinkoman 20X6 soundtrack. The links can be found here: Level Select, Level Start, Level 1, Boss Theme, and Level 2. These files were sequenced by Tyler Prevost.

Wikipedia's April Fool's Day Article 2005

Homestar in his Daisy Dukes was eventually added to the somewhat lengthy Wikipedia April Fool's Day 2005 article detailing a hostile takeover of Wikipedia by Encyclopedia Britannica. He is part of Wikipedia's "new corporate structure," a Communist entity, as the Minister of Long Pants. He is also pictured slightly lower in the page in the "Related information" section.

The Matrix Online FAQ on gamefaqs.com

In this FAQ, the author notes that "ya gotta have blue hair!"

8BitJoystick.com

In this article about how to literally burn CDs, the author notes to "burn it properly like Trogdor burninates the peasants."

GEOWeasel

In the first episode of this flash webcomic, when you first see the computer, the screen reads "run sb_email.exe," an obvious reference to the opening of all SB E-mails.

In the filler episode, the computer is "Compy 387".

Funny Junk

In a flash cartoon here(warning: adult material), Strong Bad is dancing in the middle of the screen at about the middle of the flash cartoon. He dances like he does in The Luau.
This can also be seen on Albino Black Sheep Cartoons. (see below)

OTHER ANIMATIONS

Artificial High 3

In one scene the message "Computer Over. Virus = very yes" shows up In another scene, Strong Bad is checking an unknown email.

Homestar in chris.exe

Homestar makes a cameo in episode "Chris, zanda and the treasure of captain no beard" of the popular flash series chris.exe

Albino Black Sheep Cartoons

On AlbinoBlackSheep.com, there are many sightings embedded in many of its user-created flash cartoons. For example, on an Animutation, there is a screenshot from "StrongBadZone" and you can hear "STINY! GET ME A DANISH!" Also, the filename is a giveaway that the creator is a fan of Homestar Runner. [2] Other animations on the website that have references in them include Elvis Lives and Elvis Not Included.

ClaveMan

ClaveMan (Episode 1) - A Dino Wax Production. Claveman poses as Homestar as one of his disguises to obtain free Popeye's biscuits.

Metroid Confusion: Parts 1 and 2

At Flashplayer.com, there is a movie entitled "Metroid Confusion", and at the beginning there are three computers and one has the H*R page displayed on its monitor. The end also borrows "Because It's Midnite" and credits a band named "Limozeen." Also when you them talking about how Samus is defenceless without her suit zoom in on the second shelf a book is the Homestar Runner enters the Strongest Man in the World contest. Also, also on that shelf is a book that's titled "Gelatinous Eyebrows." The word gelatinous is possibly a reference to kids' book, in which you could possibly construe those tilde (~) looking things as eyebrows.

Also, in Metroid Confusion Part 2, if you right-click, one option is "Send Trogdor to my House", and at the end of the movie, if you click on the fine-print giving homestarrunner.com some credit, you will see a funny Homestar-Metroid crossover. They also mention "E3 20X6". In addition to all of that, if you watch the commentary, it mentions that he got the inspiration for the "Claymation Simulator" from Strong Mad's Doug the Dino, in strong bad email the facts. Also in Fox Mcloud's arwing, there is a book called "TROGDOR The musical". The back (or front?) of the book reads, "[T]he Burninator himself [s]tars in his first-ever musical [t]hat won three Academy [a]wards and a couple of [fr]ee coffees at Starbucks. [E]xperience the magic, the [ma]gesty, the consumate V's!" (The word fragments in the square brackets are letters that I guessed because they weren't showing. Also, 'majesty' is incorrectly spelled 'magesty' on the book.)

La La La

In this random animation, also at Flashplayer.com, Homestar is sighted very often, and Strong Bad actually sings the song! It is under the music section.

Kerri's Big Invention

Also at Flashplayer.com, there is movie entitled "Kerri's Big Invention" and about halfway through the movie Kerri is drawing on a blackboard. When the whole blackboard is visible, in the lower left corner is a poorly drawn Homestar and Strong Bad. In the upper right you can see the carrot shaped thing from the scrapbook on the Coach Z page. It's labelled Carrot Top on the black board. (This flash cartoon was created by Legendary Frog).

Bush Bash

On this very weird flash animation at tlchicken.com, you can see a picture of President Bush and a flaming Earth that says "Burninating the Peasants since 2000".

VG Cats

At the end of the 100th strip(a flash special so I can't post it here), click on the middle '0' in '100', to see an easter egg with one of the characters answering an e-mail SB-style, and a cameo by the man himself!

VG Cats comic #135 has a The Cheat doll in Ye Olde Comic Bookerys' display case(Frame 6)

Thier "First Time Here" also has blatant references and a link to Homestar Runner.

8-bit Theater 3

On this flash animation based on the 8-bit Theatre comics, at the ending outtakes, Strong Bad and The Cheat appear. The Cheat appears on the table instead of a Chocobo when Cloud does a summoning in the outtakes, and Strong Bad appears in one of the Mega Man boxes and says "HOLY CRAP!"

High Score

At High Score Online they made a Homestar cartoon entitled "Not Without My Application, AKA Jorbs a Plenti." Be sure to click on the bucket at the end after the credits.

In Episode 3, there is a set of really fast moving credits with a Strong Bad reference: Seen here

High Score Episode 4 has a Parents Day spectacular, with "special guest star" What's Her Face. Later in a newspaper montage one of the subtitles says "Strong Sad Still A Loser."

Bonus Stage

• In some of the episode in the Second Season, the intro part with Phil has Phil and Strong Sad in front of the Compy 386 while it is exploding.
• In episode 8, there is a passing reference to Strong Bad making video games. This episode came out not long after the email video games, so that's probably what it refers to.
• In episode 9, Joel dies and goes to hell. Phil and Elly then die so they can rescue him, and while there, they meet Strong Bad, Homestar, and Coach Z. Apparently, Strong Bad got sick of the 'boxing glove emails' and jumped into a lake of fire, and Homestar and Coach Z followed. After they rescue Joel, Phil starts typing on a Compy 386 about how Bubs won the race, and Strong Sad shows up.
• In episode 11, Joel says he wants to move to Atlanta where "those guys that make that cartoon" live. He is probably referring to the Brothers Chaps.
• In episode 19, there is a rather long easter egg in which Joel and Phil try to prank call some people. One of their targets is Strong Bad... or is it?
• In episode 30, there is a commercial for a candy called "Kandy Commandoz". A small disclaimer flashes across the screen proclaiming "Not a ripoff of Homestar Runner".
• In episode 60, there is a laptop called Lappy.

One Ring To Rule Them All 2

When they're singing about Bilbo the middle elf chick has a pin that says "Wear a Bikini." Watch it here!

Decline of Video Gaming 2

On Flashplayer.com, there are slight references to Homestar Runner. While watching it, put on creator's notes.

Lost in Tijuana

At Jaydonaldson.com and on Newgrounds.com if you're not willing to pay the membership costs, you see SB's face on a wanted poster about halfway through the animation.

Waterman

At Waterman Studios, the SB ice pop is advertised for sale on the side of the ice-cream truck that shows up in several of the episodes.

In the 6th episode [3], the voice-over says "syringe'd!", like the TGS voice-over.

Ebolaworld

Haloween Special At Ebolaworld.com, there is a Weekly Update titled Halloween Special. Taco-Man hosts a costume party for Halloween and Homestar makes an appearance at the very end. watch it

Other Cartoons in "Weekly Update: March 15, 2004 they have a Awards program and during the 2nd part of the film, a crowd of many cartoon characters and among them is Homestar Runner. See It here

Dr. Wily Shorts Collection

At planet-megaman.com, there is a flash animation called "Dr. Wily Shorts Collection." If you click on Dr. Wily's shorts, a short animation of Strong Bad and Homestar pops up. click here to see it

The Matrix Has You

At this site, there is a cartoon called The Matrix Has You. At the end of The Final Fight, Sati says "It's Over" in a voice that sounds kind of like Cheerleader's. Also at the end of the episode Zion rave the creator of the cartoon says "What the crap" and The End comes up. Followed by w00t!

Checkerboard Nightmare

At Checkerboard Nightmare, Chex does a parody of different internet cartoons, including a "web animation" done in the style of a Strong Bad E-mail.

Neopets

On Neopets.com, a super rare avatar used only by the staff, features a bomb with the words "A splode." It can be viewed here.

A new avatar features a lupe with the words "Your lupe a splode." It can be viewed here.

Robotbox and Cactus

On Robotbox and Cactus episode 13 "Internet", Cactus receives a computer that crashed down from space, and he's boasting to Robotbox that he's on the internet now. Robotbox goes into his own segment much similar to a Strong Bad E-mail. Other parodies include random appearances by 'Pole' (Bonus Stage's Joel) 'Gil' (Bonus Stage's Phil) and 'Coach F' who says "BLOOOORGHHH!" and his head explodes.

The Great Eggscape 2

On this animation at [4] has a "No Loafing" sign in one of the rooms.

Pom Pom Dances

In this little ditty, Pom Pom dances to The theme from DANGERESQUE II: This time, it's not Dangeresque I. Four Different backgrounds!

Weebl and Bob

In the Weebl and Bob episode, Ouch, (explaining how Weebl (the lead animator for Weebl and Bob) broke his arm and thus can't animate the episode as planed) Weebl (the animator) snowboards down a mountain, performing a 'Triple word score' before he's hit by a Whale and complains, "Ow! My Spleen or my Arm....arm" in the vein of Teen Girl squad. Weebl is also drawn like a Teen Girl Squad character. Also, In the toon on the mainsite, Kenya the bus the tourists are riding reads "Holy Crap". What's more, occasional episodes are "animated" by the ficticious Bob and are of comparitively crude quality - not unlike the Powered By The Cheat cartoons.

Geoweasel

In episode 1 of Geoweasel, when Nar says that he is the computer guy around here, you can see the computer says run sb_email.exe.

Review: Alien Versus Predator

In this flash film by the flash artist Legendary Frog, Ark and Kerri are at one point playing with Alien and Predator action figures. In the background, the Cheat Commandos action figure storage vehicle can be seen with Gunhaver and SilentRip inside. Firebert and Reynold also appear in front of the "Der Wunder Box."

Ducktales: The Auditions

In this follow-up to the internet "Ducktales" series, Homestar Runner shows up as the fifth audition for the part of Scrooge McDuck.

Retarded Animal Babies

In episode 10 when they are walking past the websites calling them gay(but not meaning it, One of them is the creator's site) www.homestarrunner.com is the first one.

OTHER

Hershey Park PA face painting

At Hershey Park you can get a face painting of Homestar, Strong Bad, Marzipan, Pom Pom, or The Cheat.

505 Unbelievably Stupid Web Pages

On page 125 of this book, "Strongbad E-Mail" is listed as link number 256. The writer claims "...the answers to these questions require as much thought as you'd expect from a baboon."

Robots The Movie

At the end, when the heroes are in the chop shop, Rodney says "Looks like I'm gonna have to jump!"

Official Rock-Paper-Scissors Strategy Guide

In a sample tournament bracket in this book on page 163, one of the players is Trogdor.

Macromedia Flash Conference

H*R in Flash Player 8

As part of the first showing of the as yet unreleased Macromedia Flash Player 8, a graphical demo was shown with various effects that will be available in the new player being applied to both graphics, text, animations and movies on the fly. Of all the animations on the web, the Macromedia developers decided to feature both Homestar Runner and an animated The Homestar Runner. Showing the new effects being applied to their forms. This might be considered one of the most prestiged appearances of Homestar to date!

• See the short, cut video (low resolution)
• See the short, cut video (high resolution)
• Listing of mirrors for the full technical demo movie

Hershey Park Face Paintings

At Hershey Park, you can get a face painting of Homestar, Strong Bad, Marzipan, Pom Pom, or The Cheat.