Homestar Runner's Pants

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'''Pants''' are a frequently-referenced clothing item in the [[Homestar Runner (Flash cartoon)|Homestar Runner universe]]. They are often referenced specifically and in humorous ways.
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'''[[Homestar Runner]]'s pants''' are a notable anomaly, as the stylized design of his character makes it unclear as to whether he's wearing skintight pants with matching shoes or has "blue soles glued to the bottoms of [his] feet", as [[Strong Bad]] has claimed. [[The Brothers Chaps]] keep this running gag going by keeping references to it ambiguous.
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==Homestar's Pants==
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==References to Homestar's Pants==
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[[Homestar Runner|Homestar Runner's]] pants are somewhat of a mystery: Does he wear white, skin-tight long pants?  Or did he glue blue soles to the bottoms of his feet? [[The Brothers Chaps]] keep this running gag going by keeping the references ambiguous.
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*[[A Jumping Jack Contest]] {{--}} Homestar tells [[Pom Pom]] that he thinks he is going to [[pee]] his pants.
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*[[Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 1.0]] {{--}} [[Coach Z]] suggests that [[Marzipan]] put something in Homestar's pants to cheer him up.
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*Email [[vacation]] {{--}} Strong Bad parodies this issue along with the question of [[Lack of Visible Arms|whether Homestar has arms]] when, while imagining an email that he might be missing, he says "How does Homestar pick stuff up if he's not wearing any Marzi-pants?"
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*[[Pom Pom's Character Video]] {{--}} Homestar says that Pom Pom has helped him out of some tight jams and some tight pants, although that only happened once.
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*Email [[monument]] (Easter egg) {{--}} Homestar is about to put on some pants, but is then distracted by [[the Thnikkaman]].
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*[[Sbemail 100 Fakeout]] {{--}} Strong Bad tells Homestar to "keep his pants on". Homestar replies, "Pants? Hmm..."
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*[[Homestar Presents: Presents]] {{--}} When Homestar runs out of [[Homestar Runner's House|his house]], he says he's become "naked somehow", but his legs look exactly the same as before.
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*Email [[long pants]] {{--}} The entire email deals with Homestar and Strong Bad arguing about his pants, ending in Homestar experiencing an emotional breakdown.
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*Email [[lady...ing]] (Easter egg) {{--}} Homestar tells Marzipan that he's wearing tight pants so as to "accentuate all [his] bubbleties".
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*Email [[high school]] {{--}} According to Strong Bad's doodle memory, Homestar's [[Mysfit-steries Character Variations#Teenage Homestar Runner|high-school self]] wore ridiculous [[-èd|stripèd]] pants. Teenaged Strong Bad and Teenaged Strong Mad "were [[all the time]] trying to liberate Homestar from [them]".
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*Email [[senior prom]] (Easter egg) {{--}} With Homestar present, Strong Bad threatens to "poof away" everyone's pants in a mass pantsing, then realizes that he is the only one in the room wearing pants. Strong Bad's pants then poof away, but nothing happens to Homestar. Later, Homestar insists to Pom Pom that he was wearing "all these types of long pants" and that they got poofed away. Pom Pom says that Homestar can "keep telling [himself] that".
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*Email [[yes, wrestling]] {{--}} Homestar appears to be wearing some skintight pants as part of his [[Wrestling Character Variations#Jack 'Em Up Kid|Jack 'Em Up Kid]] costume.
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*[[Homestar Ruiner]] {{--}} Strong Bad steals Homestar's clothes, which are visible in his inventory as a shirt and some shoes with blue soles. When Strong Bad wears them, he appears to have white pants as well; in extended play, these pants can be worn separately from the shoes and shirt. However, attempting to wear the float head before stealing Homestar's clothes will have Strong Bad comment that his disguise won't fool anyone while he's still wearing any pants.
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*[[Costume Commercial]] {{--}} Homestar wears grey pants to mimic [[Bubs]] as part of his costume.
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*[[Halloween Potion-ma-jig]] {{--}} The [[French]] Homestar transformation changes the color of Homestar's head, but not his legs, suggesting they may be pants and not skin.
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*[[Most in the Graveyard]] {{--}} Homestar repeats his line from A Jumping Jack Contest.
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*[[A Death Defying Decemberween]] {{--}} Homestar wears pants during his televised [[Decemberween]] special.
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*[[Hremail 2000]] {{--}} A stylized close-up of Homestar's feet shows what might be leg hair where his pants would be.
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*[[April Fools' 2014]] {{--}} Homestar wears blue pants during the shutdown song.
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*[[Fish Eye Lens]] {{--}} Homestar wears black pants as part of his old-timey Dixieland jazz band outfit.
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*[[I Killed Pom Pom]] {{--}} Strong Bad asks Homestar, who's wearing cut-off shorts as part of his [[Arrested Development|Tobias Fünke]] costume, if the sight of Pom Pom's ghost makes him want to pee his pants.
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*[[Homestar Runner Goes for the Gold]] {{--}} Homestar reads the storybook cover as "The Homestar Runner and the Bathyscaphe", subtitling it "A Lurid Tale of Underwater Intrigue and Underwater Pants".
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*[[Halloween Hijinks]] {{--}} Teenaged Homestar wears and is eventually "unshackled" from a pair of zig-zaggéd pants.
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*'''[[A Jumping Jack Contest]]''' — Homestar tells [[Pom Pom]] that he thinks he is going to pee his pants.
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== References to Homestar's Shoes ==
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*'''[[Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 1.0]]''' — [[Coach Z]] suggests that [[Marzipan]] put something in Homestar's pants to cheer him up.  
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*[[Everybody Knows It]] {{--}} The ending scene, where Homestar asks [[The Cheat]], "I guess you'll go on back to putting dog food in my shoes, huh?" appears to disprove that he has soles glued to his feet.
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*'''[[Pom Pom]]'s [[Character Videos|character video]]''' — Homestar says that Pom Pom has helped him out of some tight jams and some tight pants, although that only happened once.
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*[[New Boots]] {{--}} The Cheat's [[Powered by The Cheat Character Variations#Homestar Runner|interpretation of Homestar]] portrays him wearing socks and separate shoes.
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*'''[[Not the 100th Email!!!]]''' — Strong Bad tells Homestar to "keep his pants on". Homestar replies, "Pants? Hmm..."
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*[[Homestar Ruiner]] {{--}} During the cutscene where Homestar Runner is trying to leave the locker room naked, he still has blue soles on the bottoms of his feet. However, Strong Bad steals Homestar's "shoes" that are clearly visible in the locker.
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*[[8-Bit is Enough]] {{--}} When near the [[TROGDOR!]] machine, Homestar bends down, exclaiming "Whoops, my foot's untied."
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*[[Hremail 2000]] {{--}} Homestar is able to take off and wear new "shoes", and the close-up of his feet and even the "sock-shoe layers" might be hints that he does in fact, wear shoes.
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*[[The House That Gave Sucky Tricks]] {{--}} One of the "scary shoes" that falls down is one that looks exactly like Homestar's.
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*Email '''[[super powers]]''' — Coach Z places the blame squarely on (possibly Homestar's) tight pants.
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==See Also==
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*Email '''[[vacation]]''' — [[Strong Bad]] parodies this issue along with the question of [[Lack of Visible Arms|whether Homestar has arms]] when, while imagining an email that he might be missing, he says "How does Homestar pick stuff up if he's not wearing any Marzi-pants?".
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*[[Pants]]
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*Email '''[[monument]]''' (Easter egg) — Homestar is about to put on some pants, but is then distracted by [[The Thnikkaman]].
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*[[Homestar Runner's Daisy Dukes]]
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*Email '''[[long pants]]''' — Homestar insists that he wears long pants; Strong Bad disagrees.
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*Email '''[[lady...ing]]''' (Easter egg) — Homestar tells Marzipan that he's wearing tight pants so as to "accentuate all [his] bubbleties".
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*Email '''[[highschool]]''' — Homestar's high-school self wore ridiculous stripèd pants. Teenaged Strong Bad and Teenaged Strong Mad "were all the time trying to liberate Homestar from [them]."
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**The phrase "stripèd pants" appears again in the email [[alternate universe]].
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==Coach Z's References to Pants==
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[[Coach Z]] also makes frequent jokes and references to pants, whether his own or someone else's.  <!-- NOTE: Coach Z's references to Homestar's pants still go under "Homestar's Pants" above. -->
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*'''[[A Folky Tale]]''' &mdash; Coach Z tells [[Strong Sad]] to "cram a little oom-pah down your pants" in an effort to get him to climb a rope.
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*Email '''[[lunch special]]''' &mdash; Coach Z orders a basket of double hot wings "pants down".
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*Email '''[[secret recipes]]''' &mdash; After discovering he'd just eaten a bunch of [[The Cheat]] fur, Coach Z says he's about to "puke my pants".
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*Email '''[[alternate universe]]''' (Easter egg) &mdash; Coach Z, while holding a pear covered in googly eyes and with coffee continually streaming down his mouthless face, tells Homestar he is "not at liberty to discuss what I just did in my pants."
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==Other Pants==
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Random references to pants appear from time to time in various toons, emails and games.
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*'''[[Fortune Cookies]]''' &mdash; One of the fortunes reads "Clumsiness will bring about a change of pants."
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*'''[[That A Ghost]]''' &mdash; [[Old-Timey Strong Bad]] claims he will be "marching around in gold pants in no time!"
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*'''[[Hallrunner]]''' &mdash; One of the objects you encounter is a rabid dog that "bites the butt off your pants.  Like in cartoons."
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*'''[[Peasant's Quest]]''' &mdash; The narrator of the [[Peasant's Quest Preview]] and [[Peasant's Quest Trailer|movie trailer]], as well as other characters, make frequent references to [[Rather Dashing]]'s short pants.
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**Another reference to these short pants appears at the beginning of the email [[for kids]].
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*Email '''[[stand-up]]''' &mdash; Strong Sad shows us a video in which [[Lil' Strong Bad|Lil' Strong Bad's]] pants fall down while he's on stage.
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*Email '''[[vacation]]''' &mdash; One of the places Strong Bad visits is "[[Strong Bad's Vacation Spots|Fabulous Downtown Pantsburg]]".
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*Email '''[[funny]]''' &mdash; In an effort to be funny, Strong Bad says he has "squeaky pants".
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*Email '''[[haircut]]''' &mdash; Strong Bad calls one of his designs for [[Strong Mad]]'s eyebrows "Hammer Pants".
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*Email '''[[local news]]''' &mdash; Summarizing the weather report, Strong Bad says "Bundle up, but be sure to keep your swimsuit on outside your pants."
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*Email '''[[bottom 10]]''' &mdash; Homestar sings "Buttdance again! Like the rhythm's down your pants now!", causing Strong Bad to vomit on his keyboard.
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*Email '''[[portrait]]''' &mdash; A portion of a [[News Articles|newspaper article]] near one of Strong Bad's portraits reads "&mdash;ipe hands on pants".
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Current revision as of 21:30, 30 September 2025

"Well, I'll just, uh, put these pants on..."

Homestar Runner's pants are a notable anomaly, as the stylized design of his character makes it unclear as to whether he's wearing skintight pants with matching shoes or has "blue soles glued to the bottoms of [his] feet", as Strong Bad has claimed. The Brothers Chaps keep this running gag going by keeping references to it ambiguous.

[edit] References to Homestar's Pants

  • A Jumping Jack Contest — Homestar tells Pom Pom that he thinks he is going to pee his pants.
  • Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 1.0 — Coach Z suggests that Marzipan put something in Homestar's pants to cheer him up.
  • Email vacation — Strong Bad parodies this issue along with the question of whether Homestar has arms when, while imagining an email that he might be missing, he says "How does Homestar pick stuff up if he's not wearing any Marzi-pants?"
  • Pom Pom's Character Video — Homestar says that Pom Pom has helped him out of some tight jams and some tight pants, although that only happened once.
  • Email monument (Easter egg) — Homestar is about to put on some pants, but is then distracted by the Thnikkaman.
  • Sbemail 100 Fakeout — Strong Bad tells Homestar to "keep his pants on". Homestar replies, "Pants? Hmm..."
  • Homestar Presents: Presents — When Homestar runs out of his house, he says he's become "naked somehow", but his legs look exactly the same as before.
  • Email long pants — The entire email deals with Homestar and Strong Bad arguing about his pants, ending in Homestar experiencing an emotional breakdown.
  • Email lady...ing (Easter egg) — Homestar tells Marzipan that he's wearing tight pants so as to "accentuate all [his] bubbleties".
  • Email high school — According to Strong Bad's doodle memory, Homestar's high-school self wore ridiculous stripèd pants. Teenaged Strong Bad and Teenaged Strong Mad "were all the time trying to liberate Homestar from [them]".
  • Email senior prom (Easter egg) — With Homestar present, Strong Bad threatens to "poof away" everyone's pants in a mass pantsing, then realizes that he is the only one in the room wearing pants. Strong Bad's pants then poof away, but nothing happens to Homestar. Later, Homestar insists to Pom Pom that he was wearing "all these types of long pants" and that they got poofed away. Pom Pom says that Homestar can "keep telling [himself] that".
  • Email yes, wrestling — Homestar appears to be wearing some skintight pants as part of his Jack 'Em Up Kid costume.
  • Homestar Ruiner — Strong Bad steals Homestar's clothes, which are visible in his inventory as a shirt and some shoes with blue soles. When Strong Bad wears them, he appears to have white pants as well; in extended play, these pants can be worn separately from the shoes and shirt. However, attempting to wear the float head before stealing Homestar's clothes will have Strong Bad comment that his disguise won't fool anyone while he's still wearing any pants.
  • Costume Commercial — Homestar wears grey pants to mimic Bubs as part of his costume.
  • Halloween Potion-ma-jig — The French Homestar transformation changes the color of Homestar's head, but not his legs, suggesting they may be pants and not skin.
  • Most in the Graveyard — Homestar repeats his line from A Jumping Jack Contest.
  • A Death Defying Decemberween — Homestar wears pants during his televised Decemberween special.
  • Hremail 2000 — A stylized close-up of Homestar's feet shows what might be leg hair where his pants would be.
  • April Fools' 2014 — Homestar wears blue pants during the shutdown song.
  • Fish Eye Lens — Homestar wears black pants as part of his old-timey Dixieland jazz band outfit.
  • I Killed Pom Pom — Strong Bad asks Homestar, who's wearing cut-off shorts as part of his Tobias Fünke costume, if the sight of Pom Pom's ghost makes him want to pee his pants.
  • Homestar Runner Goes for the Gold — Homestar reads the storybook cover as "The Homestar Runner and the Bathyscaphe", subtitling it "A Lurid Tale of Underwater Intrigue and Underwater Pants".
  • Halloween Hijinks — Teenaged Homestar wears and is eventually "unshackled" from a pair of zig-zaggéd pants.

[edit] References to Homestar's Shoes

  • Everybody Knows It — The ending scene, where Homestar asks The Cheat, "I guess you'll go on back to putting dog food in my shoes, huh?" appears to disprove that he has soles glued to his feet.
  • New Boots — The Cheat's interpretation of Homestar portrays him wearing socks and separate shoes.
  • Homestar Ruiner — During the cutscene where Homestar Runner is trying to leave the locker room naked, he still has blue soles on the bottoms of his feet. However, Strong Bad steals Homestar's "shoes" that are clearly visible in the locker.
  • 8-Bit is Enough — When near the TROGDOR! machine, Homestar bends down, exclaiming "Whoops, my foot's untied."
  • Hremail 2000 — Homestar is able to take off and wear new "shoes", and the close-up of his feet and even the "sock-shoe layers" might be hints that he does in fact, wear shoes.
  • The House That Gave Sucky Tricks — One of the "scary shoes" that falls down is one that looks exactly like Homestar's.

[edit] See Also

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