Mark Lemke

From Homestar Runner Wiki

Revision as of 08:02, 30 March 2007

Mark Lemke in action

Lemke is a word that appears in the Homestar Runner universe now and again.

Origin

Taken from an interview with The Brothers Chaps

...there was an old local grocery store commercial, and we live in Atlanta, and it advertised the Atlanta Braves. It was like, “the Atlanta Braves hit home runs, and you can hit a home run with savings here!” And so there was this player named Mark Lemke, and they said something like “All star second baseman for the Braves.” And our friend knows nothing about sports, and so he would always do his old timey radio impression of this guy, and not knowing any positions in baseball or whatever, he’d just be like, “Homestar Runner for the Braves.” And we were just like, “Homestar Runner? That’s the best thing we’ve ever heard!"

Mark Lemke was the regular second baseman for the Atlanta Braves from 1990 through 1997 and no longer plays in the majors. According to MLB's website, he was never an All-Star. Mark Lemke was known as the Braves' "Mr. October" after stellar post-season performances [1].

Appearances

A Lemke sighting

LEMKE! during Summer Short Shorts

• Main Page 14 — Roll over "Store" to get the shower all fogged up and the word "LEMKE" will appear.
• Theme Song Video — When Pom Pom and Homestar crack open a couple of Cold Ones in a nondescript room, there is a pennant on the wall reading "LEMKE".
  • This scene, with the banner, appeared later in Summer Short Shorts.
• Everybody to the Limit — When the words "come on" flash on the Visor Robot, just before Strong Bad pops out, "come on" changes to "lemke".
• Email stunt double — The newspaper has a picture of Mark Lemke.
  • This newspaper reappeared in dangeresque 3.

External Links

• Mark Lemke's career stats at baseball-reference.com