Talk:Homestar Runner (body of work)

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Homestar Runner (body of work) is a featured article, which means it showcases an important part of the Homestar Runner body of work and/or highlights the fine work of this wiki. We also might just think it's cool. If you see a way this page can be updated or improved without compromising previous work, feel free to contribute.

Wikipedia

It doesn't make a lot of sense to make this anything other than a redirect page to the Wikipedia entry. All the pages within the Homestar Runner Wiki universe sort of "assume" you have been briefed on the basics of what Homestar Runner is, and it seems that if you haven't been, then the Wikipedia entry is exactly the aerial view you are looking for...

I do not think so. If we are the second site google have to offer when searching for Homestar Runner, poeple who are new to this world would like to know more. Think of this. A guy likes wikis and is a member in one, but doesnt know what Homestar is. He gets a link to some SBEmail via mail and enjoys it. forget about is for a few days and than want to see it again. He searches Google for it and found us just under the main site. "Wow! A wiki about this great site! Maybe I sould start reading it so I can fund out all those Easter Eggs" And so on. E.L. Cool 11:00, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

I don't disagree that this wiki is the most useful resource. That's why I've been focusing on broadening the cooperation and trust between Wikipedia and The Homestar Runner Wiki, and if you want to see some of the general strategy ideas, see this discussion attached to a template which I created as an experiment to prominently point readers towards the HRWiki as a trusted Interwiki Sister Projects. What I'd like to see is a natural forwarding to occur from the Wikipedia into the Homestar Runner Wiki, and if this is done properly there won't be a concern. The first step is for the two projects to trust and build on each other. Plain ol' duplication helps no one... (acct creation seems to be broken, so I'm just my IP address, sorry)

How popular is Homestar runner?

well?

Nikolce Kocovski 05:57, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

Evidently, popular enough to be known in Macedonia! As a school teacher, I have an annoying habit of turning my students' questions back to them; perhaps you could undertake a project to find out just how popular H*R is? —AbdiViklas 06:05, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

How did you know i was Macedonian?

Nikolce Kocovski 09:57, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

By checking out your user page! —AbdiViklas 04:20, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

For the best way to see how popular is a site, the most reliable source on the internet is Alexa who provide statistics on websites such as traffic, page views and more. This graph, starting from the end of 2001 show the popularity rank for www.homestarrunner.com. As you can see, Homestar reached his peek on the middle of 2003 (About the time Pulse Interview took place, showing the site to alot of people for the first time). Then it declined and peeked again on February 6 (I recall this was the exact time, because Peasant's Quest Movie Trailer was released and the site crashed). Now the popularity of the site is on a slow decline, but who knows how and when it will peek again? — Elcool ^(talk)_(contribs) 14:43, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

Mom! The Cheat's flooded Bubs' Concession Stand again!

Well hey everyone! I'm HRfan222! I'm one of the biggest Homestar Runner fans in my area! I'm such a big fan that I'm starting to annoy some friends of mine.

I also don't understand the whole Homestar have arms' argument. People!!! He just doesn't have visible arms! It doesn't require a lot of thought. He just doesn't have any VISIBLE arms. I don't believe he has telekinetic powers or anything like that. But that's just my argument.

I've only made a few contributions to this site, but that doesn't mean I can't help the HR wiki even more! If there is a mistake that you think a great homestar loving fan could correct (me) email me at: jakesbookshelf@yahoo.com, or type it out on my user page. Well, I guess that's it. Thanks for reading the user page! 7:22, 3 April 2006

kah-westin'

What is the frame rate for this (usually)? -DEI DAT VM^┌_{datvm center}\^{super contra}_┘

Since when is TGS Bland and Monotonous?

"Another popular feature on the website is Strong Bad's crudely drawn comic series Teen Girl Squad. The comic parodies four archetypical high-school clichés; in their quest to become unique and popular, they are bland and monotonous. This is evident in the girls' nondescript names: Cheerleader, So and So, What's Her Face, and The Ugly One. "

I completely disagree. I wouldn't consider them what they are called in this discription. Salty^Talk! 05:33, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

No. They're interesting. It's more "exciting and adventerous." Kinda. Either way, it is not bland or monotonous. — _talk Bubsty _edits 05:37, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

No, no, no. You guys got it backwards. I know what it's saying. I just can't explain it adequately. Somebody get someone who has a way with words (Dot com, Stux, Abdi, etc.) over here and explain about how they try so hard to be cool and thus end up failing, and how each episode is the same thing if you break it down, or whatever I'm trying to say. It's talking more about the characters than the events and scenarios. The characters never change as people. --DorianGray

Bland and Monotonous pretty much mean boring. Which means... you're right. After thinking about it Dorian, I realize you gota point. I was thinking you meant the toon was "bland and monotonous." Sorry. — _talk Bubsty _edits 05:44, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Here's the essence: The girls try to be cool by fitting the stereotypical "cool girl" profile. But in doing so, they just become cardboard cutouts as characters. To clinch this argument: What's Her Face has always been clearly the most interesting character to me, and she is the iconoclast who doesn't try to fit stereotypes. (Does this explain it well, DorianGray?)Heimstern Läufer 05:46, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Yes, that's exactly what I was trying to say. Thanks, Heimstern. --DorianGray

Agreed. — _talk Bubsty _edits 05:51, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks, guys. I am in the midst of writing two papers for school right now, one in English and one in German, so I am getting plenty of practice with using words. Heimstern Läufer 06:05, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

LOL; just keep track of which paper gets wich language! Back on topic: Perhaps some better words could be found than "bland and monotonous." The author's original point is valid, but these are kinda value-laden (leading to Bubsty's reaction). What about something involving the words "conformist" and "anonymity"? In fact, I'ma go do that now.

But to critique the original comment: it's becoming increasingly less true, as the girls' characters are increasingly defined. So and So is a math-oriented, overachieving workaholic, while What's Her Face is the resident low-key vegan hippiecrat. And the intriguing thing about her... iconoclasm? iconoclasticism? ...and counter-culture is that it isn't tempered by protest against her friends' materialism and brutal social competition; she isn't so much a rebel that she won't hang out and go along with Cheerleader's itineraries. (Maybe because if she were counter-cultural and annoyingly vocal she'd be Marzipan!) —AbdiViklas 22:12, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Dag, yo.

Dag. Is it only my computer, or is the homestarrunner.com down right now? Because every other site in the universe is working except that. ♥ _tee^eff_oh! 19:25, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

Just your computer. — Lapper (talk) 19:39, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

Lots of things including PSPs can not run H*R.com even if they have internet. I find that strange, but i'm guessing this just makes the website more informatinal. It took my computer a while to start running H*R.com and download stuff from it, which is really hard at first.SPONGE 001 00:45, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

I often find it spazzing out. But I used to have dial-up. DSL is better now. ♥ _tee^eff_oh! 00:48, 12 March 2006 (UTC)