Podstar Runner 2008

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Strong Bad Emails and More!

Podstar Runner is a collection of cartoons transferable to a video capable portable media player (such as a fifth-generation iPod), in .m4v format. It was released simultaneously with the email technology.

A Main Page message on January 7th, 2008, indicated that podcasts would return the following Thursday. As promised, the Podstar Runner page had the email looking old available for download. The collection currently only includes Strong Bad Emails released chronologically in 2007.

Page Title: Podstar Runner. One a time, please.

Release Date: January 30, 2006, updated January 10, 2008

Transcript for Currently Downloadable Emails

"Uh-oh! Face print!"

{Shows a collection of record and CD covers being scrolled through, similar to iTunes' Cover Flow, the first being Taranchula's "Shady Missionaries"}

STRONG BAD: No.

{Flips over to a record/CD cover to Peacey P's "deliberance" album}

STRONG BAD: No.

{Flips over to a picture of Strong Bad sitting at the Tandy 400 with the logo for Strong Bad Email above, written in the Tandy's default text}

STRONG BAD: No.

{Flips over to a record/CD cover of Limozeen's "Feed The Childrens"}

STRONG BAD: Wait...

{Flips back to picture of Strong Bad sitting at the Tandy with the logo for Strong Bad Email above, written in the Tandy's default text}

STRONG BAD: Yes.

{Selected email will begin}

{After selected email has finished}

{Strong Bad stands up in front of the record/CD covers and the covers become more shadowed}

STRONG BAD: Uh-oh! Face print!

{Strong Bad presses his face against the screen and leaves a smudge when he pulls his face off. Strong Bad gives a disgusted groan when he looks at it}

STRONG BAD: You're gonna need one of those little... shimmy cloths.

{Strong Bad leaves screen from the right and everything but the smudge fades to black}

Fun Facts

Trivia

• The podcast is no longer available on the iTunes Store.

Remarks

• None of the clickable Easter eggs from the original versions of the emails are present.
• The menu displays an iPod Touch.
• The preview image used to advertise the 2008 series of podcasts have been exactly the same as their corresponding page on the Homestar Runner Wiki.
• In the 2008 ending, "shimmy cloth" is a mispronunciation of chamois (pronounced "shamee"), the common name for soft leather used for polishing glass and other reflective surfaces.

Goofs

• On certain browsers, the links labeled "main" and "rando" do not work from the Podstar Runner menu.
• Podstar Runner's link for looking old's podcast took you to a non-existent page. The working link to the podcast could only have been found on the RSS feed.

Inside References

• The album covers for Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits, Homestar's Bread Sing Alongs, DJ Teh Cheat b/w the New KoT and the Limozeen/Sloshy split single are visible in the background, but not selected. The albums that are selected are Shady Missionaries, deliberance and Feed the Childrens, before settling on the Strong Bad Email option. The picture for the Strong Bad Email option is similar to the feature's preview in the TV Time Toons Menu.

Files Made Available Through Podstar Runner

Previously Downloadable Emails

External Links

• Podstar Runner
• Podstar Runner RSS feed
• View the new page background
• forum thread re: Podstar Runner
• Old Podstar Runner files

iTunes 4.9 or later; Quicktime 6.0 or later; or VLC media player can be used to view M4V video files.