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• Homestar Runner gained a half-open mouth animation frame (pictured), despite Matt Chapman saying it wasn't necessary at 12 frames per second.

• Pom Pom is the only main character whose parents, General and Fraulein Pom Pom (pictured), have been seen in the body of work.

• Marzipan has apparently had questionable surgery to have her nose removed (pictured).

• On Coach Z's emblem (pictured), the darker blue shine streak under the gold Z makes a backwards Z formation.

• Mike Chapman once noted that it is difficult to animate Bubs's elbows, leading to his lack of elbows in later toons (pictured).

• Fluffy Puffs (pictured) are a real marshmallow brand in Israel.

• Homestar Runner was going to have two cousins named Preshy and Rafferty (pictured) in an unfinished cartoon seen in Why Come Only One Girl?.

• The little girl who appears in The Next April Fools Thing is based on a design for a character named "Folly", seen in Why Come Only One Girl? (pictured).

• Naked Ned from Peasant's Quest lurks in the artwork of one of the forest tiles in Trogdor!! The Board Game (pictured).

• A Homestar Runner RPG (pictured) was once in development for the Atari 2600.

• A Cheat Commandos-themed tactics game (pictured) was once in development.

• There was originally going to be a sequel (pictured) to Dangeresque Roomisode 1: Behind the Dangerdesque, in which Dangeresque must defuse a bomb inside the DangeCar-esque.

• There was originally going to be a match-three game (pictured) based on Fluffy Puff Mayonnaise.

• Pigs on Head was originally going to get a sequel entitled Butcher Bros. (pictured), in which the player delivers sausages to cooks and delis.

• There was originally going to be a sequel (pictured) to Peasant's Quest, either in the form of an adventure featuring the baby as an adult, or a fake online experience parodying MMORPGs.

• Pom Pom was originally going to have a dog named Trivia Time (pictured). Its design would later be used as an influence for his cookie jar.

• Blue Laser Commander was originally going to be an Ungurait, a rejected species of bandit-like characters (pictured).

• The photograph of Limozeen from monster truck (pictured) is actually multiple photographs of the Brothers Chaps' brother Donnie, dressed as Vince Neil in Halloween 1987.

• Homestar Runner was originally going to have a more humanoid shape, with arms and an overbite, while Strong Bad resembled a reptillian creature in a mask (both pictured).

• Pressing L without caps on during Fluffy Puff Commercial causes the edges of the screen to be obscured by a silhouette of Abraham Lincoln's head (pictured).

• Strong Sad was originally going to have stripes (pictured).

• Before the hundredth Strong Bad Email was released, a secret cartoon (pictured) was hidden at the "sbemail100.html" URL for those who tried to access the email early.

• A secret cartoon (pictured) can be found in the program Macromedia Central by going into "Help → About Central" and Ctrl-doubleclicking on the "C" logo, then typing "sbemail" into the password field.

• The Brothers Chaps worked on a Flash website (pictured) for the restaurant chain Mellow Mushroom in 2001, with a similar interface to the Main Pages of Homestar Runner.

• In the game Where's an Egg?, one of the suspects (pictured) resembles tennis player John McEnroe.

• Early Trogdor sketches (pictured) suggest he was originally going to be based around a D for dragon, rather than an S for snake.

• The Cloitsterizer (pictured) from suntan is based on a wooden piece of cheese on a string The Brothers Chaps once saw a kid dragging around in a thrift store.

• Items in the Homestar Runner universe are commonly priced at $11.01 (pictured), a reference to creator Matt Chapman's birthday.

• A main page pop-up (pictured) said that, without this very wiki, The Brothers Chaps could not remember which toon The Cheat held a spoon in. Incidentally, The Cheat has only held a spoon in Homestar Ruiner, which is not a toon.

• The secret page The Secrets That I Keep (pictured) was originally accessed through an automatic reply if one emailed depressio@homestarrunner.com.

• The scales on Trogdor's body (pictured) are not consummate V's, but rather regimented U's, as revealed multiple times on Twitter.

• The King of Town wears a pickelhaube in Ever and More (pictured), similar to his Old-Timey counterpart in Ballad of The Sneak.

• Homsar's coloring is similar to that of the unused character Homeschool Winner (pictured).

• Senor Cardgage's weird shrub (pictured) was originally going to be named Strongberg.

• The Brothers Chaps made an exclusive Strong Bad Email (pictured) for the theater company Dad's Garage.

• Several rejected characters can be seen silhouetted in A Decemberween Mackerel (pictured).

• Strong Bad and Strong Sad had brief animated cameos in the online Nerds & Music variety show in August 2020 (pictured).

• Strong Bad and Homestar Runner appeared onscreen to introduce Wil Wheaton at w00tstock in July 2013 (pictured).

• Homestar Runner and Strong Bad appeared briefly in a Kickstarter video for The Aquabats in July 2018 (pictured).

Other

1. Strong Bad and Strong Mad, and their original role as tag team wrestlers, came from the 1986 Nintendo video game Tag Team Wrestling, in which one of the teams is called "The Strong Bads".
2. Strong Bad has more appearances than Senor Cardgage, Homsar, The Poopsmith, Pom Pom, and The King of Town combined.
3. At his fastest, Strong Bad types, on average, approximately 240 words per minute (in a segment in death metal).
4. Matt Chapman has said that Strong Sad is the most difficult main character to voice due to how delicate he sounds, leading to Mike substituting for Strong Sad's one word in cheat talk.
5. Strong Sad was originally going to sound like Michael Stipe, but this idea was quickly rejected.
6. Strong Sad claims to have "minored in holding on wide shots for too long" in film school.
7. Strong Sad only has three ribs.
8. Pom Pom's "voice" is a re-used sample of Mike Chapman blowing bubbles into a glass of milk, making his the only voice that is never recorded fresh for every toon.
9. Pom Pom is the only main character never to have said anything understandable as an English word.
10. The Old Characters Page said that the King of Town was Marzipan's father. However, this idea has since been abandoned.
11. Marzipan is named after marzipan, a confectionery consisting primarily of ground almonds and sugar.
12. Marzipan is apparently allergic to pecans.
13. Marzipan has a cousin named Debra whom Strong Bad said he considered hot.
14. Marzipan has a sister, according to Homestar Runner.
15. Marzipan's latest stepfather as of A Death-Defying Decemberween is named Seth, and works in a philosophy department.
16. Coach Z's accent came from a depressing Midwestern voice that Matt Chapman and some friends would do in college.
17. Coach Z is named after Craig Zobel (as revealed in the Wonkavision interview).
18. According to the Old Characters Page, Coach Z wasn't much of a coach at the time, and he just added the title because it sounded "cooler than just Z".
19. Bubs is based on a person the Brothers Chaps knew growing up who worked at a concession stand locally and spoke with the same gravelly voice.
20. Matt Chapman has admitted that Bubs's voice was heavily borrowed from the voice of Redd Foxx (of Sanford and Son fame).
21. The King of Town is shown to possess either powers of teleportation or skills as a ninja, as he can appear and disappear in a puff of smoke.
22. The Poopsmith, in his voiced appearances, is voiced by John Linnell of They Might Be Giants.
23. Homsar is the only main character with no Old-Timey or Dangeresque counterpart.
24. Strong Bad's username on Tabletop Simulator, which he has used to virtually play Trogdor!! The Board Game, is cardgagefan73.
25. Strong Sad's comment about vinegar toast was based on Matt Chapman feeding it to his brother when they were kids.
26. One of the two Homestar Runners who appear in Senorial Day is wearing a mustache.
27. Typing anything with the word "cheat" in it in Peasant's Quest will result in the response "Meh."
28. Strong Bad makes an unintentional haiku in the intro to japanese cartoon.
29. Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 17.2 is the longest cartoon on homestarrunner.com, at 31:09.
30. The Trogdor song was added to the Strong Bad Email dragon at the last minute by the Brothers Chaps, after Matt started spontaneously singing it while making breakfast.
31. The Brothers Chaps didn't come up with the reveal in Pumpkin Carve-nival that Homestar Runner was Strong Bad in disguise until the toon was almost finished.
32. Homsar never actually said his iconic line, "I was raised by a cup of coffee," until an Easter egg in Haunted Photo Booth.
33. Abdi LaRue was an early fan of Homestar Runner to whom the Brothers Chaps reached out to send the first Strong Bad Email.
34. Strong Mad's height varies from 6 ft to 8 ft 3 depending on the source.
35. The Visor Robot was given its name by this wiki. The name was adopted by the Brothers Chaps and used officially in Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 17.2.
36. Behind the characters' silhouettes in each Halloween teaser is a different hidden message mocking those who try to reveal the costumes with a Flash decompiler.
37. Typing the Konami Code on the hint screen of TROGDOR! starts the player off with 30 lives.
38. The 136th Strong Bad Email, geddup noise, was originally going to be about kitchen appliances.
39. The Brothers Chaps wrote a script for a toon called Soap Box Doiby. This toon was never finished, and the script was emailed to the Homestar Runner Wiki administrators.
40. Trogdor!! The Board Game originally included items such as "Ball of Fire", "Pauldrons of Greg", and "Bones of Luckman".
41. Original Bubs was based on an old Bubs design from the Museum Sketchbook.
42. Coach Z's afro and mustache in his younger years is a reference to an old design from the Museum Sketchbook.
43. The @StrongBadActual Twitter account was registered in 2011, three years before its first activity.
44. The site's first Easter egg can be found at the end of The King of Town DVD Old Version. If the sheep is clicked, it flies off behind the mountains.
45. Everybody to the Limit was played at the Field Day concert at Giants Stadium on June 7, 2003. A special introduction was shown for the occasion.
46. There is a secret page on the site that only shows the text "this is strongbad".
47. Missy Palmer, the voice actress of Marzipan, is credited for helping write The Luau, her only writing credit in the series.
48. In Weclome Back, Homestar says to "get this www.show back on the road.com". This URL redirects to the homestarrunner.com home page.
49. Strongest Man in the World's page title claims to be the longest. However, the record actually goes to Shopping for Danger. Notably, both page titles are nineteen syllables long.
50. Kick-A-Ball's background music is a remix of the theme from Weclome Back.
51. Before The Umpire's animated debut in 2009, he was supposed to appear in an unknown 2006 Strong Bad Email until the Brothers Chaps forgot.
52. The Brothers Chaps had originally named the Dangeresque series Danger Man. However, they changed the name after learning that the name had already been used as the title of the 1960s precursor to classic British television series The Prisoner.
53. Sketches for the Strong Bad Email vacation show places such as "Egg or Rice", "Fake Palms Resort", "Giant Book", "Cruckscrew Bend's Fairly Oversized Elbow Macaroni", "No Dumping and No Dumping Street", and "Not A Very Big Ball O' Belts".
54. The Trog-Meter from Trogdor!! The Board Game was originally called "The Bowels of Trogdor".
55. Four quotes from the Cheat Commandos toon have been used for Quote of the Week, more than any other toon.
56. The Cheat is always referred to with the "The", with very few exceptions.
57. The Brothers Chaps have used our articles on Headbands, Googly Eyes, and Pie as examples of the Homestar Runner Wiki's exhaustiveness.
58. The phone number at the end of Strong Bad Sings was originally 1-800-BAD-SONG, rather than 1-800-555-SBSINGS. However, it turned out that was a real number for a Limousine service.
59. The DVD version of Theme Song Video includes extra scenes to help sync the music and the visuals. Some of these scenes feature Homsar and Strong Bad Email, which had not been introduced at the time of the original toon.
60. Exclusive new Strong Bad Email intros and Scroll Button Songs can be found in the Homestar Runner Original Soundtrack albums.
61. The longest Strong Bad Email is retirement, at 6:53 (or 7:21 including Easter eggs).
62. Combined, there is over 24 hours' worth of Homestar Runner content, as of the Trogdor Live Playtest @ GenCon livestream. Strong Bad Emails make up ten hours of the total.
63. The live SBCG4AP Playthrough is the longest official Homestar Runner content, at an hour and 48 minutes.
64. Strong Bad Email #22, sb_email 22, was actually made after #40. It was accidentally skipped, and later made and released with the page title "The Lost Email!".
65. Thy Dungeonman's real name is Collagen Salvemonger III.
66. The sound file for the Shadowy Figure's speech in Stinkoman 20X6 is called "textType_zsabre.wav".
67. The YouTube version of the Strong Bad Email independent has a completely different ending from the original Flash version.