Dumb Animal Characters

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When The Brothers Chaps are discussing the characters in the Homestar Runner body of work (usually in interviews), they will often facetiously use the term dumb animal characters, or variations of the phrase.

Appearances

• Wired News Radio Interview - 23 Jun 2003 — Matt Chapman says he can't believe how many people want to wear T-shirts with dumb animal characters on them.
• Sample Of Style — Mike Chapman says that people ask him how he does the voices for his dumb animal characters.
• FAQ — One question asks who does the voices for the dumb animal characters.
• SXSW Panel - 14 Mar 2005 — Mike's panelist biography says he "does the good graphics and animation for the dumb animal characters", while Matt's mentions he "does the voices for the dumb animal characters".
• Zoinks! Magazine Interview — Matt describes Homestar Runner as "a cartoon about a bunch of dumb animal characters".
• Late Nite JengaJam Interview - 4 Oct 2007 — "Jengaship" says that Matt does the voices for the "dumb animal characters".
• The Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Show Interview - 7 July 2014 — Matt says he's "just excited to make these dumb animal characters talk again."
• Halloween Safety — Mike says that he and Matt normally let their dumb animal characters do the talking.
• Gizmodo Interview - 24 Jan 2017 — Recalling seeing a photo of Geddy Lee with a Strong Bad hat, Matt states, "We have no idea if he knew what Strong Bad was, but our dumb animal character was on his head while he probably shredded 'Working Man' so I'll take it!"
• @StrongBadActual —
  • November 23, 2019 — In this tweet announcing Fan 'Stumes 2019, Strong Bad says "Thanks to everybody who still dresses up as me and my fellow dumb animal characters!!"
  • November 25, 2020 — The Fangamer "Everybody! Everybody!" shirt is the first time "ALL the dumb animal characters appeared on one t-shirt".
• homestarrunner.com — The Teespring Store is advertised as "T-shirts of our dumb animal characters!" on the homepage.
• Halloween Hide & Seek — The itch.io description reads "A short Halloween point n' click starring the dumb animal characters of HomestarRunner.com".
  • The v2.0 Trailer instructs players to "help Homestar Runner find all eleven of his dumb animal character friends".
• Talk-It-Yourself Homestar Runner Puppet Plush — The announcer pitches that the puppet can be used to make "dumb animal characters say way more than fifteen phrases!"

Variations

• Inkhole Interview — When asked about homestarrunner.com, Matt says, "A bunch of crazy animal characters run around and make fun of each other." The Inkhole asks if he meant "like squirrels".
• Peasant's Quest Movie Trailer (DVD commentary) — Mike says that it was nice to go out and do something instead of animating "stupid animal characters" all day.
• homestarrunnerdotcom — The channel description mentions "waggly, animated animal characters".
• Screenland - 24 April 2017 — Matt refers to the characters as "weird non-human, non-animal characters".

See Also

• Normal-Human Characters