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A randomized template for the new Main Page. Includes 80 facts.
- Items in the Homestar Runner universe are commonly priced at $11.01 (pictured), a reference to creator Matt Chapman's birthday.
- Strong Bad has more appearances than Senor Cardgage, Homsar, The Poopsmith, Pom Pom, and The King of Town combined.
- Original Bubs was based on an old Bubs design from the Museum Sketchbook.
- 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.
- In the game Where's an Egg?, one of the suspects (pictured) resembles tennis player John McEnroe.
- 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.
- Marzipan has a cousin named Debra whom Strong Bad said he considered hot.
- 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.
- On Coach Z's emblem (pictured), the darker blue shine streak under the gold Z makes an additional Z formation.
- 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!".
- 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".
- Strong Bad has more appearances than Senor Cardgage, Homsar, The Poopsmith, Pom Pom, and The King of Town combined.
- Homestar Runner and Strong Bad appeared briefly in a Kickstarter video for The Aquabats in July 2018 (pictured).
- 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.
- Matt Chapman has admitted that Bubs's voice was heavily borrowed from the voice of Redd Foxx (of Sanford and Son fame).
- 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.
- 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.
- Strong Bad has more appearances than Senor Cardgage, Homsar, The Poopsmith, Pom Pom, and The King of Town combined.
- Strong Bad makes an unintentional haiku in the intro to japanese cartoon.
- 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.
- The secret page Strong Sad's Secret Styles (pictured) was originally accessed through an automatic reply if one emailed depressio@homestarrunner.com.
- Missy Palmer, the voice actress of Marzipan, is credited for helping write The Luau, her only writing credit in the series.
- 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.
- Coach Z's afro and mustache in his younger years is a reference to an old design from the Museum Sketchbook.
- Senor Cardgage's weird shrub (pictured) was originally going to be named Strongberg.
- 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.
- Abdi LaRue was an early fan of Homestar Runner to whom the Brothers Chaps reached out to send the first Strong Bad Email.
- Coach Z's accent came from a depressing Midwestern voice that Matt Chapman and some friends would do in college.
- Items in the Homestar Runner universe are commonly priced at $11.01 (pictured), a reference to creator Matt Chapman's birthday.
- The Poopsmith, in his voiced appearances, is voiced by John Linnell of They Might Be Giants.
- Homsar is the only main character with no Old-Timey or Dangeresque counterpart.
- Trogdor!! The Board Game originally included items such as "Ball of Fire", "Pauldrons of Greg", and "Bones of Luckman".
- 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).
- The @StrongBadActual Twitter account was registered in 2011, three years before its first activity.
- Marzipan has a sister, according to Homestar Runner.
- 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.