Banana Manana?
Homestar is walking around talking into the banana as we are hearing the message for message 6. There are three equally implausible explanations for this:
- He is mouthing the words to his already-recorded message into a banana.
- Message 6 is actually a section of blank tape of equal length to Homestar's banana-message.
- The banana really is a phone, and the viewer is hearing him record the message live.
From: Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 13.2
Posted on: 04:20, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
Arguments for:
- It's good to muse on deeper issues like this.
Arguments against:
- Simply commenting ruins the joke. It's not needed.
- Its a cartoon... people can use a banana as a phone without the need of an explanation.
- Sing it with me... "Homestar is a dumb guy, a dumb guy, a dumb guy..."
- All this is just speculation.
- I don't think TBC intended any of the above options--I know that's somewhat speculative, but this seems to fall into the homestar flying around category--things that are just funny without having a deeper meaning.
- It is indeed good to muse on such possibilities. But this wiki is primarily for documenting the objective facets of H*R cartoons; although there is some room for speculative hypothesizing and subjective interpretation in main-page articles, they can find a cozy and happy home on the talk pages, or, if they choose, run amok like proverbial bulls in proverbial china shops on the forum.
- It could be that Homestar is leaving the message as he's walking by, and the answering machine is simply playing it aloud like many machines do.
Additional comments:
- This fact is ruining the whole joke. I don't want facts explaining why Homestar fly away in technology or Homsar can fly around.
- This fact is making the joke better. I enjoy thinking about such things.
- It's just cartoon magic. All of these possibilities seem contrived and spoil the joke.
- What about option 4: the "Homestar talking into a banana" is actually a service robot programmed by Louis and Gilbert from Revenge of the Nerds to provide a visual representation of the messages left on the answering machine. The answering machine is, of course, connected to the "Homestar" robot by invisible nanowires or Marzipan's wireless network.
- homsar does heaps of impossible things, strong mad sent an email via paper bag and we're caring about a banana?
- I'd say it's a mixture of comments 1 and 2; Homestar did actually record the message, but he just happens to be walking by with his Bananaphone at the same time.
- Another theory is that the Homestar on Pom Pom's mobile is, in actual fact, Mustachioed Homestar Runner, and the real Homestar just happens to be walking by with his Bananaphone at the same time. (It may just be another instance of Twin Characters, but as it is believed by a minority that Mustachioed Homestar and Homestar are two separate characters, and assuming that the Homestar on Main Page 23 is actually Mustachioed Homestar (we never see his face), I will put forward this theory also.)
- Obviously, these are both theories, and are not necessarily true. Indeed, they may bring up further questions, such as How did Pom Pom manage to mistake Mustachioed Homestar for Homestar?. The ambiguity of the seemingly innocent gag is further intensified when taking into account the events of pizzaz (although the interview conducted in pizazz may have been obtained by Strong Bad filming himself twice, and splicing the footage together later. However, this further brings into question Strong Bad's video editing skills, as seen in stunt double and dangeresque 3). The world may never know.
- Option 2 is unlikely since there wouldn't be a recording on an answering machine if it was silence. Most answering machines (even earlier ones) can distinguish a dial-tone and background noise and just stop recording after two or three seconds of opening silence. I think option 1 is the most likely.
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