Homestar Runner's Pants

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Pants are a frequently-referenced clothing item in the Homestar Runner universe. They are often referenced specifically and in humorous ways.

Homestar's Pants

Homestar Runner's pants are somewhat of a mystery: Does he wear white, skin-tight long pants? Or did he glue blue soles to the bottoms of his feet? The Brothers Chaps keep this running gag going by keeping the references ambiguous.

• A Jumping Jack Contest — Homestar tells Pom Pom that he thinks he is going to pee his pants.
• Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 1.0 — Coach Z suggests that Marzipan put something in Homestar's pants to cheer him up.
• Pom Pom's character video — Homestar says that Pom Pom has helped him out of some tight jams and some tight pants, although that only happened once.
• Not the 100th Email!!! — Strong Bad tells Homestar to "keep his pants on". Homestar replies, "Pants? Hmm..."
• Email vacation — Strong Bad parodies this issue along with the question of whether Homestar has arms when, while imagining an email that he might be missing, he says "How does Homestar pick stuff up if he's not wearing any Marzi-pants?".
• Email monument (Easter egg) — Homestar is about to put on some pants, but is then distracted by The Thnikkaman.
• Email long pants — Homestar insists that he wears long pants; Strong Bad disagrees.
• Email lady...ing (Easter egg) — Homestar tells Marzipan that he's wearing tight pants so as to "accentuate all [his] bubbleties".
• Email highschool — Homestar's high-school self wore ridiculous stripèd pants. Teenaged Strong Bad and Teenaged Strong Mad "were all the time trying to liberate Homestar from [them]."
  • The phrase "stripèd pants" appears again in the email alternate universe.

Coach Z's References to Pants

Coach Z also makes frequent jokes and references to pants, whether his own or someone else's.

• A Folky Tale — Coach Z tells Strong Sad to "cram a little oom-pah down your pants" in an effort to get him to climb a rope.

• Email lunch special — Coach Z orders a basket of double hot wings "pants down".
• Email secret recipes — After discovering he'd just eaten a bunch of The Cheat fur, Coach Z says he's about to "puke my pants".
• Email super powers — Coach Z places the blame squarely on tight pants.
• Email alternate universe (Easter egg) — Coach Z, while holding a pear covered in googly eyes and with coffee continually streaming down his mouthless face, tells Homestar he is "not at liberty to discuss what I just did in my pants."

Other Pants

Random references to pants appear from time to time in various toons, emails and games.

• Fortune Cookies — One of the fortunes reads "Clumsiness will bring about a change of pants."
• That A Ghost — Old-Timey Strong Bad claims he will be "marching around in gold pants in no time!"
• Hallrunner — One of the objects you encounter is a rabid dog that "bites the butt off your pants. Like in cartoons."
• Peasant's Quest — The narrator of the Peasant's Quest Preview and movie trailer, as well as other characters, make frequent references to Rather Dashing's short pants.
  • Another reference to these short pants appears at the beginning of the email for kids.

• Email stand-up — Strong Sad shows us a video in which Lil' Strong Bad's pants fall down while he's on stage.
• Email vacation — One of the places Strong Bad visits is "Fabulous Downtown Pantsburg".
• Email funny — In an effort to be funny, Strong Bad says he has "squeaky pants".
• Email haircut — Strong Bad calls one of his designs for Strong Mad's eyebrows "Hammer Pants".
• Email local news — Summarizing the weather report, Strong Bad says "Bundle up, but be sure to keep your swimsuit on outside your pants."
• Email bottom 10 — Homestar sings "Buttdance again! Like the rhythm's down your pants now!", causing Strong Bad to vomit on his keyboard.
• Email portrait — A portion of a newspaper article near one of Strong Bad's portraits reads "—ipe hands on pants".