Rhymed Phrases

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In the Homestar Runner universe, characters sometimes follow one common or relevant phrase with a less-common phrase that rhymes with or sounds like the first, but makes less sense.

Appearances

• Email ghosts — After looking Strong Badia over to see if it's haunted (just before the spirit of the Tandy 400 shows up), Strong Bad says, "Looks like Strong Bad is ghost-free, proud to be."
• A Decemberween Pageant — The slogan of Litigation Jackson is "The system really works, jerks!"
• Email monster truck — Homestar Runner says, "Let's do this like Brutus."
• Email crazy cartoon — Strong Bad says of The Cheat: "Let's see what he's cookin' up tonight. Today. Just right."
• Email sibbie — The Cheat distracts Strong Bad from his email, bringing it to a screeching halt. Strong Bad claims that his "focus is all... crocused."
• Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 11.2 — The King of Town ends his message with "This is the KoT... in the place to be."
• Email time capsule — Strong Bad says that time boxes and time tennis ball cans are filled with "newspaper clippin's and toenail snippin's".
• Email radio — Strong Bad says that drive time morning show radio hosts are like "bad stand up comics that you can't heckle. Or jeckle."
• Teen Girl Squad Issue 8 — After The Ugly One is "FLOOR TOMMED!" and "STEP-MOMMED!", she is "POM-POMMED?"
• Email long pants — Strong Bad describes his pen as "trusty, somewhat dusty".
• Teen Girl Squad Issue 10 — Cheerleader promises The Ugly One, "We'll be there like shareware!" At the Sweet Someteen party, The Ugly One tells her guests, "let's get it on like Diddy Kong!"
• Email record book — When Strong Bad is talking about looking in the book of records, he says "Let's take a look. A book-look.".
• Halloween Potion-ma-jig — Homestar says Strong Sad's magic words are "the best magic words [he's] ever heards".
• Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 13.2 — Old-Timey Strong Bad states that he's "got a hankering for a prankering".
• Email senior prom — In his list of things he has crashed, Strong Bad follows "Homecoming Dances" with "Shortcoming Prances".
• Email keep cool — Strong Bad plans to shop for "pencil holders" and "stencil folders".
• Strongest Man in the World — The Announcer introduces Mr. Bland as "the prince of plain" and "the master of mundane".
• Email retirement — In the commercial for the "My Lappy Got Stole" Sweepstakes, Marshie follows "First prize" with "second tries". At the end (originally in part B), Strong Bad says, "The Lappy! You're back...y!"
• Happy Hallow-day —
  • Strong Bad asks, "How are we supposed to 'scandalize and vandalize' without the protective cover of Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha-Halloween night?"
  • Strong Sad says, "I need some 'doom and gloom soon!'"
• DNA Evidence — Bubs teaches a "toga yoga" class, which Marzipan attends. Strong Bad also mentions that he watches toga yoga videos.
• Email concert — Strong Bad says, "They couldn't wear any of their spandex, or latex, or... Tex-mex..."
• Email yes, wrestling — The Announcer introduces Strong Bad thus: "And hailing from the age of exploration, the namer of nations, Il Cartographer!"
• The Homestar Runner Gets Something Stuck In His Craw — While doing some yard work, Homestar quips, "This yard work is hard work!"
• Homestar Ruiner —
  • Strong Bad says to Strong Sad, "I didn't want to go in your purple room of doom and gloom anyway!"
  • After Strong Bad puts Total Load in Pom Pom's locker, Coach Z accuses him of "cheatin' and chortin' and nonchalant cavortin'".
• Strong Badia the Free —
  • Strong Bad refers to the Gremlin as a "trusty, somewhat rusty car".
  • While talking to Homsar, Strong Bad refers to the King of Town as "that royal boil".
  • Once he convinces Homsar to join Strong Badia, Homsar says "let's do this like Brutus", echoing Homestar in monster truck.
• Baddest of the Bands — Bubs asks, "Strong Bad, did you 'scandalize and vandalize' The Stick?"
• Dangeresque 3: The Criminal Projective — Dangeresque Too threatens Uzi Bazooka, "You had what was coming to you, tofu!"
• 8-Bit is Enough — Gel-arshie exclaims, "Here's a wall that's colored red! What's in this box fills me with dread!" and "This lava's red like me! Now here's a thing you couldn't see!"
• Sammich — Strong Bad, while drawing a sandwich, gives it "some salami, some pastrami, and some seasoned fortulami".
• The Next April Fools Thing — Homestar Runner uses many rhyming phrases for his Always Be'sing & Do'sing movement.
  • "Always be'sing and do'sing! Never cheesing or choosing!"
  • "If you're choosin', you're losin'."
  • "Changin' attitudes with rhymin' platitudes!"
  • "If you're not attending, you're gonna be lending."

Occasionally, the less common phrase will precede the relevant one.

• Mr. Shmallow (toon) — When Mr. Shmallow introduces himself, he says: "Greetings, fallows. I'm Mr. Shmallow."
• The House That Gave Sucky Treats — Bubs sings, "I got a shallow gup and a crallow nup, somebody give me dat Mallow Cup."
• Email keep cool — Monkey D's "summer tips" include "Grip n' Glide time, Slide n' Slide time", "Tinkler time, Sprinkler time", and "Nose time, Hose time".
• Homestar Ruiner — Strong Bad remarks, "Oh nophers. We've got gophers." while examining the hole outside his house.
• The Animated Adventures of Puppet Homestar — Shark-Tooth Bubs says, "Sorry, piles, I got my own styles."

See also

• Deliberately Poor English