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 — The host introduces Matt as "the man who does the voices for most of the, quote/unquote, '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 — 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".
  • December 25, 2020 — The Homestar Runner Character Meeples are referred to as "dumb animal characters".
  • January 5, 2021 — Replying to an NPR feature on Flash, Strong Bad notes a shout-out to "me and my dumb animal character companions".
  • April 26, 2020 — Strong Bad is fascinated by the idea of Diaper Sunrise being the entry point to "me and my dumb animal character friends' exploits".
• homestarrunner.com — The Teespring Store was advertised as "T-shirts of our dumb animal characters!" on the index page.
• 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 — Matt describes the cast of homestarrunner.com as "a bunch of crazy animal characters".
• 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 says its cartoons feature "waggly, animated animal characters".
• Screenland - 24 Apr 2017 — Matt refers to the characters as "weird non-human, non-animal characters".

See Also

• Normal-Human Characters