Homestarloween Party Costumes
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Costumes that the characters wore in Homestarloween Party, Halloween 2000.
| Image | Character | Costume | Explanation | External Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | The King of Town | Cap'n Crunch | Cap'n Crunch is the mascot for a line of cereal products produced by Quaker Oats. Its flagship product is a frosted corn and oat cereal, with other varieties including Crunch Berries (with red, purple, and blue berry-flavored puffs) and Peanut Butter Crunch. | Wikipedia Article |
 | Coach Z | Flavor Flav | Flavor Flav is a rap artist and a member of the rap group "Public Enemy", in which he provided the comic foil to the more serious and political figure of Chuck D. Flav was (and still is) known for his flashy fashion sense, especially his taste for wearing large clocks around his neck. In more recent years, Flav has been known for his turns on reality television shows like The Surreal Life and Flavor of Love. Coach Z's clock reads 3:57. | Wikipedia Article |
 | Bubs | Rerun | Freddy "Rerun" Stubbs was one of the main characters on the 1970s sitcom What's Happening!! played by actor Fred Berry. Always wearing a red beret and suspenders, Rerun was known for his girth, his dancing ability, and his comparative lack of intelligence as he had been held back in school multiple times (hence why he was called Rerun). Berry played Rerun from 1976 until 1979 and again from 1985 until 1986 on the sequel series What's Happening Now!!, and became so identified with the character that he legally changed his middle name to Rerun. | Wikipedia Article |
 | Homestar Runner | Kurt Cobain | Kurt Cobain was the lead singer of the grunge rock band Nirvana, one of the more commercially successful grunge bands of the era. The shirt Homestar wears says "Corporate Rock Still Sucks", the motto of SST Records, a favorite label of Cobain's, and he famously wore a T-shirt parodying the motto on a Rolling Stone cover. Cobain died on April 5, 1994 from what was officially ruled a suicide. | Wikipedia Article, Rolling Stone Cover |
 | Strong Bad | Carmen Miranda | Carmen Miranda (1909-1955) was a Portuguese-Brazilian singer-actress. Nicknamed the "Brazilian Bombshell", beginning in 1939 Miranda would often be seen performing wearing hats adorned with fruit, like the one Strong Bad is wearing. She was the inspiration for the famous corporate logo adopted by Chiquita Brands in 1944. | Wikipedia Article |
 | Strong Mad | Slim Goodbody | Slim Goodbody is a fictional character created and performed by John Burstein. Burstein designed Slim as a way to teach young children about anatomy and good health, and describes his alter ego as "the superhero of health". His costume consists of a flesh-colored bodysuit with pictures of the human body's bones and internal organs painted on it. | Wikipedia Article |
 | The Cheat | Garfield | Garfield is the lead character in the comic strip of the same name drawn by Jim Davis. He is a fat, lazy, orange striped cat that loves to eat lasagna, lie around the house, and take naps. One of his prized possessions is his teddy bear Pooky, which The Cheat is holding next to him. | Wikipedia Article |
 | Pom Pom | Mr. Stay-Puft | The Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man was the mascot for the fictional snack Stay-Puft Marshmallows in the 1984 film Ghostbusters. The demon, Gozer, took his form to destroy the Ghostbusters and the world after Ray Stantz inadvertently thought of Mr. Stay-Puft when attempting to clear his mind. | Wikipedia Article |
 | Marzipan | Jeannie | Jeannie was the title character of the 1960s sitcom I Dream of Jeannie. Played by Barbara Eden, she was a two-thousand year old genie trapped inside a bottle until astronaut Captain Tony Nelson set her free. For five seasons, Jeannie would consistently cause Nelson trouble with her antics. The costume Jeannie originally wore caused controversy because of how much of Eden's body was exposed. | Wikipedia Article |
 | Strong Sad | Gorbachev | Mikhail Gorbachev (March 2, 1931-August 30, 2022) was the final President of the Soviet Union, serving from 1985 until 1991. Gorbachev was also famous for having a prominent port wine stain birthmark on the right side of his head; Strong Sad's is on the left side. | Wikipedia Article |
 | The Poopsmith | Tron | Tron is a character played by Bruce Boxleitner in the 1982 film Tron, in which a hacker was abducted into a computer world. | Wikipedia Article |
