Super NES
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This is the first Homestar Runner cartoon ever made, using Mario Paint. Unlike the other toons, this runs in QuickTime instead of Flash.
Cast (in order of appearance): Homestar Runner, Strong Bad, Pom Pom, The Cheat, Strong Mad, Strong Sad
Page title: Super Homestario Bros.
Date: 1996
Running Time: 1:26
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Transcript
TEXT: THE FIRST HOMESTAR CARTOON EVER
MADE ON THE SNES USING MARIO PAINT
Homestar Run GO!
Hooomestaaaar! Run! Run!
Hooomestaaaar! Run! Run!
Homestar Runner really great,
Homestar Runner, ath -ah- late
Homestar Runner, Pom Pom too
Homestar Runner, we love you!
Hooomestaaaar! Run! Run!
Hooomestaaaar! Run! Run!
Homestar Runner, do your best
Homestar Runner, pass the test
Homestar Runner, Mom and Dad
Look out, Homestar! It's Strong Bad!
Hoooomestaaaar Run!
Weekdays.
TEXT: COPYRIGHT HOMESTARRUNNER.COM
1996 AND 2000
Japanese Phonetics Transcript
アホチスーカヲ (Strong Bad and Homestar in the wrestling ring.)
ソコカオヲタス
ウコスキテ ホ. (Pom Pom floating by. . .)
えおか? せきひ (Homestar with a yellow background.)
クキカ? アシネ オスセーホヌツネ! (The Homestar Runner splash.)
Translation of the above
Ahochisūka o
Sokokao o tasu:
- ukosukite ho.
Eoka?
Sekihi
Kukika? Ashine
Osusēhonutsune!
No translation exists (nonsense text)
Fun Facts
Explanation
- Mario Paint was a video game made for the Super NES, and upon its initial release was packaged in a larger box with the Super NES Mouse, a two-button peripheral that perfectly emulated a real computer mouse. (The mouse came with its own plastic pad.) A few other Super NES games also worked with the mouse. Mario Paint itself was not so much a game, as it was an art program. It worked like similar computer programs marketed for kids, such as Kid Pix. The game let you use the mouse to paint a large 16-color picture with various tools, as well as place a smaller animation on top of it. It also had a simple music-making mode. One picture, animation, and music track could collectively be saved onto the cartridge's memory. Mario Paint was quite popular for its time, enough so that Nintendo released a Player's Guide shortly after Mario Paint hit stores. This long guide contained tons of information on how to get the most out of the game.
Trivia
- The Brothers Chaps made this for their older brother's birthday.
Remarks
- Strong Bad's tongue appears to be green.
- The Japanese characters are mainly written in katakana, which is a character set used in written Japanese used primarily to write foreign words and onomatopoeias. The exception is the "Homestar with yellow background" screen which also contains hiragana, which are used in a more general-purpose fashion in conjunction with kanji. The Brothers Chaps seem, however, to be expressing gibberish. A possible reason for this is that they may not know Japanese.
- The music that accompanies this toon could not possibly have been made using Mario Paint, which has a fixed note length and can only play notes in the C-major scale. Furthermore, depending on the size of the animation frame, Mario Paint only lets you play four, six, or nine frames consecutively, indicating that this animation would have had to be recorded to an external source over and over again to achieve the many effects present.
- There ARE various tools in Mario Paint that can create effects seen in the cartoon. For instance, the "drip" at the end is quite clearly one of the erase tools. In addition, many of the animations (like Homestar with the bat) were clearly looping AND less than 9 frames long. The picture quality varies— a sign that the sequences were recorded at different times and linked together.
- There seems to be several discolorations within the movie. For example, Pom Pom is shown with a white head in the soccer scene, Strong Mad's singlet is black a la Marshmallow's Last Stand, Homestar's visor is blue and Strong Sad is orange.
Real-World References
- The page title references the classic NES game Super Mario Bros.
Fast Forward
- This song is re-made with higher-quality sound and Flash graphics in Theme Song Video.
- Mario Paint is used again in Strong Bad is a Bad Guy.
- In Stinkoman 20X6, Stinkoman's tongue is revealed to be green.
External Links
Note: Apple Quicktime is needed to view this toon.
