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More on The Wotch

Thanks to this website, I discovered The Wotch. I noticed that the cheerleaders (only AFTER they become cheerleaders - you'll understand why I make that point if you read it) have "TG" on their shirts, and one of them has Cheerleader's pigtails. You guys wanna call it a reference or a coincidence? --Jay 22:51, 22 Jan 2005 (MST)

Well, the name of their school is Tandy Gardens High, and according to their FAQ, the writers chose the initials TG for transgender. I'd say it's just a coincidence. (Neat little comic, though!) -- FortyTwo 22:58, 22 Jan 2005 (MST)
Oh. Well, I guess I didn't know the school's name. Still, they DID make a clear H*R reference in another comic (which is sorta how I discovered its existence in the first place - see the Sighting article page.) --Jay 23:03, 22 Jan 2005 (MST)

Possible "Dominic Deegan" reference?

I caught this link from another web-comic I read and I was reading through the archives when I stumbled across this comic. It looks like the back of Strong Bad's head, kinda, but the line the character says is DEFINITELY something Strong Bad would say. Can anyone confirm or deny that this is a HSR reference?

Oh! I forgot all about that DomDeeg comic! (Seen it before.) Yes, it was agreed upon by me and one of my online contacts that the comic in question does indeed include a Strong Bad cameo. --Jay 11:56, 22 Jan 2005 (MST)

Small question

Is the word/exclamation "huzzah!" directly linked to Homestar Runner or is it something generally used? Because I've spotted it in some game.

King Nintendoid 08:48, 16 Dec 2004 (MST)

"Huzzah" is an exclamation used back in the old days in England, and possibly elsewhere. So no, it's not technically a sighting. --Hagurumon

Ok. Nah.. I saw it in Paper Mario 2, and I wondered....

King Nintendoid

Buffy

The "buffy" link is broken. --JD

Cheat

I'm not sure, but the Cheat section looks like it's been defaced. -User:oddtodd

  • I went ahead and fixed it myself. --oddtodd 21:43, 19 Nov 2004 (MST)

One Ring To Rule Them All 2

This belongs in the Discussion section:

  • no, i belive that music is "the Entertainer" a Rag time jazz song from the early 1890's by Scott Joplin.

No idea who wrote it, but it's about the background music in the middle of "One Ring To Rule Them All 2." (moved by oddtodd 21:43, 19 Nov 2004 (MST))

I wrote it - Futuramaooy

Enough with the Burnination "sightings"

Folks, please consider what refers to what.

Is it possible that TBC's "Burnination" refers to videogames that pre-date H*R? I mean, it can't be the other way around. Seriously: How could Final Fantasy 1 and 2 refer to H*R? Those go back to the late 1980s. beanluc 13:15, 14 Dec 2004 (MST)

Answer: It's the remakes. The line was added in to the new version on Game Boy Advance. Note that it says "Dawn of Souls". -Tom H.

Regular Chat

Holy crap! I'm like, an hour away from Hershey Park! I'm totally going there sometime now! Are they still doing the HR face paintings?

Cruxshadows Cd

On A Cd From Darkwave Band Cruxshadows (pronunces Croo-shadows) the thank you in the back says homestar runner ill try to scan a pic later

Possible Reference?

Just tell me, is "heart of a lion" a common phrase, because Ryan Seacrest from American Idol just said it a few minutes ago. --205.188.116.197

It's been a common phrase for centuries. See Richard the Lionheart. -- FortyTwo 19:19, 1 Feb 2005 (MST)

Table of Contents

In my opinion, it's getting too big and should be removed. --Gafaddict 19:42, 14 Mar 2005 (MST)


This Website Made a Reference!

Do we really need all sightings of the form "this webcomic / blog / whatever made a Homestar Runner reference"? It isn't very interesting to list every two-bit webcomic writer who sticks "burnination" in their comic. Aurora Szalinski 21:14, 18 Mar 2005 (MST)

I agree. Although the extremely popular sites (Such as Yahoo, Google, Maddox, etc.) should stay. --radiodj19 12:01, 20 Mar 2005 (MST)

Trim

This page really needs to be trimmed. It's getting way too long. I believe we should go through and remove all the minor HSR sightings and anything that could possibly be a stretch, leaving only major sightings (for example, Trogdor on Buffy, Asplode mentioned on Google blog, etc.). Any other comments on this? Kilroy/talk[[]] 12:05, 20 Mar 2005 (MST)

Frankly, I'd love it if we could just clear 'em out to a subpage, or split it up with those... why exactly were we fiercely against those again? --Shadow Hog 12:12, 20 Mar 2005 (MST)
That's what I was thinking when I made the post in the header above ^^^ (This Website Made a Reference!) There's just too many tiny, minor things here. Aurora Szalinski 12:18, 20 Mar 2005 (MST)

I agree that this page needs an overhaul, but I'm a little choked that the Smax ref got cut. That comic is fairly major (it is Alan Moore after all) and it is rife with references. I would like to see this added back at some point. - Dr Haggis - Talk 15:19, 20 Mar 2005 (MST)

Boo! Bad deletion. I know it was crowded, but you got rid of a few good ones. Like that Fosters one I thought was hilarious. I liked it better before. Much better. I'm thinkin' it might be better if we just split the original version of this page up into several pages. --Joshua 16:16, 20 Mar 2005 (MST)
I've restored everything that was removed. I think the discussion needs to be completed before someone (who I notice wasn't even part of the discussion) removes stuff. -- Tom 17:33, 20 Mar 2005 (MST)
I'm glad that all the references were restored. A lot of the deletion seemed arbitrary to me. I was thinking, maybe we could have a system for Sightings similar to the Fun Facts system? Then we could vote on which to keep and which to toss. Aurora Szalinski 18:17, 20 Mar 2005 (MST)
Eep. I think we should avoid anything like the STUFF thing. Discussion pages are where it's at. Or where it should be? -- Tom 11:42, 21 Mar 2005 (MST)

Okay, I just removed the cleanup notice at the top of the page, since it seems to be encouraging people to remove references willy-nilly (this is the second instance, unless they were the same person). I think we should come to a consensus as to how the article should be cleaned up before putting up a cleanup notice. Aurora Szalinski 14:41, 21 Mar 2005 (MST)


I think we should have the main catagories, and make them links into that section like:

Television

Games|Games

ect

and stuff like that, it'll shorten the page and make it easier to see some "ddouble sightings" - Futuramaooy--144.137.169.213 01:44, 7 Apr 2005 (MDT)

Well, we definately need to do something with this page. It's bigger than a hippo on sterioids. But subpages are never allowed, says InterruptorJones. Maybe a "Sightings" namespace with all the references in an actual page? (Example: Sightings:Comics, Sightings:Advertising, etc.). Anyone like this idea?
And while were at it, there is some terrible grammar and spelling and overall bad use of the wiki standards sitting here. But the largeness of the page seems to be the case for now. →FireBird

Basic Sightings

I saw a guy at the YMCA a few weeks back and he was wearing a star shirt. Could it be? unknown 3/21/05 12:00

Could it be what? You trying to be funny? Or you mocking this article? -- Tom 12:18, 23 Mar 2005 (MST)

"unknown" note

Ok, look guys, I'm sorry I crapped up the sightings page. I might be able to save it. I saved the page before I edited it, like I always do. I think I can copy everything on that page I saved and paste it over the text I crapped up. It's risky, but it's worth a shot. unknown 3/22/05 10:01

It has already been reverted. Thanks. -- Tom 12:18, 23 Mar 2005 (MST)


Used in Flash 8 Demo

I've got a link to a video and mirrors of a [Flash] Development Con where Homestar Runner and The Homestar Runner appear as example graphics and animations and have some of the new effects applied to them that will be coming out in Flash 8. What section of the article should this 'sighting' be listed under? Nidonocu 16:39, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

How about "Really Cool"? I can't think of anything better than the Other section, but sometimes for really cool videos and the like we create a whole article for them. Are you up to it? Do you think it would be worth it? What's the link? -- Tom 16:50, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Well, the characters only appear for a small part of it. Though I thought it was worth adding since out of all the cartoons on the web, the Developers of Flash its self picked Homestar to use in their first ever presentation of the new technology. The link is [here]. Any of those links will take you to the same video at diffrent quality settings. I'd like to get this down as my first contribution here though so please don't anyone else post to the article. ^^; It might however be worth afterwards, someone either cropping the video to the relavent section or creating a HRWiki Mirror of the file. -- Nidonocu 17:00, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I have it on screen, and I can get a snapshot of it. Also, I have a screen recorder that can allow me to get the specific sections of the movie which Homestar is included. Should I?-- Posted by: -erson Talk 18:35, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Sure, I think capture everything from when Homestar appears to a sutible pause after The Homestar Runner disappears. I'll post up the main links and description. Check back in a while and append on your media and add the screenshot if you like.. since I still don't know how to do that on Wiki's. o.O -- Nidonocu 19:12, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I know how to insert snapshots, but not the video. Can anyone explain it to me?-- Posted by: -erson Talk 20:35, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
The movie you'll need to host somewhere and then provide a link to it. I'd try contacting who ever it is that hosts the mirrors of the old versions of the flash files that are nolonger found on H*R.com such as the old menus. -- Nidonocu 12:28, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Mr. Incredible vs. Trogdor

Twice now, I've discovered that people have added that "The Incredibles" makes a reference to Peasant's Quest, when Mirage calls Mr. Incredible's outfit "rather dashing". Such a thing is hideously unlikely. The voices for animated movies are often recorded MONTHS before the movie is actually completed (so the animation can be synched with the voices - it's much more difficult to do it the other way around). The release of The Incredibles (November 5, 2004) and Peasant's Quest (August 2, 2004) were too close. Anyway, "rather dashing" is a semi-common phrase that did not originate with Peasant's Quest. Without something a little more solid connecting the two, there is no reason to believe that the line was added because of Homestar Runner. --Jay 19:22, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I agree with Jay. When I watched the movie I was like "Wow, she said Rather Dashing, I bet that some user is going to consider this a reference." I highly doubt it is, rather dashing is actually a common phrase. «Rob» 12:39, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
The phrase is why he's called Rather Dashing. "You are Rather Dashing. Your cottage" etc.

Road Waffles

someone had mentioned this sighting but couldn't remember where it was, so I (Eight, the author of said comic) decided to wiki it up for y'all. ["pop culture reference!"]

Thanks man. Thunderbird 21:16, 20 May 2005 (UTC)

Significant vs insignificant

TBird and I are planning on creating a second page for the more important fun facts (such as the Buffy, the Ryan S, the Maecromedia Flash Player 8, nothing that involves a random t-shirt wearing or toon watching). The discussion is on My Talk Page if you want to see. What other signtings are significant enough to me moved this new page? Is this new page even a good idea? -- Posted by: -erson Talk 12:48, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Personally, like I have said before, I think we should have a Sightings namespace (for example, [[Sightings:Magazines]] or [[Sightings:Television]]. We could just list them on the regular Sightings page in a short list. →FireBird
Well basically my main problem is with the more minor web cartoons. Where does a sighting end, and a fanstuff begin? That's the main question. I think some kind of standard should be set, just how well known a sighting is to be accepted. Like... LIKE STUS! Select The Usable Sighting, or something. Anybody else wanna share their two cents? Thunderbird 02:10, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

Rodney's Gonna Have To Jump

I'm iffy about the "Gonna have to Jump" line from Robots being related to Homestar, but I haven't seen the movie in question. I can't find any links on the web connecting the two, so like The Incredibles, I'm more than willing to chalk it up to coincidence. (Having seen TI, I'm 100% confident that it's no reference there.) Thoughts? From someone who's actually seen the movie? --Jay (Talk) 05:24, 2 May 2005 (UTC)

Yeah, I remember he said that, but I'm not sure if it was intentional.-Alice 03:48, 8 May 2005

Guild Wars

I wonder why this is not here already, but on NCSoft/ArenaNet's new Online Role Playing Game, there are fire skills which contain Rodgort e.g 'Rodgort's Invocation' and 'Mark of Rodgort'. Rodgort backwards is obviously Trogdor, and seeing as they are fire skills and 'Rodgort's Invocation' symbol contains a dragon, its likely this is a sighting (or at least an obscure reference). There are also creatures in the game called trogs, dont know if this is related but could be.

I coulda sworn it used to be - but it wasn't there, even before Trogga's removal of anything and everything online. Maybe it was deleted by someone who didn't know any better when I wasn't paying attention? I dunno. --Jay (Talk) 03:54, 8 May 2005 (UTC)
There's also a "shout" skill that makes your character yell "For Great Justice", a possible reference to Zero Wing, so a HR reference doesn't seem that far-fetched. A "trog" creature is probably NOT a reference, I've seen creatures named this in other videogames. --ClamIAm

Kim Possible Cowinky Dink?

In Kim Possible, during the "Oh Boyz" episode, one band member was wearing a sleeveless red shirt with a white star. Coincidence?

Yes. White star on red? Red is a color and star is a common shape. Putting them together randomly isn't a Homestarrunner reference.

Where did all the sightings go?

I'm not sure when the last time I checked the sightings page was, but I'm fairly sure the page was twice as long before. Some of the genuine sightings have gone (i.e. Macromedia Flash Player 8 Demo), as well as all of the comic sightings (online or otherwise). Did someone take the notice on top of the page a little too seriously or something? --Venusy (Talk) (Contributions), 16:29, 11 May 2005 (BST)

Someone deleted a ton. Again. Who's up to bringing them back? -- Joshua 16:47, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
It was Trogga's doing, if I'm not mistaken. I didn't do anything about it because the page really was cluttered, but yeah, he might have gone too far. --Jay (Talk) 16:57, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
He did. The Macromedia one was rather significant, same with the Zelda Comic one. I think he just removed them because of the cleanup template. Perhaps we could elaborate more on how it should be cleaned up? Anyway, I say bring them back. -- Posted by: -erson Talk 18:05, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
Just read his user talkpage, and noticed he's removed a bunch of information from other pages too. I think this is a similar case. But now one problem, how do we re-add all the other sightings but keep the updates since they were removed?
Also think I'll point out that when I split the page, I also brought back all (or most) of those sightings Trogga deleted. -- Joshua 01:44, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

Split Page

There, I put each category onto its own page. That helps cut down space a lot, and should really help lower the problem. -- Joshua 00:18, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

Holy carp, great job Joshua! That looks a whole lot more organized. On a scale from cool to awesome, you rate a super-great! →FireBird

Jughead's double digest

In the newest issue of Jughead's double digest, Jughead said he was having a garage sale, and Reggie said "You forgot the 'b'. It should be a garbage sale." Coincidence? -Alice

Doubtful. →FireBird|(Talk)
If anything, TBC copied from archie. It's too soon for vice-versa. It's not a sighting, and it's a pretty obvious pun. Thunderbird 21:13, 20 May 2005 (UTC)

12:00

In Napoleon Dynamite, when Uncle Rico is about to show his football tape, the VCR is blinking 12:00. It might be that the time was 12:00, but it looked like it was blinking it. Sighting? --Kutchipatchi (who lost her password)

Based on your description, no, not a sighting. A blinking "12:00" is a default display for most VCRs. -BazookaJoe 02:46, 8 Jul 2005 (UTC)

Clean Up

Not really the main Sightings page itself, but more of the other sightings pages, such as Television Sightings.

  • The top summaries could probably use some work.
  • They all need to be working with the Standards. Which means links, grammar, etc.
  • They all need to follow the same format.
  • Skins Sightings should probably be merged with Other Sightings.

FireBird|Talk 14:56, 11 Jul 2005 (UTC)

Skins Sightings is crossing into fanstuff a bit much for my taste. Homestar Coderhomestar-coder-sig.gif 15:01, 11 Jul 2005 (UTC)

Something on Fantastic 4

I recently saw Fantastic 4 and on Johnny Storm's(aka The Human Torch) car, his front license plate said TORCH'D. Possible TGS reference? Imwithcrazy

I guess so, but many people accross the US do that on their own licence plates.--witchesbrew82 15:28, 18 Jul 2005 (UTC)

Oh, ok, it's just when I saw it, it reminded me of the Arrow'd Guy. Imwithcrazy

Robots?

Is that really a reference? A lot of people say "Look's like I'm gonna have to jump!".--witchesbrew82 15:28, 18 Jul 2005 (UTC)

I dunno, if he said it like Dangeresque, then it most likely is a reference. Otherwise, it probably isn't. Imwithcrazy

TGS'D!

Seriously,people,just because there's a certain word in a webcomic with 'D! at the end of it doesn't always make it a reference to TGS. The comic page REALLY needs to be cleaned up. Imwithcrazy

A "Coincidence" Section

(Warning: It's entirely possible that this is a really bad idea.) I think it might be neat to have a "coincidental sightings" section... Like, for example, if a cow lamp appeared in some TV show. It's not a *reference*, but it's a noteworthy coincidence. It'd be a place for the things that seem like references, but we know aren't. Although, I don't know if that sort of thing happens a lot... and it would probably spark a lot of argument... So I'm not officially proposing this, but it's a thing to consider, maybe. -Polly 15:17, 4 Aug 2005 (UTC)

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