Towels

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MIKE: That towel— Coach Z and gross towels— it's been a pretty recent— in the last year or so, there's been a few references to—
MATT: Yeah.
MIKE: —towels hasn't there?

— Mike Chapman, DNA Evidence DVD commentary

Despite almost never being used for cleaning things, towels nonetheless continue to be mentioned and used in the Homestar Runner universe.

Appearances

• In Search of the Yello Dello — The showering alien's towel falls off.
• Main Page 14 — Homestar Runner appears, dressed in nothing but a towel.
• Where's The Cheat? — After tearfully "confessing" to killing Pom Pom in a prank call, Strong Bad (as Homestar) requests that Marzipan "bring some towels... And some garbage bags".
• Email suntan — Strong Bad sunbathes on a towel with a tiger on it.
• Halloween Fairstival — A drippy towel is among the horrifying objects in Coach Z's locker room.
• Email secret recipes — The Cheat wears a towel to hide the fact that he's been shaven.
• Email trading cards — Coach Z is shown wearing a towel on the "Showering Expert" card.
• Decemberween Short Shorts — Coach Z makes a Decemberween tree out of towels, underwear, and Blue Star Ointment. Homestar wears a towel around his neck.
• DNA Evidence — Coach Z (as Damp Towel Man) collects a gross towel from the House of the Brothers Strong.
• Email concert — Strong Bad and Strong Sad wear towels on their heads while in the mud baths.
• Teen Girl Squad Issue 14 — Cheerleader is killed by the towels and other equipment from the Towel Boy Team Manager's cart.
• The Next Epi-Snowed — Gunhaver is shown wearing a towel.
• Strong Badia the Free — Strong Bad uses Strong Mad's "athletic region towel" to construct his effigy of The King of Town.
• Coach Z's 110% — Homestar again wears a towel around his "shoulders".