Homestar Anniversary Merch
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Fangamer announces new Homestar Runner merchandise to celebrate 25 years of the website.
Places: The Field, The Office, Peasantry
Date: Monday, November 17, 2025
Running Time: 1:54
Page Title: Do YOU Remember Lycos?
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[edit] Transcript
{Fade in to the field with Homestar facing away from the camera.}
STRONG BAD: {voiceover} Did you know Homestar Runner's old as crap?
{Homestar turns around, revealing an aged appearance: his face is wrinkled and puckered without his signature underbite, and his eyes are now deep-set large ovals.}
HOMESTAR RUNNER: {in an old, wheezing voice} I remember Lycos. There was a dog. {a bug flies out of his mouth}
STRONG BAD: {voiceover} Uh, that's great. But not what I mean.
HOMESTAR RUNNER: {face pops back to normal; voice is normal too} Oh!
STRONG BAD: {voiceover} This year celebrates {swipe change to Homestar and Strong Bad in the field at dawn with "homestarrunner.com" written across the top of the screen; several ".com"s populate the screen while he says the line} 25 years of the website, and {swipe change from bottom to Homestar Runner's original design in front of a zigzagged yellow background} next year'll celebrate {a blue number 30 pops up behind Homestar} 30 years of existence!
HOMESTAR RUNNER: {sprouts a mustache} I'm entering my flirty thirties!
{A children's book entitled "the homestar runner enters his flirty thirties" covers Homestar. The cover features Homestar with the mustache, and a right arrow sign that says "THURDY".}
STRONG BAD: {voiceover} ...said the worst children's book ever. {"THE WORST CHILDREN'S BOOK EVER!" is added to the bottom right corner of the book cover.}
{Zoom in on Homestar, who makes a face}
STRONG BAD: {voiceover} Don't get creeped out. {Homestar raises an eyebrow a few times then makes a creepy face} Celebrate with these three {a white Homestar Runner shirt, a black Trogdor shirt, and a gray Strong Bad shirt swipe in in front of the field} classic shirts! All deluxed up and screen-printed again after freakin' forever!
HOMESTAR RUNNER: {voiceover} Oh, look! {The back of the shirt is shown, focused on an h*r logo with a 25 in the star} And there's my champ stamp on the back! Commemorating 25 years.
STRONG BAD: {voiceover} It's not— let's not call it that.
{Jump cut to the office, at the water cooler. A Trogdor polo shirt zooms in.}
HOMESTAR RUNNER: And look who's back to burninate Biz Cas Fri! {A window featuring the Trogdor logo separates} It's the Trogdor polo!
{Cut to Strong Bad at his desk and Homestar standing behind him, both wearing a Trogdor polo shirt. Strong Bad has a headset on, and he's typing.}
HOMESTAR RUNNER: And I said, "Look, man, I remember Lycos. There was a dog!"
{Jump to the live polo shirt zoomed in on the tag that reads "Styles Upon Styles/Steep prices and trees!", on a blurry pink background.}
HOMESTAR RUNNER: {voiceover} Only from Styles Upon Styles.
{Cut to Strong Bad's bathroom, where Strong Bad looks up from reading a newspaper}
STRONG BAD: But freakin' wait! There's freakin' more!
{Cut to a table; Strong Sad's puppet hand puts down a box of Homestar Runner playing cards}
STRONG SAD: It's Homestar Runner playing cards!
{Strong Sad's hand spreads out the cards}
STRONG SAD: With original artwork on all 54 cards! {cards are laid out to feature the artwork} Including me as {puts a five of diamonds down in the center of the table, which has Strong Sad wearing a harlequin suit} Whimsical Varlequin. You got—
{Strong Bad's glove slams a two of clubs down on the five of diamonds}
STRONG BAD: Dooj! Double deuce! {the card has Strong Bad's double deuce gesture, with a club on each of his gloves}
{Another card comes down on the other two, an ace of diamonds with a picture of Homestar with a diamond instead of his star.}
HOMESTAR RUNNER: And don't forget me! Home-diamond Runner!
{Strong Bad slams a nine of clubs on the other cards, which features Powered By The Cheat Strong Bad kicking Homestar in the face.}
POWERED BY THE CHEAT STRONG BAD: I will do it nine times.
PEASANT'S QUEST ANNOUNCER: But that's not all... {The words "But that's not all" in Old English font zoom in on a black screen.}
{Fade in on a peasant standing outside of a cottage, stretching and yawning. The ground starts to shake as footsteps are heard. Zoom in on the peasant, then out to reveal a Trogdor plush toy.
PEASANT: Waaaugh! {The Trogdor plush breathes fire above the cottage} No, please!
{Jump cut to the plush toy's mouth, then to the Peasant, who has his arms held up, then back to the cottage, where the Trogdor plush eats the peasant. Swipe to the Trogdor plush in front of a fiery background}
PEASANT'S QUEST ANNOUNCER: Trogdor the Burninator Plush! {The plush toy turns toward the screen and breathes fire. The following aside pops up as the announcer reads it quickly:} *plush does not move, roar, burninate, or devour human flesh.
STRONG BAD: {voiceover} Aw, man!
{All of the products described show up in front of a blue background}
HOMESTAR RUNNER: {voiceover} Buncha new crap from Homestar Runner and Fangamer.com. Available at this website {the Fangamer logo in the bottom-right of the screen flashes} everywhere. Um, every...there. {The logo flashes again} It's available there. {The logo flashes again} At the website.
{Cut back to wrinkle-faced Homestar at the field}
HOMESTAR RUNNER: {sounding old} Please hurry up. Before it's too late! {coughs twice, a bug flies out of his mouth both times}
{Fade out.}
[edit] Fun Facts
[edit] Explanations
- Homestar Runner was created in the 1996 book The Homestar Runner Enters the Strongest Man in the World Contest, 29 years ago; the site homestarrunner.com launched in January of 2000, 25 years ago.
- Lycos is a web platform that includes a search engine — though its search function pre-dated Yahoo Search and Google Search, it has long since been surpassed by its competitors. As Homestar recalls, their logo features a dog.
[edit] Trivia
- The newspaper reads:
| Back Pape | Da NewsPapes |
| Celebrity sidings! A-listers recommend pressure washing[...] | This is the final issue of the papes. You [...] person that still reads of it. |
- "Celebrity sidings" is a malapropism of "celebrity sightings".
- The concept of a newspaper publication having only one reader was previously raised in old comics.
[edit] Inside References
- Strong Bad says that Homestar Runner is old as crap.
- Homestar Runner's aged appearance and voice originate from a @StrongBadActual tweet (28 Jan 2021), which voiced over a photo of a fan's burrito that resembled Homestar.
- The "thurdy"-year-old The Homestar Runner sports a mustache.
- The face The Homestar Runner makes when Strong Bad says "Don't get creeped out" was originally seen at the end of The Homestar Runner Enters the Spooky Woods.
- The t-shirts shown were initially sold in the Flash Store.
- The Trogdor polo was initially sold in the Yahoo Store.
- The polo is recommended for wearing on Biz Cas Fri.
- Styles Upon Styles is a clothing brand in the Homestar Runner universe.
- Styles Upon Styles tagline "Steep prices and trees!" first appeared in animal, said by the Powered By The Cheat Homestar Lure on the Deep Sea Fangly Fish.
- The "But that's not all..." narration and intertitle is reminiscent of the text in the Peasant's Quest movie trailer.
- Homestar coughs up a bug of the same design as in Bug in Mouth Disease.
[edit] Real-World References
- Homestar calling the anniversary logo a "champ stamp" alludes to a common slang term for a lower-back tattoo.
[edit] Fixed Glitches
- When this video first released on the website, the YouTube video was set to not be visible on other sites, which made it unwatchable on the website. This was later fixed.
