Holidays

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Holidays are a big part of Free Country, USA, with holidays such as Mother's Day and Flag Day. Some of the more prevalent holidays are unlikely choices, such as April Fools' Day and Labor Day, also known as Labor Dabor. The most celebrated holidays, however, are Halloween and Decemberween, the latter of which appears to be a euphemism for Christmas.

Contents 1 Holidays 1.1 New Year's Day (January 1) 1.2 Trogday (January 13) 1.3 Super Bowl/The Big Game (last Sunday in January or first Sunday in February) 1.4 Valentine's Day (February 14) 1.5 April Fools' Day (April 1) 1.6 Easter (Sunday following first full moon after March 20) 1.7 The Cheat's "Cheatday" (April 18) 1.8 Record Store Day (third Saturday in April) 1.9 Earth Day (April 22) 1.10 Mother's Day (second Sunday in May) 1.11 Memorial Day (last Monday in May) 1.12 Flag Day (June 14) 1.13 Fourth of July/Independence Day (July 4) 1.14 Labor Day (first Monday of September) 1.15 Halloween (October 31) 1.16 Thanksgiving (fourth Thursday in November) 1.17 Decemberween (December 25) 2 Birthdays 3 See also

[edit] Holidays

The toon names in italic text are toons where the holiday is only mentioned.

[edit] New Year's Day (January 1)

A day to set goals for the next year, with no intention whatsoever of following them.

• Where's The Cheat? (The Cheat's resolution mentioned)
• Homestar Presents: Presents (mentioned by Strong Bad near the end)
• Strong Sad's Lament (Strong Sad talks about several people's resolutions, and his own)
• Homestar Ruiner (If Coach Z asks Strong Mad about the Total Load Powder in his locker, Strong Mad says only on Tuesdays. Coach Z asks him what day today is, to which Strong Mad responds, "HAPPY NEW YEAR")
• Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 17.2 (Strong Sad tries something new on January 1, 2011)

[edit] Trogday (January 13)

The anniversary of the creation of Trogdor the Burninator. When Trogday falls on a Sunday, as it did in 2008, it is celebrated on the following Monday instead.

• dragon (2003)
• Happy Trogday (2006)
• Trogday 08 (2008)
• 8-Bit is Enough Free Game Giveaway (2010)
• TROGDOR! HTML version (2018)

[edit] Super Bowl/The Big Game (last Sunday in January or first Sunday in February)

A day of rest, and of putting off until tomorrow what you could do today.

• Superbowl Dealie (2003)
• island (Strong Bad and Homestar find a flyer advertising Super Bowl XIX)
• Sloshybowl (2008)

[edit] Valentine's Day (February 14)

A depressing time for Strong Sad, and possibly even Strong Bad, Valentine's Day is the day the citizens of Free Country, USA realize just how empty their lives really are.

• Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 6.0 (Strong Bad and Homestar ask Marzipan what they should get their girlfriends for Valentine's Day) (2002)
• Strong Sad's Lament (Strong Sad Laments about Valentine's Day, via a short Powered by The Cheat-style animation depicting Valentine's Day: 'vday.swf') (2003)
• Teen Girl Squad Issue 12 (2007)
• Sickly Sam's Big Outing (2008)

[edit] April Fools' Day (April 1)

A time of tomfoolery for homestarrunner.com.

• kingoftown.com (2003)
• Revenge of the King (2003)
• Under Construction (2004)
• HomestarRunner.com PAY PLUS! (2005)
• April Fools' 2006 (2006) (Effect on the site for the purpose of recognizing April Fools)
• Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 14.2 (2007) (Strong Sad leaves a message about planned April Fools' Day pranks)
• April Fool 09 (2009)
• Xeriouxly Forxe (2010)
• April Fool 2014 (2014)
• sbemail206 (2015)
• Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 17.2 (2016)
• The Next April Fools Thing (2018)
• Discount Strong Bad emails (2019) (Janelle Shane generated a series of emails with a neural network in response to Strong Bad's Twitter post)

[edit] Easter (Sunday following first full moon after March 20)

A holiday of small note and obscurity in Free Country, USA, Easter has not been featured very often (perhaps due to its religious content, similar to Decemberween replacing Christmas).

• The House That Gave Sucky Treats (2001, one option involves giving Strong Bad old Easter candy)
• Eggs (2007, left unfinished for 6 years)
• Rotten Eggs (2008)
• Punkin Stencils (2009, Homestar recalls carving a picture of The Goblin into one of his pumpkins, then leaving it out on the front porch until Easter, allowing it to rot and turn as green as the Goblin himself.)
• On April 6, 2020, Strong Bad started an Easter egg hunt on his Twitter account. The catch is to not use the wiki.

[edit] The Cheat's "Cheatday" (April 18)

The Cheat's birthday, known as "Cheatday", is celebrated on April 18, the date on The Cheat's fake ID, because that's the only day Strong Bad is sure is not The Cheat's birthday.

• Strong Bad Main Page (refers to The Cheat's birthday party)
• cheatday (2004)

[edit] Record Store Day (third Saturday in April)

A day about celebrating the cultivation of record stores everywhere.

• Record Store Day (2015)
• Record Store Day 2018 (2018)

[edit] Earth Day (April 22)

Earth Day provides a time to conserve the environment and its resources, but hardly anyone in Free Country takes advantage of it.

• Happy Hallow-Day (The King of Town assures Strong Sad he is on a strict diet of Arbor Day and Earth Day)
• Pistols for Pandas (2009) (Crack Stuntman refers to it as a "made-up holiday designed to make your parents feel guilty about their car")

[edit] Mother's Day (second Sunday in May)

A day to recognize the hard work of the women who never have appeared in Free Country USA, and likely never will.

• A Mother's Day Message (2001)

[edit] Memorial Day (last Monday in May)

It is sometimes referred to as Senorial Day, which may be its own holiday that corresponds to Memorial Day. Apparently, all the big stores in town (at least, Senor Cardgage's and Bubs') have sales that weekend.

• Senorial Day (2005)
• the movies ("Memorials Day" is one of the dates listed on the Dangeresque 3 poster)

[edit] Flag Day (June 14)

A day to proudly raise the Strong Badia flag, and sing along to the Strong Badia national anthem.

• flag day (2002)

[edit] Fourth of July/Independence Day (July 4)

A time of patriotism, retrospect, and, of course, fireworks.

• Flag Intro
• Main Page 12
• Happy Fireworks (2005)

[edit] Labor Day (first Monday of September)

Labor Day (aka Labor Dabor) is a day of no work, enforced by the Homestarmy.

• labor day (2003)
• Labor Dabor (2004)

[edit] Halloween (October 31)

A popular holiday in Free Country. The main characters are always seen in a different costume at this time.

See main article: Halloween

[edit] Thanksgiving (fourth Thursday in November)

A time of feasting and reminiscing.

• Some Stupid Turkey (2001)
• Happy T! (2002)
• Limozeen Thanksgiving E-Cards (2003)
• colonization (2003)
• Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 9.2 (2003) (The King of Town calls up to find out if it's still Thanksgiving)
• Halloween Potion-ma-jig (2005) (The King of Town offers "powdered Thanksgiving" as a potential potion ingredient)
• Fall Float Parade (2005)
• Let us give TANKS! (2006)
• pizza joint (2007) (The King of Town tries to order 50 Thanksgiving Lover's pizzas)
• Toikey TV (2007)
• Twenty THANXty Six‎ (2008)
• Cornucopia (2017)

[edit] Decemberween (December 25)

A made-up holiday that takes place 55 days after Halloween. It is analogous to Christmas.

• A Holiday Greeting (2000)
• The Best Decemberween Ever (2001)
• A Decemberween Pageant (2002)
• Decemberween Email Menu (2002)
• Decemberween In July (2004)
• Snowglobe (2004)
• Homestar Presents: Presents (2004)
• what I want (2006)
• Decemberween Short Shorts (2006)
• Happy Dethemberween (2007)
• Hooked on Decemberween (2008)
• A Death-Defying Decemberween (2008)
• Compy Catalog (Strong Bad says receiving a new catalog is like "Decemberween morning, [his] birthday, a candy store, and Strong Sad's funeral all wrapped together")
• Doomy Tales of the Macabre (Marzipan reminds Homestar that she gives him macrame dream catchers every Decemberween)
• A Decemberween Mackerel (2010)
• Which Ween Costumes? (2010)
• Decemberween Dangeresque (2017)

[edit] Birthdays

General birthday references also abound. All of these toons mention someone's "birthday".

• In Search of the Yello Dello — Marzipan's birthday
• Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 1.0 — refers to Marzipan's birthday
• Strong Bad Sings — Strong Mad sings "Happy Birthday", or at least tries to.
• The Secrets That I Keep — refers to Strong Sad's birthday
• anything — refers to Marzipan's birthday
• flashback — Homestar Runner mistakenly thinks it's Strong Bad's birthday.
• origins — refers to Lil' Strong Bad's birthday
• bottom 10 — Marshie thinks it's his "birfday"; Nibbles corrects him.
• Happy Trogday — Stinkoman says his birthday was last week (presumably January 6, a week before Trogday, as japanese cartoon is the email immediately preceding dragon).
• Strongest Man in the World — Homestar tells Pom Pom to give him the golbol for his birthday.
• licensed — Homestar Runner said it was still his "best birthdays ever" after getting glass shards stuck in his face from a glass-filled piñata.
• Compy Catalog — Strong Bad says receiving a new catalog is like "Decemberween morning, [his] birthday, a candy store, and Strong Sad's funeral all wrapped together".

[edit] See also

• Chronological list of Holiday Toons

Most Recent Toons
Big Toons Homestar Runner Goes For the Gold Dec 24, 2016	Shorts Characters from Yonder Website Sep 27, 2017	Holidays The Homestar Runner Enters the Spooky Woods‎ Oct 30, 2019	Puppet Stuff Decemberween Dangeresque Dec 23, 2017	Powered by The Cheat Fish Eye Lens Oct 3, 2014	Strong Bad Email too cool Aug 14, 2017	Teen Girl Squad Issue 15 May 11, 2009	Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 17.2 Apr 1, 2016	YouTube Kick The Cheat Voicebox Replacement Surgery (How-to) Sep 4, 2020