CURRENT CURRENT THOUGHTS:

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[edit] Costumes

[edit] Main Characters

[edit] Dogs

[edit] Variations

[edit] Peasantry Chararacters

[edit] Cheat Commandos characters

[edit] Teen Girl Squad characters

[edit] Miscellaneous

[edit] Non-costumes

[edit] Pumpkins and gourds

[edit] Other

• Trogdor parade float: 2003
• Strong Bad piñata: 2005
• Trogdor car: 2009

[edit] Reg Having the Ball at the Top of the Key

"So anyways, Reg had the ball at the top of the key..."

Reg is an unseen character who is often mentioned having the ball at the top of the key. On a standard basketball court, the Top of the Key is the area behind the free throw line but inside or near the free throw circle.

[edit] Appearances

• Debut: Email autobiography — Strong Bad says in his autobiography that "Reg had the ball at the top of the key."
• Email anything — After Homestar Runner walks by, Coach Z says to Strong Sad, "So anyways, Reg had the ball at the top of the key."

[edit] Variations

• Email trading cards — The intro song includes the line "you leave your dreams at the top of the keeey".
• Email the paper — Homestar, while holding a football, says "Homestar had the ball at the top of the key."
• Toikey TV — During the football game, the announcer declares "Reg has the ball at the top of the twenty."
• Rotten Eggs — The announcer on the TV says "College Reg has the B at the T of the K!"

[edit] See Also

• Basketball

[[Category:Name running gags]]

[edit] Toons

[list of toons]

[edit] Special Cartoons

Other toons not featured on the toon menu.

[edit] YouTube exclusives

Screenshot	Name	Description	Length	Year
1	Strong Bad Gameways	Strong Bad gives safety tips for his Gameways.	1:53	2008
2	Coach Z pukes in dude's toupee	A quality videograph wherein Coach Z, being of pukeable stature, pukemakes most moistly into the perceived hairpiece of another wholly different and completely unrelated dude.	0:19	2009
3	Strong Bad reads "The Ocelot and the Porridge Maiden" (Teaser Trailer)	Strong Bad, your favorite character, and according to him the ONLY character on Homestar Runner, has teased you with a teasing teaser for his upcoming masterpiece, "The Ocelot and the Porridge Maiden".	0:53	2014
4	Joystick Wagglin' with Videlectrix: Halloween Edition	Special Halloween edition of Joystick Waggling'	3:09	2016
5	Greatest American Homestar	Puppet Homestar revisits a classic costume and chooses to end in song! He can't believe it himself.	1:09	2017
6	Record Store Day 2018	Sloshy gets even more obscure than usual with this year's pretentious release. Lullaby arrangement by Robert Schneider Made using Instructable by Fred Murphy: http://www.instructables.com/id/3D-pr...	1:16	2018

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Screenshot	Name	Description	Length	Year
7	Strong Bad Gameways	Strong Bad gives safety tips for his Gameways.	1:53	2008

[edit] Everything Else

Screenshot	Name	Description	Length	Year
8	Strong Bad Gameways	Strong Bad gives safety tips for his Gameways.	1:53	2008

[edit] Other

[edit] 207 Seconds (Rough Estimate)

(The entirety of 160 Seconds, but with "160" in the intro replaced with "207")

4 branches: HOMESTAR: Chinese b-

the chair: STRONG BAD: Class!

what i want: MARZIPAN: Forgettably precious.

looking old: MARZIPAN: Up to your chin right

strong badathlon: STRONG BAD: To the wrong athletes

unnatural: STRONG BAD: Kill him? STRONG SAD: We do-

the movies: HOMESTAR: -tuce. Throw

your funeral: HOMESTAR: Abraham Lincoln

from work: HOMESTAR: -veges. It helps

rough copy: STRONG SAD: -tellectual property.

underlings: STRONG BAD: Get Mrs. Hard-

more armies: HOMESTAR: Saaay

the paper: STRONG BAD: Doesn't quite

mini-golf: STRONG BAD: In this infernal pl-

concert: STRONG BAD: Nope. They're a

hygiene: STRONG BAD: No matter what he does.

original: BUBS: B'zuh!

bike thief: STRONG BAD: Side of this couch

pizza joint: MAN IN PIZZA COSTUME: It burns!

slumber party: STRONG BAD: Can you guys start

web comics: TAKE DAGGER: Hiya

business trip: THE KING OF TOWN: Units? STRONG BAD: What

yes wrestling: HOMESTAR: The power... of

diorama: STRONG BAD: -lupe Hidalgo

nightlife: HOMESTAR RUNNER: More...more

environment: STRONG BAD: -pliant sticker!

winter pool: HOMESTAR: You're such a good

fan club: STRONG BAD: (screams)

pet show: HOMESTAR: Potion. A taste

licensed: (Strong Bad slides) STRONG BAD: What's

buried: BUBS: Is! STRONG SAD: Uh

shapeshifter: COACH Z: Coming to your concession

rated: BUBS: Bake sale!

specially marked: (The Deleted buzzer, and a message reading "SBEMAIL 194 IS NOT INCLUDED BECAUSE IT DOES NOT HAVE A 194th SECOND")

love poems: HOMESTAR: Apples!

hiding: STRONG BAD: Coma!

your edge: STRONG BAD: Where'd you check?

magic trick: STRONG BAD: But now, not only does

being mean: HUNGRY SHARK: Makes me wanna

email thunder: (Strong Bad runs out of Homestar's computer room)

hremail3184: COACH Z: Bad! I was gonna

imaginary: LIL' STRONG BAD: -ti! I'd like you to meet

independent: STRONG BAD: Solid gold sc-

dictionary: STRONG BAD: To Z

videography: STRONG BAD: (chuckles)

sbemail206: ANNOUNCER: For all your consummate

too cool: STRONG BAD: Mysteriously with no return

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[edit] Sbemail Filmography

[edit] Homestar Runner

[edit] Strong Sad

[edit] Strong Mad

[edit] The Cheat

[edit] Marzipan

[edit] Coach Z

[edit] Bubs

[edit] Pom Pom

[edit] The King of Town

[edit] The Poopsmith

[edit] Homsar

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[edit] Ants

You will respect and condone Mean Sean!

While there are many Bugs in Free Country, USA, ants are given attention for reasons both irritating and comedic.

[edit] Appearances

• Email 1 step ahead — In the "maybe" option, The Cheat brings a bucket full of red ants into Strong Sad's room after finding out that gluing his hands to his face hadn't caused Strong Sad any pain.
• I think I have a chance with this guy — What's Her Face sings that she wants to put some ants on the boy who called her.
• Sensitive to Bees — At the end of the song, Homestar sings that he not only likes to play with trees, but also with ants.
• Email long pants — Strong Bad edits the email he receives so the closing reads "Some ants toot", and laughs at it.
• Email unnatural — Confronted with a giant Bubs, Homestar comes to the conclusion that Bubs has turned them all into ants and proceeds to act like one.

[edit] See Also

• Bees
• Bugs
• Scorpions
• Gavin

[[Category:Animals]]

[edit] Strong Bad Making a Surprised Face At the End of an Easter Egg in Response to a Suggestive Comment

Strong Bad, like anyone, often looks surprised when he hears a suggestive comment, but he seems to specifically do so in the last frame of Easter eggs.

[edit] Appearances

• Email garage sale — In response to Coach Z saying he is okay to say "gar-bahge", which implies he is or will be a mother.
• Email space program — In response to Coach Z saying "doo time" is better than peeing in a cup.
• Best Caper Ever — In response to Bubs suggesting that he, not The Cheat, fill up a container for bodily waste.

[edit] Category:Running Gags That Became More Common Post-Hiatus

• Flash
• Mystery Science Theater 3000
• Noun-Verb
• Strong Sad Smiling
• Words with Omitted Syllables

[edit] Depressing

The word "depressing" is frequently used out-of-context in the Homestar Runner body of work, usually in relation to Strong Sad and Coach Z.

[edit] Strong Sad

• Yearbook Character Page — Strong Sad is referred to as a "depressing lump".
• Email impression — Coach Z refers to what Strong Sad typically says as "depressing-type stuff".
• A Folky Tale — The townsolk, overcome with laughter, suggest that Saddy Dumpington say something "miserable and depressing". He only makes them laugh harder.
• Yahoo Store — The Strong Sad shirt is compared to "a gray and depressing Santa Claus".
• Strong Badia the Free:
  • "Oh, great. Stuck under house arrest with no one but Little Lord FATleroy, the most depressing kid brother ever left on the front porch by gross gypsies."
  • "Only Strong Sad could make a flag both depressing and so utterly forgettable."
• Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 16.2:
  • Strong Sad changes Marzipan's outgoing message to, in part, "Please organize your thoughts for Marzipan in order of least depressing to most depressing."
  • Bubs thinks that Marzipan sounds "fat, depressing, and Allan Poe" with Strong Sad's voice.
• FeedBurner Page — Strong Sad says of the Decemberween cards, "Now you can share in the wonder of writing something extremely dark and depressing inside and cheerful holiday card."
• Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 17.2 — Strong Sad wonders why he isn't depressing anymore, then insults his former self as being "not depressing".

[edit] Coach Z

• Email 2 emails — When Coach Z tries to act as one of the ladies for the Ladies' Choice Awards, Strong Bad says, "This is depressing enough as it is."
• UMFM Interview - 20 May 2003 and Giant Magazine Interview — Matt Chapman says that Coach Z's voice derives from a depressing voice that he and his friends would do in their university days.
• Email kind of cool (DVD commentary) — Matt says that when he did Coach Z's voice before he existed, a friend called Steve imagined a depressing guy with an Aldi bag.
• Homestar Presents: Presents (DVD commentary) — Matt says, "I have a feeling that we're going to see something depressing with Coach Z."
• Halloween Potion-Ma-Jig — In response to Coach Z saying his life is ruined, Homestar Runner says, "Cool, cool, depressing, cool."
• Email road trip (first DVD commentary) — Mike Chapman remarks that Coach Z has gotten more depressing.
• Let Us Give TANKS! (DVD commentary) — Mike says, "This is the extra depressing too—"
• Decemberween Short Shorts — Homestar Runner sings, "It doesn't have to be creepy and depressing all the time." In the commentary, Matt says there was going to be a full-length Decemberween toon about Coach Z being depressing.
• Email hiding — Strong Bad says, in response to Coach Z giving him the idea of making an animatronic Strong Bad, "I think your depressing creepiness may have finally paid off!"
• Homestar Ruiner — When cutting the hedge at the race track, Strong Bad says, "Who would have thought that Coach Z of all people would have really depressing shrubs?"
• Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 17.2 — Coach Z's first message is cut short "for being way too depressing".

[edit] Other

• Email lunch special — Matt says this in response to Strong Bad hitting on Strong Mad's MS Paint drawing of a dinosaur.
• Peasant's Quest — Examining the Baby Lady's cottage generates the response, "What a depressing little cottage."
• Email rampage — Strong Bad refers to the email sender as "Epressing-day Erd-nay", which is Pig Latin for "depressing nerd".
• More Fan Costumes — Strong Bad imagines someone saying, "Dear Strong Bad, how's your miserable job at the depressing faceless office park?"
• Flashforward Interview - 10 Feb 2006 — Mike Chapman says that Old-Timey Strong Bad's shaved moustache in flashback is inspired by the waiter at a diner where he and Matt had a "depressing lunch".
• Flashforward 2006 Seattle - 28 Feb 2006 and Georgia Tech - 26 Apr 2007 — The Brothers Chaps refer to Suburban Plaza, the building in which their office is located, as a "depressing strip mall".
• Email winter pool (DVD commentary) — Strong Bad says that it is depressing when the snow has melted.
• Baddest of the Bands — The first time Strong Bad turns on the Telebision, he says, "Cool, a marathon of those depressing rockumentaries!"
• 8-Bit is Enough — Strong Bad describes kill screens as "when you play a video game for so long, and get a score so high, and have a life so depressing, that you break the video game".
• Fan Costumes 09 — In response to Strong Sad saying that a fan is dressed as a human Gunhaver from the Sketchbook, Strong Bad says, "That is (a) amazing, (b) depressing, and (c) amazingly depressing."
• Fan Costumes 2017 — The last picture is of fans dressed as personas from yes, wrestling, which Strong Bad says was took in front of a depressing basement wall, which he claims was an actual venue in which Il Cartographer won the Continental Breakfast belt.

[edit] Noun-ery

Characters in the Homestar Runner universe frequently like to engage in unusual practices, named by combining a noun with the suffix -ery.

[edit] Examples

• Email trading cards — Strong Bad discusses how the characters engage in forms of trading cardery.
• Kick-A-Ball — According the rules, striking out in Kick-A-Ball results in vehement catapultery.
• Email the bird — (YouTube description) Strong Bad discusses various forms of flip-offery.
• Teen Girl Squad Issue 14 — So and So won't dabble in any yearbookery until she takes her final exams.
• I Killed Pom Pom — Strong Bad remarks about Stitch Witchery when he sees the remains of an inflatable pumpkin Homestar Runner has confused for Pom Pom.
• Email your edge — Strong Bad marvels over his arsenal of edge-havery.

[edit] X it out

The active or imperative form of a verb will sometimes be phrased as an instruction to perform it out.

[edit] Examples

• Population: Tire — One of the possible messages trailing from the plane that flies by after the score resets is "GROW IT OUT!"
• Scroll Button Songs — Strong Bad sings "Scroll it out, scroll it out, Scroll Buttons 2.0!"
• Email mile — Homestar Runner cheers Strong Bad on by telling him to "Kick it out, Beehan!"
• Email army — In his capacity as leader of the Homestarmy, "Colonel" Homestar instructs Strong Bad to "Fall it out".
• Email animal — The Deep Sea Fangly Fish's custom Homestar lure tells Strong Bad to "Turn it out, Strong Bad, turn it out!", as he dances on the back deck.
• Email lady fan — As they exercise together, Homestar tells Strong Bad to "twees it out".
• Email theme song — The lyrics of the "life-affirming pop ballad" theme refer to "sharin' and carin' it out".
• No Hands On Deck! — Homestar tells The Cheat he is "decking it out".
• Email magic trick — Strong Bad's intro song finished "and then we'll turn it out."
• Homestar Ruiner — Strong Bad tells The Stick to "keep on stickin' it out, Sticky".
• Dangeresque Roomisode 1: Behind the Dangerdesque — Dangeresque can tell the swinging lamp in his office to "swing it out".
• April Fool 09 — Strong Bad's intro song begins "having it out with an email".
• Email sbemail206 — The "Kickcheater" page to crowd-fund the fake nerd culture items includes a sticker that reads "PLEDGE IT OUT!"

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