![]() Holy cow, I’ve reached the end and somehow haven’t even mentioned Limozeen?!? If nothing else, this proves how insanely deep Homestar Runner’s humor catalog runs. I’d really like to have included Tape-Leg, CGNU, Fhqwhgads, The Cheat Commandos series, and certainly at least something about Limozeen. ![]() So those are my own personal top ten Homestar Runner cartoons. It brings to mind what the kids in Super 8 were doing, or perhaps Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation. #HOMESTAR RUNNER MOVIE#Strong Bad’s movie series Dangeresque is what every movie created by ’80s kids on VHS looks like. #10: Strong Bad Email #80: “Stunt Double” But we’re down to only ten of my favorites, so here they are: I’d also wanted to include “Techno”, if just for the music. I had very much wanted to include “Interview” because it showcases how wonderfully stupid Homestar Runner can be, much in the same way that Homer Simpson’s own stupidity has often been showcased. I re-watched a few dozen Homestar Runner cartoons in preparation for this article, and managed to come up with my own ten personal favorites to share. Today’s YouTube variants are largely adequate, but they do lack the interactivity and pizazz of the original Flash cartoons. Nearly twenty years ago, I watched the emails rabidly, consuming each as soon as it was released. Each week, Strong Bad would answer an email from a fan, usually making fun of the emailer’s punctuation and spelling. The site’s cast of characters included the Brothers Strong: Strong Bad, Strong Mad, and Strong Sad. Its primary feature quickly became “Strong Bad Emails,” or SBEmails. The Homestar Runner website began as a flash cartoon site run by Mike and Matt Chapman ( previously) also known as The Brothers Chaps. #HOMESTAR RUNNER FULL#Its nonsensical and surreal cartoons were full of absurd references and hilarious callbacks. ![]() It was easily the best entry in the flash cartoon genre that was popular on the early internet. ![]() If you’ve never heard of Homestar Runner, you either weren’t online in the early 2000s, or else you just plain missed out. Homestar Runner is a major internet rabbit-hole. Welcome back to my segment, Internet Classics. But it isn’t all Hampster Dance and Three Wolf Moon. Hence, much of the nascent Interweb’s original hilarity is entirely unknown to a younger generation. But the meme-riddled internet moves pretty quickly, and many of the internet’s original viral sensations have sunk into near obscurity. There’s classic literature, classic rock, and older films are considered classics. ![]()
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