Other features on the site include Teen Girl Squad, a comic about shallow teenage girls dying in improbable and hilarious ways, which is written, drawn, and narrated by Strong Bad Old-Timey Homestar, what Homestar Runner would be like if it was made in the 1930s and the Cheat Commandos, a parody of Merchandise-Driven shows in general and G.I. The most popular part of the site is the Strong Bad Email (aka "sbemails"), where Strong Bad responds to viewers' questions and suggestions, such as " Why don't you creat a montage? ", " What would you do different, if you could do it all over again? ", and the ever-popular " How do you type with boxing gloves on? " This usually involves mocking the sender's spelling and grammar mistakes (in fact, the character of Homsar was actually created this way ), and quite often not actually answering the question.
While most flash content was hosted on websites like Newgrounds and maybe mirrored to the creators own website, everything on Homestar Runner was hosted on its own website and would include easter eggs that would range from the simple "click here on this spot at the right time" to "typing the URL of a seemingly made up page a character mentioned" and even "decompiling the flash cartoon itself." While a good chunk of flash content at the time was incredibly vulgar and offensive, Homestar Runner deliberately wasn't (according to The Brothers Chaps, this was done as a personal challenge) the worst language you'd hear on the site would be something like "Crap" or "sucks" and the worst thing you'd see them do was drink beer and even then, they would rarely get drunk Most of the humor came from the surreal nature of the world around the characters (and sometimes, from the characters), and from the clever wordplay that would come up on the site. What made the website truly standout was how the site handled content.
#Cartoon startup panic series#
Over the years, the series has come to include many recurring and minor characters, many of which simply debuted as one-off jokes. And to round out this wacky cast, we also have Homsar, an Oddball Doppelgänger of Homestar who speaks in non-sequiturs and seems to be able to openly defy physics. Other characters include Homestar's on-and-off hippie girlfriend Marzipan, Homestar's best friend and Only Sane Man Pom Pom, the verbally challenged and slightly creepy Coach Z, greedy concession stand owner Bubs, the ever-hungry King of Town, and the Poopsmith, whose occupation is self-explanatory. Along with his pint-sized lackey The Cheat and hulking brute older brother Strong Mad, Strong Bad constantly pushes everybody around, especially his gray, depressed younger brother Strong Sad. However, Strong Bad, a narcissistic, loudmouthed "wrestleman" with a Luchador mask for a face and boxing gloves for hands, seems to have exceeded the title character in popularity. The main character is the eponymous Homestar Runner, a goodhearted athlete with no arms and no clue. Starting as a dead-tree children's picture book, The Homestar Runner Enters the Strongest Man in the World Contest, it eventually found its way to the internet and spread through word of mouth. Homestar Runner, the namesake series of the Homestar Runner family, is a comedic and surreal web-based Adobe Flash cartoon by two guys from the state of Georgia, Mike and Matt Chapman (" The Brothers Chaps").
0 kommentar(er)
