Now that Halloween is nearly upon us again, I remember one of the most consistently entertaining places on the Internet for nearly a decade. Didn’t need memes or gimmicks, it was just amazingly funny.
The last updated was on December 2010. There was something about “someday, when you least expect it”…in February, last year.
What happened? Anyone know? If they wanted to move on, fine, but we should have at least a little closure. Cracked.com can’t carry the load alone, guys!
They both have full time jobs elsewhere, and families rapidly expanding. Matt works for Yo Gabba Gabba of all things. I think that means Homestar is not coming back any time soon, sadly.
Matt’s been all over the place - besides Yo Gabba Gabba!, he’s also directed a few episodes of The Aquabats! Super Show! (where he also appeared in one episode as a character clearly modeled after Strong Bad) and currently serves as a writer and voice actor for Disney’s fantastic Gravity Falls. The Los Angeles Times wrote a while back that and Mike are working on a series of their own for Disney.
Todd VanDerWerff of The Onion AV Club recently wrote a great article on Homestar Runner’s legacy. Although he’s most likely gone for good, his no-armed legacy will live forever. Probably.
Dag yo!
Too bad. I miss Trogdor doing some burninating!
If I may add: The one truly remarkable thing I found out the website and their approach to humor is that from beginning to end they took NONE of the shortcuts. No tossing in gratuitous swears for cheap shock value. No badly-done satire of topical events. No repetition unless legitimately played for laughs (“Yeah, SHAPE-dah…like there’s a bite taken out of it!”). And none of the endless tiresome bazillions of memes that have reduced entire Internet communities to squawking parrots. It was intelligent and creative and charming and overall truly a joy to experience.
One of the remarkable things I found about the Brothers Chaps is that they almost never used the big publicity outlets. No CNN story, no commercials, no comic book tie-ins, no promotional blitz at CompUSA or Barnes And Noble or Suncoast Pictures, hell, not even a Rolling Stone cover (which should’ve been flippin’ automatic for something like this). I found out about the site from Wrestlecrap.com, of all places. And they never make any kind of deal out of a gap (there are at least three that I remember, and each time the site picked back up as if nothing happened). I just thought that if this really is goodbye…well, I’d like to know.
Dagnabbit, I wanted to play the final level of Stinkoman 20X6!
The thing I find most annoying is they they never told anyone when it was happening. There’s nothing at all on the site or anything saying that they were calling it quits. People were just left to wonder when the next toon might show up. They even left the promo banner that says that there’s really, genuinely a new toon up.
What happened there, with the artists just quitting, is why current content providers get inundated with questions making sure they’re still going to continue their series. Before that happened, I’d never seen that happen until then. Even TV shows you would find out they were actually cancelled.
This site is also the one I worry about when Flash finally dies. Yes, you can put them up as vids on YouTube, (perhaps even from the DVDs), but you miss out on the Easter eggs that way. That site is pretty much the best out there for preteen/teenage humor, and I want every kid to be able to experience it.
Oh Chaps, please update your site! At least do so to have the characters say farewell if you are truly done with Homestar Runner. I have missed the SBemails and Halloween/Christmas toons. I feel happy for them, however, that they have moved to be involved in shows, like Gravity Falls, and Yo Gabba Gabba. Good for them!
Wait a minute. Suncoast Pictures still exists?
Well, that’s my evening’s viewing sorted.
Yes, I bought the DVD. 
Did you get Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive people.
If you haven’t visited Homestarrunner.com recently, you may want to pop on by for a little update!
[Sorry for the bump!]
Sorry??? This is incredible!
Mmm. Vintage Brothers Chaps, a well-time fakeout followed by squeezing more mileage out of an old idea. (I was amazed at the time they 1. brought back the The S Is For Sucks dragon and 2. actually made it freaking work.)
Damn, they REALLY have it in for Windows '98. Can’t say I blame them.
Sadly, these rare revisits are probably the best we can hope for from now on. It’s possible that someone else with more time and energy can take over the website, but that’s highly unlikely.
False. “Your mother” and “nigger” (cheaply disguised as the lame running thnickaman joke) WERE prevalent onsite as well as in real world hr media from the beginning.
Squawking hr meme parrots WERE, in fact, frequently encountered throughout the web, and sadly, the original creator, Emmanuel Teijeiro, was never credited in their own media, or paid.
And these are the exact reasons why they failed, and were reduced to selling out to Disney.
Nice try, but no one is interested anymore.
The fakeouts pretending to be are just lamers and
we all know the words, let’s say them together, boys
Everybody knows it.
Sure.
Uh, what?
It seems Emmanuel Teijeiro (whose email address includes the name aprlknght) claims to have originally created Homestar Runner. No evidence has ever been put forward for this claim; he doesn’t seem to have any personal connection with Mike or Matt Chapman; he does not claim to have made any of the animated cartoons; only that he originally created… something. Somehow. Maybe he owned the domain? I don’t know. In any case, he is a weird guy looking for money for his part in the creation of whatever it is he thinks he did.
Crazy person bump!