Many a thread has been started about the Homestarrunner.comwebsite, but I’m going to attempt one more.
A friend and his brother are responsible for the site, and it has become quite entertaining to take notice of all the odd places that Homestar references pop up.
Here are a couple to start things off…
This StrongBad E-mail has spawned a baker’s dozen submissions to UrbanDictionary.com for the definition of the word “burninate”.
I also recently stumbled upon buddy icons that resemble none other than Homestar, The Cheat, and StrongBad, here.
One of the best references to HomestarRunner.com I ever saw was on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In the last episode, a fwe people are playing dungeons and dragons, and Trogdor is mentioend as being the evil dragon they are fighting, and the word burninate might have been mentioend as well.
My D&D buddies and I use “burninate” all the time, given that there’s a half-dragon and a pyromancer (my sorcerer) in our party. I burninated a lich a couple of weeks ago, and we’ve reduced many monsters, buildings, and small towns to smouldering ashes through burnination.
I like the “To immolate violently” definition, but I would put “esp.” before the “without just cause” clause. It could be justified sometimes. Really it could! <–Deranged pyromaniacally grinning smiley
If you’re in the downtown Orlando area, particularly around Orange Avenue, on Halloween, you may just see me and a group of my sloppily drunk friends dressed as the Homestar cast.
On a related note, anyone know where I can get a red wrestling mask and green eyeshadow?
I was at a Five Iron Frenzy show a few days ago, and the bassist, Keith Hoerig, was proudly wearing a Strong Bad shirt for all to see. A surprisng number of people in the crowd noticed, too- the show was peppered with random guys screaming “Burnination!!!” at the top of their lungs.
I understand Wil Wheaton has been spotted at cons wearing a Trogdor shirt.
The complete Trogdor exchange from Buffy is as follows:
Andrew, wearing a red cloak and hood and playing the role of dungeon
master, reads from a role-playing game script. ANDREW: You go through the door and are confronted by Trogdor
the Burninator. GILES: Oh, bugger it. Fight. He rolls the dice. ANDREW: Adios to five hit points. Trogdor has badly wounded you. GILES: Well, what about my bag of illusions? ANDREW(scoffs): Illusions against a burninator? Silly, silly British man. AMANDA: I invoke a time flux on Trogdor. She moves her piece on the map. ANDREW: Step down, girlfriend! You can’t just— AMANDA: Ninth level sorcerer and I carry the Emerald Chalice. Trogdor is frozen in time. Deal with it. Andrew pouts.
I’m not even familiar with HomestarRunner but I saw someone dressed as Strong Bad at the last anime convention I went to. I have a picture if you want it.
Last fall, we were looking through People magazine at Borders. We found at an article about a guy, and the in the photograph the guy was wearing a Strong Bad shirt. I can’t remember what the article was about, but it cracked me up!
There’s an organization at my college called the Campus Crusade for Christ which holds meetings every Thursday evening. They often advertise this via some cryptic comment written in chalk on every single sidewalk on the campus. One week, the message was “Where’s the Body?” (referring to Christ’s resurrection), and it was accompanied by a number of faux crime-scene outlines.
The outlines showed up on a Monday. Tuesday morning, every single crime-scene outline had been turned into a drawing of Homestar, and “Where’s the Body?” had become “Where My Hat Is At?”
Somebody had waaaay too much free time Monday night.
A month ago, I went with the family to Disneyland and DCA in Anaheim. I wore either my white HR shirt or black “Strong Bad head” shirt.
Over the three days, I sighted seven other people wearing HR swag.
Some “cast members” recognized and commented on the shirts: two Jungle Cruise operators, and the horsedrawn trolley operator, who told me that backstage cleaning up the horse stalls was being referred to as “a Trogdor Job”, from the sense of burninating annoyance you got when it was your turn to do it.
The best part of wearing a Trogdor shirt or sweatshirt is the people who see you from several feet away and scream as loud as they can, “TROGDOR!!!” the moment they see you. If there are at least two of them, one takes the guitar part (dananana NAAAAAA!!! dananana NAAAAAA!!!) and the other takes the vocal. A long time ago, Strong Bad said “On a scale from one to awesome, I’m super great!” I occasionally say that, or something like it.
At a recent Comedy Sportz match at my school (think of Whose Line is it Anyway, but more competitive), they were playing a game called “Sing it” where they develop a scene, and every once in a while the ref repeats the last line (for example, “What did you do to my socks?”) that was said, then says “Sing it! Opera” or “Sing it! Bluegrass” and everyone in the scene has to start singing a song with the title “What did you do to my socks?”
<–Deranged pyromaniacally grinning smiley
That’s a great costume.