Homestar Running- A Homestar Runner (it's dot com) podcast

Does Strong Bad have a car? When did Homestar get his propellor cap? If Strong Bad had a jillion emails every jillion seconds, is that a lot…? David and Mark discuss these mysteries and more! Also mentioned: Inspector Gadget, Doraemon, 2 E-Z, NEVA DIE, Popular Science, Superman, Bubbs’s lunch specials, General Tso’s Chicken, funnel cake, Pikachu, duck and mammal biology,  the Jungle Cruise at Disneyland and upside down rides at Great America and Six Flags and other theme parks…

Happy Decemberween! David and Mark discuss the humor of Homestar and Homsar and oddity of Sweet Cuppin' Cakes, what it means to plan ahead, oversleeping, good presents, linguistics and homonyms and homophones and homographs, festive music vs. creepy music, Mickey's Christmas Carol and Goofy as Jacob Marley, buying gifts at Walgreen's, Tony Stoney, Coach Z being sadly disconnected, arrows in bananas and green vs. yellow vs. brown bananas, Marzipan freeing the baby seals, countdowns to Christmas, Decemberween as a holiday, Christmas miracles, and more!

Mark and David talk about Thanksgiving toons including big meals and snacking, band's holiday tie-ins, PSAs, fish-corn, Hardee's and Carl's Jr, drive-in and mobile apps for fast food, Coach Z is a jerk, two Homsars, floats, bands and parades and other holiday stuff!

Some Stupid Turkey/Strong Bad Email 90/Fall Float Parade/Limozeen Thanksgiving E-Cards/Happy T!

David and Mark discuss outdated answering machines, text messages, voicemails, and podcasts, the continued weirdness and creepiness of Coach Z in approaching Marzipan, Strong Bad's prank phone calls, Stinkoman's interest in a challenge, Strong Bad (current) and Old-timey Strong Bad and their fighting abilities, the Strong Bad action figure, Strong Sad's interest in tai chi, robot voices and talk-to-speech and speech-to-text messages and miscommunication, the Speak & Spell, radio promotions, and DJ promos, French language, chocolate and crispy chocolate (Crispy, Crackle) and dark chocolate and chocolate with nuts, burglary and robbery attempts, fireworks, The Price is Right, crime and spy movies with hidden items in cakes, baklava, biscuit dough hands man, the trail of the Poopsmith, puppet Homestar and The Cheat, the old Atari, electric guitar, physical comedy, squeegees, and more!

David and Mark reflect on the pauses and delays in the website, the Thnikkaman, Snickers, Homestar saying dumb stuff, Kevin Grumbles, hsmgngnbh, grumble cakes and Cheat cakes, They Might Be Giants adding some musics, the Poopsmith speaks, Marzipan rocks, Homsar as a moderately hot girl, the King of Town and the Prince of Town, imitation chocolate, Bubbs, evil Strong sad, Pom Pom basketball, fake sbemail100, Homestar and his (lack of) pants, laying an egg and rotten eggs, punk rock, No Hamsters, Discount Flashback Warehouse, Stock Footage Warehouse, widescreen on the site, and Strong Bad reaches 100 emails both written and spoken.

We talk popcorn, in-universe graphics for games, typing and math games, dropping a heavy arcade game, video game text translation, dust on the computer in Strong Bad emails 93-96. After the credits we go in depth on JD dates or Julian Date numbering.

David and Mark discuss Strong Bad presenting the news, including sports, weather, traffic, the WORLD in CRISIS!!!, coffee, caffeine and more!

Strong Bad Emails 88-89 and 91-92.

We talk about the Main Pages 15&17, 20x6 vs 1936, Looking at a Thing in a Bag, 404 pages throughout the years and also discuss Flash tweens, Japanese language in the toons, the dark origin of the word "robot", Bub's "check-it-out", the ridiculous of Strong Bad's thing in a bag plan, Torani Italian Ice Syrup, old Yahoo pages, guessing URLs, RSS and more!

Topics and Side Topics: the cinderblock and the tire and the stop sign, boxing matches, Mike Tyson v. Evander Holyfield, how weak Strong Sad is, barbecue pits, bbq, Doctor Who, the etymology of marshmallows, frozen food vs. fresh food, disgusting food, websites and wedsites, broken HTML, </>, the "No Loafing" sign, motivational posters and de-motivational posters, memes, Powered by The Cheat, Flash animation, Nokia phones and flip phones vs. smartphones, freestyle rap and hip-hop, messing around on Casio keyboards, Whale in Space, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, the Strong Bad Twitter account and more!

After the credits there's a longer discussion on Star Trek.

Everybody Knows It, These People Try to Fade Me, Strong Bad Emails 85-87, Mr. Shmallow, Main Page 18

David and Mark talk about the awkward realities of Homestar on a date with Marzipan and Strong Bad's awkward game simulator, the sizes of bulky cameras and mini camcorders, video club, Sword Cam!, impersonations and impressions, Labor Day-bor, children's books and grammar jokes, the gelatinous monster, being fangoriously devoured, and more!

David and Mark talk about how music goes viral, how Homestar is better with others, how NOT to suntan, how META the emails get, and Dangeresque! Side topics include Singing in the Rain, The NeverEnding Story, Stranger Things 3, Mountain Dew, grammar and the English language, words like cupboard, stunt doubles, Acme anvils, dirty keyboards, the original iPod and the iPod Shuffle, old school technology and tapes and tape decks!

Mark and David go on a long on-topic and off-topic discussion of a single toon: Marzipan Answering Machine 6.0. There's voicemails vs answering machines, keeping up on video games and music, the Beatles, why no-one likes the King of Town, a deep dive into Director Craig Zobel and his connection to the Brothers Chaps, and Valentines Day in Japan and US.

David and Mark discuss SB #71-75, including a bonus email - Double the Strong Bad!

Topics and Tangents: The 2003 Lady's Choice Awards, crazy cartoons, trophies, flash animation, video editing interfaces, pizza trophy, vector graphics, disco, Crazy Go Nuts University, crazy mascots, Japanese mascots, Doraemon, the Kurume city fugu, Saga Bank, Tom & Jerry, Coach Z and The Cheat & The Chort, Homsar, Homestar, college marching band fight songs and theme songs, East Tech, privileges and "privaleges", rewards cards, picking the pizza toppings, prizes for selling magazine subscriptions, lying down in the crisper, Steven Spielberg and Stephen King and Stephen Fry, Duel, attacking appliances, the hardest guitar chord to play, musical notations, Ibanez guitars, gibberish, purple ketchup, Shrek green ketchup, Crystal Pepsi, The Super Bowl, The Simpsons, blue and pink and orange and teal Heinz condiment, yellow and dark yellow honey mustard and dijon, floppy disks, the Save icon, hard floppy disks, Oregon Trail, labyrinth maze games, computer technology, Fry's Electronics, the Lucas Arts sampler, .7 megapixel cameras, Best Buy, Fry's Grocery Stores, podcast formats, why Stitcher kinda stinks, Anchor, Libby, and more!

David and Mark discuss another set of Teen Girl Squad (2-5&7). Side topics also include frozen yogurt shops, jimmies and sprinkles and other toppings, donuts, gummy bears, Reece's, Soup Exchange, thrift stores, Pan Asian cuisine, msg, authentic Japanese and Chinese food vs. Panda Express and other mall food, msg, summer fashion, what happens when you fall into a bottomless pit, Brett Bretterson, Brett Favre, Drew Brees, Tom Brady, and other quartmans / quarterbacks, halfbacks, fullbacks, and American football (handegg) 2020 playoffs and international football, name popularity differences between guys and girls, Lunchables, wiggedy wack, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Henry Rollins, patty cake, pat-a-cake, Looney Toons and Tiny Toons and Tiny Toons Babies, Muppet Babies, Sesame Street, Mister Rogers, Teletubbies, Cheat Commandos, thoughts of dog on twitter, the ways kids exaggerate, and more. After credits we talk about online free-to-play video games.

David and Mark talk about holiday-themed colors and sports-themed colors for candy and food, the San Francisco Giants, M&Ms, commercialism, frame stories, flash games, why 3 times Halloween funjob is called that, Charlie Brown and Peanuts, Seance, raising a ficus plant from the dead, the log lady from Twin Peaks, credenza, how Homestar got something worse than when Charlie Brown "I got a rock", John McEnroe, The Royal Tenenbaums, Swedish Fish, Magnum P.I., The Hamburglar, candy corn, Olympic mascots, the 2020 Olympics in 2021, Covid, Mega Man and Speed Racer, Slash, good and bad Halloween costumes, messy apartments, Trogdor's beefy arm, callbacks to earlier toons, Charlie Chaplin, cartoon skeletons, YouTube comments, and more!

Malloween Commercial and game/3 Times Halloween Funjob/Fan Costume Commentary/That A Ghost/Homestar vs Little Girl 2

David and Mark discuss SB emails (66-70)... and aging game show hosts, Whose Line is it Anyway? The Price is Right, Bob Barker, Drew Carey, Wayne Brady, boom mics and stick mics, coronavirus and social distancing with microphones, pool cleaners, food competitions, biographies and autobiographies, Bill Clinton's My Life and what the definition of "is" is, cassette tapes from the library, Strong Bad's tweets, newspaper jumbles, un sombrero, un taco, cultural appropriation, cinnamon beards, 5 o'clock shadows, hand claps in perfect rhythm, friends who bully, wedgies and noogies, clip shows, the tv show Friends, drinking soy sauce, Grape Nuts robot, callbacks, Strong Bad avoiding the elephant in the room, classic 1980s Mac with a black and white screen, apologetic cakes, marshmallows, how many marshmallows are in a big, s'mores, chubby bunny, creepy kids cartoons and ad commercials and mascots, Jiffy, Cocoa Puffs, Cap'n' Crunch, Fruit ,Loops and Toucan Sam, Lucky Charms, melon soda and melonade, food prizes, and more!

Everybody to the Limit! The Cheat, The Cheat (theme song, old timey theme song, Everybody to the Limit! Where is The Cheat?)

David and Mark discuss The Cheat! Who's always giving Strong Bad a hand? The Cheat... The Cheat. Just how nefarious is The Cheat? We talk about it! How does old-timey The Sneak compare to modern-day The Cheat? We talk about that too. Side-topics include Garfield, Pikachu, James Brown, It takes 2, Fight the Power, 21 Jump Street, ragtime music, sampling vs. cover songs vs. parody songs, and more!

David and Mark talk about the next few Strong Bad emails and cartoons with topics including monster trucks, Mario Run and 1-tap games, Easter egg games, using boost, The System is Down, losing internet, writing English papers in high school and college, the 5-paragraph essay, Limozeen, the randomness of Homsar, Kelsey Grammer, KFC and KOTFC fried chicken, breakfast burritos, the reddest radish, eBay, the Super Bowl, and more!

David and Mark talk about old technology and old school arcades, AOL Time Warner freebie discs, The Net with Sandra Bullock, The 6th Day, Japanese anime, Sazae San and Yokai Watch, Atari and Mac Classic games, Frogger, Medieval Times and peasants in thatched roof cottages, Badger Badger Mushroom, Weebls Stuff, The Cheat and Pikachu, old PC and Apple screensavers, News at 11 and Local News cliches, the 4th of July, Mark Lemke, and the origins of Homestar's name.

Strong Bad Emails 56-60/Marzipan Answering Machine 4&5/Main Pages 11-14

David and Mark discuss... and venture into related topics including  Peanuts and A Charlie Brown Christmas, O Holy Night, Charles Dickens and  A Christmas Carol, giving the perfect gift, Deep Impact, Wes Anderson  movies (Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums), Casablanca, North by  Northwest, The Wizard of Oz, Sesame Street, Mr. Rogers and Daniel Tiger,  and more! God bless us, everybody--!

A Holiday Greeting, The Best Decemberween Ever, A Decemberween Pageant, Decemberween Email Menu, Main Page 16 and most of Decemberween in July: Teen Girl Squad 6, That Time of Year, Homestar and the Nice Present, Seasonal Sweaters and Homestar vs Little Girl (2000-2002 & some of 2004). That's a lot of holiday toons!

David and Mark talk about Halloween costumes, Carmen Miranda and Carmen San Diego, progressive stories, Reese's chocolate, baking chocolate, Mario games,  Ouija boards,  the haunted Toys 'R' Us in Sunnyvale, and more! They also discuss the Homestar Runner Halloween toons from 2000-2002: Homestarloween Party, The House That Gave Sucky Treats,  Pumpkin Carve-nival and Marzipan Answering Machine 7

David  and Mark talk about the internets, the interwebz, the internet, web  development and geocities pages, livejournal, flash animation, GIFs and  giffs and jiffs, Marzipan, awkwardly asking girls out, the Simpsons,  being stuck on a deserted desert island, the 49ers, sending out a  message in a bottle, Charlie Chaplin & Bugs Bunny, High Fidelity  & The Simpsons, absurdist humor, talking like The Cheat, language  learning and translation, marshmallows and smores and tofu and  melon-ade, The Big Bang Theory & laugh tracks, Poot Slap &  Napster, advertisements and commercial jingles, prank phone calls,  Strong Bad and voice impersonations, and some other stuff and thingz!

David and Mark discuss used computers, airplane advertisements, ghosts, hidden games, Marzipan's character, the poopsmith, Free Town USA, bowling, waffle houses, SURGE, Mountain Dew, Code Red, and more!

David and Mark talk about Strong Bad Emails #41-45, PC clones and DOS, Star Wars and Attack of the Clones, action figures, immigration, fishing, techno music writing, feedback, old games, and more!

David and Mark discuss Strong Bad emails 31-40, including the classic  "guitar" and talk about AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), fake online  personas, improvisation, gimmicks, flags of the world, random tourist  sites around the world. Marzipan asks everybody to leave a message.

We review some classic Homestar Runner content! Strong Bad Emails 21-30, King of Town short and In Search of Yellow Dello

Mark and David discuss Character Intro Videos, First Time Here? and Strong Bad Emails 11-20 as well as discuss the merchandising, AOL Instant Messenger, silent films and films with subtitles.

David and Mark reminisce about how they were first introduced to the  website, and their conversation leads them to topics including their  college days, the old days of the interwebz, ESL/EFL Teaching and Language Learning, classic cartoons, YouTube, Google Video, Mystery  Science Theater 3000, and more! Great jeoearrabbbb!!!