Wikipedia describes Homestar Runner as “a mix of surreal humour, self-parody, and references to standard tradition, particularly video video games, traditional tv, and standard music.” However after launching in 2000, the web-based cartoon turned a cultural phenomenon, co-creator Mike Chapman remembered in 2017:
On the identical day we acquired a demo of a music that John Linnell from They May Be Giants recorded for a Sturdy Unhealthy Electronic mail and a full-size working Tom Servo puppet from Jim Mallon from Thriller Science Theater 3000…. The Homestar references within the Buffy and Angel finales ceaselessly in the past had been big. And there was this image of Joss Whedon in a Sturdy Unhealthy shirt from round that point that somebody despatched us that we could not consider. Years later, a photograph of Geddy Lee from Rush carrying a Sturdy Unhealthy hat on stage circulated which equally freaked us out. We do not know if he knew what Sturdy Unhealthy was, however our dumb animal character was on his head whereas he most likely shredded ‘Working Man’ so I am going to take it!
After a mutli-year hiatus beginning round 2009, the positioning has solely been updating sporadically — and a few apprehensive that the top of Flash additionally meant the top of the Flash-based cartoon and its site altogether. However on the day Flash Participant was formally discontinued — December thirty first, 2020 — a “post-Flash replace” appeared at HomestarRunner.com:
What occurred our web site? Flash is lastly dead-dead-dead so one thing drastic needed to be completed so folks may nonetheless watch their favourite cartoons and sbemails with super-compressed mp3 audio and hidden clicky-clicky easter eggs…!
[O]nce you click on “come on in,” you may end up in acquainted territory due to the Ruffle Venture. It emulates Flash in such a manner that every one browsers and units can lastly play our cartoons and even some video games…. Your favourite easter eggs are nonetheless hidden and now you’ll be able to even select to look at a YouTube model if there’s one.
Remember, Ruffle continues to be in improvement so not every thing works completely. Video games made after, say 2007, will most likely be fairly janky however Ruffle plans on ulitmately supporting these too sooner or later. And any cartoons with video parts in them (Puppet Jams, loss of life steel) will simply present you an empy field the place the video ought to be. However cling in there and sooner or later every thing will probably be similar to it was that summer season after we obtained free cable by some means and Grandma nonetheless lived within the spare bed room.
And since then, new content material has quietly been showing at HomestarRunner.com. (Most just lately, Thursday the positioning added a teaser for an upcoming Halloween video.)
The Homestar Runner wiki is monitoring this 12 months’s new content material, which incorporates:
And previous movies are actually additionally being uploaded on the positioning’s official YouTube channel.
