Wikipedia describes Homestar Runner as “a mix of surreal humour, self-parody, and references to common tradition, specifically video video games, traditional tv, and common music.” However after launching in 2000, the web-based cartoon grew to become a cultural phenomenon, co-creator Mike Chapman remembered in 2017:
On the identical day we obtained a demo of a music that John Linnell from They Would possibly Be Giants recorded for a Robust Dangerous 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 have been large. And there was this image of Joss Whedon in a Robust Dangerous shirt from round that point that somebody despatched us that we could not imagine. Years later, a photograph of Geddy Lee from Rush sporting a Robust Dangerous hat on stage circulated which equally freaked us out. We don’t know if he knew what Robust Dangerous was, however our dumb animal character was on his head whereas he most likely shredded ‘Working Man’ so I will take it!
After a mutli-year hiatus beginning round 2009, the positioning has solely been updating sporadically — and a few frightened that the top of Flash additionally meant the top of the Flash-based cartoon and its website 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 performed so individuals 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 because of the Ruffle Venture. It emulates Flash in such a manner that each 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 observe a YouTube model if there’s one.
Bear in mind, Ruffle remains to be in growth so not every part works completely. Video games made after, say 2007, will most likely be fairly janky however Ruffle plans on ulitmately supporting these too in the future. And any cartoons with video parts in them (Puppet Jams, demise metallic) will simply present you an empy field the place the video needs to be. However cling in there and in the future every part will likely be identical to it was that summer season after we bought free cable in some way and Grandma nonetheless lived within the spare bed room.
And since then, new content material has quietly been showing at HomestarRunner.com. (Most not too long ago, Thursday the positioning added a teaser for an upcoming Halloween video.)
The Homestar Runner wiki is monitoring this yr’s new content material, which incorporates:
And previous movies at the moment are additionally being uploaded on the positioning’s official YouTube channel.
