Give Life Back to Fhqwhgads
March 31, 2014 4:12 PM   Subscribe

Al Gore invented the Internet, so that one day we could have the glory that is the mashup of Daft Punk's Random Access Memories and Strongbad's Fhqwhgads. via A.V. Club (SLYT)
posted by 4ster (46 comments total) 36 users marked this as a favorite
 
baleeted.
posted by gorestainedrunes at 4:16 PM on March 31, 2014 [7 favorites]


That is one long video for one long joke.
posted by davejay at 4:18 PM on March 31, 2014 [4 favorites]


I can die happy now.

(my iPod has both RAM and the mp3 of the Strong Bad Techno. Excuse me while I go have a personal lightswitch rave.)
posted by jb at 4:22 PM on March 31, 2014 [6 favorites]


TECHNO CHOCOLATE

doo doo doo loo doo doo doo
posted by capricorn at 4:25 PM on March 31, 2014


that sure is a thing that exists
posted by DoctorFedora at 4:29 PM on March 31, 2014 [2 favorites]


"My name is Giovanni Giorgio, but everybody calls me FHQWHGADS"
posted by jason_steakums at 4:35 PM on March 31, 2014 [16 favorites]


The system is down.
posted by peeedro at 4:37 PM on March 31, 2014 [1 favorite]


I like Daft Punk. I like Strong Bad an unreasonable amount. But whoever made this, I'm not buying them a pizza.

:(
posted by aubilenon at 4:43 PM on March 31, 2014 [4 favorites]


everybody to the limit
everybody to the limit
posted by indubitable at 4:44 PM on March 31, 2014 [5 favorites]


#1 summer jam.
posted by Foosnark at 4:44 PM on March 31, 2014 [1 favorite]


Contawhgads nails it.
posted by frijole at 4:49 PM on March 31, 2014 [2 favorites]


Dancing robots
posted by oflinkey at 4:53 PM on March 31, 2014


This is a link to the best part, Get Lucky To The Limit, which has been in my iTunes rotation for quite some time (embarrassingly enough). But don't take my word for it that it's the best part. Ask your friend Joe. Ask your friend Jake. Go on, I'll wait to see what they say.
posted by ilana at 4:57 PM on March 31, 2014 [11 favorites]


Did you link to the end of the album on purpose?
posted by effbot at 4:58 PM on March 31, 2014


I used to know a young woman who would come over to my apartment have beers and watch Strongbad and Red vs. Blue videos.

Fhqwhgads was a particular favorite.

I married this woman.
posted by Pogo_Fuzzybutt at 5:01 PM on March 31, 2014 [39 favorites]


Strongsad would totally give this guy a card and $100.
posted by michaelh at 5:08 PM on March 31, 2014


How come I keep thinking of strongbad lately? It's been 7 years since i enjoyed him. Now I find myself humming the songs and quoting the lines. what is up with that?
posted by rebent at 5:17 PM on March 31, 2014


I do enjoy the slight "Emperor's New Clothes" thing going on, in which the remixer points out that all the tracks have so much in common that the same stuff can be mashed over the top and it works so surprisingly well for all of them!

(I can't call what I'm having here a "lightswitch rave", due to using professional equipment and a DMX control interface to turn the lights on and off.)
posted by BuxtonTheRed at 5:47 PM on March 31, 2014 [3 favorites]


Al Gore invented the Internet

...and today is his 66th birthday (THAT's an accurate statement) and this is an appropriate present for him (no NOT an accurate statement).
posted by oneswellfoop at 6:12 PM on March 31, 2014


Really, it's kind of amazing that Homestar Runner, despite not being updated since 2010. Parts of it have seeped into the fabric of the internet -- you still occasionally see someone say MY HEAD ASPLODE. Here's one of my favorite bits of Runnerana (Flash). (Some more? Their video for TMBG's Experimental Film. Also, one of the Johns voiced the Poopsmith [!] for Strong Bad Email 200.)

The Brothers Chaps have gone on to work on Yo Gabba Gabba and the AMAZINGLY UNDERRATED Aquabats Super Show (which I may like even more than Pony).
posted by JHarris at 6:14 PM on March 31, 2014 [2 favorites]


How come I keep thinking of strongbad lately? It's been 7 years since i enjoyed him. Now I find myself humming the songs and quoting the lines. what is up with that?

Yeah, what - is up, - my doge!? What pop-culture meme is reminding me Strong Bad lately?
posted by straight at 6:21 PM on March 31, 2014 [1 favorite]


Yeah, there's definitely something subtly Strong Bad in the air lately because I've been seeing a little resurgence of references all over the place. Maybe Ermahgerd got Coach Z's voice stuck in the back of everyone's mind.
posted by jason_steakums at 6:29 PM on March 31, 2014




Something reminded me of the brothers Chaps the other day -- I think it is in the air somehow -- and I ended up spending a while in the Strong Bad email archives. I had nearly forgotten how much I adore Strong Sad.
posted by lesli212 at 6:39 PM on March 31, 2014


Once in a while I go back to homestarrunner.net (it's dot com!) to check if there are updates. Usually on Halloween and Decemberween. But there aren't.
posted by 1adam12 at 7:16 PM on March 31, 2014 [2 favorites]


Strongsad would totally give this guy a card and $100.

"Your computer room is now my tai chi space. And it doubles as my chai tea space, too!"
posted by Celsius1414 at 8:16 PM on March 31, 2014 [1 favorite]


Speaking of the ongoing cultural influence of H*R, I finally got around to seeing the Lego Movie last week. Am I alone in thinking that Will Arnett's portrayal of Lego Batman had a palpably Strongbadian quality to it, particularly his metal song?
posted by Strange Interlude at 8:34 PM on March 31, 2014 [6 favorites]


Population Tire has been a favorite of my head. And I've had to explain to my gf who homesar is. It's definitely in the air.
posted by Brainy at 8:39 PM on March 31, 2014


Speaking of the ongoing cultural influence of H*R, I finally got around to seeing the Lego Movie last week. Am I alone in thinking that Will Arnett's portrayal of Lego Batman had a palpably Strongbadian quality to it, particularly his metal song ?

You are not alone. I noted the resemblance enough that I showed my kids a few Teen Girl Squads when we got home.
posted by davejay at 9:26 PM on March 31, 2014 [1 favorite]


(which I may like even more than Pony).

Saints protect us.
posted by maryr at 9:34 PM on March 31, 2014


Brainy: "And I've had to explain to my gf who homesar is."

HE'S A SONNNNG FROM THE SIXTIEEEEES.
posted by Strange Interlude at 9:39 PM on March 31, 2014 [8 favorites]


And I've had to explain to my gf who homesar is.

HE'S THE CAAAAPTAIN OF THE GRAVY TRAIN.
posted by MrBadExample at 11:10 PM on March 31, 2014 [4 favorites]


So did anyone actually go to homestarrunner.com today? Because unless I am very much mistaken, that front page is new. (hrwiki.org doesn't have it, anyway.)

Damn work computer has shitty speakers, though, so I can't tell what's going on.
posted by themanwho at 1:39 AM on April 1, 2014 [2 favorites]


And I've had to explain to my gf who homesar is.

HE WAS RAISED BY A CUUUUUUUP OF COFFEE.
posted by wilberforce at 2:08 AM on April 1, 2014 [7 favorites]


Am I alone in thinking that Will Arnett's portrayal of Lego Batman had a palpably Strongbadian quality to it, particularly his metal song?

My daughters thought the same thing; they said that song reminded them of something Strong Bad would do.
posted by straight at 3:35 AM on April 1, 2014


> ...unless I am very much mistaken, that front page is new. (hrwiki.org doesn't have it, anyway.)

It does now.

At some point they also added a COPPA-compatible legal page. Scroll all the way to the bottom for a special message from Homestar.
posted by ardgedee at 4:23 AM on April 1, 2014 [1 favorite]


Now THAT'S what I'm talkin about!!

I'm gonna buy you . . . a pizza!
posted by petebest at 4:48 AM on April 1, 2014


Oh, huh. It just keeps on like that for an entire hour.

Coincidentally I have an hour-long meeting coming up and a lock on my office door. I think I just found my April Fools Day prank for 2014 especially the part where his voice breaks like Christopher Walken's, just before the end.
posted by wenestvedt at 6:19 AM on April 1, 2014


I'm not going to get my hopes up that they start regular updates again, I'm not going to get my hopes up that they start regular updates again... damn you, Brothers Chaps, just when I thought I was out!
posted by jason_steakums at 7:35 AM on April 1, 2014


That fig leaf Homestar is wearing somehow feels disturbingly R-rated. I don't know if I can show that to my kids or not.
posted by straight at 9:54 AM on April 1, 2014 [1 favorite]


Oh, huh. It just keeps on like that for an entire hour.

I LIKE IT MOST WHEN YOU HARM YOUR FRIENDS.
posted by Slap*Happy at 10:38 AM on April 1, 2014


Hey, it IS a new Homestar Runner cartoon up today! I feel like all of us talking about it made it happen!
posted by lesli212 at 11:46 AM on April 1, 2014


Something in the air indeed! Reality has been foreshadowing this momentous event.
posted by NMcCoy at 12:21 PM on April 1, 2014


AMAZINGLY UNDERRATED Aquabats Super Show

Can we talk about how amazingly underrated Aquabats Super Show is? I'll start. It's really rad and amazingly underrated. Chapman in episode 12 with the strongbad mask and cobraman is awesome.
posted by Barry B. Palindromer at 12:25 PM on April 1, 2014 [2 favorites]


Wait, what's this, under my shoe?

IT'S A CARTOON!
posted by JHarris at 2:53 PM on April 2, 2014 [1 favorite]


I've been listening to this repeatedly and unironically enjoying the crap out of it, grinning from ear to ear the entire time...


Please send help.
posted by schmod at 6:30 PM on April 3, 2014 [1 favorite]


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