It's a Decemberween Miracle!

December 14, 2022 7:46 PM

Despite the death of Flash, through the holiday magic of Ruffle Homestar Runner has a new interactive feature, a Decemberween Advent-ish Calendar of sheet music of various H*R songs, along with the characters commenting on them and the odd animated grace note.

The songs so far (links leads to explanations on the Homestar Runner Wiki):

1. Everybody! Everybody! (Homestar Runner Landing Page Song)
2. Stave It Off (One Two Three, And Now You Can Count To Three)
3. Skills of an Artist
4. Caleb Rentpayer Love Theme & Funeral Dirge
5. Now I'll Do A Dance (Old Timey Homestar's dancing song)
6. CGNU Fight Song
7. Videlectrix Chime & StrongBad Zone ("YOUR HEAD ASPLODE")
8. Smells Like Peanut Action
9. Meet Marshie
10. No Problao (Senor Cardgage)
11. Three Times Halloween Funjob
12. Cheat Commandos Theme Song ("Buy all our playsets and toys!")
13. Teen Girl Squad and 4 Gregs
14. Strong Bad's Sort-Of Theme Song, "Strong Bad is a Bad Guy" (coupled with Mario Paint animations!)
15 and later: ???

posted by JHarris (12 comments total)

In before someone says "Don't you mean a Decemberween Mackerel?"
posted by JHarris at 7:48 PM on December 14, 2022

10. No Problao (Senor Cardgage)

Possibly that should be "No Probalo"?

"My left name is tremendous savings, Ms. America!"
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 5:40 AM on December 15, 2022 [1 favorite]

In before someone says "Don't you mean a Decemberween Mackerel?"

I've gotten to the point in life where my kid knows more details about Homestar Runner than I can remember off the top of my head. I have to bite back the "We were quoting this webpage/flash cartoon before you were born!" Okay, I don't always successfully bite that back.
posted by 41swans at 8:11 AM on December 15, 2022 [1 favorite]

I'm so glad you're keeping the memory of Strong Bad and Homestar Runner and their cadre of dumb animal friends alive to the next generation!
posted by JHarris at 9:03 AM on December 15, 2022 [1 favorite]

Also, Rich Trott has been doing awesome remixes of the songs each day and posting them on his Bandcamp page.
posted by JHarris at 9:12 AM on December 15, 2022 [1 favorite]

15. Strongbadia National Anthem
posted by stannate at 9:46 AM on December 15, 2022 [2 favorites]

My wife was watching The Boys and I was not (because fuck Garth Ennis and everything he writes) and she would occasionally out of the blue launch into talking about it but roughly 50% of the time she would say “Homestar Runner” when she meant “Homelander” and at no point did it not make her descriptions way, way more entertaining.
posted by Parasite Unseen at 11:27 AM on December 15, 2022 [2 favorites]

16. Homestar Presents: Presents
posted by JHarris at 1:39 PM on December 16, 2022

17. The Cheat is Not Dead
posted by JHarris at 1:27 PM on December 17, 2022

18. Because It's Midnite
posted by JHarris at 10:18 PM on December 17, 2022

#19 is the theme to Peasant's Quest, still a high point in HSR's long and random history!
posted by JHarris at 5:49 AM on December 19, 2022

The song for the 23rd is the Trogdor theme song, which at the end links to a new Trogdor game they made on itch.io!
posted by JHarris at 6:34 AM on December 23, 2022 [1 favorite]