>Cartoon creator marries girlfriend >Gives wife role in his cartoon >Cartoon doesn't immediately go downhill as creator is forced to change everything to fit wife's far-left political agenda >Creator and wife stay married for 25+ years and the cartoon never loses quality or betrays original premise
How did Matt and Missy do it? In literally every other case of a creator getting his girlfriend/wife involved with a show/comic, the show/comic is utterly destroyed by the girlfriend/wife. But not this time.
Missy is pretty self aware about Marzipan's role in the cartoon, making her hippy attitude a parody of itself and poking fun at her being the only girl in, well, How Come Only One Girl?
Henry Garcia
Missy only voices Marzipan because Mark would sound weird if he tried to talk like a girl.
Brandon Cruz
Does barely producing anything new not count as going downhill, circumstances aside
Eli King
the skills of an artist gags alone are more than we had for most of the actual lull in content Also can't really blame them, 200+ emails alone is a fucking feat, let alone everything else in the HR library.
Kevin Jones
What happened is that she's the closest thing to a non-character minus Pom Pom in the vast majority of toons. And when she isn't she's just a more obnoxious strong sad.
Georgia is a hell of a drug. >she thought Mindy lived with Mark
Zachary Kelly
>Does barely producing anything new not count as going downhill, circumstances aside
They do about 1 to 2 shorts a year, which is hardly anything, but they had about a 10 year run where they produced shorts on a bi-weekly basis, plus games and other shit. Can't blame them for taking Disney bucks, these days.
Christian Collins
You're a few years behind. much as Two More Eggs was fantastic, it's over and old news. They've been doing a bunch of hilarious promotional shorts for the board game lately. Funny stuff, but i'm eagerly awaiting them putting this much work into literally anything else.
Mason Johnson
We're lucky to be getting that much after ten years of nothing. I think the Telltale game was where the Chaps realized they needed to let H*R rest for a while.
Gabriel Miller
I'm watching longplays of Cool Game For Attractive People and it's kind of a glimpse into what a long form Homestar Runner cartoon could be like. Never played the games, but the footage is fun to watch.
David Reyes
Mark, Matt and Missy seem pretty Based and Redpilled. Marzipan as a character is a parody of the ultra far-left liberal hippy girlfriend who bosses around and emasculates her boyfriend all the time. They seem WAY too self aware to actually fall into that sort of trap.
Landon Lopez
is it really a conscious parody or is it just funny?
James Gomez
you forgot to add that Missy never demanded larger role for Marzipan or more female characters for herself to voice. Honestly, she seems to be perfectly happy supporting her husband, raising Little Girl, and voicing her character when the need arises.
She's like the Anti Yoko Ono.
Alexander Torres
Yeah that was good stuff, well-written, but it burned them out pretty hard to work on, and honestly the pacing wasn't fantastic compared to the cartoons (obviously unavoidable in a game but especially one in the Telltale style)
it reminds me of how the futurama game's cutscenes add up to just.. a normal episode of the show.
Adam Cruz
I feel bad sometimes that my absolute favorite parts of the website are fan costume commentary and the Little Girl videos. I love their writing, but reacting to shit they didn't create and can't control is somehow even better. In an ideal world, the Chaps would have been another Henson, and we would have gotten some kind of SesameStreet-esque variety show that mixes scripted sketches, improvised shit with puppets and real little kids, surreal experimental animations, parodies, education, parodies of education...
Eli Peterson
Little Girl is probably a Teen Girl by now, if not older.
you mean you didn't see? dude, when Little Girl was a teenager, she had a youtube channel where she revealed her weeaboo powerlevel pretty hard. It's gone now but it was nice.
Nathaniel Lewis
Wait, Little Girl is not a Teen Girl but an Adult Girl?
Oh god, where is all the time going?
Kevin Nelson
She’s can be funny, like that joke about how it should of ended with them getting married and having babies and then the babies should’ve gotten married and had babies.
Brody Perez
Fuck, Marry, Befriend, Kill.
Hunter Brooks
I get pretty mixed up about who's who, and obviously they try not to spread a bunch of real name stuff around, but I believe original Little Girl was a Chapman niece, Other Little Girl was Baby Lady's niece, and Very Very Little Girl was their actual babbu I believe the voice of the little girl in the recent April Fools one (what with all the BLAHs) was also a chapbaby, and i know the girls from Panda Bractice are all their daughters.
Juan Ramirez
Fuck Cheerleader. Marry So-and-So Befriend Whats-Her-Face and kill Ugly One
Is this even a contest?
Lucas King
joe gran and danielle kogan have been dating for 5 years, and there cartoons have only gotten better.
Lucas Thompson
My mom and sister, both pretty tight with the urban hippie community, laughed their ass off at the faux-ducken
Ian Foster
I'd marry What's Her Face in that style, personally, but otherwise stick to this list.
Brayden Hall
Why do people play mean games like this? I'm not going to cheat on my perfect wife What's-Her-Face.
Camden Hernandez
I believe their current work is focused on preserving/converting the website to HTML5. The Brothers Chaps have a limited outreach through their @StrongBadActual account on Twitter, and recently they asked The Behemoth for help converting one of their old games from Actionscript.
Austin Allen
>there are multiple Little Girls throughout history
Color me surprised.
Camden Ross
plus it's pretty obvious Lauren Faust's influence fixes a lot of Craig McCracken's work, because he was putting out horseshit while she was busy on horses. don't forget klasky and csupo were married, and together they made decades of wonderful, ugly cartoons.. and even when they divorced, they didn't let it affect the work, they just started coming into the office separately. Real professionals, like Lucy and Desi. That's how people were before modern 'me me me' culture made everyone so hyperfocused on how they themselves feel.
>far-left in Georgia, "far left" means "owns more US flags than Confederate flags"
>In literally every other case of a creator getting his girlfriend/wife involved with a show/comic, the show/comic is utterly destroyed by the girlfriend/wife MRA detected. i could name counterexamples but you'll just retroactively decide they're shit for the duration of the thread, or otherwise move the goalposts.
All you need is an SWF file and the Swivel application and you're set to preserve all your favorite oldies and/or goldies in 2K, 4K, or HK VHS bootleg quality!
Kevin Watson
it's weird nobody's using html5 to do flash stuff even though supposedly it can do all of that and more with less lagginess instead everyone's just abandoning not just flash but the shit they MADE in flash you didn't notice the differences in age and hair color?
Ryder Cox
Don't forget that your exaggerated stereotypes are also exaggerated stereotypes.
Lucas Jackson
HTML5 has a higher learning curve than Flash did. Right now HTML5 is best used to maintain a clean and unified experience in both mobile and desktop experiences with limited animation and video playback capability.
Dylan Smith
I can't defend missing the hair color, but I honestly can't keep track of how old certain Homestar cartoons are and what the chronological order is, so the different ages never stood out to me.
Camden Morgan
No one is stopping your from killing or befriending anyone, though.
I remember that Yea Forums found her tumblr or twitter a few years back, can't remember which. At the tmie she was an enormous weeb and I think was 12 or 13.
With how much Strong Bad he must have had to voice in a single period I'd probably never want to touch him again for a long time just for my fucking health, personally.
Hunter Ramirez
Fuck WHF Marry Sew and Sew Kill Cheerleader (And Cheerladder and Cheerlubber for good measure) Mooch of Ugly One for half-functioning electronics.
Austin Turner
I can't fucking believe he did live singing concerts and even did Fish-Eye Lens and R-A-P-S-O-N-G changing between SB and Coach Z and Peacey P flawlessly
The man's got chords of steel, and I'm pretty sure even doing one day's worth of SB-level voice recording would leave me ravaged for a week.
Nathan Reed
i hate this they should not all be cute. Whats her face should not do this to me
Julian Brown
idiot fuck. its because it was like 2000 to 2005 and that MY WIFE IS FUCKING WITH MY WORK shit wouldn't happen to them or in cartoons for YEARS TO COME
faggot, i hate you so much OP
NEVER TALK BAD ABOUT H*R!!!!!!!!!!
Jordan Sullivan
He rubs his throat with sandpaper daily!
Dylan Allen
It's just funny, and that's what makes it great
Aiden Watson
Will this work with the interactive flashes as well?
Liam Powell
anytime anything goes wrong
>what the crap?
anyone else use homestar-isms irl? irc? also, anything cardgage says is gold, especially when ending a phone conversation with telemarketers.
Adrian Jackson
"Shock-You-Mentary" and "Thang Ding" are among my favorite ones.
I find myself singing "The Scroll! The Scroll!" from time to time and "Where my hat is at?"
Joshua Gray
I use them allll the time, to the point that I never actually say a ton of words the normal way, ever. promblem, jorb, stnank...
Brandon Hill
I sing to inanimate things "I'm so in lOve with you it's kinda inapprOppriate"
Carter Nelson
I never got the bit about pointing it at a real fish eye turning them into a dixieland jazz band. Is it a reference I don't get or just a non-sequitur?
Nathaniel Jenkins
I text "yes. very yes." a lot.
Dylan Cox
Yes, but you'll have to change a setting and then interact with the Flash toon yourself. It won't be an automatic process as with other Flash toons run through Swivel.
David Cook
I think the idea is just that if you point a fish-eye lens at a real fish eye, it's so redundant that reality turns inside-out.
Kayden Evans
didn't they imply in a couple places that one of the TGS(I think What's-Her-Face but I'm not sure) is supposed to be actually pretty busty
Brandon Hernandez
I don't recall any bust-related jokes in any H*R anything. Even that time Homestar was swimming around in the blue-dyed water around Sweet Puttin' Cakes and found a bra, that felt kinda scandalous.
Dylan Howard
I could have sworn it came up somewhere else, but pretty much the only thing I could find on the topic was in Fan Costumes 2017, where a What's-Her-Face cosplay appears and Strong Bad notes it as being extremely accurate, with the girl dressed as her having a rather large bust
Michael Lewis
I throw more juggas and jigga wuggas after some phrases than I'd care to admit.
Josiah Phillips
She emphasizes "wearing unflattering clothing" and the other girls "forgot" to invite her to the beach.
Henry Hill
.... huh. good point.
Juan Hernandez
"Grood! I mean... good. And great. Great and good." "Hoowaaay!" "This is the first and final straw!" "Gorka fa pork!" "No probalo, (Bridget/Balinda)" Strong Bad's little "Hourp!" exertion noise "There's no such thing as mysterious!" "Stripe-ed" "Listen up, you undapants! Who wants to get hogtied, and pushed down, into, some snakewater?" "Boo! I'll scare your dad!" "Only liars and thieves choose Grumblecakes! Those people go to prison!" And a lot more I'm forgetting.
Luis Collins
CORN IS NO PLACE FOR A MIGHTY WARRIOR
Gavin Ortiz
"Hey, crap for crap!" and other decidedly NSFHR variants has been popping up a lot in my vocabulary lately.
Adrian Hill
calling crap Whatsit and calling a beverage a Cold One are two common ones
Landon Adams
That's not the first time you heard Cold Ones though surely
Luke Rodriguez
probably not, but Homestar Runner/Strong Bad Emails uses it a lot so that's what made it stick in my vernacular
Leo Hill
What the sense-make always gets stuck in my mind
Nolan Gray
Calling them the Coldest of Ones. Ones that are Cold.
Levi Jackson
the way H*R breaks phrases down and encourages the mixing and matching of the words therein is so great. That and Adventure Time have totally destroyed my ability to make talk words.
Logan Ramirez
I always find myself saying "Dear Crushed Ice" whenever I'm at my refrigerator.
>Guy wouldn't know majesty if it came up and bit him in the face.
Julian Turner
I really wish they made another season of SBCG4AP. Now that Telltale's dead, they probably have the rights back.
Dominic Butler
"my stummy hurts" is a thing me and my friends say sometimes
Matthew Parker
">No, mean- No, I mean- No."
Owen Perry
but it was such a nice tight package, and it ended with things that had built up through every episode, culminating in a gag that rewarded people who followed the production blog!
Jace Cooper
I've said that since I was a little kid. That's what's so great about these cartoons, they reflect real stuff. Things you've heard some kid on the playground say.
John Cooper
>culminating in a gag that rewarded people who followed the production blog! Does that thing even still exist?
Dominic Butler
the wiki would know
Jose Hill
I remember hearing in some interview with both of the chap brothers, that they would best describe their humor as 'road trip humor' Makes sense considering how it has that non-sequitur, but organic childlike flow to a lot of their gags that you could easily see come from two kids trying to creatively beat the boredom of travel.
Dominic Thomas
>10 years of consistent constant >the lull of content has been happening for 9 years now
Ethan Kelly
Quality over quantity.
Bentley Bell
Because a One that isn't Cold is scarcely a One at all.
Nathan Flores
>"Uncouth" Man is anyone ever just plain couth? I bet freakin Strong Sad is plain couth.
Jason Smith
Anyone else craving a nice heaping bowl of “Gunshots in a crowded mall”?
I'm more of a Schenectady Crispies man, myself. Though nothing's quite as good as Cheat Commandos O's Sugar Cereal (now with Fluffy Puff Marshmallows O's)
Easton Roberts
I still sometimes say "I DON'T LIKE FOOD ANYMORE" and "no probalo"
>Ohhh... some animal died... The-h-star-the-h-star-r is at least as quotable as the simpsons.
Liam Adams
Any chance Cool game for Attractive People gets picked up by another company or will it be the same legal hell that the Scott Pilgrim game is in
Bentley Cruz
"All up ons", "dooj" "consummate v's" I also add -'d at the end of my verbs a lot. I'm sure there's others that I'm forgetting as well.
Ryder Harris
The dialogue has a very poetic quality to it, if I can climb up my own ass for a minute. It's memorable because, intentionally or not, there's a lot of humorous misdirection going on at a basic level. Phrases that have rhythm that just stops short of being complete, diction that uses almost the word you expect but not quite. It's all focused on how something is said rather than what they actually say; that's how they made their most popular feature one of the characters answering his email.
I'd compare it closely to Achewood in that way, even if it's on the opposite pole in a lot of other ways. Achewood would never have somebody say "A dog being put down" when it could have them say "A german shepherd named Yard Dancer being destroyed by the county".
Thomas Thomas
it's done. it's finished. seriously. It makes some of the quotes really quotable but only out loud, or if you try to type in a way that expresses the cadence >and SOMEbody's a-GWABbin a-ma-buuuuttt
Grayson Moore
The entire character of Senor Cardgage is basically the audio equivalent of that old "you can change the order of letters within a word and people will still understand it" idea he grumbles and mumbles his way through sentences, garbling some words and substituting others, but you still get exactly what he means.
Nathan Miller
A nifty board game and a subtle influence at Disney are pretty nice.
Wish I could have gotten that Wooden edition.
And a Kick da Cheet
Jaxon Carter
It's canon that What's her face can be hot if she tried.
Nathan Allen
God I want my own kick the cheat so badly anyone remember what they retailed for at the time? I think they were already sold out before i even found out about em
Little Girl is the Chaps niece from one of their sisters
Jason Gomez
It's mostly just between my sister and I but the ones that pop up the most are "Best thing ever...... Beef.... Stew." "CHOCOZUMA'S REVENGE... THIS BROWNIE MIGHT KILL YOU!" "I hope this is all fat free." "Shut up, Lady." "I added some chiaroscuro shading..." Basically the entire Death Metal email "I'M AN ABOMINATION, AND I'M COMING TO YOUR HOUSE AFTERSCHOOOOOL!"
Leo Price
What's Her Face should have baggier jeans than that, this is the mid 2000's we're talking about her. She buys them from the secondhand store.
Henry Campbell
Stating the obvious- BALEETED.
Owen Cook
I'm pretty sure "raising kids" is not a far-left political agenda.
Carter Fisher
I find myself calling people Helvetica all the days time now.
Sebastian Carter
>I really wish they made another season of SBCG4AP. Now that Telltale's dead, they probably have the rights back.
Honestly, if they got the rights back, they could probably edit together the existing footage and audio with only a bit of new bridging material to replace gameplay and rerelease each episode as a 1-hour "movie".
Since I imagine a lot of HSR fans never played the Telltale games, those would be "new" to a lot of people.
Josiah Cruz
>I'm pretty sure "raising kids" is not a far-left political agenda.
But Liberals hate kids, that's why they support Planned Parenthood so ferociously.
Dylan Edwards
>Oh, me too! I am not exempt! >I can do it! I will do it nine times. >landry The Cheat's cartoons have some strangely catchy language
Angel Carter
Technically no. Me and my group just blurt out lines at random, zero context.
Noah Garcia
That happened once
Nathaniel Stewart
And yet it burninates for all time.
Dylan Martinez
when I hear EDM playing sometimes I start singing "the system is down, the system is down"
Wyatt Sanders
don't you mean kill kill kill kill. they are the teen girl squad after all.
Jacob Watson
Im always saying, " put a lil steam and cinnamon" when ever im cooking
Jayden Gray
Yeah, shut up, kid!
Jordan Clark
oh that's right. I forget if missy's niece was anyone also I forget who voiced Preshy and Rafferdy but they were like, my favorite characters, and Those Darn Cousins was my favorite toon. Too bad it's extra impossible to finish it up now, but they could at least package up what there is (and maybe there were leftover voice files?) with a quick ending..
Levi Barnes
indeed, it's the opposite. not sure what you're talking about since that's OP's point. but it was steam and sugar, wasn't it?
Blake Rodriguez
its more the fact that my suggestion to add steam to a dish is what pisses off my head cook. Also love saying " I can do it, I can do it 9 times."
Kevin Brown
I hope I don't sound like a genuine idiot when I say 'all the time' instead of always.
Jeremiah Rodriguez
The Chaps and Missy are from Georgia, a good ole red state. That sort of shit only happens in New York and California.
Matthew Fisher
I'm kinda enjoying these youtube reuploads, but while it's nice to be able to pause, it sucks not getting all the clickaword bits.
Gavin Roberts
Dead Zud
Jeremiah Jones
>it can do all of that and more with less lagginess While HTML5 can technically do animation etc, the real reason Flash was insanely popular was because of the authoring tool (the Adobe Flash program) and how easy to learn it was. Anyone could follow a short tutorial and have their own crude flash animation in like, 30 minutes?
As far as I know there's nothing like that for HTML5, an all-in-one development environment that emphasizes animation and interaction, using a point-and-click GUI, with support for drawing vector graphics right in the program, etc.
Samuel Peterson
Figures. it's like when DVDs came out but nobody had a DVD recorder to tape shit off of the TV for free. they actually paid for subscriptions to shit like tivo
My brother works in advertising and he sometimes puts the "buy all our playsets and toys" jingle into his demo videos
Austin Cooper
So, like a modern-day Muppet Show? I would kill for that.
Nathan Wright
I think the format would be more like sesame street in my imagination, just in the way that it'd include random little cartoons and skits with real kids, but yeah
Landon Sanchez
i still say BALETED
Mason Sanchez
>DELTEETED
Grayson Garcia
Computer Over? Virus = Very Yes?
Eli Robinson
That's not a good prize
Matthew Wright
I mean, the worst thing to happen to this cartoon was the hiatus, and as a former SUfag, I can tell you that's the least of the problems any cartoon can have.
Elijah Clark
>mfw marzipan is just one long coiled tentacle with a face
I feel like homestar has had such an affect on my vocabulary and speech patterns that I wouldn't even recognize 75% of it if I tried outside of direct references.
if nothing else, I regularly use nouns as verbs with a 'd at the end. Hell I just did it like half an hour ago in a different thread.
Lucas Carter
>marketing Skub to children
Fucking disgusting
Aaron Gonzalez
HEART OF A CHAMPION
Kevin Jones
FUCKING ANTI-SKUB FAGS GET OF MY BOARD
Tyler Rivera
I can't believe they put up an official upload of the best song
The best offbrand Hamstray is Oshtoby People don't remember, but during the hiatus.. he helped us survive.
Parker Ward
About a year ago I reflected on a lot of the idiomatic expressions or colloquialisms I've been saying for quite possibly decades and realized they either make me sound like an idiot or are completely vulgar.
I realized "how's it hanging" isn't entirely asking about "what have you been doing, while hanging out", it's a means to ask that by asking about how your balls are hanging. I had to consciously examine my speech patterns in professional situations and kill so many turns of phrase that for the longest time I thought were at worse a bit quirky like exclaiming "Jesus Christ"; so many Strong Bad modes of speech had to be identified and removed because you sounded like a peasant. Turns out, Christians can curse, cuss, and say any amount of awful racist or sexist shit they want but you just can't use the lord's name in vain.
Jeremiah Hill
Yo hit me up with your dealer
Ryan Sullivan
never forget that 'vulgar' just means 'common' and people who treat that as a negative are being classist. and not the good kind of classist where we denounce urban thuggery. >talking about balls that's the point. we all have balls. It's cool to talk about them. everyone in every culture through history has done so in one way or another. talked about the practical things, what your body's excreting, etc. Hell 'jazz' music comes from the slang for fucking, because that's what it was about. people were demonizing the entire entertainment culture, so there was no reason to hide what it was about, or try to tone down the debauchery >using the lord's name in vain commonly believed mistake. what that commandment means is if you say 'i swear to yahweh I'll X' you'd better fucking do it. you swore, now keep your word.
James Kelly
I realized I had been going up to women and have asked them repeatedly about their balls for years without realizing I was asking about their balls, which they obviously don't have. And I cannot imagine if or how awkward that must have been for them in our first few encounters. Or worse, they could have thought I was asking about their tits, which isn't only awkward but offensive.
Yeah, it's not a problem if it's men, men obviously would brush it off as just jovial male banter.
I understand words change, but just because they change doesn't mean everyone's caught up and usually in a professional setting you have to be sensitive to that stuff. Man, you have to just sterilize your business persona. Be charming but know and avoid every possible landmine.
Leo Reyes
no woman anywhere is going to be weirded out by being asked how it's hanging. no woman worth dating anyhow.
Zachary Williams
Wait, they're dating for sure? I always assumed so but I don't think Joe and Danielle have ever outright said as much.
Carter Johnson
If heavy-lourdes have a real name, I don't want to know it.
I mean, I'm sure there's a name for that specific type of weight. whereas lourde is french for heavy, so it's just a bilingual canadian weight that isn't very specific with its warning.
Jack Murphy
I've tried this and I can't figure out how to make interactive flash files work. What am I doing wrong?
Jayden Russell
In the "Source" section, set it to "Manually Start and Stop Recording". That should allow you to manually click in the Flash toon and record accordingly.
That whole sbemail is golden. >That's not a good prize >I dunno. You forgot to wear your neck? >I know how to fix your computabox >Stop! That's not supposed to be possible!
Jayden Bailey
I thought it was from a french/english washing machine?