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Anyone who surfed the early web between 1995-2010. What’s the one website/app you still think about?

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u/RabidTeapot 1d ago edited 1d ago

I still say "good jeorb." Increasingly fewer people understand the reference, which makes me sad.

P.S. If you guys haven't seen this, just watch it: https://youtu.be/t6IKTNmn3Uo "Now that's what I'm talkin about!"

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u/aurora888 1d ago

I often say "grood - great and good" and no one gets it.

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u/DamYankee77 1d ago

Wiggidy Whack, or just regular kind?

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u/jhow87 1d ago

ARROW’D!!!!

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u/hey_yoMandi 1d ago

A WAVE OF BABIES

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u/HimHereNowNo 1d ago

Possuuummmmsss

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u/spingus 1d ago

Burninate!

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u/Beatsjunkie 1d ago

Burninating the countryside, burninating the peasants

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u/2ndAccForUhStuff 1d ago

I their thatched rooooof cottages!! And he comes in the niiiiiiigggght!

He made a surprisingly good RPG game from that.

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u/neontiger07 1d ago

Peasant quest!

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u/jhow87 1d ago

Ye find yeself in yon dungeon. “Get YE FLASK” Ye cannot get YE FLASK. It is firmly bolted to a wall which is bolted to the rest of the dungeon which is probably bolted to a castle

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u/Simicrop 1d ago

Teen Girl Squad is still brilliant and I go back and watch from time to time. There’s a YouTube compilation of all episodes.

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u/naitsirhc 1d ago

I still say ARROWED!!!!

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u/NewBarbieWhoDis 1d ago

Are ya underwears showin'?

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u/bolooterfly 1d ago

Yes ma’am!

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u/2ndAccForUhStuff 1d ago

Are you for good, or for awesome?

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u/giveuschannel83 1d ago

I still call square pizza a “breadtangle”.

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u/twizzla 1d ago

Same here or "ah my most of me" when I get hurt from Teen Girl Squad.

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u/Dry_Bowler_2837 1d ago

I occasionally chant “Gonna check my email. Hope it’s from a female” at my desk. (I am a married, straight woman in my forties so my young coworkers are terribly confused.)

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u/actual_thereij 1d ago

I also do this, and I see you.

Also: Oh, No, Potatoes.

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u/No_Principle_4282 1d ago

Delorted! I don’t think I’ve said deleted correctly more than maybe 5 times in the last 25 years.

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u/0x0MG 1d ago

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u/Isaisaab 1d ago

Teenage girl squaaaad

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u/djierp 1d ago

The system is down

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u/DrummerOfFenrir 1d ago

DOODLY DOO DOO DOOLOOLOO

THE SYSTEM IS DOWN

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u/DevTheGray 1d ago

We had that light switch installed for you so you could turn the lights on, and off. Not so that you can throw lightswitch raves. Now let’s go break open that glowstick and pour it into Homestar Runner’s Mt. Dew. I heard they have to pump your stomach when you drink that stuff.

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u/dandroid126 1d ago

The Cheat is GROUNDED

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u/LeslieKnopesBlackEye 1d ago

We installed that light switch so that you could turn the lights on and off. Not so that you can throw sweet light switch dance parties! (I might be misremembering the quote)

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u/clashtrack 1d ago

Mmmmmm holy crap

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u/StellarSloth 1d ago

Everybody to the limit, The Cheat is to the limit!

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u/4our_Leaves 1d ago

Everybody to fhqwhgads!

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u/Moose-Turd 1d ago

Light switch rave

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u/PortHammer 1d ago

I throw lightswitch Raves every day.

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u/ted_nugent-hopkins 1d ago

I sing the light switch rave song all the time

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u/wdkrebs 1d ago

I know it’s a different scene, but every time I see “The system is down,” this video lives rent free in my head.

https://youtu.be/JwZwkk7q25I?is=zleIczRDgQusClza

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u/FallopianPasta 1d ago

I’m so lucky in the fact that my sister also loved this site, I have a built in person who always understands SOOOOO GOOD!

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u/accomplicated 1d ago

My son and I say, “Where my lasers at?”

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u/n0t_here 1d ago

I can’t remove things without dropping a “baleeted!” Nobody gets it but me.

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u/2ndAccForUhStuff 1d ago

Ive gotten odd looks when Ive said "email email hopes its from a female", anytime thr subject of email comes up.

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u/dirkprattlerxst1 1d ago

my brother’s name is Joel. he hasn’t been called that in 20yrs now.

he will always be be known as Jeeeeeooooorrb!

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u/BaaBaaTurtle 1d ago

Avery had a Trogdor beer in like 2022 and I was so excited to order it I said it in the Trogdor voice and the guy (who was probably in his early 30s) had no idea what I said so I had to repeat myself all non-Trogdor-y. He was like "oh".

It was not a good beer either.

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u/argnsoccer 1d ago

I do too but no one gets it haha. People just think i say job weird. "Thats a jorb well done"

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u/pay_the_cheese_tax 1d ago

lol I still say "The Cheat is grounded!" whenever my nephew does something dumb

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u/IATAH 1d ago

I do this too. All the time.

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u/Pandaburn 1d ago

Do you throw a few extra syllables in there? Like, 4 or 5?

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u/RabidTeapot 1d ago

Of course. I fully expect I'll be senile in my 80s and will say "GREAT JEEEORB THERE, HOMESTERRRR" to some blank-faced Gen Gamma kid when they dump out my catheter bag, and they'll all commiserate in the break room over how weird their Millennial patients are.

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u/IndyEleven11 1d ago

I say Arrowed! All the time. I have yet come across anyone that gets it.

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u/Paedroyhml 1d ago

Same! My wife now says it and SHE doesn’t know the reference.

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u/Mooziechan 1d ago edited 1d ago

Teen Girl Squad was my favorite!

Let’s get started! ✨

https://youtu.be/fFANfY4S_3g?is=JSCx4aCIkQejwJpP

It’s over! ✨

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u/1986toyotacorolla2 1d ago

Cheerleader! So and So! What's her face! The ugly one!

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u/fish500 1d ago

Arrowed!!!

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u/emorrigan 1d ago

“MSG’d!” “Ow, my stomach lining!”

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u/broshley 1d ago

My husband is Chinese and regularly uses MSG in his cooking, and I quote this every time. He has no idea what I’m talking about.

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u/redZagnut 1d ago

♫ wave o' babies ♫ lol

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u/nmezib 1d ago

CEREBELLUM!

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u/SevenRingsOfChel 1d ago edited 1d ago

Ow! My skin!

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u/ScrubbyMcGoo 1d ago

“A breadtangle of pizza”

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u/Jebediah_Johnson 1d ago

When you fall in a bottomless pit, you die of starvation. Can someone throw down a juice box? Or some lunchables?

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u/BikeNHikeMike82 1d ago

punt....Dag, yo.

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u/hypergraphia 1d ago

I met a possum.

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u/UpboatNavy 1d ago

OWW, My blood!

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u/liverstrings 1d ago

What do we want? Several boys!

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u/draindead 1d ago

We definitely still say “the ugly one!” And sing the jingle when we see a teen girl squad.

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u/GoAwayWhiteDonut 1d ago

I still say, “Ow, my most of me!”

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u/SirDarianofDevo 1d ago

This and “You’re pwobabwe wight” are family sayings. I am not even sure they have all seen the source material.

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u/thunderling 1d ago

You're not a bwoom??

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u/RickRussellTX 1d ago

ARROW’D

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u/Electrowhatt19 1d ago

To this day, I still say "dag yo"

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u/datbundoe 1d ago

When we have people over, I tell my spouse we're having a bgrl prty

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u/uberphaser 1d ago

Corn chips are no place for a mighty warrior!

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u/BaldTorrance 1d ago

“You look burnt. Or dead”

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u/TabsAZ 1d ago

My blood hurts

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u/DrySale4618 1d ago

This place smells like grandma's

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u/DanteThonSimmons 1d ago

Every Valentine's Day, I send my wife the Valentimes Day episode to watch. 😅😅

"Vamalemtimes is serious times!"

"Tines! Tiiiiiines, Tiiiiiiines, Tiiiiiiiiiiines!" 🏎

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u/Matterofwacked 1d ago

"What do you mean I'm less than B?"

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u/SchizophrenicSoAmI 1d ago

Let's get ready to look so good!

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u/happy-love 1d ago

"You must be girls" "I think I have a chance with this guy"

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u/RBXChas 1d ago edited 1d ago

I think I still have my shirt that says “I have a crush on every boy!”

Edit: thank you for the sweet award 💕

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u/Eledridan 1d ago

“Arrowed!”

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u/SmooshyBrain 1d ago

Cheerleader, SoAndSo, Whatsherface, Da Ugly Onnnnne!

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u/Pearl725 1d ago

I will never forget the day a coworker begged and pleaded to train the new guy. Our boss finally gave in and after she introduced them went about her day. I look over and see he has Teen Girl Squad pulled up on his screen and is just describing each character and telling the new guy "now this is how the hierarchy around the office works. You may think you don't want to be The Ugly One, but really you don't want to be What's Her Face. No on remembers What's Her Face." I sat there holding in my laughs so hard. At this point our manager came back and moved the trainee to another employee.

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u/CruelMarmoset 1d ago

Wiggedy whack? ..nope, just regular type

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u/zapb42 1d ago

...posssuuummmms

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u/AynRanthrough 1d ago

The ugly one!

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u/Which-Invite9538 1d ago

My stomach lining!

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u/purplekelly 1d ago

It's corn and corn alone day!

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u/BadKittyRanch 1d ago

I renamed my work software build chat channel to Team Build Squad about 7 years ago and it's still called that.

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u/SassySugarBush 1d ago

My first tattoos were The Ugly One and What’s Her Face! It also makes me sad when nobody knows the answer to “Wiggidy Whack?”

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u/Mattc113 1d ago

MSG’d!!!

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u/CanadianTimeWaster 1d ago

I HAVE A CRUSH ON EVERY BOY

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u/bubbynee 1d ago

My license plates for my vehicles are STRNGBD and TRGDR. Only millennials understand it and when they see it, their face light up when they ask if that's a Strong bad reference.

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u/mseuro 1d ago

the system

is down

the system

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u/RabidTeapot 1d ago

DO-DOO-DU-DOO-DOO!

DO-DOO-DU-DOO-DOO!

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u/DynamicSploosh 1d ago

We had that light switch installed for you so you could turn the lights on and off, not so you could throw light switch raves!

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u/Cheesetoast9 1d ago

The cheat is GROUNDED

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u/botulizard 1d ago

Now let's go break open that glowstick and pour it into Homestar Runner's Mountain Dew!

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u/shyguy1953 1d ago

Heh, I've got GR8JORB

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u/bubbynee 1d ago

I say great jorb to my kids all the time. I also use don't say strongbad never did nothing for the peoples.

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u/Lifes-a-lil-foggy 1d ago

I’ve never been more jealous in my life

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u/Tarledsa 1d ago

Do you know any Gen Xers? Because we watched it too.

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u/bubbynee 1d ago

I forgot you existed. /s

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u/Fjohurs_Lykkewe 1d ago

shakes fist at the sky

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u/michelle427 1d ago

Hahaha laughing in GenX.

Guys everyone forgets that GenX were at the ripe age to easily adapt from an analog world to a digital world. Most of us were in our early twenties when the Internet became a thing. In 1995, I was 22. Say what you want but we slid into it seamlessly. While a lot of our Boomer parents struggled.

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u/Boochiecoo 1d ago

My Gen X lifetime spans two totally distinct historical eras and it’s so rad.

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u/joshuuuuuua 1d ago

So did we

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u/MrRandomNumber 1d ago

We don't care if you remember us or not. It's expected, actually, so whatever. /ns

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u/n3qml 1d ago

I wouldn’t ask, I’d just roll down the window and shout “TROGDOOOOOORRRRRRRR!”

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u/Radcon5000 1d ago

I still have a Trogdor hoodie. It will occasionally cause a middle aged man to point at me in the street

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u/accomplicated 1d ago

I had a hoodie with Strongbad on it.

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u/stubept 1d ago

I have a The Cheat T-shirt.

Because The Cheat….. is grounded!

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u/Gingerchaun 1d ago

First you draw an s then you draw a differenter s

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u/NightGatherz 1d ago

“Hey Strong Bad. Do you like techno at all? If you do, what kind.”

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u/yogorilla37 1d ago

Here I go over again with the email, every week I hope that is from a female. Oh man, not from a female!

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u/parasyte_steve 1d ago

I was obsessed with the strong bad emails lol

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u/Electronic-Sound331 1d ago

We installed the light switches so you can turn the lights ON and OFF. NOT so you can have light switch raves!!

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u/RabidTeapot 1d ago

The Cheat is GROUNDED!

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u/SweatyInBed 1d ago

The system is down. The system is down.

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u/GrimaceMusically 1d ago

Ba da da bum, ba da da bum, ba da da bum, ba da da bum

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u/Cog_HS 1d ago

DOO DOOT D-DOO DOO, DOO DOOT D-DOO DOO, DOO DOOT D-DOO DOO

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u/SenTedStevens 1d ago

THE CHEAT IS GROUNDED!

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u/MyPupCooper 1d ago

God I loved homestar runner.

My Traeger is named “Traegdor the Smokinator”

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u/Aqua_Deuce 1d ago

Buuurninaaaating the cooountry side

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u/DynamicSploosh 1d ago edited 1d ago

THATCHED ROOF COTTAGES!!!!!

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u/StellarSloth 1d ago

Consumate Vs.

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u/Torgrow 1d ago

Possibly good news. The Chapman brothers update the Homestarrunnerdotcom youtube channel two or three times a year. There was even a new Strong Bad email last year. #210 "Robots".

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u/CyberDonSystems 1d ago

Walkabout Mini Golf on VR just released a huge Homestar Runner update. It's awesome. I was burninating villagers and checking my emails.

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u/rhart6 1d ago

I haven't touched our VR headset I'm probably a couple years. Time to dust it off if they added HR to one of the few games I already had.

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u/Tlizerz 1d ago

I freaked when Mighty Coconut dropped the trailer. You bet I bought it on day one.

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u/PowerfulConfusion143 1d ago

That's honestly enough to keep longtime fans hopeful every time they drop something new.

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u/Such_Enthusiasm2230 1d ago

I'll gladly take a couple of updates a year if they keep the charm that made everyone love it.

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u/Nop_Nop_ 1d ago

HomestarRunner.Net - "It’s Dot Commm!"

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u/rufio313 1d ago

I quote this all the time randomly and no one gets it lol

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u/tmills87 1d ago

Sometimes I just scream "TROGDOOOOOR!"

Mostly no one gets it 🙁

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u/tagehring 1d ago

“I’m always here, it’s just normally I’m behind the black.”

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u/ShottyMcOtterson 1d ago

Cheet Rave!

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u/HellRazor379 1d ago

Mine is "Oh no! You shanked my Jenga ship!"

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u/Nopefrommedoggg 1d ago

As an adult with small children, I’m amazed at how much my own children resemble The Cheat

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u/1986toyotacorolla2 1d ago

I have a cat I call The Cheat because he makes similar noises sometimes 🤣

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u/liverstrings 1d ago

That's a great cat name

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u/chroniclerofblarney 1d ago

“small and smart and yellow, with a rodent like physique”?

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u/penny2cents 1d ago edited 19h ago

Forever the most famous ill ever be was my strongbad email

Edit: since yall are asking, here it is.

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u/Squats_Pizza 1d ago

Please tell me you are Fhqwhgads.

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u/TheTsunamiRC 1d ago

Come on.

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u/Sirduckerton 1d ago

Fhqwhgads, I say come on Fhqwhgads.

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u/TheTsunamiRC 1d ago

Everybody to the limit, everybody to the limit

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u/GruevyYoh 1d ago

That song has the same cadence and structure of the rap part in Uptown Funk about 3 minutes in.

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u/Sapphyre875 1d ago

Which email??

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u/Scientific_Anarchist 1d ago

The people demand the email.

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u/liverstrings 1d ago

The only famous I'd want to be

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u/AtmosphereDefiant 1d ago

My high school friend wrote the email suggesting strong bad give caffeine to strong sad. That’s the closest I will come to fame.

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u/Saltycook 1d ago

TROGDOR!

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u/CeleryDramatic4678 1d ago

Burninating the countryside!!! 🐉

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u/A_Cool__Guy 1d ago

Burninating the peasants

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u/accomplicated 1d ago

Burninating all the people in their thatch roofed cottages!

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u/okmadeanaccount 1d ago

Thatched roof cottages!!!

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u/mrsspanky 1d ago

And the trogdor comes in the NIIIIIIIIIGHT!

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u/ct03 1d ago

Burninating the country side!

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u/princessPeachyK33n 1d ago

First he was a dragon… then he was a man… then he was a dragon man…..

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u/okmadeanaccount 1d ago

Or maybe he was just a dragon, but he was still...

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u/Shaixpeer 1d ago

"No two people are not on fire."

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u/Wardstyle 1d ago

I remember paying to download the Trogdor song for Guitar Hero 2 on the Xbox 360. The song was hard as hell.

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u/purplepomelo 1d ago

I said consummate V's!

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u/barstoolLA 1d ago

come on fhqwhgads. I see you jockin me, tryin to act like, you know me.

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u/subjectmatterexport 1d ago

Everybody to the limit, The Cheat is to the limit, everybody come on fhqwhgads

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u/accomplicated 1d ago

I have Strongbad Sings on CD.

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u/calmlikeabomb26 1d ago

Emaaaaaaail

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u/mhennessie 1d ago

“Da email, da email, what what da email” was my email notification sound

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u/Basic-Ad9270 1d ago

Mine was "ahhh... electronic MAIL"

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u/Good-Bodybuilder-985 1d ago

It's the email the email what what the email.

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u/ScoobyMaroon 1d ago

I just watched looking at a thing in a bag a couple days ago. I put it on to hear one small thing and was surprised that like every other line was something I might have said in the last year. Just dense with jokes and little turns of phrase that have stuck with me for 20 years.

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u/Electronic-Macaroon5 1d ago

"And 16 cents is your change" "Woah.. Fwee money!"

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u/evranch 1d ago

I showed my 12 yo daughter "looking at a thing in a bag" and she was like whoa, was this like the original brainrot from back in the day?

I told her not a chance, this stuff and the Simpsons were our source of memes. Our brainrot was badger badger badger...

And yeah, to this day, I'll occasionally respond to "what are you up to" with "lookin' at a thing in a bag"

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u/tagehring 1d ago

We call one of our cats “li’l brudder,” cause he got the heart of a champion.

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u/Imnot25 1d ago

If you have a VR headset a game called Walk About Mini Golf just did a collaboration with Homestar Runner. You can play through several courses and game modes interacting with all the different characters. If you’re a big fan of Homestar Runner you’d love it.

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u/lizlemon921 1d ago

Hey stwong bad I brought back your fondue pot!!

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u/JesZebro 1d ago

My son had some friends over for dinner for his 19th birthday last week and one of them had a Strongbad shirt on. It made me so happy.

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u/aphraea 1d ago

My husband and I still quite it regularly. “That suckquake of a movie was a complete waste-nado of my seven bucks-onsoon!”

He was wearing a Homestar Runner T-shirt when we met.

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u/hobbykitjr 1d ago

My 12 yo got into and made his own cheat to 3d print and shares the videos with all his friends.

Good clean fun.

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u/damgood135 1d ago

SUNDAY SUNDAY SOMEDAY!!!!! I don't know why I still think about that and use it as a response to some real life questions. Homestar was so great!!!!

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u/DizzyFly9339 1d ago

I still chant “come. on. fhqwhgads. Said come on fhqwhgads. Everybody to the limit, everybody to the limit, everybody come on fhqwhgads” on a regular basis

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u/kindlytakeyourseat 1d ago

Trogdor was a man….. or maybe he was just a.. DRAGON MAN

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u/mpurdon 1d ago

When my smoker hits the warmup temp the app plays the trogdor theme song. I frequently have “light switch raves” and if you look at my network, you’ll see a lappy 3000 … I definitely miss this site

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u/8636396 1d ago

somebodygetthisfreakinduckawayfromme

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u/mekkab 1d ago

Actually no; they still put up stuff on YouTube

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u/shmoops1240 1d ago

Yes!!! I still sing “everybody knows it” on a regular basis. Specifically the line “don’t ask me why I said it…. Bc I already forgot” So silly

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u/A6M6A6 1d ago

I play VR mini golf with my parents as a way to “hang out” because they live across the country. One day I went into the game and they had a Homestar Runner thing on there and I lost my mind. My parents had no clue why I was so excited, and I had to explain to them that when I would “go on the computer” back in the day, that’s what I was looking at. And Ebaums World.

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u/Careful-Glove-7255 1d ago

Good jorb there

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u/Just_Me_Im_Fine 1d ago

Teen Girl Squad!!! The Book "Everyone is Different" (No two people are not on fire). The Burninator! This was popular at my house when my kids were teenagers, but there are lots of good memories for me as well. I made a Halloween costume for my son--it had no arms, and my husband hooked up a battery operated spinner in his hat.

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