Super NES
The cartoon starts with a message that the following cartoon is "The first Homestar cartoon ever made." We are then treated to a series of images of Homestar doing various things such as playing baseball, moving around a wrestling ring with Strong Bad, and playing some type of sports game with Pom Pom. Over all of this is a song that will eventually become the music for the theme song video.
There really isn't much to say about this toon, it's short (less than a minute and a half), and doesn't have any storyline. It was apparently made by making a bunch of different animations on the Mario Paint game for the SNES. Fun fact though, it was made by The Brothers Chaps as a Christmas Present for their brother, Donnie.
This cartoon kind of introduces a few more characters, this is the first appearance of the entire Strong Family - Strong Bad, Strong Mad, and Strong Sad - although the latter two only exist for a few seconds. The cartoon shows the beginnings of the Brothers Chaps' animating skills, which would eventually be honed into the fluid, dynamic, flash cartoons that make up most of Homestarrunner.com. However, the cartoon wasn't very funny and had no storyline, for that I give it a D.
Y'know what, it's still early, maybe I should do another toon tonight? What do you guys think? Yes! Okay! Here we go, next on the list is:
Where My Hat Is At?
Here we have another book, so I'm sure we can expect a story out of this one.
This book starts similarly to the last one, with the same declaration of Homestar's adoring fan base and his athletic prowess, but things take a different turn as we continue. We learn that Homestar has lost his hat! And on the day of the Big Game, no less! What!? And this game has a strict uniform rule stating that a player must wear a hat? Whatever will the Homestar Runner do!?
Interspersed with a de-hatted Homestar asking the grammatically incorrect question, "Where my hat is at?" We learn that the hat is not under the couch, on the teleset, in the pool, cooking on the grill, in the postbox, or under the auto. After having exhausted every option he can think of Homestar starts asking his friends. But sadly, Pom-Pom, Coach Zee, and Bubs have no idea where this hat is. The Umpire informs Homestar (probably unnecessarily) that without his hat he can't play in the Big Game.
Homestar, depressed, resigns himself to the fact that he won't be able to show his athletic skills to all at the Big Game and goes home. Once home he decides he could go for "a few cold ones" and opens the refrige- I mean, icebox. As he opens the icebox, he feels that there is something strange. . . then he notices it! Right between the milk and the cold ones is that familiar blue hat! "There my hat is at!!" He exclaims!
Homestar grabs a few cold ones, dons his newly found hat, and runs to the Big Game. Luckily he appears to have arrived just in time to score the winning run! Hooray for Homestar! Coach Zee asks where the hat was and Homestar replies that it was between the milk and the cold ones. The End.
This heartwarming story of a lost hat being found does more than just make us remember to always check the fridge when we have lost something, it also introduced a few more characters: the minor character, The Umpire, and the two Main Characters, Coach Z(ee) and Bubs. Also, we see more of the type of humor that will be commonplace in the future. Grammatically incorrect phrases, alternate terms for things with simple names, and more of Homestar's naivety. This is a bit funnier than the stuff that we've seen so far, and I feel it has a little more significance to the future direction of the series. I give this book an A.
Alright, so that's two in one night! At this rate, I probably won't ever get through everything. Oh well, it's still fun right?
Anyway, if you agree with these grades, great! If you don't, tell me why! Thanks everybody!
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