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Cybernetic Teenybopper · **Posted:** Tue Aug 15, 2006 9:43 pm

Gosh, I feel like such a weirdo. Everyone's in love with this toon, and I just thought it was... bleh. Not my favorite thing ever.

Though on second watchings, I kind of like the montage. Homestar dances funny.

Jamesbray · **Posted:** Tue Aug 15, 2006 11:25 pm

It was a very great episode, I loved it, How cardboard marzipan returned haha!!! 9/10 :hr:

Darth Katana X · **Posted:** Tue Aug 15, 2006 11:29 pm

I loved it. Homestar in Strong Sad's bed had me in stitches. And I loved the references to older material. It really reminded me of old school Homestar, which is "really great."

Parakeet05 · **Posted:** Wed Aug 16, 2006 1:58 am

I gotta say that cardboard Marzipan is a stroke of pure genious. It really shows off Homestar's character. The way he reacts to absurd situations with a laid back absurdity, or creates absurd situations and then reacts to them is a large part of his character, I think.

And I think that this toon is representative of *intelectual* in his subconcious *smart words* and his*big words and french sayings*

El Santo · **Posted:** Wed Aug 16, 2006 2:04 am

It was alright. I liked Carboard Marzi and the deck-building montage. About average in my book. (What do I know? I loved the "Limozeen" part of the Summer Short Shorts, which everyone seems to hate.)

IZSBHR · **Joined:** Sun Jul 16, 2006 12:38 pm **Posts:** 107

El Santo wrote:

It was alright. I liked Carboard Marzi and the deck-building montage. About average in my book. (What do I know? I loved the "Limozeen" part of the Summer Short Shorts, which everyone seems to hate.)

I loved LimoZeen: Brain sister!

Joshua · **Posted:** Wed Aug 16, 2006 4:20 am

I liked it after repeated viewings, but toastpaint.

The clouds at the end that they added later were a nice touch. I was surprised to see them when I was just watching it one more time.

Homestar's obsessed with deck-building now. Not even physics can get in his way. :hr:

inandoutburger · **Posted:** Wed Aug 16, 2006 4:38 am

I'd rate this, but I'm too lazy right now... though I musts say, that last part with Free Country USA covered in galvanized-nailed lumber planks is pure genius!

- Oh, The Brothers Chaps, I'm so proud of you!
...

:sm:

- ME TOO!

Darth Katana X · **Posted:** Wed Aug 16, 2006 5:15 am

inandoutburger wrote:

- Oh, The Brothers Chaps, I'm so proud of you!
...

:sm:

- ME TOO!

LOL! That was one of my favorite parts.

Parakeet05 wrote:

I gotta say that cardboard Marzipan is a stroke of pure genious. It really shows off Homestar's character. The way he reacts to absurd situations with a laid back absurdity, or creates absurd situations and then reacts to them is a large part of his character, I think.

And I think that this toon is representative of *intelectual* in his subconcious *smart words* and his*big words and french sayings*

I agree.

Windee · **Posted:** Wed Aug 16, 2006 5:35 am

Actually, I wasn't too wild about this one. I'm all for irrelevence but this one was an overkill. I was actually having a hard time following what was going on, but it could be because it's late. Perhaps my opinion of the toon will improve upon a second viewing.

There were, however, a number of elements that I liked:
--The Return of Cardboard Marzipan
--Melonade! (I was wondering if they had abandoned that)
--Strong Sad (even though I was mildly disturbed by Homestar being in his bed)
--The whole 'morsical' of Coach Z in the newsboy cap. ('Where is Love' will be stuck in my head the rest of of the night.) I would have liked to have seen the rest.
--Boarded up Strong Mad. Poor fella.

Darth Katana X · **Posted:** Wed Aug 16, 2006 6:24 am

How did Homestar actually board up Strong Mad in the first place, anyway? Homestar must be smarter than what we give him credit for. :hr:

csours · **Posted:** Wed Aug 16, 2006 6:27 am

i love how homestar does something usefull. also the cheat is knitting. :cheatgrin:

Darth Katana X · **Posted:** Wed Aug 16, 2006 6:32 am

csours wrote:

i love how homestar does something usefull. also the cheat is knitting. :cheatgrin:

I know, The Cheat is so multi-talented. He's a lackey, a DJ, a...knitter (for lack of a better way to put it)...

extremejon09 · **Joined:** Mon May 10, 2004 10:28 pm **Posts:** 4675

StrongstarRunbad wrote:

S*R's official rating:

This short was solid.

Quote:

BUBS: Well, I'm impressed, Homestar. When you said you were building a deck, I figured it would end up being something stupid and terrible. You know, 'cause you were building it.

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Yeah, me too!

My only complaint is that there wasn't a single easter egg. Ah well. Maybe it didn't need one.

*A bald Middle aged man Dressed in a suit walks into room. He clears his throat*

Man: WRONG!

*universe explodes*.

Speaking of the cartoon, the part that freaked me out the most was the Wooden Clouds. That's some Grade-A Craftmenship right there.

Tess-chan · **Posted:** Wed Aug 16, 2006 9:27 am

That was probably the strangest thing I've seen lately. Therefore, I loved it. Coach Z made me laugh so hard in this one, as did Homestar in Strong Sad's bed. The montage rocked in a weird kinda way.
I gives it five grinning The Cheats outa five.
:cheatgrin:

superplough · **Posted:** Wed Aug 16, 2006 10:20 am

oh, now THAT was funny, especially his Marzipan asking if the Galvanised nails were compensating for lack-of-deck-building-ability

are there any size limits for signatures that i'm breaking?

thucom · **Joined:** Wed Aug 16, 2006 11:59 am **Posts:** 5

extremejon09 wrote:

StrongstarRunbad wrote:

S*R's official rating:

This short was solid.

Quote:

BUBS: Well, I'm impressed, Homestar. When you said you were building a deck, I figured it would end up being something stupid and terrible. You know, 'cause you were building it.

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Yeah, me too!

My only complaint is that there wasn't a single easter egg. Ah well. Maybe it didn't need one.

*A bald Middle aged man Dressed in a suit walks into room. He clears his throat*

Man: WRONG!

*universe explodes*.

you know those easter eggs were added after that post was made right?

if you look at wikipedia history, you can narrow it down to about 19:30 on August the 15th

ideitbawx · **Joined:** Sun Jul 30, 2006 4:15 am **Posts:** 12

was homestar's "building scene" with the dancing nails and hammers supposed to be a reference to The Wall? (if someone already mentioned this, sorry).

i really enjoyed this toon. kept me laughing from beginning to end.

:hr:

"I'm using some galvanized nails. That's right! Isaidgalvanizednails!!"

cb :marzi:

"And then they feed the ducks through a tube. Isn't that awful?" oh, how homestar tortures himself ....

this may sound like a stupid question, but ... do TBC read these forums? cuz i think they're listening.

ramrod · **Posted:** Wed Aug 16, 2006 5:42 pm

ideitbawx wrote:

this may sound like a stupid question, but ... do TBC read these forums? cuz i think they're listening.

Well, they do know about the Wiki, so I wouldn't be too surprised if they read the forum every once in a while.

El Santo · **Posted:** Wed Aug 16, 2006 7:35 pm

superplough wrote:

oh, now THAT was funny, especially his Marzipan asking if the Galvanised nails were compensating for lack-of-deck-building-ability

are there any size limits for signatures that i'm breaking?

I got no problem with it, but I think the standard size is 500 x 100.

The Experimental Film · **Posted:** Wed Aug 16, 2006 8:14 pm

superplough wrote:

are there any size limits for signatures that i'm breaking?

Yeah, it has to be 500x100, which includes text.

So Santo, you need to remove that line of text, dude.

Chekt · **Posted:** Wed Aug 16, 2006 8:44 pm

superplough wrote:

are there any size limits for signatures that i'm breaking?

Yes, very yes. they need to be no more than 100x500.

EDIT: Oh, Teff already said it.

El Santo · **Posted:** Wed Aug 16, 2006 9:57 pm

The Experimental Film wrote:

superplough wrote:

are there any size limits for signatures that i'm breaking?

Yeah, it has to be 500x100, which includes text.

So Santo, you need to remove that line of text, dude.

My bad. I had no idea. Thanks for the heads up.

superplough · **Posted:** Wed Aug 16, 2006 11:09 pm

alrighty its all fixed up

ramrod · **Posted:** Wed Aug 16, 2006 11:14 pm

superplough wrote:

alrighty its all fixed up

Umm, no it's not. Your sig is still way too big. Please fix it. It's supposed to be 100 in height by 500 in width. The height on yours is 287.

anwonadell · **Joined:** Mon Jan 16, 2006 11:25 pm **Posts:** 3

ok, to bring the topic of discussion back to the short...

it was good i think, and i haven't liked a lot of their recent stuff.

and i'd agree that the "cube" is actually the deck...not the pool.

and even though the rest of you don't care, i'm gonna start my own rating system...starting with the next sbemail.

:hr:

Make it a seven-er!

fifty2 · **Joined:** Wed Aug 16, 2006 8:46 pm **Posts:** 5

This toon was pretty good, but it felt weird without SB.. It took a few views to understand without SB.. I find he makes things easier to understand. but, it was still cool to see everyone except for him.

Checkot Fige · **Posted:** Wed Aug 16, 2006 11:53 pm

Oh, man. That was pretty sweet. x3

I actually have that Strong Sad part as my desktop, wahaha. xD

Nah, but that was pretty-pretty nice. I didn't pay attention the first time around, but after re-watching it...GOOD PRIZE.

PieMax · **Posted:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 12:34 am

This one gave me a giggle. Not a full out laugh, but a few giggles here and there.

buhubs · **Posted:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 3:29 pm

I'm sorry if someone's posted this already but since when did homestar have to control marzipan cardboard with a string?

Anyways I thought it was great, except for that part where homestar was in strongsad's bed with strongsad in it. That was just creepy

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