::Homestar Runner
{{#invoke:Italic title|main}} {{#invoke:Infobox|infobox}} Homestar Runner is a Flash-animated Internet cartoon series. It mixes surreal humor with references to retro pop culture, video games, classic television, and popular music.
The cartoons were originally centered on the title character, Homestar Runner. However, a series entitled Strong Bad Email or sbemail, in which another main character, Strong Bad, answers emails from viewers, became the most popular and prominent feature of the site. While Homestar and Strong Bad are the main characters, the site has grown to encompass dozens of other characters over the years.
The site is one of the most-visited sites with collections of Flash cartoons on the Internet and is notable for its refusal to sell advertising space (the creators pay for everything through merchandise sales, which includes a line of T-shirts).<ref name="FAQ">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The owners of the website have turned down offers to make a television series.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=news }}</ref>
The site's popularity spread via word of mouth.<ref name="Wired">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=news }}</ref> After a four-year hiatus beginning in 2010, Homestar Runner returned with a new Holiday Toon on April 1, 2014, for April Fools' Day. Afterwards, co-creator Matt Chapman had announced that The Chapman Brothers plan to give the site semi-regular updates starting in the fall, due to the positive reception given to the April Fools' Day cartoon,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and a new cartoon was added to the site on October 3, 2014.<ref>http://www.theverge.com/2014/7/9/5884841/homestar-runner-creator-says-hes-bringing-his-internet-cartoon-back</ref>
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