Homsar
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Homsar is a character in the Homestar Runner series of animated cartoons. He is a goofy, verbally-challenged fellow, whose speech, appearance and mannerisms are of a surreal nature. His yellow derby moves around on its own and becomes airborne whenever Homsar speaks, and can even metamorphose under some circumstances.
The enigmatic character was created when a fan named "Vinnie C." suggested that if Strong Bad hated "Homsar" so much, he should kill him [1]. This is, of course, an obvious misspelling of "Homestar." Demonstrating the series' whimsical nature, Homsar was created as an entirely new character simply to make fun of a fan's spelling, and survived the attempt on his life (a large weight marked "heavy lourde") to appear in future cartoons. Homsar, as a character, could literally be called the "misspelled" Homestar, in more ways than just spelling.
He is the cartoon's most surreal character, often making nonsensical statements irrelevant to the situation, such as "Don't look now, I'm just a friendly reminder", "I'm a song from the sixties", and "Location, Location, Location", although some of what he says can be taken metaphorically, for instance the sad way he said that he was the ghost of Christmas past when insulted by Homestar in Pumpkin Carve-Nival (and he ended the conversation with "and also with you"). He has his own television show, Whaddya Know, Haddi-man? During the only known episode of his show (featured in Strong Bad Email #110[2]) he stated that the letter g was a "healthy piece of real estate".
He has also been known to call other characters, as well as himself, odd names. For instance, calling Strong Bad "Reggie", or calling Bubs "Tubbs", or calling Strong Sad "that rhinoceros." Strong Sad, his only friend, humors him by playing board games with him, and attending "concerts" Homsar organizes, which consist entirely of treehugging. Though Homsar rarely says or does anything that fits in with the context of what the other characters are currently doing, he has apparently shown his appreciation for Strong Sad's friendship by entering the annual "Strong Sad Lookalike Contest." His costume was so convincing that the judge of the contest (Coach Z) thought that Homsar truly was Strong Sad, and disqualified him. Homsar has also directed a super-short play, Butt's Twelve by Pies, which, according to the playbill, stars "lighting & set decoration."
Due to his roundabout way of behaving and speaking, most of the other characters get easily annoyed with Homsar; during a hidden appearance in a Halloween short, Homestar comes upon Homsar in a costume of Tingle from The Legend of Zelda, and Homestar says in disgust, "Oh, great! The secret guy!", and even interrupted Homsar's "AaAaAa" statement.
Homsar's appearances are often in the form of Easter eggs. In each of the annual Halloween cartoons made after his creation (2001 onwards), Homsar can be seen in an Easter egg related to The Poopsmith. Furthermore, during select Strong Bad e-mails, by clicking on a specific object (a lobster's tag, for instance), a hidden appearance by Homsar will be triggered. Homsar also has a hidden character video and main page. You can access the video by clicking the eject button on the VCR on the characters page, and the main page by clicking the 6 in "copyright 2000-2006" on any main page.
In the strong bad e-mail Different Town, Strong Bad is asked what his town would be like if he could make it different. Strong Bad describes Homsar as being "a modestly hot girl" to help him through the "hard times". Strong Bad states that Homsar would be "the kind that are only sorta hot so they don't mess around with other guys." Homsar (now with long brown hair and tall, white, uncovered legs) then says, "I'm forever your girl." This mentally disturbs Strong Bad.