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* InstantlyProvenWrong: Strong Bad asserts that The Sneak isn't going to cripple anybody. The Sneak ''immediately'' takes a baseball bat to Mr. Bland, leaving him a crumpled and battered mess unable to compete.
-->'''Strong Bad:''' Whoa-ho-ho! {{Touche}}!
-->'''Strong Bad:''' Whoa-ho-ho! {{Touche}}!
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-->'''Tiny Handed Strong Bad:''' Ewwww!
-->'''The Homestar Runner:''' Um...no. Just no.
-->'''The Homestar Runner:''' Um...no. Just no.
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-->'''Tiny Handed Strong Bad:''' Ewwww!
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* OddReactionOut: This ends with Strong Sad suddenly overcoming his crippling depression and transforming into ''Strong Glad'', and his elephant-like legs transform into the legs of a sexy woman in tights and heels. Everyone else finds this weird and disturbing... except for Coach Z, who declares "I'm into this!"
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* ArtisticLicenseSports: The "Triathlon" is more like [[{{Pseudolympics}} the Olympic games]], with different athletes divided into separate teams to compete in different events, rather than all three events being done by one person. Also PlayedForLaughs with the "Standard Collegiate Swimming Rules" giving Homestar Runner a Bathyscaphe and Strong Bad a fish crammed through his head.
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* InconsistentSpelling: "Dijjery Doo" or "Dijjery ''Do''"? The original script wasn't consistent on the spelling, so this cartoon isn't either.
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* SpellMyNameWithAnS: "Dijjery Doo" or "Dijjery ''Do''"? The original script wasn't consistent on the spelling, so this cartoon isn't either.
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** The Triathlon is more like a Pseudolympics, given different people compete in each event, rather than the same person doing three different events one after another.
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** The Triathlon is more like a Pseudolympics, {{Pseudolympics}}, given different people compete in each event, rather than the same person doing three different events one after another.
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** The Triathlon is more like a Pseudolympics, given different people compete in each event, rather than the same person doing three different events one after another.
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* {{Transplant}}: When the script calls for "The Sneak" instead of the The Cheat, the old-timey counterpart shows up, complete with his signature monotone color scheme.
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* {{Transplant}}: When the script calls for "The Sneak" instead of the The Cheat, the old-timey counterpart shows up, complete with his signature monotone color scheme.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness:
** Instead of replacing Strong Sad with The Cheat, he replaces him with Dijjery Doo, a walrus-like creature who never appeared in the web series. Once it comes to the final round, Strong Bad has his other minion sabotage Mister Bland... The ''Sneak''. When The Cheat calls out his discomfort with this, Strong Bad agrees with him on the matter.
** Strong Sad is given the motivation of getting over his sadness and becoming glad, which he does in the flying round, while his self in the toons isn't really looking to get over his depression and, if anything, is implied to like being miserable.
** Instead of replacing Strong Sad with The Cheat, he replaces him with Dijjery Doo, a walrus-like creature who never appeared in the web series. Once it comes to the final round, Strong Bad has his other minion sabotage Mister Bland... The ''Sneak''. When The Cheat calls out his discomfort with this, Strong Bad agrees with him on the matter.
** Strong Sad is given the motivation of getting over his sadness and becoming glad, which he does in the flying round, while his self in the toons isn't really looking to get over his depression and, if anything, is implied to like being miserable.
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* {{Transplant}}: When the script calls for "The Sneak" instead of the The Cheat, the old-timey counterpart shows up, complete with his signiture monotone color scheme.
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* {{Transplant}}: When the script calls for "The Sneak" instead of the The Cheat, the old-timey counterpart shows up, complete with his signiture signature monotone color scheme.
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* BackportedDevelopment: Rather than being a perfect one to one of the original script, there's several moments where characters act more in line with their modern counterparts where The Homestar Runner cuts off Strong Sad and where Tiny-Handed Strong Bad has a moment where he's "uncharacteristically candid".
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* BackportedDevelopment: Rather than being a perfect one to one one-to-one of the original script, there's several moments where characters act more in line with their modern counterparts where counterparts. In particular, The Homestar Runner cuts off Strong Sad Sad, and where Tiny-Handed Strong Bad has a moment where he's "uncharacteristically candid".
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* FanDisservice: Strong Sad's transformation into Strong Glad has his "soolnds" replaced by a woman's legs in tights and high heels. It's so ridiculous looking that everyone is disgusted when they see it, save for Coach Z who delightfully proclaims that he's "into this."
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* Transplant: When the script calls for "The Sneak" instead of the The Cheat, the old-timey counterpart shows up, complete with his signiture monotone color scheme.
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* Transplant: {{Transplant}}: When the script calls for "The Sneak" instead of the The Cheat, the old-timey counterpart shows up, complete with his signiture monotone color scheme.
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* Transplant: When the script calls for "The Sneak" instead of the The Cheat, the old-timey counterpart shows up, complete with his signiture monotone color scheme.
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'''The Homestar Runner:''' Strong Sad, [[Music/Slaughter you've got to fly, fly to the angels]].\\
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'''The Homestar Runner:''' Strong Sad, [[Music/Slaughter you've got to fly, fly to the angels]].angels.\\
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-->'''The Homestar Runner:''' Strong Sad, come take these broken wings and learn to fly.\\
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-->'''The Homestar Runner:''' Strong Sad, [[Music/TheBeatles come take these broken wings and learn to fly.fly]].\\
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'''The Homestar Runner:''' Strong Sad, you've got to fly, fly to the angels.\\
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'''The Homestar Runner:''' Strong Sad, [[Music/Slaughter you've got to fly, fly to the angels.angels]].\\
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'''The Homestar Runner:''' Strong Sad, you're motoring. What's your price for flight?
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'''The Homestar Runner:''' Strong Sad, [[Music/NightRanger you're motoring. What's your price for flight?flight]]?
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* RousingSpeech: The Homestar Runner gets to give three of them to Strong Sad.
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* RousingSpeech: The Homestar Runner gets to give three of them to Strong Sad.Sad, all of which happen to be [[WaxingLyrical song lyrics]].
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* CurbstompBattle: The swimming competition has Strong Bad (with a fish in his head) against Homestar (who gets a submarine). You can guess who wins.
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* CurbstompBattle: The swimming competition has Strong Bad (with a fish in his head) against Homestar (who gets a submarine). You can guess who wins.
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* DancePartyEnding: After the All-Stars win the gold, music starts playing, and Strong Glad starts dancing... [[SubvertedTrope and everyone else backs away from him in horror.]]
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* DancePartyEnding: After the All-Stars win the gold, music starts playing, and Strong Glad starts dancing... [[SubvertedTrope [[BackingAwaySlowly and everyone else backs away from him in horror.]]
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* DarthWiki/MostAnnoyingSound: [[invoked]] Strong Bad's reaction to the weird mouth-sounds Homestar makes after finding his old whistle.
-->'''Strong Bad:''' Oh. Fantastic. [[SarcasmMode I sure hope this continues for the next twenty years.]]\\
'''Homestar:''' It will! ''Bu-bu-beep-boop!''
-->'''Strong Bad:''' Oh. Fantastic. [[SarcasmMode I sure hope this continues for the next twenty years.]]\\
'''Homestar:''' It will! ''Bu-bu-beep-boop!''
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* MostAnnoyingSound: [[invoked]] Strong Bad's reaction to the weird mouth-sounds Homestar makes after finding his old whistle.
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* MostAnnoyingSound: DarthWiki/MostAnnoyingSound: [[invoked]] Strong Bad's reaction to the weird mouth-sounds Homestar makes after finding his old whistle.
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* FalseTeethTomfoolery: Dijjery Do's giant tusks keep falling out, and in the end, one of them impales THSB through the head. They also severely hamper his ability to speak, muffling his voice and creating a constant clicking sound like he's chewing on straws whenever he talks.
* NoJustNoReaction: The reaction to Strong Sad becoming Strong Glad and getting a pair of long women's legs in the process.
-->'''Tiny Handed Strong Bad:''' Ewwww!
-->'''The Homestar Runner:''' Um...no. Just no.
-->'''Tiny Handed Strong Bad:''' Ewwww!
-->'''The Homestar Runner:''' Um...no. Just no.
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-->'''Strong Bad:''' ''[reading from the book]'' "After the first event, the Strong Stars have lead." ''[beat]'' That's actually what it says. No, take a look.
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-->'''Strong Bad:''' ''[reading from the book]'' "After the first event, the Strong Stars have lead." ''[beat]'' That's actually what it says. No, take a look. Ooh! Or maybe it was supposed to be "Have lead!"
-->''[THSB suddenly has a gun, Dijjery Do gets a giant pencil, and Strong Mad is carrying a huge Russian satellite]''
-->''[THSB suddenly has a gun, Dijjery Do gets a giant pencil, and Strong Mad is carrying a huge Russian satellite]''
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* RememberTheNewGuy: Within the book, Dijjery Do is treated as if he's always been Strong Bad's sidekick, causing the real Strong Bad to question who the crap he is.
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* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: The original draft had an odd typo and gets into Strong Bad's narration. SB shows the draft to the camera to prove it was actually there.
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* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: The original draft had has an odd typo and grammatical error, which gets into Strong Bad's narration. SB shows the draft to the camera to prove it was actually there.
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* CurbstompBattle: The swimming competition has Strong Bad (with a fish in his head) against Homestar (who gets a submarine). You can guess who wins.
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* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer:
-->'''Strong Bad:''' ''[reading from the book]'' "After the first event, the Strong Stars have lead." ''[beat]'' That's actually what it says. No, take a look. ''[He holds the relevant page up to the camera to prove it.]''
-->'''Strong Bad:''' ''[reading from the book]'' "After the first event, the Strong Stars have lead." ''[beat]'' That's actually what it says. No, take a look. ''[He holds the relevant page up to the camera to prove it.]''
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* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer:
NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: The original draft had an odd typo and gets into Strong Bad's narration. SB shows the draft to the camera to prove it was actually there.
-->'''Strong Bad:''' ''[reading from the book]'' "After the first event, the Strong Stars have lead." ''[beat]'' That's actually what it says. No, take a look. ''[He holds the relevant page up to the camera to prove it.]''
-->'''Strong Bad:''' ''[reading from the book]'' "After the first event, the Strong Stars have lead." ''[beat]'' That's actually what it says. No, take a look.
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* CripplingTheCompetition: Just before the start of the Flying race, The Sneak beats the crap out of Mr. Bland, leaving him unable to compete.
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* GameBreakingInjury: Just before the start of the Flying race, The Sneak beats the crap out of Mr. Bland, leaving him unable to compete.
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A month after writing [[Literature/TheHomestarRunnerEntersTheStrongestManInTheWorldContest the original book]], Mike Chapman and Craig Zobel began working on a sequel. They abandoned this idea after finishing a rough script and some sketches. Mike chose instead to write [[Literature/WhereMyHatIsAt a completely different book with his brother Matt and stick it on the internet]], leading to the ''Website/HomestarRunner'' we know and love today.
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A month after writing [[Literature/TheHomestarRunnerEntersTheStrongestManInTheWorldContest the original book]], Mike Chapman and Craig Zobel began working on a sequel. They abandoned this idea after finishing a rough script and some sketches. Mike chose instead to write [[Literature/WhereMyHatIsAt a completely different book with his brother Matt and stick it on the internet]], leading to the ''Website/HomestarRunner'' ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' we know and love today.
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While digging through a box of "old H*R crap" in the garage, Homestar Runner and Strong Bad find a twenty-year-old copy of a children's book by Mike and Craig. Ignoring Homestar's advice, Strong Bad reads the book. Inside he finds the story of a triathlon competition between the All-Stars (Homestar Runner, Pom Pom, and Mr. Bland) and the Strong Stars (Strong Bad, Strong Mad, and... someone named Dijjery Do)--it starts off charmingly quaint, but quickly turns stupid and slightly disturbing.
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While digging through a box of "old H*R crap" in the garage, Homestar Runner and Strong Bad find a twenty-year-old copy of a children's book by Mike and Craig. Ignoring Homestar's advice, Strong Bad reads the book. Inside he finds the story of a triathlon competition between the All-Stars (Homestar Runner, Pom Pom, and Mr. Bland) and the Strong Stars (Strong Bad, Strong Mad, and... someone named Dijjery Do)--it Doo)--it starts off charmingly quaint, but quickly turns stupid and slightly disturbing.
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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: In the original book script, Strong Bad has Dijjery Do for his new minion, with no explanation of what happened to The Cheat. For the cartoon version, The Cheat shows up anyway, and gets increasingly angry that he's been replaced.
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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: In the original book script, Strong Bad has Dijjery Do Doo for his new minion, with no explanation of what happened to The Cheat. For the cartoon version, The Cheat shows up anyway, and gets increasingly angry that he's been replaced.
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* RousingSpeech: The Homestar Runner gets to give three of them to Strong Sad.
-->'''The Homestar Runner:''' Strong Sad, come take these broken wings and learn to fly.\\
''[jump cut to a few seconds prior]''\\
'''The Homestar Runner:''' Strong Sad, you've got to fly, fly to the angels.\\
''[jump cut to a few seconds prior]''\\
'''The Homestar Runner:''' Strong Sad, you're motoring. What's your price for flight?
-->'''The Homestar Runner:''' Strong Sad, come take these broken wings and learn to fly.\\
''[jump cut to a few seconds prior]''\\
'''The Homestar Runner:''' Strong Sad, you've got to fly, fly to the angels.\\
''[jump cut to a few seconds prior]''\\
'''The Homestar Runner:''' Strong Sad, you're motoring. What's your price for flight?
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* YankTheDogsChain: In TheStinger, Dijjery Do escapes after somehow surviving in that crate for twenty years. The Cheat immediately catches him and locks him up again.
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* YankTheDogsChain: In TheStinger, Dijjery Do escapes after somehow surviving in that crate for twenty years. The Cheat immediately catches him and locks him up again.again.
* WaxingLyrical: All three of The Homestar Runner's motivational speeches are song quotes. "Take these broken wings and learn to fly," is from Music/TheBeatles' "Blackbird" (or if you prefer, Mr. Mister's "Broken Wings"). "You've got to fly, fly to the angels," is from Slaughter's "Fly to the Angels". And "You're motoring. What's your price for flight?" is from Night Ranger's "Sister Christian".
* WaxingLyrical: All three of The Homestar Runner's motivational speeches are song quotes. "Take these broken wings and learn to fly," is from Music/TheBeatles' "Blackbird" (or if you prefer, Mr. Mister's "Broken Wings"). "You've got to fly, fly to the angels," is from Slaughter's "Fly to the Angels". And "You're motoring. What's your price for flight?" is from Night Ranger's "Sister Christian".
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* ParentheticalSwearing: When Strong Bad calls for help from ''The Sneak'' , The Cheat's reaction sounds exactly like a muffled "What the crap?"
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* ParentheticalSwearing: When Strong Bad calls for help from ''The Sneak'' , Sneak'', The Cheat's reaction sounds exactly like a muffled "What the crap?"
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** The whole cartoon is over six minutes of Mike Chapman making fun of his old writing.
** And the EasterEgg is the Brothers Chaps making fun of themselves for still using Flash to animate.
-->'''Homestar:''' Good idea. [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial 'Cause that's way less obsolete.]]
** The whole cartoon is over six minutes of Mike Chapman making fun of his old writing.
** And the EasterEgg is the Brothers Chaps making fun of themselves for still using Flash to animate.
-->'''Homestar:''' Good idea. [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial 'Cause that's way less obsolete.]]
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* Understatement: Dijjery Do's attempt to cheat ends with him crashing into the ground, spearing Strong Bad's head with his own tusk, and blowing both of them up with a bomb. How does the book describe this? "Dijjery Do's plan backfired."
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'''Airdate:''' Saturday, December 24, 2016
A month after writing [[Literature/TheHomestarRunnerEntersTheStrongestManInTheWorldContest the original book]], Mike Chapman and Craig Zobel began working on a sequel. They abandoned this idea after finishing a rough script and some sketches. Mike chose instead to write [[Literature/WhereMyHatIsAt a completely different book with his brother Matt and stick it on the internet]], leading to the ''Website/HomestarRunner'' we know and love today.
Twenty years later, the Brothers Chaps took their notes and sketches, and finally finished that abandoned sequel--publishing it as a Flash cartoon, titled ''Homestar Runner Goes for the Gold''.
While digging through a box of "old H*R crap" in the garage, Homestar Runner and Strong Bad find a twenty-year-old copy of a children's book by Mike and Craig. Ignoring Homestar's advice, Strong Bad reads the book. Inside he finds the story of a triathlon competition between the All-Stars (Homestar Runner, Pom Pom, and Mr. Bland) and the Strong Stars (Strong Bad, Strong Mad, and... someone named Dijjery Do)--it starts off charmingly quaint, but quickly turns stupid and slightly disturbing.
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* BloodlessCarnage: Strong Bad gets a chunk of his head blown off by a bomb, but it looks more like cracked eggshell than anything else.
* CallForward: Strong Sad's line "I'm ''glad'' that I'm flying!" is an inversion of his phrase from the Powered By The Cheat version of the main page, "I'm sad that I'm flying..."
* ClosestThingWeGot: After Mr. Bland gets crippled, The Homestar Runner calls on Strong Sad to compete in his place, because there's no one else available.
* CloudCuckoolander: When Homestar starts reading the in-story book, he turns it into ''The Homestar Runner and the Bathyscaphe: A Lurid Tale of Underwater Intrigue and Underwater Pants''.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: In the original book script, Strong Bad has Dijjery Do for his new minion, with no explanation of what happened to The Cheat. For the cartoon version, The Cheat shows up anyway, and gets increasingly angry that he's been replaced.
* DancePartyEnding: After the All-Stars win the gold, music starts playing, and Strong Glad starts dancing... [[SubvertedTrope and everyone else backs away from him in horror.]]
* DownToTheLastPlay: The Strong Stars win Running, and the All-Stars win Swimming, so everything hangs on the outcome of the Flying event.
* DroneOfDread: Plays during the opening, to foreshadow the [[FauxHorrific horrors lurking inside this old book]].
* EasterEgg: At the end of the Flash version of the cartoon, clicking on "End" shows a brief scene of Strong Bad trying to animate this cartoon in ''VideoGame/MarioPaint''.
* EitherOrTitle: The in-story book. Strong Bad reads the title as ''The Homestar Runner and the Brothers Strong, AKA Homestar Runner Goes for the Gold, AKA Old Glue Turns Gross and Brown If You Let It Sit for 20 Years''.
* ForgetfulJones: Homestar leads Strong Bad out to the garage to show him something cool, then spends so long rambling about how cool it is that he forgets what he was looking for in the first place.
* FramingDevice: Modern-day Strong Bad and Homestar, reading this ancient children's book about themselves, occasionally interrupting to provide commentary.
* GameBreakingInjury: Just before the start of the Flying race, The Sneak beats the crap out of Mr. Bland, leaving him unable to compete.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard:
** Strong Bad kicks Strong Sad off his team for not being strong enough. The Strong Stars then get trounced in the Flying race... by Strong Sad, who was recruited by the All-Stars at the last minute.
** As Dijjery Do falls behind in the Flying race, Strong Bad orders him to cheat somehow. Dijjery Do pulls out a bomb, intending to blast away the competition--but the distraction makes him fall from the sky, directly onto Strong Bad. Then the bomb blows them both up.
* {{Metamorphosis}}: Strong Sad's happiness at flying transforms him into Strong ''Glad'', and his stumpy elephant feet suddenly morph into a shapely woman's legs.
-->'''Strong Bad:''' So they were just gonna leave him like that? As ''Strong Glad?''
* MostAnnoyingSound: [[invoked]] Strong Bad's reaction to the weird mouth-sounds Homestar makes after finding his old whistle.
-->'''Strong Bad:''' Oh. Fantastic. [[SarcasmMode I sure hope this continues for the next twenty years.]]\\
'''Homestar:''' It will! ''Bu-bu-beep-boop!''
* NewRulesAsThePlotDemands: Strong Bad complains of the unfairness of the Swimming race--that Homestar gets to compete in a bathyscaphe, while he just gets a fish shoved through his head. But Homestar insists that these are "Standard collegiate swimming rules. Very standard." And the Grape Fairy backs it up.
* NonIndicativeName: The "Running" event is really just a roller skate race.
-->'''Strong Bad:''' I'm more worried about how this is clearly roller skating. Is that what they called running in the mid-'90s?
* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer:
-->'''Strong Bad:''' ''[reading from the book]'' "After the first event, the Strong Stars have lead." ''[beat]'' That's actually what it says. No, take a look. ''[He holds the relevant page up to the camera to prove it.]''
* ParentheticalSwearing: When Strong Bad calls for help from ''The Sneak'' , The Cheat's reaction sounds exactly like a muffled "What the crap?"
* PlotHole: Dijjery Doo gets replaced by The Sneak for a single page, with no explanation. Strong Bad isn't amused by this.
-->'''Strong Bad:''' [[LampshadeHanging How come [bleep] and [bleep] can't seem to keep my sidekicks straight for more than like two pages?]]
* PutOnABus: Dijjery Do disappeared after the events of this book... because The Cheat locked him in a crate in the garage.
* ReplacementScrappy: InUniverse, no one likes Dijjery Do, who replaces The Cheat as Tiny Handed Strong Bad's minion. Even THSB, who hired Dijjery Do in the first place, "immediately regrets" that decision.
* SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud:
** The "squeakburger" doesn't actually squeak, so Homestar has to make its noise himself. "Bohgah bohgah!"
** At the end, Homestar finds his old whistle. Instead of blowing into it, he just holds it in front of his face and makes "bweep boop" sounds with his mouth.
* SoundEffectBleep: Strong Bad's voice is bleeped out whenever he says Mike's and Craig's names.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: "Dijjery Doo" or "Dijjery ''Do''"? The original script wasn't consistent on the spelling, so this cartoon isn't either.
* {{Squick}}: [[invoked]] Everyone's reaction to Strong Glad. (Except for Coach Z, who announces "I'm into this!")
* TheStinger: After the Homestar Runner logo, there's a brief scene of Dijjery Do locked in a crate in the garage. (And in the Youtube version, the above EasterEgg plays after this, as a second stinger.)
* TemptingFate:
** Modern Strong Bad tries to keep an open mind and says Dijjery Do looks "kinda cool" and might turn out to be alright. Then Dijjery Do tries to speak, and one of his tusks falls out.
-->''Tiny Handed Strong Bad:''' I am immediately regretting this decision.\\
''Strong Bad:''' ...said uncharacteristically candid Strong Bad.
** Modern Homestar gets pumped about competing in the Running event, then sees that ''Pom Pom'' is doing it instead.
* ThrowTheDogABone: Strong Sad, the eternal punching bag, gets to win a competition, deny victory to his brothers, and find true happiness along the way.
* Understatement: Dijjery Do's attempt to cheat ends with him crashing into the ground, spearing Strong Bad's head with his own tusk, and blowing both of them up with a bomb. How does the book describe this? "Dijjery Do's plan backfired."
-->'''Strong Bad:''' Uh, yeah, you think? You sure you didn't want to use any more adjectives there, like "catastrophically, head chunkularly" backfired?
* UnexpectedCharacter: [[invoked]] Bubs' appearance is treated as a shocking twist, mostly by himself. He didn't exist yet when the book was first written, so his appearance here is a bit anachronistic.
-->'''Bubs:''' I don't like it! And I... am now in this... book.\\
''[A blue sticker reading "Now with 100% more Bubs!" appears on the front cover of the book.]''
* YankTheDogsChain: In TheStinger, Dijjery Do escapes after somehow surviving in that crate for twenty years. The Cheat immediately catches him and locks him up again.
A month after writing [[Literature/TheHomestarRunnerEntersTheStrongestManInTheWorldContest the original book]], Mike Chapman and Craig Zobel began working on a sequel. They abandoned this idea after finishing a rough script and some sketches. Mike chose instead to write [[Literature/WhereMyHatIsAt a completely different book with his brother Matt and stick it on the internet]], leading to the ''Website/HomestarRunner'' we know and love today.
Twenty years later, the Brothers Chaps took their notes and sketches, and finally finished that abandoned sequel--publishing it as a Flash cartoon, titled ''Homestar Runner Goes for the Gold''.
While digging through a box of "old H*R crap" in the garage, Homestar Runner and Strong Bad find a twenty-year-old copy of a children's book by Mike and Craig. Ignoring Homestar's advice, Strong Bad reads the book. Inside he finds the story of a triathlon competition between the All-Stars (Homestar Runner, Pom Pom, and Mr. Bland) and the Strong Stars (Strong Bad, Strong Mad, and... someone named Dijjery Do)--it starts off charmingly quaint, but quickly turns stupid and slightly disturbing.
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!!Provides examples of:
* BloodlessCarnage: Strong Bad gets a chunk of his head blown off by a bomb, but it looks more like cracked eggshell than anything else.
* CallForward: Strong Sad's line "I'm ''glad'' that I'm flying!" is an inversion of his phrase from the Powered By The Cheat version of the main page, "I'm sad that I'm flying..."
* ClosestThingWeGot: After Mr. Bland gets crippled, The Homestar Runner calls on Strong Sad to compete in his place, because there's no one else available.
* CloudCuckoolander: When Homestar starts reading the in-story book, he turns it into ''The Homestar Runner and the Bathyscaphe: A Lurid Tale of Underwater Intrigue and Underwater Pants''.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: In the original book script, Strong Bad has Dijjery Do for his new minion, with no explanation of what happened to The Cheat. For the cartoon version, The Cheat shows up anyway, and gets increasingly angry that he's been replaced.
* DancePartyEnding: After the All-Stars win the gold, music starts playing, and Strong Glad starts dancing... [[SubvertedTrope and everyone else backs away from him in horror.]]
* DownToTheLastPlay: The Strong Stars win Running, and the All-Stars win Swimming, so everything hangs on the outcome of the Flying event.
* DroneOfDread: Plays during the opening, to foreshadow the [[FauxHorrific horrors lurking inside this old book]].
* EasterEgg: At the end of the Flash version of the cartoon, clicking on "End" shows a brief scene of Strong Bad trying to animate this cartoon in ''VideoGame/MarioPaint''.
* EitherOrTitle: The in-story book. Strong Bad reads the title as ''The Homestar Runner and the Brothers Strong, AKA Homestar Runner Goes for the Gold, AKA Old Glue Turns Gross and Brown If You Let It Sit for 20 Years''.
* ForgetfulJones: Homestar leads Strong Bad out to the garage to show him something cool, then spends so long rambling about how cool it is that he forgets what he was looking for in the first place.
* FramingDevice: Modern-day Strong Bad and Homestar, reading this ancient children's book about themselves, occasionally interrupting to provide commentary.
* GameBreakingInjury: Just before the start of the Flying race, The Sneak beats the crap out of Mr. Bland, leaving him unable to compete.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard:
** Strong Bad kicks Strong Sad off his team for not being strong enough. The Strong Stars then get trounced in the Flying race... by Strong Sad, who was recruited by the All-Stars at the last minute.
** As Dijjery Do falls behind in the Flying race, Strong Bad orders him to cheat somehow. Dijjery Do pulls out a bomb, intending to blast away the competition--but the distraction makes him fall from the sky, directly onto Strong Bad. Then the bomb blows them both up.
* {{Metamorphosis}}: Strong Sad's happiness at flying transforms him into Strong ''Glad'', and his stumpy elephant feet suddenly morph into a shapely woman's legs.
-->'''Strong Bad:''' So they were just gonna leave him like that? As ''Strong Glad?''
* MostAnnoyingSound: [[invoked]] Strong Bad's reaction to the weird mouth-sounds Homestar makes after finding his old whistle.
-->'''Strong Bad:''' Oh. Fantastic. [[SarcasmMode I sure hope this continues for the next twenty years.]]\\
'''Homestar:''' It will! ''Bu-bu-beep-boop!''
* NewRulesAsThePlotDemands: Strong Bad complains of the unfairness of the Swimming race--that Homestar gets to compete in a bathyscaphe, while he just gets a fish shoved through his head. But Homestar insists that these are "Standard collegiate swimming rules. Very standard." And the Grape Fairy backs it up.
* NonIndicativeName: The "Running" event is really just a roller skate race.
-->'''Strong Bad:''' I'm more worried about how this is clearly roller skating. Is that what they called running in the mid-'90s?
* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer:
-->'''Strong Bad:''' ''[reading from the book]'' "After the first event, the Strong Stars have lead." ''[beat]'' That's actually what it says. No, take a look. ''[He holds the relevant page up to the camera to prove it.]''
* ParentheticalSwearing: When Strong Bad calls for help from ''The Sneak'' , The Cheat's reaction sounds exactly like a muffled "What the crap?"
* PlotHole: Dijjery Doo gets replaced by The Sneak for a single page, with no explanation. Strong Bad isn't amused by this.
-->'''Strong Bad:''' [[LampshadeHanging How come [bleep] and [bleep] can't seem to keep my sidekicks straight for more than like two pages?]]
* PutOnABus: Dijjery Do disappeared after the events of this book... because The Cheat locked him in a crate in the garage.
* ReplacementScrappy: InUniverse, no one likes Dijjery Do, who replaces The Cheat as Tiny Handed Strong Bad's minion. Even THSB, who hired Dijjery Do in the first place, "immediately regrets" that decision.
* SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud:
** The "squeakburger" doesn't actually squeak, so Homestar has to make its noise himself. "Bohgah bohgah!"
** At the end, Homestar finds his old whistle. Instead of blowing into it, he just holds it in front of his face and makes "bweep boop" sounds with his mouth.
* SoundEffectBleep: Strong Bad's voice is bleeped out whenever he says Mike's and Craig's names.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: "Dijjery Doo" or "Dijjery ''Do''"? The original script wasn't consistent on the spelling, so this cartoon isn't either.
* {{Squick}}: [[invoked]] Everyone's reaction to Strong Glad. (Except for Coach Z, who announces "I'm into this!")
* TheStinger: After the Homestar Runner logo, there's a brief scene of Dijjery Do locked in a crate in the garage. (And in the Youtube version, the above EasterEgg plays after this, as a second stinger.)
* TemptingFate:
** Modern Strong Bad tries to keep an open mind and says Dijjery Do looks "kinda cool" and might turn out to be alright. Then Dijjery Do tries to speak, and one of his tusks falls out.
-->''Tiny Handed Strong Bad:''' I am immediately regretting this decision.\\
''Strong Bad:''' ...said uncharacteristically candid Strong Bad.
** Modern Homestar gets pumped about competing in the Running event, then sees that ''Pom Pom'' is doing it instead.
* ThrowTheDogABone: Strong Sad, the eternal punching bag, gets to win a competition, deny victory to his brothers, and find true happiness along the way.
* Understatement: Dijjery Do's attempt to cheat ends with him crashing into the ground, spearing Strong Bad's head with his own tusk, and blowing both of them up with a bomb. How does the book describe this? "Dijjery Do's plan backfired."
-->'''Strong Bad:''' Uh, yeah, you think? You sure you didn't want to use any more adjectives there, like "catastrophically, head chunkularly" backfired?
* UnexpectedCharacter: [[invoked]] Bubs' appearance is treated as a shocking twist, mostly by himself. He didn't exist yet when the book was first written, so his appearance here is a bit anachronistic.
-->'''Bubs:''' I don't like it! And I... am now in this... book.\\
''[A blue sticker reading "Now with 100% more Bubs!" appears on the front cover of the book.]''
* YankTheDogsChain: In TheStinger, Dijjery Do escapes after somehow surviving in that crate for twenty years. The Cheat immediately catches him and locks him up again.
