Melonade
Canned delight
The company that makes it
Melonade is a preferred drink of Homestar Runner. It first appeared in "A Jumping Jack Contest", where The Cheat offered Homestar 147 glasses of it, and got refills from Strong Mad's melonade keg. Homestar Runner usually eats about 147 Fluffy Puff Marshmallows before drinking a tall glass of melonade. Melonade derives its name from the similarly formulated drink, lemonade, which is made from lemons rather than melons. In addition, the words "melon" and "lemon" are anagrams.
During melonade shortages, it can sell for as much as $2 per gallon.
According to the retro-themed Hremail 7, Homestar once had an endorsement deal with The Ethical Advancement of Melonade that made him "contractually unable to drink, talk about, or bathe in any other liquid". According to the hremail, said contract expired in March of 2003. During this email, several variants of Melonade were mentioned.
Melonade Variants
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Athletic Berry Blast |
Butt One Flavor |
Costa Latte Froth |
Melonade Original Flavor |
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Melonade Throat Closers |
Quadruple Triple |
Sizzlin' Bacon Guava Quench |
Taco Annihilation |
Appearances
"One time I made a whole set of coasters out of some old Sega tapes."
- Debut: A Jumping Jack Contest — The Cheat brings Homestar Runner an excessive amount of melonade to drink, in an attempt to sabotage him into dropping out of the titular contest.
- The Luau (mentioned) — Homestar mentions he has "a serious problem" with melonade, having drank 32 glasses.
- This line is asked about in the Homestar Quiz.
- Fluffy Puff Commercial (mentioned) — Homestar's pitch cross-promotes eating Fluffy Puff Marshmallows and drinking melonade.
- Main Page 11 — A headline (shown when mousing over "characters") reports that melonade prices may reach $2 per gallon.
- Email helium — The melonade keg from "A Jumping Jack Contest" reappears.
- Email cheat talk (Easter egg, mentioned) — A "Learn to speak The Cheat" instructional record shares the translation for "Hey, Homestar, would you like 147 glasses of melonade?" (a line from "A Jumping Jack Contest").
- Tis True, Pom Pom, Tis True — Strong Bad expresses disappointment when he is not doused with melonade after beating Homestar at a race. Strong Mad obligingly clobbers him with a keg of melonade.
- Email anything — Homestar makes coasters for melonade using Sega tapes.
- Halloween Potion-ma-jig (mentioned) — Marzipan tells Homestar that the titular potion is melonade to get him to drink it.
- No Hands On Deck! — Bubs and Homestar share melonade (with Homestar noting that "We haven't talked about that much lately!").
- Everything Else, Volume 3 — Depicted on the cover and on the "Toons" menu.
- Email hiding — Strong Bad and The Cheat use Fluffy Puff marshmallows and a glass of melonade as bait in a trap for Homestar.
- Homestar Ruiner — Strong Mad's melonade keg can be seen in the House of Strong.
- Best Caper Ever (mentioned) — The titular caper began with Strong Bad stealing Homestar's melonade and The Cheat peeing in it, which somehow led to stranding Homestar on an ice floe in the Arctic.
- Where U Goin' 2? — The Cheat hitches a ride on Homestar's leg and steals his melonade.
- Hremail 7 — Homestar is asked about his "favorite drink", and speaks extensively on melonade.
- Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 17.2 (mentioned) — An imprisoned Coach Z makes "jail terlet melonade".
- @StrongBadActual —
- August 18, 2017 — A slice of watermelon shaped like Homestar's head remarks that it could be used to make melonade (shown again in Social Media Crap Compilation 1)
- May 24, 2022 — An advertisement for Blubb-O's Collector's glasses demonstrates Homestar's glass by filling it with Melonade, which the illustration reacts to with joy.
