Towels

The rarest and most powerful kind.

>MATT: I love that "gross towel" immediately equals Coach Z.
>MIKE: Coach Z and gross towels— in the last year or so, there's been a few references to towels, hasn't there?

— The Brothers Chaps on the DNA Evidence DVD commentary

Towels are regularly mentioned and used in the Homestar Runner universe. Typically they are seen being worn after bathing, rather than used as a cleaning implement.

Appearances

• In Search of the Yello Dello — The showering alien's towel falls off.
• Main Page 14 — Homestar Runner appears, dressed in nothing but a towel.
• Where's The Cheat? — After tearfully "confessing" to killing Pom Pom in a prank call, Strong Bad (as Homestar) requests that Marzipan "bring some towels... and some garbage bags".
• Email suntan — Strong Bad sunbathes on a towel with a tiger on it.
• Halloween Fairstival — A drippy towel is among the horrifying objects in Coach Z's locker room.
• Email secret recipes — The Cheat wears a towel to hide the fact that he has been shaven.
• Email trading cards — Coach Z is shown wearing a towel on the "Showering Expert" card.
• Decemberween Short Shorts — Coach Z makes a Decemberween tree out of towels, underwear, and Blue Star Ointment. Homestar wears a towel around his neck.
• DNA Evidence — Coach Z (as Damp Towel Man) collects a gross towel from the House of the Brothers Strong.
• Email concert — Strong Bad and Strong Sad wear towels on their heads while in the mud baths.
• Teen Girl Squad Issue 14 — Cheerleader is killed by the towels and other equipment from the Towel Boy Team Manager's cart.
• The Next Epi-Snowed — Gunhaver is shown wearing a towel.
• Strong Badia the Free — Strong Bad uses Strong Mad's "athletic region towel" to construct his effigy of The King of Town.
• Coach Z's 110% — Homestar again wears a towel around his "shoulders".
• Fish Eye Lens — One of the items improved by pointing a fish-eye lens at it is a country dish towel.

See Also

• Paper Towels