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''This article is about the [[Toons|toon]].'' ''For the video game system, see [[Nintendo]].''

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"Homestar run, run..."

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This is the first animated Homestar Runner cartoon ever made, using ''[[Mario Paint]]''.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' [[The Homestar Runner (storybook)]], [[Tiny-Handed Strong Bad]], [[Pom Pom]], [[The Cheat]], [[Strong Mad]], [[Strong Sad]]

'''Places:''' [[The Field]], [[Arena]], Various Houses, A Workout Room, [[The Athletic Field]], [[Stages|The Stage]], [[Outer Space]], A Rocket, A Basketball Court

'''Page title:''' Super Homestario Bros.

'''Date:''' December 1996

'''Running Time:''' 1:26

'''DVD:''' [[Everything Else, Volume 2]]

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== Contents ==

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* [#Transcript 1 Transcript]
* [#Fun_Facts 2 Fun Facts]
** [#Explanations 2.1 Explanations]
*** [#Japanese_Phonetics_Transcript 2.1.1 Japanese Phonetics Transcript]
** [#Trivia 2.2 Trivia]
** [#Remarks 2.3 Remarks]
** [#Inside_References 2.4 Inside References]
** [#Real-World_References 2.5 Real-World References]
** [#Fast_Forward 2.6 Fast Forward]
* [#DVD_Version 3 DVD Version]
** [#Commentary_Transcript 3.1 Commentary Transcript]
** [#Fun_Facts_2 3.2 Fun Facts]
* [#See_Also 4 See Also]
* [#External_Links 5 External Links]

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== Transcript ==

'''TEXT:''' THE FIRST HOMESTAR CARTOON EVER 
MADE ON THE SNES USING MARIO PAINT

Homestar Run GO! 
Hooomestaaaar! Run! Run! 
Hooomestaaaar! Run! Run!

Homestar Runner really great, 
Homestar Runner, ath -ah- late 
Homestar Runner, Pom Pom too 
Homestar Runner, we love you!

Hooomestaaaar! Run! Run! 
Hooomestaaaar! Run! Run!

Homestar Runner, do your best 
Homestar Runner, pass the test 
Homestar Runner, Mom and Dad 
Look out, Homestar! It's Strong Bad!

Hoooomestaaaar Run! 
Weekdays.

'''TEXT:''' COPYRIGHT HOMESTARRUNNER.COM 
1996 AND 2000


== Fun Facts ==


=== Explanations ===

* ''[[Mario Paint]]'' is a video game made for the [[Nintendo|Super Nintendo Entertainment System]] that allows players to create their own art, as well as animations and music, being packaged with a [[Super NES Mouse|mouse designed for the system]]. The game lets the player use the mouse to paint a large 16-color (15 actual colors plus [[Transparency (graphic)|transparency]]) picture with various tools, as well as place a smaller animation on top of it. A music-making mode is also available, allowing one to create songs to play over their animations. The game was highly popular, resulting in Nintendo releasing a Player's Guide containing information on how to get the most out of the game.


==== Japanese Phonetics Transcript ====

* ''Mario Paint'' included a "Text Stamp" tool, allowing users to insert both English letters and Japanese characters into scenes (see pages 17–18 of [https://archive.org/details/snes_Mario_Paint_USA/page/17/mode/2up the Mario Paint instruction booklet]). Many early [[Homestar Runner (body of work)|Homestar Runner]] works were designed [[Adventure Gamers Interview - 12 Dec 2008|"to feel like (they were) from another country or poorly translated from Japanese maybe,"]] hence the use of non-English text. The Japanese "words" in this toon are all untranslatable nonsense; transliterations are nevertheless provided for each moment.
** Strong Bad and Homestar in the wrestling ring —
*** アホチスーカヲ
*** Ahochisūka o
** Pom Pom floating —
*** ソコカオヲタス: ウコスキテホ.
*** Sokokao o tasu: Ukosukite ho.
** Homestar closeup on yellow background —
*** えおか: せきひ
*** Eoka: Sekihi
** "Homestar Runner" ending splash —
*** クキカアシネオスセーホヌツネ!
*** Kukikaashine Osusēhonutsune!


=== Trivia ===

* [[Matt Chapman]], [[Mike Chapman]] and [[Craig Zobel]] made this animation for [[Donnie Chapman]] as a [[Christmas]] present.
** In [https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/craig-zobel-film-production an interview with The Gothamist], Craig alternatively states that he and Matt made it as a Christmas present for Mike.
* The vocals are [[The Brothers Chaps|the Brothers Chaps]]', sped up to be higher-pitched. This was inspired by the Japanese children's chorus in the "[[Gamera March]]" (which was famously parodied in ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]''), as explained in [[retroCRUSH Interview|a 2001 interview]].
* This toon marks the debut of [[Strong Mad]] and [[Strong Sad]]. They had been designed earlier in 1996 for the book ''[[Homestar Runner Goes For The Gold!|Homestar Runner and The Brothers Strong]]'', which ultimately went [[Unfinished Toons|unfinished]].


=== Remarks ===

* Though the individual animated scenes were created in ''Mario Paint'', some post-production was undertaken to assemble the entire toon.
** ''Mario Paint'' can only handle one scene at a time, so each scene must have been created and recorded individually, and then spliced together at the end.
*** Almost all of the animations are possible in ''Mario Paint''. ''Mario Paint'' allows for looping four-, six-, or nine-frame animations; these animations are rendered as [[Sprite (computer graphics)|sprites]] that can follow a user-defined path, which is what most of the animations do. The last animation (the "drip") is one of the full-screen erase effects in ''Mario Paint''.
*** The only animations that do not look possible in ''Mario Paint'' are the intro text, the outro "Copyright" text in the old version, both with accompanying fades, and the close up of Homestar with the moving horizontal black moving lines which cover the entire screen. A ''Mario Paint'' animation can only be 1/4 of the screen at its largest — and, indeed, the scene is zoomed in relative to the others (check the larger pixels)
** The music that accompanies this toon could not have been made using ''Mario Paint'', which has a fixed note length and can only play notes in the [[C major]] [[Musical scale|scale]]. Singing also cannot be recorded ingame.
*** The music was created on the MT-100 [[Casio Keyboards|Casio keyboard]]. The accompanying bass and percussion line consists of pre-programmed riffs which are supplemented with a single-line melody.

* The Japanese characters are mainly written in [[Katakana|katakana]], a character set used in written Japanese primarily to transcribe foreign words and [[Onomatopoeia|onomatopoeia]]. The exception is the "Homestar with yellow background" screen, which is written in [[Hiragana|hiragana]], a more general-purpose character set used in conjunction with [[Kanji|kanji]].
* Several characters are [[Stylized Character Designs|colored differently from their standard designs]]. For example, Pom Pom is shown with a white head in the soccer scene, Homestar's visor is blue, and Strong Sad is orange.


=== Inside References ===

* In this toon, Strong Bad is depicted with a [[Green Tongues|green tongue]].


=== Real-World References ===

* The page title references the classic [[Nintendo|NES]] game ''[[Mario|Super Mario Bros.]]''.
* The animation of Homestar swinging a bat mimics one of the sample animations included in the manual for the [[Etch A Sketch|Etch A Sketch Animator]].


=== Fast Forward ===

* The [[Homestar Runner Theme Song]] heard in this video would continue to be revisited throughout [[Homestar Runner (body of work)|the body of work]], beginning with a [[Flash]] reimagining in [[Theme Song Video]].
* ''[[Mario Paint]]'' is used again in [[Strong Bad is a Bad Guy]], the Easter egg of [[Homestar Runner Goes for the Gold]], and [[Mario Paint Thursdays Compilation|Mario Paint Thursdays]].
* Strong Bad and other characters would continue to be depicted with [[Green Tongues|green tongues]] on occasion.


== DVD Version ==

* The text at the beginning and end (with the copyright) are gone.
* The framerate is a lot better on the DVD, due to bandwidth restrictions on the website. In some scenes where the characters are moving freely around, the animation looks "smoother".
* The DVD version features creators' commentary. To access it, switch the DVD player's audio language selection while watching.


=== Commentary Transcript ===

('''Commentary by:''' [[Matt Chapman]], [[Mike Chapman]])

'''MATT:''' Merry Christmas, Donnie.

'''MIKE:''' Aw, this looks beautiful!

'''MATT:''' Yeah, it's a good thing we filmed the TV so nicely!

'''MIKE:''' Yeah!

'''MATT:''' So this was done in Mario Paint for the Super Nintendo. The first animated footage of Homestar.

'''MIKE:''' So why didn't we just... was it so... ah. I don't even know.

'''MATT:''' Why we filmed the TV and just outputted each individual scene? Look at that smooth animation there.

'''MIKE:''' That's nice!

'''MATT:''' Oh, he struggled there a little. And Pom Pom's got a white head there for some reason. He's green. I don't think that's just discoloration, I think it's green... like neon green. Aw, Homestar's in a rocket! So there were some limitations to Mario Paint.

'''MIKE:''' Apparently.

'''MATT:''' Yes. It's a... it flip-flopped between being pretty impressive what you could do with it, and then being really unimpressive, what you couldn't do with it.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah.

'''MATT:''' There's a lot of Japanese kanji characters you had access to.

'''MIKE:''' Kanji? Is that what it's called?

'''MATT:''' I don't know. Look, it's flesh-colored Strong Sad!

'''MIKE:''' That's horrible. Look at that...

'''MATT:''' The tongue!

'''MIKE:''' And teeth for that matter!

'''MATT:''' Yeah. There was some nice transitions like this one you could do.

'''MIKE:''' Rain.

'''MATT:''' Undodog.

'''MIKE:''' Undo—''{barks like a dog}''

''{Matt sneezes}''

'''MATT:''' He'd sneeze occasionally.


=== Fun Facts ===

* The Undodog that Matt refers to was a button in Mario Paint with the image of a dog on it that, when clicked, barked while the previous action was undone. The Undodog would also sneeze at random.
* Undodog later made an appearance in the game Super Mario Maker, and just like in Mario Paint, it was used as an undo button. In Super Mario Maker 2, he was given a full-body render.
* Matt is incorrect about the Japanese letters - they are kana, not kanji, which are letters taken from Chinese but used in Japanese.


== See Also ==

* The [[Super NES Visuals|visuals]] that occur during this music video.


== External Links ==

* [https://homestarrunner.com/supernes.swf watch the new Flash version of "Super NES"]
* [https://old.homestarrunner.com/secrets.html watch "Super NES" (old version)]
* [https://old.homestarrunner.com/oldstar.mov view the video file for "Super NES" (old version)] (.mov file)

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