Homestar Runner Goes For The Gold!
This article is about the book. For the toon, see Homestar Runner Goes for the Gold.
"Flying, swimming, and racing" character variations
Homestar Runner Goes For The Gold! (alternately titled Homestar Runner and The Brothers Strong) is an unfinished book, a sequel to The Homestar Runner Enters the Strongest Man in the World Contest. Created by Mike Chapman and Craig Zobel in September 1996, shortly after the first book, this storybook was never completed. Though Strong Mad and Strong Sad were first developed for this book, its unfinished nature means they did not debut until Super NES.
The story was later revisited as a Storybook World toon produced to commemorate Homestar Runner's 20th anniversary in 2016.
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History
Sketchbook
A glimpse at concepts from the book were shared in the Museum Sketchbook. A collection of drawings feature Homestar Runner, Strong Bad, and Mr. Bland (returning from The Strongest Man in the World Contest); Strong Mad; and several other unidentified characters (a robot, a figure carrying a large propeller, and a winged fairy creature). In keeping with the sports competition theme common to early Homestar Runner entries, the sketches allude to athletics involving flying, swimming, or racing by way of the character's garb.
Remake
A reimagined and fully animated version of the book premiered in 2016 at the Homestar Runner 20th Anniversary Shows, released to homestarrunner.com on December 24 of that year. This toon additionally provided much more information about the contents of the unfinished book, including scans of its original script.
The Story
See also Homestar Runner Goes for the Gold#Original Script
The script tells the story of two teams competing at the annual triathlon: the All-Stars (The Homestar Runner, Pom Pom, and Mr. Bland) and a rival team of Strong Bad, Strong Mad, and Strong Sad (who his brothers replace with Dijjery Doo). Strong Mad wins the running event and Homestar wins the swimming event, leaving the teams tied going into the flying contest finale. Though The Sneak cripples Mr. Bland, Homestar recruits Strong Sad to join the All-Stars. Strong Sad leads the All-Stars to win the gold, happily becoming Strong Glad at the story's end.
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