East/West X

West Rekjavik

In politics, the terms East and West before a name refers to the region being divided in two. Occasionally in the Homestar Runner Universe, these words are put before other words, often in strange ways.

Appearances

• Everybody to the Limit (Live) — The song is said to have been sung in West Rekjavik, whose neighbor is mentioned to be East Rekjavik.
  • A poster of Everybody to the Limit Live with this town's name on it is seen later in Lappynapped!.
• Email old comics — A new-wave band named West is Lip is mentioned.
  • Their poster reappears in Baddest of the Bands in Strong Sad's Room.
• Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 9.2 — A stop on the metaphorical "Alone Train" that Homestar tells Marzipan that she can ride is "West Breaking Up With You".
• Thy Dungeonman 3 — The town of Westerburg lies to the east.
• Weclome Back — East Westerburg is one of the towns the Cool Tapes visited during their midwestern tour.
• Fan Costumes '06 — Strong Bad says, "The west butt is the best butt!"
• Email strong badathlon — Strong Bad frantically instructs the judges to check the East German's pants. East Germany has not existed since 1991, sixteen years before this email was made.
• Sick Day — Rotten Egglünd contains a location called East Stinkberger.
• Email licensed — Two names for the country that has changed names at least five times since Strong Bad was in the seventh grade are East Paunch and West Paunch.
• Homestar Ruiner — In this and all episodes after, wearing Homestar's Chef Hat will result in Strong Bad saying that The Cheat L'Orange is a delicacy in East Strong Badia.
• Strong Badia the Free — After political unrest, Homestar and Marzipan divide their country (since they can't decide whether it should officially be known as Marzistar or Homezipan) into both East Marzistar and East Homezipan.
  • Additionally, a team that Strong Bad says he and The Cheat must scrimmage is the East Bulldogs.