Back To A Website

"Let's go back to a website!"

Homestar and Strong Bad sing a song in celebration of 25 years of homestarrunner.com.

Cast (in order of appearance): Strong Bad, Homestar Runner, Strong Mad, The Cheat, The Fat Bee, Nebulon, Pom Pom, Bubs, Cardboard Homestar, Clapper Loader (Easter egg), Cherry Greg (Easter egg), Strong Sad (Easter egg)

Places: Basement of the Brothers Strong, Strong Mad's Room, Strong Sad's Room, Computer Room, Club Technochocolate, The Garage, The Cheat's Computer Room, The Moon, Soapbox, The Stage, Strong Badia, Bubs' Concession Stand, The Field, The Classroom

Date: Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Running Time: 3:04 (TV Time Toons Menu), 4:25 (Actual), 5:44 (YouTube)

Page Title: Back to the Crazebox!

Transcript

{Scene opens to the Trogdor arcade machine in the dark basement.}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: {off-screen} Dot com, dot com, dot com—

{Cut to a football statue on Strong Mad's dresser.}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: {off-screen} —dot com, dot com, dot com—

{Cut to Strong Sad's room. Strong Bad, dripping with water, walks across the hallway wearing a towel across his waist and one on his head.}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: {off-screen} —dot com, dot com, dot com, dot com—

{Cut to Homestar in Strong Bad's computer room typing on the Lappier. Strong Bad walks into the room, still dripping water.}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: —dot com, dot com, dot com, dot com, dot com—

STRONG BAD: {blinking} YES! {to the camera} At long last, Homestar has finally lost all three of his marbles! Strong Mad, bring in the crazebox!

HOMESTAR RUNNER: —dot com, dot com, dot com dot com, dot com, dot com, dot com—

{Strong Mad eagerly comes in carrying a metal kennel. The box is labeled "come on in" on the front with a clown wearing Homestar's propeller cap. On the side, it reads "crazebox".}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: —dot com, dot com, dot com. {to Strong Bad} ALL DONE!

STRONG MAD: {disappointed groan}

STRONG BAD: Dare I ask what you think is happening here?

HOMESTAR RUNNER: I was just-a crumbling down memory lane and I thought I'd log onto our good old-fashioned type-in-some-words website.

STRONG BAD: So why are you just sitting there broken-record-ing "dot com"?

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Cuz it's twenty twenty-five, Strong Bad! {"it's 2025!" is written in masking tape on the bottom of Homestar's shoe} Our 25th year on the Internet! {pouts} And as Saint Grandma Nedscape always taught us—

{Cut to a Peasant's Quest-style frame with St. Grandma Nedscape flanked by two candles. Falling stars pass through her frame.}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: {low sound quality voiceover; imitating an old lady} Thou shalt receive one dot com for each year passéd on this widest of wüerld wöebs.

STRONG BAD: {smiling} That is a whole mess of made-up bullcrap right there, Homestar Runner.

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Thanks, Strong Bad! I wrote it on the plane!

STRONG BAD: {doing a double take} What the...? {stroking his chin} But I do wish we could go back to the old days sometimes.

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Yeah, back when the whole Internet wasn't just on four websites on people's phones.

STRONG BAD: Let's do it! {pointing backwards} Let's go back!

{Music starts playing}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Back where?

STRONG MAD: {smiling as he holds the crazebox} TO THE CRAZEBOX?

STRONG BAD: Back to a website! {drops his towel}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Back to a website?

{Strong Bad jumps in a blur. He lands in his pants, which are standing on his desk where the No Loafing sign is. The lights dim and confetti is thrown.}

STRONG BAD: {singing} Let's go back to a website!

{Strong Bad is dancing on the lighted floor of Club Technochocolate.}

STRONG BAD: {singing} Come on, come on, come on, come on.

{Strong Bad sings while Strong Mad plays bass and The Cheat plays the keyboard.}

STRONG BAD: {singing} Back to a website!

{Strong Bad is in front of a group of computer towers labeled "Datum Center".}

STRONG BAD: {singing} Where you can log on, log on, log on, log on.

{Cut to The Cheat, viewing a Powered By The Cheat cartoon on the Tangerine Dreams of Strong Bad's head rolling.}

STRONG BAD: {singing} To your favorite websites!

{The Cheat walks out.}

{Cut to the Homestar Runner Museum page.}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: {singing} Dot com, dot com, dot com, dot com!

{Strong Bad slides in.}

STRONG BAD AND HOMESTAR RUNNER: {singing} Oh, that website!

{Cut to Strong Bad scrolling on the Lappier.}

STRONG BAD: {singing} I was scrolling down—

{Strong Bad's head is in front of HTML code}

STRONG BAD: {singing} to the local HTML!

{Cut to Homestar Runner on Main Page 1. The updates button reads "Kinda nifty!" The mouse scrolls over the buttons, triggering the animations.}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: {singing} Getting kinda nifty on the site!

{Zoom in to the nose cone of the rocket. Strong Bad is standing in place of the astronaut.}

STRONG BAD: {singing} Well, what do I see?

{A URL is being typed while several GIFs of dancing rats play.}

STRONG BAD: {singing} A W times three!

{Homestar is standing on a soapbox reading "Twenty-Five Dot Coms". A shovel has dug several holes around the field.}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: {singing} And a dot com {gold foil seals appear} times 25!

{A silhouetted Homestar Runner walks on the hills like the old intro.}

STRONG BAD: {singing} Let's go back to a website!

{Zoom in and rotate on the classic Homestar. Iris close.}

STRONG BAD AND HOMESTAR RUNNER: {singing} Come on, come on, come on, come on!

{Cut to Strong Bad singing on Strong Bad's Website.}

STRONG BAD: {singing} Back to a website!

{Strong Bad and Homestar are standing on the Yahoo Error Page. Several Powered By The Cheat logs reading "log on" drop in.}

STRONG BAD AND HOMESTAR RUNNER: {singing} Where you can log on, log on, log on, log on!

{A hand is clicking a mouse above text reading "click, please"}

STRONG BAD: {singing} To your favorite website!

{A grainy Homestar Runner wearing a mustache appears in a media player}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: {like "hustle for sports"} Web 1.0!

{Strong Bad is under a spotlight}

STRONG BAD: {singing} Not just the same four websites!

{Four smartphone icons for four social media websites appear: Fat Bluebird, Watchtape, Camgram, and Fazebroach.}

{Strong Bad is in Strong Badia holding a smartphone.}

STRONG BAD: {singing} On your phone, your phone, your phone, your phone!

{Cut to Pom Pom's chest. Several old models of cellular phones and PDAs pop out of it.}

STRONG BAD AND HOMESTAR RUNNER: {singing} Phone, your phone, your phone, your phone!

{Strong Bad is typing on the Tandy 400.}

STRONG BAD: {typing} Lemme get, lemme get, lemme get, lemme get, lemme get—

{Strong Bad is at Bubs' Concession Stand, placing an order}

STRONG BAD: Lemme get, lemme get, lemme get—

{Cut to the hit counter on Strong Bad's Website, which is counting up from 15.}

STRONG BAD: That hit counter!

HOMESTAR RUNNER: {wearing sunglasses} Ooh! Look at all those hits!

STRONG BAD: Let me sign that guest book!

{Cut to Homestar Runner's Yearbook. Strong Lad signed "First!" in April 2000.}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Nobody's gonna sign my guest book!

{Cut to another busy Thorax Corp webpage advertising illegal mp3s.}

STRONG BAD: Lemme join your web ring!

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Can you really trust these people?

{Cut to a webpage filled with blue hyperlinks}

STRONG BAD: Lemme see that links page!

{Cut to Homestar as a college student from bike thief with his bike, talking to Cardboard Homestar}

HOMESTAR: {grunt-sighing as he takes out a roll of toilet paper} Uh, hey man, can you — can you link to my website?

{Cut to Strong Bad in front of a chalkboard}

STRONG BAD: Lemme get that sitemap!

HOMESTAR RUNNER: {removing sunglasses} What is a sitemap, anyways?

{Strong Bad is standing on a button reading Flash Intro (non-skippable). He jumps from button to button.}

STRONG BAD: Nobody in the history of the Internet ever clicked on the sitemap!

{The sitemap falls away.}

{Cut back to Strong Bad and Homestar dancing on the computer desk.}

STRONG BAD AND HOMESTAR RUNNER: {singing, Homestar in falsetto} Let's go back to a website! Come on, come on, come on, come on!

{Cut to Strong Sad's Blog.}

STRONG BAD AND HOMESTAR RUNNER: {singing, Homestar in falsetto} Back to a website!

{Cut to the Homestar Runner screen saver}

STRONG BAD AND HOMESTAR RUNNER: {singing, Homestar in falsetto} Where you can log on, log on, log on, log on! To your favorite website!

{Cut to Strong Bad dancing with several Not Really Breakdancing Rodent GIFs.}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: {singing in falsetto} Dot com, dot com, dot com, dot com!

{Cut to the first intro. Fireworks explode. Strong Bad's head floats across the screen.}

STRONG BAD AND HOMESTAR RUNNER: {singing, Homestar in falsetto} Oh, that website!

STRONG BAD: {singing} Website!

{Zoom into a star inside Homestar's eye. Wipe to Homestar walking a One, Two cycle.}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: {singing} Scrolling, scrolling!

{A mouse is scrolling as Strong Bad and Homestar walk on the screen.}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: {singing} Scrolling, scrolling!

STRONG BAD AND HOMESTAR RUNNER: {singing} Now we're scrolling, scrolling!

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Till you get to the end of the page!

{Strong Bad and Homestar are at the Lappier}

STRONG BAD AND HOMESTAR RUNNER: {singing} Scrolling, scrolling!

HOMESTAR RUNNER: {singing} Scrolling, scrolling!

{Cut to the current Flash intro. The screen scrolls to Homestar Runner's Website.}

STRONG BAD AND HOMESTAR RUNNER: {singing} Yeah, we're scrolling, scrolling!

HOMESTAR RUNNER: There used to be an end of the page!

{Zoom in. Cut to Homestar dancing in front of Strong Mad and The Cheat playing their instruments. Strong Bad is dancing behind them.}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: {singing in falsetto} Back to a website!

{Cut to Homestar locked in the crazebox being carried away by Strong Mad.}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: {singing in falsetto} Dot egg, dot gov, dot com!

{Zoom out. Strong Bad is surfing on the crazebox as Strong Mad walks toward a sign reading "website".}

STRONG BAD: {singing} Back to a website!

{The Compy 386 has a Flagrant System Error. A pop-up window with Strong Bad appears.}

STRONG BAD: {singing} Log on, log on, log on, log on, log on, log on!

{A Homestar pop-up appears}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Dot com.

{Fade to the current intro screen, with Strong Bad and Homestar standing in the field.}

STRONG BAD: {singing} Ooh! Log on, log on, log on, log on!

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Dot com.

{Scene fades to Homestar and Strong Bad standing on the desk in front of the No Loafing Sign.}

STRONG BAD: I hate to say it, but that was a {increasingly slurred} pretty, pretty good duet there, Homestar Runner! Pretty good!

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Thanks, Strong Bad! I wrote it on the plane!

{Cut to Homestar}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: So, does this mean our website's gonna have more frequent updates featuring our hilarious adventures?

STRONG BAD: What? {Flatly} No. No, not at all.

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Cool, cool. See ya at Halloween, then?

STRONG BAD: Yeah, maybe.

{Homestar walks away}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: {singing} On your phone, your phone, your phone, your phone.

{Strong Bad walks off the desk and does a somersault jump. He crashes violently into something off-screen.}

STRONG BAD: Ow!

STRONG MAD: WATCH OUT FOR THE CRAZEBOX!

{Strong Bad is sprawled on the floor. There is a visible dent in the crazebox that Strong Mad is holding.}

STRONG BAD: {mumbling in pain} Mumble... mumbletina.

{Fade to black. The Homestar Runner logo appears with a gold foil seal reading "dot 25 coms".}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Dot com!

Easter Eggs

• At the end, click on the "dot 25 coms" badge:

{Start of First Time Here?}

CLAPPER LOADER: Homestarrunner dot com welcome speech, take 1. {snaps clapperboard and moves it away so Homestar becomes visible}

CHERRY GREG: Action!

'HOMESTAR RUNNER: Welcome to Homestarrunner dot net. "It''s dot com! dot com! {every time he says "dot com", another stacks upon the previous one} dot com! dot com! dot com! dot com! dot com! dot com! dot com! dot com! dot com! dot com! dot com! dot com! dot com! dot com! dot com! dot com! dot com dot com! dot com! dot com! dot com! {his voice is digitally pitched up} dot com! dot com! dot com!" {the last "dot com" in the stack flies forward, breaking the camera lens} Was that good? Did I do it great?

CHERRY GREG: That was 26, man!

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Homestarrunner dot net. That was 26, man!

{beep}

• At the end, click on the star in the Homestar Runner logo:

{Cut to Strong Sad in the crazebox} STRONG SAD: How can you even imply that about sitemaps? They revolutionized the way people make websites! They're like the fundamental backbone of search engine optimization. Tens of thousands of UI and UX people are going to revolt against you just for saying that about sitemaps!

{Pan right to reveal Strong Bad wearing his towels resting with his feet against Strong Sad, obscured behind the crazebox}

STRONG BAD: That's great, UI nerd. Just keep talkin'. Your strugglin' and jagglin' is giving me a pretty good foot rub here.

STRONG SAD: Maybe if you ever used a sitemap, your janky old website would get more visitors and traffic.

STRONG BAD: {Grunts and kicks Strong Sad}

STRONG SAD: OW!

Fun Facts

Trivia

• Several of the URLs shown in the toon lead to pages:
  • www.homestarrunner.com/localhtmell — A 3D render of a server. Clipping into it reveals a Swiss Cake Roll inside.
  • www.homestarrunner.com/guestbook — A backup of guestyear.swf.
  • www.homestarrunner.com/lynxpage — Redirect to Strong Bad's Message Bored.
  • www.homestarrunner.com/notreallybreakdancing — Redirect to Dancin' Bubs.
• While not one of the URLs shown in the toon, a Sitemap page (here) was added to the NavBar on the day of the toon's release.
• The guestbook page reads:

>April 2000
>Strong Lad: First!
>0 replies
>May 2008
>Still 0 replies
>October 2014
>Oh so 0 replies
>July 2022
>...

• The ThoraxCorp page reads:

>YOUR Total Stardom(tm) begins with
>thriving business and what bidness
>thrives more than late-era dot
>commery?
>Sign in, Log in, Sign up, Log on,
>Use yer ID, what else?
>Give a try!

• The disk in the floppy disk container is labeled "magic carpet".

Remarks

• The copyright date is updated to 2025 on Main Page 1 in the toon, but not on the actual main page.
  • Additionally, the page in the toon reads "last updated 4-16-25" (the date of the toon's release), but the actual main pages still say "updated every someday".
• The sitemap has several oddities:
  • Marshmallow's Last Stand; Tis True, Pom Pom, Tis True; and Soap Box Doiby, which are not hosted on the site, are listed under Toons.
  • One of the toons is listed as "Can't Say Job" instead of its actual title, A Jorb Well Done.
  • "Astrolite 2000" is listed twice under Games.
  • The Unguraits are listed under Characters.
• Removing the border from the Flash file at the scene where Strong Bad's towel falls reveals he is actually wearing pants, just with a lower waistline than usual.

Inside References

• Homestar having tape on his shoe may be a reference to tape-leg and its associated running gag.
• St. Grandma NedScape is a reference to Netscape.
• The music video features clips based on:
  • The original homestarrunner.com main page (as seen in Old Flash Stuff)
  • Main Page 1
  • The dancing rodent from isp
  • Old Intro 2
  • Strong Bad's Website
  • The fake error page from The System is Down
  • Coach Z's 110%
  • Homestar's Yearbook
  • Thorax Corporation
  • Strong Sad's Lament
  • The Homestar Runner Screensaver
  • The Old Intro
  • One Two, One Two
  • The mouse-clicking hand from theme song
  • The Old New Intro
  • Homestar Runner's Website
  • Strong Bad's dance from Fan 'Stumes 2023
  • The Flagrant System Error from virus
  • The index page
• Homestar's Easter egg is based on First Time Here?.
• The HTML in the background of the "localhtmell" page is from the source code of Old Flash Stuff.
• Two of the social media icons seen are "Fat Bluebird" and "Fazebroach", the latter of which is a reference to Strong Bad Classics!, where the site is called "Facebroach".
• Among the phones that appear from Pom Pom's body are the Pom Pilot and a Powered by The Cheat cellphone from the These Peoples Try to Fade Me music video.
• The hit counter page is "Programmed by Edgar".
• "Dot egg" was mentioned in pom pom.
• Strong Bad mumbles something while being rendered unconscious again. The phrase he mumbles is similar to "Garbledina" from the facts.
• Strong Bad calls Homestar's claims "a whole mess of made-up bullcrap".

Real World References

• The "same four websites" are Fat Bluebird, Watchtape, Fazebroach, and Camgram, which are parodies of X (formerly Twitter), YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram respectively.
• The links page mentions DaVinci's Notebook, The Skate Party, and Emotion Eric, creators whom the Brothers Chaps have collaborated with; as well as Joe Cartoon, Happy Tree Friends, Radiskull and Devil Doll, and Nose Pilot, all Flash animations from the late 1990s to mid-to-late 2000s.

Fast Forward

• No new toons were released in October that year.

YouTube Version

Whatchoo gonna did?

• The title is capitalized differently, as "Back to a Website".
• The description for this toon is:

>Homestar Runner and Strong Bad briefly join forces to celebrate 25 years of dot commery!
>
>Get the #1 jam if ya want!
>https://strongbadactual.bandcamp.com/...

After the song, a false autoplay image shows The Announcer interviewing Homestar at AWMPSCE, titled "Jack 'em Up Kid Interview Goes ON the Rails??!!". This is followed by the Easter eggs:

• The welcome speech
• Strong Sad in the crazebox

External Links

• watch "Back To A Website"
• watch "Back To A Website" on YouTube
• view the Flash file for "Back To A Website"
• Back to a Website on Bandcamp