Redundancy

That sure is... a Heavy Lourde.

Word redundancy is a running joke in the Homestar Runner universe that concerns using more than one of the same word to describe an object, character, object, etc.

Appearances

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• Homestarloween Party — The party game the characters play is referred to by Homestar as "Flashlight Ghost Story Telling With a Flashlight".
• Downloads — The ATM asks for your "PIN#" — an abbreviation for "personal identification number number".
• Heavy Lourde — "Lourde" is French for "heavy".
• Justice Rocket Backpack Rocket Rocket — Reinforcements's weapon is doubly redundant.
• Bubs's Character Video — Bubs says "drinks" three times in a row when listing what his store sells.
• Email rampage — Marzipan says "would be" twice in a row.
• Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 12.2 — The Thnikkaman says "drums" twice in his list of instruments.
• Decemberween Short Shorts — One of the plays on Coach Z's list is "eyeball eyeball".
• Email more armies — The King of Town lists "the power" twice in his list of attributes of The Municipality.
• Email yes, wrestling — "He's the Il Cartographer." Il is one of multiple Italian words for "the".
• Email fan club — The description for the Podstar Runner and YouTube versions is "Strong Bad realizes fan clubs and fan fiction aren't be so bad after all."
• Email shapeshifter — Coach Z puts Strong Bad shapeshifted into a $100 bill into the moist lining of his "sweaty sweat-sweats".
• Strong Badia the Free Cave Girl Squad — When the dinosaur egg hatches, one of the girls says, "My dinosaur hatched! We're gonna be best BFFs forever!" This means "best best friends forever forever".
• February 19, 2009 Quote of the Week — Cheerleader writes "YNCBIINAR2TMTSAYHAOBTHACTCM this summer" in someone's yearbook. She then explains that "This Summer" is part of the abbreviation, making it accounted for twice.
• Where U Goin' 2? — Strong Mad calls Strong Bad out on his use of "ATM machine" (Automated teller machine machine).
• Email dictionary — Strong Bad inadvertently says "restaurant-restaurant" after describing "frou-frou" desserts and then later says, "Shut up, shut up Lady!"

Pleonasms

• Email monster truck (Easter egg) — The flyer for Awexome Cross '98 uses "Also, too".
• Email interview — Strong Bad says "...more better..." as part of his reply to Kerrek's email.
• Email candy product — Strong Bad uses a Homestar Runner junk mail filter called "Edgar's Baby's Daddy".
• Email road trip — Strong Bad makes a joke — "jumbo/LARGE"—before going on the trip.
• Email coloring — One of Strong Bad's crayons is called "Skin Flesh".
• Email rough copy — When Homestar sells Strong Bad Flavored Water, Strong Bad "shut[s] that mess down on the quickfast."
• Email your edge — Strong Bad says that he and The Cheat are "shenanigan-ing" each other "alone by ourselves".
• Haunted Photo Booth — Homestar says, "We shoulda had known!"
• Dangeresque Puppet Squad: The Hot Jones Hijack — The prices at the grocery stores are labelled "Per Each".
• @StrongBadActual — Strong Bad talks about "flavortaste" on 22 Jul 2019 and 9 Nov 2020.
• The Homestar Runner Enters The Spooky Woods — The cover of the storybook claims it is "for kids and children aboth".

Mr. Senor

• Senorial Day — Strong Bad calls Senor Cardgage "Mr. Senor, sir".
• A Decemberween Mackerel — Marzipan says to Senor Cardgage, "Hi Mr. Senor! Happy Decemberween!"
• @StrongBadActual tweet (29 Aug 2017) — Strong Bad releases a Squintmoji of Senor Cardgage, writing, "Mister Senor himself! Squint along with me brothers and sisters!"

See Also

• X, I mean X, I mean X
• Might Could
• Redundancy