Dork

"Dorks!"

The word dork has appeared many times in the Homestar Runner universe. One could be directly calling another one this, or doing it in a non-standard way. Strong Bad is the most frequent user of this word, but there are other cases.

Appearances

• Wireless Bizness — In one of the emails Strong Bad answers, Jeffrey Gilligan thinks Homestar Runner is a complete dork and repeats it.
  • This email once again appears in E-mail Birds.
• Hairstyle Runner — One of the images in the gallery is entitled "Padawan dork".
• Email studying — Strong Bad tells the sender to "close the book and quit being such a dork-on!!!!!!!"
• Email vacation — Strong Bad sticks a sticky note on his computer that says "Dorks!".
  • This sticky note also appears in the subsequent email, invisibility.
  • The back of the strongbad_email.exe DVD box also features this sticky note.
• Strumstar Hammer — "There were only three contestants left. Another grape was added." is replaced with "Pom pom put his dork shirt on, Homestar his dump."
• Peasant's Quest — After the Baby Lady leaves, typing "look lady/woman" will respond with, "I can't believe you thought you had a chance with her! Dork!"
• Email extra plug — Strong Bad calls the sender "HUGE to the DORK".
• Halloween Fairstival — One line in Strong Bad's haiku is "Little brother, dork dork dork."
• Bug in Mouth Disease — Strong Bad yells, "Ah-ah-ah! Not today, McDorkle." when Homestar keeps trying to tell him something.
• Trogdor Con '97 — Strong Bad says that in Strong Sad's case, the convention would be called Trog-dork-on '97.
• Email narrator — Marzipan says that Homestar Runner looks like a dork with his chef hat on.
• Email hygiene — Strong Bad's email intro is, "Step 1: You check an email down! Step 2: You tell some kid he's a dork!"
• Email pet show (Easter egg) — One of Strong Bad's unused interpretations of "QLD" is "quiet loser dork".
• Email buried — Strong Bad calls Strong Sad a "Jurassic dork".
• Nintendo Power Interview - July 2008 — Strong Bad calls the Nintendo Power staff "Nintendorks".
• Homestar Ruiner —
  • When getting handed the trophy for winning the Free Country USA Triannual Race to the End of the Race, Strong Bad, disguised as Homestar, calls himself "the luckiest dork on the face of this Earth".
  • Strong Bad calls Marzipan's decorations for the party "dorkorations".
• Strong Badia The Free — Strong Bad calls Homestar Runner "Dudley Dork Right".
• 8-Bit is Enough — During the final battle, Strong Bad calls Trogdor "Trog-dork".
• Which Ween Costumes? — Homestar identifies Strong Sad's costume as Donnie Darko; Strong Bad interjects, "More like Donnie Dorko!"
• Mr. Poofers Must Die — Strong Bad says to Homestar, "Nice Dork the Daring costume", to which Homestar confirms that he dressed up as "Dirk the Daring" (pronouncing it the same).