Main Page 8

"Would you like to ride in my beautiful balloon?"

Homestar Runner is upside down and falling through the sky.

Cast (in order of appearance): Homestar Runner, Strong Bad, The Yello Dello

Places: The sky

Icon: Clouds

Page Title: What's so great about Homestar Runner?

Button Effects

• Toons — A hot air balloon made in the likeness of Strong Bad's head passes, with Strong Bad riding in it. Strong Bad sings, "Would you like to ride in my beautiful balloon?"
• Games — A zeppelin on fire passes by.
• Characters — Homestar suddenly stops falling, with a "SCREECH!" braking noise.
• Downloads — The star on his shirt starts to peel off. Moving the cursor away from the button returns his star to its original position.
• Store — He starts falling up.
• E-mail — The Yello Dello flies by.

Fun Facts

Trivia

• This is the first Main Page to have Homestar in his regular clothes.
• Homestar's propeller is the propeller from his May 2000 design. His mouth is from the February 2001 design, which would not be fixed until Main Page 16.

Remarks

• Relative to the clouds, Strong Bad's hot air balloon is actually sinking pretty quickly.
• The Yello Dello appears to be falling at the same speed as Homestar.

Goofs

• When Strong Bad is singing, his lips aren't moving.
• Strong Bad's line gets cut off before he should finish singing, making it sound like he's saying "balloo".
• Sometimes when Homestar stops falling, the propeller on his hat is still blurred.
• When the mouse is moved off Downloads, Homestar's star goes down, and then pops back up for a second.
• When Homestar reverses direction, his propeller continues to move in the same cycle. However, it should start spinning in the opposite direction.

Inside References

• The page title "What's so great about Homestar Runner?" may be a reference to the page title of Main Page 1, "What's not to love about Homestar Runner?"

Real-World References

• "Would you like to ride in my beautiful balloon?" is a line from "Up, Up and Away" by the group The Fifth Dimension.
• The zeppelin on fire is a reference to the Hindenburg. However, the Hindenburg disaster happened while docking rather than in mid-flight.
• The sound when Homestar stops falling is the tire-screech noise to simulate stopping used by Hanna-Barbera.

External links

• go to "Main Page 8"
• go to "Main Page 8" on the old Flash site
• view the Flash file for "Main Page 8"

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