Homestar Runner, once a preeminent and influential series in the web video space, has recently been limited to a few sporadic uploads from its creators, The Brothers Chaps. For their latest videos, the brothers have revived one of their former segments and delivered a 30-minute string of answering machine messages.
A recurring feature on the Homestar Runner website was Marzipan’s Answering Machine, in which the titular character — the main cast’s only woman and one of its few voices of reason — combed through the messages she had received from the series’ kookier personalities. The most recent Answering Machine episode came out in 2009; that is, until The Brothers Chaps brought it back with a new segment that arrived on April Fools’ Day.
In clearing out her answering machine for the first time in seven years, Marzipan has a lot of emails to go through, and the result is the longest video released by the Homestar Runner team to date. It is a half-hour of running jokes, comedic twists, and pop culture references that span the first half of the 2010s. Here, check it out for yourself:
For those who us who loved Homestar Runner back when it updated regularly, the 30-minute episode is essentially Christmas on April Fools’ Day. It certainly provides enough impetus to spend the rest of the day on a trip down nostalgia lane, and viewers who crave The Brothers Chaps more recent work can also check out Two More Eggs, the web series they created for Disney XD.
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