New Homestar Runner Short: "Senor Card gage Mortgage"

[The Koopinator]

http://www.homestarrunner.com/senormortgage.html

A new hilarious short. Get Senor Cardgage Mort-gage today!

Easter Eggs: Uh, none.

I'm goin' to Chik-Fil-A.

Edited for spelling.

[Blue Priestess]

Originally Posted by The Tallest

Easter Eggs: Uh, none.

Actually, click on the dollar sign in Mortgage at the end for a scene with the robot.

"I don't see nobody takin' me to Chik-Fil-A." Brilliant.

[Killtacular]

A one minute short? You guys make a hell of a lot of money a year. Surely you can throw people a bone for giving you the most cushy job in America, instead of just boning people with these no effort junkers.

[The Koopinator]

Originally Posted by Blue Priestess

Actually, click on the dollar sign in Mortgage at the end for a scene with the robot.

Oh. I wasn't looking. Does anyone know what it said?

[Kryten]

You should ask them for your money back.

[Lord Dalek]

Hmmm, the return of "Different Kind of Cool" Strongbad. Short and silly, I liked it.

[wrenchien]

Originally Posted by Matt Wilson

A one minute short? You guys make a hell of a lot of money a year. Surely you can throw people a bone for giving you the most cushy job in America, instead of just boning people with these no effort junkers.

i think this surely took some effort.. after all, finding a computer voice creation program to do a voice instead of getting voice talent..

is actually probably harder for a lot of people.

[mdemaria]

Originally Posted by Matt Wilson

A one minute short? You guys make a hell of a lot of money a year. Surely you can throw people a bone for giving you the most cushy job in America, instead of just boning people with these no effort junkers.

Plus the multiple new games, a 6:00 toon, 3 other shorts, april fools stunt, 5 puppet times, New Boots, new strong bad email every week or two, longer strong bad emails, new answering machine with animated bits, all done in 2004. On a site that's free, ad free, subscription free, required email address free, annoyance free. No watching movie trailers before the short begins or dealing with porn ads, unlike some other free flash toons sites.

Worst. Episode. Ever.

[wrenchien]

sounds like an infomercial parody.. heh. .. cardgage can't exactly get the lines right.

i wish someone would take me to chick-fil-a.. they're showing spiderman 2 nearby. mmm, chicken, mmm.

that $ easter egg is funny. especially if you play it in more than one window at once. the more the merrier. sure was worth the download, sure got a sorely needed laugh out of me.

i don't know who the robot is, but i do hope he makes an appearance in some future email. he's funny, especially when he goes 'boom' and 'my naaammme iiiiiiiisss mmmmmmuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuudddddddddddddddhhhhhhhh.'

blown out of the water,

wrenchien

[Mek]

Originally Posted by Matt Wilson

A one minute short? You guys make a hell of a lot of money a year. Surely you can throw people a bone for giving you the most cushy job in America, instead of just boning people with these no effort junkers.

I have to kinda agree in a sense. It's not too special, but it was actually kinda funny. Though I have to admit, Homestar's stride has pretty much ended. Well, for me anyways.

[Feslmogh]

They redid the Toons menu...

[The Koopinator]

Originally Posted by Matt Wilson

A one minute short? You guys make a hell of a lot of money a year. Surely you can throw people a bone for giving you the most cushy job in America, instead of just boning people with these no effort junkers.

It looks to me that you thought it was bad, but I'm sure plenty of people enjoyed it (like me), and thought they were thrown a bone, and not boned. Or something to that extent. Everything takes effort, and the robot voice is harder to get than a voice actor.

[SirLemming]

Originally Posted by mdemaria

Plus the multiple new games, a 6:00 toon, 3 other shorts, april fools stunt, 5 puppet times, New Boots, new strong bad email every week or two, longer strong bad emails, new answering machine with animated bits, all done in 2004. On a site that's free, ad free, subscription free, required email address free, annoyance free. No watching movie trailers before the short begins or dealing with porn ads, unlike some other free flash toons sites.

2004 has been 6 months, so that alone isn't really saying much. Whether you think Homestar Runner is funny or not, you have to admit that at this stage, they've really got it easy. The Chapman brothers make their living off of this; they don't have to contend with school and jobs. And yet they often go a week -- occasionally 2 or 3 weeks -- with only a one-minute short or new menu page to show for it.
I can't say I wouldn't do the same in their position, but they definitely COULD be working harder. Especially when using the same character models for every cartoon, Flash cartoons of this quality and (at least) this length can be put out by two experienced animators more often than what they're doing.


I'm thinking I might have had more positive things to say about this cartoon if Matt Wilson hadn't gotten me thinking with that comment. Anyway, it was funny, but could've been funnier. Senor Cardgage is great, but his other appearances have arguably been better.

[JDuncan]

It was funny for what it was, I can't really say that a mortgage commercial parody would work if it was, say, five minutes long.

[Martianinvader]

You're taking Matt Wilson seriously???

Crazies....

Anyway, I thought it was really good. Watch more daytime TV--then you'll be familiar with the stupid ads this imitates. And the hosts are pretty much Cardgage in human form.

[Killtacular]

Originally Posted by mdemaria

Plus the multiple new games, a 6:00 toon, 3 other shorts, april fools stunt, 5 puppet times, New Boots, new strong bad email every week or two, longer strong bad emails, new answering machine with animated bits, all done in 2004.

Those were all done this week? Oh, no. They weren't.

The Brothers Chaps spend 6 hours on the weekly update. Then maybe 3 hours at most checking up on merchandise. The rest of the time they spend playing video games and eating at McDonald's, and getting interviewed by magazines and G4. That is their life. That they cannot do more for their weekly update is inexcusable. Most animators work 40 hours a week. They can't even be bothered sometimes to work ONE DAY out of the week. Think of what they COULD do if they actually took their work seriously and spent effort trying to put out something of real quality every week. If they spent maybe 15-20 hours on a cartoon instead of 6 (or less, looking at this cartoon). Then we wouldn't have these lazy, slopped together, last minute, idiotic offerings. They didn't make 2 million dollars in revenue last year just for doing puppet jams and menu pages.

On a site that's free, ad free, subscription free, required email address free, annoyance free. No watching movie trailers before the short begins or dealing with porn ads, unlike some other free flash toons sites.

This would be filed in the 'uh duh' category. When you make a lot of money, you can afford good server hosting.

[Kryten]

Like I said... you should e-mail them demanding your money back.

If you're lucky, they'll ONLY tell you to go f*** yourself.

[Blue Priestess]

Originally Posted by Kryten

Like I said... you should e-mail them demanding your money back.

If you're lucky, they'll ONLY tell you to go f*** yourself.

And when they do, they'll speak for us all. I guess this "Length/Time spent = quality" thing explains why every attempt I've made to slog through "High Score" feels like an eternity.

If you're gonna go all sour grapes, do it on your own time, oh Argument-for-the-ability-to-put-mods-on-the-ignore-list.

[Killtacular]

Originally Posted by Blue Priestess

And when they do, they'll speak for us all. I guess this "Length/Time spent = quality" thing explains why every attempt I've made to slog through "High Score" feels like an eternity.

Making this argument personal would only make sense if I were making as much money as the Chapman brothers were making. And if I had the cushy lifestyle they had. But I don't, so there's no comparison.

[Tea]

I couldn't understand about 50% of what was said but the randomness did amuse me.