Homestarrunner.com

It was an internet sensation when I was a freshman. Homestarrunner.com. It's a website full of short flash animation cartoons revolving around the Homestar Runner, Strong Bad, and other characters. They even spawn off other cartoons as the inside jokes between the characters go on. There is usually one or two new cartoons to watch every week. The center of attention is not the Homestar Runner, it is actually Strong Bad. Every week he answers an email sent in from an actual person. Each of these emails can be broken down into these stages.
Strong Bad reads the email on his computer out loud. He severely mispronounces the name of the writer everytime, so that it makes fun of it. Stong Bad then answers the question from the email through an elaborate animated story. It is often way over the top. The cartoon then goes back to the image of the email on Strong Bad's computer screen as he finishes up talking. When the cartoon ends, the animation stops. This is the part I like best about the Stron Bad Emails. If you wait long enough, something usually funny will happen. You can also look for easter eggs, hidden points in the screen that when pressed will activate a secret animation. There are usually several of these on the end of an email. A secret is that if you press tab, it will highlight one by one all of the secret spots on the screen that activate the animation.
One interesting thing that connects Homestarrunner.com to our class is that the Brothers Chaps (the creators and animators of the show) like to copy the techniques used in the old days of animation. They reinvent the characters of the cartoon and place then in look alike animations of 1936. The characters move and act as if they would in the early days of animation. In an interview that I can no longer locate on the internet, the creators of the cartoon say that they enjoyed that period of animation and when they do this segment, they actually enjoy it the most. The way the animation glows and the gimmics are right there with the old days of animation.
The Brothers Chaps similarly do the same thing with putting their characters into a look alike japanese anime. The way the eyes look, the way their mouths move and the way the characters jump seemingly forever are portrayed perfectly. The Brothers Chaps do a great job with these three types of animation. If you havn't ever been to Homestarrunner.com, I highly recomend checking it out at http://homestarrunner.com. There is alot there, so I would recomend finding the chronological order it was made so that you can understand what is going on.