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This article is about the Flash cartoon. For the character of the same name, see Homestar Runner (Character).

Homestar Runner is an American flash-animated comedy web series created by Mike and Matt Chapman, also known as The Brothers Chaps. It uses a blend of surreal humour, self-parody, and references to popular culture, in particular video games, classic television, and popular music.
While the site originally centered on the title character, Homestar Runner, the Strong Bad Email cartoon skits quickly became the site's most popular and prominent feature, with Strong Bad becoming a breakout character. Since 2000, the site has grown to encompass a variety of cartoons and web games featuring Homestar, Strong Bad, and numerous other characters.
At the peak of its popularity, the site was one of the most-visited sites with collections of Flash cartoons on the web, spreading via word of mouth. The site sustains itself through merchandise sales and has never featured advertisements. The Brothers Chaps have turned down offers to make a television series.After a four-year hiatus beginning in 2010, Homestar Runner returned with a new Holiday Toon on April 1, 2014, for April Fools' Day. Afterwards, co-creator Matt Chapman announced plans to give the site semi-regular updates starting in fall 2014, due to the positive reception given to the April Fools' Day cartoon. Since global support for Flash ended on December 31st, 2020, homestarrunner.com has maintained a fully functional Flash website through the emulator, Ruffle. More cartoons have since been released on the website on an occasional basis, usually to celebrate holidays.

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    How do I use Wedi board on dot and dab wall?

    Hi all, I am in the middle of renovating my bathroom. First of its kind for me! The walls were are all Plasterboard with tiles around the room up to shoulder height when standing in the bath tub. 2.7 walls on a wooden stud work frame, 1.3 walls relying on dot & dat adhesive against the grey...
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    Floor tiling - dot and dab over electric under floor heating

    Bathroom fitter says this is the correct way to lay tiles and nothing in the rule book says he can’t dot and dabb
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    How's My Tiling? Dot and dab error

    Hi, I am looking for some advise with tiling my bathroom. Following research online and through YouTube I have tried to learn the basic of tiling and the do’s and don’t. I have come to tile my bathroom and following some advice for an ex-tiler I know they recommended I use the dab and dot...
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    Tiler used dot dab on bathroom tiles - help!

    Tiler used dot dab on bathroom tiles but saying it’s not a problem. What can we reasonably expect to happen here? The tiler finished our bathroom today and when we’ve questioned the circular marks coming through the tile he’s confessed to using dot dab but doesn’t seem to think it’s a problem...
  5. Rustytabitha

    Dot and dab in bathroom big porcelain tiles is it ok?

    Hello, I can cope with cosmetic problems but the tiler is 3/4 way through and I noticed he is using random blobs of cement not spreading it over the tile. There are big gaps between the tiles and the edges have no adhesive. It is behind sink and loo and around the bath and a new shower at one...
  6. Rustytabitha

    Help advice urgently needed

    Can I ask urgent advice please. Main problem; Where he took tiles off the adhesive had been put on in blobs; is this right? (sometimes fixed onto flaky emulsion) The tiles are all chipped. The tiler says it is the tiles they need specialise equipment to cut so we have to put up with chips all...
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    Brick slips on dot and dab plastered wall - options?

    Hi all, Doing our kitchen renovation and would really like to use some brick slips, for the 3 recessed sections (angled to the left, chimney recess and large section to the right) The wall has been boarded with dab adhesive, with a skim over the top with 1 paint coat over a mist. I did a...
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    Dot and dab onto bare block

    I've taken a wall back to the brick/blockwork and want to dot and dab moisture resistant plasterboard. What kind of prep should l do on the wall prior to dot and dabbing? Wire brush it, seal it with anything. Once l've put up the plasterboard, prior to tiling, do l need to apply any kind of...
  9. Mark parry

    Bathroom tiling dot and dab

    Hi I need some help I am having my bathroom tiled onto plaster board my tiler has put them on with dot and dab 45x90 tiles is this ok and also puting underfloor heating mat down with 45x90 tiles dot and dab my understanding it should be total coverage on floor tiles. The pic is one of the tiles...
  10. Fitwidge

    Dot and dab tiles.....ohhh!

    Ok so, some of you know I’m a new learner and to take my experience further i rung a ‘professional tiler’ to see if i could do weekends to learn the trade basics. My first question for him was ‘how does he stick his tiles on the wall, trowel it or blob it(dot n dab) His answer ‘blob’ I...
  11. acaciaguy

    Dot and Dab Plasterboard onto painted walls

    Hello all, I know it's not best practice to tile onto painted walls especially when using large format tiles. My question is this - if you Dot and Dab onto painted walls does this not create a similar issue of the paint being behind the plasterboard adhesive - is this why mechanical fixings are...
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    How to tell if dot and dab method has been used?

    Hi All. We have recently undertaken a major house project which included installation of under floor heating throughout the ground floor. An incident last week revealed unexpected weaknesses in the kitchen floor which we have now found out (from our builder) is down to the method (dot and dab)...
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    Preparation Advice needed - poor tiling job, dot and dab not to BS5385

    We recently had a bathroom fitting in who said he used dot and dab to fix tiles to the wall and in the shower areas and also stated that any gaps behind tiles e.g. Mosaics would get filled in by grout so it would be fine. We can however hear what we think are some voids behind the large format...
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    Dot and dab 600x300 porcelain tiles in shower with readymix

    hi Please could you asvise me if using readymix and dot and dab method for large porcelain is good practice on walls in a shower area? I paid a tiler I found on one of the tradesmen search sites to do a small job in my bathroom. He didn’t come to see the job first but when he arrived wasn’t...
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    Dot and dab court case

    Hello. I wonder if anyone can help please. I have had my kitchen floor tiled and it has become obvious that the tiler, although I paid a fair amount of money for him, has used the dot and dab method. This was discovered after a couple of holes were made after dropping relatively light items on...
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    Wedi/Marmox on hardwall - dowels plus dot and dab or dowels plus full addy bed?

    Just about to line my en-suite out with Marmox boards onto the existing (new build) hardwall finish. Primed with Mapei G first and will use spankers/dowels but what's the consensus on dot n dab vs full bed of addy? Will end up with 300 x 600 9mm porcs on top, but the spankers are there to...
  17. JMC tiling

    dot n dab backer board onto brick

    Evening all. Got a job where I have to dot on dab some tile insulation backer board onto brickwork to build them out to the same depth as the existing plasterboard. I am going to mechanically fix them aswell but wanted to know whether to use plasterboard adhesive or tile adhesive on the wall...
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    Saw this on the way home

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    Dot And Dab Wall Tiles In A Shower?

    Hi guys. I have a couple of showers that need tiling (one a corner unit, the other a walk in affair). I have previously asked on another thread the best way to waterproof the showers and ensure a trouble free life without leaks; resulting in the use of a brilliant tanking system from mapei...
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    Aus Yet More......dotting&dabbing

    I come across these on a relatively new build, when I had a few days off in Glasgow last week(I couldn't help myself but take some pics) 100's of metres of 600x600's D&D'd onto the ground floor of a building right next to Glasgow Green and one of the finest brick built Victorian buildings I have...
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