This Year's Homestar Runner Halloween Cartoon Features Dirk the Daring, Sea-Monkeys, and an Unkillable Dog Named Mr. Poofers

If we learned nothing else from the aughts, we learned that if we don't watch and enjoy the Homestar Runner Halloween cartoon every year, the terrorists win. Poofers Must Die: A Top-Notch 4½ Stars With Over 600 Reviews Quality Ghost Story." The structure of this year's toon means we only get brief glimpses of the main Homestar Runner cast until the costume roundup at the end, but they're just as eclectic and fun a collection of bizarre pop-culture references as ever. Homestar is Dirk the Daring, the hero of the 1983 Don Bluth-animated video game Dragon's Lair: Marzipan is J. Mascis, the singer and guitarist from Dinosaur Jr. Strong Sad is Tummi Gummi, a character from Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears, a cartoon that ran for six seasons between 1985 and 1991: Strong Mad is Kano, a character from 2000 AD who was originally supposed to be part of the Judge Dredd universe.