strongbad_email.exe

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This article is about the DVD set. For the actual emails, see Strong Bad Emails.

strongbad_email.exe
DVD series collecting Strong Bad Emails 1-200
Released	Disc 1, 2, & 3 set: November 9, 2004 Disc 4: July 25, 2005 Disc 5: June 5, 2007 Disc 6: November 24, 2008 1-200 Six Disc Set: November 9, 2020
Region	0 - NTSC format
DVD authoring and encoding	Ryan Sterritt
Video footage and editing	Ryan Sterritt
Mixed by	Russ T. at Ruby Red Productions (Discs 1-3)
Cover design	Craig Zobel (Discs 1-3)
3D animation	Ryan Bradley (Disc 1)
	Jacob Slutsky (Discs 1-5)
	Ted Kotsaftis (Discs 1-5)
	Jake Rodkin and Nick Herman (Disc 6)
Music	Y-O-U (karaoke songs)
	They Might Be Giants (different town, Disc 3)
Thanks to	Willem Hartong and The Future Animators of the Future (Discs 1-3)
	Randy Dudley at Planet Studio (Discs 1-3)
	Lucky Yates (Disc 4)
	Nick Niespodziani (Disc 4)
	Jonathan Howe (Discs 4-5)
	Peter Olson (Discs 4-5)
	Karen Wagner (Disc 5)
	Telltale Games (Disc 6)

strongbad_email.exe is the first Homestar Runner DVD series, primarily collecting Strong Bad Emails.

The first three discs, comprising the first 100 emails, were sold as a 3-disc box set; Discs 4, 5, and 6 were released in later years and sold individually. The original box set was first sold on the Flash Store, with the later discs releasing to the Yahoo Store. When the store moved to Shopify, only Disc 5 was available until its discontinuation in mid-2017; strongbad_email.exe DVDs were unavailable for purchase until 2020, when they were re-released in a 6-disc compilation.

Disc Contents

• Disc 1 contains Strong Bad Emails 1-50 (some kinda robot through 50 emails), three new DVD-exclusive emails (Greeting Cards, E-mail Birds and Videro Games), the first seventeen Scroll Button Songs, the first 100 Email Intros, and the unfinished cartoon, Tis True, Pom Pom, Tis True.
• Disc 2 contains Strong Bad Emails 51-80 (website through stunt double), four karaoke music videos, music videos for Secret Song and Moving Very Slowly, and a video of Gary playing The Cheatar.
• Disc 3 contains Strong Bad Emails 81-100 (date through flashback), Some Puppet Stuff, and various behind-the-scenes footage, with Sample of Style, Making of Email 100, Sketchbook, 3D Menu Screen Tests, Day at the Park, and Some Extras. The first three discs were bundled together in a box set.
• Disc 4 contains Strong Bad Emails 101-130 (car through do over), one DVD-exclusive email (Family Resemblence), two karaoke videos, some puppet stuff including It's Like it Was Meant to Be, Real-Live E-Mails, Puppets on the Road, Puppets & Little Girl Outtakes, as well as Sample of Style Too, Sample of Style Too: Some Outtakes, and a Powered by The Cheat music video of Grumblecakes. Discs 4 through 6 were initially sold separately.
• Disc 5 contains Strong Bad Emails 131-160 (boring (really) through coloring), commentaries on every email, one DVD-exclusive email (Accent), the next 60 Email Intros (post-100), 160 Seconds, Sbemail 149.5, Lappynapped!, an alternate version of a scene from Space Program, and a video of Matt Chapman singing.
• Disc 6 contains Strong Bad Emails 161-200 (4 branches through email thunder), commentaries on every email, one DVD-exclusive email (Comic Book Movie), Strong Bad Gameways, SBCG4AP Advertisement, Sbemail 169 Deleted Scene, Place Ya Bets! and Sbemail 200 Fakeout.
• Sbemails' 50 Greatest Hits DVD contains 50 fan-favorite Strong Bad Emails, plus five additional emails.
• Strong Bad Emails 1-200 Six Disc Set is a box set containing the original six discs in one collection.

Artwork

See main article: strongbad_email.exe DVD Artwork

Easter Eggs

• Most of the emails have three kinds of secrets:
  • Audio commentary: Accessible by pressing the "Language" or "Audio" button. Not all emails have them.
  • Secret "angle": Accessible by pressing the "Angle" button. Usually used to display the short pop-ups that can appear when you click on different things during the emails.
  • Secret menu options: Once the email is over, you can press down from "Next" to find a hidden menu option—a little icon that looks like Strong Bad's head. (You typically have to press down several times to find the hidden icon.) Sometimes there are secret options hidden under "Again," "Main," or "Next," and sometimes you have to browse around (left/right) from other hidden options to find them all. All Easter eggs are listed in the "DVD Version" sections of the Strong Bad Email articles.
• Each menu has a secret Easter egg viewable after a short period of time.

Fun Facts

Explanations

• .exe is a file extension meaning "executable". An executable file contains code for a program and "executes" in an operating system. .exe files are used in DOS (e.g., "Peasants_Quest.exe" ran the Peasant's Quest program) and Microsoft Windows, but not on a Macintosh computer (which The Cheat uses). Specifically, "strongbad_email.exe" is what Strong Bad types on his computer to begin nearly every email, except for the following:
  • All emails on the Tandy 400, where Strong Bad types: run "strongbad's_email"
  • the bird, weird dream, where Strong Bad does not type anything to open his email.
  • anything, where Homestar types: run "sb_enail.com"  
  • secret identity, where Strong Bad types: strongbad_email.wad

Trivia

• This is The Brothers Chaps' 3D CGI debut.
• When the DVD set was first released, it was in such high demand that the online store quickly ran out.

External Links

• IMDB page for strongbad_email.exe Disc 1-3
• IMDB page for strongbad_email.exe Disc 4
• IMDB page for strongbad_email.exe Disc 5
• IMDB page for strongbad_email.exe Disc 6

See Also

• Everything Else