Strong Bad Email

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Strong Bad checks his email.

Strong Bad's emails are the most frequently updated feature of the Homestar Runner website. They were originally a small feature introduced in 2001, in which Strong Bad would mock the spelling and grammar of those who wrote to him. Although the animations were initially brief, the responses gradually grew to establish numerous catchphrases and running gags, as well as spin-offs like Trogdor, 20X6, Teen Girl Squad, and even the main character Homsar. A typical Strong Bad email will also include numerous Easter eggs and other hidden material.

Strong Bad Emails

DVD Emails

The following emails only appear on the strongbad_email.exe DVD set.

• Greeting Cards
• E-mail Birds
• Videro Games

Not Quite Strong Bad Emails

The following shorts were originally associated in one way or another with the Strong Bad Emails. They are numbered by halves to show where they appeared chronologically in the list above. Number 99½B and 118½ are not linked to from anywhere on the site.

• 127½. HomestarRunner.com PAY PLUS! ("The Email Show" is one of the pay-per-view features.)
  
• 118½. Strong Bad Email? (Broken Compy Menu.)
  
• 99½B. Not the 100th Email!!! (Secret URL address for anyone who wanted a peek at Email 100 before it was released.)
  
• 99½A. Puppet Time (A message was taped onto Puppet Compy's screen that read "Probably at a barbecue, from SB")
  
• 68½. Lookin at a Thing in a Bag (A message was taped onto the Compy in the email menu that read "Looking at a thing in a bag" when the cartoon was released.)
  
• 66½. Arcade Game (Homestar Runner reads Strong Bad's note he left on the Compy 386.)
  
• 59½. Superbowl Dealie (The Paper reads "Due to the big game, the Strong Bad Email will be a little late this week.")
  
• 41½. King of Town Email (The King of Town tries to answer an email on his recently bought (but broken) Tandy 400.)
  

Strong Bad Email Menus

• 1–32 Tandy 400 menu
• 33–34 Broken Tandy Menu
• 35–40 Slightly damaged Tandy menu
• 41 Vacation menu
• 42–118 Compy 386 menu
  • Between 55 and 56 Decemberween Email Menu
  • Between 118 and 119 Broken Compy Menu
• 119–Current Lappy 486 menu

Fun Facts

Trivia

• Some time during mid-2003, "updated mondays" on the main Strong Bad Email Menu changed to "updated somedays."
• On the Compy 386 menus, Strong Bad types "dir /p", a DOS command used to list all the files in a directory, and to pause between each screen's worth of files.
• Back in the Tandy era, e-mailing Strong Bad used to result in this automated response:

Thanks for your freakin email. I hope it's not stupid.
Once I finish these swiss cake rolls I'll read it and if it's awesome enough,
I'll answer it on the site.
But if your email is terrible, then it gets R.E.D. alright.
The Cheat Reads it, Strong Mad Eats it, and I Deletes it.
Click Here to see us in action!
Check back every Monday to see if your email has what it takes.
Watch me while I'm awesome,
Strong Bad

The link in the automated response leads to the Email Processing Room.

Additional Information

External Links

• Strong Bad Email menu
• View the Flash file for Strong Bad Email Menu
• Email Strong Bad