Strong Bad Email Spin-offs
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Many Strong Bad Emails resulted in spin-off characters, series and running gags that later became a part of the website. Listed below are all the spin-offs in chronological order.
# | Email title | Spin-off(s) | Reason for spin-off |
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2 | homsar | Homsar | A spelling blunder in which email sender Vinnie C. writes "Homsar" instead of "Homestar". |
9 | i love you | Fhqwhgads; Painting of a Guy with a Big Knife | The name of the email sender, later used in various other toons, including a music video made by The Cheat; idea of something Strong Bad can do in the same time it takes to say the sender's name. |
11 | i rule | Strong Badia | Email sender Mike, UK, asks Strong Bad if he is so evil, then why he doesn't rule the world or at least some kind of field. Strong Bad contradicts this by introducing the public to his domain. |
14 | duck pond | Videlectrix | Videlectrix is credited as the creator of the Atari 2600 version of Strong Bad's Duck Pond simulator. |
16 | band names | Taranchula; Limozeen | Possible names for email sender Dan's band. |
23 | little animal | Strong Man; The Sneak | An Easter Egg features an Old-Timey version of the final scene, in which Strong Mad chases Strong Bad. |
29 | superhero name | Strong Badman | Email sender Stiny wonders why Strong Bad's name doesn't end in "man". |
32 | flag day | Strong Badia National Anthem | Strong Bad and The Cheat hold a flag-raising ceremony. |
39 | dullard | The Office; Dullard Comic Strips | Strong Bad uses methods to describe to email sender Jason how to deal with office dullards. |
40 | vacation | Monkey D | The name given as the sender of an example of the type of email Strong Bad sarcastically claims to miss. |
44 | lures & jigs | The Pond | Strong Bad uses lures and jigs to catch fish on The Pond. |
45 | techno | The System is Down | Strong Bad describes what techno music sounds like. |
47 | new hands | These peoples try to fade me | Coach Z briefly sings with Strong Bad accompanying on his buckethand. |
49 | theme party | Circles | Strong Bad gives an example of white blues to play at a frat party. |
51 | website | Strong Sad's Lament | Strong Bad links to Strong Sad's blog in his website. |
53 | comic | Teen Girl Squad | Email sender Brittany asks Strong Bad to create a comic about her friends. |
57 | japanese cartoon | Stinkoman; 20X6 | Email sender James F. asks Strong Bad what he would look like if he were a Japanese cartoon. (The name "Stinkoman" debuted in email #52, island.) |
58 | dragon | Trogdor | Email sender Kaizer asks Strong Bad to draw a dragon. |
59 | marzipan | Oh yeah yeah | Marzipan sings about how she really doesn't like Strong Bad at all. |
61 | monster truck | Awexome Cross; Because It's Midnite | A game based on the event Strong Bad advertises was later added to the Scrolling Shooter Games Menu. Strong Bad also advertises a performance from Limozeen. |
62 | interview | Kerrek; Homsar Main Page | Name of the email sender that Strong Bad likes so much that he decides to use it as a character in Trogdor's world (and also as a Peasant's Quest character). A hidden main page from the email's ending was later linked to from every Main Page except the Luau Main Page. |
63 | fingers | Moving Very Slowly | A song Strong Bad and Strong Mad watch on TV. |
66 | the show | The Show | Strong Bad shows footage from Homestar's game show when Tori asks why Homestar doesn't do anything funny anymore. |
68 | caper | The Cheat is Not Dead | Strong Bad regrets getting mad at The Cheat for screwing up the Jumble caper, so he dedicates his next song to him. |
69 | personal favorites | Grape-Nuts Robot; Gavin | Bubs makes a Strong Bad robot that they later use to leave a prank call on Marzipan's Answering Machine. As Strong Bad checks another email, a cockroach keeps bothering him. |
72 | crazy cartoon | Sweet Cuppin' Cakes; Crazy Cartoon short | Strong Bad is asked what his craziest cartoon would be like. At the end of the email The Cheat shows him one of the Powered By The Cheat shorts. |
80 | stunt double | Dangeresque series | Email sender Louis asks Strong Bad if he has ever used a stunt double, which he claims to have never done, and he demonstrates using some movies involving him as a crime fighter. |
81 | date | Bear holding a Shark | This was first seen as a means of security countermeasure in Strong Badia to prevent The Cheat from touching the Tire. |
82 | impression | Jhonka | Strong Bad came up with this name when he noticed that the email sender did not sign his/her name. As with Kerrek, Jhonka became a Trogdor and Peasant's Quest character. |
83 | labor day | Everybody Knows It | The song that Homestar later turns into a puppet video plays at a Labor Day party. |
86 | no loafing | Mendelev | The name on the Tandy 400 later became a Peasant's Quest character. |
91 | caffeine | Hyperactive Strong Sad | Email sender Justin suggests to Strong Bad to slip Strong Sad some caffeine to make his living with him less unbearable and Strong Bad decides to use this recommendation as his project in the All-Wide Science Fair. |
92 | kind of cool | Senor Cardgage | Email sender Jordan asks Strong Bad what he would be like if he wasn't the stylish, buff, handsome man in a wrestling mask that he is. |
93 | army | Cheat Commandos | The Cheat (as Firebert) goes on a reconnaissance mission, and his alter ego spawns an entire line of G.I. Joe-type crime fighters. |
94 | video games | Secret Collect.; RhinoFeeder; Thy Dungeonman; StrongBadZone/Vector Strong Bad | Strong Bad is asked what he would look like in a video game; one of the many forms of Strong Bad is in the 3D vector Strong Bad Zone game, in which he is depicted as a 3D version of his head that you must destroy. He also mentions a text adventure game where you have to explore a dungeon, an old video game venture where only mere shapes and lines are meant to resemble the characters and scenery, and a more modern 16-bit game where Strong Bad has to feed a spoiled rhino while avoiding snakes. |
97 | monument | The Thnikkaman | An email sender ask Strong Bad if he's "SUPER COOL" then why not build a monument of himself. He was just getting started but then the chorus starts to sing "Here comes the Thnikkaman!" and Strong Bad gets distracted when Bubs/The Thnikkaman comes. |
103 | haircut | Ready For Primetime | One of Strong Bad's many haircut styles he demonstrates on Strong Mad, who comments on how this style looks like a Sweet Cuppin' Cakes character (or as Strong Mad puts it: "SWEETIE CAKES"). |
109 | crying | Li'l Brudder; Tendafoot | Strong Bad attempts to make Homestar cry by drawing a one-legged puppy; he also insults Strong Sad by comparing him to another drawing: a two-legged elephant. Both the puppy and the elephant later get their own TV show. |
111 | other days | Biz Cas Fri series | Strong Bad, describing what he does the days when he doesn't check emails, reveals Friday is Business Casual Friday at the office. |
116 | extra plug | Club Technochocolate; 'Lectric Boots | Strong Bad buys himself new boots to wear at the club. (The name "Technochocolate" debuted in email #97, monument.) |
117 | montage | Wagon Fulla Pancakes | Strong Bad shows off a montage involving the Wagon Fulla Pancakes, including when he actually dates it, when it and The Cheat are down-on-their-luck door-to-door salesman and when it trains for the Champeenship. |
118 | virus | The Virus | The Compy 386 is infected with 429,837 viruses that proceed to infect the rest of homestarrunner.com and later Main Page 22. |
119 | animal | Sterrance; Da Huuuuuudge | Strong Bad describes what he would look like if he were a made-up animal. |
122 | dreamail | Female Lappy 486 | Strong Bad conjures up this version of the Lappy 486 while describing what his perfect email would look like. |
124 | secret recipies | Caleb Rentpayer | A rags-to-riches soap opera the King of Town watches in one scene. |
140 | highschool | The Homestar Runner Mysfit-steries | The high school versions of Strong Bad, Homestar, Strong Mad, and Marzipan according to Strong Bad's "doodle memory". |
151 | senior prom | KOT's VOQPCS! | The email starts off as an episode of "The King of Town's Very Own Quite Popular Cartoon Show," but is later interrupted to play the email. |
161 | 4 branches | Rumble Red | Homestar has an Old-Timey flashback featuring an alien The Homestar Runner accuses of being a "Communist fool." |
163 | what I want | Decemberween Tree | One of the gifts Srong Bad claims he does not want for Decemberween is a Coach Z ornament that is later seen in Decemberween Short Shorts with other character-themed ornaments. |
165 | strong badathlon | DNA Evidence | Marzipan informs Homsar that DNA evidence has been tampered with. A subplot begins to build up through the next five emails that is elaborated and resolved in the toon. |
167 | the movies | The Broternal Order of Different Helmets | Homestar wears a viking helmet and sings the club's song; the fact that these were related to the brotherhood was later revealed in the short Ever and More! |
169 | from work | Sbemail 169 Deleted Scene | About three weeks after the email's release, an additional scene featuring Strong Bad and Coach Z was added to the site. |