strongbad_email.exe

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The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. The correct title is strongbad_email.exe.

strongbad_email.exe
File:DVD SBemails 3DiscBoxSet.jpg
DVD featuring Strong Bad Emails 1-130
Discs	Disc 1 \| Disc 2 \| Disc 3 \| Disc 4
Released	November 9, 2004 (discs 1–3); July 25, 2005 (disc 4)
Region	0 - NTSC format
DVD authoring and encoding	Ryan Sterritt
Video footage and editing	Ryan Sterritt. Mixed by Russ T. at Ruby Red Productions
DVD cover design	Craig Zobel
3-D animation	Ryan Bradley, Jacob Slutsky, and Ted Kotsaftis.
Music	Y-O-U (karaoke), They Might Be Giants (different town)
Producers	The Brothers Chaps
The Brothers Chaps' thanks	Willem Hartong, The Future Animators of the Future, Randy Dudley and Planet Studio.

strongbad_email.exe is the first Homestar Runner DVD series (the second being Everything Else). It contains the first 130 Strong Bad Emails.

Disc Contents

Disc 1 contains Strong Bad Emails 1-50 (some kinda robot through 50 emails), three new, never-before-seen emails (Greeting Cards, E-mail Birds and Videro Games), all the Scroll Button Songs stopping at the "Huzzah, on the mic" one, the first 100 Email Intros, and the unfinished Toon, Tis True, Pom Pom, Tis True.
Disc 2 contains Strong Bad Emails 51-80 (website through stunt double), four karaoke music videos, 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.
Disc 4 contains Strong Bad Emails 101-130 (car through do over), one previously unreleased email (Family Resemblence), two karaoke videos, some puppet stuff, with Real-Live E-Mails, Puppets on the Road, Puppets & Little Girl Outtakes, as well as Sample of Style Too and Sample of Style Too: Some Outtakes. It is sold separately from the first three discs.

Most of the emails have three kinds of secrets:
- Audio commentary: Access by pressing the "Language" or "Audio" button. Not all emails have them.
- Secret "angle": Access 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'll typically have to press down several times to find the hidden icon.) Sometimes there's stuff hidden under "Again," "Main," or "Next," and sometimes you have to browse around (left/right) from other hidden options to find them all. (If you can't find a particular Easter egg, check the "DVD Version" section of that email in the Strong Bad Email section.)
Each menu has a secret Easter egg if you wait for a while. All are unique in their own ways.

.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 Windows—but not on a Macintosh (which The Cheat uses). Specifically, "strongbad_email.exe" is what Strong Bad types on his computer to begin nearly every email (except for those on the Tandy 400 and secret identity).

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.

The art for the four DVD covers (Strong Bad, Stinkoman, Senor Cardgage, Dangeresque and his other doppelgängers) is reminicent of the art on the Star Wars Trilogy on VHS. That set also featured a different half-face on each cover: Darth Vader, Yoda, and a Stormtrooper.