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 featuring Strong Bad Emails 1-200
Discs	Disc 1 (2004) Disc 2 (2004) Disc 3 (2004) Disc 4 (2005) Disc 5 (2007) Disc 6 (2008)
Released	Discs 1-3: 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
DVD cover design	Craig Zobel
3D 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, and Randy Dudley at Planet Studio.

strongbad_email.exe is the first Homestar Runner DVD series. It was sold as a 3-disc box set with Discs 4, 5, and 6 sold separately.

Under the store's Shopify incarnation, only Disc 5 was available until mid-2017 but this changed upon the release of a 6 pack compilation on November 9, 2020.

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), 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.
• Disc 4 contains Strong Bad Emails 101-130 (car through do over), one previously unreleased 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. It is sold separately from the first three discs.
• Disc 5 contains Strong Bad Emails 131-160 (boring (really) through coloring), commentaries on every email, one previously unreleased 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. It is sold separately from the first four discs.
• Disc 6 contains Strong Bad Emails 161-200 (4 branches through email thunder), commentaries on every email, one previously unreleased email (Comic Book Movie), Strong Bad Gameways, SBCG4AP Advertisement, Sbemail 169 Deleted Scene, Place Ya Bets! and Sbemail 200 Fakeout. It is sold separately from the previous five discs.
• Sbemails' 50 Greatest Hits DVD contains 50 fan-favorite Strong Bad Emails, and an additional five "bonus" emails.
• Strong Bad Emails 1-200 Six Disc Set is a box set containing the original six discs in one collection.

Artwork

See artwork at 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