DVD
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- This article is about the toon collections released on disc. For toons on the website designed to resemble DVDs, see The King of Town (toon) and In Search of the Yello Dello.
DVD collections of Homestar Runner toons were released from 2004 through 2009. The two primary series are strongbad_email.exe, collecting over 200 Strong Bad Emails, and Everything Else, collecting most other toons from the site's launch through August 2007. The DVDs not only collected toons available on the website, but included additional bonus features: themed interactive menus, exclusive new videos, commentaries both informative and humorous, and other unique content. Most DVDs came in simple digipak packaging, apart from the SBCG4AP DVD-ROM and the multi-disc rereleases that used more standard keep cases.
Toons were frequently modified to some degree to work with the fixed aspect ratio and lack of interactivity compared to their original presentation in Flash. The most prominent change was editing The Paper (and New Paper) to read "The End" instead of "Click here to email Strong Bad". Easter eggs in the middle of toons either played automatically, were only shown by changing the angle view, or were wholly removed; Easter eggs at the end of toons could often be accessed by selecting hidden menu options. Colors were adjusted to fit in the DVD color space. Occasionally, glitches or other minor differences would be introduced in these versions of the toons.
Ryan Sterritt handled DVD authoring and encoding, working alongside The Brothers Chaps in their office. Craig Zobel designed the covers for the disc 1-3 box set.
No new DVD collections have been produced since 2009; Dangeresque: Puppet Squad is the most recently-released on-site toon that was made available on DVD. Due to the DVD format being nearly obsolete and appealing to a limited audience, The Brothers Chaps have been hesitant to invest the time, effort, and money in physical media production and distribution. Both strongbad_email.exe and Everything Else were re-released in the 2020s (with the product description expressing incredulity that people were "still" willing to buy DVDs 20 years later), though both have since sold out and are less-than-likely to be reprinted again.
Multiple formerly-exclusive toons have since been uploaded to the YouTube channel homestarrunnerdotcom, which can be considered a successor to the DVD releases.
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[edit] Strong Bad Email
- See main article: strongbad_email.exe
The first DVD series, strongbad_email.exe, collected Strong Bad Emails (taking its name from the program Strong Bad uses to check his email). Four collections were released from 2004 through 2008; the first three discs (comprising the first 100 emails) were sold as a 3-disc box set while Discs 4, 5, and 6 were released in later years and sold individually.
In total, the first two hundred emails — some kinda robot through email thunder — were collected in this series; six DVD-exclusive emails were also included, for a grand total of 206 emails. By the time of hremail 3184's release on June 30, 2009, new DVD collections were no longer being produced.
Special release Sbemails' 50 Greatest Hits collected 55 fan-favorite Strong Bad Emails. Unlike the mainline strongbad_email.exe, this disc has not been reprinted.
[edit] Everything Else
- See main article: Everything Else
As the title cheekily implies, Everything Else collected everything else on the site that was not a Strong Bad Email. The first volume was released a year after the initial strongbad_email.exe 100-email collection, with two more volumes released at an annual rate. Everything Else ultimately collected nearly all toons released on homestarrunner.com prior to August 2007, with Quality Time with Cardboard Homestar being the most recent toon.
[edit] Other
Telltale Games released a Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People Collector's DVD that contained the PC version of the game, various videos (both from homestarrunner.com and from Telltale's promotional output), and additional digital goodies on July 2, 2009.
Unlike other DVDs, this was sold on the Telltale site and at retailers, but not in the Homestar Runner Store.
[edit] See Also
| Everything Else |
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| Volume 1 | Volume 2 | Volume 3 | Three Disc Set DVD Artwork | DVD Commentary Speakers |
