strongbad email.exe

This article is about the DVD set. For the actual emails, see Strong Bad Emails.

strongbad_email.exe
DVD series collecting Strong Bad Emails 1-200
Released	Disc 1, 2, & 3 set: 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 (Discs 1-3)
Cover design	Craig Zobel (Discs 1-3)
3D animation	Ryan Bradley (Disc 1)
	Jacob Slutsky (Discs 1-5)
	Ted Kotsaftis (Discs 1-5)
	Jake Rodkin and Nick Herman (Disc 6)
Music	Y-O-U (karaoke songs)
	They Might Be Giants (different town, Disc 3)
Thanks to	Willem Hartong and The Future Animators of the Future (Discs 1-3)
	Randy Dudley at Planet Studio (Discs 1-3)
	Lucky Yates (Disc 4)
	Nick Niespodziani (Disc 4)
	Jonathan Howe (Discs 4-5)
	Peter Olson (Discs 4-5)
	Karen Wagner (Disc 5)
	Telltale Games (Disc 6)

strongbad_email.exe is the first Homestar Runner DVD series, primarily collecting Strong Bad Emails.

The first three discs, comprising the first 100 emails, were sold as a 3-disc box set; Discs 4, 5, and 6 were released in later years and sold individually. The original box set was first sold on the Flash Store, with the later discs releasing to the Yahoo Store. When the store moved to Shopify, only Disc 5 was available until its discontinuation in mid-2017; strongbad_email.exe DVDs were unavailable for purchase until 2020, when they were re-released in a 6-disc compilation.

Disc Contents

Disc	Emails	Commentaries	Bonus Features	Easter Eggs
1*	1–50 some kinda robot – 50 emails	20/50	DVD-exclusive emails Greeting Cards, E-mail Birds and Videro Games The first seventeen Scroll Button Songs The first 100 Email Intros	Tis True, Pom Pom, Tis True
2*	51–80 website – stunt double	15/30	Karaoke songs Trogdor, Nite Mamas, Dangeresque theme song, and Everybody to the Limit Music videos for Secret Song and Moving Very Slowly	A video of Gary playing The Cheatar
3*	81–100 date – flashback	10/20	Some Puppet Stuff Behind-the-scenes footage: Sample of Style, Making of Email 100, Sketchbook, 3D Menu Screen Tests	Day at the Park Some Extras
4	101–130 car – do over	All emails	DVD-exclusive email Family Resemblence Karaoke songs Because, It's Midnite and Rock Opera Puppet stuff It's Like It Was Meant to Be Sample of Style Too Powered by The Cheat music video of Grumblecakes	Real-Live E-Mails Sample of Style Too: Some Outtakes Puppets on the Road Puppets & Little Girl Outtakes
5	131–160 boring (really) – coloring	All emails	DVD-exclusive email Accent 60 Email Intros (post-100) 160 Seconds, Sbemail 149.5, Lappynapped!	An alternate version of a scene from Space Program A video of Matt Chapman singing.
6	161–200 4 branches – email thunder	All emails	DVD-exclusive email Comic Book Movie Strong Bad Gameways, SBCG4AP Advertisement	Sbemail 169 Deleted Scene Place Ya Bets! Sbemail 200 Fakeout

* Discs 1–3 were sold bundled together in a box set.

• Sbemails' 50 Greatest Hits DVD contains 50 fan-favorite Strong Bad Emails, plus five additional emails.
• Strong Bad Emails 1-200 Six Disc Set reprinted the original six discs in a single collection.

Artwork

See main article: 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. On the first three discs, many emails do not have commentary.
  • Secret "angle": Accessible by pressing the "Angle" button. Usually used to display the short pop-ups that would appear when clicking on elements during the web version of emails.
  • Secret menu options: Hidden menu options — a little icon that looks like Strong Bad's head — can be found by navigating in directions other than the visible options (for instance, pressing "down" when menu options are listed left-to-right), often pressing more than once. All Easter eggs are listed in the "DVD Version" sections of the Strong Bad Email articles.
• Each menu has a secret Easter egg that automatically plays after a short period of time.

Fun Facts

Initial "first hundred emails" box set release

Explanations

• .exe is a file extension meaning "executable". An executable file contains code for a program and "executes" it in an operating system; .exe files are primarily used in Microsoft Windows or historically in DOS (e.g., "Peasants_Quest.exe" ran the Peasant's Quest program), 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, all emails on the Compe, 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

• The DVD menu animations feature the first use of 3DCG animation in the Homestar Runner body of work.
• The initial DVD set was so popular that it sold out within a month of its initial release to the store before being restocked.

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