This page lists all of the recaps for the Strong Bad Emails. With the exception of "sb_email 22" (which was made after "vacation" when the Brothers Chaps realized they skipped over the 22nd sbemail), the episodes are listed in chronological order based on their release dates and divided into folders based on the show's eras (determined by the various computers used by Strong Bad).
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Tandy 400
- some kinda robot - Strong Bad answers a question about whether he takes his mask and gloves off before going to bed.
- homsar - A misspelled fan-mail has Strong Bad trying to kill "Homsar".
- butt IQ - Strong Bad explains the "Transitive Butt Property".
- homestar hair - Strong Bad gets some unwanted e-mail.
- making out - Strong Bad gives some advice on setting the mood for a make-out session.
- depressio - Strong Bad relays a message to his younger brother.
- halloweener - Strong Bad explains how to make a Strong Bad Halloween costume.
- brianrietta - A flirty e-mail leads to an unpleasant surprise for Strong Bad.
- i love you - Strong Bad gets a love letter from "fhqwhgadshgnsdhjsdbkhsdabkfabkveybvf".
- trevor the vampire - An interrupted email from a self-proclaimed vampire leads to an oddly-touching moment with Strong Bad.
- i rule - Strong Bad introduces the viewers to his kingdom of Strong Badia.
- credit card - Strong Bad indulges in credit-card fraud.
- i she be - "great looking girl" tries to ask Strong Bad out.
- duck pond - Strong Bad partakes of the simple pleasure of feeding virtual ducks.
- the basics - Strong Bad teaches his fans "the basics".
- band names - Strong Bad shares ideas for rock band names.
- studying - Strong Bad tries to convince a fan not to miss an opportunity to score with his girlfriend.
- stand-up - Strong Sad shows off an embarrassing childhood memory of his brother.
- tape-leg - Strong Bad is accused of being a "tape-leg".
- spring cleaning - Strong Bad cleans out his email inbox of tired old questions.
- cartoon - Strong Bad does a solo cartoon.
- sb_email 22 - In a long-lost email, Strong Bad says exactly what he thinks of the English.
- little animal - Strong Bad shows what he'd do if a little animal (like The Cheat) came up to him.
- the bird - Strong Bad shows some of his favorite ways to flip people the bird.
- super powers - Strong Bad reveals his secret power.
- CGNU - Strong Bad advertises for Crazy-Go-Nuts University.
- 3 wishes - Strong Bad is asked what his second wish would be if he were granted three wishes.
- 1 step ahead - Strong Bad has some fun with glue and his little brother Strong Sad's hands.
- superhero name - Strong Bad gets asked about his "superhero name".
- 12:00 - Strong Bad and Bubs try to solve the old dilemma of stopping VCR clocks from blinking 12:00.
- sugarbob - Strong Bad tries to let a jealous sender's girlfriend down easy.
- flag day - Strong Bad celebrates Flag Day with Strong Badia's national colors... and national anthem.
- gimmicks - Strong Bad misses the old days when his emails didn't need gimmicks. Then his computer explodes.
- weird dream - Strong Bad borrows The Cheat's iMac to answer an email about the weirdest dream he ever had.
- sisters - Strong Bad's computer acts up at a bad time, thwarting his attempts to get with a hot girl and her sister.
- guitar - Strong Bad is asked if he can play rock guitar.
- dullard - Strong Bad offers advice on dealing with the "office dullard".
- helium - Strong Bad and his flunkies have some fun with helium balloons.
- property of ones - Strong Bad explains what makes a Cold One a One.
- vacation - Strong Bad takes a much-needed vacation.
Compy 386
- invisibility - Strong Bad breaks in his new computer with a question about what he'd do with the power of invisibility.
- action figure - Strong Bad designs his own action figure.
- little questions - Strong Bad answers some "little questions" from a Swedish viewer.
- lures & jigs - Strong Bad and Coach Z go fishing.
- techno - Strong Bad gets asked about techno music.
- your friends - Strong Bad seizes an opportunity to harm his friends.
- new hands - Strong Bad wonders what objects he'd replace his hands with.
- ghosts - Strong Bad and The Cheat scour Strong Badia for ghosts.
- theme party - Some college dudes ask Strong Bad for advice on picking a theme for their next party.
- 50 emails - Strong Bad celebrates his 50th episode by trying to answer 50 emails in a row.
- website - Strong Bad gives a viewer advice on designing a personal website.
- island - Strong Bad shows what being stuck on a deserted island with Homestar would be like for him.
- comic - A sender who wants a comic about her friends inspires Strong Bad to invent the Teen Girl Squad.
- morning routine - Strong Bad shows the viewers his morning routine.
- cheat talk - Strong Bad tries to get The Cheat (and later his brothers) to say "Douglas".
- current status - A prank gone awry leaves Strong Bad with only a minute to update the viewers on his "current status" with the ladies.
- japanese cartoon - Strong Bad imagines himself as an anime character, and Stinkoman is born.
- dragon - Strong Bad introduces Trogdor the Burninator to the world as he teaches the viewers how to draw a dragon.
- marzipan - Strong Bad tries to get Marzipan to admit she likes him.
- huttah! - Strong Bad tries to deflect attention from a string of emails asking about The Cheat.
- monster truck - Strong Bad does a promo for his own monster truck rally.
- interview - Strong Bad stages an interview with Homsar.
- fingers - Strong Bad contemplates life with prosthetic fingers.
- english paper - Strong Bad writes an "Englilish paper" for a fan.
- unused emails - Strong Bad reveals what happens to emails that don't make the cut for his email show.
- the show - Strong Bad watches an episode of a show hosted by Homestar.
- autobiography - Strong Bad shows off a few samples from his autobiography, "Words I Probably Said".
- caper - Strong Bad looks back on his last attempt at a caper with The Cheat.
- personal favorites - Strong Bad reveals some of his personal favorite emails.
- big white face - Strong Bad decides to do something nice for "the guy with the big white face"... namely, The Poopsmith.
- 2 emails - Strong Bad answers two emails, and gets ready to host the Ladies' Choice Awards.
- crazy cartoon - Strong Bad thinks up his own "cuh-razy cartoon", "Sweet Cuppin' Cakes".
- mascot - Strong Bad introduces viewers to Crazy Go Nuts University's mascot, the "Jolly Dumple".
- privileges - The Cheat gets his privileges upgraded.
- funny - Strong Bad tries to answer an email in "the funniest way ever".
- sibbie - Strong Bad accidentally writes a song about Sibbie.
- suntan - Strong Bad tries to get a sun-tan.
- anything - Homestar substitutes for Strong Bad, and shows how to make things out of other things.
- the process - Strong Bad shows viewers how to answer emails "like a true Strong Bad".
- stunt double - Strong Bad and friends make a movie, Dangeresque 2, where Strong Bad totally does his own stunts.
- date - Strong Bad spies on Homestar and Marzipan's date, and various other locations around Free Country USA.
- impression - Strong Bad competes in a Strong Sad Impression contest.
- labor day - Strong Bad spends his "Labor Day-bor" relaxing by The Stick.
- kids' book - Strong Bad shares a heartwarming children's book he "wrote".
- 2 years - Strong Bad predicts what Strong Badia will be like in the near future.
- no loafing - Strong Bad reinforces the "No Loafing!" sign with some motivational posters.
- mile - The Cheat makes his own email cartoon, in which Strong Bad runs the mile while doing cartwheels.
- couch patch - Strong Bad and his friends argue over the origins of the patch on Strong Bad's couch.
- local news - Strong Bad shows an episode of his totally legit news program.
- colonization - Strong Bad shares the rich history of his own country, and tells the tale of Strong Badia's founding.
- caffeine - Strong Bad tests the effects of caffeine on Strong Sad.
- kind of cool - Strong Bad describes himself if he were a "different kind of cool"... much like his old neighbor, Senor Cardgage.
- army - Strong Bad defends Strong Badia from Homestar and his "Homestarmy".
- video games - Strong Bad imagines himself in four different kinds of video games.
- the bet - A lost wager leads to Strong Bad spending an evening at the King of Town's castle.
- lackey - Strong Bad explains what makes The Cheat such a diligent lackey.
- monument - Strong Bad recalls how his attempt to build a monument to himself was sidetracked by "The Thnikkaman".
- stupid stuff - Strong Bad tries to trick Homestar into saying something smart.
- different town - Strong Bad shares how he would make his town different... in song!
- flashback - Strong Bad shares an epic wide-screen flashback to the day he met Homestar Runner.
- car - Homestar interrupts "a tired old Strong Bad joke" to show off his tricked-out hat.
- lunch special - Strong Bad tries to get a free lunch from Bubs.
- haircut - Strong Bad shows off his "barber wizardy" on Strong Mad's eyebrows.
- theme park - Strong Bad shows off his plans for a Strong Bad theme park.
- replacement - Strong Bad auditions for a replacement for if he ever retires from checking emails.
- dangeresque 3 - Strong Bad shows off a "director's cut" of the first Dangeresque movie.
- cheatday - Strong Bad celebrates The Cheat's birthday.
- pom pom - Strong Bad tries to poke Pom Pom with a pin.
- crying - Strong Bad reveals the secret to making Homestar cry: a pathetically-sad one-legged puppy.
- for kids - Strong Bad imagines himself and Homsar as kids' show hosts.
- other days - Strong Bad shows what he does on the other days of the week, when he's not checking emails.
- old comics - Strong Bad recalls how the King of Town and the Poopsmith got started as newspaper comic characters.
- pizzaz - Strong Bad interviews himself to get the secret of his pizzaz.
- the facts - Strong Bad explains why Strong Mad doesn't have his own cartoon.
- time capsule - Strong Bad makes a time capsule.
- extra plug - Strong Bad uses the extra plug beneath his computer table to try out his new "'lectric boots".
- montage - Strong Bad makes a few montages starring him and a Wagon Fulla Pancakes.
- virus - When the Compy gets infected with literally thousands of computer viruses, Strong Bad's computer isn't the only thing that starts acting weird.
Lappy 486
- animal - Strong Bad introduces his new computer with an email where he makes up his own animal.
- radio - Strong Bad demonstrates the various kinds of radio announcer.
- part-time job - Strong Bad gets a job at Bubs' Concession Stand.
- dreamail - Strong Bad imagines his dream email.
- origins - Strong Bad talks about The Stick's history as a hang-out, while pointedly refusing to reveal its origins.
- secret recipes - Strong Bad shares some (very gross, prank) recipes from the Strong family cookbook.
- rock opera - Strong Bad composes (and performs) a rock opera.
- best thing - Strong Bad shares the best thing he's ever seen, done, and/or eaten: the pilot episode of a cartoon about his favorite band.
- long pants - Strong Bad confronts Homestar about his apparent lack of pants.
- rampage - Strong Bad goes on several different kinds of rampages.
- garage sale - Strong Bad discusses garage sales, and the kinds of shady characters they attract.
- do over - Strong Bad revisits some earlier emails that might be worthy of a do-over.
- boring (really) - Strong Bad tries to make a sender's boring day look exciting by comparison.
- modeling - Strong Bad gets into male modeling.
- bottom 10 - Strong Bad shares his "bottom 10" list.
- record book - Strong Bad compiles his own record book.
- lady...ing - Strong Bad goes back to "the very first email I ever checked" in order to share some advice on impressing the ladies.
- geddup noise - Strong Bad relates the meteoric rise of the "Geddup Noise".
- bedtime story - Strong Bad cooks up a real rigmarole of a bedtime routine for an insomniac The Cheat.
- space program - Strong Bad shows off the latest mission of Strong Badia's space program, the Strong Badian Administration of Some Aluminum Foil.
- portrait - Strong Bad contemplates getting his portrait done.
- highschool - Strong Bad reminisces on his and his friends' "high-shool" days as teen mystery-solvers.
- death metal - Strong Bad gives some tips on being a successful death metal musician.
- secret identity - Strong Bad reveals the secrets behind some of his secret identities.
- technology - Strong Bad does an "intromercial" for a middle school technology class.
- narrator - Strong Bad imagines his neighbors as if their dull, everyday lives were movie trailers.
- myths & legends - Strong Bad does a documentary on the legendary legend of the Bear Holding a Shark.
- pop-up - Strong Bad dreams up the pop-up book of a sender's dreams.
- lady fan - Strong Bad tries to impress his sender's new "lady fan".
- disconnected - Strong Bad imagines what life would be like with a detached head.
- candy product - Strong Bad thinks up his own candy bar.
- alternate universe - Strong Bad celebrates his "sesquicenten-email" with a journey through the Homestar Runner multiverse.
- senior prom - Strong Bad interrupts "The King of Town's Very Own Quite Popular Cartoon Show" to recall the time he crashed the "Entrapment All Up On the Moon" dance.
- isp - Strong Bad struggles with his Internet service provider.
- redesign - Strong Bad contemplates updating the "No Loafing!" sign and redecorating the computer room.
- keep cool - Strong Bad and friends beat the heat at the public pool.
- theme song - Strong Bad demonstrates what it would be like if his email show had its own theme song.
- road trip - Strong Bad and The Cheat try (and fail) to go on a road trip.
- trading cards - Strong Bad riffs on the world of trading cards.
- cliffhangers - Strong Bad tries to "resolve all the cliffhangers".
- retirement - Strong Bad's old computers force him to check one last email on each of them.
- coloring - While trying to get new crayons for his Limozeen coloring book, Strong Bad encounters Marzipan's "kindergarten" class.
- 4 branches - Strong Bad discusses the Four Branches of Stupid Things Homestar's Done.
- the chair - Strong Bad goes shopping for a new email-checking chair.
- what I want - Strong Bad discusses gifts to avoid when doing holiday shopping.
- looking old - When a sender accuses him of looking old, Strong Bad decides he needs an image makeover.
- strong badathlon - The citizens of Free Country, USA participate in the Strong Badathlon.
- unnatural - Free Country, USA deals with a decidedly unnatural disaster in the form of a giant version of Bubs.
- the movies - Strong Bad discusses the ups and downs of going to the movies.
- your funeral - Strong Bad imagines what his funeral preparations would be like.
- from work - Strong Bad tries to check his email from the Office.
- rough copy - Strong Bad's scheme to sue a would-be fan artist goes awry.
- underlings - Strong Bad gives advice on dealing with underlings who have questionable hygiene.
- more armies - The On-Point Kings, the Municipality, and the Homestarmy advertise for new recruits at the Vaguely Military Career Fair.
- the paper - When The Paper's printer malfunctions, Strong Bad and the Paper reminisce on the good times they had together.
- mini-golf - Strong Bad takes a trip to a bizarre, extradimensional mini-golf course.
- concert - Strong Bad accidentally discovers a new favorite band.
- hygiene - Strong Bad comes up with his own educational film on personal hygiene.
- original - Strong Bad looks back on the rise and fall of Original Bubs.
- bike thief - Strong Bad gives advice on dealing with bike thieves.
- pizza joint - Strong Bad's fake pizza joint turns out to be a little too convincing.
- slumber party - Strong Bad shows the viewers what to look for (and avoid) in sleepovers and slumber parties.
- web comics - Strong Bad riffs on the various types of web comic.
- business trip - Strong Bad and Homestar go on a business trip.
- yes, wrestling - Strong Bad looks back on his wrestling career.
- diorama - Strong Bad cooks up ideas for improving the classic school project, the diorama.
- nightlife - Strong Bad spends the night at Club Technochocolate, Free Country USA's premiere "pwaty cloughb".
- environment - Marzipan and Strong Sad protest Strong Bad's environmentally-unsound computer.
- winter pool - A pool full of gelatin leads to fun times with Strong Bad and friends.
- fan club - Strong Sad starts a Strong Bad Email fan club.
- pet show - The Cheat gets entered in the Cat Mess Inbredtational Pet Show.
- licensed - Strong Bad shows the viewers how to become a seller of "licensed unlicensed" Strong Bad merchandise.
- buried - Strong Bad goes digging for buried treasure and booby-trapped ruins beneath the soil of Strong Badia.
- shapeshifter - Strong Bad discusses the problems with shape-shifting as a superpower.
- rated - Strong Bad talks about his favorite kinds of movie.
- specially marked - Strong Bad discusses the ins-and-outs of cereal box prizes.
- love poems - Strong Bad helps a "homeless romantic" write some love poetry.
- hiding - Strong Bad talks about hide and seek, and its use as a way to distract Homestar.
- your edge - Strong Bad and The Cheat tries to prove they've still got "edge".
- magic trick - Strong Bad riffs on various kinds of stage magicians.
- being mean - Coach Z and his "Nicetown Players" do a skit on the dangers of being mean.
- email thunder - When his 200th email turns out to be for Homestar, Strong Bad plots revenge for having his thunder stolen.
- hremail3184 - Strong Bad tries to reclaim his title as the sole email checker with an email about explosions.
Corpy N T6/Compé
- imaginary - With the help of a computer "borrowed" from work, Strong Bad reminisces on his encounter with Strong Sad's childhood imaginary friend.
- independent - Strong Bad and his fancy new computer explain the difference between "independent" and "indie" films.
- dictionary - Strong Bad concocts a dictionary for his own words.
- videography - Strong Bad shows off his skills as a "videographer".
Lappier
- april 1st (aka "sbemail206") - Strong Bad puts off answering an email on April Fools' Day, taking the time to rant about Internet pranks.
- too cool - Strong Bad reveals the terrifying tale behind Senor Cardgage's character video.
- The Next April Fools Thing - Strong Bad interrupts Folly's planning for a new April Fools' Day cartoon to answer an email about motivation and inspiration.
- parenting - When a father-to-be asks Strong Bad for parenting advice, Strong Bad recalls being taught about "the Ponders of Warenting" by Coach Z and a bag of banana pudding.
DVD Exclusives
- Greeting Cards - Strong Bad introduces his line of greeting cards for people who "subtly" want to tell their friends that their hobbies and interests suck.
- E-mail Birds - Strong Bad takes the time to kill multiple birds with one stone by answering 3 emails in one sitting.
- Videro Games - Strong Bad is asked to share his opinion on the effects of video games on children.
- Family Resemblance - Strong Bad attempts to create a hypothetical family for Pom Pom.
- Accent - Strong Bad, realizing that his old quasi-Mexican accent has been disappearing, reluctantly allows Coach Z to help him get it back.
- Comic Book Movie - Strong Bad theorizes about what a movie for his superhero/villain identity, Strong Badman, might be like, picking apart and mocking all the traits of super hero movies along the way.
