--- title: Homestar Runner: New Strong Bad Email Segment, First in 6 Years description: Allow Strong Bad to rant about all the dumb April Fools pranks on the Internet canonical: https://time.com/3767702/homestar-runner-strong-bad-emails-april-fools-update/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-04-01T19:30:53.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:18:15.563Z og:title: Good News, Homestar Runner Fans: Strong Bad's Back After a 6-Year Hiatus og:description: Allow Strong Bad to rant about all the dumb April Fools pranks on the Internet og:url: https://time.com/3767702/homestar-runner-strong-bad-emails-april-fools-update/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Good News, Homestar Runner Fans: Strong Bad's Back After a 6-Year Hiatus twitter:description: Allow Strong Bad to rant about all the dumb April Fools pranks on the Internet twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Good News, Homestar Runner Fans: Strong Bad's Back After a 6-Year Hiatus by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Apr 1, 2015 7:30 PM CUT by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Apr 1, 2015 7:30 PM CUT Back in July, [we reported](http://time.com/2970290/beloved-internet-cartoon-homestar-runner-is-coming-back/ "undefined") that the beloved Internet cartoon series _Homestar Runner_ would be revived — and that we might eventually be rewarded with a new installment of the beloved “Strong Bad Email” segment, first introduced in 2001\. It took a little while, but we are pleased to say that dream has now come true. The new Strong Bad Email segment is the first one since October, 2009, and it clearly acknowledges how much time has passed. He wipes a huge mound of dust off the ol’ compy to find it has been transformed into a newer, sleeker model. Soon, Homestar pops up to engage Strong Bad in a discussion about April Fools’ Day. Strong Bad, of course, insists that the Internet has ruined the holiday. Strong Bad’s goal becomes to bring April Fools’ off the Internet and back into the real world, “where it can physically hurt people.” Okay, so, this isn’t the _best_ of the now 206 Strong Bad Email videos — but we’ll take it, mostly for the extreme nostalgia factor. _Read next:_ [_The Best April Fools’ Pranks of 2015_](http://time.com/3764210/best-april-fools-pranks-2015/ "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3767702/homestar-runner-strong-bad-emails-april-fools-update/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3767702/homestar-runner-strong-bad-emails-april-fools-update/"},"headline":"Good News, Homestar Runner Fans: Strong Bad's Back After a 6-Year Hiatus","datePublished":"2015-04-01T19:30:53.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:18:15.563Z","description":"Allow Strong Bad to rant about all the dumb April Fools pranks on the Internet","url":"https://time.com/3767702/homestar-runner-strong-bad-emails-april-fools-update/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Internet"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3767702/homestar-runner-strong-bad-emails-april-fools-update/","name":"Good News, Homestar Runner Fans: Strong Bad's Back After a 6-Year Hiatus"}}]}] ```