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The Great Burrito Extortion Case
Studio album by Bowling for Soup
Released	November 7, 2006
Genre	Pop-punk
Label	Jive/Zomba
Producer	Russ-T Cobb, Jaret Reddick, Butch Walker, Adam Schlesinger
Bowling for Soup chronology
Bowling for Soup Goes to the Movies (2005) The Great Burrito Extortion Case (2006)
Singles from The Great Burrito Extortion Case
"High School Never Ends" Released: 2006 "When We Die" Released: 2007 "I'm Gay" Released: 2007

The Great Burrito Extortion Case is Bowling for Soup's seventh studio album released on November 7, 2006 through Jive Records. It was originally set to be titled All My Rowdy Friends Are Still Intoxicated or We're Not Fat, We Just Have Small Heads. This album's first single to be released is "High School Never Ends", which is available on iTunes. It got an Honorable Mention at Ultimate-Guitar's top ten albums of 2006. The sticker found on the CD reads: "The Happiest Band Ever presents The Great Burrito Extortion Case featuring the hit singles "High School Never Ends" and "When We Die." The final song, "If You Come Back to Me/Outro" contains two things: one, the song "If You Come Back to Me," followed by two minutes of silence, soon followed by about 13 minutes of the "la la la's" from "I'm Gay" in the background, with audio of the bandmates talking.

The album's title originated from the news ticker on the bottom of a TV screen that the group saw when in a hotel bar. The headline said "Burrito Extortion Case," which intrigued the band members. [1]

1. "Epiphany" - 4:09
2. "High School Never Ends" - 3:29
3. "Val Kilmer" - 3:31
4. "I'm Gay" - 3:26
5. "Why Don't I Miss You?" - 3:48
6. "A Friendly Goodbye" - 3:27
7. "Luckiest Loser" - 3:47
8. "Love Sick Stomach Ache (Sugar Coated Accident)" - 4:06
9. "Much More Beautiful Person" - 3:24
10. "Friends Like You" - 2:30
11. "When We Die" - 4:13
12. "99 Biker Friends" - 3:14
13. "Don't Let It Be Love" - 3:26
14. "If You Come Back to Me"/"Outro" - 20:12

Five Bonus Songs were released alongside the CD. Three were released on music download sites iTunes, Napster, and Rhapsody. Two more were released as bonuses if you purchased the CD from different stores/websites, Hastings and Wal-Mart.

1. "Not a Love Song" - iTunes Exclusive
2. "No Opinion" - Rhapsody Exclusive
3. "Straight to Video" - Napster Exclusive
4. "Home Alone" - Hastings Exclusive
5. "Good To Be Me" - Wal-Mart Exclusive
6. "Everyday's A Saturday" - UK Exclusive
7. "No opinion - acoustic" - UK Exclusive

• Jaret Reddick - vocals, guitars
• Chris Burney - guitars, vocals
• Erik Chandler - bass, vocals
• Gary Wiseman - drums
• Butch Walker - guitar, keyboards, percussion on "When We Die"
• Adam Schlesinger - guitar, vocals on "High School Never Ends"
• Joey Huffman - additional organ, piano, moog
• Lesley Roy - vocals on "Much More Beautiful Person"

• Review on Rolling Stone.
• Review on Absolutepunk.net.
• Ultimate Guitar's Top Ten Albums of 2006. "The Great Burrito Extortion Case" gained an Honorable Mention.

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