2002: Drunk Enough to Dance

In 2002, the band recorded their second major label album, Drunk Enough to Dance. The lead single from the album, "Girl All the Bad Guys Want", became a top 10 hit in the UK and a top 100 hit in the US. The next year, the single was nominated for the Grammy Award for "Best Pop Performance by a Group or Duo". The success of the single helped Drunk Enough to Dance reach #2 on the Billboard Top Heatseekers album chart, with a peak of #129 on the Billboard 200. The follow up single, "Emily" did not fare so well, climbing to a disappointing #67 in the UK Singles chart and not even charting in the US. Bowling For Soup's record label felt that a third single should be released, because of the success of "Girl All the Bad Guys Want" but did not feel any of the remaining songs on Drunk Enough to Dance were single material. So the band recorded a new song, "Punk Rock 101" to release as the third single. The song was included on a re-issue of the album Drunk Enough to Dance. The single was more successful than "Emily", climbing to #43 in the UK Singles Chart. In support of their album, Bowling For Soup enbarked on a UK tour, being supported by such UK bands as [spunge].

2004: A Hangover You Don't Deserve

A Hangover You Don't Deserve followed two years later, and has become the band's only top 40 album. Sales of the album were driven in large part by the radio airplay of the single "1985", a song written by the band SR-71. Mitch Allan, lead singer of SR-71, contributed background vocals to the song. "1985" became Bowling for Soup's biggest hit in the US, reaching #23 on the Billboard Hot 100. A second single from A Hangover You Don't Deserve, titled "Almost", charted at #100 on the UK Singles Chart, #46 on the US Top 100, and #23 on US Pop 100. "Ohio", better known as "Come Back to Texas", was also released as a radio single in the US, but was not as popular as "1985" or "Almost", reaching only #59 on the US Pop 100.

Bowling for Soup Goes to the Movies, a compilation album of cover songs and contributions to movie soundtracks, was released by the band in 2005. Later that year, Jaret Reddick and Chris Burney made several appearances on VH1's "I Love the '90s: Part Deux".

2006: The Great Burrito Extortion Case

Following the release of their covers album, Bowling for Soup spent most of 2006 readying their seventh studio album, entitled The Great Burrito Extortion Case, which was released on November 7, 2006. They released the first single off that album, "High School Never Ends", to iTunes on September 19, 2006. The music video for "High School Never Ends" debuted in the UK on December 8 2006 on Kerrang TV and is currently available to select from their playlist. The band embarked on a US tour in support of the release of their new album, which ended in late January 2007. This was followed by a UK tour in early February 2007. Coinciding with this UK tour was the UK release of the album on 5th February 2007, a full 3 months after the US release. The tour is called The Get Happy Tour and as well as Bowling For Soup, Wheatus, Son of Dork and Army of Freshmen took part on the 11 date trek, which concluded at Hammersmith Palais in London.

Bowling For Soup confirmed during the Get Happy Tour that they will be performing another tour of the UK in October 2007, called the Get Happy Tour 2 and also that they would play at this year's Download Festival in June. They also plan on releasing 'I'm Gay' either instead of, or as well as 'When We Die' as the next single in the UK in early Summer. 'I'm Gay' may be a UK only release, and 'When We Die' a US only release, but information regarding this has yet to be released by the band themselves.