Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog

For the soundtrack, see Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (soundtrack).

Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
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Genre	Musical Comedy Tragedy
Creator	Joss Whedon Jed Whedon Zack Whedon Maurissa Tancharoen
Directed by	Joss Whedon
Produced by	David M. Burns Michael Boretz
Written by	Joss Whedon Jed Whedon Zack Whedon Maurissa Tancharoen
Starring	Neil Patrick Harris Felicia Day Nathan Fillion Simon Helberg
Music by	Joss Whedon Jed Whedon
Editing by	Lisa Lassek
Country	United States
Language	English
Original run	July 15, 2008 (2008-07-15) – July 20, 2008 (2008-07-20)
Running time	42 minutes
No. of episodes	3

Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog is a 2008 musical tragicomedy miniseries in three acts, produced exclusively for Internet distribution. Filmed and set in Los Angeles, the show tells the story of Dr. Horrible (played by Neil Patrick Harris), an aspiring supervillain; Captain Hammer (Nathan Fillion), his nemesis; and Penny (Felicia Day), their shared love interest.

The movie was written by writer/director Joss Whedon, his brothers Zack Whedon (a television writer) and Jed Whedon (a composer), and Jed's wife, actress Maurissa Tancharoen. The team wrote the musical during the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. The idea was to create something small and inexpensive, yet professionally done, in a way that would circumvent the issues that were being protested during the strike.^[1][2] On October 31, 2008, Time magazine named it #15 in Time's Top 50 Inventions of 2008.^[3][4] It also won the People's Choice Award for "Favorite Online Sensation", and the 2009 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form.^[5] In the inaugural 2009 Streamy Awards for web television, Dr. Horrible won seven awards: Audience Choice Award for Best Web Series, Best Directing for a Comedy Web Series, Best Writing for a Comedy Web Series, Best Male Actor in a Comedy Web Series (Harris), Best Editing, Best Cinematography, and Best Original Music.^[6] It also won a 2009 Creative Arts Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Class – Short-format Live-Action Entertainment Programs.^[7][8]

Plot

Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog consists of three acts of approximately 14 minutes each. They were first released online in July 2008 as individual episodes, with two-day intervals between each release.

Act I

Dr. Horrible is filming an entry for his video blog, giving updates on his schemes and responding to various emails from his viewers. Asked about the "her" that he often mentions, he launches into a song about Penny, the girl he likes from the laundromat ("My Freeze Ray").

The song is cut short by his "evil moisture buddy" Moist, who brings up a letter from Bad Horse, the leader of the Evil League of Evil. The letter informs Dr. Horrible that his application for entry into the League will be evaluated, and that they will be watching for his next heinous crime ("Bad Horse Chorus").

The following day, Horrible prepares to steal a case of wonderflonium for his time-stopping Freeze Ray by commandeering the courier van using a remote control device. Penny happens to be on the same street ("Caring Hands"), and appears asking him to sign a petition to turn a condemned city building into a homeless shelter. However, the remote requires his attention, and he appears uninterested in her and her cause. As Penny leaves, Horrible is conflicted, but opts to steal the wonderflonium, telling himself that 'A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do' ("A Man's Gotta Do").

When Horrible remotely drives the van away, Captain Hammer appears and takes over Horrible's song, smashing the remote control receiver and inadvertently causing the van to veer towards Penny. Hammer pushes her out of the way (into a pile of garbage) just as Horrible regains control of the van and stops it, making it appear that Captain Hammer stopped the van with his bare hands. The two confront each other, with Hammer slamming Horrible's head on the van's hood, but Penny emerges to thank Hammer, making him forget about beating up Dr. Horrible. As Hammer and Penny serenade each other, Horrible makes off with the wonderflonium.

Act II

Dr. Horrible stalks Penny and Captain Hammer on their dates; Horrible sings of the misery of the human condition, and Penny sings of hope and the possibility of redemption ("My Eyes"). Penny and Horrible, known to her as Billy, begin to talk openly as friends.

On his blog, Horrible reveals that his Freeze Ray has been completed, and that he plans to use it the next day. The following post reveals that he has failed, as Hammer and the LAPD watch his blog, and they were ready for him. He then receives a phone call from Bad Horse and is reprimanded, saying that the only way to be inducted now is to commit an assassination ("Bad Horse Chorus (Reprise)"). Horrible is conflicted and can't decide on a victim, or even if he wants to commit a murder at all, even though the League will deny his application or even kill him, if he doesn't.

Billy chats with Penny over frozen yogurt, at the laundromat, about his problems ("Penny's Song"). As they grow closer, Penny mentions that Captain Hammer is planning to drop by. Billy panics and tries to leave, only to run into Hammer as he walks in. They feign ignorance on recognizing each other, but when Penny leaves them alone, Hammer taunts Horrible about his crush on Penny, happy to be taking the thing that Dr. Horrible wants most. It becomes obvious that Hammer doesn't really care about Penny but just wants to sleep with her to spite Horrible. Horrible decides to kill Hammer as his heinous crime for admission to Bad Horse's Evil League of Evil ("Brand New Day").

Act III

The city is abuzz with Captain Hammer's crusade to help the homeless and he is considered the city's new hero; Penny ponders her relationship with Captain Hammer, waiting at the laundromat to share frozen yogurt with an absent Billy; and Dr. Horrible goes into seclusion while obsessively constructing a Death Ray to kill Captain Hammer once and for all ("So They Say").

At the opening for the new homeless shelter, where a statue of Captain Hammer will be unveiled, Captain Hammer begins a speech of encouragement to the homeless, but it degenerates into selfish, condescending praise of his own excellence and relationship with Penny ("Everyone's a Hero"). Penny, embarrassed and disillusioned, quietly tries to leave as the crowd joins in singing Hammer's song, but they are interrupted by the appearance of Dr. Horrible, who uses the Freeze Ray on Captain Hammer, cutting his song short. Dr. Horrible taunts the shocked crowd and declares that they cannot recognize that Hammer's disguise is "slipping", and he reveals a second, more lethal laser gun: his completed Death Ray ("Slipping").

At last, Horrible aims the lethal weapon at the frozen form of Captain Hammer, but hesitates. At that moment the Freeze Ray unexpectedly fails, and a suddenly revived Hammer punches Horrible across the room. The Death Ray falls from his hands, damaging it. Hammer then picks up the Death Ray, turns it on Horrible, and triumphantly completes the final note of his prior song. However, as Hammer pulls the trigger, the damaged Death Ray misfires. The weapon explodes in Hammer's hands, injuring him and causing him to feel pain, apparently for the first time in his life. He flees, a wailing wreck, asking for "someone maternal." Dr. Horrible realizes suddenly that he has succeeded in vanquishing his nemesis, but still having not committed the murder required by the League. Unfortunately, he discovers Penny slumped against a wall, gored by shrapnel from the exploding gun. Tragically, she dies in Horrible's arms, deliriously reassuring him that Captain Hammer will save them.

Dr. Horrible declares Pyrrhic victory, with "the world [he] wanted, at [his] feet," seeing that her death is ironically the murder he required. In the aftermath, Horrible gains infamy and becomes a member of the League, striding into a party in celebration of his induction, attended by Moist and the villains Pink Pummeller and Purple Pimp. Captain Hammer is seen on a psychiatric couch sobbing to his therapist. Dr. Horrible, donning a new outfit - red coat, black gloves and his goggles covering his eyes - takes his seat at the League, composed of Tie-Die, Snake Bite, Professor Normal, Dead Bowie, Fake Thomas Jefferson, Fury Leika, and Bad Horse (an actual horse). He addresses the camera, saying, "now the nightmare's real," and in working "to make the whole world kneel," that "[He] won't feel...". He completes the line "...a thing," in a final blog post as a numb-looking Billy, out of costume and looking lost in the midst of his lab. ("Everything You Ever")

Soundtrack

Main article: Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (soundtrack)

The musical contains 14 songs, including credits and reprises, but at the time of broadcast the song titles were not identified. The soundtrack was released through the iTunes Store on September 1, 2008^[9] and was released on CD in the US on December 15, 2008.

Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog Soundtrack made the top 40 Album list on release, despite being a digital exclusive only available on iTunes.^[10]

Musical numbers

Act I

• "Dr. Horrible Theme" – Instrumental
• "My Freeze Ray" – Dr. Horrible
• "Bad Horse Chorus" – Bad Horse Chorus
• "Caring Hands" – Penny
• "A Man's Gotta Do" – Dr. Horrible, Penny & Captain Hammer

Act II

• "Dr. Horrible Theme" – Instrumental
• "My Eyes" – Dr. Horrible & Penny
• "Bad Horse Chorus (Reprise)" – Bad Horse Chorus
• "Penny's Song" – Penny
• "Brand New Day" – Dr. Horrible

Act III

• "Dr. Horrible Theme" – Instrumental
• "So They Say" – Movers, Captain Hammer Groupies, Penny, Captain Hammer, News Anchors & Dr. Horrible
• "Everyone's a Hero" – Captain Hammer & Groupies
• "Slipping" – Dr. Horrible
• "Everything You Ever/Finale" – Dr. Horrible & Groupies
• "End Credits" – Instrumental

Cast

From left to right: Maurissa Tancharoen, Joss Whedon, Nathan Fillion, Jed Whedon, Felicia Day, Neil Patrick Harris

• Neil Patrick Harris as Billy/Dr. Horrible: An aspiring supervillain of the mad scientist variety with the catchphrase, "I've got a Ph.D in Horribleness." He desires to become a member of Bad Horse's Evil League of Evil and use his inventions to take over the world and enact social change for the betterment of humanity. His socio-political beliefs include the paradoxical idea of autocratic anarchism: "The world is a mess, and I just... want to rule it." As Billy, he struggles to make a romantic connection with Penny.
• Felicia Day as Penny: Dr. Horrible's love interest. She is idealistic and generous and volunteers at a homeless shelter.
• Nathan Fillion as Captain Hammer: Dr. Horrible's archenemy. Hammer is self-centered and possesses super-human strength and near-invulnerability. He enjoys harassing Dr. Horrible even when the situation does not warrant it.
• Simon Helberg as Moist: Dr. Horrible's friend and sidekick, who has the underwhelming ability to dampen things. Dr. Horrible calls him "my evil moisture buddy."

Several colleagues of Joss Whedon have cameo roles in the series. Marti Noxon, an executive producer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, portrays a newsreader alongside Buffy and Angel writer David Fury. Buffy and Angel writers Doug Petrie and Drew Goddard cameo as supervillains Professor Normal and Fake Thomas Jefferson, respectively. Jed, Joss, and Zack Whedon all provide the singing voices of Bad Horse Chorus. Zack also plays the man who rolls the gurney with Penny on it out of frame, and Jed Whedon also appears as the supervillain Dead Bowie, while Maurissa Tancharoen plays a superhero/supervillain groupie as well as the background voice on "Everything You Ever."

Production

Joss Whedon funded the project himself (at just over $200,000^[11]) and enjoyed the independence of acting as his own studio. "Freedom is glorious," he comments. "And the fact is, I've had very good relationships with studios, and I've worked with a lot of smart executives. But there is a difference when you can just go ahead and do something." As a web show, there were fewer constraints imposed on the project, and Whedon had the "freedom to just let the dictates of the story say how long it's gonna be. We didn't have to cram everything in—there is a lot in there—but we put in the amount of story that we wanted to and let the time work around that. We aimed for thirty minutes, we came out at forty two, and that's not a problem."^[12] Some of the music was influenced by Stephen Sondheim.^[13]

The production of the DVD included a contest, announced at Comic-Con, in which fans submitted a three-minute video explaining why they should be inducted into the Evil League of Evil. Ten winning submissions have been added to the DVD release.

Recording locations

Dr. Horrible was recorded at a number of Los Angeles area locations:

• Songs were recorded in a small studio set up in Joss Whedon's loft.^[14]
• The Coin Wash laundromat is located at 1372 Sunset Boulevard, near Echo Park.
• There are a number of photos posted in numerous places on the Web of the cast and crew taken at DC Stages, 1360 East 6th Street (at Mateo Street), Los Angeles.
• The outdoor scenes featuring the Captain Hammer "groupies" were recorded on East 6th Street near the northeast corner of South Central Avenue, within walking distance of DC Stages.
• The lake with the paddleboat is Echo Park Lake.
• Dr. Horrible's home, used for blogging scenes as well as the final party scene, is the house featured in the "Mad Scientist House" episode of Monster House.

Distribution

Whedon has said that the plan was to find a venue for the series that would enable it to earn its money back and pay the crew. This plan was to release the show onto the Internet, with an iTunes^[15] release to follow. If successful enough, an official DVD would be greenlit, which Whedon planned to have some "amazing extras".^[16]

The musical's fansite launched in March 2008 (despite the official site containing nothing more than a poster at the time) and was the first place to publicly release the teaser trailer three months later on June 25, 2008.^[17]

Online

The episodes first aired at the Official Dr. Horrible website, hosted on Hulu, accessible internationally (unusual for the US-based service whose videos are typically not accessible to Internet users who reside outside the US) and free to watch (ad-supported). Act I premiered on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 - Act II followed two days later on July 17, and Act III surfaced on July 19. The episodes were taken offline on July 20 as planned, but became available again on July 28. The show was later (date unknown) restricted to the United States only.^[18]

On October 10, 2009, all three acts were made available via iTunes for the UK and Australia. The film is also available from Amazon Video on Demand. On November 29, 2009 all three acts, both separate and together, were taken off Hulu. On February 22, 2010, the full feature became available to stream on Netflix, with all three episodes appearing sequentially.

DVD and Blu-ray

On November 28, 2008, the Official Dr. Horrible website announced that pre-orders were being taken for the DVD. The following day Tubefilter reported that pre-orders of the Dr. Horrible DVD were "booming".^[19]

The DVD was released exclusively at Amazon.com on December 19, 2008 in the United States and on January 13, 2009 in Canada at Amazon.ca.

The DVD is region free. During pre-ordering the Amazon page stated the discs would be manufactured on demand using recordable media. Although some customers report receiving DVD-R discs (identified by a purple data-side), most are receiving pressed discs.^[20]

On June 2, 2009, a new release of Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog was produced by New Video Group, which included the same materials as the Amazon DVD but was distributed through regular retail outlets.^[21] A Blu-ray version was released on May 25, 2010 from New Video Group.^[22]

Special features on the DVD and Blu-ray include Commentary! The Musical; commentary by the cast and creators; behind-the-scenes featurettes on the making of the movie and the music; the top 10 Evil League of Evil application videos from fans; and four easter eggs.

Commentary! The Musical

The DVD and Blu-ray versions of Dr. Horrible include as an extra Commentary! The Musical, a commentary track comprising entirely new songs performed by the cast and crew, thus creating a whole other musical on its own. The actors and writers sing various songs both as solos and with the entire company, playing versions of themselves. Commentary! is partly self-referential, and one of the co-creators, Jed Whedon, self-referentially comments that one song "wasn't even about the movie, it was about itself", which he claims is as pointless as "breaking the ninth wall".^[23] As of January 5, 2010, Commentary! The Musical has been for sale on the iTunes Music Store.

Musical numbers

• "Commentary!" — Company
• "Strike" — Company
• "Ten-Dollar Solo" — Stacy Shirk (as Groupie #2), Neil Patrick Harris
• "Better (Than Neil)" — Nathan Fillion
• "It's All About the Art" — Felicia Day
• "Zack's Flavor" — Zack Whedon, female backups, Joss Whedon
• "Nobody Wants To Be Moist" — Simon Helberg (as Moist)
• "Ninja Ropes" — Jed Whedon, Neil Patrick Harris, Nathan Fillion
• "All About Me" — Extras
• "Nobody's Asian in the Movies" — Maurissa Tancharoen
• "Heart (Broken)" — Joss Whedon, backups (Jed Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen)
• "Neil's Turn" — Neil Patrick Harris
• "Commentary! (Reprise)" — Company
• "Steve's Song" — Steve Berg

Profits

All proceeds from iTunes and DVD sales will go toward paying the cast and crew of Dr. Horrible, who were not compensated at the time.^[24]

On November 29, 2008, Joss Whedon blogged about Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog and stated that, "We've been able to pay our crew and all our bills".^[25]

Comic books

See also: Dark Horse Presents

Tie-in comic books for Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog have been released by Dark Horse Comics. The first three were through its online comics anthology Dark Horse Presents, the fourth was a special release as part of the "One Shot Wonders" series. All were written by Zack Whedon.

• "Captain Hammer: Be Like Me!" was released in issue #12 and featured art by Eric Canete.^[26]
• "Moist: Humidity Rising" was released in issue #17 with art by Farel Dalrymple.^[27]
• "Penny: Keep Your Head Up" appears in issue #23 with art by Jim Rugg.^[28]
• "Dr. Horrible" was released a special one-shot comic, detailing Dr. Horrible's origin story, with art by Joëlle Jones.^[29]

All four stories were collected in Dr. Horrible, and Other Horrible Stories by Dark Horse Comics, in September 2010 (ISBN 978-1-59582-577-3). The collection also features an additional story about the Evil League of Evil.

Book

On March 29, 2011, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog Book (ISBN 978-1-84856-862-4) was published by Titan Books. The book contains essays by Whedon, Fillion, Harris, Day, and Helberg; the complete shooting script; the script for Commentary: The Musical; and piano/vocal sheet music for Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog.^[30]

Events

On August 29, 2008, the first authorized sing-along version of Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog was hosted at Dragon*Con in Atlanta, Georgia, with showings reaching standing-room-only capacity. Felicia Day showed up to one of the showings.^[31]

Stage productions of the show have become very popular at colleges and high schools.^{[32][33][34][35]}

In November 2010, Cult Classic Theatre in Glasgow, Scotland, performed the first official UK production of Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog.^[36]

In January 2011, Balagan Theatre performed Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog at the ACT Theatre's Allen Theatre in Seattle. The production was reviewed by Broadway World.^[37] A televised performance of a concert version of "Freeze Ray" can also be viewed.^[38]

In Ireland, an official production of the musical was performed in Trinity College Dublin by the college's drama society; The DU Players. The show took place from October 25–29, 2010.^[39]

Awards and nominations

Awards

2009 Streamy Awards^[40]

• Audience Choice Award for Best Web Series
• Best Male Actor in a Comedy Web Series - Neil Patrick Harris
• Best Directing for a Comedy Web Series
• Best Writing for a Comedy Web Series

2009 Hugo Awards

• Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form

2009 People's Choice Awards

• Best Internet Phenomenon Award

2009 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards

• Outstanding Special Class - Short-format Live-Action Entertainment Programs^[41][42]

During the broadcast of the 2009 Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony, which was hosted by Harris, a speech by representatives of Ernst & Young was "interrupted" by a sketch featuring Harris as Dr. Horrible and Nathan Fillion as Captain Hammer, with cameos by Felicia Day and Simon Helberg.^[43]

Nominations

2008 Constellation Awards

• Best Science Fiction Film, TV Movie, or Mini-Series of 2008
• Best Male Performance in a 2008 Science Fiction Film, TV Movie, or Mini-Series (Neil Patrick Harris as Dr. Horrible)^[44]

Sequel

Joss Whedon has announced that a sequel is in the works which may take the form of another web series or even a feature film.^[45] Nathan Fillion has also said that he knows the title of the sequel, but is unwilling to reveal it at this time.^[46]

On April 3, 2010, Zack and Jed Whedon announced to representatives of fan site Whedonopolis that they were starting work on the script that afternoon, although verifying this claim could be difficult.^[47]

In a New York Times interview in April 2011, Whedon said, "We've got several songs near completion and we've got a very specific structure," and that the stars of Dr. Horrible have sung the songs at casual gatherings.^[48]

Neil Patrick Harris says that a possible date for Dr. Horrible 2's principal photography is during the 2011 How I Met Your Mother hiatus.^[49]

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• Official website
• Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog at the Internet Movie Database
• Commentary! The Musical at the Internet Movie Database
• Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog at TV.com

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