Mwahahahahaaa... Joss strikes again!

Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog is a three part, web only, musical mini-series.

Joss Whedon created & wrote it during the writers' strike 2008 with his brothers Zack (a television writer) & Jed (a composer), & Jed's fiancée, actress Maurissa Tancharoen. 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.

In Joss's own words, "It's the story of a low-rent super-villain, the hero who keeps beating him up, and the cute girl from the laundromat he's too shy to talk to."

Each of the episodes has a duration of just under fifteen minutes. The offbeat project is available free via the Internet. That is until late November, when, reportedly, the free online viewing will disappear. Uh, that's Horrible.



(If it is running slow, try pausing it for a bit. It may be the video, it may be my computer... it helped.)

In case you need to break down the 3 parts into 3 viewings, here are links to each episode:
Act 1, Act 2, Act 3


Some people you may or may not recognize...

The Cast
Neil Patrick Harris as Billy / Dr. Horrible
Nathan Fillion as Captain Hammer
Felicia Day as Penny
Simon Helberg as Moist

Friends of Joss Whedon also take up many smaller cameo roles in the series. Marti Noxon, a co-executive producer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, portrays a newsreader alongside Buffy writer David Fury (both also cameoed in Buffy musical episode "Once More, with Feeling"). Buffy writers Doug Petrie and Drew Goddard cameo as supervillains Professor Normal and Fake Thomas Jefferson. Jed Whedon cameos both as a member of Bad Horse's chorus, and as the supervillain Dead Bowie, while Maurissa Tancharoen plays a groupie of Captain Hammer's (and later Dr. Horrible's). Many members of the Dr. Horrible crew also play small acting roles in the musical.