I Feel Unclean

Posted on August 17, 2009 by Scott Jennings| 50 Comments

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  • LabRat001

    Be afraid . . . be very, VERY, afraid!

  • Brask Mumei

    The pleasant rewards of no longer being niche!

  • http://dsob.wordpress.com geldonyetich

    Could have used a RL transition gender swap as the punchline. Aside from that, fairly awesome work.

  • http://haven.thratchen.com isildur

    Mmm, Auto-Tune. Where would people who cannot actually sing be without you?

  • http://www.twitter.com/sanspants Matt

    We’re mainstream! Woo!

  • Andy O.

    How can you feel unclean, I can’t get enough of these guys, they just crack me up. Not since Weird Al of old have I been more into a song that makes my nerd’ish heart beat with excitement.

  • http://trollshaman.blogspot.com Klepsacovic

    That was hilarious.

  • http://virtualgunmen.com/ Noel Walling

    I’m not entirely sure ‘The Guild’ qualifies as “mainstream”. Also, Felicia Day can hold her own without autotune.

  • http://wowpanda.blogspot.com/ wowpanda

    This is pretty good, is it their own work or they re-wrote some existing song?

  • http://www.thisisnotacommunity.org D-0ne

    Why?

  • Jeremy Preacher

    Jed Whedon, one of the songwriters from Dr. Horrible, is credited with the tune.

  • http://www.brokentoys.org/ Scott Jennings

    Given all the WoW-specific in-jokes I think it’s safe to say it’s their own work.

  • http://www.whatwouldmattdo.com Matthew

    That’s effing great.

  • Vetarnias

    What’s the name of the band, City of Zeroes?

    But I can easily imagine so many cultural studies professors at overfunded universities pondering the subtext of this work.

  • http://tprjones.com TPRJones

    O.O

  • http://www.vinull.com Michael C. Neel

    If you’re not watching The Guild, you should be – it’s hilarious. Felicia Day writes and produces the show, basically did it on her own getting help where she could and now it’s taking off. Sandeep Parikh (Legend of Neil) is also involved and excellent on the show as well.

  • Michael

    Unclean but in a good way, I think. :) Love the success they are having, hope we get to see more wacky awesomeness like this down the line.

  • http://www.thisisnotacommunity.org D-0ne

    I’m trying to be open minded and to have a sense of humor, but I find that video disturbing. It’s not funny to me at all. I obviously don’t get it.

  • Mandella

    D-One doesn’t get it.
    Film at eleven!
    :)

  • http://www.virginworlds.com Julie Whitefeather

    Now THATS funny – it reminds me of a “gnome” that once made a pass at my “nightelf” in WoW: I told the gnome “Young man I am a nun in real life and old enought to be your mother.” The response?

    Stone cold silence.

    Julie

  • Montague

    The wife and I saw this at The Guild’s panel at Comicon. Well done, and funny to boot. Also got to meet Felicia and Zaboo afterwards on the Exhibit floor – awesomely nice people as well.

  • Freakazoid

    This is the kind of terrible video that cater to the fans of a niche subject who are the equivalent of people who still find singing animal videos very entertaining.

  • http://www.gawaintheblind.com GTB

    …Pass.

  • Aufero

    It’s terrible, hilarious, and I feel unclean for having enjoyed it. I’ve been avoiding The Guild, but if this is a sample of the humor involved, I may have to watch.

    Thanks?

  • http://www.killtenrats.com Zubon

    The rogue is priceless (sorry, I’ll learn names once I start watching it), but I enjoyed the moments when Felicia dropped character, during the rain and in the last few frames.

  • Calelari

    Aaaand, it became the #1 download on iTunes, knocking Taylor swift down a notch.

  • http://www.f13.net squirrel

    Honestly, I think the Guild is hit or miss on a per episode basis, but overall I hope it continues to succeed bigtime. From what I know, Felicia Day and the rest kind of decided to make their own market when they were struggling with getting work and overall they’ve done a great job. There’s lots of talk about the internet being an equalizer for creatives but there’s fewer examples of people succeeding (beyond youtube cat videos or perez hilton). Gratz!

  • http://www.f13.net squirrel

    Oh and like Tycho – I just want to groom her.

  • Hoss

    I want my 13 seconds back!

  • http://www.f13.net squirrel

    Bill me. Payable in 2032.

  • Walt Y

    How about a little Tank and Spank.

  • http://mmomisanthrope.wordpress.com/ Dblade

    Great, it’s this generation’s Pac-man fever.

  • http://f13.net schild

    9 Times out of 10, nerd humor is not funny. This is not that one time out of 10. Felicia Day never is, ever.

  • http://f13.net schild

    Posting again, for great justice.

    But, she’s an attractive chick that plays games and is mildly connected to Whedon culture. I can’t imagine how that would ever help her get where she has gotten.

  • TPRJones

    I can’t stop watching it over and over.

    The number of subtle little jokes crammed into this thing is amazing. Of course it helps to know both the characters and actors well to appreciate many of those infinitesimal but brilliant moments.

  • pharniel

    this r not funneh. wow iz srs buisness!

    truth be told this was at least as entertaining as a tamake whateverhernameis video, so, hey, nifty.

  • Jeff

    I thought it was pretty funny. The rogue is hilarious.

  • Jeff

    I would add though that the guild uses the type of humor that either you get or you don’t. It’s either pretty damn funny or pretty damn terrible. Kinda like Wayne’s World. I personally think they are pretty funny.

  • Female Gamer

    For the iTunesless, Amazon sells the mp3. Yeah, I’m not just a she-nerd, I’m a she-nerd who just shelled out 99 cents to put that on my Sansa. And a she-nerd who can never think about the brand name of her mp3 player without thinking of cockroaches, which has to make me some kind of super-uber-nerd with a major in obscurity.

    I think what it comes down to is that, in a world where people outside our subculture treat us with suspicion or disdain, and their humor is laughing at us, it’s something done by someone who knows, someone who’s been here — and someone who, as a result, is laughing with us. Yeah, we all know those people, in some form or other. We are those people; we can see our own traits reflected in them, not all of them, nor all in the same character, but like a fragmented mirror, they show us ourselves.

    Besides, Felicia Day has an amazing voice (reminds me of a young Annie Haslam) and I’ll cheerfully pay to listen to it.

  • http://dsob.wordpress.com geldonyetich

    You had us at “she-nerd.”

    But I kid…

  • http://www.brokentoys.org/ Scott Jennings

    +1 DKP for Renaissance reference!

  • Drey

    OK, the only obscure cockroach reference I’m coming up with is Archy and Mehitabel so, Female Gamer, please clue the clueless. :-)

  • http://www.brokentoys.org/ Scott Jennings

    (hint for those googling, it’s actually Gregor SaMsa)

  • Drey

    Ah, so still a literary reference

  • Wendelius

    Female Gamer, if you enjoy gamers laughing with us, have a Google for “Electric Fun Stuff” and “Has anybody seen my corpse”. This was in the Everquest days (where choosing which 3D MMO to play was a bit simpler than in these days of abundance :) ).

    It’s a funny slice of sung MMO history. They have other songs on Civilisation, Starcraft, …

  • gyrus

    Okay… okay… .em gyrus

  • Oz

    There were more songs than just the legendary Corpse one too. EFS made a bunch of them, and when they were in their heyday, there was tons of people mimicing them. I have a whole CDR somewhere with EQ-inspired/related songs. Some are good, some are bad, and some are horribly horribly bad.

    I found the video ok, once I got that they were mocking the genre more than trying to have virtual whoopie with me. Felicia seems like, at least from the interviews, someone who gets that the majority of gaming folks are perfectly normal people who find the fringe people hilariously interesting in an odd way we cannot explain. Thus you Zabu who takes an emoticon as a come-on. iTunes will get another 99 cents out of me tonight, as I have to make sure I get this before it’s gone…

  • The Claw

    I too have been avoiding The Guild, and if this is a sample of the humor involved, I will continue to do so.

  • Toastrider

    I wonder if Felicia Day has ever seen ‘The Gamers’ (not to be confused with ‘Gamer’ which is something else entirely)?

    *chuckles*It’s parody, right down to the semi-dance with wind blowing hair bit in the video. I am amused. :)

  • Vajarra

    This must be a guy thing.