Billys outer layer is himself. When you look closer hes Dr. Horrible. But when you get close enough there is another layer same as the outside. Billy talks about a pie in the film, jokingly saying that captain hammer is that way to discourage penny. Or is it his justification on the way he is. On the inside(the deeper inside) hes still a good guy. This is why at the end of the film you see just billy in his lab. We get to know him, and it turns out hes just billy if you dig deep enough.
Something I love about this is when he sings for the first time and he is at the laundry mat and goes "with my freeze ray I will stop the world" and Penny stops mid throwing her clothes into the washer. But the woman in the left hand corner of the video doesn't stop, so Penny is his world.
Penny says "Everything happens". Billy replies "Not to me". As in he doesn't have Penny so he doesn't have his everything. And at the end Dr. Horrible sings "Here lies everything". For him Penny is everything.
If this was in book context I think it would be better if it read, "And I won't feel-" Dr. Horrible sang. "-a thing." Billy concluded. Just distinguishing Dr. Horrible and Billy as different egos and identities would be a great ending in a book format
The ending is when I realized how much I loved this movie. We see Dr. Horrible's life seem to be what he wants--full of power and friends and he's in the League of Evil. But all of a sudden it cuts to Billy, and those two seconds really sum up what he's feeling, and how all that he gained doesn't even matter anymore. It's really hard for me to put into words how this ending makes me feel, even after watching this movie so many times. I never thought my favorite movie would be less than an hour long.
The best part about those 2 seconds has got to be how it mirrors the opening, it starts with him in his villain costume trying really hard to be a villain, to me the last seconds are him wishing he could just be Billy again, that dream being as distant and difficult as his journey to becoming a part of the ELE
You know what an awesome sequel would be? If Dr. Horrible were the antagonist, if we followed an actual good guy in his fight against the Evil League of Evil and at the end he and the Dr. have a heart to heart.
+OtakuBeat That would run completely counter to the theme of this movie. To me, this movie reads like an allegory written by a Marxist. Dr. Horrible represents Marxism, Penny represents liberalism, and Captain Hammer represents capitalism. From a Marxist's point-of-view Penny, though having noble goals fails to see the bigger picture and the inherent problems that are deeply ingrained in the capitalist system, and her relationship with Captain Hammer and disapproval/ignorance of Dr. Horrible symbolize how liberals basically love and are attached to capitalism due to their inability to see the bigger picture and the contingency of our socially-constructed notions of "good" and "evil". In the end, Penny is killed by Captain Hammer, but Dr. Horrible is blamed. I'm not a Marxist, and I love this movie to death, but I still notice these themes all over the place. And creating an "actual good guy" to oppose Dr. Horrible in a sequel would completely ruin the entire spirit of the movie.
+JustAnotherGamer I'd say it's a little less political than that and more about the labels of hero and villain. Captain Hammer is representative of the people who fight on the side of law that is corrupt whilst Dr Horrible sees the evil and corruption but I'm battling it becomes evil and corrupt in hisself. Penny represents the regular person who doesn't want political power, but just wants to undo evil in the world little by little, but is killed by the feud between good and evil, making the point that the film's hero is Penny, the optimist who believes that uniting people is the best way to accomplish goals
Cribsmas Morn. It's definitely, in part, about the labels of hero and villain, but really... saying this movie isn't political seems kind of like saying The Chronicles of Narnia isn't religious. Dr. Horrible is constantly talking about how his main goal is to disrupt the status quo and change the system that puts people in poverty, and he really likes Penny's goal of helping the homeless, but he views that as merely a symptom of the capitalist system that he is trying to destroy. He refers to Captain Hammer as a "corporate tool". Captain Hammer is obsessed with his own power, and looks down on the poor. I do take back what I said about this movie reading like it was written by a Marxist. It reads more to me like it is simply following the point-of-view of a Marxist. When I think about the ending, it gives me a feeling that it was most likely not written by one. I still feel like this movie has a lot of political commentary to it if you look hard enough.
People seem to forget that this was written and filmed during the writer's strike years ago. So it was pretty much filmed and acted on an extremely limited budget. 200k may sound like a lot to many of us, but it's really not. I thought it was very well done, considering the constraints. You're all welcome to your opinions, let me have mine
Looking at a timeline and a general plot summary afterwards helped it make a lot more sense. Although my dad wanted to watch it and he didn't remember the name so he googled something along the lines of "confusing time travel movie"and that instantly came up.
I bought the album on i tunes and lisyen to is constantly. And i agree i waych this a few times a year for the last few years and it always gets my feelings going
The most important thing that DHSAB has taught me is that I must be a masochist. It's so painful to see the ending of this movie, yet I. Keep. Watching. It. Over and over and over again...
11:17 And it is in that very moment that Dr. Horrible sealed his own fate. Like, I don't think people realize how important that exact moment was. Billy reached a fork in his road, with a decision that would have an unforseeable life-changing influence on his future and the future of those around him. Unbeknownst to him, he could never have everything he wanted, and choosing one path would in-turn destroy the other. He had only seconds to weigh which he valued more. He hesitates for a moment, his thoughts of Penny merely trailing off into "Maybe I should..." Can you imagine how differently the story might have turned out, had he followed his gut instinct right there? The sad part is that he technically the more logical choice, the choice to take matters into his own hands. His decision was fueled by the belief that success with the ELoE would give him control over everything, including Penny's heart. But his decision was also a dark one. He _chose_ the path to darkness, and the chain of events that would cause him to unintentionally destroy the very one he claimed to love. His assumption that he could easily win Penny's heart even as a villain was horribly wrong. She could never love a fully-fledged villain because she was morally a good person; his idea to dry her tears with a "shiny new Australia" would never have worked even if Captain Hammer had been successfully death-rayed. I like to imagine a scenario in which he _did_ go with his gut. One where he finishes with, "Maybe I should talk to her" and actually puts the remote control away to speak with her for real. He finally talks to her, and the more he speaks, the more of the darkness inside becomes revealed to Penny. However, Penny does not shrink away. She can see that he lost and running farther into the dark tunnel, but not irredeemably so. He can still be saved. She is not unfamiliar with being in a place of darkness, and is moved with empathy for his wayward soul. She convinces him to visit the homeless shelter with her, and they begin to date. Penny, the one who grew up lost and lonely, begins to warm the frost that had long since been eating away at Billy's heart. She is the one who finally leads Billy out of the tunnel of darkness. Billy slowly becomes more good, which causes him to destroy his chances with the ELoE, but in return gain the love of his life and find new life-purpose. He doesn't control everything, but with the little influence from charity work he is able to turn some lives around, and that's something he is genuinely happy about. Things are starting to look up for once, until Captain Hammer begins to rear his ugly head again. He has no rival to fight with now that Dr. Horrible has turned over a new leaf. Captain Hammer's obsession with being a "hero" leads him to antagonize the now civilian Billy, which causes CH to show his true colors to the world and lose support.
15:52-15:59 is the moment which I think he realizes that moment was not only a mistake, but that he also assumed there was no going back. PS I don't buy that it was all a dream. "A thing" was sung sadly. As if in knowing he would have to live with these consequences. Not as if realizing it was a dream.
Buffy8Fan I dont think that was the purpose of the final shot. I think it was to show the contrast between Dr Horrible and quirky love-struck blogger Billy, to show that underneath the "unfeeling" Doctor Horrible is still a vulnerable young dreamer who has powerful emotions, and underneath the layers he is devastated by the very thing that landed him his title. A moment when you're meant to pity him and what he lost by gaining. Neither is canon, though, so that is at least my perspective.
I've been thinking about the way I theorize the story. ***SPOILERS*** I think it's a way of giving us a likable villain but a distasteful good guy. We are rooting for the bad guy to win because he is our protagonist, and he eventually does! So that fits into the way stories are told. But, Dr. Horrible is the stories villain so he can not win and that is why Penny dies. Such a great movie, what does anyone think?
I think it's overlooked that Billy didn't kill penny but the media immediately asks why he killed her. He was blamed when he tried to stop captain hammer. That's when he gave up and just accepted the world and his place as a villain in it. He had nothing left to fight for. Nothing left to feel or care about.
Worse, they (Netflix) edited 7 minutes out of BtVS, Once More With Feeling. That was why I never went past their free trial. I wonder how many other shows they've cut parts out of. I only caught that because I own it, and know it well.
During the last scenes he looked so sluggish and lost, penny was the only thing he was fighting for, and after her death he had nothing. It's really sad.
John Smith As with many things Joss related, it will never stop being too soon. (I still cringe at any mention of Wash, or any time someone says "I didn't see that coming").
"...like Bad Horse." "The thoroughbred of sin??" "Uhm, I meant Ghandi." Bahaha this movie gets me every time I watch it and I have the soundtrack that I listen to like every day *nervous laughing*
I think Penny used to be homeless. The song she sings in the laundromat is about how she used to be homeless, and she struggled with loosing jobs, but eventually she got a home which happened to be in a city full of homeless people. That could also be why she likes doing laundry; she used to only have a few articles of clothing that she had to wear all the time, but now she can make her entire wardrobe clean whenever she wants to.
maybe, those facts do add up, and she said she could only think about it. also, they wouldnt add that in for no reason she would say this. so if you have problem write back to me.
11:45 Oh, that Captain Hammer. What a big ball of cheese. All that's missing is a slice of ham. He's what I imagine Flash Thompson would be like if he'd been bitten by that radioactive spider instead of Peter Parker.
The way Neil Patrick Harris sings freeze ray is phenomenal, wait, i mean its legen..wait for it..DARY! just like this movie! I have watched this 5 times in one day..its just that legendary. For all of you who hated it, just leave.
I can't believe I've only watched this today! It is so clever. Neil is amazing as usual. The songs are dangerously catchy. Captain Hammer kind of reminds me of Gaston from Beauty and the Beast. In that he is revered by the whole town, always gets the girl and the glory. In any other situation both characters would be considered the hero of the story, but their selfishness and vanity masks their heroic efforts.
He didn't want fame and fortune. He wanted to start over the world. "It's not about making money, it's about taking money" "I'll have everything I have ever, all the money, fame and social change. He only lost the idea of starting over the world after Penny died since she was his one light in the world. When she died he realized "what's the point of fixing a world that would do that to me?"
OH MY GOD I JUST REAS THIS AND YES YES YES AND THEN BECAUSE HE WAS SO CONFUSED ABOUT HIS POWER HE WENT BACK TO COLLEGE TO GET HIS DEGREE IS PHYSICS SO HE COULD FOCUS ON HIS POWER
+Spencer Woolard Yeah the movie itself has been out for that long, but Whedon was asked at 2011 Comic Con about a sequel and that's when he said he was going to do it
Sincerely LOVE this. I have watched it hundreds of times over the past few years. I still laugh at every punchline, still cry full on tears at the end. This is hands down my favorite movie.
If only all movies could have such a simple story line that completely grabs the audience and ends like that... I want to know more but i feel like thats the perfect ending
Her character on Buffy the Vampire Slayer was killed off too. Personally, I see her line about getting fired as a meta joke for her characters being killed off.
Wes TH-cam actually, her character on Buffy wasn't killed off. She survives the final battle against the army of vamps. It's Anya that doesn't survive.
Just the opening...I've now watched so much Joss Whedon work and a bunch of his interviews....I can practically hear him saying the opening monologue. It just sounds like his style.
1)when he sings about freezing the world only penny stops so he is her world and that made me smile 2) what a crazy random happenstance *stabs spork into leg 5 minutes later) 3) he got everything he wanted and it only cost him a penny (ik most people will hate that i use such a cliche line lol) 4) I HAVE A PHD IN HORRIBLENESS 5) oh look at my wrist 6) i think this is what pain feels like
Mělo to skončit známější, než jako víceméně internetový projekt, je to skvělé. I po několikáté se mi to doopravdy líbí a ještě mě to neomrzelo. Obsazení je skvělé. Hudba je skvělá. Zajímavě provedený námět. Doopravdy to můžu jenom doporučit :)
I love this sooo much. Neil Patrick Harris was here for a convention this past weekend, and he is incredibly funny, friendly and chatty with everyone. There was a panel in which they showed "Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog" on the big screen...what a loud, excited audience! 8-)
Hey guys... The ship Serenity (from the show Firefly) is in Billy's lab! Joss Whedon, who created Firefly, was involved in this movie also. I love Easter eggs!
I remember the first time watching this not knowing anything about it but loving Felicia Day and wanting to watch anything with her in it. I was not expecting the ending at all...since then I have watched this so much I could probably quote the entire thing off the top of my head
this is so nice, I might just sleep with the same girl twice they say it's better the second time, they say you get to do the weird stuff we'd do the weird stuff!
I kind of feel like this is one big metaphor where Billy represents the people who actually see things the way they are, and Captain Hammer and Penny represent the two sides of humanity.
I think the reason I love this movie so much is because its basically real life...but you know NOT because its fictional with villains and heroes but this is basically real life with a new perspective.
I don't understand...Isn't Barney supposed to be a womaniser? Also I bet Howard is just sitting thinking 'another guy, another obsession with a woman named Penny'. Obviously, I'm kidding. Dr Horrible is actually my favourite 'movie'/villain ever. I can barely handle all the feels.
I have watched this numerous times and I've noticed a few more things... Like at the part at the end when Captain Hammer is singing Everyone's A Hero is that at that point I think he actually meant what he said. I always thought he was just saying it for the press but now he sounds like he realized how much good he was doing by helping the homeless, he got more passionate as the song progressed. He's stupid but that would have been like a turning point for him, like Penny showed him how to be actual good . I also saw how when he was saying, yea we totally had sex, that Penny started to walk away. She was realizing that Captain Hammer didn't like her as much as she thought cause he just did it to say he had sex with her. Maybe afterwards if Dr. Horrible hadn't come, she might have broke up with him. DR. HORRIBLE COULD HAVE HAD HER IN THE END! Also I don't see how some people think this was just a dream or his imagination. Cause when he kills her he's CLEARLY dying on the inside. So the montage happens and stuff and he gets into the Evil League of Evil and after that is when he breaks down realizing he killed Penny. I'm just saying that if it were just a dream that Billy had then why would he be so broken up about it?
Am I the only one who always thought 'The world I wanted at my feet' was a double meaning...? I mean, because, Penny is lying dead at his feet, and he did want her...
It’s 2018 and I just realized that during the “Penny’s Song” scene, Penny is wearing a yellow skirt/blue blouse as a nod to her being a Disney princess-like character
Bloody Brilliant!!!! Whedon's second musical is simply sublime.... "I've got a feeling...that it's a demon...." "A dancing Demon, no something isn't right there..."
Congratulations pospec, and thanks, for one full year ago (to the day) bringing my favorite featurette ever onto YT. Happy birthday to you. ---------------------- "With my freeze ray I will STOP the world."
My first time watching this was over 5 years ago in my Art Appreciation class. Joss Whedon is a genius because I've watched this over 5000 times since then! 😅
he finally got recognized as the villain he's always wanted to be, but he lost the love of his life in the process. so he's extremely conflicted. he wants to be happy he's finally a respected villain, but he accidentally killed the only person in his life he cared for. "i won't feel a thing" relates to him about how he's trying desperately to get over penny's death and bask in his new found villainous glory, but he'll never get over her despite now having what he's always wanted.
Dr.Horrible took over the world, and it only costed him a penny.
I love it, I fucking love it.
Savage
+Emily Rambadt yes
I cant
oh my god
I never signed the permission slip for this feels trip.
Awesome comment is awesome
I love the "Wow, sarcasm! That's original!" bit. (As you see him realize that making fun of sarcasm with sarcasm is ridiculous).
Oh, look! Someone who recognized the sarcasm! You must be a genius!
;) (Please read this as friendly irony, and not demeaning you)
Angus Gibson Someone using the term irony correctly! AMAZING!
Actually, that's not me being sarcastic. That's sincere, haha. :)
DashCat9 and here I was using irony to discribe things that are made of iron or that are like ironing . The more you know da da da da
Billys outer layer is himself. When you look closer hes Dr. Horrible. But when you get close enough there is another layer same as the outside. Billy talks about a pie in the film, jokingly saying that captain hammer is that way to discourage penny. Or is it his justification on the way he is. On the inside(the deeper inside) hes still a good guy. This is why at the end of the film you see just billy in his lab. We get to know him, and it turns out hes just billy if you dig deep enough.
"The world I wanted at my feet"
Love the real meaning of these words...
Real Meaning?
Something I love about this is when he sings for the first time and he is at the laundry mat and goes "with my freeze ray I will stop the world" and Penny stops mid throwing her clothes into the washer. But the woman in the left hand corner of the video doesn't stop, so Penny is his world.
OMG I love that 😄😄😄😄
HOLY SHIT THATS AWESOME
+GigaDrillBreak MHMM MHMM
I swear I've watched this about a hundred times and never noticed that, that's fucking awesome! Good spot!
+monkeybiscuits THANK
Has anyone noticed, at the homeless food event, Billy is serving the soup, and frowning behind Hammerman's back?
If you look he's not even putting the food in the bowl
I noticed that years ago. He takes the spot when the other guy walks away.
Yeah
"I hope to set an example, you know, for children and stuff."-Captain Hammer
His costume goes from white to red to represent that his pure intentions are gone, and he now has blood on him.
"Did you notice that he threw you into the garbage..."
Penny says "Everything happens". Billy replies "Not to me". As in he doesn't have Penny so he doesn't have his everything. And at the end Dr. Horrible sings "Here lies everything". For him Penny is everything.
NOT OKAY
Izzy Friedman YOU'RE TELLING ME
Also, when he says "the world I wanted at my feet, Penny, his world, was literally at his feet.
If it was a book;
"And I won't feel-" he sang, enjoying the triumph; "a thing." Billy said quietly, unshed tears glimmering in his eyes.
No.
That made it 100000000% MORE painful thank you for that I'm off to my feels corner
If this was in book context I think it would be better if it read,
"And I won't feel-" Dr. Horrible sang.
"-a thing." Billy concluded.
Just distinguishing Dr. Horrible and Billy as different egos and identities would be a great ending in a book format
+Exequelley yeah except minus the 'concluded' it sounds like me, trying to increase the length of my essay.
+Raneem Rashid (M) You stop that... stop that this instant.
The ending is when I realized how much I loved this movie. We see Dr. Horrible's life seem to be what he wants--full of power and friends and he's in the League of Evil. But all of a sudden it cuts to Billy, and those two seconds really sum up what he's feeling, and how all that he gained doesn't even matter anymore. It's really hard for me to put into words how this ending makes me feel, even after watching this movie so many times. I never thought my favorite movie would be less than an hour long.
The best part about those 2 seconds has got to be how it mirrors the opening, it starts with him in his villain costume trying really hard to be a villain, to me the last seconds are him wishing he could just be Billy again, that dream being as distant and difficult as his journey to becoming a part of the ELE
You know what an awesome sequel would be? If Dr. Horrible were the antagonist, if we followed an actual good guy in his fight against the Evil League of Evil and at the end he and the Dr. have a heart to heart.
I prefer a prequel involving Moist
You know what an awesome sequel would be? One that doesn't exist because the ending of this was perfection
+OtakuBeat That would run completely counter to the theme of this movie. To me, this movie reads like an allegory written by a Marxist. Dr. Horrible represents Marxism, Penny represents liberalism, and Captain Hammer represents capitalism. From a Marxist's point-of-view Penny, though having noble goals fails to see the bigger picture and the inherent problems that are deeply ingrained in the capitalist system, and her relationship with Captain Hammer and disapproval/ignorance of Dr. Horrible symbolize how liberals basically love and are attached to capitalism due to their inability to see the bigger picture and the contingency of our socially-constructed notions of "good" and "evil". In the end, Penny is killed by Captain Hammer, but Dr. Horrible is blamed.
I'm not a Marxist, and I love this movie to death, but I still notice these themes all over the place. And creating an "actual good guy" to oppose Dr. Horrible in a sequel would completely ruin the entire spirit of the movie.
+JustAnotherGamer I'd say it's a little less political than that and more about the labels of hero and villain. Captain Hammer is representative of the people who fight on the side of law that is corrupt whilst Dr Horrible sees the evil and corruption but I'm battling it becomes evil and corrupt in hisself. Penny represents the regular person who doesn't want political power, but just wants to undo evil in the world little by little, but is killed by the feud between good and evil, making the point that the film's hero is Penny, the optimist who believes that uniting people is the best way to accomplish goals
Cribsmas Morn. It's definitely, in part, about the labels of hero and villain, but really... saying this movie isn't political seems kind of like saying The Chronicles of Narnia isn't religious. Dr. Horrible is constantly talking about how his main goal is to disrupt the status quo and change the system that puts people in poverty, and he really likes Penny's goal of helping the homeless, but he views that as merely a symptom of the capitalist system that he is trying to destroy. He refers to Captain Hammer as a "corporate tool". Captain Hammer is obsessed with his own power, and looks down on the poor.
I do take back what I said about this movie reading like it was written by a Marxist. It reads more to me like it is simply following the point-of-view of a Marxist. When I think about the ending, it gives me a feeling that it was most likely not written by one. I still feel like this movie has a lot of political commentary to it if you look hard enough.
No wonder Howard gets so annoyed with Leonard, it's because he's already had to deal with a guy obsessed with a girl called penny
+Aishahsan And he's a little scared Leonard may kill the new Penny. I mean, they are both insane geniuses.
this is still my favorite thing on TH-cam and it's 2016
so true! I testing watch it at least once every 2 months
SAME *cries*
yesyesYES
There might still be a sequel. Just saying.
I would be worried after so much time it would be so different and make it feel not as good...
People seem to forget that this was written and filmed during the writer's strike years ago. So it was pretty much filmed and acted on an extremely limited budget. 200k may sound like a lot to many of us, but it's really not. I thought it was very well done, considering the constraints. You're all welcome to your opinions, let me have mine
And most of that budget went on bad horse's costume
Primer was done on a 7K budget, don't ask me how or whether that movie makes any sense though.
Uhryeehs Glad to know I'm not the only one who found Primer extremely confusing.
Looking at a timeline and a general plot summary afterwards helped it make a lot more sense. Although my dad wanted to watch it and he didn't remember the name so he googled something along the lines of "confusing time travel movie"and that instantly came up.
I haven't ever heard a single person dislike dr horribles sing along blog lmao
this is my third time watching this and it still gives me the feels. I guess I do have a soul after all.
ikr
Ruby McAwesomeVille danger! danger!!
whatever you do DON"T buy the DrH soundtrack CD. mine's been stuck looping in the car ever since '09.
I bought the album on i tunes and lisyen to is constantly. And i agree i waych this a few times a year for the last few years and it always gets my feelings going
The most important thing that DHSAB has taught me is that I must be a masochist. It's so painful to see the ending of this movie, yet I. Keep. Watching. It. Over and over and over again...
11:17 And it is in that very moment that Dr. Horrible sealed his own fate. Like, I don't think people realize how important that exact moment was. Billy reached a fork in his road, with a decision that would have an unforseeable life-changing influence on his future and the future of those around him. Unbeknownst to him, he could never have everything he wanted, and choosing one path would in-turn destroy the other. He had only seconds to weigh which he valued more. He hesitates for a moment, his thoughts of Penny merely trailing off into "Maybe I should..."
Can you imagine how differently the story might have turned out, had he followed his gut instinct right there? The sad part is that he technically the more logical choice, the choice to take matters into his own hands. His decision was fueled by the belief that success with the ELoE would give him control over everything, including Penny's heart.
But his decision was also a dark one. He _chose_ the path to darkness, and the chain of events that would cause him to unintentionally destroy the very one he claimed to love. His assumption that he could easily win Penny's heart even as a villain was horribly wrong. She could never love a fully-fledged villain because she was morally a good person; his idea to dry her tears with a "shiny new Australia" would never have worked even if Captain Hammer had been successfully death-rayed.
I like to imagine a scenario in which he _did_ go with his gut. One where he finishes with, "Maybe I should talk to her" and actually puts the remote control away to speak with her for real. He finally talks to her, and the more he speaks, the more of the darkness inside becomes revealed to Penny. However, Penny does not shrink away. She can see that he lost and running farther into the dark tunnel, but not irredeemably so. He can still be saved. She is not unfamiliar with being in a place of darkness, and is moved with empathy for his wayward soul. She convinces him to visit the homeless shelter with her, and they begin to date. Penny, the one who grew up lost and lonely, begins to warm the frost that had long since been eating away at Billy's heart. She is the one who finally leads Billy out of the tunnel of darkness. Billy slowly becomes more good, which causes him to destroy his chances with the ELoE, but in return gain the love of his life and find new life-purpose. He doesn't control everything, but with the little influence from charity work he is able to turn some lives around, and that's something he is genuinely happy about. Things are starting to look up for once, until Captain Hammer begins to rear his ugly head again. He has no rival to fight with now that Dr. Horrible has turned over a new leaf. Captain Hammer's obsession with being a "hero" leads him to antagonize the now civilian Billy, which causes CH to show his true colors to the world and lose support.
crazitaco actually none of it really happened. The ending, "a thing" is the ending to his first song. #DrHorrible2
+FreeMindedMason,
Was it all a dream of Billy's, or most of it? I can see that, because I realized the first laundry scene was in Billy's memory.
15:52-15:59 is the moment which I think he realizes that moment was not only a mistake, but that he also assumed there was no going back.
PS I don't buy that it was all a dream. "A thing" was sung sadly. As if in knowing he would have to live with these consequences. Not as if realizing it was a dream.
Buffy8Fan I still want to believe, otherwise don't bother releasing a sequel, it will be a disappointment
Buffy8Fan I dont think that was the purpose of the final shot. I think it was to show the contrast between Dr Horrible and quirky love-struck blogger Billy, to show that underneath the "unfeeling" Doctor Horrible is still a vulnerable young dreamer who has powerful emotions, and underneath the layers he is devastated by the very thing that landed him his title. A moment when you're meant to pity him and what he lost by gaining. Neither is canon, though, so that is at least my perspective.
Curse Whedon's sudden but inevitable betrayal.
Arachne97 Yesss! Firefly was almost as good as this!
Oh goodness look at my wrist, I gotta go.
"What about your clothes?"
"I don't love these."
+Allison Menard "The Hammer is my penis..." -Walks away-
+Allison Menard " :) that was a funny part. my sis loves this!!
"Thank you so much for saving me."
"Yeah don't worry about it. A MANS GOTTA DO WHAT A MANS GOTTA DO."
I've been thinking about the way I theorize the story.
***SPOILERS***
I think it's a way of giving us a likable villain but a distasteful good guy. We are rooting for the bad guy to win because he is our protagonist, and he eventually does! So that fits into the way stories are told. But, Dr. Horrible is the stories villain so he can not win and that is why Penny dies.
Such a great movie, what does anyone think?
He got everything he ever wanted... all it costed him was a penny
"Sarcasm, that's original"
I think it's overlooked that Billy didn't kill penny but the media immediately asks why he killed her. He was blamed when he tried to stop captain hammer. That's when he gave up and just accepted the world and his place as a villain in it. He had nothing left to fight for. Nothing left to feel or care about.
I hate how they took this off fucking Netflix this is the best they took so much good stuff off Netflix and this was one of them UGH
I think this EVERYDAY!
I know ;(
+Emma CX Agreed. Found it on Netflix and loved it
Worse, they (Netflix) edited 7 minutes out of BtVS, Once More With Feeling. That was why I never went past their free trial. I wonder how many other shows they've cut parts out of. I only caught that because I own it, and know it well.
What a crazy random happenstance.
" To make the whole world Neil ( Patrick Harris) "
During the last scenes he looked so sluggish and lost, penny was the only thing he was fighting for, and after her death he had nothing. It's really sad.
I still think the saddest part is when Penny is waiting for Billy at the Laundromat with frozen yogurt during "So They Say"
I was not prepared for these feels.
neither was i.neither was i ....
John Smith As with many things Joss related, it will never stop being too soon. (I still cringe at any mention of Wash, or any time someone says "I didn't see that coming").
+Aidan Bachart Brutal.
+Aidan Bachart u copied someone, just saying
+Aidan Bachart omg
Yknow Dr. Horrible has a point about society
What does it cost to get into the Evil League of Evil?
One Penny.
This is... Just... Wow...
Too soon... wait what?
It's still too soon
Very clever. I never saw it like that.
The explosion that came out of me in response to that comment rivaled Pompeii
That ending always gets me.
"And I won't feeel...a thing."
I don't even have a good idea of what it means but it wass so good.
Well, in the end, he got everything he wanted. And it only cost him a Penny...
How much did it cost to get into the League Of Evil?
Just a Penny.
Ohhhh, That's Horrible. Yet, Genius.
Kycirion Well, I did have a PhD in Horribleness.
Did? did you lose your PhD?
ha ha ha to soon.
i h a t e y o u
but that was quite clever
23:20 "you look HORRIBLY familiar" foreshadowing
"...like Bad Horse." "The thoroughbred of sin??" "Uhm, I meant Ghandi." Bahaha this movie gets me every time I watch it and I have the soundtrack that I listen to like every day *nervous laughing*
I shouldn't relate to Dr Horrible as much as I do
Rose Jensen same
I think Penny used to be homeless. The song she sings in the laundromat is about how she used to be homeless, and she struggled with loosing jobs, but eventually she got a home which happened to be in a city full of homeless people. That could also be why she likes doing laundry; she used to only have a few articles of clothing that she had to wear all the time, but now she can make her entire wardrobe clean whenever she wants to.
maybe, those facts do add up, and she said she could only think about it. also, they wouldnt add that in for no reason she would say this. so if you have problem write back to me.
11:45 Oh, that Captain Hammer. What a big ball of cheese. All that's missing is a slice of ham. He's what I imagine Flash Thompson would be like if he'd been bitten by that radioactive spider instead of Peter Parker.
"You need anything moistened? Or made soggy?" Moist is so awkward.
mistyslayer5000 which is perfect!
thebestthingever I bet he'd make for a great wingman with a power like that.
*laugh*
*sob*
*laugh*
No one can feel all those emotions at once they would explode
Anybody 2017 hmmm??
If you are here you are a dedicated
joshua casanova waddup
joshua casanova Nope 2018. And still waiting for the sequel... :D
2018!
The way Neil Patrick Harris sings freeze ray is phenomenal, wait, i mean its legen..wait for it..DARY! just like this movie! I have watched this 5 times in one day..its just that legendary. For all of you who hated it, just leave.
I can't believe I've only watched this today! It is so clever. Neil is amazing as usual. The songs are dangerously catchy. Captain Hammer kind of reminds me of Gaston from Beauty and the Beast. In that he is revered by the whole town, always gets the girl and the glory. In any other situation both characters would be considered the hero of the story, but their selfishness and vanity masks their heroic efforts.
This is so symbolic of the lengths people will go to and the prices people will pay for fame and fortune.
WHAT
it is indeed an allegory for the messed up world we live in. Joss made cabin in the woods that has a very similar message too.
He didn't want fame and fortune. He wanted to start over the world. "It's not about making money, it's about taking money" "I'll have everything I have ever, all the money, fame and social change. He only lost the idea of starting over the world after Penny died since she was his one light in the world. When she died he realized "what's the point of fixing a world that would do that to me?"
I cry every time. the end is so heart breaking.
Interesting.
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I am posting a link for you to FB in a minute.
Oh look at my wrist. I have to go- Billy
After Dr. Horrible was finally captured Moist went into hiding at his mothers house and started going by his real name again HOWARD WOLOWITZ!
OH MY GOD I JUST REAS THIS AND YES YES YES AND THEN BECAUSE HE WAS SO CONFUSED ABOUT HIS POWER HE WENT BACK TO COLLEGE TO GET HIS DEGREE IS PHYSICS SO HE COULD FOCUS ON HIS POWER
Em Christian Howard is a engineer
Almost 5 years and I'm still waiting on the sequel/prequel that Joss Whedon promised...
it's been out for eight years! 😭
+Spencer Woolard Yeah the movie itself has been out for that long, but Whedon was asked at 2011 Comic Con about a sequel and that's when he said he was going to do it
I'm going to imagine he got a bit busy what with working on the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Doesn't need one my friend, it's a short story tragedy.
I honestly think this is better as a stand alone thing
I'm not used to seeing him without a suit.
Cuz nuthin suits him like a suit!
Naomi Nakashima He probably did for her funeral...... Sorry that was awful.
yeah, me too
Sincerely LOVE this. I have watched it hundreds of times over the past few years. I still laugh at every punchline, still cry full on tears at the end. This is hands down my favorite movie.
If only all movies could have such a simple story line that completely grabs the audience and ends like that... I want to know more but i feel like thats the perfect ending
why is Felicia Day the one who always gets killed off, Charlie, Penny, ITS NOT FAIR
Her character on Buffy the Vampire Slayer was killed off too. Personally, I see her line about getting fired as a meta joke for her characters being killed off.
Seriously though! My heart can not handle it! This is not okay.
Wes TH-cam actually, her character on Buffy wasn't killed off. She survives the final battle against the army of vamps. It's Anya that doesn't survive.
Bobby Torres I did not remember this! Thanks for telling me.
so glad this is still on youtube!
"To make the whole world Neil"
Niel deserved an Emmy for this.
Just the opening...I've now watched so much Joss Whedon work and a bunch of his interviews....I can practically hear him saying the opening monologue. It just sounds like his style.
Glad I'm not the only one.
Literally just noticed that billy was in the soup kitchen didn't catch it the other times j saw it
i just noticed that this time too. Absolutely hilarious, and that mustache
Penny: "But what about your clothes?!"
Billy: "I don't love these!" 😂
1)when he sings about freezing the world only penny stops so he is her world and that made me smile
2) what a crazy random happenstance *stabs spork into leg 5 minutes later)
3) he got everything he wanted and it only cost him a penny (ik most people will hate that i use such a cliche line lol)
4) I HAVE A PHD IN HORRIBLENESS
5) oh look at my wrist
6) i think this is what pain feels like
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He got everything he wanted... but nothing he desired.
I love this sooo much. Neil Patrick Harris was here for a convention this past weekend, and he is incredibly funny, friendly and chatty with everyone. There was a panel in which they showed "Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog" on the big screen...what a loud, excited audience! 8-)
That opening one take never fails to make me laugh and leave me in awe.
I've seen this 20 or so times and the ending still gets to me every time.
Hey guys... The ship Serenity (from the show Firefly) is in Billy's lab! Joss Whedon, who created Firefly, was involved in this movie also. I love Easter eggs!
+Andrew Lobster Yeah, Nathan Fillion (Captain Hammer) was also a huge part of Firefly.
Joss Whedon's sister-in-law is one of the singing fans.
You can't do anything but respect the amount of creativity that went into this.
They actually list who plays bad horse in the credits :) so glad they went with 'Dobber', great casting for the thoroughbred of sin!
I love this way too much. I have now listened to it so much I can quote it word by word^^
I remember the first time watching this not knowing anything about it but loving Felicia Day and wanting to watch anything with her in it. I was not expecting the ending at all...since then I have watched this so much I could probably quote the entire thing off the top of my head
"Next up, who's gay?"
Foreshadowing.
Still remember my awesome theatre teacher Ms. G showing my class this at the end of the year. Thanks G! :)
I found this a few hours ago and I absolutely love this. Perfect cast and concept. 💯💯👍👍👍❤❤😍😍😍
I hope everyone who watches this knows that there is also a musical commentary of it on iTunes and TH-cam
this is so nice, I might just sleep with the same girl twice they say it's better the second time, they say you get to do the weird stuff
we'd do the weird stuff!
he got all he wanted and it only costs him a penny
That pun was brilliant... but depressing...
Thank you Joss Whedon for making this film.
I kind of feel like this is one big metaphor where Billy represents the people who actually see things the way they are, and Captain Hammer and Penny represent the two sides of humanity.
I think the reason I love this movie so much is because its basically real life...but you know NOT because its fictional with villains and heroes but this is basically real life with a new perspective.
I don't understand...Isn't Barney supposed to be a womaniser?
Also I bet Howard is just sitting thinking 'another guy, another obsession with a woman named Penny'.
Obviously, I'm kidding. Dr Horrible is actually my favourite 'movie'/villain ever. I can barely handle all the feels.
like
+Makaela Duff And as if it wasn't enough that Castle's mom and daughter are redheads, his girlfriend's one too.
"Woah sarcasam! That's original"
Not even 5 minutes in and I love this
Meghan the average person It's a classic. Truly.
I have watched this numerous times and I've noticed a few more things...
Like at the part at the end when Captain Hammer is singing Everyone's A Hero is that at that point I think he actually meant what he said. I always thought he was just saying it for the press but now he sounds like he realized how much good he was doing by helping the homeless, he got more passionate as the song progressed. He's stupid but that would have been like a turning point for him, like Penny showed him how to be actual good
. I also saw how when he was saying, yea we totally had sex, that Penny started to walk away. She was realizing that Captain Hammer didn't like her as much as she thought cause he just did it to say he had sex with her. Maybe afterwards if Dr. Horrible hadn't come, she might have broke up with him. DR. HORRIBLE COULD HAVE HAD HER IN THE END!
Also I don't see how some people think this was just a dream or his imagination. Cause when he kills her he's CLEARLY dying on the inside. So the montage happens and stuff and he gets into the Evil League of Evil and after that is when he breaks down realizing he killed Penny. I'm just saying that if it were just a dream that Billy had then why would he be so broken up about it?
Am I the only one who always thought 'The world I wanted at my feet' was a double meaning...? I mean, because, Penny is lying dead at his feet, and he did want her...
"He got all he ever wanted, and all it cost him was a Penny."
I dont know the timeline, but anyone else think Megamind was loosely based on this
You may be right
Mason Holmes Well butter my biscuits, I think you're right!
It’s 2018 and I just realized that during the “Penny’s Song” scene, Penny is wearing a yellow skirt/blue blouse as a nod to her being a Disney princess-like character
I can't tell you how many times I have watched this
All I can say is, I am happy this was made.
Dr. Horrible got everything he ever wanted.
And all it costed was a penny.
I never get tired of this video, its great.
Bloody Brilliant!!!!
Whedon's second musical is simply sublime....
"I've got a feeling...that it's a demon...."
"A dancing Demon, no something isn't right there..."
I've got a theory some kid is dreaming and we'r all stuck inside his wacky Broadway nightmare.
*we're
Congratulations pospec, and thanks, for one full year ago (to the day) bringing my favorite featurette ever onto YT.
Happy birthday to you.
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"With my freeze ray I will STOP the world."
Perfektní! Díky za upload na youtube.
Rádo se stalo ;-)
My first time watching this was over 5 years ago in my Art Appreciation class. Joss Whedon is a genius because I've watched this over 5000 times since then! 😅
he finally got recognized as the villain he's always wanted to be, but he lost the love of his life in the process. so he's extremely conflicted. he wants to be happy he's finally a respected villain, but he accidentally killed the only person in his life he cared for. "i won't feel a thing" relates to him about how he's trying desperately to get over penny's death and bask in his new found villainous glory, but he'll never get over her despite now having what he's always wanted.
I love how the Dr. Horrible looks like cuter version of Gordon Ramsay. :'D
hehe Neil's head bobbing to the song while he reads the note is amusing!
Never get tired of watching this
There is a hatrid in my heart for Captain Hammer.
I had no clue this existed. Thanks Peter Brown.