Bring Horribleness Into Your Home

It was about six months ago that I sang the praises of Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. (Not literally. That I leave for the cast. Mostly.) It is now time to do so again, as the good (evil) Doctor has jumped into new media.

Available exclusively from Amazon.com, the DVD and soundtrack (either in CD or MP3 form) can now be purchased. If you didn't watch it before, here's your chance to pick it up now. And if you did watch it before, you must surely have loved it, and you should pick it up so you can watch it again and again.

And so that you can partake of what has just become my favorite DVD extra on any DVD I own. (Shame. Tropic Thunder held that title for just a few days before Dr. Horrible supplanted it, with its cast commentary featuring Robert Downey Jr. "not dropping character," just as his character in the film promises not to do until after recording the DVD commentary. If you haven't seen the movie, this makes no sense to you. If you have, then you're already laughing just thinking about it.)

Um... off topic there. Okay, the wonderful Dr. Horrible DVD extra! It's "Commentary! The Musical!" Yes, in addition to a more conventional commentary recorded with creators and cast, a second commentary was recorded which is itself a musical. Running the full length of the show, it features another full array of songs sung by the cast and creators as themselves. Well, satirical versions of themselves, anyway.

There are songs as funny, if not more so, than those in Dr. Horrible itself. Nathan Fillion's "I'm Better" is worth the price of the DVD alone. But right up there is the brilliant "Ten Dollar Solo" (in which an aspiring actress bribes Joss Whedon to get a song on the DVD) and "Nobody's Asian" (a hilarious but not inaccurate assessment of ethnic diversity in entertainment).

Now I need a soundtrack of "Commentary!" to go with the soundtrack of Dr. Horrible I just bought. And you need to go buy this DVD.