By Rob Bricken in
Miscellaneous, Video Games
Friday, Jul. 30 2010 @ 9:05AM
This kind of defies a short explanation, but here goes: Felicia Day does the webseries The Guild. She and her cats made a pretty groovy music video a while back called "Do U Want to Date My Avatar." So now that The Guild has just started its fourth season, how would Ms. Day follow it up? Well, with a massive, MMORPG-themed Indian movie musical-type song, called "Game On." It includes shockingly high production values, Day doing an uncanny Bollywood singer impression, plenty of Guild cameos and in-jokes (I assume), and either a pretty good fake elephant or possibly a real elephant that needs to seek medical attention. Oh, and that's Legend of Neil creator/director/co-writer Sandeep Parikh sharing most of the screen time with Day and, uh, playing her ass. If I were him, I'd frame that paycheck, just on principle.
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The Yellow Dart said:
good LORD Felicia Day is hot... i thought she was really cute in Dr Horrible, but she is flat out BEAUTIFUL now... that smile is killer.
i'll um... i'll be in my bunk.
Jfiemmpa said:
NERDS!!!!!!!!
Seriously How much money did that cost and how can it possibly make a profit for them? If not then they made that for fun of it? Please see first sentence.
batgirl311 replied to Jfiemmpa:
Last I heard the show was sponsored by XBox? The first music video the show did was pretty popular, I imagine this is to promote the new season. It's not like Microsoft doesn't have money to spare.
Church replied to batgirl311:
They will also sell copies of the song and vid.
Dentist Jed replied to Jfiemmpa:
Excellent video. Can't get enough of FD.
I guess this will be a bonus extra on the season 4 DVD when it comes out.
Nik said:
Her cats must be very talented.
Mount_Prion said:
It's a much better parody of Bollywood than it is of gamers. Pretty surface-level jokes there. Yes, sent rhymes with vent.
Made me really not want to watch the web-series.
toomin replied to Mount_Prion:
Perhaps that was the point? To parody Bollywood? I mean, the last video parodied mindless pop songs. Neither seem to be attempting to parody gaming/gamers, but hey, if you don't want to watch a halfway decent web series to be based on the fact that you think it doesn't parody the right thing, that's your decision.
Xanthippas replied to Mount_Prion:
Not "authentic" enough for you?
Cajun Spade said:
It's fantastic, mon ami. Aaaaaand Felicia Day needs to be ogled. Agreed?
Seyon said:
The fight sequence made it worth watching it alone.
RobRobot said:
My only problem here is that I find Felicia Day so alarmingly attractive that I can't really concentrate on the clip for long enough to understand what anyone else is singing or doing. The subtitled part? Forgetaboutit! I think there was a cool fight scene in there somewhere... Maybe...
Brent said:
I thought "The Guild" sucked.
There. I said it.
Arsenal replied to Brent:
You're not alone, but I don't think I like it because it covers a lot of WoW stuff and thats not me, also while Day is cute I don't see her as super hot so that might kill some of it for me
luminaro said:
Felicia Day in a video on a nerd website? Outrageous!
ps... I love Felicia Day.
aberrant0x7 said:
I loved "The Guild". I think it and Doctor and Doctor Horrible both tell very good albiet self deprecating love stories that I think a lot of geeks relate to. That's probably a bad thing for us though... And for anyone who isn't familiar with the series, Legend Of Neil creator Sandeep Parikh isn't doing a cameo, he's actually part of the main cast of The Guild as well.
Izandra said:
I absolutely LOVED this video. Bollywood music vids crack me up with their over-the- topness, and for this to trump THAT, just made it 1000x better.
Saw this at Comic-con and this and the whole panel was a lot of fun. They seem like honestly nice and funny people.
Wonder Pigeon said:
*ogles*
Wiredwizard said:
To be honest, I preferred Do You Want To Date my Avatar over this new video.
sal said:
How is she hot/cute/whatever???
There, i said...
DoctorSmashy replied to sal:
I'm not crazy about her either. Must be an aquired taste.
Bugdodger replied to sal:
I'm with you... Yawn.
Kris (and also Chris) replied to sal:
For some of us, unconventionally pretty redheads are a major weakness. As I put it to my husband, "Redheaded women are like Pringles: very addictive and very bad for you."
cougar78 said:
Definitely different from Date My Avator but I think it is as good in a different way. Very funny too.
Ted said:
Felicia Day is amazingly hot. The End.
Nick said:
I will not hum this song day and night until I hear a more addictive one.. which is probably never.
mrm1138 said:
I enjoyed this one even more that "Do You Want to Date My Avatar?" Felicia Day, will you marry me?
Church said:
Felicia and Sandeep (along with the guy who plays Vork) do a lot of improv together, which explains why they show up in each others' projects. (I believe the Bollywood sendup was originally Sandeep's idea.) The Guild is definitely worth watching. They even have Wil Weaton in the later seasons!
Oh, and the elephant is a prop.
Blackrabbit said:
Dear Ms. Day,
Kindly stop getting hotter. I'm sure you have the best of intentions, but it is not helping.
Kindest regards,
BR
Kyle said:
The more I see her the larger the list of people I would kill for one night with her gets.
Xanthippas said:
Okay so like I've never really heard of Felicia Day until that Avatar video, but this pretty much confirms that I am destined to stalk her.
JauntyJohn said:
What a ball -- so, so fun.
And as an avid gamer (though I'm a City of Heroes man myself) I appreciate the Gamer love.
theRedQueen said:
SO, I love this video. I love the Guild. I love bad Bollywood videos. You just have to watch a few to understand the references. This was made for SDCC. They are funded by Microsoft and distributed on XBOX and MSN video. I can't wait to download this on iTunes. It is so funny.
Oh and Sandeep is a character in the show, Zaboo who is in love with Felicia Day's character. It's not a cameo or anything.
