“If Only You Saw My Killing Sprees / You’d Understand Why I Teabag My Enemies”
I’d been trying to ignore the fact that One Direction was a thing — and doing a pretty good job of it, I might add — then The WarpZone had to come along and make a Halo-themed parody of the boy band du jour’s song “What Makes You Beautiful.” Damn you, The WarpZone! Your comedic stylings and clever lyrics do not make up for getting this damn melody stuck in my head!
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.