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Evil Anniversary Of Evil

In Fandom, Web on 23 September 2009 with 8 Comments

Website Logo ELEOne year ago this Friday, I launched the Evil League of Evil website for the folks behind Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog.

At their Comic-Con panel session in July 2008, Team Horrible announced that they would be conducting a contest. Would-be members of the E.L.E. would be invited to submit video applications, and the ten best would be selected for inclusion on the then-forthcoming DVD release.

Not long after Dr. Horrible first went up online, I had registered a number of domains I thought they themselves should have registered but didn’t. Amongst those was one for the E.L.E., and after the announcement at their Comic-Con panel, I offered it up to them for the contest.

For most of August, before any of that actually moved forward, a placeholder fansite was accessible (you can see a screenshot in this Tubefilter article) and included a hidden email link which generated an auto reply purporting to be from Bad Horse himself.

The Evil League of Evil soon will be accepting applications for membership. Please stand by.

– Bad Horse

P.S. Please forgive the absence of song. The Bad Horse Chorus currently is recovering from a Horrible hang-over.

It wasn’t until a September flurry of emails that the actual contest version of the site finally went up, and they began taking applications. Team Horrible, of course, provided the contest rules and the E.L.E. logo, while I put the admittedly-rudimentary (but perfectly serviceable for its purpose) site together. I also ginned up some of the site copy, including the footnote jokes.

Two weeks later, the contest came to a close, and my work was done. They began culling its massive collection of submitted applications. Two months after that, the print-on-demand DVD had its release, revealing the ten winners of the contest. Since then, a number of the applicants — winners and not alike — have continued their evil exploits.

In honor of all of the above, I present here — for the first time anywhere — the full list of links to all the applications submitted during the contest period. There might still be some duplicates between the Vimeo and YouTube lists, and I can’t guarantee all of them are still available.

Vimeo:

YouTube:


8 Comments

1. worldofhiglet 23 September 2009

Well done, b!X, you did an excellent job with the whole thing and I know you worked really hard on keeping things going, and thank you for creating a listing of all the applications. This is excellent (and something people have wanted for a long time).

Has it been a year already? How time flies….

I wonder if I’ll ever have the time to do Season 2 of the Evil League of Evil Application Processing Office?

2. QuoterGal 23 September 2009

Great post – & nice timing. I rather thought the footnotes had your fingerprints on ‘em.

3. The One True b!X 23 September 2009

Higlet, have you seen Tur-Mohel’s latest? His yearly performance review?

4. worldofhiglet 23 September 2009

Thanks for the heads-up, biX!

Great work there although I had to point out they were using the OLD FORMS in the comments. *sigh* At least they submitted it on video, which is something I suppose…:)

5. The Masked Roger 23 September 2009

Very nice work b!X. Mind you, Fury and Tur aren’t the only supervillains continuing their reign of terror. I will be premiering Episode 4 of my amazing adventures to my fan club on Friday, and it will be up on YouTube and my website next week.

6. Ryan 23 September 2009

Thanks so much for checking out Tur-Mohel’s performance review! We really appreciate the posts and comments you two have made! And Higlet, I’ve discussed the matter of the outdated forms with Tur-Mohel–apparently Moishe had a bit of a mixup with the paperwork.

7. worldofhiglet 23 September 2009

Tsk, tsk, Ryan. The Thoroughbred of Sin likes his paperwork in order – even now that the League is using Video submissions. Do you know what happened to [redacted] when he submitted the incorrect Evil Hours documentation? Let’s just say the Herakles would have balked at what he was buried under.

Moishe will be receiving a Formal Warning in due course. I hope he isn’t allergic to Cowboy Hats or easily startled.

8. Ryan 25 September 2009

I’ll make sure to warn him. Nothing worse than a startled Moishe.

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