History WebVideo / CommentaryTheMusical

*** The previous comment is also said while, on-screen, [[SuspiciouslyAproposMusic the actor's character is being beaten up by the singer of the previous song]].

* BuffySpeak: Inevitable.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: "Why don't you sit in the corner over there by Steve and if we have time left over..."

-->'''Nathan''' Look at his smallness, compared to my tallness, my porcelain-doll-ness, my port-in-a-squall-ness, my [[Series/TheKidsInTheHall kids-in-the-hall-ness]], my [[TheWall pink-floyd-'the-wall'-ness]], my [[UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar three-parts-of-gaul-ness]], my just-all-in-all-ness, my wonderful-me-ness, [[ShoutOut my hammer]] [[SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion the pe- ople]] can tell...

This may be the first and only DVDCommentary to earn it's own TV Tropes page.

--> '''FeliciaDay:''' I'm standing right here!

* ShamelessSelfPromoter: FeliciaDay's mentions of her web series ''WebVideo/TheGuild'', which she works into her song "The Art":

** FeliciaDay is a self-promoting blabbermouth in between desperately trying and failing to be deep and artsy

* BaitAndSwitchComment: Neil's reaction to the song about the Writer's Strike.
--> '''Neil:''' Wow, that is a really interesting fact...for a boring person!

--> '''NathanFillion:''' But Maurissa, you co-wrote the movie. Why not just make yourself Penny instead of Monkey-Face?

--> '''NathanFillion:''' With a face like a monkey.

** NathanFillion turns the smarm factor UpToEleven on "Better Than Neil".

** NathanFillion is in denial about not being as talented as his costars. In the first song alone:

-->'''Nathan''' Look at his smallness, compared to my tallness, my porcelain-doll-ness, my port-in-a-squall-ness, my [[Series/TheKidsInTheHall kids-in-the-hall-ness]], my [[TheWall pink-floyd-'the-wall'-ness]], my [[Creator/GaiusJuliusCaesar three-parts-of-gaul-ness]], my just-all-in-all-ness, my wonderful-me-ness, [[ShoutOut my hammer]] [[SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion the pe- ople]] can tell...

** In "Zack's Flavour" mentions that the musical doesn't need to be 'pretty' or 'witty'. Compare with the line from ''Film/TheProducers'' 'Shows should be more pretty, shows should be more witty' from the song 'Keep it Gay'.

** To ''WebVideo/TheGuild'', ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'', ''Series/DoogieHowserMD'', ''OneLifeToLive'' and an iPhone game, among others.

* ShamelessSelfPromoter: FeliciaDay's mentions of her web series ''TheGuild'', which she works into her song "The Art":

** To ''TheGuild'', ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'', ''Series/DoogieHowserMD'', ''OneLifeToLive'' and an iPhone game, among others.

** To ''TheGuild'', ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'', ''DoogieHowserMD'', ''OneLifeToLive'' and an iPhone game, among others.

-->'''Nathan''' Look at his smallness, compared to my tallness, my porcelain-doll-ness, my port-in-a-squall-ness, my [[TheKidsInTheHall kids-in-the-hall-ness]], my [[TheWall pink-floyd-'the-wall'-ness]], my [[Creator/GaiusJuliusCaesar three-parts-of-gaul-ness]], my just-all-in-all-ness, my wonderful-me-ness, [[ShoutOut my hammer]] [[SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion the pe- ople]] can tell...

** NathanFillion is in denial about not being as talented as his costars

** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clKc2Pdvda8&hl=fr Steve's Song]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNmzegQUtFA&NR=1 Nobody's Asian in the Movies]]. Joss Whedon has been slammed for the fact that ''{{Series/Firefly}}'' had no Asian characters, despite being set in a universe where the culture is heavily influenced by China.
** [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom Felicia has a vestigial tail.]] [[FetishFuel Not that there's]] [[NotThatTheresAnythingWrongWithThat anything wrong with that.]]
** From the first song:
--> '''All:''' We’ll talk about the writing \\
We’ll probably say “It’s great!”\\
And the acting — So exciting\\
Except for Nate\\
'''Nathan:''' I phoned it in.
** Neil's may be a reference to his appearances as himself in the ''HaroldAndKumar'' movies, which portray him the same way.

* TakeThatUs: Just about the whole thing.
** If the lyrics are to be trusted, Creator/JossWhedon is a cheap sell-out in between moping about exactly that, Zack Whedon is a particularly pathetic wannabe rapper, Creator/NeilPatrickHarris is a secretly megalomaniacal (and possibly bipolar) {{attention whore}}, NathanFillion is butthurt and in denial about not being as talented as his costars, FeliciaDay is a self-promoting blabbermouth in between desperately trying and failing to be deep and artsy, Maurissa Tancharoen thinks "math" is a verb, and the entire rest of the cast [[SmallNameBigEgo severely overestimates the relative importance of their roles]]. The fact they all personally participate in putting themselves down in this way can only say good things about their sense of humour.

* ComedicSociopathy

** If the lyrics are to be trusted, JossWhedon is a cheap sell-out in between moping about exactly that, Zack Whedon is a particularly pathetic wannabe rapper, Creator/NeilPatrickHarris is a secretly megalomaniacal (and possibly bipolar) {{attention whore}}, NathanFillion is butthurt and in denial about not being as talented as his costars, FeliciaDay is a self-promoting blabbermouth in between desperately trying and failing to be deep and artsy, Maurissa Tancharoen thinks "math" is a verb, and the entire rest of the cast [[SmallNameBigEgo severely overestimates the relative importance of their roles]]. The fact they all personally participate in putting themselves down in this way can only say good things about their sense of humour.

-->'''JossWhedon''': It came from pain.

** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNmzegQUtFA&NR=1 Nobody's Asian in the Movies]]. Joss Whedon has been slammed for the fact that ''{{Firefly}}'' had no Asian characters, despite being set in a universe where the culture is heavily influenced by China.

** The song "Nobody's Asian in the Movies" is commenting on a problem to which Joss Whedon's own TV series ''{{Firefly}}'' contributes.

** [[FurryFandom Felicia has a vestigial tail.]] [[FetishFuel Not that there's]] [[NotThatTheresAnythingWrongWithThat anything wrong with that.]]

** If the lyrics are to be trusted, JossWhedon is a cheap sell-out in between moping about exactly that, Zack Whedon is a particularly pathetic wannabe rapper, Creator/NeilPatrickHarris is a secretly megalomaniacal (and possibly bipolar) {{attention whore}}, NathanFillion is butthurt and in denial about not being as talented as his costars, FeliciaDay is a self-promoting blabbermouth in between desperately trying and failing to be deep and artsy, MaurissaTancharoen thinks "math" is a verb, and the entire rest of the cast [[SmallNameBigEgo severely overestimates the relative importance of their roles]]. The fact they all personally participate in putting themselves down in this way can only say good things about their sense of humour.

* NiceCharacterMeanActor: Apparently, everyone involved in the making of ''DrHorrible''.

* ArtistDisillusionment: The subject of Joss's song, which is so depressing it drives everyone except Neil out of the studio.

* GetAholdOfYourselfMan: After the first song is over and they're only "half-way through the first shot" Nathan panics and declares "We're all gonna die!" Melissa slaps him and actually tells him to "get a hold of yourself".

* GetAholdOfYourselfMan: After the first song is over and they're only "half-way through the first shot" Nathan panics and declares "We're all gonna die!" Felica slaps him and actually tells him to "get a hold of yourself".

* FakeNationality: "A Persian or a Cajun/or an Indian or an American Indian/Played by a Mexican"

* MoneyDearBoy: Zach's excuse for why he got involved in a musical product in the first place.