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July 23 2008

ELoE Website. It seems the Evil League Of Evil has a website. And they are not accepting applications for membership.

I haven't seen this here, and I thought it was very funny. I'd love to know if it's a fan stuff, or maybe Joss did it.

EDIT: Oh, there's also a link to an email address for Bad Horse.

maxsummers | Dr. Horrible | 05:30 CET | 34 comments total | tags: dr. horrible, eloe, bad horse

But...but... I have a letter of condemnation from the Deputy Mayor! And not the one Faith killed!

whedongeek | July 23, 05:34 CET

Incidentally, in case you didn't notice, they link to an email address for Bad Horse: badhorse@evilleagueofevil.com

Maratanos | July 23, 05:36 CET

Oh yeah! Noticed that, just forgot to put it on the description.

I wonder if will be a complete website in the future... or if it'll stay like this... 'cause it's .com, which makes me think that it's apayed domain, right? It'd be weird to pay a domain just to leave it like that... although it's hilarious, I thought.

maxsummers | July 23, 05:40 CET

I wrote him. Can't wait to see if he'll whinny back.

kazzmere | July 23, 06:02 CET

Someone must let us know if Bad Horse returns any emails sent to him and what he says ! :D

Sweet Fragility | July 23, 06:04 CET

And here's the e-mail I received back:

We're sorry...

...but The Evil League of Evil is not accepting applications for membership at this time.

-- Bad Horse

(FYI: It's on auto-reply)

[ edited by kazzmere on 2008-07-23 06:11 ]

kazzmere | July 23, 06:05 CET

And here's the e-mail I received back:

We're sorry...

...but The Evil League of Evil is not accepting applications for membership at this time.

-- Bad Horse

LOL!

maxsummers | July 23, 06:09 CET

I wonder why Dr. Horrible isn't listed as a member? He did, after all, become one...

Mrs.BigPileofDust | July 23, 06:10 CET

That response doesn't have rhyme or meter. How is it supposed to be delivered by a chorus of cowboys?

jam2 | July 23, 06:11 CET

Well, somebody now has my e-mail address. The best case scenario from this is that I'll be involved in some grass roots viral marketing for Dr. Horrible Part Deux (Awesome!!)

The worst case is they'll sell my address to a vacation time share company (Evil!!)

kazzmere | July 23, 06:44 CET

Hah, the auto-reply I just received had an extra bit after what kazzmere posted:

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

omnie | July 23, 08:15 CET

We all assumed he made it into the ELE. But maybe what we actually saw was him going in for his final interview, which of course he totally blew. And that's why he's all sad and crap back at his place.

How's that for a twist! Just call me M. Night ShyamAlanD.

AlanD | July 23, 08:20 CET

Good stuff, although yeah Dr. Horrible should definitely be listed even though he's a newbie.

Hee | July 23, 08:35 CET

Well, it's either viral or a fansite. But I'm leaning towards a fan site. The site was registered on July 16th for a one-year period. This is, of course, after the first act had released to the public. Were Joss & Co. trying to institute a viral game, I imagine they'd register the day of the launch, if not slightly before, to prevent anyone else from sniping the domain.

Also the one year registration is significant. The registration is private, so we can't see who it is, but drhorrible.com was registered for a two year period (back in February!) I imagine Joss & Co. would have also registered their 'viral' website for two years, since who knows if there would be even be more Dr. Horrible in a year.

Of course, that could all be a ruse to psych us out and it really *is* a viral site, NPH did say Joss had huge ideas for far more than just a sequel...

So it turns out this post doesn't really add anything. Sorry.

Barclay | July 23, 10:08 CET

I sent this:

Not an application.
Don't know what your stance is on fanmail (though I assume it would be the horse stance), but I heard Dr. Horrible was accepted into the league. Good for him. Or...evil for him. How's he fitting in? Also, not to be one of those people, but I was wondering...how do you type with your hooves (or do the Chorus of Cowboys type for you - if so, who types when they're unavailible)?

And got the "not accepting applications" thing.

GreatMuppetyOdin | July 23, 10:15 CET

Obviously the Evil League of Evil is so evil, it doesn't bother to create a fancy website telling us would-be villians to not bother applying.
Maybe it prefers to recruit new members. This means invitations will be sent out to Perez Hilton, any movie critic who gave a positive review to Meet Dave, and Fox TV programmers from during the 2002 season.

impalergeneral | July 23, 10:40 CET

I hope more comes of this because I am amused.

meimei42 | July 23, 13:14 CET

Heh, fun :). And I'm also slightly surprised that this has been around since the 16th, and yet only now did one of us track this down. We're slackers.

GVH | July 23, 13:44 CET

Yeah, if it were official it would most likely be registered under Jed's name as drhorrible.com is. Plus, they obviously read the Black, so I have my suspicions.

zeitgeist | July 23, 13:49 CET

Some people have waaaaaaaay too much time on their hands (or hooves).

tigerlily | July 23, 13:53 CET

Like we don't? We're posting here, aren't we?

pat32082 | July 23, 13:54 CET

The registration is via "GoDaddy.com Inc."

GoDaddy.com is what I like to call a "Domain Squatter". They listen for traffic passing their DNS servers asking for non-existent domains and try to register those domains (and some squatters are going as far as to try to register algorithmic misspellings though I can't see how that would be profitable).
GoDaddy also does legitimate domain registration for original names, too, but I find the other to be despicable regardless.

This registration was for an AcornHost.com server which touts Portland, Oregon service (but that doesn't mean the owner is necessarily from there, but chances are a little higher).

This smells of fan-site. I do hope they take care and not misrepresent themselves as authorized Mutant Enemy personnel.

TheGamut | July 23, 14:11 CET

Piespoilers.com is also through Acorn. b!X, you're NICKED!

zeitgeist | July 23, 14:23 CET

So... it's a fan-site, then? Who's The One True b!X?

TheGamut | July 23, 14:31 CET

He is a Portland area Brown Coat, founder of CSTS, and general all-around wacky guy :)

zeitgeist | July 23, 14:35 CET

Good, but needs more death whinny.

Sunfire | July 23, 14:40 CET

Good, but needs more death whinny.

Said in the voice of Christopher Walken?

theonetruebix | July 23, 14:47 CET

Not intentionally, no, but you can read it to yourself however you wish.

Sunfire | July 23, 14:51 CET

There's an Evil League of Evil over at Facebook and ~~David Fury~~ a certain newscaster himself recruited friends to join! :-D I bet Katie Couric is a member! ;-)

OzLady | July 23, 17:02 CET

My husband snagged the "Evil League of Evil" name for a group in Second Life. We've been creating supervillian costumes. lol

mikamom | July 23, 17:41 CET

OzLady, link?

theonetruebix | July 23, 17:44 CET

FYI, Dr. Horrible isn't listed because that would be a spoiler.

theonetruebix | July 29, 06:58 CET

Hmmm... an updated front page...

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

*trots off to prepare application*

*trots back*

Will the real Bad Horse please step forward? Even if it's not related, he's still got a pretty cool logo

[ edited by JenskiJen on 2008-07-29 12:00 ]

JenskiJen | July 29, 11:54 CET

I don't even know if people will see this, but if you highlight the text a new thing pops up saying:

When people are supposed to be submitting, it'll be abundantly clear how. Everyone will know.

Aloha Joe | September 04, 19:20 CET

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