Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog

May 2004: the last time a new Joss Whedon show (Angel) was broadcast on television. Starved for fresh Whedon, the cult television master’s faux grocery list (published on the Dateline Hollywood website) caused a minor sensation in 2005, with fans supposedly demanding it be made into a new television series.

In reality, Whedonians would need to wait four more years—until July of 2008—for another taste of Joss TV. Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog was quintessential Whedon: naughty, hilarious, cultish, collaborative (Whedon acknowledges assistance only from "everyone I had worked with, was related to or had ever met" [Whedon]), exhilarating, genre-bending, virally memorable (especially its catchy music and Sondheim-goes-geek patter lyrics)—a near-perfect manifestation of the "loser aesthetic" identified by Richard Burt and elucidated by Matt Hills that had been Whedon’s TV auteur signature in Buffy, Angel, and Firefly. (Though no grocery lists figured in the tale, Captain Hammer’s stalkerish groupies are obsessed with his laundry bill.)

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