Do any of you remember the joy you felt when you turned on the television to watch your favorite show, and discovered that this week’s episode happened to be a musical episode? One of those special episodes in which the writers decided to throw every common-sense limitation in the writing, throw in as many television-industry inside jokes as they could, and (of course), make the characters break into song every few minutes?

Meet the short, internet-based series that doesn’t just have one shark-jumping episode - but is entirely based off that sweet, wonderful concept: Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog was written during the WGA strike earlier this year by the Joss Whedon (who created Buffy the Vampire Slayer, apparently), and it is glorious. It’s the story of an evil “mastermind” trying to get into the League of Evil, while (naturally) trying to get the girl. Oh, and it’s all told as though the show were an entry in Dr. Horrible’s Video Blog. With singing.

There will be three, 16-minute episodes released online this week, but only this week, so check it out sooner rather than later at DrHorrible.com.

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