My Freeze Ray

If I ran a game store I would play the song My Freeze Ray by Neil Patrick Harris.

The Fall 2007 season of television was a bleak season for it suffered under the impact of a Writers Guild of America strike. By the opening of 2008, there was nothing new to watch anywhere. Established shows were capable of surviving the strike while others, like Pushing Daisies, were doomed. However, just because there was a strike doesn't mean that all writers spent all their time on picket lines. The Whedon brothers - Jed, Joss, and Zack - and actress Maurissa Tancharoen (later Jed's wife) spent time working on a project that would allow them circumvent the entanglements of the strike. The result was Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog.

Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog is a three-act musical comedy/drama video starring Neil Patrick Harris, Nathan Fillion, and Felicia Day. It was first released for public consumption on the Dr. Horrible website, with act 1 releasing on July 15, 2008, act 2 on July 17, and act 3 on July 19, and has since become available from many vendors. The series was very warmly received and cemented the Whedons and stars as modern pop culture geek icons. It spawned a pseudo-sequel (Commentary! The Musical), comic book tributes by Dark Horse Comics, and cosplay fandom.

My Freeze Ray is the first song of the first act, performed by Neil Patrick Harris. In the scene, Dr. Horrible (NPH) is reading a letter submitted to his blog that questions who "her" is. Cut to the interior of a laundromat. Dr. Horrible is incognito, casting a wanting eye over Penny (Felicia Day) and singing about his feelings for her. I find it to be the most accessible song from the series, especially without context. The song reflects a supervillain in the making singing about how he wants to use his powers for love and not evil. It's sweet and menacing at the same time.

The song was released on the 2008 soundtrack entitled, Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. Fans often refer to the song with the name "Laundry Day,"

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My Freeze Ray lyrics

Laundry day
See you there
Under things
Tumbling

Wanna say
Love your hair
Here I go
Mumbling

With my Freeze Ray
I will stop
The world

With my Freeze Ray
I will find the time
To find the words to

Tell you how
How you make
Make me feel
What's the phrase?

Like a fool
Kinda sick
Special needs
Anyways

With my Freeze Ray I will stop
The pain
It's not a Death Ray or an icebeam
That’s so Johnny Snow

I just think you need time to know
That I’m the guy to make it real
The feelings you don't dare to feel

I'll bend the world to our will
And we'll make time stand still

That's the plan
Rule the world
You and me
Any day

Love your hair
(What?)
No I…I uh… love the air
Anyway

With my Freeze Ray I will stop -