Meet the Medic

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This article is about the video. For the taunt item, see Meet the Medic (taunt)
Meet the Medic
Meet the Medic Titlecard
Video Info
Released: June 23, 2011
Run time: 4:09

In March 2011, user "Political Gamer" visited Valve headquarters in Bellevue, Washington and confirmed production of Meet the Medic.[1] A photograph of a poster was taken at the Valve HQ, depicting the Medic posing alongside several flying doves.[2]

The comic Meet the Director, released alongside the Replay Update on May 5, 2011, featured a page depicting the Administrator at her control panel, showing a number of screenshots from Meet the Medic on the displays.

On June 8, 2011, a patch to Team Fortress 2 was released and included an update that placed several doves in various positions in Valve maps. The doves exploded upon contact, but did not cause players damage. On June 17, 2011, an additional patch was released which added a secondary dove model with animations. Later the same day, the page layout of the TF2 Official Website was updated to feature three doves perched upon the title banner, which was covered by bird droppings. Each dove linked to three separate hidden images depicting a rundown hospital, an empty hospital waiting room, and a doctor's office.

Part of the rundown hospital seen in the first hidden image can be seen in the background of the Medic's page on the official site, fully modeled.

On June 20, 2011, Meet the Medic was confirmed by the TF2 Official Website and its release was announced to coincide with the Über Update, to be released on June 23.[3] The doves that were perched on the site banner of the TF2 Official Website were removed as part of the website redesign.

Video

Meet the Medic video transcript

Gallery

Notes

  • The hospital seen in one of the hidden images resembles the Pacific Medical Center in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, close to Valve headquarters.
  • When the Demoman is fleeing the BLU Soldiers in a wheelchair, he has a bandage over the top part of his head and an eyepatch worn on top of the bandage. Later, when the Demoman is healed by the Medic, he rips off the bandage with the eyepatch on it to reveal another eyepatch underneath the bandage.
    • Similarly, when he is fleeing from the Soldiers in the first battlefield scene, his Stickybomb Launcher rests on his lap and is his only visible weapon. In the second battlefield scene, the Grenade Launcher replaced the Stickybomb Launcher, but after an explosion sends him flying out of his wheelchair, the weapon that lands in front of him is, mysteriously, the Stickybomb Launcher instead of the Grenade Launcher he was just holding.
  • Throughout the Heavy's procedure, an X-ray of his body can be seen in the background, showing a bomb lodged inside him. The extracted bomb can be spotted in a bucket behind the Medic. This is the same bomb seen in the Meet the Medic title card.
  • The Heavy's Minigun can be spotted in the background of a few operating room shots, resting on its own stretcher.
  • The Medic's Overdose can be seen underneath the bucket containing the extracted bomb.
  • A heart monitoring device titled "CARDIOSCAN 2000" can be seen working behind the Heavy early in the video. When his heart is destroyed, the line on the monitor goes flat. The next time it is seen, after the Medic retrieves a new heart, it resumes its old display (as if the machine detected the heart's presence).
  • One of the Medic's doves shares its name with "Template:W", the Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer.
  • At 1:03, the entire contents of the fridge can be viewed: three hearts, the Sandvich, three bottles of Red Shed beer, the BLU Spy's head (alive), a battery for his head, and an ashtray for his cigarettes.
    • The labels on the hearts at 1:04 read "Loch Ness Hamster" and "Mega Baboon", respectively. The name on the smallest heart is unreadable.
  • A mysterious woman resembling Miss Pauling can be seen through the window at 0:56 and again at 1:22.
  • Despite the Medic believing otherwise, human ribs are actually capable of growing back when properly shortened.
  • At 2:28, a Pyro can be seen running in his/her Humiliation pose, quickly disappearing into the black smoke on the right.
  • In the up-close scene of the Demoman fleeing the Soldiers, the Engineer and Sniper are missing because they are hiding behind the boulder for protection in the background.
  • At 3:24, a rocket is shown deflecting off of the invulnerable Heavy. Rockets never deflect off players in-game and simply explode without damaging the invulnerable target.
  • Despite the Quick-Fix being incapable of providing invulnerability in-game, the Medic is able to use it to make the Heavy invulnerable via an Übercharge in Meet the Medic. The fourth day of the Über Update explains that the Quick-Fix's first Übercharge, seen in the video, permanently shorted out the invulnerability feature of the gun.
  • The Quick-Fix uses sounds from the Medi Gun.
  • In the waiting room at the end of the video, the Pyro can be seen reading a magazine featuring The Insult That Made a "Jarate Master" Out of Sniper on the back cover.
  • Since the June 17, 2011 Patch, doves will sometimes fly out of Scouts after they are killed. This foreshadowed the final gag of the video, where Archimedes is left inside the Scout's chest after his operation.
  • At the end of the video, if one listens closely, the Engineer is strumming "A Little Heart to Heart".

Outtakes

On July 11, 2011, the TF2 Team posted several outtakes from Meet the Medic on the official website.[4]

Don't You Die On Me! My Darkest Moment
Kill Me Making Gods

Trivia

  • According to an article posted on the Team Fortress Official Website on July 11, 2011, Meet the Medic was originally intended to be an interview-style video, similar to the earlier "Meet the Team" videos. The video would have explained how the Medic accidentally discovered the healing formula used for his Medi Gun and its ability to ÜberCharge.
  • Medic's voice actor, Robin Atkin Downes, has his own YouTube channel, and as a gift to the fans, he not only uploaded a short snippet of himself recording the lines for "Meet The Medic", but redubbed the outtakes in Medic's voice.

Related merchandise

See also

References

  1. "Back from Valve" on Steam Users' Forums, Political Gamer, posted March 22, 2011. Accessed June 18, 2011.
  2. "Videogame.it Valve HQ Article posted April 1, 2011. Accessed June 20, 2011.
  3. "The Über Update, Day One", TF2 Team, TF2 Official Website, posted June 20, 2011. Accessed June 21, 2011.
  4. http://tf2.com/post.php?id=5816