Wil Wheaton has had the privilege of playing a Starship crew member and a host of a sci-fi-pop-comedy-talk show on television, a board game aficionado on the web, and an imbiber of Newcastle’s new beers in a Twitter video. Now he can add “matchmaker” to his resume. The actor known for playing Wesley Crusher and his Geek & Sundry gaming web series TableTop stars in a new promotional spoof video from Nerdist Industries for the fake smartphone app Duo.
The video starts off with “relationship expert” Dr. Hank Tannen (Wheaton) explaining how easy his Duo app has made it for superheroes to find their ideal sidekicks, no matter how busy their crime-fighting days may be. The short then brings in “spokespeople” in the form of Captain America and Bucky Barnes, Green Arrow and Flash, and Batman and Robin (both versions of him, as well as the Nightwing interpretation). But as it turns out, everyone’s only using the app for sexual conquests and not justice-fighting ones.
Nerdist Industries’ Dan Casey, Kyle Hill, and Matt Grosinger star alongside Wheaton in the short. The video also features Clare Grant from the production team Team Unicorn as Harley Quinn. Nerdist and Adult Swim writer Ben Mekler penned the spoof, and filmmaker Andrew Bowser directed.
Nerdist is no stranger to cleverly-written parodies and spoofs. The entertainment company recently debuted The Real Housewives of Horror comedy series in October 2014, which mimics reality TV series like The Real Housewives of New Jersey except with more shedding of blood and guts. Wheaton is also a familiar name in the world of online video comedy. The ex-Star Trek actor had a recurring role in Felicia Day’s The Guild series, and he recently parodied Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in a short clip for his SyFy show The Wil Wheaton Project.
You can catch future comedy shorts on Nerdist.com or join the 1 million+ subscribers on Nerdist’s YouTube channel to stay in the loop.
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