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


Pre-release

In March 2011, user "Political Gamer" visited Valve headquarters in Bellevue, Washington, and confirmed the production of Meet the Medic. [1]. They took a photograph of a poster 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 which depicted the Administrator at her control panel, with 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 explode upon contact but do 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 Blog 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 TF2 Official Blog, 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 Blog were removed as part of the website redesign.

"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.
  • The heart monitoring device that shows the heavy's vitals is named "CARDIOSCAN 2000".
  • At 1:03, the entire contents of the fridge can be viewed: three hearts, a Sandvich, three bottles of Red Shed beer, a BLU Spy's Head (alive), a battery for his head, and an ashtray for his cigarettes.
  • The heart that the Heavy receives is labeled 'Mega Baboon'. The other is labeled 'Loch Ness Monster'.
  • Throughout the Heavy's procedure, an X-Ray of his body can be seen in the background, which shows a bomb lodged inside. 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.
  • A mysterious woman resembling Miss Pauling can be seen through the window at 0:56 and again at 1:22.
  • One of the Medic's doves shares its name with "Template:W", the Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer.
  • 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 monitor 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.
  • When the Demoman 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.
  • When the Demoman is fleeing the BLU Soldiers in a wheelchair, he has a bandage over the top part of his head with an eyepatch 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.
  • The healing provided by the Medic fixed the Scout's missing tooth, but not the Demoman's missing eye.
  • At 2:28, the Pyro can be seen running in its humiliation pose, quickly disappearing in the black smoke on the right.
  • 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.
  • In spite of the Medic believing otherwise, human ribs are actually capable of growing back when properly shortened.
  • In the up-close scene of the Demoman fleeing the soldiers with the Medic watching, the Engineer and Sniper are missing from hiding behind the boulder for protection in the background.
  • The Quick-Fix uses sounds from the Medi Gun.
  • At 3:47 the Spy appears to check his watch as he does in game, although he does not Cloak.
  • Despite the Quick-Fix being incapable of providing invulnerability in-game, the Medic is able to use it to make the Heavy invulnerable via 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.
  • In the waiting room at the end of the video, the Pyro can be seen reading (and attempting to light up) a magazine, featuring The Insult That Made a "Jarate Master" Out of Sniper on the back cover.
  • For a short period before the Über Update, doves would sometimes fly out of Scouts after they were killed. This foreshadowed the final gag of the video, in which Archimedes is left inside the Scout's chest after his operation.
  • At 1:03 the lower shelf of the fridge shows a Sandvich and a Red Shed beer, which is a referance to Meet the Sandvich, where there was 2 sandviches (minus the one Heavy ate during the video) and 3 bottles of Red Shed beer.

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 Blog, posted June 20, 2011. Accessed June 21, 2011.