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 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 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.
  • 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.
    • 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, 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.
  • 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 named "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.
  • One of the Medic's doves shares its name with "Template:W", the Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer.
    • Archimedes was also the name of the wizard Merlin's pet owl.
  • 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 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.
  • In spite of the Medic believing otherwise, human ribs are actually capable of growing back when properly shortened.
  • At 2:28, the Pyro can be seen running in its humiliation pose, quickly disappearing in the black smoke on the right.
  • In the up-close scene of the Demoman fleeing the Soldiers, the Engineer and Sniper are missing from 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 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.
  • After the Medic and the Heavy climb the pile of Soldiers, the Medic releases the Medi Gun beam, yet the Heavy is still Übercharged.
  • At 3:43, during the sliding shot of the waiting room, there is a ticket counter on the wall with ticket number 11 hanging out. With each class assigned a waiting ticket, this would mean another class is expecting an über device, this adding another instance of the ongoing tenth class jokes.
  • 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.
  • At 3:47 the Spy appears to check his watch as he does in game, although he does not Cloak.
  • 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.
  • Its unkown how the medic got the uber machine in his heart as it would require another medic.

Outtakes

On July 11, 2011, the TF2 Team posted several outtakes from Meet the Medic on the Official Website. [1]

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

Trivia

  • According to the article posted on the Official Team Fortress Website on July 11, 2011, Meet the Medic was originally supposed to be an interview-style video, similar to the earlier Meet the Team videos. It was to explain how the Medic accidentally discovered the healing formula used for his Medi Gun and its ability to ÜberCharge.

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.