Team Unicorn

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Team Unicorn
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Team Unicorn in The Saturday Action Fun Hour!
Background information
Origin Los Angeles, California
Genres Pop, Parody, Comedy, Nerd music
Instruments Vocals
Years active 2010-present
Website www.teamunicornftw.com
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Past members Michele Boyd

Team Unicorn is a multi-media production team formed in Los Angeles, California in 2010. Its current members are American actresses Clare Grant (Walk the Line), Rileah Vanderbilt (Hatchet), Milynn Sarley, and Alison Haislip (Attack of the Show) who replaced Michele Boyd in 2014. The group released their debut parody song "G33k & G4m3r Girls",[1] online in September 2010. The music video, spoofing Katy Perry's "California Gurls"[2] was filled with geek cultural references [3][4][5] and pays tribute to women who love gaming, manga, and science fiction.[6][7] The video reached 1 million views in its first week online[8] and stirred controversy over its sexy portrayal of geek girls.[9] Team Unicorn has since released the spoof 1950's industrial "A Very Zombie Holiday", a comedic eHarmony parody commercial entitled "superHarmony", a 50's "Beach Blanket Bingo" parody with an alien invasion twist called "Alien Beach Crashers", a parody of the Starship Troopers promo called "The UniCorps Wants YOU!", an original song set in a post-apocalyptic world, filled with geeky references called "For the Win", and their biggest hit to date, a Star Wars/Meghan Trainor parody called "All About that Base".[10]

Team Unicorn is also well known for incorporating cameos from existing popular figures in genre culture, including Seth Green, Katee Sackhoff, Stan Lee, Weird Al Yankovic, Aisha Tyler, Grant Imahara, Caprica's Magda Apanowicz, Derek Mears, Rachael Leigh Cook, James Gunn and Ashley Holliday. They also often utilize directors and writers already involved in the geek and genre community, including The Guild's Sean Becker, Zeb Wells from Robot Chicken and Marvel Comics, and Colton Dunn from MADtv. Popular culture references to the group include rare unicorns in the "Whimsyshire" level of Blizzard Entertainment's video game "Diablo III," named "Killaire," "Miss Hell," "Maulin Sorely," and "R'lyeh."

In 2013, Adult Swim announced that a Team Unicorn live action/animation hybrid pilot called "The Team Unicorn Saturday Action Fun Hour!" is currently being developed for the network with the creators of Robot Chicken,[11] which introduces Alison Haislip as the new Blue Unicorn, and stars Jane Lynch, Alan Tudyk, Tara Strong and Kevin Shinick.[12][13]

Group history

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Team Unicorn, dressed as pop culture characters for their video "Geek and Gamer Girls" in 2010. Left to right: Rileah Vanderbilt, Milynn Sarley, Michele Boyd, Clare Grant

Vanderbilt is largely given credit to bringing the four women of Team Unicorn together.[14] She & Grant became friends in 2005 and began producing geek videos together, even winning two awards at the 2009 Star Wars Fan Film Awards[15] for their short "Saber".[16] Vanderbilt became friends with Sarley in 2009, introducing her to Boyd in January 2010,[17] whom she'd met the same year, and the two became fast friends. All four women became friends when Vanderbilt, Sarley & Boyd decided to cosplay together as Sailor Moon characters at Comic-Con 2010, and asked Grant join them as Sailor Moon. Shortly after, while hanging out with Boyd, Sarley came up with the idea for "G33k and G4M3R Girls", and together they wrote the original lyrics, bringing Vanderbilt and Grant on board to finish the lyrics and produce the video. After the overwhelming response to the first video, more ideas quickly came and "Team Unicorn" was officially born. In 2011, the women became friends with Alison Haislip, who replaced Boyd as Blue Unicorn in 2014.

Filmography

Videos

List of Team Unicorn videos
Year Title Director Notes Refs
2010 "G33k & G4m3r Girls" Dave Yarvo Music video parody of "California Gurls" [18]
2010 A Very Zombie Holiday Sean Becker [19][20][21]
2011 superHarmony Sean Becker eHarmony parody with superheroes [22][23]
2011 Alien Beach Crashers Sean Becker [24]
2013 "For the Win!" (feat. "Weird Al" Yankovic) Dave Yarvo Music video by Stage5 [25]
2014 The Team Unicorn Saturday Action Fun Hour! Seth Green Television pilot for Adult Swim [26][12]
2014 "All About That Base" Sean Becker Music video parody of "All About That Bass" and Star Wars [27]


Appearances

List of Team Unicorn appearances
Year Title Notes Refs
2011 "F.E.A.R. 3 Comes to Life" Promotional video by Fearnet for the video game F.E.A.R. 3 [28]
2012 The Jace Hall Show [29]
2012 Top 100 Video Games of All Time Guest on G4TV show [30]
2013 Robot Combat League SyFy promotional clip where the group visits the show set [31]


Awards and nominations

Year Award Category Title of work Result
2010 LA Weekly's Best of 2010 Best Online Video[32] Team Unicorn: G33K & G4M3R Girls Won
2011 Dragon Con 2011 Film Festival Awards Best Music Video Team Unicorn: G33K & G4M3R Girls Nominated
2012 International Academy of Web Television Awards Best Variety Series Team Unicorn Nominated

References

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  15. ↑ "Official Star Wars Fan Film Challenge Web Site"
  16. ↑ "IMDB Page for SABER"
  17. ↑ Bagged and Boarded 83: For The Win Archived March 1, 2011 at the Wayback Machine
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