WoW Moviewatch: How to Paladin XXX

Posted Jul 15th 2008 12:00PM by Moo Money
Filed under: Machinima, Humor, WoW Moviewatch

The day we've all been waiting for has finally arrived. Shepiwot has made a large number of movies in his How to Paladin series, but XXX officially marks his 30th. In what is possibly my favorite one yet, he hops around, dances, and kills things to epic music, but with a special flair.

While having no plot, no style, and no substance, we wouldn't have it any other way. Shepiwot's brand of machinima is so uniquely bad that it has spawned insults, death threats, and declarations of love at the same time. It reminds me of my very first machinima, where I jumped about without a care in the world ...

[Via Warcraftmovies.com]

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Tags: how-to-paladin, htp, machinima, shepiwot, stoker, warcraftmovies, world-of-warcraft, wow, wow-moviewatch

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

7-15-2008 @ 12:10PM

TotalBiscuit said...

Sheer unbound genius as usual. I can't put my finger on exactly what makes me cry tears of laughter everytime one of these comes out, I suppose it's just the complete disregard for everything and the bucketload of totally pointless absurdity that we've come to expect from this guy.

Even better I notice Punchline is one of the one's posting the negative comments. That in itself is hilarious, since Punchline is credited with creating the machinimabortion that is 'Punchline', arguably the worst machinima ever made. :>

7-15-2008 @ 1:26PM

Matt Graham said...

It's a joke between Shepiwot and I. You take things way too literally all the time, TB.

7-15-2008 @ 1:35PM

TotalBiscuit said...

Gee it's a good job you explained that or I would have forever more gone on taking stupid comments at face value. I mean who does that on the internet without the benefit of context, really?

Your movie still sucked :>

7-15-2008 @ 12:18PM

Josh said...

That movie was EPIC!!!!!!
It takes a sense of humor to get these vids.

7-15-2008 @ 12:25PM

Roxton said...

As always, I laughed, I cried, I removed my eyes with cocktail sticks. The crab dancing was WIN!

7-15-2008 @ 12:40PM

Soifra said...

Fascinating and totally brilliant in a wrong sort of way; I snorted and wheezed all the way through. The maniacally happy music and the spinning made it for me.

7-15-2008 @ 12:45PM

Sanol said...

The XXX content at the end was a bit over the top tbh, still this guy should get a reward or something :D

7-15-2008 @ 12:51PM

Darkky said...

Shepiwot for President!

The man's a genious, you just have to love these videos. ^^

7-15-2008 @ 12:55PM

Eddie said...

I always love the One Piece music in the background!

7-15-2008 @ 12:55PM

BillDoor said...

A modern Truffaut.

7-15-2008 @ 1:11PM

Derick said...

just speeding things up and adding that music makes the game feel like Banjo Kazooie.

IS it just me, or is his color scheme more vibrant than the normal game?

7-15-2008 @ 1:42PM

Naix said...

I was the funniest thing I have ever seen in over 10 years.

7-15-2008 @ 2:23PM

jten11 said...

Wow. I remember seeing his vid for the first time thinking "what the hell did i just put myself through?" But after watching you can't help but like them. His videos are so damn random it's genius. His choice of wacky music is perfect for his videos as well. The ending was funny too.

7-15-2008 @ 4:15PM

Ichthus said...

please make the bad man stop...

7-15-2008 @ 9:49PM

Voldamir said...

I love these videos so much :)

7-15-2008 @ 10:29PM

Endofcake said...

I watched this in horrified fascination... three times.

It was so very very terrible! And yet I plan to watch How-to-Paladin I through XXVIII :(

7-16-2008 @ 5:52AM

Codexx said...

The use of the ever awesome One Piece music(for those that have caught the crappy dub on Cartoon Network, this is the original) makes it so much less terrible to me.

7-16-2008 @ 8:50AM

alrdye said...

A naked NE female dancing!.... in bear form.

LULZ!

7-16-2008 @ 2:40PM

thebitterfig said...

here is my thought on how to paladin: like a painting by jackson pollack (the most famous paint splattered on a canvas guy), there is somehow beautiful order to this chaos. watch the crab dance, for example.

shepiwot is the abstract expressionist of wow machinima.

7-21-2008 @ 2:06PM

Ozz said...

This video made me happy in the pants.

When I was dancing around that ribbon pole myself, I immediately tought: Shepiwot.

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