Neil Patrick Harris talks Chicago Tribune’s “The Watcher”, Maureen Ryan about Dr Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog.

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“I got an e-mail from Joss that said, ‘Gang, we broke the Internet.’ That’s all it said. Which is awesome,” said “Dr. Horrible” star Neil Patrick Harris, who I talked to at a CBS party on Friday.

Even Whedon was surprised by “Dr. Horrible’s” runaway success, which he created with his brothers Jed and Zack and Maurissa Tancharoen.

“We had this home-baked idea that we love and we’re proud of,” Whedon told USA Today. “We made this on the understanding that we’d never make a dime. But it’s blown up beyond our expectations.”

“[W]e were just hoping it would build over time, people would start to spread the world and people would enjoy it,” Jed Whedon said in an interview with the fan site DoctorHorrible.net. “We didn’t expect everybody to try and see it at once.”

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“Once I actually downloaded Jed singing the [unfinished] tracks, I had trouble not listening to it,” Harris said. “I listened to it all the time. Partly because I had to sing it, partly just because I think the songs are really, really catchy… I’ve watched the three parts probably seven or eight times each. And I was in it! I gain nothing by doing that except I think that they’re really clever.”

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“Joss has some strange, giant master plan that includes much more than a sequel,” Harris said. “Joss thinks on a great many levels, so when he was pitching it to us, he said, ‘And this will take over the world, and there will be sequels and musicals on stage and feature films and we’ll get our own television network and they’ll name awards after us’ and things like that.”

But Harris, who returns to work on the CBS comedy “How I Met Your Mother” in three weeks, added that there were no concrete plans in the immediate future to film another “Dr. Horrible” episode (Web-isode? Minisode? Horri-sode?)

“I think we’re all giggling like little schoolgirls for about a week or so, then he’ll figure out what he wants to do next,” Harris said. “You’ll probably have to ask him.”

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