Team Unicorn is a multi-media production team formed in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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, California

California

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 in 2010. Its members are American actresses and singers Michele Boyd

Michele Boyd

Michele Catherine Boyd is an American actress best known for her recurring work as Riley on the web-series The Guild.-Personal background:...

 (The Guild

The Guild

The Guild is an American comedy web series created and written by Felicia Day, who also stars as Cyd Sherman . It premiered on YouTube on July 27, 2007. Subsequent webisodes premiered on Microsoft's Xbox Live Marketplace, Zune Marketplace, and MSN Video. The webisodes were later made available on...

), Clare Grant

Clare Grant

-Career:While at the University of Memphis she met director Craig Brewer who cast her in two indie films in Memphis before casting her in the film Black Snake Moan and later as the lead in his MTV series $5 Cover....

 (Robot Chicken

Robot Chicken

Robot Chicken is an American stop motion animated television series created and executive produced by Seth Green and Matthew Senreich along with co-head writers Douglas Goldstein and Tom Root. Green provides many voices for the show...

), Milynn Sarley, and Rileah Vanderbilt (Hatchet

Hatchet (film)

Hatchet is a 2006 American slasher film written, produced, and directed by Adam Green.-Plot:Set in the Louisiana bayou, it is the story of the legend of Victor Crowley...

). The group released their debut parody song "G33k & G4m3r Girls" a.k.a. the "Geek and Gamer Girls Song

Geek and Gamer Girls Song

Created by the musical ensemble, Team Unicorn, "G33k & G4m3r Girls" a.k.a. the "Geek and Gamer Girls Song", is a music video filled with cultural references...

", online in September 2010. The music video

Music video

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, spoofing Katy Perry

Katy Perry

Katy Perry is an American singer, songwriter and actress. Born in Santa Barbara, California, and raised by Christian pastor parents, Perry grew up listening to only gospel music and sang in her local church as a child. After earning a GED during her first year of high school, she began to pursue a...

's "California Gurls

California Gurls

"California Gurls" is an electropop song by American singer-songwriter Katy Perry and is the lead single of her third studio album, Teenage Dream. The song features rapper Snoop Dogg, and was produced by Dr. Luke, Max Martin, and Benny Blanco. According to Perry, the song is an answer song to...

" was filled with geek cultural references
and pays tribute to women who love gaming, manga

Manga

Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th...

, and science fiction

Science fiction

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. The video reached 1 million views in its first week online and stirred controversy over its sexy portrayal of geek girls. Team Unicorn has since released the spoof 1950's industrial "A Very Zombie Holiday" as well as a comedic eHarmony commercial entitled "superHarmony" on their YouTube channel.

Team Unicorn is also well known for incorporating cameos from existing popular figures in genre culture, including Robot Chicken

Robot Chicken

Robot Chicken is an American stop motion animated television series created and executive produced by Seth Green and Matthew Senreich along with co-head writers Douglas Goldstein and Tom Root. Green provides many voices for the show...

's Seth Green

Seth Green

Seth Benjamin Green is an American actor, comedian, voice actor, and television producer. He is well known for his role as Daniel "Oz" Osbourne in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, as Dr. Evil's son Scott in the Austin Powers series of comedy films, Mitch Miller in That '70s Show, and the voice of Chris...

, Battlestar Galactica

Battlestar Galactica

Battlestar Galactica is an American science fiction franchise created by Glen A. Larson. The franchise began with the Battlestar Galactica TV series in 1978, and was followed by a brief sequel TV series in 1980, a line of book adaptations, original novels, comic books, a board game, and video games...

's Katee Sackhoff

Katee Sackhoff

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, Stan Lee

Stan Lee

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, Caprica's Magda Apanowicz and Friday the 13th

Friday the 13th (2009 film)

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's Derek Mears

Derek Mears

Derek Mears is an American actor and stuntman, best known for his role as Jason Voorhees in the reboot of Friday the 13th.-Early life:...

. They also often utilize directors and writers already involved in the geek and genre community, including The Guild

The Guild

The Guild is an American comedy web series created and written by Felicia Day, who also stars as Cyd Sherman . It premiered on YouTube on July 27, 2007. Subsequent webisodes premiered on Microsoft's Xbox Live Marketplace, Zune Marketplace, and MSN Video. The webisodes were later made available on...

's Sean Becker, Zeb Wells

Zeb Wells

Zeb Wells is an American comic book writer known for his work at Marvel Comics, as well as his work on Robot Chicken.-Career:Wells is an Emmy and Annie Award winning writer and actor for the TV show Robot Chicken, including the Emmy-nominated Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II.Wells has written...

 from Robot Chicken

Robot Chicken

Robot Chicken is an American stop motion animated television series created and executive produced by Seth Green and Matthew Senreich along with co-head writers Douglas Goldstein and Tom Root. Green provides many voices for the show...

 and Marvel Comics

Marvel Comics

Marvel Worldwide, Inc., commonly referred to as Marvel Comics and formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, is an American company that publishes comic books and related media...

, and Colton Dunn from MADtv

MADtv

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.

Group History

Vanderbilt is largely given credit to bringing the four girls of Team Unicorn together. She, Grant and Sarley had been friends prior to 2010 after working together in various bars around Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...

. Vanderbilt then introduced Sarley and Boyd in January 2010 and all four girls became friends, even deciding to cosplay

Cosplay

, short for "costume play", is a type of performance art in which participants don costumes and accessories to represent a specific character or idea. Characters are often drawn from popular fiction in Japan, but recent trends have included American cartoons and science fiction...

 together as Sailor Moon

Sailor Moon

Sailor Moon, known as , is a media franchise created by manga artist Naoko Takeuchi. Fred Patten credits Takeuchi with popularizing the concept of a team of magical girls, and Paul Gravett credits the series with "revitalizing" the magical-girl genre itself...

 characters at Comic-Con

Comic-Con

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2010. Sarley and Boyd had already come up with the idea for "G33k and G4M3R Girls" and brought Vanderbilt and Grant on board for the project. After the overwhelming response to the first video, more ideas quickly came and "Team Unicorn" was officially born.

External links

• Team Unicorn - YouTube Channel
• Team Unicorn - Facebook Fan Page
• Team Unicorn - Twitter
• Geek and Gamer Girls Song music video