A Protest Song for Drug Dealers

Vid
Title:	"A Protest Song for Drug Dealers" aka "The Shadow Government"
Creator:	Dr. Worm aka dearratboy
Date:	9 May 2008
Format:	AVI
Length:	02:47, 19.2 MB
Music:	"The Shadow Government" by They Might Be Giants
Genre:	Gen
Fandom:	The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
Footage:	Season 1 original source material
URL:	Announcement post on Livejournal Vid on YouTube
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"A Protest Song for Drug Dealers" aka "The Shadow Government" is a Man From U.N.C.L.E. vid by Dr. Worm aka dearratboy. It was made available for download and uploaded to the vidder's YouTube page on May 9, 2008.

Reactions/Reviews

This vid was recommended by elizabethhelena on her own journal on February 14, 2009, and on Crack Van on February 27, 2009:

As always, Dr. Worm merges a song you haven't heard before in this fandom with clips you rarely see from the show, and creates a vid that is as unique as it is entertaining.

What's more, there's a fascinating ambiguity that pervades The Shadow Government. It's a dead-on portrayal of the shadowy world of U.N.C.L.E. agents, snatching Innocents off the street and lurking behind filing cabinets. However, the often thoroughly pummeled agents (especially poor Illya) could easily be seen as the victims of a shadowy government. Or they could even be in need of a Big Brother to protect them from all of the shady characters out to get them.

Regardless, there's no ambiguity about how much fun this vid is to watch, and it always leaves me with warm feelings of affection for the the insanity of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. universe.