So yeah, I’m obsessed with Legend of Neil, which is an online comedy about a guy who accidentally gets projected into Legend of Zelda on the NES. He runs around fighting and doing the levels, but he’s very disaffected and just not that into collecting pieces of the Triforce or whatever. They’re really clever about sending up the manifold absurdities of the Zelda game-world. That in no way conveys what is awesome about the show, but believe you me it is pretty awesome.

(This is where I would embed a Legend of Neil episode, if that were possible with our implementation of WordPress.)

Then I realized that the guy who makes it, Sandeep Parikh, also plays Zaboo on The Guild. (Both shows also feature Felicia Day, by the way.) Then it started to seem really important that I talk to Sandeep, immediately.

So I e-mailed him. And he e-mailed me back. That pretty much brings us up to the present day. He turned out to be exactly as funny and interesting as I would have thought, extrapolating based on Legend of Neil.

Me: How’d the idea for Legend of Neil happen — what was the moment? I’m assuming you were a huge Zelda fan back in the day?

Sandeep: So, the Legend of The Legend of Neil starts with my roommate getting a care package from his mom containing a bunch of crap that she no longer wanted to house including an NES and the original Legend of Zelda. He and I came home after a night out, a bit tipsy and he claimed that he could beat the game in under an hour, which I just did not believe was possible. I mean, how could someone spend 1 hour on a game that took me my entire childhood to beat?