''Tenacious D: Time Fixers'' is a short film that was used as a promotional tool on the

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website. The film stars

Tenacious D Tenacious D is an American comedy rock duo formed in Los Angeles in 1994 by the actors Jack Black and Kyle Gass. Their music showcases Black's theatrical vocal delivery and Gass' acoustic guitar playing. Critics have described their fusion of ...

as well as

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and longtime collaborators JR Reed and

Paul F. Tompkins Paul Francis Tompkins (born September 12, 1968) is an American comedian, actor, and writer. He worked in television on such programs as '' Mr. Show with Bob and David'', ''Real Time with Bill Maher'', and '' Best Week Ever'', later renamed ''Bes ...

. The first half of the film was available as a free download on

, while the second half could only be accessed after pre-ordering the album '' The Pick of Destiny''. The film can also be found on YouTube, as well as the second disk of '' The Complete Masterworks Part 2''.

Plot

At an

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night,

are performing "Training Medley" to an indifferent crowd, one of whom (

Dan Harmon Daniel James Harmon (born January 3, 1973) is an American television writer and producer. He is best known as the creator and producer of the NBC sitcom ''Community (TV series), Community'' (2009–2015), creator and host of the comedy podcast ' ...

) heckles the band. After the show, they get a message from

as himself, saying that the time-space continuum has been disrupted in the

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in the 1850s. After they travel there, they discover that

Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was the 16th president of the United States, serving from 1861 until Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, his assassination in 1865. He led the United States through the American Civil War ...

(

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) has walked out of the play, which would prevent his assassination.

Kyle Gass Kyle Richard Gass (born July 14, 1960) is an American musician and actor, best known for being a member of Tenacious D, a Grammy-winning comedy band. He is also a member of Trainwreck and the Kyle Gass Band. Early life Kyle Richard Gass was ...

attempts to convince him to get shot and bribes him with seven cents, which he thinks must be worth a significant amount due to

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, but Lincoln refuses. The two confront the Time Goblin ( JR Reed) who staged the scenario so he could confront Tenacious D and take their "time machine" (a normal-looking car with time-travel capabilities, much like the

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). They fight, and the Time Goblin wins. He ties them into the presidential party box, so that

John Wilkes Booth John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838April 26, 1865) was an American stage actor who Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, assassinated United States president Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865. A member of the p ...

will assassinate them instead, and steals their time machine. The two break free and discover Lincoln is willing to get shot, since he discovered from Kyle's seven cents his face is on the future

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and is grateful. Jack and Kyle realize they still do not have a time machine, but meet

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, who offers them the use of the time machine from his book and they leave with it. The Time Goblin, in prehistoric times, is about to kill a butterfly to distort the future when Jack and Kyle arrive and beat him, presumably to death. Before they go back to the present, they travel into the future and pay a visit to the grave of the heckler from before, and take a photo of themselves in front of the headstone, which they take back to the present and show to the heckler before he can voice his insult.

References

External links

Time Fixers at Channel 101Time Fixers on YouTube
Tenacious D 2006 short films Channel 101 2000s films about time travel 2000s English-language films English-language short films {{Short-film-stub