APERTURE SYMPHONIC ORCHESTRA

They weren’t designed for it, but man can those turrets sing!
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Posted by Shawn Handyside on May 4, 2012 · 11:58 AM 
FAILLAMENOT BADPRETTY GOODAWESOME (196 votes, average: 4.69 out of 5)
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61 Responses to “APERTURE SYMPHONIC ORCHESTRA”

  1. EliminatorZigma on May 4th, 2012 12:16 pm

    You have no idea how much I'd pay to have an army of singing turrets.

  2. poonstev on May 4th, 2012 12:16 pm
  3. Fhantinabox on May 4th, 2012 12:18 pm

    It would all depend on what they sing. And how they do it. If they use the cries and agony of the victims they slay, I'm in.

  4. Deep Thought on May 4th, 2012 12:18 pm

    Shawn, you of all people should know this best. Aperture Science products never work for the goal they were designed for.

  5. Zyquux on May 4th, 2012 12:27 pm

    At least it's not Vogon poetry.

  6. invadingduck on May 4th, 2012 12:33 pm

    Special appearance by the Animal King.

  7. Cubia on May 4th, 2012 12:39 pm

    Oh freddled gruntbuggly thy micturations are to me/ As plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee.
    Groop I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes.
    And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles,/ Or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon, see if I don't!

  8. GanjalfTheGreen on May 4th, 2012 12:41 pm

    <img src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2210/2252579214_fd25a2b556_n.jpg"&gt;
    Honestly, I'd pay money and lots of it to hear live turret opera.

  9. MasterLuigi452 on May 4th, 2012 12:48 pm
  10. EliminatorZigma on May 4th, 2012 12:51 pm

    But screams of pain just don't have the same feel to them as a nice, electronic chime.

    Maybe for percussion.

  11. Psychopatrick88 on May 4th, 2012 12:57 pm

    Time to kill the joke with facts!

    The woman responsible for the voice of GLaDOS, Ellen McLain, was previously an Amerian opera singer

  12. Deep Thought on May 4th, 2012 1:03 pm

    OH GOD THE PAIN!!!

    I CHOOSE THE SWEET VACUUM OF SPACE!

  13. HughbertEsq on May 4th, 2012 1:08 pm

    As much as I love a good Opera now and then ( Because I'm a classy MoFo like that)
    I do have to say that I prefer the *ahem* "A Cappella" version
    I shall pay you a link rel="nofollow">
    And shall now be on my way
    ͼ̀_́ᶐ

  14. Deep Thought on May 4th, 2012 1:16 pm

    Cave Johnson Here:

    Now I know that Aperture Science is known for giving you, the consumer, the best science that money can buy, but why stop at just science? Did Galileo stop with "just science"? No! He painted the Mona Lisa and built the Sistine Chapel with that Science. So I give you Aperture Science's Arts and Culture Division. We think that we should bring something to culture that's been lacking since Shakespeare wrote the Divine Comedy: Science. If we can get a foothold on all of this culture stuff that the lab boys keep telling me that they are missing because of the 80 hour work weeks, then I say let's get it done and make sure those Black Mesa monkeys don't have any.

    And as a value to you, the consumer, I'd like to point out that any cultural Aperture Science Productions will be 100% Lab Boy Free. Yes, we intend to keep our lab boys from dirtying up any of your cultural experience with their lab grease and the remnants of any current Aperture Science laboratory tests. Yes sir, you won't be seeing any monkey tails in your theater. We'll make sure of it. Which reminds me…
    *Intercom*
    Which one of you lab boys was the one to grow the tail? Send him up to my office so that we can figure out how the hell you managed to do it. We want more monkey-men.
    *Looks back up*

    You're Still here? Well, make sure that you spend as much as you can on any new Aperture Science Arts and Culture Division products, so that Black Mesa can't.

    Cave Johnson. We're Done Here

  15. Funkalicous on May 4th, 2012 1:28 pm

    Hey guys, have you seen this new hair gel? It's made from the moon!

    …why are there red dots everywhere.

  16. SirNumel on May 4th, 2012 1:49 pm

    Space? SPACE? SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE!

  17. MokubaKaiba on May 4th, 2012 1:49 pm

    <img src="http://www.ballardian.com/images/statue_planet.jpg"&gt;
    you and your logic! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!

  18. EliminatorZigma on May 4th, 2012 2:44 pm

    We seem to be using this a lot recently.

  19. BTSnoogans on May 4th, 2012 2:57 pm

    Really? I bought a turret from them and it shot me plenty of times. Just as I expected it to. I'm starting to wonder why I bought that thing.

  20. Jerach on May 4th, 2012 3:11 pm

    She can't be trusted, she's an Amerian spy brought in to sabotage valve and undermine our great country!

  21. DiamyoAlex on May 4th, 2012 4:02 pm

    THAT MANIAC! HE RUINED THE JOKE!

  22. RespectfulGlove on May 4th, 2012 4:04 pm

    I couldn't care less if I get a batch from the chamber of robots that scream at you, any turret is better than none.

    Any aperture turret.

    No exceptions.

  23. Zortsport on May 4th, 2012 4:50 pm

    It won't end until the woman with a higher end weight variance sings, and seeing as how Chell's mute…

  24. Skrist on May 4th, 2012 5:07 pm

    It works anywhere.
    And if no one claims the money, I'll be more than happy to take it off of your hands.

  25. Psychopatrick88 on May 4th, 2012 5:10 pm

    American* Ach, typo!

  26. Mentlegen on May 4th, 2012 5:19 pm

    We've overused that and all it's countless variants, but I'm still glad he didn't use the Bruce Willis reaction face.

  27. JordanTH on May 4th, 2012 5:22 pm

    I've never heard of Amer… is the weather there nice?

  28. SirBlitz on May 4th, 2012 5:53 pm

    They might want to consider turning the turrets away from the audience.

    You know… just in case.

  29. LinkorZelda on May 4th, 2012 6:21 pm

    To conserve ammo they will sing, "Baby" "Friday" and of course "Hot problems"
    If you would like to be able to relax while your enemies are blown to bits listen to "Twinkle, Twinkle, little star" Or "Ave Maria"

  30. FrEEz on May 4th, 2012 6:31 pm

    What if someone got covered in conversion gel. Does that mean you can shoot a portal ON them :O?

  31. FrEEz on May 4th, 2012 6:32 pm

    Ask valve if they need writers :>

  32. Psychopatrick88 on May 4th, 2012 8:04 pm

    Yeah. it's right by the country of What.

  33. BraveSirJimOfLawl on May 4th, 2012 8:09 pm

    I was planning on going to What on vacation!
    Do they speak English there?

  34. Psychopatrick88 on May 4th, 2012 8:12 pm

    They do, in fact. And their chief exports are Royales with cheese.

  35. WheelMan1337 on May 4th, 2012 8:17 pm

    AN AMERICAN SPY IS IN THE BASE??
    *grabs shotgun*

  36. LinkorZelda on May 4th, 2012 8:20 pm

    I have a friend from what, her name is you.

  37. Zanzibar on May 4th, 2012 8:53 pm

    At least it's not Salarian singing!

  38. Kindly_Absurd on May 4th, 2012 9:21 pm

    I heard that Chell can is going to do an amazing aria on stage for 8 minutes, can't wait to hear it!

  39. MasterLuigi452 on May 4th, 2012 9:54 pm
  40. Prof. Luigi on May 4th, 2012 10:03 pm

    You are the best Cave Johnson.

  41. Prof. Luigi on May 4th, 2012 10:04 pm

    PROTECT THE TEST RESULTS!
    "WE NEED TO PROTECT THE TEST RESULTS!"

  42. Prof. Luigi on May 4th, 2012 10:06 pm

    NOBODY'S GOING TO SPACE, MATE!

  43. Cloak on May 5th, 2012 12:00 am

    Featuring "This is Aperture", "My Little Portal", "I Only Want You Gone", and "If I was a Core."

  44. MasterLuigi452 on May 5th, 2012 12:00 am

    And I wonder why I got -1 from +2…
    Oh wait. Pony haters. :|

  45. MarioMaster on May 5th, 2012 12:18 am

    Maybe its not about ponies, maybe its because all your comments are reaction images and nothing more, maybe its because you keep repeating the same images or small variations of them, maybe its because people are tired of big comment pages because of the number of unrelated images loaded

    Maybe it's all of that

  46. MasterLuigi452 on May 5th, 2012 1:29 am

    Is it just me or is there a -1 troll around here?

  47. EliminatorZigma on May 5th, 2012 2:19 am

    I'll help.

  48. Alpar on May 5th, 2012 11:38 am

    Haters gonna hate.

  49. Alpar on May 5th, 2012 11:39 am

    R.I.P. JOKE

    YOU WILL BE MISSED
    YOU COURAGEOUS DAREDEVIL…

  50. Alpar on May 5th, 2012 11:39 am

    But however will the turrets face the people giving them the applause?! D:

  51. Alpar on May 5th, 2012 11:40 am

    Someone really doesn't like the idea of MasterLuigi commenting, with or without images.

  52. Alpar on May 5th, 2012 11:41 am

    Mmm… yes.. take the money… donate it to the poorer, discriminated Asians like me who suffers in his videogames…

  53. Alpar on May 5th, 2012 11:41 am

    I could fetch it for you right now :3

  54. MasterLuigi452 on May 5th, 2012 11:56 am

    I got their IP addresses. Time to stalk them…

  55. BTSnoogans on May 5th, 2012 2:46 pm

    Interestingly enough, this comment got more hate than the one with the pony. I think they know you're onto them.

  56. BTSnoogans on May 5th, 2012 2:48 pm

    I was thinking the same thing. I donated some +1s. Here's hoping he'll make a full recovery.

  57. macksting on May 5th, 2012 7:53 pm

    That's…
    That's amazing.
    YOU are amazing.

  58. Giuseppe on May 5th, 2012 7:59 pm

    Actually, the voice actress of Glados and the turrets is an opera singer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detai

  59. Kevvo on May 6th, 2012 3:58 pm

    Bah. Your attempts at Vogonity have nothing on the poetic masterpieces of the Azgoths of Kria, particularly the verbal genius of Grunthos the Flatulent.

    *ahem.*

    Putty. Putty. Putty.
    Green Putty -- Grutty Peen.
    Grarmpitutty -- Morning!
    Pridsummer -- Grorning Utty!
    Discovery….. Oh.
    Putty?….. Armpit?
    Armpit….. Putty.
    Not even a particularly
    Nice shade of green-*GAAAAAAGH*

    (Is killed as his small intestine leaps up his neck and throttles his brain in a desperate bid to save life and civilization)

  60. Leonardo on May 6th, 2012 7:47 pm

    WOW
    you're really excited to go to glados orchestra
    well anyways

  61. Jimmy on May 7th, 2012 12:08 am

    Hey!!! I'm Asian too!!! *High five*

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