So next time you hear a perfect riff rip through a laggy stream or a buffering icon hold for just a second too long… that’s not a glitch. That’s Tenacious D, still fighting the devil, one slow-loading page at a time.
The online commentary track (voiced by a very stoned Dave Grohl) reveals the true origin: the Pick wasn’t forged in Mount Sinai. It was forged in the first online auction . A demonic eBay listing. Item #666: “One (1) Sabertooth Snapped Guitar Pick. +10 to Rock. Slight hellfire damage.” The winning bidder? A young, pre-mustache Jack Black, typing his mother’s credit card number with trembling, chubby fingers. tenacious d in the pick of destiny online
Here’s what nobody talks about.
In the deleted online-exclusive prequel (animated in crude Flash by a guy who owed KG money), young JB isn’t just searching for a guitar pick. He’s searching for Wi-Fi. The movie cut the scene where he hacks into the Hollywood Bowl’s security cameras using a library computer and a dream. The footage? A grainy, green-tinted loop of a teenage Dio (yes, that Dio) dropping the Pick into a pizza box backstage in 1984. So next time you hear a perfect riff
Rock on. And clear your cache.