Interpretations:Someone Keeps Moving My Chair

Hm. Does anyone else get the impression Mr. Horrible is a harried office worker whose boss/bosses is constantly annoying him and making his situation worse, and Mr. Horrible is ignoring the major problem of his overbearing boss/bosses and is instead focusing on trivia[someone keeps moving my chair] to keep his mind off it?

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When I was first listening to Flood in high school, my mom heard this song and really liked it because she thought it said "someone keeps moving my-y I-Ching". The "I-Ching" is the Chinese "Book of Changes", I guess a sortof Taoist/astrology book. I don't think that was Johns' intention, but I still think of it when I hear the song.

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I always thought of Mr. Horrible as a sweet elderly (perhaps somewhat senile) man and the Ugliness Men are the teenage neighborhood punks, prank calling him, writing on his head, making him wear really ugly pants, moving his chair. He doesn't mind most of this, but it's his favorite lazyboy recliner, could you boys please stop moving it?

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When someone moves your chair right as you're about to sit, you fall down. I think it's about a man who tolerates just about everything, but doing so can wear a person out, so he tries to rest (sit). When he sits, though, he falls to the floor (so to speak), adding another annoyance to the pile. -Chuckie

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I get the impression that the humor value of the song is designed to lie in the disparity between the terrible things that the Ugliness Men are doing, and the relatively trivial thing that Mr. Horrible is actually concerned about. The Ugliness Men are doing degrading things to him, and are also offering disrespect to the memory of his friend--but he doesn't care. All that concerns him is the minor matter of his chair, thus earning his name.

 --Dairhenien

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Ok, here's a creepy interp for you. "Mr. Horrible" is a criminally insane murderer on death row. The Ugliness Men are prison psychiatrists, trying to cure his insanity so they can execute him. The unpleasant thing spilled on his brain is drugs. Alternatively, the Ugliness Men might be abusive prison guards. The chair is not literally being moved. Rather, it's Mr. Horrible's date with the (electric) chair that is.

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Is it just me or I hear "armchair" instead of chair? If so why don't they include the world "arm" into the lyrics?-- byakugan

I think that's just you, byakugan. The lyrics go "...my-yi-yi chair", but "my" is pronounced "mah", resulting in "mah-ha-hah chair". Definitely not an "arm" in there. -Some Other Anonymite

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Allright, so Mr. Horrible is the kind of nerdy, bottom of the hierchy, shy, gets picked on office guy. And the Ugliness Men are the bosses or coworkers that keep doing things to see how far they can push him. He allows them to subject him to all of these embarrassing methods of torture, but he --Lemita 19:53, 15 Apr 2006 (CDT)only speaks up and admits that he is bothered when they move his chair. (my 2 cents) -mattyB

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I think one of the main messages is that despite the horrible things that happen to Mr. Horrible the worst of it all is depriving him of a place of rest. Kind of how anything can be borne as long as you have a place to return to. Like Hemingway's 'A Clean, Well-lighted Place' everyone needs a sanctuary to be able to return to. -Hitako47

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Mr. Horrible's chair problem reminds me a lot of myself. I get really and I mean really annoyed when something is out of place. So annoyed, I will interupt a serious conversation to fix that moved, out of place item. To tell you the truth, I have a pretty good interpretation for this.

Mr. Horrible is the normal, (I'm assuming office guy) with a small case of OCD. His coworkers like to make fun of him, mildly torturing him while he tries to find his beloved, chair. He cannot rest until he has his chair.

Oh the taunts and trauma of coworkers. ^___~; --Lemita 19:53, 15 Apr 2006 (CDT)

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"I believe you have my stapler." - Milton in "Office Space" Posted by Tzion, 27 May 2006

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He wants everything to stay the same. The unpleasent thing on his brain is new ideas. The chair that's being moved is his ideas being moved. ~AgentChronon

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