Portal 2 - Singing Turret Choir (Easter Egg) 

They'd experienced a rather unusual suffering. Not a suffering from lasers. Not a suffering from being knocked over, or a suffering from being smashed away with weighted cubes. No, they suffered from something unconventional. They suffered from silence. From days, months, perhaps years of inactivity; water slowly eroding the testing chambers around them; iron rotting away from oxidation; power cells slowly corroding and depleting. There was nothing there to keep them stimulated - nothing to shoot at, nothing to trigger them into activation. And so, with their lights beginning to dim, they cried out. They sang, sang against the heavy quiet, sang out to find fulfillment and purpose and meaning, sang to fill the empty world around them - to keep their very souls alive and from slipping into the silence themselves.

Thats just their warm up for the opera at the end

It ain't over till the fat turret sings XD

They're so cute that I hate it when I run into an area that I can't get past without killing them. I waste so much time grabbing them and turning them to face the wall, but they're too damn adorable to kill.

I like that you can see which one is making which part of the song. That's incredible attention to detail.

My theory: This is them practicing for when Chell is sent to leave the facility by GLaDOS. A reason why this could be potentially reliable is the fact there’s 4 turrets, and when you’re sent up the lift in the ending, there’s 4 turrets that start the song off. And there’s the big turret that directs them.

It's still amazing how well the turrets are animated to the beat of the music

I found out about this the other day on my own - and OH MY GOD! THEY ARE SO CUTE!!!!!

It's the "Turret Wife Serenade" and yes, it is on the soundtrack.

I know everything has been said, but i'd like to insist on how awesome it is to find this into a video game, as additional content / easter egg / whatever you call it. The level of polishing of Portal 2 is astounding.

"I'm on fire! Ah!" BOOM!!!! Lmao! Classic.

GUYS I KNOW THE SONG ITS THE FIBONACCI SEQUENCE

There are 4 normal turrets and 1 fat turret, 4-1=3 Half-life 3 confirmed!

I love you fat turret o-o

No wonder they were able to sing at the end, they're trained singers already!

Demoman: "Bloody brilliant!"

This hits different after finishing Aperture Desk Job

This are the 4 turrets at the end it's good to practice before the great event.

Best moment in gaming history! Such a cool thing for the developers to add.

0:33 - 'I'm on fire! Ahhhh!'. Does it make me a bad person if I laughed at this?

I love these old videos. Innocent new findings only a day into the game's release

Turret is good singer

someone make a 25 minute loop of this id watch it

I did this on my first playthough I knew something special was in that vent This game has the best Easter eggs ever.

Those turrets are cute!

Yeah I found this on my first playthrough. I saw the turret in the vent and thought I couldn't kill it. After seeing the fire kill the droids, I killed him and found this. It took me a minute to find where the music was coming from and I was laughing when I saw the turrets (especially the big one) :D

I think they are practicing for their final song at the end..Keep up the good work!

It's really beautiful when chell goes outside and sees the cornfield

Why... why didn't I think of doing that to get past the turret?! Thank you for this!

My little brother loves these guys since I showed them to him. He really liked their song. Though the "I'm on fire, aaah!" Got us both XD

OMG. I never knew about this. :D I never thought to explode that first Turret. I just completely ignored it. It's pretty cute actually, how they're just practicing down there. XD

Adorable and creepy. So like the turrets. I think I need to play through this again.

This was actually one of the more beautiful and haunting things in this game I think.

Adorable yet haunting!

This is pretty much one of the most precious things ever.

Holy crap. I didn't think to kill that turret back there... That's awesome. Thanks for posting.

amazing find, i totally missed this

that little tune the turrets play has been STUCK IN MY HEAD!

@V3ryan Without a doubt. First game you walk through areas where he has obviously been fixing things with his wrench and radio scattered around, kicker is at one point there is a makeshift turret workshop with parts laid out and a "defective" turret that doesn't shoot you yeah he made it non-hostile. Clue enough he programmed the entire turret opera and look at the translated Cara Mia lyrics.. The "hunch" in the Lab Rat comic was not her high percentile tenacity but that Chell is his daughter.

Okay, please tell me SOMEONE applauded at the end other than me.

The song is called Turret Wife Serenade, it's on the OST

Enough reason for loving this game

I found this in a recent playtrough without knowing about it, first time I ever find an easter egg like this. Pretty cool :D

Just came from Aperture desk job!

Wow! Ratman's dens are very well hidden this time! I didn't know this one was there! I hope he got to enjoy the choir.

@SplitterEdin on the soundtrack it's called "turret wife serenade"

New ringtone.

When i hear this song i imagine things suffering or something and its like more dark than cute

@Digitalsp33r More melancholy than out and out "sad". They're just passing the time listening to the ghosts in the machine.

This was beautiful.

the song is called Turret Wife Serenade According to the Portal 2:Songs to Test By Volume 1 OST

the music sends me chills down my spine

@Snowhunter21 wow, I feel dumb now. I haven't played hl2 in so long I actually completely forgot that it had turrets that used the same pick-up and carry physics as these. In fact, even after reading your message it took me almost a full minute of comprehension to remember what the Combine turrets looked like.

@unit3727 They actually tell you to crouch when you use the Repel Gel. You crouch in order to stop bouncing. Just to let you know.

Sweet! I never would have noticed that!

this is one of 3 times you can see the sprano turret (Fat turret) one of them is in an elevator in chamber 16 (i think), here and at the end credits

the song sounds like absolute madness

@dedpink those "table turrets" aswell, You can grab one at chapter 9 when he tries to kill you with defective turrets.

@MrMullig1 ey but they were practicing for the endXD if you pay attention to when GLaDOS says that she has a "present"i think she means the end of portal anyway because in that chapter (ifyou pay attention to the elevators) youll see turrets being shipped/transported by elevators:P

LET ME PLAY YOU THE SONG OF MY PEOPLE

@Gubru Lol he's conducting the turret orchestra in the end cutscene with the King Turret too!

That was so freaking cute.

@piepie134 the ending song of GLAdOS is emotional the first time you hear it nearly made me cry and now its just about my favorite song

They were practicing for the ending :D

Haha This is actually pretty cool! :) I wish I had a Aperture Sentry Turret.

sick man! nice find

@plainlake It's making mechanical noises, like combine sentry alarm, noises while moving guns, something like, beat.

I dont know why but its just satisfying

SO WONDERFUL!

@LipbalmO I think the best explanation that there is a history folder with "Chell" on it :P

HOW DID I MISS THIS WHILE PLAYING? !!!!!!

@AloneInTheDark525 Actually, he released this video on the same day Portal 2 was released, so he was one of the first people to find it :3

@defcon1120 yea there is a bigger one its called the animal king its in the turret opera! (backround u cant miss it!)

@imnotstpid Nope the cello or double bass one is the massive lepard turret king in the background, the fat one sings in Ellen McLain's opera voice.

They are getting ready for the show.

They're rehearsing for the big show at the end of the game!

I wish I could record this 10 times and then watch it all at once, 10 times as fast.

Stumbled on this by accident today (i had a score to settle with the turret behind the grate) and I realized, I've played this game several times, but I've never played it RIGHT.

@thestarz2nite Usually, anything unnecessarily cutesy annoys me as well. However, I think Valve is completely brilliant for reusing a concept from another game (TF2's Sentry Gun), and then making something completely different out of it that fits with its environment perfectly. Besides, the player is meant to believe that Aperture is run completely by sentient robots that can think for themselves.

@SparrowHeart1 ... This made me laugh harder than I should have laughed.

Aw, don`t feel sad. Just be Glados you found such a cool easter egg

they need to make these as house alarms. just have one sitting in the corner with a laser beam and when something crosses it it activates and says all of the things the turrets in game do

@LipbalmO If you listen to the Want You Gone lyrics, apparently it makes references to the fact that GLaDoS didn't actually delete Carolyn.

This is amazing ,333

If I were the composer I'd be pretty pissed that most people would never hear this masterwork...

End of game translation: Dear beautiful, my beautiful darling! My baby, oh heaven! Que lastima ... Que lastima. O my dear, farewell! My dear girl, why not walk away? Yes, away from science, My dear, my dear child? Ah, my pretty! Ah, my dear! Ah, my dear! Ah, my child! O dear, my dear ...

@SoDangHungry They share the same time line and are definitely going to coincide with each other at one point, but it's not 'Half-Life 3'. They're working on HL3 while they build the new Source Engine. That's one of the reasons Episode Three is taking so long. There's a small team working on it.

@zabthekabbit It's aiming sounds are Ambiance, and it's kind of the maestro.

Tommorow i will upload lets play portal videos, and I was wondering, Do you think I would get 100k+ views?

I feel so smart. I found this easter egg before I even knew of it.

Moved me to tears, they did.

This explains a lot. Apparently, turrets are just musical creatures. Murderous, over-reactive musical creatures.

I found this music good yet creepy at the same time

I think glados put them there and they were practicing singing for the end.

@92Shinigami92 It's actually called Turret Wife Serenade. Just thought you should know.

They're rehearsing for their big finale at the end of the game!

@Komoso The Animal King that rules the world, of course.

@oneforthewin Yeah, the one who says "I'm different." I just forgot how the line was called...^^

the turrets are singing to their queen. You see her again when you are going up the elevaor at the end of the game.

@KazeGaara89 lol at the end of the game there actually is a fat turret that sings!