Friday, April 10, 2009

A Tribute to "Flight of the Conchords"

Last Monday night, our ward dyed Easter eggs for Family Home Evening. Struggling to find an idea for an egg that I could really sink my teeth into (and no, that was not an intentional pun), Mallory and I decided to create our favorite characters from HBO's "Flight of the Conchords." For those of you not familiar with the show, I don't recommend it for kids (I would rate it PG-13 for the most part). It's the story of a band from New Zealand trying to make it big in New York. Problem is, the two guys in the band, Bret and Jemaine, have hardly any talent. What makes the show so fun, however, are the music videos that the two guys dream up. Anyway, so you know who each egg is (from left to right):
Murray- Band manager. He insists at taking roll at every band meeting (which they hold in his closet sized office).
Bret- (This egg was made by Mallory) Shy member of the band. Infamous for wearing hideously out of fashion t-shirts and sweaters (the kinds with tigers, unicorns, or kittens on them).
Jemaine- My personal favorite. Jemaine is always trying to get the girl. Usually this is unsuccessful, because the girls are mostly attracted to Bret ("Jemaine's features are too deep set to be considered classically handsome").
Brabra- Brabra (that's how you spell it, and pronounce it) was really only a one timer on the show, but she was played by one of my favorite SNL gals, Kristen Wiig. Her character had an epileptic dog, for which the guys threw a charity fundraiser (featuring strobe lighting and rock music, which caused all the epileptic dogs in the audience to have seizures. You get what kind of show this is, right?)

If you're wondering why the eggs are only drawn on with pencil, it's because I was working with really limited materials at the church. Obviously, if I had my markers, it would have been just this side of amazing.

1 comment:

Than and Erica said...

My sister is going to their show in May. she loves them.