Sunday, May 31, 2020

I Think You'll Agree, THE WIG WAS WORTH THE WAIT

PLEASE NOTE: If you're not in the mood to laugh today, I get it. But since you're here, I'm going to assume you need this ridiculousness as much as I do. I'm doing what I can with what I have in the midst of my own storm, and I can only hope it spreads a little light in yours. It's not enough, I know, but it's what I have.

Now, on with the silliness.

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If you've been keeping up with Epbot Movie Night then you know we postponed our viewing of Princess Bride for a week because "John's wig isn't here yet." (John and I try to dress up to fit each movie's theme each week, and predictably, it's getting out of hand.) You were all so gracious that we were determined to make it worth the wait.

So we roped in my friend Karen, our quarantine buddy since nearly the beginning of lockdown, and the three of us got together Friday afternoon in my sweltering backyard to have the photoshoot to end all photoshoots.

First, let's take a quick look at The Wig:


If this photo had sound, it would be a lot like the shrieking eels.

(I know some of you were hoping for a John Buttercup, but we had one specific movie scene we reeeeally wanted to re-enact together, and I'm so glad we did. Keep going, you'll see. :D)

I hacked off about a third of the wig to get it roughly into shape, then John used some of the excess to make sideburns out of hot glue and duct-tape:

 

We convinced Karen to buy both a red dress AND a tiara - which, come to think of it, wasn't all that hard. :P

 

 




SOUND ON



The three of us must have watched that first clip 20 times, and it's STILL hysterical. I sound like a frustrated Muppet - maybe Gonzo?




Fezzik and his one true love:
"MY PRECIOUS"




It's hard to look fierce when you can't stop laughing.


 It's also hard to look scared when you can't stop laughing.



Fun Fact: That's the plush rat from our Junk Lady cosplay; it lives in a swinging cage in her junk pile. John's holding it in front of the phone about 10 feet away from us and telling us which way to look.

Thank goodness Karen used to be a professional dancer; I've never dipped anyone before!



We had our biggest Discord crowd yet at the first showing Friday night, and it was awesome seeing so many folks join in the chat. We laughed and joked and quoted all our favorite lines, and it was wonderful to escape from real life for a few hours to just be with friends.


 
Also, these Movie Night costumes are teaching me the joy of cosplay in a way I never fully got before. Letting go of my inner perfectionist and just playing dress-up to have fun with friends is so new to me, so refreshing, so addicting. John and I are already talking about doing a "flash mob Princess Bride wedding" for our next con, where one of us dresses as the priest (I'm lobbying pretty hard for that to be me, haha) and we roam around looking for couples to marry in the crowd. We'd ask you local readers to dress as either wedding guests or characters from Princess Bride, and you can roam around with us and blow bubbles and cheer during the "ceremony," and then there will be a "wedding photographer" to take cheesy prom-like pictures and I'm so excited about this idea I can hardly stand it. :D


This Friday we're watching Galaxy Quest together, so I hope you'll tune in with us at 9:30pm EST - especially if you haven't tried a Movie Night yet, just to check it out. We're going back to a single showtime for now since managing 2 movies in a row is too much for me and John, but hopefully this time slot will be a good compromise for both coasts. Plus if there's enough demand I'll start looking for volunteers to host more time slots, so we can get you internationals in on this.

 I have no idea what to wear for Galaxy Quest, btw, so I'm open to suggestions - the sillier, the better.

I hope this all made you smile, and maybe gave you the mental breather and added strength you needed to tackle this week. Now, go do the next right thing. Go love people. I mean it!

"Anybody want a peanut?"


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P.S. Just a reminder that today is the last day to get your e-mail entries in for this month's Squeegineer Give-Away. Hit that link for details, and remember to check back, since I'll announce the winners in my very next post.


28 comments:

  1. Totally worth the wait, and so glad the sound was on!

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  2. That photo of John is AMAZING! Great expression! You guys look awesome, and this was so totally worth the wait!

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  3. Not gonna lie, when you said you were waiting for the wig this was exactly what I was hoping for!!

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  4. For Galaxy Quest you could cosplay as the cosplayers :)

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  5. I love this! Princess Bride is my favorite movie and your outfits were great!

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  6. I think it would be amazing if you guys went as Tony Shaloub's character, Fred Kwan, and Missi Pyle's character, Laliari, because their make-out scene is one of my favourites in the movie. Their flirting is hilarious, Fred is ultra chill and laid-back but saves the day, and Laliari would be SO fun cause their alien-ness makes them extra ridiculous.

    It's so much fun to watch you guys have fun that I'm sure you'll nail it no matter who you choose to do!

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  7. You folks are the best.

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  8. I love this all so much! Your creativity never ceases to amaze me. I can't wait to see what you come up with for Galaxy Quest.

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  9. One of you MUST dress as Alan Rickman's character!!!!!!

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  10. I totally look forward to movie night each week now. It's so much fun!

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  11. I'm just gonna stick the Galaxy Quest patch I bought on Etsy onto my pajamas.

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  12. For my ACTUAL wedding, my BFF from highschool did the Impressive Clergyman speech as her formal reading during the ceremony. She was the 2nd or 3rd person to get up and read, and everything else was very sweet and normal wedding-ish, and then she very seriously gets up, takes her place at the microphone, and then in perfect deadpan intoned "MAWWAIGE. Mawwaige is wot bwings us togevvah.... today." I hadn't warned ANYONE it was coming, so half the folks there broke out into hysterics. The other half (primarily my husband's entire family, 99% of whom had never heard of the movie) looked a little horrified that the rest of us were laughing at someone with a speech impediment. She did the entire speech, perfectly, maintaining his accent and somberness the whole time.

    None regrets. One of the best parts of my wedding :D

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    1. I am licensed to perform marriages, and for my first one, I opened with the first line of the speech, without telling the brides what I was going to do. One nearly tinkled herself.

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  13. In that one picture I think you can play it off as you gritting your teeth as your wrestle him, but obviously he's cool as a cucumber. That would be so funny if you also got officiated and actually married people. Maybe you'd find someone who had actually applied for a marriage licensing haha. Also, I like the gender bending combo of a female Dread Pirate Roberts and a female Buttercup. How dashing!

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  14. Well done! Adorable! I know it doesn't offer as many possibilities as the wedding scene, but I would love you to do the "presentation" scene so I could be the Taunting Hag. "Boo! Boo!" "Bow to the Queen of Slime, the Queen of Filth, the Queen of Putrescence." (My sister and I regularly shout versions of this at baseball games against opposing players we hate.)

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  15. Clearly you must dress as a termite and/or a dalmatian...

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  16. I'd go as Gravthar's Hammer - dark-colored leggings and long-sleeved shirt, big cardboard box covered in tinfoil with the face cut out.

    That is, assuming you don't want to take on a massive project and try to paint an old wetsuit (a thin one, maybe 1/8-1/4") to make a crew uniform. Because no one needs that much frustration.

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    1. I'm not Jen or John, but I have to tell you that I LOVE your idea. The only thing that would make it better is to add John cosplaying as Alexander Dane, so he could say the line. But it needs to be Alexander from near the end of the movie, when he's all disheveled and his hair is peaking out from under his head prosthetic.

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  17. Galaxy Quest costume -- something with lots of tentacles! (fls)

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  18. Love, love, love it!! One of my favorite movies and you all definitely did it justice. So fun!!

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  19. I haven't been able to make it to any of the movie nights yet as Friday is my movie night with another group but I have loved following along with the awesomeness in your stories. <3

    A couple of weeks ago, we watched the Galaxy Quest documentary (Never Surrender) and it was SO SWEET. If you haven't seen it yet, I highly recommend it.

    And lastly, my husband and I did the Princess Bride wedding for our ceremony (we had already done the paperwork at city hall the day before, so we had our friend/DM dress up as our impressive clergyman) so I absolutely think you should do this at a con sometime! We only have one terrible video of it, but it gives a decent idea of how it went. https://youtu.be/xirAow5UFeI

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  20. The wig was ABSOLUTELY worth the wait! That's awesome. I SO wish I could join these movie nights, but I have a standing commitment on Friday nights. For Galaxy Quest, Thermians are a great look to pull off. You could always do Kevin and his nerd friends too. I think all of us have the right stuff in our closets to pull them off. :D

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  21. Thank you! Honestly laughed out loud and needed it :)

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  22. I've missed the discord link in the past. Will it be posted again?

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