UPDATE: I made the contest easier. See below, and PLEASE COMMENT!
Flight of the Conchords is not only the musical duo of Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement from New Zealand, but also the newest in a long line of quality shows produced by HBO in the past few years. With the Sopranos finally ending and the search for Vincent Chase’s dad being awkward and boring, Flight of the Conchords will provide some welcome humor and style to the 10:30 slot directly after Entourage. Dubbed as “New Zealand’s fourth most popular folk-parody duo”, Bret and Jemaine have been playing together since 1998 and have been hugely successful in Europe and at home, but in the show the two move from home to make a living in the East Village, and hilarity ensues.
Rosemary from Cornerstone Promotion was nice enough to hook my brother and I up with free passes to the premiere of the show in D.C., so we met up at Rock’n'Roll Hotel to enjoy an open bar (see: awesome), small snacks, and the premiere episode. While I couldn’t hear much (thick New Zealand accents + too much side noise + too many rail drinks), the bits that I did hear sounded quite funny, and, after watching the video of the first episode at my house, I thoroughly enjoyed it, and am very excited to see more.
Many of you have probably seen the promos for the show, so maybe some of you are as excited as I am. If you are, you’ll like this contest: I want you to tell me your FAVORITE WORD in the entire English language. It can be goofy or profound or anything, but it must be an actual word. The best word gets a Flight of the Conchords t-shirt (which is awesome), A DVD of their first episode, and a mini-robot doll. Second place gets a poster and the DVD. Make sure you leave your name and email address when you submit your word in the comments. Not many people participated in the last contest, which made me sad, so I expect the loyal ATG readers to be creative, and to submit. Here is a clip from the first episode to whet your appetite for the premiere, which comes this sunday after a new Entourage.
Check out the whole first episode here.
Love,
Zack
June 16, 2007 at 11:55 am |
“And the robot boogie”
“Oh yes, and the robot boogie”
hahahahaha
June 16, 2007 at 12:12 pm |
yessir. chris rowe, please SUBMIT. im so ronery.
June 16, 2007 at 2:53 pm |
Favorite word of the moment: Archipelago
Reason: No man is an island. You’re at least an archipelago. Also, it just sounds musical.
That TV show is hilarious. If it were walking down the street, I bet it’d be at least one of the Top 3 funniest shows walking down the street.
June 16, 2007 at 5:25 pm |
Word- Pedantic
Reasons
- it makes a terrific insult Eg. “your face is rather pedantic”
- it makes me feel smart
- it sounds like it should have something to do with feet but it doesn’t
June 16, 2007 at 7:01 pm |
anal-retentive
it makes me smile and most people have no idea what i’m talking about when i use it in conversation.
June 16, 2007 at 7:34 pm |
silhouette.
You don’t need a PhD to know what it means, yet it still sounds pretty, has a cool meaning, and looks nice on paper.
June 16, 2007 at 10:17 pm |
Haha nice job changing the contest.
Id
It’s two letters and a fancy psychology word.
June 16, 2007 at 10:28 pm |
my favorite word is lackadaisical. it basically means lazy or lacking spirit, but I like it because it has “dais[i]” in the middle, and daisies are very spirited. So essentially, to me at least, it’s an oxymoron within one word. also, it’s just plain fun to say. this also has something to do with the daisy…
June 16, 2007 at 10:34 pm |
Plethora…see “The Three Amigo’s”
June 17, 2007 at 12:12 am |
Word: defenestrate
Why: There is actually a word in the English language whose meaning is “to throw someone out of a window.” Awesome.
June 17, 2007 at 12:17 am |
moist
June 17, 2007 at 12:43 am |
Nuisance
June 17, 2007 at 5:26 am |
Choc-a-block
June 17, 2007 at 9:41 am |
Spanglish. Or Taxi.
June 17, 2007 at 10:15 am |
Word: botheration
Reason:
-a Bush-ism type word that actually exists, but Bush would still sound stupid saying it
“Them Iraqis are a real botheration to our country”
June 17, 2007 at 10:16 am |
by the w ay, botheration is just a weird way of saying a difficulty
June 17, 2007 at 10:22 am |
***dasypygal***
Reasons for the awesomeness of the word:
-Who knows how to pronounce it?
-Its fun to try to say
-its definition is having hairy buttocks
June 17, 2007 at 10:24 am |
my word’s ventriloquist.
i just like the way it rolls off the tongue.
June 17, 2007 at 10:28 am |
Best Word Ever:
Hippopotamomonstrososessiquippadaliaphobia
You wanna know why its the best word ever? well…..
-its extremely long, a whopping 42 letters.
-Speaking of the word being whoppingly long, it means the fear of long words, topping off the bestness of it.
June 17, 2007 at 2:31 pm |
Fiddlestick.
It’s weird, goofy, has several meanings, and me and my cousin even made up a story about it. And although I can’t remember it completely correctly, the story had something to do with spaghetti.
Ususally when used in a conversation or fight, no-one knows what it means, and it just leaves them scratching their heads, with a wondering look on their face. Fun, eh?
June 17, 2007 at 5:45 pm |
breathe
you know, just in case people forget.
June 17, 2007 at 9:02 pm |
“truculent.”
This was easy to remember by simply associating savage brutality with pick-ups.
June 17, 2007 at 10:51 pm |
Photonasty.
In a sentence: The sun has made my tulips photonasty.
June 17, 2007 at 11:09 pm |
Avuncular
It means “like an uncle”
June 18, 2007 at 9:31 am |
Spackle!
June 18, 2007 at 2:52 pm |
Esterification.
Wow, I’m so glad I’m done with my organic chemistry for the summer.
June 18, 2007 at 8:15 pm |
unctuous. because even before i knew what it meant (back in like 6th grade) it still sort of creeped me out. i always think of slugs when i see/hear the word, too, and how often does one get to think of slugs in the course of a day? what a pleasure.
June 18, 2007 at 9:11 pm |
spelunker…as in one who does cave diving, spelunking
honorable mention-jalopy or navigable, hubbub, badonkadonk, very fun to say
I took my navigable jalopy past lake titicaca to get away from the hubbub and enjoy some spelunking. Upon perusing the perimeter, I realized that unbeknownst to me there was a woman named Tabitha with quite the badonkadonk (which i wouldn’t mind spelunking) cherishing a chimichanga much like an old curmudgeon might; a crotchety one mind you.
June 19, 2007 at 12:28 am |
Pettifogulizer.
I swear it is a real word.
June 19, 2007 at 12:46 am |
Copasetic.
It’s one of the few words of seemingly unknown origin that is not considered slang and its use is almost exclusively American.
June 19, 2007 at 3:24 pm |
SMEGMA
Yeah… It’s a cheesy fungus that grows in the penis. It’s also fun to say.
“You smegma-face”
June 19, 2007 at 9:31 pm |
kakistocracy – a government ruled by the least qualified
June 20, 2007 at 2:56 pm |
My word is britches, because another word for pants can’t be wrong.
June 20, 2007 at 9:25 pm |
–IMBROGLIO–
It really rolls off the tongue, and that’s really all that matters.
Also, this word is awesome:
Skeuomorph
Try pronouncing it the right way. You have some time.
Okay, well that way you just said it is wrong. Here’s the way they have it in the dictionary:
skyoo’e-morf
June 21, 2007 at 10:34 am |
Epiphany
June 21, 2007 at 1:28 pm |
welkin
love that there is another word for sky
June 21, 2007 at 6:45 pm |
muster
say it really slow and it sounds like you’re trying to say mustard, say it really fast and it sounds like your saying mister. Also, It may be an example of my new favorite saying: “Just one consonant short of a condiment.”
Yeah, I know it doesn’t make sense.
June 21, 2007 at 9:35 pm |
Cellardoor
Disregard the spelling or meaning.
The sound of it is intrinsically beautiful.
June 22, 2007 at 9:20 pm |
haha. is this still going on?
mediocre
because it doesn’t sound like or mean what it looks like it does. and it pretty much sums up everything, on average.
on another, pretty unrelated, note, i’m kind of in love with the phrases “they were lowing and shifting like beached whales, shelled snails” and “scrap of sassafras, eh sisyphus” just because …they sound awesome. and joanna newsom sings them.
June 22, 2007 at 9:24 pm |
p.s. “cellordoor” reminds me of donnie darko :0
June 23, 2007 at 12:15 pm |
Dirigible.
It looks spelled wrong, even when spelled correctly.
Colin Meloy likes it.
It would sound fantastic in a Kiwi accent.
Also, it’s an adjective, but no one uses it as such.
June 24, 2007 at 1:49 pm |
inspissate. hahahahah. what a funny word.
June 24, 2007 at 9:42 pm |
Word: Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
Meaning: The fear of long words.
Word: Homunculus/Humonculus
Meaning: An extremely tiny man.
June 25, 2007 at 11:36 am |
Poppycock: ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: from Dutch dialect pappekak, from pap ‘soft’ + kak ‘dung.’
Honorable mention: shenanigans. No matter whose shenanigans they are, it still sounds like a tiny Irishmen is up to no good.
June 25, 2007 at 2:34 pm |
Implosion
1. It sounds really cool
2. The thing it describes sounds really cool
3. Any time you get to say a song has a part in that sounds like an implosion, that song is REALLY cool
June 25, 2007 at 5:47 pm |
snickerdoodle
June 25, 2007 at 10:04 pm |
word: Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
meaning: black lung disease
why: It’s superfun to say. And reminds me of my childhood days. Heee. It was the last spelling word my fifth grade class had to conquer. We had to look it up un the dictionary (only one dictionary in the entire school had it! That was baffling!) and know how to spell it, how to say it, how many vowels and consonants were in it, etc. Fun fun! At least for a speller like me.
I am also a new reader to this blog. I wonder why I didn’t discover it sooner! Fabulous!
June 25, 2007 at 11:56 pm |
best word ever: Twatwaffle.
June 26, 2007 at 10:16 am |
Obsolete.
That lovely collection of letters.
ever-increasingly in usage.
Plus, it’s an apocryphal antonym to 1337.
June 26, 2007 at 11:54 am |
awesome!
awesome is the most awesome word there is
June 26, 2007 at 7:16 pm |
BEHEMOTH, HYPERBOLE OR ZAFTIG
June 26, 2007 at 10:54 pm |
Twaddle: to talk foolishly.
Ex. “My uncle twaddled on for hours last night.”
because it sounds like two things: 1. A term for masterbation, or 2. the name of the red hangy downy thingie on a turkey’s neck (which is actually the wattle, another interesting word.)
June 27, 2007 at 12:19 am |
oh and also, POE. it’s a name, but, you know, it’s a good name.
June 27, 2007 at 4:10 am |
“jamboree”
June 27, 2007 at 8:31 am |
Spontaneous
proceeding from natural feeling or native tendency without external constraint
It just makes you feel good to say it
June 27, 2007 at 1:31 pm |
Rhubarb
June 28, 2007 at 2:25 pm |
“Biweekly” – possibly the most redundant word in the English language, as it could be used to describe things that occur both twice a week and every second week.
June 28, 2007 at 3:49 pm |
Rhododendron
June 28, 2007 at 8:30 pm |
this is all fine and dandy, but where is the adorable mixtape part II?
Am I the only one?
June 29, 2007 at 3:38 pm |
my favourite word is “well.”
mainly just as an interjection.
actually, i don’t like it as an adverb, not at all.
i so wish i still got hbo for free.
June 29, 2007 at 7:01 pm |
and amen to adorable mixtape part II.
June 30, 2007 at 10:45 am |
opus
simple, rolls off the tongue nice, and unique in the fact that no other word rhymes w/ it.
June 30, 2007 at 9:14 pm |
pulchritudinous (adj)used of persons only; having great physical beauty; “pulchritudinous movie stars”
July 1, 2007 at 9:57 pm |
favorite english word: what
I don’t think I really need to explain why.
July 4, 2007 at 6:13 pm |
penis
hehehe. =)
July 5, 2007 at 10:03 am |
discombobulated
it has both disco and bob in it and sounds silly, as well as a large word to use in reference to being pissed off
July 5, 2007 at 10:03 am |
discombobulated
it has both disco and bob in it and sounds silly, as well as a large word to use in reference to being confused or pissed off
July 5, 2007 at 2:52 pm |
defenestrate – To throw out a window
July 5, 2007 at 11:17 pm |
because I just realized defenestrate was taken, I change mine to…
Hijinks, because there are 3 dotted letters in a row.
July 8, 2007 at 12:06 am |
It’s SODIUM…. sodium…. sodium….
Say it slowly. Exhale the S ever-so-lightly. Form your beautiful cupid’s-bow lips lovingly around the O and prolong it into a sigh. Gloss quickly over that awkward DI so you can get to that final, sensuous, satisfied UMMMMMM…. the sound you make when kissing a girl who’s pretty enough to be a part-time model…. or placing a spoonful of sweet nourishing muesli in your mouth…. or biting hungrily into a juicy, meaty, spicy, lusciously dripping kebab…. or…. or…. or….
…. say, what was this contest about anyway?
July 8, 2007 at 10:18 pm |
Grommet- really great word to say, sounds like a frog in a hardware store. also makes a great insult, for those to stupid to wonder what exactly you just called them.
July 9, 2007 at 10:24 pm |
Scarborough because not only does it sound awesome it reminds me of Simon & Garfunkel. No matter how hard I try I can never get away from my roots…Parents. They infect you in so many ways.
July 9, 2007 at 11:45 pm |
dead
he may be dead!
maybe he did, maybe he didn’t
July 10, 2007 at 5:49 pm |
Can we enter more than once?
Word: flibbertigibbet
It’s the only word that I’ve ever heard and actually asked, “Did you just make up that word?” only to look it up in the dictionary and actually find the definition.
July 14, 2007 at 12:52 pm |
At first, I was gonna say Onega but then I realized it isn’t a word. SILLY ME!!! So my submission is Gherkin (like those delectable little pickle things)
July 22, 2007 at 12:52 am |
your “favorite word contest” just happened to be one of the UVA essay questions last year. funny.
favorite word: peace.
July 22, 2007 at 3:02 am |
epitome is another good one
July 25, 2007 at 3:59 pm |
doilie
my favorite word. It’s just so much fun to say!
August 1, 2007 at 8:25 pm |
twitterpated.
the feeling you get when love is in the air in spring time, sounds lame but you know what i’m talking about
its probably the cutest word in the world
even if you’re in a bad mood, just saying it makes you feel better
it’s just fun to say
August 2, 2007 at 4:56 pm |
bungalow… that’s it. I just like that word.
August 4, 2007 at 2:19 am |
turquois. The color is really pretty, it puts you in a good mood, and it dosent give me a head ache to say, it just makes me feel good
August 4, 2007 at 12:49 pm |
coitus – healthy people do it everyday
August 6, 2007 at 8:12 am |
word: ICICLE
reason: it is very very fun to spell out loud!
August 10, 2007 at 4:28 am |
word: Katzenjammer
August 11, 2007 at 6:53 am |
word: dork
because it rhymes with fork and is a put-down name kids call each other; so, it’s more than a just a word; it’s an issue we have to think about
August 11, 2007 at 7:02 am |
word: funky
what it’s about
August 11, 2007 at 7:11 am |
Word– SQUEEGEED
wiped smooth with a squeegee in a surprising sort of way
August 11, 2007 at 3:16 pm |
orgiastic
for obvious reasons
August 21, 2007 at 4:51 am |
dammit, someone took pulchritudinous…
i always liked ‘little’ because you can write it in like an ‘extended coil’ line and then dot and line…
September 2, 2007 at 7:15 pm |
the word “epitome”
because whenever I use it in a sentence, it makes me feel smarter,
and also, I just think it looks funny the way it’s spelled.
April 16, 2008 at 5:50 am |
Autodidactic – meaning self taught but appears to have been taught by masters.
Because – In a way i think this applies best to Flight of the Conchords. They got together and seem to have taught themselves their unique style which is so unlike others. But it is such genius it would appear that they have been taught by some folk masters of the universe!!
Love it anyway! x