Let me just start by saying this: Admittedly, I have very little work to do today, just follow along with me here.

I was idly surfing along, clicktranced for a minute or twenty, and thought I would do some research and write a little follow-up piece to the Flight of the Conchords post I wrote. Nik and I absolutely love these guys. We have been subjecting the Wilocks to it as well and they responded well enough. You should start watching their show, absolutely the best new TV I have bothered to watch in a while. Anyway there I was, just sort of cruising along, I found their pathetically out of date official web site, and on there they have linked to a few unofficial fan sites. It was by clicking through some of them that I found out the following incredibly useless information:

- Bret McKenzie (one of the Conchords) was in the Lord of the Rings:The Fellowship of the Ring as an extra.
- He played an elf, seen for literally one second in the council of Elrond scene.
- His on screen presence was apparently so smouldering he inspired a huge cult following of smitten women.
- They named him Figwit (Frodo is great…who is that?)
- Figwit has a lot of hits if you search for it on Google.
- It became such a phenomenon that Peter Jackson (the director) decided to give Figwit a couple of lines in the final movie of the trilogy.

So, there you go. Don’t ask me why I bothered to tell you about it, but it did just help make some time pass before lunch. The only real piece of actual news I have in this whole post is the potentially sad news that the Flight of the Conchords may not be renewed for a second season.  Here’s hoping they give Figwit another go.

The Internet is a strange place, folks.

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