The Hunger Artists Theatre Company in Fullerton, California, is putting on the first ever Flying Spaghetti Monster Holiday Pageant this year, December 1 - 17, 2006.
An original comedy, just in time for Christmas, that celebrates the twisted and hilarious history of the new religious phenomenon, Flying Spaghetti Monsterism.
More details are available at the Hunger Artists website here. You can reserve your tickets online.
The trailer:
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The Church is funded entirely by your purchases of FSM merchandise. Thank you for your support.
An elaborate spoof on Intelligent Design, The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is neither too elaborate nor too spoofy to succeed in nailing the fallacies of ID. It's even wackier than Jonathan Swift's suggestion that the Irish eat their children as a way to keep them from being a burden, and it may offend just as many people, but Henderson, described elsewhere as a 25-year-old "out-of-work physics major," puts satire to the same serious use that Swift did. Oh, yes, it is very funny. -- Scientific American
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wow
The Hunger Artists, how fitting.
Oh, man!! If I had known there was going to be a Flying Spaghetti Monster holiday pageant, I wouldn’t have moved out of SoCal!! Aaagh!! I wonder if the airlines will discount your ticket if you tell them you’re making a pilgrimage to Fullerton… :)
I agree with Penne…WOW
RAmen
Hooray!
I must assume by the second picture that there is a fair amount of melon squeezin’ in this, my newest religion. Dude looks like he either just fondled or is finta. The director(Spielberg?) yelled action but this thespian needs no motivational proddin’. I wanna small part in the next production, if that’s what they call her. Long as her last name ain’t Hender-bob :-)
awesome!
is there a way to get a recording of this? are they selling dvds of the performance?
Leave it to the Californians. I would SO go if I weren’t on the other side of the country.
i wish it were on the east coast as well
*sob* I’ve never hated living in NJ more.
Oh man, that’s awesome.
THATS ALL
I was wondering about that, too. Nice work.
ahahaah…
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Classic
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Btw, wonder if we could persuade the troop to go touring? Maybe send ‘em through the bible belt for a bit of a counterstrike against creationism.
Or is it spelt troupe? woops
I just saw the preview this evening. Un-fucking-believable.
Brilliant.
As an actor, I’m overjoyed. As a Pastafarian, I’m overwhelmed by the love that He is spreading through His Noodly Appendage. What better way to proselytize than through the majesty of dramatic art!
Ohh, I wish many blessings from Our Noodly Saviour upon the Hunger Artists Theatre Company, and I pray to Him that He will send me a pirate ship so that I may tack against the wind from Toronto all the way to the mystical, sun-soaked shores of California.
Ramen.
Darn! Why do you have to be doing this so far away from me. We need a UK tour!!! Then us brits can have the fun of watching Christian Voice coming out to protest against us. Yes we have Fundis who go out and protest as well, though ours are really just a bit pathetic.
If you can get them to go on tour in America, I’m sure it wouldn’t take too much persuading to get them to cross the Atlantic, and they’ll get to Ireland first, probably won’t have religious protests to laugh about after, but then, there is always the sacred beer drinking to celebrate…
If they want sacred beer drinking then York is only a short drive from Tadcaster and numerous breweries. York also has it’s own brewery.
I do hope I’m not counted as some sort of heretic for ot being that fond of beer. I prefer my alcohol without all the extra water. Whiskey, Vodka, Tequila and Rum are my favourite tipples.
“Yes we have Fundis who go out and protest as well, though ours are really just a bit pathetic.”
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tell me about it. the other week i encountered some guy not far from my university with a microphone, shouting that the earth is going to hell and you’d better get saved soon. a while before that there was some homeless guy with a bilboard proclaiming “Sex Before Marriage = Hell After Death”.
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but yeah, compared to the americans, our fundies are a bit pathetic. we could definitely use an FSM performing arts tour over here, though.
Yeah, I think they would make many converts to the wholey pasta.
As much as some fundis are trying in this country the attitude to religion, just like the one to politicians, is so cynical that I doubt that they are ever going to manage much in the way of popularity here. They’ll just be a bunch of loud mouths who have to bully people to get people to do what they want.
Have you followed the BA cross thing? How long before the church feels a backlash from basically having said “Do what we want or we’re going to hurt your business”?
The church in this country lost my respect a very long time ago. As mentioned, I live in York and the Minster here is in continious need of repair and they are always asking for more money. What they fail to mention is that the rates for a lot of the shops in York don’t go to the council, but directly to the Minster and those rates are some of the highest shop rates of any in the country. The CoE is also one of the biggest land owners in the country and has no problem with bullying smaller land owners.
It’s like the Hill Cumorah Pageant - For Pastafaria!!
http://www.hillcumorah.org/Pageant/
Oh FSM… a big glowing jeebus on a hill… and people go to these things when they AREN’T on drugs?
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Makes you think really, doesn’t it?
-Jingles-,No drugs, who needs’em they’ve got egg nog; lots and lots of egg nog. And everyone knows what egg nog’s got………….RUM!!!!
-no thinking required
PS, Bobby, if your still there somewhere, I don’t know if you saw the story I wrote on the ‘religion is lame’ thread but I was wondering if you mind that sort of thing on your site, (as it takes up a lot of room and some may consider it spam), and if it would be OK to continue it and include the FSM, as it was my main inspiration? -Penne
If we are really members of a true religion, shouldn’t we take a more genuinely religious view of events like these.
Picket the theatre; threaten death and mutilation to anyone taking his Noodly name in vain; abuse the audience; demand compensation for our grief and special laws to protect us from furtherpastaphobic outrages.
Just a start but I’m sure it would give us more more crdibility in the wider faith community
Bobby, think you could ask them to supply videos? I live in Maine, and I really can’t get away long enough to go see it myself. maybe you could convince them to let you sell copies on this site? please?
RAmen
@ Pa Mesan - A pirate uprising??? A mutiny?
I think we should start and infitata (sp) until we get our own national homeland.
I would also like to hear if anyone eles would like me to continue the story and save the libraians. I think it would have to be on a different(shorter) thread though, because the other one takes so long to load as it is, and as I said before, it’s a long story.
Wouldn’t our homeland be the sea? Being pirates and all, maybe a nice tropical island with lots of hidden landing spots…
I was raised LDS (mormon), and that last picture of Joseph Smith is, quite possibly, the funniest thing I have ever had the pleasure of viewing. Unfortunately for the mormons, Joseph ran away right before he was touched.
-Veritas
ok, if someone gets a video (with permission) or if the company makes it, someone put it on youtube! (and in here, of course)
The trailer is on YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfFNA38bv78
Before you go about reading my post, I’d like to let everyone know that I’m going to be using a lot of ellipses in this post, OK?
And it is as follows:
Um… wow… no comment… er wait… yes I do have a comment… wow… yeah… that was my comment… just wow… wow… wow…
I wish I could go watch that.
Oh my FSM. That is so COOL! I wish so freaking much that I could go see it.(all the way in Indiana) Someone write reviews on here, mabye bobby can sell videos of it? I’ll buy. My computer doesn’t have high speed, how long is the trailer?
@Penne- Save the librarians!
So COOL! CAN’T…..CONTAIN….JOY! AAHHHHH!
ESPECIALLY the last pic
Cassy wants to know if you want to visit them. Fullerton’s about 15 minutes from their house.
I’m in the show, and it’s going really great so far! I wish we could tour! That’d be awesome! Unfortunetly, our theatre’s poor. :(
And hungry. It looks really cool rocky. Break a peg leg.
Check out what the opening night audiences had to say:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RojBCLlrZBo
blessed be thy noodly one and all his peoples I AM GOING TO THE SHOW AND I’M BRINGING GARLIC BREAD!!!!!!!!!!!
Ramen
Ye know, the thing I remember most about Christmas last year was how much it SUCKED because o’ the fuss “Christians” were making over the whole “happy holdays/Merry christmas” thing, where they were upset that stores were sayin’ Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas. I’ll be passin’ the link to this preview around this year as a big ole piratey middle-finger to them what ruined me holidays. ARRR!
Sounds like it’s more fun than Lord of the Rings & Wisconsin put together.
what is the spageti monster
As the name suggests, a monster made of pasta, that flies.
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He likes beer, strippers, pirates, and (if you are an Alfredoist) ninjas.
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He made the world, starting with trees, a mountain and a midgit (spelling intentional), but was a little drunk at the time, and so ever since the universe has been really screwy.
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What we think is gravity is actually his noodley appendages holding us down, and when we die, he takes us to a heaven filled with beer volcanoes, and a stripper factory.
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RAmen (pun on pasta called ramen plus Amen)
oh my….this is even more stupid than the money stamp
oh my….this is even more stupid than the money stamp
oh my….this is even more stupid than the money stamp
so is being redundant AND repeating yourself,
plus saying the same thing over and over
and over
again
and again
just one more time!!!
Arghhh…
I think that His heven is a little discriminitory towards some because believe it or not not all are enthraled with beer and stripers.
iLOVEpasta! Dec 11th, 2006 at 7:23 pm
‘I think that His heven is a little discriminitory towards some because believe it or not not all are enthraled with beer and stripers.’
The beer and the stripers, as well as the strippers are just the most popular selling points with most people. Pastafarian Heaven is just cool all round.
RAmen
Psst! Take her advice! She’s been there!
Dear Mr Henderson,
I fear a theological schism in this great church. Currently, most known human representations, including your heinous misrepresentation, of the Flying Spaghetti Monster depict two meatballs in the jowls of His Holy Spaghettiness (Pasta-al Akbar!), suggesting a Bolognaise type sauce.
This amounts to false idolatry. We, the true believers, only accept the true word of Pasta, namely that the Flying Spaghetti Monster (Pasta-al Akbar!) is in fact coated with carbonara sauce, and not this preposterous meatball sauce that you depict.
I must therefore command in the name of our Lord Flying Spaghetti Monster (Pasta-al Akbar!) that you DECEASE! STOP THIS BLASPHEMY! END THE MEATBALL HEGEMONY!
THE END OF THE WORLD IS NIGH! THE TRUE CARBONARA (Pasta-al Akbar!) WILL WAIT IN JUDGMENT FOR YOU ALL! CONFESS TO YOUR SINS AND CORRECT YOUR SAUCE, OR FACE THE WRATH OF HIS NOODLY APPENDAGE!
Yours sincerely
Archbishop Tagliatelle
The Church of Carbonara’s Witnesses
To Archbishop Tagliatelle:
“I fear a theological schism in this great church”
Ye know ye can go to most clinics and have that lanced, don’t ye?
Archbishop,
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Take your heretical views and be gone!
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I see through you like, like, like something that’s really clear and stuff. You can take your false beliefs and go rot with those fetuccini alfredo loving ninjas at the Reformed CoFSM! We have no need of your type here!
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The CoFSM, like any good religion, is only for serious, devout, and blind followers!
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Good day! I said good day!
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OEJ, Ship’s Navigator
So, what’s the CoFSM stance on “jingling all the way”?
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muh eyz me amz reutrted durrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
FSM douz notz eckisk
i know i surved wish him izn Nam
“So, what’s the CoFSM stance on “jingling all the wayâ€?”
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Sounds good to me!
hi i read about the money stamps and its a must have. if they havent been made yet they should. I think ever pastafarian needs one. I wouldnt call them money stamps tho since i think defacing money is illegal. but plz let me know if they are made i want one!
can we capture our own island and make it into a little Jerusalem? Then have daily spaghetti monster sightings?
I wonder, could Festivus be a Pastafarian holiday?
I think it is.
Most strip clubs do have a Festivus Pole for some reason.
hello, i like cheese.
I have been looking for His Noodly Holiness for all of my life. Sorry if I didn’t know about it until 3 weeks ago. Please protect me from those insane and most unholy CULTS like the Christians and Scientologists.
RAmen