Mission Impossible: Miniature Brains

If you're not familiar with the Fupler family, you should be. In researching for this project, I found myself addicted to these little videos on youtube and really, everything that Matt Koval has done. He started this youtube channel that has blown up in followers and Google wrote him a huge check to keep making these videos. Because they're awesome.

He is pretty self-sufficient in props/ wardrobe/ makeup but this time he needed to make a knockoff of Trivial Pursuit for clearance reasons. In addition to figuring out how in the hell this game is actually supposed to work, we also had to come up with a design of the board which we both agreed should be rather comical leaning towards Simpsons-esque.

Then, the game pieces. I will admit that it is completely my fault for misunderstanding the shipping for these adorable little brain erasers. Just for the record (if you're as retarded as I am), when it says "Ships within two days" that does NOT mean it's ARRIVING in two days!

So day before the shoot, I had to locate a replacement. Can you even imagine how hard it is to find miniature brains??? I mean, if you're looking for a little entertainment, just pick up the phone and start randomly calling stores "Hi, would you happen to sell miniature brains?". People think you're crazy. Thank GOD for my girlfriend Danielle who happened to call me mid-panic for these brains and managed to locate THE LAST case of gummy brains on the West Coast. Her friend has a candy wholesale company and had one last box of them.

One issue: she's off work now and heading to a movie in Southcenter. So, I know my stepfather is near there... forget about the fact that he's CEO of an international telecommunications company and probably has a lot to do... I call him "Hi... um... I need a favor. I can explain later, but there's no time now. But all I can tell you is that it's a HUGE emergency. I need you to go to Southcenter movie theater, meet a girl named Jamie outside and give her $10. She's going to give you a box and then I need you to run that box to Fedex to overnight it". And he had to leave within 10 minutes. Being the amazing parent that he is, "Absolutely, no problem".

I knew when he had picked up the package because I got a phone call "WHAT IN THE HELL IS THIS? I have an entire case of Gummy Brains. Is this correct??" Bless his heart, he got it to Fedex 15 minutes before they closed and the package was signed for at 10AM the next morning.

It's such a small thing, but having the right pieces to the game really made a difference!