Happy Easter to my peeps

April 8, 2007 5:32 AM

Peeps Show.The Washington post was expecting a dozen or so entrants for the first-ever Peeps Diorama Contest. They got somewhere north of 350 from across the world. Photos.
posted by toxic (23 comments total)

Obligatory Link to Lord of the Peeps.
posted by sciurus at 6:07 AM on April 8, 2007

These are all so fantastic!
posted by blasdelf at 6:16 AM on April 8, 2007

Fun! The peeping tom at the shower window was my fave, by far.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 6:16 AM on April 8, 2007

And how appropriate that there is even a section on sexy Swedish easter witches.
posted by hovercraft at 6:26 AM on April 8, 2007

D'oh, wrong thread, sorry.
posted by hovercraft at 6:27 AM on April 8, 2007

The Seattle Times has been doing something very similar for years.
posted by dw at 6:30 AM on April 8, 2007

Dude. They're making official contests out of something I did for years, and nobody told me?

I'm totally peeped off, man.

(This is completely peeping awesome.)
posted by po at 7:09 AM on April 8, 2007 [1 favorite has favorites]

How on earth did they ship those without them falling to pieces?
posted by chrismear at 7:13 AM on April 8, 2007

How on earth did they ship those without them falling to pieces?

United Peeps Service.
posted by mullacc at 7:21 AM on April 8, 2007

two very cool stories/projects from the washingtonpost in as many days. nice work.

other mefied HERE
posted by jmccw at 7:57 AM on April 8, 2007

I knew it all along! Soylent Green is NOT people! Soylent Green is Peeps!
posted by nax at 8:12 AM on April 8, 2007

Never heard of these things. I assume they're American but it says they got entries world-wide. Weird.
posted by dobbs at 8:25 AM on April 8, 2007

jmccw, both of these projects appear in today's Washington Post Magazine. Just sayin. Off to behead some Peeps.
posted by sdrawkcab at 8:30 AM on April 8, 2007

I did an Oedipus peeps diorama in a classical lit course once. Red sprinkles for bloody eye sockets.

Peeps are so revoltingly sugary that there's no option but to play with them.
posted by cowbellemoo at 8:43 AM on April 8, 2007

For the other non-Americans amongst us, the wikipeeps page. Apparently they're better eaten stale. Sounds great!
posted by imperium at 8:49 AM on April 8, 2007

I've always thought those Peeps look a whole lot tastier than our Cadbury's Cream Eggs. However, I'm a little disappointed that none of these Peep Shows reproduce the old Times Square theatres like Peepland and Peep-O-Rama.
posted by PeterMcDermott at 8:55 AM on April 8, 2007

PEEEEEeeeeEEEEPS! (Perfect Easter post. Thanks, tox!)
posted by steef at 9:18 AM on April 8, 2007

Happy Easter! Passover Peeps, via madamjujujive's great del.icio.us links.
posted by nickyskye at 1:24 PM on April 8, 2007

I love these! Even a "Say Anything" peep diorama. Too cool.
posted by Salmonberry at 1:46 PM on April 8, 2007

PeterMcDermott,
We do have Cadbury's Cream Eggs here, and I think they're much better than Peeps, but you can't really compare them. cowbellemoo is right. Peeps are basically a blast of sugar, which to me are great the first few times, but they quickly become disgustingly sugary after you've had a few. Besides, as the commercials tell us, Cadbury's Cream Eggs are where cute egg-laying bunnies come from. Why do you hate bunnies?
posted by Sangermaine at 3:01 PM on April 8, 2007

Sangermaine writes "PeterMcDermott,
"We do have Cadbury's Cream Eggs here, and I think they're much better than Peeps, but you can't really compare them. cowbellemoo is right. Peeps are basically a blast of sugar, which to me are great the first few times, but they quickly become disgustingly sugary after you've had a few. Besides, as the commercials tell us, Cadbury's Cream Eggs are where cute egg-laying bunnies come from. Why do you hate bunnies?"

But you can have a few Peeps. I defy anybody to eat more than a single Cream Egg.

Much too sickly.

Besides, everybody knows that the bunnies come from Lindt, not Cadbury's.
posted by PeterMcDermott at 4:40 AM on April 9, 2007

Cadbury's Cream Eggs are a pale shadow of the truly superior Cadbury's Caramel Eggs!!

Stale Peeps are second place but Caramel Eggs are No. 1
posted by Megafly at 2:31 PM on April 9, 2007

While clearly not as large, the Sacramento Peep-Off, now in its tenth year, has been supporting a Peeps Diorama channel for, oh, must be six or seven years now.
posted by Ogre Lawless at 4:00 PM on April 9, 2007