You know your obsessed when...

[emi]

Okay, every fansite needs one. A 'You know your obsessed when...' list.

You know you need a life when...
......*shifty eyes*
You know your obsessed with Avenue Q when

* Your friends frequently groan when you start a sentence with: 'When I went down to London to watch Avenue Q....'
...in fact, your friends slap you across the head if you even mention Avenue Q.

* You watch Dr Who, and somehow manage to relate it back to Q
....in fact, you watch ANYTHING and somehow relate it to Avenue Q.

* You have a collectiion of Q fanart...infact, a drawer-full.

* The cast no doubt talk about you back-stage, and know you by name.

* The cast see you at the Stage Door/ in the audience and say 'Oh, not them AGAIN!!!' (Mentioning no names...*coughhack*SimonAndFreakyBrit*Cough*)

* You start singing Schadenfreude in German.
....and Porn in IT.
..... and your mobile ringtone is 'It sucks to be me'

* You put on the OBCR, play it full blast, and then prance around your house/flat/whatever as one of the characters.
....With puppet hand actions.
....And voices.

* You search Avenue Q on google earth and find it halirious when there is one. In Cardiff.

* You spend £10 in texting you friends, just talking about the show
...in one day.

* Your GCSE notes are littered with random drawings/lyrics.

* Your school books all have 'Everything in life is only for now' written all over the front.

*You can't sleep, and think 'It sure can get lonely at night' before realising what you've just done and burst out into song.
....at 3AM

*You freak out when you realise that your Grandad lives in Alberta, and your uncle lives in Vancouver. (I am not kidding here.)

* 'Porn' comes on your iPod, and you have to resist not to sing along in your incredibly bad Trekkie voice, because your in public.
...and the same with 'Racist'

* You actually own a puppet(s)

*The cast still have your random gifts backstage.

*You had the chance to see Idina in Wicked (In the one time you get to see a west end show a year,) but you seen Q instead.

*You see the words 'Barbra' and 'Streisand' and the first thing that comes into your head is 'OMIGOD, ROD WOULD LOVE THIS!' ....and then you remember he's just a fictional character.

* You go on Broadwayworld.com and read a review of the Broadway Production, where someone took 3 eight year olds to see it, and then left the kids sitting there and went off outside the theatre and you think 'That would never happen in the London Production.'
....and then you scroll to the bottem of the review and it says 'And I seen Simon Lipkin here from OLC Avenue Q. I now know WHY everybody is flying over just to see Avenue Q in London!!!!!'
....and you just think 'Ha ha ha ha!!! See, Broadway doesn't have EVERYTHING!!!'

and thats all I got so far. Add some more, you know you have some!!

....and is it sad that they all apply to me??

[avenueqfans.com]

Mmmmm only two of those apply to me so I guess Im no as much of a fan as I thought.

[emi]

Which two?

[avenueqfans.com]

* The cast no doubt talk about you back-stage, and know you by name.

(Well we know that at least some of them know us either by name or as the AQF.com peeps)


*The cast still have your random gifts backstage.

(Whether Simon's gift is still backstage or not is another question, but he definitly got it and had got through the first page last time we checked.) (Go Si!)

The only thing I can think of that isn't on that list is bringing AQ quotes and lyrics into real life situations... but that's what it's all about isn't it? 'Like you life only funnier'

[emi]

What IS that gift by the way?? OH! I got another one too..

*You care more about when these Kate/Princeton, Rod/Nicky2 and Trekkie Videos are going to be uploaded than revising for you French GCSE...which is in two weeks.

[avenueqfans.com]

"The Official AvenueQFans.com Guide to Solving a Rubik's Cube in the Space of an Interval" and an 'official' rubik's cube rather than the dodgy one Jon has.

[emi]

AHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Genius!

[avenueqfans.com]

Which took me fooking ages to write I might add! Well writing it wasn't too bad, it was doing all the lil diagrams and colouring in all the little squares that took a bit of patience!

[robjimbobjam]

Ok, many of those apply to me...and I have more! Which I will post later though...

...have made the cast members key-rings Which they now have hung up!

... you have already decided that you are going to give Simon Lipkin a standing ovation after every show...

... you read through the script at the end of the book so you don't forget bits of the show

... you get annoyed when you here people singing the songs and doing the accents wrong!

... Anything that sounds the slightest bit like a Q line makes you start into one of the songs

... you count down the days until the next time you see the show and have the countdown next to your bed so you can cross off the days

... You find it hilarious when one of your friends jokes about Chavenue Q and decide that it could indeed happen one day
so start to re-write the lyrics with other Q obsessed friends!

... When eating haribo you notice there are little bears and search the pack for a yellow and a blue (although had to settle for green) and start quoting the bad idea bears with them. When asked which one Simon is you hold up the big red and white heart one!

...You act out the songs to the soundtrack with fluppets (which are animal hand puppets) and although you aren't singing along, you still pull all the facial expressions!

...You act out the whole of Avenue Q with fluppets using the London bootleg and the script in the Avenue Q book

...You're planning to put chocolate euros into the hat in the money song next time you go...

...You're making Simon Lipkin a book of comics called "The Adventures of Simon Lipkin" which were inspired by his interview with AQF.com!

...Many of your friends on myspace are people you've met through Q or the Q characters

...You become somones bad idea bear!

...You make a list of how obsessed you are with Avenue Q!

[avenueqfans.com]

robjimbobjam said:

...You're making Simon Lipkin a book of comics called "The Adventures of Simon Lipkin" which were inspired by his interview with AQF.com!

We're intrigued...

[robjimbobjam]

Nye he he! You know in your interview when he said he didn't want to play Fiyero, he'd rather play Galinda? Well that sparked numerous visions in my head of Simon as Galinda and I found them really funny so am drawing them I have finished the first and its the cast of Wicked singing No One Mourns the Wicked etc. and then there's "Look it's Glin...Nygh..." And Simon is in the bubble I'm on my second of him singing popular and the Q cast trying to get him to shut up so Jon comes in as Fiyero and is like "I love your Glindaaa!" And Simon is just "...eep"

[avenueqfans.com]

How very random but cool that you got it out of the interview ;D

[crazeball]

my personal list is very short, but:

everytime someone says "oh well" I have the impossible urge to complete the sentence with "...it sucks to be me!"

because I work at Build-a-Bear, a lot of the time I spend FOH I just hold a bear and make its head bob along Racist-style, or sometime I will take two and re-enact scenes, but I've got to be very careful with all the swear words cos it's a children's shop after all.

I feel I'm included in the "oh no, not them again!" one too
Especially by Simon and Jon

Oh, and when I sing Q songs I always sing in character
I can do a mean Kate Monster I tell ya

And I've re-enacted Internet is for porn with a friend in one of the Coward's fire exits, with a Simba and a Stitch which we'd just got from the Disney store, AS MATT and another understudy (I don't remember who right now but it was one of the girls) PASSED RIGHT IN FRONT OF US *dies in shame*

[india]

when your friends put a ban on the words avenue q, puppets, julie, clare, simon and jon

and when you call yourself a 'worm' just because of julie

[luisa]

all of them ^^

and when you see Q references everywhere, and lookalikes, and have dreams, and relate absolutely everything back to Q...