Brady Bunch Tiki – NEH NE NEHHHH Pt II

I recently posted an entry about the Brady Bunch Tiki, and told you about how it’s taboo, and caused Greg Brady to fall into the surf, and Alice to hurt her back and Bobby to almost get crushed by the shield.
Well, it seems my Tiki is cursed too!

The afternoon I finished it, I found a leak in my car while doing some routine maintenance.   I booked it into the mechanic, but had to wait a few days before I could get it seen to.  So, the day before I took it to the car wash so it would be nice and clean for its fix up. I park under a tree so it gets covered in leaves and bird shit and can look pretty gross.

I show up at the car wash to get it detailed, and was told they’d been robbed overnight, so I had to wait around so they could straighten a few things up. I had to go to work shortly so that delayed me quite a bit.   I got to work (which is near the car wash anyway) and discovered I’d left my phone at home.  I have never, ever left my phone at home before then.  I also use the clock on it to time my classes for work, so I was kind of in trouble.

Not only that, but I found I still had my car key on the key ring.

Students had just started turning up, so I had to hurry back to the car wash to find my car parked right in the middle of one of their entries being vacuumed because they couldn’t move it on.  “I wondered when you’d be back,” he said.

Handing over the key I hurried back to work just in time for class.

After work I was met by a guy who is doing some accreditation work for me.  He’d been calling all day to try to get a meeting together.  Of course, I’d forgotten my phone so he couldn’t get hold of me.   I agreed to meet with him now, so I got home four hours later than I planned or expected.

This morning I took the car in to get the leak seen to, and thought I had a little good luck when they told me it wasn’t the hose I as I had thought.  Instead the leak was coming from a plate at the back of the engine, and to be fixed it’ll need removed completely and re-done.  All up, $638.

When I got home, one of my taxation invoices had arrived, coming in at $650.

YOU might say that it’s just bad luck and coincidence.  I say it’s the Tiki curse.   I’ve been told I should get rid of it… but it’s just so freaking cool.

Brady Bunch Tiki – NEH NE NEHHHH

Latest prop replica is none other than the Brady Bunch “Cursed Tiki” from the three episode arc where the family visited Hawaii.

While away on vacation, the Brady boys were exploring a construction site when Bobby found a small carved statue, or tiki, half buried in the dirt.  He cleaned it up and wore it on a leather necklace as a good luck charm.  Little did he know that from that moment, the bearer of the Tiki was cursed!

That night, while sitting on the bed, Bobby was almost crushed by a heavy falling shield.  Later, Peter was attacked by a giant deadly tarantula.   Later, Alice hurt her back and Greg was almost drowned while surfing!

Hilariously, every time someone was hit with the bad luck effect, the camera would zoom into the Tiki and a particular sound would play.  “NEH NE NEHHH!”

My replica is a really nice resin cast, which I painted with a black undercoat.  Over time I dry brushed it with a light ivory colour to build up the detail.  I gave it a few brown washes along the way to simulate dirt in the grooves after it had been buried.  Once it was done I attached a leather cord so it could be worn.

Also, the TV show Scrubs had an episode called “My Soul On Fire“  where two of the cast got Tikis and wore them throughout.   The Tiki on that episode is not the same as the proper Brady Tiki featured in that series.  Sorry Scrubs Fans.

Click the links in the text for the Scrubs Tiki and part of the Brady Bunch episodes.  You can watch the full episodes on Youtube if you like.

The day I finished my Tiki I found my car has a leak in the radiator.  NEH NE NEHHH!

Construction Site	Brady Tiki	Scrubs Version
Unpainted	Tiki	Tiki