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Welcome to the droll world of wacky reverend Steve Molin.

Bored of his church sign saying thing like ‘Pot Luck Sunday’ he decided to use it as a platform for his Christmas cracker-joke wit.

This ten-minute short is basically a monologue of him talking about his ideas for the signs, interspersed with, yep, the signs themselves.

The easily amused might chuckle at concoctions like ‘Got Weeds? Let Us Spray.’ Or, in response to heavy rains, ‘Hey Noah, Still Got The Blueprints.’ But when it gets to ‘Bakers in Houses Shouldn’t Throw Scones’ you know the game’s up.

The townsfolk of Stillwater, Minnesota, seem to like it though. Some of them make a special journey to see what the sign says. “It makes your day, it makes you smile,” a woman beams.

If There Were No Lutherans, Would There Still Be Green Jello? — a weird church reference to pot luck dinners being incomplete without, er, green jello — doesn’t tell you anything about Lutherans and what they believe in, which is, of course intentional. The point they want to get across here is, ‘Hey, church doesn’t have to be boring, look at us, we’re laughing, having fun.’

Rev. Molin says the signs are a way of getting people together, but there are things even the most light-hearted Lutheran will draw a line at. When the Rev. wrote ‘Now Serving Crispy Cream Communion’ in response to a new Crispy Cream donutstore opening in town, a passer by complained calling it “inappropriate.”

Rev. Molin says he wasn’t trying to be irreverent. "I thought it was funny," he said. Any more than ten minutes and you’d start to get restless with what’s going on here. Either that or create your own subtext by convincing yourself you’re watching something more sinister — like all the other commercials selling you things you don’t need. But no, unfortunately, it’s not that clever.

Even the final shot: “Sign Broken. Come Inside for the Message”‚ doesn’t do it. It’s just a film about a wacky man with some wacky ideas who likes to amuse.[[In-content Ad]]

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