In the fictional New Zealand town of The Bay, there are some mighty strange people -- and they're all played by comic Rhys Darby. On each episode of Short Poppies, Darby impersonates everyone from an UFO conspiracy theorist to a lifeguard with sexy legs and a wanna-be sunscreen empire to a 63-year-old member of the Hillside Hat Collectors Club, and submits to a television interview conducted by lifestyle journalist David Farrier (Jemaine Clement). Meanwhile, the viewer sees the hidden connections between these disparate, very funny lives.