Oh, how fickle love can be. One minute you’re head over heels for the cute-yet-obscene Australian girl, and the next she’s duct-taped your roommate to the door and robbed your apartment. Last night’s Flight of the Conchords taught us that love stinks (just one day after Valentine’s Day, too), and it all started with "Too Many D—s on the Dance Floor."
Bret and Jemaine channeled their inner T-Pain for this catchy rap about…well, the title’s pretty self-explanatory. I look forward to this song being mixed by DJs everywhere. But until then, let us heed Bret’s wisdom that a dance floor “ain’t no good if there’s too much wood.” The lack of ladies at what was most likely a gay club (there was a conga line!) led Jemaine to the only girl in sight — Keith-a, named after her father.
Their one-night-stand-turned-forbidden-relationship allowed Jemaine to reflect on the girlfriends of his past in the equal parts hilarious and beautiful “Carol Brown (Stick Around).” As he gave us a fast-forwarded version of why all of his exes dumped him (with the ladies providing angelic back up vocals in choir-like fashion), I couldn’t keep my eyes off of Bret rockin’ out in the background. Both the guys were playing instruments so cool that I don’t even know if they have names! The video itself (below), equipped with rotating images of the ex-girlfriends projected on a building and everything from a shrinking to a multiplying Jemaine, is pretty damn cool, too.
While this has nothing to do with the music videos, I must say I in no way condone the show’s recurring theme of blatant discrimination against Australians (nor do I really get the purpose of it). But it was pretty funny. Should I feel bad for thinking that? What do you think, PopWatchers? Did the boys take it too far (“My dad’s so Australian he’s in prison!”)? And where was Mel last night? Don’t try to tell me she had nothing to say about Jemaine’s new flame. Oh, and did anyone else have uncomfortable flashbacks to their middle school dances when dad-like Murray forced the reluctant Bret and Jemaine to go to the nightclub?
I think you’re taking the australia a little too seriously. You haven’t noticed throughout the course of the show that there is a recurring joke that aussie and new zealanders hate each other? The australian consulate is always picking on Murray. “I don’t condone blah blah blah”.
You’ve seen the show before, right? Its dry, satire.
Umm…are you just trying to be as deadpan as Jemaine? New Zealanders hate Aussies, because no one can tell the diff between the accents and always assume a New Zealander is from Australia. It’s like all the American jokes that Canadians like to make…
Irish people hate it when they’re mistaken for the English, Canadians hate it when they’re mistaken for Americans, and obviously New Zealanders hate it when they’re mistaken for Aussies (and vice versa). They all want to distance themselve from the other cultures so desparately they focus on the negative of those cultures and how they are not like them at all, so it creates an unnatural distaste towards them and therefore are basically betratying their country by dating one of them. There isn’t a real purpose to the discrimination, and they are just playing up the stereotype for our amusement.
The “instruments” they’re playing are video controllers. If you watch carefully, the image projected in the background fast-forwards when Jemaine spins a knob on the deck. And he gets smaller and bigger when Bret moves the lever on his deck.
I love that theres more dancing this season. Bret’s angry dance from last season wasn’t enough! I don’t get HBO, so these recaps have to satisfy my FotC need until the DVD comes out
You know the feud is serious when Charles Widmore got involved a couple of episodes ago.
Am I right, Doc jensen?
Totally agree about Mel! The whole time I was just thinking to myself where is she?! She was at her prime last season when both Bret and Jemaine had those girlfriends and she would’ve been hilarious last night if given the chance, no doubt.
Michel Gondry directed the episode, and the music videos had a distinct Gondry feel to them.
The opening had me laughing myself into a wheezing fit. I love FOTC.
The show always needs more Mel. I was so happy last week when she had a song to herself. She is fantastic.
Both the guys were playing really old video equipment (as a broadcasting major I LOVED it) Jemaine’s looked like it was a VTR controller as we could fastforward and rewind the picture and Brett’s looked like a switcher which is how he could further manipulate Jemaine’s picture. FotC is really tops this season (and is it a bad thing that I did not miss Mel?)
Went to NZ last year. the rivalry between Aussies and Kiwis is real. Every where we went we would hear comments/jokes about it. I agree with other person who posted saying they probably get mistaken for Aussies
I have a few Australian friends and they explained to me that the Australian/New Zealand hatred is a joke. Not unlike when Americans make jokes about Canada. And that Australia sometimes likes to take credit for New Zealand’s work. Which annoys them. As well as the accent thing.
The ep was very funny. I hope they keep making fun of the Aussies.
I’m Australian and I find the whole Aussie/New Zealand joke thing absolutely HILARIOUS…it really is like the way Americans and Canadians interact so it just adds to the hilarity of the show!