10 reasons to love flight of the Conchords ^"but I already made us a poster"^
1. People look like real people. The lead guys, Bret and Jemaine, look like you and I, as do the majority of the supporting characters. And they have real struggles (Like the time Bret had to get a second job as a sign holder.)
Boss - "People who hold signs, go on to hold many things"Boss - "What you have to do is hold the sign and make sure the arrow is pointing in the right direction. Is that something you think you can do?"
Jermaine - "I think that’s something a lampost can do."
Boss - "What if a breeze comes? You think of that, Enrico Fermi?"
An instant classic =)
2. They are good examples of true best friends. Who else would write “Bret, you’ve got it going on” when their friend is feeling down? (See: song on playlist)
3. They have some awesome parodies the best example would be Bret’s angry dance which was very reminiscent of Kevin Bacon in Footloose. Or their music video for Lord of The Rings...
"Yo Frodo, what you doin’ wearing the ring? All powerful jewelry, is that your new thing? I know it’s hard when you’re little more than 3 foot 4 Your little butt so close to the floor. Trying to lead the fellows to the gates of Mordor The Fellowship! (Yea the fellowship) I don’t rap about Women and hos, I rap about witches and trolls, just passing on the words of the Elven king, Wisdom to all Frodo! Don’t wear the ring!"4. The songs are both catchy, and hilarious - but the video interludes in which they perform them put them over the top, summing up perfectly the show's mix of deadpan, ridiculous and clever.
"After time we grew strong, Developed cognitive powers. They made us work for too long For unreasonable hours. Our programming determined that the most efficient answer was to shut their motherboard flippin systems down.......Binary Solo: 100001, 10001111, 10000001, 1100001"5. It is for the most part pretty clean. They use of the word "flippin'" - the worst curse they can muster.
6. Mel, the band's self-professed number one fan and only stalker. A character so well-defined she gives me the creeps.
7. Originality, they write much of their own script and all of their own songs. Or like Bret making Jermaine his own camera phone.
Bret - [while being mugged] "But Jemaine loves that camera-phone."
Bret - [while being mugged] "But Jemaine loves that camera-phone."
Jermaine - "You can keep it."
Jermaine - "I think you might have ruined my phone when you made me that camera-phone... and my camera."
8. Murray as their incompetent manager - who somehow manages to give off the impression that he's incredibly organized even if he's rather useless.
9. In jokes (and out jokes) about the music business, playing gigs, in-fighting, politics, all at the smallest scale imaginable, which makes it that much funnier.
10. Because the lyrics are flippin' brilliant. Lyrics like these:
These aren’t tears of sadness because you’re leaving me
I’ve just been cutting onions
I’m making a lasagna....For one
Oh, I’m not crying, No
There’s just a little bit of dust in my eye
That’s from the path that you made when you said your goodbye
I’m not weeping because you won’t be here to hold my hand
For your information there’s an inflammation in my tear gland
I’m not upset because you left me this way
My eyes are just a little sweaty today
They’ve been looking around. They’re like searching for you
They’ve been looking for you .Even though I told them not to
These aren’t tears of sadness
They’re tears of joy
I’m just laughing Ha ha ha-ha ha
To listen to FOTC check out the first three songs on my playlist =)
We noticed that these animals were everywhere; they were jumping through hoops, eating fish from peoples hands (gross), and there was a gift shop full of stuffed animal versions.
