i thought the past 2 episodes have been the best 2.

loved the racism one and there were several hilarious parts of the latest one as well.

8/8/2007 9:29:39 PM

it's wednesday night y'all

that means...

Quote :

"it's business timmmmeeeee"

8/8/2007 9:31:34 PM

Mermaid

8/13/2007 7:38:39 AM

i was so exhausted after the lake yesterday that i missed the company, entourage, and conchords.

thankfully i have like 8 hbos to i can see the latter 2 tonight.


was it a good one?

8/13/2007 7:48:28 AM

It had brief moments... but over all I thought it sucked pretty bad... they only had 1 musical interlude and it wasn't very awesome... 3 shows left

8/13/2007 8:17:57 AM

Yeah I thought this one was pretty weak overall. I knew what was gonna happen with the polo team right off too so that kinda ruined it. Murray had the best parts in this one.

8/13/2007 8:31:46 AM

i'm so angry i feel like swearing

8/13/2007 8:41:14 AM

There were two musical interludes...one was just short and didn't have any lyrics.

8/13/2007 8:43:39 AM

That was a pretty weak episode but I'll be honest, the music segments are my least favorite part of the show. And the episode had a little too much Murray.

8/13/2007 11:14:42 AM

until i watch it tonight i stand by my opinion that there can never be too much murray

8/13/2007 11:16:34 AM

at least the mixed nuts thing was original

8/13/2007 11:32:21 AM

Quote :

"there can never be too much murray"

8/13/2007 11:35:40 AM

last 2 weeks were awesome, this one not so much

8/13/2007 12:36:27 PM

It was money.

Leather suits FTW

8/13/2007 1:47:59 PM

This week's ep was lame.

8/13/2007 1:58:46 PM

the incredible shrinking leather suits...

and "I pulled the lever on the left, isn't that it?" hehe

it wasn't the worst show I've ever seen on TV, but I never laughed my butt off like I have in so many of the other ones... I normally laugh at the rediculous musical interludes... but over all I think the show is fun.

8/13/2007 1:59:01 PM

i liked it, the only episode i didn't really like was the david bowie one

8/13/2007 2:03:27 PM

for some reason last nights episode left me wanting more

i dont know if its because there was only one true song or if the DVR said it was going to be a 45 minute episode

8/13/2007 2:27:13 PM

^^ the bowie episode was one of the best!

^ i was also under the impression that the episode was 45 min long.

8/13/2007 4:23:45 PM

HBO sets aside 45 minutes for a show like in case it runs over 30 minutes. They can just add extra ads at the end of the episode. For some reason I'm thinking HBO left it open for episodes to possibly run longer than 30 minutes if need be.

8/13/2007 6:38:11 PM

per diem per weekem, regardless jemaine you can't go blowing it on bloody leather suits!

8/13/2007 8:40:37 PM

you folks are nuts

that was far & away the funniest one yet

when he ripped the speaker w/ the bass guitar I nearly lost it
and holding the TV for receiption? high-larious

the music was weak in this one, but the non-music stuff was incredibly funny

8/13/2007 9:22:53 PM

the amount of music was weak, but the mermaid song was absolutely 10/10 on the lollercoaster.

great episode.

8/13/2007 10:01:54 PM

very funny episode.

i liked how the clothes shrunk throughout

8/13/2007 11:40:09 PM

Quote :

"Meanwhile, HBO is yet to decide the fate of its other summer freshman series, the comedy "Flight of the Conchords.""

from the CNN article about JFC. what the fuck? everyone i know that has seen this show, loves it

8/14/2007 12:04:10 PM

I see this going in two ways (what other ways are there):

Another season: I don't think the ratings have been crazy good but for the money and with a little more promotion this show could be a success to launch a new series.

Dropped: Sopranos gone, CYE will be gone, JFC failed, people are mad over Deadwood. HBO might wanna just start with a clean slate.

8/14/2007 12:09:17 PM

Well it's not like Rome where they knew that it couldn't last for too many series. The formula for Flight of the Conchords is so simple yet so effective they would be fools not to keep it.

8/14/2007 12:18:19 PM

^Not before they close out The Wire.

which they've already pushed back till February



but i hope F.o.t.C. keeps its wings. I already know i'll have it on DVD.

8/14/2007 12:19:40 PM

According to the Radio station up here, the guys in the band aren't sure that THEY want to do another season. They are actually homesick and want to get back to New Zealand for a while. and I'm talking about the real life guys, they have been over here for several years now.

8/14/2007 12:21:54 PM

^given that HBO shows often take over a year or more between seasons, maybe they can rest up in NZ for a few months and come back for a second season...if not it will just be another show that nobody has heard of in hindsight (although those of us that have heard of it will know its funny as fuck)

8/14/2007 12:25:30 PM

well that sucks if they want to leave...this is a refreshing new show that makes me laugh everytime.

8/14/2007 12:31:59 PM

Well maybe they could shoot something in New Zealand? Some kind of "origins of the band" or something?

8/14/2007 12:41:48 PM

F that

they must be making bank in NZ to "want" to drop an HBO show

8/14/2007 1:33:38 PM

i just watched the new ep on dvr last night and i thought it was one of the best. the music was weaker than normal--but it usually is the weakest part, not to say it's bad at all--but i could watch a cocky jermaine all day long.

8/14/2007 1:35:00 PM

the music is usually the best part of the show.

8/14/2007 1:35:35 PM

I concur... but evidently many people don't find the humour in the rediculousness of their songs...

that's 60% of my draw to watch it... I can only stand so much deadpan commedy without something rediculous happening... like a musical interlude

8/14/2007 1:42:25 PM

no i like the songs a lot. i just love the witty banter slightly more.

8/14/2007 2:28:17 PM

what do you say we take this party upstairs?

"I would say........yes"

8/14/2007 2:29:40 PM

Curb your enthusiasm is coming back for another season soon.

8/14/2007 7:31:30 PM

^http://thewolfweb.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=484246

8/14/2007 7:34:43 PM

facebook has a flight of the conchords quote application now

<---le ghey

8/16/2007 5:24:25 PM

^ i cant find it

8/16/2007 6:02:32 PM

I read an article about the future of the show last night. There are two problems HBO faces with renewing the show.

1) It does have low ratings. It only averages just over 1 million viewers per week.

2) The guys have used "98 percent" (their quote) of their songs in this one season. They have had these songs for a few years now.

So they have to write all new songs for the next season and in the article they admitted that it is a daunting task. They are already feeling the 'sophomore' album pressure. Those are the two big problems HBO has to take into consideration right now.

8/17/2007 1:35:56 PM

I figured number 2 after the drop in quality from the first couple episodes, it was pretty clear they had used most of their best songs in the pilot in the hopes of getting picked up.

8/17/2007 3:50:22 PM

^^ do you have a link to that article

8/17/2007 4:55:33 PM

Quote :

"HBO has given “Entourage” and “Flight of the Conchords” orders for a fifth and second season, respectively."

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/33704

8/17/2007 6:54:01 PM

yay

8/17/2007 7:15:24 PM

Re-airing right now... when Murray tells them to go fuck themselves I LAFFED hard.

8/17/2007 11:03:41 PM

Quote :

"^^ do you have a link to that article"

http://www.nj.com/starledger/stories/index.ssf?/base/living-1/118724077415270.xml&coll=1

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"Funny 'Conchords' is ready for takeoff Thursday, August 16, 2007 BY ALAN SEPINWALL Flight of the Conchords (Sunday at 10:30 p.m. on HBO) The band triples its fanbase -- from one to three -- after playing a local world-music jam, in the latest episode of the musical comedy series. People who work in television don't have much time to actually watch television, but they like to keep informed. So whenever I'm out in LA on business, actors, writers and directors will inevitably ask me, "So, what's good this year?," then smile and nod thoughtfully when I namecheck my newest favorites. When I was in LA last month, though, there was a wrinkle to this phenomenon. I'd finish rattling off the names of a few shows, and then they would say, in a hushed, almost reverent tone, "You know what show I really like? 'Flight of the Conchords.'" So many Hollywood types professed their love for the HBO series -- a comedy about two New Zealanders in a bottom-of-the-barrel folk band on the fringes of the New York music scene -- that I was barely even fazed when ESPN's Scott Van Pelt began dropping "Conchords" lyrics into "SportsCenter" highlights. (Over a clip of White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen being ejected from a game, Van Pelt quoted, "Be more constructive with your feedback, please," from the Conchords' rap song "Rhymenoceros vs. Hiphopopotamus.") But if the show biz elite are already pledging their allegiance to the exceedingly polite and silly band, the rest of the country hasn't been so quick. The ratings have been small (the show is averaging only a million viewers per each Sunday airing, down from the 3 million or so watching "Entourage" a half-hour earlier), which is one of only two reasons HBO could have for not automatically renewing the funniest show of the summer and one of the funniest new TV comedies, period, of the last few years. Flight of the Conchords is an actual band, created in 1998 by a pair of University of Wellington students named Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement who were doing comedy theater and decided to start a band because, as Bret puts it in an interview, "There wasn't much work around for comedians." They toured America, Australia and Europe, and in 2003 played a gig in an underground cave at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. In the audience that night was James Bobin, a successful British comedy producer who had helped create "Da Ali G Show." "Normally, you hear the words 'comedy music' and you run," says Bobin, "because that's usually just the sign of lazy comedians trying to stretch out material. But they were amazing. Not only were the songs hilarious, but the banter in between was, which is rare." Bobin would be hired to help the duo develop their HBO series. A variety show was briefly proposed, but Bobin put his foot down against that. The Conchords were always going to play themselves, but there was a brief period where they would be portrayed as wildly successful. ("We'd have lots of adventures on yachts," recalls Jemaine.) Eventually, they decided to place themselves on the far outskirts of show biz. The TV versions of Bret and Jemaine share a rathole New York apartment. They have only one fan, a cheerful stalker named Mel (Kristen Schaal), and a manager, Murray (Rhys Darby), whose day job is at the New Zealand embassy (tourism poster in Murray's office: "New Zealand. Why not?") and who knows absolutely nothing about the music business. The stories are minimalist -- Bret gets a job holding signs, Jemaine gets mugged, Murray takes the band on tour -- but always with strange detours. When Jemaine gets mugged, Bret runs away, assumes Jemaine has died and quickly rents out the other half of the apartment. The guys rack up enormous hotel expenses on the tour, and in the end we realize that all the gigs (a hotel lounge at LaGuardia, "a central park" in Newark) are within driving distance of their apartment. "We've got a whiteboard with song names on it and we start throwing story ideas out," says Bret. "Some songs create stories quite easily, and some are more obliquely inserted." "One of the good things is if you start with the songs and then create the stories," says Bobin, "you wind up with quite weird stories. Which is nice in some ways." "We're used to it, so we don't think of it as weird," shrugs Jemaine, who's far more animated and charming than the dour, pinched persona he adopts for the show. (TV Bret and real Bret don't seem that different, save that real Bret is bright.) The characters, with the occasional exception of Mel and the guys' crude New York pal Dave (Arj Barker), are almost uniformly naive and simplistic in their world view, which in turn makes the more surreal turns in the story work. If anyone was ever clever enough to question the plot logic, there'd be no show. "I don't think of any of them as twits," says Jemaine. "It's all relative to the world around them. On the show, it's all ridiculous. It's just illogical. Which we've tried to match the songs with the rest of the feel of the show so the songs don't feel too weird." "Honestly, though," Bret admits, "there have been times where we've looked at each other and said, 'Is this too stupid?'" While the characters can be stupid, the show itself is smart (albeit extraordinarily dry). It's a rare comedy that rewards repeat viewing, with very funny jokes hidden in the margins so you only notice them the second or third time through. In one episode, Murray is afraid to be around Dave's paintball gun; a later scene shows, without comment, that Murray's jacket has a paint stain on it. "We just thought, at some point in the day, Dave shot Murray in the back," says Bobin. The show has also given the band the opportunity to rework a number of songs from their stage show. "Rhymenoceros," done on stage with two acoustic guitars, gets transformed into a more traditional (but completely ridiculous) rap song; a children's song called "Alby the Racist Dragon" gets accompanied by "Davey & Goliath"-style animation. While they've written a few new songs for the series, the vast majority of the tunes have been from their back catalog. By the end of the season, Bret reckons they'll have used up "98 percent" of their old songs -- which brings us to the only other reasonable excuse for not immediately renewing this comic gem. "We'd need some time to develop new material," says Bret. "It's like the second album syndrome. It might take a lot longer." "

8/19/2007 8:43:26 PM

The look on Murray's face when Bret was tripping last night was great.

8/20/2007 9:53:20 AM