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These Are Some Funny Foreigners, Hell of a Show Here | Flight of the Conchords: The Complete First and Second Seasons w/CD | Jemaine Clement, Bret McKenzie

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	• Flight of the Conchords: The Complete First and Second Seasons w/CD Jemaine Clement, Bret McKenzie HBO, 2009 average customer review:based on 8 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

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Jermaine and Bret are a pair of New Zealand musicians, living in New York City and hoping to hit it big. Yeah, "Flight of the Conchords: The Complete Collection" sounds like a terrible generic sitcom, but instead this series is one of the most hilarious comedies of the last decade -- a quirky, weird, tongue-in-cheek little show with hilarious dialogue. Think a musical version of "The Office."

Folk-pop group Flight of the Conchords is Jermaine Clement and Bret McKenzie (played by themselves), who came all the way from New Zealand to New York. They are being managed by the ineffectual New Zealand Consulate official Murray (Rhys Darby), and they have exactly one fan/stalker, Mel (Kristen Schaal). They don't have many gigs, and even fewer successful ones.

As they chase elusive fame'n'fortune, the guys have to deal with girlfriend woes (dating the same girl, a "Yoko", a girl who just wants to use Bret for sex), financial difficulties (Bret bought a cup!), jobs, muggings, anti-Kiwi racism, a problematic rock'n'roll tour, two new fans with impure intentions, a semi-professional actor/compulsive liar who makes Murray think they've got a multimillion-dollar deal, the Crazy Doggz, Australians, epileptic terriers, the Prime Minister of New Zealand, hair gel, and a stage musical based on their misadventures.

If I had to come up with a description for "Flight of the Conchords," it would be that they're the folky New Zealand love child of Spinal Tap and "The Office." No laugh track, rambling dialogue, and the main characters tend to spontaneously break into song-and-dance at pivotal parts of the plot. And it's brilliant.

The writing is brimming over with effortless weirdness, as the guys encounter everyday problems (threesomes, girlfriend woes, weird dreams) which soon turn into hilariously surreal situations (the disturbing children's show, "Albi the Racist Dragon"). The dialogue is amazing ("When I first met you you tried to have me deported from New Zealand because you thought I was an Australian"), and full of rambling conversations that just get stranger with every line ("Have you ever had a threesome?" "Nearly." "What do you mean, nearly?" "I've had a twosome").

The songs are gutsplitting as well, since they're all about homicidal robots, mermaids, toothpaste, hip-hop spoofs, hermaphrodites ("Oh you sexy hermaphrodite lady-man-ladies"), rappers, cannibalism, and the hiphop-potamus. Not to mention "Frodo, Don't Wear the Ring" and its accompanying music video, which are a nod to McKenzie's role as the elf Figwit.

But none of this would be even half as funny if it weren't for the actors -- Clement's self-named chatacter is stoic and kind of weird (he writes a song about putting a wig on Bret), while McKenzie's is more childlike, naive and likes to sit in a cardboard box. Darby rounds out the cast as their harried, rather pathetic manager (who isn't even supposed to be managing a band), and Schaal is also quite funny as a woman who has a creepy sexual fixation on the guys.

This edition also comes with the "Distant Future" EP, which is a nice addition if not a full soundtrack -- it has the hilariously faux-seductive "Business Time," the equally hysterical "If You're Into It" ("Is that what you're into/him and you, in the nude?"), the sad "Not Crying," and live versions of "The Most Beautiful Girl in the Room", "Banter," and "Robots."

"Flight of the Conchords: The Complete Series" is one of the rarest kind of comedy out there -- steady, hysterical, and only gets better with repeated viewings. And boy, are you sorry when it's over.

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Wooing Broadway

A bit grotesque comedy of things common is an Australian/NZ TV show of a Kiwi boy band attempting to woo Broadway but finished as traditional shearers in native New Zealand.

Really nice musical performing and funny in general.

These Are Some Funny Foreigners, Hell of a Show Here

This show delivers each and every episode. With their unique blend of dry humor and surprisingly pleasant "novelty band" songs, it's hard not to keep a grin above your chin. I first saw their stand-up, and then had the privilege of stumbling across these DVDs after the show was all ready off the air(by the choice of Brett and Jermaine). I really enjoy all aspects of this show, and I wish they had signed on for additional seasons. Who knows, maybe they come back for more seasons like I think Larry David has done with Curb Your Enthusiasm. Splurge on yourself, you can't go wrong with this package.(Note:Limited Tracks on included Soundtrack)

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Brett and Jermaine, you will be missed....

I love everything about Flight of the Conchords. Everything. Except the fact they are not coming back for season 3. Of the two seasons, season 1 is better, but there are fantastic moments in season 2 as well (Jermaine becoming a prostitute, getting Garfunkled, the prime minister of New Zealand wanting to drive the tour bus). It's a very quirky show and not everyone will find it amusing, but I for one laugh out loud each time I watch it. And I have all of their songs available for purchase on ITunes on my IPod. I even saw them live in Atlanta last year and the live show is even better than the series. Love, love, love FOTC!

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Awesome Value for an awesome product

My girlfriend and i started watching this show a couple weeks ago and LOVED it. Jemaine and Bret are so funny. A few tv shows that i believe are hilarious is How I Met Your Mother, Chuck, The Office. Im not saying that they have similar types of humor, but if you like these shows you will probably like FoTC. They sing songs about there lives and its very catchy and humorous (deadly combination). I was just in the market for both of these season so i was browsing around a few days earlier and stumbled up this from slickdeals. This is a great vaule for a great show

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Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie -- a.k.a. Flight of the Conchords -- moved to New York in the hopes of forging a successful music career. Unfortunately, despite their status as "New Zealand's 4th Most Popular Folk Parody Duo," fame and notoriety continue to elude them. Helping them navigate the strange world of the Big Apple are Murray, their devoted manager and New Zealand?s Cultural Attache; Mel, their obsessed (and only) fan; and Dave, a local pawn shop owner and de facto counsel for how to assimilate in America. Watch as Bret and Jemaine contend with unrequited love, inept criminals, prostitution, and epileptic dogs, breaking into song as they clumsily try to break into the New York scene. Includes both seasons of the show plus the CD "The Distant Future."

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