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FLIGHT Ends Season One With A Third Conchord!!
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I am – Hercules!!
I find “Flight of the Conchords” plenty funny! But not everybody does! How some talkbackers greeted the show when it hit HBO June 17:
“Fucking Awful! what a piece of shit!”
-- talkbacker “Gqtaste”
“Sounds awful. Just what the world needs, another too-black-to-be-genuinely-funny fish-out-of-water comedy.”
-- talkbacker “forgot_old_username”
“only made me giggle twice. Not all that funny. I smiled at a couple bits and laughed twice."
-- talkbacker “StovetopStuffin'”
“Would work better as a series of one-minute TV commercials for some prodcut nobody cares about. It's about that entertaining too. HBO, don't just cancel this show--never show any more episodes. Dead air would be preferable.”
-- talkbacker “Subversive01057”
Bad news for the haters: HBO liked “Conchords” well enough to give it a second season arriving next year.
HBO says of tonight’s finale:
Murray (Rhys Darby) foists a new bongo-playing band member (Todd Barry) on Bret (Bret McKenzie) and Jemaine (Jemaine Clement), triggering angry dances and mutant half-bands. Written by James Bobin & Jemaine Clement & Bret McKenzie; directed by James Bobin.
For those unaware, Todd Barry is a generally hilarious stand-up comic.
10:30 p.m. Sunday. HBO.
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South for the winter?
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I don't understand the negative sentiment towards Conchords. The humor isn't for everyone, but it's actually creative comedy. At least HBO knows good comedy when they see it.
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btw can't wait for the full-length album
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this show is friggin hysterical , took a few episodes to grow on me but now im hokked bad
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Great show. I hope the season finale kicks ass. Can't wait for the second season
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"They need to develop the concepts a lot further (go on tour, get an actual deal, or get all self-referential like the last season or two of Seinfeld and start making a sitcom)." -Tapehead of AICN-The Zone forum. I think that's a great idea. Actually, I kinda got the impression that that's where they're heading anyway. Seeing as how Mel is based on the chick from that Austin doc and all, seems they already are using bits from real life here and there.
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Seriously, the show is taking off. Business time is getting regular radio air play. They are showing up on the major music video networks. HBO losened up and all the music/skits are on you tube and get a huge amount of hits. This show is taking off.. Get on the bandwagon while it's just starting off... If that's what your into...
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Just saw this vid on YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tn3Ne5IjfU
Check out the rap at the end. Also check for the humans are dead, most beautiful girl, etc. -
to those who mock this show. ;)
This show is hilarious. Brilliant. Hooray for a 2nd season. -
meaning she's a LOTR-geek and would be the type that hangs out here probably. I don't think she'd be too happy with those TBers up there dissing on the Conchords like that.
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Leggy Blonde Goodbye!!
I had a budgie but it died
I like pie -
You are wrong, and we are right. So come on. Join our lot.
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Screw the idiotic talkbackers mentioned in the post, FotC fucking rocks!!
The Bowie-episode alone was total genius and Murray (present btw) is the funniest character on TV in a long time. I can't wait for a second season, they just need to introduce more of a storyline.
Bret & Jermaine not getting gigs and failing to get laid was alright for one season, but something needs to happen in order to not make the concept tiresome.
Personally, I'd like to see the band finally getting some success and more than one fan. That's a kinda obvious idea, I know, but it brings a lot of opportunities.
Or maybe Bret, Jermaine and Murray could take the path to Mordor in NZ. Man, that accent cracks me up, I gotta learn to talk like that. -
He knows what he's talking about.
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Are you on you way to...dick meeting?
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As Murray would say, GO FECK YASILVES!
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Now go feck yasilves tekbeckers.
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I love Curb and can't wait for the new season, but I worry about Larry running out of ideas. Last season was great, but kind of felt like it should have been the last. Conchords, on the other hand, just blew me away. It had a hilarious pilot but I wasn't sure if they'd be able to make 12 more shows just as funny. But they did. I'm so glad this has found an audience. I can't wait for next season!
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...as Herc mentioned, all of those posts came from the reaction to FotC's first episode. That was earlier in the summer when HBO had closed the book on "The Sopranos" and every new show was a big deal. "Conchords" is very good at what it does, but it's not for everyone, and I'm sure the people who tuned in out of curiosity and didn't like it weighed in with their initial thoughts, stopped watching, and got out of everybody else's way. Which is more or less agreeable enough, and more or less what you're supposed to do when you don't like a show (as opposed to the religious warfare that breaks out in "Heroes" and "Lost" TalkBacks on a weekly basis). Although I do wish some of those people would give "Conchords" a second chance, because I think it really hit its stride in the middle of the season.
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Classic as the dry-cleaning actor who caved in to Murray begging for a record deal - especially loved that Murray had a "conference call" with Peter Jackson and a fellow from the Mafia. FOTC is the best - if that's what you're into...
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Everyone's entitled to an opinion of course, but FotC's was so obviously smart and funny from the pilot episode. Even if this kind of dead-pan humour isn't your thang, quality will out. For example, Friends didn't make me laugh but I could see why it was so popular with the chick-flick crowd. With FotC's though there has been a highlight in every single episode. And Jermaine is just a fucking genius. Just look at that Bowie episode. First there is 3 kicking Bowie impersonations and then there is the total joy of "Bret, you got it going on". Amazing performance which includes some of the best acting on TV this year. The look of suppressed panic and embarrassment on his face when he was denying the whole wig incident was just astounding. You could list reasons to love this show for hours. I live in the UK where you can only see the shows via the internet or from people like me who play it to anyone who comes into the house, and it's already cool to quote from them.
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Seriously, posting those moronic reviews while noting the second season is lunacy. This is obviously the funniest new comedy on television. Even an idiot could see that.
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Likewise, it easily makes the top ten of the best shows on TV period (next to Daily Show and The Colbert Report, of course). Of course, there will always be the primates who don't get it, who prefer to jerk off all over FOUR KINGS HAVE SEX IN THE CITY WHILE QUEER EYES LOOK AT STRAIGHT GUYS (aka ENTOURAGE -- easily the WORST tv show in human history), but, hey, it takes all types. Intelligent people with healthy senses of humor, the absurd, and genius parody/satire music ala Zappa and Ween will like FOTC. Dumb ass binge drinking frat guy prmates, on the other hand, will prefer FOUR KINGS HAVE SEX IN THE CITY WHILE QUEER EYES LOOK AT STRAIGHT GUYS (aka ENTOURAGE). Different strokes for different folks, I suppose.
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hated Rushmore, Royal Tennenbaums and Napolean Dynamite so I do not give a rat's ass if they don't get this either, I know what makes me laugh.
I loved their concert special and have loved this show from the get go. -
Blasphemy!
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More like Rushmore and Election...that sounds better.
LONG LIVE FOTC!!!!
Did I mention Jemaine is cute? -
My favorite show on the air right now -- I can't stop watching the episodes over and over. They get funnier with each viewing.
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this show just keeps getting better and better. Every character and guest comedians rock! Thank god there is some fresh new comedy on the boob tube.
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I thought the season finale was OK. Wasn't one of the best episodes they had. I just didn't like how the only song of the show was by two guys we didn't even know. I didn't hate it but I didn't love it. Still a great show and still looking forward to the 2nd season.
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do right by them HBO...
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"What do you play, the leather jacket?"
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Why don't they just call it the "Damage Control Edition"?
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In the other FOTC eps, Jermaine and Bret do musical numbers. In tonights ep, the only song was performed by Dimetri Martin and Todd Barry. I thought the "Footloose" tribute was funny as hell but I just thought they would end the season with a big musical number with Jermaine and Bret and Murray and Mel and kinda recap the season in a big way.
But to be honest, I think the real reason I was a little bummed was because there was no Dave tonight. -
It deserves its own talkback, dontcha think?
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it's an established fact of science that any show produced after the millennium that relies on more than 20 seconds of parodic flashdance jerking back and forth to attempt to generate laughs is reaching for material.
plenty of other holes to poke in this stinker of an episode but I'll leave it at that.
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Sep 02, 2007 11:24:36 PM CDT
Awesome finale.........................................
by crackerfarmboy
Made Entourage look silly tonight. I can't wait for the second season. The new "hollywood" Murray is priceless.
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people who hated the first episode should have kept watching. Oh, and now they're releasing the first season of Larry Sanders again, AFTER they released that random compilation? I'm glad I didn't buy it, but it would be nice if there was a complete series box set by this point. One of the best shows ever and HBO still can't get it out on DVD? Bunch'a dicks.
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That show is much easier to ignore when you don't realise how much it sucks. LaserPants correctly sums up that show.
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Watch it, and learn. THIS is how a rock and roll comedy should look.
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Hmm, I thought only binge drinking frat boys wrote posts calling people "queers"? It's easy to talk about how great FOTC is without making yourself seem like a total dick for calling people that like Entourage (which I don't) "queers" or revealing yourself a true idiot for comparing FOTC to the same-sarcastic-shit-every-night Colbert/Daily Show shows. I think people like you say that you like FOTC because on some level you know that it's "cool", but you and people like you are the type of audience that will ultimately ruin this show because as ratings slip- as they eventually do on all shows- the writers will cater to you and your kind rather than staying true to the satire. Now go jerk off over your Caps Lock key.
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*Kisses!* (Of course, being a fan of ENTOURAGE, I can only assume... also closet gay? Have fun with that!)
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Last thing I want to see is a unique show become a carbon copy of something else, especially something as cliche as Spinal Tap. I'm not knocking the quality of that film, just saying that it is has gotten old and doesn't need to be rehashed...especially by the old members of Spinal Tap.
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Firates of the Caribbean?
Frince of the City? -
It should not be overlooked that Demetri Martin had a rather meaty guest role on the show last night as well.
I love it when the comedians I love are huge fans of each other. -
The good news: $59.95 as oppose to $99.95. You may all rejoice.
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The price will be $ 29.95
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was fucking awful. I love this show and have since I saw the first episode. However, the song was a piece of shit and I have to agree with eggbeater, a grand collaborative song would have been better and actually advancing the band a bit would have been nice to see instead they went from 1 fan to zero...meh.
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I was a bit disappointed because the FOTC songs are so good, but that was the point - a P.O.S. song got to number 1 and made Murray a fortune... But we all know it won't last - just as Seinfeld and his ilk never found lasting success or love on that show, neither will Bret or Jemaine... But they will continue to play libraries and tiny bars, hoping for the return of their one fan (and maybe some new ones), Murray will continue calling roll from his tiny office in the consulate, and those of us who appreciate a unique comedy will keep laughing - and we know that the writers behind FOTC will also take us to some new and unexpected places, like an LOTR parody or adventures of a racist dragon. I don't care about Entourage, but I'm not a hater - the show just doesn't interest me - if that's what you're in to, so be it - just leave me FOTC. Thanks.
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Period.
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FOTC = Fashion of the Christ.
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Finally a show not too clever for its own good, not wrapped up in smarmy little plotlines. Great stuff.
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ROTFL!
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That was a hillarious epsidode
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I heard they filmed that ep before they knew the show was going to get renewed, so it was kinda a "whatever happenens, happenes" this. Thus Bret and Jermane dance at the end like nothing matters and Murray is rich and in charge of a big band.
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It was funny, and I liked it for what it was (funny) rather than what it wasn't (some sort of giant musical clusterfuck, because everyone joining together is always better than being funny).
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"Oh, the media monkeys with the junky-junkies trying to invite you to their plastic pantomime. Throw away their invites." -- "I'm not sure I know what you mean."
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i actually peed my pants a little. "Wear the funky, funky...eyepatch!"
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I watched them all because of the lead in shows and I like the songs (too few per ep though), but the rest is just the same story/schtick over and over again. A lot of people seem to love this show though, so I guess it's good that HBO didn't cancel it for a change. But part of me truly thinks that if they didn't have accents, there wouldn't be as much love. It's just a theory, but hey.
I suppose with a lot of my other favorite comedies, they often turn bad for me when they take a stupid character and make them even stupider, to the point where the stupidity isn't in any way grounded in reality (Homer on Simpsons is a perfect example of this). With FOTC, they've started out the characters that stupid. For some, that's humor. I still rate Larry Sanders as the best comedy to air on HBO. And South Park, at its prime (way past it now), as the best comedy ever.
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they wouldn't be fish out of water. The whole thing where they have band meetings at murray's work wouldn't make sense and wouldn't be funny. They would have probably lost at least one joke an episode, and many jokes and much of the plot in some episodes. Yes the accents are a part of the show, and therefore a part of the love.
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Decent episode. Where was their wise friend, the Indian guy? He's hilarious. When he tried to convince Jemaine and Bret that his parents were his roommates. Classic elder-twenties loser. "They were like, 'You wanna have a fivesome with us?' and I was like, yeah, sure. Afterwards, they were like, 'Will you marry us?' and I said, 'I don't know about where you come from but I don't think monogamy is legal here.'"
I do wish the finale would have had a FotC song in it, but oh well. But, it was great to have Demetri Martin on (he's fucking hilarious). "It's a guitboard", "It's a keytar". "Is it a keyboard or a guitar?" "Exaclty." -
The scene I keep watching over and over is the pseudo-French 60's song in the grocery store, where Jermaine bounces back and forth behind the cart, and Bret picks up grocery items and calls them out in French. Picking up a fish: "Jacques Costeau!" Freaking hilarious.
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That would be the perfect name for a Flight of the Conchords cover band. Of course you would have to do the doggie bounce.
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Why haven't I made this my TB name? "What do you play, the leather jacket?" Best line of the season.
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That would be hilarious. The guy with the bongos rocked. I thought the funniest line of the episode was when Murray said Bret would probably quit the band in a half hour anyway.
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I felt a little let down by the finale but it's gotten better with additional viewings. The same can't be said for this season of Entourage. Why does Anna Faris look like shit on this series? I was ready to call it quits with Medellin documentry (could you imagine that being full lenght? Fuck) but I stayed on because I wanted to see more of Mrs. Ari. Now I'm bored to fucking tears as nothing every happens and it's the jokes seem to have disappeared. Also, Mary J. Blige as their biggest client? WTF has she done in the last few years? Vinny "biggest star in the world" Chance impressed by E meeting Anna Faris? C'mon...
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"Thus Bret and Jermane dance at the end like nothing matters..." - they were dancing because they were mad that Crazy Dogggz became popular and Murray was blowing them off. Earlier in the episode Bret said that being angry was one of the reasons why he danced.
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