Episode of the Day: “Mugged”
Once again, if you’d like to hear HBO’s synopsis (where I got this sweet pic of the camera-phone), click here. For my extremely detailed, never-watered-down synopsis, read on below…
If you ever wanted to find out the reason why so many New Zealanders are mugged in New York City, this episode will provide you with the answer. In “Mugged,” Bret and Jemaine are instructed by Murray on how to navigate through New York. Some of his advice includes avoiding heavy traffic by going down back alleys, wearing bright orange reflective vest-belt-things, carrying a New York map everywhere, not to mention open, and wear New York hats and shirts…you know…to blend in.
It was really only a matter of time, with all this great advice, that the duo would risk getting mugged, which is exactly what happens. Luckily and unluckily for them, they don’t really have anything on them, except for Bret’s “Camera-phone,” which is literally a camera glued to a phone, that Bret made Jemaine for his birthday. In order to try and avoid getting mugged, the two sing…er….rap…the song, “Hip-hopapotamous vs. the Rhymenocerous.” It is a great gangsta rap, well, as good that New Zealand gangsta can get, I suppose. This song doesn’t really work, sadly, and the two are forced to flee from a knife. Bret manages to get away, but Jemaine gets stuck on a fence. Bret just leaves him there. Shoddy friend.
Later, we see Jemaine and one of the muggers in jail, and we find out that their respective friends have left them. Bret sends out a “search party,” consisting of Murray and Dave with a paintball gun, two days after Jemaine had been left. There is a tender moment in jail, and some guilt-tripping of Bret, not to mention the song “Think About It,” talking about horrible things that happen on the street, including children getting diseases from monkeys…you know, that silent epidemic and whatnot. Just horrible.
Although things are rough and Jemaine stays mad at Bret for a little while, surprisingly not for renting out the apartment to someone else, more for the whole running thing, everything gets sorted out by the end, and the two are friends again. The camera-phone even gets returned, with some pictures the mugger took with it, including, I believe, one of him robbing a place. Totally great, and the rap is one of my all-time favorite Conchord songs.
Coming up next, Song of the Day!
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