Umm, wow, I’m not sure where to start with this episode. Put Will Forte and Lord of the Rings together and you’ve got a winningly funny episode, I guess?

So, anyway, the episode goes like this. Remember, you can click here to get HBO’s heinously short synopsis. As if….So, anyway, Murray is really down during this episode, and the boys try to think of things to do to cheer him up. He feels like he’s doing a bad job with the band and that he hasn’t really done anything right yet. The duo decides to enlist some help, and find an actor played by Will Forte. They ask him if he could help them by pretending to be a record executive, and to tell Murray that the music is good, but still let him down, because, as you know, he’s not really a record exec. Anyway, the plan goes a little awry when he can’t say no to Murray and tells him that he’ll be offering him a million-dollar contract. Can you say “oops?” Anyway, there’s a music video that results, complete with Mel speaking Elvish or Elvin or whatever it is, I’m sure my boyfriend would yell at me if he saw that I didn’t know what the language was exactly called, but whatever, I don’t watch LotR.

Songs in this episode are “Cheer Up Murray” and “Frodo.”

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So, okay, I never thought of Flight of the Conchords as being, um, “World Music,” but apparently that’s where Murray and I beg to differ, hey?

Well, I guess, if it weren’t for him the two wouldn’t have gotten the new fans that they did, and they never would have drank beer. So, in that way, it all worked out.

In Episode 10, “New Fans,” the fanbase, which was previously Mel, got expanded to two more fans that met the two at the world music jam at a local bar. They got the two to drink beer, went on the boys date with Mel that she won in the contest, and, oh yeah, got them to each try 1/16th of a dot of acid. This caused “The Pretty Prince of Parties,” the best LSD-based song since “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.” (This is only a joke, no controversy, you can say it’s about LSD or about Julian’s picture all you want….I’m not going to argue this.)

Mel, obviously, gets very upset by all this extra attention, to the point that she stalks the boys more than normal and pushes her husband, Doug, even farther away. We also find out the history of her relationship with her husband, who was at one time her college professor. Saucy…..

Stay tuned soon for the song of the week….the pretty prince of parties!!

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