(Murray)

Goodbye
Goodbye, leggy blonde
Every day I’d look across the office floor
There you were your hair down to your legs
And your legs down to the floor
Leggy blonde, goodbye
Goodbye
Now that you are gone I’ll never see you here for tech repair
I wish you knew how much I loved your legs and your hair
Leggy blonde, goodbye
Goodbye

(Alternating Jemaine, Bret, Murray)

Leggy leggy leggy leggy
Leggy leggy leggy leggy
Leggy leggy leggy leggy
Leggy leggy leggy leggy
Blondie blondie blondie blondie
Blondie blondie blondie blondie
Blondie blondie blondie blondie
Blondie blondie

(Murray)

Leggy blonde
Goodbye
Goodbye
I had a budgie but it died
(whoa)
I like pie

(Murray/Jemaine/Bret)
Leggy leggy leggy leggy
Leggy leggy leggy leggy
Leggy leggy leggy leggy
Leggy leggy leggy leggy
Blondie blondie blondie blondie
Blondie blondie blondie blondie
Blondie blondie blondie blondie
Blondie blondie

(Murray)

Leggy blonde
I’ll never get
I’ll never get to be with ya
I’ll never get to share another cup of tea with ya
I’ll never get to let ya know how much I think of ya
I’ll never get to tear your clothes off on the photocopier

(Bret/Jemaine)

He’ll never get
He’ll never get
He’ll never get
He’ll never get to say

(Jemaine)
Oooh leggy blonde you got it goin’ on
Wanna see you wearin’ that thong thong thong
See you getting’ on to the break of dawn
(Mumbling) panties on

(Murray)

Goodbye
Goodbye, leggy blonde

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This episode….honestly….a perfect example of how FotC hits issues, but in the most indirect, bizarre, innocent, hilarious way. Seriously, who thought they would run into a man that had a prejudice against New Zealanders? It is the ideal episode for talking about racism, but not offending that many people….except for those near that continent that nobody pays a lot of attention to…so like it matters, right?

Anyway, “Drive By” is all about this man that sells fruit near Bret and Jemaine’s apartment, and he doesn’t want to sell it to them because he has a problem with people from New Zealand. It’s the first time the duo has encountered racism in New York, although Murray is no stranger to it, as he talks about how he is called “ginger balls” all the time….actually by Bret, but why get into semantics, right?

So, the two are obviously hurt by this, I mean, who wouldn’t be upset about people not liking them for no reason whatsoever, yeah? Luckily, Dave is there to offer some help. He gives Bret and Jemaine lessons in flipping the bird, which they don’t understand, because they think it would look better with wings. I tend to agree with them on this one, however, I’m probably not going to put it into practice, because nobody would know what the heck I was doing.

The B story in this episode is also phenomenal, with the leggy blonde tech girl that Murray falls in love with. He comes up with all kinds of reasons to get her to help him, and all of a sudden, her work is done and she is never to return again. This is when the song “Leggy Blonde” plays, one of my favorites to date, and something that I sing with my boyfriend a lot. I dare you to not find singing the word “leggy” repeatedly enjoyable.

The other songs in this episode are “Albi the Racist Dragon” and “Mutha Uckas.” Oh yes, every title is gold.

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Once again, if you’d like the HBO Synopsis (and the link to this picture) click here. My synopsis follows….the better synopsis. Kind of like pork is the other white meat. Except I don’t eat pork. And they say other, and not better. Okay, so my reference sucks, but my summary is better, I promise!

So, this is the oh-so-rare occasion where I’m not actually watching the episode to give a synopsis, so I’ll do this the best I can with what I remember. It’s been a while since we’ve seen Sally, and all of a sudden, she’s back and Jemaine sees her in a laundromat. They start talking a bit, and Sally mentions how she wants to settle down someday. This is when “Business Time” starts, one of the greatest songs in the Conchords repertoire. Jemaine is imagining his life with Sally, and it’s definitely a typical, realistic view of what happens after two people are married after a while….or at least, what everyone dreads is going to happen, however, Jemaine seems to idealize this idea.

The two start hanging out again, but Sally insists that Jemaine needs to get his own place and not live with Bret anymore, so he does just that. He moves into a very swanky apartment complex….although his apartment isn’t quite matching the building. He actually moves into a janitor’s closet. Jemaine later talks about hosting a party on the weekend.

Bret gets, well, let’s say, miffed at all these new arrangements. First of all, Jemaine has left him to move somewhere else, and the other reason is Sally, whom Bret dated for like 6 months. He starts to get jealous and shows his feelings for Sally, although he’s still dating Coco. Sally’s birthday is coming up, so Bret and Jemaine both compete to make something that Sally will love. Bret comes up with a song, Jemaine comes up with an amazing paper cut-out card. The two upgrade from there, until it gets to a pebble with Sally’s name on it and a glass butterfly.

Sadly, the competition backfires, although it’s well-displayed in the gifts and in the song “Sally, I Love You,” where Jemaine echoes all of Bret’s sentiments. It turns out that Sally has a boyfriend, a fiance, actually, and worst of all, he’s Australian. Coco also breaks up with Bret because it’s obvious to her that he still has feelings for Sally. The break-up is actually conveyed through Jemaine, and is undeniably the best conversation in the episode.

So, that’s the best I can come up with from memory. If there’s a part of the episode that I forgot and you love it, correct me and add it in a comment. I know that my mind isn’t perfect, but I think I hit just about everything. Oh, also, I love Rachel Blanchard. You should too.

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Once again, for the HBO synopsis, click here. For my much more awesome synopsis, read below.

So, the episode starts with a proposition for a great tour of band rotundas by Murray. However, Bret isn’t having it because he’s going on a date with Coco, his new girlfriend. Jemaine tries to get out of it saying he met a girl at the video library, but Murray got him, clever Murray, since there’s no such thing as a video library.

We then get to see Bret and his ladyfriend at her apartment, wit the deliciously awkward ending to their date, where we find out that Jemaine has joined on in the date. It is a continuing theme during the episode hereafter. Sad, sad, Jemaine.

The next day we see the guys at the apartment where Bret sings his song for Coco to Jemaine. It’s two hours long, so Jemaine suggests that Bret shorten it, and also make it more realistic, to things that he would actually do instead of saying that he’d do things like climb the highest mountain and race the fastest animal. This is what gives birth to “If You’re Into It,” which is disputably my favorite song thus far.

You also get to see a fan club meeting in the episode, which is Mel….and that’s it. Murray provides pictures for the newsletter, including one that just “slipped in” with the others of him shirtless. Needless to say, Mel wasn’t interested. However, she was very interested in the fact that Bret had a girlfriend, so much that she broke her pencil in hidden anger. Never ceasing to put the “fan” in “fanatically crazy woman,” this may be Mel’s best display of fan obsession so far.

So, after the song “If You’re Into It,” there is a small montage of the Jemaine tag-along-ness, and Bret finally telling him he’s got to cut it out. This makes Jeamine mad and he calls her “Yoko” and slips “Ono” into his conversation during a band meeting. It ends with Bret throwing a sandwich at Jemaine’s face, which, quite honestly, made me explode with laughter.

Don’t despair about this discord, however, folks, because luckily there is a song to bring everyone together at the end….like tape does. Ironically and appropriately, the song sings about tape, and is even called “Sello Tape,” so you really can’t be confused by the meaning of the song or the imagery that is employed.

This is a great episode, fun had by all, please watch it and love it and tell me how you feel about it as well.

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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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So, I checked this time, and you can still get this great podcast. Just get iTunes if you don’t have it already, don’t make me scold you again, search for “Flight of the Conchords” and download all the free podcast episodes you can. It will be worth your time.

Today, I’m featuring the interview with Rhys Darby, also known as Murray, the band manager of FOTC. He was asked questions like “When did you decide you wanted to become an actor?”, “How do you like to spend time between takes?”, and “What was your favorite TV show growing up?” As far as whether he answers the questions like Murray or like Rhys, I guess you’ll have to watch it and see. Oh, mystery, aren’t I cruel? Well, now, maybe that will motivate you to wander over there and check it out!

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Just like last week, here’s the link to the HBO synopsis of the episode. You can find my own, much more lengthy synopsis, below!

So, all we need to get to is the second episode before we realize that Bret and Jemaine are having money troubles. Bret comes home with some groceries, and Jemaine starts to eat a sandwich before being told that Bret just found them on the street. This causes a lot of torment, and starts the song “Inner City Pressure,” which has great synth effects, if you were curious.

The duo go to Murray’s office to have a band meeting, where they ask for any money they’ve saved away, which is like four dollars, since they lost six to buying the cash box to put it in. They’ve also tried selling merch, but only two t-shirts and zero mousepads have moved. 

They decide to get a job to support themselves, but only Bret is hired as a sign-holder, since Jemaine cracked that a lamppost could do the job that was required. However, Bret’s job poses a problem once Murray actually gets the band a gig for once, causing tension in the group.

Then the magic moment comes where Bret meets Coco, his new interest, and the song “She’s So Hot/BOOM!” starts up. One of my favorite lines of the song is, “She’s so hot she’s making me sexist.” The song that proceeds consists of many words replaced by “boom.” Good times, for sure.

The episode then goes to the convention where New Zealand’s booth is right next to Australia’s, and Australia is really being a jackass, to say the least. Sadly, the only thing New Zealand’s booth has to offer is rocks, The Lord of the Rings filming fame, a fence made out of toothbrushes, and Flight of the Conchords, which is missing Bret, who is replaced by a tape. The tape was actually well-received, and Bret is kicked out in order to make room for the tape. After this is a delightfully creepy car ride with Mel, which is always a pleasure to watch, that is, if you get pleasure out of being uncomfortable and afraid.

There’s a mini-montage of the two separated, and then Jemaine and Murray sit and talk about the pros and cons of the tape vs. Bret. One of the pros of a tape: “More compact.” Sadly, the tape is ruined and then Jemaine is out of the band as well. Jemaine then needs Bret in order to put the band back together, so he tries to convince him to join the band for a while, also while coming up with ideas to replace Bret unless he can’t convince him.

The next day, Bret is talking with Coco and finds out that she likes bands more than sings, so he’s back in the band. He figures out a way to manage both work and the band, and the episode ends harmoniously, as it should. His boss even makes a Flight of the Conchords sign using a hot dog sign. Thank goodness Bret didn’t get replaced with Brent, right? The rest of the season would be, like, really weird then.

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I know I talked a little about Episode 1 before in the podcast post, but I didn’t put up anything like a plot synopsis, so her ya go… (To read HBO’s synopsis, click here)

So, this is obviously the pilot of Flight of the Conchords. Bret and Jemaine have just recently moved to New York, to Queens specifically, and they’re talking about girls Jemaine has dated in New Zealand. They go to a party at Dave’s, a guy who runs a pawn shop in town, and Jemaine sees a girl from across the room who he is attracted to instantly. This is when the song “The Most Beautiful Girl in the Room” plays. Jemaine invites Sally for a kebab and then over to his apartment. Hoewever, everything stops and Sally goes home after Bret turns on the light in his bedroom.

Jemain and Bret have a conversation in the morning about what made Sally leave. Jemaine thinks it was the light. Bret thinks it’s because he and Sally dated for 6 months. I wonder who was right. Anyway, there’s a montage where Jemaine takes Sally on a bunch of dates, and Bret gets mad about Jemaine wanting the apartment. Somewhere in the middle of all this the “Robots” song gets played, which is hilarity at its finest, although the duo is mad that they don’t look like Daft Punk.

Jemaine and Bret eventually go on a date together with Sally. It proves too awkward, though, and Bret leaves just before his duck comes. Jemaine and Sally are walking after dinner and Sally tells him that she doesn’t want to date anymore. Cue the song, “Not Crying,” a song describing how Jemaine is going to miss Sally and how Bret misses Jemaine. Very epic, very beautiful.

It is a great episode and a valuable lesson about dating an ex of a best friend. Usually, this is a bad practice. Thank you, FOTC, for keeping us educated.

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Anyway, Rhys has a Myspace blog that he updates often that, if you haven’t been reading, you must read…and read now! It’ll help you get to know him a little better, not to mention, keep you up to date with everything that’s been going on in the life of a great comedian. He updates frequently with interviews, video clips, performance dates, etc.

Click here to read Rhys’ blog.

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