I Poked One, it was Dead

[meddow]

Finished the first season of Flight of the Conchords, which is one of the most funny and original television shows out there today. In case you haven't heard of it, it's a show about the Flight of the Conchords - New Zealand's fourth most popular folk parody duo - trying to make it in big New York. Anyway, it's party dead-pan comedy, part musical. It's absolutely hilarious, I can't believe its take me so long to rent and watch the first series, and it's undone the damage of countless dimly-lit police procedurals over the years and made me want to live in New York.

I could ramble about how brilliant it is, but the best thing to recommend it is the show it self so watch this.

Plus love how it adds to recent trend of the deification of David Bowie with the Bowie episode (in David Bowie appears in Bret's dreams to give him self-esteem advice). If there's anything that telly has taught me anything about religion in the past few years, it is that god is a bunch of rock stars active circa the late 60s and early 70s (David Bowie notably in Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes, Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix in Battlestar Galactica, and arguably, the Rolling Stones in House).

Also watched Red Dwarf: Back to Earth, which wasn't as funny as I remember the series being back in the day, but I liked it anyway and it did have moments of hilarity, and it was so good seeing those characters again.

Since I've got Battlestar Galactica on the brain, I couldn't help but notice the similarities between the two show's premises: the remains of humanity travelling to Earth with iconic made up swear-words. I think the world needs a Red Dwarf/Battlestar Galactica crossover right now. Kritten would get locked up as a Cylon and strike up a friendship with Caprica Six, Rimmer will got into sycophantic overload in the presence of Adama and Roslin and moan about how he can't get ahead because he's not an Adama to everyone that will listen and not in anyway to do with the fact he's got smeg-for-brains, Cat would despair at the fleet's lack of tuna and fashion sense and everyone in the fleet would freak out when they realise that their promised land is populated by Dave Lister. And of course it would all end with Roslin having all four of them airlocked and everyone pretending the incident never happened.

Comments

[airie-fairy.livejournal.com]

It was a bit of a movement.

Me, I had a Bob/Neil Young/Marc Bolan (his doppelganger made a LoM cameo that made a fanboy out of Sam) trinity, but then Cat Stevens joined and now I've got one up on Catholicism. =D

[meddow.livejournal.com]

That Clapton thing makes me want to take up spray painting variations of it around town.

I prefer a pantheon approach over trinity - that way I can have one rock god for every possible mood, with Bowie, Hendrix, Joe Strummer and the Beatles circa Sgt. Pepper right up there.

[airie-fairy.livejournal.com]

I think somewhere there's a picture from the sixties or early seventies of someone in the act of spraypainting that very slogan.

I'm a fan of a lot of people, but the scope of those four fulfills all my symbolic needs. I totally understand the pantheon approach, though.

come on sucker, lick my battery

[artic-fox.livejournal.com]

I'm really pleased you liked the Conchords first season. It is completely fabulous and I hope you enjoy S2 just as much.

The best thing about the Robot clip is Murray's car sitting in the background with the boot open, lol. It is little things like that which make it brilliant. Plus Bowie is probably one of the best episode ever (and Unnatural Love from S2 - it was so funny I hurt myself laughing).

Re: come on sucker, lick my battery

[meddow.livejournal.com]

I'm going to have to wait for it to come out on DVD for season two because I just cannot deal with the crappy reception (hopefully it shan't be a long wait).

Bowie is one of my favourite episodes, along with What Goes on Tour, that and the episode with the racist Dragon.

Re: come on sucker, lick my battery

[artic-fox.livejournal.com]

I have no idea when the DVD is out in NZ. I know in the UK/US it is August sometime although the UK doesn't seem to have even shown S2 yet. But I really enjoyed that season as well though, even though the boys had to basically write everything from scratch because they had used up their material in S1.

Haha, I love the racist dragon episode. I'm rubbish at remembering their names as well, but the one where the fruit stall guy thinks they are Australian. ♥ I also love Bret's angry dance, even though it isn't one of my favourite episodes overall.

Re: come on sucker, lick my battery

[meddow.livejournal.com]

Oh, The angry dance! That was one of my favourite moments.

And hopefully it's not too long a wait for the DVD to come out.

Re: come on sucker, lick my battery

[artic-fox.livejournal.com]

I love the angry dance, especially because they kind of lead into it happening earlier in the episode when Jemaine asks Bret in disbelief: "I've never seen you dance", and Bret's like "I dance at parties! I dance when I'm angry!" I love the subtle things like that.

I'm sure there are other ways and means if you can't be bothered in waiting.