Flight of The Conchords: “Same Girl”
We’re really on top of things around here, three days after the fact and we finally get around to recapping an episode of television.
And what an episode it was, unlike last week they actually managed to
incorporate some standard Flight of The Conchords awkwardness into it, which always seems to come about when Bret and Jemaine are fighting over a woman. The continuous and passive attempts to show up the other in front of the girl they’re both pursuing always makes for a good laugh. Is it considered an upgrade of downgrade they went from fighting over Sally (seen here) to Kristen Wiig (to the right)? Should I just not ask the question? You’re right, it’s probably best just not to broach the subject.
The music is usually a touchy subject with us, in that about 80% of the time we could do without it. But the first number (which came awfully early in the episode) was a home run, and the minor interlude with the building super scratching records was quite hysterical. The second song we kind of stopped paying attention to after about forty-five seconds because it didn’t really have any flow to it. But the subsequent performance at the epileptic dog gathering and the studio recording more than made up for it, especially when the remix came on accompanied with a strobe light. I’d actually venture to say that the music was the highlight of “Same Girl”.
This episode had everything we generally value in a FoTC episode. It was heavy on the Rhys Darby (Jazzercise!), which sounds like a euphemism or an obscure hallucinogen but is actually the actor who plays Murray Hewitt. It had a Dave scene that seamlessly jumped from reality to some parallel universe and back to reality. Kristen Schaal was seen only momentarily and hilariously in this episode, confessing her extensive pondering about what a child from Bret and Jemaine would look like, followed by a brief appearance to give them a photoshopped picture of their mythical love child
would look like, then again at the epileptic dog benefit.
A top-tier episode and the timing couldn’t be better. We’re in between two off weeks for The Office and we need a comedic fix in between episodes of Survivor and Friday Night Lights (note: we’re still watching Nip Tuck, though it’s too ridiculous to keep recapping; and 30 Rock, though we can’t recap a series we start watching regularly two seasons after it already started). But more importantly, when are some other cable series going to be kicked into gear for us to recap?
We’ll try to post some links later today.
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