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Flight Of The Conchords season 2 episode 5 review

Glen Chapman


Flight Of The Conchords remains in a bit of a slump with its latest episode, but there are some highlights nonetheless...

Published on Jun 10, 2009

5. Unnatural Love

'Too many dudes
With too many dicks
Too close to my shit
Too hard to meet chicks
I need better odds
More broads, less rods
I came to do battle
Scadaddle with the cattle prods'

This week's episode sees the boys hit the town, albeit rather reluctantly, at Murray's request. Once inside the club the boys are dancing with Dave and are a little too close for his liking, so he requests that they "spread out the dicks a bit" and launch into Too Many Dicks On The Dance Floor, a dance number about a sausage-fest. It's decent enough; the highlight is Dave's segment above. The scene was directed by Michel Gondry, something that's easily recognisable by his visual style. Gondry also makes a, blink and miss it, cameo later in the episode.

Following the song we find Jemaine waking up in the bed of a girl, but not just any girl - an Australian. Seemingly he was able to pull despite there being too many dicks on the dance floor. Naturally, he tries to escape unnoticed but can't get out of the door. Panicked he phones Bret for advice and is about to jump out of the window when he's caught by the woman, who introduces herself as "Kietha". She asks Jemaine, or 'Big-J', to stay but he makes his excuses and heads to a clinic, with Bret, for a check-up. Bret asks what the red stuff around Jemaine's mouth is, Jemaine states that it's lipstick but Bret's convinced that it's crabs.

Later at the band meeting Murray is outraged to find out what Jemaine has done, and warns him about Australian women enticing sailors and causing their ships to sink. It's pointed out that Murray is possibly getting Australian women confused with mermaids. Murray and Bret discuss the possibility of expelling Jemaine from the band. Despite his indiscretion, they allow him to stay and ask him if he still has his wallet, to which Jemaine replies yes.

Jemaine revisits Kietha to retrieve his missing wallet and is convinced to have a cup of tea. He probably wishes he didn't say yes to milk though, as Kietha poured it from a cereal bowl. They discuss her heritage and it turns out that she's the descendant of a rapist and a prostitute. Following their chat, Kietha manages to convince Big-J to go to bed.

Jemaine and Kietha start dating which is something that Bret and Murray don't approve of. Not having the highest opinion of Kietha due to her nationality, things aren't exactly improved when she turns out to be quite crass when Jemaine brings her to meet them at a cafe, announcing that she was "going to the dunny to murder a brown snake".

Kietha's friends also aren't the biggest fans of Jemaine. When he goes to visit Kietha they tell him that she's left the country despite her being visible to Jemaine. When Jemaine questions her about this later she says that it's because he's a dick and that she's rutted better-looking guys when blind drunk. After this conversation Jemaine sings Carol Brown, a song that lists his ex-girlfriends and the reasons why they left him. It also sees Bret and Jemaine playing rather fantastic-looking guitars.

Jemaine and Kietha agree to elope to New Jersey and arrange to meet up later. Jemaine waits for hours and Kietha doesn't show. He decides to head home and tries to get a hansom cab driver to take him but is disappointed to learn that they only go around the park and decides to go on foot.

When he returns home he finds the apartment empty and Bret taped to the back of the door. It turns out that Kietha and her friends robbed them whilst Jemaine was out. Jemaine hands Bret his sandwich and gives him a hug, which Bret points out he isn't participating in.

Mixed feelings about the episode, it had some really funny moments and two fairly strong songs. But despite this it seemed a little flat overall. Nowhere near as bad as the first or fourth episodes, but not as strong as two and three. Let's hope that they can get out of the slump next week...

Check out our review of episode 4 here.

 

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Re: Flight Of The Conchords season 2 episode 5 review
Posted By moakle 1 June 10, 2009 08:20:22 AM

I thought this was a great episode actually. The Australian steroetypes were perfectly played out - including the word 'rooting' in lieu of relations - and both Jermaine and Bret had their moments on screen. I think what this series is lacking at times though are some juicier plots and I assume that's why instead of taking in the wider scenarios of series 1 (the band on tour, new band members, groupies etc) this series appears to be centering in on smaller aspects of the boys' lives and spinning them out around more everyday incidences. It's working well for me in general though. Other than the first episode, undoubtedly a duffer, this series has been strong. I fear they may have thrown out their best songs in the space of a couple of episodes (2 and 3) but I like the fact that this is a more inclusive series with all the cast getting their chance to shine.

Re: Flight Of The Conchords season 2 episode 5 review
Posted By PeaJay18 1 June 10, 2009 09:26:44 AM

I know comedy is subjective, but what show are you watching? This is one of the best episodes of Season 2! Both songs are excellent ("Carol Brown" is my current favorite of the whole second season) And it contains some excellent throwaway lines -"No, we're not looking for me.", "C'mon, Little B." and Keitha's roommates nickname for Jemaine-"Doctor Spectacles"- cracks me up every time. I think this series concentrates more on the smaller stories as the guys have to write a song to fit the storyline this season, as opposed to the other way around for the first.

Re: Flight Of The Conchords season 2 episode 5 review
Posted By GlenChapman 1 June 10, 2009 09:30:59 AM

It had it's moments, but it's far from a Conchords classic. There was a lot of things I liked about the episode - nice bits of dialogue, decent songs etc - but it was a bit meh overall.

Re: Flight Of The Conchords season 2 episode 5 review
Posted By steinobjortomt 1 June 15, 2009 03:31:44 AM

Bah. Pretty pedestrian "blah blah" review blind to the charms of 'Unnatural Love', which I think is my favourite ever FOTC episode. 'Carol Brown' is actually a brilliant song in its own right: sweet, funny and infused with some surprisingly touching lyrics in the middle. Much better than some of the one-note filler tunes that the knackered duo have sneaked into this season. Also, if you'd noticed the credits (I thought you were geeks) you'd have seen this "anti-Australian in extremis" episode was actually penned by a pair of Brits - the creators of E4's The Inbetweeners no less. The only episode they got to write all season. So you missed a trick analysing the channelled sarco-criticism. Tsk.
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