#Murray flight of the conchords series
#Murray flight of the conchords tv

The episode teases a tour music video, even using a piano intro similar to Motley Crue's 'Home Sweet Home,' but nothing really happens there either. The song itself isn't catchy or memorable and has next to nothing to do with the story. The video is a simple walk and sing bit interspersed with some random footage of mermaids and other nonsense that is vaguely amusing but nowhere near as YouTube-worthy as most of their videos. There's only one song in the entire episode, a lounge number about 'Mermaids' that is beneath the Conchords' standards as well. They're predictably duped by a women's water polo team, there's a very unfunny joke about Jemaine 'getting buzzed' on mixed nuts, and even Mel doesn't do much for the episode as a groupie stalking the guys. The running gag of the guys getting into rock and roll-type mischief by accident starts out amusing but really doesn't go anywhere. There was lots of potential here for some funny material, but none of it ever really surfaces. To make matters worse, he's only recently reunited with his wife, Shelly, who keeps calling him about 'those effing idiots' he manages. Murray seems to be going through some sort of mid-life crisis, as he's pulled all of his money out of his savings and checking accounts to fund the tour.

#Murray flight of the conchords series

The episode chronicles the band's first tour, which is really just a series of seemingly impromptu 'gigs' in various hotel lobbies.

But will we see them again? TheyвЂ™re not telling, but we have a feeling Bret and Jemaine wonвЂ™t be stuck on Mount Ruapehu for long.It was bound to happen sooner than later, and here it is - Flight of the Conchords' first bad episode. TheyвЂ™re still lovably unflappable in the face of failure. McKenzie and Clement havenвЂ™t futzed with the formula - despite a visit to the White House and an off-Broadway climax, this remains a show about two losers trying to meet girls. And who but the Conchords could get away with a sustained subplot about hair gel? A subsequent two-parter gives Murray a perfect foil in the demented Prime Minister of New Zealand (Brian Sergent), a puffed-up diplomat who owns suitcase cheese and is obsessed with The Matrix.

GondryвЂ™s input jolts the season into life, as itвЂ™s gold from there on in. His ingenious grab-bag visuals fuse perfectly with the ConchordsвЂ™ style, producing a freaky, hilarious tale of forbidden love in which Jemaine accidentally sleeps with an Australian. Thank goodness, then, for cine-hipster Michel Gondry, who steps in to guest-direct fifth episode Unnatural Love.

Mos Def is not very goodвЂќ) - the first slew of episodes feel forced, bad news for this most whimsical of comedies. And while there are great moments - a gang of Australians, headed up by NeighboursвЂ™ Alan Dale (who else?), torment Murray in The Tough Brets Bret becomes a male escort in The New Cup, leading to a sublime take-off of the Black Eyed PeasвЂ™ My Humps and the guys pen a hip-hop battle track (вЂњSnoop Dogg is not very good. Fan favourite Murray (Rhys Darby) gets another song, the operatic Rejected, but itвЂ™s a let-down after his S1 ditty Leggy Blonde. The struggle in the writersвЂ™ room is most evident in Season 2вЂ™s opening stretch. Under pressure to hurry another season out while they were still white-hot, could they pen a fresh clutch of addictive tunes while keeping the talky stuff sharp?

#Murray flight of the conchords tv

After all, Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement had years to hone their Season 1 songs, classics like Bowie and Business Time, first on Antipodean TV station Channel 7, then with stints on the Edinburgh Fringe and BBC radio. When New ZealandвЂ™s premier digi-folk pioneers returned for another ten episodes of their sitcom, there was cause to be concerned.