Flight of the Conchords: The Complete First Season
Starring: Jemaine Clement, Bret McKenzie
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Customer Reviews
This show starts out a bit odd but sweet and with each episode, grows with its brilliance. Bret and Jermaine are from New Zealand and are musicians trying to make it in New York City. They don't even seem to know that they are mediocre and not good enough. The poor guys in their 30s live like college kids in a dump, eating bad food and trying to survive. Their manager works in the New Zealand Embassy is a loser also but loves the camaraderie he gets with hanging out with the guys. Everyone is wonderful and the jokes are precious. One episode deals with a man who hates New Zealanders and the guys learn to flip them the bird. Another deals with girls who think its funny to seduce Bret for a joke. There is real humanity in the stories and the music is actually really good and funny at the same time. Wonderful show that grows better with repeated viewings.
The Flight of the Conchords are so brilliant, I can watch this over and over! I have a copy of this and bought another one for my brother over in Afghanistan. Him and his buddies were happy to have some good entertainment!
I love this show and wanted to own it on DVD. I usually purchase used products on Amazon that have been tagged as "Like New" since I expect they will be without major issues. I was sadly mistaken with my purchase of this DVD collection. The seller "mariacif" delivered a product that I would describe as nothing other than disgusting. The DVD case was sticky and it was not residue from the mail packaging. The insert was stained and the DVD itself was also mysteriously sticky; no scratches, however.
I would never purchase a product from "mariacif" again.
Jermaine and Bret are a pair of New Zealand musicians, living in New York City and hoping to hit it big. Yeah, "Flight of the Conchords: The Complete First Season" sounds like a terrible generic sitcom, but instead this series is one of the most hilarious comedies of the last decade -- a quirky, weird, tongue-in-cheek little show with hilarious dialogue. Think a musical version of "The Office."
Folk-pop group Flight of the Conchords is Jermaine Clement and Bret McKenzie (played by themselves), who came all the way from New Zealand to New York. They are being managed by the ineffectual New Zealand Consulate official Murray (Rhys Darby), and they have exactly one fan/stalker, Mel (Kristen Schaal). They don't have many gigs, and even fewer successful ones.
As they chase elusive fame'n'fortune, the guys have to deal with girlfriend woes (dating the same girl, a "Yoko", a girl who just wants to use Bret for sex), Bret getting a job, muggings, body image problems, anti-Kiwi racism, a problematic band rock'n'roll tour, two new fans with impure intentions, a semi-professional actor/compulsive liar who makes Murray think they've got a multimillion-dollar deal, and a bongo player who threatens to divide the band.
If I had to come up with a description for "Flight of the Conchords," it would be that they're the folky New Zealand love child of Spinal Tap and "The Office." No laugh track, rambling dialogue, and the main characters tend to spontaneously break into song-and-dance at pivotal parts of the plot. And it's brilliant.
The writing is brimming over with effortless weirdness, as the guys encounter everyday problems (threesomes, girlfriend woes, racism) which soon turn into hilariously surreal situations (the disturbing children's show, "Albi the Racist Dragon"). The dialogue is amazing ("She's a pastry chef and a sniper"), and full of rambling conversations that just get stranger with every line ("Have you ever had a threesome?" "Nearly." "What do you mean, nearly?" "I've had a twosome").
The songs are gutsplitting as well, since they're all about homicidal robots, mermaids, hermaphrodites ("Oh you sexy hermaphrodite lady-man-ladies"), and the hiphop-potamus. Not to mention "Frodo, Don't Wear the Ring" and its accompanying music video, which are a nod to McKenzie's role as the elf Figwit.
But none of this would be even half as funny if it weren't for the actors -- Clement's self-named chatacter is stoic and kind of weird (he writes a song about putting a wig on Bret), while McKenzie's is more childlike, naive and likes to sit in a cardboard box. Darby rounds out the cast as their harried, rather pathetic manager (who isn't even supposed to be managing a band), and Schaal is also quite funny as a woman who has a creepy sexual fixation on the guys.
"Flight of the Conchords: The Complete First Season" is one of the rarest kind of comedy out there -- steady, hysterical, and only gets better with repeated viewings. Too bad there's only one more season.
Funny and entertaining it's a shame about the more than occasional unecessary foul language which ruins it a little for me. But we enjoyed them.
The Flight of the Conchords are so brilliant, I can watch this over and over! I have a copy of this and bought another one for my brother over in Afghanistan. Him and his buddies were happy to have some good entertainment!
I love this show and wanted to own it on DVD. I usually purchase used products on Amazon that have been tagged as "Like New" since I expect they will be without major issues. I was sadly mistaken with my purchase of this DVD collection. The seller "mariacif" delivered a product that I would describe as nothing other than disgusting. The DVD case was sticky and it was not residue from the mail packaging. The insert was stained and the DVD itself was also mysteriously sticky; no scratches, however.
I would never purchase a product from "mariacif" again.
Jermaine and Bret are a pair of New Zealand musicians, living in New York City and hoping to hit it big. Yeah, "Flight of the Conchords: The Complete First Season" sounds like a terrible generic sitcom, but instead this series is one of the most hilarious comedies of the last decade -- a quirky, weird, tongue-in-cheek little show with hilarious dialogue. Think a musical version of "The Office."
Folk-pop group Flight of the Conchords is Jermaine Clement and Bret McKenzie (played by themselves), who came all the way from New Zealand to New York. They are being managed by the ineffectual New Zealand Consulate official Murray (Rhys Darby), and they have exactly one fan/stalker, Mel (Kristen Schaal). They don't have many gigs, and even fewer successful ones.
As they chase elusive fame'n'fortune, the guys have to deal with girlfriend woes (dating the same girl, a "Yoko", a girl who just wants to use Bret for sex), Bret getting a job, muggings, body image problems, anti-Kiwi racism, a problematic band rock'n'roll tour, two new fans with impure intentions, a semi-professional actor/compulsive liar who makes Murray think they've got a multimillion-dollar deal, and a bongo player who threatens to divide the band.
If I had to come up with a description for "Flight of the Conchords," it would be that they're the folky New Zealand love child of Spinal Tap and "The Office." No laugh track, rambling dialogue, and the main characters tend to spontaneously break into song-and-dance at pivotal parts of the plot. And it's brilliant.
The writing is brimming over with effortless weirdness, as the guys encounter everyday problems (threesomes, girlfriend woes, racism) which soon turn into hilariously surreal situations (the disturbing children's show, "Albi the Racist Dragon"). The dialogue is amazing ("She's a pastry chef and a sniper"), and full of rambling conversations that just get stranger with every line ("Have you ever had a threesome?" "Nearly." "What do you mean, nearly?" "I've had a twosome").
The songs are gutsplitting as well, since they're all about homicidal robots, mermaids, hermaphrodites ("Oh you sexy hermaphrodite lady-man-ladies"), and the hiphop-potamus. Not to mention "Frodo, Don't Wear the Ring" and its accompanying music video, which are a nod to McKenzie's role as the elf Figwit.
But none of this would be even half as funny if it weren't for the actors -- Clement's self-named chatacter is stoic and kind of weird (he writes a song about putting a wig on Bret), while McKenzie's is more childlike, naive and likes to sit in a cardboard box. Darby rounds out the cast as their harried, rather pathetic manager (who isn't even supposed to be managing a band), and Schaal is also quite funny as a woman who has a creepy sexual fixation on the guys.
"Flight of the Conchords: The Complete First Season" is one of the rarest kind of comedy out there -- steady, hysterical, and only gets better with repeated viewings. Too bad there's only one more season.
Funny and entertaining it's a shame about the more than occasional unecessary foul language which ruins it a little for me. But we enjoyed them.