Flight of the conchords mel tv#
Since most of the crowd opted to keep their eyes on the 2 big screens, the show was a little like watching TV with 3500 of your closest friends laughing together. The show was a partly successful situation-less com, in which New Zealanders Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement share a scummy apartment, fight over girls and perform in odd-ball venues (like in elevators) attended only by their downstairs neighbor ( Kristen Schaal, as Mel, their creepy crawly baby-voiced sexually predatory fan.)Īt Monday’s concert gig, the two appeared without the cumbersome addition of plot, and supporting cast members to achieve a very unplugged (though plugged) pared down and intimate version of their tête-à-tête, entre nous pas-de-deux – in an auditorium with 3,500 seats and two shows a night. The Conchords touched down in Berkeley for the last night of their US tour, after the demise of their HBO show. That said, Monday night’s comedy concert with headliners Flight of the Conchordswas about as great as a stadium-sized stand-up comedy event featuring large screen monitors to better see the performers’ facial expressions could be. One wants a cocktail table and a cocktail. Not unexpectedly, the accompanying video reveals that her dreams are heavily populated by Bret and Jemaine.įriends, sung by Bret, Jemaine, Murray and Jim, describes the sorts of things friends do for each other.It turns out, the Berkeley Community Theater is not the best place to see comedians.
Sung by Mel, Like In My Dreams is a wistful imagining of what life might be like if the world were more like Mel's dreams. The following are songs featured in this episode. Mel demands Bret apologize for his 'dream behaviour', but it continues, and at Murray's martial arts club, Bret and Jermaine receive minor injuries from the furious Mel and Jim, respectively. Later, however, she reproaches Bret for something else (unmentioned, but which disgusts and horrifies Jemaine) that he did in her next dream. Meanwhile, Mel finds Bret and Jemaine and thanks Bret for something he did in her dream last night. He then introduces himself and departs with Jim (whose endless questioning suits Murray fine). Murray says he will see them at the next band meeting, although they will 'not know each other'.
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A series of further mishaps, such as turning Murray's desk into a table tennis table, sees Bret and Jemaine relegated down the graph, ending up below their original status of 'work mates', as 'strangers'. Telephoning them later to ask if they want to hang out, Jim is affronted when Bret relays Jemaine's statement that Jim is 'a dick'. Murray deems it time they meet the elusive Jim, and invites the three to a barbeque, where Jim meets (and endlessly questions) Bret and Jemaine. After attempting activities together such as watching a movie, making a fort and sleeping, Bret and Jemaine rise up the graph to attain the status of friends. Murray also alludes to his 'best friend' Jim many times.
At a band meeting, Murray invites Jemaine and Bret to take it to the 'next level' on his friendship graph to go beyond their current status as 'work mates' and surpass the status of 'colleagues' - such as Greg - to become 'friends'.