Flight of the Conchords
TELEVISION If you’re not familiar with "New Zealand's fourth most popular folk-parody duo", then do yourself a favor and check out the cutting-edge 12-part musical-comedy series airing on HBO Flight of the Conchords. It makes my ears feel good and is soaring to the top of my must-see list. Yeah, Conchords. Not grapes, but these two guys, Jemaine and Bret, who create beautiful music together and are always looking for a gig. And it’s odd they don’t get more work because they have a wide variety of songs and sounds that comment on things from "Inner City Pressure" (reminiscent of the philosophical Pet Shop Boys) to a sweet serenade, singing "you’re the most beautiful girl in the whole wide room…you could be a part-time model…"
Now living in New York City, these dudes share a small apartment, give new meaning to the word chaperone, and are pretty much joined at the hip. Not literally joined at the hip, like Siamese twins, because they aren’t twins, or from Siam. Or Thailand. And I don’t even know if they like Thai food. But they fill my belly with laughs just like Pad Thai noodles.
The duo’s only and biggest fan is Mel, a young woman who seems to have eyes for Bret. Murray is the manager always working hard for their success and thinking outside the box, like when he sets up the two with a musical card manufacturer. But things don’t go well when Bret’s idol David Bowie appears in a dream (sounding a bit like James Mason) suggesting flashing the guy to help get the job. And Bret even painted lightning bolts on his member. 
Always creative and expanding their repertoire, Bret and Jemaine even do some gangsta folk and pick rap names, like Rhymenoceros and Hiphopopotamus. But nothing is more touching than when they sing the reflective words: "Brown paper, white paper, sticking together with the tape – the tape of love… the sticky stuff."
Check out my favorite foreplay song "It’s Business Time" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGOohBytKTU
“Inner City Pressure“: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUiM1Ixp6K4&mode
“Tape of Love”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lgh4B-SeV44
