# HBO Rocks!!! (Flight of the Conchords) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 1, 2007, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hbo-rocks-flight-of-the-conchords/406335 "2007-06-01T13:36:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2007, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hbo-rocks-flight-of-the-conchords/406335/21 "2007-06-19T20:16:37Z")
I will give this some more time, but the opening story line did not really hold my interest. I found the music vaguely reminding me of Rocky Horror. ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2007, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hbo-rocks-flight-of-the-conchords/406335/22 "2007-07-16T06:36:24Z")
[QUOTE=NailBunny] _Business Time_ is indeed their finest song. All it takes for me to reduce my boss to hysterical laughter is to say, all sexy: “Two minutes in Heaven is better than one minute in Heaven.” [/QUOTE] This show is playing in Canada now on The Movie Channel. The one tonight featured Business Time. I’ve really liked these guys in the past and I was expecting a great deal from this new show… .. they didn’t let me down. Pretty funny stuff. ---
**Author:** ![BabaBooey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dfb087/32.png) [@BabaBooey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BabaBooey)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hbo-rocks-flight-of-the-conchords/406335/23 "2007-07-17T01:26:40Z")
I’ve been enjoying the shit out of this show. Loved the part where Jermaine insists that the man in the restaurant with him and his date isn’t Brett. Also have to find a capture of that girlfriend/wolf painting. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hbo-rocks-flight-of-the-conchords/406335/24 "2007-07-17T03:49:24Z")
I’ve also been digging the hell out of this show. It’s a bunch of weird, quirky fun. I like weird, quirky fun. ---
**Author:** ![Operation\_Ripper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/34f0e0/32.png) [@Operation\_Ripper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Operation_Ripper)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hbo-rocks-flight-of-the-conchords/406335/25 "2007-07-17T03:52:46Z")
I thought it was funny right off, but in the epi or so I’ve seen since is seeming a bit repetitive, songs are similar, etc. ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hbo-rocks-flight-of-the-conchords/406335/26 "2007-07-17T04:30:43Z")
“Present.” I love the accents. I wish I had a New Zealand accent. 🙂 I’m going to miss Coco…very “realistically” cute girl she was. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hbo-rocks-flight-of-the-conchords/406335/27 "2007-07-17T05:27:15Z")
I don’t care much for the comedy. I LOVE the songs…and how they break into song and no one around them can hear them. ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hbo-rocks-flight-of-the-conchords/406335/28 "2007-07-17T06:02:58Z")
I liked the bit in the show from last night about buying outer space real estate. The agent had to break the bad news to Jemaine. It went something like this… Agent: Jemaine, I have some bad news about your sun. Jemaine: What? Agent: It supernovaed and now it is nothing but some swirling gases and the start of a black hole. Jemaine: Oh no. When did this happen? Agent: About 7.5 million years ago. Jemaine: (sigh) What a waste of 50 bucks. ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hbo-rocks-flight-of-the-conchords/406335/29 "2007-07-17T06:05:49Z")
Ohh… you can watch all of episode 4 here [http://www.hbo.com/conchords/video/index.html](http://www.hbo.com/conchords/video/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hbo-rocks-flight-of-the-conchords/406335/30 "2007-07-17T06:10:16Z")
“If That’s What You’re Into” is the best love song I’ve ever heard. In the buff Being lewd Doing stuff With the food ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hbo-rocks-flight-of-the-conchords/406335/31 "2007-07-17T06:25:15Z")
[QUOTE=fiddlesticks] I’m going to miss Coco…very “realistically” cute girl she was. [/QUOTE] Yummy. I recently gave her the **bienville** [“Cutest Girl on T.V. Award”](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=428614). > [@](#): > > She’s so hot. > I want to tell her how hot she is, but I don’t want her to think I’m sexist. > She’s so hot she’s making me sexist. > Bitch! ---
**Author:** ![some\_white\_dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b487fb/32.png) [@some\_white\_dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/some_white_dude)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hbo-rocks-flight-of-the-conchords/406335/32 "2007-07-17T07:30:27Z")
Yeah count me in too. How many episodes did Tenacious D get on HBO? Hopefully FotC can surpass that number, which I think was only 6 or so… > [@](#): > > I’m the hip-hopopotamus > My lyrics are bottomless > … > … > … > … ---
**Author:** ![irishgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hbo-rocks-flight-of-the-conchords/406335/33 "2007-07-17T09:08:04Z")
I really enjoyed it. Brett is smokin’, which also helps. I think if you like this, you would also enjoy [The Mighty Boosh](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mighty_Boosh). ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hbo-rocks-flight-of-the-conchords/406335/34 "2007-07-17T11:23:14Z")
> [@](#): > > I’m the hip-hopopotamus > My lyrics are bottomless > … > … > … > … What got me about that song was that Jermaine, er, I mean, Hiphopopotamus actually had some nice flow, in a Chali 2na sort of way. Of course, Rhymenoceros is no slouch, either. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hbo-rocks-flight-of-the-conchords/406335/35 "2007-07-17T11:39:17Z")
I’ve been enjoying the show. . .actually liking the comedy better than the songs, in opposition to **spooje**. How funny are the wardrobes? They both look like they got them at thrift stores, but Jemaine is totally cool and Bret wears that shit with wolves and lions on it – all the time. His painting looked like the shirts he buys. Their “fan” is hilarious. She asks these questions like “is the doorman here 24 hours a day?” like it’s just natural to ask that. On the episode where they kicked Bret out of the band, you could see her instantly sour on him, and then become enamored with Jemaine in about 10 seconds. Their manager is funny. From this week: “You can’t put a leash on the j dog”. “Who’s the j dog?” “That’s me. It’s common in street language to take the first letter of your first name and put it before the word dog.” ---
**Author:** ![Judith\_Prietht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b19c9b/32.png) [@Judith\_Prietht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Judith_Prietht)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hbo-rocks-flight-of-the-conchords/406335/36 "2007-07-17T13:37:23Z")
People people paper paper paper paper people people people people pencil pencil pencil pencil paper paper Put the pencil to the paper Give the paper to the people This show has made me so thankful for TiVo. We’re watching the episodes at least two times, and the songs more than that, because we notice something new about them every time. ---
**Author:** ![Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hbo-rocks-flight-of-the-conchords/406335/37 "2007-07-17T14:09:33Z")
I love the show too, although I think that the best songs are the ones I’d already heard on their HBO special. The robot song might be new, and I like that one. My husband had to show me who Daft Punk was. The New Zealand posters in Murray’s office are great. The Flight of the Conchords [website](http://www.conchords.co.nz/) is pretty funny: " Problem with Website discovered. A catch 22 type dilemna has struck kiwi band Flight of The Conchords in relation to updating the band news on their website. Members of the band (Jemaine and Bret) have noticed that whenever there are doing things that could be reported on the website, they are too busy to update the website." ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hbo-rocks-flight-of-the-conchords/406335/38 "2007-08-22T05:48:27Z")
I saw in the news today HBO picked up Flight of the Conchords for another year. ---
**Author:** ![maggenpye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hbo-rocks-flight-of-the-conchords/406335/39 "2007-08-22T09:12:30Z")
[QUOTE=Seven] I saw in the news today HBO picked up Flight of the Conchords for another year. [/QUOTE] Oh good, glad to now it’s worth waiting for. We won’t get it in New Zealand until mid September! We’re getting America’s Got Talent now. There is something seriously wrong with that, but I’m too bloody traumatised to deal with it right now. ---
**Author:** ![Merkwurdigliebe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/74df32/32.png) [@Merkwurdigliebe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merkwurdigliebe)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hbo-rocks-flight-of-the-conchords/406335/40 "2007-08-22T09:24:10Z")
Is nobody going to mention “Foux da fa fa?” Jus d’orange! Boef! Jacques Cousteau (holds up a frozen fish) “Parlez-vous le Francais?” “…” “Parlez-vous le Francais?” “…uh…non” That was a great one. Also, hooray to a new season! I never got my hopes up for more, and every episode seems to be a bonus. Gotta love HBO, those guys really know how to nurture a good show. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hbo-rocks-flight-of-the-conchords/406335.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hbo-rocks-flight-of-the-conchords/406335.md?page=3)