yah
― chaki, Monday, 2 July 2007 22:42 (sixteen years ago) link
hopefully he'll get more parts later on... hopefully the show lasts more than a dozen episodes!
― dean ge, Monday, 2 July 2007 22:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Clips here.
The fan is very credible!
― Eazy, Monday, 2 July 2007 22:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Ha, I was actually thinking about how ILX would respond to this show and who would bring up "icky racial stuff" along those lines. The thing is, though, when they sing r&b it doesn't seem to be at all about black r&b -- if those songs belonged to anyone today, it seems like it'd be like John Mayer or James Blunt or something. Always feels like they're just going for "sensitive" pop music, and it's a whole other issue that super-popular music just happens to consist of white people already working in a black idiom.
That said, I do find them significantly less funny when they do rap or dancehall, though I think that's just a structural thing.
My favorite joke in all of these so far, apart from the ending shot joke of the mugging one, is the bit in the "I'm Not Crying" song where he's making a lasagna ... for one.
(Also Mel = fantastic)
― nabisco, Monday, 2 July 2007 22:45 (sixteen years ago) link
It's going to get cancelled, isn't it? You can just tell. =(
It reminds me of Peep Show, actually.
― admrl, Monday, 2 July 2007 22:46 (sixteen years ago) link
I read somewhere that it was conceived as a 12-part thing?
― jessie monster, Monday, 2 July 2007 22:48 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost hooray
It seems like the kind of thing where they should just do like 10 great episodes and then close up, BBC style -- it's kind of a slight, charming thing, just not built for going on and on.
― nabisco, Monday, 2 July 2007 22:48 (sixteen years ago) link
David Bowie Song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR2L98gobTQ&mode=related&search=
― dean ge, Monday, 2 July 2007 22:52 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost I'm your typical American that wants as much as he can enjoy, the more episodes the better. If I get bored of it, no problem. At least I'm not left wanting more. I hate that.
― dean ge, Monday, 2 July 2007 22:54 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah 12 eps sounds good for this show! like a book of short stories
― rrrobyn, Monday, 2 July 2007 22:56 (sixteen years ago) link
i have dealt with dismay re: battlestar ending with next season so now i feel i can deal with all tv shows having an end is what i'm probably really saying
― rrrobyn, Monday, 2 July 2007 22:57 (sixteen years ago) link
zen tv
vs. Ween?
― dean ge, Monday, 2 July 2007 22:58 (sixteen years ago) link
tenacious twee
― da croupier, Monday, 2 July 2007 22:58 (sixteen years ago) link
The thing is, though, when they sing r&b it doesn't seem to be at all about black r&b -- if those songs belonged to anyone today, it seems like it'd be like John Mayer or James Blunt or something. Always feels like they're just going for "sensitive" pop music, and it's a whole other issue that super-popular music just happens to consist of white people already working in a black idiom.
Definitely, this makes sense. And I like that we don't hear them actually performing, so they could very well be a lousy live band who have these fantasies of what their songs would sound like given some solid-gold production.
xpost - they are like Ween, except they're trying to get action. And, again, since they're not Americans, they don't fall into all the class/race stuff that American singer-actors would fall into when doing parody songs.
― Eazy, Monday, 2 July 2007 22:59 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm your typical American that wants as much as he can enjoy, the more episodes the better.
Are you one of these that thinks "soccer" should have more goals????
― admrl, Monday, 2 July 2007 23:00 (sixteen years ago) link
they have an EP coming out on Sub Pop in August. am completely obsessed.
― fruitastic, Monday, 2 July 2007 23:03 (sixteen years ago) link
"She's So Hot Boom" doesn't belong to John Mayer or James Blunt.
― da croupier, Monday, 2 July 2007 23:04 (sixteen years ago) link
If it wasn't for "Inner City Pressure" I'd say these guys were worthless.
― da croupier, Monday, 2 July 2007 23:05 (sixteen years ago) link
That's why I said I like them less when they do rap or dancehall! Which is mostly just a matter of that kind of joke being, like, done -- not because of "icky racial stuff," but because those are the moments where they seem like they could just be two guys you know goofing around at your party.
(What's wrong with the world today / mmph a hmm mph a hmm mph a may)
― nabisco, Monday, 2 July 2007 23:08 (sixteen years ago) link
I think my new excuse for everything = "hey, man, I just want some muesli"
― nabisco, Monday, 2 July 2007 23:10 (sixteen years ago) link
that song jermaine wrote on the bass with the cassette tape was super funky kick ass.
― chaki, Monday, 2 July 2007 23:13 (sixteen years ago) link
woops, sorry, nabisco. missed the "dancehall" part when Eazy quoted you. Anyhow, I'll let people drop a youtube link when they do a novel homage and otherwise avoid ACOUSTIC FOLK COMEDY.
― da croupier, Monday, 2 July 2007 23:14 (sixteen years ago) link
I thought the marketing made this look terrible, but I caught about 2/3 of the sign board episode (including the "She's So Hot Boom" song) and it was pretty good.
― bernard snowy, Monday, 2 July 2007 23:16 (sixteen years ago) link
They're kind of taking the "Dick in a Box" idea -- catchy songs, not just funny as parody but well written and believably but ridiculously emo -- more than the Midnite Vultures idea.
― Eazy, Monday, 2 July 2007 23:16 (sixteen years ago) link
icky racial stuff? What are you guys talking about? FFS, you don't have to be getting anywhere near racial to use a low voice and joke about funk.
No, the one goal is fine by me.
― dean ge, Monday, 2 July 2007 23:17 (sixteen years ago) link
ilx, sometimes i just don't understand u
― A B C, Monday, 2 July 2007 23:17 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost to self (although it is entirely possible that the song would not have been nearly as funny if I had known to expect random musical breaks from reality)
― bernard snowy, Monday, 2 July 2007 23:18 (sixteen years ago) link
fuck off, alphabet bitch.
'murmur' from the sopranos was in last nights episode.
― chaki, Monday, 2 July 2007 23:19 (sixteen years ago) link
"Icky racial stuff" in the sense of making fun of R. Kelly by trying to write your own sex jams that are ludicrously "primitive" in style and content (which is not what these guys are doing).
― Eazy, Monday, 2 July 2007 23:19 (sixteen years ago) link
"Well, boss, it's sort of like Tenacious D meets Withnail & I..."
― da croupier, Monday, 2 July 2007 23:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Finally the act that will inspire Starbucks to buy Sub Pop.
― da croupier, Monday, 2 July 2007 23:21 (sixteen years ago) link
i think you might be taking this a bit too seriously.
brett is in a popular ska/reggae/funk band in NZ btw. also he was a hobbit in those movies.
― chaki, Monday, 2 July 2007 23:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Though the more Tenacious D embellished their folk comedy act, the further they got from their one joke. Embellishments give the Conchords a chance to think one up.
― da croupier, Monday, 2 July 2007 23:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Can I create a board called "Do You Like Anything????"
― dean ge, Monday, 2 July 2007 23:24 (sixteen years ago) link
An elf, actually! He has the nostrils for it.
― nabisco, Monday, 2 July 2007 23:25 (sixteen years ago) link
More than you needed to know.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 2 July 2007 23:53 (sixteen years ago) link
inner inner city inner city pressure
Anyone heard the bbc radio show? Available on amazon uk. Non-produced versions of the songs along with radio comedy(which works less well).
Hope they put out a proper sdtk.
― calstars, Tuesday, 3 July 2007 01:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Ever since I heard their song for the ladies, I have wanted a t-shirt that says "redheads not warheads".
― accentmonkey, Tuesday, 3 July 2007 12:29 (sixteen years ago) link
ok i watched it and i roffld. just when its getting too cute then its funny which makes it all better. the scene where he meets the sign holding girl and he's all shes so hot omg - the part right before the song started cracked me up. the song was funny too.
― jhøshea, Tuesday, 3 July 2007 12:37 (sixteen years ago) link
This show makes my week.
I loved when they were getting mugged, Bret was wearing the safety vest Murray gave them, and Jermaine was the one who got the worst of it.
― molly mummenschanz, Friday, 6 July 2007 22:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Important question: is it non-weird in NZ that his name is Jemaine, with the R omitted?
― nabisco, Friday, 6 July 2007 22:31 (sixteen years ago) link
i've gotta try to torrent this, it sounds like. will report back.
― jergïns, Friday, 6 July 2007 22:38 (sixteen years ago) link
saw the pilot and was all eh, but I've warmed to it considerably. John from Cinci, too
― will, Friday, 6 July 2007 22:50 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost to nabisco: i live in nz and jemaine with or without the r is a pretty weird name.
NAME DROP... brett is my friend's landlord!
― Rubyred, Saturday, 7 July 2007 01:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Is he nice?
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 7 July 2007 01:49 (sixteen years ago) link
i don't know; i stayed at their place for 3 months and never saw him. but apparently he's a pretty laid-back dude. the house has a big section (by wellington standards) and they all wanted to jazz it up and have a vege garden and stuff, so he gave them a pile of cash to do whatever they wanted to the place.
― Rubyred, Saturday, 7 July 2007 02:19 (sixteen years ago) link
I love them. The pet shop boys thing was amazing. Also, I'm a little bit in love with Bret.
― ENBB, Saturday, 7 July 2007 02:57 (sixteen years ago) link
i kind of like that i'm not in love with either of them but like them both a lot
the running around with the safety vest on + murray's tips for new zelanders in new york (stay away from dangerous crowds; stick to back alleys) = hilarious
i watched the texas (southxsouthwest fest) documentary that's up on youtube - it's pretty funny too, in a great deadpan-meets-genuine-shock-and-awe way - in general though, i'm more into their just being dudes and the adventures they have than i am into the songs. maybe this is wrong of me?
― rrrobyn, Saturday, 7 July 2007 03:12 (sixteen years ago) link
HOW TERRIBLE OF YOU
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 7 July 2007 03:12 (sixteen years ago) link
it's still good.
― treeship., Saturday, 7 November 2020 23:03 (three years ago) link
the BBC series was the original btw
― @oneposter (✔️) (sic), Saturday, 7 November 2020 23:15 (three years ago) link
a radio series, right?
― treeship., Saturday, 7 November 2020 23:23 (three years ago) link
yep. it's great!
― @oneposter (✔️) (sic), Saturday, 7 November 2020 23:24 (three years ago) link
i'll check it out!
― treeship., Saturday, 7 November 2020 23:26 (three years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6D23FC130AA6672B
― calstars, Sunday, 8 November 2020 00:33 (three years ago) link
also available legally here:https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00dn88m/episodes/player
(no geoblocking on BBC radio content)
was previously available on the Widow Howl App / Stitcher Preems in the US, but appears to have expired
― @oneposter (✔️) (sic), Sunday, 8 November 2020 00:47 (three years ago) link
that's so strange, I was just thinking about revisiting this myself today
― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Sunday, 8 November 2020 01:15 (three years ago) link
I think about the Fleetwood Mac "love square" scene all the fucking time
― frogbs, Sunday, 8 November 2020 04:10 (three years ago) link
I just discovered this song they did for Red Nose Day in 2012 and it's incredible!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py_30jZGUYk
― daavid, Sunday, 3 October 2021 17:43 (two years ago) link
brilliant even though all of the (nz?) artists are completely unknown to me.
― ledge, Monday, 4 October 2021 14:13 (two years ago) link
and lol at the muppets songs bit.
― ledge, Monday, 4 October 2021 14:15 (two years ago) link