I'm not crying... I've just been chopping onions... I've been making a lasagna... for one

[thehefner]

I don't think I've ever fallen completely head-over-heels in love with a TV show based on a single episode. No, not even a single episode. I came into this one late. What a perfect time to inexplicably start receiving HBO, because my friends, I have discovered a new absolute must-see show...

FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS.

The entire first episode in question can still be watched for free on that link, for a few more days. Go. No, seriously, go. Watch. Mom and I accidentally flipped to it, and within minutes, we were dying.

Between this, FARSCAPE, Peter Jackson, and Zoe Bell, Doom declares that when Doom takes over the world and modern society is engulfed in flames and a tidal wave of anti-matter Kirby crackles, New Zealand shall be spared.

I promise you, the next time a girl breaks up with me, I am turning 90 degrees, walking ahead, and commencing with the random musical number.

I don't know if anyone will find this clip funny out of context. Hell, I don't know if it even really IS funny in context. Maybe my brain and soul is mush over my father and stupid stuff is seeming brilliant to my laughter-deprived heart.

Go. Watch the whole episode. Prove to me that I'm not mad for utterly adoring this show.

Comments

[adaptor.livejournal.com]

As lovely as the note on my rejection letter was, that song definitely reminds me of it. "You could be the best playwright on the street, depending on the street!"

That was excellent! Thanks for the rec!

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

My pleasure. Heck, I'm glad you liked it! Yay validation!

[pondering-duck.livejournal.com]

I did like the show a lot.

I kind of want to see Eagle vs Shark now.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

I keep hearing that it's distinctly "meh," quirky at most. But who knows if the people who've been saying that are just killjoys?

[jellied.livejournal.com]

Jemaine's got an impossibly kinky Kiwi accent.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

See, I thought that'd be part of the appeal for some, so good, there you go.

[jellied.livejournal.com]

I was actually listening to him on a NPR two weeks ago on Fresh Air.

And yes, I'm a bit of an Anglophile-- it just carried over.

[tompurdue.livejournal.com]

When did "weird looking guys fail to get girls" become a genre? Did Swingers invent it, or does it date back earlier than that?

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Woody Allen, maybe?

[tompurdue.livejournal.com]

Woody Allen always got girls. Sure, he lost them soon enough, but girls never rejected him just for looking and acting weird.

Allen was always more interested in the pathos of breakups. This is a genre around the pathos of looking weird and acting weird, but being convinced that you're actually extremely cool. It's gotta be partly schadenfreude and partly laughing at our own insecurities.

I watched the first few minutes. It was pretty funny but I'm at work.

[spacechild.livejournal.com]

yeah, i've been listening to their music for a couple years now.

havent seen the show yet, though.