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Celebrity Paradox: In several episodes, The Lord of the Rings is referenced.

Catapult Nightmare: In a deleted scene from "The Tough Brets," when Jemaine calls Bret's name to wake him up, Bret suddenly sits bolt upright in bed, hands ready to karate chop someone, screaming, " Please don't chop off my penis!".

During the credits roll, we see a clip from said movie.

Cassandra Truth: After screwing them up so badly in "The Actor", Ben ( Will Forte), a wannabe actor/dry cleaner, tells the boys he got a part in a movie.

She manages to be too convincing, detailing almost every way Bret is more handsome than him. Even Mel seems to find Bret more attractive, at least in the episode "Bowie." Jemaine asks her to act like Bret's more attractive than him to build up his self-esteem.

Casanova Wannabe: Both Jemaine and Murray insist that Jemaine is the ladies' man of the group, while Bret is shown to have much more frequent on-screen success romantically than he does.

Cannot Tell Fiction from Reality: The NZ Prime Minister thinks two people in the same costume is actually a glitch in The Matrix.

Of course, if grilled by the cops, he would probably maintain that he was only there to water the geroniums.

Calling Your Attacks: Amazingly and subtly employed thanks to an epic maneuver busted out by Dave.

Doug, Mel's Unwanted Spouse who placidly puts up with all of her craziness and abuse.

Greg is Murray's Butt-Monkey, constantly sabotaged and treated poorly.

Murray is constantly humiliated and beaten down, though he generally brings it on himself due to making very poor decisions almost constantly.

Bret and Jemaine themselves tend to be screwed over in every episode.

Word of God says they're better at expressing themselves in song rather than verbally. Despite this, their songs are all quite catchy and clever.

Bunny-Ears Lawyer: In-universe, Bret and Jemaine are complete losers who couldn't draw a crowd with their music to save their lives.

Murray flight of the conchords series#

The actors had too much difficulty writing songs to keep up with the pace of the series and ended it voluntarily.

Murray flight of the conchords tv#

British Brevity: The TV series lasted two seasons, a total of 22 episodes.

The second, they manage to get a male and female employee to dance. The first time, many of the business people are looking on in utter confusion.

Brick Joke: One episode features the Conchords playing a couple gigs in an elevator at an office complex.

The only true part is that he saw a girl.

Bret admits 95% of "Rambling Through the Avenues of Time" was completely false.

To make things doubly obvious, his pawned camouflage jacket has "U.S.

When auditioning for the Tough Brets, Dave claims that he was in the Navy SEALS for 15 years.

"They call me the Hiphopopotamus, my lyrics are bottomless.*ahem*".

which keeps getting sidetracked with mood-killing facts like how the mom isn't dead, but divorced and with another dad, or that the son is actually 33.

Awkward Father-Son Bonding Activity: "Father and Son" plays with this in a very Conchords-ian way, depicting a father and son having an intimate and otherwise loving conversation after spending the day together.

As Long as It Sounds Foreign: Lampshaded in "Foux Du Fafa." where the title hook is described as a "Nonsensical French-sounding phrase.".

Killing each other using knives and forks and calling each other names like dork." "Children on the streets using guns and knives, taking drugs and each other's lives.