Flight of the Conchords: Second Helping

Writing that first blog entry sent me on a Flight of the Conchords YouTube voyage. Songs from their live shows are pretty fun to watch. I haven't seen many songs that didn't make it onto the show, but this is the best one I did find:



However, I didn't turn up anything as good as what Neal found: Bret in Lord of the Rings!



Those two seemingly innocuous lines have now become hilarious. (He also shows up in a council meeting in Fellowship of the Ring, but he's in the background and we had to zoom way in to decide if it was him or not.) I feel like they missed a real opportunity not putting a reference to that in "Frodo, Don't Wear the Ring," even if it is pretty darn funny anyway.



Also, Neal somehow remembered that it was Jemaine in those goofy Outback Steakhouse commercials of yore:



I barely remembered that those existed, let alone what the dude looked like. (Speaking of, it's quite a compliment that Bret got cast as an elf, eh? Not one that Jemaine would get. But he has fake goofy Australian who eats at a fake Australian restaurant as consolation!) It's extra funny now on top of the New Zealand-Australia rivalry stuff from the show:


Good times.