1.08 Girlfriends

Summary and spoilers

Somehow the boys manage a double-date with two women who work in a croissant shop. Each woman in turn takes a liking to Bret (especially Lisa, who ends up going home with him). Jemaine is unable to generate any charisma, start a conversation, or even remember the two women’s names from one moment to another.

Murray strongly advises the boys that bands should not have girlfriends. Murray has good news, too: his car broke down in the ghetto, leading to a meeting with a man who is a relative of high-powered music producer Quincy Jones. Murray has assumed this only because the guy’s surname is also Jones. Through Murray’s Jones, he buys a stereo system and agrees to have 2500 CDs burned of Bret and Jemaine’s single. Unfortunately, Murray is only able to sell one of the CDs (to Mel, of course). Not only that, most of the boxes are filled not with CDs but with sawdust. Murray manages to recoup some of his investment when Dave agrees to buy the CDs. They are rewritable, and Dave plans to erase them and sell them as blanks. Now if only Murray can find someone who will buy his sawdust, he will have salvaged the entire deal.

Bret’s seeming good luck with the ladies backfires when he reveals that he is not interested in a one night stand. Rather, he wants lovemaking to be romantic and to be achieved after three years of dating. Lisa feels differently and takes the lead, acting like a stereotypical aggressive man. Lisa convinces Bret to sleep with her by saying she is leaving the next day to serve in Iraq as a sniper. After they sleep together, Bret feels violated and depressed. Even Jemaine’s use of the talking stove doesn’t fully cheer him up. Even worse, Lisa’s story about going to war was just a lie she used to get a one night stand.

Comments

This episode, a pure switch of the sexes with stereotypes switched as well, is not quite as funny as some of the better episodes. But the songs are good (as usual).

Songs in this episode:

"Foux du Fafa" - (Faux French, with everyone dressed in pastel colors; I got even more enjoyment out of this due to the use of my old home - Park Slope, Brooklyn - posing as Paris)

"A Kiss Is Not a Contract" - (Not every man wants to go all the way)

Flight of the Conchords Quotes

Jemaine: Oh, look: Bret’s feeling Felicia’s breast.
Felicia: Uh, I’m Felicia. That’s –
Jemaine: Yes -
Felicia: Lisa.
Jemaine: - feeling Lisa’s breast then, probably. That must be nice for her.
Felicia: Yeah.
Jemaine: Looks like she’s responding to that quite – positively.

Murray: And Quincy Jones, he’s the music producer, isn’t he? What’s some of the albums that he’s produced, Bret?
Bret: Michael Jackson’s ‘Off The Wall’?
Murray: Yeah, whoa! I’ll say he is! He’s crazy! Off the planet! Isn’t he gonna freeze himself?

"Just because you’ve been exploring my mouth
Doesn’t mean you get to take an expedition further south"
- Bret (from ‘A Kiss Is Not A Contract’)

You can take me out to dinner, that might be quite nice
You can buy me a burrito and some beans and rice
But that won’t get you into pants paradise
- Jemaine (from ‘A Kiss Is Not A Contract’)

"I mean, don’t you know that if, if a girl gets aroused and doesn’t climax, that she could really damage herself? Bret, I might not be able to have a baby."
- Lisa

Girl on street: [to Bret] Are you Bret? I’m a friend of Lisa’s? I heard you like to have a good time?
Jemaine: I’m Bret.