"The Flight of the Conchords"
Bowie (2007)

Director:

Troy Miller

Writers:

James Bobin (creator) &
Jemaine Clement (creator) ...

TV Series:

"The Flight of the Conchords" (2007)

Original Air Date:

22 July 2007 (Season 1, Episode 6)

Genre:

Comedy | Music

Plot:

Cast

Jemaine Clement	...	Jemaine
Bret McKenzie	...	Bret
Rhys Darby	...	Murray Hewitt
Kristen Schaal	...	Mel
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Arj Barker	...	Dave
David Costabile	...	Doug
John Hodgman	...	David Armstrong
Frank Wood	...	Greg

Runtime:

27 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Quotes:

1986 David Bowie: Bret, Bret?... Bret! It's 1986 David Bowie from the movie "Labyrinth."
Bret: Yeah, I know.
1986 David Bowie: So you showed your penis to the man at the greeting-card company?
Bret: That was your idea.
1986 David Bowie: I didn't mean something like that. I only meant something like... I don't know, wear makeup or ...
Bret: Yeah, I was wearing makeup. I had lightning bolts on my wanger.
1986 David Bowie: I meant on your face, Bret. On your face.
Bret: So have you got anymore advice?
1986 David Bowie: No. I don't have anymore advice. I've given you all of my good advice. Actually, I've totally lost confidence in my ability to help people. I'm useless.
Bret: Jemaine actually thinks that maybe you're a figment of my imagination.
[...]

Movie Connections:

References Labyrinth (1986)

Bret, you got it going on...

Flight of the Conchords sort of changed its pace after episode five, mainly due to new directors on staff. 'Bowie', the first episode of what I consider the second half of the season, is probably the weakest, or among the weakest, in the entire season, and a lot of people gave up on the series after it. Don't do that - the latter episodes have a bit of a different atmosphere, but there are some great ones there. 'Bowie' too, while it's not quite one of the best, has some fantastic moments, and some great acting from Bret especially. 'Bret You Got It Going On' is a hilarious musical number. 'Bowie's in Space' is the kind of song that works better in live performances, as it was really just tacked on to the end of the episode in a pretty unconvincing manner. Not a great episode really but worth a watch.