2x02 'The New Cup'

Sun Jan 25, 2009 10:47 pm

I can't wait to see it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sun Jan 25, 2009 10:47 pm

drunkagain wrote:Jemaine on the stripper pole!

Must stay out of this thread for another 2 hours!

Sun Jan 25, 2009 10:47 pm

Great episode!

We've read so much about the Sugar Lumps song, but I actually like the prostitute song better (what is it called)

I loved:

Jemaine's prostitute outfits
the massage!
Bret pimping out Jemiane to the woman on the street
"
You have a roommate, Jemaine!"

Murray's reviews of the FOTC shows

And so much more, I can't wait to rewatch!

Sun Jan 25, 2009 10:48 pm

Amily wrote:

drunkagain wrote:Jemaine on the stripper pole!

Must stay out of this thread for another 2 hours!

Sun Jan 25, 2009 10:51 pm

Nothing will ever top Jemaine on the stripper pole, ever. For the rest of my life. He thinks he's being funny, and he is, but he has no idea what he's doing to us.

I loved Murray's childhood flashbacks of the Dad guitar and Mum guitar. [image]

Sun Jan 25, 2009 11:00 pm

Katie wrote:Nothing will ever top Jemaine on the stripper pole, ever. For the rest of my life. He thinks he's being funny, and he is, but he has no idea what he's doing to us.

Oh, I think he knows what he's doing. ;
)

Sun Jan 25, 2009 11:10 pm

giggletycoon wrote:

Katie wrote:Nothing will ever top Jemaine on the stripper pole, ever. For the rest of my life. He thinks he's being funny, and he is, but he has no idea what he's doing to us.

Oh, I think he knows what he's doing. ;
)

this was EPIC!!!!

the thing i am going to remember the most....is all of Jemaine's OUTFITS!!! [image]

I have never SEEN him dress up soo much! OMG! and the Khaki pants [image]

I can't get both songs out of my head [image]

oh shii...and the DANCING! WHOA! that was waaaay hotter than I thought it was going to be!!

Sun Jan 25, 2009 11:14 pm

How much Bret is in the episode??

Is there enough to keep a Bretero happy? [image]

Sun Jan 25, 2009 11:18 pm

hellomyfriend wrote:How much Bret is in the episode??

Is there enough to keep a Bretero happy?

Definitely. He may have actually been in it more than jemaine, and he had the better lines, really. the last song, Man Ho, was all him.

Sun Jan 25, 2009 11:18 pm

hellomyfriend wrote:How much Bret is in the episode??

Is there enough to keep a Bretero happy?

'

well nikki...he's in there. it's BECAUSE of Bret that they get into the mess they are in ;
)

don't worry! [image]

Sun Jan 25, 2009 11:31 pm

giggletycoon wrote:

Katie wrote:Nothing will ever top Jemaine on the stripper pole, ever. For the rest of my life. He thinks he's being funny, and he is, but he has no idea what he's doing to us.

Oh, I think he knows what he's doing. ;
)

Haha, yeah I'm sure he does. What I love the most about the stripper pole part is how he looks bored and is chewing gum. [image]

Sun Jan 25, 2009 11:32 pm

I think this episode just happens to be [image]

Jemaine-centric [image]

. There are a lot of things that he is doing in this EP that I did not expect him to do. but all in all they have both of the guys in it. Some of the things that they say is pretty hilarious.

I think they tried to jam pack a lot of stuff in this EP. I liked it...there was soo much going on. But, some stuff did feel like filler unfortunately <img src=

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i would totally do it, no I wouldn't"
part slows it down a bit and that is FREAKIN' HILARIOUS!!!

I don't think they needed the whole part where they were shouting across the street Sad

sorry guys. but...it was just a little too long for me. just felt filler-ish to me. there were some funny parts about that...but it just seemed odd :-X

I think at the end Bret took the guys home. him with his guitar in his own element really did it for me...bret was all rockin' out and it was just sooo adorable [image]

BUT...Jemaine dancing will be FOREVER replaying in my mind!

Sun Jan 25, 2009 11:33 pm

Katie wrote:

giggletycoon wrote:

Oh, I think he knows what he's doing. ;
)

Haha, yeah I'm sure he does. What I love the most about the stripper pole part is how he looks bored and is chewing gum.

I totally noticed the gum and that cracked my shii up!

Sun Jan 25, 2009 11:37 pm

step0nmi wrote:

hellomyfriend wrote:How much Bret is in the episode??

Is there enough to keep a Bretero happy?

'

well nikki...he's in there. it's BECAUSE of Bret that they get into the mess they are in ;
)

don't worry!

Girl, take it from a fellow Bretero - you will be more than happy, I promise!!!! He looks especially hot during the Man Ho song.

I don't know how long before you will see the ep, but start sandbagging now. Hell, 'uck the sandbagging - you will need a transplant. ;
)

;<br />D

Sun Jan 25, 2009 11:39 pm

AAAACCCKKKK!!!! I want to see this NOW!!! *stomps foot* [image]

just the thought of jemaine + a stripper pole =

+

Mon Jan 26, 2009 12:17 am

WARNING: SPOILERIFIC REVIEW (FOR THOSE WHO HAVEN'T SEEN EP2 YET):

[size=100:smumvggg]Spoilers for tonight's "
Flight of the Conchords"
coming up just as soon as I bake some nut loaf...
"
I knew if you bought a cup I'd end up in jail."
-Jemaine

"
The New Cup"
doesn't erase the concerns I have about the Conchords' musical numbers from last week's episode or next week's. Taken on its own, though, this was perfection, as both comedy and as musical.

"
Sugar Lumps"
was one of the catchiest, funniest music videos they've done to date (and not not just because it appropriately worked Dave into the fun). Bret's reggae-inflected plea for Jemaine to give up a life of prostitution was almost as entertaining.

But at this point, I'm watching "
Conchords"
for the deadpan farce more than the tunes, and this one was magnificently constructed. They really put in the time to explain all the ways that Bret's purchase of a $2.79 cup would destroy the guys' lives, which led to three beautiful pay-offs at the end: Bret getting arrested by making an untimely reference to his day job, Jemaine's line in the jail cell that I quoted above, and then the Rube Goldberg-ian path of destruction for the new cup the moment the power company turned the lights back on.

Weaving hilariously in and out of the money problems, Bret's counter-productive super-straw business, and Bret and Jemaine's attempt to entice prostitution clients by offering them a piece of nut loaf, we got Murray being one of the last men in the country naive enough to believe in the Nigerian internet scam, and the only one lucky enough for this to turn out to involve an actual Nigerian with an actual business proposition. Maybe the internet really is, as Murray puts it, "
one of the trusted things of today's society,"
and I should stop giving Murray such a hard time.

(Why can't I find my own Nigelo Soladu? I promise not to spend my half of the profits on bailing my idiot clients out of jail.)

Really, every corner of this episode was filled with straight-faced gags that busted me up: Doug trying to be cool about Mel getting massaged by the Conchords (and Mel's orgasmic reaction to barely being touched by Jemaine), or the awkward and lengthy conversation between Jemaine and Eugene the landlord about how Eugene knows so much about prostitution, or Murray's digression on the bass as "
the daddy guitar."
I'm not sure I can think of a first season episode that made me laugh as consistently as "
The New Cup"
did.

Finally, I'm doing an interview with Bret, Jemaine and "
Conchords"
producer James Bobin tomorrow morning, and I'm open to suggestions for things to ask about. No promises, depending on how the conversation goes, but fire away.

source:

Mon Jan 26, 2009 12:29 am

ALL I CAN SAY AT THIS MOMENT IS.........

SHWINGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mon Jan 26, 2009 12:29 am

Nikki you're going to die!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mon Jan 26, 2009 12:31 am

chrissycubana wrote:AAAACCCKKKK!!!! I want to see this NOW!!! *stomps foot*

just the thought of jemaine + a stripper pole = +

Mon Jan 26, 2009 12:32 am

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh myyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy goddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd

[image]

Bret looks so scruffy sexy in the whole episode and on the table...holy 'uckkkkkkkkkkkkk!!!!

Jemaine blew my mind!!!!!

EPIC!!!

Arj rapping....omg guys...he's the sexiest dork ever!!!!!!! And what the hell is on his pants? A jock strap? Bra? cup? OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

When Bret was selling Jemaine...he was so sexy and sitting on the steps with the straws....and the Roxanne parody!!!!

I need to watch it again and try not to squee so much so I can actually hear the words to the songs!

Mon Jan 26, 2009 12:33 am

Sugar Lumps:

[flash=350,287:dkj50ze9]https://www.youtube.com/v/DbIp9Tco_cU&hl=en&fs=1[/flash:dkj50ze9]

(youtube 'ucks up the quality so bad)

Mon Jan 26, 2009 12:38 am

Ami, I didn't know you saw it already! You gotz a hookup!!!

Mon Jan 26, 2009 12:40 am

It comes on here! HBO Canada, yo! lol

I don't really know if my last post made sense...I was in shock still lol

If it didn't I apologizee

Mon Jan 26, 2009 12:43 am

Holy shii! That's awesome. I kept thinking HBO Canada were stingy bitches. YAY!!!!!!

Mon Jan 26, 2009 12:44 am

I thought they would be but they decided to bless us with Conchordy pr0n!