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I really enjoyed the first season of Flight of the Conchords, although the last episode had me wondering if perhaps they had run out of songs. Season 2 confirmed that they had.

Season 1 had over 20 songs that had been polished and perfected by being performed in front of live audiences over several years. Season 2 was mostly original material that had been written hurriedly just for the show, and it's evident in the quality, which is a shame.

There were a few gems, however, that reminded me of the first season. For whatever reason, the songs I liked the most were in just two episodes: #2 and #5. They are all, or mostly, original songs that weren't in season 1.

Sugalumps

This song sounds like several song ideas stitched together, with a pattern something like: abcdaefg.
But it works and it's very catchy.

Youtube has an HD version:

The construction worker is oddly graceful.

You Don't Have to Be a Prostitute

It's like a parody, but not of any one song in particular. I couldn't get the tune out of my head for days.

Carol Brown

Like most of their best songs, the melody stands on its own and the lyrics are icing on the cake. The arrangement of this song is much nicer than the stage version which has just the male voices. Michel Gondry directed the video, which is also pretty cool.

I wasn't sure whether there would be a second season of Flight of the Conchords. It seems everyone I know has the DVD of the first season, which was great, but exhausted all the good songs that the two guys have been performing for the past several years.

The first episode of season two follows the same format as the other season, except there are three songs instead of the usual two per episode, none of which are as good as the ones from last year. High hopes, though.

I just saw episode 2, though, and it was hilarious and the songs have been swimming in my head ever since.

This is a coup for Joost, which is trying to compete with the better-known Hulu.

After greatly enjoying (years after the fact) the original (BBC) "The Office" I looked around for other projects by the same people and found that the writer and star, Ricky Gervais, had done another show called, "Extras".
It was a more polished show, although more bitter in tone. Both shows seemed to aspire toward making the audience cringe, which seemed like a new kind of storytelling, at least to me.

The theater used to be people's source of low-brow entertainment. The traveling shows of the 1890s, for example, would have some cornball songs, slapstick comedy, and burlesque.

When film became a popular medium, it initially relied on immitating the successful aspects of theater, and became the principal source of this kind of music, comedic, and otherwise titilating content. (The Three Stooges and others of that era had all been Vaudeville acts)