Flight of the conchords david bowie
#Flight of the conchords david bowie series#
The song is one of the few in the television series to have no accompanying montage or fantasy sequence and is performed primarily by Jemaine on guitar and vocals. The song is meant as a tribute to Bret, although Jemaine insecurely asserts throughout the song that he is not gay and has no physical attraction to Bret, and concludes with Jemaine revealing that he once put a wig on Bret while he was sleeping in the same bed with him and pretended Bret was a woman. Jemaine sings "Bret, You've Got It Going On" to Bret as a way to cheer him up after he starts to feel insecure about his body. This episode features the following songs, both adapted from previous material by the duo: Murray arrives and tells them that despite the disastrous meeting, the greeting card company decided to produce the card anyway, but because the chosen design is "Happy 80th Birthday, Son" very few cards are made and the band ends up earning only 50¢. Later, Bret drinks a cup of coffee with Jemaine and Dave ( Arj Barker) outside of Dave's pawn shop, where he concludes that if even David Bowie sometimes loses self-confidence, then he should not have to be so insecure about his body image. The scene ends with a song and music video, "Bowie", that mimics various performance styles and roles from David Bowie's career. A disappointed Bowie tells Bret that he is out of advice and has lost confidence in his ability to help people.
#Flight of the conchords david bowie movie#
This time it is Bowie as Jareth the Goblin King from the movie Labyrinth. He leaps onto the manager's desk and exposes himself, featuring "lightning bolts down his wanger." On the bus ride home, Murray and Jemaine express their disappointment with Bret for ruining the business opportunity and Murray becomes depressed that his management skills were not good enough to prevent the incident or spin it well. When Armstrong says that he feels that the band are not really interested in the opportunity, Bret sees it as the cue to do something outrageous. The next day they see Mel on the street who compliments Bret profusely at the expense of Jemaine who now starts to doubt his own body image.Īt the greeting card meeting the owner, David Armstrong (played by John Hodgman), tries to explain the workings of the audio card to technically challenged Murray, Jemaine and Bret. Bowie advises him to do something "absolutely outrageous" when the "time is right". Later Jemaine tries to cheer Bret up himself by singing him a song he has written, "Bret, You've Got It Going On".Īfter Bowie's eyepatch suggestion causes accidents, Bret is visited again in a dream, this time by Bowie dressed as he appears in the " Ashes to Ashes" music video. Jemaine visits Mel and asks her to cheer Bret up complimenting him next time she sees him. Murray announces that he has arranged a meeting with a company who are interested in using one of the band's songs in a musical greeting card. He then gets visited in a dream by a Ziggy Stardust-era David Bowie (performed by Jemaine, whose resemblance is acknowledged by Bret) telling him not to worry about his body image and advising him to get an eyepatch. Yeah, I'm picking it up on my LSD screen.Bret starts suffering body image issues after Murray accuses him of being small during a photo session. I don't know man, I'll have to turn my ship around. I'm jamming out with the Mick Jaggernauts How far out are you man?ĭrawn in by its grooveatational (grooveatational) pull This is Bowie back to Bowie I read you loud and clear, man. This is Bowie to Bowie, do you hear me out there man? Receiving transmission from David Bowie's nipple antennae. Or do you have several ch-ch-ch-ch- changes?ĭo they smoke grass out there in space man, or do they smoke Astroturf? There's heaps of it and it's all freaking out at my new look.īowie do you have one really funky sequined space suit, Bowie? You could write a follow up tune and call it 'And There Is' Is it lonely out there in space man, or is there life on Mars? Wouldn't that be weird coz you wrote that song, 'Is There Life on Mars'. Isn't it cold, quite cold out there Bowie?ĭoes the space cold do funny things to your nipples, making them all pointy?ĭo you use your pointy nipples as telescopic antennae transmitting data back to Earth? What's a rock musician doing out in space man?