So where did we leave our heroes Bret (Brit? Bret. Brit? Bret etc) and Jermaine at the end of series one of Flight Of The Conchords? Well, against all the odds, their inept manager Murray has hit the big time with Crazy Dogs – a band comprising Demetri Martin and a dude on the bongos – leaving our guys pretty much fending for themselves, and even lacking their only fan, who is now singing Doggy Bounce with the rest of the US…

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Fast forward to series two, and Murray has quit his job at the New Zealand consulate, and he’s a manager full-time, working in a big shiny office complete with glass table and perfectly-coiffured hair. He still manages FOTC but to be honest, he has bigger fish to fry, and so the guys decide they’d be better off without him – leading to this awesome exchange:

Murray: “Stuff you, Jermaine. Stuff you, Bret. And stuff you again, Jermaine.”
Jermaine: “Why was I double-stuffed?”

I love silly little lines like that, and FOTC absolutely thrives on them. One other thing that the show does so well, of course, is music, and so Murray, naturally, reacts to being sacked with a sweeping, operatic power ballad – showcasing a surprisingly great voice… Bret and Jermaine, meanwhile, seem to be doing pretty well managing themselves, and get a gig writing the jingle for a women’s-only toothpaste (we have very particular dental hygiene needs, apparently).

But, true to shambolic form, things slowly start to go wrong for both Bret and Jermaine and Murray. For the big-shot manager, it turns out that a band brought out a cover version of Doggy Bounce 13 years before the original Crazy Dogs version (“is that bad, or normal?” “I think it’s bad”), and FOTC come up against the fact that not only are they not allowed to work in the country, they’re not really allowed to be in the country. It’s time to get the old team together – Murray returns to the NZ office (to find no-one found his ‘stuff you’ note) to get their passports, and, back in the role of FOTC manager gives the band his expert advice: RUN!

Oh it’s nice to have FOTC back, isn’t it? The ridiculous dead-pan conversations about whether weaving is a job for men or for women, Dave being the most deluded but hilarious man in New York, and Murray being, well, one of the best characters on TV. There’s a little more money on show here perhaps, and slightly different opening credits but overall it’s a case of as you were – and that’s fine by me.