like Prince, if he was just going to the zoo

Je m'apprête à regarder la 2ème saison de Flight of the Conchords (c'est la seule série que je suis, avec Lost). Vu que mes souvenirs de la première remontent à près de deux ans, j'ai balayé ses 12 épisodes en vitesse, histoire de me remettre dans le bain.
Et ça reste très très drôle.

Flight of the Conchords raconte les tribulations d'un groupe d'indie pop fraîchement débarqué de Nouvelle Zélande à New York. Le groupe est en fait un duo, constitué de Brett & Jemaine, qui essayent tant bien que mal de se faire connaître, "aidé" en cela par un piètre mais sympathique manager (Murray).

- Well, this seems like a very very good deal! I'havn't seen many music deals...
- you havn't seen any.

L'humour est absurde, les situations cocaces, les dialogues tordants, les personnages secondaires sont très réussis, et la VO est un bonheur, grâce aux accents des personnages.

Tout autant que pour un livre, je n'aime pas l'idée qu'un passage jugé remarquable sur le moment puisse disparaître à jamais (de ma mémoire)... Je fixerai donc dans cet article quelques bribes de dialogues (extraites de l'épisode 10), comme je l'avais déjà fait il y a quelques temps.

Pas sûr que ça "fonctionne", auprès de ceux qui ne connaissent pas la série.

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Lors d'un "Band Meeting":

Murray : Good news anyway, we've got a winner for the fan competition!
Brett: Mell?
Murray: Yeah! How do you know that?
Brett: There's probably only one entry
Murray: No! There were hundreds actually
Brett: really?
Murray: Yeah!.. they were from Mell. And one from Jemaine... but he was disqualified.
Jemaine: Disqualied? Why was I disqualified?
Murray: Because! You can't be a fan of the band
Jemaine: Why?
Murray: It's not a good look!
Jemaine: But i'm a fan
Murray: Yeah, but... people look at the fan list, when they say : "Oh look, he's in the band, doesn't he?", "Oh, he likes himself". That's not a good look; You don't see Brett on the fan list.
Brett: Yeah, that's because i'm not fan of the band. I'm more fan of popular bands like the bee gees, pearl jam.

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Après leur prestation live dans un petit bar,
dans le cadre d'une soirée "musique du monde":

Murray: Hey guys, really good! Different start of song...
Jemaine: No, it's the same
Murray: ah? ok. So ding di-ding dong dong dong ding
Jemaine: We were tuning.
Murray: Ah ok. That was good.

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Rendant visite à leur pote Dave (vivant en collocation),
afin de lui emprunter des fringues "cool".

Jemaine: I was hoping to dress something like Prince.
Dave: Kind of erogenous, huh?
Jemaine: Yeah, but toned down a bit, like Prince if he was just going to the zoo, or the supermarket.

Après que Jemaine s'est fait refiler un chemisier
de la prétendue colloc de Dave:

Dave: Maybe hide that on your way out, 'cos there's my roommate, she's crazy! She thinks she's my mom!
Jemaine: Well, that is your mom.
Dave: you think i live with my parents?!! [...] The weird thing is that they look like me.
Jemaine: I've seen photos of themselves with you as a kid...
Dave (chuchotant) : I know.... It's creapy. I think they made them on a computer!

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Brett et Jemaine, en pleine réflexion, dans les toilettes d'un appartement, dans lequel les ont invités deux jeunes femmes entreprenantes.

Brett: They want me in the threesome.
Jemaine: What?
Brett: Yeah.
Jemaine: Well that's not a threesome, that's a foursome.
Brett: I don't know, I've never had a threesome.
Jemaine: I don't want you in my threesome, you don't know anything about threesomes.
Brett: Have you ever had a threesome?
Jemaine: Nearly..
Brett: What do you mean, nearly?
Jemaine: I've had a twosome..
Brett: Wow, what was that like?
Jemaine: Great, I've done it several times man.
Brett: So, just one of you there.. and one of you there..
Jemaine: Yeah.
Brett: Oh n-n-n-no, I've had a twosome, that's just the normal way.
Jemaine: Yes..

Le lendemain:

Brett: Hey, Jemaine.
Jemaine: Hmm?
Brett: Last night, did you... look?
Jemaine: We agreed never to talk about this.

Flight of the Conchords, S01E10 "New Fans"
(2007)