The music video for "Business Time" (from " Sally Returns") depicts a daydream that Jemaine is having. For example, in the first episode, " Sally", the song "Most Beautiful Girl in the Room" is a mix of Jemaine's thoughts and his spoken invitations to Sally to get a kebab and to go back to his place. Some songs use a combination of the styles.
Typically, at least once per show, a song is shot in the form of a music video. Other songs serve as the internal monologue of one of the two.
In these instances, Bret or Jemaine sing to another character. Some songs form part of the plot of the show. The songs are built into the narrative structure of the show in several different ways. Jemaine or Bret break into song in each episode. Most episodes center on the five main cast members. Other recurring characters include the landlord of their Chinatown apartment, Eugene ( Eugene Mirman), Bret's short-term girlfriend Coco ( Sutton Foster), Jemaine and Bret's ex-girlfriend Sally ( Rachel Blanchard), Mel's husband Doug ( David Costabile), and Murray's put-upon assistant Greg ( Frank Wood). Their friend Dave Mohumbhai ( Arj Barker) works at a pawn shop and gives them advice on dealing with American women and culture. Jemaine and Bret constantly fend off the amorous attentions of Mel ( Kristen Schaal), a married woman who is their sole fan and stalker. The two have frequent appointments with their officious and ineffectual band manager, Murray Hewitt ( Rhys Darby), a Deputy Cultural Attaché at the New Zealand Consulate.
The series centers on the day-to-day lives and loves of two shepherds-turned- musicians, Jemaine and Bret ( Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie, playing fictionalized versions of themselves), who have uprooted themselves from their native New Zealand to try to make it big as a folk duo in New York City.
The first episode mainly concentrates on Jermaine's inability to realise the awkwardness of the situation with Sally. Only Bret is already in the flat and Sally used to date Bret. The first episode sees Jemaine taking a girl call Sally back to his flat after a party. Their promoter and manager Murray is more of a hindrance. Musicians Bret and Jemaine are musicians who are trying to make it big in New York. Broadcast on HBO, the series was a critical hit in the USA although the humour has more Britishness to it. The showstoppers being the songs performed by New Zealanders Jemaine Clement and Bret MacKenzie. The first episode of the Flight of the Conchords aims at then peculiar and the absurd.