Bret and Jemaine can't afford to pay their rent and are forced to move in with Mel and Doug, and Murray believes they can make some money with a theatrical production about the band.
WAR
110.9
Wins Above Replacement
“Evicted” ranks #16 of 22 Flight of the Conchords episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 90.9 — Elite. The episode packs 84 scored jokes at 3.1 per minute, averaging 7.4 on craft and 7.3 on impact, with Bret landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Murray · Bret · Jemaine: Final scene: back in New Zealand as shepherds — 'Good shepherding today, guys!' / 'Thanks, Murray!'
Jemaine: 'It was a hilarious moment in a very bleak, bleak time of my life.'
Jemaine Deadpan/Understatement Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Jemaine · Bret: 'Hey Petrov, what is that you are eating? It's fish. How come it looks so much like my arm which has been hacked off at the elbow last night? Oh, it's an arm fish.'
Murray: That's actually better for the story, if you're homeless
Bret Deadpan/Understatement Observational ★ Rewatch Jemaine: Can we give you an I.O.U? In American dollars, not in new zealand dollars
Bret Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 84 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Landlord: They're in new zealand dollars... it's a new zealand account
Bret: Is that American dollars or real dollars?
Jemaine: Can we give you an I.O.U? In American dollars, not in new zealand dollars
Bret Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Bret: Can we choose which month?
Bret Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Murray: By whose authority?
Jemaine: The landlord.
Murray: Why?
Bret: Just because we were paying with new zealand dollars instead of American dollars.
Murray: Okay, so he's a racist and now you're homeless
Murray Irony/Sarcasm Deadpan/Understatement Murray: To stage your lives as an off-broadway musical
Jemaine: Our story is the story of two guys who start at the bottom and with a lot of hard work continue along the bottom and finally end up at the bottom
Bret: Yeah, it's a rags-to-rags story
Murray Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Bret: Really?
Murray: Oh yeah, you say 'really?' here. I knew you'd say that
Murray: I've only got one bed and I grope people in my sleep. It's a condition
Jemaine Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Murray: It's one of the reasons I had to leave the new zealand army
Murray: That's actually better for the story, if you're homeless
Bret Deadpan/Understatement Observational ★ Rewatch Bret: Your dad?
Dave: Yeah. I can't have you at my apartment. What if some crazy shit goes down?
Jemaine Deadpan/Understatement Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Callback Hotel clerk: She decapitated him, castrated him, defanged him. She removed his hands and feet
Oh, that's today's date.
Weird.
Yeah, it's today's date. It happened earlier today
Bret Deadpan/Understatement Setup/Punchline Mel: There will be no bringing girls back to the house. I know how you guys are
Murray Character Comedy Absurdist Mel: Yeah, maybe I'll bring some girls home too, just find some real authentic sluts and just turn this house into a whorehome
Mel: You must not leave the house.
Bret: When?
Jemaine: What, never?
Mel: Well, not after 11:30 P.M. And preferably never
Mel: That is such a womanly instrument. Have you ever heard of a man playing a harp?
Bret: My dad plays the harp
Bret Murray Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jemaine: I sometimes go to the toilet in the middle of the night.
Mel: Mm-hmm. I know
Murray Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Jemaine: Petrov, Yelyena and me / lost but happy at sea
Bret: So I said, 'do you know any Rolling Stones?' It was a hilarious moment in a very bleak bleak time of my life.
Jemaine: How come it looks so much like my arm which has been hacked off at the elbow last night?
Petrov: Oh, it's an arm fish
Bret: This seems very similar to 'Star Wars.'
Murray: I've mixed you up with... Luke Skywalker
Dave Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Mel: Doug and I have something very important to talk to you about. We have decided to spend some time apart
Mel: This isn't about you.
Doug: Well, actually, Mel, it is about them
Mel: You're so young.
Bret: I'm 32
Murray: All the professional actors write their lines down on each other's clothing
Mel Doug Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Murray: The longer the play, the bigger the shirt. You'll always notice that... big costumes. Why do they always go like this? There's lines covered in all the clothing
Doug Mel Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Murray: I've noticed your acting tends to be a bit boring. It's okay for the first minute, then I kind of drift off
Mel Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Murray: Yesterday's rehearsal you got yourself worked up, you stopped breathing and you fainted.
Bret: No, I didn't.
Murray: You were on the ground there for a while, about five minutes.
Mel Doug Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement Landlord: Now scram, you filthy illegal immigrants
Audience member: Whoo! Look at the harp player!
Mel: It is manly
Mel Deadpan/Understatement Irony/Sarcasm Murray: Well, it depends how you define 'hit.'
Bret: Did people like it?
Murray: No, I don't think it was that sort of hit
Murray: Unfortunately the play drew a lot of attention to your illegal immigrant status
Murray: Good shepherding today, guys!
Bret or Jemaine: Thanks, Murray!
Mel · Bret: Mel tucks Bret into bed very tightly — 'It's very tight. I can't really move.'
Bret · Mel: The heater is broken — but Bret saw her turning it up moments ago
Bret Mel Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Mel · Bret: Mel locks the bedroom door 'for security' in a 'very dangerous neighborhood'
Mel Bret Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Callback Bret · Mel: 'I sometimes go to the toilet in the middle of the night.' / 'Mm-hmm. I know.'
Bret Mel Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Mel: 'You guys are so cute. I could just eat you up.'
Mel Cringe/Discomfort Dark/Subversive Jemaine · Bret: The 'Petrov, Yelyena and Me' cannibalism song — a man stranded at sea with two companions who progressively eat him while he parties with them
Bret: THE SONG: 'Petrov, Yelyena and Me' — Bret sings about being stranded at sea with cannibals
Bret Dark/Subversive Absurdist ★ Rewatch Jemaine · Bret: 'I passed out and I woke with one leg. I said... Petrov, have you seen my leg? He said... no. And he went back to bed. But he looked suspiciously well-fed.'
Jemaine Bret Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Jemaine: 'It was a hilarious moment in a very bleak, bleak time of my life.'
Jemaine Deadpan/Understatement Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Jemaine · Bret: 'Hey Petrov, what is that you are eating? It's fish. How come it looks so much like my arm which has been hacked off at the elbow last night? Oh, it's an arm fish.'
Jemaine · Bret: 'I swallowed some arsenic to poison my meat.' / 'I was very ill, but revenge is so sweet / unlike the last meal my comrades would eat.'
Jemaine · Bret: 'When I awoke, they were already dead / all that was left of me was my head / No, not dead, just a head.'
Jemaine · Bret: 'Lost but so lonely... at sea.' — the final couplet of the song shifts from 'lost but happy' to 'lost but so lonely'
Jemaine Bret Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Callback Murray · Bret · Jemaine: Murray's musical rehearsal reveals he's cast actors to play Luke Skywalker's aunt and uncle — 'This seems very similar to Star Wars.'
Murray · Bret · Jemaine: 'I thought you were a farmer.' / 'Never ever a farmer.' / 'I was a shepherd.' / 'A shepherd, not a farmer.'
Bret · Jemaine: Jemaine and Bret met because Jemaine lost some sheep that wandered into Bret's paddock
Murray · Bret: 'What about the wise old guy you had to find who taught you to fight your father?' / 'I think that's Star Wars.'
Mel · Doug · Bret · Jemaine: Mel and Doug announce a separation — delivered to Bret and Jemaine as if to children: 'This isn't about you' / 'Well, actually, Mel, it is about them.'
Mel · Doug: "This isn't about you." / "Well actually, Mel, it is about them."
Mel Doug Cringe/Discomfort Irony/Sarcasm Callback Mel: 'Do not say that in front of them, Doug. It's damaging.'
Mel Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Callback Mel · Doug · Bret · Jemaine: Mel assigns custody: Bret stays with Mel, Jemaine goes with Doug — 'But I will fight you, Doug, and I will get you back, Jemaine.'
Mel · Bret: 'Oh, Bret, you'll understand when you're older, okay? You're so young.' / 'I'm 32.'
Mel Bret Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Mel · Jemaine: 'Now, Jemaine, don't worry. You'll still see a lot of me.' / 'Mmm, um, yeah, probably.'
Bret · Mel: 'Mel... are you wearing my shirt?' / 'Yes, I am.'
Bret Mel Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Murray: Murray's cast meeting — actors writing lines on each other's clothing because 'all professional actors do it'
Murray Absurdist Character Comedy Murray · Bret · Jemaine: Murray: 'Bret, you've got to remember to keep breathing the whole time. Yesterday's rehearsal you got worked up, stopped breathing and fainted.' / Bret: 'No I didn't.' / Murray: 'You were on the ground for five minutes.' / 'Yeah, about five minutes.' / 'I really got bored of that bit.'
Murray · Jemaine: Murray's acting note to Jemaine: 'I've noticed your acting tends to be a bit boring. It's okay for the first minute, then I kind of drift off.'
Murray: Murray spots Malcolm and immediately abandons the cast meeting: 'Hey Malcolm! Have a good one tonight. You're my favorite actor.'
Murray Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Murray: Murray hasn't given them their costumes — 'Hang on! You haven't got your costumes on! What are you wearing? Quickly, get your costumes on!'
Murray Character Comedy Physical/Slapstick Bret · Jemaine: 'Jemaine, nobody wants to listen to the music of a couple of shepherds. I know of a place... A place called... America.'
Bret · Jemaine · Chorus: The 'America' song — NZ neighbors shouting 'Don't go there! They're crazy! They'll kill youse! They have guns!'
Bret · Jemaine: 'Welcome to the land of opportunity / I am the Statue of Liberty... my head's stuck in this chair / gotta get my head out of this chair.'
Bret · Jemaine: 'I'm selling myself on the street / just trying to make ends meet / who will buy / my body? / my body.'
Bret · Jemaine: 'Now scram, you filthy illegal immigrants.' — the landlord character in the musical
Bret Jemaine Irony/Sarcasm Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Callback Bret · Jemaine: 'Illegal immigrants, illegal immigrants / we've overstayed our welcome, we've overstayed our visas / nobody cares, nobody needs us!'
Murray · Bret · Jemaine: Musical-within-musical: Murray's character appears to say 'We'll put on a musical!' as the musical solution within the musical
Bret · Jemaine: Post-show: 'Murray was right. It was a great idea to put on a musical. Murray's the greatest.' — the musical's fictional happy ending momentarily believed
Bret · Jemaine · Murray: Post-show: Doug plays harp and everyone cheers — 'Look at the harp player! It is manly.'
Murray · Jemaine: Murray's post-show review: 'your acting was really good' / 'okay, you're still a bit boring'
Bret · Murray: 'Is it a hit?' / 'Well, it depends how you define hit.' / 'Did people like it?' / 'No, I don't think it was that sort of hit.'
Murray · Bret · Jemaine: 'I've got lots of news — good news, got some... just a little bit of terrible news there...' / 'Well, let's start with the good news.' / 'Okay. Well, we did it.' / 'That's the good news?'
Murray: The 'illegal immigrants' song drew attention to their illegal status in front of embassy officials — 'It was a good number... but not great to perform in front of these people.'
Murray Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Callback Murray · Bret: 'So overall great, yes, but also not great. So average?'
Murray: In addition to good news and terrible news, there is 'truly awful news' — the embassy officials want to see them
Murray Escalation Deadpan/Understatement Murray · Bret · Jemaine: Final scene: back in New Zealand as shepherds — 'Good shepherding today, guys!' / 'Thanks, Murray!'
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