Jemaine starts dating an Australian, to Bret's dismay and inconvenience.
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“Unnatural Love” ranks #11 of 22 Flight of the Conchords episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 93.4 — Elite. The episode packs 85 scored jokes at 3.0 per minute, averaging 7.7 on craft and 7.4 on impact, with Jemaine landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Jemaine: Song: '¶ Oh, who organized all of my ex-girlfriends into a choir and got them to sing? / Who? Who? ¶'
Jemaine Meta/Self-Referential Absurdist ★ Rewatch Jemaine · Ex-girlfriend choir: Song: Jemaine's ex-girlfriends appear AS A CHOIR to sing criticisms of him ('He doesn't cook or clean / he's not good boyfriend material / oo-whee and eats cereal')
Jemaine: carol Brown just took a bus out of town, but I'm hoping that you'll stick around
Jemaine: do australians feel love? are they capable of love? do they even know what we're speaking of?
David: it ain't no good if there's too much wood
All Jokes — 85 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Murray: Last time I gave them $20 they went away and spent it. Bought a magazine and a giant beach ball.
Murray: Not cool enough.
Bret: You two?
Jemaine: Yes, we're not that cool.
Bret: Yeah, everyone looks pretty cool.
Jemaine: They're cooler than us.
Murray Dave Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Murray: I've got a couple of very cool looking guys in the back of my car. I don't know whether you're keen to have them in your club.
Bouncer: He's not coming in.
David: Hey, guys, too many dicks.
Bret: What?
David: Too many dicks.
Jemaine: What's that, man?
David: Too many. You guys are dorking up my vibe with all the dicks.
DJ Setup/Punchline Absurdist ★ Rewatch David: This isn't the riverdance anymore.
David: the only boobs I see tonight will be made of origami
David: it ain't no good if there's too much wood
David: make sure you know before you go, the bro-to-ho ratio
Jemaine Bret Setup/Punchline Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Jemaine Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch David: I need better odds, more broads, less rods
David: I came to do battle, skedaddle with the cattle prods
Jemaine: Bret, I think she might be Australian. Are you sure she's Australian? Either she's Australian or she really likes Australia.
Keitha: Jesus, got a tongue like a badger's asshole.
Jemaine: I'm not sure I got your name.
Keitha: Keitha.
Jemaine: Pardon?
Keitha: Keitha.
Jemaine: Keitha?
Keitha: Yeah, it's like Keith but with an 'a' at the end. I was named after me dad.
Jemaine Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Bret: She's got a man's name.
Jemaine: Keitha, that's a lovely name.
Jemaine: Kind of like an evil version of our accent.
Keitha Deadpan/Understatement Irony/Sarcasm Bret: Did you use protection?
Jemaine: Yes, but only on my penis.
Bret Jemaine Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Bret: That's all red.
Jemaine: That's lipstick.
Bret: It's crabs.
Jemaine: It's not crabs.
Bret: It's crabs.
Jemaine: It's lipstick.
Murray: Purpose for the biscuits... you put 'NA.' What is 'NA'? Not applicable. There's no purpose for your biscuits?
Jemaine: No, I just wanted them.
Murray: Well, they're hardly gonna send you biscuits if there's no purpose. Think about it.
Bret: Jemaine slept with an Australian.
Murray: What?!
Bret: Jemaine slept with an Australian.
Murray: No, I heard you. I said 'what' as in I heard you but I can't believe what I'm hearing.
Bret Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Murray: How do you accidently sleep with one? What, did she get you naked and you tripped over and fell on her?
Murray: Jemaine's a good-looking guy, isn't he? There he goes. Yeah, he's listening.
Murray: You know, guys, in the old days the sailors used to fall for them. Yeah, they hadn't seen a woman for weeks and the australians would lure them to the bottom of the sea and they'd drown.
Bret: Oh, that's mermaids. That's mermaids you're thinking of.
Murray Character Comedy Absurdist Murray: Yeah, but the Australian ones were the worst. That's what I'm trying to say.
Jemaine: Thanks. It's me mom's recipe. Oh, is your mom Australian?
Keitha: Yeah yeah, she's a panel beater.
Murray Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Keitha: Yeah yeah, me dad's so Australian he's in prison.
Keitha: My great-great-grandpa was a renown rapist. And they shipped him out to Australia and that's where he met my great-great-grandma. She was a prostitute. I mean, I said met, but he raped her.
Keitha: Sit around here asking me stupid questions, get in that bedroom and root me again.
Jemaine: They're both good options.
Murray Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Jemaine: do australians feel love? are they capable of love? do they even know what we're speaking of?
Bret: That was a misunderstanding. You were wearing a vest top.
Jemaine: A my mom gave me that. She thought it made me look like bruce willis.
Bret: Well, it didn't. It made you look like an Australian.
Keitha: Yeah, I've got a real aussie accent. Except it's not as strong as it used to be since I've lived here, 'cause every time I'm on the phone with my mom she says I sound like marilyn monroe.
Keitha Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Murray: Yeah, I suppose if you squint your ears.
Keitha: Got to murder a Brown snake, you know
Murray: And your children, what about them? What would become of them? They'll be aberrations, won't they?
Jemaine: It's pronounced aborigines.
Bret Jemaine Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch forced to move from city to city looking for the perfect wave.
Keitha: See you later, big j.
Keitha: Let's go, little b.
Keitha: Okay, little m.
Keitha: Medium m.
Jemaine: Uh, it's you putting on a woman's voice pretending to be keitha breaking up with me. It's clearly you, Bret. I don't think so. It's obviously you putting on a woman's voice.
Bret: She's not from wollongong.
Jemaine: Shh.
Bret: She's from wollamaloo.
Jemaine Bret Setup/Punchline Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Callback Bret: Jemaine, did I show you my gloves that look like my hands?
Jemaine: Get off. Get off. Let go of my glove.
Bret: Ow, that's actually my hand.
She doesn't need a sweatshirt in Australia. It's hot.
Keitha: No, mostly it's 'cause they think you're a dick. You know, with the dickish glasses and that.
Keitha: No, mostly it's 'cause they think I've rooted better-looking fellas when I've been too drunk to speak.
Murray Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Jemaine: felicity saw there was no electricity, Emily, no chemistry, fran ran, turned out to be a man
Jemaine: carol Brown just took a bus out of town, but I'm hoping that you'll stick around
he doesn't cook or clean, he's not good boyfriend material, oo-whee and eats cereal
Murray Absurdist Character Comedy Jemaine: who organized all of my ex-girlfriends into a choir and got them to sing?
Keitha Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Jemaine: tiffany, you said that you had an epiphany
Jemaine: mmm, would you like a little cereal?
Murray Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement David: Wait a second. Which one are you?
Bret: This is Bret.
David: Bret.
David: Okay.
Bret: Yeah, not looking for me.
Murray Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement David: I just think it's really cool that you love each other even though you're from austria and you're from someplace no one's even fucking heard of.
David: It's like that movie, 'interracial hole stretchers 2.' She was white and they were black, but it didn't matter in the end, did it? Because they were in love.
Jemaine: How much is it to new Jersey, by the way?
Carriage driver: I don't go to new Jersey. I only ride around the park.
Jemaine: That's weird.
Carriage driver: Yeah.
Jemaine: She said she'd done it before.
Jemaine: Bret, have you seen keitha? She robbed us. Her and her friends jumped me and taped me to the door.
Jemaine: Did she mention me at all?
Bret: No, sorry, man.
Bret: I'm not sure about her and me.
Jemaine Bret Physical/Slapstick Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback Jemaine: Can I get a hug? Huh? Can I get a hug? Hug?
Bret: No. No. A hug? Unfair. I'm not participating in this hug.
Jemaine · Second flatmate: 'I don't believe you. That's her sweatshirt.' / 'She doesn't need a sweatshirt in Australia. It's hot.'
Keitha · Jemaine · Keitha's roommates: After the roommates insist Keitha is gone ('she's in Australia like we said'), Keitha walks right past and says 'Hey, big j.'
Keitha · Jemaine: Keitha: 'No, mostly it's 'cause they think you're a dick. You know, with the dickish glasses and that.'
Keitha · Jemaine: Keitha: 'No, mostly it's 'cause they think I've rooted better-looking fellas when I've been too drunk to speak.' Jemaine: 'Is that how you feel?' Keitha: '50-50. I kinda like you.'
Jemaine: Song 'Carol Brown': '¶ Loretta broke my heart in a letter / Joan broke it off over the phone / after the tone she left me alone ¶'
Jemaine: Song: '¶ Liza got amnesia, just forgot who I am ¶'
Jemaine Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement Jemaine: Song: '¶ Felicity saw there was no electricity / Emily, no chemistry / Fran ran, turned out to be a man ¶'
Jemaine Wordplay/Pun Escalation ★ Rewatch Jemaine · Ex-girlfriend choir: Song: Jemaine's ex-girlfriends appear AS A CHOIR to sing criticisms of him ('He doesn't cook or clean / he's not good boyfriend material / oo-whee and eats cereal')
Jemaine: Song: '¶ Oh, who organized all of my ex-girlfriends into a choir and got them to sing? / Who? Who? ¶'
Jemaine Meta/Self-Referential Absurdist ★ Rewatch Jemaine: Song: '¶ Mmm, shut up ¶' — Jemaine's response to the choir's criticisms
Jemaine Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jemaine · Ex-girlfriend choir: Song: The ex-girlfriend choir debates whether Jemaine's romantic talk is sincere. Choir: '¶ He means he looks at other girls ¶' / '¶ This guy is a fool / He'll always be a boy / He's a man who never grew up ¶' Jemaine: '¶ I thought I told you to shut up ¶'
Jemaine: Song: '¶ Lola, you told me you were in a coma ¶'
Jemaine Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement Jemaine: Song: '¶ Tiffany, you said that you had an epiphany ¶'
Jemaine Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Jemaine · Keitha: Song: '¶ Mmm, would you like a little cereal? ¶' — Jemaine offers Keitha cereal mid-song
Dave · Bret · Murray: Dave, after being asked about Jemaine: 'Wait a second. Which one are you?' — to Bret, who is standing right in front of him
Dave · Bret · Murray: Dave farewell: 'See you, Murray. See you, Jemaine.' (misidentifying Bret as Jemaine). Then he's gone before they can correct him.
Dave · Murray · Bret: Dave: 'I just think it's really cool that you love each other even though you're from Austria and you're from someplace no one's even fucking heard of.' Murray: 'Australia.' Bret: 'New Zealand.'
Dave: Dave: 'It's like that movie, Interracial Hole Stretchers 2. She was white and they were black, but it didn't matter in the end, did it? Because they were in love. I haven't seen that one. Well, it really affected me.'
Dave Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jemaine · Dave: Jemaine reveals his elopement destination: New Jersey. 'Wow. New Jersey, huh? I'd love to go there.' Dave: 'But I got a lot of shit going on in the states right now.'
Dave: Dave to Jemaine: 'Don't drink the water.' — as Jemaine prepares to elope to New Jersey
Dave Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Jemaine · Carriage driver: Jemaine asks a horse-drawn carriage driver about going to New Jersey; driver says he only rides around the park. Jemaine: 'That's weird. She said she'd done it before.'
Jemaine · Carriage driver: Jemaine stops a horse-drawn carriage in Central Park to elope to New Jersey — the driver informs him he only rides around the park
Jemaine: 'Take me to Chinatown and do not delay, sir.' — Jemaine pivoting his elopement plan to a rickshaw
Jemaine · Carriage driver: Jemaine, now on the carriage: 'Take me to Chinatown and do not delay, sir.' Driver: 'Just around the park.' Jemaine: 'Ah, yes, you said that. Yes.'
Jemaine · Rickshaw driver: 'Look, just around the park.' / 'Ah, yes, you said that.' — the rickshaw also just goes around the park; Jemaine apologies
Jemaine · Bret: Jemaine returns to find Bret taped to the door. 'Bret, have you seen Keitha?' Bret: 'She robbed us. Her and her friends jumped me and taped me to the door.' Jemaine: 'Did she mention me at all?'
Jemaine Bret Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Bret · Jemaine: Bret, still taped to the door: 'Could you pass me my sandwich, please?' — followed by Jemaine's careful sandwich delivery and offer of a napkin
Jemaine · Bret: Jemaine: 'Can I get a hug?' Bret: 'No. No.' Jemaine: 'A hug?' — followed by Bret refusing to participate, Jemaine hugging him anyway
Bret · Jemaine · DJ: End-credits reprise of 'Too Many Dicks on the Dance Floor' — the song that opened the episode plays again over the credits
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