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Character Analysis

Arj Barker

Dave

Played by Arj Barker

49 jokes across 12 episodes of Flight of the Conchords

WAR

4.6

Total Jokes

49

Avg Craft

7.1

Avg Impact

6.8

Comedy Style

Character Comedy

Dave delivers 49 scored jokes across 12 episodes of Flight of the Conchords, averaging 7.1 on craft and 6.8 on impact for a career WAR of 4.6. Their comedy leans toward character comedy. The highest-scoring line is below.

Funniest Dave Lines

All Jokes — 72 total

S1E01

Dave:I don't want to be a dick, but could you guys move away? I'm trying to look lonely.

7.97.8
S1E01

Dave:Chicks are attracted to lonely guys. It's a psychological analogy.

7.67.2
S1E01

Dave:And what about Eugene? He knows what he's doing.

6.36.0
S1E01

Dave:Have you tried the gulab jamuns? They're off the hook.

6.96.3
S1E01

Dave:It doesn't make any difference... Isabella. / I don't want cake... / It's top quality. / Get out. I don't want your cake! / What an idiot, trying to sell me a cake.

7.37.3
S1E01

Dave · Jemaine:Hey, Jemaine, I don't know how they do things back in England... / New Zealand. / Yeah, whatever. I don't really give a shit.

7.37.2
S1E01

Dave · Jemaine:You don't get with your bandmate's girlfriend, past or present. / Yes, thanks for that. / You get a love triangle. / You know? Fleetwood Mac situation. / Well, there was four of them so more of a love square, but, you know, no one gets on. / Mind you, they did make some of their best music back then. 'Rumors.' / No, that's all true.

7.77.5
S1E03

Bret · Dave · Murray:Bret: 'There was two of them.' / Dave: 'Two? That's not a gang.' / Bret: 'It was a two-man gang.' / Dave: 'I mean, technically, the smallest gang possible.'

7.57.3
S1E03

Murray · Bret · Dave:Murray: 'He may be dead.' / Bret: 'He maybe did what?' / Murray: 'He may be dead.' / Bret: 'I know, but what did he maybe do?' — repeated three times

7.87.7
S1E03

Bret · Dave:Bret talking head: 'That kind of thing, it defines character.' / [pause] / 'Yeah.' / 'Son of a bitch.' / 'Yeah, you know, 'cause you were deserted too.'

7.06.5
S1E03

Dave · Bret · Murray:Dave: 'Hey guys, remember that time he got his hand caught in that jar? What a dick. I mean, who gets their hand caught in a jar? What a big fucking asshole he was.' / 'That was actually me.' / 'That was Bret, David.'

7.57.5
S1E03

Dave · Murray:Dave: 'And he helped you when you got your head stuck in the chair. Remember? You were there for hours.'

7.26.8
S1E03

Dave · Murray · Bret:Dave: 'Hey, what was that one thing he used to say? That always cracked me up. He'd be like... What? What? What?' / 'I never understood a fucking word that guy said.' / 'He did say what a lot.'

7.37.0
S1E07

Dave:Dave explains that New Zealanders are 'the most disliked race in this whole country' due to being 'the English and whatnot... Redcoats... the oppressors'

7.47.3
S1E07

Dave:'They don't like you either. Neither do the Chinese, the Asians, the Polish, Russian, Croatians, even the Indians.'

7.67.7
S1E07

Dave:Dave's revenge plan: inject strychnine in the fruit, the CIA traces it back, vendor goes to 'the big house... Alcatraz'

7.57.5
S1E07

Dave:'Haven't you seen Escape From Alcatraz? It wasn't easy, bro.'

8.07.7
S1E07

Jemaine · Bret · Dave:'Sometimes what I do is I think mean thoughts about the person.' / 'How do they know?' / 'They don't know. I know, that's why I didn't suggest it.'

8.18.2
S1E07

Dave:Dave's revision of his advice: 'something a little more subtle than framing him for murder — which I actually think is still a great idea — but more obvious than thinking mean thoughts about him'

8.17.8
S1E07

Dave · Jemaine · Bret:'Flip him the bird' — Dave's instruction; neither Jemaine nor Bret know what 'the bird' is

7.47.7
S1E07

Dave:'It's not a fucking school play production. It's the bird.' — Dave's exasperated summary

7.77.5
S1E07

Dave:Dave explains the bird's meaning: 'Hey, you better not disrespect me, man, even though I'm gonna disrespect you.'

7.57.0
S1E07

Dave · Bret:Bret practices the bird with Dave coaching him through it with timing: 'Around, and up. Good, Bret. Around and up.' — one minute 32 seconds to learn

7.47.3
S1E08

Bret · Dave:'Hey, Dave, can I ask you a question about women's sexuality?' / 'Sure, you came to the right place for that.'

6.86.3
S1E08

Dave:'Hot bod, gross face. I get it. Just hit that shit from behind.'

5.55.5
S1E08

Dave:Dave's sausage philosophy: 'In America, if you want something, you've got to be prepared to put out for it. How do you think I eat so well every lunchtime?'

7.57.3
S1E08

Dave:How do you think I eat so well every lunchtime? / Hey, Mrs. Chang. Thanks for the egg rolls, huh.

8.08.3
S1E10

Dave:I got a shirt that's got a mouse having sex with another mouse in a mousetrap.

8.28.5
S1E10

Dave:I guarantee you, I was just pumping away in this thing the other night.

6.76.5
S1E10

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

8.38.5
S1E10

Dave:[Shh!] [pause] — Jesus! — Sorry guys. My roommate's being kind of a jerk.

6.36.3
S1E10

Dave · Bret:She thinks she's my mom. — That is your mom. — Dude, you think I live with my parents? — Oh, is that your dad, though? — No. That's just some old, crotchety Indian couple that I sublet to. The weird thing is they look like me.

7.98.3
S1E11

Dave · Bret · Jemaine:Dave's story about 'four or five really hot foreign chicks... Swedish or Korean... wanting a five-way' used as an analogy for the value of honesty.

7.37.0
S1E11

Dave:'Excuse me, but I don't think monogamy is legal in this country, I don't know where you're from.'

7.77.5
S2E01

Dave:Dave: 'No, these women I met, I took them up on a plane, they were making a salad, next thing you know, they're just wrestling at 85,000 feet.'

7.97.8
S2E01

Dave:Dave: 'You said there would be a lot of women here today.' / 'They're probably just doing brazilians. They'll show up.'

6.76.3
S2E01

Dave:Dave on the jingle: 'Some of the best songs are jingles. ¶ Pussymart, Pussymart. ¶'

8.18.3
S2E01

Dave · Bret:Dave demonstrates the 'Dave double-down technique': 'How much would you give me for this? / A dollar. / Double it. / $2. / Double it again. / $4. / Sold!'

8.28.3
S2E01

Dave · Bret:Dave: 'There's your pen. Just give me my $4.' Bret: 'I thought it was an exercise.' Dave: 'Yeah, you've got to learn the whole lesson.' ... 'I'm gonna waive the tax.'

7.57.3
S2E03

Dave:Dave's special skills: 'I can make a weapon out of pretty much anything that's lying around. Like when I'm gardening, some a-hole tries to sneak up and take me out... watering can tied to a hose. Pop! Cops show up, what's that, officer? No, just watering the geraniums.'

7.77.5
S2E03

Dave · Bret:Dave's extended gang resumé continues: 'And in '54 I joined the monkey lords. After that, the rockers, the gentleman jims, the tsars, the stars, the might midgets from Queens.' Bret: 'So you've had a lot of gang experience, basically.' Dave: 'They're all gangs, big daddy!'

7.47.3
S2E03

Dave · Murray:Dave at gang defense meeting: 'I'm available most days after 6:00 but not weekends... and I can't say why.' Murray: 'Dinner with your parents?' Dave: 'Huh! No.'

7.27.0
S2E03

Gang · Dave · Jemaine:Bret's gang mistakes Jemaine for an enemy: 'Bret! Bret! Bret! We got him good!' then 'False alarm. It's Jemaine.' followed by Dave attacking anyway: 'Can attack!'

7.07.5
S2E03

Bret · Dave:Bret and Dave on watch: 'We're looking for, basically, all rappers.' Dave: 'Mos Def, all the guys.' Bret: 'Mos Def, the guy from Law & Order: SVU?' Dave: 'No, that's Ice Cube, but keep an eye out for him.'

7.37.0
S2E03

Bret · Dave:Extended rapper-filmography confusion: Ice Cube was in 'Are We There Yet?' and 'Are We Done Yet?', Method Man from 'Meet the Spartans,' Snoop Dogg 'was the voice of Lightning the racehorse.' 'Yeah, you don't want him on your ass.'

7.88.0
S2E03

Bret · Jemaine · Dave:Bret explains confrontation to teens: 'So you should respect other people's property.' Then accidentally kicks a kid. 'Bret, you just kicked a kid!' 'Sorry.' 'You could get 10 years for that.'

7.37.8
S2E03

Dave · Bret:Dave, fleeing the scene: 'Let's haul ass fast. I know a place we can hide till this blows over. Come on. You dig?' Bret: 'I think so.'

7.27.0
S2E03

Dave · Bret:Dave leads them to a building that used to be 'the dapper dukes' hideout' in 1958 — now it's presumably gone or replaced. 'Where's the dapper dukes' hideout? It was right here. You know, we laid low for three straight months back in '58.' Bret: 'Johnny, I think they've probably all retired by now.'

7.87.8
S2E03

Dave:Dave's retirement speech: 'I'm getting old. This game ain't no good for me no more. I'm sorry, Louie. I'm out. So long, lil Louie.' — addressed to Bret, whom he's calling 'lil Louie'

7.98.0
S2E03

Dave:Police knock. Dave: 'Look, if my mom... I'm not going back to the big house, all right? I'm out of here. Stall 'em.' — flees at the sound of police

7.27.3
S2E03

Bret · Dave · Jemaine · Murray:The gang immediately disbands again: Dave quits, so does Jemaine, then Murray: 'Well, if you're out and you're out, then I'm out. Really? Yeah, I'm out.' Bret: 'You're out as well? Well, I'm not leaving.' Bret alone: 'So that's it... I'm in. I'm the gang. I'm the Tough Brets.'

7.98.0
S2E05

Murray · Dave:Murray hands Dave $20 to babysit Bret and Jemaine, explaining 'Last time I gave them $20 they went away and spent it. Bought a magazine and a giant beach ball.'

8.48.2
S2E05

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

6.55.8
S2E05

Dave · Bret · Murray:Dave farewell: 'See you, Murray. See you, Jemaine.' (misidentifying Bret as Jemaine). Then he's gone before they can correct him.

6.76.2
S2E05

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.'

7.47.3
S2E05

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.'

8.28.5
S2E05

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.'

7.77.3
S2E05

Dave:Dave to Jemaine: 'Don't drink the water.' — as Jemaine prepares to elope to New Jersey

7.36.7
S2E06

Dave:Dave's advice: 'It's never easy when you've got two chicks into the same dude. I'm talking about two guys that are into the same girl. Whoa, what the fuck is that? I have never been there. With me it's always been two or more girls into the same guy.' — attributing to himself the more impressive version

7.37.2
S2E06

Dave · Bret:Dave's story: 'I had the same situation once with my friend Derek. Well, let's just say Derek's no longer with us.' Long pause. 'No no no no. He moved to Arizona.'

8.49.0
S2E06

Dave:Dave: 'You were put on this earth to precreate.'

6.86.5
S2E06

Dave · Barbara:Dave's vaccine now has toffee in it — 'I've got a new batch of the vaccine. It's got toffee in it.' / 'That doesn't sound very medical.'

7.47.3
S2E09

Bret · Dave:Bret: 'What are you doing in here?' Dave: 'Fixing the shower.' Bret: 'It wasn't broken.' Dave: 'Well, I'm sorry... I broke it.'

7.67.2
S2E09

Dave · Bret · Jemaine:Dave: 'But you do... you do exist, don't you?' — then the reveal that the boys previously claimed not to exist / to be from Never Never Land

7.77.7
S2E09

Dave:Dave's theory on women: 'Men in kilts, southern comfort, and Chris Isaak's Wicked Game.'

7.77.5
S2E09

Dave · Jemaine:Simultaneous conflicting advice: Dave tells Bret to ask about her face, Jemaine tells him to compliment her hair

7.27.5
S2E09

Bret · Jemaine · Dave:Jemaine: 'Compliment her hair.' Dave: 'Ask her what's up with her face.' Bret follows Dave's advice: 'What's up with your face?'

7.88.3
S2E09

Jemaine · Dave:Jemaine: 'Now tell her you're freaky.' Dave: 'Don't tell her that.' / Dave: 'Tell her you're a freak.' / Jemaine: 'Why would you tell her that he's freaky?' Dave (off-mic): 'How's he gonna get into her pants if he doesn't...'

7.37.2
S2E09

Mel · Jemaine · Dave:Mel accuses Jemaine and Dave of watching her for three and a half hours — then becomes disappointed when told it's not about her

7.97.8
S2E09

Dave:Dave calls via Bret's earpiece at the sushi restaurant: 'Tell her you're freaky, Bret. Tell her you're freaky.'

7.27.2
S2E10

Dave · Bret:Dave explains he can't host them because his roommate 'is a dangerous drug dealer' — 'Your dad?' / 'Yeah.'

7.37.2
S2E10

Dave:'I'm not allowed to have friends over on weeknights.'

7.26.8