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Character Analysis

Kristen Schaal

Mel

Played by Kristen Schaal

82 jokes across 18 episodes of Flight of the Conchords

WAR

10.8

Total Jokes

82

Avg Craft

7

Avg Impact

6.8

Comedy Style

Character Comedy

Mel delivers 82 scored jokes across 18 episodes of Flight of the Conchords, averaging 7.0 on craft and 6.8 on impact for a career WAR of 10.8. Their comedy leans toward character comedy. The highest-scoring line is below.

Funniest Mel Lines

All Jokes — 82 total

S1E01

Mel · Bret · Jemaine · Bret:Oh, hey guys. - Hey, Mel. - Hey, Mel. - Hey, whoa. Crazy meeting you here, huh? - What, outside our house?

7.47.0
S1E01

Mel:I went to your gig. I was at the Aquarium for hours just waiting. They wouldn't let me stay after 1:00 a.m.

7.16.7
S1E01

Mel:Well, the fish were beautiful. They were breeding... it's mating season and I... I saw fish make love.

6.86.3
S1E01

Mel · Jemaine:You... you just came from home. - Yeah, we're just popping out for a second and then, um, that's all we were going to do... just get some air.

6.86.2
S1E01

Mel:I just... sometimes I think the thing you're looking for is often standing right in front of your eyes.

6.96.8
S1E01

Mel:You can tell me anything. Anything. I promise I won't think you're a pervert.

7.37.0
S1E01

Mel:Have I shown you my picture of Jemaine's lips? I have it here in my wallet. Look. Those are my cousins, and there... that's... that's Jemaine's lips.

7.88.0
S1E01

Mel:Whenever I was watching the two of you it was obvious that you were more into her than she was into you. Yeah, you could really tell. She always looked kind of bored.

7.67.3
S1E02

Mel · Bret:'All your fans are gonna be devastated.' 'There's just you, Mel.' 'Yeah.'

7.57.7
S1E02

Mel:Mel's sexual description of Bret's sign skills

6.86.5
S1E02

Jemaine · Mel:Jemaine lying about getting a real gig to impress Mel

6.35.8
S1E02

Mel:'The car could just burst into flames right now and this would be the way to go'

7.37.0
S1E04

Murray · Mel:President. - Present. - Secretary. - Present. - Treasurer. - Present! - Maybe we should make that one title? - Sure. It's all... it's quite convoluted. You're all three.

7.57.3
S1E04

Mel · Murray:I took some of Bret... well, actually I found them, I... when I was round at his flat. - Oh-ho! - That... he's asleep there

7.07.0
S1E04

Murray · Mel:What's this one? - Mmm? - What's this one? - God, how did that get in there? Sorry. It must have slipped in with the... do you want to hold onto that? - No.

6.46.3
S1E04

Mel · Murray:That's really great. - You don't think Bret's any less available now that he's? - Well, no! No. Is she pretty?

7.26.7
S1E04

Murray · Mel:He's not gonna... not gonna get a girlfriend anytime soon, so... - Does, um... - Try your chances with him, can't you?

7.27.3
S1E04

Mel · Murray:Does... does Bret's girlfriend look anything like me? - Little bit? - A little bit... around the eyes. - Oh yeah? Big eyes, huh? - Well, she's... she's got eyes.

7.77.7
S1E05

Mel · Bret:I was walking my dog. / Look, is this your new place, Jemaine? / It's crazy. I was just walking past here. / That's so weird. I didn't even know you'd moved. / How could I know? / Yeah, where's your dog?

6.96.5
S1E05

Mel:Is there always someone at the door, 24/7? / Why? / Oh, nothing. / Just making conversation.

6.86.0
S1E06

Mel:Mel's elaborate description of gay activities: 'Erotically caressing each other on the hood of a car... in the back of a movie theater'

7.27.8
S1E06

Mel · Bret:Well, you're looking good today, Bret. Very hot. - Thank you. - Hotter than Jemaine.

6.56.3
S1E06

Mel:You have a refined bone structure whereas Jemaine's facial features are too deep-set to be classically handsome.

6.76.5
S1E09

Mel:What a coincidence! Ha ha!

6.56.3
S1E10

Mel · Rain:Do you not have a computer, or... - No, I do have a computer. - Oh, you can't read.

6.76.2
S1E10

Rain · Mel:Oh, I thought he was your dad. - He's a little bit older than me. - Yeah. - He was my college professor.

6.46.3
S1E10

Mel:He resisted for a while and there were some legal... boundaries, you know, keeping me from being near him or... his family, but... in the end, love overcame.

7.57.7
S1E10

Mel:I always get what I want.

7.07.0
S1E10

Mel · Bret:But you don't drink beer, Bret. - I drink it all the time. - I thought it always made you go to the toilet.

6.65.8
S1E10

Mel · Bret:Those girls, I don't trust them, Bret. They have no interest in you as musicians. They just want to... - Just want to what? - They want to do it with you, Bret. - Sex?

6.86.3
S1E11

Ben/Actor · Mel:I can't understand a word you're saying. / Articulate, all right? / It's Elvish. That's Elvish. / Are you chewing something? / No, it's Elv... it's... it's my native tongue. / Is it? / Yup.

6.76.2
S1E12

Mel · Jemaine:Whoa-ho! What are the chances? We're always bumping into each other. / About one in one.

7.87.5
S1E12

Todd · Mel:Actually, he, um, neglected to tell me what a hottie you are. / Stop it. / Looks like the race is on. Gentlemen, start your engines. Vroom! Vroom!

5.96.2
S1E12

Mel · Todd:What do you play, Todd? / I'll give you a clue. / The bongos. / Oh! Rhythmic. / Yeah, tribal. / Powerful. Very physical, if you know what I mean.

6.26.2
S1E12

Bret · Mel:Hey, you got one of the Crazy Dogggz t-shirts. / No. / It says Crazy Dogggz on it.

6.86.5
S1E12

Jemaine · Mel · Jemaine:Hey, Mel, you didn't make it to our gig the other... / Oh, yeah. / There was no one there... without you there.

7.57.3
S2E01

Doug · Mel:You should've seen Doug When he heard what happened. - Hey. - He went berserk. - Really? Actually, mel really went more sort of berserk.

6.36.0
S2E01

Mel:Conversation hog. 'Oink oink oink oink. I've got something to say all the time.' He's always talking.

6.66.5
S2E01

Mel:Why did you come, Doug, If you didn't want to light a fire?

7.07.0
S2E02

Mel:Wow, that's so romantic... two struggling musicians living in poverty and despair, selling their instruments.

7.36.8
S2E02

Bret · Mel:I'm just doing it very gently to begin with. - Are you... I can't really feel it. I wanna feel it.

6.66.3
S2E02

Mel · Bret:Should I lay down? No no, this is good. Maybe I should take off some clothes... no no, that's good.

7.27.3
S2E02

Mel:You're like a samurai, like a massage samurai.

7.06.8
S2E02

Mel:Oh, I feel like I've hired a gigolo. I'm just kidding. I would never hire... I mean, I would, I would, but I wouldn't pay you. I would. I would pay you so much money. I'm joking. I'm not. I am. I'm not.

6.76.7
S2E02

Mel:I would. I would pay you so much money. I'm just kidding. That's not how I am. That's not what I'm about. I'm joking. I'm not. I am. I'm not.

7.27.0
S2E02

Mel:Just a normal book... nondescript. Just a book I had. - What book? - Just a super... a book that tells you where to sell your body.

7.57.3
S2E03

Mel:You don't like it. No, you don't. You practically admitted that you don't like it.

6.46.3
S2E03

Mel:so you can see how strong and powerful you are, like the God ra... the sun God ra... or like a pharaoh.

6.76.5
S2E03

Mel:I made one of Bret, but it came out a little weird, so don't tell him, okay? It came out x-rated, actually... some shadowing on the crotch got out of hand

6.86.5
S2E03

Jemaine · Mel:I had to throw it away! Because Bret was jealous. Really? Was he going apeshit? He went apeshit.

6.56.0
S2E03

Mel:I swear on Doug's life I will fix this rift.

6.86.3
S2E03

Mel:As you can see, I pretty much got the handsomeness. That's Jemaine. If you don't believe it, he can take his shirt off and you can be sure about it.

6.76.5
S2E04

Mel:I have some cookies for you in my fanny pack. Oh, look, this one must be for Bret... and here's Jemaine's.

6.76.5
S2E04

Mel:I had a dream about you guys last night. Jemaine, you were a slave striving towards freedom. And Bret... well, I just want to thank you.

7.16.8
S2E04

Mel:I had no idea you were so flexible.

7.07.2
S2E04

Mel · Bret · Jemaine:Wouldn't it be fantastic if the world was more like your dreams? No. Yeah.

7.37.2
S2E04

Mel:Musical number: 'Why Can't the World Be More Like In My Dreams?' - Mel's fantasy song with increasingly bizarre imagery

7.77.8
S2E04

Mel:I'm instantly pregnant and I can't explain / and when they pop out, they're like Bret and Jemaine

7.37.8
S2E04

Mel:Bret, I dreamt about you again. Actually, I'm kind of angry at you for something you did in my dream last night.

7.67.3
S2E04

Mel · Bret:I don't want to say, Bret, but I think you should probably apologize. I'm not gonna apologize. It was a dream.

7.67.3
S2E04

Bret · Mel:Did I apologize in your dream? No, you did not. That's a shame. I should've apologized in the dream.

8.07.8
S2E04

Bret · Mel:Did I apologize in your dream? - No, you did not. - That's a shame. I should've apologized in the dream.

6.96.7
S2E06

Mel:Mel's fantasy about Bret and Jemaine having a baby together

6.86.8
S2E06

Mel:Mel's fantasy about 'what a child of you and Jemaine might look like'

6.87.0
S2E06

Mel:Mel's family portrait showing Bret and Jemaine as a couple with a baby

6.97.0
S2E07

Mel · Jemaine:Mel appearing and disappearing with crazy warnings about the date

7.27.3
S2E08

Mel · Bret:This isn't my place, is it? This is your place. I must be sleepwalking. Oh no, don't wake me. You could kill me.

6.76.7
S2E08

Mel:Bird watching. I love to watch birds.

6.35.7
S2E08

Mel:This is my sock.

6.66.2
S2E08

Bret · Mel:You come in here without any mousse? What's wrong with you? I don't know who you are anymore.

6.66.5
S2E09

Mel:Mel's stalking advice including collecting nail clippings

7.98.0
S2E09

Mel · Doug:Going through Savannah's garbage and knowing specific bill amounts

7.57.7
S2E09

Mel:when you love someone, you need all the ammunition you can get to take them down.

8.18.2
S2E10

Mel:There will be no bringing girls back to the house. I know how you guys are

6.96.5
S2E10

Mel:Yeah, maybe I'll bring some girls home too, just find some real authentic sluts and just turn this house into a whorehome

6.66.5
S2E10

Mel · Bret · Jemaine:You must not leave the house. / When? / What, never? / Well, not after 11:30 P.M. And preferably never

7.06.8
S2E10

Mel · Bret:That is such a womanly instrument. Have you ever heard of a man playing a harp? / My dad plays the harp

6.86.7
S2E10

Jemaine · Mel:I sometimes go to the toilet in the middle of the night. / Mm-hmm. I know

7.06.8
S2E10

Mel:Doug and I have something very important to talk to you about. We have decided to spend some time apart

7.57.5
S2E10

Mel · Doug:This isn't about you. / Well, actually, Mel, it is about them

7.07.0
S2E10

Mel · Bret:You're so young. / I'm 32

7.47.7
S2E10

Audience member · Mel:Whoo! Look at the harp player! / It is manly

6.96.5