<3 Flight of the conchords
“Carol Brown”
“Carol Brown” is an homage to the Paul Simon song “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover” (there are later references to Simon and Garfunkel in the subsequent episode “Prime Minister”).[2] In “50 Ways” the singer suggests a number of ways that a man can escape an unwanted relationship, including “hop on a bus”. In “Carol Brown”, Jemaine sings “there must be 50 ways that lovers have left me” and it instead describes all the ways that women have left Jemaine, including “Carol Brown” who “took a bus out of town”. Jemaine is accompanied by a chorus of women playing his ex-girlfriends. They sing about his many deficiencies as a boyfriend. In the video for the song, Jemaine pretends to play a small videotape editing console with a guitar neck attached to it. Bret plays a similar contraption consisting of a bass guitar neck attached to avideo mixer console. Director Michel Gondry has a cameo in the video as Fran, Jemaine’s ex-girlfriend who turned out to be a man.
