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We need more flows that glow like phosphorous.

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I expected this. Honestly I wondered how they were even contemplating making a second season because after I saw season one I went out and picked up _everything_ these guys did in the past and had going on at the moment - and there was nothing. Well not nothing but not really enough to make a 12 episode second season with. I knew of two acceptable songs that could've been made into an episode each but that was it.

And reading their bio I found they had a real let's call it "thorough" way to put songs together because I think they really thrive to come up with songs that kill. Like comedians they start with a rough version and then fledge the songs out via changing bits and pieces here and there. You could compare it to the way George Carlin put his material together for his HBO specials. There are at least one and a half years between each of those specials, with Carlin doing standup about 250 times a year in between to get the best material together and then put it on his next special.

So basically there isn't enough time for Bret and Jemaine to come up with songs that feel anything close to as good as the ones in the first season.

I think that's also the reason why Venture Bros. is that good - huge pauses between seasons to really get the best out of all the people involved and not fasttrack anything.

So let those two Kiwis take their time and come back with a third season in a year or two. I'd rather wait and get good material than hastily put together one shots...

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Small addendum: great Annie, you made me grab my Fawlty Towers DVDs and rip them for my iPod.

I love the fact that the guy playing Manuel is from Germany ^^;

Don't mention the war ^^;

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Give them a few more years where they don't have a deadline and they can create the show in their own time and they'll make a fantastic season 3. I'll be happy to wait. In fact, I'd be happy to wait years for a second season if it makes the show any better.

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I'm very glad to be getting a second season as I remember them saying something like this after season 1 - they threw everything at the 12 episodes. So I'll be sad to see it end but it makes sense (contrast that to Arrested Development, which seemed like it had another two or three seasons in it at least).

Here's hoping they pull out their fictional selves in three or four years time, for another season plotted around the songs they are yet to make!

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Good for them. I'd rather see them end it on a high note, then start to flounder. And after the first season, I too was left wondering if they had it in them for a second season, as the songs that were in it were pretty much already done before the first season ever started. Bowie in Space (which was a terrible song) was one of the first songs that they did.

So good for them, at least they are bowing out, and not getting axed when they still have a lot more in them like they did to Louis CK and Lucky Louie.

It was just shameful what HBO did to him.

Also, can we have the episodes in the correct order this time? It was VERY noticable that seeing how they made Murry's upgrade from a C=64 to a old windows PC a big deal, just how out of order the episodes were.

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I'm not gonna like the second season if it's rushed and doesn't have the same feel of the first season. Just delay it a few years if you need to get it perfect. I'd rather not get new FotC until 2012 and have it be the best thing ever than get mediocre FotC in 2009.

British shows do this kind of thing all the time, with several years between series. Why are Americans so bent up on having all your seasons put on in consecutive years?

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A wise decision, I want it to be a good series and if this means only 2 seasons then so be it.

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You are all right... quality over quantity. I'm still bummed though.

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I'd like to hear Angels and the Bus Driver Song. If they just showed live shows with their banter ("professional talking") I'd watch that. All the best to them. And please!!! a boxed set with some behind the scenes stuff and commentary tracks. Also, I'd watch them do tours of New Zealand, Learn to play Flight of the Conchords on ukulele and anything else they would be involved in. I'd love to see a documentary of them touring as well. And they can always call Neil Finn for advice.

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Love FOTC, and they can have all the time in the world to make a great season, but pleaaaasseee, don't put your foot down for another one, we don't mind the wait.

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quality and quantity have never gone together.
at least we will get 2 great seasons, which is better than 5 seasons of which the last 2 - 3 would be garbage.

just look at shows like seinfeld and friends, they should have ended a couple seasons earlier.

i just hope B & J continue doing something different and exciting. and hopefully we'll see them again in a different format.

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A total Tenacious D rip-off. R.I.H....

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