So, this is the series finale of Flight of the Conchords. Maybe. Bret and Jemaine don’t seem sure, and neither does anyone else. It certainly felt like the end, and if they wanted to do another season, they’d have to find a way for the guys to re-enter the country despite their status as illegal aliens.

As the title implies, this episode opens with the guys being evicted from their apartment. As it turns out, they owe years of back-rent for having paid the previous rents in checks made out in New Zealand dollars. They’re unable to afford it, and so must leave. Homeless and desperate, they move into Mel and Doug’s house. This leads Bret to have an inexplicable fever dream in which he, Mel, and Doug are all trapped on a boat in vintage navy uniforms and turn to cannibalism to survive. As it turns out, Bret and Jemaine’s presence is too much of a strain on Mel and Doug’s already failing marriage, and the two decide to separate, working out a custody arrangement with the guys.

Murray’s final, brilliant moneymaking scheme to save the Conchords is to write and produce a musical about the guys’ lives, starring them. It’s meta-meta-Conchords. Thus we learn that Bret and Jemaine began life as shepherds in New Zealand before meeting and forming the band. The musical is awful, of course, but when Doug highlights his skills on the harp, Mel’s former Fatal Attraction is renewed and the two end up together again. Bret and Jemaine, meanwhile, are deported for being illegal aliens.

It’s all predictable and necessary to wrap up the show. Mel and Doug need their happy ending, and Bret and Jemaine seem to be just as at home in New Zealand as they were in New York. More and more, I believe that the show has run its course. They’d be wise not to resurrect it.

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