I’ve got the first episode of Flight of the Conchords’ new season available for free after the jump, even though it won’t be on TV until January 18th.  I’m just really f-cking cool like that.  If you’ve never seen Flight of the Conchords, it’s an HBO show about the New Zealand singing sensation… uh, Flight of Conchords.  Think Tenacious D, but skinnier and much, much drier.  HBO has a pretty good track record when it comes to breaking new comedies – Ali G, Summer Heights High… pretty much everything except Little Britain, which makes me want to self-immolate.  Hey, England, you can have Tracey Ullman back too.  Anyway, check it out.  And if your boss gives you any shit, just tell her* to f-ck off.  It’s December.  Nobody works in December.
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After initially ordering a full season, NBC has decided to pull the plug on Knight Rider with four shows to go.  I blame the collapse of the auto industry.  Because there’s no way anyone with the right number of chromosomes could’ve possibly seen five seconds of that godawful show and decided people wanted more unless Ford was footing the bill.  The closest comparison for it I can think of is a bad infomercial, which isn’t quite fair. I’d much rather watch someone clean up grandma’s drool with a Sham-Wow than watch this tool act continually surprised.  This was so bad it made the David Hasshoff version look good.  It was so bad it made the product placement in Transformers seem tasteful.  It was… worse than Viva Laughlin.

Also: where the hell was this scene supposed to have taken place?  Did they not even bother to cover the f-cking black background of the stage? Makes sense, I guess. “Oops, a guy with a boom mike wandered into the shot on that last take.” “Meh, print it, it’s almost lunch.”
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The movie news out there today is pretty boring, so instead I’m giving a free plug to a new HBO show, Summer Heights High.  It’s kind of like the Australian version of a Christopher Guest movie, and the three main characters are all played by Aussie comedian Chris Lilley.  It can be slow at times, but it’s all worth it for his portrayal of Tongan gangster wannabe kid Jonah Takalua.  He absolutely nails it.  I used to substitute teach middle schoolers and I swear to God there was a kid exactly like this in every class.
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If you missed South Park last night, go home and DVR that shit right now.  What, you’re telling me your stupid job can’t wait?  What’s that, you lost your job and can’t afford DVR?  Whatever, Professor Poopypants, this attitude of yours is bringing everyone down.

Anyway, they somehow used the election to do a send up of the Ocean’s Eleven movies, and one of the most impressive things was that they used material from the election night speeches.  Granted, we’ve known Obama was probably going to win for a while now, but they included stuff like Obama taking a puppy to the White House that wasn’t in the news until a day and a half ago.  They probably did the animation with the candidates’ lips moving a while ago, and then all they had to do was change the voice overs last night, but… Okay so maybe it wasn’t that crazy, but whatever, science, you’re not gonna ruin this for me again.  Feel how soft this puppy’s fur is! It’s a miracle!

UPDATE: You can watch the whole episode online now.
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Now with working video!

The fifth and final season (just read that it’s supposed to end in 2010. F you, Abrams.) of Lost begins in January, and finally, all of your questions will be answered. Is John Locke alive? What’s happening to the Oceanic Six? Who’s been keeping Sawyer’s chest waxed this entire time?

And so help me, Abrams, if you don’t provide some explanation for the black smoke monster I’m going to burn your goddamned house down.

[via /Film]