‘Demon woman You cut puppies’ toes off, pull an animal’s nose off How’d you magic my clothes off? Demon woman Take me back to your room, make me howl at the moon Make me pray to the temple of womb Demon woman, woman demon’ Cut to the boys performing an awful version of Scarborough Fair, with Bret dressed as Paul Simon and Jemaine dressed as Art Garfunkel. Mel seems less than impressed with this, but Jemaine attracts the attention of Karen, an Art Garfunkel obsessive, played by Mary Lynn Rajskub (Little Miss Sunshine, Punch Drunk Love and erm Dude, Where’s My Car). Also at the after party they meet an Elton John impersonator played by Patton Oswalt (Observe And Report). The next day sees the arrival of Brian, the Prime Minister of New Zealand, played by Brian Sergent (Who’s Jonah in the Jemaine Clement-starring Eagle Vs Shark). Murray gets Bret and Jemaine to give the Prime Minister a cultural tour of New York. Bret asks about the Prime Minister’s safety and asks if there’s a bodyguard. Murray advises that there isn’t and promptly assigns Bret as the bodyguard. Bret checks about the availability of New Zealand’s only firearm, to protect the Prime Minister, but Murray tells him that it’s unavailable and tells him to put his hand in his jacket and pretend it’s a gun. Jemaine goes on his date with Karen, the Art Garfunkel fan, who advises that Jemaine’s look isn’t working for her and that he looked better the other night when he was dressed as Art Garfunkel. She insists that he goes home to get changed. Later he goes back to her apartment, where she dims the lights and insists that Jemaine doesn’t sing or speak and Jemaine performs Demon Woman. Meanwhile, Bret, Murray and the Prime Minister are off to Washington to meet the President, but they’re denied access as Murray failed to arrange this, properly, in advance. Whilst this is happening, Jemaine is moping around in Central Park and he analyzes his relationship with Karen with Mel. This scene cuts away to Bret performing Oh Dance Baby, a fantastic Korean karaoke song with nonsense lyrics. Whilst the party is going on, Jemaine is at Karen’s house, trying to break up with her. She goes to another room and there’s a knock at the door. Jemaine answers and it’s the real Art Garfunkel, who pleads with Karen to take him back. Jemaine makes his exit and spots Mel and what appears to be Bret making out in a car – it turns out to be Doug dressed up as Bret. When back at the apartment, Jemaine finds Bret, dressed as Paul Simon, accompanied by several men dressed as Ladysmith Black Mambazo. Presumably Bret is aiming to make some money on the side performing covers of Graceland. Sadly this wasn’t a great episode, despite having its moments, it was distinctly average. Check out our review of episode 6 here.
