Flight of the Conchords, "Prime Minister": It is a country. Yes, it is.

Spoilers for last night's "Flight of the Conchords" coming up just as soon as I load up my briefcase with cheeses...

"How's the environment going? Well, can we clean it up a bit? Well, I don't know. Just get some of your cousins together and clean it up a bit." -Brian (prime minister of New Zealand)

At this point, I think we have to consider "Unnatural Love" to be the anomaly of season two as the only episode where the show was firing on all thrusters musically and comedically. But if the two songs in "Prime Minister" (not counting the guys' wretched "Scarborough Fair" cover) were forgettable, this was a really funny half-hour, and if forced to choose between a memorable song or good jokes, I'll choose the latter.

After loading up on every negative Aussie stereotype with "Unnatural Love," "Prime Minister" gets back to the self-deprecating humor about New Zealand, where the prime minister (played by veteran Kiwi actor Brian Sergent) turns out to be just as ineffectual and clueless as Murray. He lugs around his own suitcase (not even one with wheels!), has no security detail, believes in The Matrix (leading to the hilarious deja vu/glitch/multiple Elton Johns joke at the episode's end) and apparently is leader of a country with only one gun. Very silly, very laid-back, and very "Conchords."

Jemaine's creepy romance with Mary Lynn Rajskub as an obsessive Art Garfunkel fan was a bit more predictable, but was buoyed by Mel's involvement -- when Mel calls another woman crazy, you listen -- by the cameo by the actual Art Garfunkel at the end, and then by the outtake over the closing credits with Bret (now dressed as the '80s Paul Simon) working with a group of backup singers who were either Ladysmith Black Mambazo themselves or (in keeping with the story's theme) a troupe of Ladysmith Black Mambazo impersonators. I wish Patton Oswalt had gotten more to do as the lead Elton John impersonator, but you can't have everything.

Even if the music hasn't been up to snuff (and the lyrics of Bret's karaoke song were funny, even if the song itself was forgettable), I'm disappointed that there are only three episodes left in this abbreviated 10-episode season. Maybe I'll have to plan a trip to New Zealand to get over it. According to Murray's latest poster, it's only 18 hours away.

What did everybody else think?