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How do you get someone to fall in love with you? Well, looking good helps, certainly. It’s almost impossible to overstate the importance of the “physically attractive” factor within the love equation. But, what of the nugatory remainder? That miscellaneous two to two-and-a-third percent of the whole, which remains invisible to our Earth mirrors but accounts for one man’s ease of contentment and dooms another to a life sentence of solitude.

I mean to say, what’s up with that?

Take as our case study, the world famous New Zealand comedy and music duo, Flight of the Conchords. Undeniably, they’ve got the goods in the face department. And yet, with our nation’s recent emphases on proper diet, exercise, steroid abuse, and cosmetic surgery, that beauty stuff’s as common as commas. No, the two antipodeans possess some unutterable and ultimately powerful else. An eldritch other, which has brought every woman of my acquaintance to discuss these two rogues in terms and tones more suited to the great classics of romantic literature. (Specifically, I’m thinking of certain titles I keep on an upper shelf, behind some luggage, in a plain cardboard box cleverly labeled “tax info.”)

If near-universal wanton desire is any barometer of success, then truly, this is the era of Flight of the Conchords.

“Wherefore now? Why not sometime later? Next week, for example.” It must be now, weary traveler, because as those selfsame troubadours have phrased it, It’s Business Time.

We begin with the two men in their younger years, Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement, students in Wellington, New Zealand and the year of Flight of the Conchords genesis, 1998 A.D. From there, things move quickly: regional shows, wider exposure, international comedy…