The safety belt that Bret wears during his mugging is also a reference to the Beastie Boy's 'Intergalactic' promo clip the group are dressed up in white outfits complete with safety belts as they perform in a Tokyo subway.
Dundee says "that's not a knife", then pulls out his own knife, a large Bowie, and says "that's a knife", causing the mugger to flee. The would-be mugger threatens him with a switch blade. This is a reference to the famous scene in the 1986 Australian film, Crocodile Dundee, in which Mick Dundee is accosted by a mugger on his first visit to New York. "Oh, it is a knife", says Jemaine, then they both run away. Bret replies "yeah, that's, that's a knife".
When the guys are getting mugged and Mickey pulls out a knife, Jemaine says "that's not a knife".
Qu'est-ce que c'est?" This is a reference to the 1977 Talking Heads song "Psycho Killer" in which the lines "Psycho killer/Qu'est-ce que c'est?" are featured prominently in the chorus.
When describing his friend, one of the muggers says the line: ".
The line is from the film Midnight Cowboy.
During a band meeting, Murray says to say "hey, I'm walking here", claiming it's "what New Yorkers say".
In an interview on the National Public Radio program Fresh Air on 14 June 2007, the band stated that in this song they were trying to combine the styles of both Marvin Gaye and the Black Eyed Peas song Where Is the Love?. The song exhorts people to think about society's ills, including comedic references to violence, AIDS, and sweatshop labor. Think About It begins as Bret leaves to track down Mickey the mugger in an attempt to get Jemaine's camera phone back. The video is filmed using common hip hop music video techniques such as low camera angles and rapid movement of the performers towards and away from the camera, and bears similarities to the music videos of the The Beastie Boys. It parodies various rap clichés such as references to "bitches" and "hos", though in a deliberately tame manner ("there ain't no party like my nana's tea party"). Jemaine and Bret attempt to fend off the muggers with bluster then launch into a gangsta rap song. The Rhymenoceros takes place during the mugging. Flight of the Conchords is a Grammy award-winning folk/pop/comedy duo comprised of Bret McKenzie formerly of The Black Seeds, Video Kid, and The Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra fame and Jemaine Clement formerly of The Humourbeasts, who met in 1998 while studying film and theatre in Wellington, New Zealand. In his efforts to reconcile with an angry Jemaine, Bret decides to get Jemaine's Camera Phone (which is a phone glued to a camera, rather than a mobile phone with camera abilities) back from the muggers. While in jail, Jemaine bonds with John, who is also dealing with the pain of having been abandoned, as his partner in crime ran from the scene when the authorities arrived. Rather than helping Jemaine, Bret leaves him to fend for himself.Ĭonsequently, Jemaine injures his arm and spends two days in jail with John, one of the muggers. During the pursuit, Jemaine's clothes get caught on a fence. Bret and Jemaine are mugged and chased by two thugs.
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