Flight of the Conchords - "Bowie"

While watching an episode of 'New Zealand's fourth most popular band,' Flight of the Conchords, I noticed various archetypes.

The hero's jouney in this episode is quite evident:

• Bret and Jermaine depart from their New York apartment and head to Murray's office, where they are told that their music may be put into a greeting card. Their mission to be collected and look "cool" so that they will actually succeed with the greeting card.

• This episode focuses mostly on Bret and body image. This is initiated while Bret and Jermaine are at a photoshoot for their band. Murray comments on how Bret looks extremely smaller than Jermaine, which makes Bret feel less confident. He has gained a new, negative perspective about himself.

• Bret is given supernatural aid through various dreams that he has. David Bowie from different era's in his life comes into Bret's dreams and gives him different advice, such as wear an eye patch, to boost Bret's self esteem.

• When David Bowie tells Bret to wear makeup and be spontaneous, Bret decides to "show himself" to the meeting director at the greeting card company. He had painted blue lighting bolts to himself a well and climbed onto the desk and danced for him. Our "hero" is reborn and now understands that he should no longer listen to the dream version of David Bowie and simply be himself.

• With this new wisdom, Bret continues living his own life, and because of his dancing, the company decided to make a different card. This card will have less copies made of it, but things worked out for the most part.

I also noticed various symboles within this particular episode:

• Bret wears clothing with animals on them. These can be related to "power animals."

• In Bret's first dream, David Bowie appears in blue light to symbolize spirituality.

• The door shown to establish the next day symbolizes new opportunities that "friday" or "thursday" will hold.

• Murray wears tan/brown to show that he is neutral about both of the guys' problems.

• The yellow pad of paper Jermaine has symbolizes the good nature towards Bret, even if his compliments on the paper are a little off and disturbing.

• Bowie appears again in orange light to show his egotistical nature and how Bret should be the same.

• The array of colours on the card forshadow chaos (Bret pulling his pants down and dancing on the table).

• Bowie appears once again in a green light to symbolize the hope and growth that he has for Bret.

• Space symbolizes the endless opportunity that Bret and Jermaine have.

Lastly, each character follows the achetypes:

• Bret and Jermaine --> These are our heroes. In this episode in particular, Bret would be our main hero.

• Murray, Bowie --> These two characters would be our mentors. Murray., the band manager, always tries to do what's right for the guys and helps them out of trouble. Bowie appeared in this episode only to provide spiritual support. Jermaine can also count as a mentor who tried to boost Bret's self esteem through compliment and song.

• Bowie --> He could be considered our villain for this episode. Bret's internal aid tended to lead Bret into some hot water throughout the episode (loss of depth perception with the eye patch as well as the shenanigans at the greeting card meeting).

If you have seen this episode, how did you feel about David Bowie being a spiritual aid to Bret? Do you think that the Conchords version of Bowie was over-played for a reason or do you think it just happened? Do you feel as though this spiritual mentor helped Bret or only made things worse? Why?