Well, if it is the end for Flight of the Conchords, the series, the final episode is a great way to finish off a tremendous two-season run.

(And we all know it’s not the end for Flight of the Conchords, the band, who’ll be playing Coral Gables’ BankUnited Center on April 7. )

But the potential end of the show contained two of the best plotlines in the series’ entire run — Mel and Doug’s marriage crashing to earth, and Murray creating a musical of Bret and Jemaine’s experience.

The boys are evicted from their apartment when their landlord discovers they had been paying with New Zealand dollars, rather than U.S. bucks. (And the fact that Eugene, the landlord, uses a calculator watch to figure out their back rent was priceless.)

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Dave (Arj Barker) and Jemaine give Bret competing advice through walkie-talkies.

“It should work. I saw it in a sitcom.”

The words should immediately be followed by an impending sense of doom.

Lovestruck Bret didn’t pay heed in his pursuit of a pet store clerk in this week’s Flight of the Conchords and as a result, well, it didn’t end well.

Bret is smitten — as he tells in a song full of cheese — but is too shy to approach and instead ends up buying 63 goldfish three at a time. So Bret enlists Jemaine as a wingman — and Jemaine’s hesitancy should’ve clued Bret in that this was a bad idea. And the bad idea becomes worse when Dave, the boys’ more libidinous friend, joins Jemaine in an attempt to help woo the fair clerk Cyrano-style.

Good way to do it — whisper to the lovestruck guy from below the balcony.

Bad way to do it — yell competing information through walkie-talkie.

Worse way to do it — have walkie-talking in plain sight with no headphone. All while wearing a kilt.

This fails.

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Dave, Bret and Jemaine are clearly too cool.

You see, I grew up in the 1980s. And while I knew people who delved into styling gel, I resisted. And after watching this week’s episode of “Flight of the Conchords”, I now know why.

Murray decides that, after a disastrous, one-man-in-the-crowd (and that man snuck out during the first song) gig, Bret and Jemaine aren’t cool enough. And he breaks out the blue canister of hair gel.

The boys are hooked right away, slathering it on as if it were Pom-ade and they were Gail and Evel in Raising Arizona.

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Murray (Rhys Darby), Greg (Frank Wood) and Bret (Bret McKenzie) work with Prime Minister Brian (Brian Sergent)

Apparently, there are limits to Mel’s crazy.

We find this out in this week’s episode of “Flight of the Conchords” as Mel realizes that the new apple of Jemaine’s eye (played by 24 star Mary Lynn Rajskub — you know her as Chloe) is a little too beyond the pale.

And when you go beyond Mel’s threshold, that’s saying something.

But then, Jemaine’s new girl does like to see him dress like Art Garfunkel before they get to business time. She calls it “Garfunkeling.”

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Bret and Jemaine try to woo Brahbrah (Kristen Wiig)

Bret and Jemaine had been through a lot together, and maybe they had their differences, but in the end they were always on the same side.

Then they met Brahbrah.

And the Flight of the Conchords would be divided as never before.

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Bret and Jemaine finally have a conflict.

This is the one we’ve been waiting for.

During the first season of “Flight of the Conchords”, the show crossed into greatness territory a few times, with the best example being the episode where Jemaine imitated David Bowie. (”The funky, funky eye patch”)

While there’s no imitations this time — and really, you can’t top the Bowie — that same great level was finally hit when Jemaine decided to start dating an Australian girl.

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You may be fighting Mel for the best seat in the house, but the Flight of the Conchords will bring their U.S. tour to Coral Gables’ BankUnited Center on the University of Miami Campus on April 7.

Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement begin their tour the night before at Tampa’s Performing Arts Center before bringing a show to UM’s basketball arena.

This is clearly a far cry from the HBO show, where they have been playing camper vans. (”Sold-out gig!” Murray chimes in.)
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Mel tells Jemaine about her dreams.

Dreams are “the playground of the mind”, so I’ve heard. And if you know what’s good for you, you won’t push Mel off the slide in her playground.

At one time or another, you’ve dreamed someone has wronged you in your dream. And you see them the next day — and it’s awkward to be sure, but you don’t demand an apology.

Mel, the biggest and only fan of The Flight of the Conchords, played with a brilliant mix of enthusiasm and fanaticism by Kristen Schaal, will make you apologize. Or, at least, she made Bret apologize. (We never actually hear what Bret did. Given Jemaine’s facial expression, not sure we want to know.)

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Bret and his gang.

Bret has a posse. Just like Andre The Giant.

(You may remember those handbills. Up on lampposts and posters. Back in the ’80s? “Andre the Giant has a posse.” No? I’m the only one?)

Clearly oblivious to the stories about Suge Knight, Tupac, Biggie and all the rest, Bret decides to diss pretty much every rapper he’s ever heard of. (”Snoop Dogg… is bad. Jay-Z… is bad.”)

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If you’re curious to see just how close Flight of the Conchords members Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement are to the characters Bret and Jemaine on the show “Flight of the Conchords”, all you have to do is check out this interview with CNN’s Sharon Cook.

It helps to know that Cook is Australian, a group of people that serve as a target for some of the boys’ more pointed comedy.

Basically, you start reading it, and it’s just like watching the show.

Also worth a look: Time’s visit to the set and Reuters’ view of the phenomenon.