"Prime Minister" is the seventh episode of the second season of the HBO comedy series Flight of the Conchords. originally aired in the United States on March 1, 2009.
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Plot
Brett and Jemaine arrive at the New York New Zealand in New York Consulate over the impending arrival of the Prime Minister of New Zealand. Murray also announces that he has arranged a gig for Bret and Jemaine as Simon and Garfunkel impersonators. The pair object to playing other people's music, which Murray comments is better than theirs; they sell out for $50 each. At the nightclub, they perform an out-of-sync "Scarborough Fair", socialise with various musical impersonators, and Jemaine is picked up by an Art Garfunkel fanatic (Mary Lynn Rajskub).
The following day the Prime Minister of New Zealand, Brian, arrives and Murray has Jemaine and Bret give him a cultural tour of New York City. The subsequent tour of New York only shows them at the Pawn Shop discussing what reality is as per the movie The Matrix, the movie having only just come out in New Zealand (a decade after its USA release). Both Dave and Brian believe that the Matrix exists and that déjà vu is evidence of a glitch in it.
Jemaine goes on his dinner date with the Art Garfunkel fan, despite Mel's warnings that the other woman is deranged. The fan demands that he dress up as Art Garfunkel again for sex. The scene cuts out to the song "Demon Woman" in the music video style of Judas Priest.