7. Albi The Racist Dragon (Flight Of The Conchords)
After bearing the brunt of New York's 'prejudism', folk musicians Bret and Jemaine are feeling particularly homesick for their native New Zealand. Fortunately, their manager Murray has just the solution: a tape of New Zealand TV shows that his mother has sent over. And on the tape is that timeless animated tale of beasts and bigotry, Albi the Racist Dragon. Having been chased out of town by an angry mob, Albi takes refuge in a cave - where he is met by one of his victims, ''a badly burned Albanian boy''. ''What are you doing here, I thought I killed you yesterday!'' grumbled Albi 'quite racistly'. The boy explains that he too has been cast out of the village for being different. This makes Albi cry a single tear, which turns into ''a jellybean all colours of the rainbow''. And so, having very much seen the error of his ways, the pair are reunited in a heartwarming story of redemption that ought to be compulsory viewing for schools everywhere. Probably.
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