Looks like the cast got all their mates to rate this up higher than it ever deserves.
I somehow caught the first episode of this on a public broadcasting station 31. I laughed my rear off and thought it was the most hilarious thing I'd seen in years. Afterwards, I felt like telling all my mates they need to check out this show, it's absolutly wee weez funny!
However, after viewing episode 2, the laughter stopped. Infact, it didn't even get started again. I managed to suffer through the whole season, but not a laugh to be found. Not even a small chuckle. The only time I ever laughed again at this show I think mightve been the second season at a song parodying "Splish Splash".
It's baffling how the debut episode I would give 7/10, maybe 8/10. Then every episode following it, a solid 1/10, apart from that other episode I mentioned that gets a 3/10 for having a funny song, but the rest of the episode was just as the shows title describes.
Where this went wrong was filming the same sketch 100 times with a different punchline for each take, then splitting it up into the same alternate sketches one after the other each weeks episode.
The biggest problem is they only had 1 funny take for most of it, and it was all put in episode 1, the rest of the season was unfunny out-takes presented as episodes instead of cutting room floor material where it belongs. Not even stuff worth adding as a bonus feature for its 20th anniversary release had it been successful.
I've never been so disappointed in a show after such a strong first episode that looked like this was the beginning of an Aussie sketch comedy classic.
It's such a shame it failed and they where just the 1 hit wonder with the 1 episode alone that was great.
I somehow caught the first episode of this on a public broadcasting station 31. I laughed my rear off and thought it was the most hilarious thing I'd seen in years. Afterwards, I felt like telling all my mates they need to check out this show, it's absolutly wee weez funny!
However, after viewing episode 2, the laughter stopped. Infact, it didn't even get started again. I managed to suffer through the whole season, but not a laugh to be found. Not even a small chuckle. The only time I ever laughed again at this show I think mightve been the second season at a song parodying "Splish Splash".
It's baffling how the debut episode I would give 7/10, maybe 8/10. Then every episode following it, a solid 1/10, apart from that other episode I mentioned that gets a 3/10 for having a funny song, but the rest of the episode was just as the shows title describes.
Where this went wrong was filming the same sketch 100 times with a different punchline for each take, then splitting it up into the same alternate sketches one after the other each weeks episode.
The biggest problem is they only had 1 funny take for most of it, and it was all put in episode 1, the rest of the season was unfunny out-takes presented as episodes instead of cutting room floor material where it belongs. Not even stuff worth adding as a bonus feature for its 20th anniversary release had it been successful.
I've never been so disappointed in a show after such a strong first episode that looked like this was the beginning of an Aussie sketch comedy classic.
It's such a shame it failed and they where just the 1 hit wonder with the 1 episode alone that was great.
