raven
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Post by raven on Jun 4, 2008 14:15:35 GMT
This starts on BBC Three next Tuesday at 10:30pm. I watched it all earlier this year and it was one of the best comedy shows I have seen in a long time. It's done in a mockumentary style and it's from Australia. I wish my drama teacher had been like Mr G.
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Post by Steven on Jun 4, 2008 15:26:44 GMT
I watched a preview copy of this last week and I loved it. There's something terrifyingly realistic about Ja'mie.
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Post by [james] on Jun 4, 2008 16:16:01 GMT
My friend in Perth has been raving about it for months but I really couldn't get into it.
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Post by monsta on Jun 4, 2008 17:17:00 GMT
I'm a naughty girl with a bad habit, bad habit for dugs.
Ecstacy, Ecstacy, E-E-E-E-Ecstacy!
I would pay good money to see an arena spectacular like Annabel Dickson : The Musical.
Oh and Chris Lilley also had a previous show called We Can Be Heroes which featured J'amie but I didn't like it as much.
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Post by Adrian on Jun 11, 2008 15:09:36 GMT
I wanted to love this. I was hoping for a Neighbours / Home & Away / Heartbreak High style soapy funny spoof.
I think the mockumentary style put me off, it's all a bit overdone now.
I did like Ja'ime, d'yaknowamean? however.
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Post by Maureen on Jun 11, 2008 20:16:39 GMT
Hmmm. I had high hopes, at the end of the show felt like I'd seen most of it before. The preview for next week looked good, though.
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Post by al on Jun 13, 2008 13:38:03 GMT
I loved the first episode. I was expecting it to be more of a slow-burn so I was pleasantly surprised.
The funniest parts of the show were the simplest touches, particularly with Ja'ime. I howled at some of her lines, with specific props going to "I love those bins! They're so random."
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Post by Joel on Jun 13, 2008 15:34:23 GMT
The bit about removing the bushes because a girl got raped behind them was hilarious/awful.
I think I found this more depressing than funny, though. Jonah made me horribly, horribly sad.
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Greg
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Post by Greg on Jun 14, 2008 14:34:51 GMT
Jonah made me laugh not so much. As someone has already mentioned Ja'mie is frighteningly realistic and she was by far the highlight of the show for me. She had a lot of very good, very small lines that almost slipped by un-noticed. My favourite has to be "I'm the highest achieving non-Asian in my school".
And I'd so bag Greg Gregson for my avatar if raven hadn't beaten me to it.
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Post by scatterbrain on Jun 16, 2008 17:17:36 GMT
I too loved the 'smartest non-Asian line!'. Amazing. Mr G was great, total bastard.
The mockumentary thing kind of brings it down I thought (all a little Christopher Guest lite) but it was still funny as hell and his acting was great, especially as Ja'mie.
Oh, and her name is Ja'mie King and Jamie King is a real life model/actress, isn't she??
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Post by Robbing the Dead on Jun 17, 2008 23:28:17 GMT
I loved it, especially the bushes being removed because a girl got raped behind them and the anti-rape mural.
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Post by Steven on Jun 18, 2008 8:30:47 GMT
Last night's episode was great - Mr G is pretty much every drama teacher I've ever had rolled into one terrifying amalgam. Ja'mie is still the best thing about the show, though - I loved it when she was saying about how she expected the girls at the school to be "slutty bogans", and how as much as she liked them and felt she belonged with them, they'd only be halfway up the popularity table at her private school.
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Post by cathybradford on Jun 28, 2008 14:31:55 GMT
Here's the 'official' video of Naughty Girl. It's basically home video clips of various camp guys, school girls and 6 years old kids dancing around while miming along to 'ecstacy, ecstacy....' and it's really quite brilliant.
Though be warned that it is a spoiler in a way as the song is from later on in the series (though you heard bits in the latest episode).
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raven
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Post by raven on Jun 28, 2008 14:41:55 GMT
That was really well done considering it was made up of home video clips. They all made a lot of effort.
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Post by cathybradford on Jun 28, 2008 16:30:33 GMT
Hopefully we can all contribute to the music video when the Hollyoaks drugs storyline inevitably finishes with the Steph produced musical extravaganza.
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Post by Robbing the Dead on Jun 30, 2008 1:24:50 GMT
I absolutely love this now.
"Am I hot?!"
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Post by Ceeb on Jun 30, 2008 14:03:11 GMT
Just watched episode 3 - it really is a brilliant show and I can't pick my favourite character. Each time the next person comes on I think "Yes, they are the best" before the next segment starts and I change my mind again.
Funniest part for me was the whole - "She was a slut. Shouldn't say that about someone who recently died, but she was one" thing.
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Post by Maureen on Jun 30, 2008 21:24:30 GMT
Episode 3 reeled me in, after initial disappointment. I hate the teen male character, though. The trailer for the next episode looked fab.
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Post by Steven on Jul 8, 2008 21:55:24 GMT
Ja'mie's presentation on why schools need to have a Year 11 formal was fabulous. The addition of dancing to Sky Mangel made it art.
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Post by Robbing the Dead on Jul 9, 2008 2:08:36 GMT
The dancing to Sky Mangel was brilliant. And the "lesbians share limos with Asians" bit.
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Post by zaffra on Jul 9, 2008 10:04:23 GMT
'And fugly girls get to mix with girls like me!'
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Mr Kenneth
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Post by Mr Kenneth on Jul 9, 2008 13:05:53 GMT
Did anyone else wonder why the fugly girl appeared to be operating the Sky Mangel music using a white microwave oven though?
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Post by Boswellox on Jul 9, 2008 13:24:28 GMT
Love it. As others have said, Ja'mie is so realistic and Chris Lilley plays her so well, that it is easy to forget she is being played by a man, despite her appearance. It's truly excellent.
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JoanSmith
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Post by JoanSmith on Jul 9, 2008 21:03:08 GMT
Did anyone else wonder why the fugly girl appeared to be operating the Sky Mangel music using a white microwave oven though? Yep, me! I had no idea it was Sky Mangel, though. Is her recording career going unexpectedly well? Just caught up with last night's episode on i-player - this is getting better by the week. It didn't quite live up to my expectations at first, possibly because I was expecting it to be Kath and Kim-realistic not, as Steven said, 'terrifyingly realistic'. Mr G and J'amie are perfectly pitched. Jonah is, for me, just a bit too real. I often find his bits more depressing than funny. My earworm will be singing "She's a naughty girl with a bad habit. A bad habit for drugs" all evening, if not all week. Chris Lilley is a bona fide genius. I'd like to see Ricky Gervais or Larry David managing to write and convincingly play three completely different characters, let alone compose a catchy musical. Actually, no. No I wouldn't. Australia should be very proud.
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Post by jode* on Jul 10, 2008 8:25:25 GMT
I've just caught up on episodes 4 and 5 of this on iPlayer, on all of your recommendations, and it is amazing. I was sitting on my own in a room, giggling away, something I haven't done for a while...
I cannot wait until the musical. I'm guessing it will be the last episode?
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