Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell(2012)
News satire. A half-hour weekly round-up, branding, inoculation and crutching of all the important news stories of the week. Along with a like-minded Think Tank of reporters and pundits, offering not only reportage and analysis of the week’s events but discussion, argument and dissection of what’s making the world turn every which way.
- First aired:
- 2012-05-25
- Country:
- AU
- Network:
- ABC TV
Episodes
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1. Episode 1
2017-06-21 · 30m
Seven veteran gunslingers agree to defend a poor Mexican village against an outbreak of Japanese encephalitis.
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2. Episode 2
2017-06-28 · 30m
An acrobat, a diplomat and a bureaucrat enter a laundromat and engage in some chit-chat about a thermostat. Stars Chow Yun-fat.
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3. Episode 3
2017-07-05 · 30m
In a futuristic society, all sarcasm has been eliminated except for the occasional use of the phrase "oh, do you think so?" by Nether-Zone outcasts.
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4. Episode 4
2017-07-12 · 30m
A priest and a tame bear travel back in time to Dallas, Texas on November 23, 1963 to try and prevent an episode of 'The Patty Duke Show' going to air.
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5. Episode 5
2017-07-19 · 30m
Biopic of Entente Cordiale, the blind French plumber who, in 1886, won the contract to install the male toilets in the Statue of Liberty's head.
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6. Episode 6
2017-07-26 · 30m
A freelance ant exposed to deadly Q*bert radiation in a science explosion discovers it has the ability to shrink its body to the size of a smaller ant.
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7. Episode 7
2017-08-02 · 30m
Eleven jurors agree that a young Hispanic boy is guilty of murder. Only Juror #8 is doubtful, secretly suspecting that he himself is the real murderer.
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8. Episode 8
2017-08-09 · 30m
A man and a woman, both in a shopping centre and a kind of a metaphor meet briefly on some escalators - his going up and hers going down.
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9. Episode 9
2017-08-16 · 30m
A man and a woman, both in a shopping centre and a kind of a metaphor meet briefly on some escalators - his going up and hers going down.
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10. Episode 10
2017-08-23 · 30m
The Sultan of Marzipan commands Sinbad the sailor to undertake a dangerous quest to the forbidden pizzeria of N'Gru for a family size Hawaiian (no ham or pineapple).
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11. Episode 11
2017-08-30 · 30m
Adaptation of Shakespeare's 'Titus Andronicus' in which a man unwittingly eats an apple pie containing apples which, only hours earlier, he had been juggling with.
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12. Episode 12
2017-09-06 · 30m
A childless Australian couple adopt a young Indian boy. Years later when they politely ask him to trim a hedge in the garden, he's like, "No way, I didn't sign up for that."
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Cast
Shaun Micallef
Self - Host
Francis Greenslade
Emily Taheny
Tosh Greenslade
Christie Whelan Browne
- S
Stephen Hall
