About this season
bro'Town is a New Zealand Television animated series. The show used a comedy based format, targeted at a young adult audience. The series is set amongst New Zealand's fast growing Pacific Islander community, and focuses on a central cast of five young boys. bro'Town is heavy with popular culture references, and is based on the performance of the local four-man group The Naked Samoans. Vale, Valea, Jeff da Māori, Sione and Mack live in the suburb of Morningside, and attend the local college, St Sylvester’s, where their principal is a Fa’afafine and the P.E. teacher is the legendary ex-All Black rugby player Michael Jones.
Episodes (7)
1. Zeelander
Aired 15 September 2005 • 22 min
It's Morningside Fashion Week, and one of the world's top fashion designers discovers Jeff da Maori and catapults him to international catwalk fame.
2. Survival of the Fattest
Aired 21 September 2005 • 22 min
The class sets out for a day in the bush , but the boys get lost and stranded in the wilderness.
3. Honky The Wonder Horse
Aired 28 September 2005 • 22 min
After Vale and Valea feel sorry for a racehorse who is about to reach its expiry date, they try and persuade Dad to let them train and race it.
4. Touched By A Teacher
Aired 5 October 2005 • 23 min
When Mack tries to impress his mates by inventing a story about being abused , Brother Ken gets thrown into jail and a witch-hunt ensues.
5. Half Caste
Aired 12 October 2005 • 22 min
The boys find a baby in the creek and try to bring it up , but struggle from sleep deprivation and the ordeal of nappy-changing until they have to search elsewhere for parents for the baby.
6. A Chicken Roll At My Table
Aired 19 October 2005 • 22 min
Joost's conservation-loving zoo-keeping Dad invites the boys to the van Den Van Van's African-themed Morningside Shore home for a weekend cultural exchange , but an incident with a chicken roll turns the weekend into a weird kind of Whodunit.
7. Morningside Story
Aired 26 October 2005 • 22 min
An incident of racial abuse inspires St Sylvester's to produce a multi-racial musical love story called Morningside Story. Vale is director, Jeff in charge of music, Sione, Sina, Mack and Rex are the stars.