About this season
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.
Episodes (12)
1. Episode 1
Aired 20 February 2013 • 30 min
In a special investigative report Shaun goes undercover as a member of outlaw motorcycle gang The Bandidos. But his cover is blown when he uses the word "allegorical".
2. Episode 2
Aired 27 February 2013 • 30 min
When Shaun's racist neighbour Mr. Grealy invites him over to eat some Japanese, Shaun doesn't know how to take it.
3. Episode 3
Aired 6 March 2013 • 30 min
When Francis asks Shaun if he can change a word in one of the scripts, Shaun kills him.
4. Episode 4
Aired 13 March 2013 • 30 min
A convention for people named 'Peter' goes horribly wrong when Shaun is mistakenly invited. And hydrochloric acid starts streaming from the sprinkler system.
5. Episode 5
Aired 20 March 2013 • 30 min
Mongoose. Winter is closing in. It's not safe. Go into hibernation. Further instructions to follow. Cobra.
6. Episode 6
Aired 27 March 2013 • 30 min
Yo! Join Kook and the Bambino tomorrow morning at 7am on 103.6 Smash FM for your chance to win $10 playing Puzzling Noise.
7. Episode 7
Aired 3 April 2013 • 30 min
Voula, if you are watching this, I am so sorry babe. Please do not let the trust we have built up over the last two weeks go to waste just because I screwed another chick. Call me? Stav.
8. Episode 8
Aired 10 April 2013 • 30 min
Winning number in Tatts' Everybody Wins Lotto Draw No. 001: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39 and 40.
9. Episode 9
Aired 17 April 2013 • 30 min
There's a vampire loose in Las Vegas. No one believes or wants to believe it's true. The police can't stop him, people are dying, no one is safe. How do you kill what's already dead?
10. Episode 10
Aired 24 April 2013 • 30 min
The government is keen to hush up a series of mysterious deaths at the Merrymount Institute, an underground archival facility. Mad as Hell determines that the victims were ripped apart by a crocodile or other large lizard.
11. Episode 11
Aired 1 May 2013 • 30 min
The strange disappearance of an antique motorcycle is the first sign of trouble. A rash of murders follow where each victim is decapitated with superhuman force by what witnesses describe as a headless motorcyclist.
12. Episode 12
Aired 8 May 2013 • 30 min
A series of deaths seem to have nothing in common. Probing the murders uncovers a link: each victim was related to a hot-tempered Cajun. However the Cajun has an iron-clad alibi: he's been in a coma for weeks!