About this season
Pizza was an Australian television series on the Australian television network SBS. The series has a spin-off feature length movie, Fat Pizza, released in 2003, and a best-of highlights video/DVD that featured previously unreleased footage and a schoolies exposé, released in 2004. In addition to this, a theatre show entitled "Fat Pizza", starring several characters from the show, has toured the Australian east coast. Through ironic and self-conscious references, Pizza involves themes of ethnicity and stereotypes, cars, sex, illicit drugs, and violence to produce its sometimes mean-spirited dark humour. The television program is noted for its frequent cameo appearances of numerous Australian celebrities of all varieties, including actors, comedians, professional athletes, and other public figures.
Episodes (11)
1. New Pizza
Aired 27 August 2001 • 25 min
The guys do an insurance job to get a new shop. Sleek returns from a holiday in Lebanon. Pauly experiences road rage with Saddam Hussein.
2. Politically Incorrect Pizza
Aired 3 September 2001 • 25 min
Pauly and Sleek take off for a weekend at the snow and return to a Dog Day Afternoon style siege at the motor registry.
3. Sexy Pizza
Aired 10 September 2001 • 25 min
Pauly thinks he is on a mystery flight to Surfers, but ends up in Vietnam. Bo-Bo buys toxic cheese from Russia and Sleek, who thinks he's gay, delivers to the Mardi Gras.
4. Millionaire Pizza
Aired 17 September 2001 • 25 min
Sleek stars in a Survivor-style reality program with six beautiful models. Pauly encounters road rage with Anthony Mundine and Mike Tyson; and Bo Bo gets a new apprentice who is subjected to "apprentice abuse".
5. Melbourne Pizza
Aired 24 September 2001 • 25 min
When the Tax Department closes Bo Bo's shop for a $1 million GST debt, he blows up the Tax Office in an Oklahoma style bombing. Pauly and Sleek take a road trip to Melbourne.
6. Flashback Pizza
Aired 1 October 2001 • 25 min
Bo Bo visits the shrink because of mental problems brought on by the shop. Pauly wants to become an actor and quit working. Sleek applies for a loan to kick-start his rap career.
7. Freaky Pizza
Aired 8 October 2001 • 25 min
Pauly's nephew is possessed by the Devil. Sleek is kidnapped and has his kidneys stolen for Claudia Macpherson's transplant. It's a full moon and this causes drama for Bobo.
8. Girlfriend Pizza
Aired 15 October 2001 • 25 min
The Pizza guys have girlfriend problems—Sleek falls in love; Pauly takes a date to the top of the Sydney Harbour Bridge; and Bo Bo meets a disabled woman on the internet and takes her to dinner.
9. Anzac Pizza
Aired 22 October 2001 • 25 min
It's Anzac Day and Pauly marches for his Grandfather who served in Gallipoli. The Prime Minister is assassinated over the GST. Sleek turns a B&S ball into a rave and his Lebanese friends sells drugs to the bumpkins.
10. Desert Pizza
Aired 29 October 2001 • 25 min
Pauly and Sleek get marooned on a South Sea island when a fishing trip goes wrong. Bo Bo hires escapees from an immigration detention centre to replace Sleek and Pauly, one of whom is an infamous Bosnian war criminal.
11. A Real Slice of Pizza
Aired 5 November 2001 • 25 min