Shaun Micallef's MAD AS HELL - Season 8
Season 8
Episodes
Episode 1
A shot for shot remake of 'Hans Heiratete Einen Hummer'. This satire on Weimar steel manufacturing takes on new meaning with the director's decision to have the actors wink at the end of each line.
Episode 2
Franz Kafka and H. P. Lovecraft team up to solve a small-town murder. Kafka is convinced that the culprit is the banal inhumanity that lives in the heart of all relationships, but Lovecraft believes it's a giant octopus.
Episode 3
A film maker explores the origins of the influential but little studied music group The Beatles. In a remarkable ending, it emerges that one of them, Paul, is still playing music to packed arenas all over the world.
Episode 4
A single unbroken shot of an orange rolling down the world's highest flight of steps at Mt. Niesen in Switzerland, set to the song 'Macho Man' by the Village People.
Episode 5
A dark and gritty reimagining of Mem Fox's "Where is the Green Sheep?". Starring Lachy Hulme as the reclusive ungulate.
Episode 6
A successful, forty-something stock broker from Wollongong is coaxed into a penguin encounter which forces her to take personal inventory of her life.
Episode 7
When the evil wizard Cain O'Beans chases the tiny Frankfurt people out of their village, they tumble from their magical world into the city of Canberra. Featuring Russell Crowe as the voice of the Volcano.
Episode 8
An unhappily married ironmonger suspects his deceased postman has returned from the dead. However, after a quick phone call to the PMG, he learns he is mistaken.
Episode 9
A documentary on 90-year-old Dagwood dog virtuoso Wayne Blacka (Francis Greenslade) and his relationship with his son and eventual heir, Bartholomew (also Francis Greenslade, but in a different wig).
Episode 10
A decaf soy latte with magical powers costs only fifty cents more than a regular one. Directed by James Cameron.
Episode 11
When a man wakes up in the morning it starts a chain of events that leads to him going back to sleep at the end of the day. Stars Shane Crawford.
Episode 12
A car that talks gets laryngitis and learns what it's like to be a normal car. Stars Meryl Streep, Jo Silvagni.
Episode 13
In a glittering cavalcade of Busby Berkley style production numbers, Shaun and the gang pay tribute to the music of Peter Andre. With special guest Eddie Obeid.
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