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Originally Posted by choc e-Claire
We'll be watching it during English Language as an example of Australian English and the features of it.
Probably not a good thing that I identified with the 'emo dykes' the main character was bitching about. (Her words, not mine) |
Five months later, we're actually watching it
properly. It relies on some immature gross-out humour a bit too much (like one scene featuring a character making a [completely bullshit] drawing of his dad sexually abusing him), and there's one weird scene where a character complains "I'm not going to apologise for trying to be funny" - Chris Lilley is rather divisive, considering that he's still somehow using blackface in 2019.
That said, when it hits its stride there's some really funny bits, and there was a great one when one of his characters stood up at school assembly with her friends to argue for having a formal:
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Formals are a rare place when everyone can get together. Emos...Asians...Christians...skanks...lesbians...a nd even hot girls like me can all put aside our differences for one night.
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I'll try and find it on YouTube tonight for y'all.