The Cast of The Ronnie Johns Half Hour. From left to right Heath Franklin, Jordan Raskopoulos, Caz Fitzgerald, Felicity Ward, Dan Ilic and James Pender The Ronnie Johns Half Hour (full name The Ronnie Johns Good Times Campfire Jamboree Half Hour Show (Now on Television)) is an Australian sketch comedy show produced by Jigsaw Entertainment and the Ten Network, which premiered in October 2005. This article does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...
Heath Franklin is a Sydney-based comedic performer, improviser and writer. ...
Jordan Raskopoulos is a Sydney-based comedian. ...
Felicity Ward, born 1980, grew up in Hardys Bay, a small coastal town on the Central Coast of N.S.W. She starred on The Ronnie Johns Half Hour, on the Channel 10 Network in Australia. ...
Channel Ten is one of Australias three commercial television channels, broadcasted by Network Ten. ...
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The cast of the show came from a series of stage shows called The 3rd Degree, produced by Laughing Stock Productions, which featured selections from Australian university revues, and consists of Heath Franklin, Jordan Raskopoulos, Felicity Ward, Dan Ilic, James Pender, Caroline Fitzgerald and Becci Gage. Gage only appeared as a supporting cast member in the first series but has a more significant role in the second. Chris McDonald, creator and producer of The 3rd Degree stage shows, acts as the shows head writer and co-producer. Nikos Andronicos and Justin Heazlewood are credited as non-performing writers. The 3rd Degree is an Australian sketch comedy show that played at the Big Laugh Festival and Melbourne Comedy Festival in 2004 and 2005. ...
A revue is a type of theatrical entertainment that combines music, dance and sketches that satirize contemporary figures, news, or literature. ...
Heath Franklin is a Sydney-based comedic performer, improviser and writer. ...
Jordan Raskopoulos is a Sydney-based comedian. ...
The first season of the Ronnie Johns Half Hour ran for thirteen episodes The first six aired from October 2005 and the remaining seven aired from February 2006. The first series began airing in New Zealand on the C4 Network from July 25th. The second series began airing on August 17, 2006 at 9pm on channel 10, and is 13 episodes in length.
In 2006, the show received a Logie nomination for Most Outstanding Comedy Series, and Franklin was nominated for the 2006 Inaugural Graham Kennedy Logie Award for Most Outstanding New Talent. The Logie Awards are the Australian television industry annual awards. ...
Graham Cyril Kennedy, AO (15 February 1934 - 25 May 2005) was an Australian radio, television and film performer, often called The King of Australian television. ...
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Recurring characters
Ronnie Johns imitating a priaie dog As well as many stand-alone sketches, The Ronnie Johns Half Hour features a number of characters who have appeared in multiple episodes. Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ...
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Ronnie Johns The title character of the show, Ronnie Johns (Franklin) is the "comedy cowboy' he rides upon the "Good Taste Pony" (a papier-mâché horse worn around his waist). Ronnie appears in the opening and closing scenes of the show, as well as occasionally interjecting between sketches commenting on them and warning the audience about potential bad taste. He has a slight obsession with prairie dogs.
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Species Cynomys gunnisoni Cynomys leucurus Cynomys ludovicianus Cynomys mexicanus Cynomys parvidens The prairie dog (Cynomys) is a small, burrowing rodent native to the grasslands of North America. ...
Paulie Paulie (Raskopoulos), a young man of unknown Mediterranean heritage, dressed in a green-and-pink striped polo shirt, confronts various people to complain about what might be termed pedantic issues. For example, in his first appearance, he explains to a cashier at a store that gnocchi is actually made of potatoes, and should not be placed in the pasta aisle. Other complaints he made included wanting to change the nickname of the Australian soccer team because a "socceroo" isn't a real animal, and that George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is incorrect because its events did not occur in 1984. In a more recent episode, Paulie confronts the owner of an Adult Sex shop telling him that the candy underwear should have a nutritional value on the box, just in case a Vegan is starving to death and needs to know that there is no beef in them. At the end of the sketches Paulie recommends that the problems be solved by putting a sticker on the offending object, and assures the target of his complaint that "I've got my eye on youse". Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ...
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Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903[1][2] – 21 January 1950), better known by the pen name George Orwell, was an English author and journalist. ...
This article is about the Orwell novel. ...
Year 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1984 Gregorian calendar). ...
Hens kept in cramped conditions — the avoidance of animal suffering is the primary motivation of people who become vegans A vegan is a person who avoids the ingestion or use of animal products. ...
On the Season 1 finale, it was revealed that Paulie's campaign against gnocchi began when his parents both ordered it at a restaurant, thinking it was pasta, and died from potato allergies.
Poppy Poppy (Ward) is depicted as a small, innocent girl, who asks strangers if they would like to look at her picture book. The book contains pictures of often controversial issues such as the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse or the Ku Klux Klan, but Poppy's narration describes them more naively, suggesting they are, for example, performing acrobatics routines or playing dress-ups. Poppy has a brother who is homosexual, and like Paulie, events from past episodes and sketches sometimes occur again at a later date.
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Members of the second Ku Klux Klan at a rally during the 1920s. ...
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Gary and Gary Gary (Pender) and Gary (Franklin) are two stereotypical English backpackers with an obsession for the TV soap opera Neighbours, particularly for the character of Toadfish Rebecchi. Whilst backpacking through Australia they grow quite bored of the sights and often complain about everything. However almost all of the sketches quickly lead to them relieving their boredom by indulging in their favourite past-time of kicking each other in the "janglies" - each takes turn to kick the other between the legs. This is the main example of faux English slang which the characters habitually use. Towards the end of the series an American backpacker, Chuck, joined the duo. The Garys shifted from only complaining about Australia to also making fun of Chuck and his country of origin.
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Languages Cornish, Dgèrnésiais, English, French, Irish, Jèrriais, Manx, Scots, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh, Llanito Religions Anglican, Presbyterianism, Roman Catholicism Related ethnic groups Americans, Australians, Belongers, Canadians, Channel Islanders, Cornish, English, Irish, Manx, New Zealanders, Scottish, Welsh British people, or Britons,[7] are inhabitants of Great Britain[8][9...
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Neighbours is a long-running Australian soap opera, which began airing in March 1985. ...
Jarrod Vincenzo Toadfish Rebecchi is a fictional character on the popular Australian soap opera Neighbours, portrayed by Ryan Moloney. ...
For a Wiktionary project on slang terms, see here {Missing Link} Slang is the use of highly informal words and expressions that are not considered standard in the speakers dialect or language. ...
Chopper Read One of the few depictions of a real person, the infamous criminal Mark 'Chopper' Read (Franklin) appears as a special guest in various incongruous situations, such as reading a story for children a la Play School or calling numbers for bingo. The humour in Chopper's segments derives from his penchants for swearing and violence, as well as his lack of education, as demonstrated in the bingo sketch where he points out "I can't even fuckin' count, and I'm gonna host bingo! It's just like bloody dingo but it's safer with your kids, isn't it?". Chopper also makes many threatening statements directed at Neville Bartos, a character based on a real person who the real Chopper allegedly shot before going to prison, but with whom Chopper is now good friends. Franklin's portrayal of Read is as much based on the real Chopper as it is on Eric Bana's take on the man, as portrayed in the 2000 Andrew Dominik film of the same name. The character was given a much greater licence to swear by Channel 10 than any other, much to the chagrin of the rest of the cast, as Raskopoulos had to change a "motherfucker" to "mofo" whilst the Chopper character said "fuck" more than fifty times in the same episode. Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ...
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Play School is an Australian educational television show for children produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Animation by Yoram Gross Films Ltd. ...
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Dingo range Breed standards (external link) ANKC The dingo (plural dingoes or dingos) or warrigal, Canis lupus dingo, is a type of wild dog, probably descended from the Indian Wolf (Canis lupus pallipes). ...
Azaria Chamberlain, with mother Lindy. ...
Eric Bana (born Eric Banadinovich on August 9, 1968) is an Australian film and television actor. ...
2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Andrew Dominik is an Australian director best known for the film Chopper. ...
Chopper is an Australian 2000 drama-crime thriller-black comedy film written and directed by Andrew Dominik based on the semi-autobiographical books by Mark Brandon Chopper Read. ...
In the second season the sketches are performed from Chopper's apartment and aren't about Chopper with a new job every week. In one episode Chopper introduces a Puppet version of himself "Mini-Chopper" and teaches children about "Stranger Danger", and in a later sketch he sings the Nursery rhymes. In another episode aired in an earlier timeslot, he mentioned that due to TV censorship laws he was restricted to saying the word fuck 15 times per episode, and after exceeding the 15 word limit, the word was bleeped from thereon in. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
Social Suicide Bomber The Social Suicide Bomber (Raskopoulos) is an awkward-looking man in a burgundy blazer and salmon-pink shirt who is summoned by people who are stuck in unpleasant social situations - such as an unattractive man flirting with a woman who doesn't want that kind of attention - by pressing a large red button. He drives away the unwanted person with banal comments or bizarre actions, like demonstrating his pterodactyl impersonation. Unfortunately, with that person gone, the Social Suicide Bomber then often turns his sights to the person who called him creating a situation that was more awkward than the one to begin with.
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The Nihilists Simon (Franklin), Gretchen (Ward) and Sigmund (Pender) are a trio of apathetic Germans who dress in black and speak in monotonous voices. They appear in places that are usually the source of happy, bubbly personalities, like children's TV shows, aerobics shows, or as replacements for a department store Santa, and frequently make comments on the meaninglessness and futility of life, love and other endeavours. Gretchen is shown to be harbouring much aggression, and frequently has small outbursts of anger, and it is also shown her birthday is on the same day as Simon's. The Nihilists appear to be loosely based on similar characters from the movie The Big Lebowski. Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ...
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Recently there was a sketch called "Sigfeld" which is a parody on Seinfeld where the trio act similar to Seinfeld but still being in nihilistic character.
Seinfeld is an Emmy Award-winning sitcom that originally aired on NBC from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998, running a total of 9 seasons. ...
Windshadow and Jemima Windshadow (Fitzgerald) is an "Earth Mother". She is continually embarrassing her school-aged daughter, Jemima (Ward) in front of Jemima's friend Steve (Pender) with her naturalistic rituals about fertility.
Henry Limpton's Teabag Henry Limpton (Pender) is a man with an unfortunate compulsion. He can't help but dunk his scrotum (known as Teabagging) into his friend, Cochese's (Raskopoulos) food and beverages. Played out in mime with campy sitcom music. Henry has ruined Cochese's beer, fruit punch and fondue. During the Christmas episode he "teabagged" a chimney while Santa was descending. In the pilot, the character was called "Henry Lipton", until this caught the attention of Unilever, owners of the Lipton tea brand. Unilever threatened to pull all their advertising from Channel 10, but were placated by the insertion of the 'm' in the character's surname.
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The Lipton logo Lipton is one of the worlds best-known and best-selling brand of both hot leaf and ready-to-drink tea. ...
Unilever is a widely listed [1] [2] multi-national, formed of Anglo-Dutch parentage, that owns many of the worlds consumer product brands in foods, beverages, cleaning agents and personal care products. ...
Jesus Christ The son of God. Jesus (Pender) finds himself in many sketches on the show however his sketches don't have a common stylistic or narrative link. In one sketch he was trying to reach his mobile phone while crucified. In another he was challenged to avoid "towel-flicking" someone's bottom and on another occasion he was the spokesman for "High Five a Muslim Day". Some sketches have Jesus teamed up with Mohammed, portrayed by Ilic.
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Rastus A puppet dog (voiced and controlled by Ilic) with a left political outlook. Whenever Rastus encounters statements that he doesn't agree with, whether it be a right wing house guest or a talk-back radio host Rastus responds with barks, growls and even attacks. The sketches often end with Rastus' owner, Miles (Franklin), being persuaded not to put up with the person any longer and telling the character "No, Rastus is quite right, I think you're full of shit."
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Phillip Mandrake Phillip (Raskopoulos) is a bearded man in an overcoat who goes shopping. He makes a small inquiry about the item he wants to purchase, usually a foodstuff (mangoes, ice-cream, free-range eggs and some ming dynasty vases) after he purchases three of the item he throws them on the floor and steps on them dramatically. When the shopkeeper asks him 'What did you do that for?!?!' He then turns to the seller of the item and says that he didn't like the item e.g. "I don't like your mangoes."
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Species About 35 species, including: Mangifera altissima Mangifera applanata Mangifera caesia Mangifera camptosperma Mangifera casturi Mangifera decandra Mangifera foetida Mangifera gedebe Mangifera griffithii Mangifera indica Mangifera kemanga Mangifera laurina Mangifera longipes Mangifera macrocarpa Mangifera mekongensis Mangifera odorata Mangifera pajang Mangifera pentandra Mangifera persiciformis Mangifera quadrifida Mangifera siamensis Mangifera similis Mangifera...
Cherry ice cream in a dish Ice cream or ice-cream (originally iced cream) is a frozen dessert made from dairy products, such as cream (or substituted ingredients), combined with flavorings and sweeteners, such as sugar. ...
A free-range egg purchased in the UK. Free-range eggs are eggs from poultry which have been farmed without intensive factory farming methods. ...
Ming China under the Yongle Emperor Capital Nanjing (1368-1421) Beijing (1421-1644) Language(s) Chinese Government Monarchy Emperor - 1368-1398 Hongwu Emperor - 1627-1644 Chongzhen Emperor History - Established in Nanjing January 23, 1368 - Fall of Beijing 1644 - End of the Southern Ming April, 1662 Population - 1393 est. ...
Single Entendre Man Single Entendre Man (Raskopoulos) is famous for making outrageously explicit comments in a direct manner (i.e. without euphemisms). Sketches often involve his friend (Ilic) making a double entendre comment only for Single Entendre Man to respond with an explicit comment that has the same meaning as the double entendre about a relative of the friend. This article does not cite any references or sources. ...
Ranger Dan Ranger Dan (Ilic) provides the public with the 3rd Degree's community service announcements. He advocates bizarre initiatives such as giving homeless people violinists to play sad music so that you can tell if the person is genuinely homeless. Ranger Dan appeared to commit suicide in the final episode of series one, however, he somehow made a return in Series 2 to announce that ugly people would be given a guitar to make them more attractive. Ronnie Johns himself comments on this saying "If you're only a little bit ugly, I recommend the ukulele!", referencing the fact that a ukulele is a very small guitar-esque instrument.
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Wayne and Stacey Wayne (Ilic) and Stacey (Fitzgerald) are a middle eastern couple. Wayne is a full-time Jihadist for Al-Qaeda. Wayne's terrorist ways often create trouble for their relationship. The scenes are played very melodramatically in a parody of soap operas. Al-Qaeda (Arabic: القاعدة, the foundation or the base) is the name given to a worldwide network of militant Islamist organizations under the leadership of Osama bin Laden. ...
That's Pretty Underground An emo girl (Ward) and an emo guy (Raskopoulos) stand on a street corner and attempt to outdo each other with their knowledge of obscure "underground" bands and music. The sketches often become bizarre and absurd in a style reminiscent of Abbott and Costello's "Who's on First". In a recent episode, they decided they need to come up with a new adjective other than "Underground"
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Whos on First? is a legendary routine by the comedy team of Abbott and Costello. ...
Peter Cundall Peter Cundall (Ilic) is another sketch involving the impersonation of a real person. Cundall, a celebrity gardener, reads from famous novels but ends up being sidetracked by references to gardening and manure.
Jihadist Council of Australia A terrorist (Raskopoulos) appears on a low quality video warning the Australian public. The warnings inititally point to a terror attack ("Don't catch a train on Sunday") but in the end are revealed to come from genuine concern ("...There's going to be track work on the red line").
Arnie the Koala Arnie (Franklin) is a drug addicted koala. The Arnie sketches feature nature documentary footage that has been dubbed with voices. The sketches are in reference to the fact that eucalyptus leaves have a doping effect when they are eaten.
Trevor and Dianne Trevor (Franklin) and Dianne (Gage) are an elderly couple who enjoy Caravaning. On their holidays they meet people who they bore and annoy with their barrage of tedious elderly conversation.
That's Amazing
The host of "That's Amazing" A parody of TV shows like Ripley's Believe it or Not and Guinness World Records hosted by an unnamed character played by James Pender. The sketches depict different people on the show performing tasks which are quite mundane. Nonetheless the studio audience is still enthralled and chant the phrase "That's Fucking Amazing" at the end of every sketch.
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Mlak Mlak (Voiced by Franklin; Illustrations by Raskopoulos) Mlak Mlak is a stereotypical World Vision "sponsor child" in Africa. Every month he receives $1.50 from the 3rd Degree. He sends in drawings and letters describing what he has done with the money and usually complains about what a pittance it is. In recent episodes he has been shown as a gangster rapper named M-lak Daddy asking for "A Dollar Fiddy Cent", a play on his catchphrase and the rap artist 50 cent, to help his malnourished backup singers get some booty.
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Try Hard Mum A mother (Ward) attempts to be cool in front of her daughter (Fitzgerald) and her daughter's friend (Gage) but only succeeds in embarrassing herself by revealing how little she knows about the topic of conversation.
Sergei Haminov Sergei Haminov (Raskopoulos) is Russia's Rubik's cube champion. He appears in numerous adverts endorsing products and says to "put it in your hole". The products are Pseudo-Russian Bastardisations of well known western products such as Schnickers (a parody of Snickers) and Kentucken Frucken Chicken (a parody of KFC). He also starred in two other ads that change his catchphrase to "put it on your pole". This has been for condoms and lubricant (called 'KBG Jelly' a parody of 'KY Jelly') . He recently featured in an ad for a Russian men's magazine, Rolph (a parody of Ralph). He has also endorsed a product called "Cocoa Poops" (a parody of Coco Pops).
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Variations of Rubiks Cubes (from left to right: Rubiks Revenge, Rubiks Cube, Professors Cube, & Pocket Cube) Rubiks Cube (commonly misspelled rubix, rubicks or rubics cube) is a mechanical puzzle invented in 1974[1] by the Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Erno Rubik. ...
Snickers (original) Snickers (original) Snickers (original) Snickers is a candy bar made by Mars, Incorporated. ...
KFC, or Kentucky Fried Chicken, is a fast food restaurant chain based in Louisville, Kentucky. ...
Covergirl Australian actress and singer Natalie Imbruglia Ralph is a monthly Australian published by ACP Publishing, a division of Publishing and Broadcasting Limited. ...
A box of Coco Pops Coco Pops (known as Cocoa Krispies in the United States), is a breakfast cereal produced by Kelloggs. ...
Tank Mum A mum just like any other, apart from the fact that she drives a tank. In one skit she drops her son and daughter off at primary school. They forget to take their lunches with them and the mum shoots it at them with the tank's cannon.
Red Man and Green Man A set of pedestrian traffic light containing a Red Man (Pender), and Green Man (Raskopoulos). The Green Man is continually annoying the Red Man by making the "time to walk" noise at inappropriate times. For example on their second appearance Green Man asks Red Man to swap places. Red Man initially refuses but then agrees. Green Man makes the "time to walk" noise and cars can be heard crashing afterwards. Red Man usually calls Green Man a dick.
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Stephen Xerxes
Stephen giving the finger Also known as The Finger Guy, Stephen (Pender) is a man who pretends to be pulling an object from his pocket but in facts flips off the person, followed by oohs and aahs. He generally performs this act to a figure of authority such as a bus ticket collector , a police woman, or a judge. Sometimes these sketches break character continuity. The character is generally depicted as a young man in a gray hoodie but has also been portrayed as a politician and a medieval knight.
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Castaways 3 men have survived a plane crash at sea. Their names are Stan (Raskopoulos), Tom (Pender) and Kevin (Franklin). Tom and Stan have the interests to light a fire and set up help signals on the beach. Kevin says that they must turn to homosexuality to survive "for warmth and safety" and that there's no shame in this. He cuts his clothes to look like a woman's and changes their help sign to "Homo".
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Proletariat Psycho (Raskopoulos) A man who cuts up human flesh (similar to a Ivan Milat/Mick Taylor type character), and gives words of wisdom to the people at the same time.
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Ivan Robert Marko Milat (born December 27, 1944 in Guildford) is a Croatian-Australian serial killer who murdered several tourists and hitchhikers in the 1980s and 1990s. ...
Wolf Creek may refer to several places in the United States: Wolf Creek, Oregon, a town in Oregon Wolf Creek (Minnesota), a tributary of the Cedar River (Iowa) in Mower County, Minnesota Wolf Creek (McCone County, Montana), a tributary of the Redwater River in McCone County, Montana Wolf Creek (Roosevelt...
NYPD The New York City Police Department which features a tough, hardass chief (Raskopoulos), who actually has a heart of gold, and his main officer Kageti (Pender). Kageti is a good cop loose cannon who has to constantly deal with the aforementioned Chief. The Chief and Kageti both enjoy donuts but think that coffee tastes like shit.
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Recurring Themes Not only are there recurring characters, there are also recurring themes in the show.
Things You Shouldn't Do Naked These sketches begin by announcing an activity that shouldn't be done whilst naked and assigning the activity a number. The sketches then depict one of the cast members performing the activity. The humour comes from the fact that the activities are things that shouldn't be done at all, naked or otherwise such as eating a surfboard, towel whipping a bear or impersonating the Crazy Frog ring tone. According to the Season 1 DVD commentary, when Heath Franklin appears in one of these sketches he is the only actor to do his naked scenes in the nude, the rest of the cast wore flesh-coloured underwear. Crazy Frog is a character used in the marketing of a ring tone based on The Annoying Thing, a computer animation created by Erik Wernquist. ...
Heath Franklin is a Sydney-based comedic performer, improviser and writer. ...
Poofta Bogân Poofta Bogân is a brand for the Australian bogân, who is also a bit gay. Items in the Poofta Bogân range include a cologne, dating web site pooftaboganmatchmaker.com.au, the Poofta Bogân Manwagon (The Manwagon is a Smart Car with a tray on the back) and an alcoholic drink called "Inhibition". Bogan (pronounced , rhyming with slogan) is Australian and New Zealand English slang, usually pejorative, for a person who is, or is perceived to be uncouth, unsophisticated or of a lower class background. ...
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A Net dating service, also known as online dating or internet dating, is an example of a dating system and allows individuals, couples and groups to meet online and possibly develop a romantic or sexual relationship. ...
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Don't do Drugs These sketches start off with sped-up black and white stock footage accompanied by frantic music and finish with the message "Don't do Drugs".
Cameos and Easter Eggs Throughout each episode there are always a number of hidden jokes or cameos. You may see characters from previous sketches hiding in the background or a prop or product reused. For example there was a sketch about South African Cola. Throughout the series you would see characters drinking this beverage in other sketches.
Controversial sketches The Ronnie Johns Half Hour often features risqué material on subjects such as sex and religion. The show often receives complaints particularly from religious groups.
Where did I come from? The first episode of the series contained a sketch in which a father gave a very detailed description about his young son's conception when the son asked him "Where did I come from?". The sketch made it to air but in an edited form. Offending words and phrases were overdubbed with a female voice saying "bunch of flowers". The uncensored version of the sketch was released online shortly after the first episode aired. [1]
Jesus' mobile phone One of the early sketches portrayed Jesus nailed to the cross having difficulty answering his mobile telephone. This generated a great number of complaints from Christian groups. Several of these complaints claimed that the 3rd Degree "wouldn't dare do the same thing about Muslims". Two episodes later, they referred to these complaints and played an identical scene with Mohammed on the cross instead of Jesus, claiming it to be in the interests of equality.
High Five a Muslim Day As part of the first Season, the Ronnie Johns Half Hour advertised a fictional Australian National Awareness Day, February 28 was announced as "High Five a Muslim Day". This event was heavily advertised on the show and the internet, with viewers encouraged to go out and find Muslims "or even people who just look like they're Muslims, 'cause they've been copping it too" and get happy with the schlappy. To this end, t-shirts and posters were printed and distributed around Australia at a variety of venues and events, including the Tropfest Film Festival. February 28 is the 59th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
There is also a collection of Hadith called Sahih Muslim A Muslim (Arabic: مسلم, Persian: Mosalman or Mosalmon Urdu: مسلمان, Turkish: Müslüman, Albanian: Mysliman, Bosnian: Musliman) is an adherent of the religion of Islam. ...
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Initially, Network Ten were reluctant to screen the episode due to the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy. However the Ronnie Johns team consulted a number of prominent members of the Australian Islamic community with the sketch. The sketch was met with praise by Islamic leaders and the 3rd Degree were even given a fatwah by the Mufti of Australia decreeing that the sketch promoted tolerance and understanding. Network Ten, or Channel Ten, is one of Australias three commercial television networks, available in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth in Australia. ...
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A fatwÄ (Arabic: ; plural fatÄwÄ Arabic: ), is a considered opinion in Islam made by a mufti, a scholar capable of issuing judgments on Sharia (Islamic law). ...
The sketches began with a community announcement-style advertisement, where Jesus announced the day. This was followed up by a number of fake television commercials advertising the day and finally a montage of vox pops of the publics opinion towards High Five a Muslim day. At the end of the day when asked about the response the producers reported "T-shirts sold: 'A couple of hundred.' Complaints from Christians: Five. Complaints from Muslims: Nil." (SMH Feb 27).
Jihadi Joe In this sketch, the Ronnie Johns team employed two children to act in a "GI-Joe" style commercial for the "Jihadi Joe" action figure. The sketch involved two toy twin towers which the kids then crash a plane into and begin to celebrate (à la 9/11). The sketch then turns to heaven where Jihadi Joe has been rewarded with 72 virgins. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero is a military-themed action figure (3 3/4 inches tall) that was supported by a Marvel Comic and a popular cartoon television show that ran in the 1980s. ...
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DVD The first and second series are available on DVD and are distributed through Sony.[1]
Several interesting items were revealed on the DVD commentary:
- Originally, the cast was going to call the show The 3rd Degree, after the name of their performance group. Channel 10, however, liked the idea of Ronnie Johns being the host, so they asked if the show could be renamed after him. In response, The 3rd Degree came up with a title that they felt was ridiculously long, The Ronnie Johns Good Times Campfire Jamboree Half Hour Show (Now on Television). Channel Ten shortened it to The Ronnie Johns Half Hour.
- After the first episode aired, Channel 10 received 200 complaints about the show, two about Chopper and one hundred and ninety-eight about the sketch were Jesus has to answer his mobile phone on the cross.
- The writers, cast and prop designers try to sneak in The 3rd Degree logo as much as possible in sketches. For example, football jerseys will have The 3rd Degree as their sponsor.
- The infamous "Were did I come from?" sketch was all set to be broadcast on Channel 10, until shortly before the airing a controversial act occurred on Channel 10's Big Brother Australia. Since the sketch would have meant lots of complaints for Ten, The 3rd Degree had to do a last-minute edit, with "Bunch of Flowers" being redubbed over the offending words.
- The sketch were Chopper presents the weather became something of a phenomenon on the internet, with people all over Australia forwarding the clip on to other people. Heath Franklin (the actor who plays Chopper) even had the sketch sent to him, which he found amusing.
- The 3rd Degree did not have permission to shoot some of the Gary and Gary sketchs (particuarly the ones filmed at Circular Quay), so they went to the location and filmed the sketches in front of the public.
Ten Network logo Network TEN so called because it broadcasts on Channel TEN in most cities, is Australias third but possibly most profitable television network. ...
Ten Network logo Network TEN so called because it broadcasts on Channel TEN in most cities, is Australias third but possibly most profitable television network. ...
The 3rd Degree is an Australian sketch comedy show that played at the Big Laugh Festival and Melbourne Comedy Festival in 2004 and 2005. ...
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References - ^ http://www.heraldsunhit.com.au/artist/ronnie_johns_half_hour_238570.html
External links - Ronnie Johns Official Website
- Ronnie Johns @ Jigsaw Entertainment
- The Age newsarticle on the show
- Producer Nick Murray on the "High Five a Muslim" controversy
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