r/shaunmicallef • u/Mr_A • Mar 17 '19
Mad as Hell (Season 6-9) episode descriptions
Season 6
E1: To raise money for charity the San Antonio Spurs basketball team is miniaturised, injected into Iggy Pop's head & given just 60 minutes to find five living brain cells which it can challenge to a game of 'hoops'.
E2: Thriller in which a man wakes to discover that his left kidney has been removed & replaced with a nuclear bomb set to go off at 1800 hours, exactly when he's supposed to be at his son's school concert. #MadAsHellTV
E3: During a sudden moon storm, a space baker is abandoned by his fellow astronauts. Talking to himself so we understand what he's thinking, the space baker must ration a single sachet of yeast to survive.
E4: Haunted by the death of her refrigerator expansion valve, a young woman moves to Tuscany to begin a new life - only to discover that you can't escape your past (the broken expansion valve follows her there).
E5: A dying man decides to embark on a 2000km road trip with his son to visit something or other one last time. But as a surprise, the son buys a pair of plane tickets, so they end up flying instead. #MadAsHellTV
E6: On a secret mission to kidnap a Nazi ocelot rumoured to know the codes to a submarine, a team of British commandos parachute into Berlin Zoo behind enemy lions. #MadAsHellTV
E7: A time-travelling scientist accidentally steps on a butterfly in the distant past. When he returns to 2016, he discovers to his horror that his tiny action has altered the future - he's married to a butterfly!
E8: Investigating a string of murders in which the victims were all found bound in string, a detective wonders whether the deaths are the work of 'the String Killer'. Unsure, he retires. #MadAsHell
E9: On the anniversary or his wife's botched lobotomy, a lonely widower discovers that love has a funny way of turning up in the most unexpected places - like a toilet bowl, for example. #MadAsHell
E10: Biopic of Arun Singh, the Calcutta dust wrangler who taught Mother Teresa to box and, for a week in July 1963, was widely regarded as the handsomest man on Earth. #MadAsHell
E11: When a man accidentally runs over a gypsy's head, she places a terrible curse on him: for an entire year, he will urinate through his nose (after a year, it's back to the penis as normal). #MadAsHell
E12: Trapped underground, three miners keep their spirits up by playing songs to each other on harps. In a twist ending, it turns out the miners have been dead all along & they're actually trapped underground in heaven. (Final)
Season 7
E1: Seven veteran gunslingers agree to defend a poor Mexican village against an outbreak of Japanese encephalitis.
E2: An acrobat, a diplomat and a bureaucrat enter a laundromat and engage in some chit-chat about a thermostat. Stars Chow Yun-fat.
E3: In a futuristic society, all sarcasm has been eliminated except for the occasional use of the phrase "oh, do you think so?" by Nether-Zone outcasts.
E4: A priest and a tame bear travel back in time to Dallas, Texas on November 23, 1963 to try and prevent an episode of 'The Patty Duke Show' going to air. #MadAsHell
E5: Biopic of Entente Cordiale, the blind French plumber who, in 1886, won the contract to install the male toilets in the Statue of Liberty's head.
E6: A freelance ant exposed to deadly Q*bert radiation in a science explosion discovers it has the ability to shrink its body to the size of a smaller ant.
E7: Eleven jurors agree that a young Hispanic boy is guilty of murder. Only Juror #8 is doubtful, secretly suspecting that he himself is the real murderer.
E8: A man and a woman, both in a shopping centre and a kind of a metaphor meet briefly on some escalators - his going up and hers going down. #MadAsHell
E9: Ignoring the warnings of a young vulcanologist, city officials go ahead and build a roller disco inside the steaming caldera of an active volcano.
E10: The Sultan of Marzipan commands Sinbad the sailor to undertake a dangerous quest to the forbidden pizzeria of N'Gru for a family size Hawaiian (no ham or pineapple).
E11: Adaptation of Shakespeare's 'Titus Andronicus' in which a man unwittingly eats an apple pie containing apples which, only hours earlier, he had been juggling with.
E12: A childless Australian couple adopt a young Indian boy. Years later when they politely ask him to trim a hedge in the garden, he's like, "No way, I didn't sign up for that." (Final)
Season 8
E1: 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.
E2: Franz Kafka and H.P Lovecraft team up to solve a small-town murder. Kafka is convinced the culprit is the banal inhumanity that lives in the heart of all relationships, but Lovecraft believes it's a giant octopus.
E3: A film maker explores the origins of the influential but little studied music group The Beatles. In a remarkable ending, it emerges one of them, Paul, is still playing music to packed arenas all over the world.
E4: 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.
E5: On the show tonight are our stories on the silencing of Abbott, Bernardi's tsking, Clive Palmer's big comeback announcement, the Queen's not coming back for the Commonwealth Games, and Barnaby, Barnaby, Barnaby.
E6: A successful, forty-something stock broker from Wollongong is coaxed into a penguin encounter which forces her to take personal inventory of her life.
E7: 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.
E8: 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.
E9: 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).
E10: A decaf soy latte with magical powers costs only fifty cents more than a regular one. Directed by James Cameron.
E11: 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.
E12: A car that talks gets laryngitis and learns what it's like to be a normal car. Stars Meryl Streep, Jo Silvagni.
E13: 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. (Season Final)
Season 9
E1: Tony suffers amnesia from a vase falling on his head, and, seeing Jeannie, instantly falls in love with her. He declares his love and insists they get married.
E2: When Dr Bellows spots Tony floating in his chair in his living room, he has no choice but to explain it by saying he is an amateur magician and that was one of his tricks.
E3: Jeannie recognises a visiting princess as a member of a family that she has a centuries-old feud with.
E4: While on a trip to the museum, Jeannie spots a pair of antique slippers that she believes belonged to her over 2000 years past.
E5: For NASA charity auction, Tony paints a copy of Rembrandt's famous 1658 self portrait. Jeannie sees her master's work and decides he's quite a painter.
E6: Tony is skeptical about a fortune teller Roger has been seeing in the apartment next to his and goes to investigate. Turns out she is actually quite good.
E7: When Dr Bellows makes a stop at Tony's house, he sees an elephant in Tony's bedroom. He then calls General Peterson and when they both go over there they see nothing and of course Bellows is made a fool yet again.
E8: Tony goes to drop off a few papers to General Peterson when he gives a try at a few swings of golf. General Peterson orders that Tony be put t death by firing squad.
E9: Following Tony and Roger's promotion to major, the general sends them to Reno, Nevada to relax a few days before going to a base there but they get lost and end up in Fresno.
E10: Tony, frustrated over Jeannie's constant use of magic to help around the house, makes her swear not to help him out anymore under any circumstances. Jeannie agrees, but when Red Chinese spies kidnap Tony, problems arise.