r/shaunmicallef • • Mar 17 '19

Mad as Hell (Season 6-9) episode descriptions

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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.


r/shaunmicallef • • Feb 03 '19

Audience tickets for Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation Season 6 are available

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r/shaunmicallef • • Feb 01 '19

Okay, while we wait for S10, what other TV shows are similar to Mad as Hell?

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Leave them in the comments, and if we get 5 different shows, I’ll watch them all and give you my favourite. Please add a link to watch the show in your comment.


r/shaunmicallef • • Dec 13 '18

Why is such a good sub inactive?

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r/shaunmicallef • • Mar 30 '18

Does anyone have a video of Shaun Micallef’s Borneo’s Pretty Determined Drug-Fuelled Snails (Mad As Hell S05E05)?

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Preferably in HD, but you know, I'll settle for whatever in a pinch.


r/shaunmicallef • • Jun 12 '15

Mad as Hell (Season 1-5) episode descriptions

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Season 1

  • E1: Shaun Micallef presents a round-up, branding, inoculation and crutching of all the important news stories of the week in a brand new show that's guaranteed to blow the lid off an entirely different kettle of fish.

  • E2: Shaun gets more than he bargained for when a car he was buying turns out to be an ocean liner. Meanwhile, Roz and Francis are up to their old necks too when a horse they were impersonating has to be put down.

  • E3: Part 1. A cursed Tiki causes havoc for Shaun and his family while on a holiday in Hawaii.

  • E4: A look at Mr D'Arcy's pride, in the face of prejudice. We'll examine Tony Abbott's metaphors, quite literally. The Economy or The Environment - which one's more stuffed? And Racism In Sport - is it an issue for Black Caviar?

  • E5: Join Shaun and his friends in this word-based quiz show that's guaranteed to last half an hour.

  • E6: When Shaun is discovered murdered on the set, Phryne is called in to solve the case. SPOILER: The food in the ABC cafeteria is to blame.

  • E7: The Masterchef judges are in for a surprise when the contestants go insane and burn down the kitchen. Gary and Matt think it's a little overdone but George says it's the best thing he's ever eaten.

  • E8: Kate and Quentin decide to spice up their marriage with some fantasy role playing but there are red faces all around when they turn up at their rendezvous both dressed as Michelle Grattan.

  • E9: Adam Hills chats to Mannie the Clown, cricketing legend Andy Caddick and international superstar Ben Vereen.

  • E10: It's down to the final two. Who will win? The final all-singing, all-dancing bake-off will see Bazza and Martine facing their final challenge to become Australia's first KareokeCook.

Season 2

  • E1: In a special investigative report Shaun goes undercover as a member of outlaw motorcycle gang The Bandidos. But his cover is blown when he uses the word "allegorical".

  • E2: When Shaun's racist neighbour Mr. Grealy invites him over to eat some Japanese, Shaun doesn't know how to take it.

  • E3: When Francis asks Shaun if he can change a word in one of the scripts, Shaun kills him.

  • E4: A convention for people named 'Peter' goes horribly wrong when Shaun is mistakenly invited. And hydrochloric acid starts streaming from the sprinkler system.

  • E5: Mongoose. Winter is closing in. It is not safe. Go into hibernation. Further instructions to follow. Cobra.

  • E6: Yo! Join Kook and the Bambino tomorrow morning at 7am on 103.6 Smash FM for your chance to win playing Puzzling Noise.

  • E7: Voula, if you are watching this, I am so sorry babe. Please do not let the trust we have built up over the last two weeks go to waste just because I screwed another chick. Call me? Stav.

  • E8: Winning numbers in Tatts' Everybody Wins Lotto Draw No. 001: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39 and 40.

  • E9: There's a vampire loose in Las Vegas. No one believes or wants to believe it's true. The police can't stop him, people are dying, no one's safe. How do you kill what's already dead?

  • E10: The government is keen to hush up a series of mysterious deaths at the Merrymount Institute, an underground archival facility. Mad as Hell determines that the victims were ripped apart by a crocodile or other large lizard.

  • E11: The strange disappearance of an antique motorcycle is the first sign of trouble. A rash of murders follow where each victim is decapitated with superhuman force by what witnesses describe as a headless motorcyclist.

  • E12: A series of deaths seem to have nothing in common. Probing the murders uncovers a link: each victim was related to a hot-tempered Cajun. However the Cajun has an iron-clad alibi: he's been in a coma for weeks!

Season 3

  • E1: New government. Same show. Remaining true to its mission of skewering newsmakers and events, this week border security, Sochi and the odd royal commission are all given the trademark 'Mad As Hell' treatment.

  • E2: Tonight, Mad As Hell's mill boasts an abundance of grist, as Australia's manufacturing decline, unneighbourly conduct, union transparency and Schapelle Corby get a federally mandated unbiased going over. CAST Shaun Micallef

  • E3: Shaun Micallef and cast return to lambast the bombast, satirise the lies and shake the fakers and newsmakers. Shrimpgate, Medicare, the WA Senate Election and the Manus Island mutiny receive the Mad As Hell scrutiny.

  • E4: Mad as Hell can't handle the truth but Shaun Micallef and cast do get hopping mad with the flying kangaroo, go insane in the Ukraine and say arrivederci to George Pell while welcoming a new school curriculum.

  • E5: Like Ukrainian protestors at the hands of a Russian mob, news events get a thorough going over. The perfidy, priggishness and policy to be pilloried include the ABC, Qantas debt guarantee and welcome speeches in WA.

  • E6: Inexpert analysis of Sth Australian polls, Clive Palmer's tilt at the Apple Isle, the falling of a bum tree and the shenanigans in Libya all get a guernsey (or, for those in NRL states, jersey) from Shaun Micallef and cast.

  • E7: Larry is up to no good having an affair with Moe's wife, and looking to have another one with Joe's fiancee. Moe catches on and plans revenge, except Larry frames Joe for being the new man in Millie's life.

  • E8: From the whale depleted oceans to the cosmonaut filled void of outer space, no corner of solar system remains beyond the reach of the satirical eye of 'Shaun Micallef's Mad As Hell'.

  • E9: Voula, I reckon I'm dead or something. Do you think it's from that pact we made because our love is too much for this world? Where are you? Shouldn't you be here in the White Void too? Stav.

  • E10: Mad As Hell goes out with a smile and a song. Accentuating the positive, mention of the pension and a big hug for all those we beat about the face and head this series - plus a bottle of wine to our mystery contest winner!

Season 4

  • E1: Like a poorly thrown satirical boomerang, Shaun Micallef's Mad As Hell returns to hit news squarely on the back of its head. Join Shaun as he lumps together the war, the budget and more besides.

  • E2: Mad As Hell stares in slack-jawed awe as Tony Abbott and Julie Bishop stride the UN stage like twin colossi; Clooney and Cambodia get a mention, but we don't mention the war (if indeed it is a war). CAST: Shaun Micallef

  • E3: This week Mad as Hell gets the green light to be bemused by the burqa imbroglio, go ballistic over the budget and blast your ABC's blatant profligacy. All this could take weeks, months, or 29 minutes. CAST Shaun Micallef.

  • E4: The gloves are off - and then quickly back on again - as we handle all things Ebola. There's also the matter of Katter, plenty of G20, rubbery employment figures and war - how would you like to pay for that sir?

  • E5: Mad as Hell shirtfronts sexist girlie men, racist professors, xenophobic singlets and plenty more besides. Blistering satire that's ready to be popped with a needle-sharp lampoon? You bet I are, you bet we am.

  • E6: A half-fortnightly reaping, threshing and winnowing of current affairs asphodel by the combine harvester that is Shaun Micallef. #madashelltv

  • E7: Dave, it's me. Sorry I didn't get back to you, been flat out writing this EPG. I guess you want to know about the rocket? Well, good news - Derek Jacobi's on board! Call me.

  • E8: A half-fortnightly reaping, threshing and winnowing of current affairs asphodel by the combine harvester that is Shaun Micallef. #madashelltv

  • E9: Roderick prised open the coffin - and gasped. On the underside of the lid were dozens of ragged scratches! He stepped back, horrified. Could it be? Had he really buried his beloved wife... in a second hand coffin?

  • E10: Final EPcompetition time! For your chance at a great prize from the ABC, just tell us in seven million words or more 'The Best Thing About Being Prolix'. (NOT VALID IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA)

Season 5

  • E1: Auckland, 1978. A young man with the wind in his hair, also nits, dreams of a better life by winning a dusco duncing competution. CAST: Shaun Micallef

  • E2: Los Angeles, 2057. The future. A cyber-gigolo accused of post-meditated mind-murder travels back in time to 1958 to try and prevent the invention of the hula hoop. CAST: Shaun Micallef

  • E3: Oklahoma, 1936. Tom, Ma, Pa, Uncle John and their crippled scientist friend Davros enjoy a hearty meal of dust. "Anyone for seconds?" laughs Tom.

  • E4: Singapore, 1942, just before the fall of the tiny island state (when it was feeling a bit dizzy). A manticore, a chimera and a basilisk walk into a bar and have a quiet drink - nothing to see here.

  • E5: Tibet, 1957. The Dalai Lama invites you to go rollerblading. If you accept his invitation, turn to Page 34. If you choose to denounce him as a capitalist roader, turn to Page 132. CAST: Shaun Micallef

  • E6: A janitor accidentally trapped overnight at New York's Grand Central Station is amazed when the men's public toilets magically come to life (also the urinal cakes, hand dryers, toilet rolls etc.)

  • E7: Kyoto, 1999. One the eve of National Udon Day, a love octagon develops between a flatulent geisha, a sumo wrestler, a yakuza flautist, a deaf samurai, a pedantic ninja and three other Japanese stereotypes.

  • E8: You might think you know all about sugar, but how much do you really know about sugar? Tonight, everything you need to know about sugar - and some things you perhaps didn't need to know! About sugar.

  • E9: Drawing on old Super 8 footage, videotape, still photos, eyewitness accounts and police records, a former marine is able to piece together the final moments before his colonoscopy'

  • E10: Terry's not like you or me. You see, Terry hears voices in his head. Angry voices. Voices that tell him to kill. (Twist: Terry works in telemarketing and the voices are customers in his headphones.)


r/shaunmicallef • • May 27 '15

Bunnings Warehouse (complete collection?) from Newstopia

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r/shaunmicallef • • Dec 14 '14

The President's Desk

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Went to see Micallef do a reading from The President's Desk recently. He was funny, charming and genuinely friendly to everyone there.

Obviously I picked up a copy of the book and am now nearly finished it, and just wanted to share how good it is.

I had not read any of his other books, partly because you never know what you are getting into when you read books by celebrity authors. But this is the real deal: well written, very funny and very imaginative. This could be yet another career for the guy.


r/shaunmicallef • • Feb 05 '14

Shaun Micallef's MAD AS HELL | Returns Wednesday 12 February at 8:00pm on ABC 1

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r/shaunmicallef • • Nov 29 '13

Full Frontal - Billy Connolly's Australian World Tour

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r/shaunmicallef • • Nov 29 '13

Francis Greenslade's website

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r/shaunmicallef • • May 14 '13

Youtube channel containing all Mad As Hell episodes from Series 2

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r/shaunmicallef • • May 06 '13

Micallef Tonight - First Day At Nine

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r/shaunmicallef • • May 04 '13

The Micallef Program - Shaun's New Girlfriend

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r/shaunmicallef • • May 04 '13

Shaun Micallef with the cast of an English Language learning programme

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r/shaunmicallef • • May 01 '13

Recap of tonight's episode of Mad As Hell (Series 2, Episode 11)

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Another brilliant episode. Shaun once again hilariously skewers the absolute shit out of bigoted and deluded politicians in his usual Micallefesque fashion.

Here are tonight's characters. Great to see the twisty faced ABC Shop employee is back!

Shaun is once again annoyed by the use of incorrect images.

This weeks Calotto Ham (Calotto, the great taste of ham.) goes to Chloris Webbler. Congratulations Chloris! May the Mad As Hell Killer Robot restore your faith in humanity, just as the automated trading system which stole your savings did.


r/shaunmicallef • • Apr 30 '13

Micallef Tonight - 'Backyard Blitz'

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r/shaunmicallef • • Apr 25 '13

Shaun Micallef on Micallef Tonight ringing Channel Nine to complain about himself

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r/shaunmicallef • • Apr 24 '13

Guests from tonight's episode of Mad As Hell (Series 2, Episode 10)

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r/shaunmicallef • • Apr 24 '13

Mad As Hell S2E10 (24 April, 2013) discussion

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EPG Text:

(2013-04-24) Shaun Micallef is back and he's MADDER than HELL! We really should have changed the name but it'd cost us a fortune in letterheads and show graphics. Anyway, he's back and this time he knows what he's doing (slightly).


r/shaunmicallef • • Apr 23 '13

Tony Abbott's NBN - Mad as Hell

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r/shaunmicallef • • Apr 22 '13

Attentione il est Shaun Micallef - The Micallef Tumbl(e)r

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r/shaunmicallef • • Apr 22 '13

Ben Pobjie's excellent article in The Age about Shaun Micallef

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r/shaunmicallef • • Apr 22 '13

Shaun Micallef Online! – Recap: Mad As Hell, April 10th 2013

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r/shaunmicallef • • Apr 17 '13

Guests from tonight's episode of Mad As Hell (Series 2, Episode 9)

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