What not even the Micallef P(r)ogram(me)?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

I thought Pop Stars was originally an Australian show but looked it up no it's from New Zealand.

I remember being really into the first seasons of our localised Big Brother (up until about the celebrity one which had former contestent Sara-Marie Fedele on it, remember the bum dance?), Survivor and The Mole.

Pokemon is case one in why todays generation of nerd culture is just the worse.

I feel the same, unless it's Muppets.

I don't watch it but it seems mostly a localised recreation of American show's like Jersey Shore.

I wouldn't.

Brocolli logged into the wrong account again.

@avclub-3e00a61c5a71e91292bff03321bc8255:disqus By the number of memes and facebook groups back when the last movie came out prove it's already happening.

I hope I'm not the only person who was suprised that the song wasn't created by the writers.

In many ways I agree, if you were asked for one piece of popular culture that represented the history and culture of the 20th century The Simpsons covers a lot.

Corporal Punishment gets me just standing there with a look of dissaproval.

Rake was good but I can see it being turned into a standard procedural. A Moody Christmas had a good premise and with funnier writing could be great.

If you don't like it you can see it as a comment about how an unfunny comedy is the best Australian sitcom in a while.

Watched it never really thought much of it, Frontline much better. It had a good premise but was never that funny like Review with Miles Barlow and A Moody Christmas. From the look of Americans planning to remake series we are in some sort of Australian comedy ranaissance but I havn't laughed at any ABC sitcom sinse…

Is it a reference? I think of it as an Iron Chef reference but unlikely that it is where Rabin got it.

While the joke isn't great I think it is true to Chalmers character and doesn't come across as the writer talking through the character.

It's Kerns, stupid!

These moments also remind me of how the early seasons treated them as kids and could make it funny rather than the later seasons always going to make them little adults for a joke.

As a non-American I've never seen Siskel & Ebert but can get the relationship to the person who introduced you to film criticism and to foreign and independent films, I had a similar thing with David Stratton.