Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell Episode Rating Graph

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.

Hey guys! Tired of having sand kicked in your face? Then why not stop burying yourself up to your neck in the middle of beach volleyball courts, you idiots.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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?

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).

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

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

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

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.

After 15 seasons over 10 years, the final episode with self-indulgent back patting, clips of so-called 'classic' moments and a tearful farewell song that undoes any vestige of its reputation as a comedy show.

Shaun sells animated hot dogs at a carnival and heckles Lachy Hulme. Shaun gives him a free hot dog and serenades Francis outside his trailer.

Jeannie recognises a visiting princess as a member of a family that she has a centuries-old feud with.

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.

The Mad as Hell team leave their planet to escape a collision with a comet and find a ship full of frozen convicts.

While trying to show off Fred hypnotises Barney into thinking that he is Pussy, but can't reverse the trick. Barney lives out the rest of his life wearing a wire and squealing to the FBI.

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.

A group of space hippies is going to destroy the planet. The Mad as Hell team let them.

When Fred discovers a bag containing 86 large, he thinks he's rich but the money belongs to Johnny Sack. Wilma and Betty force Fred and Barney to return the money and unwittingly set up a series of gangland slayings.

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.

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.

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.

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'.

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.

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.

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.

After Thanksgiving dinner at Monica's, the gang tell stories about their worst Thanksgivings ever. It turns out to be the same story, so we hear it several times.

Lucius Carpenter leaves for Alaska during the gold rush but is buried in a glacial avalanche. After 67 years he is thawed out and returns to the home of his now-elderly son, Edwin, a land developer in California.

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.

El Greco Tunis and his family must face Myles Vandertooth's younger brother Yakov, a deadly assassin with a tooth of gold, who is working with their old enemy Randy Sputum.

Barney buys Betty an expensive ring, which he gives to Fred for safe-keeping but Wilma discovers it and assumes it's for her. Fred buys a second ring but doesn't have the cash, so he borrows from a loan shark in Philly.

Fred and Barney have to babysit and miss out seeing a wrestling match. After a blackout at the arena, they take the kids to Joe Pantoliano's house to watch the fight on TV. Joe tells them he's an actor, not a character.

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.

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.

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!

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

Seven veteran gunslingers agree to defend a poor Mexican village against an outbreak of Japanese encephalitis.

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.

Thriller in which a man wakes to discover that his left kidney has been removed and 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.

The Mad as Hell team take a boy home to his planet and come across a space lighthouse. The boy gets angry when they tell him they don't have enough fuel to get him home. They apologise and leave.

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.

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!

Trapped underground, three miners keep their spirits up by playing songs to each other. In a twist ending, it turns out the miners have been dead all along & they're actually trapped underground in heaven.

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.

Shaun Micallef works aboard a riverboat with Francis transporting livestock to the Middle East. Along the way the two play 'Turkey in the Straw' with a goat.

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.

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.

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.

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).

Andy teaches Opie about keeping promises, then must figure what to do with a friend of Opie's who has run away from home to join the public service.

Mr Ed escapes a knackery, steals a car and heads back to L.A. where his owner Wilbur Post has been arrested by the NSW police for allegedly forging documents and giving them to Angus Taylor.

Francis' car beats Christie's horse-drawn wagon at poker. Christie uses a balloon to make herself 'light on her feet' but comes undone after crashing in Lakehurst, New Jersey.

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.

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.

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.

Fred and Barney hide their sweepstakes ticket in the lining of an old coat, which Betty gives to a passing hobo. Meanwhile, Wilma and Betty have their own ticket stashed away at the Rubbles' house but it's raided by the Feds.

Andy is disappointed in Opie for giving so little to a charity drive - until he learns the reason (SPOILER ALERT: Opie is laundering his money through a Cayman Islands shell company).

El Greco Tunis is offered amnesty for their crimes by Lucy Nostrils in exchange for taking down an organization led by Giselle Prong, one member of which is Tunis' former lawyer Bazza McUnderfleagle.

Cyberterrorist, Christabella Plumb coerces El Greco Tunis into working for her and turns him against his team, forcing them to find El Greco and take down Plumb.

Stephen builds a pretend TV studio out of blankets and attends the red carpet opening in drag as Peta Credlin, in a chartreuse sports jacket as Alan Jones, and finally in a tizzy over nothing as Chris Kenny.

Christie's running a small-town railroad. She takes Tosh for a wild ride on a humanoid train which eventually rumbles out of control and kills everyone in a devastating fireball.

To raise money for charity, the San Antonio Spurs basketball team is miniaturised, injected into Iggy Pop's head and given just 60 minutes to find five living brain cells which it can challenge to a game of 'hoops'.

After being hit on the head with a bottle of car polish, Fred contracts amnesia and becomes an Englishman named 'Frederick'. Meanwhile, Wilma develops feeling for Furio.

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.

Emily's cousin kicks Ross out of the apartment they were supposed to live in, so he moves into Chandler and Joey's car.

While Shaun, drunk on bootlegged hooch, is away hunting, Tosh, Emily, and an army of mice ransack his house for food. WARNING: GRAPHIC VIOLENCE.

An 'associate' of Fred's gets Barney a job in 'waste management'. Barney's first assignment is to kill Fred, instead Barney pays off Fred's debt to Heche with his pay cheque and Fred moves to Miami under a different name.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Because of his boredom while away from work, Ross offers to help Joey focus on writing a movie. Unfortunately, it's The Honourable Wally Norman.

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.

High school car enthusiast Frug Sajak is sent to live in Adelaide with his turtle, only to find solace in the city's beautiful treatment works at Bolivar.

Monica catches Rachel waiting seductively in her bedroom for Ross; to cover, Rachel tells Monica she's seeing a guy from work. Ross gets jealous and murders him.

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.

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.

Andy and Ellie stage a fake hostage situation to boost Barney's self-confidence but Barney gets into trouble when he detonates explosives on the roof and destroys a helicopter.

Despite being forced by "Scrooge" Ben Weaver to arrest bootlegger Sam Muggins on Christmas Eve, Andy still manages to have the most wonderful Christmas in Mayberry.

Ross and Rachel try to keep their relationship hidden but when the Kraken comes into the bathroom, Ross has to duck under the bubbles in the tub.

Joey makes it possible for Monica and Chandler to kiss at midnight on New Year's, by arranging kisses between Ross and Phoebe, and Rachel and himself.

Andy helps a local folk guitarist get a chance at stardom by arresting a band passing through town and shooting them when they try to escape.

Myles Vandertooth, a rogue special forces assassin seeking to avenge his comatose younger brother's low ATAR score, puts the team of El Greco Tunis and Thadias Boweavil in danger once again.

Stephen goes gargling, but when his gullet malfunctions, Tosh is left facing several vicious animals. To appease them, Francis plays his banjolele, and is soon eaten.

Fred and Barney build a joint swimming pool, leading to fights before Fred's surprise birthday party. This saddens Fred and he is prescribed anti-depressants by Dr Melfi. Barney gets revenge by filling the pool with jelly.

Tosh is an Argentinian gaucho who rides Stephen instead of a horse. Francis abducts Stephen in a flying saucer. Tosh confronts Francis in a fencing dispute.

Francis and his barnyard pals put on a show that includes dancing ducks, opera singing by Patricia Pig, and Francis' own rendition of the song, "Hey Ya" by Outkast who sue him for copyright infringement.