Here Come The Habibs

[icyfroth]

A public petition, started by Lebanese-Australian poet Candy Royalle, calls on Channel Nine to pull the show.

While the show has yet to air, the trailer has left many highly sceptical. It’s not hard to see why.

The trailer is cartoonish, filled with stereotypical trappings of Arab culture. The family patriarch is dressed in a singlet and sandals. His son is a weight-lifting meathead who thinks a $22 million lotto win makes his family billionaires.

The women in the show appear exotic and vain, preening and shimmying around the house. 

The show’s highly exaggerated depiction of Lebanese-Australian culture comes in much the same vein as Pizza, which started airing on SBS in 2000. That’s not surprising, as its creators are Rob Shehadie and Tahir Bilgic, who both starred in Pizza and its movie spinoff Fat Pizza. 

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Will you be watching it?

It it's too stupid like Housos, I won't be.

[bluecat*dancing]

It was a long time ago, so easily forgotten.

[michellebartley]

Dunno looks alright from the promos.

[i-once-was-bump]

It is too stupid to watch, they win 22 million and can afford to buy a house in the best suburb in Australia?

That is just so ridiculous as if 22 million would buy you a home and you would have any spending money left over.

And before everyone says you can afford a house in the best suburb in Australia for 22 million don't forget it has a water frontage so it really is in millionaires row.

[esayaf]

If TV shows were to require a realistic premise then only a few documentaries would be shown. As even the news would struggle with that requirement.
That would be heaven for me as it would eliminate Neighbours, Bold and the Beautiful and Home and away from the small screen. If only

[raptor_rebooted]

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@esayaf wrote:
Well I stand corrected then. Still was a funny documentary

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housos is not at documentary.

are you confusing it with struggle

street?

[raptor_rebooted]

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@*julia*2010 wrote:

if its anything like fat pizza then

it should be good lol

(has anyone petitioned to ban that?)

or acropolis now - anyone complain

about that?  wogs our of work?

effie still appears on the morning show

from time to time. 

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I know, it's ridiculous isn't it? Seeing the producers are Lebanese and Turkish respectively showing the funny side of their interaction with Australian culture. 

Just as Greek producers Nick Giannopoulos, George Kapiniaris and Simon Palomares did back in the day With Acropolis Now and Wog Boy, Who Let Wogs Out etc.

Nobody thought to ban Housos which lampooned white trash, dole bludging, drug taking and alcoholism.

Now the lebs feel targeted oh diddums.

I'm sure Hubs will be watching it anyway, he loved housos, and I watched sometimes as well, out of morbid fascination.

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has he seen the movie 

housos vs authority and

housos vs fat pizza?  

[icyfroth]

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@*julia*2010 wrote:

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@*julia*2010 wrote:

if its anything like fat pizza then

it should be good lol

(has anyone petitioned to ban that?)

or acropolis now - anyone complain

about that?  wogs our of work?

effie still appears on the morning show

from time to time. 

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I know, it's ridiculous isn't it? Seeing the producers are Lebanese and Turkish respectively showing the funny side of their interaction with Australian culture. 

Just as Greek producers Nick Giannopoulos, George Kapiniaris and Simon Palomares did back in the day With Acropolis Now and Wog Boy, Who Let Wogs Out etc.

Nobody thought to ban Housos which lampooned white trash, dole bludging, drug taking and alcoholism.

Now the lebs feel targeted oh diddums.

I'm sure Hubs will be watching it anyway, he loved housos, and I watched sometimes as well, out of morbid fascination.

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has he seen the movie 

housos vs authority and

housos vs fat pizza?  

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Nuh 

[raptor_rebooted]

suggest them to him.

i think he will like them. 

[latina4621]

I have seen the promos for this show, it looks too stupid for words i for one won't be watching it.

[zanadoo_56]

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@latina4621 wrote:

I have seen the promos for this show, it looks too stupid for words i for one won't be watching it.

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I'll watch the first episode provided it doesn't clash with something better.

If this program is being made by and written by people of the same nationality as the show's characters then what's the fuss?  Let it be screened.  If it's funny well and good.  If' it's stupid, then no doubt it will be removed due to poor ratings.  Petitions....sheesh.