Housos

Housos

The cast of Housos
Genre Comedy
Created by Paul Fenech
Written by Paul Fenech
Directed by Paul Fenech
Starring Paul Fenech
Tahir Bilgic
Rob Shehadie
Jason "Jabba" Davis
Amanda Keller
Ian Turpie
Angry Anderson
Melissa Tkautz
Elle Dawe
Kevin Taumata
Kiri-Leigh Schmitt
Ashur Simon
Maret Archer
Twinstar Stunts
Andy McPhee
Anthony Salame
Vanessa Davis
Narrated by Ian Turpie (Season 1)
Country of origin Australia
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 2
No. of episodes 18 (list of episodes)
Production
Running time 25 minutes
Release
Original network SBS One
Picture format 576i (PAL)
720p (HDTV)
Audio format Dolby Digital 5.1
Original release 24 October 2011 (2011-10-24) – 16 September 2013 (2013-09-16)
Chronology
Related shows Pizza, Swift and Shift Couriers
External links
Website

Housos is an Australian comedy television series created by Paul Fenech for SBS, that screened on SBS One. The series is a satirical parody of low income Australian residents of fictional suburb Sunnyvale, who are living in Housing Commission public housing. On 1 November 2012, a film based on the series was released in Australian cinemas, titled Housos vs. Authority. On 9 September 2012 it was announced that Housos would return for a second series,[1] which premiered 22 July 2013.[2] On 27 November 2014 another film based on and continuing the storyline of the series entitled Fat Pizza vs. Housos was released.[3]

Cast

The majority of the cast of Housos are from Fenech's two previous series, Pizza and Swift and Shift Couriers.[4] Some of the cast went on to star in the successful series Bogan Hunters on 7mate.[5]

Series overview

Series Episodes Originally aired DVD release date
Series premiere Series finale Region 4
1 9 24 October 2011 19 December 2011 30 November 2011
2 9 22 July 2013 16 September 2013 18 September 2013

Episodes

Series 1

No. in
total		 No. in
series		 Title Original air date Australian viewers
(thousand)
11"Disability"24 October 2011 (2011-10-24)284.00[6]
Meet the residents of the block of the Sunnyvale Housing commission. Franky Falzoni, Kevin "Kev" Takamata, Vanessa Talawahu, Shazza "Sharon" Jones and Dazza "Darren" Smith and many more. The 5 try to get on the disability pensions from centrelink. Franky injures his knee after falling from a great height when running away the cops and Vanessa's and Kev's son Jaylin is injured after he shot himself in the head with a stolen nailgun making Vanessa leave the girls nightout with Shazza, Kylie and Ashley. While waiting at the hospital the Lebanese Sunnyvale Assassins (spelled Assasuns) gang shows up with multiple small cuts on their faces due to when they attempted to do a drive-by on the fire station when earlier Franky was driving a stolen fire truck almost running over Habib's mum so the gang tried shoot at the fire station but Habib leaving the windows by mistake so the glass scatters over their faces.
22"Pregnant"31 October 2011 (2011-10-31)180.00[7]
When Shazza is in labour and going to give birth to her first child to Dazza, Dazza attempts to call the ambulance but due to the new Sunnyvale computer answer machine emergency system playing up, Dazza goes on all different modes of transport on a desperate way to get Shazza to the hospital. At the end Shazza gives birth to baby boy named Ned Kelly Smith which was removed by DOCS 3 days later.
33"Melbourne"7 November 2011 (2011-11-07)200.00[8]
When Franky wins a toughman competition against Tank the bikie at the pub carpark, he wins Tank's new chopper. Thinking the Hunterz will come after him he goes on a road trip to Melbourne to stay with gambling addicted brother Dino with tough trip ahead of him getting there.
44"Green Day"14 November 2011 (2011-11-14)278.00[9]
After the media discovers that Sunnyvale Mayor Christina Rees doesn't live in the Sunnyvale district, she says that she doesn't live at Sunnyvale due to renovations on her place, when her assistant rings up for cheap installation from Habib from a newspaper advertisement. Habib forms up a team of Franky, Kev, Shazza and Abdul to work as tradies for the installation rip off scam. Dazza ends up in jail after being caught attempting to steal Renzo the Centrelink worker's car. Dazza's cousin and Shazza's former de facto Darryl "Dazza" James gets out of jail and visits Shazza.
55"Thailand Part One"21 November 2011 (2011-11-21)203.00[10]
When Shazza is desperate for cash after the events of Dazza ending in jail for attempting to steal a car and needing bail money and paying for her father Wazza gambling debts. Shazza goes up to Angry the leader of the Hunterz motocycle club to ask for a job for some cash. She is made to go to Phuket, Thailand to smuggle in illegal steroids in bodyboard to deliver to a business associate of the Hunterz, bringing along Franky, Kev and Kylie with her.
66"Thailand Part Two"28 November 2011 (2011-11-28)N/A
When Shazza and Franky meet back up with Kev and Kylie at the Phuket hotel after being lost looking for a pie or bourbon shop, The team is being followed by constable Gary Kock who is holidaying in Thailand trying to get a wife but unsuccessful. The dealer notices the team is being followed so he writes a note and leaves on the door saying take the steroids to Phi Phi Islands so officer Kock can be killed by the terrorists but the terrorists kidnap Kev, Shazza and Kylie for a $1 million ransom each leaving Franky and officer Kock to think up a plan to rescue them. If the drugs don't get to the Hunterz associate they will kill Dazza James.
77"Foxtel"5 December 2011 (2011-12-05)N/A
The Lebbo's are selling $300 dodgy Foxtel boxes so Shazza, Vanessa and Kylie threaten Dazza, Franky and Kev to get the Foxtel or they won't have sex with them until they do. Beryl also threatens to kick Dazza out if he doesn't get a Foxtel box
88"Uncle Doug"12 December 2011 (2011-12-12)N/A
Dazza's Uncle Doug is released from prison and stays at Dazza's house. Franky is forced to get a jumping castle for his son Anarchy's first birthday. If he doesn't Cheree and Junior will dob him in to the cops.
99"Birthday"19 December 2011 (2011-12-19)N/A
It is Dazza's birthday so the Housos came up how to throw Dazza the best birthday ever. When Franky, Dazza and Kev steal the Sunnyvale council car, Dazza founds forms of Sunnyvale mayor Christina Rees plans of moving the Sunnyvale Housos to the Countryside. The boys then attack the mayor with manure and then hide in the drains. After walking 45 minutes back to Dazza's house, a furious Dazza finds that everything except for his meat pies are gone. Kylie gets mad when her sister Crystal talks to Franky and the two start fighting. Franky tries to stop them only to get thrown to the floor, smashing all of Dazza's pies. Shazza then takes him to the park where Franky and Kev burn the council car.

Series 2

No. in
total		 No. in
series		 Title Original air date Australian viewers
(thousand)
101"Voucher"22 July 2013 (2013-07-22)255.00[11]
Dazza has traded Beryl's pills for a restaurant dinner voucher for Shazza's birthday and by the next morning forgets what he's done with it. Dazza, Kev and Franky attempt to retrace their steps the previous night to jog their memory of what happened to the voucher.
112"Jailbreak"29 July 2013 (2013-07-29)259.00[12]
Beryl is arrested for defrauding Centrelink so the Housos start a protest riot. Whilst Beryl gets away, Franky, Dazza, Kev and Reg are arrested and jailed. Reg thrives in prison but Bubbles seeks to make Dazza his prison girlfriend. Dazza convinces the boys to escape. Desperate for cash, Shazza and Vanessa try out some new scams.
123"Dazza the Bikie"5 August 2013 (2013-08-05)201.00[13]
When Shazza stops sleeping with Dazza, he joins the local outlaw motorcycle bikie gang, the Hunterz, in order to turn her on. He discovers that being a bikie pledge can be harder than getting a real job. Franky is caught doing a good deed by for Beryl by a tabloid 'current affairs' television crew when the junkie crew try to steal her handbag with Franky thonging Jimmy the Junkie leader so he and Kev set out on a new venture as 'Robbing Hood', getting back stuff for other people for a commission.
134"Uncle Fred"12 August 2013 (2013-08-12)178.00[14]
Franky learns from his cousin Pauly (from Pizza) that his Uncle Fred – who was a role model to him – has died, and so he and Kev travel to Broken Hill to pay his last respects.
145"Rehab"19 August 2013 (2013-08-19)235.00[15]
Franky steals an ambulance, and after leaving it unnattended, all of the drugs from inside are stolen by housos. Dazza goes too far and develops an addiction, causing him to trip out. Which ultimately lands him in rehab. Shazza, Kev, Vanessa and Franky go to visit him with booze and sex.
156"Cops"26 August 2013 (2013-08-26)210.00[16]
It's the housos very own version of Cops called "police pursuit" a camera crew follows the daily events of constables Gary Kock and Richard Head in a typical day in Sunnyvale.
167"Junkies"22 July 2013 (2013-07-22) (SBS Two)
2 September 2013 (2013-09-02) (SBS One)a		83.00 (SBS Two)[11]
222.00 (SBS One)[17]
To get money for drugs, the junkies steal anything not nailed down, to sell to the Hunterz for cash, Meanwhile as Shazza, Dazza, Kev and Vanessa try to come up with a new scam of having multiple sets of twin for a twin allowance. Later the bikies don't want the Junkies new crappy stolen goods so they steal everything from the Hunterz and selling to the Lebo Sunnyvale Assasuns gang resulting the bikies and the Lebo's going to jail, the junkies are arrested after getting caught trying to rip-off the police. While they are all arrested, the housos to reclaim their property.
178"Tokyo"9 September 2013 (2013-09-09)208.00[18]
When most of the residents on the block have gone on holidays. Shazza is desperate to go on a holiday but Dazza is to busy trying to grow his weed seeds. When Dazza is passed out, Franky comes up a scam to get a free holiday from The Current Affairs program by making him and Shazza have a mentally retarded child as Abdul. When Shazza writes down Toukley as her holiday destination of choice the Current Affair thought she wrote down Tokyo due to her bad hand writing. Shazza, Franky and Abdul go to Tokyo leaving behind an angry Dazza.
189"Wedding"[19]16 September 2013 (2013-09-16)[19]N/A
When Dazza and Kev get Brain damage support pensions they are more cashed up and Shazza and Vanessa fear that other women will go for them for their cash, as well as Beryl receiving half of Reg's pension payments so Shazza and Vanessa and Beryl try to get Dazza, Kev and Reg to marry them.

Notes

Controversy

Housos came under fire from a number of western Sydney residents, who had called on SBS not to put the series on air. A petition which was initiated by residents on a housing commission property received thousands of signatures, and the efforts gained support from local politicians. Mount Druitt MP Richard Amery presented the petition in Parliament in late April 2011. Housos was also at the centre of a controversy in February 2011 thanks to an erroneous attack by the Nine Network's A Current Affair, which initially claimed that the series was "reality TV". Nine Network later said that the mistake originated from an 18-year-old woman working at ninemsn. SBS was also forced to defend the show by stating that the series was not receiving funding from the government, and it was instead being funded by the network's own revenue raising activities.[20]

Awards and nominations

Australian Writers' Guild

Logie Awards

See also

References

  1. ↑ Knox, David (9 September 2012). "Renewed: Housos". TV Tonight. Retrieved 30 August 2013.
  2. ↑ Knox, David (7 July 2013). "Returning: Housos". TV Tonight. Retrieved 30 August 2013.
  3. ↑ "Fat Pizza Vs Housos". Hoyts. Retrieved 19 November 2014.
  4. ↑ "Housos on Facebook". Retrieved 8 May 2011.
  5. ↑ "Bogan Hunters - Series 1". 17 July 2014. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
  6. ↑ Knox, David (25 October 2011). "Celebrity Apprentice whacks Junior MasterChef". TV Tonight. Retrieved 30 August 2013.
  7. ↑ Knox, David (1 November 2011). "TEN toughs it out on Monday". TV Tonight. Retrieved 30 August 2013.
  8. ↑ Knox, David (8 November 2011). "Seven wins Monday". TV Tonight. Retrieved 30 August 2013.
  9. ↑ Knox, David (15 November 2011). "ABC pushes TEN to fourth on Monday. Again.". TV Tonight. Retrieved 30 August 2013.
  10. ↑ Knox, David (22 November 2011). "Celebrity Apprentice tops the night but Seven wins Monday". TV Tonight. Retrieved 30 August 2013.
  11. 1 2 Knox, David (23 July 2013). "Gap Year fills in the ratings". TV Tonight. Retrieved 30 August 2013.
  12. ↑ Knox, David (30 July 2013). "X Factor (turkey) slaps Big Brother". TV Tonight. Retrieved 30 August 2013.
  13. ↑ Knox, David (6 August 2013). "Hamish & Andy dip but Nine wins Monday". TV Tonight. Retrieved 30 August 2013.
  14. ↑ Knox, David (13 August 2013). "X Factor tops Monday but GEM gives Nine the night". TV Tonight. Retrieved 30 August 2013.
  15. ↑ Knox, David (20 August 2013). "The X Factor sings with 1.5m for Monday". TV Tonight. Retrieved 30 August 2013.
  16. ↑ Knox, David (27 August 2013). "Seven still the one on Monday". TV Tonight. Retrieved 30 August 2013.
  17. ↑ Knox, David (3 September 2013). "Seven's Monday win overlooks news battle with Nine". TV Tonight. Retrieved 16 September 2013.
  18. ↑ Knox, David (10 September 2013). "Never mind primetime, Sunrise thumps Today.". TV Tonight. Retrieved 16 September 2013.
  19. 1 2 "Episodes". SBS. Retrieved 16 September 2013.
  20. ↑ "The Spy Report – Residents call for banning of Housos on SBS". The Spy Report. 8 May 2011. Retrieved 8 May 2011.
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