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Jaye ([info]apple_isnark) wrote in [info]fandom_wank,
@ 2006-10-10 06:03:00


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Current mood:*sporfle!*
Current music:Kath & Kim, funnily enough.

88th verse same as the first.
For those of you that have no idea what this wank is about here and here is a decent primer. For those of you too lazy for that, all you really need to know is that Kath & Kim is a satirical comedy series that is largely character based and points fun at lower middle class Australia.

Anyway as we all know finding wank on IMDB is a little like winning a 100 metre sprint against someone with no legs, I just never expected to find it on the Kath & Kim board, well it turns out I was very, very wrong.

It all starts when Double The Fist fanboy 02edwacu-1 posts a new topic entitled Kath & Kim is the worst comedy ever!!.

Wank ensues.



Camp? Shallow? Of course, you mean origional and sharp! I get it, reverse criticism, brilliant! - projectcyclops

nooo the worst comedy ever will be gilligans island - muzza88

its only boring and funny to you, people all have different tastes but lets keep this forum for constructive conversation hey? find a film you like and go chat about that. my only andvice to people is to stop replying to pointless threads - minimcfarlane


Top notch?
I guess that an unoriginal, humourless badly made piece of crap can go a long way these days.
First of all, the jokes are pathetic. I watched the first episode and found it VERY hard to sit through.
Gina and Jane just thought "Hey, the Australian public are idiots. We can recycle our last pathetic program 'Big Girl's Blouse', put a lot less effort into it, play ourselves, and convince the ABC, a pack of idiots who only care about money and not quality, that people will watch it.
Now, the story behind "Double the Fist" is better than any pathetic pissweak story the 'writers' of K & K could ever copy off another show.
Their own documentary sums it up perfectly, which is on their personal "Illegal and Unauthorised Volume 2 DVD", which they sold to me yesterday at "Supernova".
These guys were rejected by EVERYONE. No-one believed in them. Only ABC eventually accepted their offer because 2 people in the comedy department realised how great the show was.
The ABC only gave them $125,000 initially for an entire 8 episodes! I reckon Gina and Jane get that much each per episode at least. After scrounging around, the FTO and ABC again upped their budget to $230,000. But even so these guys were using money from their relatives and their own pockets to finance their show. They hardly had enough money left over for food and rent. They were working full time on this show.
ABC gave them the worst timeslot of the week, and it was even against "Big Brother Up Late".
When they went to the AFI awards, they were given one room between 6 people at the local hotel, and whilst Gina and Jane were given their own limo and driven to the red carpet, the DTF boys drove themselves and had to park elsewhere.
The enevitable outcome: Kath & Kim LOST the AFI for best comedy. Why? Because it's chosen by intelligent people in the entertainment industry who judge based on quality rather than popularity. That is why "Double the Fist" was the obvious winner.
Let's compare the two once again:
Kath & Kim: recycled, cliched, badly writtern and acted, humourless crap that the Australian public seem to lap up.
Double the Fist: One of the most original, hilarious, well made, over-the-top programs to ever come out of Australia.
Top put it in terms fistworthy people will understand:
Double the Fist: Full Fist
Kath & Kim: NO FIST! - Jozxyqk

Bleh, the people who don't "get" Kath and Kim are the lame ones. Probably the very type of people the show takes the piss out of. ;) :D - gina_riley_admirer

perhaps re-runs of on the buses might be more to your liking ??....such sharp observtionalshows they just dont make any more do they hmmmm? - sainter-1

shaddup..it's funny..and who cares if it's shallow..THATS WHAT MAKES IT DFUNNY..DURR....and little britain is FRIGGEN HILARIOUS..hahahaah...whoever says it's borign should get shot - flick_chick89

meh. It isn't that great - pathetic really and soooo lame, there are better comodies ou there. I have 2000 things betta 2 do than watch it really? so stupid - how could anyone watch it? - icecubepony

1 this show is WEAK
2 There are better aussie shows like "Double The Fist"

NOW STOP CRYING AND GO AND BUY DOUBLE THE FIST VOL 1 AND 2 - morganstratford

yea, it's terrible. for some reason i laugh constantly when i watch it. that can't be good. - kittykatfla


Conclusion:- Double The Fist fanboys are completely batshit insane.



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[info]suzycat
2006-10-09 11:16 pm UTC (link)
Kath and Kim is different and unusual, and whatsisface fisting fan can just mind his own BEESWAX. The end.

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urbanspaceman
2006-10-09 11:22 pm UTC (link)
I never liked Kath and Kim. Everyone else I know does, so I've never admitted this to anyone.

Also, I have never heard of Double The Fist. What channel is it on?

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[info]suzycat
2006-10-09 11:24 pm UTC (link)
I loved the first season, but I think it's well past its prime now.

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[info]seiberwing
2006-10-10 12:37 am UTC (link)
The porn channel?

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[info]puipui
2006-10-10 07:22 am UTC (link)
That's all I could think of, too. "Dude, Double the Fist? Australian TV guidelines must be way more lax than here in the States. O.O"

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(Anonymous)
2006-10-10 12:49 am UTC (link)
Double the Fist is pretty funny, they used to show it late at night on ABC but its not on anymore alas T_T

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[info]insouciance
2006-10-10 02:56 am UTC (link)
I was so vocally against the show, I was thrown out of three English classes and a Software class in high school. Good times.

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[info]napalmnacey
2006-10-10 05:14 am UTC (link)
I think it has its moments, but it's not funny all the way through.

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[info]missdeep
2006-10-11 09:37 am UTC (link)
Double The Fist used to run on the ABC too, late Friday nights- the first season has been released on DVD but the second never surfaced (to my knowledge- though the guys were flogging a bootlegged copy of the second season with extras ABC wouldn't allow when they were at Supanova last year).

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[info]the_clichemoth
2006-10-10 12:07 am UTC (link)
Is anyone posting K&K to BitTorrent or Youtube or Youtube clones? It sounds like an Aussie take on Ab Fab or TPB, so I definitely want to see it to decide whether it's good or not.

And Double The Fist sounds interesting as well, so any links to eps would also be appreciated.

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[info]lady7jane
2006-10-10 12:24 am UTC (link)
Downloading is eBil. I'm afraid I'm going to have to report you to the Internet Bureau of Investigations.

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[info]the_clichemoth
2006-10-10 03:12 am UTC (link)
Fuck that! No Aussie show other than Neighbours and the Croc Hunter has EVER made it to the US and I'm sad about this. I'm sure our utter garbage like Drawn Together and half the Adult Swim shit has made it over there already (because I know it has from POE peeps), so SHARE ALREADY!

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[info]gloria_mundi
2006-10-10 05:26 am UTC (link)
Mininova has this.

http://www.mininova.org/tor/167066

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[info]smo
2006-10-10 06:06 am UTC (link)
They showed The Games on public TV here for a while. Almost made me wish the Olympics had gone on for longer, so there could have been more show.

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[info]apoplexia
2006-10-10 09:46 am UTC (link)
The Games, now that was great Australian comedy. Kath & Kim, on the other hand, is appallingly poor.

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[info]smo
2006-10-10 06:27 pm UTC (link)
It so was. Remember the episode where they were talking about moving the hole in the ozone layer? Classic.

Kath & Kim, on the other hand, is appallingly poor.

Heh. Guess that's why we haven't seen any of it over here.

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(Anonymous)
2006-10-13 12:17 pm UTC (link)
The Games! I *adore* that show. When John Howard apologised, I laughed so hard. Bloody brilliant.
Dzurlady

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[info]smo
2006-10-13 08:22 pm UTC (link)
Hee, that was brilliant. The Games FTW.

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[info]hooverdam
2006-10-10 12:56 pm UTC (link)
No Aussie show other than Neighbours and the Croc Hunter has EVER made it to the US

Then what the hell am I watching on Sundance channel Fridays at 9?

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[info]smo
2006-10-10 12:08 am UTC (link)
Hee hee, they said "fist." *is 12*

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[info]qem_chibati
2006-10-10 12:13 am UTC (link)
Struth.

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[info]hooverdam
2006-10-10 12:18 am UTC (link)
Kath and Kim wank? That's nice, that's different, that's unusual.

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[info]teruhiko
2006-10-10 01:28 am UTC (link)
Win!

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[info]napalmnacey
2006-10-10 05:15 am UTC (link)
Break out the cardonnay!

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[info]gun
2006-10-10 12:45 am UTC (link)
There aren't enough superlatives in the world to express how great it is to see Kath and Kim wank.

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[info]lady7jane
2006-10-10 04:18 am UTC (link)
Well, what if you added a few comparatives there, too? You know, "Better than the best", "Wankier than the wankiest", and so on. Would that be enough?

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(Anonymous)
2006-10-10 08:37 am UTC (link)
It's noice.

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(Anonymous)
2006-10-10 12:46 am UTC (link)
I hate it I hate it I hate it. hate hate hate hate hate.

as for my thoughts on yaoi...

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(Anonymous)
2006-10-10 03:05 am UTC (link)
But what are your thoughts on Rove?

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[info]the_clichemoth
2006-10-10 03:33 am UTC (link)
Karl Rove is SO not an uke. Dubya is an uke in that ship, just like he is in pretty much every other ship you can think of. Dude loves the big (preferably black) bears.

[sorry for wanking]


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[info]puipui
2006-10-10 07:24 am UTC (link)
THE MENTAL IMAGES! I CAN'T UNSEE THEM! ;_;

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(Anonymous)
2006-10-10 08:05 am UTC (link)
Rove: http://rovelive.com/rove_bio/ (for the unaware)

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(Anonymous)
2006-10-11 05:13 pm UTC (link)
Lucky them. *is a bitter bitter fan of actual COMEDY*

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(Anonymous)
2006-10-13 12:19 pm UTC (link)
You for the win!

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[info]photosinensis
2006-10-10 02:29 am UTC (link)
I <3 your icon. Rarely used browsers (anymore) FTW!

Ever since Firefox, Camino just hasn't been the same.

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[info]tunxeh
2006-10-10 05:51 am UTC (link)
*still uses Camino, but not to browse f_w*

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(Anonymous)
2006-10-10 08:21 am UTC (link)
Never watched Double The Fist, but I enjoy watching Kath & Kim. Bit upset at the rumours that there is going to be an American remake of K&K D:

cpywrt@lj

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(Anonymous)
2006-10-10 08:43 am UTC (link)
How can an ABC fangirl like myself never have heard of Double the Fist? When was it on?

I like K&K, although it kind of jumped the shark in series 3. But it's worth it for being able to tease my sister while she was pregnant with 'Aw, you're gonna be an ace mum!' and suggesting names like 'Neil by mouth', 'Pam, Paloma, Papilloma!' and 'Tyyphphaanneeë'.


~Myf

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[info]queencallipygos
2006-10-10 04:27 pm UTC (link)
My roommate is in a long-distance relationship with a man in Brisbane (we're in New York). She somehow found an episode of K&K on some channel, and he called while it was on. It took him only five seconds to overhear what was playing in the background, and before even saying hello to her, he blurted out, "You still have time, change the channel and spare yourself!"

Me, I was just tickled that somewhere in the world there is a popular TV show where one of the characters has the same name as me. :-)

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(Anonymous)
2006-10-11 05:16 pm UTC (link)
Awwww, I love Kath & Kim! Saw Double The Fist once. Once was enough, quite frankly.

Still, none of those are anywhere NEAR as awesome as The Glass House, Spicks & Specks, Good News Week, The Adventures Of Lano & Woodley, The Big Gig, DAAS Kapital, We Can Be Heroes, anything by John Safran, or anything by the Chaser gang.

*is a big fan of ABC - okay, John, yes, SBS too - comedy*

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(Anonymous)
2006-10-13 12:20 pm UTC (link)
OMG, Aussie show wank. Represent!
Dzurlady

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