Pizza
Pizza was an Australian television series on the Australian television network SBS. The series has a spin-off feature length movie, Fat Pizza, released in 2003, and a best-of highlights video/DVD that featured previously unreleased footage and a schoolies exposé, released in 2004. In addition to this, a theatre show entitled "Fat Pizza", starring several characters from the show, has toured the Australian east coast. Through ironic and self-conscious references, Pizza involves themes of ethnicity and stereotypes, cars, sex, illicit drugs, and violence to produce its sometimes mean-spirited dark humour. The television program is noted for its frequent cameo appearances of numerous Australian celebrities of all varieties, including actors, comedians, professional athletes, and other public figures.
Overview
Pizza was an Australian television series on the Australian television network SBS. The series has a spin-off feature length movie, Fat Pizza, released in 2003, and a best-of highlights video/DVD that featured previously unreleased footage and a schoolies exposé, released in 2004. In addition to this, a theatre show entitled "Fat Pizza", starring several characters from the show, has toured the Australian east coast. Through ironic and self-conscious references, Pizza involves themes of ethnicity and stereotypes, cars, sex, illicit drugs, and violence to produce its sometimes mean-spirited dark humour. The television program is noted for its frequent cameo appearances of numerous Australian celebrities of all varieties, including actors, comedians, professional athletes, and other public figures.
Paul Fenech
Creator / EP
Episodes
1. Dangerous Pizza
Pauly warns Sleek about the dangers of pizza delivery: "mate it's the second most dangerous job in the western world, in the third world they don't even have pizza delivery its that dangerous". Sleek and Pauly encounter SWAT teams, pyscho customers, celebrity orgies, home invasions and even alien life. As pauly says "pizza delivery—it's a dangerous buisness".
2. Space Pizza
Pauly finds himself left for dead in the desert as a result of the previous episodes alien abduction. Sleek is lost in the corridors of SBS on his way to a delivery and Bobo hires a replacement for Pauly; Dougie the pizza boy. In this show Dougie is a former actor and star of TV comercials who has been in prison for drugs charges and is on work release when Bobo hires him. Unfortunately for Dougie he meets a gruesome end at the hands of serial killer Clarence Bumpkin. Pauly is lost in the desert and is attacked by snakes, bumpkins and the supermodel on a desert shoot.
3. Film Pizza
The new James Bond film is being made at some movie studios near the Fat Pizza pizzeria. Supermodel Claudia MacPherson is cast in the film much to the dismay of co-star Brad Pitts. Sleek is injured in a delivery to a wrestling ring and spends the episode chasing a good compo lawyer as well as trying to deliver a pizza to an elusive Bobby DeNiro who is in Australia for the new film. Bobo chainsaws a runaway kangaroo for salami and Pauly has a run in with petrol station owner Kamahl over a difference of opnion concerning the dangers of mobile phones.
Cast & Crew
Annalise Braakensiek
Claudia MacPherson
Paul Nakad
Sleek the Elite
Paul Fenech
Pauly Falzoni
Jabba
David "Davo" Dinkum
John Boxer
Bobo Gigliotti
Kevin Taumata
Kev the Kiwi
