Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell

Shaun Micallef presents a round-up, branding, inoculation and crutching of all the important news stories of the week in a brand new show that's guaranteed to blow the lid off an entirely different kettle of fish.

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.

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

In a special investigative report Shaun goes undercover as a member of outlaw motorcycle gang The Bandidos. But his cover is blown when he uses the word "allegorical".

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

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

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.

Tonight, Mad As Hell's mill boasts an abundance of grist, as Australia's manufacturing decline, unneighbourly conduct, union transparency and Schapelle Corby get a federally mandated unbiased going over.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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

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.

Oklahoma, 1936. Tom, Ma, Pa, Uncle John and their crippled scientist friend Davros enjoy a hearty meal of dust. "Anyone for seconds?" laughs Tom.

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'.

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.

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.

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

An acrobat, a diplomat and a bureaucrat enter a laundromat and engage in some chit-chat about a thermostat. Stars Chow Yun-fat.

In a futuristic society, all sarcasm has been eliminated except for the occasional use of the phrase "oh, do you think so?" by Nether-Zone outcasts.

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.

Franz Kafka and H.P Lovecraft team up to solve a small-town murder. Kafka is convinced the culprit is the banal inhumanity that lives in the heart of all relationships, but Lovecraft believes it's a giant octopus.

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.

Tony suffers amnesia from a vase falling on his head, and, seeing Jeannie, instantly falls in love with her. He declares his love and insists they get married.

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.

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

Believing he's made Wilma disappear by magic, Fred is arrested and tried for witchcraft. Under torture, he confesses but Barney turns up moments before the burning and points out that Christianity doesn't yet exist.

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.

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.

After the Taylors' old housekeeper, gets married and moves away, Aunt Bee moves in to take care of Andy but Opie will not accept her and tampers with her brakes.

Andy and Barney decide to take action when the state police leave them out of a manhunt for an escaped lunatic.

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.

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.

Thadias Boweavil & El Greco Tunis go undercover for the Australian Border Force to bring down drug lord Ezekial Panatone in exchange for erasing their criminal records.

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.

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.

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' 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.

Despite the fact that Ross said "Rachel" in his vows instead of "Emily", they go through with the wedding anyway.

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.

The gang arrives at the hospital for Phoebe's labor. Joey makes a video documentary to honour the occasion about stoats.

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

Passing through a time warp, the Mad as Hell team return to Earth in the year 1996. They are mistaken as cast of Good News Week and are offered a contract with Channel 10.

A spaceship requests medical help for their computer and Francis Greenslade has to perform brain surgery on it.