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bro'Town
"Morningside for life!"
Overview
bro'Town is a New Zealand Television animated series. The show used a comedy based format, targeted at a young adult audience. The series is set amongst New Zealand's fast growing Pacific Islander community, and focuses on a central cast of five young boys. bro'Town is heavy with popular culture references, and is based on the performance of the local four-man group The Naked Samoans. Vale, Valea, Jeff da Māori, Sione and Mack live in the suburb of Morningside, and attend the local college, St Sylvester’s, where their principal is a Fa’afafine and the P.E. teacher is the legendary ex-All Black rugby player Michael Jones.
Status
Ended
Created By
Shimpal Lelisi, Oscar Kightley, Mario Gaoa, Elizabeth Mitchell, David Fane
Network
Three
Seasons & Episodes
Season 2
Episodes
Zeelander
It's Morningside Fashion Week, and one of the world's top fashion designers discovers Jeff da Maori and catapults him to international catwalk fame.
Survival of the Fattest
The class sets out for a day in the bush , but the boys get lost and stranded in the wilderness.
Honky The Wonder Horse
After Vale and Valea feel sorry for a racehorse who is about to reach its expiry date, they try and persuade Dad to let them train and race it.
Touched By A Teacher
When Mack tries to impress his mates by inventing a story about being abused , Brother Ken gets thrown into jail and a witch-hunt ensues.
Half Caste
The boys find a baby in the creek and try to bring it up , but struggle from sleep deprivation and the ordeal of nappy-changing until they have to search elsewhere for parents for the baby.
A Chicken Roll At My Table
Joost's conservation-loving zoo-keeping Dad invites the boys to the van Den Van Van's African-themed Morningside Shore home for a weekend cultural exchange , but an incident with a chicken roll turns the weekend into a weird kind of Whodunit.
Morningside Story
An incident of racial abuse inspires St Sylvester's to produce a multi-racial musical love story called Morningside Story. Vale is director, Jeff in charge of music, Sione, Sina, Mack and Rex are the stars.
Top Cast
Oscar Kightley
Vale Pepelo (voice)
Shimpal Lelisi
Valea Pepelo (voice)
Mario Gaoa
Sione Tapili (voice)
David Fane
Jeff da Māori / Mack McCorkenstein-Taifule (voice)
