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CibbuanoFrontline - Add Sex and Stir
March 6th 2007 10:43
Episode: 1.10 ‘Add Sex and Stir’
What Happens: Brian is quick to dismiss a women’s hockey-team story until he learns that lesbianism is involved. Meanwhile, everyone struggles to think of a way to get out of going to Mike’s cocktail party.
The Issues/Cliches of Current Affairs television: Sexing up a story to get good ratings.
Elliot-Watch:
MIKE MOORE: (laughs) Not touching that! Elliot Rhodes, our Friday night funnyman, he’s done it again.
Celebrities: Mike appears on Burke’s Backyard with Don Burke. Jim Whaley appears in an ad that Brian talks Mike out of doing. The following celebs also appear, at Mike’s party… Glen Robbins, Glen Ridge, George Negus, Sabrina (model from ‘Man O Man’), Molly Meldrum, and some film critic I didn’t recognise.
Celebrity mentions: Ray Martin. Stan Grant.
Quotes:
BRIAN: No way Brooke, I am not having a story about women’s sport on this show, it’s the natural enemy of ratings. I told you that two months ago when you brought this stuff back.
(Brooke just looks at Brian and smiles)
BRIAN: What? What?
BROOKE: Story’s changed a bit since then.
BRIAN: So they won a world championship or something. It’s still women’s sport.
BROOKE: One of the girls reckons she was dropped from the team because she wasn’t gay.
BRIAN: (leans forward) Ahhhh… so they’re lezzos!
EMMA: This is not about lesbians, it’s about unfair dismissal.
BRIAN: Yeah, by lesbians.
EMMA: I thought you never wanted to do another women’s sports story again.
BRIAN: This is not a women’s sport story, it’s a lezzo story.
(After interviewee is gone)
BROOKE: I might just re-ask one of the questions. When I said to her, “How many team members had it in for her”, what was her answer?
STU: “Most of them”.
BROOKE: I might just change that question slightly.
(Cut to edited, broadcast interview)
BROOKE: Allison, how many girls on the team are gay?
ALLISON: Um, most of them.
BRIAN: It’s just a story. What’s at stake?
EMMA: Her sporting career? What about her family and friends? I mean, it’s embarrassing. And the damage it does to the sport.
BRIAN: Sport?! A bunch of girls running around in skirts?
HOCKEY CAPTAIN: (as she leaves) I hope you got the ratings you’re after. Goodbye parasites!
BROOKE: What a charming girl.
MARTIN DI STASIO: I reckon she had her eye on you Brooke.
BROOKE: (sarcastically) Oh, she’s just my type, Marty.
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