Thanks for the laugh, chaps: you prove that satire is best done by insiders, which is why the total chavs at Zoo/Super One just can’t get it right

Published: November 16, 2012 at 2:56pm




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  1. spa says:
    November 16, 2012 at 4:23 pm

    Matthew James Smith is so hot.

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  2. observer says:
    November 16, 2012 at 4:54 pm

    Frankly, I can’t manage to make either tails or heads of the thing. Looks like ‘mittelklassi’ to me. One thing that struck out like a sore thumb, however, is the characters’ drinking wine – and white at that – out of blue coloured chalices.

    [Daphne – Why ‘blue-coloured’? It’s sufficient to say they’re blue. I had absolutely no problem making head of tail of this, because it’s not an alien culture to me as it might be to you.

    Definitely not mittelklass. Mittilkless is what Zoo spoofs on Super One, thinking it’s these kind of people.]

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    • Ian says:
      November 16, 2012 at 5:30 pm

      Observer, this video makes fun of how a small part of the population speak – and it’s by those people themselves.

      That’s why it’s so funny.

      The literal translations, the ‘likes’, the exaggerated ‘ayys’ and the occasional Maltese word thrown in.

      Obviously, not all private-school educated people speak like this, but there are those who do and it’s fun to point it out in this satirical manner. The people at Zoo can’t do this because, well, they can’t.

      They’re not in on it.

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      • H.P. Baxxter says:
        November 16, 2012 at 8:41 pm

        The people at Zoo look like survivors from the Razor Blade Apocalypse. I mean I know the “designer stubble” look is in, but really.

  3. Karmela says:
    November 16, 2012 at 7:28 pm

    Funny -It takes me back to my young and 6th form days where we could relax and be ourselves. Until I learnt that in the real world you’ll be labelled as kiesha, first at university and then in the workplace.

    And Glic and ‘pv’ so very-me-type contortions. PV is past my age but Can’t wait to practise ‘glic’ on hubby and lunches with bfs – ‘need to stock up on glic for the boat ‘and ‘ pass the glic please .’ Love it! Brilliant satire!

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  4. Harry Purdie says:
    November 16, 2012 at 8:54 pm

    Credible sources have informed me that Alfred Sant has hired Paula Broadwell to write his biography.

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  5. Joseph Caruana says:
    November 16, 2012 at 8:59 pm

    On the other hand, Zoo/Super One are good at portraying their own kind of people: http://youtu.be/zMHaoiCEB-g.

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  6. David S says:
    November 17, 2012 at 10:01 pm

    Matthew Smith is hilarious

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  7. L.Gatt says:
    November 18, 2012 at 12:10 am

    What’s glic?

    [Daphne – Glicine (white wine made by the Sicilian producer Corvo).]

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  8. Peter F says:
    November 18, 2012 at 3:49 pm

    The irony. PLU laugh at this. Zoo want to be this.

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