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Bro'Town

'''''bro'Town''''' is a New Zealand adult animated sitcom that aired on TV3 from 22 September 2004 to 24 May 2009. It starred David Fane, Mario Gaoa, Shimpal Lelisi and Oscar Kightley.

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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.

Aired: 2004–2009
Seasons: 5 · 34 episodes
Status: Ended
Created by: Shimpal Lelisi, Oscar Kightley, Mario Gaoa, Elizabeth Mitchell, David Fane
Network: Three
Genres: Animation, Comedy

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Overview
Production
Characters
The Boys
Other characters of Morningside
Tapili family
School folk and students
Figures in Heaven
Guest stars
Episodes
Season 1 (2004)
Season 2 (2005)
Season 3 (2006)
Season 4 (2007)
Season 5 (2009)
Awards
Books
DVD Releases
References
External links

'''''bro'Town''''' is a New Zealand adult animated sitcom that aired on TV3 from 22 September 2004 to 24 May 2009. It starred David Fane, Mario Gaoa, Shimpal Lelisi and Oscar Kightley.

== Overview == The main characters in the series are five 14 year old Polynesian New Zealand boys who live in Morningside, Auckland, New Zealand. They attend the local college, St Sylvester's. It was New Zealand's first primetime animated television show and was very popular when it was first shown in 2004 with 33 per cent of the viewing audience during its 8-8.30pm time slot for the first season. ''bro'Town is heavy with popular culture references, and is based on the comedy theatre group The Naked Samoans''. The series has faced criticism often for being racist, for example every episode of the first season received complaints. The writers often describe the humour as being 'not PC' (politically correct) and is satire with characters being sent-up. One of the series writers Oscar Kightley says of the humour, "The only reason we get away with that irreverence and edgy stuff is because on the flipside is heart."