Archive for July 23rd, 2007

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I like watching Oliver’s Kitchen. Not only do they do a great job of helping young troubled teenagers make their way into this world, but they give our only local free-to-air television station, Fiji TV, a great opportunity to teach the locals the finer tips of real, street-core swearing without all that censorship bullcrap that would otherwise prevent a great show from being shown at Prime time (straight after the national news).

Oliver’s Kitchen is a reality show for those of you not ‘in the know’, and with reality you get straight from the heart scenes, tears shed by both girls and guys, and very tasty vulgar dialogue that’s crying for the bleep button.

The lovely people at Fiji TV have apparently let slip all the lovely swears emitting from the mouths of the Oliver’s Kitchen crew, and the chefs are thus heard in all their primal raw glory.

The thing I don’t get is for a few episodes the ‘silence swears’ button/manager was working, and there were quite a few scenes where ‘fuck’ was let loose and quickly shut, but for other episodes it’s as if Fiji TV turned HBO.

Infact, todays episode was quite obviously submitted for broadcast without even so much as a quick check to see how family friendly it was.

Mind you, not everyone broke out in full teen talk with all the ‘biatch’ and ‘fucktard’ that we’ve all come to know and love as young people. After all they do have some sensibility.

Having said that, when they do actually swear (besides the young chefs-in-training, even poster boy Jamie is guilty of dropping the eff-bomb) it’s so brutal and painful to the ears at such a young hour in the night that if you’re watching with your family, mentally you’d wince and turn away, while your real face tries to stay poker and pretend that ‘fuck’ was as normal a word as cherrypie…

I wonder if anyone from Fiji TV actually watches the show and goes “hmmmm, there’s something not quite right about Oliver’s Kitchen. Perhaps its Jamie’s messy hair…or maybe the auzzie’s at-times-hard-to-understand accent…no no I got it…that girl has a nose ring…how the hell does she wipe her nose with a nose ring like that? Boy thing must be annoying saraga…”

Don’t you just love tv stations that promote ‘free speech’

Wonder they’ll ever get around to showing Oz” on Primetime after Oliver’s Kitchen finishes …man think of all those awesome torture methods that could help many an average joe in extracting info from his neighbour about whether his wife really is banging the bean peanut seller across the road…