Get Krack!n

I really wanted to like this show because the two Kates' Katering Show was good fun. However, sitting through an entire episode is of Get Krack!n is an excrutiating chore.

Breakfast TV is an easy target for parody, but even then I'd expect something better than what a giggly 11 year old could come up with. And yet they've somehow succeeded in making 11 year olds seem like Voltaire in comparison.

Every episode, for example, has the same psychotic drunk shilling cheap products. Why? Because they couldn't figure out how to do an effective parody of the product placement segments common on Australian breakfast TV. So instead they rely upon us going "Oh look! A crazy woman with apparent substance abuse issue! Bravo!!" That's not parody. It's cheap laughs.

Even when the show gets things right, like today's episode about how breakfast TV hosts have to act like they're enjoying themselves on the road when they're probably not, they tend to stretch that one joke for way too long until it wears thin, and then becomes annoying. By the time you feel like you've been pummeled with the same point enough, they try to break things up with other skits suggesting, e.g., that all small-town males in Australia are rapists. Ha ha ha. (And, really, if you want to make travelng through small-town Australia seem dreadful, why pick a beautiful place like Echuca?)

That aforementioned skit also about how funny rape is highlights the hypocrisy of the show. It's message is "It's okay, because we're making fun of hicks!" But every week we see the same "whites are terrible to aboriginals" joke done over and over again. I don't mind it when jokes are PC, but when it is the same variation on the same ineptly done, heavy-handed joke every episode, delivered in a wooden manner, and it gets juxtaposed with jokes that ironically see no harm in suggesting people who aren't from the white, Melbourne latte swilling inner suburb crowd are somehow worthless subhumans? I find myself starting to react against that PC humour instead of agreeing with it. If their goal is to advance wokeness? They're part of the problem of making it look smug and fake.

It's quite apparent that the sole reason for the success of The Katering Show was its brevity. It is quite clear that the Kates are incapable of anything of substance, and making silly faces will never be a substitute for wit.

It's not the funniest show on television, but it's also better than a lot of other junk with laugh tracks like Big Bang Theory.

I think a lot of people misinterpret the type of parody this is supposed to be. It's supposed to be over-the-top, hammed-up parody that looks staged and forced. It's supposed to be a bad parody. It's supposed to be a bad representation of morning television in the eyes of those who are too busy to watch morning television.

Don't approach it like a traditional parody or a tradition sketch comedy and you'll be entertained.

Having said that, the show doesn't have a long life and a lot of the material is repeated in similar ways. No surprises it's only lasted 2 years.

It's not the type I'd go back and watch, nor did I make time to watch it, but it was a light-hearted 30mins of entertainment to pass the time.

After their hilarious skewering of the cooking show in 'The Katering Show' the Kates (McLennan & McCartney) have turned their satirical eyes towards Breakfast TV. More specifically, Breakfast TV hosted by plucky women who "speak for all ladies" and cram their near-misandry feminist ideals down the gullet of their audience.

The Kates are the two hosts of a show so bad it's been given a 3 AM time-slot. They are polar opposites of each other. McLennan is full of vim, vigour, and likely an unhealthy dose of caffeine, with a giant smile on her face at (almost) all times. McCartney is tired, bored, and looks like she wants out of this show as soon as possible. Yet they both endure to create a show, probably just so they can get their pay-cheques. In both their characterization and their dialogue, they portray self-aware, satirically over-the-top versions of themselves, lampooning the falsity of the typical hosts of this kind of show, and they consistently bring up "girl power" ideals at inappropriate moments, much like the shows they're parodying.

Not only is this show funny because of the hosts and the satire, but the actual gags are top-notch absurdist humour. Firstly, the ridiculous obstacle course of a set, the amount of segments they seem to try and cram into each episode, the bizarre guests ranging from normal people with strange jobs to just weird people in general, and the people outside the street view window (once again, at 3 AM). Not to mention the constant goofs from the people behind the camera, from the camera mistakes, to the editing/vision mixing mistakes, graphics, timing, and just generally a crew who has no idea what they're doing, especially their unassuming intern.

This is a show where both the subtleties and the not-so-subtleties work to their advantage. The two Kates know what they're doing in terms of absurd satirical humour. I look forward to watching the rest of the series.

Just stumbled on this amazing gem and what can I say I just fell in love with those two funny ladies. Absurd, funny and relevant they will brighten the darkest day with their unique spin on daily topics. To me, they are the Aussie Patsy and Edwina! I wish they could tackle even more topics in an hour show. To all the haters ... You just don't have a funny bone in you or are just to dumb to understand their sophisticated smart funny sass!

The blonde Kate does not let up with her desperate whine, thankfully offset by the others cool detachment.

Together, they take many sharp shots at all types, right and left. Pitiless in their takedowns.

Gutsy stuff.