Bargearse

Hilarious, but not for those who like their comedy highbrow. Will only really appeal to Australian audiences as foreigner may not understand the jokes (e.g. Christopher Skase stealing Bargearse's pizza, Skase being one of Australia's most wanted fugitives). A masterpiece from some of Australia's best funnymen using footage of the old 70's cop show Bluey, redubbing it with a completely new meaning

Well, never have I laughed so hard at a TV show before. The Late Show have done it again, and voiced over a show so convincingly, you forget that they're not actually saying what you hear.

Well, I'm off to get a s*&t load of dim sims now, and a bucket of soy sauce with that...

A masterpiece. Champagne comedy at it's best. Bargie will steal your heart with his wise-cracking, tear-jerking, thigh-slapping one-liners. Definitely a cult classic.

'The Late Show (1992-1993)' remains one of the shining lights of Australian television comedy, and among the highlights of the short- running series were the weekly serials created by overdubbing otherwise forgotten TV shows. First came 'The Olden Days' (constructed from episodes of "Rush (1974-1976)"), in which Governor Frontbottom and Sgt. Olden grappled for control of the mud-fields. Perhaps disappointed by the low incidence of toilet humour in the previous serial, the good folks of the D-Generation (mostly, in this case, Santo Cilauro, Tony Martin and Mick Molloy) decided to spoof "Bluey (1976-1977)," a cop show featuring Lucky Grills as Dt. Sgt. Bluey Hills (or, as you'll come to know him, Sen Sgt Bargearse), an overweight police detective who's always eating something. Once compiled together on the DVD release, 'Bargearse' doesn't form a cohesive storyline in the same way as 'The Olden Days,' but nevertheless every episode creatively and hilariously weaves together otherwise innocuous "Bluey" footage into a string of visual and verbals gags about cop shows clichés, incompetent policemen and bodily functions. Highlights include a dream sequence with chocolate-covered donuts falling from the sky, a late-night stakeout in the McDonalds drive-through, and a lunch-time visit to the racetrack.

I can't believe this has an average rating of only 5.7 out of 10. It's hilarious. Perhaps the people that have given it low ratings are fans of Bluey, the 70s series that the footage is from, and are offended by it. Or perhaps they just don't get it, which isn't really possible since there's nothing to get. The Olden Days, The Late Show's other overdubbed 'series', is slightly funnier. It's pretty clever that Santo Cilauro and Tony Martin have actually been able to write dialogue that's relevant to what's on the screen. Or maybe it was really easy, I don't know. Either way it's really funny.