The Games: Difference between revisions

* [[Australian Politics]]: It came cruelly close to what happens in real life politics (and not just in Australia).

* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: They got the Olympics on, but they couldn't fix the Closing Ceremony and all the cock-ups and over-budgeting means that they have to get out of there.

* [[Crap Saccharine World]]: Sydney, portrayed as a city where everyone double-crosses you, the media will crucify you if you say one bad word, your co-workers will lynch you and run off at the first opportunity and nobody will help you.

* [[The Danza]]: All the main characters had the same name as their actors.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Most of the cast, but John Clarke raises it to an absolute artform.

* [[Double-Speak]]: In one episode, it's explained that 'X has my/our full support' means that the person in question is about to be fired.

* [[Epic Fail]]: The video designed to be an introduction to Sydney. It contained a fuckload of errors (such as referring to Sydney as the capital of Australia, the home of the world's most famous athlete, and containing even more visual errors, like shots of Melbourne's Botanic Gardens, the Bank of Melbourne, and a shot of the freeway in Queensland) and was too hilarious to be anything but a failure.

** Three words: 'No wuckin' furries'.

{{quote| '''Gina''': Does it involve ropes?<br />

'''Nicholas''': No, it's a petition.<br />