I can’t even tell you how frequently I forget he’s not really Jonah. Another note, I’m an American and we have a painful history with blackface, minstrel shows, horrible things. However- I don’t see this in that same vein at all. This is brilliant work from an insanely talented man. I don’t believe in cancel culture and I refuse to see such a revelation get bogged down in this incendiary debate over cultural appropriation. Also this came out in the aughts, things were different then and we need to look at it through those lenses.
this is over 15 years old... like white chicks came out around this time. this is an excellent portray of kids with ADHD, i think chris lilly is a genuis
Back when i went to school some of the teachers use to slap you on the back of the head for not listening or misbehaving and there was teachers that would legit scare the shit out of you and you know what there was like little to no kids like jonah at my school. Now a days if a teacher even looks at a kid wrong they could be fired and sued because everyone is to PC now.
As troubled a kid as Jonah is, as much as he needs compassion instead of force, it's a sad truth that he is a bridge-burner. It's a mechanism he's developed as a result of being stepped on and rejected throughout his childhood. I've taught many Jonahs over the last 7 years and sadly, school just does not suit some kids. They get out into the workforce, get an apprenticeship, get a new start...most of them do go on to succeed :) As much as Mr Peterson's strategies are desperate and poorly designed though, it's also a good bloke trying to deal with a difficult person.
I had alot of boys I was solid with in school who were like Jonah. Alot of them sadly ended up being more comfortable in jail and street gangs. But yep as you said a fair few of them found trades and jobs and settled down. It's sad but it is what it is
Yeah I think people miss the layers here, it's not meant to lay blame on individuals, it's meant to show how the system as a whole is flawed and overburdened and can't give every child the best outcomes.
The last period Teacher, man. This was obviously scripted but she brought that performance too accurate to experiences I had in school. Great acting but the reality in school with back and forth between 1 teacher and 1 student in class hit me hard. As a teen you laugh about it, but now im 21 - 22, there's a deeper and sadder meaning to what that does to a kid's mentality.
For decades maybe lilley went through the same thing and the one who acted Weatley too that's probably why there so good at making the world so real it helps emphasize with the characters
i'm french and really love what chris lilley does for the australian tv. moments like when the english teacher gets mad or when jonah reads his story are moments where the show tends to be very realistic and actually very moving. it's weird and interesting, and i hope chris lilley will go on and try to make new things that way. angry boys was a try i guess. but i'm not sure TV (who needs fun, just fun) is ready to follow.
@@harriffanconshertini8804lol you need it spelled out for you? The look on her face during the Poly Day assembly, the fact that she can't help but refer to Jonah and his friends as the Pacific Island boys, and collectively she doesn't think of anything other than underachieving troublemakers. It's unconscious but she absolutely has it out for indigenous people.
@@CripplingDualityyeah, she practically baited him into getting into trouble and humiliated him in front of his peers. I saw and experienced this from teachers many times.
The duality of teachers Mrs Palmer is a good teacher patient and empathetic, Ms Wheatly is the opposite. Something I always appericated within this series
You're right on the money man, Chris Lilley nailed it, from Jonah to his friends and to how he interacts with people, everything. Even that last scene was super realistic I've seen things happen like that in class. Hope he goes on to bigger and better things, be a waste of talent if he doesn't.
The thing I like about this is that it's so accurate to the Australian school/high school experience in the early 2000s. Especially the dynamic between "white" kids and "lebanese/turkish/islanders/aboriginal" kids and the massive amounts of racism that were thrown back and forth between them. A lot of the white kids would selectively antagonise the people of colour into attacking them. Then the school administration would only supsend or punish the kids of colour because the white kids knew how to play the victim in front of the teacher. The teaching staff would know what was going on but would just ignore the wrong doings of the white kids because it was easier to keep punishing the kids who stereotypically caused the most disruptions, even if they were not always the one's who were the instigators or technically at fault during a playground dispuit. And also the various shit schools would do by separating islanders and aboriginals out from class to do extracurriculars, I guess it was meant to help them feel more in touch with their respective culture but it just made them the "other" to all their peers.
Coming from a former Jonah ADHD type, the remedial English teacher is the only person doing the right thing by him, the young female teacher is too emotionally biased and inexperienced to manage him and the older Councillor dude is too set in his rigid ways to accept anything more than hard and unhelpful lines in his program, I do understand why they had to adopt certain teaching strategies to survive all the Jonahs they would encounter but I also understand how the environment he is in wouldn't be helpful to his development.
😆😂🤣Chris Lilly is a genius I like all the characters he plays they are funny as hell, Jonah is my favourite he plays that part so good and the dad whose so aggressive jeez what a mad show😆😆😆
Ngl even tho it’s a show, we often wonder how many people wind up criminals because of racist teacher and how they treat certain students. Especially what that English teacher did at the end. That was 100% unprofessional and despite her complete frustration with that student, humiliating him in front of others students is not okay. And they wonder why teachers get knocked out. Happened at my schools a lot in NZ
@@Teopae i used to be like him,i wanted attention,8 valued my freinds alot,my mom neglected me and i was abused,but I was l8ke johna i misbehaved but my fteinds loved me
0:00 Dad: did you lock the car? Jonah: of course i fucking locked it Dad: don't talk to me like that you little fuck Jonah: don't walk next to me it looks gay
that is some seriously good acting though, from all of them
by far, it seems realicstic
Because they were actually real teachers.
that teacher actually pissed me off for telling him off for whispering i know its just acting but it reminds me of a racsis teacher at my old school.
Sif
And they shouldn't pick on him and pretty much call him stupid
fr
@videoaddict 12 bc hes yr 8
@videoaddict I'm a nzer btw
@videoaddict duh
"Don't fuck with me Miss, you'll regret it" LOL
Id love it if she fucked with me! We’ll have a great time in bed!
I was the white jonah in year 10. 😂😂
I can’t even tell you how frequently I forget he’s not really Jonah. Another note, I’m an American and we have a painful history with blackface, minstrel shows, horrible things. However- I don’t see this in that same vein at all. This is brilliant work from an insanely talented man. I don’t believe in cancel culture and I refuse to see such a revelation get bogged down in this incendiary debate over cultural appropriation. Also this came out in the aughts, things were different then and we need to look at it through those lenses.
this is over 15 years old... like white chicks came out around this time. this is an excellent portray of kids with ADHD, i think chris lilly is a genuis
yeah unfortunately this stuff can never make it today
Just realized this was posted 15 years ago omg
The last period teacher is dome always blaming jonah
If he doesnt do his homework, i'll fucking slap'em out.
@guitarshop40 hes supposed to be in grade 8. And he portrayed the role AMAZINGLY.
How can Jonah say that Aussies are shit break dancers when they had Raygun at the Olympics?
That’s why I came here lol I was reminded of Jonah when I saw Rayguns top 10 moves 😂
LMAO HAHHAHAH I also thought that part was the best
That teacher was like gonna cry lol
Good acting
Honestly as I kiwi I cannot express just how accurate this show is when it's comes to New Zealand and Australia schools.
3:50 'bloody auzzies" aahahahahhaahh
"prepare to lose frogs"
"awh that little fuckin homo"
hahahahahaahahahahaha
omg that teacher is agro yeh he stuffs up but he was bein resnobly good thenshe goes al agro wat a crazy lady!
What a hypocritical father! It’s his fault that Jonah has bad behaviour.
@mssoccer23 Australians aren't really like this you know.
it might be acting, but it was just whispering bro
He didn’t do anything
9:05
@qosmiox1 wat
hahahaha fuck yeah VCAL
" dont walk next to me . it looks gaay" LMAOOO hahahahahaha
That comment is from a very Long time ago
'dont talk to me like that u little fuq'
Jonah from Tonga is a masterpiece, it uses humour but it also has so much heart
This is Summer Heights High not Jonah From Tonga.
@@KoiNoYokan37nope it’s Jonah from Tonga
@@KoiNoYokan37Nuh jk G just joking
Sad that the last period teacher is what most teachers are now
Back when i went to school some of the teachers use to slap you on the back of the head for not listening or misbehaving and there was teachers that would legit scare the shit out of you and you know what there was like little to no kids like jonah at my school.
Now a days if a teacher even looks at a kid wrong they could be fired and sued because everyone is to PC now.
Chill
Aislinn G. IKR
BlueOzzie
Ok boomer
mitzi ong
As troubled a kid as Jonah is, as much as he needs compassion instead of force, it's a sad truth that he is a bridge-burner. It's a mechanism he's developed as a result of being stepped on and rejected throughout his childhood.
I've taught many Jonahs over the last 7 years and sadly, school just does not suit some kids. They get out into the workforce, get an apprenticeship, get a new start...most of them do go on to succeed :)
As much as Mr Peterson's strategies are desperate and poorly designed though, it's also a good bloke trying to deal with a difficult person.
I had alot of boys I was solid with in school who were like Jonah. Alot of them sadly ended up being more comfortable in jail and street gangs. But yep as you said a fair few of them found trades and jobs and settled down. It's sad but it is what it is
@@dmystify1381 Is it?! 🤯 Hahah I just meant its accuracy made it so successful.
Yeah I think people miss the layers here, it's not meant to lay blame on individuals, it's meant to show how the system as a whole is flawed and overburdened and can't give every child the best outcomes.
nah Ms. Wheatly really melted his brain with how she managed him, its really sad teachers like her are still about
Mr Takalua is so underrated as an actor and comedian,, his appearances definitely makes the Jonah episodes better
anyone watching from 2020 or just me
🤣🤣🤣
😔
2021
2022
September 2024, this is hilarious every time I watch!
8:51 that's my boy Jonah. Good on him
Teacher's can be rather Prude
@@LuannOsbourne yeh🤣
The last period Teacher, man. This was obviously scripted but she brought that performance too accurate to experiences I had in school.
Great acting but the reality in school with back and forth between 1 teacher and 1 student in class hit me hard. As a teen you laugh about it, but now im 21 - 22, there's a deeper and sadder meaning to what that does to a kid's mentality.
I like how his friend backed him up at the end when miss was flipping out on Jonah. Also she sounds like my ex gf getting mad
Jonah’s friend’s name is Leon Pullami
omg he was only whispering calm down
Sad thing is that this used to happen to me, we always forget that there really is shit like this happening to people.
For decades maybe lilley went through the same thing and the one who acted Weatley too that's probably why there so good at making the world so real it helps emphasize with the characters
Same
Damn that teacher has real anger issues. I'm not like that at all lol.
i'm french and really love what chris lilley does for the australian tv. moments like when the english teacher gets mad or when jonah reads his story are moments where the show tends to be very realistic and actually very moving. it's weird and interesting, and i hope chris lilley will go on and try to make new things that way. angry boys was a try i guess. but i'm not sure TV (who needs fun, just fun) is ready to follow.
Last period teacher’s an amazing actor, even pissed me off
Their all great actors it feels so real
I think she's drawing on real experiences
She was actually a real teacher
they were all actual teachers
Straight up that teachers racists!
rasulan nisha How?
@@harriffanconshertini8804lol you need it spelled out for you? The look on her face during the Poly Day assembly, the fact that she can't help but refer to Jonah and his friends as the Pacific Island boys, and collectively she doesn't think of anything other than underachieving troublemakers. It's unconscious but she absolutely has it out for indigenous people.
@@CripplingDualityyeah, she practically baited him into getting into trouble and humiliated him in front of his peers. I saw and experienced this from teachers many times.
You know ur here coz of Raygun
The duality of teachers Mrs Palmer is a good teacher patient and empathetic, Ms Wheatly is the opposite. Something I always appericated within this series
poor jonah.. he got his passive aggresiveness out by the end of all this tho haha
4 schools in 2 years fuck me when a kid is that fucked up with behaviour issues you just say fuck it and ship them off to the military imo
They often don’t survive there either
You're right on the money man, Chris Lilley nailed it, from Jonah to his friends and to how he interacts with people, everything. Even that last scene was super realistic I've seen things happen like that in class. Hope he goes on to bigger and better things, be a waste of talent if he doesn't.
The thing I like about this is that it's so accurate to the Australian school/high school experience in the early 2000s. Especially the dynamic between "white" kids and "lebanese/turkish/islanders/aboriginal" kids and the massive amounts of racism that were thrown back and forth between them.
A lot of the white kids would selectively antagonise the people of colour into attacking them. Then the school administration would only supsend or punish the kids of colour because the white kids knew how to play the victim in front of the teacher. The teaching staff would know what was going on but would just ignore the wrong doings of the white kids because it was easier to keep punishing the kids who stereotypically caused the most disruptions, even if they were not always the one's who were the instigators or technically at fault during a playground dispuit.
And also the various shit schools would do by separating islanders and aboriginals out from class to do extracurriculars, I guess it was meant to help them feel more in touch with their respective culture but it just made them the "other" to all their peers.
You are spot on, shit is so accurate it hurts lmfao
Better dancing than the aussie Olympic 'RayGun'
0:59 Jonah should of said Music instead of I don't know.
Raygun🎉
this guys life was breakdancing, why didnt he get asked to try out for the olympics?
Raygun is a shyte breaker
gumnut college wicked day:D
"fuck off miss!"
"sorry for saying fuck off miss"
"go away miss, trust me for once"
lmfao he's so funny!
"i went to Tonga once when i was 10 and it was shit" lool
Coming from a former Jonah ADHD type, the remedial English teacher is the only person doing the right thing by him, the young female teacher is too emotionally biased and inexperienced to manage him and the older Councillor dude is too set in his rigid ways to accept anything more than hard and unhelpful lines in his program, I do understand why they had to adopt certain teaching strategies to survive all the Jonahs they would encounter but I also understand how the environment he is in wouldn't be helpful to his development.
I'm a year 8 now.
Do you want a medal?
How pleasant.
lol im just showing off i do tha a lot
Jason8star there's nothing to show off you little shit
Jason8star No one cares twelvie
12yrs laterr😂❤️
If you can’t get a job become a teacher
😆😂🤣Chris Lilly is a genius I like all the characters he plays they are funny as hell, Jonah is my favourite he plays that part so good and the dad whose so aggressive jeez what a mad show😆😆😆
Ngl even tho it’s a show, we often wonder how many people wind up criminals because of racist teacher and how they treat certain students. Especially what that English teacher did at the end. That was 100% unprofessional and despite her complete frustration with that student, humiliating him in front of others students is not okay. And they wonder why teachers get knocked out. Happened at my schools a lot in NZ
Mr Peterson at 1:46 sounded a bit like Tony Barber
Johnah has hidden pain
Deadass
@@Teopae i used to be like him,i wanted attention,8 valued my freinds alot,my mom neglected me and i was abused,but I was l8ke johna i misbehaved but my fteinds loved me
How brilliant is the School Counsellor - exactly like a real one.
0:00
Dad: did you lock the car?
Jonah: of course i fucking locked it
Dad: don't talk to me like that you little fuck
Jonah: don't walk next to me it looks gay
They couldn't send him to the Olympics? Instead of Raygun?
Manii Im pretty sure this was the only time I heard ofa talk 😭
The only reason jonah had to leave was because the english teacher was singling him out all the time.
lol in my school ima wog and 3 quaters of my school is wog XD
she great actor xx
Break dancing is a waste of time. Ray gun take note
Prisoner Cell Block H was the best EVER thing from Oz in my day! Only two actors to every soap or program.... HELLO OZ!
It was the best show!! To bad it doesn't air anymore and they have a new version/new cast
@TheATeamClan haha no, it's a show based on Australian school stereotypes made by Chris Lilley who also plays Jonah, Ja'mie and Mr G in the show
Ok abit late but how he wanna call us fobs
I remember to listen to the song when i was little
I really hate that teacher 😒
Lol raygun
oh gawd !!! LMFAO
The remedial teacher lady was so kind. I hope there is real teachers like her. You will always catch more flies with honey. Even if it takes longer.
My school different.but we swear of cause and do funny things
Your amazing aren't you?
01:39 So long breakdancing, its because Jonah is grounded.
He goes to a private school.his school is primary and highschool together.I go to separate school.I went to cecil.hill primary then went.to.cecil.high
Hey I'm Aussie and I'm not racist
poo
Greatest show my state has ever come up with, I know half the people in this show. hahah so funny. Love it
I'm islander and I cracked up
Your name Jayden Harris though
I don't mind the Doug Peterson guy
Teachers are like cops
my sister a boyfriend named jonah
I love the way she loses it with him!
Fuck with me miss u regreat it
Is that ty girl who tries candy
Leon sounds like my Tongan friend
Pmo at those aussiez. Haha think theyr gangs now yet the islanders will knock them out any day.. lol shot Jonah! Islander represent lol
Guessing your from Samoa
Ur true Samoan bro ur mad fuk Aussies
You look like a man.
Lincoln Tua Please dont talk like that..
Vin Merq Why nto? can you give me a justifiable reason not to?
Is this real btw maby stupid question :P
"i went once and it was shit"
That’s so funny 😂
such bad quality!!!!!
@lazarcollectionlover yes mate u will. xD
Josie Gibson from BB11 Brought me here x x
Marshall Mathers wtf ... ahah lmfao
😂😂🤦🏽♀️🤷🏽♀️
How can you not tell this is fake?
Whose here in 2020