25 minSeason 5 • Episode 8
LatestHabib fakes the death of his wife, Toula, while she is in Greece whereby Habib receives $100,000. Bobo's gay Italian cousin Santino comes to visit from Italy. He shows Bobo how to make good pizzas. He gets a crush on DJ BJ. Bobo's mama goes interstate and Bobo has a barbeque to celebrate his engagement to his ex porn star girlfriend Ruby. Habib buries Toula's coffin (which he later tells Rocky there were only bricks in the coffin) and gets the insurance money.
Pizza was an Australian television series on the Australian television network SBS. The series has a spin-off feature length movie, Fat Pizza, released in 2003, and a best-of highlights video/DVD that featured previously unreleased footage and a schoolies exposé, released in 2004. In addition to this, a theatre show entitled "Fat Pizza", starring several characters from the show, has toured the Australian east coast. Through ironic and self-conscious references, Pizza involves themes of ethnicity and stereotypes, cars, sex, illicit drugs, and violence to produce its sometimes mean-spirited dark humour. The television program is noted for its frequent cameo appearances of numerous Australian celebrities of all varieties, including actors, comedians, professional athletes, and other public figures.
Writing
Rapid-fire ethnic jokes that somehow age worse and better simultaneously
Acting
Paul Fenech's committed sleazeball performance as Pauly
Production
Zero-budget authenticity that amplifies the grime
Creator
Pauly Falzoni
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pizza arrived when SBS was Australia's designated 'ethnic broadcaster,' letting it push boundaries commercial networks couldn't touch. It became shorthand for a specific era of Australian multiculturalism—embraced, mocked, and weaponized all at once.
The cameo list is absurd: Andrew Gaze, Kostya Tszyu, even politicians wandered into Pauly's orbit, often playing exaggerated versions of themselves in scenes that blur reality and parody.
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