30 minSeason 6 • Episode 12
LatestAlex Lee joins the waiting list for childcare, Mark Sutton loses sleep trying to buy a mattress and in FUTube, Julian Morrow questions international transaction fees for online shopping.
A satirical consumer affairs series which takes a no-holds-barred, irreverent and entertaining approach to explaining and exposing the ways that all of us are being ripped off. The Checkout is consumer affairs TV for the twenty first century offering a revolutionary new wonder diet of information and entertainment that’s clinically proven and 26% fat free.
Writing
Satire so sharp it could slice through a Telstra contract.
Production
Fake ads indistinguishable from real ones—unsettlingly accurate.
Acting
Hosts weaponize charming incompetence to trap corporate predators.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Chaser team basically invented a new genre: investigative comedy that actually changed Australian consumer law.
Major corporations refused to appear on camera, so the show built entire segments around their silence—sometimes more damning than interviews.
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