Summer Heights High

Summer Heights High is an Australian television show in a mockumentary style, written by and starring Chris Lilley as characters trouble making 13-year-old Jonah Takalua, dramatic and narcissistic drama teacher Mr. G, and private school exchange student, snobby year 11 Ja'mie King. The show follows the three students as they meet various challenges based on their role at Summer Heights High. Ja'mie easily makes friends with the popular girls at Summer Heights High but still considers herself above public school students in general, often making comments that she doesn't realize are offensive or insulting, and eventually she even fights with the girls she has deemed hot enough to be her friends. Ja'mie always wants to get her way and makes demands of everyone, including her mom, teachers, and friends, and struggles to make it through her semester of slumming it. Mr. G, the drama teacher, believes he has enormous talent but gets frustrated that no one else can see it and often loses his temper at the students. He creates original musicals for the students to perform, directing them with an iron fist and banning disabled students so as not to compromise the quality of his work. Jonah is a boy of Tongan descent who has been expelled from schools in the past, often bullies younger students, particularly one who is better at breakdancing than he is. He is enrolled in remedial classes where he is taught by Jan Palmer, the only teacher he doesn't regularly fight with or threaten, and has a Polynesian breakdancing group with his friends. The students and staff of Summer Heights High definitely have their quirks, but they make for a hilarious if dysfunctional learning experience. MORE