Perceptions from non Aussies...
What do people think of Summer Heights High as Satirical television? Like Dislike? Do people see these characters in thrit own lives?
shareI will break the trend of the topic as i'm an aussie, but i just want to say for me personally, i have watched this start to finish 10 times now and I think it is the funniest show of all time. it just has me in stitches. In fact, i find it so hilarious that I don't think I could get along with someone who didn't like it. One of the reviews here is going on about how wrong the jokes are and how not funny it is and blah blah, and i was just reading the review thinking the whole time, "man, i would absolutely never want to meet you in real life"..
You need to be able to laugh at yourself and realise this was made for entertainment whilst actually portraying some harsh truth about certain types of people in life.
By the way, my American ex who did a marathon of SHH with me when they were visiting in 2011, could not get enough of it. He almost fell off the sofa at one point he was laughing so hard. So there you go!
I'm American, haven't really met any Ja'mie's (although my British coworkers told me that I reminded them of her... yikes), but the Jonah bit is dead-on.
There was a kid in my middle school (ages 11-14) who was such a Jonah.
Great story: on the first day of computer class one year, the teacher had assigned us each a computer by putting a card with our name on it on top. There was one girl whose parents were Vietnamese and had given her a traditional name - "Bich". She obviously went by Jennifer all the time, and only people who had seen her attendance sheets knew her real name. Anyway, the teacher had written "Bich" on her card, the poor girl was so humiliated and was just standing there refusing to sit down. Nobody said anything until the Jonah kid goes, "heh heh...her name's B*tch" at which point, of course, we all lost it.