| Original Air Date |
TV Broadcast |
Synopsis |
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| 27 May 2009 |
S03E01 |
- The episode featured an introduction sequence instead of opening titles. The new opening titles featured in episode 2.
- The episode featured the existing set which was featured in previous series.
- Intro; Parody of the "Chk Chk Boom" girl on National Nine News, Cronulla Sharks group sex scandal
- Stunt; Delivery of package containing "young drunk girls" to Cronulla Sharks headquarters, delivery of "young naked boys" to a Grammar School, launching of a blimp containing "young boys inside" within the Vatican
- Ad/Trailer; Billy Connolly's Journey Across Iraq
- Stunt; suing for money upon misfortunes at a Victoria's Secret store, a steakhouse in the United States, and at Home Depot
- Stunt; Governor General Quentin Bryce entry into the Melbourne Club
- Open Mic; Cronulla Sharks match
- Ad/Trailer; plight to raise donations for the Shore School rowing shed, with funds from "cancer patients, the aboriginal community, and generous persons in Somalia"
- Closing joke: Online poll regarding the location for North Korea's next nuclear test site
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51 |
| 3 June 2009 |
S03E02 |
- The episode introduced new opening titles.
- Intro; Swine flu, Kevin Rudd's budget deficit
- Let's Ask Jules to Join Us on the Couch; Transferring terror suspects to secret prisons overseas, with Julian putting up signs to help "hide" the Stare Kiejkuty military base
- Ad/Trailer; History of C.M. Coolidge
- Stunt; Trying to convert overweight Americans to a diet plan consisting exclusively of hay
- Ad/Trailer; Oscar Bait, directed by Harvey Weinstein in a shameless attempt to win an Academy Award
- Ad/Trailer; Emergency Chat Line
- Sketch; How to make money during the recession
- Stunt; Craig polling UK citizens on whether they would be content to raise taxes to pay for the upkeep of the monarchy, then (when most respondents said no) trying to rent out rooms above Buckingham Palace
- Ad/Trailer; Make a Realistic Wish Foundation (a controversial parody of the Make a Wish Foundation that was removed from subsequent airings and also the DVD's)
- Ad/Trailer; The Inbredy Bunch, starring Josef Fritzl
- Closing joke: Online poll about Susan Boyle's breakdown after the Britain's Got Talent final, parade to commemorate the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre
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52 |
| 25 June 2009 |
S03E03 |
- Instead of opening titles, featured an introduction sequence about how The Chaser had spent the last two weeks trying to atone for the controversy over the "Make a Realistic Wish Foundation" sketch, which had led to the show being suspended for two weeks. The episode was finally introduced as "The Chaser's Waste of Taxpayers' Money"
- Intro; Kevin Rudd car dealer scandal, cameramen being used to replace political journalists, disguising as Michael Jackson in order to interview Rudd about his "anger management issues"
- Ad/Trailer; Rudd Safe Haven. Parody of the "Make a Realistic Wish Foundation" sketch, about a refuge for victimised employees of Kevin Rudd
- Ad/Trailer; Small Talk with Ray Martin
- Sketch; Craig standing in the background while politicians are being interviewed, in order to give an "alternative interpretation" of the speech
- Stunt; Praying at the Vatican for the sins of the Catholic Church, which had recently stated "excessive wealth" as a mortal sin
- Sketch; Sports commentary
- Stunt; Trying to get free transport in London by pretending to be The Stig from Top Gear
- Sketch; Verbal boxing match
- Web poll; Written in Wingdings font. The text reads: WEBPOLL If you actually bothered to translate this, you are: a. clearly unemployed b. clearly a nerd c. clearly disappointed by now that it's nothing controversial
- Andrew Hansen's Closing Comment; "We'll catch you again next week, unless of course we're suspended for what was written in the Wingdings."
- Sports-style commentary over the end credits
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53 |
| 1 July 2009 |
S03E04 |
- Intro; Vigil for Michael Jackson, Malcolm Turnbull email furore
- Ad/Trailer; Baby Day Spa
- If Life Were A Musical; Chris, Andrew and Craig singing to a patron outside a theatre in the West End of London, about how the recession has forced them out of acting and onto the streets
- Stunt; Julian pretending to work for Apple Inc. and ordering people out of the queue for the new iPhone because they look too nerdy for the target demographic
- Ad/Trailer; French and Mormon versions of Cheaters
- Song; Ben Lee
- Stunt; Getting Japanese people to eat unusual things
- Ad/Trailer; Noam - philosophical chat show hosted by Noam Chomsky
- Tech Talk; Chas testing the "Love Calculator" application on his phone
- Ad/Trailer; Parody of Touching the Void
- Web poll; In relation to the Bernie Madoff scandal, would U.S. finance regulations have had more change of identifying the specified fraud if section 2 and section 4 of the US Corporate Governance Act had been enacted ahead of 2006, notwithstanding the proposed amendments by the United States Securities And Exchange Commission? A. Yes B. No
- Andrew Hansen's Closing Comment; (Craig) "You can always catch the repeat of the War on ABC2 on Thursday nights ..." (Andrew) "Which of course you already knew if it IS Thursday and you're watching ABC2."
- French Version of Cheaters over the end credits. End credits list Chas as "Gvhftr Kijl" (to which he legally changed his name in the "Tech Talk" sketch of this episode)
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| 8 July 2009 |
S03E05 |
- Opening credits list Chas as "Gvhftr Kijl" (to which he legally changed his name in the "Tech Talk" sketch of the previous episode)
- Intro; Michael Jackson memorial service, Tom Cruise security preparations
- Ad/Trailer; Catalyst special report on guide tortoises for the blind
- Stunt; Julian trying to give former Prime Minister John Howard a book about how to blame every political failure on the global recession, as Kevin Rudd was out of the country
- Stunt; Chas visiting Danny Nalliah during the night to see if he has had any more premonitions (Nalliah claimed to have had prophetic dreams about the Black Saturday bushfires four months before the event)
- Song; In the Navy, satirising the HMAS Success sex scandal
- Ad/Trailer; The Azzan Project
- Middle East TV; New segment in which The Chaser reports on extremist TV programming from the Middle East: such as a cleric who claims that all profits from Pepsi go towards Israeli war efforts, and indoctrination of children
- Stunt; Trying to deliver a gigantic replica of The Ashes trophy to the England cricket team, to represent the comparative number of times Australia has won
- Sketch; Outsourcing the rest of the episode to Mumbai, including a version of the Citizens Infringement Officer segment with Julian's Indian counterpart issuing fines on turbans
- Closing comment; "And remember, you can download tonight's episode from Abc.net.in. Namaste!"
- Closing credits in Hindi
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55 |
| 15 July 2009 |
S03E06 |
- Intro; Diplomatic standoff between Australia and China, Dick Cheney authorisation of torture
- Ad/Trailer; Around a Westfield in 80 Days (with Michael Palin)
- Stunt; Trying to open a Starbucks outlet inside another Starbucks outlet
- Ad/Trailer; Kerry O'Keeffe security alarm
- Song; In Due Season (a parody of "Yes We Can")
- Stunt; Delivering custom-made artwork to the offices of large corporations
- Ad/Trailer; Failed Brand Power commercial directed by Terry Gilliam
- Ad/Trailer; Wheels on Meals
- Nut Job of the Week; Hypnotherapist Steve G. Jones
- Web poll; Mark Webber's win in the Formula 1 Grand Prix was due to: A. Good driving B. Good luck C. Detailed programmatic specificity
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56 |
| 22 July 2009 |
S03E07 |
- Intro; MasterChef Australia crazy, food critic, "plating it up", Peter Garrett
- Stunt; Julian attempts to climb the church Prime Minister Kevin Rudd attends, as it is of "spiritual significance"
- Stunt; Chas dons his Osama Bin Laden costume (from the APEC 2007 motorcade stunt) to test the "alertness levels" at Washington D.C.
- Ad/Trailer; The Complete ABC News Collection on DVD
- Stunt; Chas poses as an American tourist visiting England who speaks American English but doesn't understand the local language. Andrew acts as his translator.
- Ad/Trailer; Guide Dogs for the Really Blind and Munted
- Stunt; Craig promotes "local businesses" by setting up a sausage sizzle, balloons and signage at various brothels and promoting them with a megaphone, balloons and an inflatable tall man
- Ad/Trailer; Chase Air's "Business Class Flat Bed Deluxe"
- Newsbreak; Andrew presents a news report on a crazed gunman at large, only for the mugshot, number plate of his vehicle and number of the crisis hotline to be hidden by Lotto results on the lower third. The Lotto results at the end of the sketch are hidden by an ABC "Next" graphic.
- Ad/Trailer; Buckley's Tavern
- Middle East TV; The Chaser reports on Middle East children's TV; such as an Egyptian show denouncing Jews, and a look into the characters of The Pioneers of Tomorrow.
- Stunt; Backstage of a Madagascar children's show at Westfield, Chas and Chris accuse the costumed characters of being "Islamic martyrs in waiting"
- Sketch; News of the World; a football game between England and Germany on Christmas Day 1914 is replaced by a war, a send-up of the football game during the Christmas Truce
- Stunt; Julian, dressed as a news reporter, asks various passers-by in America for comment, with no news and the question "Can you give me a comment?"
- Closing comment by Julian; "...that's all we have time for this week, a week where a stupid English backpacker was able to survive 12 days in the Australian bush, but we Aussies can't even survive two days at Lord's."
- Web poll; Who's the most idiotic person Channel 9 has ever paid money to? A. Backpacker Jamie Neale, B. Richard Wilkins, C. Sam Newman, D. Eddie McGuire... "and the other 45 options"
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57 |
| 29 July 2009 |
S03E08 |
- Final episode of Series 3, and the last episode to air.
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58 |