Hamish and Andy's Gap Year
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| Hamish and Andy's Gap Year | |
|---|---|
| Presented by | Hamish Blake Andy Lee |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| Production | |
| Running time | Approximately 60 minutes (inc. commercials) |
| Original release | |
| Network | Nine Network |
| Release | 28July 2011 |
Hamish and Andy's Gap Year is a 2011 comedy series following Hamish Blake and Andy Lee on their trip to America, and more specifically, New York. Hamish and Andy currently run the Hamish and Andy show and are a pair of Australian comedians.
Reception
The show was received well based on the first episode, receiving high ratings and good reviews.
Advertising Campaign
Channel 9 produced many ads for the tv shows debut episode. One featured Hamish singing Frank Sinatra's 'New York, New York' from the Australian International Airport until he was in a cab in New York. Most of the ads lasted around the 30 second mark and mostly involved Hamish annoying Andy.
Concept
The concept for the show was created when channel 9 hired the pair for at least 15 hours of television in 2 years. It is believed that the Gap Year isn't the only project the pair are going to produce. According to many interviews, they came across the idea when they realised the never took a gap year after high school,so they would film their many adverntures overseas as it was 'ironic' that they had just received a contract for tv.
Episodes
- The show will have ten episodes, filmed and broadcast in 2011.
| Overall episode # |
Season episode # |
Title | Original Australian air date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | "Episode One" | July 28, 2011 | |
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To kick off the boys' gap year, they fly to Oklahoma to take part in a statewide catfish noodling competition. After several unsuccessful attempts (using Andy's ass as the bait), the boys manage to score what they think is a giant catfish, which they name Fish'ell. Unfortunately, it turns out that Fish'ell is in fact the smallest in the competition. A policeman learns that Hamish & Andy do not in fact have fishing licences to take part in the competition, so he fines Hamish heavily. The boys also try sleeping in public, in which they converse with a local New Yorker, complain about the jetlag and then fall asleep. They attempt this joke in taxis, during a game of chess and while asking for directions among other scenarios. Back in the studio, Taylor Swift drops by for a quick chat and makes up a song for the tagalong dads who chaperone their daughters to her concerts, and Neil Patrick Harris talks about his latest film and later becomes Neil Patrick Harrison Ford, who steals the "sacred Bobblehead" (of Andy), recreating a scene from the Indiana Jones franchise. The boys also introduce us to the Busk-eteers, their own private band of buskers who play all the music for the show, and R2-To-Do, a to-do list robot which retains all the to-do's Hamish & Andy promise to do over the course of the show. | ||||
| 2 | 2 | "Episode 2" | August 4, 2011 | |
| 3 | 3 | "Episode 3" | August 11, 2011 | |
| 4 | 4 | "Episode 4" | August 18, 2011 | |
| 5 | 5 | "Episode 5" | August 25, 2011 | |