television series about the 2000 Summer Olympics
in Sydney. The series was originally broadcast on the ABC
and had two seasons of 13 episodes each, the first in 1998 and the second in 2000.
'The Games' starred satirists John Clarke
and Bryan Dawe
along with Australian comedian Gina Riley
and actor Nicholas Bell
. It was written by John Clarke
and Ross Stevenson
. The series centred on the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (SOCOG) and satirised corruption and cronyism in the Olympic movement, bureaucratic ineptness in the New South Wales
public service, and unethical behaviour within politics and the media.
If you are with a visitor from overseas in a traffic jam in Sydney, you are to say, 'This is very unusual. A truck must have tipped over.'
The only people not watching it will be watching synchronized drowning on channel six million and eight.
Well, if you put $5 million on the table in this town, the room fills with the same flies every time, doesn't it?
Well, there's a behaviour pattern exhibited in various parts of the world often referred to as quid pro quo, in which somebody will do something for someone else and then build up in their mind the expectation that somebody else is going to do something for them. It's very common in those parts of the world, for example, inhabited by human beings.
You're not going to get $70 million out of the fluffy bunyip market, Nicholas. It can't be done.
The Formula One Grand Prix is currently less interesting than the video game that's based on it. The cars go around in a circle. They get Murray Walker|Murray Walker off the ceiling. The game itself is a procession, you can't get passed. The car in front at the beginning wins the race. The whole thing is decided by who's gonna have a pit-stop. They're the fastest cars on Earth and the key element here, Bryan, is not racing. It's PARKING!
We're running on the smell of an oily rag.
Yes, it's pretty hard. We're looking for an eighty-year-old, Spanish, ex-fascist art lover with Olympic connections ...
I thought you're supposed to jump up and down after you've won the gold medal.
(Stuck in traffic) Oh. A Truck Must Have Tipped Over.