Bogan Pride
Intelligent teenage fugly Jennie Cragg lives in the suburb Boonelg with her mother, Berenice Cragg, who is extremely overweight and has isolated herself in her bedroom. With help from her two religious lesbian best friends Amy Lee and Nigella, and her neighbor/inspiration Nick, Jennie strives to enter a dance battle, hoping to win $10,000 for her mum's stomach-stapling operation. Along the way she'll gain the heart of her crush Nick, with the help of lesbians become closer to God, and get revenge on the school skanks.
- 2008-2008
- 1 season
- Comedy, Music
Intelligent teenage fugly Jennie Cragg lives in the suburb Boonelg with her mother, Berenice Cragg, who is extremely overweight and has isolated herself in her bedroom. With help from her two religious lesbian best friends Amy Lee and Nigella, and her neighbor/inspiration Nick, Jennie strives to enter a dance battle, hoping to win $10,000 for her mum's stomach-stapling operation. Along the way she'll gain the heart of her crush Nick, with the help of lesbians become closer to God, and get revenge on the school skanks.
Season 1 Episode Guide
6 Episodes 2008
Episode 1
The Fugly Fringe
25 mins
It's summer in Boonelg, and just before school starts back, the hunk of Jennie's grade, Nick Lazzarri, returns from a juvenile detention facility. Jennie has always had a huge crush on Nick and decides that, as her last year at Boonelg High, this is the year she has to become more cool and make a move.
Episode 2
The Parachute of Healing
24 mins
Jennie's mother, Berenice, has been chair-bound for weeks after receiving a nasty spider bite on her leg, but the doctor assesses that her main problem is her morbid obesity. Cassandra, however, is more concerned with the well-being of her new cat Chinnie--and with exploiting the special-needs adults she is supposed to be tending. Jennie tries to help her mother lose weight, but after the Tummy Tumbler proves ineffective, she and her friends enlist the help of their GLS (God's Love Society) spiritual leaders, Miss LaMont and Miss Butcher, and they hold a cult-like intervention--which goes terribly wrong when Berenice is raised out of her chair and Cassandra's beloved cat becomes involved.
Episode 3
The Maths Olympiad
25 mins
The Maths Olympiad is the highlight of the academic calendar for Jennie and her best friends Amy Lee and Nigella, but when Amy Lee seems to have found a boyfriend on an opposing team, Jennie gets jealous and the girls' competitive natures are unleashed. Meanwhile, Cassandra buries her cat Chinnie, then takes her charges to the cinemas in the nearby up-market suburb, Spooner Hill. When she's refused free refills at the cinema snack bar, she gets into an altercation with staff and is arrested. Back at the Maths Olympiad, a cut-throat knockout final ensures and Amy Lee must exhibit her Christian kindness to forgive Jennie, and then herself, for acting like a slut.
Episode 4
The Roller Skank Rink
25 mins
The doctor has told Berenice that she needs a stomach-stapling operation that will cost $10,000, or else her future does not look very...large. Desperate now to help her mother, Jennie asks Aunty Cassandra, who seems to have been quite entrepreneurial in the past, to help her fund-raise, and Cassandra suggests that she sell "bonsai cats". Jennie then encounters her father Burt (guest-star Brian Mannix), a compulsive gambler, and he recommends that Jennie should give him all of her savings, saying that he could turn them into $10,000 easily. When that gamble doesn't pay off, Jennie is forced to "sell herself" to sell her bonsai cats at the re-opening of the local roller-skating rink, but Amy Lee believes that Jennie is literally "selling herself" (prostituting), so she and Nigella skip the G.L.S. Spiritual Sleepover and rush to save Jennie from eternal damnation.
Episode 5
The Need for Mongs
24 mins
After a sign from God, Jennie and her friends decide to enter the upcoming "Let's Get It On" dance battle, which has a $10,000 First Prize. After initial rehearsals it appears that their dance abilities aren't nearly as good as their mathematical prowess, so Jennie hunts the school for people with "mega-mad dance skills" to join their squad to have a hope of beating the school skanks: Tracy, Tizneen, and Tessa. Meanwhile, Cassandra's negligence gets her sacked from her professional-carer position, but she then learns that one of her charges, Marilyn, has won a colouring-in competition and that Cassandra needs Marilyn's help if she's to collect the prize for herself. Also, the cause of Nigella's sudden strange allergies and illnesses is revealed: her mother has been poisoning her.
Episode 6
The Dance Battle
25 mins
In the final episode of Series 1, Cassandra uses Jennie as a "replacement mong" to collect the prize for the colouring-in competition--which Jennie learns to be $10, 000. Jennie begs her Aunty to give the money to her mother for the stomach-stapling operation, but Cassandra insists that she needs it to go to Vanuatu and win back her husband. To help Jennie win the dance battle, the hugely-obese Berenice uses all of her willpower to get up and go on a mission to find Jennie some nice costumes, but she becomes lodged in the front seat of her car before she can get anywhere. Jennie prays with help from the G.L.S. and enlists Nick for her dance battle-team, but will this be enough to win, or will the now cashed-up Cassandra change her selfish ways and save her sister?