bro'Town is New Zealand's first adult-targeted animated series.

Vale, Valea, Jeff da Maori, Sione and Mack live in the suburb of Morningside and attend the local college, St Sylvester’s, where their principal is a Fa’afafine and the PE teacher is legendary ex-All Black Michael Jones.

Vale and Valea (loosely translates to dumb and dumber) are two brothers, living in a single-parent household with their father Pepelo, a benefit bludging, occasional fork-hoist driver with a love of beer, porn and gambling. Vale has a strong social conscience while Valea is more interested in pashing the girls, but both brothers believe in having a strong solidarity with their boys.

Sione is Vale and Valea’s best mate and fancies himself as a bit of a ladies man, while he constantly looks for ways to impress the girl of his dreams, sixth former Mila Jizovich.

Jeff da Maori lives with his mum and eight dads in a car shell outside the house. He was brought up in the country by his auntie but then moved to the city ‘for better tv reception and because the thieving colonialists stole our land’.

Rounding out the group is the softly spoken Mac who has definite gay tendencies and a knack for talking his way out of things but does stand behind his word eventually!

Produced by New Zealand company Firehorse Films and funded by New Zealand On Air , Bro Town was made using three animation studios – two in New Zealand and one in India – and involved over 100 staff.

Each episode took up to six months to make and consists of 16,000 drawings, making it a huge undertaking for all involved.

Guest stars

• NZ Warriors Awen Guttenbeil , Henry Fa’afili and Stacey Jones
• All Black Joe Rokocoko
• rap star Scribe
• actress Lucy Lawless (Xena)
• TV3 News anchors John Campbell and Carol Hirschfeld
• Academy Award nominee Keisha Castle-Hughes
• New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark

Episode List

Season One (2004)

• The Weakest Link - The five boys go on a quiz show.
• Sione-rella - Sione sneaks off to a school ball.
• The Wong One - A Chinese kidnaps Vale.
• Get Rucked - The All Blacks play a game of rugby with St. Sylvester's.
• A Maori At My Table - The five boys visit Jeff's marae.
• Go Home, Stay Home - CYPS takes Vale and Valea away.
• The World According to Bro Town

Season Two (2005)