Talk:The Shebang

Rename Page
Can someone (perhaps a regular Wikipedia editor) please help me rename this page to "The Shebang" instead of "The shebang", as it is the title of a program not a sentence. Thanks :)

Stu 06:09, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

I Moved the page:)
I moved the page for you as you asked because i supported your motion. In the future, to move the page, just click the 'move' button at the top of a Wikipedia Page

The move button is just about - ^^^^^^^^^

note - you must be signed into your wikipedia account to do this cya

Yeah, I know, but I was too new to do it. Thanks :) Stu 02:51, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Page for Fifi
Surely there is enough information out there on Fifi's career (more so than Marty - who now has his own entry) - to create an entry for her? The significant bio information in this entry seems more like info that should be presented on an individual person's bio entry, rather than one for an enesemble program.

Quotes
I notice most of the quotes listed are regular quotes which are used on the show, however I note that recently someone has added s number of random quotes which seem to just be quotes that have been said on the show once. Shouldn't the quotes section just contain the (many) regular quotes from the show?

RE: Quotes
- I dunno, it wouldn't hurt to have the other "memorable" quotes there as well. And are we just gonna limit it to quotes from Marty and Fifi? Because Sarah McLeod said something and I thought about adding it on. Crazyspoonkiller 00:00, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

This page needs a lot of work
This is going to go down like a lead balloon but I think this article needs to be rewritten. It's long, rambling and boring to read. Moreover, the contents are unencyclopedic.

An example of some of the stuff that has somehow made the cut:


 * "Notable items of Fifi's wardrobe include her avocado poncho, her Port Power dress, her Brownlow dress, her trench coats and most recently - "Bill Murray's pants". Fifi enjoys Celine Dion and songs about dirty hoes. She has also been mistaken for model Lara Bingle. Fif is a huge fan of Simon Baker Denny's; So much so she often refers to him as the worst/rudest interview ever. She also went to Tintern, a private school in Melbourne's outer east and her mother bought her a pony (something that Marty often calls attention to)."

The long list of quotes is better suited to Wikiquote and obviously can't stay in its current form.

I've only heard the show a couple of times so I'm not qualified but can someone who is a regular listener do a rewrite?

138.25.72.146 08:22, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

--I've broken the information up so it's not so rambly for the time being. Are we gonna get rid of that information altogether? And I have no idea about anything to do with wikiquote so I shall leave that in the capable hands of someone else. Crazyspoonkiller 00:32, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

--Alright, I've had a brainwave. How bout we put all that unencyclopedic information into a "Trivia" section?


 * Only one problem... Wikipedia is an encyclopedia.

V see below sections - I've preserved as much of the deleted stuff in the talk page so it can be debated if you want it back. (Y'know, Be Bold and all that.)Blackjack4124 13:17, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Stuff removed in cleanup
Marty has even admitted on air that his accountant is a top 32 Golden Tee player in the world.

(Relevancy minimal.)

whose bio is apparently so uninteresting that the Triple M website features a description of TV hostess and one time musical sensation Toni Pearen instead.

(not really necessary - someone got his real name on hand?) - Nevermind, I found it in the article!

Marty has recently been bemoaning Fifi's 'rising star', as she has been appearing on Australian television shows Sunrise and Thank God You're Here, while Marty appears to be doing relatively little with his life by comparison. Fifi has also been recently asked to appear on Network Ten's "Australia's Brainiest Comedian", which was infeasible for her because she had a wedding on at the time it was to be filmed. She had a feeling of accomplishment at it since she has been "working on her comedy" for over 18 months. Marty and Fifi have argued over such things as the pronunciation of cummerbund and Marty's spelling. Fifi has difficulty with her pronunciation (such as Osama and Google) whereas Marty has problems with his spelling (such as across and their).

(Contributes little. May be reworkable, but what is the actual encyclopaedic content here?)

NOT removed: Cast member mini-bios. Should be removed if Wikipages are made though.

Edited: LTLFTC section. I feel it's a little condescending, but it's an improvement (I hope).

Added: Shebanging the World reference. Needs improvement.

Reluctant to leave the 'lighthearted innuendo' in as written (would need consensus on change though - to something like -

"A longstanding source of humour in the show consists of Sheargold openly mocking Fifi on the basis of her looks." (Guys - I can't make it sound good - Marty doesn't help!)

Need to shorten the "Fifi's relationship sections. Following removed:

[on air nicknames] (including funtop, soulmate, looney tunes, mystery man, anklet and landscaper)

So far 'The Man' has booked a hotel without an air conditioner as Fifi was recovering from a tonsilectomy, bought her a $14.95 book for her 30th birthday (although admittedly Fifi thought that it was her 29th), did a striptease for a bunch of other women at Brownie's wedding, given her nicknames like "Boxy" and "Mud-guts", and admitted that he'd rather lose his sense of sight as opposed to his sense of smell (as Fifi suggested would probably be a better sense to lose). On the flip side, Fifi has attended one of his Gaelic soccer matches and missed him, said on national TV behind his back that she has plans to procreate and went out to hear his band play and missed him yet again.

[Suggest removal to a 'list of events on The Shebang' page - like the one for Get This]


 * Fifi let it slip on 25 September 2006 and it was actually unnoticed but herself and Marty and Brownie that she revealed The Man's first name which is Tony. She was talking about a camping trip that they went on on the weekend which went horibbly wrong. The eventually turned the story into a phone topic.

[see above]

(inability to do accents) which turn out sounding like some amalgamation of English and Indian.

(Padding removed)

Fifi, whose funniest moments often arise out of her inability to act calmly under pressure and do accents, has landed her in commercial radio hot water before. When working for regional radio station 2MC Port Macquarie, Fifi laughed inappropriately at a co-worker during the reading of the obituaries, and was fired.

(Belongs in a Fifi Box section - doesn't relate to this show.)

It is fair to say that Operation Mandarin was an inspiration to people across the nation (or the eastern seaboard at least) and has sparked the emergence of other Operation Mandarins conducted by listeners.

[Might be able to rescue part 2 (the mention of copycats)]

The entire quotes section: It belongs in Wikiquote, no?


 * The article is starting to look at bit better --Mikecraig 23:03, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Quotes
"I thought it'd be fun to talk to Shebang listeners about..." - Marty or Fifi (when they start a phoner)

"Cool as ice" - Marty

"Two tickets to Lesbos!!" - Marty

"Are you on the gear?" - Marty

"Take your top off and sit on my lap" - Marty

"What's in Fifi's Box? It's shear gold!" - Fifi

"Is it Bec?" - Marty

"Stop smokin' Ice!" - Marty

"Bula to our Fijian listeners!" - Marty

"Eh, Terry bro, put your jandals on, we're going trimping!" - Marty

(When a child calls): "Whoa! How old are you, little buddy?...What year are you in?...Play any sports?..." - Marty

"Are you a half-piper?" - Marty

(In a voice as high as they can go) "Berretts!!!" - Marty and Fifi

"Was that when you were on 3GGG with Filthy Phil?" - Marty

"Kids in the car." Fifi to Marty if the talk has gone a little racy

"You are on FIRE!!" - Marty and Fifi

"Long time listener, first time caller" (or "Long time, first time", or "LTLFTC") - Various callers

"N-Na...Nowmay..." - Marty (trying to pronounce 'Naomi Robson')

"I am going to spank your arse until it's red raw" - Marty to Fifi as a song starts.

"See what I've done there? I've forgotten how tiny your mind is." - Marty

"But only if we can do it at a Westfield shopping centre." - Marty (jocularly as the possibility of a publicity stunt arises)

"We're having a funny day today. Not funny-haha; Funny-retarded." - Marty

"What time is it..how long have we got to go?" - Marty

"Bang. What time is it?!" - Marty

"...Can you say titillate again?" - Marty

"Allegedly." - Marty or Fifi

"Don't say 'testy' again." - Marty

"Buck up." - Fifi

"Brownie...can we just start the show again?" - Marty

"It's a sausage party!" - Marty

"The cock control room-" - Fifi

"Good gear" - Marty

That's enough for now: I'm not finished yet though!Blackjack4124 12:44, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Segments/Content Changes
Would it be appropriate to write some stuff about the changes in segments and such after the move from drive to breakfast? Crazyspoonkiller 00:13, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

-AXED SEGMENTS

Captain Obvious

Paul Calija's History Lesson (?)

Unfortunate Deaths/Incidents Involving an Idiot

-RETAINED SEGMENTS

Dog Whisperers (renamed "Thank Dog You're Here)

Six Billion to One

Shebanging the World

Great Escapes

Great Waste of Money (?)

-NEW SEGMENTS

Who Did you see on the weekend?

Dirty Deeds

The Shebang's "Mini League"

Cart it Up

Missing Personality Unit

Feel free to add to the list

Hosts subsection removed
Removed as it doesn't actually add anything that isn't in the header. [The descriptions of the members should be on their entries (as, I note, they are, with the exception of Byron Cooke.)

Hosts
The three regular cast members of the show are Fifi Box, Marty Sheargold and Drew Chapman. The show is aired 6am to 9am AEST weekdays in Sydney, although it was originally broadcast from 4pm to 7pm (and later 4pm to 6pm) in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.

Fifi Box
Box is not fan of Simon Baker Denny and often refers to him as the worst/rudest interview ever, above Heather Mills and Gene Simmons. She also went to Tintern, a private school in Melbourne's outer eastern suburbs. When Box was younger she had a pet pony, to which Sheargold often refers. She has made appearances on several TV shows, such as Thank God You're Here and Dancing With The Stars, where she was runner-up in Season 6 to singer Kate Ceberano. Many of the jokes on the Shebang revolve around Fifi's love life. She used to date a guy who drove a "Fun Top".

Marty Sheargold
Marty Sheargold is a stamp collecting germophobe who loves it when newspaper articles put someone's age after their name and whose parenting techniques often include salad tongs. Sheargold has pink carpet with salmon curtains and has a soft spot for Naomi Robson, Deborra-Lee Furness, Gretel Killeen and Adelaide as well as a few other selected individuals. He has a fetish for Irish women that have red hair and green eyes, has a mancrush on V8 Supercar driver Steven Richards and would turn for Robbie Williams.

Sheargold on-air has asked Box many times to get off his lap, put some clothes on and to marry him.

Anchor
Former anchor Byron Cooke moved to America with fiancée Chrissie Cooke to work in radio in Los Angeles. He was briefly replaced by Adam Barrat in the latter part of 2005, before Brownie took up the reins in 2006. Brownie has hosted The Awesome 80s (6pm Monday - Thursday) and currently panels the Melbourne version of Triple M's Saturday morning sport show Dead Set Legends. It was announced on Friday December 1st that Brownie was leaving as he would be moving to SAFM in Adelaide.

He was replaced by Drew Chapman, who also hosts the Awesome 80s for Triple M Brisbane.

content
i was listning to it this morning and they had segments like Riddle Me This and missing persons unit

shouldnt that be added in the content

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Yes, I agree. Most of the segments that are listed in the article were scrapped. Shall we split it up into "Former Segments" and "Current Segments" or should we remove the old segments? Or shall I just be quiet?

Crazyspoonkiller 01:18, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

All right, well I've "fixed" the segment section. Here's what I took out:

Slip Of The Tongue
This is a segment where callers call in with their stories of saying something that they didn’t actually mean to say.

Literature Readings
One of the most popular segments on the show was the reading of the 'Mayor of Casterbridge', which took over from Marty's reading of Tim Winton's 'Cloudstreet' (a book inflicted on many final year students in New South Wales). Often Sheargold tried to lobby the listeners into endorsing a return to his particular literarture choice, however Fifi's hilarious readings of the 'Mayor of Casterbridge' became a staple, the highlight being her inability to do proper accents.

Caller Questions
Sometime around the start of 2004, Marty and Fifi occasionally started asking 'sub-questions' as part of their phone topics. For example, if the phone-in question was 'name your celebrity crush', then they would follow this up with a random sub-question ie: 'what's your favourite bun', or 'what's your favourite smell'.

Fellow Triple M radio show Get This has seemed to follow on from this concept.

From the School that Brought you...
Similarly to the subquestions, Marty and Fifi have also done series of phone topics, framed in the manner of "From the school that brought you..."

Shebang Polls
Occasionally, Sheargold and Box conduct polls where they take in calls from listeners and tally up the votes. Box will then calculate the end result as a percentage.

Celebrity Smackdown
This is a segment that asks the qusetion of who would win a fight between two celebrities, often based on a recent news-story involving them or a rivalry. Originally (in Drive), it was a series of phone topics titled "Who would win a fight betwen..." (eg. "Who would win a fight between Jordan and Peter Andre?"). --

"Dad's crap jokes" still needs to be added.

I got all the info from this site: http://www.triplem.com.au/sydney/shows/theshebang/features/

But I don't know how to reference, so if someone could do that for me that'd be great.

Crazyspoonkiller 01:48, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

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Drew Chapman
It appears that Drew is gone. The new host is called "Maroon" according to the Triple M web site. Someone should update this article. Jpp42 (talk) 20:28, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

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