  bro'town is a new zealand television animated series. the show used a comedy based format, targeted at a young adult audience. the series is set amongst new zealand's fast-growing pacific islander community, and focuses on a central cast of five young boys. bro'town is heavy with popular culture references, and is based on the performance of the local four-man group the naked samoans. vale, valea, jeff da mÄori, sione and mack live in the suburb of morningside (catchphrase: "morningside 4 life!"), and attend the local college, st sylvesterâs, where their principal is a faâafafine and the p.e. teacher is the legendary ex-all black rugby player michael jones. ==production== produced by new zealand company firehorse films and funded by new zealand on air, bro'town was made using three animation studios â two in new zealand and one in india â and involved over 100 staff. ===animation=== the series was done in traditional ink and paint animation, each episode took up to six months to make and consists of 16,000 animated cells, making it a huge undertaking for all involved. despite the carefully planned nature of animation, the samoans' performance style often gives the dialogue an improvisational, spontaneous feel. when successful this effect is fresh and funny but at times it renders the dialogue indistinct, with characters stepping on each other's lines. ===content=== the show satirises the boysâ culture, with vivid dialogue in the local vernacular, expressing what it is like to grow up as a minority culture in auckland city, auckland the largest polynesian city in the world. although the setting is contemporary and the satire topical, the humour often reflects a nostalgia for the 1980s period of the naked samoans' own boyhood. the series is also scattered with references to new zealand literature, particularly the novels and short stories of witi ihimaera. the series have strong religious references, with most episodes starting with events between god, jesus christ and o
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