Talk:The Chaser's War on Everything

Note to all editors - You don’t need to add every stunt they do. The article is meant to have a general overview, not a list of everything they do. Per this material such as the ongoing list of ad road tests will be removed. If you wish to contribute, please write it in the episode guides. See List of The Chaser's War On Everything episodes.

Talk archives:
Archive One: May 2006 → May 2007

Sophia Loren

We probably should wait for the actual episode, but Sophia Loren getting Mr 10 question'd has gotten a lot of attention. Noteworthy? ~ Logging in is for the unexciting

dont think so, we would consider it when the footage is actually show, this is an encyclopaedia, dont think spoilers are appropriate Jasewase 10:38, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

Just for future reference, spoilers aren't a problem to Wikipedia, so long as they are from a reliable source (ie. studio press release or interview in a newspaper article is fine - a rumours website or forum isn't). -- Chuq (talk) 00:24, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

What Have We Learnt From History?

Third showing. Does that mean it gets listed now? Chewbacca1010 05:18, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

No even the cast admits its an "increasingly occasional segment". now that ive divided the segments up, im not even sure if life was a musical, osama bin laden should be a prominent segment. Jasewase 08:01, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Why Oz only?

If anyone knows, I'd love to know why only Australian viewers are allowed to view the video casts. Chris Fletcher 06:52, May 22, 2007 (UTC)

This page is not a discussion forum for The Chaser's War on Everything. Please do not discuss issues related to the topic here. –Sebi ~ 07:39, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

I'll answer your query anyway. It's to do with the current Australian copyright laws and the show features music and other copyrighted material that is only legally allowed to be shown in Australia. Offering the vodcast to everyone across the world is breach of copyright. Hopes this clears things up. --Lakeyboy 09:43, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Well I'm in Canada, and I managed to download their podcasts last season. I switched to torrents because the quality overall, is better then their podcast. Chewbacca1010 01:54, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

this perfectly illustrates the idea of breaching copyright. good job Kiran90 06:07, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

So get the RIAA or the MPAA on my anonymous ass then, if you're so concerned. It's not as though I can watch the episodes when they first air anyhow, since I'm not in Australia. Jeez! Chewbacca1010 17:31, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

I believe its to do with the fact that the ABC is a government funded television station, and the copyright stuff to do with he songs and footage shown in it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Peachey88 (talk • contribs) 09:49, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

You could still get the dvd in other countries-though. andrew rickert 07:03, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Show's name abbreviation

In the introduction it is stated that the name of the show is often shortened to 'The War' by the cast. I can't recall this ever being used as an abbreviation but I can recall it often being abbreviated to 'The Chaser'. Is the comment about 'The War' correct? Afterwriting 06:28, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Yes it is. Most episodes start off with "Welcome to The War for another week." --Richmeister_talk 06:59, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

I think when they refer to it as "The War" in that context they are refering to the small "battles" they "fight" as opposed to the show as a whole. EDIT: As in, "Welcome to the war we are fighting," as opposed to "Welcome to the Chaser's War on Everything," if that makes sense. Chewbacca1010 03:32, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

I've always understood it as referring to the show, as Richmeister says above. It makes no sense abbreviating it to 'The Chaser' because that is the name of the group (as well as the newspaper) which would cause confusion. -- Chuq (talk) 00:22, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

i dont see any need to have it on the page at all, it doesnt contribute to anythingKiran90 06:09, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

The group are the Chaser and the show is the War (hence it's their 'War on Everything', and hence why they welcome viewers to 'the War'). However, I've heard the show referred to in general discussion as everything from 'the Chasers', 'Chasers War', 'Chaser' and so on right up to the full title, but never just 'the War'. Perhaps the line should read: "often shortened to The Chaser by viewers, and The War by cast". It's something of a compromise in any case. DirectEdge 09:08, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

clive the slightly too loud commuter

should clive be elevated to prominent, just like the similar spruiker and crazy warehouse guy? or do we leave the de facto status? or maybe we need to drop osama bin laden, or even pursuit trivia, because they dont seem frequent. if only someone had a whole DVD collection and tallied up the total number of appearances for each segment...which probably could happen lol. Jasewase 13:22, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

yeh, i reckon he gets added in Kiran90 06:09, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

Not yet. There has only been 3 Clives in 12 airings of the show this year. I reckon there needs to be at least another 2 clives within the next 4 episodes to elevate it to a staple of the show. --Lakeyboy 09:56, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Why can this stupid arguing over segments classifications stop, why does it really matter how often they appear we should just make 1 list of segments, and state how many times each has appeared in its description.

The Goverment donation dilemma

Recently, The Chaser targeted donationss being sent to the government. You know, where Chas sent heaps of cheques to the Australian and NSW governments, and then went following them to "thank" them. Some body please add this in. --Pezzar 06:45, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

You'll find information on that segment on this page [1], under episode 35. I don't think it was notable enough to be included under the controversies section, nor is it part of any recurring segment. Recurring dreams 06:52, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

GA fail

I've quick-failed the article's GA nomination since all of the articles either lack a fair-use rationale, source information, or both. Please addess these issues before renominating the article. Drewcifer3000 20:23, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

protection

i think the article should be semi-protected for a short time (before this wednesday's episode) for obvious reasons. Jasewase 11:27, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

agreed Muzzamo 12:02, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Ditto. It's already been vandalised due to heightened attention after the APEC stunt. DirectEdge 04:29, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Well, if y'all think that's necessary, then one of you needs to do the necessary here: Wikipedia:Requests_for_page_protection. --Mark H Wilkinson ^{(t, c)} 09:10, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

I have now requested that the page be semi-protected at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection. Stickeylabel 09:41, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

The request has been granted, and semi-protection will be enforced for a period of seven days. Hopefully this will negate the possibility of vandalism. Stickeylabel 11:28, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

"Societal Impact"

I personally feel that this heading is a little misleading, suggesting an analysis or comment on how the Chaser boys have impacted on society rather than the highlighting of some of their more controversial stunts. Perhaps we should rename the section, 'Controversies' or something. DirectEdge 05:31, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

I agree, I have now changed to section to 'Controversy' accordingly. Stickeylabel 08:17, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Cleaning

Hi all, Hope I haven't stepped on any toes, but I cleaned up the broadcast section a bit - it kept repeating itself (I think it mentioned the fact 'The Chaser broadcasts at 9pm/prime time' four or five times.) Apart from that, I really like the article, well done :) I also removed the line which referred to the fact the Chaser had apparently hurt channel seven's 'heroes.' Two reasons, one I think that's pretty speculative (yes I read the source, but that itself was speculative, frankly I think the fact channel seven tried to take on both House and the Chaser when they were there first was the reason for Heroes getting crunched, but thats just me) and two, I honestly don't think it's relevent. Sounds more like bragging then worthwhile. However, if people genuinely want it back in then go nuts. Cheers GreenGopher 00:12, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

I know its a small thing but its bugging me but could someone fix the aspect ratio statment for the dvd releases to the correct value of 1.78:1 Humie64 07:09, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

it's either 4:3 or 16:9. or thats what i thought Jasewase 09:09, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Colours

I find it hard to distinguish the green from orange, I'm not colourblind, so if someone could change these to make more easier on the eyes. SpecialWindler talk (currently offline) 08:21, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

no offence but you must be colourblind, but to your request i have changed it to green and purple (one light and one dark, without using red and blue which are used for links) Jasewase 13:18, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, its alot better. I just figured it may be my monitor, and its colour resolution. SpecialWindler talk (currently offline) 00:15, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Split

The page is already pretty long. If it gets much longer I think we should consider splitting one/two of the sections into separate pages. Possible controversies or segments. It would also make everything easier to manage and clean up. Cheers, Rothery 07:40, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Hmmm. I dont know. From an outsider's point of view... I think it makes sense to keep the show in one article. -- Anonymous Dissident^Talk 08:22, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

i disagree here, there are thousands more articles that are much longer in length, and the article is well organised anyway. Jasewase 12:31, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Just because there are longer articles doesn't mean we shouldn't consider splitting this. There are also lots of articles with spelling errors. A good analogy? No. Apt? Yes.

Anyway, right now the entire article is about 45 KBS (44 not including references and external links). According to the general rules of Wikipedia:Article size you should start considering to split an article when it is anywhere from 30-50 KBS. A lot of this is a style consideration, as too much text makes a page ugly and people less likely to read it. The page actually says:

> 40 KB May eventually need to be divided (likelihood goes up with size)

So, while I don't think it needs to be split quite yet, after the end of this series, if it gets much bigger, it should be seriously considered. One options I just thought of is possibly keeping the "Primary Segments" segment and then having a link to the main article which is something like List of Segments in The Chaser's War on Everything or something. Just a thought, no rush. Cheers, Rothery 22:51, 23 September 2007 (UTC).

My opinion here. When the article reaches 50kb, the controversies and media impact sections should be split into The Chaser's War on Everything in popular culture. These sections relate less to the show than the segments section. The segment section actually describes the show and the various segments to the reader while the controversies etc. only support the article to show it's impact on others. Anyone else agree? --Lakeyboy 00:21, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

I support the proposed popular culture split for the reasons Lakeyboy puts forward. Splitting in that respect is consistent with other articles that have been split. DirectEdge 00:40, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

The segment section does seem to be untidy and I would like to see that section summarised and the indiviual segment details in another page as mentioned Humie64 14:56, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

apec court hearing?

anyone know what happened today at the local court or wherever? on one of the episodes it was mentioned that today (october 4) the chaser team would face the court... Jasewase 10:29, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

Shit Boring Golf Classic

Does anybody know the name of the background song during that segment?