Get Krack!n (2017–2019) User Reviews

Definitely worth a shot

[fallguy_jack · 7/10 · 21 October 2017]

I read the reviews here when deciding whether or not to give this a try, and I came to the conclusion that I had to see for myself what was going on. I'm glad I did.

Maybe it's because I went in thinking that it might be horrible that I was so relieved it was the opposite. More or less pretty funny throughout, with moments of genius and rarely, maybe a few jokes per episode that would drag on 20 seconds too long. There are also stupid jokes, which I would normally despise, but I tend to find them funny in this. I guess they're doing them better. I have no idea what the negative reviews are talking about. So if you're worried about perspective, I'm male, I'm straight, and I have fairly high standards for comedy and I'm looking forward to watching the other half of the episodes!

I can only reason two theories about the wildly negative reviews; 1) They are planted to make you want to check for yourself and go in with low expectations, or 2) Some people actually believe what they see on TV is real - a thought which is absolutely terrifying...

Oh I also had to rewind fairly often so I could read the screen captions, because usually when I do it's worth it.

So-so

[yorktown_hawk · 6/10 · 1 July 2020]

It's not the funniest show on television, but it's also better than a lot of other junk with laugh tracks like Big Bang Theory.

I think a lot of people misinterpret the type of parody this is supposed to be. It's supposed to be over-the-top, hammed-up parody that looks staged and forced. It's supposed to be a bad parody. It's supposed to be a bad representation of morning television in the eyes of those who are too busy to watch morning television.

Don't approach it like a traditional parody or a tradition sketch comedy and you'll be entertained.

Having said that, the show doesn't have a long life and a lot of the material is repeated in similar ways. No surprises it's only lasted 2 years.

It's not the type I'd go back and watch, nor did I make time to watch it, but it was a light-hearted 30mins of entertainment to pass the time.

Hilarious but uneven

[anselmdaniel · 7/10 · 18 March 2024]

This review contains spoilers.

Get Krackin' is hilarious at times but the overall package is lacking. There are great highlights in this show such as any sketch with the loony Helen Bidou. The Kates are great at times but they appear bored at others. The problem in the series is that the show as a whole does not have as much as energy as the Kates' last project of The Katering Show. There are a lot of great ideas in this show but not all of them may stick with the audience. The Katering Show is superior to Get Krackin' and I would recommend any person that enjoys Get Krackin's earlier episodes to watch The Katering Show instead.

Grade: C.

Very funny

[net-pirate · 10/10 · 5 October 2017]

With regards to Matt Tighe, I don't work for the show and am not even Australian, but I find the absurdist humor of this show to be quite entertaining. This parody of an Aussie morning show that's on at an absurdly early hour because it is being broadcast to the US, is funny BECAUSE the shows hosts clearly don't want to be there and know that no one is watching. They bring all their off screen personal baggage to work with them and try hashing it out while dealing with guest of whom they could care less. Thanks to the internet for allowing me to find this show and enjoy it from outside of Australia.

Hilarious & absurd satire of Breakfast TV

[nickjo1998 · 9/10 · 18 September 2017]

After their hilarious skewering of the cooking show in 'The Katering Show' the Kates (McLennan & McCartney) have turned their satirical eyes towards Breakfast TV. More specifically, Breakfast TV hosted by plucky women who "speak for all ladies" and cram their near-misandry feminist ideals down the gullet of their audience.

The Kates are the two hosts of a show so bad it's been given a 3 AM time-slot. They are polar opposites of each other. McLennan is full of vim, vigour, and likely an unhealthy dose of caffeine, with a giant smile on her face at (almost) all times. McCartney is tired, bored, and looks like she wants out of this show as soon as possible. Yet they both endure to create a show, probably just so they can get their pay-cheques. In both their characterization and their dialogue, they portray self-aware, satirically over-the-top versions of themselves, lampooning the falsity of the typical hosts of this kind of show, and they consistently bring up "girl power" ideals at inappropriate moments, much like the shows they're parodying.

Not only is this show funny because of the hosts and the satire, but the actual gags are top-notch absurdist humour. Firstly, the ridiculous obstacle course of a set, the amount of segments they seem to try and cram into each episode, the bizarre guests ranging from normal people with strange jobs to just weird people in general, and the people outside the street view window (once again, at 3 AM). Not to mention the constant goofs from the people behind the camera, from the camera mistakes, to the editing/vision mixing mistakes, graphics, timing, and just generally a crew who has no idea what they're doing, especially their unassuming intern.

This is a show where both the subtleties and the not-so-subtleties work to their advantage. The two Kates know what they're doing in terms of absurd satirical humour. I look forward to watching the rest of the series.

Hilarious like an Aussie AB FAB

[addictseventyeight · 10/10 · 21 September 2017]

Just stumbled on this amazing gem and what can I say I just fell in love with those two funny ladies. Absurd, funny and relevant they will brighten the darkest day with their unique spin on daily topics. To me, they are the Aussie Patsy and Edwina! I wish they could tackle even more topics in an hour show. To all the haters ... You just don't have a funny bone in you or are just to dumb to understand their sophisticated smart funny sass!

Like fingers down a chalkboard, but very funny

[jimmysteele-47131 · 9/10 · 22 February 2019]

The blonde Kate does not let up with her desperate whine, thankfully offset by the others cool detachment.

Together, they take many sharp shots at all types, right and left. Pitiless in their takedowns.

Gutsy stuff.

A Shrill and Joyless Polemic

[quovadisdaddy · 3/10 · 1 October 2017]

Kate McCartney and Kate McLennan clawed their way to national attention largely through the unprecedented word-of-mouth success of their web- based The Katering Show. If this follow-up project is any indication, their ultimate goal in this enterprise was to eventually squander that goodwill through an ill-conceived and unpleasant "satire" of media values.

Even accounting for difficulty in adapting to a half-hour format, the hit-and-miss results of Get Krack!n might be considered charming if the duo hadn't decided to adopt an incessantly preaching tone throughout. In the place of disarming humour, each episode is dominated sour judgments of predictable PC targets, often delivered sneeringly directly to camera. The overall effect is nasty and unredeeming.

Very funny, witty Australian comedy

[taocreations · 10/10 · 20 December 2018]

This series is super witty, fast paced, dark humored and wonderfully relevant satire of the current times. Both Kates are wonderful in their portrayal of modern breakfast hosts and the juxtaposition of their characters is hilarious. The only negative thing i can think of is other peoples negative reviews of this show on IMDb, it neither warrants them nor deserves those criticisms because ......(its a satire people). Geeeze, lighten up! For everyone else who loves witty, exaggerated, nuanced, fast paced well written Australian humor this is the show for you. And to the Kates, i very much look forward to your future comedic endeavors.

Disappointing for this Katering Show fan

[biv07 · 2/10 · 26 May 2019]

I'm a big fan of the Katering Show so I had high hopes for the Kates' new outing. Unfortunately, Get Krack!n misses the mark for me.

One key difference between these two shows is the target of their humour. On the Katering Show, McLennan and McCartney were clearly on the same side. They would sometimes throw a friendly barb or two at each other but ultimately the actors' friendship was evident in their characters. Overall, the target of their humour was not each other but the world around them (e.g. diet fads, hipsters, food celebrities). By contrast, Get Krack!n has a different vibe and tends to rely on conflict between the Kates which I find to be lazier and less appealing humour.

In a similar vein, a lot of the humour of Get Krack!n derives from how bad the in-universe show is... a point which is hammered into the audience's heads at every possible turn and exaggerated beyond any level of believably. By contrast, The Katering Show relied on subtlety and fast-paced writing. Things still went wrong within the in-universe show but it was up to the audience to notice them - perhaps on their second or third re-watch. They didn't need to hit the audience over the head and say "THIS IS FUNNY" - they trusted the audience to be smart and able to get the joke.

As another reviewer commented, the success of The Katering Show might also lie in its brevity. In a 6-minute short, the jokes came so thick and fast that not a moment of the show could be wasted. Unfortunately, the half-hour format of Get Krack!n tends to stretch jokes so thin so as to undermine their payoff.

Unfortunately, it's back to re-watching the YouTube series for me.

Juvenile

[jonschaper · 6 February 2019]

I really wanted to like this show because the two Kates' Katering Show was good fun. However, sitting through an entire episode is of Get Krack!n is an excrutiating chore.

Breakfast TV is an easy target for parody, but even then I'd expect something better than what a giggly 11 year old could come up with. And yet they've somehow succeeded in making 11 year olds seem like Voltaire in comparison.

Every episode, for example, has the same psychotic drunk shilling cheap products. Why? Because they couldn't figure out how to do an effective parody of the product placement segments common on Australian breakfast TV. So instead they rely upon us going "Oh look! A crazy woman with apparent substance abuse issue! Bravo!!" That's not parody. It's cheap laughs.

Even when the show gets things right, like today's episode about how breakfast TV hosts have to act like they're enjoying themselves on the road when they're probably not, they tend to stretch that one joke for way too long until it wears thin, and then becomes annoying. By the time you feel like you've been pummeled with the same point enough, they try to break things up with other skits suggesting, e.g., that all small-town males in Australia are rapists. Ha ha ha. (And, really, if you want to make travelng through small-town Australia seem dreadful, why pick a beautiful place like Echuca?)

That aforementioned skit also about how funny rape is highlights the hypocrisy of the show. It's message is "It's okay, because we're making fun of hicks!" But every week we see the same "whites are terrible to aboriginals" joke done over and over again. I don't mind it when jokes are PC, but when it is the same variation on the same ineptly done, heavy-handed joke every episode, delivered in a wooden manner, and it gets juxtaposed with jokes that ironically see no harm in suggesting people who aren't from the white, Melbourne latte swilling inner suburb crowd are somehow worthless subhumans? I find myself starting to react against that PC humour instead of agreeing with it. If their goal is to advance wokeness? They're part of the problem of making it look smug and fake.

It's quite apparent that the sole reason for the success of The Katering Show was its brevity. It is quite clear that the Kates are incapable of anything of substance, and making silly faces will never be a substitute for wit.

It was Fab

[markalip · 10/10 · 14 February 2019]

Laughed out loud lots. terrific...thank you! What else to say...loved your cooking program..lovoing this idea. Thanks to Sam Neil too and your visiting comedians...loved the numeric bit..LOVED IT.

Even funnier than Celeste Barber

[bevo-13678 · 10/10 · 13 July 2020]

This was on the telly after the show I was watching but I couldn't change the channel cause I lost the remote so I turned the telly off at the wall.

Profoundly Unfunny

[doubt_it · 1/10 · 22 June 2020]

I tried watching this a few times and it's mostly been a painful cringeworthy experience. The concept is good but this basically has no idea what it wants to be: lazy satire interspersed with weak slapstick. The one-liner delivery of the hosts conveys the impression that they both think they are being hilarious which is usually the first sign that something isn't going to be funny. It's deadpan but stifled. Swearing can also be funny in its own right depending on the delivery but here again it feels forced; that sad impression that they feel they are being edgy and controversial just for swearing. All in all everything about this feels slightly forced and directionless. A cringeworthy experience.

Cringeworthy rubbish.

[DocJD · 2/10 · 20 September 2017]

I've only seen the parts of the first two episodes and about all I could bare, 15 minutes of the 4th episode. There are parts of the script that seem to be better written, but there are skits that are just poorly planned, overdone, and terribly executed. Everyone involved except the special guests, just try too hard, everything is very forced. I get the premise and I dislike morning TV but if I had to choose, I'd pick morning TV over this rubbish.

A badly made parody of bad daytime TV

[FinerFilmFanatic · 1/10 · 17 September 2017]

Having watched (suffered) 3 whole episodes, I can safely say I won't be watching a 4th. I gave it a second chance (twice).

The premise is that Kate McLennan and Kate McCartney are the hosts of a "daytime" magazine show so bad that it's on at 3am. The show-within-a- show has cheap production values, and the two hosts clearly dislike presenting it, as evidenced by their constant complaining, lack of professionalism and bad language.

The funniest (using that term in its very broadest sense) item was an advert for a machine that cooks a single egg at a time. That was in episode 1. In episode 2 there was an equally useless gadget, but the idea was beyond absurd and simply not funny. And clearly they had given up making adverts because none appeared in episode 3.

The two Kates treat their guests with disdain, barely listening to answers and not really formulating coherent or intelligent questions.

In better hands, this programme COULD have been funny, but it's simply not. The gag that the show is bad wore very thin in episode 1. Having opted for a 30-minute format (for 'our' show and 'their' show), it leaves little opportunity to actually skewer the many essentials of daytime TV - diet tips, fitness, gossip, celebrity interviews, competitions, fashion, etc. The real shows recycle these elements day in, day out. This show doesn't even attempt to do one of them per week.

The "Katy Perry" episode worked on no level at all. It was obvious that Katy Perry wouldn't appear in 'our' show, let alone 'their' show, so it was a long 30 minutes of one gag that she was "on her way", when clearly she wasn't.

Absolutely nothing about the show rings true. The stupidity of the hosts, the constant spelling mistakes in the hosts' names, the 'interns' who provide elements of the show - it all just fall flat.

The show has no redeeming values. None.

Any positive reviewers are either employed by the show or liars.

[matvp · 1/10 · 4 October 2017]

I've seen numerous comments likening this show to an unrehearsed high school revue, but it's much, much worse. The constant references to things stuck in, or being pushed out of their vaginas neither shock nor amuse. Nothing funny to say? Insert shrill vagina reference. What could have been a mildly amusing 5 minute skit on any other show has been stretched into a brain grating series. Don't bother waiting for a punchline...it just grates on becoming more embarrassing as the funny bit just doesn't come. I can't recall another program that has made me feel as physically agitated as this did. Female comedians would be cringing in their boots as this garbage is promoted as the premier comedic output of their gender. Quite seriously this is the worst thing I have ever sat through and by an extremely large margin. I am shaking my head in disbelief that anyone thought it was TV-worthy and how it is still running.

Embarrassing

[mozzmanau · 1/10 · 20 July 2020]

If I was one of the people on this show I would be embarrasses to show my face in public. This is major cringe worthy tv. And how has it got an IMDb rating over 5? These must be fake reviews or be rated by a bunch of 12 year old girls. Don't waste your time.

Horrendous Failure

[jamesmcwhirty · 1/10 · 7 March 2019]

Yet another Australian comedy sponsored by the ABC misses the mark by a country mile. It genuinely baffles me how the powers that be consider this worth making. It is at best 30 years out of date, and even in that era would have still failed due to its awful script and overly ham acting. I have seen better timing and lines in school plays. The only humour I see is being shown by the ABC.

Ear-splittingly awful

[funkleberry · 1/10 · 20 February 2019]

Unfunny, one dimensional, unwatchable! Can it now!

Vagina dialogues

[lynnluck · 1/10 · 21 September 2017]

A lot of Naughty words and slapstick overwhelm the sparse satire on morning shows .The invitation to fear stuff for example . And get your body horror going . Needs new script writers and to get over reproduction and excretion .yes we re free to say anything but if it's not funny or factual what's the point ?. The occasional gem but basically the same joke every week . : Isn't it funny having a vagina ?

Pure tokenism; unfunny smut

[HonestFeedback · 1/10 · 15 July 2019]

"Get Krack!n" is the result when left-wing ABC (Australia) cowers to incessantly whingeing and complaining feminists and decides to waste taxpayers' money on a tokenistic 'all-female' comedy show. The show is simply not funny and represents nothing more than blatant and transparent tokenism.

The only thing "Get Krack!n" does successfully is to perpetuate the myth that women can't be funny; which is a shame because they are some genuinely talented Australian female comics - just not these two Kates.

As for the show itself: unfunny smut; apparently spelling the 'c-word' with a "k" is utterly hilarious! The rest of the show is simply more genital obsession and associated 'below-the-belt' smut fraudulently trying to pass itself off as comedy.