To celebrate Outrageous Fortune's fifth season, here's a quiz to remind you how far the hit local show and its characters have come
QUESTIONS
1) Spot the cleavage - which characters do these body parts belong to?
2) Before starting Hoochie Mama, Cheryl struggled through a series of "honest" jobs. What were they?
3) Van had an affair with Tracy Hong's step-mother Mrs Hong. Which actress played the adulterous wife and what other role is she well-known for?
4) Over the full four-season history, how many babies have West family members spawned?
5) Van is noticeably slower than Jethro. Why?
6) In the movie-length Christmas special, a new family member appeared. Who?
7) In season two, Van and Munter stage a great escape to get Aurora away from the Horsemen gang. How did they get her out?
8) How many fiances and/or husbands has Pascalle had - what were their names?
9) In season three, Van and Munter stop talking. Why?
10) Pascalle had a mild klepto problem during season one. What was her modus operandi when it came to shoplifting?
11) In season four, Munter and Kasey broke up. Why?
12) Who first suspects Loretta is pregnant?
13) In season two, Grandpa was set to leave West Auckland and head south to Tauranga with his girlfriend Margaret. How did the pair meet?
14) Hello Sailor made a guest appearance in the Christmas special. What is their connection to the series?
15) Grant Bowler plays Wolf West and has also starred in two major American TV series. What are they?
16) In season three, Pascalle tries to impress her boyfriend's sister Linda (played by Madeleine Sami) and partake in the bra'zan ritual. What does this entail?
17) How many awards has Outrageous Fortune won?
18) In series one, Jethro gets a job at a top inner-city law firm. How did he get it?
19) Who is the older twin - Van or Jethro?
20) Cheryl and Kasey came to near blows over introducing menswear into the Hoochie Mama range. What was the offending item that caused the spat?
ANSWERS1)
1. Sheree 2. Loretta 3. Pascalle 4. Van
2) Supermarket check-out operator (where she staged a walkout over loo paper); Junk mail delivery; Insurance clerk.
3) Suzy Hong was played by Josephine Davison, better known as Gina from Shortland Street.
4) Four. Van fathered Jasmine Hong (to Suzy Hong); Loretta fell pregnant to Hayden; Jethro impregnated Sheree (while pretending to be Van, who now thinks he is the father, as does his dad, Wolf) and Cheryl is up-the-duff with Wayne's baby.
5) Because he was trapped in a chest freezer as a child.
6) Cheryl's sister Jeanette, who had escaped from the Exclusive Brethren in the Wairarapa.
7) They posed as pie-cart cooks and catered an inter-gang party. Aurora stowed away in the caravan and when a fight broke out between opposing gang members, the trio made a break for it, busting through the headquarter gates.
8) Two fiances and one husband. In season two she was engaged to Dr Bruce Khan, before marrying American millionaire Milt in season four (who died after visiting a strip club with Wolf). At the end of season four, she proposed to Nicky (Sheree's brother) and announced her engagement to her shocked and appalled family.
9) Van slept with Munter's Mum - a recovered alcoholic - after getting her drunk down in the Coromandel. Munter wasn't concerned about the sex, but was angry Van had let her drink.
10) Pascalle would slip items into her slouchy white boots. She later claimed she never pinched anything, the items simply fell into her loose boots.
11) He caught her in bed with a female IRD inspector.
12) Sparky. He sniffed her and claimed he could smell it.
13) Margaret used to be Mark - Ted's former prison cellmate.
14) Their hit song Gutter Black plays during the opening credits.
15) Lost and Ugly Betty.
16) A full body wax and colonic irrigation. It later emerged it was all a joke - much to Pascalle's fury.
17) Too many to count. Not even the writers know anymore.
18) He claimed he was half Maori.
19) Jethro - by a matter of minutes.
20) The love sock.
