Here Come The Habibs

2016

Seasons & Episodes

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EP1 Lockdown Jun 05, 2017

Olivia's worst nightmare becomes a reality when the O'Neills and the Habibs are trapped in the same house due to an Ebola scare. Lovebirds Elias and Maddie disagree over how to 'come out' to their families as a couple.

EP2 Go Back to Where You Came From Jun 12, 2017

Fou Fou and Olivia join forces to drive out their unwelcome new neighbour, a Chinese-American movie star. Layla casts her family in star roles in her school video project on racism.

EP3 The Fundertakers Jun 19, 2017

Fou Fou bribes the O'Neills into hosting a Lebanese funeral in their house. Toufic launches his new funeral business, The Fundertakers, with disastrous results. Layla and Maddie steal Fou Fou's V8 for a burnout competition.

EP4 Middle East Side Story Jun 26, 2017

Mariam and Jack risk their marriages to perform in the multicultural musical 'Middle East Side Story'. Olivia plays dirty to stop Layla from becoming school captain at Rosemount Ladies' College.

EP5 The Kidney Jul 03, 2017

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EP6 The Beach Jul 10, 2017

A beach picnic turns into a riot when Fou Fou and Olivia come to blows and are arrested. Maddie's talented new boyfriend, Kanye, runs rings around Elias. But is he too good to be true?

EP7 The Girl From Lebanon Jul 17, 2017

Elias falls in love with a beautiful Lebanese visitor, Yasmine, but Layla suspects she's a gold digger. Olivia runs for election with the Racial Harmony Party, and Fou Fou vows to thwart her.

EP8 Leb Wedding Jul 24, 2017

It's a backyard wedding war between when Madison and Kanye decide get married the same day as Elias and Yasmine. But who will live happily ever after?
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Released: 09 February 2016 Returning Series
Producted By: Jungle Entertainment
Country: Australia
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: https://www.9now.com.au/here-come-the-habibs
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After winning the lottery, the Habib family move into Sydney's richest suburb to live the Australian dream, but their poshy next door neighbours are not all to happy about it.

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rojda-259-609864 It is true or not true you love it or not! No matter for me this movie Australian best mix movies I love to watch every single character and love soo much! I expect more season.! Why you are upset? You should be upset other things not the much beautiful series everyone play outstanding good. I want it back. My family asking when start again habibs family...
amelesdad I know that if you watch this with your built in prejudices and looking for a problem you'll hate it. Just open your mind and watch and listen as they tell you the truth about the human condition. All the labels such as "Lebanese" "Muslim" "Islamic" are irrelevant. This is about people. The kids are who they are, the adults are who they are - all have the same ambitions, pretensions and foibles as everyone else in the world. At least channel 9 has the balls to make something. F*%$ the PC bull and open your eyes to reality. Without the pushing of boundaries there is no exploration of people. As a first generation British Pakistani Muslim I have seen the same growth of the community here which is being mimicked all across the world in migrant communities. There are the hard workers, then there are the shirkers. The gang culture which is laughable as it is based upon the African Americans who did suffer oppression and there backlash is real. Anyone who chooses to come here cannot be upset when some people don't want them there. The majority of the time people left their homelands because some people didn't want them there. Enough rambling - suffice to say the show is true to its roots and should be lauded rather than vilified.
Vito Doria "Here Come the Habibs!" is not the perfect show but it has the potential to be one the best Australian sitcoms in years.Since "Acropolis Now" finishing airing in 1992, there has not been a great ethnic Australian comedy on television. "Pizza" was on SBS in the 2000s but that show was too crass and stereotypical for mainstream audiences.Rob Shehadie and Tahir Bilgic, who were in "Pizza", are the creators of "Here Come the Habibs!" and the show is more light-hearted than the SBS sitcom. The show could be labelled as a Lebanese-Australian "Beverly Hillbillies" but it is more than that.There are clear differences between the Anglo-Celtic Australian O'Neill family and the Lebanese Australian Habib family but these differences give the show its spark.Olivia O'Neill is the bigoted matriarch who wants the Habibs out of the affluent Sydney suburb of Vaucluse while her neurotic husband Jack is the one trying to be the peacemaker.Fou Fou is the serious patriarch of the Habib family who wants the best for his kids and Mariam is the protective but pleasant mother and she also the antithesis of Olivia.Toufic and Layla provide most of the program's "dumb humour", especially the former with his outrageous schemes.Elias is the youngest of the Habib children. He is perhaps the most of plain of the characters, as well as Madison who is the only child of the O'Neills. Despite this, Elias and Madison provide the show with its most subtle moments.This comedy brings more awareness of Lebanese culture that has not been seen a lot on Australian television before. While Olivia has a stereotypical view of her neighbours, the story lines that unfold show that the stereotypes aren't as accurate as she makes them out to be. "Here Come the Habibs" doesn't stay true to the stereotypes. It plays with them and pokes fun at them. The mannerisms of the characters as well as the contrasting lifestyles and attitudes make the show tick.
Dee Dee I think this show is hilarious, I really hope people give it a chance. The thing is even if you are not falling about laughing it's meant to be satire, and whilst the characters are in your face, the satire is often subtle. What amazes me is the amount of people who are saying this is racist towards the Lebanese when it is clearly makes just as much fun of the Aussies of British background or WASP (for want of a better word). In fact I think its marginally more "racist" towards the Aussies as the rich Vaucluse neighbour is the only one on the show is truly evil. But having said, even though I am a Brit background Aussie, I love the show, as it's equally opportunity because it makes fun of the British/Aussies and the Lebanese. Every single character is a caricature except for one of the Lebanese sons and the British/Aussie daughter of the neighbour. They are the two "normal" people who put up with all their crazy families/friends. The thing is the show is taking the people within both cultures that are a little crazy, annoying or lovingly eccentric. These stereotypes exist, the loud Lebanese, and the British/Aussie snob, and the "normal" people within both cultures who have to put up with them, but still love them! For instance a line that made me laugh was when the WASP snob wife asked her WASP husband to hire a private detective to investigate the Habibs to see if they are drug dealers (which they aren't by the way), anyway WASP husband said "do you want me to get the PI who caught your father for insider trading, or the one you hired to see if I was having an affair even though you were the one having the affair!" I thought that was very funny and pointed out that some of the posh white Aussies are just as criminal in their own white collar way as some of the Lebanese drug dealers. I've seen quite a few reviews about how this show makes fun of the Lebanese, but none that mention how it makes just as much fun as we British/Aussie background people. But possibly they don't realise how much some of those things are "in" jokes to us British/Aussies, we are all having a good laugh because we know those kind of people, just like some of the "in" jokes about the Lebanese get lost on us. Little touches, like in the WASP house the wife has a huge painting of herself in a white suit like dress, and everything is white or beige in the house. I cracked up laughing the first time I saw it, because the painting shows just how full of herself she is. Then instantly they switch to the Habibs house, where they have a huge painting of the last supper, and I fell about laughing seeing that too, because that is also typical Lebanese Christians (at least the ones I have known), I'm waiting to see a shrine also! And the Lebanese wife (she's one of the nice ones in the family) who tries to join the local Yacht club, and naively asks when do they sail, and the WASPs all look at her horrified! Because obviously none of the WASP snobs join the club to actually go sailing! It's really a refreshing and funny show I hope people give it a go. Particularly so hard to get productions up anymore on Aussie TV that actually give actors jobs, all we have is all these horrible reality TV shows. And by the way for all those PC people keep in mind that this program is keeping a lot of Arabic people in work (not to mention a few Brit/Aussies), because apart from the actors I believe the makers are Lebanese too. (I might be wrong about that though)