It’s Morningside Fashion Week, and one of the world’s top fashion designers discovers Jeff da Maori and catapults him to international catwalk fame. Jeff becomes “the new black” and celebrities all over the world start dressing in school uniforms and bare feet with guitars on their back. This episode explores the vagaries of fame, and of being flavour of the month. It also looks at true vs. false friends.
The class sets out for a day in the bush, but the boys get lost and stranded in the wilderness. Sione starts to go mad, Mack suffers from constipation, Jeff is terrified of the “bush spirits”, Valea is homesick for the city and Vale films the action “Survivor”- style. This episode is about savage instincts and human nature.
Vale and Valea feel sorry for a racehorse who is about to get killed – so Dad takes him home for dinner! The boys arrive just in time and persuade Dad to let them train it and race it. Our story then takes on the formulaic path of great horse films like Sea Biscuit. Dad becomes the horse whisperer and keeps whispering threats into Honky's ear. The episode’s theme is unconditional love.
When Mack tries to impress his mates by inventing a story about being abused, Brother Ken gets thrown into jail and a witch-hunt ensues, led by the Minister and Mrs Tapili.
Mack becomes a celebrity and is lauded for his braveness in coming forward and subsequently finds himself in a major conundrum! This episode deals with mob mentality and the sheep like nature of human beings.
The boys find a baby in the creek and try to bring it up, but struggle from sleep deprivation and the ordeal of nappy-changing until they have to search elsewhere for parents for the baby.
Joost’s conservation-loving zoo-keeping Dad invites the boys to the van Den Van Van’s African-themed Morningside Shore home for a weekend cultural exchange … but an incident with a chicken roll turns the weekend into a weird kind of Whodunit.
The episode’s theme is bullying and karma.
An incident of racial abuse inspires St Sylvester’s to produce a multi-racial musical love story called Morning Side Story … Vale is director, Jeff in charge of music, Sione, Sina Mack and Rex are the stars. The episode’s theme is racial harmony.