The WORST episodes of The Hamster Wheel

Every episode of The Hamster Wheel ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of The Hamster Wheel!

The Hamster Wheel runs for 8 weeks and sees the return of the full Chaser team Andrew Hansen, Chas Licciardello, Chris Taylor, Craig Reucassel and Julian Morrow, plus writer Dominic Knight. New segments on The Hamster Wheel include: " At Work With A Julia a situational comedy that follows the abject failures of an unlovable redhead " Keeping Up with the Jones' Conspiracy Theory your weekly guide to unhinged rants of Alan Jones; and " 30 seconds of poetry read by regional Aussie rules footballers playing lawnbowls, to fulfill all the ABC's charter obligations.

Last Updated: 10/24/2024Network: ABC1Status: Ended

3.00

28 votes

#1 - Episode 3

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/10/2012

This week The Chaser takes a look at the media in China, but fails to understand any of it since they don’t speak Mandarin.

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6.87

87 votes

#2 - Episode 1

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/5/2011

The team opens up their hamster cage to take a look at Andrew Bolt, leadership speculation and the extraordinary world of online news photo galleries.

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7.00

28 votes

#3 - Episode 3

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/19/2011

In The Hamster Wheel this week, the team welcome the Queen and meet master comedian Lord Monckton.

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7.00

28 votes

#4 - Episode 4

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/26/2011

The team opens up their hamster cage to take a look at Colonel Gadaffi and media coverage of the Royal visit.

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7.00

28 votes

#5 - Episode 5

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/2/2011

In The Hamster Wheel this week, the team go inside the wheel with Qantas, look at the controversial issue of Fracking with Alan Jones, and give you a special sneak preview of the sequel to The Slap.

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7.00

28 votes

#6 - Episode 6

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/9/2011

In The Hamster Wheel this week the team go inside the wheel to examine the Bali Boy story, reaction to the carbon tax legislation and Weather In The Media.

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7.00

28 votes

#7 - Episode 7

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/16/2011

In The Hamster Wheel this week the team rattle the cage to welcome Obama, go inside the wheel for a look at the media's coverage of the collarbomb case and are joined by the Australian Talkback Radio Chorus for their tribute to Julia in this year of decision and delivery.

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7.00

28 votes

#8 - Episode 8

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/23/2011

In the final episode of The Hamster Wheel the team go inside the wheel with the media's coverage of Obama's visit, look at the pokies issue, and take you behind the scenes for The Making Of the ever popular Hamster Wheel segment 'Politics With Cats'.

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7.00

28 votes

#9 - Episode 1

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/26/2012

The Chaser team takes a look at the world of media, politics and government c***sorship.

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7.00

28 votes

#10 - Episode 4

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/17/2012

The Chaser team gets stuck in traffic, causing them to be extremely late for their own show. The episode mostly comprises long, dull shots of an empty set.

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8.00

28 votes

#11 - Episode 2

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/12/2011

The team go inside the wheel to look at the carbon tax, Muslims in the media and the most popular online news stories.

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8.00

28 votes

#12 - Episode 2

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/3/2012

The Chaser team takes an in-depth look at the role of media in our society, before heading to The Shire to get their boobs done.

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8.00

28 votes

#13 - Episode 5

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/24/2012

Stephen Fry joins The Chaser team after the ABC realised they’d gone at least 4 days without featuring Fry in one of their programs.

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8.00

28 votes

#14 - Episode 6

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/31/2012

Craig Reucassel hosts an entertaining new game show where contestants have to separate fact from fiction.

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8.00

28 votes

#15 - Episode 7

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/7/2012

The role of the hamster will be played by Rob Carlton, but only for the first 10 minutes, after which he'll be replaced by Lachy Hulme.

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9.00

28 votes

#16 - Episode 8

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/14/2012

The Chaser team runs out of material, so decides to re-enact an old episode of 'Porridge' instead.

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