Jonah from Tonga (2014): Season 1, Episode 1 - Episode #1.1 - full transcript

WAVES LAPPING

MAN SPEAKING TONGAN

Everything was happy
and it was a peaceful place here,

until Jonah came along.

HE CONTINUES IN TONGAN

Jonah is like a fucking idiot.

JONAH SHOUTS

'He uses swear languages
most of the time.'

I told you to wait,
you fucking pussy!

'He's very annoying.
No-one likes him here.'

I told you to fucking wait,
you dickhead!



'The whole island's boring,
there's nothing to do.'

Tonga's shit.

And my uncle, he's a homo.

SPEAKS TONGAN

He is a very bully person.

Come over! 'He hits the little kids
every time they play.'

Coconuts! Give me coconuts!

'He cannot leave them alone.'
Get the little girls!

Come closer!
I won't do anything, I promise.

'Most of the time, he's very
disrespectful of his aunties.'

Hey!

It's not my dick!
It's a bottle! It's a bottle!

'He's very mean to my son, Komaki.
He's always picking on him.'

THEY LAUGH



Komaki has so many places
in his body to be beaten,

but he only chooses
to hit his balls.

Argh!

Bastard!

SPEAKS TONGAN

'He writes his graffitis
around the house, and it's dirty.'

MAN SPEAKING TONGAN
'He just pisses all of us off.'

Argh!

Suck it, Aunty!

'A few weeks ago, it came to me

'that I really wanted to kill him
because of what he did to my car.'

These are my cousins.
I don't speak Tongan.

I can't understand half the shit
they're saying.

And I know a few rude words...

HE SPEAKS TONGAN

That means something really rude.
HE SPEAKS TONGAN

I know I said that.

Jonah always tells lies.
No, I don't.

Hey, boys, in Australia, once
I beat the shit out of a kangaroo

because it bit me on the dick.

In Australia,
every boy gets a free Ferrari

when they turn 16
from the government.

In Australia, once,
I released a single

and I won a Grammy award for it.

A few weeks ago, I turned 14 and
I got my official Takalua tattoo.

This is what you get
when you're an older boy

and your dad decides that
you're brave enough and man enough.

Boys, older boys, show.
All Takaluas get them.

And the good thing is,
it protects you

so, you know, if...

if I went swimming
and a big shark came up,

I could punch a shark in the head

and the shark would die,
would just disintegrate.

This is the Takalua link,
only Takalua boys can do it.

We link arms, go like this, and
if you're strong, you go like this,

pull hard, nothing breaks
the Takalua link.

Pull as hard as you can apart, boys.

See? Nothing breaks
the Takalua link.

This is the boys' bedroom.
Show them where we sleep.

This is where I sleep,
and this is Feke, my cousin.

He sleeps here too.

See this? This is my brother
back in Sydney, Moses.

Moses is my favourite family person
ever and he's a really good singer.

He's, like, the best singer
in the world.

And one day, I'm going to take him
to America to get a record deal,

and I'm going to be his manager.

Boys, let's all pretend we're
asleep, show them how we sleep.

SNORING

Dad! Dad!

Give me a hug.

You've been a little dickhead,
haven't you?

'Today, my dad and my Aunty Grace
came to visit me from Australia'

to check on my behaviour.

Look at this, Aunty!

Wow! Beautiful. New tattoo.

Hey, I've got a surprise for you.

Moses! What are you doing here?

'And the best thing is, they brought
my brother, Moses, here.'

You've grown, motherfucker.
Yeah, you look big as, motherfucker!

Shit! Fuck! This is everyone!
I can't believe you're here!

'It was the best surprise ever.'

REGGAE MUSIC

Moses, let's do the Takalua link.
Oh, yeah.

Hey, Dad, Dad, link me.

Link arms with me. Fuck off!

OK, I don't even want to do it
with you, anyway.

I miss Jonah very, very much.

And he can't stay here any more.

But I want to take him home,
because I love him.

MOSES SINGS

Yeah, Moses!
The best singer in the world!

He needs to come home to Australia,

and he's pissing off his uncle
way too much.

He needs discipline.

We need to be very strict on him.

We need to put him in a school

where they won't put up
with his naughtiness.

Argh!

The having of church and God

will help him to grow up to be
a strong and good man.

See you, Tonga!

Love you, Uncle!

HE SHOUTS IN TONGAN

He said, get fucked!

'Going back to Australia,
it's going to be mean as.

'I'm going to be good, I'm going
to get a good education,'

I'm going to get into uni
and make my family proud.

I can be a good boy if I want to be.

MUSIC: "The Jump Awf" by Daniz

Hey, Jonah, is that your brother?
Is that your brother, Jonah?

Fuck, let's go! Let's go!

Get away from my brother!

You fucking homo!

Get him in the locker!

Get in! Get in the locker!

Get the lock!

Fucking homo!

That's good work, boys.

STEREO PLAYS HIP-HOP MUSIC

Jonah! Yeah!

Jonah, go!

Whoo-hoo!

Yeah!

Yeah!

Go on the floor,
go on the floor! Jonah!

Jonah!

You're in deep shit, Graydon wants
to kick your arse.

Piss off, fatty!

Did you put Graydon's little brother
in a locker and lock the door? No.

Well, everyone saw you do it.

He was bullying Moses,
he's a homo.

Well, Graydon's pissed
and he's looking for you,

so I'd hide, if I were you.

I don't even care,
tell him to go marry his dick.

He's in Year 12, Jonah, and he's
stronger and bigger than you,

he's school captain,
so I'd watch out, if I were you.

I don't care, get out of our area.
Go away, fatty!

I don't want to talk to you!
It's a Year 9 area.

By the way, I'm telling Dad tonight.

Enjoy your hiding. Enjoy my dick.

We'll go grab our food
from the canteen.

Oi!

Oi, dickhead!

You put my little brother
in a locker? No.

You're lying, he just told me
you did. Why do you believe him?

It's fucking dangerous!
I'm telling the teachers, mate.

He was bullying my brother!
I don't care. Go away, ranga.

Did you just call me a ranga, mate?
Yeah, cos you are one.

Listen, we're in Year 12,

so I don't need to put up with
your Year 9 shit. I don't care!

Don't fuck with my little brother.
Don't fuck with my face.

Apologise for what you did.
Apologise to my dick.

That doesn't make sense,
so I'm not going to do it.

Your hair doesn't make sense.
Get out of my fucking area!

Do you want a fucking go about this?
Yeah, I do!

You seriously want a fight about
this? This is the Year 9 area!

Get out, rangas!

Oi! That's enough!

Break it up!

Graydon, you and your ranga mate...

His little brother
was being a bully!

You and your ranga mates
just piss off. Off you go.

JONAH AND HIS FRIENDS JEER

Get off the fucking the bricks!

That's enough! Enough!
Go on, out of it.

Yeah, get out! Go on, piss off!

THEY SHOUT OVER EACH OTHER

Go back to the ranga area!

Piss off, Graydon. Goodbye. Goodbye.

Goodbye!
Come here, you fucking idiot.

Fuck, sir! Ow!

Are you going to be a dipstick
all your life? Seriously, are you?

Sir, I love you.
You're a good teacher.

Listen, you lot, I swear to God,
I am going to beat

the living shit out of every
fucking last one of you

if this continues every morning.

It's five minutes out of my coffee
and smoke time that you owe me.

All right? Sorry, sir. Sorry, sir.

Sorry, Mr Joseph. Love you, sir.

I should think so. You're a legend,
sir. Best teacher ever.

'Holy Cross
is a Catholic high school.

'Low socioeconomic families
and a lot of migrants, first gen.'

Me, personally, got out
the army, got my DipEd.

Just became interested in teaching
behavioural problem teens

and learning difficulty kids.

I set up my behavioural unit in
Lazarus House about nine years ago.

Spazarus House, they call it
round the school - Spaz House.

It's not really fair
on the kids that go here,

but it's not entirely untrue.

'We're vocational based.

'We've got members
who sign the trade training.'

This is the insides of the pussy.
This is the dick.

'We try and get the kids to a level
whereby they can, potentially,

'get an apprenticeship.
Mostly, I think, we just keep

'the little pricks out of trouble
and keep them in school.'

What are you doing there, Jonah?
Building an igloo.

Oh, fuck, sir!

What's going to happen, then?

Move that along. Move this brick
along. What about a window?

So, do you put your dick in those
bricks when we're not here?

Yeah, you do. OK, boys.

Do you know what this is called?
A toilet.

My shit wouldn't fit in this pipe.

'We've got a fair few
Pacific Islanders.

'They're tricky kids.
They're pretty hard to control.'

Shut up!

'I don't shy away from a bit of
physical - well, violence isn't

'exactly the word for it -
persuasiveness.'

Shut the fuck up!

That's better.

'I think it's good for them to get
a bit physical in the classroom.

'Shows them that they're not
as strong as a fully-grown man.'

You're too fuckin' slow, mate.
Fuck off, sir!

He's too fucking slow,
this one. Fuck off!

..book! I don't care! It's mine!

Jonah! Punching wall - go!
Come on, hit it!

'I've got a couple
of regular exercises

'I use to get the kids
let off steam.'

Come on, punch the thing!

What sort of a hit is that?

Come on, now! What sort of punch is
that? Hit it! Hit it! Hit it!

Sir, you stink. Your armpits stink.
I can smell it from here.

'Jonah Takalua - absolute drop kick.
Probably the most fucked-up kid

'I've ever taught
in my entire teaching career.'

Shut up, idiot! Fuck off, sir.
Stop getting off on hitting me.

'He's virtually illiterate.'
Sir, what's a head-achey?

Headache, idiot.
Sir, how do you spell pussy?

Are 100 and 1,000 the same number?

Sir, who is the King of Australia?

Has a horse ever been in space?

If you chop your dick off,
does it grow back?

Can you survive
from eating your own shit?

I'm asking you a question, sir.
You're the teacher. Teach us stuff.

'He's disrespectful
of my authority.'

Sir, when the bell goes,
I'm just going to walk out.

I don't care what you say.
I don't give a fuck.

I told you, there's no fucking
swearing in class.

But you just swore then, sir.

You just said "no fucking swearing",
so bust yourself.

I can swear
because I'm the adult here.

And I'll fucking swear
if I choose to swear.

Go marry my dick, sir.
Just get on with it!

Stop swearing or I'll report you
to the principal, sir.

We'll get a better teacher -
a hot female teacher. Yeah.

Not an ugly man, like you, sir.

'He's 14, thinks he's 21.
Thinks he's a gangster.'

Clean that off!

It boils my piss when you come
in here and deface my classroom.

You weren't supposed to see it.

'He provokes the shit out of me.

'You can't win an argument with the
prick, no matter how hard you try.'

Sit up in your chair, thanks.

I'm comfy, sir.
It's good for my spinals.

Do I make you stand up all day?!
Is that what you want to do?!

My dick wants to stand up all day.

Fuck you! Oh! Calm down, sir.
You need anger issues.

'Holy Cross is good cos
it's Catholic and you can learn

'about Jesus and shit,
and it's good cos it's got'

girls as well as boys,
cos some schools - boys only.

That's for homos. Homo school.
If you're a homo, that's the kind

of school you have to go to.
But if you're like us boys,

then... Brother Adoni! Sir!
Brother Adoni! Look, sir.

Say hi to the film crew!
They're filming!

He's a Brother. So, no sex for him.
He's Catholic.

That's the rules of Catholics.
Hey, sister!

This is Sister Monica.
She's my favourite office lady.

And she's a nun.
She looks after sick bay.

Hey, sister! Hello, Jonah.
Hello, boys.

Sister, you're sick. That's why
you look after sick bay,

cos you're sick. Get it?
I'll take that as a compliment.

Even though she's old,
I've got a crush on her.

ALL SHOUT
I'm only joking! I'm joking!

Hey, guys, Miss Hunt!

'Holy Cross - it's good because
we've got some pretty hot teachers,

'like Miss Hunt.'

Miss! Miss! Miss!
What are we doing in design today?

I'll see you boys... I'll see
you boys in the last period.

Can I have a hug, Miss?
Miss, can we have a hug as well?

OK. OK. That's enough.

'Sometimes, I even get to hug
Miss Hunt, and when I hug her,

'I press as close as I can,
so her boobs squash against me.'

I felt her boobs!

'Holy Cross is good
cos it's multicultural,'

so you get all different cultures,
like fobs, wogs,

Filos, curries, Africans and rangas.

And you also get chick fobs,
chick wogs, chick Filos,

chick curries, chick Africans
and chick rangas

and there's also other ching-chongs
and Aussies

and all different cultures.

Boys, it's getting hot around here.

Must be the rangas' heads
making it hot.

'Me and my boys,
we get along with everyone,

'except we hate the rangas.
They're the worst.'

We need some welding work done.

Can you boys weld me something over
in Spaz House? Weld your own dicks!

'They think they're so cool and rich
and shit, and their dads'

drive expensive cars
and have mansions. It sucks.

Just cos you got different coloured
hair to us, doesn't mean you own us.

Hey, Mosey, what's up, little guy?

'And the rangas, they pick on my
little brother Moses, cos he's got

'a teacher's aid and he did
a shit in his pants

'on the first day of Year 7.'

Do you still use nappies, or have you
moved on to pull-ups?

'The worst ranga of all is Graydon.
He's the school captain

'and he's a fucking homo.'

Me and my boys, we're a crew

and we're called Fobbaliscious.
Boys, show him the symbol.

ALL: Fobbaliscious.
It's an F for Fobbaliscious.

'We break dance and we sing...'

# I'm your island boy
You're my island girl

♪ Let's be together for ever... ♪

'We write our own songs.'

# Pretty young girl

# I want to touch
your boobies, island girl

♪ Let me touch your boobies... ♪

Who has got the tweezers?
You need to do your eyebrows.

Argh!

'Fobbaliscious, it stands for being
a fob and for being good-looking.'

These straighteners are going to
burn your bag.

'Us boys, we like to spend
a lot of time on our appearance

'and making sure that
our scuxness levels are high.'

Could you straighten the end of
my rat's tail, please?

Let's go talk to some girls, boys!

'And even the hot teachers,
they always like us boys the most,

'cos we're the most scuxxed boys.'

Do I smell nice, Miss?
Smell my armpits.

I've got chocolate Lynx on.

Just get on with it, would you?
I can smell you, Miss!

You smell nice as. Does your
boyfriend like how you smell?

Jonah, sh. Do you have one, Miss?

You should have. Can you guys
just get on with it, please?

Or are you a lesbian?

'And also, Miss Hunt flirts with me
all the time, because

'she can't get
enough of my scuxness.'

Don't waste the glue!
It's an experiment, Miss.

No, go and wash your hands.
I'm just going to let it dry.

I'm making a glove, Miss.
No, we don't have much of that.

I'm making a rubber glove.
Go and wash your hands.

I'm learning shit about art.
Your work's incomplete, Jonah.

Your dick's incomplete.

I don't have a dick, Jonah,
so that can't be right.

What do you have, Miss?
Go and wash your hands, please.

I'm fed up, Jonah. You'd better watch
it, or I'll... Go teach!

Go teach.
Go do what you're paid to do.

Miss!
Create another line on the bottom.

Miss, I need your help
with my colour palette.

Look at your work. It's incomplete.
You haven't even tried today.

Your dick hasn't even tried.
Stop getting turned on by me, Miss.

Do you want to stay in with me
at lunchtime? Yes.

Yeah, you'll be too old
by the time I'm 18, so...no, thanks.

Now, you have got a yellow...
You've got to get Botox.

Ignore me if you think I am...
You like the sound of your own voice.

To be honest.
You like the sound of your own dick.

Mr Jason's got a no tolerance
policy of me doing my tag dicktation

around the school.
So, I had to invent a new tag.

It's called pussycat. I'll show you.

It's a girl's pussy...
and then you write "cat".

Pussycat.

Outside school, Jonah's dicktation.
Inside school, it's pussycat.

Boys, what are you doing?!
Nothing. What are you doing?

'Jonah's a good friend,'

but Jonah tells lies
all the time. Bullshit!

You do! You do!
What about when you said Nicki Minaj

was coming. I thought she was
coming! Miss told me she was.

You're a liar! And you tell
really bad jokes as well.

Bullshit. My jokes are good.

What did the school say to my dick?
ALL: What?

"Get in my classroom."

What did the priest say when I
punched him in the dick? ALL: What?

"You're a dickhead!"

'Is he better off here
than in Tonga? Good question.'

He's probably better off here.
I hear Tonga's pretty shit.

Will he survive to the end
of Year 12?

I doubt it.

But we'll give it a red-hot crack.
Stranger things have happened.

What do you call a fish at the
bottom of the ocean with a dick?

ALL: What? Fishy dick.

Let's do it here, boys.

THEY WHOOP AND JEER

Fuck off! Don't go through
our dance area. Who are you?

Melody! Melody! Melody!

BOYS: Melody!

Come over here, let me show you
my dance moves. She's your cousin!

I don't care.

I don't care if she's my cousin.
Your dad's going to care.

She's scux as. Mr Joseph!

Mr Joseph!

Mr Joseph.

Mr Joseph!

Mr Joseph! Bring it in, sir.

THEY WHOOP AND SHOUT

Check this out!
What are you idiots up to?

Sir, what's the codeword?

To pass through,
you say the codeword.

I don't actually need a codeword.
Stop wandering round the streets.

You'll make a name for yourselves.
Come on!

I've already got a name
for myself - Jonah.

Get a new car.

Don't they pay you enough, sir?

This is shit. Whatever. Off you go.

I don't have to listen to
what you say, sir,

cos we're not on school grounds,
so it doesn't matter what you say.

Why don't you marry your own car?
You're blocking the road, sir.

HORN BLARES

Sorry, car. Sorry.

It's just my idiot teacher.

Go cook dinner.
Go have sex with your wife.

When I first came back from Tonga,
I did a few naughty things.

Like, I got busted by the cops
for a bit of shoplifting.

You stole five boxes
of strawberry Hubba Bubba.

Yeah. What did you do that for?

I did it cos I love strawberry
Hubba Bubba.

And the cops came to my house

and I didn't go to juvie for it,
but I got a criminal record.

I had to... I had to get a hiding
from my dad for doing it.

Even Moses,
he got busted by the police

cos at school, he cut off this
Year 7 homo's rat's tail.

THEY LAUGH

'But that's what I used to be -
naughty.'

But us boys now,
we're all good boys. Yeah.

Because it doesn't matter
if you're naughty

cos it doesn't get you any money
and you have no future.

MUSIC THUMPS

What you boys doing?

Nothing. Cruising.

Boys.

We just had school.

The Soldierz
are these mean-ass boys.

George from The Soldierz?

He is the toughest guy
in the whole fucking area.

Yeah, these boys have the most
money of any boys their age.

They're older than us

and they have really cool cars,

they went to uni,

and if that's what you
get for going to uni

then I'm definitely going to uni.

You guys like cameras? Yeah.

This your camera?

Yours now, brother.

We can keep this? Yeah, man.

This looks as expensive as.

Don't drop it.

Go film some shit, man.

I've got to go away.

Watch it. Later, boys.

Hurry up!

MUSIC PLAYS

Hey, do you think
Dad'll let us keep it?

THEY SING TRADITIONAL SONG

Shut the fuck up!

Do you want to get belted? No.
Show some respect.

SHE GIGGLES
Shut up, you two.

Start singing.

'Oh, he's OK.
He's a little bit naughty

'and a little bit trouble.'

Jonah is a special
one in Rocky's kid.

His mum Theresa always say that.

His mum died
when Jonah was six year old

from liver cancer.

It's very sad.

Very, very sad for the whole family.

But his mum always fond of Jonah.

He always say that Jonah is
a special one.

He has magical eyes.

And one day,
he will do a good work.

# Close your eyes

# Give me your hand

# Darling, do you feel
my heart beating?

♪ Do you understand? ♪

When my mum died, I was pretty dumb

and I didn't even know. Like,
I thought she just went to Tonga.

# ..I believe it's meant to be

♪ Darling... ♪

My mum Theresa,
she said that when I was little,

I was magical.

Of all the boys in the family,

I was the magical one.

Let's do the Takalua link
'And sometimes, when I go to bed,

'I wish she was here to kiss me.'

JONAH STRAINS
Nothing breaks the link.

THEY LAUGH

And now I'm 14, got my tattoo,

and I got my mum watching over me.

Nothing bad can ever happen to me.

Aunty Grace!

Good night, boys.
Good night, Aunty.

Hey, Aunty,
you're looking sexy tonight.

You better watch your mouth.

If your dad hear you,
you've got trouble.

She's your aunty, disgusting freak.
I'm only joking.

Why don't you get out of my room,
anyway? Fatty! Go to the fat room.

Go to bed, shit for brains.
Go to bed, fat for brains.

Good night, boys.

Good night, Aunty.
Good night, Aunty. Hey, boys,

who wants a joke? Me.

Um...what did the carpet
say to the door?

What?
Get your dick out of my door-hole.

THEY LAUGH

What did the window say to the moon?

What? Get fucked.

THEY LAUGH

You going to be good? Yeah.
I'm always good.

Bullshit. You're always a fuckwit.

You're fucked! Didn't do anything.

There's a new youth worker. He's
into singing and dancing and shit.

Hey, boys. Come join in.

Get the fuck out of here.
Stop perving on us.

This is a Fobbaliscious bully video.

I just had a kid's dad on the phone.

Now, he gets the cops involved,
we're all fucked.

CHEERING
Yeah!

You fucking idiot!
I'll get your arse on this.