Summer Heights High - Jonah Takalua (Ep. 2)

[BOYS SPEAKING QUIETLY]
Don't look at her. Just pretend we're talking...

Here she comes!

[BOY BANGS SIDE OF CAR WITH HAND]

BOYS: Miss! Stop the car.
Miss! Stop the car Miss.

- Fuckin' Jonah, Miss.
- Miss, look what you've done. Look!

Miss, you killed him.
MISS: Are you alright?

- Miss, call an ambulance.
[ALL SHOUTING]

Jonah, get up!

Ah, Miss, you got punk'd! We punk'd you.
[CHEERING, CLAPPING]

Sucked in, Miss.

You boys will all be
seeing Miss Murray today.

And this is not funny.
Now get out of the way.

It was a joke, Miss. Can't you take a joke?

You got your period or what, Miss?

MISS: Out of the way!

JONAH: It was one of our best ever, boys!

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

JONAH: Watch out.

In addition to the other ones.

Oh look, it's the Islander boys, late
again. Why is it always you lot?

My leg hurts, Miss. It took me ages to get here.

Oh Jonah, it was the other leg yesterday.

Could you make up your mind please?
JONAH: Bullshit!

JONAH: It wasn't. Ask him if you don't
believe me. I hurt it kicking the wall.

JONAH (interview): People always say I'm disruptive...

- Miss, I don't want to sit next to Troy. He's a homo.
MISS: Sit next to Troy!

JONAH (interview): ...but they don't even
know that I'm just trying to make things

more fun and more interactive.

[LOUD TAPPING SOUND]

JONAH (interview): Kids in the class don't
even care because they're doing their work

and they're concentrating and it's
boring and all of a sudden they get a joke

and they just get a little break
from their work and they get to laugh.

So if that's being disruptive then 'fuck you'.

That's not disruptive, that's entertainment.

JONAH: I'm just getting the worksheet Miss.
Let me do some work for once.

MISS: Do it quietly thank you.

JONAH: I'm doing it quietly.

There you go, Homo.

MISS: Don't use... Jonah, do not
use that word in this class thank you.

Why not? It's an English word.
This is an English class isn't it?

DOUG (welfare teacher):
Jonah now has a contract.

I got Jonah to come up with a list of promises

that he thought he could fulfil

in areas where he felt that he could
make an improvement in himself.

So we've got behavioural promises
and academic objectives

and it works remarakably well.
MISS: No no no no. Sit down!

I just want to sit next to
Leon. I'll learn more.

MISS: Sit over there, now!

Puck you, Miss.

Beg your pardon!?

I said 'puck you', with a 'p'.

Don't you even know how to spell, Miss?
MISS: I know what you meant.

JONAH (interview): I have to do all the work
required in class and respect all teachers.

JONAH: I like what you're wearing, Miss.

Looks nice on you.
Is that from Sussan's?

Jonah, what does your contract
say about talking in class?

DOUG: It gives him a boundary.

See, he knows when he stepped outside of
the rules because he made the rules.

MISS: Jonah, cap off,
balls on the ground now!

Okay Miss.

MISS: What are you doing?

You said put my balls on the ground...
MISS: Get up off the ground. Get up.

But my balls are on the ground Miss, look.
[LAUGHTER]

Get up off the ground.
JONAH: Stop molesting my arm.

I am not...

It's his own authority
that he created, you know.

He's not letting anybody
else down except himself.

Excuse me class, I'm looking for two strong boys
for 10 minutes to help me move some stuff.

Sir, sir, pick me. Pick me sir,
please. Please, Please.

DOUG: Troy and Cameron.

JONAH: Puck you, Sir.

Excuse me Jonah?

I said 'puck you' Sir.

Well Jonah, you're going to have to go
and sit outside Miss Murray's office.

Why, Sir?

And you've broken your contract. Well done.

DOUG: I organise various programs.
This one is directed towards our Islander kids

and I've called it Polynesian Pathways.

Okay, hurry in, everybody get a seat.

DOUG (interview): We're offering alternate
pathways in life for the Islander kids

to help steer them away from the
deadly spiral of unemployment,

crime and drug abuse.

JONAH: You got a girl one.
Joseph got a girl one.

DOUG: Jonah's responding,
you know, very well.

He's sort of relishing the opportunity
of displaying his traditional culture.

JONAH: I'm not wearin this
shit in front of anyone, Sir.

I fuckin' hate Polynesian Pathways.

It's fucked up. They make you dance like a homo.

And we have to do this performance in assembly.

LUKE: You two stop pissing around.

I'm not pissing. He keeps trying....

JONAH: I fuckin' hate it.

DOUG: We've got a special
guest speaker today.

Now, Luke is Samoan and
he has been in gaol.

LUKE: If you fuck up in school you're
gonna fuck up in life. That's fucked.

JONAH: Were there girls in your gaol?
[LAUGHTER]

You're going to end up
being my girl in a minute.

[TRADITIONAL MUSIC]

DOUG: There's career options,
anger issues, development stuff....

DOUG: Man boobs.

What are they? Where do they come from?

DOUG: ...and a strand on
modern music and hip hop.

JONAH SINGING HIP HOP STYLE:
We are Tongan. Come from the islands.

Respect your culture ... mother fucker.

DOUG: This is a chance for them
to celebrate their culture

and also to show them that
we celebrate their culture.

So when is this shit over?

JOSEPH: Gumnut Cottage.

It's a little place where you go
to learn how to read and crap.

For remedial reading.

THOMAS: People who have
no nuts usually go there.

JOSEPH: Call it gumnut no nuts because
if you go there it means you've got no nuts.

Jonah and Leon go there.

JONAH: He goes there. Leon
goes there. I don't go there.

LEON: I don't go there.
JOSEPH: Yous both go there.

JONAH: Bullshit! I don't fuckin' go
there. Your mum goes there.

Shut up.

LEON: I saw you last time there.

I don't fuckin' go to Gumnut Cottage.

JAN (teacher): Jonah attends Gumnut Cottage
5 periods a week for remedial reading.

Jared felt what with Jane?

Oh, Miss Miss Miss Miss Miss.

Okay, Jonah.

Pissed off?

No.

JAN (interview): One of the goals
that Jonah has written into his

Polynesian Pathways contract

is that he wants to be able to learn to read

by the end of the year...

JAN: How many?
- 2.5 Miss

JAN: And at the moment he is
reading at about an 8 year old level,

which, that's not unusual,
particularly for boys.

JAN: Sound it out.
JONAH: C...

JAN: S...Cir...
JONAH: Surfing.

JAN: No, cir...cus.
JONAH: It starts with a fuckin' C.

JAN: Yeah, 's'.

JONAH: Reading is the main thing
I want to do in my contract

because if I could learn to read then
I could read books all day. I could just...

I could read like, Harry Potter in a day.

JAN: What might you find at a circus?
The eleph.... Yeah, come on.

JONAH: Clowns!
JAN: What's that word?

I dunno.

JAN: Okay, so sound it out.
JONAH: I don't wanna sound it out.

JAN: I want you to sound it out.
JONAH: Maybe I don't want to.

Well that's what we're doing
at the moment, we're reading.

JONAH: Too slow. You're too slow.

JAN (interview): Jonah's
quite erratic in his approach.

He's all enthusiasm and all
guns blazing one minute,

and then the next minute he can snap
and I'm the worst person in the world

and it's "fuck this" and "fuck that".

JONAH: It's bullshit children's book!
I don't feel like I want to read it anyway.

JAN (interview): That's the intriquing
thing about Jonah and you know,

it's the thing that I love about Jonah too;
you never know what you're going to get.

JONAH: Why don't you fuckin'
kill yourself you bitch!

JONAH (interview): Miss Palmer's alright.

She's one of the maddest
teachers in the whole school.

She's better than any other teacher here.

JAN: Jared was ....
JONAH: Wanking.

JAN: Pardon?
JONAH: Wanking?

JONAH (interview): Sometimes
I give her electric shocks.

Like you do the old feet on
the ground like this, like that,

and then when Miss goes
past I go, "Miss" and touch her

and it gives her an electric shock
and she just laughs at me.

JAN: Silently means quietly.

- Silently means stop talking, Miss
- Exactly.

JONAH (interview): She's got a good
sense of humour but she appreciates me.

JAN (interview): I think Jonah really
really does want to learn

and ah, he really wants to
be able to learn to read.

JONAH: Miss! Miss! Look at this. Look.

It's better on the mat, Miss.
I'll show you at lunch.

- Okay.
- See ya, Miss.

- See ya.
- Come find me at the amphitheatre.

JAN: How do you spell amphitheatre?

I'm out of the room Miss, I'm
not spelling. Sucked into you.

See ya, Miss.