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{{short description|Australian television program}}
{{Distinguish|Mortification (disambiguation){{!}}Mortification}}
{{Use Australian English|date=March 2012}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2018}}
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| genre = [[Sitcom]]
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| starring = {{Plainlist|
* [[Marny Kennedy]]
* [[Nicolas Dunn]]
* [[Maia Mitchell]]
* [[Dajana Cahill]]
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| network = [[Nine Network]]
| first_aired = {{start date|2006|6|30|df=y}}
| last_aired = {{end date|2007|
| num_seasons = 2
| num_episodes = 26
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'''''Mortified''''' is an Australian children's television series, co-produced by the [[Australian Children's Television Foundation]] and Enjoy Entertainment for the [[Nine Network Australia]]. The series premiered on 30 June 2006 and ended on
==Premise==
''Mortified'' follows the imaginative life of Taylor Fry,
▲''Mortified'' follows the imaginative life of Taylor Fry, a thirteen -year-old girl living in a beachside town in Australia called Sunburn Beach, as she struggles to make it through her teen years with her flawed and embarrassing family.<ref name="brochure">{{cite web|url=http://www.actf.com.au/distribution/synopses/mortbrochure.pdf |title=Mortified Get me out of here! |format=PDF |access-date=21 February 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060824083843/http://www.actf.com.au/distribution/synopses/mortbrochure.pdf |archive-date=24 August 2006}}</ref> She is embarrassed by her parents; jealous of her neighbour Brittany; her best friend, Hector, has a crush on her; and she has a crush on popular Leon.<ref name="age">{{cite web |author=Greg Hassall |url=http://www.australiantelevision.net/mortified/articles.html |title=Mortified – review |date=30 June 2006 |publisher=The Age |access-date=21 February 2007}}</ref> Taylor frequently breaks the [[fourth wall]] and speaks directly to the audience. Her imagination causes inanimate objects to seemingly come to life.
==Cast==
===Main===
* [[Marny Kennedy]] as Taylor Fry – Taylor is the main character and protagonist. She is embarrassed by her parents Don and Glenda, is annoyed by her sister Layla, and has a [[Infatuation|crush]] on her classmate Leon (while her best friend Hector has a crush on her, but she does not know it). Taylor regularly breaks the [[fourth wall]] and talks directly to the audience. Marny Kennedy received an Australian Film Institute Award for her role in ''Mortified''.
* [[Nicolas Dunn]] as Hector Garcia – Hector is Taylor's best friend. He is a very loyal friend to Taylor, and often gets dragged along on her crusades. However, he falls out with Taylor in the episode "Flag Fall" after Taylor calls him a dork after he volunteers to raise the new school flag, and again in "School Trivia Night" where Taylor accidentally gets teamed up with Leon, but he reconciles with her twice. Hector secretly has a crush on Taylor, even going so far as to send her a [[Valentine's Day]] card in the episode "DJ Taylor" (though Taylor mistakenly assumes the card was from Leon, though even after Taylor finds out that this was not the case, Hector does not tell her the card was from him). He is allergic to cats (as revealed in the episode "Taylor Gets a Job").
* [[Maia Mitchell]] as Brittany Flune – Brittany is Taylor's next door neighbour, who sometimes has an on/off friendship with Taylor. She is beautiful and is best known for being perfect. Like Taylor with her parents Don and Glenda, Brittany is shown to
* [[Dajana Cahill]] as Layla Fry – Layla is Taylor's older sister. She is nasty and annoying, and is always getting on Taylor's nerves. She is obsessed with [[fashion]] (in the episode "Mother in the Nude", she gets a job of presenting Hipp's Apricot Hand Cream on a TV commercial and in the episode "The Chosen One", she steals Taylor's hairbrush) and is always finding and dumping boyfriends. Despite the feud between them, Layla does show ''some'' positive actions towards Taylor; such as in the episode "Taylor Gets a Job", she gives Taylor her old [[mobile phone]] (though it later turned out that all the old numbers were still in the contact list and Taylor ended up getting phone calls from random people) and in the episode "Rome Wasn't Built in a Day", she helps Taylor rebuild her half-destroyed model of a [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] kitchen after Taylor reunited her with her old boyfriend. It is revealed in the episode "Taylor Turns Bad", that Glenda considers Layla a rebel, whilst Taylor considers her to be an idiot.
* [[Luke Erceg]] as Leon Lipowski – Leon is the class heartthrob whom Taylor and Brittany both have crushes on. Hector is biased against him since Taylor has a crush on Leon (when Hector has a crush on Taylor) and when Leon always throws "[[missiles]]" at him in class, much to the annoyance of Mr. McClusky. His father, Gary, is nicknamed "Fingers" and Leon mostly enjoys surfing and sports. Leon at first appears to be an only child until his older brother, Brett, makes his first and only appearance in the episode "School Trivia Night".
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===Season 1 (2006)===
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|ShortSummary= Taylor is sure she will die of shame when Don and Glenda enter a talent quest for parents at her school. Not one to back away from a challenge, Taylor drags Hector along on a crusade to prove via DNA analysis that Don and Glenda are in fact not her parents, and therefore cannot enter the talent quest.
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| ShortSummary= Hector secretly nominates Taylor for [[School Captain]], unwittingly igniting her passion for politics. It seems to be a two-horse race as Taylor goes up against the perfect, beautiful and seemingly unbeatable Brittany Flune. Taylor finds herself determined to win, all the while trying to ignore her father's petty annual 'Christmas Lights' rivalry with Brittany's father.
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| ShortSummary= Taylor is embarrassed when she is sprung fantasising about becoming a pro-surfer, and covers by claiming she can surf. But when heart-throb Leon invites her to enter a surfing competition, Taylor feels she has no choice but to enter. The situation snowballs as Taylor is forced to learn how to surf within a few short days - on her dad's massive Malibu surfboard!
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| ShortSummary= Taylor is struck dumb when she arrives home from school with her friends to find her mother creating a nude sculpture of herself. To make matters worse, her class will attend the public unveiling at Sculpture by the Beach but Taylor's effort to upstage the reveal makes a bigger splash than she intended.
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| ShortSummary= Taylor is inspired by the teachings of a Buddhist monk, who shares the concept of a simple life without possessions. She decides to live a serene and noble life, and starts by sacrificing all her material possessions in pursuit of true happiness. However, she quickly finds out that this is not as easy as it sounds, as her earthly desires get in the way.
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| ShortSummary= When Taylor develops a crush on a teenage martial arts instructor, she signs up for classes just to see him. Taylor also avoids her parents from the fear of getting "The Talk".
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| ShortSummary= Taylor becomes image conscious and starts to worry about her appearance, so she adapts to a new sense of style, but Hector is not very happy with Taylor's new attitude after he agrees to put up the School Flag.
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| ShortSummary= After witnessing Leon's soccer skill, and watching him play, Taylor is inspired to join the School Soccer Team.
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| ShortSummary= Taylor and Hector spend time with an eccentric elderly couple who believe they will be abducted by aliens and took into outer space in a mother ship.
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| ShortSummary= Taylor wins her school cross-country race. But as she basks in her new-found fame and glory, she fails to confess that Mystic Marj drove her to the finish line. Taylor faces the prospect of moving to Scotland when her father inherits a "grand Scottish estate".
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| ShortSummary= Taylor notices people whispering behind her back, and soon learns that rumours are circulating about her. The discovery gives Taylor a revelation about what it takes to get noticed and sets out to garner the attention she desperately wants. Although her plans eventually do work, she gets grounded. As Layla convinces Taylor to sneak out, her sister secretly pulls Taylor's jeans off leaving her in a skirt top, her underwear and even bigger trouble with her parents.
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| ShortSummary= With a school dance coming up, Taylor starts to query her image and identity. She fears that her refusal to conform to fashion rules will ruin her social life. To improve her life, Taylor decides to change her name.
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| ShortSummary= The last day of primary school arrives and it seems that Taylor's circle of friends is being ripped apart, as they all face the prospect of heading off to different high schools. Taylor is torn as she is forced to make some serious decisions about her future.
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===Season 2 (2006–07)===
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| ShortSummary= It is Taylor's first day in year 7 at her new high school, and she is confident that it will be everything she dreamed it would be. But her enthusiasm quickly dissolves as everything that can go wrong does go wrong. She misses the bus, loses Hector and, when she eventually makes it to school, she smells like rotten fish - thanks to her mother's super home-mix de-stress aromatherapy ointment.
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| ShortSummary= With parent-teacher night looming, Taylor wakes up to find her dad doing biceps curls on the front lawn, surrounded by stack of vinyl records. Layla informs her that his bizarre behaviour is due to a mid-life crisis, and might last anywhere up to three years. Taylor is mortified at the prospect of her father showing up at parent-teacher night, and tries in vain to prevent him from going.
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| ShortSummary= It is work experience time and Taylor is thrilled to be granted a position with the local radio station, working as a DJ. But her hopes fade as she is assigned to Mystic Marj's psychic talk-back segment. Worse, she is forced to get in touch with her own inner psychic when Mystic Marj accidentally locks herself in the toilets, leaving Taylor to deal with a switchboard full of needy callers, going by the pseudonym of "Claire Voyant". However, Taylor receives a Valentine's Day card from a secret admirer (who is actually Hector).
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| ShortSummary= Taylor is less than impressed when her family teams up with heart-throb Leon's family for the school trivia night. Taylor prepares herself for ultimate humiliation as she realises just how "trivial" her parents' knowledge really is.
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| ShortSummary= When Taylor learns that a revealing self-portrait is to be auctioned off for charity, she scrambles to prevent it. But things get even worse when she discovers the painting is not the only thing that's fallen into a stranger's hands - her diary is missing too.
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| ShortSummary= Taylor is horrified to discover her parents are not technically married, and tries to convince them they need a traditional wedding. Her horror turns to happiness when Don, on bended knee, proposes to Glenda. However this joy turns back to horror as she realises the wedding is going to be anything but traditional.
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| ShortSummary= Taylor discovers that Glenda is going to be teaching "Healing by Humming" at her school, and is devastated. She decides that there is only one logical way to solve her problems and escape her family. With Hector's help, she begins her campaign to become the first child astronaut.
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| ShortSummary= Taylor has to do an assignment on an ancestor or relative, but everyone she can think of is far too embarrassing. When the Fry family receives a visit from their Great Aunt Ally, Taylor thinks the universe is smiling on her at last. However, she quickly realises that Great Aunt Ally is an eccentric, and her hopes are dashed - until the kooky old woman teaches her a valuable lesson.
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| ShortSummary= Taylor fears that her parents are getting a divorce. At school camp, Taylor convinces herself that there is something going on between her mother and her teacher, Mr Frankel. She sabotages every activity in an effort to keep them apart, but as one thing leads to another, Taylor finds herself lost in the bush.
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| ShortSummary= All Taylor's friends have mobile phones, and she starts to feel left out. She decides she will get a job and save for a phone herself. The job of pet-sitting Mystic Marj's cats turns out to be somewhat less simple than she had anticipated, as the unruly cats take over Taylor's bedroom and run riot.
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| ShortSummary= Don and Glenda leave Layla, Taylor and Hector home alone. But when Layla is dumped by her most recent heart-throb, she starts sobbing uncontrollably. It is a domino effect as the oven catches on fire, Hector's half-built model melts and the TV breaks. Taylor and Hector have to dry Layla's tears and save the day, while maintaining their composure enough to complete their school project.
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| ShortSummary= Taylor learns that Brittany and her family are moving house. As Michael and Loretta vacuum their front lawn in preparation for the sale of their house, Taylor and Brittany hatch a cunning scheme to sabotage the open day and ensure that they can remain next-door neighbours forever.
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| ShortSummary= Taylor thinks all her prayers have been answered when she is allowed to move in with Brittany's family for a few days. But she quickly realises the Flune family is a well-oiled machine, with strict house rules. She shares her dilemma with Beethoven and realises her own family might not be perfect, but they are perfect for her.
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| {{IND}}
| [[Disney Channel (India)|Disney Channel India]]
| 2007–2008
| 2007-2008▼
| मोर्टीफाईड <small>(Hindi)</small>
|-
| {{IRL}}
| [[RTÉ]]
|▼
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| {{MEX}}
| [[Disney Channel Latin America]], [[Canal Once]]
| 2007–2015
| ''¿Por qué a mí?''
|-
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| ''Mortified Zóóó gênant''
|-▼
| [[NRK Super]]
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| ''Dødsflaut''
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| {{POR}}
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| {{GBR}}
| [[CBBC (TV channel)|CBBC]], [[Pop Girl]]
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| ''Mortified''
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| [[Ho Chi Minh City Television|HTV3]]
| 28 November 2012 – present
| ''Tuổi ô mai
▲|-
▲| {{HK}}
|}
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==Crew==
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! Result
|-
| rowspan=2|2007 || rowspan=2|New York Festivals Television Programming<br>and Promotion Awards || Grand Award for Best Youth Program ||
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| Gold World Medal for Youth Programs ages 7 to 12 ||
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| rowspan=7|2006 || rowspan=4| [[Australian Film Institute Awards]] || Best Children's Television Drama ||
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| Young Actor Award || Marny Kennedy || {{won}}
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| Best Screenplay In Television || Angela Webber<br><small>(for the pilot episode "Taylor's DNA")</small> || {{no2|Nominee}}
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| Chicago International Children's Festival || First Prize in the Live Action Television category ||
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| '''54th Columbus International Film and Video Festival''' || Bronze Plaque for Children and Youth Programs ||
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| '''Australian Teachers of Media Awards''' || Best Children's Television Series ||
|}
==References==
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[[Category:2007 Australian television series endings]]
[[Category:Australian children's television series]]
[[Category:Australian English-language television shows]]
[[Category:Television series about children]]
[[Category:Television shows set in Queensland]]
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