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- In an old abandoned theater in London, six kids uncover some old magic and discover the power of teamwork. But first they must learn to trust each other and find out who's trying to stop them. It's a story of international intrigue, personal pride, and community spirit.
- "Mazah fi Jad" (Seriously Joking) features three families - two Muslim and one Christian in the Bethlehem area. Focusing on the problems of everyday life for ordinary Palestinians, particularly the young, the story follows the Abu Ali family, the Um Sami family, the Abu Saleh family, and their friends; as the characters deal with social issues related to love, marriage, high unemployment, nepotism, corruption, and traditions versus modernity in family affairs. The storyline comments on the lives of Palestinian youth with a focus on their needs and ambitions as they experience university and the challenges of living in Palestine.
- With its uniquely African identity, flavor, and feel, the series takes viewers behind the headlines into the heart of conflict. Whether it is a village kgotla (council of elders) mediating a land dispute in the former Zaire, or the Truth and Reconiciliation Commision in South Africa, each episode demonstrates that good storytelling does not have to glorify conflict for its own sake-that an agreement can be as dramatic as any soap opera. At the same time, the series challenges the view that Africa is incapable of solving its own problems.
- In the premier episode, serendipity leads our five main characters to a small neighborhood in London. But all is not as it seems. A thief follows Deniz and her precious violin, but Tanaka follows the thief. Joe runs away from summer revision school and Stavros discovers that his chief opponent in the international football tournament is Mia, a girl.
- The kids, with Soner's help, decide to throw a party to save the theatre and Mustafa's job. Meanwhile, Joe, Tanaka and Stavros are deciphering clues and getting closer and closer to finding Joe's brother. But Joe's parents, and the police, are even closer to finding him!
- Trouble abounds. Mustafa is accused of stealing, and Spike and Fox's secret plan to take over the theatre inches ever closer to completion. The kids devise a way to expose Fox and Spike, but too late-the theatre has already been sold. Mia and Deniz unearth an old poem written by a WWII Sparklers actor, the meaning of which may save the theatre, Mustafa and their own integrity.
- Somebody is trying to sabotage Stavros on the football field. Stavros must choose between revenge and confrontation to settle the matter and keep his team in contention. But trouble looms at the Sparkler's Theatre as two developers, Spike and Fox, divulge their secret plans to destroy the place.
- It's down to the wire as the bulldozers arrive for demolition, a protest is organized and a mad search for the poem's meaning sends Tanaka and Soner all over London. Amidst this chaos, Stavros and Mia play against each other in the football championships, and Deniz misses her final piano recital at her music school.
- Tanaka, Mia, Deniz and Stavros discover that Peter has moved into the Sparkler's Theatre and vow to help him find his older brother. Comic shenanigans ensue as they devise plans to sneak him food and keep him clean! But in the end we learn that 'Peter' isn't 'Peter' at all.
- Beni is a talented basketball player, and is invited to try out for the best basketball team in town, the Mahers. But to do so, he has to choose between basketball practice and keeping his promise to Jeylan - to rehearse for a show she's preparing. Making excuses to Jeylan, he chooses basketball. Beni soon discovers that getting into the Mahers involves additional choices. Succumbing to pressure from the others team members, Beni goes along with them as they bully a younger boy and slash his basketball. Karmen then threshes Beni to a room where the bullied boy is talking with his teacher about what makes a real friend. Beni decides that his friendship with Jeylan is more important than being a Maher, and joins her in preparing and performing in the show.
- Dime invites Beni to his party, but Beni's father, Ahmet, won't let him go. Ahmet is convinced that Dime invited Beni only to provide music, and not because they're friends. He is also concerned that Beni will be the only Albanian at a party full of Macedonians. Ahmet tries to convince Beni by discussing his past negative experiences with Macedonians. Beni is conflicted because he knows his father means well, but he also knows that Dime's invitation is sincere. Karmen advises Beni to be true to his emotions and do to what he thinks is right. Beni sneaks out and goes to the party, but when his parents notice his absence they go looking for him and find him at Dime's. Embarrassed, they try to leave, but Dime's parents invite them to stay. The next day, Beni and his parents admit that, although Beni was wrong to have snuck out, parents can also make mistakes.
- The Muslim feast of Kurban Bayram and Orthodox Easter are approaching. Beni's and Dime and Mali's families each make their preparations. Beni and his father have brought a lamb to keep, and Mali dyes eggs for Easter. A confrontation between Dime's and Beni's fathers about keeping a lamb in the building quickly escalates. When Beni is not allowed to keep the lamb, he breaks Mali's Easter eggs. Mali tells Dime what happened, and Dime and a friend look for the lamb to steal in revenge. When Karmen sees how delighted Mali is by this, she "threshes" him to a Muslim household where he sees why and how Muslims celebrate Kurban Bayram. Mali realizes that the lamb is as important to Beni, as the eggs are to him, and he informs Beni about Dime's plan. After a comical lamb chase, Mali catches it and Beni trades him the lamb for two Easter eggs.
- Dime, Beni, Jeylan and Atije are going to spend the day in the countryside under the watchful eye of Beni's older sister and her boyfriend. Unfortunately, Mali has to stay behind because he's got a cold. At the picnic site, the kids decide to go catch butterflies and soon get lost. Beni accidentally hurts his ankle and needs to be carried, but kids are stuck on the mountain with no food and no way to get back. As they get hungrier they start to blame each other for their predicament. When Mali, back at the apartment, overhears his parent's phone call about his lost friends, he wants to help and Karmen threshes him to the mountainside. Once there he convinces the other kids that they can only solve their problem by working together. They improvise a splint and figure out a way to make their way down the mountain, where they're greeted by very relieved family members.
- Jeylan loves kayaking and she wants to become a member of the kayak club Zayak. There's one condition: she has to look after the club's mascot, a rabbit, for a week. When Jeylan shows the rabbit to her friends, Biba, wants one for herself. Biba means a lot to Dime, so when Dime can't find a rabbit to give her, he steals Jeylan's rabbit. But Biba's happiness means Jeylan's sadness. Dime decides to get the rabbit back from Biba, but when Itse teases Dime that he'll lose face, he hesitates. Karmen then threshes Dime into a situation where he experiences the negative consequences of peer pressure. Dime stands up to his friends' teasing and returns the rabbit to Jeylan just before members of the kayak club gang up on him for stealing their mascot.
- We see people living in what appears to be an unassuming apartment building. Gradually we see that one family is Macedonian, another Albanian, another Roma, etc. When a student moves out of the building, she asks some kids: Beni (Albanian), Dime and Mali (Macedonian), Atije (Roma) and Jeylan (Turkish) to help her carry her things to the car. These kids don't know each other, even though most of them live in the same building. The student has no more room in the car, so she leaves her TV set for the kids to share. After some debate, the kids decide that the appropriate place for the TV is a room in the basement. There they continue to argue over the TV, and before they can even plug it into the wall the TV turns on. On the screen is Karmen, who it turns out is the apartment in which the kids live. She introduces the kids to each other, addressing each in his/her own language. All the children are totally amazed, but remain convinced that there's some logical technical explanation. They agree to return later to look for the real meaning of what's happened. Only one of the kids, Atije, returns at the appointed time. Because the kids haven't kept their word, Karmen doesn't appear when they all finally assemble in the basement. Dime blames Beni and makes pejorative remarks about how Beni, as an Albanian, has no place in the building. At home Dime is irritable and pouty. Karmen suddenly "threshes" (to send someone through Karmen's magic tunnel) Dime to Beni's apartment, where Dime invisibly witnesses that Beni is just a regular kid who is now as unhappy as he is. After he's "threshed" back, Dime realizes he needs to apologize to Beni for insulting him earlier. Despite this reconciliation, the kids still have a problem: The adults have decided to make the basement room their common laundry. Dime offers a plan to outsmart the parents. And together the kids succeed in keeping the basement as their shared room where they can visit Karmen. They also realize that they now form a group with a shared secret.
- Jeylan's invited to a birthday party. She wants to look good, so she borrows her mother's necklace without permission. That day Atije's and her mother Nerjus are scheduled to clean at Jeylan's. After Jeylan's mother (Leyla), returns and pays Nerjus for her work, she notices the necklace is missing. Leyla rushes after Nerjuz, and in front of all the tenants, angrily accuses her of stealing the necklace. Nerjus, hurt and humiliated, finds herself in a no-win situation. Since no one trusts Roma people she is unable to prove that she is not a thief and, even though she is innocent, Nerjus decides to replace the necklace by selling the family earrings. Meanwhile, Beni calls Jeylan, who leaves the party and goes home to tell her mother what actually happened, but she is dissuaded by her mother's anger. Karmen "threshes" Jeylan to Atije's courtyard where she arrives in time to stop Jeylan from selling her earrings. Jeylan tells Atije and Nerjuz the truth, and accompanies them back to her mother, but Leyla feels humiliated that she was wrong and a Roma cleaning woman was right. Atije and Jeylan reconcile as friends, but the future is unknown for the two mothers.
- Dime and Jeylan decide to partner together to represent their local tennis club in a doubles tennis tournament. Beni and Itse mock Dime for teaming up with a girl, so Dime drops Jeylan in favor of his friend Andrei. Jeylan is hurt and quits the tournament. Leyla, Jeylan's mother, discovers Jeylan's decision and tells her about all the prejudice she faced as a woman starting their family business. Leyla convinces her daughter to be strong - and to play on. Karmen, in the meantime, threshes Dime, Itse and Beni into girls to let them feel what girls experience when they're treated as inferior to boys. Tournament day arrives. Jeylan and her new partner Maria play Dime and Andrei. The girls win! Dime and his buddies admit that ability counts, not gender.
- An older woman is moving into Mali's neighborhood. One day she joins Mali in reading fairy tales and Mali is convinced that he's found the perfect granny. He sends his friends to her whenever they need anything. Unfortunately, 'granny' gives Filis salt instead of sugar for her baklava, and ruins rather than washes Darko's shirt. Mali's friends complain that she's the worst granny ever, and when Mali happens to see 'granny' chanting spells, he's convinced that she's actually a witch! Karmen threshes Mali to a theater rehearsal where Mali discovers that his imagined 'granny' is an actress playing the part of a witch. Embarrassed, Mali and his friends put on a performance of Romeo and Juliet for her - and 'granny' the actress joins in.
- Beni's band is invited to compete to appear live on radio. All they need is one good song, so Beni asks for help from his Internet song-writing partner, who calls himself Cobain. Beni doesn't know that Cobain is actually Mehmet, a shy Turkish boy. Mehmet's father is very proud that he is learning to play classical Turkish music and is unaware that Mehmet secretly longs to play rock-and-roll guitar. When Mehmet shows up at Beni's rehearsal, Beni and the band take him for some "nerd" and knock him around. After a second meeting, Beni realizes that the "nerd" is Cobain and apologizes. Mehmet tells Beni the band can use his song if he can play with them. Zana, the singer, refuses and walks out, so Karmen threshes Zana to a TV quiz show where the audience has to guess who she is by her looks; they can't. Zana goes to Mehmet's house to invite him to play but accidentally reveals Mehmet's secret to his father. Finally, Mehmet joins the band, which adopts the name Beni and the Nerds. Mehmet's father attends their performance.
- Beni, Atije, Dime, Jeylan and Mali decide to hold a surprise birthday party for Filis. When they keep disappearing to organize things, Filis thinks they are avoiding her intentionally and she angrily breaks Mali's model airplane and deflates Atije's bike tires. Meanwhile, Jeylan and Violeta choose the same song to sing at the party. Jeylan claims it's a Turkish song so she has the right to perform it, and Violeta insists it's Macedonian and that she should sing it. Karmen threshes Jeylan to a party where everything she wants is off limits because it's not culturally "hers". Jeylan understands that no one "owns" a song, and that she and Violeta can each sing the song their own way. In the meantime, Filis realizes that her spiteful acts have only further alienated her friends, and she apologizes. She is therefore even more surprised when she discovers that her friends were "avoiding" her to prepare a birthday party.
- Dime is eager to see the blockbuster Fireworld. When his father drives Dime, Mali and Filis to the theater, Filis unfortunately falls sick and they have to go back home. Nerjuz, the Roma woman who cleans the building where Dime lives, gives Filis traditional herbal medicine and reassures Dime that Filis will soon feel better, but Dime insults Nerjus by calling her and her medicine "backwards" and "behind the times." He insists that modern medicine would be better. Karmen threshes Dime to a local hospital in the 1940s, when most medicines were still traditional. By helping a doctor Dime learns that traditional medicines are neither "backwards" nor ineffective. When he's threshed back, Dime find that Filis is feeling much better - and ready for Fireworld.
- Beni, Atije, Dime, Jeylan, and Mali are concerned when Karmen suddenly introduces herself to Itse. They demand that Itse keep Karmen's existence a secret, which he agrees to half-heartedly. The kids get even more worried when Itse and Karmen stage a money-making magic show. They padlock the basement room where they keep the TV to prevent Itse from getting in. Frustrated and angry, Itse breaks in and spray paints the TV screen. When Dime and the others discover him there, Dime starts a fistfight. Karmen "threshes" (magically transports) them both to a boxing ring, where their fight escalates comically but unstoppably till they're both exhausted and "threshed" back. Having experienced that settling their disagreement by fighting doesn't get them anywhere, Dime and Itse start to ask each other why they'd done what they did. The gang finds out that Itse was only trying to earn enough money to buy his sister a new prom dress and they decide to help him organize a puppet show. The puppet show is a success, Itse's sister gets her new dress and Itse is accepted the newest knight of the Karmen roundtable.
- Although Beni's grandmother lives in Gazi Baba, Beni's parents feel uncomfortable there, and convey this attitude to Beni. While visiting his grandmother Beni's sees a boy in the street acting 'strangely'. Beni's band needs a new drummer, and when Zana, an Albanian girl in the band, brings Jait, Beni realizes that he is the strange boy he saw in Gazi Baba. During a rehearsal the band's amplifier stops working, and Jait offers to take it home to repair it. Beni believes that Jait intends to steal it, and sneaks into Jait's yard to take it back. When Jait catches him in the act, Beni accuses him of theft and takes the amp home to fix it himself. But Beni can't fix it, so Karmen threshes him back to Gazi Baba. There Beni discovers that Jait earns money by fixing electronic equipment. Beni goes back to Jait's house to apologize and convinces Jait to be the band's new drummer. People in Gazi Baba aren't so different from people in Beni's neighborhood after all.
- The Pilots are a cool gang - and Itse wants to join them. The Pilots demand that he bring a drum (tarabuka) to a party, and he takes one from the Dance Academy where his Roma friend Atije studies ballet. The Academy principal suspects Itse and asks Atije to get the drum back. Itse denies taking it, and the principal suspends Atije until she can produce the drum. Itse has second thoughts and tries to get the drum back, but the Pilots mock him for being concerned about a Roma girl. 'Why does he care what happens to her? Plus everyone knows that Roma's steal, so it will be her who is accused of the left not Itse.' Atije can't understand why her friend Itse is doing something to hurt her and decides that Itse is a thief at heart. Karmen threshes Atije to observe that Itse has the same need for acceptance as she does. Atije confronts Itse with a question: Does he prefer to stay in the gang or to remain her friend? Itse says he just "borrowed" the drum, but the gang won't return it. When Itse finally demands that the Pilots return the tarabuka, they smash the drumhead. Itse takes responsibility by returning the drum to the Academy and agreeing to sweep it out to pay for the repair.
- Mali meets a new boy in the neighborhood, and nicknames him "Gjubredjiya" (garbage guy). A new girl, Marina, moves into one of the flats with her father, Petar. Gjubredjiya is smitten and thinks she is a princess. In the playground Gjubredjiya, Mali and Beni try to introduce themselves, but Petar abruptly takes Marina indoors. Karmen threshes Mali to a scene between Marina and her father. There he learns that he's too quick to judge Petar's behavior. When Petar is away, Marina hesitantly goes out with Gjubredjiya. Banging her nose, she bleeds profusely because she has a rare bleeding disorder and she has left the drugs for it at home. When Petar realizes that Marina is out without her medicine, he turns to the kids for help. They find Marina and Gjubredjiya at the hospital. Petar recognizes his attempts to protect Marina have actually made her life more difficult. He has to trust her and her ability to cope, so he gives Marina permission to go out with Gjubredjiya.