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Pizzaria while a Department of Health worker performs a safety inspection, but after the worker insults Bobo's mother, Bobo kills him by forcing him into the oven. During the night out with the other delivery drivers, Sleek runs into Toula (Rebel Wilson), one of the girls he has been leading on. Toula and her friends drug Sleek and abduct him. Upon awaking, they tell Sleek that they are sick of him using them to date their attractive friends and rape him as an act of revenge.
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Pauly arrives late at work to find his employer, Bobo (Johnny Boxer), has hired a new delivery driver, Davo (Jason Davis). Pauly explains to Davo that Bobo is crazy from being a forty-year-old virgin who lives with his mother, but is getting married the next day to a
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The television show for which the film was adapted from went on to be renewed for another three seasons, which aired in mid-2003 (several months after the movie was released), 2005 and 2007 on SBS. A crossover film between Fat Pizza and Housos – another television show created by Paul Fenech – was
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