Flatmates - 1, First Episode

Television (Full Length Episode) – 1997

No way! That is real life!
– Vanessa’s response to Geoffrey’s request to delete the party footage, in episode one

Six of us have volunteered to be flatmates for three months. And I'm the one with the camera.
– Narrator Craig Wright, in episode one

...I ain't going to put up with nothing from no one. I had a fun time swearing at all these people though, it was good. And there's not a damn thing they could have done about it — I mean who would argue with Vanessa, I ask you.
– Geoffrey, after the police arrive, in episode one

You couldn't have scripted that. It was just wonderful — a revelation of how young New Zealanders actually deal with stuff, and how they get on together.
– Flatmates producer Vincent Burke, in his ScreenTalk interview for NZ On Screen

I'm just worried that if something good or bad happens it'll affect the whole project and I don't want that to happen. But at the same time, I'm only human. I don't know. Why repress feelings, you know what I mean?
– Craig contemplates expressing his feelings for Vanessa, in episode two

My hero of the moment. He’s replaced Norm Berryman in hero stakes. Norm Berryman replaced Christian Cullen, and Eric Cantona has replaced Berryman.
– Vanessa on Eric Cantona, in episode three

This flat would be fine and no one would have a problem with a single other person in it, if...Vanessa left.
– Christian on turmoil within the flat, in episode three

You know you would be an absolutely lovely person, if you would go over tonight’s film, and erase every little bit.
– Geoffrey to Craig the cameraman, after the party fracas, in episode one

People are scum. Apparently someone ripped the basin off the toilet and it flooded and people were apparently were just standing there and urinating from the end of the room … people are just absolutely disgusting…
– Christian, surveying the aftermath of the party, in episode two

At the same time I’ve sort of come to admire her too. Because she’s not your average person and I’ve got a lot of time for that. In some ways, I’ve become attracted to her.
– Craig, on Vanessa, in episode two

...that sort of thing's for the bedroom mate, not for a lecture theatre of 120 people on a winter’s day.
– Vanessa, describing a fellow university student who wears no bra underneath her shirt, in episode two

I know there’s a lot of feminists that dislike the idea of a beauty pageant, but a lot of them haven’t actually been in one. And for me it's not degrading ... it's something that I enjoy, and if a person went in them and felt degraded, then they shouldn't be in it.
– Natasha on beauty pageants, in episode three

I've been trying to find out from everyone: where is James Small going to be drinking tonight?
– Vanessa after the game, in episode four

Ceilla and Natasha are both from home: they don't know what flatting is about.
– Vanessa the veteran flattie on her fellow flatmates, in episode four

Vanessa was the breakout star of Flatmates – she went on to land a job co-hosting a youth magazine show on TV4 called The Drum. She was self-assured and opinionated and funny.
– Calum Henderson in a Spinoff article on Flatmates, 26 May 2016

I don’t know how one woman can make so many dishes while cooking one meal.
– Geoffrey on cooking dinner in the flat, in episode five

The fact is someone is using my stuff without telling me. What annoys me is that the note’s been up for a week and no one's bothered to come up to me and say ‘hey, is it alright if I borrow it?’ Because they haven’t got the balls to come up to me and see if I'd say yes.
– Vannessa on the troubles of living in a shared space, in episode five