Outrageous Fortune is a New Zealand television comedy/drama series, produced by South Pacific Pictures in 2005 and shown by TV3 on Tuesday nights. The show has currently finished airing its third season.

The Nine Network in Australia previously screened Season 1 during the summer of 2006. In 2007, rival, Network Ten picked up the second season and began airing it on the 16 November 2007 at 10:30, however Channel Nine resumed screening the remaining unaired episodes from Season One during December 2007. It is currently being re-run on the Foxtel channel Arena from December 2007 through to 2008. As such, it is currently being seen on three Australian networks (Ten, Nine and Arena)

The central plot is that a family of criminals decide to go straight after the father is jailed. Like the show itself, episodes take their names from Shakespeare quotations. The main characters each walk a fine line between right and wrong according to their respective values - the law, the criminal code of honour, loyalty to family, and respectability.

randpa' Ted West: [stands in the doorway trouserless] Has anyone seen my pants?

retta West: [to Pascalle] Rejected by your own stalker... how tragic.

retta West: [to Pascalle] Let's just say, you're still a slut, but I'm no longer a virgin.

scalle West: You're not loony just because you joined some weird cult!

nter: Yeah, it was float like a butterfly, sting like a wasp. ic: Bee. nter: What? ic: Nah, the saying goes 'float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.' nter: How do you know how it goes? I only just made it up.

nter: Bro, you've got to forget her. You've got to empty your mind. Empty. Your. Mind

nter: Hey, education is good. Up to the bit where you get expelled. Then you get to taste freedom.

nter: It must be hard. Trying to remember the truth when it's not actually the truth. It'd be easier if you could just lie, eh?

nter: It's moments like these... you need one of my mum's cookies.

nter: To Van - I love you, man. But I really hope I'm never stuck in a life or death situation and you're the one who has to figure out how to rescue me

nter: Do Men of the Minge buy their clothes in Ponsonby?

nter: Is texting someone eighteen times and getting nothing back - is that stalking?

nter: If a man goes nowhere and there's no-one there to see him, did he ever leave?

n West: What does ironic mean? nter: It means how come the guy with the job has never got any money for any piss?

nter: I don't know what's happening with Van anymore. We used to have something, you know, special. Now all I get are text messages.

nter: There's a big fish up there with my name on it. Big snapper. n West: It's a fish called Munter nter: That's a cool name, eh? n West: What's my fish called? nter: Van. Van Fish. And it's friends with the other fish, the Munter. n West: Yeah, and they like, swim around... nter: Just cruising, cos that's the kind of fish they are. n West: Yeah nter: The Van Fish and the Munter Fish n West: And they're cool, man. nter: Of course they're cool, cos they're in the water.

nter: They're big those Tongans, and no strangers to violence - cos their mums have been smacking them from when they was little.

nter: You just mimed rooting your own sister. You have to think about these things before you do them.