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Reverend Minister McCat's holy water

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The Reverend Minister McCat is a character in the popular animated television series bro'Town, which focuses on a Pacific Island community. McCat is satirised as grasping and corrupt. In this clip he peddles 'special holy braininess water', which he claims is behind another character's success in a school quiz show.

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Cluny Macpherson, Pacific churches in New Zealand – Change and adaptation, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/video/26739/reverend-minister-mccats-holy-water (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Cluny Macpherson, published 21 February 2011.