Atlantis High is a teen comedy TV show, shot in New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

 in 2001.

The plot revolves around 16-year-old Giles Gordon (Michael Wesley-Smith

Michael Wesley-Smith

Michael Thomas Wesley-Smith is a New Zealand television actor. He is best known for his portrayal of the snarky, lovable nerd Jack in the teen sci-fi TV show The Tribe....

), who has just moved to Sunset Cove, "a beautiful coastal surfing town where the sun is always shining, the people are all beautiful and everything is perfect... or so it seems." He enrolls in Atlantis High School, where he soon discovers that Sunset Cove is unlike any town he's ever seen: populated by double-agents, aliens and high school students with blue hair and pointy ears, its inhabitants are eccentric lunatics who at times turn into superheroes or other whimsical figures.

Atlantis High both parodies soap operas and pays homage to spoof

Parody

A parody , in current usage, is an imitative work created to mock, comment on, or trivialise an original work, its subject, author, style, or some other target, by means of humorous, satiric or ironic imitation...

television.