Neighbours appreciation thread

There you go. It's on in ten minutes.

I usually only see five minutes of this before the news.

IIRC the hotties are all in Home and Away these days.

I love the way you can just tell in Neighbours that someone will have recently been in a car accident/fallen out of a building/been in a coma - normally just before or after a wedding.

New York must be the new Adelaide. Travel is cheaper these days.

The funniest was he spent about two weeks calling Lou 'Kidney Thief'.

You know you're a lost cause when you start having Neighbours dreams.

http://www.ramsay-street.co.uk/episodes/epimages/ep2721.jpg

My friend told me Toadie had been kidnapped by the mafia, and I believed him.

I miss watching Neighbours, I could just put the telly on, but I can't concentrate on it for than 5 minutes. If I can't watch it twice a day, there's no point.

The highlight of my week was realising that Neighbours and Home and Away simultaneously have characters with an eye patch.

http://bbc.net.uk/puresoap/storyupdates/content/neighbours/20040309/images/img_p141_s7286_txd20040309_v2_f6.jpg

a leading light in that most notorious of criminal institutions, the Australian Mafia.

Damn you guys are behind in the UK! This whole Lou in jail being razzed by Darcy who - dun dun dunnnn - happens to be his cellmate, is just stupid.

(I really should stop messing with my screen name).

The Lou/Darcy thing sounds brilliant. Can't wait.

Also nobody's mentioned the hotness that is Skye (or maybe was - before she was blonde). Too young for you guys, maybe? Aparrently she'll be having some sort of lesbian experience soon, which is pretty cool (and brave, yet contrived).

I watched it yesterday and poor Lucas Fitzgerald STILL has a gambling problem

Love weird symmetry of IRL Paul being on River City, then reappears in the show with a scottish son

ha. what IS he like.

last time i saw river city some child had been kidnapped or something. what happened with that?

Was probably Deek. Everyone on river city is called Deek. Genuinely amazed it's still on tbh. Who watches it besides, like, Tam Cowan?

MAH MAW AT'S WHO. i prefer it to the big soaps but maybe only because i don't find myself watching it every fuckin night or so when i'm visiting home.

Last time I saw it, the mother of the kidnapped child had been given a bag containing some of their clothes. No idea what happened after that, I only ever catch the last couple of minutes of it sometimes when waiting for someone else.

I don't think Deek's in it any more.

someTHING else.

Plot synopses on wikipedia are highly recommended. As described by a breathless 10yo.

How and why is Dee apparently back?
Was Steph always back?
Did Toadie ever leave?

I've watched Neighbours maybe once a year for the last ten years, and Toadie has been in it every time.

Dee is not Dee but a lookalike who is scamming Toadie for money with help from his other ex Sindi. It is insane and brilliant for being so.

OK that sounds like a prime era bonkers Neighbours storyline.

yeah might start watching again

There was an extended and extremely laboured "sausage" metaphor "joke" thing today.

neighboursepisodes.com/

We have the biggest collection of Neighbours episode guides on the internet

they sure do!

happy to see, by reading the most recent guide, that Toadie is still going strong

that website is bonkers but also deserving of some kind of "best of internet" award.

Cant believe I used to be so invested in this show, lol

Haha I can't believe I even started this thread. I think I must have watched this show for about a minute

I watched it pretty obsessively for ten to fifteen years! but the drop in interest was sudden and total.

I even did the 'meet the Neighbours' thing when I was in Melbourne and have a photos of myself with Toadie and Dr Karl.

any time I read about Neighbours in the tv guide etc I am always amazed at what nonsense they have going on and find myself going through spurts of watching it for a week then abandoning it for months. Recently we've had: Dee Bliss coming back from the dead to have a showdown with her doppleganger (played by the same actress), a polyamorous throuple, and Denise Van Outen as a cult leader. Teatime soaps weren't like that when I was young.

Denise Van Outen as a cult leader?! Don't tempt me to start watching this haha

haha yeah same! plain jane superbrain came back too iirc.
i still have a massive soft spot for the classic years.

brooke satchwell popping up in s1 of mr inbetween reminded me how much i loved anne of billyandanne.

Miss Lou and Harold as the Erinsborough Matthau and Lemmon

Stopped watching when Charlene didn't turn up to her mother's funeral and it wasn't even mentioned.

Toady has survived so many years by being openly contemptuous of the script, it stops the actor losing the plot, but also doesn't seem to lead to other opportunities elsewhere.

woof at 5:13 12 Sep 13
I like looking at the huge block of text on wikipedia that summarises everything that has happened to Toadfish. No way will I read it but it is soothing to look at.

Neighbours vs. Time Travel (TV Mini Series)
Neighbours vs. Zombies (TV Mini Series short)

ok lol what?

As a bit of a fan watching in the early period, I feel a bit like I jumped ship too soon.

When Paul Robinson time travels to 1985, he alters 30 years of Neighbours history.

Natalie Imbruglia was recently in the magazines being shocked that her character has a son who is now in it (he is part of the throuple mentioned above)

Teatime soaps weren't like that when I was young.

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Neighbours has always a had a bit of an unhinged undercurrent, which is a major part of its appeal - cf Bouncer's Dream, or Jim taking magic mushrooms by mistake.

I remember actually seeing a breast once. It was a scene with a girl pinning up clothes on a washing line, for some reason the camera was positioned on the floor looking up at her and as she reached up you could see up her top and pretty sure I saw no bra.

maybe.

somehow revisiting old Neighbours clips ca late-90s/early-00s is always a very, um, "hauntological" experience for me. I think it's something to do with the incidental music they used at the time, especially during sad moments. there was one piece in particular with guitar that often used to play during the Dee's disappearance storyline, someone on YouTube made an interesting reconstruction, it almost sounds like Resident Evil save room music or an Akira Yamaoka composition from Silent Hill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETxNRMB1W_w

I've Never Been To Cuba

axed after 37 years, last episode in August.

thanks, PUTIN

I haven't watched it in about 15 years but im still sad. I watched it from as far back as I can remember (it started on uk tv when I was 2) until about the mid 00s - when I left university, so probably 20 years.

thanks, PUTIN

Save Volodymyr 'Toadfish' Zelenskyy

Haven't watched regularly in over 20 years but every time I see a story about the final episode I feel a visceral pang of deep deep sadness, like death is near. I somehow thought I'd accepted my decline into middle age, but I believed the sunny Erinsborough counter-world would just exist eternally, generations of strange adventures for Rebecchis, Daniels, Robinsons. Not so. rip.

Ya me too. I've started watching the past couple of weeks - veers from tedious corny boreathon to weird in-jokes and random scenarios (just watched a whole 'corporate espionage' gag on the viewer within one ep). Will watch til the end.

I was reading that they've been doing some really nice things for the die-hard fans, for example naming characters who appear in one scene after people who campaigned actively on Twitter against the axing.

I don't know how the two actors who play Susan and Izzy kept a straight face during the scenes last week when Izzy turned up in a relationship with the Kennedy son and said to Susan "maybe one day I can call you mum"

that finale was really cheesy and it did make me roll my eyes a few times but overall I thought it was a really nice way to end the show. Kylie's appearance was utterly pointless though.

Kind of delightful how much Guy Pearce committed to it - it was all him!

Cannot believe how monstrously and effortlessly Karl and Susan emotionally blackmailed Toadie into reorganising his entire life for their benefit.

Cannot believe how monstrously and effortlessly Karl and Susan emotionally blackmailed Toadie into reorganising his entire life for their benefit.

This has convinced me to watch.

Susan was also exceptionally cruel to Izzy in their last encounter - I think it was meant to come across as pity but telling someone "you need to learn to like yourself" is actually quite harsh.

I didn't really click until a friend mentioned it - the show has always been based on families and family units, so the finale having two lesbian couples deciding to pursue their relationships and a gay couple decide to stay in Ramsay St with their "chosen family," that was a nice reflection of how the concept of family has changed in the 37 years or so since the show began. Especially as Home & Away seems to have had no homosexual characters last more than a few weeks.

Guy Pearce was great! I'm having fun clicking around the fan sites remembering mad old storylines. I watched this show for pretty much my entire life until the late 2000s. A nice way to go out, even if we never got to see Susan's rumoured arm tatts.

Biggest shock for me watching recent episodes: they have actual, licensed music now!
They even had British Sea Power playing in one episode.