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Australia You're Standing In It was an Australian sketch comedy series produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, first screened in 1983 with a second series made in 1984. This article does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation or ABC is Australias national non-profit public broadcaster. ...
Year 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar). ...
This article is about the year. ...
Cast
The cast included: Rod Quantock (born 19??) is an Australian stand-up comedian and writer. ...
Peter Browne (?1665 - August 27, 1735), Irish divine and bishop of Cork and Ross, was born in County Dublin, not long after the Restoration. ...
Format Australia You're Standing In It featured many recurring sketches and characters that parodied well known personalities, pop stars, music videos, television programs and advertisements of the day, or simply sent-up well-known social situations. These included: - Two pretentious society matrons (Ingleton and Kenneally) and a third (Krape) who could never quite make the grade much to the delight of the other two who mocked her. Catchphrase: "Helloo Daaaahlings!"
- The Dodgy Brothers (Blackburn and Brooks), two badly dressed and dim businessmen who appeared in the low-budget and badly-produced television advertisements selling their dodgy products. Partly a parody of the then ubiquitous advertisements for the Saba furniture warehouse, and other cut-rate advertisements of its ilk.
- "Brainspace", a new-age segment presented by Tim and Debbie (Kenneally and Blackburn), two trendy university students whose convoluted and pretentious talk was a smokescreen for their ignorance. Their main catchphrase was "Amaaazing!"
- Mock advertisements for fictional product "Chunky Custard". Most of these were parodies of familiar contemporary advertisements for real products, mimicking current commercials for such products as Big M or Four'N Twenty Pies. Halfway through the second series Chunky Custard was phased out and replaced by "Hot Yak Fat", which came in a can resembling a beer can. Viewers were exhorted to "crack a Fat today".
- Many parodies of then-popular songs and music videos, including Mary Kenneally as Bonnie Tyler in "Total Eclipse of the Brain".
- Bruce Rump (Brooks), a parody of Bruce Ruxton. Rump always ended his skits with "And that's why we should keep the bloody flag the same, now clear out!"
- Rod Quantock in traditional stand-up routines in which he would address the audience directly. In one episode he attempted to put Victorian viewers to sleep by hypnotizing them with an Australian Football League football.
- "Fair Cops", a parody of Cop Shop.
- The Catalogue Collectors, a pair of scarf-clad Melburnians who lived in a caravan next to Port Phillip Bay and collected catalogues. Catchphrase: "Home is where the front door is."
[html] The FourN Twenty Meat Pie was invented in Bendigo, Victoria, Australia by LT. McLure in 1947. ...
Bruce Caryle Ruxton OBE AM (born 6 February 1926) is Australian and known as the former President of the Victorian Returned and Services League and was also on its executive committee. ...
This article is about the national league in Australian rules football. ...
Cop Shop is also an informal term for a police station Cop Shop was an Australian police drama television series produced by Crawford Productions that revolved around the everyday operations of both the uniformed police officers and the plain-clothes detectives of the fictional Riverside Police Station. ...
There is also Local Government Area called the City of Port Phillip. ...
Spinoffs - For a short time Tim and Debbie presented Reel To Real on the ABC, in which the pair presented old B-movies and proceeded to interrupt, deconstruct, and generally mock them.
- A long-playing record of most of the Tim and Debbie sketches was released under the title Brainspace, Vol. II.
- The Dodgy Brothers (again portrayed by Blackburn and Brooks) and Bruce Rump (Brooks) were resurrected in the later Fast Forward.
The term B-movie originally referred to a film designed to be distributed as the lower half of a double feature, often a genre film featuring cowboys, gangsters or vampires. ...
Fast Forward was an Australian commercial television sketch comedy show that ran for 94 episodes from 12 April 1989 to 26 November 1992. ...
See also This is a list of Australian television series and television programs. ...
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