The Neighbours Thread

KK wrote:I remember Karl having an affair with Izzy. I can’t recall if this was before or after Paul Robinson lost his leg.

KK wrote:I remember Karl having an affair with Izzy. I can’t recall if this was before or after Paul Robinson lost his leg.

Imrahil wrote:The last time I watched Neighbours was in the late 80s when Craig Mclachlan changed the world forever with his perm mullet.

Dowbocop wrote:Channel 5 need that money to ensure every single person in Yorkshire has their own TV show by 2025.

captain red dog wrote:What have the ratings been like since the move to 5? Their slot on BBC1 before the news was pretty ingrained, it's always a risk when you move channels, particularly when you go from the biggest terrestrial channel to something like 5.

The BBC deal may not have paid as much, but it was a bloody loyal deal in retrospect.

Skarjo wrote:Last time I watched it, Harold fell off a cliff.

captain red dog wrote:Didn't Paul Robinson get his leg back at one point?

Vermilion wrote:

captain red dog wrote:Didn't Paul Robinson get his leg back at one point?

I'm pretty sure that never happened.

The show has gotten away with a lot of weird stuff over the years, but i think even they drew the line at him growing a new leg.

Speaking of bonkers storylines, check out this article: https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/ ... 8156f21c60

poshrule_uk wrote:They sound mental

The show’s final story has gone down in history as one of the all-time bonkers meta TV endings. In the episode, titled ‘Deus Ex Machina’, the teenage Grovers learn that they’re characters in a TV show, manipulated for the entertainment of an omnipotent writer, who is bringing their story to a close. Now self-aware, the crew are given the ability to write their own endings by their creator, who can’t bear to kill them off himself. Much madness ensues, as the kids let their imaginations loose: the Grove is attacked by aliens, zombies and a T-rex, while one girl wears an “End is Nigh” sandwich board and begs for mercy from the “benevolent scribe” in the sky. At the end of the episode a pair of pre-teen anarchists, determined to keep the Grove out of the hands of evil property tycoons, push the plunger on a make-shift bomb and the screen is flooded with white light, after which a montage of characters from across the years plays over The Beatles’ ‘In My Life’. For a show that had previously concerned itself with teen sex, homelessness, soft drugs and that time Dec blinded Ant with a paintball gun, it was quite a big existential swing.

Tomous wrote:Bonkers but still doesn't have anything on the final episode of Byker Grove:

The show’s final story has gone down in history as one of the all-time bonkers meta TV endings. In the episode, titled ‘Deus Ex Machina’, the teenage Grovers learn that they’re characters in a TV show, manipulated for the entertainment of an omnipotent writer, who is bringing their story to a close. Now self-aware, the crew are given the ability to write their own endings by their creator, who can’t bear to kill them off himself. Much madness ensues, as the kids let their imaginations loose: the Grove is attacked by aliens, zombies and a T-rex, while one girl wears an “End is Nigh” sandwich board and begs for mercy from the “benevolent scribe” in the sky. At the end of the episode a pair of pre-teen anarchists, determined to keep the Grove out of the hands of evil property tycoons, push the plunger on a make-shift bomb and the screen is flooded with white light, after which a montage of characters from across the years plays over The Beatles’ ‘In My Life’. For a show that had previously concerned itself with teen sex, homelessness, soft drugs and that time Dec blinded Ant with a paintball gun, it was quite a big existential swing.