Matthew Rutledge » australiana http://mattrut.com It's my website, but you can read it! Thu, 22 Jul 2010 01:36:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Geneaology of a running gag http://mattrut.com/2009/08/31/geneaology-of-a-running-gag/ http://mattrut.com/2009/08/31/geneaology-of-a-running-gag/#comments Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:42:09 +0000 Matthew Rutledge http://mattrut.com/?p=980 I might be the only non-Australian (or one in a million!) who has seen enough Australian TV footage to actually have gotten the reference while never having “been there”, so to speak. It’s still totally god damned hilarious, even if you don’t have the full frame of reference.

SBS, by the way, is something akin to our PBS, so you can transpose as much as needed in order to produce laughter.

You have to watch both.

(The actresses who play Kath & Kim appear at the end, by the way)

This is who and what they’re parodying, Basia Bonkowski. Fascinating documentaries from Yugoslavia…

Watch that one ’til the end — it has the adorable Australian baby montage, showing how multicultural Australia really is. All of those babies are approximately 29 years old now! And Basia Bonkowski? Ageless, just like Yugoslavia.

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