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Geneaology of a running gag

By Matthew Rutledge on 08/31/2009

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 […]

Posted in Australia, Cultural Ephemera | Tagged Australia, australiana, basia bonkowski, comedy, commonwealth, continuity, Cultural Ephemera, humor, kath & kim, multiculturalism, SBS | Leave a response

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I’m eusing eumah!

By Matthew Rutledge on 08/30/2009

I could write academ­ic­ally as to why Kath & Kim is perhaps one of the witti­est, most subvers­ively bril­liant comed­ies to spread across the British Commonwealth, but I’ll just let the jokes speak for them­selves. This is from Series 3.
Kel’s 50th birth­day slash Epponnee-Raelene-Darlene-Charlene Craig’s baptism involves line dancing and karaōke (to “Fox on […]

Posted in Australia, video | Tagged Australia, comedy, gina riley, jane turner, kath & kim | Leave a response

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Herein lies the brilliance of Kath & Kim

By Matthew Rutledge on 07/26/2009

The amount of jokes they throw into each epis­ode is shock­ing, shock­ingly good that is.  I can watch an epis­ode ten times or more and then during the elev­enth, or thirty-seventh, or 892017th view­ing, discover yet another play on word or subtle joke.
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“It’s like a cabbage patch… doll!”

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Trude. Prue. Two visions in vinyl

By Matthew Rutledge on 07/22/2009

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