Australia You're Standing In It 1896998 186433032 2008-01-23T21:53:45Z Ianblair23 145927 replaced [[Category:1983 television series debuts]] with [[Category:1983 Australian television series debuts]] '''''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]]. ==Cast== The cast included: *[[Rod Quantock]] *[[Steve Blackburn]] *[[Mary Kenneally]] *[[Geoff Brooks]] *[[Sue Ingleton]] *[[Evelyn Krape]] *[[Peter Browne]] *[[Tim Robertson]] ==Format== {{Prose|date=November 2007}} ''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 Pie]]s. 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." * "How to cook a Mars Bar", a parody cooking segment where every recipe involved a Mars Bar. Featured such [[culinary]] delights as Mars Bar Loaf, Mars Bar Stew and [[Deep-fried Mars Bar]]s. ==Spinoffs== * For a short time Tim and Debbie presented ''Reel To Real'' on the ABC, in which the pair presented old [[B-movie]]s 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 (TV series)|Fast Forward]]''. == See also == * [[List of Australian television series]] ==External links== * {{imdb title|id=0084977}} [[Category:Australian television comedy series]] [[Category:Television sketch shows]] [[Category:1983 Australian television series debuts]] [[Category:1984 Australian television series endings]]