Australia You're Standing In It
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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]].
==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]]