Every "Dumb Street" from season 3 & 4 of Fast Forward. Dumb Street is mainly a send up of the early years of Home & Away but also features characters from A Country Practice. Follow me on Facebook: / ogary86
I always found them boring, including Home & Away which is what Australians seem to favor the most. My mother used to watch A Country Practice back in the day, and I was never interested in watching it with her.
Dumb Street, we're all living on E Street, Home & Away like Neighbours, A Country Practice, we're Flying Doctors too, on Ramsay Street, togetherrrrr, living on Dumb Street, living on Dumb Street, living on Dumb Street. We need another song for Sons and Daughters, Number 96, Cop Shop, Kingswood Country, The Sullivans, Prisoner, Skyways & The Young Doctors.
Love this show and always have. Fast forward was my favorite comedy in my late teens and early 20s. Watching it again it reminds me of the terrible acting in ‘friends’. Im sure if friends was around at the time they would have sent it up too.
@@Hulk2k6 thanks! I’ll have to check it out! Also, this is a long shot, but ages ago I started watching Home and Away from the start and got to roughly episode 1800 (give or take a hundred) before not being able to find any more episodes online. You don’t happen to know where I could watch more?
As the theme music suggests, Dumb Street is a parody of every single soap on Aussie TV at the time (although the opening sequence is a parody of the H&A opener at the time)
The main characters of Dumb Street were based on H&A characters. Shelley played by Marg Downey is based on Marilyn Chambers, Jane Turner's character is based on Bobby Simpson, Magda's character is based on Carly Morris, Gina Riley's character Dannii is based on Emma Jackson (who was played by Dannii Minogue). Ramsay St Clinic is a Neighbours reference. Craig Donovan = Craig McLachlan (Neighbours and Home and Away) and Jason Donovan (Neighbours). Donovan appears here in the opening titles sequence. Bob Hatfield and Dr Elliot are references to A Country Practice. Reverend Bob is a reference to E Street.
My mother lived with me between 2021 and 2022 and watched Home and Away religiously. If you take away the laugh track, there’s very little difference. This could be a homage rather than a parody. It’s uncanny.
My Scottish boarder was totally addicted to Neighbours and when she returned home she would phone me regularly to find out what was happening-Britain was months behind Australia😮So I felt compelled to watch it cause she was a good friend-even though I thought Neighbours was absolute crap😢Like all soapies really!!Cheers 😊😊
Many Brits loved the old Australian soaps. But then again Coronation Street has been going for 200 years. So that doesn't say much about British taste.
Craig Donovan.. lol.. this is some funny stuff. all Aussie soap operas back to back, thankyou 'great edting', together on dumb street 'now the plot makes total and complete utter sense to me'.. bit of overacting & psychotic breaks goin on with bloody Bobby there lol she dropped a chip packet during um Craigs wedding, Bobby is sacked! REV.bob can go out with craig, 'coz hes not a woman!, Hahaaa yep :-).... glad Jesus had a snorkel there, suppose the wooden frame would float for a few hours
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🎼🎶 Dumb Street we're all living on E Street Home And Away like Neighbours A Country Practice we're Flyi.... Listen Mate Wandin Valley Hospital rang and they said "Your brain is a dickhead. Suck on that one Pwincess on your nice day". Hohh Hohh Hohh Hohh ...🎶and Chances and Willing And Able and Prisoner and The Henderson Kids and Mr Squiggle. Together. Living on Dumb Street🎵🎵🎵.
The American comedy program Saturday Night Live totally stole this with their The Californians skits. The same vacant reaction looks and final dumb looking at camera stuff.
