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?
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 😊😊
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.
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.
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.
🎼🎶 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🎵🎵🎵.
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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.
The funny thing is that these parodies were actually more entertaining than the soaps they made fun of (with better acting, too. LOL)
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.
@@Cyberbrickmaster1986 same
Amen
"Shut up, everyone - I think I can hear smoke!"
😂
Can certainly see Kimmy in the making here. Lol 😂
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.
Damn, you bringing back the memories now
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.
This is exactly how the real shows appear to me.
That Craig jingle lives in my head rent free
was this all of them? I really need more, this was probably the happiest period of my life.
These were so great! (Dunno how they got any of them finished - Magda was notorious for "corpsing"...you can see her stifling laughter throughout.)
Dumb Street is the one Australian Soap Opera to mock them all!
I remember one 1992 ep of Home and Away Fisher was sat watching this and was having a good laugh
That’s really funny if true. At least it shows that the Home and Away show runners could have a good laugh
@@danielsimmich1858 Yep ep 1045 .
@@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?
@@danielsimmich1858 Dailymotion has a big chunk
good old flathead
At 10:45 is that actually Jason Donovan in a wig having an arm wrestle? 😯
Yes it is
I love this compilation! 50 cents, 20 cents, nothing.... Cheers mate!
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 😊😊
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.
About Jane Turner’s character. Nicole Dickson was known for her head tilts.
Really? I would have never guessed...
There is no Nicole. Only Bobbie !
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.
@@zaniac100 I’d always wondered who Gina Riley’s character was based on. I’d stopped watching HH when Danni Minogue appeared on the show. Thank you. 🙏
Well der..
@@zaniac100 Thank you for the thorough description!
@@zaniac100 cheers for this! I always got Dannii but not the others. Love ya mate!
i love the theme song 😂
Thanks for this Gary! Hilarious stuff
Dumb Street long before Kath & Kim is in the soap field for Gina, Jane and Magda!
amazing work
Great skits
it's like acorn antiques
Absolutely hilarious
How much fun!!
Dumb Street leads into Fountain Lakes
THANK YOU
I've been looking everywhere for all the Dumb Streets
Jane turner is amazing
3 mins in and I’m wandering if there was a Rebecca Globglobule. Can’t wait to find out if I remember correctly. 😂
35 mins in…ok, so it was Emma….Emma Gobglobule…..I was close😂
is this baby i'm carrying mine is so home and away and I worked there.
😂😂😂 Gotta love it. What did you do there?
@@SummerBayJournal worked in Alf Stewart’s dungeon. You
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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.
I think they live in Eltham
😂😂❤
Is it just me or does that really not look like chip shop
Part of the joke. Every scene, including the ones in the medical clinic, are shot on the same set with the bell on the door.
☯️🌏🪬😆✌️
Shame today's woke culture's killed off Aussie humour on TV.
Can blame obama/biden for that
@@Callithenicsking 2 Bastard Aussies !!!
No. This shit just got old. It's nice to reminisce though
Bloody awful and the repeated "Dumb Street etc" makes it worse.
🎼🎶 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🎵🎵🎵.
Because it's taken from many episodes of fast forward.
What happened to your old channel Freddy?
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Who's the actor who played Craig?
Steve Blackburn
Steve Blackburn who had played the highly popular Tim of "Tim and Debbie", in the earlier Australia You're Standing In It.
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.
I'm pretty sure SNL was sending up General Hospital, The Young & The Restless etc well before this.