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* TrashTheSet : Most notably at the end of the 2004 season when an arson attack on Lassiters completely destroyed the pub, doctors surgery and Coffee Shop. This was due to asbestos being found in the back-lot set.
** The excuses for the 2005 set revamps included a fire-bomb attack on #32 and a vandal attack on #24
*** Averted in 2000 when a fire at #26 resulted in no major changes to the set
** The excuses for the 2005 set revamps included a fire-bomb attack on #32 and a vandal attack on #24
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** Charles Durham in the 1985 season.
** Robert Robinson in 2005 and 2006.
** Charles Durham in the 1985 season.
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*EasyAmnesia : Harold Bishop; Amnesia used to explain a five year absence after he was swept out to sea, during which time he was living as 'Ted'
** Susan Kennedy; slipped on some milk and believed herself to be 16. Her memory was restored when she re-newed her wedding vows to husband Karl.
** Paul Robinson; after the removal of his 'evil brain tumour' he suffered amnesia and couldn't remember most of his crimes
** Zeke Kinski; suffered amnesia following a rafting accident
** Sonya Mitchell; suffered amnesia following an explosion on her wedding day which removed her memory of the day
** Susan Kennedy; slipped on some milk and believed herself to be 16. Her memory was restored when she re-newed her wedding vows to husband Karl.
** Paul Robinson; after the removal of his 'evil brain tumour' he suffered amnesia and couldn't remember most of his crimes
** Zeke Kinski; suffered amnesia following a rafting accident
** Sonya Mitchell; suffered amnesia following an explosion on her wedding day which removed her memory of the day
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* LawofInverseFertility : Steph and Max; Spent months trying for a child, and went through an unsuccessful adoption process before she naturally fell pregnant
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** Despite being told it was difficult for her to conceive, Izzy Hoyland fell pregnant from a one night stand with her ex-boyfriend, Karl Kennedy, who had just reunited with his ex-wife Susan
** Steph later fell pregnant from a one night stand with her best friends husband
** Despite being told it was difficult for her to conceive, Izzy Hoyland fell pregnant from a one night stand with her ex-boyfriend, Karl Kennedy, who had just reunited with his ex-wife Susan
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** Skye Mangel - her mother was shot when she was a toddler, her step-grandmother died of caner, her uncle, aunt and cousin were killed in a plane crash, her baby had cancer, her boyfriend died following an operation to save said baby
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** Kyle and Kate; Kyle persued KAte while they in High School while she wasn't interested; she's been falling in-and-out of love with him ever since he got together with Jade
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* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Tom Ramsay for his brother Max, although a straighter example was Will's never-before-mentioned brother Oliver was hastily written in to replace Will when actor Christian Clarke left the show.
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* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Tom Ramsay for his brother Max, although a straighter example was Will's never-before-mentioned brother Oliver was hastily written in to replace Will when actor Christian Clarke left the show. Dane filled in for his cousin Kyle when Chris Milligan broke his leg.
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** Averted with Rani and Ajay Kapoor. They originally left the street temporarily to take care of Ajay's ailing grandmother in India. The show seemed happy to leave it at that but Rani eventually returned to explain that her father had found a job in London and they were moving there. The audience breathed a collective sigh of relief at the averted UnfortunateImplications of sending the show's only minority characters back to India.
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* PutOnABus: As with all soap operas, the show mills through a prodigious amount of cast members, especially the younger ones who set their sights on Hollywood a year or two into their contracts. 2013 was a particularly egregious year for this, sending Summer, Andrew, Tash, Sophie, Rani, Ajay, Vanessa and Lucas to various locations as the actors' contracts ran out.
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** Sonya Mitchell started off as Toadie's girlfriend with a history of addiction and mother figure to Toadie's adoptive son. She was then retconned into being Callum's actual biological mother who had kept her identity secret for almost two years.
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* ItsAllAboutMe: Julie Robinson, especially in the 1985 season - she sabotages the first romantic relationship her father has had in the ten years since her mother died, to the point of manipulating her younger sister and slapping Anna at her engagement party, simply because she didn't want her role in the household usurped (never mind that she's 21, has a job and doesn't have much trouble finding another place to live after her father justifiably kicks her out for the above). She improves a lot after falling in love with Philip, [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy telling him to go back to his wife and children]] (though that didn't end well) and apologising to Jim for the above.
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* ItsAllAboutMe: Julie Robinson, especially in the 1985 season - she sabotages the first romantic relationship her father has had in the ten years since her mother died, to the point of manipulating her younger sister and slapping Anna at her engagement party, simply because she didn't want her role in the household usurped (never mind that she's 21, has a job and doesn't have much trouble finding another place to live after her father justifiably kicks her out for the above). She improves a lot after falling in love with Philip, [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy telling encouraging him to go back to his wife children and children]] give Loretta another chance]] (though that didn't end well) and apologising to Jim for the above.
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* FourthDateMarriage: In the The show's first season, season was ridiculously prone to Fourth Date Engagements, though only one of those actually made it to a wedding by the end of the year. The worst was the relationship between Jim Robinson and Anna Rossi progressed from meeting to engagement to breakup in the space of seven half-hour episodes, spanning two weeks.
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* ItsAllAboutMe: Julie Robinson, especially in the 1985 season - she sabotages the first romantic relationship her father has had in the ten years since her mother died, to the point of manipulating her younger sister and slapping Anna at her engagement party, simply because she didn't want her role in the household usurped (never mind that she's 21, has a job and doesn't have much trouble finding another place to live after her father justifiably kicks her out for the above). She improves a lot after falling in love with Philip, [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy telling him to go back to his wife and children]] (though that didn't end well) and apologising to Jim for the above.
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* AffablyEvil: No matter what nasty (and sometimes downright evil) deeds Paul Robinson has planned, he will always do them with an air of debonair class.
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* ShipperOnDeck: On learning that Kate fancies Declan, Donna goes all {{OTP}} and declares that Bridget was Declan's soul mate and he should never ever be with anyone else. She cools down later, though.
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**Sonya has been steadfast in her belief that new parents Lucas and Vanessa should be together (and not just for the sake of their newborn son either) despite the fact that Vanessa still has feelings for her ex Rhys. Meanwhile, Sonya's partner Toadie has been trying to get Karl and Susan back together
**On learning that Kate fancies Declan, Donna goes all {{OTP}} and declares that Bridget was Declan's soul mate and he should never ever be with anyone else. She cools down later,
**Sonya has been steadfast in her belief that new parents Lucas and Vanessa should be together (and not just for the sake of their newborn son either) despite the fact that Vanessa still has feelings for her ex Rhys. Meanwhile, Sonya's partner Toadie has been trying to get Karl and Susan back together
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* ParentalFavouritism: Max Ramsay made little secret of his preference for Shane over Danny, which was revealed to stem from his suspicion that he wasn't Danny's biological father. He was right, though ironically their relationship started to improve considerably after both found out the truth.
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: {SoapOpera}'s the world over are known for never getting released on commercial video, due to their excessive length - however, Shock Entertainment are now working to make Neighbours (and a couple of other television LongRunners) an aversion to this with systematic DVD releases.
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* DroppedABridgeOnHim: The three members of the Bishop family were the '''only''' casualties of a crashed plane, which they only boarded at the last minute. Their family and friends took about three days to get over the loss.
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* DroppedABridgeOnHim: The three members of the Bishop family were the '''only''' casualties of a crashed plane, which they only boarded at the last minute. Their family and friends took about three days to get over the loss.
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* HaveYouToldAnyoneElse: Shortly before he was due to leave on a holiday, Connor learned that the missing 'Robert' (who is really Cameron) is in a coma at a nursing home. He immediately went to tell Robert's identical twin 'Cameron' (who is really [[EvilTwin Robert]]) the good news. This was the last time he ever appeared on the show, and Robert was later seen driving Connor's ute and digging up the front garden. In what is either a genuine subversion or a {{Retcon}}, Connor was seemingly proven to be alive and well later in the year, when police found his wallet in China, and the following year (long after Robert was arrested) he sent Toadie and others gifts for St. Patrick's Day, also from China.
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* HaveYouToldAnyoneElse: Shortly before he was due to leave on a holiday, Connor learned that the missing 'Robert' (who is really Cameron) is in a coma at a nursing home. He immediately went to tell Robert's identical twin 'Cameron' (who is really [[EvilTwin Robert]]) the good news. This was the last time he ever appeared on the show, and Robert was later seen driving Connor's ute and digging up the front garden. In what is either a genuine subversion or a {{Retcon}}, Connor was seemingly proven to be alive and well later in the year, when police found his wallet in China, and the following year (long after Robert was arrested) he sent Toadie and others gifts for St. Patrick's Day, also from China. He subsequently returned for a few weeks in 2012.
* HollywoodHealing: In an early episode, Shane Ramsay ends up with spinal damage after a car crash, and the doctors say that he ''might'' be able to walk again, though his diving career is over. Two episodes later, he's out of bed and on a camping trip with his brother, and the only longterm consequence is that Danny is persuaded to take up diving instead.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Julie Robinson complains about Mrs. Brown's inability to stay out of other people's business, apparently forgetting how she just staged a vindictive crusade to get rid of Anna, the first love interest her father has had in the ten years since her mother died.
* ManipulativeEditing: Danny and Eddie record a private and extremely sensitive conversation between Scott and Kim, then edit it to make Scott sound like a rapist (exploiting Scott's sarcastic use of the words "Yeah, I'm the school rapist.") and Kim sound like a prostitute. They then make the mistake of bringing the tape and the recorder to school, where it gets found by their teacher - Kim's mother - who forces them to play it to the entire class.
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* NeverFoundTheBody: The show seems to have a fetish for this trope, especially where the Bishop family is concerned. Liljana Bishop and Serena Bishop also supposedly drowned but no bodies were found. Not to mention Dee Bliss. Connor O'Neill was thought to have been murdered by Robert Robinson after his sudden disappearance but he was later revealed to be alive.
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* NeverFoundTheBody: The show seems to have a fetish for this trope, especially where the Bishop family is concerned. Liljana Bishop and Serena Bishop also supposedly drowned but no bodies were found. Not The same happened to mention Dee Bliss. Connor O'Neill was thought to have been murdered by Robert Robinson after his sudden disappearance but he was later revealed to be alive.
* RunawayBride/Groom: Isabelle, Toadie, Bronwyn and Marc have been in this position for various reasons.
* RunawayFiance: Lorraine calls off her engagement to Des on the morning of the wedding, leaving him with a hefty mortgate on No. 28. And while she does apologise to him later, she is furious when she discovers that he's taken in a female tennant - admittedly, the stripper from his bachelor party, who had been there when she came by to break up with him - and vindictively decides to reclaim all the furniture in the house that she'd paid for.
* RunawayFiance: Lorraine calls off her engagement to Des on the morning of the wedding, leaving him with a hefty mortgate on No. 28. And while she does apologise to him later, she is furious when she discovers that he's taken in a female tennant - admittedly, the stripper from his bachelor party, who had been there when she came by to break up with him - and vindictively decides to reclaim all the furniture in the house that she'd paid for.
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[[caption-width:250: Ramsay Street: The most dangerous residential area on earth and Melbourne's answer to the Bermuda Triangle.]]
Oldest of the two [[LongRunners main Australian soap operas]], the other being ''Series/HomeAndAway''.
''Neighbours'' began in 1985 and follows the lives of the residents of Ramsay Street, a street in the fictional suburb of Erinsborough. Originally the show featured two main families, the Ramsays (who the street is named after) and Robinsons but gradually the Ramsays have faded away to be replaced by other families such as the Kennedys and Scullys.
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!!This TV show has examples of:
* AffablyEvil: No matter what nasty (and sometimes downright evil) deeds Paul Robinson has planned, he will always do them with an air of debonair class.
* AmbiguousDisorder: The official ''Neighbours'' website describes Zeke as a "kooky outcast" and "supremely bright but socially inept."
* AntiVillain: Paul Robinson. He's an on-again, off-again villain DependingOnTheWriter.
* BackForTheDead: Does happen sometimes, most notably Daphne Clarke, the first regular character to die, who died in 1988 in a car crash, and Helen Daniels, who was the only original character left in 1997 and died in her sleep just after returning from a long spell in hospital.
* BackFromTheDead: Harold Bishop, five years after he supposedly drowned at sea.
* ChannelHop: The show started on SevenNetwork in 1985 for a short run where it was almost [[ExecutiveMeddling meddled out of existence]] in the cradle because it didn't appeal to ratings homes in Sydney and taken off that channel; NetworkTen rescued it and brought it to acclaim with the help of the {{BBC}} a year later, and it attained plenty of success to the point where Ten moved it over to their new digital network Eleven in 2011 to give it a jumpstart no other show could provide. The BBC carried the show in the UK until 2008, when it moved to ChannelFive because of overwhelming costs a public broadcaster could no longer provide.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Shane Ramsay. It seems to have happened to Libby Kennedy too.
** More of a LongBusTrip: We were given an explanation for why they left, just not for why they never came back.
* ContinuityNod: Donna and Ringo's wedding is accompanied by Sam Clark's cover of Angry Andereson's "Suddenly". Ringo tells him that Paul put him on to it, having heard it at his brother's wedding years ago. This was, in fact, the song played over Scott and Charlene's wedding in 1987.
* DeadpanSnarker: Frazer.
* DeathOfTheHypotenuse: [[spoiler:Bridget's death was to allow Declan and Kate to hook up.]]
* DoomMagnet: Hannah Martin - between 1993 and 1997 she lost her grandfather Jim, who had a heart attack after playing with her in the garden, mother Julie, surrogate sister Cody, and great-grandmother Helen, who died in her sleep while next to Hannah on the sofa. Furthermore, once Helen died, Madge effectively became Hannah's surrogate Gran, and she also died just 18 months after Hannah and her family left the show.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: The three members of the Bishop family were the '''only''' casualties of a crashed plane, which they only boarded at the last minute. Their family and friends took about three days to get over the loss.
** Also Connor, who was either killed by Paul Robinson's [[EvilTwin crazy son]] or went on a LongBusTrip overseas. (The latter as it turned out, since TheBusCameBack in late 2012.)
** Bridget Parker's death fills the 'awkward' part of this trope: She died as the result of a mysterious rampaging white horse running out in front of her car and causing it to crash. The horse is never seen, heard of or mentioned again. (Considering her family were in the car, you'd think they would have looked into that; Possibly even sue the owner of the horse for negligence causing death?)
*** While the horse did play a role, the crash was also the result of sabotage by a gambler who Lucas was in debt to.
* EstrangedSoapFamily: Rare in this series, but there are a handful of characters who have not shown up for a while despite both the importance of events and the teasing of the PR. This is usually the result of actors becoming major stars and not wanting to come back. One of the worst examples was Madge's funeral, which neither of her children, played by Craig MacLachlan and KylieMinogue turned up for.
** Helen's funeral had this to a lesser degree, too. Although daughter Rosemary and step-great-grandson Michael showed up, a whole host of other relatives didn't.
** Much more recently, Ringo Brown's official funeral took place off screen, with viewers only seeing a private memorial service held by his wife and friends, in order to avoid bringing back any of his blood relatives.
* EvilTwin: Robert and Cameron, in a rare example of the evil twin being introduced first, albeit while [[TwinSwitch pretending to be the good twin.]]
* EvilVersusEvil: Well, not exactly. But it must be said that, watching Karl and Paul hate each other while out-shagging and out-sneering each other certainly comes close.
* FakeGuestStar: Katya, Will, Nicola.
* FriendsWithBenefits: Kyle and Jade tried this, though Jade was already in love with Kyle by this point.
* HaveYouToldAnyoneElse: Shortly before he was due to leave on a holiday, Connor learned that the missing 'Robert' (who is really Cameron) is in a coma at a nursing home. He immediately went to tell Robert's identical twin 'Cameron' (who is really [[EvilTwin Robert]]) the good news. This was the last time he ever appeared on the show, and Robert was later seen driving Connor's ute and digging up the front garden. In what is either a genuine subversion or a {{Retcon}}, Connor was seemingly proven to be alive and well later in the year, when police found his wallet in China, and the following year (long after Robert was arrested) he sent Toadie and others gifts for St. Patrick's Day, also from China.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Harold and Lou. They actually started off as fierce love rivals but now they're like an old married couple.
* HeyItsThatGuy:
** [[DichenLachman Katya]], otherwise known as [[{{Dollhouse}} Sierra.]]
** Hey, it's Billy Kennedy! Otherwise (and more recently) known as [[Series/{{House}} Dr. Robert Chase]].
** Bah! That's nothing. Look it's Old Steely Business Man, [[TheWestWing Secretary of Commerce]] Jim Robinson-[[{{Lost}} Widmore]]-[[Series/TwentyFour Prescott]]-[[UglyBetty Meade]]-[[TheOC Nichol]]-[[TheXFiles Toothpick Man]].
** Rachel Kinski, [[TheTomorrowSeries leader of the Australian resistance]].
** And, of course Mike 'What's that s'posed to mean, Scott?' Young, played by [[Film/{{Memento}} everyone's favourite amnesiac]].
** Uh, KylieMinogue? (In TheEighties)
*** Don't forget her on-screen husband and fellow pop star, JasonDonovan.
** Australian singer-actress Music/DeltaGoodrem made her screen debut as Nina Tucker in 2002, before she did the whole multi-platinum records and sellout-tours thing.
* HotDad: Michael Williams.
* InstrumentalThemeTune: When a long-standing character dies, Neighbours will sometimes end the episode with a sad piano version of the theme tune, together with a montage of photos of the character's time in the show. This has been done with Todd, Jim, Helen and Madge.
** Though in Madge's case, the sad piano theme tune played over the regular 2001 credits, but with a montage the next episode of her recent period on the show. This was because, from 2000 onwards, Neighbours started filming in widescreen.
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: {SoapOpera}'s the world over are known for never getting released on commercial video, due to their excessive length - however, Shock Entertainment are now working to make Neighbours (and a couple of other television LongRunners) an aversion to this with systematic DVD releases.
* KilledOffForReal: It's to be expected in a soap opera, but if a character leaves ''Neighbours'' they either get PutOnABus or are KilledOffForReal. There are very few inbetweens. A few examples of characters KilledOffForReal are: [[spoiler: Daphne, Kerry, Todd, Jim, Julie, Cody, Cheryl, Helen, Madge, Drew, David, Stingray, Marco, Bridget, Ringo]] etc.
* LingerieScene: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNHhs2unV10 A bonzer]] courtesy of DichenLachman.
* LivingProp: Sienna Cammeniti (played by model and ''2006 Miss Australia'' Erin McNaught) was added for the sole purpose of [[EverybodyRemembersTheStripper sexing-up the cast]] and helping boost ratings. It didn't work.
** Lisa Hayes seemed to exist for the sole purpose of getting dumped by Lucas.
* LongBusTrip: Marlene Kratz went on a three month cruise and never came back.
* LongRunners: 27 years and counting.
* MistakenForJunkie: After seeing Danni Stark inject insulin for her diabetes, Michael Martin spreads a rumour that she is using drugs. She goes along with it to get attention.
* NeverFoundTheBody: The show seems to have a fetish for this trope, especially where the Bishop family is concerned. Liljana Bishop and Serena Bishop also supposedly drowned but no bodies were found. Not to mention Dee Bliss. Connor O'Neill was thought to have been murdered by Robert Robinson after his sudden disappearance but he was later revealed to be alive.
*** It's possible Connor ''was'' murdered and his body never found. Nobody has ever ''seen'' him in China and the mysterious appearance of his wallet and a gift from China seem a little ''too'' convenient in proving Robert didn't kill him.
*** However, the official line seems to be he was alive, since Steph later talks about him as though she knows how to contact him.
**** All theories concerning Connor's death have now been officially {{Jossed}}, as Connor is slated to return to Neighbours in early 2013.
* OutOfFocus: Lou Carpenter's appearances have become very irregular ever since Harold Bishop left, and even when he is in the show he seldom has any significant storylines.
* PacManFever: this show loved showing people playing old style GameBoys with no cartridges in the slot, even in 2008, where the NintendoDS was out by then.
* PromotionToOpeningTitles: Charlene, Hilary, Melanie, Lou, David, Cheryl, Toadie, Darcy, Sindi, Carmella, Dan, Paul (in his 2005 return), [[TheOtherDarrin Declan's new actor]], Natasha, Summer, Sonya, Chris, Kyle.
** Basically, anybody who is in the show for more than a few episodes as a guest part, will likely end up appearing on the title sequence the next time it's changed. If they don't, it means that they're most probably about to leave.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Actor Shane Connor was abruptly fired so his character Joe Scully implausibly disappeared to run a farm in Bendigo.
** Due to Anne Haddy's rapidly deteriorating health, Helen Daniels was killed off in 1997.
** DeltaGoodrem's character Nina Tucker, took a trip to Bollywood, when Delta got cancer (And treated for the cancer), came back for a week or two and hasn't been seen since.
* RecurringCharacter: ''Neighbours'' loves this trope. Kim, Mishka, Steiger, Kirsten, Taylah, Sam, etc.
* RememberTheNewGuy: Jessica and Taylah were randomly introduced as the [[TheBully school bullies]] in {{Neighbours}}, and everybody on the show treated them as though they has always been there, harassing the main teen characters and bullying other students, despite the fact that (story-wise) they clearly hadn't been.
* {{Retcon}}: David Bishop was a childless singleton in 1988 but he had a 16-year-old daughter and a wife when he returned in 2003.
** Elle Robinson was born off-screen in October 1989, so when she returned to Ramsey Street in 2005, she should have been sixteen. Instead, she was nineteen.
* RunningGag: Karl's terrible singing and his family's reactions to it.
* SameCharacterButDifferent: Paul Robinsons's return in 2004.
** The same could also be said for Madge on her return in 1996. The fact that she was far more meek, passive and peripheral than before was precisely why Anne Charleston quit for good.
* ShipperOnDeck: On learning that Kate fancies Declan, Donna goes all {{OTP}} and declares that Bridget was Declan's soul mate and he should never ever be with anyone else.
* ShoutOut: In a recent episode, Andrew made a reference to [[CaramelldansenVid Scandinavian Pop music, complaining about how catchy it was]]
* SoapOperaRapidAgingSyndrome:
** Elle was born off-screen in October 1989, when she returned in 2005, she should have been sixteen. Instead, she was ninteteen.
** Hannah Martin is introduced as eight years old in 1992, but is later identified as sixteen in 1999 despite being portrayed by the same actor.
*** Worse, her father and mother didn't even get together until 1985, and she wouldn't have been born until at least 9 months after that. Oops.
* SpearCarrier: Kev Duve, Kristy, Susie Quilty, Nurse Jodie, Veronica Olenski, Det. Kevin Summers.
* StalkerWithACrush: (Naomi)
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Tom Ramsay for his brother Max, although a straighter example was Will's never-before-mentioned brother Oliver was hastily written in to replace Will when actor Christian Clarke left the show.
* TeenPregnancy: (Pheobe, Bridget)
** [[spoiler:Natasha]] pretends she is pregnant to [[spoiler:punish her boyfriend for cheating on her.]]
* TheOtherDarrin: (Scott, Lucy, Beverly, Toby, Julie, Cody, Cheryl, Jack, Libby, Declan)
* TheOtherMarty: (Carla Bonner replaced Emma Roche as Stephanie Scully after a few weeks of filming)
* UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo: Steve and Miranda. Every. Other. Week.
* WhyWontYouDie: Brad Willis in 1992: He was shot by Bob Landers, attacked by a shark, saved Beth and Hannah from a burning cottage...and none of it killed him.
** Not to mention the various attempts on Paul Robinson's life. He has been pushed off a cliff (twice), lost a leg, sent poisoned letters, almost strangled to death, shot in the chest by his own son, kidnapped and mind-tortured, suffered from a life-threatening brain tumor, and pushed off the mezzanine of a building. Even ''he'' has expressed surprise over not being dead yet.
*** And the climax of the very ''first'' season back in 1985 involved him being shot by his first wife.
*** Furthermore, in the second season he survived a car crash, along with his brother Scott and friend Mike Young (Guy Pearce).
** Another example is Harold Bishop. He was washed off the rocks and floated to Tasmania, returning five years later, and has endured a stroke, a heart attack and prostate cancer.
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[[caption-width:250: Ramsay Street: The most dangerous residential area on earth and Melbourne's answer to the Bermuda Triangle.]]
Oldest of the two [[LongRunners main Australian soap operas]], the other being ''Series/HomeAndAway''.
''Neighbours'' began in 1985 and follows the lives of the residents of Ramsay Street, a street in the fictional suburb of Erinsborough. Originally the show featured two main families, the Ramsays (who the street is named after) and Robinsons but gradually the Ramsays have faded away to be replaced by other families such as the Kennedys and Scullys.
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!!This TV show has examples of:
* AffablyEvil: No matter what nasty (and sometimes downright evil) deeds Paul Robinson has planned, he will always do them with an air of debonair class.
* AmbiguousDisorder: The official ''Neighbours'' website describes Zeke as a "kooky outcast" and "supremely bright but socially inept."
* AntiVillain: Paul Robinson. He's an on-again, off-again villain DependingOnTheWriter.
* BackForTheDead: Does happen sometimes, most notably Daphne Clarke, the first regular character to die, who died in 1988 in a car crash, and Helen Daniels, who was the only original character left in 1997 and died in her sleep just after returning from a long spell in hospital.
* BackFromTheDead: Harold Bishop, five years after he supposedly drowned at sea.
* ChannelHop: The show started on SevenNetwork in 1985 for a short run where it was almost [[ExecutiveMeddling meddled out of existence]] in the cradle because it didn't appeal to ratings homes in Sydney and taken off that channel; NetworkTen rescued it and brought it to acclaim with the help of the {{BBC}} a year later, and it attained plenty of success to the point where Ten moved it over to their new digital network Eleven in 2011 to give it a jumpstart no other show could provide. The BBC carried the show in the UK until 2008, when it moved to ChannelFive because of overwhelming costs a public broadcaster could no longer provide.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Shane Ramsay. It seems to have happened to Libby Kennedy too.
** More of a LongBusTrip: We were given an explanation for why they left, just not for why they never came back.
* ContinuityNod: Donna and Ringo's wedding is accompanied by Sam Clark's cover of Angry Andereson's "Suddenly". Ringo tells him that Paul put him on to it, having heard it at his brother's wedding years ago. This was, in fact, the song played over Scott and Charlene's wedding in 1987.
* DeadpanSnarker: Frazer.
* DeathOfTheHypotenuse: [[spoiler:Bridget's death was to allow Declan and Kate to hook up.]]
* DoomMagnet: Hannah Martin - between 1993 and 1997 she lost her grandfather Jim, who had a heart attack after playing with her in the garden, mother Julie, surrogate sister Cody, and great-grandmother Helen, who died in her sleep while next to Hannah on the sofa. Furthermore, once Helen died, Madge effectively became Hannah's surrogate Gran, and she also died just 18 months after Hannah and her family left the show.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: The three members of the Bishop family were the '''only''' casualties of a crashed plane, which they only boarded at the last minute. Their family and friends took about three days to get over the loss.
** Also Connor, who was either killed by Paul Robinson's [[EvilTwin crazy son]] or went on a LongBusTrip overseas. (The latter as it turned out, since TheBusCameBack in late 2012.)
** Bridget Parker's death fills the 'awkward' part of this trope: She died as the result of a mysterious rampaging white horse running out in front of her car and causing it to crash. The horse is never seen, heard of or mentioned again. (Considering her family were in the car, you'd think they would have looked into that; Possibly even sue the owner of the horse for negligence causing death?)
*** While the horse did play a role, the crash was also the result of sabotage by a gambler who Lucas was in debt to.
* EstrangedSoapFamily: Rare in this series, but there are a handful of characters who have not shown up for a while despite both the importance of events and the teasing of the PR. This is usually the result of actors becoming major stars and not wanting to come back. One of the worst examples was Madge's funeral, which neither of her children, played by Craig MacLachlan and KylieMinogue turned up for.
** Helen's funeral had this to a lesser degree, too. Although daughter Rosemary and step-great-grandson Michael showed up, a whole host of other relatives didn't.
** Much more recently, Ringo Brown's official funeral took place off screen, with viewers only seeing a private memorial service held by his wife and friends, in order to avoid bringing back any of his blood relatives.
* EvilTwin: Robert and Cameron, in a rare example of the evil twin being introduced first, albeit while [[TwinSwitch pretending to be the good twin.]]
* EvilVersusEvil: Well, not exactly. But it must be said that, watching Karl and Paul hate each other while out-shagging and out-sneering each other certainly comes close.
* FakeGuestStar: Katya, Will, Nicola.
* FriendsWithBenefits: Kyle and Jade tried this, though Jade was already in love with Kyle by this point.
* HaveYouToldAnyoneElse: Shortly before he was due to leave on a holiday, Connor learned that the missing 'Robert' (who is really Cameron) is in a coma at a nursing home. He immediately went to tell Robert's identical twin 'Cameron' (who is really [[EvilTwin Robert]]) the good news. This was the last time he ever appeared on the show, and Robert was later seen driving Connor's ute and digging up the front garden. In what is either a genuine subversion or a {{Retcon}}, Connor was seemingly proven to be alive and well later in the year, when police found his wallet in China, and the following year (long after Robert was arrested) he sent Toadie and others gifts for St. Patrick's Day, also from China.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Harold and Lou. They actually started off as fierce love rivals but now they're like an old married couple.
* HeyItsThatGuy:
** [[DichenLachman Katya]], otherwise known as [[{{Dollhouse}} Sierra.]]
** Hey, it's Billy Kennedy! Otherwise (and more recently) known as [[Series/{{House}} Dr. Robert Chase]].
** Bah! That's nothing. Look it's Old Steely Business Man, [[TheWestWing Secretary of Commerce]] Jim Robinson-[[{{Lost}} Widmore]]-[[Series/TwentyFour Prescott]]-[[UglyBetty Meade]]-[[TheOC Nichol]]-[[TheXFiles Toothpick Man]].
** Rachel Kinski, [[TheTomorrowSeries leader of the Australian resistance]].
** And, of course Mike 'What's that s'posed to mean, Scott?' Young, played by [[Film/{{Memento}} everyone's favourite amnesiac]].
** Uh, KylieMinogue? (In TheEighties)
*** Don't forget her on-screen husband and fellow pop star, JasonDonovan.
** Australian singer-actress Music/DeltaGoodrem made her screen debut as Nina Tucker in 2002, before she did the whole multi-platinum records and sellout-tours thing.
* HotDad: Michael Williams.
* InstrumentalThemeTune: When a long-standing character dies, Neighbours will sometimes end the episode with a sad piano version of the theme tune, together with a montage of photos of the character's time in the show. This has been done with Todd, Jim, Helen and Madge.
** Though in Madge's case, the sad piano theme tune played over the regular 2001 credits, but with a montage the next episode of her recent period on the show. This was because, from 2000 onwards, Neighbours started filming in widescreen.
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: {SoapOpera}'s the world over are known for never getting released on commercial video, due to their excessive length - however, Shock Entertainment are now working to make Neighbours (and a couple of other television LongRunners) an aversion to this with systematic DVD releases.
* KilledOffForReal: It's to be expected in a soap opera, but if a character leaves ''Neighbours'' they either get PutOnABus or are KilledOffForReal. There are very few inbetweens. A few examples of characters KilledOffForReal are: [[spoiler: Daphne, Kerry, Todd, Jim, Julie, Cody, Cheryl, Helen, Madge, Drew, David, Stingray, Marco, Bridget, Ringo]] etc.
* LingerieScene: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNHhs2unV10 A bonzer]] courtesy of DichenLachman.
* LivingProp: Sienna Cammeniti (played by model and ''2006 Miss Australia'' Erin McNaught) was added for the sole purpose of [[EverybodyRemembersTheStripper sexing-up the cast]] and helping boost ratings. It didn't work.
** Lisa Hayes seemed to exist for the sole purpose of getting dumped by Lucas.
* LongBusTrip: Marlene Kratz went on a three month cruise and never came back.
* LongRunners: 27 years and counting.
* MistakenForJunkie: After seeing Danni Stark inject insulin for her diabetes, Michael Martin spreads a rumour that she is using drugs. She goes along with it to get attention.
* NeverFoundTheBody: The show seems to have a fetish for this trope, especially where the Bishop family is concerned. Liljana Bishop and Serena Bishop also supposedly drowned but no bodies were found. Not to mention Dee Bliss. Connor O'Neill was thought to have been murdered by Robert Robinson after his sudden disappearance but he was later revealed to be alive.
*** It's possible Connor ''was'' murdered and his body never found. Nobody has ever ''seen'' him in China and the mysterious appearance of his wallet and a gift from China seem a little ''too'' convenient in proving Robert didn't kill him.
*** However, the official line seems to be he was alive, since Steph later talks about him as though she knows how to contact him.
**** All theories concerning Connor's death have now been officially {{Jossed}}, as Connor is slated to return to Neighbours in early 2013.
* OutOfFocus: Lou Carpenter's appearances have become very irregular ever since Harold Bishop left, and even when he is in the show he seldom has any significant storylines.
* PacManFever: this show loved showing people playing old style GameBoys with no cartridges in the slot, even in 2008, where the NintendoDS was out by then.
* PromotionToOpeningTitles: Charlene, Hilary, Melanie, Lou, David, Cheryl, Toadie, Darcy, Sindi, Carmella, Dan, Paul (in his 2005 return), [[TheOtherDarrin Declan's new actor]], Natasha, Summer, Sonya, Chris, Kyle.
** Basically, anybody who is in the show for more than a few episodes as a guest part, will likely end up appearing on the title sequence the next time it's changed. If they don't, it means that they're most probably about to leave.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Actor Shane Connor was abruptly fired so his character Joe Scully implausibly disappeared to run a farm in Bendigo.
** Due to Anne Haddy's rapidly deteriorating health, Helen Daniels was killed off in 1997.
** DeltaGoodrem's character Nina Tucker, took a trip to Bollywood, when Delta got cancer (And treated for the cancer), came back for a week or two and hasn't been seen since.
* RecurringCharacter: ''Neighbours'' loves this trope. Kim, Mishka, Steiger, Kirsten, Taylah, Sam, etc.
* RememberTheNewGuy: Jessica and Taylah were randomly introduced as the [[TheBully school bullies]] in {{Neighbours}}, and everybody on the show treated them as though they has always been there, harassing the main teen characters and bullying other students, despite the fact that (story-wise) they clearly hadn't been.
* {{Retcon}}: David Bishop was a childless singleton in 1988 but he had a 16-year-old daughter and a wife when he returned in 2003.
** Elle Robinson was born off-screen in October 1989, so when she returned to Ramsey Street in 2005, she should have been sixteen. Instead, she was nineteen.
* RunningGag: Karl's terrible singing and his family's reactions to it.
* SameCharacterButDifferent: Paul Robinsons's return in 2004.
** The same could also be said for Madge on her return in 1996. The fact that she was far more meek, passive and peripheral than before was precisely why Anne Charleston quit for good.
* ShipperOnDeck: On learning that Kate fancies Declan, Donna goes all {{OTP}} and declares that Bridget was Declan's soul mate and he should never ever be with anyone else.
* ShoutOut: In a recent episode, Andrew made a reference to [[CaramelldansenVid Scandinavian Pop music, complaining about how catchy it was]]
* SoapOperaRapidAgingSyndrome:
** Elle was born off-screen in October 1989, when she returned in 2005, she should have been sixteen. Instead, she was ninteteen.
** Hannah Martin is introduced as eight years old in 1992, but is later identified as sixteen in 1999 despite being portrayed by the same actor.
*** Worse, her father and mother didn't even get together until 1985, and she wouldn't have been born until at least 9 months after that. Oops.
* SpearCarrier: Kev Duve, Kristy, Susie Quilty, Nurse Jodie, Veronica Olenski, Det. Kevin Summers.
* StalkerWithACrush: (Naomi)
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Tom Ramsay for his brother Max, although a straighter example was Will's never-before-mentioned brother Oliver was hastily written in to replace Will when actor Christian Clarke left the show.
* TeenPregnancy: (Pheobe, Bridget)
** [[spoiler:Natasha]] pretends she is pregnant to [[spoiler:punish her boyfriend for cheating on her.]]
* TheOtherDarrin: (Scott, Lucy, Beverly, Toby, Julie, Cody, Cheryl, Jack, Libby, Declan)
* TheOtherMarty: (Carla Bonner replaced Emma Roche as Stephanie Scully after a few weeks of filming)
* UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo: Steve and Miranda. Every. Other. Week.
* WhyWontYouDie: Brad Willis in 1992: He was shot by Bob Landers, attacked by a shark, saved Beth and Hannah from a burning cottage...and none of it killed him.
** Not to mention the various attempts on Paul Robinson's life. He has been pushed off a cliff (twice), lost a leg, sent poisoned letters, almost strangled to death, shot in the chest by his own son, kidnapped and mind-tortured, suffered from a life-threatening brain tumor, and pushed off the mezzanine of a building. Even ''he'' has expressed surprise over not being dead yet.
*** And the climax of the very ''first'' season back in 1985 involved him being shot by his first wife.
*** Furthermore, in the second season he survived a car crash, along with his brother Scott and friend Mike Young (Guy Pearce).
** Another example is Harold Bishop. He was washed off the rocks and floated to Tasmania, returning five years later, and has endured a stroke, a heart attack and prostate cancer.
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