History Series / Neighbours

* LaymansTerms: When Hugo asks where Melanie is, Toadie responds "in remand"; Nell explains that this means "in prison".

** 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

** Ironically, Paul and Nicolette themselves agree to work together to find out Glen's secret. It backfires when Paul spitefully uses what they learn to expose Glen's relationship with Kiri, [[KickTheDog with Kiri standing right there]], and Nicolette gets a fair bit of the blame for it.

* LongRunners: Terminated after 37 years on screen.

* AbortedArc: Perhaps inevitably, a few storylines had to be cut short following the series cancellation in 2022, most notably Karl and Susan's financial troubles resulting from a bad investment. It remains to be seen if these will be picked up in 2023.

* HappyEndingOverride: [[spoiler:The 2023 revival begins by breaking up Toadie and Melanie, who had married in the 2022 finale, while also revealing that Paul and Terese's reconciliation didn't last.]]

** Nell Rebecchi, Toadies youngest kid originally was aged up more than the two years that passed between the Finale and return, seemingly making her even older than Hugo.

* NiceMeanAndInBetween: In the show's early days, the three main elder women were basically like this - Helen Daniels was the nice, compassionate and open-minded one, Nell Mangel was the nosey, unpleasant and highly judgemental one, and Eileen Clarke was somewhere in between the two.

* Oireland: Connor very much epitomised this, to the point where he couldn't even read.

The most dangerous residential area on earth and Melbourne, Australia's answer to the Bermuda Triangle, ''Neighbours'' 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.

Premiering in 1985 on [[Creator/SevenNetwork Channel Seven]] but later moved to [[Creator/NetworkTen Channel 10]], it's the oldest of the two [[LongRunners main Australian soap operas]], the other being ''Series/HomeAndAway''. Primarily known as the series that launched many a career, from Creator/MargotRobbie, to Creator/RussellCrowe, to Creator/ChrisHemsworth, and most famously, Music/KylieMinogue, whose character Charlene's 1987 wedding to Music/JasonDonovan's Scott became the signature moment of the series.

In February 2022, it was announced that ''Neighbours'' would be ceasing production in August of that year following the decision of the UK broadcaster, Channel 5, to withdraw its funding (barring the unlikely event of another UK channel picking the show up). The final [[ExtraLongEpisode ninety minute long]] episode aired on the 28th of July 2022 which was watched by 1.2 million people, the highest viewing figures the series had seen since 2009. With its apparent conclusion the longest running Soap Opera in Australian history ended with 38 seasons and 8903 episodes.

However, in November 2022, it was announced that Amazon had purchased the entire backlog for streaming and had commissioned a brand new run of episodes to commence in 2023, with the new episodes being viewable on Amazon's Freevee channels and airing on Australia Channel 10.

-->''♫ Neighbours, everybody needs good neighbours.\\

-->--'''The iconic theme song.'''

** When choosing music for the wedding expo, Ned suggests "Torn", adding "My mum used to sing it all the time!" Also an ActorAllusion, since Ned's mother Beth ''was'' Natalie Imbruglia. (Admittedly, Natalie wasn't the first to sing "Torn" but she [[CoveredUp probably did make it more famous]] than Ednaswap).

** Beth Brennan's involvement in the series finale, since it's fairly clear that the producers wanted to bring back Natalie Imbruglia because of her real-world fame but had to work around the fact that Beth had almost no connection to the then-current residents of Ramsay Street (she did know Paul, however briefly, but by this point he's been in the Lassiters penthouse for a while. She also would have met Terese offscreen, but it's doubtful they were ever friends given her role in breaking up her marriage to Brad. Ironically her son Ned ''had'' been living in the street until a matter of weeks earlier, and also returned for the finale). The sequence is triggered by Karl posting one of his songs on a recently-created Facebook page dedicated to Ramsay Street. Beth, despite never having met Karl, happens to be watching it within earshot of Felicity Scully, who recognises Karl's voice. (Note that Flick was last stated to be living and working in Los Angeles, while Beth was last mentioned to be in Perth.) The two start talking and realise they both lived in the same house at different times. Later, when Flick records a message for Toadie to congratulate him on his wedding, she involves Beth in it, even though (as Beth herself points out) she had never met Toadie or Melanie.

* AnythingThatMoves: Paul Robinson. Now on his sixth marriage and has had many more girlfriends and mistresses over the years.

* ReallyGetsAround: Melanie Pearson has a history of having affairs with her bosses.

** Another example is Harold Bishop. He was washed out to sea by a wave, picked up by a trawler and ended up in Tasmania, returning five years later with amnesia, and has endured a stroke, a heart attack and prostate cancer.

* MeddlingParents: Eileen Clarke, to the point of moving in with Des without warning, trying to set him up with his ex, and later trying to get him to name his son Winston Kingsley Clarke.

Premiering in 1985 on [[Creator/NetworkTen Channel 10]], it's the oldest of the two [[LongRunners main Australian soap operas]], the other being ''Series/HomeAndAway''. Primarily known as the series that launched many a career, from Creator/MargotRobbie, to Creator/RussellCrowe, to Creator/ChrisHemsworth, and most famously, Music/KylieMinogue, whose character Charlene's 1987 wedding to Music/JasonDonovan's Scott became the signature moment of the series.

Premiering in 1985 on [[Creator/Network10 Channel 10]], it's the oldest of the two [[LongRunners main Australian soap operas]], the other being ''Series/HomeAndAway''. Primarily known as the series that launched many a career, from Creator/MargotRobbie, to Creator/RussellCrowe, to Creator/ChrisHemsworth, and most famously, Music/KylieMinogue, whose character Charlene's 1987 wedding to Music/JasonDonovan's Scott became the signature moment of the series.

Premiering in 1985, it's the oldest of the two [[LongRunners main Australian soap operas]], the other being ''Series/HomeAndAway''. Primarily known as the series that launched many a career, from Creator/MargotRobbie, to Creator/RussellCrowe, to Creator/ChrisHemsworth, and most famously, Music/KylieMinogue, whose character Charlene's 1987 wedding to Music/JasonDonovan's Scott became the signature moment of the series.

However, in November 2022, it was announced that Amazon had purchased the entire backlog for streaming and had commissioned a brand new run of episodes to commence in 2023, with the new episodes being viewable on Amazon's freeview channels and airing on Australia Channel 10.

* MiddleNameBasis: Shannon Louise Carpenter and Shannon Zachary Willis, for (initially) obvious reasons. What really made it strange was that Zac and his parents Gaby and Jack left the street a matter of weeks after the births, as did his grandparents Doug and Pam two weeks after that, yet Louise was nearly always credited as such afterward.