History Series / Neighbours

*** Nicolette is furious at Aaron for running away after David's death, apparently forgetting how she herself ran away when she was pregnant.

** In the 2023 revival, [[spoiler:JJ Varga-Murphy finds evidence that Andrew Rodwell may have been the sperm donor that his mother Cara used to conceive him when she and her wife Remi had been struggling with an unnamed American donor. When JJ's suspicions are revealed, Andrew confirms that he did donate to Philippa Wade, a mutual friend of Cara, behind his wife's back, but as far as he knew she had destroyed the sample when he chose to back out of the agreement. In turn, Cara confirms that she used the sample Philippa gave her, but didn't know which sample succeeded. When Andrew and JJ take a DNA test, it turns out not to be a match, but the fact that both were somewhat disappointed about the result continues to cause tension for both families.]]

* {{Polyamory}}: Ned Willis suggests that Amy Greenwood date both him and Levi Canning simultaneously.

** Other funerals also had elements of this: Bridget Parker's funeral in 2009 saw no mention of her brother Riley, uncle Ned or cousin Mickey; Kate Ramsay's funeral in 2014 saw no sign of her brother Harry.

* 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: Daphne Clarke (1988), Kerry Mangel (1990), Todd Landers (1992), Jim Robinson (1993), Julie Martin (1994), Cody Willis, Cheryl Stark (both 1996), Helen Daniels (1997), Madge Bishop (2001), Drew Kirk (2002), David Bishop (2005), Stingray Timmins (2007), Marco Silvani (2008), Bridget Parker (2009), Ringo Brown (2010), Kate Ramsay (2014), Doug and Josh Willis (2016), Sonya Rebecchi (2019), Gary Canning (2020), Finn Kelly (2020) etc.

* IfItsYouItsOkay: When Mark confronted Elly about her cheating on him with Chloe shortly before their wedding, he asked if she was bisexual now. Elly denied it, saying, "I guess I was attracted to what she represents: someone who loves me unconditionally." She did briefly pursue a relationship with Chloe after her annulment from Mark, but it didn't last and Elly was only involved with male characters for the rest of her tenure. However, she eventually returned for the 2022 finale week and got back with Chloe.

** Russell Kiefel's death in November 2016, which has had an ongoing effect on subsequent storylines for the Brennan family, from Russell Brennan's offscreen death, to the introduction of Tyler's biological father Hamish Roche, to Tyler's false conviction for murdering Hamish and eventual exoneration, and possibly including Chloe's Huntington's diagnosis (she initially believed she'd inherited the gene from him because her mother hadn't shown symptoms).

* RefuseToRescueTheDisliked: When Gareth Bateman is critically injured in a car crash, shortly after shooting Levi Canning and beating up Aaron Brennan, David Tanaka is the first on the scene and chooses to do nothing, to the point of throwing away the necessary equipment so he can claim he didn't have it. May qualify as MurderByInaction, though it is possible Gareth was already beyond saving. This breach of his ethics causes him considerable guilt afterwards, [[spoiler:and when he ends up in the a similar situation with Eden Shaw three years later, he downplays his injuries to Aaron and Leo and insists that they save Eden first.]]

** Paul Robinson and Gail Lewis (formerly Robinson) outlived their son Cameron (hit by a car in 2006).

* RefuseToRescueTheDisliked: When Gareth Bateman is critically injured in a car crash, shortly after shooting Levi Canning and beating up Aaron Brennan, David Tanaka is the first on the scene and chooses to do nothing, to the point of throwing away the necessary equipment so he can claim he didn't have it. May qualify as MurderByInaction, though it is possible Gareth was already beyond saving. This breach of his ethics causes him considerable guilt afterwards.

* BackForTheFinale: Several dozen past characters returned for the show's final weeks, some of whom hadn't appeared in decades. A few of them only appeared on computer screens (eg, Joe Mangel, Andrew Robinson, Donna Freedman and Nina Tucker) but plenty more returned to Ramsay Street in person, including Scott and Charlene Robinson, Shane Ramsay, Joel Samuels and Mike Young. [[spoiler:Even some dead characters get to show back up for a couple seconds in Susan's imagination.]]

** At one point the record between appearances was Kim Taylor/Tanaka (Jenny Young), returning 32 years and 7500 episodes after her storyline wrapped up.

** Beth Brennan's involvement in the series finale, since it's fairly clear that the producers wanted to bring back Music/NatalieImbruglia 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.

* EndOfSeriesAwareness: The final weeks of the show saw so many changes that five of the six houses were put on the market at once, though all of the people involved except for Chloe at No. 24 ended up changing their minds for one reason or another.

** The series' final weeks had two or three regular episodes stitched together every night (the intent being to catch up the UK, which had been ahead of Australia for some time), culminating in the GrandFinale, effectively a ninety-minute-long episode dedicated to the wedding of long-time characters Toadie Rebecchi and Melanie Pearson which also featured the return of many former cast mates as one final send off to ''Neighbours''.

* IfItsYouItsOkay: When Mark confronted Elly about her cheating on him with Chloe shortly before their wedding, he asked if she was bisexual now. Elly denied it, saying, "I guess I was attracted to what she represents: someone who loves me unconditionally." She did briefly pursue a relationship with Chloe after her annulment from Mark, but it didn't last and Elly was only involved with male characters for the rest of her tenure. However, she eventually returned for the finale week and got back with Chloe.

** In April 1986, Scott Robinson saw someone climbing through the window of No. 24, ran up the stairs to intervene, and got punched in the face by Charlene Mitchell for his trouble. Thirty years later, this scenario plays out again with Scott and Charlene's children Daniel and Madison. The scene was referenced again in the final episode when Scott and Charlene returned to the street.

** A sort-of example from Aaron and David's wedding, where Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan's hit "Especially For You" plays over it. The song is used again to introduce Scott and Charlene's return in the finale.

** Paul Robinson is the ultimate [[VillainProtagonist Resident Villain]] with a huge case of JokerImmunity. In 2004, he murdered a man and torched the Lassiters complex but never received any legal punishment and only a token karmic punishment: It's now basically treated as an open secret among the residents. He has since committed a number of frauds and even attempted murders, as well as framing people for crimes both successfully and unsuccessfully, and is a massive ControlFreak towards his family, yet never receives any real punishment and is always EasilyForgiven unless someone's leaving the show: He even managed to get the woman whose life he had been routinely making hell for the best part of a decade to marry him, and despite giving her ''numerous'' reasons to file for divorce in the final months of the show, [[EsotericHappyEnding she still takes him back in the series finale]], which also contrives a way for him to retain control of Lassiters yet again.

* NonIndicativeName: Ramsay Street is actually a court (Pin Oak Court, to be precise), a point brought up by Sam Young when she visits with her father Mike in the final episode. This was something of an OutsideJoke, since evidence suggested the "court" was actually only a small part of Ramsay Street: The next house along (inhabited by Vera Punt in the later years) was No 34.

** The introduction of Jill Ramsay and her kids in 2009, complete with a backstory that original character Max Ramsay had had an affair with best friend Jim Robinson's wife and had a daughter with her prior to the series. This just came out of nowhere, and stands out because of three previous revelations involving the same families: in the show's first year Max had claimed the high ground over estranged wife Maria on the grounds that even though they had both cheated, he had never had a child with someone else (namely Danny). In 1991, Jim was revealed to have had a son from an affair while serving in Vietnam. And in 1993, Julie was revealed to be the result of Anne being raped by Jim's boss. In short, there's no way this wouldn't have come up earlier. Amusingly, the show seemed to lampshade the absurdity of this it the final week, when Shane Ramsay looked at Paul's photo of Jill's kids and commented that he couldn't believe Max and Anne had an affair.

* SameCharacterButDifferent: Paul Robinsons's return in 2004, though the actual change arguably occurred in 1993 when he framed Philip for fraud and fled to Brazil.
** 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. (Curiously, when she came back in 2015 as a figment of Harold's imagination, she was actually much closer to her original feisty and outspoken self).

* BlackGirlBoss: Tess Carmichael, who is Conrad Sinclair's second-in-command and comes to Erinsborough in order to get his daughter Reece back home.

* TheBusCameBack: Plenty of characters, often years after their departure, with quite a few not only becoming regulars again but staying for longer than their original stints (Julie Robinson/Martin, Harold and Madge Bishop, Paul Robinson, Lauren Carpenter, Brad Willis and Clive Gibbons stand out).

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** Nell Rebecchi was born onscreen at the beginning of 2013. She was mentioned to be in her first year of high school (i.e, 12-13) in (flashbacks to) 2023, which again clashes with the timeframe of Toadie and Sonya's relationship given that the two were broken up for most of Stephanie's pregnancy in 2010.

* TimeSkip: The 2023 revival picks up two years after the 2022 cancellation. [[spoilers:Flashbacks to the events of 2023, including the breakups of Paul and Terese and Toadie and Melanie, have filled in the gaps.]]

* WackyParentSeriousChild: Quite a few examples over the years, including Isabelle and Holly Hoyland, Andrea and Willow Somers, Estelle Petrides and Terese Willis, and arguably Paul and Elle Robinson.

** Paul tends to act like this regarding Nicolette Stone, who admittedly has done her share of selfish, unethical and manipulative things, but has also done far more to atone for them than Paul ever does.

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