History YMMV / Neighbours

** The resolution to the Tanaka brothers' search for their father, who turns out to be Paul Robinson, the result of a one-night-stand with Kim Taylor, a guest character from the first few months of the show. The explanation given contradicts the onscreen events from 1985 in numerous ways, suffice to say that there was ''nothing whatsoever'' to suggest Paul had even heard of Kim before she got involved with his brother, nor that Kim was pregnant before she ran away from home, or had dated anyone before Scott. Even ignoring the contradictions, the retcon now means that Paul has been guilty of having sex with a minor for the entire run of the show (In [[http://perfectblend.net/review/episodes/85/0003.htm Kim's first episode]], she was stated to be 15, though it's possible this has been retconned as well, since Scott was seeingly aged up a year or two after his recasting), and it's pretty hard to believe his claim that he didn't recognise her as such.

* EthnicScrappy: The Lim family were introduced in an attempt at subverting MonochromeCast, but thanks to their poor acting and out-of-character racist behaviour by other residents, their six week tenure is generally seen as an embarassment.

** The resolution to the Tanaka brothers' search for their father, who turns out to be Paul Robinson, the result of a one-night-stand with Kim Taylor, a guest character from the first few months of the show. The explanation given contradicts the onscreen events from 1985 in numerous ways, suffice to say that there was ''nothing whatsoever'' to suggest Paul had even heard of Kim before she got involved with his brother, nor that Kim was pregnant before she ran away from home, or had dated anyone before Scott. Even ignoring the contradictions, the retcon now means that Paul has been guilty of having sex with a minor for the entire run of the show (unless Kim's age was retconned as well when Scott's was), and it's pretty hard to believe his claim that he didn't recognise her as such.

* AssPull: The introduction of Jill Ramsay and her children in 2009, a {{Retcon}} in which Max Ramsay (a main character from the first year of the show) and Anne Robinson (who had been dead for years before the show started) were revealed to have had an affair, conceived a child (apparently some time after Scott but before Lucy) and given said child up for adoption. Since there's no way most of the Robinson or Ramsay family members who had appeared on the show could have been in the dark about it, one has to wonder how this story didn't come up when Max found out Danny wasn't his son in 1985, when Jim met his own illegitimate son Glen in 1990, or when Julie found out in 1993 that she was the result of Anne being raped by Jim's then boss. Reportedly the purpose of this was to reintroduce the Ramsay family to Ramsay Street, and apparently none of the age-appropriate existing Ramsays (Shane, Danny, Henry, Charlene or Gemma [[note]]though admittedly at least three of those would probably have required recasting[[/note]]) were interesting enough.

** Speaking of ''Neighbours vs Zombies'', Dee Bliss shows up towards the end in the form of a FakeShemp. Two and a bit years later, Madeleine West returns as an apparently alive and well Dee.

* TheyJustDidntCare: In 1997, the show introduced a new opening credits sequence with the characters grouped by house number. But by [[http://www.perfectblend.net/galleries/opening/1998/1998c.htm October 1998]], the sequence had seven characters grouped in the wrong house, with four newly [[PromotionToOpeningTitles promoted]] characters added to No. 30 to save on filming updated shots. The system was dropped the following season.

** The 2008 season is fairly unpopular as well, due to a combination of unlikable guest stars, increasingly unlikable regulars, and popular guest stars who never got the chance to become regulars. The introduction of Lucas Fitzgerald and Donna Freedman (Margot Robbie) are seen as bright spots, though.

** In 2006, Stingray made a student film about a ZombieApocalypse for a university assessment. Eight years later, [[{{http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBkAh4BNY2k}} he becomes a zombie]].

** In 2006, Stingray made a student film about a ZombieApocalypse for a university assessment. Eight years later, [[{{www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBkAh4BNY2k}} he becomes a zombie]].

** In 2006, Stingray made a student film about a ZombieApocalypse for a university assessment. Eight years later, [[www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBkAh4BNY2k he becomes a zombie]].

* {{HSQ}}: The season-ending cliffhangers regularly qualify: standouts include 1997 (a marriage proposal, two illicit kisses and a car crash), 2004 (a fire at the pub and the coffee shop, with, Charlie's death from emphysema with Stepahnie appearing to have euthanised him, and Paul Robinson's return to the show after 11 years) and 2005 (Harold strangling Paul as revenge for indirectly causing the deaths of David, Liljana and Serena).

* SeasonalRot: 1995 [[http://perfectblend.net/review/1995.htm has been described as]] one of the most boring and uneventful years of the show's history, mostly due to a number of failed comedy storylines
** 2002 is similarly unpopular, mostly due to Susan's losing thirty years of memory after slipping on spilt milk.

* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: The Kennedys went from being the perfect family with the [[HappilyMarried perfect life]], to a more believable and well-rounded bunch of characters.

* SeasonalRot: 1995 [[http://perfectblend.net/review/1995.htm has been described as]] one of the most boring and uneventful years of the show's history.

* AssPull: The introduction of Jill Ramsay and her children in 2009, a {{Retcon}} in which Max Ramsay (a main character from the first year of the show) and Anne Robinson (who had been dead for years before the show started) were revealed to have had an affair, conceived a child (apparently some time after Scott but before Lucy) and given said child up for adoption. Since there's no way most of the Robinson or Ramsay family members who had appeared on the show could have been in the dark about it, one has to wonder how this story didn't come up when Max found out Danny wasn't his son in 1985, when Jim met his own illegitimate son Glen in 1990, or when Julie found out in 1994 that she was the result of Anne being raped by Jim's then boss. Reportedly the purpose of this was to reintroduce the Ramsay family to Ramsay Street, and apparently none of the age-appropriate existing Ramsays (Shane, Danny, Henry, Charlene or Gemma [[note]]though admittedly at least three of those would probably have required recasting[[/note]]) were interesting enough.

* TheScrappy: Jo, Lisa, Eddie, Nick, Caitlin, Lauren, the Lim family, Katya, and to a lesser extent the Hancock and Parker families.

* AssPull: The introduction of Jill Ramsay and her children in 2009, a {{Retcon}} in which Max Ramsay (a main character from the first year of the show) and Anne Robinson (who had been dead for years before the show started) were revealed to have had an affair, conceived a child (apparently some time after Scott but before Lucy) and given said child up for adoption. Since there's no way most of the Robinson or Ramsay family members who had appeared on the show could have been in the dark about it, one has to wonder how this story didn't come up when Max found out Danny wasn't his son in 1985, when Jim met his own illegitimate son Glen in 1990, or when Julie found out that she was the result of Anne being raped by Jim's then boss in 1994. Reportedly the purpose of this was to reintroduce the Ramsay family to Ramsay Street, and apparently none of the age-appropriate existing Ramsays (Shane, Danny, Henry, Charlene or Gemma [[note]]though admittedly at least three of those would probably have required recasting[[/note]]) were interesting enough.

* AssPull: The introduction of Jill Ramsay and her children in 2009, a {{Retcon}} in which Max Ramsay (a main character from the first year of the show) and Anne Robinson (who had been dead for years before the show started) were revealed to have had an affair, conceived a child (apparently some time after Scott but before Lucy) and given said child up for adoption. Since there's no way Jim Robinson or Maria Ramsay could have been in the dark about it at the time they were on the show, one has to wonder how this story didn't come up when Max found out Danny wasn't his son in 1985, when Jim met his own illegitimate son Glen in 1990, or when Julie found out that she was the result of Anne being raped by Jim's then boss. Reportedly the purpose of this was to reintroduce the Ramsay family to Ramsay Street, and apparently none of the age-appropriate existing Ramsays (Shane, Danny, Henry, Charlene or Gemma [[note]]though admittedly at least three of those would probably have required recasting[[/note]]) were interesting enough.

* AssPull: The introduction of Jill Ramsay and her children in 2009, a {{Retcon}} in which Max Ramsay (a main character from the first year of the show) and Anne Robinson (who had been dead for years before the show started) were revealed to have had an affair, conceived a child (apparently some time after Scott but before Lucy) and given said child up for adoption. Since there's no way Jim Robinson or Maria Ramsay could have been in the dark about it at the time they were on the show, one has to wonder how this story didn't come up when Max found out Danny wasn't his son in 1985, when Jim met his own illegitimate son Glen in 1990, or when Julie found out that she was the result of Anne being raped by Jim's then boss. Reportedly the purpose of this was to reintroduce the Ramsay family to Ramsay Street, and apparently none of the age-appropriate existing Ramsays (Shane, Danny, Henry, Charlene or Gemma ([[note]]though admittedly at least three of those would have required recasting[[/note]])) were interesting enough.

** "Lesser extent" nothing in regards to the Parkers. The father is an obnoxious, bullying meathead with Alpha male pretentions, the mother is an unsympathetic, shrill annoyance, and the daughter? Can you say "self-righteous, whining, irritating MarySue made worse by her amazingly poor actress"?
*** About Bridget, whose death was considered by many to be a massive tearjerker. The other two, yeah, the show is better without them.
*** Alternately, a fairly decent teen character was ruined by a protracted storyline where she kills a boy without any comeback (KarmicDeath?) and the shipper-pleasing decision to have her sleep with the local JerkWithAHeartOfGold, get pregnant and marry him, all while still at school.
**** The boy in question was trying to rape her, and all she did was push him away with the result that he accidentally hit his head on the pavement. If that story ruined anyone it was her father Steve, thanks to the insane lengths he went to to save her from the minuscule possibility of jail time.
**** It's still hard to feel much affection for any of the characters involved when they spend months lying to the police and court about what happened, then when Bridget finally does blurt out the truth... [[WriterCopOut absolutely nothing happens to any of them]]. By rights, they should ''all'' have ended up with jail time for conspiring to pervert the course of justice, not to mention Steve ''assaults a coma patient'' in front of the hospital staff and [[KarmaHoudini isn't even escorted from the premises]].
** I don't know how other tropers feel, but I think that Kyle is falling into this category. He's annoying, dumb, pointless and adds nothing to the show whatsoever.

* [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff Brits Love Australian Soaps]]: To the point where viewing figures for ''Neighbours'' in the UK often surpassed the ''population'' of Australia.
** In fact, this is the only Australian series (and the last imported one to date) to have topped the ratings in Britain.

* TheWoobie: Tash, she finds out her mother died because her dad was with another woman, the aunt she'd spent the last couple of months getting to know, then her dad leaves the country with the aunt leaving her to have to get a job to pay rent, then he sells the house, and she has to move in with a friend, who gets on her case for simple stuff like leaving dishes out.

* {{Wangst}}: Zeke, for a while. Libby since her 2007 return.

*** YourMileageMayVary: about Bridget, whose death was considered by many to be a massive tearjerker. The other two, yeah, the show is better without them.

** "Lesser extent" nothing in regards to the Parkers. The father is an obnoxious, bullying meathead with Alpha male pretentions, the mother is an unsympathetic, shrill annoyance, and the daughter? Oh god, the daugther. A self-righteous, whining, irritating MarySue made worse by her amazingly poor actress.