Line #22 Series/BondiRescue


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4	[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bondi_Rescue Bondi Rescue]] is an Australian factual television programme which is broadcast on Network 10. The programme, which has aired since 2006, follows the daily lives and routines of the Waverley Council professional lifeguards who patrol [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bondi_Beach Bondi Beach]], as well as nearby [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronte,_New_South_Wales Bronte]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamarama,_New_South_Wales Tamarama]] beaches (all just east of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney Sydney]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia Australia]]).
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6	Bondi Rescue was first broadcast in 2006. A [[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2786006/?ref_=nm_flmg_prd_7 spin-off]], set in Bali, Indonesia, also briefly screened in 2008. Bondi Rescue is also broadcast internationally throughout 100 countries.
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8	The show was created and produced by part-time lifeguard [[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0203600/ Ben Davies]]. It is narrated by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osher_G%C3%BCnsberg Osher Günsberg]].
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10	Executive producers are Michael Cordell and Nick Murray of [[https://www.cjz.com.au/programs/bondi-rescue/ Cordell Jigsaw Productions]].
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14	!!This show provides examples of:
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16	* AbandonShip: One situation ends with a couple being rescued from their damaged boat by Azza and Nicola with the jet-ski.
17	* AccentInterest: Harrison's Kiwi accent gets lots of ribbing from the Aussies.
18	* AcquaintedWithEmergencyServices: The lifeguards are constantly calling the EMT's for medical help for the visiting beachgoers (and sometimes for themselves). Some of the EMT's have also trained the lifeguards in basic first aid, so of course they're on a first name basis.
19	* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: Beachgoers suffer from this often.
20	* AngerBornOfWorry: The lifeguards express this when people don't listen to their safety instructions - and then have to be rescued minutes later. Often occurs in tandem with {{Enraged By Idiocy}}.
21	* AnyoneCanDie: The message the lifeguards keep trying to drum into people's heads regarding the dangers of rip tides and heavy surf. Sadly it has happened a few times.
22	* TheAtoner: Jesse. He is a past member of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bra_Boys Bra Boys]], a gang centred on surf culture, founded and based in Maroubra, an eastern suburb of Sydney, New South Wales in the 1990s. In 2014 together Jesse and Maxi did a jet-ski tour to [[https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/mind/bondi-rescue-stars-trent-maxi-maxwell-and-jesse-polock-tell-of-their-experience-with-suicide-while-on-the-job/news-story/523366ec24fa396f3bd3c3a2d0ebd0cf raise awareness of mental health and suicide prevention]]. Their epic 3000-kilometre journey, known as [[https://www.escapademedia.com.au/titles/the-ride-east-coast/ The Ride: East Coast]], was filmed as part of a documentary which aired on channel One.
23	* BadassNormal: The Bondi Lifeguards.
24	* BandOfBrothers: The mostly male team of lifeguards are close friends who work an often-dangerous job together.
25	* [[BeachEpisode Beach Series]]
26	* TheBigRace: The Annual Lifeguard Iron Man Challenge.
27	* BlatantLies: How practical jokes are often set up. Best example: Kerrbox and the fake Japanese energy drink commercial.
28	* BusmansHoliday: Some of the lifeguards are Bondi locals, and thus can be seen surfing and swimming (and helping with rescues) on their days off. Some bring their families.
29	* ByTheHair: How Kerrbox rescues one young man.
30	* CastFullOfPrettyBoys: And how! See also {{Hot Men At Work}}.
31	* CelebrityIsOverrated: The lifeguards [[TruthInTelevision bring this up]] [[https://tvtonight.com.au/2014/04/lifeguard-says-bondi-rescue-makes-beach-seem-more-dangerous-than-it-really-is.html now and again]].
32	* CelebrityResemblance: When [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/DavidHasselhoff David Hasselhoff]] shows up at Bondi Beach, he tells Harries that he's a "younger [[SpellMyNameWithAThe Hoff]]". Harries is thrilled. It seems that [[invoked]][[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff Australian lifeguards love David Hasselhoff]], too.
33	** Adriel Young is quickly nicknamed Bacon, due to his resemblance to Creator/KevinBacon.
34	** Harrison Reid picks up the nickname Lionel because his fellow lifeguards think he looks like Lionel Hutz from WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons.
35	* TheChikan: Crowded public beach version. And, yes, the lifeguards do have to deal with such perps occasionally. It helps that they can catch them on film.
36	* ChildhoodFriends: Hoppo and Kerrbox have known each other since they were five years old.
37	* ChristmasEpisode: Once a season, an episode will usually cover Christmas Day. This involves tourists in festive clothing, and one of the lifeguards dressing as Santa to give out treats to the kids.
38	* ColorMotif: The lifeguards all wear a uniform of navy shorts with a sky-blue t-shirt, and use matching sky-blue boards in the water. The volunteer lifeguards wear bright yellow and red with yellow boards and floatation devices. This makes both teams easy to spot on the busy beaches and in the water.
39	* ComingOfAgeStory: The series becomes this for the probies who end up spending many years life guarding at Bondi Beach, such as Maxi and Reidy.
40	* CrappyHolidays: Christmas holidays on Bondi Beach can turn into this, as it is usually the busiest season for the lifeguards. On one occasion, Valentine's Day ended with a Bomb Disposal Squad having to be called in.
41	* TheDandy: Bisho.
42	* DidntThinkThisThrough: A bag thief who steals for the first time - and gets caught right away.
43	** Not thinking results in many swimming and surfing mishaps, especially with ''[[ForgotICouldntSwim non-swimmers]]''.
44	* EnsembleCast: Combined with RotatingProtagonist ([[https://episodes-and-films.fandom.com/wiki/Bondi_Rescue#Current featured lifeguards]] can change from season to season) and loads and loads of characters(like celebrities, police officers, tourists, locals, EMT's, etc.).
45	* {{Documentary}}: The {{TV Documentary}} kind.
46	* FamilyBusiness: Maxi's younger cousin Ryan becomes a trainee lifeguard in season 11.
47	* FeelingTheirAge: H and Kerrbox complain the most about it.
48	* ForeignExchangeStudent: Kyle, a lifeguard from Oahu, Hawaii, is on loan to Bondi for six weeks.
49	** Two years later, Whippet, Kerrbox and Dunno go to Hawaii to seek training from Kyle regarding high waves rescue.
50	** [[SpinOff Bondi Rescue: Bali]] came about this way. In 2008 Deano, Reidy, Whippet, Chappo, Eggers, Matty Dee, Kobi and others join for two months the hundred strong local life guards (supervised by popular singer Marcello Arayafaya) in an official international exchange program.
51	* FormerChildStar: Averted by Ryan 'Whippet' Clark, who, as a child, appeared in long-running Australian soap opera Series/HomeandAway for a decade prior to becoming a lifeguard. He seems to have avoided all the classic former child star tropes though.
52	* GroinAttack: The lifeguards deal with a man who has been bitten on the penis by a dog.
53	** And also a man who gets stung by a Bluebottle while swimming.
54	** Tommy does this to himself with his rescue board.
55	* HeroicBystander: If a person is struggling in the water, nearby surfers will sometimes come to their aid until a lifeguard reaches them. The youngest surfer to do this was seven years old. Likewise it is often the friends of the victim who pull them from the water.
56	** When two scuba divers get smashed against rocks by huge waves, Harries (without a radio) calls up to several bystanders to call 000, knowing the message will get sent to the lifeguard's tower.
57	* HeroicSafeMode: Hoppo is the master of the less extreme version.
58	** The lifeguards often experience this after losing a patient, or while doing body retrieval.
59	* HollywoodDrowning: A couple of pranksters use this to get the attention of the lifeguards so they can be on the show. The lifeguards refuse to play the game and they get the police to kick them off the beach. They DO make it onto the show, but are depicted as dangerous idiots.
60	* ImprobableAge: H retired from life guarding at Bondi at age 64.
61	* InjuredLimbEpisode: Any given episode. Lifeguards can get serious enough injuries (cracked ribs, dislocations, large gashes) to be confined to Tower duty until they heal.
62	** Jethro gets one when he dislocates his shoulder while bringing in the Jet-ski.
63	** Jesse cracks a vertebra in an off-hours surfing accident.
64	** The Roosters NRL team go surfing with the lifeguards, but when one of the players runs over Yatesy with a rescue board, it breaks his ribs which puncture his lung.
65	** Surfers and skateboarders often dislocate something during an episode, or suffer deep, bloody gashes.
66	** One episode dealt with a surfer getting his hand bitten off by a shark. Fortunately the attack itself did not happen during filming.
67	* InTouchWithHisFeminineSide: Harries.
68	* IntoxicationEnsues: What inevitably happens after a patient is given the pain-killing analgesic gas inhaler, nicknamed the [[InSeriesNickname green whistle]].
69	* {{Japandering}}: As part of a prank, Kerrbox is convinced by Whippet that he is [[invoked]][[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff Big In Japan]] and thus is perfect to be the star of a Japanese energy drink commercial (written and directed by some of Whippet's Japanese friends). The resulting 'commercial' and reveal of the prank informs Kerrbox that the fake energy drink name 'Nikano Oshiko' was actually Japanese for [[spoiler:Cat Piss]].
70	* LandDownUnder: During blue bottle season (i.e. when this stinging jellyfish shows up on the beach). Also, sharks and sea snakes make their appearance.
71	* TheLeader: Bruce 'Hoppo' Hopkins.
72	* LongHairedPrettyBoy: Jethro, Tommy, Dunno. H and Kerrbox when they were (much)younger.
73	* LostFoodGrievance: Beardy gets very, very annoyed when some drunk New Year's revelers walk off with the Tower's box of candy. Eventually an amused Maxi goes down to get it back.
74	* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Some patients can take pain surprisingly well, [[JustifiedTrope sometimes due to them still being in shock.]] The most impressive might be the guy with bluebottle stings covering most of his stomach, which was described by Harrison as the biggest he'd ever seen, but there are plenty of other honourable mentions.
75	* ManHug: Often, especially after a good rescue - or worse, after a horrible one.
76	* ManInABikini: Harries, [[InTouchWithHisFeminineSide of course]]. {{Played For Laughs}}.
77	* ManipulativeEditing: Music is often used to broadcast how a rescue is going, or whether to laugh or gasp at an injury.
78	* ManlyTears: Terry breaks down while describing his rescue of a small child, because the potential of having to deal with a grieving mother brought up the grief from his own child dying as a newborn.
79	** Fatalities can also bring the lifeguards to these.
80	* MoodWhiplash: Many rescues start off as tense (with [[ManipulativeEditing appropriate music]]), only to end with something comical happening. For example:
81	** Hoppo [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y3o6X9xKao rescuing ten patients]] with [[HeroicSafeMode minimal effort]] while Mouse is freaking out in the Tower because he's not waving for back-up.
82	** Bisho [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rPqMtcaoIw doing a rescue]] [[BeautyIsNeverTarnished without getting his hair wet]]. The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h94BdxnheeM orchestral music]] accompanying it is perfect.
83	** Whenever a patient is brought in lying in a weird position on the rescue board, or [[SlipperySwimsuit partly undressed]], or [[EmbarrassingRescue reacting weirdly]] to being rescued. Or the lifeguard [[SlapStick wipes out spectacularly]] on the way in.
84	** The series itself ranges from silly shenanigans and cute kids to riots and resuscitating drowning victims.
85	* MrFanservice: Almost the entire male cast is this in one way or another.
86	* NakedPeopleAreFunny: Many examples:
87	** Harries having to put on a g-string to get his new spray tan.
88	** People running naked into the surf on a dare. Combined with {{Streaking}}.
89	** People being rescued [[SlipperySwimsuit minus their bathing suit]].
90	** Deano having to chase naked, [[MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces sex-having people]] off the beach on New Year's Day morning.
91	* NearDeathExperience: Some rescues have been this for the patient.
92	* OhCrap: Whenever a rescue goes dangerously wrong.
93	* OldMaster: H.
94	* OnceASeason: Every season usually features an episode set during Christmas Day and one set during New Years Day, usually involving a lot of drunk and hungover tourists and the issues they cause for the lifeguards. There's also usually an episode each season covering the annual Lifeguard Challenge.
95	* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Pretty much everybody. If they don't have an [[InSeriesNickname in-series nickname]] yet, they are probably a probie.
96	* PassionateSportsGirl: Brooke, Nicola and Jules.
97	* PracticalJoke: Constantly, especially against the probies, but no one is safe.
98	** CandidCameraPrank: Kerrbox sets up hidden cameras all around his house, then invites the guys over for dinner - and tapes who cheats on the "30-Day Challenge" diet. Cheaters have to do 50 burpees.
99	** EyepiecePrank: Binoculars plus shoe polish plus Gonzo. Thanks, Reidy.
100	** ScreamerPrank: Kerrbox HATES rats. So what do they put in a box for him?
101	** Harrison (while a probie) is given a clicker to go count all the people on the beach "for research purposes".
102	** Glick is terrified of sharks. Kerrbox takes him out on the Jet-ski to check on the shark nets, then drives off cackling once Glick is in the water.
103	** Glick [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Revenge gets payback]] when he tricks Kerrbox into taking a helicopter ride. Kerrbox is afraid of heights.
104	** Harries is given a new fake tan at a salon courtesy of Kerrbox and Hoppo - which turns him blue.
105	-->'''Kerrbox''': "He looks like a smurf!"
106	* ThePrettyGuysAreStronger: Harries has no problem [[MusclesAreMeaningless beating a visiting weightlifter]] in a lifeguard race.
107	* PrimalFear: Kerrbox: rats, heights. Jules: storms. Maxi: snakes. Glick: sharks. Nicola: the [[EldritchOceanAbyss deep, deep ocean]].
108	* ProperlyParanoid: Lifeguards take the risk of spinal injuries ''very'' seriously, even if the patient appears to have full mobility and sensation; and while they do have some false alarms, at other times their caution is often the reason a patient is able to make a full recovery.
109	* PublicServiceAnnouncement: Matt Dee and Reidy help film PSA's for the Bondi Beach wifi consisting of a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YItQHDERxWE safety message in several languages]]. Matt tries to convince Reidy he's good at languages.
110	-->''' Matt Dee''': [[BlatantLies My dad's Korean]].
111	** Later:
112	-->''' Matt Dee''': [[BlatantLies My dad's Russian]].
113	-->''(cut to...)''
114	-->'''Russian beachgoer Natalya''': It says 'be safe, swim between the flags' but Russian is very bad.
115	-->''(cut to...)''
116	-->''' Matt Dee''': Natalya? [[BlatantLies That's not even a Russian name]]. I don't know who she thinks she is. (laughs)
117	** PSA's about how to deal with finding yourself in a riptide are worked into the show.
118	* PulledFromYourDayOff: Every now and again as the lifeguards are on duty 365 days a year.
119	* RankUp: Whenever a probie becomes a permanent lifeguard.
120	* RomanticWingman: Harries tries to be this for Singlets - whether he wants Harries' help or not. Embarrassment ensues, both for Singlets and the woman he was trying to help.
121	* SlapStick: Surfing mishaps and wipe outs are often portrayed as this - especially if it happens to one of the lifeguards.
122	* TheSmurfettePrinciple: The lifeguards are all men - except for Brooke. Later, Nicola. Then Jules. There has not often been more than one woman at a time in the professional Bondi lifeguards.
123	* SpinOff: [[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2786006/?ref_=nm_flmg_prd_7 Bondi Rescue: Bali]].
124	* StopDrowningAndStandUp: Panic can cause a person to drown in shallow water.
125	* TalkingHeads: Footage of rescues, shenanigans, and other happenings at Bondi Beach are interspersed with commentary from lifeguards, patients and other beachgoers.
126	* TeamDad: Two: Hoppo as leader, and H as the oldest.
127	* ThongOfShielding: What Harries had to wear to get his new spray tan.
128	** What many beach goers wear.
129	* ThreateningShark: Shark sightings are often reported to the lifeguards by the public. The lifeguards only sound the shark alarm to clear the water if they think there is genuinely a shark out there. So far, there has only been one confirmed shark attack featured during the show's run.
130	* ToplessnessFromTheBack: The occasional [[EuropeansAreKinky topless European sunbather]] is shown this way.
131	* TrueCompanions
132	* TruncatedThemeTune: The theme song in season 14 is half as long as in season 1.
133	* WackyMarriageProposal: Harries wants to propose to his girlfriend Emily by [[GrandROmanticGesture flying her in a helicopter over Bondi Beach]] where (hopefully) the guys have created a large sign saying "Marry Me". Harries unfortunately did not give the guys any instructions as to ''how'' to do this. [[PlayedForLaughs Hilarity ensues]]. Thankfully [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeD-XSgJbWI she said yes]] anyway.
134	* WalkingSwimsuitScene: They're lifeguards. It's what they do. Also many a {{Walking Shirtless Scene}}.

Context Series / BondiRescue