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3	''Aunty Jack'' was a comedy sketch show that aired on Australian television in the early seventies. It had surreal humour reminiscent of Creator/MontyPython and ''Radio/TheGoonShow'' but not directly based on either. The titular character was a moustachioed transvestite who wore a singular gold boxing glove on her right hand and often threatened to "rip your bloody arms off". She was the brainchild of Graeme Bond, a native of Wollongong a town just to the south of Sydney, Australia. He and the small cast had a variety of characters they portrayed.
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5	It was quite daring and racy for its time which probably explains why it was on [[Creator/AustralianBroadcastingCorporation The ABC]].
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7	It was released on DVD only a few years ago. The delay was due to copyright issues as unusually Bond and Donohue (the song writers) had managed to retain the copyrights. The series can is also available on [[http://www.hulu.com/aunty-jack Hulu]]
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9	Also the characters later appeared in Series/WollongongTheBrave, a series of one-off specials in 1975 and in a 5-minute skit which helped [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIqqiK4ncfs introduce colour TV to Australia]], which is now in the National Archives of Australia, along with the rest of series. In 2006 there was a stage ReunionShow.
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12	!! "Aunty Jack" contains examples of:
13	* [[BritishBrevity Australian Brevity]]: There were only two seasons of seven, then six episodes.
14	* AutomobileOpening: If you count a motorcycle with a side car and a dune buggy as automobiles.
15	* BerserkButton: Never say Aunty Jack is fat or that she looks like a man or...well you know
16	* BraggingThemeTune
17	* BreakingtheFourthWall: Most of the time
18	* CharacterBlog: Aunty Jack owns [[https://twitter.com/Aunty_Jack a Twitter account]].
19	* CatchPhrase: Aunty Jack's [[IWillTearYourArmsOff I'll Rip Your Bloody Arms Off]]
20	* ColoringInTheWorld: To celebrate the introduction of color to Australian television in 1975, the cast reunited for a skit in which Aunty Jack, Thin Arthur, and Kid Eager try in vain to stop the "color monster" from invading Wollongong. As the "color monster" floods their house, the scene gradually fills with color.
21	* ConspicuousGloves: Aunty Jack's boxing glove
22	* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:Aunty Jack]] is revived during the specials and now has a Twitter account.
23	* DumbBlonde: Flange Desire
24	* FramingDevice: Aunty Jack and her gang
25	* GrandFinale: [[spoiler:Aunty Jack dies]] in the final episode. Averted in the specials and on her Twitter account.
26	* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming
27	* MamaBear: Try to bother or insult anyone who are friends with Aunty Jack and you will have arms ripped off. You will not survive and die in Australia.
28	* MindScrew: Many sketches
29	* NeverMessWithGranny: Make that Aunty
30	* LandOfOneCity: Wollongong
31	* PutOnABus: Narrator Neville in between the first and second seasons.
32	* SolemnEndingTheme: ''Farewell Aunty Jack'', which was also a Number one single.
33	* SpinOff: ''The Norman Gunston Show''
34	* StockFootage: Occasionally
35	* SubvertedKidsShow: It was orignally pitched as a kid's show, but executives thought the characters and songs were not family friendly.

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