Australia You're Standing In It was an Australian sketch comedy

Sketch comedy

A sketch comedy consists of a series of short comedy scenes or vignettes, called "sketches," commonly between one and ten minutes long. Such sketches are performed by a group of comic actors or comedians, either on stage or through an audio and/or visual medium such as broadcasting...

 series produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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, first screened in 1983 with a second series made in 1984.

Cast

The cast included Rod Quantock

Rod Quantock

Rod Quantock is an Australian stand-up comedian and writer. He is known for his peculiar style of stand-up comedy, which is often politically driven, as well as being the face of bed retailer Capt'n Snooze for many years...

, Steve Blackburn, Mary Kenneally, Geoff Brooks, Sue Ingleton, Evelyn Krape, Peter Browne

Peter Browne

Peter Browne , Irish divine and bishop of Cork and Ross, was born in County Dublin, not long after the Restoration.He entered Trinity College, Dublin, in 1682, and after ten years' residence obtained a fellowship...

, Tim Robertson.

Format

Australia You're Standing In It featured many recurring sketches and characters that parodied well known personalities, pop stars, music videos, television programs and advertisements of the day, or simply sent-up well-known social situations. These included:

• Two pretentious society matrons (Ingleton and Kenneally) and a third (Krape) who could never quite make the grade much to the delight of the other two who mocked her. Catchphrase: "Helloo Daaaahlings!"
• The Dodgy Brothers (Blackburn and Brooks), two badly dressed and dim businessmen who appeared in the low-budget and badly-produced television advertisements selling their dodgy products. Partly a parody of the then ubiquitous advertisements for the Saba furniture warehouse, and other cut-rate advertisements of its ilk.
• "Brainspace", a new-age segment presented by Tim and Debbie (Kenneally and Blackburn), two trendy university students whose convoluted and pretentious talk was a smokescreen for their ignorance. Their main catchphrase was "Amaaazing!"
• Mock advertisements for fictional product "Chunky Custard". Most of these were parodies of familiar contemporary advertisements for real products, mimicking current commercials for such products as Big M or Four'N Twenty Pie
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  s. Halfway through the second series Chunky Custard was phased out and replaced by "Hot Yak Fat", which came in a can resembling a beer can. Viewers were exhorted to "crack a Fat today" (a play on a common, vulgar Australian slang term for a penile erection
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  ).
• Many parodies of then-popular songs and music videos, including Mary Kenneally as Bonnie Tyler in "Total Eclipse of the Brain".
• Bruce Rump (Brooks), a parody of Bruce Ruxton
  Bruce Ruxton
  Bruce Caryle Ruxton AM, OBE is an Australian ex-serviceman and former President of the Victorian Returned and Services League.-Early life:Ruxton grew up in Kew, Victoria...
  
  . Rump always ended his skits with "And that's why we should keep the bloody flag the same, now clear out!"
• Rod Quantock in traditional stand-up routines in which he would address the audience directly. In one episode he attempted to put Victorian viewers to sleep by hypnotizing them with an Australian Football League
  Australian Football League
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   football.
• "Fair Cops", a parody of Cop Shop
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  .
• The Catalogue Collectors, a pair of scarf-clad Melburnians who lived in a caravan next to Port Phillip
  Port Phillip
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   and collected catalogues. Catchphrase: "Home is where the front door is."

Spinoffs

• For a short time Tim and Debbie presented Reel To Real on the ABC, in which the pair presented old B-movie
  B-movie
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  s (e.g. The Boy with Green Hair
  The Boy with Green Hair
  The Boy with Green Hair is a 1948 American comedy-drama film directed by Joseph Losey. It stars Dean Stockwell as Peter, a young war orphan who is subject to ridicule after he awakens one morning to find his hair mysteriously turned green...
  
  ) and proceeded to interrupt, deconstruct, and generally mock them in voice-over as the movie screened.
• A long-playing record of most of the Tim and Debbie sketches was released under the title Brainspace, Vol. II.
• The Dodgy Brothers (again portrayed by Blackburn and Brooks) and Bruce Rump (Brooks) were resurrected in the later Fast Forward.