"Home and Away" drug - real or fictional?

doh.ie · 27-10-2004 12:49pm #1

Aside from the obvious element that I should get a life and avoid the practice of watching Home & Away during work, they've got this character back in doing some drug called 'bulbs'.

UK television regulations (and presumably the same here) forbid the broadcast of preparation of drugs, though this came a little close yesterday - so basically, I'm asking if anyone knows if it's fictional or real.

Of course, the drug is probably completely necessary to make watching this crap bearable...

ixoy · 27-10-2004 12:53pm

I assume the regulation applies to a certain time? Otherwise certain movies, such as Trainspotting, couldn't be aired.

On a 'Home and Away' note, I'm told by my sister that this Thursday (or soon) is an utterly hilarious edition of the show featuring a great dramatic stunt and

invovling severe character mutilation

. I'm assuming it's Duncan doing the bulbs...

fletch · 27-10-2004 12:58pm

Well you couldn't actually see Duncan "doing" the drugs so I take it, it's ok for them to broadcast the implication that he is doing the drugs. What's the bettin, the storyline is over in the next few days due to the shows inability to deal with controversial issues. Anyone remember the gay guy,(Pippa's son)....well, prob not cause he was shipped off the very next day after trying it on with Nick :rolleyes:

ixoy · 27-10-2004 1:01pm

fletch wrote:

Anyone remember the gay guy,(Pippa's son)....well, prob not cause he was shipped off the very next day after trying it on with Nick :rolleyes:

Christopher yeah? I thought he tried it on with Seb, Alan Fisher's son (or was that my imagination...). There was also a gay couple running a restraunt in it although they were on the periphary. And don't forget Shannon's lesbian crush on the author Mandy (I think) years ago which, if I remember correctly, was cut from the UTV broadcasts and why do I know so much about this....

doh.ie · 27-10-2004 1:02pm

fletch wrote:

Well you couldn't actually see Duncan "doing" the drugs so I take it, it's ok for them to broadcast the implication that he is doing the drugs. What's the bettin, the storyline is over in the next few days due to the shows inability to deal with controversial issues. Anyone remember the gay guy,(Pippa's son)....well, prob not cause he was shipped off the very next day after trying it on with Nick :rolleyes:

Sure you've got the right programme there?

True, you couldn't see him preparing the drugs, but he did imply they were composed of household objects which he then seemed to retrieve from the kitchen, which made me wonder if you could see what bottles they were.

doh.ie · 27-10-2004 1:08pm

ixoy wrote:

Christopher yeah? I thought he tried it on with Seb, Alan Fisher's son (or was that my imagination...). There was also a gay couple running a restraunt in it although they were on the periphary. And don't forget Shannon's lesbian crush on the author Mandy (I think) years ago which, if I remember correctly, was cut from the UTV broadcasts and why do I know so much about this....

I take it back. I thought Fletch was on about Coronation Street for a second there. Must have missed that whole Christopher story when I actually was busy at work all day.

Shannon/Mandy was heavily cut by ITV, that's true. They almost tried to pretend that storyline didn't exist, IIRC, making the storyline very confusing for anyone watching there...

"I assume the regulation applies to a certain time? Otherwise certain movies, such as Trainspotting, couldn't be aired."

It isn't time-specific, AFAIK. Any specific drug-preparation (as opposed to use) is very much prohibitied. I'd have to look at Trainspotting again to see exactly what it shows, but a TV version may have had to be watered down. Will see if I can dig out the legislation on that one.

"On a 'Home and Away' note, I'm told by my sister that this Thursday (or soon) is an utterly hilarious edition of the show featuring a great dramatic stunt and spoiler: I'm assuming it's Duncan doing the bulbs..."

It is Duncan, clearly the love-child of Alisa and an alien with his bulbous (pardon the pun) eyes. No wonder she tried to kill him shortly after he was born.

In any case, no one answered my question - are bulbs real...?

fletch · 27-10-2004 1:10pm

ixoy wrote:

Christopher yeah? I thought he tried it on with Seb, Alan Fisher's son (or was that my imagination...). There was also a gay couple running a restraunt in it although they were on the periphary. And don't forget Shannon's lesbian crush on the author Mandy (I think) years ago which, if I remember correctly, was cut from the UTV broadcasts and why do I know so much about this....

You might be right there about Christopher...(must jus have Nick(Chris Egan) on the brain...AAhhh will i ever 4get the best reason 2 have ever watched Home n Away)

gazzer · 27-10-2004 1:20pm

There is another drug storyline coming up soon involving a character who is hooked on crystal meth and goes on a bit of a shooting spree in the Bay... dont want to say what happens though but it involves a lot of the characters

doh.ie · 27-10-2004 1:24pm

bedlam wrote:

From
Urbandictionary.com :

A small, 1 serve cannister of Nitrous Oxide used for getting a kinda fun, but quite pathetic 5 minute high.
Possibly puts bubbles in your brain.

"Keen for a bulb?"
"Let's go do some bulbs."

Cool, cheers for that. My curiousity is satisfied.
Wonder why they keep nitrous oxide in that diner place...!

doh.ie · 27-10-2004 1:25pm

gazzer wrote:

There is another drug storyline coming up soon involving a character who is hooked on crystal meth and goes on a bit of a shooting spree in the Bay... dont want to say what happens though but it involves a lot of the characters

This would never have happened in Celia's day. Summer Bay really has gone downhill with the latest bunch of strays!

ixoy · 27-10-2004 2:59pm

doh.ie wrote:

This would never have happened in Celia's day. Summer Bay really has gone downhill with the latest bunch of strays!

Oh I dunno. Remember it's her bloodline (via Alf) that spawned the Satanic Duncan who this Thursday (or thereabouts) will:

Apparently drive Haylely and Noah off a cliff! Wheee!!!!!

.
I still think 'Home and Away' has never topped the moment when Bobby Fisher walked out of Ailsa's fridge. Class moments - not even Alf the Aborignee could top that.

gazzer · 27-10-2004 3:22pm

Was it in the Diner that Bobby popped out of the fridge?? Because remember when Alf had his brain tumour (but didnt know) and Ailsa popped out from the kitchen... that was sooo funny.

Home and Away is great for its quirky scenes..... have to say though.. i love the storyline about Kirsty and her twin (who isnt her twin now)... i mean they were meant to have this psychic connection and all.. A couple of years ago one of them was caught in a landslide and the other was able to say where she was cos of this 'connection'

pickarooney · 27-10-2004 3:25pm

Damn! I miss H&A. Haven't seen it since about 1997. Dunca was about 4 and a half then.

ixoy · 27-10-2004 3:29pm

gazzer wrote:

Was it in the Diner that Bobby popped out of the fridge??

Nah it was the house fridge. You see this impression in the fridge that bulges outwards and Bobby steps out and goes "Hey Ailse" and then we shot to credits. Great stuff!

Also great was when Selina had a prophetic vision (yes, she saw into the future) where Shane and someone else were having a fight on a cliff-top. In her vision the action was all blurry, to denote the kookiness of it all. How stylish!

doh.ie · 27-10-2004 3:37pm

ixoy wrote:

Oh I dunno. Remember it's her bloodline (via Alf) that spawned the Satanic Duncan who this Thursday (or thereabouts)...

Sounds good. But they will just ensure none of those involved are permanently injured. That show needs a hell of a cast cull.

ixoy wrote:

I still think 'Home and Away' has never topped the moment when Bobby Fisher walked out of Ailsa's fridge. Class moments - not even Alf the Aborignee could top that.

Ah, yes, we thought that was great television. Alisa's bout of dementia shortly before that was classic was well - subtitles appearing on her TV telling her Alf was going to kill here, constantly hearing whispering...

This was truly Home & Away's golden era, but I always maintain that the show was at its best back at the very beginning. I remember being genuinely freaked at the Summer Bay 'Nutter' who turned out to be the old school principal (whom Bobby and Carly had run a truck into!); early episodes even included such interesting plots as Lynn's crisis of faith (she was very devout) and Bobby's amnesia during the Bay's fun run.

Nowadays, it's all very predictable fluff, but once upon a time it was genuinely innovative, before it stopped doing relatively stand-alone stories and truly became a soap.

doh.ie · 27-10-2004 4:24pm

ixoy wrote:

Nah it was the house fridge. You see this impression in the fridge that bulges outwards and Bobby steps out and goes "Hey Ailse" and then we shot to credits. Great stuff!

Years later I wondered if Bobby had been a changeling... It was very much that kind of effect.

doh.ie · 27-10-2004 4:25pm

gazzer wrote:

Home and Away is great for its quirky scenes..... have to say though.. i love the storyline about Kirsty and her twin (who isnt her twin now)... i mean they were meant to have this psychic connection and all.. A couple of years ago one of them was caught in a landslide and the other was able to say where she was cos of this 'connection'

I'd forgotten all about that... Oh, that's too funny...

Ruu_Old · 27-10-2004 4:39pm

i think ive been watching home and away since it first aired on rte. is the one on rte quite recent to the one aired in oz or not?

doh.ie · 27-10-2004 4:56pm

Ruu wrote:

i think ive been watching home and away since it first aired on rte. is the one on rte quite recent to the one aired in oz or not?

No, they're not very close - it seems to be Easter in H&A on RTE1 now. The gap is at least three-four months, if not more. But the Aussies take a break for Christmas (one month) every year, but then RTE break regularly too.

Amazingly, in the UK where it vanished from ITV for over a year (18 months, possibly) prior the move to Five, they somehow picked up and during the last few years arrived at a point which is just mere weeks behind RTE...

DuFF-MAN · 27-10-2004 8:16pm

Here's what i think:

The script writers for H&W are a bunch of angry chimpanzees, smoking big cuban cigars, bashing their hairy primate knuckles on their type-writers, working for about three bananas an hour.

Why i think this?:

-How many disasters has that sudderland family been through, and they're still f***ing fighting? You'd think it wud bond them together!?!

-Suddenly the twins in that family are not twins...."oops, we made a mistake with the aul kids there"........BO***CKS

Don't get me started with that fool Alf!

Ruu_Old · 27-10-2004 8:23pm

alf would probably call u "a flamin' gallah" and/or "knock your block off"

tk123 · 27-10-2004 8:34pm

OMG this is great i didn't think anybody would still be watching it - i started watching it again after catching a couple of episodes last week when I was off work!! A year or two ago they had a disaster on a boat..I think it was the 15th anniverary episode so they had all past cast like Frank and Steven and they all went out on this cruise and there was a storm....Anyhoo this ep aired one lunchtime while I was at work - it just happened to be on the canteen tv. Normally people would just ignore the tv but the whole canteen was watching home and away - even all the bosses lol!!!

Davey Devil · 27-10-2004 9:15pm

Bring back Angie Russell!!!!!!

27-10-2004 9:25pm

I hate it but my mum and dad watch it religiously....I love going to the official website and reading Sally's diary and then spoiling it for them

By the way is the episode shown at 1.35 on RTE One a repeat of the previous day's 6.35 episode??

SprostonGreen · 27-10-2004 10:36pm

Deleted User wrote:

I hate it but my mum and dad watch it religiously....I love going to the official website and reading Sally's diary and then spoiling it for them

You can spoil it even more if you show them the website where Sally gets lashed out of it by some bloke. :cool:

27-10-2004 10:40pm

Oh is this her naughty video? I heard about it but never bothered going looking for it....do you have the website link.

Although showing my parents a porn video may be just wrong and sick....let's do it!

SprostonGreen · 27-10-2004 10:43pm

Cant post links to those kind of sites I'm afraid.

Do you know what Glasgow Rangers' nickname is?

BolBill · 28-10-2004 10:03am

SprostonGreen wrote:

Cant post links to those kind of sites I'm afraid.

Do you know what Glasgow Rangers' nickname is?

The Huns?????

In regards to Sallys porno flick, she'd no idea she was being taped and the quality is awful. Heard she got it taken off the net a while back.

therecklessone · 28-10-2004 10:04am

Davey Devil wrote:

Bring back Angie Russell!!!!!!

*fap fap fap

doh.ie · 28-10-2004 10:37am

bedlam wrote:

No it is the other way around (or at least any time I've been around for both) 6.35 is a repeat of that days 1.35 airing.

No, I think they're now changed this since or around the arrival of the no-different RTE TWO. The 6.30 (RTE2) episode on Monday is repeated at 1.25 on RTE1 on Tuesday and so on.

It used to be the way you described above, but now the afternoon ones are the previous day's. Something about keeping the 'repeats' (Fair City and Eastenders are in the same scheduling block) together.

gazzer · 28-10-2004 10:38am

Bring back Angie Russell!!!!!!

You should read Sallys Diary on the Home and Away site cos there is some good news about that.... dont want to say too much though cos i dont know how to do that spoiler thing

fletch · 28-10-2004 10:50am

Ever notice how you can stop watching Home n Away for months on end but all it takes is one episode to catch up on the pitiful storylines.
Oh and Australia must be FULL of runaway children who end up in Summer Bay. When they arrive, they are rebellious thugs, in trouble with the law and leave about 3months later, potential saints! :rolleyes:

BolBill · 28-10-2004 10:54am

fletch wrote:

Ever notice how you can stop watching Home n Away for months on end but all it takes is one episode to catch up on the pitiful storylines.
Oh and Australia must be FULL of runaway children who end up in Summer Bay. When they arrive, they are rebellious thugs, in trouble with the law and leave about 3months later, potential saints! :rolleyes:

therecklessone · 28-10-2004 10:56am

fletch wrote:

Oh and Australia must be FULL of runaway children who end up in Summer Bay. When they arrive, they are rebellious thugs, in trouble with the law and leave about 3months later, potential saints! :rolleyes:

Thats convict land for ya.

The amazing rehabilitating powers of the southern hemisphere...

ixoy · 28-10-2004 11:08am

fletch wrote:

When they arrive, they are rebellious thugs, in trouble with the law and leave about 3months later, potential saints! :rolleyes:

Ya. And the people, often without jobs, just take the little rascals in. Pippa was the worst offender but Irene Roberts was also bad - taking in any old runaways, supporting them whilst working a minimum pay job.

Although there was one great character... Tracy I think her name was (I'm sure doh.ie remembers) who was consistently tormenting Sophie. She was irredemable and, in the end, they kicked her out of the house. But on the way out of Summer Bay a limousine passes her and this old one winds the window down and offers her a lift and she gets this evil smile, gets in, and drives off to victory... On a lesser note Pippa failed with Jack and he had to go to the navy to be finally redeemed.

gazzer · 28-10-2004 11:09am

and what about Blakes sister??? didnt see go all bad and got carted off to jail.?

ixoy · 28-10-2004 11:17am

gazzer wrote:

and what about Blakes sister??? didnt see go all bad and got carted off to jail.?

That's right - Karen wasn't it? I'm glad I can remember useful stuff...

gazzer · 28-10-2004 11:38am

i always remember when Irene first came into it, she always wore a bikers jacket and had a cigerette permanantly in her mounth and a bottle of 'grog' in her pocket...

There was one episode where she was trying to get into Pippas house cos her kids (cant remember their names) were there and she tried to get in through the kitchen window..... and just look at her now. Never mind organised religions.... get to summer bay and the goodness willl change you to a better person in no time

ixoy · 28-10-2004 11:50am

Indeed. It's no wonder then that, when she got a role in Alias Season 3, Melissa George, who played Angel the wife of Shane "died of septescema" Parish

sought, and got, to play an utterly irredemable uber bitch

.

28-10-2004 1:25pm

doh.ie wrote:

No, I think they're now changed this since or around the arrival of the no-different RTE TWO. The 6.30 (RTE2) episode on Monday is repeated at 1.25 on RTE1 on Tuesday and so on.

It used to be the way you described above, but now the afternoon ones are the previous day's. Something about keeping the 'repeats' (Fair City and Eastenders are in the same scheduling block) together.

Yes and I think they did all this with absolutely no notice given to the viewer...

doh.ie · 28-10-2004 2:03pm

ixoy wrote:

Although there was one great character... Tracy I think her name was (I'm sure doh.ie remembers) who was consistently tormenting Sophie.

Ah, this was great fun. Your memory is very good. I think she was Tracey Turner. Kept torturing Sophie by getting her into all kinds of trouble - of course Pippa, who had only known Tracey a wet week, believed her over Sophie.

ixoy wrote:

But on the way out of Summer Bay a limousine passes her and this old one winds the window down and offers her a lift and she gets this evil smile, gets in, and drives off to victory...

I'd forgotten that. Was it ever revealed who that was? It's the kind of funky daft thing Home & Away did back when it was cool. Not so much ingenuity (if you can call it that) or cleverness for years now.

doh.ie · 28-10-2004 2:32pm

ixoy wrote:

Indeed. It's no wonder then that, when she got a role in Alias Season 3, Melissa George, who played Angel the wife of Shane "died of septescema" Parish.

Not to mention Julian McMahon (he'd be Carly's husband) early success in Hollywood with Profiler a few years ago and latterly Nip/Tuck.

I also recall a girl called Viv (played by Moouse or Mouche Something) who I feel in love with as a teenager, expected her to go on to great things, but once she left the Bay, she was never seen again. (She was the one whose evil Reverend father used to lock her and her sister under the stairs. As they do.)

BolBill · 28-10-2004 2:39pm

doh.ie wrote:

Not to mention Julian McMahon (he'd be Carly's husband) early success in Hollywood with Profiler a few years ago and latterly Nip/Tuck.

I also recall a girl called Viv (played by Moouse or Mouche Something) who I feel in love with as a teenager, expected her to go on to great things, but once she left the Bay, she was never seen again. (She was the one whose evil Reverend father used to lock her and her sister under the stairs. As they do.)

Mouche Phillips, didn't think she was any great shakes, but why do I remember her name so !!!!!

SprostonGreen · 28-10-2004 2:50pm

fletch wrote:

Oh and Australia must be FULL of runaway children who end up in Summer Bay.

Thats like in Neighbours, every year some kid one turn up in Ramsay St, a lovechild of Jim Robinson, he musta done some serious riding back in the day.

DuFF-MAN · 28-10-2004 5:46pm

Oh and Australia must be FULL of runaway children who end up in Summer Bay. When they arrive, they are rebellious thugs, in trouble with the law and leave about 3months later, potential saints!

here,here

Ruu_Old · 28-10-2004 7:08pm

i hated the way they changed the pippas a few years ago, i was getting used to the blonde one...

Who remembers the italian family (i think) the son was named Nico, they ran the general store i think. That was ages ago. There was a storyline where someone poisoned Nicos cows!!

ixoy · 28-10-2004 7:29pm

SprostonGreen wrote:

Thats like in Neighbours, every year some kid one turn up in Ramsay St, a lovechild of Jim Robinson, he musta done some serious riding back in the day.

What a man. Now he's living under a new name as a millionaire in Orange County, California and getting to bang a woman young enough to be his daughter. Respect.

28-10-2004 9:46pm

Ruu wrote:

i hated the way they changed the pippas a few years ago, i was getting used to the blonde one...

Who remembers the italian family (i think) the son was named Nico, they ran the general store i think. That was ages ago. There was a storyline where someone poisoned Nicos cows!!

Anyone know of a website that maybe charts and has pics of all the different characters that have been in it?

tk123 · 28-10-2004 10:55pm

gazzer wrote:

i always remember when Irene first came into it, she always wore a bikers jacket and had a cigerette permanantly in her mounth and a bottle of 'grog' in her pocket...

There was one episode where she was trying to get into Pippas house cos her kids (cant remember their names) were there and she tried to get in through the kitchen window..... and just look at her now. Never mind organised religions.... get to summer bay and the goodness willl change you to a better person in no time

Finlay and Daaaaamien!! :cool:

Davey Devil · 29-10-2004 9:56am

I'm still laughing after yesterdays episode, catch the repeat at lunch today if you can. All I'll say is car and cliff. It's a classic.

ixoy · 29-10-2004 10:14am

Davey Devil wrote:

I'm still laughing after yesterdays episode, catch the repeat at lunch today if you can. All I'll say is car and cliff. It's a classic.

Dammit I didn't read about the fact today's afternoon episode was a repeat and so I didn't set the videotape

All this after forgetting to watch last night, despite knowing of this plotline for over six months! And now I'll miss it

"Home and Away" drug - real or fictional?

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