Kath and Kim

[lemontop]

I could watch this show over and over again (and I do!). I particularly like it when they go shopping at Fountaingate(?) and bump into Tru and Pru. There's a lot of scenes where they seem to be trying their best not to burst out laughing especially when Sharon's involved.

 

[shakespearegirl]

Tru and Pru are sooo funny, and there really are people like that in Australia - they see themselves as society...

When I was in Auckland in Feb, the lady doing the airport announcements sounded exactly like them. I started laughing out loud everytime she did an announcement and I wasn't the only one

 

[Maggot]

Bump, cos it's on in a minute.

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

I am not impressed at all.

 

[zoooo]

I love it!

I quite like it when Kim's nice. Unusual.

 

[kyser_soze]

'Who does Brett have to root to get ahead here? Hopefully not you.' to his boss, I'm sure that many people here don't know the Australian meaning of root.

'Rooting' in that sense has been used in the UK for centuries...

root (n.)
"underground part of a plant," late O.E. rot, from O.N. rot "root," from P.Gmc. *wrot, *vrot (with characteristic loss of -w- before -r-), from PIE *wrd-. The O.E. cognate was wyrt "root, herb, plant" (see wort); also cognate with L. radix. The usual O.E. words for "root" were wyrttruma and wyrtwala. Fig. use is from c.1200. Of teeth, hair, etc., from c.1225. Mathematical sense is from 1557. Slang meaning "penis" is recorded from 1846. The verb meaning "fixed or firmly attached by roots" (often fig.) is attested from 1398; sense of "to pull up by the root" (now usually uproot) also is from 1398. Root beer first recorded 1843, Amer.Eng.; root doctor is from 1821.

(OE means 'original English')

I believe Lawrence makes use of the word frequently in Lady Chatterly, and it's often used when describing 'earthy' sex in novels...

 

[Maggot]

It's not on tonight, has the series finished?

 

[Juice Terry]

It's not on tonight, has the series finished?

Yep its over the last episode was last week lots of hilarious flashbacks to the 70s when Kath was pregnant and the 80s when Kim first met Brad and stole him from Sharon at the new romantics disco.

Sharon: "Aw, he's a real spunk rocket Kim!"

 

[Maggot]

It's on again tonight. 10.00 BBC2 - Not sure if it's a repeat or a new series.

 

[moose]

I am not impressed at all.

It's always about you, isn't it?

 

[Louloubelle]

I missed it last night

but I love the show
I love the mixture of subtle, understated moments with over the top aussie brashness

 

[claxton]

Kim, after being informed by everyone at Brett's work drinks that the correct pronuniciation of Chardonnay is shardonnay, not cardonnay:

"Okay, shardonnay, shardonnay, you pack of shunts!"

Classic.

 

[Lysistrata]

I love this show (even though I suspect we don't get all the gags in the UK). Should I tell the Aussie woman in my office that I guess she comes from Melbourne because her accent reminds me of Kath and Kim.

No-one has mentioned the faux Bond opening titles which are superb!

 

[PacificOcean]

I. Just. Don't. Get. It.

I don't either. Maybe it's a girl thing?

 

[girasol]

Hurray for Kath and Kim! It looked like a brand new episode to me.

 

[Dillinger4]

I don't either. Maybe it's a girl thing?

I didn't get it at first.

Then I did.

 

[Maggot]

I don't either. Maybe it's a girl thing?

Nope, I'm not a girl.

 

[Dillinger4]

Me either

 

[Spion]

I didn't get it until I'd been to the antipodes (NZ, actually) and then the whole tacky crappiness in K&K thing really rang true