How is it September already? And how on earth are we over 200 episodes into the current era of Neighbours? It really threw me for a loop when I went to watch it this week and couldn’t find it! Reaching the milestone of a further 200 episodes of a show that we all thought was over deserves some celebration, so WOOOOOOOOO!
Anyway, here is my round-up of this week’s episodes.
Haz and Mackenzie Make Me a Little Bit Sick in My Mouth
In typical Neighbours fashion, there’s a whole stressful misunderstanding that could all be cleared up with a single conversation, but that’s just not how Erinsborough works. Instead we have a couple of days of Haz being scared to mention that Mackenzie groggily proposed to him in the hospital in case she didn’t mean it, and Mackenzie too scared to mention it for fear of freaking Haz out.
Mackenzie confides in Sadie, and Haz confides in Byron, and luckily the two of them are about as much use at keeping secrets as Toadie is at being married, so they both spill the beans immediately to each other, followed shortly by spilling them to Mackenzie and Haz as well. We are thus treated to possibly the cheesiest proposal in Neighbours history, as they both ask each other to marry them, and accept, in unison. It’s a little bit too mushy for me, but then my heart is a cold, black stone.
So it’s all systems go, considering that Mackenzie has been offered a job in Paris and she has to start almost IMMEDIATELY, which means they have to plan a wedding and moving to the other side of the world in the space of a couple of weeks. It wouldn’t be a big Neighbours exit without it being an absolutely insane rush, would it?
Toadie is Still About as Popular as a Fart in a Lift
Toadie is still floating round the neighbourhood not doing much aside from being fairly unpopular with most people. Terese doesn’t want a bar of him, Mackenzie likes him but is still abandoning him to go to Paris, Nell is decidedly not interested in spending time with him, and now Harold is giving him the cold shoulder.
Toadie immediately spots that something is off with their usual dynamic and asks Harold to be honest with him, so Harold tells him exactly what he thinks of the way he’s treated Terese. I’m with Harold. As I’ve said before, having mental health issues doesn’t give you permission to treat people like dirt, and Harold doesn’t hold back as he admonishes him for hurting Terese so badly.
Imagine disappointing HAROLD, of all people. I simply couldn’t live with myself if I thought Harold was disappointed in me.
He later offers an olive branch to Toadie, showing just what a good egg he truly is.
Holly Still Doing a Holly
It transpires that not all of Heath’s cash has been accounted for by the police, and it turns out that the person who has it is Holly. Rather than hand it over to the police like she should do, she’s using it as some sort of unofficial victim’s compensation and living it up, buying fancy things for herself and others.
I do have to pick fault with one of the things she buys for Melanie though. What person living alone needs a set of 50 pieces of cutlery, unless they are going to start fashioning themselves clothes and furniture out of it? And it doesn’t matter how high-end it is, cutlery is a really crap present.
Anyway, because Holly has about two and a half braincells, she stashes the money in a compost bag in Karl’s greenhouse – a place she never goes into, just so that it looks as suspicious as it possibly can when she gets sprung in there. Doesn’t she have… a bedroom? With cupboards and drawers and things? I know she lives with Karl and Susan, but presumably they’re not rifling through her belongings on a regular basis? Why doesn’t she just hide the money there instead of a communal area OUTSIDE?
Still, I originally thought she was going to pop it into the pizza oven to be incinerated, so at least she didn’t do that.
It’s only a matter of time before she gets caught.
Terese and Paul Are Inevitably Going to Get Back Together
Terese and Paul are attracted to each other like I’m attracted to that bar of Dairy Milk I put in the fridge for “later”, and they’re starting to dance around each other again now that Terese is slowly coming to terms with her marriage being over.
Krista is now Paul’s equal at work, and Paul immediately starts trying to make her life a misery, so Krista asks Terese for some advice. Terese knows better than anyone what it’s like to work alongside Paul, and she advises that Paul is just bored and looking for a fight, so Krista decides she’s going to give him one. I have a feeling this is going to backfire horribly on Krista, but at least it’s probably going to hurry along what we all know is going to happen – that being Paul and Terese getting back together. The more Krista needs advice from Terese, the more Terese is going to poke her nose in Paul’s business, which he will be thrilled about.
If Terese and Paul start clashing with each other, the chemistry between them will ramp up. They’ve tried both characters with numerous other people, but they don’t really suit anyone else. Paul and Terese truly can’t be happy with anyone but each other, surely?
Felix is Back
In this week’s least interesting storyline (as far as I’m concerned), Felix has been stabbed in prison, and is being treated at Erinsborough Hospital. Remi excuses herself from being his doctor straight away due to the conflict of interest, which is surely the first time a doctor in Erinsborough has done that, but not everyone else’s reaction can be as straight forward as that.
Andrew has to wrestle with whether he wants to see his brother again after everything he put them through, and JJ decides to go and see his father, before changing his mind at the last minute. Sadie wants to see him, and so does Wendy, who goes to visit him alone. Honestly, I couldn’t care less about any of it.
A Few Random Notes
As usual, here are a few random notes I took while watching Neighbours this week:
- Why is Andrew still getting romance advice from Toadie?
- When Toadie leaves I really hopes he takes his miserable sodding daughter with him.
- Karl is going to find that money. He can smell cash.
- IS TREVOR STAYING?
- The good pizza shop with with the real ham? What sort of fake ham have you been making your kids eat until now, Toadie?!
