Neighbours – Ramsay Street Round-Up (3rd – 6th November)

Another week in Erinsborough has whizzed by, so without further ado, let’s get on with rounding up what the Neighbours have been up to.

Taye’s got a Big Mouth

Taye realises that there’s something major going on with Holly, and he manages to get Sadie to slip up and tell him about Holly’s pregnancy. Taye is outraged that they’re both keeping it from Max, and decides to tell him. Not cool, Taye. There are a thousand reasons why the news of a pregnancy should only be given by the person who is pregnant, regardless of everyone else’s relationship to the situation.

Taye is also using his big flappy mouth to try to drum up business for his event at the V-Bar, an establishment which seemed to be doing very well until Paul and Elle took it over, but is now dying on its arse. Taye’s genius idea is to have a sort of loyalty keyring, which is incredibly lame, but not as lame as holding an afternoon event at a bar on what appears to be a weekday. Is he trying to make the event a flop? Seriously who is going to show up to a weekday afternoon drinking session at a tiny bar in the city?

Max Steps Up

With the cat out of the bag, Max goes into immediate Extreme Sweetheart Mode, trying his best to be supportive without overstepping. He does overstep a couple of times, but it’s kind of adorable, like a Labrador puppy tripping over his own big feet. He just wants to be there for Holly and to support her in whatever she decides, but it’s obvious that deep down he wants her to keep the baby – not only so he has a permanent connection to her, but also because he’s always imagined being a dad as part of his future. He even shows up with a rocking horse, which is cute and kind of cringe in equal measures.

Holly has decided to keep the baby, and she’s flip-flopping between feeling overwhelmed and pining for Andrew, who she clearly thought she would be doing all this big life stuff with, despite him being a married man and the father of her best friend. But in Max she has a ready and willing parenting partner, and it looks like Holly is just going to continue to let him think that the baby is his. I understand that her position is kind of complicated and also financially precarious, if she’s going to be a single parent, but letting Max think the baby is definitely his when she knows it probably isn’t is the height of cruelty.

Wendy is Going To Wish She Wasn’t So Nosey

Wendy goes to the hospital to have a check-up following her concussion, and she sees Holly and Susan coming out of an appointment with Stevie. Stevie flaps around a pregnancy leaflet in a public corridor before handing it to Holly, in what must certainly constitute a breach of doctor/patient confidentiality.

Wendy starts to put things together, realising that Holly being pregnant would explain a lot of her and Sadie’s odd behaviour recently. She tells Andrew of her suspicions, and he immediately realises that if Holly is pregnant, then there’s a good chance he might be the father. When he peers over the fence and sees the rocking horse, he knows Wendy is right and he goes to find Holly to ask her if the baby is his. Wendy is going to regret telling Andrew about her pregnancy theory…

Are we finally going to get to the end of this storyline? It’s been 84 years…

The Big Council Announcement is a Road

Karl has been fixated on some big announcement coming from the council, and the way it’s been teased over the past couple of weeks led me to believe it would be something exciting, but no. It’s a road. This better turn into something more interesting or I will be annoyed.

Baby Stuff

I’m honestly so bored of this storyline already. Krista and Leo are bickering because she’s putting Addison over their currently non-existent baby, and both the two of them and Nicolette are all acting like absolute buffoons. I refuse to give this any more room in my cranium, so that’s all you’re getting from me on this one.

Greg’s (Not) Dead

Greg has done a runner but then his car is found, having plunged off a cliff. The search for Greg is called off and Cara is in mourning for her dad, who the police believe to be dead. Her grief means that Remi and Dex come back to town, although they announce that they’re not intending to stick around.

But the thing is, we all know how things work on Neighbours. If there’s no body then the person is more than likely still alive. Heck, even when there is a body people still somehow manage to come back from the dead, so I shall look forward to seeing Greg again.

Ovaries Before Brovaries

I love nothing more than a comedy storyline over at Eirini, and we are treated to an absolute gem as Moira and Vera finally go toe-to-toe for Monte’s affections. There’s water being thrown on each other, Vera accuses Moira of calling her “Jigsaw Tits” and then Moira and Vera have some sort of weird pottery throwdown to finally settle their feud. In the end, they make up and Vera declares that ovaries come before brovaries, so they announce to Monte that neither of them is interested in him. Monte is relieved and immediately goes to ask Hilary out. Quite why he couldn’t have done that from the start instead of stringing Vera and Moira along, I don’t know, but then we would have been deprived of all this chaos, which was honestly the highlight of the week.

A Few Random Notes

As usual, here are a few random notes I took while watching Neighbours this week:

• Paul calling Felix “intellectually inferior” to Elle is something else. 
• Wendy puts a smoking hot dress on but then undermines the effect somewhat by scuttling around the kitchen like a nervous crab. 
• “The police will do their job,” says one of the most incompetent cops in the history of Erinsborough. 
• Elle is comically overdressed for a date at the coffee kiosk. Did she think they were going to the opera?
• Gino: “For the love of Sondheim.”
• Any time we’re at Eirini we’re having a good time. 
• I don’t know what’s weirder, Paul singing a song about how much he likes bacon, or the fact that they cook breakfast items and lay them out in separate dishes. 
• Jeez, Zac could have made it look like he even slightly enjoyed Colton kissing him.