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* AwkwardSilentEntrance: Lampshaded in in one episode when Treasurer Paul Bearer waits for the state premiers, a.k.a. "[[Film/TheMagnificentSeven1960 The Magnificent Six]]", to arrive for a showdown.
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* AwkwardSilentEntrance: AwkwardSilenceEntrance: Lampshaded in in one episode when Treasurer Paul Bearer waits for the state premiers, a.k.a. "[[Film/TheMagnificentSeven1960 The Magnificent Six]]", to arrive for a showdown.
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* AwkwardSilentEntrance: Lampshaded in in one episode when Treasurer Paul Bearer waits for the state premiers, a.k.a. "[[Film/TheMagnificentSeven1960 The Magnificent Six]]", to arrive for a showdown.
-->'''Paul Bearer:''' Well, it's about ti,e for the swing doors to open and the bar to fall silent.\\
''(The swing doors open and the bar falls silent)''\\
'''Paul Bearer:''' Told ya.
-->'''Paul Bearer:''' Well, it's about ti,e for the swing doors to open and the bar to fall silent.\\
''(The swing doors open and the bar falls silent)''\\
'''Paul Bearer:''' Told ya.
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The program is the longest-running radio serial in Australian history (passing Creator/TheABC radio drama ''Blue Hills'', which ran for twenty-seven years) and is the longest-running radio serial still being broadcast in Australia today.
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The program is the longest-running radio serial in Australian history (passing Creator/TheABC [[Creator/AustralianBroadcastingCorporation The ABC]] radio drama ''Blue Hills'', which ran for twenty-seven years) and is the longest-running radio serial still being broadcast in Australia today.
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* NotSoDifferent: "Boris and Gorby go to UsefulNotes/McDonalds" is about UsefulNotes/MikhailGorbachev and UsefulNotes/BorisYeltsin opening up to western capitalism. Their experience with fast food gives them the following revelation:
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* NotSoDifferent: NotSoDifferentRemark: "Boris and Gorby go to UsefulNotes/McDonalds" is about UsefulNotes/MikhailGorbachev and UsefulNotes/BorisYeltsin opening up to western capitalism. Their experience with fast food gives them the following revelation:
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* DontComeAKnockin: Queen Hayseed, the wife of King Bonza, thinks her husband is trying to have sex with her because the bed is rocking, but it turns out the entire city is being [[LiteralMetaphor rocked by a political scandal.]]
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** Pauline Hatful: "Why is everybody looking at me?
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** Pauline Hatful: "Why is everybody looking at me?me?"
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* TeenageMutantSamuraiWombats: Occasionally had episodes featuring the "Stone Age Mutant Whinging [[UsefulNotes/AustralianPolitics Liberals]]".
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* TheUnintelligible: King Bonza (a riff on then Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke) evades the questioning of a journalist well known for his gravelly speech by offering him a lolly to chew on, then deliberately misunderstanding his now unintelligible questions.
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* TheUnintelligible: King Bonza (a riff on then Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke) evades the questioning of a journalist well known for his gravelly speech by offering him a lolly to chew on, then deliberately misunderstanding his now unintelligible questions.
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* PrenatalPossessions: According to the obstetrician who delivered him, Liberal leader Dr. John Nuisance was born clutching a bag of gold ducats. In a past life, he'd somehow worked out how to take it with him.
-->'''Interviewer:''' That must have surprised his mother.
-->'''Doctor:''' More like shock. You see, he was also wearing skis.
-->'''Interviewer:''' That must have surprised his mother.
-->'''Doctor:''' More like shock. You see, he was also wearing skis.
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* HumanResources: Paul Bearer once had a plan to sell off Cactus Island's pensioners to made into soap. Eventually abandoned when he realised it would never pass the Senate:
-->"Damn goody-goody Democrats!"
-->"Damn goody-goody Democrats!"
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* TheUnintelligible: King Bonza (a riff on then Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke) evades the questioning of a journalist well known for his gravelly speech by offering him a lolly to chew on, then deliberately misunderstanding his now unintelligible questions.
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-->'''Dr. John:''' The polls are saying we're a viable alternative government\\
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-->'''Dr. John:''' The polls are saying we're a viable alternative government\\government.\\
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''How Green Was My Cactus'' is a daily syndicated Australian radio program that has been broadcast since 1986. It is a political satire in the form of a radio play featuring characters that portray [[UsefulNote/AustralianPolitics the ministers and shadow ministers of the Australian parliament]]. Each episode lasts two minutes and takes the form of a dialogue between parodies of Australian political figures, although the show frequently lampoons other topical subjects, such as sports (particularly cricket) and well-known television advertisements.
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''How Green Was My Cactus'' is a daily syndicated Australian radio program that has been broadcast since 1986. It is a political satire in the form of a radio play featuring characters that portray [[UsefulNote/AustralianPolitics [[UsefulNotes/AustralianPolitics the ministers and shadow ministers of the Australian parliament]]. Each episode lasts two minutes and takes the form of a dialogue between parodies of Australian political figures, although the show frequently lampoons other topical subjects, such as sports (particularly cricket) and well-known television advertisements.
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''How Green Was My Cactus'' is a daily syndicated Australian radio program that has been broadcast since 1986. It is a political satire in the form of a radio play featuring characters that portray the ministers and shadow ministers of the Australian parliament. Each episode lasts two minutes and takes the form of a dialogue between parodies of Australian political figures, although the show frequently lampoons other topical subjects, such as sports (particularly cricket) and well-known television advertisements.
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''How Green Was My Cactus'' is a daily syndicated Australian radio program that has been broadcast since 1986. It is a political satire in the form of a radio play featuring characters that portray [[UsefulNote/AustralianPolitics the ministers and shadow ministers of the Australian parliament.parliament]]. Each episode lasts two minutes and takes the form of a dialogue between parodies of Australian political figures, although the show frequently lampoons other topical subjects, such as sports (particularly cricket) and well-known television advertisements.
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* OffWithHisHead: Averted. When the prime minister of Cactus Island (Australia) particularly annoys her, Queen Bessie of Buckinghuge Palace is disappointed that she does not have the same powers as previous monarchs.
-->"Phillip, do I still have the power to behead people? Lock them in the tower, perhaps? Punch in the face would do."
-->"Phillip, do I still have the power to behead people? Lock them in the tower, perhaps? Punch in the face would do."
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* NotSoDifferent: "Boris and Gorby go to UsefulNotes/McDonalds" is about UsefulNotes/MikhailGorbachev and UsefulNotes/BorisYeltsin opening up to western capitalism. Their experience with fast food gives them the following revelation:
--> "Is not so different! ''We'' stand for ages in queue to get served by pimply little people who work like hell for rotten veggies, and the food is terrible!"
--> "Is not so different! ''We'' stand for ages in queue to get served by pimply little people who work like hell for rotten veggies, and the food is terrible!"
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* GlobalIgnorance: One of Pauline Hatful's defining traits:
-->"England? Dunno where that is, but at least you speak English."
-->"England? Dunno where that is, but at least you speak English."
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* TeenageMutantSamuraiRobots: Occasionally had episodes featuring the "Stone Age Mutant Whinging [[UsefulNotes/AustralianPolitics Liberals]]".
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* StunnedSilence: Pauline Hatful's press conferences invariably end with her saying something of such breathtaking stupidity that the entire the conference falls silent and the cameras stop clicking. Inevitably followed by Pauline's baffled CatchPhrase "Why is everybody looking at me?".
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* AnalogyBackfire: Inverted in this exchange:
-->'''Dr. John:''' The polls are saying we're a viable alternative government\\
'''Wilson:''' You're a genius, Dr. John!\\
'''Dr. John:''' Not really. The polls are saying a bucket of bait is a viable alternative government.\\
'''Wilson:''' That's what I mean! It's been years since we were on a par with a bucket of bait!
-->'''Dr. John:''' The polls are saying we're a viable alternative government\\
'''Wilson:''' You're a genius, Dr. John!\\
'''Dr. John:''' Not really. The polls are saying a bucket of bait is a viable alternative government.\\
'''Wilson:''' That's what I mean! It's been years since we were on a par with a bucket of bait!
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* ObfuscatingInsanity: Treasurer Paul Bearer arrives for a meeting with King Bonza with a chicken on his head. Bonza immediately forgets why he called Paul to his office, and demands to know why he is wearing "a live, cackling hat". After a prolonged argument, Paul eventually explains that since he has been wearing the chicken, not one person has asked him a single question about the economy.
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* ObfuscatingInsanity: Treasurer One sketch has treasurer Paul Bearer arrives for a meeting with King Bonza with wearing a chicken on his head. Bonza immediately forgets why head as a means of deflecting questions about the economy. While he called Paul to his office, and demands to know why he is was wearing "a live, cackling hat". After a prolonged argument, Paul eventually explains that since he has been wearing the chicken, chicken on his head, not one person has asked him a single person thought to ask him a question about the economy.
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* ObfuscatingInsanity: Treasurer Paul Bearer arrives for a meeting with King Bonza with a chicken on his head. Bonza immediately forgets why he called Paul to his office, and demands to know why he is wearing "a live, cackling hat". After a prolonged argument, Paul eventually explains that since he has been wearing the chicken, not one person has asked him a single question about the economy.
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'''Fosters:''' ...and Senator Steele Hall was kicked in the carpark. ''(pause)'' Shouldn't that have been 'balls'?
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'''Fosters:''' ...and Senator Steele Hall was kicked in the carpark. ''(pause)'' ''({{beat}})'' Shouldn't that have been 'balls'?
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* QuicksandSucks: While attempting the lead the Liberal Party out of the political wilderness, Andrew Peewit gets the entire party trapped in quicksand. The sketch ends with Little Johnny sitting down to wait to be rescued, and vanishing completely under the surface.
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* SubvertedRhymeEveryOccassion: Played straight and then subverted when Little Johnny Howler and John Fosters (the Cactus Island counterparts of Liberal party politicians John Howard and John Elliot) appeared as [[Series/TheTwoRonnies The Two Johnnies]], and Fosters demonstrated that he had no understanding of what actually made the gag work:
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* SubvertedRhymeEveryOccassion: SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion : Played straight and then subverted when Little Johnny Howler and John Fosters (the Cactus Island counterparts of Liberal party politicians John Howard and John Elliot) appeared as [[Series/TheTwoRonnies The Two Johnnies]], and Fosters demonstrated that he had no understanding of what actually made the gag work:
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* CatchPhrase:
** King Bonza: "Oh, what's the bloody use?"
** Pauline Hatful: "Why is everybody looking at me?
* SubvertedRhymeEveryOccassion: Played straight and then subverted when Little Johnny Howler and John Fosters (the Cactus Island counterparts of Liberal party politicians John Howard and John Elliot) appeared as [[Series/TheTwoRonnies The Two Johnnies]], and Fosters demonstrated that he had no understanding of what actually made the gag work:
-->'''Fosters:''' A brawl broke out outside Parliament House last night, during which Senator Ros Kelly was punched in the belly...\\
'''Howler:''' ...the Honorable Barry Jones broke a few bones...\\
'''Fosters:''' ...and Senator Steele Hall was kicked in the carpark. ''(pause)'' Shouldn't that have been 'balls'?
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* CatchPhrase:
** King Bonza: "Oh, what's the bloody use?"
** Pauline Hatful: "Why is everybody looking at me?
* SubvertedRhymeEveryOccassion: Played straight and then subverted when Little Johnny Howler and John Fosters (the Cactus Island counterparts of Liberal party politicians John Howard and John Elliot) appeared as [[Series/TheTwoRonnies The Two Johnnies]], and Fosters demonstrated that he had no understanding of what actually made the gag work:
-->'''Fosters:''' A brawl broke out outside Parliament House last night, during which Senator Ros Kelly was punched in the belly...\\
'''Howler:''' ...the Honorable Barry Jones broke a few bones...\\
'''Fosters:''' ...and Senator Steele Hall was kicked in the carpark. ''(pause)'' Shouldn't that have been 'balls'?
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''How Green Was My Cactus'' is a daily syndicated Australian radio program that has been broadcast since 1986. It is a political satire in the form of a radio play featuring characters that portray the ministers and shadow ministers of the Australian parliament. Each episode lasts two minutes and takes the form of a dialogue between parodies of Australian political figures, although the show frequently lampoons other topical subjects, such as sports (particularly cricket) and well-known television advertisements.
The program commenced in 1986 during the tenure of the Labor Hawke Government in Australia, and featured Bob Hawke as its main character, although the program usually referred to him as "King Bonza the Charismatic" - a reflection of Hawke's larrikin image and populist appeal. The central character has changed with every change of government (or Prime Minister) in Australia.
The program is the longest-running radio serial in Australian history (passing Creator/TheABC radio drama ''Blue Hills'', which ran for twenty-seven years) and is the longest-running radio serial still being broadcast in Australia today.
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The program commenced in 1986 during the tenure of the Labor Hawke Government in Australia, and featured Bob Hawke as its main character, although the program usually referred to him as "King Bonza the Charismatic" - a reflection of Hawke's larrikin image and populist appeal. The central character has changed with every change of government (or Prime Minister) in Australia.
The program is the longest-running radio serial in Australian history (passing Creator/TheABC radio drama ''Blue Hills'', which ran for twenty-seven years) and is the longest-running radio serial still being broadcast in Australia today.
!!Includes examples of:
