Mr Doodleburger was the name of a youtube channel of extreme Black Comedy Gag Dub edits of various Australian television shows. Home and Away and Hey Dad..! were the main focus, but it also used Prisoner: Cell Block H and A Country Practice in smaller amounts. It began in 2010. The original channel has since been deleted or terminated, the original videos along with it although it's not too hard to find re-uploads on youtube or elsewhere on the internet.
They exist as a result of the Reality Subtext that Mr Kelly's actor on Hey Dad, Robert Hughes, was accused in 2010 by Sarah Monahan, the youngest actress on the show, of molesting her during the original production run of 1987 to 1994. The dubs of Hey Dad..! were created in the wake of the original accusations and are effectively the inspiration for them. Hughes was found guilty in 2014 and sent to prison for 10 years.
Examples:
- Black Comedy: It is extremely dark, and filled with profanity at an extreme level even accounting for being Australian made. Subjects include incest, kidnapping, domestic violence, torture of humans and animals, Black Comedy Rape, murder and paedophilia.
- Canon Welding: The episode A Cuntry Practice, is effectively a prequel for the Home and Away dubs. The doctor gives Alf the idea of inflicting pain on someone else rather than himself. Alf then comes up with the idea of a rape dungeon, and then the doctor gives Alf the name of a good architect, Martin Kelly, welding the two Gag Dub shows together into the same continuity.
- Country Matters: Reflects the growing use of the word in Australia, and sprinkles it very liberally throughout the dubs.
- Comedic Sociopathy: Alf is a complete psychopath while Mr Kelly is a rapist. These two aspects are the central point the dubs revolve around.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Despite all the sick stuff Mr Kelly does, he still hates Catholic Priests because they molest boys.
- Gilligan Cut: In Fiddler On The Roof, Mr Kelly eats a dozen shrooms, and then tells Deb that "no-one freaks out on mushrooms." The next scene is Mr Kelly yelling out "I'm freaking out on shrooms" and going to look for monsters in the roof.
- Hilariously Abusive Childhood: Despite Mr Kelly's children discussing how depraved their father is, his acts towards them are played for comedy.
- Horror: One of the short Home And Away dubs is just a short, straight horror style video about one of the residents discovering Alf's dungeon, and trying to plead for Alf not to kill him.
- Intoxication Ensues: Mr Kelly's inability to control himself when on drugs is repeatedly mentioned.
- Pop-Culture Pun Episode Title: Fiddler On The Roof, referencing the theatre play, while also being a pun for Mr Kelly being paedophile, which in Australian Slang is also called being a "Kiddy Fiddler".
- Think of the Children!: The reaction from the mainstream media that eventually lead to youtube banning the account & removing the videos. Of course, they were never aimed at children but it was a convenient attack to get rid of something using their intellectual property for a parody.
- The Unintelligible: Betty.
- Torture Cellar: Alf's rape dungeon.
- Memetic Molester. In-Universe and out:
- The Home and Away dubs revolve around Alf, who in the actual show is an occasionally grumpy Cool Old Guy, but in the dubs is a rapist who has a 'rape dungeon' that he keeps well stocked with victims.
- The Hey Dad..! dubs revolve around Mr Kelly, who in the actual show is a widowed family head, but in the dubs is a depraved sexual predator who molests his two daughters.
