Sammy J and Randy in Ricketts Lane

Imagine the 1980s, suburban Melbourne, Kodachrome tangerine hues of clothing and house-bricks and vinyl furniture... Made in around 2015 AND these two "men" chose that awful decade 1979 - 1988 when the thought we'd today 2017 be considered a top-five world liveable great city - crazy era for the perfect dysfunction of share-house living in yer mid-30s coz no way like today would parents rescue the un-married broke son back home for meals, laundry and under-developed hygiene and before big Pharma's 1990s mood Medication revolution. Around ten episodes of bizarre hilarity and black humour, two housemates endure the trials and tribulations of pre-Internet post-Vietnam suburban banality. Each episode offers a plot implosion, ranging from daytime song-and-dance routine to corrupt small-time Lawyers, a supposed terrorism blueprint attack plan, and that neighbour we've always suspected of placing excess rubbish in their bin after midnight. These guys, well one is a type of guy resembling the near-extinct rare Australian yellow feathered Cock-snap... They rid the silence of their share-house enjoying the friendship about 2hrs each day and out to knife one another in the remaining 22hrs... A comedic surprise ABC odd TV production, had me in stitches laughing then bewildered the following episode. Please tell me that as a kid in the 80s, suburban Australia could not have been like this foreign planet depicted in the show where my parents and teachers produced today's 30-somethings! We are Aliens watching our parents lifestyle before they invented antidepressants to haze life worthy of weekends now time-poor in front of High Definition DVD series all weekend, mixed with internet research on the same smart HD screen, provided the remote control isn't missing or dead batteries force us disabled on the couch watching ABC repeats of Spicks and Specks for 15yrs as suddenly we're lined up for Centrlnk welfare benefit assessment having lost the ability to remember TV from real life, diagnosed as pre-Diabetic and turning 50 next year... Six stars / 110% for this oddball comedy i was hypnotised since the first song these two sang... Frightening and the 80s of our childhood draws us painfully to enjoy next week's episode... therapeutic, I'd rate it up there with the time I took two Valium pills and jumped the fence into Melbourne Zoo to be inside the Butterfly Enclosure one entire Tuesday arvo in 1987... Warning : non-Australians, and Queenslanders, may find this series contains disturbing ADULT THEMES and occasional genitalia.