Neighbours! How I miss you, and at this special time of your 20th birthday!

20 years of tired studio sets and bubblingly happy ending plot lines! 20 years of one dimensional scripts and zero dimensional characters! 20 years of wonderfully simple narrative permeated with the shallowest storylines possibly imaginable!

Neighbours I have always loved you, and the tears that well up in my eyes are an acknowledgement of your greatness, tainted by the fact that for my entire 7/8 months in Japan I have not seen 1 single episode of your charm on my TV.

For those of you who don't know the Australian soap opera institution that is Neighbours, you should be ashamed. For those of you who don't care for the said fictional birth place of the (literally) immortal Harold Bishop, double shame on you! ...and for everyone else, please sign my comment list below. Let's form 'The petition to get Neighbours shown on Japanese television'. The future of terribly conceived and yet marvelously executed TV is in your hands my friends...

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