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We are back! Not Des and Daphne, unfortunately, but still a great week of Neighbours.

Yes, all it took was a sharp whistle down a phone line to make everything more interesting. Now I'm kind of heartbroken at the end for Jim and Zoe (not heartbroken enough to want them back together though, don't worry), after Lucy is exposed as her tormentor. Alan Dale, Ally Fowler, and even Kylie Flinker are at their best here, with some really great scenes between them all. Even Bradley and Andrea come out well from the twist!

After the latest Lucy hospital drama recedes, the latter half of the week belongs to Scott and Charlene. Once they've finished filming a terrible version of the Especially for You video, it's time to get down to business, and boy do these two throw everything at a pashing scene. It's almost like there's some real life sparks flying...

Hopefully J-dog is a bit more respectful than Scott, though, as our boy immediately starts thinking with only one part of his anatomy. Thank goodness for Helen Daniels, whose "no means no" speech might be ignored by Scott, but firmly tells the audience what they need to know. We should bring her out to give the Andrew Tate generation a good talking to. Plaudits also go to Clive, for a) not dispensing medication on the sly, and b) giving Lennie some great advice on family planning centres, that's only slightly undermined by "condom" clearly being on Network Ten's banned words list. On the other side of things, Madge implores Charlene to remain a virgin because - wait for it - men find it attractive...

Anyway, after Jack Lassiter proves himself a problematic wingman, our star-crossed lovers find themselves in a hotel room, where things take a turn for the worse thanks to some additional Scott brand misogyny. Yep, Charlene having been with someone before is a real turn-off for him, and proceedings end there and then. Oddly, Scott is also established to have done the deed previously, which rather dampens the 'first love' story otherwise being told here. And his awful reaction to Lennie's sexual history would have felt more recoverable from if there was an aspect of insecurity at his relative lack of experience, rather than being just unfiltered hypocrisy. Not to mention that he was definitely a virgin in his Darius Perkins days - that must have been quite a summer camp!

Also this week: Jim says "necking", Tom's improvised backstory forces him to retcon in a dead wife, Danny gives up on getting a storyline and heads off to play golf instead, and the YouTube title sequence is still wrong.

Emmerdale's Episode 10599 broadcast on June 22, 2026 had a sneaky little shoutout to Neighbours.

Ross Barton's (Michael Parr) half-brother Lewis Barton (Bradley Riches) has been kidnapped by the soap's kindest villain Kylie (Pippa Fulton) in order to get Lewis' dad Kevin Townsend (Christopher Coghill) to return her stolen diamond "Penny".

You can watch the scene from the episode at this YouTube link here

I am looking back at some of my favourite episodes of my podcast & re-sharing them to my feed.

I wanted to share with you one of my all time favourite episodes to record a reaction to Kyle Cannings eclipse blinding.

Let me know if you would be interested in hearing more Neighbours episodes from me...

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3qQhwxir9rE910DHnKt6Bn?si=L\_mggj9kQ8WP\_erlrqwbag

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This week, Neighbours embarks on one of its occasional "really bad weeks of Neighbours". The lowlights include: Des and Daphne still not getting back together, Jim prematurely proposing to someone again, Jim telling his kids he's getting married before Zoe says yes, the gang carting everything out of the coffee shop while someone paints the back wall- I mean to move to Lassiters, and the YouTube title sequence still being wrong.

But they pull it all back with a really good end-of-week cliffhanger. Is Jim's grand "take what's on offer" romance finally going somewhere?