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An Australian mother and daughter struggle to deal with life’s trials and rope in their family for their misguided adventures.

 A great deal of the humour is consistent throughout the franchise and rather than increasing the joke it changes details to make them feel new but familiar. The word play is particularly good at times because they warp common phrases to mean new things with several meanings. It works as a parody of reality TV shows with the hand-held camera and zooms during conversation.

 Sometimes the jokes are so consistent that they are repetitive, although some phrases that aren’t jokes become them later in a different context. The locations are fairly limited due to the budget so there are only so many places that the narratives can go but there is still an attempt to change it up with guests and flashbacks. The first film is fairly consistent with the series but the second one gets a little more freedom and a new environment, although there should have been a harsher ending for the tyrant villains.

 The characters are all likeable even though some are deeply flawed because it’s made clear that they’re deliberate archetypes. It’s enjoyable because one knows roughly where it’s going but not specifically, like many situation comedies, and though most jokes are regular, some are subverted enough to be extra amusing. Prue and Trude are also specific to the viewer but they can be humorous both for their sarcastic hatred of seemingly everyone else and their alliteration.

 It takes a few episodes to get used to the individual humour of the series, in particular the amount of shouting that the characters do to mimic reality show families. As with some sit-coms there’s little development for the characters and even when there is a small amount, it’s usually undone in the credits sequence so things are back to normal the next week.

 Kath and Kim: 7/10 -Well above average, but no masterpiece-

 Da Kath and Kim Code: 6/10 -Just a cut above average-

 Kath and Kimderella: 7/10 -Well above average, but no masterpiece-

 -The actor playing Kim sings the opening theme song.

-The house the characters lives in borders a canal but this was considered to upperclass so the view of it is blocked by a fence.

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