Please explain Pru and Trude??
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microbit — 20 years ago(March 04, 2006 06:42 PM)
And don't forget peoples, that even Kath & Kim don't understand Pru & Trude !
Kim : " Mum, do you want a .. thru for your .. carch .. ?.. " LOL LOL
Also, peoples, Pru & Trude easily makes "Prude", doesn't it ?
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Paul75 — 20 years ago(February 19, 2006 04:29 PM)
Pru and Trude also first appeared in sketches back in "Big Girls Blouse" and "Something Stupid", but were not connected to Kath and Kim (then known as "Kim's Wedding"). Marg Downey became a third snobby shop assistant alongside Pru and Trude in "Something Stupid". Many of the gags were recycled for "Kath And Kim" ("I hope he's sober. We've still got jojoba left over from October")
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OddlyEnough — 20 years ago(February 24, 2006 07:04 AM)
My dad used to think that Pru and Trude were completely over the top and unrealistic. That is, until we were in a store once where there was a sales assistant who sounded exactly like them, we couldn't stop laughing.
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joisepeterson — 18 years ago(August 13, 2007 01:42 AM)
Pru and Trude are an exgratted example of Women who look down on their downs at the regular folk.
Both are married to rich husbands. One is married to a lawyer while the other to a plastic surgeon.
In the last season. There was a little story line going on with the pair where I believe Pru's husband was arrested for tax invasion. So Trude was putting Pru down for being poor. Even when Trude got Pru a cup of coffee she told her to pay for it later and that she will write it down in the book.
They only work for two hours a week. Although I have seen them working at their gift shop for more then that. In Sharon's wedding they were up at 6:45 in the morning. -
its_a_GeoffreyRush_thing — 19 years ago(July 04, 2006 07:15 AM)
I met a lady in the homewares shop "House" in a shopping centre in Melbourne that looked and sounded exactly like Pru and Trude! It was funny as. Mum pointed her out and we just cracked up and had to walk out.
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daas_gnw — 18 years ago(June 02, 2007 08:32 PM)
I don't think they're quite as rich as they like to let people think they are. Besides, with their husbands constantly getting in trouble for pulling Skase like sunts at least someone in thier family needs to be working!
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SALTER-pt — 18 years ago(June 03, 2007 07:42 AM)
If they're snobby uppercrust types why do they work in a store?
That's just the point. They're not only NOT better than others, they're in fact more useless than most.
It's the blind delusion that's the basis for the humour.
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iseepinkelefants — 18 years ago(June 03, 2007 11:57 AM)
I get it now. They're like those little bastards that work at Abercrombie or Neiman Marcus, snobby, yet have no reason to be because you know they're making minimum wage.
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daas_gnw — 18 years ago(June 05, 2007 03:02 AM)
I have bo idea what Abercrombie or Neiman Marcus are but YEAH! Thats it! If you ever visit Aus those characters will be much funnier, I have a welsh friend who hated those two until she came here and got served by 'them'.
hearts K&K so much w00t for the fourth series!
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elliotdowning — 18 years ago(July 12, 2007 05:14 AM)
The idea of the characters in Something Stupid and Big Girl's Blouse was the mimic North Shore/upper-class suburb housewives who were fiercely Liberal-alligned (the conversation in Big Girl's Blouse re their fantasies involving John Howard and Alexander Downer) and extremely typical of that way of life (they drove Range Rovers and talked about their pool boys / gardeners). They even gave them the classic Double Bay bob silver hair cut.
They are basically the polar opposites of Kath and Kim. While Kath and Kim are the cliche of the Western suburbs, Pru and Trude are the cliche of the North.
In Something Stupid and Big Girl's Blouse, it was basically inferred that these women run a shop because they have so much money (and their husbands are always so pre-occupied with work / away all the time) and nothing better to do. Basically, in the early sketches they were as rude to customers as they like because they don't have to care whether they sell anything or not.
Hasn't anyone ever been to Bowral in the Southern Highlands NSW Australia - nearly every shop on the main street of that town is run by a doctor or lawyer's wife (sounding and looking exactly like Pru and Trude) because they need a hobby!