Please explain Pru and Trude??
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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.
It's a Geoffrey Rush thing, you wouldn't understand! -
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.
Proud member of COW-DJ -
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.
You can't come in here, this is my mastabatorium! -
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!
Random K&K Quote: Sharon! That was my last fat free fruiche! -
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! -
pooding4ever — 17 years ago(June 15, 2008 06:46 PM)
In Adelaide's Eastern suburbs and in North Adelaide/Walkerville there are so many Prues and Trudes, a lot of my friends grandmothers are like that. It's just the classic Toorak/Kew private school mother, like how they were saying their son was going to Lorne for the holidays. Anyone who goes to a private school in Australia would know a Prue or Trude or five. I personally think they ring a bit truer than Kath and Kim sometimes. Like Ja'mie. But it might just be where I live.
Graaiam's up to his neck in bOOObs. Lol. -
lrn79 — 17 years ago(January 18, 2009 08:54 PM)
I used to work in a cafe as a waiter on Malvern Road, Toorak ("Hawksburn Village") in Melbourne. I went into "MiniMax" homewears store a few doors down and was confronted with "Pru and Trude". I was looking for a stock pot and after being looked up and down was asked "Are you a chef?". I replied, "No, but I'm in the industry". That met with some sort of approval (although not as much as if I were a chef Im sure).
Another account I heard second-hand (possibly third) of a customer at the same shop looking for a can opener. There was the plain everyday one for $5 and the super dooper, ergonomically designed one for $40. When choosing the $5 one he overheard "Pru" say to "Trude", "couldn't afford the other one obviously". -
jlprizm21 — 17 years ago(January 04, 2009 03:02 AM)
I'm not sure how these women act in Australia but I live in Michigan, U.S.A. and whenever I'm at one of these upscale malls or stores I always see women like them talking in those monotone voices about the most boring stuff. Whatever their children are doing..what they bought..how much their house is..what they're buying soon. And they look exatcly like that too..haha..aka..almost alike. it always make me laugh but they get on my nerves at the same time. And they totally look down at the customers and make faces when you try to purchase something. So I think that's where these women come from. They don't have much to do cause their husbands are never around so they just "work" a few hours to keep themselves busy. And they also are not real friends. They are usually fake. You see that one of the women is always pretending to be interested in what the other is saying and you can tell they sometimes get joy out of the other person suffering.