Kath and Kim celebrate 20th anniversary with two specials on Channel 7

In a world where comedy is getting cancelled for not being politically correct, our un-woke foxy morons Kath and Kim are back with some gentle suburban satire.

The wait is over. O-V-A-H.

Australia’s favourite foxy morons Kath and Kim are returning to the small screen.

Pour yourself a cardonnay, rip open the footy franks and get ready for some laughs.

To celebrate the show’s 20th anniversary, two specials will show on Channel 7 on Sunday and Monday nights.

Graaaysh, as Prue and Trude would say.

At a time when classic comedy is getting cancelled for not being politically correct enough, Kath and Kim endures thanks to its gentle suburban satire.

When the show first appeared twenty years ago, Kath and Kim were Howard battlers with aspirations.

As Kath assures Kim in one episode, “you are effluent, Kim. I mean look at what you’ve got, a Hyundai to hightail it round in, a half share in a home unit, a DVD player, a mobile. I mean, what else is there?”

Kath and Kim are celebrating 20 years with a special airing on Channel 7 this weekend.

Lucky for us, the show’s creators, Gina Riley and Jane Turner, ignored suggestions that they make the show timeless.

Instead, Kath and Kim is a capsule of life in the early noughties. Back then, the internet was always on the blink, low-rise bumsters were all the rage and visible g-strings were high-fashion.

Watching the show takes us back to a time when we still watched TV together, when a fashion coup was finding Dotti on sale at Westfield and when backyard parties came together thanks to a tarp thrown over the clothesline.

No Insta, no Netflix, no lockdown.

Just dippity biscuits and fat-free fruche in the suburbs.

As Kath and Kim would say, it’s noice, it’s different, it’s unusual.

Critics are generally kind about the show, but some lament its lack of cultural diversity, portrayal of body image and class warfare.

They’re missing the point.

It’s satire. These issues are presented in a humorous way to make a point.

It doesn’t make it right, it makes it real.

It’s hard to imagine the same show getting made today because there would be too much angst from producers about diversity, inclusion and political correctness.

For instance, in one episode, Kim wonders why there’s so many Asians in the Fountain Lakes supermarket.

“Where are the Australians?” she says.

“That’s very racist. They’re Australians,” her mother reminds her.

Kath, too, wouldn’t get away with making fun of Kim’s muffin top these days – or as she often notes, the whole muffin.

Fountain Lake’s favourite family is back.

“I’m not a size 16, mum, I’m a 10,” Kim says.

“Ha, Country Road size 10,” her mother replies.

Class – which is a very unfashionable topic in today’s era of equality – is also prominent on the show thanks to snobby retail workers Prue and Trude.

In one episode they’re trying to work out with Liberal politician they’d like to sleep with —

Tony Abbott, Alexander Downer or Peter Costello.

“I don’t even think we’d get to sex,” Trude says.

“Because, you know, imagine the conversations.”

Eeew, let’s not.

So, what will the inhabitants of 4 Lagoon Place, Patterson Lakes be up to when we see them again on Sunday night?

No doubt high-maintenance horn bag Kath and her husband Kel, the purveyor of gourmet meats, will be still enjoying their beautiful, sensual relationship.

Sharon

As Kath once said, “What’s wrong with two very attractive middle-aged people going at it like rabbits?”

I’ll bet Kath will have moved on from her cross-trainer and is now into aerial hot yoga – couples sessions, of course.

Kel, once a metrosexual, is now exploring his gender fluidity – but worries about how much fluid there might be, and if it’s going to make a mess on Kath’s axminster in the good room.

Kim and Brett will still be together thanks to the “veneer of mahogany” in their marriage.

“He might be a dud root, but he’s moy dud root,” Kim says.

Kim’s finally finished her floral design course at TAFE but has just lost her job due to her raunchy OnlyFans account. She’s obsessed with Love Island and knows it’s just a matter of time before she makes it onto the show, where she will dominate thanks to her love of nude compression leggings and wiliness not to wear underpants.

Kath and Kim was an ode to the 2000s.

Brett’s doing well too. He’s driving Ubers on the Hume, or as he calls it, Yubers on the ‘Ume.

Their daughter, Epponnee Raelene Charlene Kathleen Darlene Craig, is now 18 and too busy with her full-time social media commitments to hold down a job.

Sharon, Kim’s long-suffering second-best friend is still wondering “pacifically” where the love of her life Shane Warne has got to.

Remember when he signed one of his balls for he as a sign of his love for her?

And Prue and Trude are going bush, you know, somewhere off the beaten track, like Noosa. The new shows are going to be a huge hit, I just know it. I feel it in my waters.