Melanie Pearson's Arrival | Neighbours [1987]

From episode 544.
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[@johnny5805]

Who'd have imagined, that 35 years later, it would be her story that drove the final episode.

[@jezedwards190]

Yeah! Missing it already ☹️

[@pr9062]

Has it finished?

[@stevenweeks9903]

Yeah, real shame it wasn't a better character who drove the final episode.

[@liraelgreen1329]

And also the main character upon its return. ❤ i love Mel

[@AH_Derby]

Guy Pearce (as Mike) did a great impression of Melanie’s laugh in the closing episodes.

[@Lantern66]

Madge's reactions are the best!

[@easydrive3662]

Wow when u look back at these clips there so brilliant, a proper cozy home environment! I think jason was laughing for real in these clips and not acting haha

[@katyp.2495]

I remember Melanie's arrival and her laugh as though it were yesterday. And Madge's expression was priceless. I still miss Neighbours 😐.

[@El-Rollio]

Everything about this is absolutely genius! I didn’t appreciate it at the time… I was probably 12 at the time this aired.

[@AS-wj1du]

Wow. In the final episode, they meet again. I didn't know Mel and Clive were from years back

[@pferreira1983]

The laugh is iconic, like a seal having a fit. 🤣🤣

[@AlisonBryen]

Iconic is the word!

[@pferreira1983]

@@AlisonBryen 😂

[@ilovethelingo5677]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@rachelkeyte1002]

This is definitely one of my favourite scenes from the early years!

[@Red-Red-Red-Red]

Jason Donovan couldn't help but laugh for real..couldn't hold it in!

[@glynmatthews6697]

I forgot how funny that was - and seeing Jason trying not to crack up at Mels laughing was funny as !

[@braxfan683]

This is even better than I remember. Loved Henry and Madge. "I'm on a diet of grapefruit and salad" 😂 Madge "Surely a little bit won't do you any harm" 😂

[@goodneighbours3217]

The funniest bit was when she said that she only started the diet that day... 😀

[@ewtwetrwerwteet]

"Love, have a look and see if you can find a grape fruit"

[@charlottethecat6302]

So funny Scott encouraging Mel to laugh 😃 😀 😄

[@ilovethelingo5677]

And did you see the look on Madge’s upon him doing so lol 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Charming_Em]

I forget Melanie went out with Henry but i remember madges pinny what Charlene Is wearing and that seal laugh. Neighbours ends here tomorrow and tears are gonna be shed 😭😭 after 37yrs of watching.

[@Somnogenesis]

It's barmy how it all links up - what do you think Madge would've made of it if you'd told her then that this girl with that laugh would, just a few years later, actually end up marrying her (Madge's) future husband's daughter's widower...?? Ahh, that's the joy of a soap community, of course: sooner or later, everyone marries everyone else. I don't want it to end :(

[@nataliejones3861]

My mum met the actress who plays Melanie at the home office in Croydon my mum said to her you're the one with the hilarious laugh 😆 she said 🤫 she didn't want anyone to recognise her 🤣 my mum said she was lovely and glad she met her 😊😘🥰

[@jaykaye7025]

Is melanie from the UK?

[@DistantCousin]

@@jaykaye7025 No,but she spent a lot of the 90's living in the UK, after she quit Neighbours at the end of 91 😀

[@paulnguyen8910]

Lucinda Crowden.

[@digitalmediafan]

@@DistantCousin she's going to in the final episode apparently August 1st

[@DistantCousin]

@@digitalmediafan she's been a regular cast member for well over a year so I expect she will be!

[@jonathanmchugh5978]

Great episodes when neighbours was huge in the uk. Very sad Craig M Lachlan was not in the last episode. He deserved to be.

[@dynaztycrashdiet]

Who can not remember that laugh🤣🤣🤣

[@MrKpsuk84]

4:42 loving the almost melodramatic incidental music at the end 😄

[@theodoretekkers]

She still has that laugh even when she was young? She looked so young! Glad to see her back.

[@airjaff]

I remember watching this episode when it came on TV!

[@suzannemcguinness8030]

Meld laugh sounds like a segual choking, how they kept a straight face filming is a miracle lol

[@shewhocraftsandplans7736]

These were the best days of neighbours!!!!

[@kiwisoup1301]

I remember this episode. It's so funny. Madge's expressions are hilarious 😂

[@icequeen9417]

Unforgettable neighbours ❤

[@KayleighNatasha]

Absolutely love Mel's laugh

[@THEGARNERCOLLECTIVE]

Melanie laugh was like Eddie Murphy how he was with his laugh. Or lou carpenter with his laugh on neighbours

[@vanessalouise8988]

Melanie didn't laugh 🤣 like she did years age in the Neighbours Finale episode that laugh 🤣 was gone Madge overflow the coffee cup when Henry said about getting serious with Melanie.

[@ryanscattergood373]

The laugh is so funny and silly at the same time

[@Zlervo]

I remember Melanie and that laugh 🤣

[@markpieexplores]

Love the dramatic ending

[@stephaniemcquillan6167]

Wow, that laugh 😂

[@Revelation21-4-]

I keep coming back to the video as I find Melanie's laugh so funny lol

[@aitch9185]

I wonder if Friends stole this idea (of the terrible laugh) when they introduced Janice? Comedy Gold! 🤣

[@MrChrisalf2004]

I had no idea Melanie was in the show before i started watching it 😮. I remember her appearing in the early 90s a while after Scott, Charlene and Henry had left.

[@TeslasTeaParty]

When I was a kid I used to drive my parents nuts because I used to copy Melanie's laugh... damn I was one annoying kid! Lol

[@sfglamorgan8078]

Bring back the laugh - Melanie is great!

[@clairesamuel7058]

AHH,memories💖

[@djstonedog]

Charlene, one comedian in the family's quite enough thanks 🤣

[@ilovethelingo5677]

I love the incidental background music in the early years of Neighbours both at 1:36 and 4:42. Very classic!

[@goodneighbours3217]

Yeah, it made the episodes so much more memorable...especially the first few years.

[@chriswilson1853]

I remember when this was shown on TV and the next day everyone was doing her laugh at school.

[@ilovethelingo5677]

Play her laugh at double speed, it's fucking hilarious! It had me in stitches lol!

[@Emily-vs9ju]

Funny at slow speed too!!!

[@misplacedkiwi9498]

Thank you for raising my awareness to this piece of excellence 😂😂😂😂

[@suewright1299]

It's like a braying donkey whatever the speed!! 🐴

[@marvinjulien5418]

😳😳😂😂

[@ilovethelingo5677]

@@suewright1299 More like a dog barking when played at full speed 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Jackles22]

Great character Melanie was

[@TF80s]

Still is.

[@kateaye3506]

Who is the actress?

[@annach7914]

@@kateaye3506Lucinda Cowden:)

[@peoplespoet98]

And yet in spite of that laugh i proper had a school boy crush on Melanie the first time I saw this episode.

[@andrewbialogrodzki3255]

Madges face when Melanie laughs

[@andyman1032]

been a neighbours fan since it started sad I know but i never miss an episode keep it up please i must have seen every episode but cant remember them lol

[@kierangilly1]

Mel's laugh hilarious 😆

[@jamiejamal]

Best laugh ever!

[@bobbymaesteg]

Another wonderful neighbours character.

[@Revelation21-4-]

Her laugh was hillarious lol :D

[@YourJellyFishAteMyTV]

Lmao madges face 🤣

[@markkennett2956]

Jimmy Carr would be so proud

[@sandrahaigh2976]

OMG. I love and miss Neighbours, but I didn't see this one with Melanie. If I had, I don't think I'd have continued watching Neighbours 😂 Her 'laughing' was too over the top for me 🙉

[@goodneighbours3217]

She was only in two episodes back then though and then they brought her back a few times for some guest stints...it was a long time before she became a regular and by then the laugh had been toned down quite a bit. I thought this scene was hilarious back in the day and still do now. It's more the reactions of the other characters that make it so funny rather than the laugh.

[@johnthompson3530]

OH wow, i probably saw this episode but I don't remember it. Didn't realize Melanie was with Henry. Was good to see this clip hahaha so funny.

[@flipperfish7]

Ah wow that really was a trip down memory lane, was so gutted when Kylie left 😅😅

[@tracyd3022]

Loved Scott’s face when she first laughed 😅😅😅

[@markmorrison5671]

Will never forget that laugh 😂😂😂😂😂

[@dcworld1076]

man that laugh was from back then? i need to watch more classic neighbours

[@AzzaTV]

So glad she’s back now.

[@robertholden12]

Anyone have her laugh as a ringtone 😂

[@nebularain3338]

Was this really 1987? I was sure that Melanie came in around '89/90, so it just shows how long ago I started watching this show. I must have been 9 or 10 in that case. I do wish that they'd put the whole show up for streaming. I know it's a lot of episodes, but I'd watch 3 or 4 a day just to relive the nostalgia.

[@BLTKellys]

It was 1987 in Australia. I assume you watched episodes in Britain which were about a year behind.

[@ktpuss]

‘89 I think here in 🇬🇧

[@Knufflebeest]

I remember Harold Bishop trying to teach Melanie to sing and she was terrible and she ended up in tears as she overheard Paul Robinson making fun of her!

[@jasonlam9017]

I think that was Joe Mangle who was really rubbing it in on the karaoke system and then later Joe and Mel got married.

[@goodneighbours3217]

@@jasonlam9017 Joe & Mel were a perfect match.

[@debbie5827]

that laugh tho

[@noirjacques3274]

If I remember correctly, she dumped Henry after a week, like she did others before arriving on Ramsay st. Funny how she became the regular character that she did, and that many many years later, she’d be in the last episodes.

[@goodneighbours3217]

Even more funny to hear her talking about S&C's wedding knowing the "last ep" actually revolved around her wedding.

[@TonesDroneVisuals]

Just read she's returning in 2021

[@josephxuereb1978]

She's funny now🤣

[@ilikechocolatealot6355]

I’ll always remember that green color on Henry’s cloths….

[@paulwilson9281]

She just returned with the laugh.

[@jamesmyler8349]

I thought I'd seen Toadys bride in the last episode before. That laugh sounds like a police horse being strangled, I bet she had a sore throat playing that part 😂😂

[@stevedavis6879]

Surprised by looking back how some things were said that wouldt be passable in todays world, even in an innocent soap in neighbours . How things have changed( not for the better)

[@jesseandrews2303]

I clicked purely for "that" laugh 😂

[@MarkWhich]

She did tone down after she was eventually praised in as a regular, I guess maintaining a laugh like that full-time was too much.

[@TinaLouise73]

That seal laugh! Omg! Lol

[@rekhamistry4364]

Omg what a ridiculous laugh! She’s crazy! 😂

[@robertsmoothy.entertainmen4895]

Scott likes her laugh. I do too.

[@LeFouGallois]

I used to watch this back in the day ! I remember when it was #MulletCentral ! lol! ;) xx

[@littlegreenbag]

Madge's reaction :-D

[@naysmith5272]

This is just bonkers!

[@oliverpearson1577]

I do hope when she returns they allow her that crazy laugh!

[@NeighboursNerd]

There’s no way they wouldn’t bring back her laugh!

[@oliverpearson1577]

@@NeighboursNerd Neighbours was a completely different thing then, though. It was light hearted and humorous, and didn't ever take itself seriously. Now it's been heavily politicised, the same as everything else. It's a real shame.

[@andrewward2010]

@@oliverpearson1577 Yep she still has her laugh LOL!

[@oliverpearson1577]

@@andrewward2010 Lol excellent!

[@paulwilson9281]

It was there yesterday.

[@millerhxc]

I am a bit too young to remember Mel properly. I was only 1 for this and 5 when she left, not even sure I was even watching the show properly yet. So when she returned, I didn't know who she was (same with Jane and Clive, actually). Here she actually looks like Clare Grogan (Scottish actress/Altered Images singer).

[@supernaturalfan2205]

Wow now u said it Lucinda Cowden and Clare Grogan do look like each other back in the days. I remember watching an old episode of Eastenders I remembered Grogan from the show.

[@littlegreenbag]

I always thought this about looking like Clare Grogan to the point where I got them confused, I think CG has 'annoying' voice and teeth and Mel's laugh is 'annoying' so there's that.

[@yvonnereid1656]

I think that too

[@robertholden12]

That laugh was outrageous 🤣 pity it wasnt in the final episode when she married toadie

[@NeighboursNerd]

You could hear her laugh at the beginning of the video message scene

[@BLTKellys]

How progressive that Charlene is cooking the meal instead of Madge. It’s usually the mother who cooks for the family.

[@candor_xo]

the drama! over a laugh lol

[@Greenwillow]

Christ I forgot that laugh😳☺️

[@grahammcdonald]

I went out with a girl that laughed just like that, no irony, just exactly like that.

[@swymaj02]

Totally the same Melanie who married Toadie in the finale. And I thought she was just a side character from last year. But what do I know I barely watched the show as is.

[@JayKhwaja]

Melanie's Laugh 😃 😀 😄 😁 🤣 😂 Kills Me 😆💦

[@travelwell6049]

LOL. I always remember when Daphne had her baby.

[@mioufie23]

and she kept her tights on when she gave birth

[@bblake5116]

I remember her laugh

[@paulnguyen8910]

U.S. airdate: July 1991. Episode 544.

[@ilikechocolatealot6355]

Who’s here because the show was axed.???!!!!😂😂

[@ahmedsenussi8232]

😄😄😄😄😄😄 Madges reaction

[@Ellie-ym9et]

Funny as fuck

[@sofiagill4744]

Neighbours mel to funny

[@Craigy2818]

This place seems to have morphed, somehow. The door to the laundry is suddenly closer to the widow, compared to in Chloe's current home.

[@tobermory88]

Madge 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@sofiagill4744]

Neighbours like mel

[@Mike-ou8ty]

Why did Scott always sit on chairs backwards?

[@digitalmediafan]

Are these your original VHS recordings ?

[@madmurdock100]

Taken from the Neighbours Defining Moments DVD

[@craigsouthwell3484]

Like the woman who played Jane she hasn't aged well. I watched the final episode and was like WTF lol

[@marthasheilds2446]

Australia have inherited the haggard genes from the UK as majority are from the UK originally.

[@craigsouthwell3484]

@@marthasheilds2446 Yup Jackie Woodburne is Irish, Mrs Mangle was from Cleethorpes. To name but a couple. And Emily Simons who plays Marilyn in Home and Away has dual nationality her mother is British... She was in Emmerdale for a good few years before she returned to OZ

[@marthasheilds2446]

@@craigsouthwell3484 Guy Pearce who plays as Mike is born in UK Cambridgeshire, Elaine Smith who plays as daphnia born in Scotland, Benji macniar plays malcom Kennedy is born in London ,myra de Groot who plays des Clarke mum Eileen born in London, Tom Oliver who plays as lou carpenter born in the UK, Jason Donovan dad born in the UK middlesex .

[@damiencrowley2506]

I'm sure its a year or two later than 87.

[@NeighboursNerd]

Nope.

[@alisoncook4394]

Her throat must have been sore after that

[@speedbird737]

I wonder why Craig McLachlan wasn't invited back to the reunion

[@speedbird737]

@Bessie Hillum dont know why - was doing well in the UK then disappeared - if i recall something to do with harassment?

[@debraodonnell6681]

Wonder why Craig wasn't in final show

[@izadoru]

Have a little Google and you'll find out why. Bit unfair but shit sticks.