Prisoner: Cell Block H - Episode 547

[@loujuanataylor5269]

A conversation with Ettie is like an Abbott and Costello routine.

[@Sheri451]

I love Abbott and Costello. Over here in America they show these silly and sometimes scary movies by a man that dresses in a black wig and black rings around his eyes and he calls himself Svengoolie. They have shown a lot of their movies, this month he plays Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein.

[@rayman760]

That scene with Ettie and the FED in Ann's office is priceless

[@karennicholls8532]

I loved the half hidden smile on Anne's when he was threatening Ettie with extra time.

[@josephd.2725]

That Fed inspector is hilarious in his 3 piece suit and dreadfully awkward manner... lol

[@stevencassidy6982]

"Or don't you get around to sampling his food.." There are some wonderful oneliners in this one. Ballinger is slowly being driven mad by Etty

[@tdkmax6181]

Bet the Freak hasn't got around to giving Terrys tuna . That why she was irate .

[@maadmaestro]

Fergo: "He had the good sense to get out of here before I tasted this garbage!" Brilliant!

[@leejohnson6448]

Lou Kelly was one of the best prisoners....loved her sarcasm

[@fabpcbhfan9592]

Yes! But the All time BEST was definitely Sandy Edwards🥳

[@leejohnson6448]

@@fabpcbhfan9592 Oh I loved Sandy Edwards too. I always wished we'd been able to see her and Bea fight it out for the top dog position.

[@fabpcbhfan9592]

@@leejohnson6448 YESSSS!!! That would have been soooooo good if Bea and Sandy had fight to be Top Dog. But wasnt Sandy "Top Dog" for a while? And how did she become Top Dog? I can't remember. Was it because Bea was away somewhere ?

[@leejohnson6448]

@@fabpcbhfan9592 Bea let her take over when she needed her kidney transplant, but there is a line where sandy is asked what happens when Bea is well and sandy replies, that she and Bea can sort that out later... That's what gave me the idea of seeing then battle it out once they got rid of Marie. Had sandy not gone I am sure they would have had one hell of a fight 😊

[@tdkmax6181]

@@leejohnson6448 Bea would have died . But as great a character as Sandy was she did not have the discipline or self control to be a durable top dog. Besides I doubt Val's ego could have tolerated a challenging story arc like that , so perhaps that's why they dumped Sandy as soon as Bea got on the mend from her operation . I'm also guessing that's why a cracking character like Nola who showed a lot of promise as a credible challenger to Bea (during her first few months ) had to be re-written and rescinded into a stock punch bag baddie for Bea to smash into any time she fancied .

[@jiggarypokery]

6:12 Joan to Joyce re Mervyn 'Don't you get around to sampling his food' LOL! Love it!

[@Cosford869]

She's sampled his little sausage.

[@sb6678]

Does anyone else think that Lou Kelly is just another version of Margot Gaffney?

[@ecolin4906]

Yes i agree. Rod Stewart has been replaced by Barry Manilow. Bad hairdo for both girls. Lol

[@grecosgreecedaz6026]

Margo harder

[@cathrinehalfpenny3835]

Yes I agree I think Kelly is harder

[@lamontbradford4630]

Lou can't sing Midnight Special

[@jessicaj8564]

Just as Myra is Playing Beas character

[@sparky2098]

8:46 I love Myra in full Top Dog mode!

[@kevinlongman007]

Myra was a great Top Dog.

[@grecosgreecedaz6026]

Bea was best

[@adrianenglish4909]

Myra in full top dog mode is a sight to see as for Bea exactly the same very similar

[@tdkmax6181]

@@grecosgreecedaz6026 Bea was a clown . Myra is the real deal . Non of the Queen Bea nonsense. Glad she gave Dafty Daphy a few offscreen slaps .

[@darrendunn134]

@@tdkmax6181 bea wasn't she beat freak and nola winter margo mind her friend ferguson can't mind her first name

[@bernadettelamb54]

Terry Malone has one of those faces you just want to smack wish they didn't recycle her.

[@charlottewebb2184]

I left the extract same comment on the last episode she has a face that just instantly annoys me I don't know what it is she drove me up the wall as Sharon Gilmore and now Terri Malone.....

[@bernadettelamb54]

@@charlottewebb2184 I can't decide which one is more annoying

[@sheriheffner2098]

I couldn't stand whiny Sharon and I can't stand Terri Malone either.

[@marilarroy7422]

She was a b I t c h then and she is one now too!! Hate her character and her face is just one of those that you automatically just hate lol

[@katcox6127]

Agreed 😊

[@Garh1972]

Have to say at least Ettie brought comic relief before the siege.

[@pandoraamos1]

Jennifer is as much a pianist as an elephant is a ballet-dancer.

[@agemoth]

pandoraamos1 unless the elephant played a part in Fantasia

[@sheriheffner2098]

Jude was a real pianist. Betty was a piano player. She said she played by ear. I assume they play genuine Chopin while Jenny Lovell pretends to play.

[@DianaSheward]

Jennifer can't play the piano for love nor money!The worst piano-playing acting I've ever seen!No core strength,weak arms,lack of true feeling, sensitivity,and emotion.Absolutely chronic!🙄🤭🇬🇧♥️♥️♥️🐊🐊🐊

[@samisticlife]

​@@sheriheffner2098 hence why they don't show her hands

[@josephd.2725]

I love the way The Freak owns Joyce every time... lol. It's gold!

[@tdkmax6181]

It's called bullying .

[@giovanni1965]

That's you problem Simon. Should of never screwed around behind you family's back

[@bloopnation]

"nuffin ever made me feel this good before!" lol yeah catch-22 of drugs lololol

[@MsVelasca]

Don't know why Ruth Ballinger trust Ettie with a message she already screwed it up once. And everyone knows she's as nutty as a fruitcake.

[@stephenpovey-jones6520]

ms velasca I was gonna write the same thing.

[@jamesquinn3715]

ms velasca 19:49 what did ettie say!

[@rosiew1952]

Ettie reminds me of myself, very bad memory and yes nuts ( as I have been told) 🤣🤣

[@MrSifter]

19:49 “Eeeny meeeny mineeey mo, catch a WHAT by the toe”?? 😂

[@orlalolo4585]

i used watch this with my late nan back in the early 90,s good memories

[@bernadettelamb54]

The story of Wentworth in recent episodes Ericas mum keeps on faking her death and finding new victims to believe how ill she is when there's nothing wrong with her, Officer Sally Dean has recently put on 3-4 stone and now has an obsession with plants and acts like more of a big baby than ever before, Sharon is back from the dead with a completely new job and identity. And Jackie Nolan returned recently under a new identity and is now a nun, I wonder what crime she's hiding from this time.

[@adrianenglish4909]

Lol like the story so far

[@lamontbradford4630]

Jackie Nolan's friend Julian is now Ruth's lawyer.

[@philipwelshman9609]

@@lamontbradford4630 And one of the Feds was the father of Roxanne's baby.

[@tammyfaulkner1298]

I have two words to describe Pippa Reynolds, ones annoying the others a 4 letter word staring with s ending with t with lu in the middle lol

[@sarahmoulder500]

😂 How far is Nora, didn't feel my baby move till over 20 weeks.

[@paytoplaynj]

OMG!!! That TV music is back at 39' 00"" in the rec room scene!! LOL!!! That was the movie music used over and over in the early seasons whenever the TV was playing. Too funny!!!

[@catlady0073]

Tina Murray must have PTSD from that music 😅

[@waynecooney4643]

episode 547 probably my most fav sketch in all 600 plus episodes. etty and the fed police scene @ 29:34 absolute classic gold.

[@rosslamb7069]

Joan and Terri are quite the pair with Joan's newely fitted mullet and Terri's horrible looking afro.

[@marianp.741]

Ross Lamb Aren’t they awful haircuts.

[@adrianenglish4909]

The mullet and the afro lol

[@adrianenglish4909]

God I 80s hair dresses must live on the same planet as the script writers

[@josephd.2725]

Is it me, or does Officer Slattery look like a Cabbage Patch doll? lol

[@bernadettelamb54]

Ettie is so funny lol

[@cristinarichart1118]

“Nothing ever made me feel this good before”. God I know that sentiment What goes up must come down

[@childrensorg856]

I love the interactions between Joan and Joyce. They crack me up every time.

[@rpatricknabors]

Ettie saying eenie meenie minee moe bwahahaha

[@adrianenglish4909]

Lol

[@samisticlife]

Ettie most definitely said NICKER. Listening through ear buds and its perfectly clear

[@garyp4374]

The hartley saga begins

[@hollymcginley7160]

Or I'll make sure of those extra cleaning duties ahahaah ;)

[@scottleicester4266]

Are them 2 birds lezzin off behind Myra and Lexi at 39:56?

[@rayman760]

That's Tammy and Roz, always assumed they were girlfriends but some of the Prisoner websites suggest they are sisters as they both have the surname Fisher throughout the series. I think the display of affection is a build up to something to come in a few episodes for Tammy

[@glenysnewchurch7957]

Lezzin off? Bloody hell!

[@MastersGraduate2023]

Jennifier's story reminds me of the Shirley Mason story "Sybil" played by Sally Fields in 1973. The emotional abuse.

[@sheriheffner2098]

Buy or borrow a book from the library called Sybil Exposed by Debbie Nathan. It tells the true story of Shirley Mason. This poor woman was taken advantage of by Dr Cornelia Wilbur. Connie Wilbur was more like a Dr Jeckyl/ Mr Hyde. Debbie Nathan went through records and found out the truth about Shirley. This woman did NOT have multiple personalities, her mother Mattie was NOT Schizophrenic.

[@martinsmith8417]

Two snorts and you're hooked..ha ha!

[@djdelight_musik7181]

Joan @ 6:05 "Or don't you get around to sampling his food" lmao - Also that lawyer is the actor who co owned that shop with Sarah Forrest, aka Jacki Nolan . - check out his dodgy 'tache

[@ShellyShelly-fw8si]

why is it that chracters in the show keep appearing again and again is there a shortage of actors in oz

[@grecosgreecedaz6026]

True hardly any actors

[@adrianenglish4909]

@Jamie Nelson you know I reckon you've got something there sounds right

[@karennicholls8532]

Actually, probably in the early 80's when Prisoner was made there was not a hell of a lot of Australian made TV. Most people back then were like Mel Gibson and a few others who made it overseas. Once we started to make more of our own shows, heaps more people got a start.

[@Ruby16663]

@@karennicholls8532Not much in the early 80's? There was Aussie produced shows from way back in the late 50's & early 60's through to now. I know as I watched them, always preferred English & Aussie shows to American shows, but not sure about the actor recycling, I think maybe they're jobbing actors & took the work if they got & were a known quantity to the producers. Could've also been a belief anong actors that good ones did not do shows like this so they called on the ones that would.

[@clhs]

Karen Nicholls it’s actually illegal to be an actor in Australia and not to appear in at least two out of: PCBH, Neighbours, Home & Away and Wentworth.

[@marksturge7536]

Nana got bashed lol

[@sheriheffner2098]

Nanner as Jenny called her, GOOD! Old battleax.🐕

[@bernadettelamb54]

Simon would drive me up the wall he's so childish for the age he is and doesn't listen, he acts like a teenager when he's like 50 lol and what man would leave their children for a woman

[@Cosford869]

More than 75% I'd imagine.

[@bernadettelamb54]

Can they release Lexi or transfer her

[@thomaswilkinson4027]

Well said Simon, though to be fair there’s no fool like an old fool

[@fabpcbhfan9592]

15:25 The Freak channelling her inner Robert De Nero🤣

[@CANDYKILLSOFFICIAL]

It didnt sound like Etty said tiger when saying eenie meenie catch a tiger by its toe.

[@darrendunn134]

Meg should say Terri are you Sharon 😆

[@chrismarshall2283]

Simon was gorgeous!

[@jtpinnyc]

God I hate the smug way Ballenger wobbles from side to side when she's being arrogant.

[@glennsanders2962]

Keep playing girl. It'll drown out the noise from upstairs!

[@doitlikethebereans1690]

Ettie annoyed the living daylights out of me when she first arrived on the scene but now she makes me laugh my butt off. ヽ(ヅ)ノ She reminds me of a female, senile Barney Fife. *:'''D* Pepper (Pipper?) _is_ a selfish brat and partly guilty for destroying a marriage, but the dude also needs to own up to his own mistakes. He chose to leave his wife and kids for her.

[@rayman760]

I like Pippa but the storyline is awful....anyone else screaming "just get back to the prison". It's like the halfway house days, it was ok but you wanted to see the action in Wentworth with Bea and Chrissie and co.

[@rosslamb7069]

Every outside story involving Ann is boring as shit

[@rosslamb6643]

Daphne is about 25, why is May calling her a poor little kid

[@GarethColquhoun]

Mental age

[@PaulDoe79]

And why was Ruth wanting her on the game when there are more attractive girls... Julie, Lexi, Tammi, etc

[@martinsmith8417]

Who gives them their drug advice on this show?..its hilarious!

[@naomiday9838]

Love the rachmanninov. The corgis used it in the 80s with I could change the world if I had you

[@MarcZERO1980]

19:48 Some good old fashioned racism by Ettie.

[@robinrwilsonsauls]

Marc Zero Some "good 'ol fashioned" wrong!

[@lmjones7716]

+Marc Zero And from Lexie: "Indian giver". 42:44.

[@marianp.741]

She clearly says nicker. Different altogether.

[@adrianenglish4909]

She did say what I thought she said then

[@tdkmax6181]

How different would this show have been had the Freak revelled to Myra , her real reasons for bashing , Balanger . ?

[@benharis1956]

Lionel Fellows, Sean McNally, Arnie Ballinger & Kurt Renner. Any other crime mob....

[@sarahcampbell0915]

19:50 can't say that nowadays. I almost spat out my drink 🤦‍♀️😂

[@karinswift]

That Fellowes bloke sounds like Derryn Hinch

[@tonyherrera316]

mays knitting omg noooo

[@tracylangsley4064]

Jennifer's gran changes her will bet she gets offed then jennifer gets the blame.. motive? The will change. Where will she end up? Wentworth! No, not at all predictable

[@spartybrearly7221]

Ruth’s quickly losing any leverage she had. With no drugs & telephone she no influence.

[@jantopaz5229]

30.33 Hahaha look at his face, Ettie broke him! Looks like he is about to cry =P

[@bernadettelamb54]

Really don't care about Joyces love life.

[@adrianenglish4909]

Exactly what the hell is going on there

[@PaulDoe79]

I'd care more if it didn't involve that obnoxious Mervin... never forgave him replacing Gay Ray.

[@MsMystique420]

Jennifers grandmas face--that was pretty graphic. This episode has shocked me a little.

[@StaffsTransport]

Ettie, the Phil Silvers of Prisoner.

[@rayman760]

@39:55 Tammy and Ros making up haha

[@spectrumlocalb191]

HAS ANYONE NOTICE AT 19.50 ETTIE IS SAYING ENI MINI MINI MOE CATCH A "N" BY THE TOE.

[@claireashton4696]

Yeah I thought she said that..

[@GarethColquhoun]

Who cares ?

[@jockmooney8368]

Yes, NOT GOOD... they should have edited that out. I HOPED she had said "nipper", but no, I don't think so.

[@jencavacas4625]

She said nicker

[@fluffycatworm2881]

yeah she said that, but she thinks the second world war is still going on, and in those days, people said that word more easily. I remember Lizzie saying she was going to knit a golliwog, and I think it fits with the older characters. Of course now we know that isn't right to say.

[@teasdaleeden]

Lexie yelling at ettie for the iou wtf!!

[@josephmullin5845]

Can noone with common sense see that there is not one thing wrong with Nana Hartley

[@bloopnation]

There is something wrong with her....loneliness.

[@josephmullin5845]

@@bloopnation so all that's just for attention. This is really a recycled story line from the florence marne character, only the marne woman genuinely was sick but noone believed her until it was too late.

[@markc2570]

I think Pippa got rid of the English bloke because he kept calling it a bummerang. Relationships often hinge on such things. 😊

[@damianjenkin3900]

9.47 camera in mirror i know we usually see mic booms

[@tracylangsley4064]

Only 5 more episodes til Myra sadly bows out😢

[@lynd934]

No sympathy for Simon!!!

[@Mal-0-vent]

myra just need to leave the drug addicts alone, she smokes and thats a drug just like sugar is to. if they want to ruin their lives putting that junk in their bodies it their life . jail isnt a drug rehab, many people start doing drugs in jail to numb the pain and have time past faster

[@tdkmax6181]

Who ever controls the drugs controls the woman , more to do with control than drugs . If the government. legalised , all drugs it would be a non issue . Blame the government not Myra .

[@katcox6127]

I ❤ Joan’s sarcasm 😂

[@kevintraynor4508]

Thought Lexie was supposed to be smart. She's very Naive where Ruth is concerned

[@darrendunn134]

Megs look lou said all wrk no play get together lol

[@darrendunn134]

Chance was taken there joan should have told myra instead at each others throats

[@tinaskaggs1882]

yes she did... i had to go back and double check...

[@knightmarefan]

19:48 I've been going over what Ettie said about half a dozen times, and to put your minds at rest, she didn't say the N word, she said "catch a NICKER by the toe" as in catch a thief by the toe

[@TheFever77]

You think? Well it was definitely a play on words designed to be controversial. Bad taste.

[@knightmarefan]

In The Beginning Was The Word I'm positive, Fremantle Media had to cut a lot of scenes on the DVD releases, if they'd have thought about that scene the same as everyone else, I'm sure they would have cut that part of the scene away and started from after that bit

[@marianp.741]

Scott Wilkinson You are correct.

[@tanyabest7715]

I think she does say nigger. We all did when I was a kid. The teachers even taught us that. Now a days kids say tiger.

[@knightmarefan]

Listen a bit more carefully, I've heard it many times, she said "Nicker"

[@andrewmorrice9139]

Ballinger's creepy lisp unnerves me.

[@jeffnlisa]

41:10, The theme from "Somewhere in Time" 💘

[@spectrumlocalb191]

ANNE REYNOLDS DAUGHTER PIPA WAS THE ONE THAT TRIED TO KILL NANNA.

[@lamontbradford4630]

IF only it was her. Then this season wouldn't be so damn boring.

[@tdkmax6181]

Nanna was using the lamp to pleasure herself but as she had not done it for years the excitement was fatal .

[@MaryJane-kn3id]

It was Simon who killed nanna. He needed somewhere to stay!

[@josephmullin5845]

I am surprised Myra did not batter Daphne the way she did to Bobbie.

[@speedy692]

Yeah. A lot doesn't ring true since Ballinger appeared.

[@colleenlamb5521]

I think it's because Daphne has special needs so she was more lenient

[@rosemiles-ford3544]

Did anyone else hear the same thing I did when Ettie was saying Eenie Meanie Miney Moe? 😮!

[@jencavacas4625]

Who cares! It was back in the 80s when people weren’t so ridiculous about those things.

[@paulagray7628]

Ettie says “ catch a nicker” as in a thief. She is in prison after all and life was SO SO different back in the 1980s. Nowadays you are scared to look sideways at someone or have your own opinion without some racial/political/social card being thrown in to the mix ! Just chill people …… life would be so much easier if you did 🙄🤨

[@samisticlife]

​@paulagray7628 yep... just like them teaching kids baa baa rainbow sheep in school now

[@rattlesnake81]

@@jencavacas4625 racist

[@jencavacas4625]

@@rattlesnake81you don’t know me.

[@loujuanataylor5269]

Simon should ditch Pippa and take up with Ann. She's much more attractive and a decent person.

[@ecolin4906]

I agree hec hould ditch Pippa but Ann has standards. I don't see her going out with someone who was cheats on his wife with someone his daughter's age.

[@MaryJane-kn3id]

@@ecolin4906That’s why she ended up with the vicar!

[@michelleevans4948]

@@ecolin4906is is classy, as was Erica Davidson. Two very beautiful ladies

[@rayman760]

@38:41 Tammy and Ros having a little tiff?

[@glennsanders2962]

And there i was thinking that you drank coke instead of snorting it. Have i got it wrong?

[@cosmicwartoad2587]

She doesn't need to put a contract out on Joan. All she has to do is join the lynch mob.

[@julabard]

Ettie is a silly old lady!

[@MsMystique420]

Wow! That answerd my question. Damn!

[@josephmullin9077]

Did the same actor who played ruths solicitor also play gordon humphrey 2-3 years earlier?

[@Summer21.]

Joseph Mullin Yes, that is Sid Humphrey's son, Gordon Humphrey now having regenerated as Ruth's solicitor, George Costello. 😃

[@jencavacas4625]

No it’s not

[@colleenlamb5521]

​@@jencavacas4625 Yes it is

[@ryanwilliams1800]

@@colleenlamb5521 no it isn't, different actors who look alike. This guy playing George is Peter Stratford who played Julian Philips in the 150's. Bruce Kerr played Gordon Humphrey.

[@jencavacas4625]

@@colleenlamb5521no it’s not. Read the credits ffs

[@davidware9549]

Their reactions is like when I was 11 and I used to watch nightmare on elm street with me mum great reaction guys

[@frankbrodie5168]

Pippa IS a proper skanky slapper. Jenny however is a true stunner. I like her story and how it unfolds.

[@2008giles]

Who is in the photo behind Ann and Pippa at 33:21? Is that supposed to be Gerda?

[@andrewmorrice9139]

6:01 Chef Excellence.

[@darrendunn134]

Joan what glad he left early before I tasted this garbage 😅🤣😅🤣

[@robinrwilsonsauls]

I could not believe what I heard-so I had to play it several time-ETTIE; NO! If a writer told me to state that ignorance, I would refuse!

[@rpatricknabors]

Robin Sauls. it's just a word and why is it that the ones who bitch the most about it are the ones who use it the most....don't mean you.

[@TheFever77]

Spoken like a true white man patrick! How ignorant you are.

[@stickyadventures4363]

+Patrick Nabors - I grew up during the "Civil Rights" Movement here in America.... It was a word I was called so many times growing up by White Folk that I can tell you it's not just a word.

[@Laladust]

She said "nicker"! As in a thief. Jeez. Only bloody yanks use THAT word. I'm aware of the ignorant American version, but that's just what it is...American. "catch a nicker" "catch a thief".

[@tefllife2024]

It sounded like knicker.

[@pauliejay4161]

Eenie meenie minee... it was 1985, get over it.

[@Cosford869]

Well said. So many comments with faux shock on here.

[@GarethColquhoun]

Exactly.

[@sb6678]

Yes and there have been far worse things said about Caucasians. Everyone is so ready to play the racist card these days

[@jon-seankempson5780]

Pippa's friend needs training in his accent I think

[@ec7155]

19:51 eenie meenie minee moe.. catch a WHAT by the toe? did I hear the N-word???

[@Irishgui83]

I actually gasped when I heard that.

[@sb6678]

I have heard far worse things said about Caucasians.

[@michelleevans4948]

@@sb6678exactly

[@Notfunnysam]

Yes swirelly for Ballenger!