Meanwhile, as well as flirting endlessly with Liljana – something which Izzy later revealed she could plainly see – Paul set about bedding the neighbourhood strumpet, the aforementioned Isabelle. He didn’t need to try too hard as Izzy was all too ready to cheat on Karl as he was away in Sydney at a medical conference. Realising her mistake the first time around should have been enough to keep her away from Paul, but Izzy couldn’t resist a second bout of bedroom antics with her business associate, even though Carmella had very nearly caught them the first time and knew of their feelings for each other. If, or more likely, when Izzy gets caught out big-style, one can expect yet another securing bolt to be ripped from her already tumultuous relationship with Karl. And as if things weren’t complicated enough, Paul made a copy of the supposedly secret time capsule video and later watched the footage of Izzy confessing her baby wasn’t Karl’s – yet another chance to blackmail her. The said time capsule and master video were buried mid-week in the car park of Lassiter’s in what appeared to be a depth of 2 inches. No doubt Audrey/Bob/Harvey or another unsuspecting being will unearth it before long and its secrets will out!

Boyd’s obsession with the gym continued and Sky became increasingly confused by his sudden change in priorities and lack of interest in anything non-physical. They did, however, have a fun session in the sauna together, until his boss, Krystal, caught them and threatened Boyd with the sack. Things got more serious though after an overly intense workout session when Boyd strained his arm and lost the urge to keep weightlifting. Sky tried to encourage him and suggested that Mo, the guy he has to compete with to win the bodybuilding contest, was only poking fun at him because he was scared of Boyd’s ability. Horrified that he had just eaten a piece of cake to comfort himself, Boyd threw it back up, just as Sky arrived at the kitchen. She was horrified and concerned, citing bulimia as the problem. However, Boyd was having none of it and told her to mind her own business, especially as Krystal had assured him purging food was normal and not to listen to the opposition. However, determined not to give up, Sky made Boyd promise that she wouldn’t run to Max about the bulimia if he agreed to see a dietician, to at least make sure he wasn’t damaging his body with his overly-strict diet. Perhaps more in keeping with modern times than Debbie Martin’s bulimia storyline of 1994, Boyd’s plight has been made all the more relevant by his obsession with cutting out necessary goodness from his diet – echoing the controversy and dangers surrounding such modern-day diets as the Atkins plan.

Someone else not eating correctly was Toadie – spurred on by his obsession to become a wrestler. Indeed, he too was given wrong advice and told to fill his body with fatty foods and often, so much so that he was making himself sick, just in order to beef himself up further. It is laughable, and perhaps quite worrying that Neighbours is seemingly promoting polar opposites with regard to storylines portraying eating habits. On the one hand we have Boyd suffering from bulimia in what is meant to be a serious and thought provoking plot, yet at the same time Toadie is filling his body with fatty foods and overeating to the point of sickness in a story written for comedy value. Apart from all this, the wrestling story isn’t particularly funny, nor is it pleasing fans. Indeed, most viewers are sick to the hind teeth with it all, especially given its contrast to the strong plots occurring elsewhere in the show. It isn’t the type of clever comedy that Neighbours can do so well, nor is it macho or hard-core enough to appeal to typical ‘lads’ or wrestling fans. It doesn’t sit easy with anyone it would seem.

Drama at the Kennedy residence, or should that be Smith-Watts-Timmins-Parker residence?, was plentiful this week also, as Dylan and Stingray went about their scallywag type ways and set free all the dogs, including Audrey, held unlawfully in the local pound. Upon her return from Libby’s place (again), Susan smelt a rat when the police informed her that the pound had been raided and the dogs set loose. The boys admitted to it, but despite their good intentions she was still angry with them for letting her down by not managing to stay out of trouble. Susan warned them that any more trouble from them and they’d both be out of the house. Despite this they still couldn’t resist arguing with each other about who sucked up to Susan most. Stuart, meanwhile, was still angry with Sindi for being so clingy and set about proving his independence. However, it proved to be near fatal as he set off to the beach for the day on his own. A cruel bus driver dropped him off at the wrong stop and left him to fend for himself. Following a heated phone conversation with Sindi who demanded to know where he was, Stuart threw his mobile into a main road and proceeded to try and find it with his white stick. Just as it looked as if his luck couldn’t get any worse, a lorry came by and hit Stuart out of the road and the driver, panicking, fled the scene, leaving Stu unconscious on the roadside.