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You might have noticed that things are a little different on cautionary tales this year.

In 2024, we brought you a new episode every fortnight.

But this year, we are doubling our output.

New stories of heart-thumping peril, mind-blowing mistakes,

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Here's one for you right now.

Thank you. every week. Here's one for you right now. Good day. My name's Adam Hills and welcome to a special children's music edition of Spicks

and Spex. Spicks and Spex is a long-running staple of Australian TV. It's an irreverent quiz show,

fitting mixed teams of musicians and comedians against one another to answer questions on rock and pop.

In 2007, host Adam Hills was presiding over a special episode dedicated to kids' tunes.

There'd be lots of comic potential in that.

He asked the teams to buzz in if they could

name the Australian nursery rhyme that this riff was based on.

The opening bars of Men at work song Down Under played.

The two teams looked mystified.

Which nursery rhyme?

Down Under is often referred to as Australia's alternative national anthem.

It is to Australians what Bruce Springsteen's born in the USA is to Americans.

Back in the early 1980s, it was a global smash. topping the charts in Canada, the US, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Switzerland.

It went gold, then platinum, then double platinum.

Millions of copies were sold.

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