On Sunday, we got our answer, Donovan and Minogue breaking the internet (OK, fine, maybe just bruising it) by announcing, via Instagram, that they would be reprising their roles for the finale. But while there is natural excitement about seeing Scott and Charlene reunited on screen, fans should be wary about how the show will manage their comeback.

Neighbours fans have been through so much in the period since Minogue and Donovan hot-footed it out of Erinsborough. There have been tornadoes, twisters, that time Toadie (Ryan Moloney) killed Dee (Madeleine West) on their wedding day only for her to return years later, multiple electrical fires, Bouncer The Dog’s acid-trip dreams, and now, the sad reality that Ramsay Street will soon be a ghost town.

The last thing they need to see is two of their most beloved characters phoning it in for a celebrity-style cameo. If Kylie and Jason are going to come back as Charlene and Scott, then they need to fully commit to the roles. We must not detect that one has won a Grammy and sold millions of albums and the other maintains a career on stage and screen in the UK.

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We want to see Our Kylie in Charlene’s greased-up overalls, rocking her painfully tight perm and speaking with a clipped Australian accent. These days Minogue sounds more like the Queen than Charlene, but if this is going to work, then she must rediscover her inner bogan.

Same goes for Jason; no dyed blonde mullet, no Scott.

The return of Scott and Charlene will see a lot of former Neighbours viewers tuning back in, probably for the first time in a long time, and leaning into that nostalgia is a no-brainer.

Treat Scott and Charlene as a couple who have existed in a time capsule, thawed out and sent hooning back to Ramsay Street in Charlene’s Mini, as Angry Anderson’s Suddenly blasts through the cassette player. For the return of the couple who defined suburban Australia in the ’80s, the producers owe us that.