The Goodies: Difference between revisions

* [[Creator Provincialism]]

* [[Credits Gag]]: ''It Might as Well be String'' ends with the camera looking through the backwards credits on the TV screen at the Goodies, who are sitting on a couch making snide remarks about the episode they've just watched.

* [[Cruella to Animals]]: The Endngered Species Club from "Dodonuts". They only hunt endangered species because their small numbers make them hard to find. Common species of animals and birds are too abundant and therefore too easy to hunt.

* [[Dance Sensation]]: Spoofed in ''The Music Lovers'' where they were being tasked — by a musical Mad Hatter, no less — with writing a hit song. They belted up a squaredance tune, and Bill improvised fairly ordinary squaredance lyrics which were being followed exactly by the Mad Hatter's goons, ending with this (paraphrased):

* [[Driving a Desk]]: ''Punky Business'' parodied this and then subverted it, the three Goodies are in the back of a van and we see the road in the vans back windows via backscreen projection, then it starts playing footage of punks. The subversion comes when Bill shoves Graeme and Tim out of the back of the van and we see a screen being watched by several policemen with the punk footage projected onto it.

* [[Dropped a Bridget On Him]]

* [[Drop What You Are Doing]]: Parodied. Bill's not really shocked, he's just into loud noises.

* [[Drunk with Power]]: In ''Radio Goodies'' Graeme's plan to set up a pirate radio station (and pirate post-office) and the resulting success soon turns him into a raging fascist dictator, complete with uniform and ranting Germanic accent, and he develops a mad plan to drag the entirety of Britain outside of the five-mile limit so that he can rule over it as a 'pirate state'. When Bill and Tim walk out on him in disgust, he eventually resorts to trying to tow Britain away single-handedly in a rowboat.

** In fact this sort of thing happens rather a lot in ''The Goodies'', for instance it happened to Bill in ''Kung-Fu Capers'' episode, Graeme AGAIN in ''Bunfight at the OK Tearooms'' and ''all three of them'' in ''the Movies''.

* [[Early Installment Weirdness]]: Seasons 1 and 2 have a much different feel, with episodes revolving around the lads having to help someone in need, and most villains being played by guest stars. From season 3 onwards, they started working more for their own benefit, until Season 4, where the "Anything Anytime" agency had almost been completely faded out, and the boys simply did whatever took their fancy (or [[Get Rich Quick Scheme|whatever was profitable]]).

* [[Edible Ammunition]]: (The ketchup squeeze bottles in "Bunfight at the OK Tearooms".)

* [[Egomaniac Hunter]]: "Dodonuts" has Tim and Graeme as leaders of the Endangered Species Club who hunt down endangered species, including a dodo protected by conservationist Bill Oddie.

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