The Goodies/YMMV

Animation Age Ghetto: Although not an animated series, as previously mentioned it was very much like one in demeanour, meaning that it was played for children in Australia. Episodes like "Sex and Violence" were accordingly not shown there at all.
Ear Worm: Nee-ded, Nee-ded...oh, goodie, that's niiiice...
- Also, that damn string jingle (stringle?). String, string, string, string, everybody loves string...
- Not to forget The Funky Gibbon and its 2010 remix
- And the theme tune itself ("Goody goody yum yum!"); once that's in your head it'll be there for days afterward.
Germans Love David Hasselhoff: While The Goodies is rarely repeated on the BBC after the series ended, simply because the BBC's main controller of the eighties didn't like them, The ABC in Australia repeated them extensively throughout the 1980s and 1990s, giving them a continuous Australian fan base since the show originally aired.
- Thanks to digital television, they're still going.
Hilarious in Hindsight: Bill Oddie is now mainly known for formerly hosting Springwatch and being a devoted birdwatcher and environmentalist; at the beginning of "The End", he starts shooting at songbirds out of the window. In "Animals", he mows down pigeons with an Uzi.
- Bill was already slightly known for his birdwatching (The Goodies File has a spoof ornithology section by him); this was probably always intended as a playing-against-type gag.
"Weird Al" Effect: Most notably the "Beans Boy" ads.

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