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{{quote|''Goodies! Goodie goodie yum-yum!''}}▼
A groundbreaking 1970 British comedy series, not nearly as well-known outside of the UK as its contemporary, ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]].'' (Some view it as ''[[The Monkees]]'' to the Pythons' Beatles -- while others view it as the Beatles to the Pythons' ''[[The Rolling Stones|Rolling Stones]]''.) Born from the same generation of comic talents that infused British TV in the 1960s and 1970s with such innovative work, ''[[
▲''Goodies! Goodie goodie yum-yum!''
''The Goodies'' starred Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie as three flatmates who run an agency that promises it can do "anything, anywhere, at any time". The BBC's own historical reference for the show describes it as a "live action version of a typical [[Looney Tunes|Warner Brothers cartoon]]", which is quite accurate, although sidestepping completely much of the thinly veiled social satire the show was inclined towards. Entire episodes were devoted to poking fun at topical subjects as diverse as TV censorship Nazis like Mary Whitehouse, nuclear testing, police brutality, ''[[Saturday Night Fever]]'' and the general crappiness of the British Post. Central to the show were the exaggerated versions of themselves that the leads played -- conservative royalist Tim, twisted gadgeteer Graeme, and Earth-child proto-hobbit Bill. The intersection of these three personalities generated as much comedy as the increasingly-bizarre situations that they found themselves in. Their trademark was the "Trandem" -- a bicycle-built-for-three which they invariably mounted and fell off of once per episode before riding to their next adventure.▼
▲A groundbreaking 1970 British comedy series, not nearly as well-known outside of the UK as its contemporary, ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]].'' (Some view it as ''[[The Monkees]]'' to the Pythons' Beatles -- while others view it as the Beatles to the Pythons' ''[[The Rolling Stones|Rolling Stones]]''.) Born from the same generation of comic talents that infused British TV in the 1960s and 1970s with such innovative work, ''[[The Goodies (TV)|The Goodies]]'' was far more plot-oriented than ''Python'' (it was nominally a [[Sit Com]] when it premiered), but at the same time it was also far more anarchic and surreal.
▲''The Goodies'' starred Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie as three flatmates who run an agency that promises it can do "anything, anywhere, at any time". The BBC's own historical reference for the show describes it as a "live action version of a typical Warner Brothers cartoon", which is quite accurate, although sidestepping completely much of the thinly veiled social satire the show was inclined towards. Entire episodes were devoted to poking fun at topical subjects as diverse as TV censorship Nazis like Mary Whitehouse, nuclear testing, police brutality, ''[[Saturday Night Fever]]'' and the general crappiness of the British Post. Central to the show were the exaggerated versions of themselves that the leads played -- conservative royalist Tim, twisted gadgeteer Graeme, and Earth-child proto-hobbit Bill. The intersection of these three personalities generated as much comedy as the increasingly-bizarre situations that they found themselves in. Their trademark was the "Trandem" -- a bicycle-built-for-three which they invariably mounted and fell off of once per episode before riding to their next adventure.
More inclined to vaudeville-like humour than the Pythons, the Goodies never quite got the respect they deserved -- despite the fact that they lasted at least three times as long on the air. The series can be found -- albeit rarely -- on public television in the United States, as well as on [http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+goodies&search=Search YouTube]; and some of their recordings (such as "The Funky Gibbon") can occasionally be heard on the Dr. Demento show.
Perceptive viewers will know Tim Brooke-Taylor from the 1971 film ''[[Charlie and
Notable for having someone [http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/laughing.asp die laughing] whilst watching it.
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Not to be confused with ''[[The Goonies]]''.
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* [[Accidental Unfortunate Gesture]]: Tim, as [[Winston Churchill]], gives the "two fingered salute" gesture when he was actually indicating that he wanted a cigar. Graeme then has the idea of turning his hand around to create the iconic "V for Victory" symbol.
* [[Affably Evil]]: [[Played for Laughs]] with Dr. Wolfgang von Petal, a Mad Scientist who just wants to be liked. Unfortunately for him, he seems to have a bit of a skewed idea of how to actually go about getting people to like him.
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* [[Amusing Injuries]]
* [[And Zoidberg]]: From "Frankenfido", when it's revealed Graeme has been gathering body parts from celebrities, following his "chopping list", to create the perfect dog:
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'''Tim:''' What are they? Horse, alligator, tiger...
'''Graeme:''' Look at them.
'''Tim:''' No! Not Donny Osmond!
'''Graeme:''' Yep.
'''Tim:''' You...you've been using people! ...And Donny Osmond! }}
* [[The Apartheid Era]]: The South Africa episode!
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: From
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'''Graeme:''' Weirdo! ...''Chelsea supporter!'' }}
* [[Asbestos
* [[Attack of the 50
* [[Baguette Beatdown]]: ''Kung-Fu Kapers'' has Tim briefly make use of a French martial art called Oh-Hon-Hee-Hon that involves hitting the opponent with a baguette... it has no effect whatsoever!
** Ecky Thump: it's a "martial art" Bill learned when he was younger that basically revolves around hitting people with black pudding.
* [[Banana Peel]]: In the episode
** And a mimed banana peel causes a nasty accident in "Daylight Robbery on the Orient Express".
* [[Bar Slide]]: Occurs in
* [[Bawdy Song]] (in "Wacky Wales")
* [[Big "Shut Up!"]]: Graeme does one
* [[Biting the Hand Humor]]: The Goodies contains numerous swipes at the BBC, most notably in the episodes
** And in one episode they blew up the BBC Television centre!
* [[Bitter Almonds]]: In
* [[Blackface]]: Tim in
* [[Blood Sport]]:In
* [[Boomerang Comeback]]: In the infamous scene in
* [[Bonnie Scotland]]: In
** Lampshaded somewhat by having the boys, in "Scotland", speak in ludicrous Scottish accents to avoid being discovered as being English. One amassment of slang and a song-and-dance number later, cue the tourist bureau owner saying "You must be English touristry".
* [[Bottle Episode]]:
* [[Broke Episode]]:
* [[Buccaneer Broadcaster]]:
* [[Butt Monkey]]:
* [[By the Lights of Their Eyes]]: In the episode
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'''Graeme:''' They ''are'' hundreds of tiny little eyes... }}
* [[By Wall That Is Holey]]
* [[Calvin Ball]]: "Spat", which seemed to be made of rules that led to Bill always losing and being injured.
** Bill mentions in the commentary that he really didn't have any idea what the other two were doing.
* [[The Cameo]]: Plenty of celebrities spoofed themselves, and the series virtually invented the [[Newscaster Cameo]]. Averted with Prince Charles who considered it but had to decline, and Rolf Harris who was never asked to appear in the episode spoofing him, much to his disappointment.<ref> Bill Oddie, whose personal contempt for Harris was part of the motivation behind the frequent mockery of him on the programme, assumed Harris would refuse if asked to appear in the episode, and so didn't bother to ask.</ref>
** In one episode, [[
* [[Camping a Crapper]]: In "Daylight Robbery on the Orient Express", the Shafts are killed when the lavatory on the train blows up while they're using it.
* [[Captured
* [[Cardboard Pal]]:
* [[Cargo Ship]]: Graeme's relationship with his computer was a [[Running Gag]] that popped up occasionally, starting in
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P.S. Hope your transistors are feeling better. }}
* [[The Cast Showoff]]
* [[Catapult Nightmare]]: In
* [[Cave Mouth]]: In "The Stone Age"
* [[Central Theme]]: While there is no real lesson to any episode, an overall antiauthoritian streak runs through the program. Antagonists are frequently characters who have [[Drunk
* [[Clown Car Base]]: In ''Skatty Safari'' the Rolf Harris plague has a take-off of the Pied Piper of Hamlin, which includes the Rolf Harris "attacking the babies in their cradles". Later when the Goodies draw them out of the city by playing "Waltzing Matilda" on didgeridoos, an endless stream of Rolfs are seen clambering out of the one baby carriage.
* [[Clueless Aesop]]: Parodied in ''Gender Education'' with their Mary Whitehouse expy-approved sex education film, which avoids any mention of anything related to sex:
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* [[Comic Trio]]: Played with -- usually ''someone'' would fill the roles, but no one character could or would have total claim to it.
* [[Compliment Backfire]]: The show was once praised by well-known [[Moral Guardian]] Mary Whitehouse. The boys took it poorly, making an entire episode spoofing her and, when she didn't rise to the bait, inserting rude gags until they finally earned her public disapproval.
* [[Computer Equals Tapedrive]]: Graeme's computer, naturally. Spoofed in the 2005 "Return of the Goodies" documentary where a now middle-aged Graeme tries to insert an enormous disk in his computer.
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* [[Continuity Cavalcade]]: In
* [[Corpsing]]: Bill was especially prone to this, pointing it out on the commentary tracks.
* [[Costume Inertia]]
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* [[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
* [[Dance Sensation]]: Spoofed in
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''Are you ready, all jump out }}
** In universe there is "The Bounce" from
** And Dr. Demento listeners will remember "The Funky Gibbon".
* [[The Danza]]: All three leads.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Bill and Graeme. Tim would snark occasionally, but he's usually playing it up too much for it to be deadpan.
* [[Dem Bones]]: In one episode the Goodies are operating their own hospital. Graeme gets a patient to step behind an X-Ray screen, which naturally displays his skeleton. The skeleton then walks out from the other side of the screen, causing Graeme to flee in terror (this scene is included in The Goodies opening montage).
* [[Did I Just Say That Out Loud?]]: Rather hilariously done in the original form in the episode "Come Dancing". Graeme has built a gadget controlling their "dancing suits", and a female leader of a dancing mafia is hassling him about the importance of the Goodies losing the dance competition they've entered. [[Absent
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'''Leader:''' ''Set the control box?''
'''Graeme:''' Yes, the box that--the--uh--the suits, the settings, we--''[makes vague hand gestures]''--anyway, I ''must'' dash!
'''Leader:''' ''[catching on somehow]'' ...But this is ''cheating!''
'''Graeme:''' Yeah, well, it is, a bit, but--''[grinning]''--long as nobody knows about it, eh? ''[thumbs up]'' See you later! ''[leaves]''
'''Leader:''' ''[stunned silence]''
'''Graeme:''' ''[just outside, stopping and [[Oh Crap|staring into open space, realizing]]]'' ...''WHAT'VE I DONE?!'' }}
* [[Die Laughing]]:
* [[Dodgy Toupee]]: Several appear in
* [[Dog Walks You]]: In
* [[Don't Touch It, You Idiot!]]: This is played with in the very first episode, as the Crown Jewels have a sign placed by them reading "Please Do Not Steal". It doesn't do much good.
* [[Don't Try This At Home]]: "We would like to point out that Ecky Thump is the ancient Lancastrian art of self defence. When practised by the untrained, it could be dangerous."
* [[Dope Slap]]: Frequent -- often in the visual gag sequences, one or two characters will make a mistake with comedic results, stand around looking sheepish for a while, and get slapped or shoved (usually on the arm or shoulder) several times by whoever of them watched the mistake happen.
* [[Double Entendre]]
* [[Driving a Desk]]:
* [[Dropped a Bridget On Him]]
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* [[Drop What You Are Doing]]: Parodied. Bill's not really shocked, he's just into loud noises.
* [[Drunk
** 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
* [[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]]).
* [[Eek!
* [[Edible Ammunition]]:
* [[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.
* [[Eleventy
* [[The End of the World
* [[Enemy Mime]]: "Daylight Robbery on the Orient Express"
* [[
* [[Expository Theme Tune]]:
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''O (Oh!) You know we understand
''O -- We'll be there to the end
''Everyone needs a friend! }}
* [[Fable Remake]]
* [[Facial Composite Failure]]:
* [[Fatal Family Photo]]: Parodied and Lampshaded:
* [[Fauxtastic Voyage]]:
* [[Fingertip Drug Analysis]]: Played for laughs with smell instead of taste.
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'''Graeme:''' Huh? Oh, that's--''(sniffs -- collapses, then gets up, looking completely spaced out)''--hooh! Where'd you get the stuff, man? Cool, baby, cool... }}
* [[Food Slap]]: In
** Also, in "Punky Business", Graeme has gotten to work as a waiter in a punk restaurant. When Tim orders the sauce, he gets it all over his head.
** ''Also'' also, in
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''(nothing happens)''
'''Graeme:''' Er--yes--oh, look! ''(points)'' The hamster's doing a handstand!
''(Tim and Bill look away for a bit -- when they look back, the kipper bone is sticking out of Graeme's mouth. Tim slowly pulls it out)''
'''Graeme:''' Er...''(turns to the cat)'' I'm sorry, Kenneth, I was just so--''(Tim slaps him with the kipper)'' }}
** In "Punky Business", Graeme dumps Tim's spaghetti dinner over Tim's head as part of the punk experience at his restaurant "Trattoria Punk".
* [[Football Hooligans]]: ''[[
** This was quite probably a reference to ''[[The Rite of Spring]]'', which actually did have hooligans beating each other and gendarmes called in to quell the riot on its premiere.
** They also had a milder parody in one episode, where Tim and Graeme ran in, cheering, chanting, and dressed in red-white scarves and
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'''Graeme:''' ''[[Smart People Play Chess|The chess championships!]]'' }}
* [[Footprints of Muck]]: In
* [[For the Evulz]]: A rather light example in
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'''Graeme:''' Oh really? What's that?
'''Bill:''' ''I like violence! (jumps Graeme, beginning to strangle him)'' }}
* [[Free Prize At the Bottom]]: One of the spoof ads was for Goodies Plastic Spacemen, which came in a cereal box with a free corn flake.
* [[Friend to All Living Things]]: After Tim Brooke-Taylor becomes Bigfoot (his right foot has swollen from walking around the sides of mountains, looking for legendary creatures) he retreats to the wild (so people will stop laughing themselves to death over the sight of his enormous foot) and becomes friends to all the animals, who join him in a rendition of the "Bigfoot" theme song.
* [[Funny Background Event]]: In
* [[Gadgeteer Genius]]:
** [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] after a fashion in "The Race". (Granted, he makes more of a simulation, but still...)
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'''Graeme:''' That's no problem -- get me a plate, a spoon, and a mirror.
'''Bill:''' [[Deadpan Snarker|This is]] ''[[Deadpan Snarker|no]]'' [[Deadpan Snarker|time for juggling.]]
'''Graeme:''' ''(annoyed)'' Get them. }}
* [[Gaussian Girl]]: Parodied, Bill and a woman are in soft focus whilst kissing, when he suddenly stops, runs up to the camera and wipes the petroleum jelly off the lens.
* [[Gay Cowboy]]:
* [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!]]: Played for comedy in an episode
* [[Giant Foot of Stomping]] / [[Dead Line News]]: In
* [[Gibberish of Love]]: The first time ''[[
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'''Goodies:''' We are Cyril. We are a bank clerk.
'''Girls:''' That's interesting.
''([[Beat]])''
'''Girls:''' ''[awkwardly]'' Our vision is to own our own hair dressing salon.
'''Goodies:''' How interesting. Our ambition is to own our own bank. }}
* [[The Girl Who Fits This Slipper]]: In "Punky Business", Graeme turns Tim into a punk by cutting his leg off. After reattaching it, he warns Tim that the catch won't last much past midnight. Tim goes to the
* [[Glass
* [[Goofy Print Underwear]]: Tim's union jack boxers make several appearances in The Goodies, most notably in
** And in
* [[Hilarious Outtakes]]: Included on the first DVD, showing several takes of the "breaking the record" scene from
* [[Hive Mind]]: In "Sex and Violence" all three Goodies disguise themselves as one person...all at once...and talk in synch. Something similar happens with both the Goodies and their dance partners in "Come Dancing".
* [[Homoerotic Subtext]]: Frequent. In one episode, Tim and Graeme replace Bill with a robot, which they treat like a son, and end up acting like a dysfunctional married couple.
** And lampshaded, notably in ''The End'', when they're concreted into their office.
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'''Bill:''' What d'you mean, children--we're not going to have any children, are we? I mean, think about it, y'know...face it, from now on we three are doomed to be [[Have a Gay Old Time|bachelors gay!]] ''(puts his hand on Tim's shoulder while Graeme starts stroking his hair)'' That's, uh...that's an idea, innit?
'''Tim:''' ''(thoughtful pause)'' ...No! Get off! }}
* [[Hospital Hottie]]: Spoofed in
* [[I Can't Believe
* [[Identical Grandson]]: In ''2001 And A Bit'', and done with an uncle in ''Hunting Pink''.
* [[I Know Kung Faux]]: Ecky-Thump, the ancient Lancastrian art of self-defence. It involved the use of black puddings as weapons.
* [[Implausible Deniability]]: In "Scoutrageous", Graeme and Bill have been terrorising the country as 'the Lone Scout, Plus One'. When they are finally cornered by Tim and the Salvation Army, Tim orders them to take off their masks. Upon seeing their faces, Tim lets out a shocked "It was you all along!". Graeme and Bill look sheepish and Bill mutters "No". Tim then says "Oh well, that's alright then" and starts to leave.
* [[Inept Talent Show Contestant
* [[Institutional Apparel]]: The arrow variation uniform can be seen in the episode
* [[Instrument of Murder]]:
* [[Interrogation
** Oh, it's not just that. They also threaten to take a Brillo pad (steel wool) to Tim's shiny shoes. ''[[Serious Business|They threatened the shiny shoes.]]''
* [[
* [[Is That What
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'''Graeme:''' Your personal life is no concern of ours. }}
* [[I Take Offense to That Last One]]: Subverted in "Caught In The Act". Context: [[It Makes Sense in Context|Tim is in drag, calling himself 'Mitzi',]] [[Zany Scheme|and has gotten into a fight with a woman named Ms. Heffer regarding Graeme who Tim pretends is his lover.]]
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'''"Mitzi":''' Fat and old I may be, but ugly--''(hissing)--ugly...'' ...you're absolutely right, that's why he loves me. C'mere... }}
* [[It Makes Sense in Context]]: Graeme pulls this in
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'''Graeme:''' Good grief, of course...that's it!
'''Tim & Bill:''' What?
'''Graeme:''' Wh--can't you see--Coco the Clown! The Americans! The tomato soup! Nerve gas! It all makes sense!
'''Tim & Bill:''' ...No, it doesn't. }}
* [[Keep Circulating the Tapes]]: Less than half the total number of episodes have been released on DVD in the UK, allegedly due to the controller of the BBC not liking the show.
** Due to ABC in Australia pretty much playing the episodes on constant repeat, where the show has a ''huge'' following, most of the material is now obtained from Aussie pirates
* [[Kill the Poor]]: An annual cull of the poor was one of Tim's policies when running for Prime Minister.
* [[Larynx Dissonance]]: Tim in "Cecily", talking on the phone. It might not be convincing, but, credit where its due, he slips into the voice like an evening gown.
** It's his Lady Constance (from ''[[I'm Sorry,
* [[Last Breath Bullet]] ("Bunfight at the OK Tearooms")
* [[Le Film Artistique]]: Parodied in "The Movies". The film of a nun stripping to a frenzied cello accompaniment, but revealing a whiteface mime, is especially bizarre.
** It was a parody of Ken Russell's films, specially ''Mahler''.
* [[Left the Background Music On]]: Tim's habit of giving inspirational speeches to a background of patriotic music -- which he is seen starting up himself on a tape deck before beginning his speech.
* [[Lighthouse Point]]:
* [[Like an Old Married Couple]]: In
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'''Bill:''' ''Surely'' you're not resentful toward a little kindness for one of our dumb friends?
'''Tim:''' The only dumb friend I've got is you!
'''Bill:''' Well, ''thank'' you, after I make supper for you--
'''Tim:''' Look, we can hardly afford to feed ourselves, and you start giving four-course meals to ''flaming guinea pigs''!
'''Bill:''' ''[turns his back]'' Temper, temper...
'''Tim:''' Well, since when have we eaten that well!
'''Bill:''' Since when indeed, yes...what did we get last time ''you'' cooked supper, eh? ''[Tim turns his back as well] A bowl of corn flakes!'' Yes, and [[Epic Fail|they were burnt]]...
'''Tim:''' Well, better than your soggy lettuce and potato peelings...
'''Bill:''' ''[turns back around, snapping]'' On the money you give me you're very lucky to get anything at all, I can tell you! ''[turning his back, hands on hips]'' Oh, I've a good urge to go back to mother's...
'''Tim:''' Well go.
'''Bill:''' I shall.
'''Graeme:''' ''Now listen!''
'''Bill and Tim:''' ''AND YOU KEEP OUT OF THIS!''
'''Graeme:''' Tim, you are being very, very silly!
'''Tim:''' Oh, you always take sides with ''him'', don't you... }}
* [[Limited Wardrobe]]: Played straight with Tim and Graeme but averted with Bill, who had the same outfit for the first two seasons but went through several groovy outfits after that.
* [[Lipstick and Load Montage]]:
* [[Locked in
* [[Martial Arts and Crafts]]:
* [[May Contain Evil]]:
* [[Meadow Run]]: Done between Bill Oddie and his new gal. Then done in the same meadow between Graeme Garden and...his computer. He also tries to push it on a swing, which...doesn't work so well.
* [[Media Watchdogs]]:
* [[Mega Neko]]:
* [[Merit Badges for Everything]]:
** It also features a montage of two of the characters earning badges they are blatantly making up as they go, including the Wig Spotters Badge, the Stealing A Pair Of [[Margaret Thatcher]]'s Bloomers Badge, and the [[Cheating
* [[Miracle-Gro Monster]]:
* [[Monumental Damage]]:
** <s>
** Kitten Kong took down the Post Office Tower (now known as the BT Tower) in a clip that ended up in the [[Title Sequence]] of later seasons.
* [[Most Definitely Not a Villain]]:
** And earlier on, in "The Greenies", there was a military base with a sign saying (paraphrased): "Not A Germ Warfare Station Or A Nuclear Weapon Testing Site Or A Place Where People Are Hurt In Any Way". And below it, a small sign saying "So There".
* [[Mushroom Samba]]: In some of the early episodes Bill Oddie's hallucinations are crucial plot points. They are induced by
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:: Whenever the [[G
* [[Musical Assassin]]:
** ''Everyone'' at the end of "The Stolen Musicians". Don't forget the organ cannon. Or the orchestra using their violins as bows.
*** And their bows as arrows.
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** Regulars of note were Corbet Woodall and Michael Barratt (who hosted ''Nationwide'').
* [[Nice Hat]]: In "Kung Fu Kapers", mastery in the Lancastrian martial art of Ecky-Thump is shown by the size of the flat cap worn by the fighter.
* [[Nine Out of Ten Doctors Agree]]: Parodied when The Goodies go into the advertising business in
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'''Graeme''': That's right. Mind you, it did take us a long time to find the right nine doctors, woo hoo hoo ''(makes loony signal)'' ... and the elephants! }}
* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: There were several thinly-disguised parodies of media personalities, usually with punny names such as Bill Grumpy, Michael Aspirin, and so forth.
* [[No More for Me]]: In
* [[No Party Like a Donner Party]]:
* [[No Pronunciation Guide]]:
** Also done in
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'''Graeme:''' Oh, no, no, no. We're not dumping your...poison gas or whatever it is.
'''General:''' Poison gas!? This is not poison gas, this is...tomayto soup!
'''Goodies:''' ''(incredulous)'' Tomato soup!?
'''General:''' Yes, tomayto soup! ''(points to the label)''
'''Bill:''' Oh, ''tomato'' soup... }}
* [[Orgy of Evidence]]: "Daylight Robbery on the Orient Express" where the evidence left behind by the murderers includes a Union jack waistcoat, a pair of glasses and a beard...which Bill proceeds to put on.
* [[Overly Long Name]]: When The Goodies travel to Wales via train, the name of the station is seen outside the window continuing for the entire journey to their destination. This is a parody of the railway station at [
* [[Painted Tunnel, Real Train]]: Taken to a truly ''manic'' extent in
** Done earlier in
* [[Paper
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** This is inverted in another episode when they attempt to bluff a villain's henchman by pretending to be the villain disguising himself as all three of them at once.
* [[Parody|Parodies]] -- Too many to list, so I'll list ''Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World''
* [[Parody Commercial]]: From the start of season 1 to the end of season 4, episodes were split into two parts, divided by parody commercials. They made a return in the season 6 episode
* [[Pin
* [[Pixilation]]
* [[Poke the Poodle]]:
* [[Political Stereotype]]: Not a major part of their characters, but the three Goodies each had elements of being stereotypical members of the three main political parties in the UK at the time: Bill for Labour, Tim for the Conservatives and Graeme for the Liberals.
* [[Pressure Point]]: Spoofed in
* [[Ridiculympics]]: "A Kick in the Arts
▲* [[Pressure Point]]: Spoofed in ''Kung Fu Capers'': Reading from a book of martial arts instructions, Graham delivers a large number of light taps and pokes to various spots on Tim's body. After several seconds of nothing happening, Tim suddenly spasms and jerks back and forth before collapsing unconscious.
* [[Ring Ring CRUNCH]]: Hilariously spoofed in
▲* [[Ridiculympics]]: "A Kick in the Arts'' had Tim converting the Olympics from sports alone to a combination of sports and arts, leading to such events as the 'Snatch and Limerick' (combining poetry and weightlifting).
** Also present in the second episode,
▲* [[Ring Ring CRUNCH]]: Hilariously spoofed in ''Lighthouse Loonies''. Seeing the fog closing in around the Jolly Rock lighthouse Graeme switches on the foghorn, startling an over-sensitive Tim who yells at him to turn it off. Graeme does so but the foghorn continues to blare, even after they repeatedly flick the switch, pull out the power cord, rip the foghorn to bits and jump up and down on it. Finally in desperation Graeme swallows the part emitting the most noise, whereupon silence ensues. Until he opens his mouth to speak.
▲** Also present in the second episode, ''Snooze'', with a radio. It seems that Graeme has built a hammer into his wall for the primary purpose of smashing his radio.
* [[Running Gag]]: Many. Bill's "lemon sherbet" in early episodes, for example. They also had several that only lasted for one episode, such as Graeme always adding a deadpan
▲* [[River of Insanity]] ("The Lost Tribe")
▲* [[Running Gag]]: Many. Bill's "lemon sherbet" in early episodes, for example. They also had several that only lasted for one episode, such as Graeme always adding a deadpan 'boom' to their radio station's theme song ([[It Makes Sense in Context]]...ah...sort of...) in "Radio Goodies".
** The Heenz Meenz Beenz add, featuring Tim as a [[Butt Monkey]] boy who keeps messing up an add for baked beans.
* [[The Runt At the End]]
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* [[Sad Clown]]: Years after the show had ended, Bill Oddie [http://www.stuff.co.nz/sunday-star-times/features/profiles/637257/An-Oddie-but-a-Goodie revealed that he had a lifelong battle with depression].
* [[Screwed
** The BBC eventually ''did'' cancel the series (or rather, failed to continue it; there was never a formal contract), and it moved to ITV, where it was subjected to [[Executive Meddling]] and died. Ironically, this is the season that [[Comedy Central]] UK is allowed to show it.
*** Apparently the show was canceled so that the special effects budget for ''The Goodies'' could be reallocated to the effects heavy and very expensive TV version of ''[[
** Although then
* [[Shoot Out the Lock]]: In
* [[Shout
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** Also, the cast of ''[[Sooty]]'' leading a '[[Incredibly Lame Pun|puppet government]]'. And the giant [[The Magic Roundabout|Dougal and Zebedee...]]
** They had another ''Python'' reference at the end of the beanstalk episode; after rubbing the empty bean tin that started the havoc, a genie (played by [[
** In
** Also,
**
* [[Showdown At High Noon]]:
* [[Snake Oil Salesman]]: In
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** Tony Blackburn, in fact, portrays one of the onlookers.
* [[Something That Begins With Boring]]:
* [[Spin
* [[Spiritual Successor]]:
** Which, in turn, would make ''[[
* [[Spot the Imposter]]: In
* [[Start My Own]]: The basis for several episodes, including "Radio Goodies" and "Hospital for Hire".
* [[Stop Motion]]: The Goodies often used the live action version of this effect during the action scenes.
* [[Surrounded
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'''Tim & Bill:''' ...He's flipped. He's flipped, he's gone, he's completely gone... }}
* [[Surreal Humor]]: On occasion, the most notable occasions being the endings of certain episodes -- "The Movies" (which ended with Tim, Bill and Graeme running back and forth between movie sets and into television screens in an epic battle between an epic, a silent comedy, and a western), "Daylight Robbery On The Orient Express" (which ended with [[Evil Twin]] Goodies entering the French Le Boring competition, and using the power of mime to stop the Goodies from interfering), and "It Might As Well Be String" (which ended with switches to several different commercials in which Bill and Graeme tried to stop Tim from telling the world that string was evil). None of these endings offered any attempt at closure, even for a show with [[Negative Continuity]], all of them [[Makes Just
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'''Graeme:''' Surrealism.
'''Bill:''' Suh--what?
'''Tim:''' [[Incredibly Lame Pun|'Suh lot of rubbish.]]
'''Bill:''' Oh. }}
* [[Take That]]: Frequently to Rolf Harris. In "The Stolen Musicians", being locked into a cell with Rolf Harris is considered a [[Fate Worse Than Death]]. (Also, they took a few playful shots at ''[[Monty Python]]''.)
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*** The episode also includes a swipe at Tony Blackburn, the safari park's former main attraction. Tony (who appears as himself) doesn't do well in captivity, and after Tim can't bring himself to put the poor fellow out of his misery ("I couldn't do it! Those big brown eyes looking up at me. I swear he could understand every word I said!"), they decide to release him into the wild, and he makes his glorious run for freedom... at which point he is promptly shot dead by a hunter.
** Other favourite targets: singers Max Bygraves and Des O'Connor, journalist/comedian David Frost (fondly<ref> Frost having given the Goodies some of their first breaks as television writers</ref>), "Clean Up TV" and "Festival of Light" campaigner Mary Whitehouse, actress and political activist Vanessa Redgrave, and television presenter Nicholas Parsons.
* [[The Tape Knew You Would Say That]]:
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''Tim makes the rude V sign.''
'''Graeme:''' ''No, not like that.''
''Tim flips his hand around to a less rude gesture''
'''Graeme:''' ''Yes, like that.'' }}
* [[Tandem Parasite|Trandem Parasite]]: The Trandem is a three-man variation of a Tandem. The original version was an ordinary (sic) tandem with an extra seat at the back. Tim and Graeme
* [[Team Title]]
* [[Ten Little Murder Victims]]: Parodied in ''Daylight Robbery on the Orient Express''
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* [[Thief Bag]] ("Alternative Roots")
* [[This Is No Time to Panic]]: Usually Graeme will say calmly, "Who votes that we should panic now?" followed by everyone putting up their hands, then Bill and Graeme start running about shouting hysterically while Tim pretends he's a Teapot.
* [[Thriller
* [[Title Montage]]: Updated almost every series with new clips from the preceding series, or with a new theme tune (or version of the existing one).
* [[Today X, Tomorrow the World!]]: Played [[Nightmare Fuel|chillingly]] straight by Graeme in "Radio Goodies", after he went [[Drunk
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* [[Totem Pole Trench]]: In
* [[To the Batpole]]:
* [[Trouser Space]]:
* [[True Art Is Incomprehensible]]: Mocked in "The Goodies and the Movies", where Tim eventually fires all the film directors for making films of this type.
** Specifically, he says 50% of them are either "very boring or extremely pretentious", and the rest are unnecessarily violent or sexy.
* [[
* [[Universal Adaptor Cast]]: In those episodes inexplicably set in alternate times or places, where the trio play different characters.
* [[Visual Pun]]:
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''Promptly has a drum thrown at him with a message written on it.'' }}
* [[Waxing Lyrical]]:
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'''Tim''': ''(walking in)'' I'm late.
'''Bill''': For a very important date.
'''Graeme''': No time to say hello.
'''Tim''': ''(leaving)'' Goodbye.
'''Graeme and Bill''': ''(together)'' He's late, he's late, he's late, eeh eeh! }}
** And from an early season episode comes this exchange:
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'''Bill:''' ''(singing)'' Fools give you reasons...
'''All:''' ''Wise men never try!''
'''Tim:''' Some enchaaaanted evening--''don't change the subject!'' }}
** And all the time in "Saturday Night Grease"!
* [[Wearing a Flag
* [[We Help the Helpless]]
* [[What Do You Mean
* [[Widget Series]]:
* [[William Telling]]:
* [[Write Who You Know]]:
** Both Bills were keen ornithologists, though, because that was something he was known for. Tim would later say that the characters were exaggerations of how the public percieved them; so Bill's passionate outspokenness became heroic sociopathy, Graeme's medical degree made him a [[Mad Scientist]], and Tim's posh accent and name made him an [[
* [[Your Approval Fills Me
* [[Zany Scheme]]:
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