Worst episode?
Every comedy team has an 'off-day' but I can't for the life of me think how the Goodies let that awful 'Come Dancing' episode slip onto the DVD. It's one of the worst things they've ever done.
shareI didn't mind 'Come Dancing'. If I had to pick a worst episode it would be either 'Apartheight' or 'Beef Eaters'.
But that's not because the episodes are bad, it's because they're my least favourite. I thought the 'Apartheight' wasn't very funny and bordered on uncomfortable much of the time, but I can understand the message it was trying to convey and that it is a reflection of attitudes at the time.
And I didn't like 'Beef Eaters', simply because I didn't understand many of the jokes. I assume that's because it's very "English" humour. I don't mean that racially, in case anyone thinks I do, I just mean it's humour that centers around a knowledge of British history and other aspects of British culture. I still have no idea what "beef eaters" are, other than the very literal meaning.
Other than those two episodes, I absolutely love the Goodies. The content is witty and very funny. Sometimes their jokes are very obvious and contrived, other times their props and "special effects" are downright prehistoric compared to today, but, to me, that's all just part of the humour and awesomeness of the Goodies.
What other episodes/elements do fans like and dislike? I'm very eager to hear input and opinion form others!
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Beefeaters are traditional olde-worlde guards whose job is to patrol the tower of London. I agree though, quite a weak episode, but considering it was their first, quite a sterling effort!
I quite like 'Apart-height', there's a lot of funny stuff in there, like Tim blacked-up for the PR film and the whole sequence with the jockeys under Bill's command.
Which episodes would you like to see on the third Network DVD, if there is one? (Here's hoping!) I'd like to see Dodonuts / Almost Live / The Stone Age / 2001 And A Bit / It Might As Well Be String / Goodies Rule OK / Clown Virus / Rome Antics.
Ah, thankee muchly for the tip. The Beef-Eaters episode makes marginally more sense to me now then it did. Unfortunately, I'm still going to have to list it as one of my least favourites.
Here's my selection of the episodes I'd choose for the next DVD:
'It Might As Well Be String'
'Winter Olympics'
'Goodies Rule - OK?'
'Black and White Beauty'
'Dodonuts'
'Politics'
'Double Trouble'
'2001 And A Bit'
Several of them are the same as yours; the Goodies must have done something especially right in those episodes! I haven't seen every episode, though, so I'm hoping there might be a few nice surprises when (not if!) the next DVD is released.
'Black and White Beauty' is one of my absolute favourites but my friend who's also a Goodies fan hates it and thinks I'm loony. I also like the bit in the 'String' episode when Tim relives history and does the baked bean ad... and for some reason I love the line, "I do not want money - do you want a dumpling?"
I think I saw an ad for a new Goodies DVD in a BBC DVD catalogue... if it was, it's to be released this year, though I'm not sure when... I might wander off now and see if I can find out a bit more about it!
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A friend of mine used to have 'Goodies Rule OK' on VHS, but when I tried to borrow it from him he told me "I've taped over it". He thought the show was far too long (it runs 48m) and he couldn't take that much of the Goodies in one go!
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I think I can safely say that I could take far more than 48mins of Goodies in one go!
Your tale of woe reminds me of one of my own: my uncle used to obsessively tape the Goodies episodes off TV when they aired on the ABC. Just as they started gatting to episodes I hadn't seen already, though, my uncle decided the show wasn't worth the bother and stopped it! I was heartbroken (OK, maybe not quite...) as out here in the sticks we can't get the ABC...
Incidentally, I have done some research on that additional DVD I mentioned and can't find any trace of it anywhere except in that BBC catalogue. All this leads me to the sad conclusion that it's either an already-released DVD with a different cover or a special edition DVD released in England only. Probably the first.
On a happier note, though, I saw the Goodies Boxset in store the other day and was sorely tempted to buy it. I heard it has additional special features on it, though I'm not 100% sure what they are... do you know?
Oh well, there's always the thought of Red Dwarf VII to keep me going...!
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My favourite was one that went missing - 'Sex and Violence'. Bill gets involved in the making of violent, Sam Peckinpah-style movies, and finally goes beserk with a camera fitted with a machine gun. It was made shortly after Peckinpah's 'Straw Dogs', and Kubrick's 'A Clockwork Orange', were filmed in Britain.
It was originally shown on the ABC (Australia) in prime time, but then when repeats of The Goodies were shown around 6PM for years afterward, it mysteriously disappeared!
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"And I didn't like 'Beef Eaters', simply because I didn't understand many of the jokes. I assume that's because it's very "English" humour. I don't mean that racially, in case anyone thinks I do, I just mean it's humour that centers around a knowledge of British history and other aspects of British culture. I still have no idea what "beef eaters" are, other than the very literal meaning."
Sorry for being pedantic, but ''English'' humour would center around Englis history and other aspects of English culture.
Now if you said ''British'' (note that I hate the racist, BNP-inspired, idea of a ''British ethnic group and culture), I would in many ways agree with you.
England and Britain are NOT the same thing and ''British'' encompasses (whether I agree with the use of this term or not) anyone from any country in the UK (England, Scotland, Wales, N.Ireland, Cornwall, Man etc.).
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