History Series / TheGoodies

* BringTheAnchorAlong: In "Goodies in the Nick", the Goodies escape from prison with iron balls still shackled to their ankles. They proceed to disguise the balls in a series of increasingly unlikely fashions; including as a ''balloon''.

A groundbreaking 1970-82 British comedy series, born from the same generation of comic talents that infused British TV in TheSixties and TheSeventies with such innovative work as ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus''. Not nearly as well-known outside the UK as its contemporary ''Python'' (some view it as Music/TheMonkees to the Pythons' Beatles, others as the Beatles to the Pythons' [[Music/TheRollingStonesBand Rolling Stones]], and to overextend the metaphor, sometimes Music/TheHollies for The Goodies as against Music/ProcolHarum for the Pythons'), ''The Goodies'' was far more plot-oriented -- it was nominally a SitCom when it premiered -- but at the same time it was also far more anarchic and surreal.

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* AbsentMindedProfessor: Graeme.

-->Author: Bill Oddie
-->Printed by: Tatty & Cheap (Prunter)

* AmusingInjuries

-->'''Bill''': As you well know tomorrow never comes and do you know why? Because, little dewy eyed Timbo, tomorrow we'll all be dead! Dead, dead! D! E! D! D! '''''DEAD'''''!\\
'''Graeme''': You might have broken it to him gently.

-->'''Newsreader''': In the light of the increasing poverty of the nation, the government have decided that work on the new Brighton to Birkenhead freeway will be suspended indefinitely.\\
'''Bill''': '''''WHAAT?!'''''

** ''Chubby Chumps'' sees Graeme returning to [=BBC=] Radio. He goes to what really amounts to a long-neglected crypt where everything is festooned with cobwebs and which reeks of long neglect. This of course allows him a vehicle to reprise all the voice imitations he used, such as [[UsefulNotes/RugbyLeague Eddie Waring]], Radio/TerryWogan, or Radio/TonyBlackburn, where his comedy career started. On Creator/{{BBC}} [[Radio/ImSorryIllReadThatAgain Radio]].

-->'''Graeme''': ''(sniffs a bottle)'' A characteristic smell of bitter almonds...\\
'''Tim''': That's cyanide, isn't it?\\
'''Graeme''': Yes. This bottle of arsenic's been poisoned!

* {{Catchphrase}}: "Get it right!"

-->'''Announcer''': If someone comes in and fouls up your housework, try a Westminister submachine gun!

* DoubleEntendre

-->'''Bill:''' Alright, Graeme. ''(produces a fish)'' I want to see that cat eat that kipper.\\

** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] after a fashion in "The Race". (Granted, he makes more of a simulation, but still...)

-->'''Tim:''' We shall make a new world...a better world for our children.\\

--> '''Bill''': Health foods are alright when you're not hungry but I'm famished!

-->'''Ms. Heffer:''' He doesn't want you! You're fat and old and ugly!\\

* MartialArtsAndCrafts: "Kung Fu Kapers"

* MiracleGroMonster: Kitten Kong

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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In “U-Friend or UFO?”, Graeme’s robot EB-GB (a CaptainErsatz of R2-D2) ends up inciting the aliens the plot centres around to war when asked how to talk to aliens.

-->'''Tim''': Look at this! Nine out of every ten doctors agree that people who don't eat Sunbeam sliced bread will get squashed by elephants!\\
'''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!

-->'''Man''': Good Lord! There are three of you in there!

* [[{{Parody}} Parodies]]: Too many to list, so we'll just list ''Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World''.

* TheRuntAtTheEnd

* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: Graeme.

* SurrealHumor: 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 EvilTwin 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 NegativeContinuity, all of them [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext make just as much sense in context]], and it was even lampshaded in the [[CreativeCredits credits]] of "It Might As Well Be String", with Tim, Bill and Graeme looking at a television screen.
-->'''Bill:''' ...Huh, I didn't quite get that.\\

*** Meanwhile, the Pythons returned fire in John Cleese's cameo at the end of "The Goodies and the Beanstalk". He appears as a genie from the tin of beans and declares, "[[CatchPhrase And now for something completely different.]]" An annoyed Tim snaps, "Push off!" To which Cleese sneers, "Kids' programme!"[[note]] A favourite term of derision for ''The Goodies'' by the Pythons' more militant fans.[[/note]]

-->'''Graeme:''' Now lift up your index and middle finger and make a V.\\

-->'''Tim:''' I should have known something was wrong when you didn't laugh at the Chelsea result!\\

* TeamTitle

* {{Uncanceled}}

-->'''Graeme:''' They'll probably send us a message on the drums. ''(promptly has a drum thrown at him with a message written on it)''

-->'''Graeme''': He's late.\\
'''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!

-->'''Graeme:''' Well, that's love. Who can explain it? Who can tell you why?\\

* LeFilmArtistique: Ken Russell's outlandish composer biopics, especially ''Mahler'', are parodied in "The Movies" with ''The Life of Pablo Casals''. The film of a nun stripping to a frenzied cello accompaniment, but revealing a whiteface mime, is especially bizarre.

** In a parody of ''Series/{{Roots}}'' we see the OriginStory of ''The Goodies'', where their ancestors were cruelly kidnapped by the BBC and forced into blackface as cast members on ''Series/TheBlackAndWhiteMinstrelShow''. They eventually fought for equal rights, no matter what colour paint, be it black, white, green, polka-dot. The episode was actually labelled: DO NOT BROADCAST - RACIST in the BBC archive.

* Zeerust: in 1973, the 21st century was still 27 years in the future. ''Two Thousand And One And A Bit'' is a look at what the Goodies' world might look like in 2001. They get some bits eerily right - flat screen televisions, for instance. From 20222, the rest looks... well, stuck in TheSeventies.

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* GiantFootOfStomping / DeadlineNews: In "Kitten Kong", newsreader Michael Aspel is squashed by Kitten Kong's huge paw.