History Series / TheGoodies

* MegaNeko: Kitten Kong.

%%* WidgetSeries: Or, more accurately, Wibbit Series.

''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". A riotous mix of sketches, sitcom, comically overambitious special effects and nonsense, Creator/TheBBC's own historical reference for the show describes it as a "live action version of a typical Warner Brothers cartoon" -- which is quite accurate, although sidestepping completely much of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, ''Film/SaturdayNightFever'', [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and the general crappiness of the British postal service]]. 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 once per episode before riding to their next adventure.

*** In "Chubby Chumps", Radio/TerryWogan (voiced by Graeme) is announcing a contest, the second prize for which is a night out with Tony Blackburn, and the third prize for which is ''two'' nights out with Tony Blackburn.

'''Bill:''' I like violence! ''(jumps Graeme, beginning to strangle him)''

* NoPronunciationGuide:
** "Bunfight at the OK Tea Room" has an OverlyLongGag about the pronunciation of the word "scone". The joke is that both the long-O and short-O pronunciations are correct, and it's slightly region-dependent which one is favoured.
** In "The Clown Virus" when they're meeting with an American general:
--->'''General:''' Gentlemen, we want to employ you to dispose of this small canister of harmless substance.\\
'''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...

*** In "The Stolen Musicians", being locked into a cell with Rolf Harris is considered a FateWorseThanDeath. Now a colossal FunnyAneurysmMoment due to his prison sentence in 2014 for historical sex offences.

-->"''Goodies! Goody-goody yum-yum...''"

"''Goodies! Goody-goody yum-yum...''"

** A spoof of the TwoChicksInAKitchen trope has a housewife struggling to get her kitchen clean, when another woman comes in with a new floor varnish which she sprinkles all over the place, then taunts the housewife about the mess she's made. So the housewife produces a submachine gun and shoots her.

* OverlyLongName: 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 [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llanfairpwllgwyngyll Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch]] (usually abbreviated to Llanfair PG), which is the longest train station name in the world.

* BaguetteBeatdown: "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. There's also Ecky Thump, a "martial art" Bill learned when he was younger that basically revolves around hitting people with black pudding.

** ''Chubby Chumps'' sees Gareme 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 - [[UsefulNotes/RugbyLeague Eddie Waring]], Radio/TerryWogan, Radio/TonyBlackburn - where his comedy career started. On Creator/{{BBC}} [[Radio/ImSorryIllReadThatAgain Radio]].

** ''Chubby Chumps'' sees Gareme 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 - [[UsefulNotes/Rugby League Eddie Waring]], Creator/TerryWogan, Creator/TonyBlackburn - where his comedy career started. On Creator/{{BBC}} [[Radio/ImSorryIllReadThatAgain Radio]].

* IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow: Used, albeit not with the exact phrasing.
-->'''American Officer:''' Well, I'll be hornswoggled!\\
'''Graeme:''' Your personal life is no concern of ours.

** "U-Friend Or UFO" has ''Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind'', ''{{Superman}}'', ''Series/TheFlyingNun'' and ''Franchise/StarWars''.

** Other favourite targets: singers Max Bygraves and Des O'Connor, journalist/comedian David Frost (fondly[[note]] Frost having given the Goodies some of their first breaks as television writers[[/note]]), then-Opposition leader UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher, "Clean Up TV" and "Festival of Light" campaigner [[MoralGuardian Mary Whitehouse]], actress and political activist Creator/VanessaRedgrave, and television presenter Creator/NicholasParsons.

* {{Corpsing}}: Bill was especially prone to this, pointing it out on the commentary tracks.

* HatOfAuthority: 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.

* NiceHat: 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.