Goodies favourites

Fri 25 February 2005 8:07am by Daniel
Filed under: TV 

The Goodies name their favourite episodes (at least, of those released on DVD):

After watching the shows again, all agree their favourite episodes are Earthanasia and The End in which the three spend their time together in confinement and without their often wild film excerpts.

“Ironically they were brought about by the fact that we ran out of money at the end of each series,” Oddie says. “I actually think that some of those have stood up better than some of the film things.”

These are two of my favourite episodes, too, really bringing out Oddie and Garden’s superb dialogue-writing skills.

My favourite Goodies episodes (in no particular order):

  • Earthanasia — “ha ha ha Your little faces!”
  • The End — “Is he going into a monastery?” “No, into a lavatory.”
  • the Lighthouse one — like the two above, pretty much a three men stuck in confinement story, with a bit of space travel thrown in.
  • U-Friend or UFO — Star Wars, Close Encounters, Superman, Doctor Who, they all get a look-in. “EBGB, how do you talk to aliens?” “Exterminate! Exterminate!”
  • Radio Goodies (pictured) — I can never hear “Walk in the Black Forest” without thinking of it.
  • String — such a wide-ranging parody of advertising I don’t think I’ve seen on any other comedy.
  • The Cream Mine — that whole card game and sauce bottle fight at the end cracks me up. It brought the pointless argument over pronounciation of “scones” into popular culture.
  • Saturday Night Grease — was particularly funny after I’d seen the movies that inspired it. Just about every classic musical ever made gets spoofed.

Yup, I’ll be buying the new DVD release. Like the first one, it’ll sell like cupcakes in Australia.

Somewhere, possibly retired now, there’s an ABC staff member or two who were responsible for scheduling The Goodies constantly through the 70s and 80s, embedding it deeply into the memories of most Gen-Xers.

Whoever you are, and wherever you are, I salute you.

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14 comments on Goodies favourites

  1. Ren on Fri, 25th Feb 2005 8:57 am

    2. You going to see the boys in their show?

  2. Nic on Fri, 25th Feb 2005 9:38 am

    3. Here Here to the Goodies!
    One of my favourite episodes was the one where they clone all the Rolf Harris’s (..’and don’t the kids love ‘im”). That and: “String string string string, everybody loves string….”. hehehe!!

    I wish I could see them while they are here. They just don’t make ‘em like that any more.

  3. Daniel on Fri, 25th Feb 2005 9:54 am

    4. Alas, I can’t make it on the night they’ll be in Melbourne.

  4. Tim Aslat on Fri, 25th Feb 2005 10:05 am

    5. Personal favourites are (in no particular order):
    The Goodies – Almost Live
    The Goodies Rule – OK!
    Radio Goodies
    Earthenasia
    U Friend or UFO
    Kung Fu Kapers
    Royal Command

  5. Leo on Fri, 25th Feb 2005 10:29 am

    6. Is this the tv series where one of the characters had a survuval suit with deep pockets? Or am I surpressing my memories of the 70’s and 80’s?

  6. David Dyte on Fri, 25th Feb 2005 10:37 am

    7. My favourites in no particular order:

    Kung Fu Kapers
    Bunfight
    Radio Goodies
    Kitten Kong
    String
    Cod

  7. beth on Fri, 25th Feb 2005 10:44 am

    8. How I love the Goodies! I did love Kitten Kong – and I REALLY loved the episode with the boneless chicken. And ‘Don’t Cry for me Marge & Tina’.
    When are they going to be in Melbourne?

  8. [m i a o w] the cat on Fri, 25th Feb 2005 10:47 am

    9. The Goodies
    Daniel writes about The Goodies better than I can – go and read it!…

  9. P on Fri, 25th Feb 2005 12:46 pm

    10. And don’t forget Boy Scout Goodies (Tim Brooke Taylor was leader?), the Goodie Olympics and the ApartHeight show!

  10. rat on Sun, 27th Feb 2005 9:26 pm

    11. kung fu kapers was my favourite., totally envious if you’re going to the show…

  11. coralie on Sun, 27th Mar 2005 5:28 pm

    12. hmm, something to suggest to hubby that i might like for my birthday ..

  12. flerdle on Sat, 4th Jun 2005 8:40 pm

    13. Yumm, Goodies.

    I hope they end up putting a lot of them onto DVD. When they were rerun briefly on the ABC in the early 90s, a certain person I know taped about 33 episodes. mmmmmm…

  13. peter on Fri, 2nd Sep 2005 11:54 am

    14. can someone please tell me which goodies episode has graham and tim in clockwork orange attire? I thought it was kungfu kapers but the recent version i saw didn’t contain it

  14. Daniel on Fri, 2nd Sep 2005 12:23 pm

    15. It’s the moon rocket one “Invasion Of The Moon Creatures”, where Bill and Tim get captured by “Big Bunny” and get turned into rabbits. It’s not on any of the DVDs released so far.