The Goodies - why?

andy-hughes | 13:07 Thu 31st May 2012 | ChatterBank

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I watched TOTP2 last night and The Goodies were on doing The Funky Gibbon.

I know a lot of songs and TV shows do not age well, but i always found the Goodies to be utterly unfunny at the time, and surely no-one could even raise a smile at this turgid tosh.

As Mark Radcliffe said with thypical dry wit - "You had to be there ... but probably best that you weren't!"

Grrrrrr, blooming delivery driver!

someone make me smile please...

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mayviabelle

We were watching that too and my thoughts mirrored yours, although my children aged 7 and 3 quite liked it.... Oooh oooh oooh

Mick-Talbot

someone found it funny

On 24 March 1975 Alex Mitchell, a 50-year-old bricklayer from King's Lynn, England, died laughing while watching an episode of The Goodies, featuring a Scotsman in a kilt battling a vicious black pudding with his bagpipes. After twenty-five minutes of continuous laughter Mitchell finally slumped on the sofa and expired from heart failure. His widow later sent the Goodies a letter thanking them for making Mitchell's final moments so pleasant

Frank97

I've still got the single of M.I.C.K.E.Y M.O.U.S.E, can't say it gets played very often but it does occasionally!

tonyav

Always looked at the Goodies as a watered down and childish version of Monty Python ?.

MarkRae

Here's the clip in question...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3sG-J3AuhM

Mick-Talbot

my 6 year old son did not find that funny. (he is off school poorly )

cupid04

I remember the giant cat sketch more than any other.

By the way what do you call a bike that three people can ride? Is it triandem?

andy-hughes

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I rest my case. It's sin is not that it is casually racist and homophobic, which it is - but that it is simply not in any way remotely funny.

MarkRae

> By the way what do you call a bike that three people can ride? Is it triandem?

No. It's a triple or a triplet.

Frank97

The bike was a Trandem.

Frank97

My mistake, Mark is correct!

cupid04

You mean the poster above you got it wrong?......

Old_Geezer

As a chart hit is wasn't supposed to be impressive, it was one of those silly things that become a hit every now and again. But the series as a whole was amusing. Rarely belly laugh stuff (although occassionally) but usually smile material.

cupid04

Whoops, you sure it's not a twiglet, LOL!