The Goodies
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Well to be fair, comedy doesn't tend to age well. Does anyone find Chaplin funny any more? Laurel and Hardy, Buster Keaton? I can acknowledge their genius, but they don't make me laugh. Even Monty Python doesn't seem funny to me now.
mrsfran
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Actually, now that I think of that one where they're trying to get the piano up the stairs, it is fucking funny. It's also an allusion to the myth of Sisyphus I believe. Did you ever see them interviewed together? It's sooo obvious that they really, really hate each other--which makes their films all the more funny I suppose.
handyman121
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I'd forgotten all about that. What a dreadful song. The TV shows were great though. I wasn't allowed to watch Monty Python as it was "too weird" but the Goodies were ok. ( I still don't know how they got that cat to climb up the post office tower )
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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I love some Marx Brothers and Harold Lloyd. A lot of it is just so nuts that you can't believe people found it funny but then again I'm still laughing.
I love the Goodies! My husband and I have "Anything. Anywhere. Anytime." engraved on the back of our rings which people think is very romantic until we tell them it's based on the Goodies motto.
I still think that's romantic
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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So you think that the funky gibbon was the best thing the goodies ever did but you don't even know what series was about?
They were an agency that would tackle any problem however big or small "we do anything anytime". Sometimes this would have them filling for other jobs (at the zoo or whatever). The agency idea often only set up the episodes and in later shows it was almost completely dropped in favor of a get rich quick scheme or inter-goodies waring.
Not exactly the most inventive premise for a comedy show is it?
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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No, but it was only created to leave the series open to a largest possible scope for crazy plots. Like I said, sometimes it had trouble even sticking to that basic premise.
You can't even remember it can you? I'm not sure where you are coming from unless it's more Dwyer style stirring. On a goodies thread? Oh good lord.
geminisnake
a complex mass of conflicting ideas
geminisnake
a complex mass of conflicting ideas
You sir have obviously LOST your sense of humour
Or never appreciated quality in the first place.
pk
drink flounce rinse repeat
Deffo one of the Sky channels coz we DID watch them
Thank fuck for that, I thought I'd dreamt it all!
well it's not quite the JB's but it could really be a lot worse, I'm actually quite impressed that Bill Oddie wrote it
MysteryGuest
beyond boring and interesting
About 8 years ago I saw a samizdat VHS recording of 3 Goodies shows, including the Kitten Kong one, obtained from a friend of a friend who knew somebody who ran a Goodies fan site. Apart from the Kitten Kong episode quality was dead patchy, actually. Though still with funny bits here and there. So my vote is cautiously absolutely.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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Kitten Kong isn't very good. Uh oh, I think I am going to run off and do a favorite episodes list.
Loser.
Loser.
pogofish
Testicle Hairstyle
Simple poll, would you like to see these classic shows from the '70s repeated.
They have been repeated umpteen times in recent years - On terrestial BBC and digital channels.
There was also a DVD & a revival at the Edinburgh Festival not long ago too.
pogofish
Testicle Hairstyle
Wrong. They got on great. I saw an interview with Stan's daughter once. She said that Oliver was round their house so often that she knew him as Uncle Ollie. The two got together (with their wives) frequently on a social basis. I've seen old film of them being interviewed and there's nothing to suggest they didn't get on.
From here: http://www.laurelandhardycentral.com/faqpage2.html
pk
drink flounce rinse repeat
Nope. They've not been shown on terrestrial at all. Not for many many years.
An unchampioned and undignified brief run on Paramount Comedy 2, on the Sky box, quick edited cash-in revival does not do this show justice.
I could have a revival in my kitchen, but it wouldn't count for much.
I think the BBC, to their eternal shame and the disgust of every licence fee payer, they actually destroyed most of the tapes of their best studio material.
That includes not only the Goodies one-off promos and suchlike, but even includes ultra-special Abbey Road Led Zep sessions, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, all the greats that they taped back in the day... some overpaid underskilled shortsighted twat made the decision to erase it all back in the late seventies.
Yeah, great work BBC. That's "middle-management" at its best. *claps slowly*
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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But the DVDs took ages to come out and were done by the Goodies themselves.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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Err, Ecky-Thump anyone?
I think that ones a bit crap too. Of the famous ones I seem to remember bun fight at the OK tearooms being pretty good.
El Sueno
Dabbler
I remember loving it as a kid (kids love a bit of slapstick) but watched it a few years ago on the old UK Gold and found some of it quite cringey (especially any scene with Bill Oddie in it, which is most of them). Oddie remains adamant that he and his fellow Goodies were part of the 'satire invasion' of the US in the 60s, which could be a factor in his apparant depression.
I've only ever seen clips, so I'd definitely like reruns of the shows. I remember BBC2 repeating Python when I was about 10, my Dad recommending I watch it and I've loved it ever since. As all three Goodies were piers of at least Cleese, Chapman and Idle it'd be good to watch for comparison. Also like Python I sense it's silly enough not to be specific of its time.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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My daughter has been pissing herself watching goodies episodes on you tube after seeing Graham garden on pointless. Only you've been framed seems to rival it in terms of 'roll around the floor laughing'. I do like the goodies, but episodes that I consider a bit dull still seem to strike a chord with the kids. I never really bought into the John Cleese "kiddies show" bit, but I think he may have been right. I think the goodies has stood the test of time more so than Monty Python though.
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