The Goodies (TV series)

[Make Them Die Slowly]

Originally Posted by Pete

Surprised no-one has mentioned the Funky Gibbon yet! My used to play it all the bloody time!

I've had this in my head ever since Vic started the thread. Bastard.

[VicDakin]

Just for Mr MTDS and Pete here's the lyrics,so one two three all together now......

Come on everybody
It's gibbon time

We're the Goodies
How do you do?
We've just been down to the zoo
We saw a monkey in a cage
Doing a dance
That could be the rage
It's not hard
So let's all do the funky gibbon
Ooo, ooo, ooo

Do, do, do the funky gibbon
(The funky gibbon)
We are here to show you how
Ooo, ooo, ooo
Ooo, ooo, ooo, the funky gibbon
He's just like you
So come on and do
The funky gibbon now

Dogs are always howlin'
Cats are always yowlin'
But gibbons only
Like to sing and dance
Oop, oop, sh boop

You'll be like that monkey
Get a little funky
And in a while
Start to smile
Gibbon half a chance

Do, do, do the funky gibbon
(The funky gibbon)
We are here to show you how
Ooo, ooo, ooo
Ooo, ooo, ooo, the funky gibbon
(The funky gibbon)
He's just like you
So come on and do
The funky gibbon now

Ooo, ooo, the funky gibbon
Ooo, ooo, ooo the funky gibbon

Gee, the world would be good
I?
Me, with just a little gibbon tea
Sha, la, la

We slap that gibbon
Oh, feel the rhythm
And you'll groove
And dance up to the planet of apes

Do, do, do the funky gibbon
We are here to show you how
Ooo, ooo, ooo
Ooo, ooo, ooo, the funky gibbon
(The funky gibbon)
He's just like you
So come on and do
The funky gibbon now

Ooo, ooo, the funky gibbon
Ooo, ooo, ooo the funky gibbon

Ooo, ooo, the funky gibbon
Ooo, ooo, ooo the funky gibbon

Now everybody get ready
To do the funky gibbon
Drop one arms down by your knees
And the other arm
Reach up to the trees

Let your wrist go limp
Like a bent baboon
Get ready to sing
This gibbon's tune

Will you give me an ooo
(Ooo)
Will you give me another ooo
(Ooo)
And will you give me an ooo
(Ooo)
Now put 'em together
What've you got
(Ooo, ooo, ooo)

Do, do, do the funky gibbon
We are here to show you how
Ooo, ooo, ooo
Ooo, ooo, ooo, the funky gibbon
(The funky gibbon)
He's just like you
So come on and do
The funky gibbon now

Ooo, ooo, the funky gibbon
Ooo, ooo, ooo the funky gibbon

Ooo, ooo, the funky gibbon
Ooo, ooo, ooo the funky gibbon

He promised to buy me
A bunch of blue gibbons
To tie up my bonny brown

Ooo, ooo, the funky gibbon
The funky gibbon

[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by VicDakin

Just for Mr MTDS and Pete here's the lyrics,so one two three all together now......

Hope you don't mind me doing this, Vic, but being a boring guitarist, I couldn't resist! Here are the chords, so play along

"The Funky Gibbon

(C) We’re the Goodies, how do you do
We’ve just been down to the zoo
(C) We saw a monkey in a cage
Doin’ a dance that could be the rage
(C) It’s not hard, so let’s all do
The Funky Gibbon, ooh ooh ohh

CHORUS
(C) Do do do the funky gibbon
(G7) We are here to show you how
(C) ooh ooh ooh the funky gibbon
(G7) It’s just like you, so come on and do the funky gibbon now.

(C) Dogs are always howling
(D7) cats are always yowling
But (G7) gibbons only like to sing and (C) dance.
You be like that monkey
(D7) get a little funky
And (G) in a while start to smile
(G7) gibbon half a (C) chance.

REPEAT CHORUS

(C) G – the world would be good
(D7) I know how nice it could
(G7) B – with just a little gibbon (C) take
B – just like that gibbon
(D7) O – you feel the rhythm
(G) N – you’ll grove, dance up to the (G7) planet of the (C) apes

[Spoken interlude]

Now everybody get ready to do the funky gibbon
Drop one arm down by your knees
Let the other arm reach up to the trees
Let your wrist go limp like a bent baboon
And get read to sing this gibbon tune.

REPEAT CHORUS

[play four times]
(C) ooh ooh ooh, the funky gibbon"

Now, does anyone want the chords to 'Agadoo'?

[VicDakin]

This may help young MTDS

An earworm is a piece of music that sticks in one's mind so that one seems to hear it, even when it is not being played. Other phrases used to describe this include musical imagery repetition and involuntary musical imagery. The phenomenon is common in normal life and so may be distinguished from brain damage which results in palinacousis.

This is also called a 'haunting melody' or 'hard-to-shake melody'.[citation needed] In Germany, an earworm is known as "ohrwurm", a type of song that typically has a high, upbeat melody and repetitive lyrics that verge between catchy and annoying. Earworm is also referred as ‘stuck song syndrome,‘involuntary musical imagery’ (INMIs; Liikkanen, 2008), ‘brainworms’ or ‘sticky music’

One reason that this occurs is that melodic music tends to have a rhythm which repeats. This cyclical nature may cause endless repetition unless some way to achieve a climax is found which breaks the cycle.

[Demoncrat]

Originally Posted by suziginajackson

I think I have those (and more) up in the loft

I also have every existing episode on tape - quality varies tho!

The BBC were always embarrassed by the show. They didn't know how to market it - was it adult satire? was it childish slapstick? was it a failed attempt to re-do Python? was it the future of surreal comedy? - and as such, they decided to bury it

When was the last time you saw "The Goodies" on television?

Exactly!

Oh - these should be put up as well to refresh the memory

The original theme song -

The best known theme song -

They repeated the Olympic episode a while back on BBC2 if i remember.....have still got the books, few singles etc, sadly no LP though. Love the episode "The End" where they are encased in concrete.....

[VicDakin]

The Goodies Rule – O.K.?

[VicDakin]

The "Goodies": The Official Goodie Handbook
Just got a 2nd hand copy of this,great reference guide to the tv programme

[VicDakin]

The Goodies: Season 9, Episode 2 Football Crazy.
Football fans have become increasingly violent, and Bill, who is the worst offender, is arrested for disruptive behaviour by Tim (who has become a police officer). It is not Bill's first offence at the football and he proudly stands by during a listing of his previous misdemeanours as a spectactor.

Tim is of the opinion that the players are also to blame for the violence by the length of their shorts, and by their provocative on-field behaviour after scoring goals.

To cut down on the violence, it is decided that the shorts should be longer, and that only one fan be allowed to watch each game as a spectactator in attendance — with a large number of police to keep the fan in check. Bill is the fan who is chosen to attend, and, being the only fan, he becomes increasingly violent and frustrated during the match because he has nobody to fight with.

Later, as a last resort against football violence, the sport is no longer played. However, although football no longer exists, the violence remains, and it finds a new outlet.

Tim decides to attend the ballet at Covent Garden. While walking to the theatre, he is worried about the number of violent-looking young men, dressed as sports fans, who are heading in the same direction. Tim is looking forward to seeing the ballet — but he is not impressed to discover that the violent-looking men are also members of the audience.

As the ballet starts, so, too, do the spectators, who are cheering or booing the dancers on the stage. Football spectator violence had become ballet spectator violence — and violent competition between football teams had now transferred to violent competition between the ballerinas and the male ballet dancers. The Goodies get caught up with what is happening on stage — Tim becomes a 'trainer', and both Graeme and Bill take part in the dance 'competition', where, dressed as ballerinas with football socks, they dance in opposition to the male ballet dancers. They dance against Aston Villa with their own team being Bill, Graeme, Kevin Keegan, Pele, Johan Cruyff and Tim as manager.

[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by VicDakin

Viewer death

The episode is infamous for the documented example of a man laughing to death. 50-year-old Alex Mitchell could not stop laughing for a continuous 25 minute period - almost the entire length of the show - and suffered a fatal heart attack as a result of the strain placed on his heart. His widow later sent the Goodies a letter thanking them for making Mitchell's final moments so pleasant

BBC News - Goodies' fan Alex Mitchell 1975 laughter death 'solved'

[the blob]

Ok, thanks. I now have the chorus of Funky Gibbon running endlessly inside my head!

I loved The Goodies when I was a kid but the only episodes I can remember are Ecky Thump and they one where they survive for years in the office.