My American mates have never seen The Goodies (until I force them to *g*) but they know Monty Python and it didn't occur to me that they'd have made the jump to Canada.
Monty Python pre-dates the Goodies by a couple of years I think but the Pythonites and the Goodies hung out together when they were all undergrads at Cambridge and in the Footlights together.
Some lovely nutters have been putting large chunks of the Goodies up on youtube, in some cases whole episodes.
A Goodies sketch that can make me laugh just be thinking about it is Gender Education:
That whole episode, Sex and Violence, was a really interesting response to Mary Whitehouse using them as an example of wholesome TV. *g*
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5/10/13 04:26 (UTC)My American mates have never seen The Goodies (until I force them to *g*) but they know Monty Python and it didn't occur to me that they'd have made the jump to Canada.
Monty Python pre-dates the Goodies by a couple of years I think but the Pythonites and the Goodies hung out together when they were all undergrads at Cambridge and in the Footlights together.
Some lovely nutters have been putting large chunks of the Goodies up on youtube, in some cases whole episodes.
A Goodies sketch that can make me laugh just be thinking about it is Gender Education:
That whole episode, Sex and Violence, was a really interesting response to Mary Whitehouse using them as an example of wholesome TV. *g*