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The Goodies episode
"Kung Fu Kapers"
Episode № 41
Airdate 24 March 1975
(Monday — 9 p. This article discusses The Goodies comedy television series For information about the formation of The Goodies group and for information Events 1401 - Mongol emperor Timur sacks Damascus. 1603 - James VI of Scotland Year 1975 ( MCMLXXV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. m. )
Director
Producer Jim Franklin
Guest star(s) Michael Barratt as himself
Richard Pescud as ". Jim Franklin is a British Television director and producer He has directed many British television comedy programs including Ripping Michael Barratt (born January 3, 1928 in Leeds, Yorkshire) is an English television presenter and announcer . . "
William F. Sully as ". . . "
Series V
February 10 – December 21, 1975
  1. The Movies
  2. Clown Virus
  3. Chubbie Chumps
  4. Wacky Wales
  5. Frankenfido
  6. Scatty Safari
  7. Kung Fu Kapers
  8. Lighthouse Keeping Loonies
  9. Rome Antics
  10. Fleet Street Goodies
  11. South Africa
  12. Bunfight at the O.K. Tea Rooms
  13. The End
  14. The Goodies Rule – O.K.?
List of The Goodies episodes

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This episode is also known as "Ecky-Thump".

Contents

Plot

Bill is revealed as a master of the secret Lancashire martial art known as "Ecky-Thump" — which mostly revolves around hitting unsuspecting people with black puddings while wearing flat caps and braces. Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England, bounded to the west by the Irish Sea Black pudding or (less often blood pudding is a British English term for Sausage made by cooking blood with a filler until it is thick enough to congeal A flat cap is a rounded Cap generally male worn especially in England, with a small brim in front and a somewhat stiff peak in the back Suspenders or Galluses, known as Braces in British English are fabric or leather straps worn over the shoulders to hold up Trousers.

Tim and Graeme go into battle against Bill — posing as various martial arts experts who are "foreign members of their families". Martial arts are systems of codified practices and traditions of training for Combat. However, Bill wins against every 'expert' by hitting them with a black pudding. Tim ends up getting plastered, with his arms in boxing position, so that he would be in the correct position to be able to hit Bill.

The night before Bill and his Ecky-Thump 'army' are to go on the march to attack with their black puddings, Graeme adds a secret ingredient to the black pudding mixture — leading to unexpected wayward black puddings for a bewildered Bill and his equally bemused Ecky-Thump followers.

Spoofs

Kung-fu was a craze which was sweeping the UK at the time the episode was made, with films such as "Enter the Dragon", The Kung Fu TV series, many martial arts schools appearing in gyms and even a fragrance for men called Hai-Karate. Kung fu and wushu are popular terms that have become synonymous with Chinese Martial arts. Martial arts are systems of codified practices and traditions of training for Combat. Enter the Dragon ( aka The Deadly Three, originally titled Blood and Steel is a 1973 American Martial arts film directed This article is specifically about the original TV series (1972–1975 "Kung Fu" Perfume is a mixture of fragrant Essential oils and Aroma compounds Fixatives and Solvents used to give the human body animals objects and living Hai Karate was a budget Aftershave on sale in the United States and the United Kingdom during the 1960s through the 1980s and derives its notability from

Quote

  • Graeme: "Now Tim raise your arm up . . . . . . . . No, not like that.
Yes, that is corect. Now come at me like the whiplash of the cobra. "
  • Tim: "Grrrrrrrrr"
  • Graeme: "As fast as the eye can see"
  • Tim (very slowly): "YEEEEURRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAA VOOSH!!!"
  • Graeme: "You missed. "
  • Tim: "You moved. "
  • Graeme: "You were too slow you fool!"

Fatal effect

The episode is infamous for the documented example of a man laughing himself to death. For fatal hilarity as a figure of speech see Hyperbole. Fatal hilarity refers to Death resulting from the physiological effects 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. Myocardial infarction ( MI or AMI for acute myocardial infarction) also known as a heart attack, occurs when the blood supply His widow later sent the Goodies a letter thanking them for making Mitchell's final moments so pleasant. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] (This incident and the letter were also confirmed by the Goodies, themselves, on stage during their February-March, 2005, tour of Australia. )

Notes

Footnotes

  1. ^ Death by Laughing
  2. ^ The Complete Goodies — Robert Ross, B T Batsford, London, 2000.
  3. ^ Man Dies Laughing at The Goodies, "Daily Mail", London (29 March 1975)
  4. ^ A Goodies Way to Go — Laughing, "Eastern Daily Press", Norwich (29 March 1975)
  5. ^ Slapstick! The Illustrated Story of Knockabout Comedy — Tony Staveacre, Angus & Robinson 1987

References

External links



The Goodies — The Goodies TV series
Tim Brooke-Taylor — Graeme Garden — Bill Oddie
Cambridge University The three actors in The Goodies met as students at the University of Cambridge, where Tim Brooke-Taylor was studying Law, Graeme This article discusses The Goodies comedy television series For information about the formation of The Goodies group and for information Timothy Julian Brooke-Taylor (born 17 July 1940) is an English comic Actor known in Britain and Australia as a member of The Goodies David Graeme Garden (born 18 February 1943) is a British Actor, Writer, Presenter William Edgar Oddie, OBE (born 7 July 1941 is an English Actor, Writer, Comedian, Natural history Presenter
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