Irony!!!!!!!! It's an ironic view of so called North English culture. Especially funny if you've had the misfortune to have experienced first hand the Northern parochial stone age paranoia. The south is no better, think they own the place.
By the way, Michael Palin used the term in a MP episode, but it was so unfamiliar to my American ear I didn't even realize it WAS a phrase known to British Islanders; it just sounded like random northern England vocalizations... Only finally understood it to be a semi meaningful phrase like 30 years after hearing it on MPFC. And, yes, I know, it's not related in any way to martial arts, but I still don't know WHAT it means, assuming it does mean something.
"Ecky thump" is not actually used by Northerners, it's more historic if anything, or parodic. Think of words like "Begorrah, bejaysus" for Ireland, or "Och aye the noo"/ "braw bricht moonlicht nicht the nicht" for Scotland. These are never used and if used improperly can cause offence to some. "Ooh arr" is also considered old-fashioned in the West Country, but is still used by some in the more rural areas.
@anonUK, Well now I'm not sure if that was the episode I was remembering or not - watching it just now I barely remember it, though I have seen it before I'm sure. Can't remember seeing it on any of my "complete" collection of MPFC episodes, but I'm sure it must be there somewhere. Anyway, thanks for the linguistic background; I do find that stuff interesting.
Seems pretty much of a pale Monty Python imitation. I could probably have understood most of it if the audio quality was any good. Like most internet videos the narrator seems to be muttering in the general direction of an microphone in another room.
@andrewking60 Ok. This really annoys me. You think ALL British people have THE SAME sense of humour? No. Very different shows in Britain. That's like saying American like only 1 TYPE OF HUMOUR. No, though the Goodies are very outdated these days.
ya know some saddo somewhere would say this is prejudice towards yorkshire folk well hey im a yorkshire man and it amuses me this wot people dont get the ability to laugh at themselves no matter wot
Reading the comments here I thought I'd stumbled across some political chat forum. It's the Goodies. It was the 70s. It was funny. If you want to have a political discussion take it elsewhere I suggest
I got the goodies boxset for my birthday from my girlfriend, 4 DvDs, 3 full of favorates of the BBC episodes. and the 4th has all of the LWT episodes on it.
@maggie625 Get a sense of humour! Also The Goodies often had something important to say, like in the episode South Africa which was about ridiculous segregation & police brutality in the country at the time. But rather than shoving the issues down viewer's throats with sleep-inducing drama, they used lively comedy to get the message across. The Goodies were fun-loving, yes, but hardly childish.
@mandarian87 Wise words indeed. I will provide an explanation of them so you can ponder the deep significance of their meaning. Grand Master said: "There's nowt wrong wi' owt what mitherin' clutterbucks don't barley grummit". This is the Lancashire dialect of English, I would guess from somewhere around Bolton. According to the Goodies website, the phrase means ""There's nothing wrong with anything that pestering idiots barely understand"
It's because Jack White's girlfriend, Karen Elson, is Lancastrian, as is Bill Oddie. She did use the 'ecky thump' expression and White liked it so much he amended it for the album!
I'm American, and even though I'm usually good with British accents, I'm finding it a little hard to follow the accents in this clip. Though, the physical jokes more than make up. Maybe the people who don't like it can't understand what they're saying.
i love the goodies, I was allowed to stay up and watch the re-runs when i was little. I liked the chaos of it then, i like how satirical and off the wall it is now
Absolutely loved this at the time. Still funny now. To all the 'I don't find this funny' brigade: your loss, I ought to feel sorry for you if I gave a monkeys. Back to Friends or whatever.
@888asd00 Even as a huge (20 stone) Goodies fan, I will not deny that some jokes and sketches have not aged well. I was seven when this was first shown, and the Goodies influenced everyone at my primary school to a huge degree. The next morning, everyone in the playground was Ecky Thumping - and being Ecky Thumped. To us it was the funniest thing we'd ever seen.
some people might think im not proper fan of the goodies coz i didn't see it on TV. 1: i was bron way after it ended. 2: i saw like 15 of them onb DVD and 3: in australia they are airing them now so yea
some people might think im not proper fan of the goodies coz i didn't see it on TV. 1: i was bron way after it ended. 2: i saw like 15 of them and 3: in australia they are airing them now so yea
I agree!The Goodies and the Pythons were contemporaries-John Cleese worked with them in the 60`s and 70`s on a radio show called I`m sorry I`ll read that again(well worth a listen).They were all doing the same sort of comedy from the start but arguably the real master of this kind of surrealist comedy was Spike Milligan,he was doing this stuff back in the 40`s with the Goons!
Being Aussie is also sufficient. But you need to have seen Kung Fu starring David Carradine to get why this is funny. Yes, humour is context specific.
By the way, guess where Monty Python got the idea for coconut horses from? The Goons! So if Goodies are poor man's Python, then Python are the poor man's Goons.
@scoff64 I watched the goodies when i was young: on DVD coz im aussie too and loved the hell out of it. i wouldn't watch any other episodes other then the beanstalk one and the kitten one. then after like 50 watchs i saw the other ones on the other discs
I disagree that the goodies were a poor man's monty python, they had there own sense of comedy and took it to there own level of what was needed at the time, and it still makes me laugh. I love this and I love monty. BOTH STILL MAKE ME LAUGH so stop comparing the two acts.
@SirCliveCalculator i'm indifferent to him, just voicing the fact that people do say 't' in the north in the place of 'the' or 'to'. Not saying everyone does but at least some folk do
@luacwick99 It's a parody of old Lancastrian culture, using the framework of Asian mythicism like it's some sort of martial arts school, right? It's the juxtaposition of these two things, from thence the humour arises ... I don't find it funny. Maybe it was funny 40 years ago.
@chelsea011266 Are you using 'grasshopper' as an insult there ... ? Strange. I don't understand the laughing at myself bit, either. All I was saying was that I don't find it that funny (just an opinion, no need to get offended 'cos you worship the Goodies so much). Also, it hasn't aged very well this comedy - not like Peter Cook or Spike Milligan.
@eyelessism Well, I admit it does last longer than 30 seconds, and has words in it that have more than 2 syllables, but maybe when you move up to big school you might understand it.
Or maybe not...you might be a fucking twat then as well.
the week after this was on the TV the whole school got a detention at some time for doing ecky thump,100 times on the black board ,i must not fall over in the corridor for no reason at all
you're not from England and dont get the cultural references, no offense, also you're too young to get it as humour changes depending on your location and time period.
@blazednlovinit I'm not from England and I think it's a riot. I was about thirteen when I first saw this. Most Americans I ask have never heard of it, even my generation and older, but when I was in my early teens they aired it on our PBS channel. That's when the ultra-serious "Kung Fu" was one of the top shows on TV. My Dad and I always thought it was trite (he used to call it "Kung-fooey"), so of course, we thought this parody was not only brilliant, but pee-your-pants hysterical!
With a little research it's not too hard to pick up on the references. I had a hell of a time with Cockney rhyming slang the first few times I heard it but after looking up a few things most of it fell into place.
I am perfectly aware of that, I was just saying that one of the British accents that I first heard was Cockney and it baffled me for a while until I started learning more about the cultural references. Anyone not from the UK would have similar trouble understanding any of the accents used there until they got used to hearing it and learned the origins of the words and phrases.
When this first aired, I had just got home from hospital after having an appendectomy. I almost ended up back there the same day. It was hell trying not to belly laugh.
Now that I remember watching this when I was 9yo in Australia I cannot believe that I ate black pudding in the Lakes District when I was 20. Top drawer gross out humour.
Protect yourself beforehand with some Leonard Cohen and classic Radiohead! I did just that and lived to tell the tale, having sustained moderate internal haemorrhaging from only three orifices.
Hallo rockthegorilla. Ja, I realize it is English humour and I enjoy much of your English humour. I always enjoyed Monty Python, Miss Marple, Ab Fab, Borat, and some others but this is simply not good. Ja, that is just one opinion but really, this is just not funny. Danke.
Perhaps I do not. Is that not where Monty Python's The Meaning of Life described Yorkshire as "The Third World", where the people sell their children. The song "Every Sperm is Sacred" is one of their best ever. See. See. Now THAT is funny.
Just a little joke my friend, I'm sure there are subtle things in "The Goodies" that I miss that are very funny. Danke.
For weeks after watching this me and my brother would punch each other outa no where say ecky thump and then laugh for 5 mins used to piss mum and dad of
epic!!!!!!!!
leokciscool 2 weeks ago
@andrewking60 I don't know shit? How so? Please prove that. Also, I'm not gay, though if I was, so? You are a disgusting thuman being. Die.
ThomasMFilms 3 weeks ago
LOL LOL LOL!!! Just istening to the audio make me laugh!!
Coolyourworld23 3 weeks ago
Irony!!!!!!!! It's an ironic view of so called North English culture. Especially funny if you've had the misfortune to have experienced first hand the Northern parochial stone age paranoia. The south is no better, think they own the place.
MegaBanjaluka 1 month ago
By the way, Michael Palin used the term in a MP episode, but it was so unfamiliar to my American ear I didn't even realize it WAS a phrase known to British Islanders; it just sounded like random northern England vocalizations... Only finally understood it to be a semi meaningful phrase like 30 years after hearing it on MPFC. And, yes, I know, it's not related in any way to martial arts, but I still don't know WHAT it means, assuming it does mean something.
phthartic 1 month ago
@phthartic
"Ecky thump" is not actually used by Northerners, it's more historic if anything, or parodic. Think of words like "Begorrah, bejaysus" for Ireland, or "Och aye the noo"/ "braw bricht moonlicht nicht the nicht" for Scotland. These are never used and if used improperly can cause offence to some. "Ooh arr" is also considered old-fashioned in the West Country, but is still used by some in the more rural areas.
PS. The MP episode- was it watch?v=3l4g5QWEgVI ?
anonUK 2 weeks ago
@anonUK
@anonUK, Well now I'm not sure if that was the episode I was remembering or not - watching it just now I barely remember it, though I have seen it before I'm sure. Can't remember seeing it on any of my "complete" collection of MPFC episodes, but I'm sure it must be there somewhere. Anyway, thanks for the linguistic background; I do find that stuff interesting.
phthartic 2 weeks ago
Seems pretty much of a pale Monty Python imitation. I could probably have understood most of it if the audio quality was any good. Like most internet videos the narrator seems to be muttering in the general direction of an microphone in another room.
phthartic 1 month ago
ahhh i just about died laughing!!
picklesurprise3 2 months ago
@picklesurprise3 Oh you
akjk1212 1 month ago
I put the trancribe captions on this and what it came up as was hilarious XDDDD
thesilversupporter 2 months ago
There's nowt wrong with owt what might them clutterbugs don't barley grummet!
MediaCrafters 2 months ago
Didn't laugh once. Perhaps I don't get British humour. Rather watch Three Stooges.
andrewking60 2 months ago
@andrewking60 Ok. This really annoys me. You think ALL British people have THE SAME sense of humour? No. Very different shows in Britain. That's like saying American like only 1 TYPE OF HUMOUR. No, though the Goodies are very outdated these days.
ThomasMFilms 1 month ago
@ThomasMFilms Hey you don't know shit. You aren't even Human. I bet you like men.
andrewking60 3 weeks ago
I almost died laughing.
TheEloeo 2 months ago
" Why can t they make things like this any more!?. " No I don t find little Britain funny!.
Stevenson723 3 months ago
that wasn't funny how would someone die laughing at that?
KimDoors 3 months ago
@KimDoors you knead eccy thumping lol.
zark212 2 months ago
ya know some saddo somewhere would say this is prejudice towards yorkshire folk well hey im a yorkshire man and it amuses me this wot people dont get the ability to laugh at themselves no matter wot
madbiker53 3 months ago
t'underin' jesus! t'ousands an' t'ousands of 'em kung-fu kapers...must be at least a 'undred!
vinnynumbnuts 3 months ago
are tiss grand this a bit of thee of lanky twank speaking and a bit of black pubbing so lovely if anybody ha-sent ha-deny tray some.grand
MorrisManDanceMan 4 months ago
anyone know what the Grand master is saying?
SirPiper6 4 months ago
I Remember this, When I was a Child I Watch this So funny.
spacered 4 months ago
RIP Alex Mitchell...... who died laughing from this episode. (true story. search it on the internet or Wikipedia)
omerta0414 5 months ago
lancastrian should bee a language in google translate
DOOMROCK438 6 months ago 2
the goodies were never funny.
CatorsCinema 6 months ago
@CatorsCinema Then why are you bothering watching?
19hoggy66 4 months ago
@CatorsCinema push off then moron
tyrionimpstark777 4 months ago
The ironic thing is that Bill Oddie looks as though he's been living off black pudding, chip butties and parkin for the last 35 years.
FXHP 6 months ago 2
Reading the comments here I thought I'd stumbled across some political chat forum. It's the Goodies. It was the 70s. It was funny. If you want to have a political discussion take it elsewhere I suggest
carlthompson 6 months ago
I watched this video and I watched it without (dying of) laughter.
CaptainHernandez107 6 months ago
@CaptainHernandez107 then you should perhaps try listening to it in German. nice reference by the way.
chuftain1 6 months ago
Gereksiz Gerçekler
SeulPRD 6 months ago
A man died laughing at this episode... is it worth it ?
therealplease 7 months ago
Hee Hee We Laughed It's Still So Bl**dy Silly And Funny !!!
LEWPERRY 7 months ago
eeee..Eckythump
Feisty1967 7 months ago
I got the goodies boxset for my birthday from my girlfriend, 4 DvDs, 3 full of favorates of the BBC episodes. and the 4th has all of the LWT episodes on it.
i swear, ima marry that girl now.
I LOVE THE GOODIES.
chris13ap 8 months ago
black pudding is so lovely thi nether so grand
MorrisManDanceMan 9 months ago
@MorrisManDanceMan Lol. Black Pudding is neither lovely nor grand.
mur38 7 months ago
That's pretty funny! I kind of want to try blood pudding. We don't have much of that old school food in the US.
phendformyself 9 months ago
@phendformyself Find an Irish or British fish and chip shop- they'll have it.
It is good, if you can get over the fact you are basically eating a scab.
jimmyleg5 5 months ago
Utter nonsense! Brilliant!
KitttyNinja 9 months ago
eckythump
sg2massive 9 months ago
ajax lol love it hahahaaaaa
sg2massive 9 months ago
Put wood in 'ole, Mother!
dharmaseed 9 months ago
This is why i'm proud to come from Lancaster! :')
helzar101 10 months ago
Hmmm I normally love the goodies but this skit really didn't do anything for me. :( I think it was the black pudding that put me off....
MrTrombonerdude 10 months ago
@maggie625 Get a sense of humour! Also The Goodies often had something important to say, like in the episode South Africa which was about ridiculous segregation & police brutality in the country at the time. But rather than shoving the issues down viewer's throats with sleep-inducing drama, they used lively comedy to get the message across. The Goodies were fun-loving, yes, but hardly childish.
MyCouplesRockHard 11 months ago
"Our grand master ... ee, 'e where grand!"
Wormdei 1 year ago 2
Can anyone translate what the Grand Master said? Such a wise man should not be misunderstood.
Also I'm curious about the narrators accent, can someone offer a guess as to what region of the UK he's from?
mandarian87 1 year ago
@mandarian87 Wise words indeed. I will provide an explanation of them so you can ponder the deep significance of their meaning. Grand Master said: "There's nowt wrong wi' owt what mitherin' clutterbucks don't barley grummit". This is the Lancashire dialect of English, I would guess from somewhere around Bolton. According to the Goodies website, the phrase means ""There's nothing wrong with anything that pestering idiots barely understand"
wozza2341 1 year ago 4
@mandarian87 He's from Yorkshire to be precise.
hippylegs 1 year ago
@hippylegs Lancaster to be precise. It's even mentioned at the beginning of the clip.
wozza2341 1 year ago
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Sorry...don't find this funny at all. Didn't think it was funny back in the 70's and still don't today. It's very childish
maggies625 1 year ago
Sorry...don't find this funny at all. Didn't think it was funny back in the 70's and still don't today. It's very childish
maggies625 1 year ago
someone laughed themself to death watching this
Jamieemp97 1 year ago
THERE'S NOWT WRONG WI' YOWT, WIT MY THEREN CLUTTERBUX DON'T BARLEY GRUMMIT.
hippylegs 1 year ago
@hippylegs Seriously that has become my moto ;3
TheTerminatorPig 1 year ago
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wozza2341 1 year ago
hadnt seen the goodies since they were tx'd first time round and then this Christmas there they are again... BRILLIANT
ealingcalling 1 year ago
@pwn3dpwn3dpwn3dpwn3d
It's because Jack White's girlfriend, Karen Elson, is Lancastrian, as is Bill Oddie. She did use the 'ecky thump' expression and White liked it so much he amended it for the album!
MsBkirk 1 year ago
Sheer genius
MrLordBlackheart 1 year ago
Someone died laughing watching this episode. I feel so reassured.
MtheGate 1 year ago
i hope i don't die
Driv3r96 1 year ago
Im from Lancashire but live down South, I could do with using some Ecky Thump down here when people pushpast you or are rude.
trimmytrab 1 year ago
At last the BBC have seen sense and will be repeating the Goodies over Christmas.
Kung-Fu Kapers, Kitten Kong and The Goodies and the Beanstalk....about time too
Marvynmonkey 1 year ago
Bring back the good old days, stuff the fluffy brigade!
Muvvergoose 1 year ago
bill is funny reguardless what he does on the goodies goodie goodie yum yum
TheBundychick82 1 year ago
24 March 1975 Alex Mitchell died laughing while watching this
spencer1930 1 year ago
Someone died from laughter in the UK from watching this :)
MaxPower30au 1 year ago
Does Bill have hiccups the whole way through this scene?? XD
jennijammer 1 year ago
thanks to those bbc scumbags we'll never get decent stuff like this on tv again
flappospammo 1 year ago
found this hilarious... when i was 5!!! i dont find this as funny now im grown up! maybe because i now realise how much of a tw*t bill odie is.
rickstever999 1 year ago
Wasd an awesome show back then & still is now!! Glad they are back on..... Loza
lozarok 1 year ago
Thought i would post what what i understand the grandmaster says for anyone struggling with our crazy northern accents and sayings :D.
"Theres nowt wrong wi owt what mytherin clutterbucks dont barley grummit"
Basically in english it would kinda mean "Theres nothing wrong with anything that (medeling/ignorant) idiots barely understand!"
However no-one really speaks like that anymore :P, has to be the mining / steeler generations of the North in the UK.
:)
TheBoedy 1 year ago 2
I'm American and I love it. I'm also not an idiot.
conantat1 1 year ago
1:00 lol
twynham1 1 year ago
I'm American, and even though I'm usually good with British accents, I'm finding it a little hard to follow the accents in this clip. Though, the physical jokes more than make up. Maybe the people who don't like it can't understand what they're saying.
Xenite 1 year ago
i love the goodies, I was allowed to stay up and watch the re-runs when i was little. I liked the chaos of it then, i like how satirical and off the wall it is now
WildWelshWitch 1 year ago
Absolutely loved this at the time. Still funny now. To all the 'I don't find this funny' brigade: your loss, I ought to feel sorry for you if I gave a monkeys. Back to Friends or whatever.
GSCHALTUNG 1 year ago
Brilliant!!!!!! Even after all this time.....
theboreenblog 1 year ago
i wish to learn the art of ecky thump...
TheAorton 1 year ago
only think I don't like is the tripe black pudding is great grilled with bacon, sace vinegar and fried eggs
QLDAussieBloke 1 year ago
Man I wish I knew what that grand master said, all I understood was "Cutterbuts don't barley grummet"
MrSunshine7358 1 year ago
Not nearly as funny as I'd remembered, which wasn't very.
888asd00 1 year ago
@888asd00 Even as a huge (20 stone) Goodies fan, I will not deny that some jokes and sketches have not aged well. I was seven when this was first shown, and the Goodies influenced everyone at my primary school to a huge degree. The next morning, everyone in the playground was Ecky Thumping - and being Ecky Thumped. To us it was the funniest thing we'd ever seen.
BEEFYBAYONET 1 year ago
Those are some huge hats!
rubinoos1 1 year ago
some people might think im not proper fan of the goodies coz i didn't see it on TV. 1: i was bron way after it ended. 2: i saw like 15 of them onb DVD and 3: in australia they are airing them now so yea
Smallvillenerd 1 year ago
some people might think im not proper fan of the goodies coz i didn't see it on TV. 1: i was bron way after it ended. 2: i saw like 15 of them and 3: in australia they are airing them now so yea
Smallvillenerd 1 year ago
It really doesn't matter if you're British or not. o_O I'm from Australia and I love this show. it's amazing.
MtheGate 1 year ago
that was fucking retarded, i didnt find it funny at all.
wiltse0 1 year ago
@wiltse0 - is this because you are from the USA and they are from the land yonder- yes there is another world outside the USA and it's not Hollywood.
jushayward 1 year ago
@jushayward its called...Humourland
Smallvillenerd 1 year ago
@wiltse0 well atleast im not the only one who thought that
123opdude 1 year ago
@123opdude lol im glad, someone whose not a fail.
wiltse0 1 year ago
is this the 5 minute argument, or the 10 minute?
DIACElectronicMusic 1 year ago
I agree!The Goodies and the Pythons were contemporaries-John Cleese worked with them in the 60`s and 70`s on a radio show called I`m sorry I`ll read that again(well worth a listen).They were all doing the same sort of comedy from the start but arguably the real master of this kind of surrealist comedy was Spike Milligan,he was doing this stuff back in the 40`s with the Goons!
MsSazzer 1 year ago
Being Aussie is also sufficient. But you need to have seen Kung Fu starring David Carradine to get why this is funny. Yes, humour is context specific.
By the way, guess where Monty Python got the idea for coconut horses from? The Goons! So if Goodies are poor man's Python, then Python are the poor man's Goons.
"i been nutted!"
scoff64 1 year ago
@scoff64 I watched the goodies when i was young: on DVD coz im aussie too and loved the hell out of it. i wouldn't watch any other episodes other then the beanstalk one and the kitten one. then after like 50 watchs i saw the other ones on the other discs
Smallvillenerd 1 year ago
where can I find this School of Eckythump?
nothingbutrock666 1 year ago
I disagree that the goodies were a poor man's monty python, they had there own sense of comedy and took it to there own level of what was needed at the time, and it still makes me laugh. I love this and I love monty. BOTH STILL MAKE ME LAUGH so stop comparing the two acts.
choopyguz 1 year ago 2
Get stoned. then watch this. then you'll understand how some1 can die laughing from this.
Dleigh975 1 year ago
not so funny
mzanardi91 1 year ago
No one says 'T in the north... if anything, its completely absent...
ie: "Mam! I'm goin' 'T pub", is actually "Mam! I'm goin' pub".
And Bill Oddie is a T 'wat.
SirCliveCalculator 1 year ago
@SirCliveCalculator i'm from the north and we say "t' pub"
blazednlovinit 1 year ago
@blazednlovinit
So am I, and I dont. Your move.
SirCliveCalculator 1 year ago
@SirCliveCalculator going on that, some do and some dont...
blazednlovinit 1 year ago
@blazednlovinit You dont have to defend Bill Oddie you know. He's a T' wat.
SirCliveCalculator 1 year ago
@SirCliveCalculator i'm indifferent to him, just voicing the fact that people do say 't' in the north in the place of 'the' or 'to'. Not saying everyone does but at least some folk do
blazednlovinit 1 year ago
I love it. Some may call them the poor mans Monty Python, but by-heck it's still ruddy funny.
4svennie 1 year ago
What a load of shite! The Goodies were always the poor man's Monty Python.
Rigmaster22 1 year ago
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which part ofthis is supposed to be funny. you old people realy are simple idiots.
eyelessism 1 year ago
@eyelessism some of the jokes in the goodies require more than 'simple idiots' to understand them, maybe thats why you don't find it funny
luacwick99 1 year ago 72
@luacwick99 i dont agree with you at all, but if thats truly what you think, explain what needs to be understood for this to be funny.
eyelessism 1 year ago
@luacwick99 oh SNAP!
Smallvillenerd 1 year ago
@luacwick99 It's a parody of old Lancastrian culture, using the framework of Asian mythicism like it's some sort of martial arts school, right? It's the juxtaposition of these two things, from thence the humour arises ... I don't find it funny. Maybe it was funny 40 years ago.
GRJones92hk 1 year ago
@GRJones92hk
No its a piss take on an old 70's tv programme called kung fu, look it up grasshopper. An if you cant laugh at yourself, then more fool you
chelsea011266 1 year ago
@chelsea011266 Are you using 'grasshopper' as an insult there ... ? Strange. I don't understand the laughing at myself bit, either. All I was saying was that I don't find it that funny (just an opinion, no need to get offended 'cos you worship the Goodies so much). Also, it hasn't aged very well this comedy - not like Peter Cook or Spike Milligan.
GRJones92hk 1 year ago
@luacwick99 exactly
az09661 9 months ago
@eyelessism i think the word you are looking for is "really". so much for being simple idiots lol
twistedsistaqteu 1 year ago
@eyelessism
It's called 'satire' you kinda need to be generally aware of the world, and be able to make basic connections between different ideas.
Mashermat 1 year ago
@eyelessism Well, I admit it does last longer than 30 seconds, and has words in it that have more than 2 syllables, but maybe when you move up to big school you might understand it.
Or maybe not...you might be a fucking twat then as well.
StanPomeray 1 year ago
@eyelessism you do know that a bloke died laughing at the goodies
Jonnyx2376 1 year ago
@eyelessism Eyelessism? Shouldn't that read Mindlessism?
Sheerzed 1 year ago
@eyelessism Dude , I watched this when I was 6 and now I'm 13 and I love it , You're clearly Thick!.
TheTigerEmma 10 months ago
@eyelessism You're right, it can't be funny, there's so sex or swearing in it.
TWENTIETHCENTURYBABY 9 months ago
@TejMulen
Yeah...'Black pudding, tripe, chipbuttie, and a piece of parkin for afters' really makes your mouth water...right before you hurl!
tenderheart17 1 year ago
A Bloke "Died" Laughing at this episode in the 1970s that is how far out and funny it
was.
flanneryged 1 year ago
the week after this was on the TV the whole school got a detention at some time for doing ecky thump,100 times on the black board ,i must not fall over in the corridor for no reason at all
charliechicpea 1 year ago 2
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that was fucking gay
quicklyintothevoid 1 year ago
@quicklyintothevoid Yes, we know you are.
00button 1 year ago
@quicklyintothevoid
you're not from England and dont get the cultural references, no offense, also you're too young to get it as humour changes depending on your location and time period.
blazednlovinit 1 year ago
@blazednlovinit I'm not from England and I think it's a riot. I was about thirteen when I first saw this. Most Americans I ask have never heard of it, even my generation and older, but when I was in my early teens they aired it on our PBS channel. That's when the ultra-serious "Kung Fu" was one of the top shows on TV. My Dad and I always thought it was trite (he used to call it "Kung-fooey"), so of course, we thought this parody was not only brilliant, but pee-your-pants hysterical!
romperroomrejects 1 year ago
gota love The Goodies
Hurrican1987 1 year ago
now thats a classic lmao !
heidistrange 1 year ago
What's the Grand Master saying? Someone please translate!
Goodiesfanful 1 year ago
@Goodiesfanful There's nowt wrong wi' owt what mitherin' clutterbucks don't barley grummit
eugenespeed 1 year ago 3
@eugenespeed Yes, but what does he mean?
Goodiesfanful 1 year ago
@Goodiesfanful There's nothing wrong with what pestering idiots don't barely understand.
eugenespeed 1 year ago 2
@eugenespeed Thank you!
Goodiesfanful 1 year ago
@eugenespeed lancastrian much
well, you've met your yorkshirman maker my friend. tis the marshal art of getting pissed ant punching that we master at
666jimmysmusicgirl 1 year ago
@666jimmysmusicgirl I'm from Tyne and Wear!
eugenespeed 1 year ago
@eugenespeed NO FUCKING WAY!!!! my dads from tyne and wear!!! i live there half the time so i have a half yorkshire half gordie accent.
i have double the drunken blood, it's a good thing i'm not a quarter irish.
666jimmysmusicgirl 1 year ago
on tyne-side they pratice the art of how-yee .
willobi 1 year ago
I loved the goodies as teenager, but like a lot of old tv and movies you move on. Looking back at this stuff is not the same.
500magnu 1 year ago
mystic east fish and chips
dvdsmlprstylr 1 year ago
I think that person who died had a bad sense of humour... Am i a bad person?
Galentw 1 year ago
@Galentw yes
Selfhealer22 1 year ago
Love the "Exotic Ungents"...AJAX!! XD
tenderheart17 1 year ago 3
Goodies #FTW
MattttyyB23 1 year ago
¡Good stuff! xD
PililovesMegadeth 1 year ago
For those who didn't laugh....it was a while ago and WE had different values of funny back then! ;)
janski2000 1 year ago 2
@janski2000 here here Janski, i think being British is a big part of getting British humour that's pre-1990s
blazednlovinit 1 year ago
@blazednlovinit
With a little research it's not too hard to pick up on the references. I had a hell of a time with Cockney rhyming slang the first few times I heard it but after looking up a few things most of it fell into place.
gamewizard 1 year ago
@gamewizard Northern dialect, nothing to do with cockney rhyming at all.
omegadeep 1 year ago
@omegadeep
I am perfectly aware of that, I was just saying that one of the British accents that I first heard was Cockney and it baffled me for a while until I started learning more about the cultural references. Anyone not from the UK would have similar trouble understanding any of the accents used there until they got used to hearing it and learned the origins of the words and phrases.
gamewizard 1 year ago
When this first aired, I had just got home from hospital after having an appendectomy. I almost ended up back there the same day. It was hell trying not to belly laugh.
AndyinMokum 1 year ago
There must be something wrong with me. I didn't laugh that much.
Mephiles602 1 year ago
I didn't even smile. How is it possible for someone to die laughing at this?
tenniscrazy2 1 year ago
i didn't laugh a single bit
rhee3123 1 year ago
hehe funny stuff :)
blunklaura 1 year ago
Now that I remember watching this when I was 9yo in Australia I cannot believe that I ate black pudding in the Lakes District when I was 20. Top drawer gross out humour.
stuartk319 1 year ago
i loved watching these guys, i remember why lol
mungo1monkey 1 year ago
i seriously forgot how funny this was
TheHelenmm 1 year ago
that's really not funny... at all
Moppy1988 1 year ago
Protect yourself beforehand with some Leonard Cohen and classic Radiohead! I did just that and lived to tell the tale, having sustained moderate internal haemorrhaging from only three orifices.
zionravescene 1 year ago
People! its not Yorkshire they are on about. Its Lancashire!! Ever heard of the war of the roses?
CoolZiggy 1 year ago
..i...i...i dont understand! this isnt funny!! ......WHYYYYYYYYYYY??
invaderpink 1 year ago
'Eigh up; that were proper gradely....
I've bin to't school of 'ard Knocks; but I tell thi....Tha can't beat some teachin' from 'Ecky Thump.'
5*****.
Thanks to MorrisManDanceMan for the share.
Jennie.
Kittielips 1 year ago
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i throw up from watching this it sucks curse you English men
Joaquin546 1 year ago
pmsl these lot were bloody brilliant!!!!
twistedsistaqteu 1 year ago 2
Someone died laughing? At this?
deutschschoen 1 year ago
@deutschschoen
It's English humour mate!
rockthegorilla 1 year ago
Hallo rockthegorilla. Ja, I realize it is English humour and I enjoy much of your English humour. I always enjoyed Monty Python, Miss Marple, Ab Fab, Borat, and some others but this is simply not good. Ja, that is just one opinion but really, this is just not funny. Danke.
deutschschoen 1 year ago
Thats probably because you know nothing about Yorkshiremen
METAL1ON 1 year ago
Perhaps I do not. Is that not where Monty Python's The Meaning of Life described Yorkshire as "The Third World", where the people sell their children. The song "Every Sperm is Sacred" is one of their best ever. See. See. Now THAT is funny.
Just a little joke my friend, I'm sure there are subtle things in "The Goodies" that I miss that are very funny. Danke.
deutschschoen 1 year ago
For weeks after watching this me and my brother would punch each other outa no where say ecky thump and then laugh for 5 mins used to piss mum and dad of
zath73 1 year ago
There's nowt wrong wi'owt what mitherin' clutterbucks don't barley grummit
0xmnmx0 1 year ago
@0xmnmx0 Could someone translate that for me, please? Thanks.
BrionyCoote 1 year ago