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Episode Guide > Season 5, Episode 7

The Goodies: Kung Fu Kapers AKA Ecky Thump

 

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Air Date

Monday March 24, 1975

Production Code

98447

Episode Summary

Bill reveals himself to be a Grand Master of the infinitely more subtle and superior Lancastrian martial art of Ecky Thump.

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  • When Graeme flops onto the beanbag after the fight with Bill, there is a message on the board behind him which says 'It's Still Gibbon Time', referring to the song 'Funky Gibbon'. []
  • While watching this episode during its original airing, a 50 year old man named Alex Mitchell could not stop laughing for 25 minutes and then died from the strain it put on his heart. This is probably the most well-known incident of someone actually dying from laughing. []
  • Available on "The Goodies ... At Last" Region 0 DVD (Network 7952171) and "The Goodies - 8 Delicious Episodes" Region 4 DVD (BBC/Village Roadshow) both released 2003. []
  • (Tim and Graeme are teaching themselves Kung Fu from a book)
    Graeme: Right, you stand there.
    Tim: You’re not gonna hurt me are you?
    Graeme: Slightly.
    Tim: (crying) I don’t wanna be hurt.
    Graeme: Now Tim, Tim, there is an old Chinese proverb; The King of Kung Fu… doesn’t cry a lot. []
  • (coming in and finding Tim out cold on the ground)
    Bill: Oh, hello… what’s the matter with him, then?
    Graeme: I killed him.
    Bill: Oh you are careless, y-you really are, honestly! What’s for dinner, Graeme?
    Graeme: We were doing Kung Fu…
    Bill: I’m not eating that! []
  • Bill: Oh that Kung Fu, load of rubbish, doesn’t work that.
    Tim: (wakes up) What happened?
    Bill: There you see, that proves it doesn’t it. You said he was dead! Like Chinese food that is… half an hour later you have to kill him again. []
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