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.
(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.
Tim: (about Ecky Thump) Is it good for hurting people? Bill: Honestly… really! You come on like a poncy, public school pansy. Underneath you're a savage little devil you, aren't you? (Tim nods enthusiastically)
Graeme: Ecky Thump! You know, it's our own fault. We should of let him keep his little secret. Tim: Little secret? He just belted us with black puddings! Graeme: It's extremely effective. Tim: Yeah, extremely hard!
(about setting up Ecky Thump classes) Bill: Who am I to deprive the world of a little harmful fun, eh?
(Bill has left to march on Parliament) Tim: Right, that is the end of civilisation, as we know it. Graeme: Not necessarily. Now how are we gonna stop him? Tim: I don't know… Graeme: I do. (smiles smugly for a moment) Tim: Well how? Graeme: Well it's obvious isn't it?! He's useless without his pudding! Tim: Aren't we all?
(plotting to stop Bill) Graeme: How are we gonna get our hands on his pudding? Tim: Most of all, on everybody's pudding!
(Graeme has just fallen into a vat of black pudding) Tim: I found the recipe! 500 gallons of pigs blood, 3 grosse of calves stomachs, 400… oh, poor little tom kittens. Monosodium glutamate, rats brains, dung… hey get out of that!!! Graeme: What? Tim: You'll absolutely ruin the flavour.
Ecky Thump Grand Master: There's nowt wrong wi' owt what mitherin' clutterbucks don't barley grummit!
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.
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