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Later, after Graeme becomes a disc jockey and does all the voices of other disc jockeys, Bill tries to convince Tim that Graeme is on the radio and believes he's gone mad with power. Then, Bill hears about the prize money. Graeme makes further instructions to the housewives which make them fat again (Tim wants to also join in, but is prevented from doing so by Bill). |
Later, after Graeme becomes a disc jockey and does all the voices of other disc jockeys, Bill tries to convince Tim that Graeme is on the radio and believes he's gone mad with power. Then, Bill hears about the prize money. Graeme makes further instructions to the housewives which make them fat again (Tim wants to also join in, but is prevented from doing so by Bill). |
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On Friday night at the Albert Hall, the beauty contest has started with Graeme welcoming all the obese housewives who all men and judges are not impressed with. Then Tim (Ms Cricklewood), who has stayed slim, becomes the winner of Miss Housewife of the Year. Tim and Bill are happy to win the contest but Graeme is displeased with Bill's misunderstanding of his plan. The housewives become angry with The Goodies and chase them to get the prize cup. By the time the |
On Friday night at the Albert Hall, the beauty contest has started with Graeme welcoming all the obese housewives who all men and judges are not impressed with. Then Tim (Ms Cricklewood), who has stayed slim, becomes the winner of Miss Housewife of the Year. Tim and Bill are happy to win the contest but Graeme is displeased with Bill's misunderstanding of his plan. The housewives become angry with The Goodies and chase them to get the prize cup. By the time the trios gets exhausted with the chase, they discover that the housewives have lost all their fat and become slim again on the run, so The Goodies blow the dresses off the women (leaving the women dressed in their [[underwear]]). Then, to the tune of the [[Benny Hill]] theme, The Goodies chase all the housewives around the park. |
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Revision as of 06:57, 10 August 2013
| "Chubbie Chumps" | |
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| 5 episode | |
| Original air dates | 24 February 1975 (Monday — 9 p.m.) |
| Guest appearances | |
| Michael Aspel as | |
Chubbie Chumps is an episode of the award-winning British comedy television series The Goodies.
This episode is also known as "Radio 2" and "The Beauty Contest" as well as "Housewives" and "Miss Housewife".
As always, the episode was written by members of The Goodies.
Plot
Graeme and Bill return from a fishing trip to discover that the office wasn't completely clean and Tim has become obese through eating huge amounts of lard. Tim has also taken to listening to a radio show which, it turns out, is also listened to by a lot of housewives (all of whom have also become obese), and this leads the group (Tim included) to a health club, where they slim down again.
Meanwhile Bill and Graeme are cleaning the office themselves, before Tim comes back from the health club. They find that Tim is slim again with a femalist look. Tim continues listening to the disc jockey, who announces a Beauty Pageant for housewives, called Miss Housewife of the Year, on Friday night at the Royal Albert Hall. Tim enters the contest, but Graeme forbids him to go to the pageant because he's not a housewife - not even a miss - but it is no use because Tim won't listen to his friends. The disc jockey is still on telephone line and Graeme makes him admit that he doesn't want any fat women in the pageant and is fired for his comments. The BBC made an announcement for a new disc jockey to take the last disc jockey's place. Graeme has an idea to change the Beauty Pageant and takes the job.
Later, after Graeme becomes a disc jockey and does all the voices of other disc jockeys, Bill tries to convince Tim that Graeme is on the radio and believes he's gone mad with power. Then, Bill hears about the prize money. Graeme makes further instructions to the housewives which make them fat again (Tim wants to also join in, but is prevented from doing so by Bill).
On Friday night at the Albert Hall, the beauty contest has started with Graeme welcoming all the obese housewives who all men and judges are not impressed with. Then Tim (Ms Cricklewood), who has stayed slim, becomes the winner of Miss Housewife of the Year. Tim and Bill are happy to win the contest but Graeme is displeased with Bill's misunderstanding of his plan. The housewives become angry with The Goodies and chase them to get the prize cup. By the time the trios gets exhausted with the chase, they discover that the housewives have lost all their fat and become slim again on the run, so The Goodies blow the dresses off the women (leaving the women dressed in their underwear). Then, to the tune of the Benny Hill theme, The Goodies chase all the housewives around the park.
Cultural references
- Beauty contest
- Health club
- The Benny Hill Show — where the ending music and chase of the Benny Hill Show is used as the ending music and chase for the episode.
Notes
- The initials ISIRTA can be seen printed on the wall with chalk. All three Goodies appeared in the radio program.
References
- "The Complete Goodies" — Robert Ross, B T Batsford, London, 2000
- "The Goodies Rule OK" — Robert Ross, Carlton Books Ltd, Sydney, 2006
- "From Fringe to Flying Circus — 'Celebrating a Unique Generation of Comedy 1960-1980'" — Roger Wilmut, Eyre Methuen Ltd, 1980
- "The Goodies Episode Summaries" — Brett Allender
- "The Goodies — Fact File" — Matthew K. Sharp
External links
- ("Chubbie Chumps" is listed under an alternative title at IMDb)