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18 March 2009 @ 11:14 am
Tim Brooke-Taylor Picspam, Fit The Second  
Well, you asked for it. No - wait, hang on. No you didn't. I don't care. Tim In Frocks, seasons 6-9.



Season 6 Episode 2: Hype Pressure
A slow and innocuous start to season 6 - just a couple of shots of Tim modelling the new 1950s revival fashions, complete with beehive. Really, I just wanted to include this so I could do a 'Heeeellllp, I'm covered in bees!' joke.

I like my women like I like my coffee - covered in bees.

Season 6 Episode 3: Daylight Robbery On The Orient Express
But clearly that slow start was just to lull us into a false sense of security, because this episode has MORE TIM IN FROCKS THAN ONE WOULD BELIEVE POSSIBLE. Graeme has set up a loony company to create tailor-made holidays:

('Anything, anytime, anywhere' indeed.)

Their first commission is for a group of murder-mystery enthusiasts; the boys decide to organise a journey on the Orient Express. Naturally, Tim plays the stewardess:

Of course, if they actually booked their customers onto the Orient Express they'd have to *pay* for it, so they decide to conduct the holiday without ever leaving the country (or indeed the station). This involves Bill running past the stationary train with various trees, cows, towers of Pisa etc, while Tim provides the local colour:
A flirtatious French maid! A sun-kissed Italian maiden! ...whatever this is! OMG

It should also be noted that there seems to have been something in Graeme's water this morning. Not only does he pinch Tim's bottom:


But there's more.

GRAEME: Right, we're supposed to be passing through Japan, and they're all going to want the special geisha treatment, you know what I mean. Ahhh, you're a pretty little thing, aren't you...
TIM: I'm sorry, I'm not doing it!
GRAEME: Ohhh, I love it when you're cross, my little doe-eyed vixen!
TIM: You lay one finger on me and I'll scream!
GRAEME: You betcha!
AND THEN HE PINGS TIM'S SPARKLY BIKINI TOP.
TIM: Why don't you do it?!
GRAEME: Because I haven't got the legs for it, that's why. Now, the problem is -
*Tim smiles and stretches out one rather naked leg*

GRAEME: *pointing and sputtering* whoa-o-o-ah! - now the problem is -

Oh, gosh, boys.

Season 6 Episode 7: Almost Live
Apparently we needed time to recover from 'Daylight Robbery...', as we only have a fleeting appearance by Pan's Grannies to tide us over for the rest of the series.

It's somehow just not as exciting.

Season 7 Episode 5: Royal Command
Ahhh, but here comes another gem. Owing to Complex Circumstances, the Goodies have to stand in for the royal family. There could surely be no argument as to who gets to be the Queen.


I'D VOTE FOR HIM.

BONUS FEATURE: Tim gets to be Her, but Graeme can't quite decided whether to be Him or Other Her:



Eventually, he opts for Her.

Actually, I think Grae totally rocks this hat.

This leaves Bill with Young Him, with Him being represented by a ventriloquist's dummy.

SO REGAL, GAWD BLESS 'EM.

Season 8 Episode 1: Politics

Things that are notable about this episode:
1. Tim's frankly eerie similarity to Margaret Thatcher:


2. Best Evita parody evar:


BONUS FEATURE: I've generally resisted the urge to put pictures of the other boys in frocks in these picspams, as they were intended only as a celebration of the joy of Tim-in-frocks. This has led to me skipping Graeme in his school-girl pinafore and pigtails, and Bill in his Swedish au pair miniskirt (WOE.) However, I just *couldn't* skip over Graeme's dancing frock. It makes me so happy.



"Dinkum dinkum dinkum, speak to me in Aussie you cheeky little jumbuck!"

Season 8 Episode 4: U-Friend Or UFO


Supernun!!! I am irresistably reminded of Jim's disguise in Biggles: Adventures In Time. This worries me. (Not least because I just typed that as 'Adventures In Tim' >_<)

Sadly, the frequency and quality of frocks rather deteriorate from here on. I blame the shift to LWT. In some indefineable way.

Season 9 Episode 1: Snow White 2
Tim the Fairy Godfather. With a lightsabre. BECAUSE GOODIES, BECAUSE.


Season 9 Episode 7: Animals Are People Too
Sadly, Tim's frock-wearing goes out rather with a whimper than a bang, though I must confess that he really does make a very impressive Barbara Woodhouse:


Which brings us to the end of our magical mystery tour through Tim's wardrobe. Damnit, now what do I do with my time?

BONUS BONUS FEATURE
As you may have noticed from the bonus features last time, I'm slightly obsessive about Tim's sock suspenders. So I've capped a couple of pictures of them. WHAT.

Union jack socks, sock suspenders, *and lacy garter*. Hold me.

All the boys showing off their suspenders. *faints*

BONUS BONUS BONUS FEATURE
No particular reason for including this, except that it amuses me greatly, and it shows the true pure love 'twixt Grae and Timbo again, which is frankly reason enough. From the episode 'Royal Command', and Tim is trying on an Earl's robes in anticipation of the honours with which he is about to be showered.

TIM: I'd be happy to end up an O.B.E. Best of all - an Earl *and* an O.B.E.
GRAEME: You'd be an earlobe.
TIM: You're just jealous, aren't you!

GRAEME: No I'm not, I like Earls!

GRAEME: *sings* 'Thank heavens for little Earls...' Ohh, that robe is very sexy.
*sings* 'Earls were made to love and kiss...'

GRAEME: Give us a kiss. *puckers up*
TIM: ...oh, why not. I'm just an Earl who can't say no...

*Tim pursues Graeme, who scrambles onto the desk to escape*

BONUS BONUS BONUS BONUS FEATURE




In conclusion: yay.
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taversham: frings squee[personal profile] taversham on March 18th, 2009 01:21 pm (UTC)
Tim being all the local women in Daylight Robbery is probably one of my favourite bits of The Goodies ever. Not just for the slash and cross dressing...actually, mainly for the slash and cross dressing. But also the goat. Always think the second half of that ep is such a let down.

(That picture with the teddy bear is SO adorable.)
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Atalan[identity profile] childofatlantis.livejournal.com on March 18th, 2009 02:44 pm (UTC)
... what IS this thing that you are capping from? o.O
[identity profile] calliope85.livejournal.com on March 18th, 2009 02:51 pm (UTC)
It's The Goodies! Only the biggest comedy hit of the 1970s! Only nine series over the course of a decade! Only audience hovering around the 12 million mark! Only top-selling books for four years running! Only five hit singles within twelve months! Pfffft, you young people...

Mainly, I'm here for Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden being utterly adorable (http://taversham.livejournal.com/45763.html#cutid1) and Tim in frocks (http://calliope85.livejournal.com/13687.html#cutid1) (see also above), but there is also a forty-foot long Dougal (from the Magic Roundabout), and punk Patrick Moore.

I keep having fanfic ideas which I am currently repressing. It's all good.
[identity profile] pearbean.livejournal.com on March 18th, 2009 03:37 pm (UTC)
I am physically incapable of either seeing or hearing Tim's full name without immediately mentally rattling off the ISIRTA cast list >_<

ALSO YAY EARLOBE JOKE :D
Love Tim's beehive.
[identity profile] calliope85.livejournal.com on March 18th, 2009 04:48 pm (UTC)
Followed by 'And now here's John Otto Cleese, to say...'

Goodies reusing ISIRTA jokes is one of my favourite things. Though it's even better when one of the boys reuses ISIRTA jokes on the DVD commentaries :D On the (2007) commentary to 'Holiday', Tim used the 'I leica nice cup of tea in the morning' gag from 'The Colditz Story' with *exactly the same delivery as John used in the episode*. Joy ^___^
vae[personal profile] vae on March 18th, 2009 06:53 pm (UTC)
But HOW can you skip Bill in his adorable Swedish au pair outfit? With the pointy tits? And the blonde wig and yet still full and bushy manly Bill beard?

...I wish I could get hold of more Goodies, I have only the official DVDs. And a few my uncle taped for me from Sky about fifteen years ago.
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[identity profile] prudence-dearly.livejournal.com on March 19th, 2009 06:21 am (UTC)
I asked for it! And I made a high-pitched squeak resembling "YES!" when I got it!

Further comments: Hot damn, but he has good legs. That Margaret Thatcher resemblance is frickin' SCARY. Adventures in Tim, mwa-ha. And bonus bonuses FTW.

*siiiiigh* Thanks. That was really nice.

P.S. I don't go for RPS at all, in any way, but I am forced to say: don't repress your fanfic urges. Resistance is useless, y/y?
[identity profile] calliope85.livejournal.com on March 19th, 2009 08:24 am (UTC)
Ahahaha, YAY :D I'm doing entirely too much high-pitched squeaking over the Goodies, it's nice to have company :D Current primary source of squeaking: every time they appear on a popular music programme and have entirely too much fun, much to the bemusement of the presenters, the other performers, and often the audience. This appearance (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-ym2ZRx4uo) springs to mind. Graeme going 'grrrr'! Tim overacting shamelessly! Bill forgetting his cue at 2:20 and having to go off into a corner to be private for a moment so he doesn't corpse too badly! Graeme grinning like a loon in the following long-shot! Oh, *boys*.

I'm currently fighting the RPS and firmly reminding myself that their Goodies-verse characters are entirely different from their Real Personae. And trying not to let myself be swayed by DVD commentaries where Graeme complements Tim on his frocks, or ISIHAC episodes with exchanges like:
GRAEME: Good news! They've invented a new male contraceptive pill.
TIM: Bad news - eight months gone and *now* he tells me!

Or perhaps:
WILLIE: Good news - the Romans are back in Britain.
GRAEME: Bad news - I'm a druid.
TIM: *winsomely* Good news - I'm a druid too.
BARRY: Bad news - I'm Mary Whitehouse.

I'm not ruling out Goodies-verse fic, but am currently wondering how on earth it could actually be written. Forty-foot long Dougals lose a certain something in typeface only. And *angst*? How on earth could one write Goodies angst?!
[identity profile] prudence-dearly.livejournal.com on March 19th, 2009 09:08 am (UTC)
A-heeeeee! OK, yeah, you're definitely propagating the high-pitched squeaking :)

I need to get hold of my Dad's Goodies DVDs now and see if there's a cast commentary because hold the phone that would be so awesome.

See, I immediately think "RPS" because I find it difficult to differentiate the Goodies personae from just about any other personae the boys have on their other programmes/in other appearances. Oh, the flirting and hilarity!

(I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue)
TIM (about a teletubbies episode): I was gripped!
GRAEME: And me not here.

And *angst*? How on earth could one write Goodies angst?!
I seem to recall some sad little moments where Graeme gets megalomaniacal and Tim gets hurt. But it's all resolved ridiculously in the end and they make up? My knowledge is not nearly as keen as yours, but then, I wouldn't be looking for angst, I'd be all about the opportunities for inappropriateness regarding dresses, sock suspenders and Graeme invading Tim's personal space.

On the (2007) commentary to 'Holiday', Tim used the 'I leica nice cup of tea in the morning' gag from 'The Colditz Story' with *exactly the same delivery as John used in the episode*. Joy ^___^
OK, it's a problem that I know EXACTLY the line you mean, and the delivery and everything, but can't remember what the actual joke was...
[identity profile] calliope85.livejournal.com on March 19th, 2009 04:07 pm (UTC)
I need to get hold of my Dad's Goodies DVDs now and see if there's a cast commentary because hold the phone that would be so awesome.

The cast commentaries vary quite a lot - some are pretty awesome, some are pretty painful, and it's largely dependent on whether Bill Oddie's on an up or a down swing at that point :S I seem to recall that the one for 'The Movies' was brill, the one for 'The End' was awful, which saddens me, because I love 'The End' far too much. (Mostly for the utterly gratuitous amount of snuggling. "You don't mind me calling you Graeme, do you? Because you're the only friend I've got in the whole world..." *snuggles*

See, I immediately think "RPS" because I find it difficult to differentiate the Goodies personae from just about any other personae the boys have on their other programmes/in other appearances.

*grins* You raise a fair and interesting point. I guess I try to insert quite a large crowbar between the Goodies personae and the boys themselves because I have a tendency to be rather Tim-centric, and Tim Brooke-Taylor is always faintly embarrassed at the notion that people might think he's like his Goodies character - Union Jack-waving, Margaret Thatcher-voting, feminist-baiting Righty etc etc. And, of course, the 'sit-' aspect of the Goodies sitcom setup means that the Goodies are fictional, for all that they have the names (and some of the traits) of the actors. But I guess it's also true that their characters in the Goodies are to a degree amplifications / caricatures of their real characters, and that they play up their Goodies traits to a certain degree in the more 'real-world' ISIHAC, and even in interviews together. So from that perspective it's hard to differentiate between Goodies-slash and RPS. I think essentially for me it'd be regular slash if I wrote Graeme/Tim in a Goodies in-universe situation, and RPS if I wrote Graeme/Tim, say, related to what goes on backstage at ISIHAC recordings. Even if the interactions was markedly similar in both fics. *ponders*

Wow, that rambled a lot :D Sorry.

I do agree about not really looking for angst :D Even when the boys put one another through frightful emotional wringers in the show ('Earthanasia' springs to mind, not to mention every time two of them gang up to throw out the other one...), The Goodies Are Never Emo ^_^ I just wondered if it could even be *possible*. But cross-dressing and sock suspenders are *entirely* more fun. I just wish I was better at writing humour, I have a strong feeling that I just wouldn't do Goodies-fic justice :( Damn fandoms where the original source material is written by *really funny people*.
[identity profile] prudence-dearly.livejournal.com on March 20th, 2009 04:13 am (UTC)
The Goodies Are Never Emo
That needs to be an icon. (Decrees the girl who couldn't make an icon to save herself.)

Those are some thinky thoughts you've got about the Goodies. I think you should definitely give fic a shot, and just see how it goes. Go on, how much could it hurt? (You know that little devil on your shoulder? Yeah, that would be me :)