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*.