anome said:
Well, Ecky Thump was the episode that killed someone.
I remember Bill Oddie describing the very touching letter they got from the man's widow thanking them for making his dying moments happy.
Yes, I always thought that was a bit daft, seeing as it was them that killed him in the first place. Apparently, the guy had been laughing for something like 90 minutes non-stop, even after the programme ended, before his heart suddenly gave out under the strain.
To have killed someone with laughter is a bit of an unbeatable recommendation for a comedy, isn't it? Sounds like the Python sketch about the deadly joke.
That was the episode with the cream scone mine, too, wasn't it? It ended with them all going over a cliff in a shopping trolley if I recall correctly (which it's possible I don't, seeing as the whole thing was viewed through a haze of tears, many years ago).
FWIW, my favourite Goodies episode was the one with Bigfoot (and it turned out to be just that -- a really big foot, that chased them round a wood). The premise was that they went off trying to find if Arthur C Clarke really existed, and parts of it were presented as documentary, but in a really "straight" way. I particularly remember one "talking head" that was a man in his front room:
Interviewer (off camera): You claim to have seen Arthur C Clarke and lived to tell the tale ... what happened to you?
Man: Well, I was just sitting here watching the telly, when all of a sudden I saw this old fellow with a big umbrella walking along a beach.
Interviewer: What happened then?
Man: I fell asleep.
Doesn't sound particularly funny, but the straight-faced way it was done (especially the witness's earnest manner) made it almost delirious.
