It Might as Well Be String

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The Goodies episode
"It Might as Well Be String"
Episode № 53
Airdate 19 October 1976
Director
Guest star(s) Raymond Baxter as (himself)
("Television presenter")
Marcelles Samett as the
"Girl in the String advertisement"
Valerie Leon as
"the Karate Girl"
Series VI
September 21November 2, 1976
  1. Lips, or Almighty Cod
  2. Hype Pressure
  3. Daylight Robbery on the Orient Express
  4. Black and White Beauty
  5. It Might as Well Be String
  6. 2001 and a Bit
  7. The Goodies – Almost Live
The Goodies episodes


It Might as Well Be String is an episode of the British comedy television series The Goodies.

Contents

[edit] Plot

The Goodies have become Advertising Men and Tim is horrified at the lies they tell about the products they advertise.

Tim wants them to advertise about string, because he is of the opinion that string is pure.

Later, Tim watches his favourite television programme "Tomorrow's World" and is again horrified — this time because string is a failure as a product. Then he discovers that some mysterious men are making a lot of money by keeping a stockpile of string, so that the world is dependant on them. When he attempts to discuss the situation with Graeme and Bill, he finds that they have left and left replicas of themselves to fool him. Tim is furious and intends to put Graeme's and Bill's string empire out of business. However, along the way he runs into many obstacles — including by Bill and Graeme, themselves.

[edit] Song

  • "String, String, String, String" — written and sung by Bill Oddie

[edit] Quote

Quote

  • Graeme (reading from a blackboard with the letters 'A', 'B', 'C' and 'D' written on it, and showing what is written about each letter — from 'D' to 'A'):
D is for 'Dumb'
C is for 'Clever'
B is for 'Brilliant'
A is for 'Advertising men'

[edit] Spoofs and imitations

[edit] External link


The Goodies episodes (in alphabetical order)

2001 and a Bit | Alternative Roots | Animals | Animals are People Too | The Baddies | Big Foot | Black and White Beauty |
Bunfight at the O.K. Tea Rooms | Camelot | Caught in the Act | Cecily | Change of Life | Charity Bounce | Chubbie Chumps | Clown Virus |
Come Dancing | Commonwealth Games| | Culture for the Masses | Daylight Robbery on the Orient Express | Dodonuts | Earthanasia | The End |
Farm Fresh Food | Fleet Street Goodies | Football Crazy | For Those in Peril on the Sea -- Frankenfido | Gender Education | Give Police a Chance |
The Goodies – Almost Live | Goodies and Politics | The Goodies and the Beanstalk | Goodies in the Nick | The Goodies Rule – O.K.?
| The Greenies | Holiday | Hospital for Hire | Hunting Pink | Hype Pressure | Invasion of the Moon Creatures | It Might as Well Be String |
A Kick in the Arts | Kitten Kong | Kung Fu Kapers | Lighthouse Keeping Loonies | Lips, or Almighty Cod | The Lost Tribe | The Movies |
The Music Lovers | The New Office | Pollution | Punky Business | The Race | Radio Goodies | Robot | Rome Antics | Royal Command |
Saturday Night Grease | | Scatty Safari | Scotland | Scoutrageous | Snooze | Snow White 2 | South Africa | The Stone Age | Superstar |
That Old Black Magic | The Tower of London | U-Friend or UFO? | Wacky Wales | War Babies | Way Outward Bound | Winter Olympics | Women's Lib |


The Goodies
Tim Brooke-TaylorGraeme GardenBill Oddie