Alternative Roots

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The Goodies episode
"Alternative Roots"

Episode №	56
Airdate	1 November 1977 (Tuesday — 9.00 pm)
Director
Producer
Guest star(s)	Bryan Pringle as the "..." Charlie Stewart as "..." Stuart Fell as "..." Max Faulkner as "..." John Melainey as "..." Brian Rogers as "..." Kenneth Warwick as a "..." The Fred Tomlinson Singers
Series VII November 1 – December 22, 1977
Alternative Roots Dodonuts Scoutrageous Punky Business Royal Command Earthanasia
List of The Goodies episodes

Alternative Roots is an episode of the British comedy television series The Goodies.

This episode is also known as "The Goodies Find Their Roots" and "Hoots, Toots and Froots".

1 Prologue
2 Plot
3 Spoofs and imitations
4 External link

[edit] Prologue

During the episode, the Goodies also appear as their ancestors:

Tim Brooke-Taylor also appears as 'Kounty Kutie'
Graeme Garden also appears as 'Keltic Kilty'
Bill Oddie also appears as 'Kinda Kinky'

[edit] Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

The Goodies tell of the time when their ancestors were young men, and how their ancestors met for the first time.

Graeme's family were Highlanders who lived in bleak conditions in Scotland, where initiation of the young men of the village included being dunked in porridge. Bill's Northern England family sold fruit. Tim, whose ancestors were also English, concludes that they were noble, because the family had its own Coat-of-Arms. None of the Goodies ancestors knew each other at this time.

Then, a bus went around the United Kingdom, taking up all of the young men of the villages — first of all Graeme's ancestor 'Keltic Kilty' was rounded up, with all of the other young men from his village — then Bill's ancestor 'Kinda Kinky' was rounded up, with all of the other young men from his village — and, finally, Tim's ancestor 'Kounty Kutie' was rounded up, with all the other young men in the same sheep 'trade'.

All of the young men who had been captured were then put up for auction as entertainers, and eventually everyone had been bought — apart from 'Kounty Kutie', 'Keltic Kilty' and 'Kinda Kinky', who were forced to work together as entertainers, including on "The Black and White Minstrel Show".