Gender Education (Goodies episode)

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The Goodies episode
"Gender Education"
Episode №	18
Airdate	31 December 1971 (Friday — 9.35 pm)
Director	Jim Franklin
Producer	John Howard Davies
Guest star(s)	Beryl Reid as "Mrs. Desiree Carthorse" Richard Wattis as the "TV Show Host" Alex Macintosh as "..." John Lawrence as "..." Jim Collier as "..." Valerie Stanton as "..." Tony West as "..."
Series II October 1, 1971 – January 14, 1972
Scotland Commonwealth Games Pollution The Lost Tribe The Music Lovers Culture for the Masses Kitten Kong Come Dancing Farm Fresh Food Women's Lib Gender Education Charity Bounce The Baddies
List of The Goodies episodes

Gender Education is an episode of the British comedy television series The Goodies.

This episode is also known as "Sex and Violence".

Contents 1 Plot 2 Quote 3 Spoofs and imitations 4 External link

[edit] Plot

Mrs. Desiree Carthorse asks the Goodies to make a sex education film for her. However, she thinks that S-E-X is a sin and does not want the word to be mentioned during the film. The boy (acted by Tim), and a very reluctant girl, have sheets over them throughout the filming for modesty — even the birds and bees seen during the film have sheets draped over them.

The Goodies think that Mrs. Carthorse should be happy with the result and purity they achieve with the film, but she is not. Mrs. Carthorse is angry with what they have done without even bothering to watch the film to see what it is like — the use of the word 'gender' in the opening credits having disgusted her to such an extent that she refuses to watch the film.

The Goodies are asked to make violent films — Tim and Graeme are horrified about this and refuse the request, but Bill decides to do so and releases a string of violent films, including a very violent version of "Cinderella", called "Sinderella", in which even Sinderella's friend Buttons is violent.

Bill, who has become obsessed with violence, goes on the rampage and wrecks havoc, resulting in an explosive situation and chaos.

[edit] Quote

• Bill: "There is a Mr. Carthorse, isn't there?"
• Mrs. Desiree Carthorse: "Yes."
• Bill: "What does he do?"
• Mrs. Desiree Carthorse: "He keeps his distance!"

[edit] Spoofs and imitations

• Mary Whitehouse
• Cinderella
• Buttons

[edit] External link

• Sex and Violence at the Internet Movie Database

("Gender Education" is listed under an alternative title at IMDb)

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 | Tower of London | U-Friend or UFO? | Wacky Wales | War Babies | Way Outward Bound | Winter Olympics | Women's Lib |

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