Kung Fu Kapers

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The Goodies episode
"Kung Fu Kapers"

Episode №	41
Airdate	24 March 1975 (Monday — 9.00 pm)
Director
Producer	Jim Franklin
Guest star(s)	Michael Barratt as himself Richard Pescud as "..." William F. Sully as "..."
Series V February 10 – December 21, 1975
The Movies Clown Virus Chubbie Chumps Wacky Wales Frankenfido Scatty Safari Kung Fu Kapers Lighthouse Keeping Loonies Rome Antics Fleet Street Goodies South Africa Bunfight at the O.K. Tea Rooms The End The Goodies Rule – O.K.?
List of The Goodies episodes

Kung Fu Kapers is an episode of the British comedy television series The Goodies.

This episode is also known as "Ecky-Thump".

1 Plot
2 Spoofs
3 Trivia
4 Reference
5 External link

[edit] Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Bill is revealed as a master of the secret Lancashire martial art known as "Ecky-Thump" — which mostly revolves around hitting unsuspecting people with black puddings while wearing flat caps and braces.

Tim and Graeme go into battle against Bill — posing as various martial arts experts who are "foreign members of their families". However, Bill wins against every 'expert' by hitting them with a black pudding. Tim ends up getting plastered, with his arms in boxing position, so that he would be in the correct position to be able to hit Bill.

The night before Bill and his Ecky-Thump 'army' are to go on the march to attack with their black puddings, Graeme adds a secret ingredient to the black pudding mixture — leading to unexpected wayward black puddings for a bewildered Bill and his equally bemused Ecky-Thump followers.

[edit] Spoofs

[edit] Trivia

Kung-fu was a craze which was sweeping the UK at the time the episode was made, with films such as "Enter the Dragon", many martial arts schools appearing in gyms and even a fragrance for men called Hai-Karate.

The episode is infamous for the documented example of a man laughing himself to death. 50 year old Alex Mitchell could not stop laughing for a continuous 25 minute period - almost the entire length of the show - and suffered a fatal heart attack as a result of the strain placed on his heart. ^[1]