Punky Business

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The Goodies episode
"Punky Business"

Episode №	59
Airdate	29 November 1977 (Tuesday — 9.00 pm)
Director	Bob Spiers
Producer	Jim Franklin
Guest star(s)	Jane Asher as "Caroline Kook" Frank Thornton as the "Master of Ceremonies" Michael Barratt as himself Patrick Moore as himself Ronnie Brody as "..." Roland MacLeod as "..." Vicki Michelle as "the Nurse" Selina Ingram as "..." James Muir as "..." Norman Bacon as "..." Barney Carroll as "..." Eddie Davis as "..." Ernie Goodyear as "a Policeman"
Series VII November 1 – December 22, 1977
Alternative Roots Dodonuts Scoutrageous Punky Business Royal Command Earthanasia
List of The Goodies episodes

Punky Business is an episode of the British comedy television series The Goodies.

This episode is also known as "Punkerella" and as "Rock Goodies".

1 Plot
2 Spoofs and imitations
3 Trivia
4 External link

[edit] Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

The Goodies have become a rock band called "The Little Lads", and sing 'on the road', where they are ignored by the general public. However, they are picked up off the street by policemen, who put them to work. Soon tiring of performing for the police, the Goodies discover that punk is the lattest fad. Bill and Graeme decide to go punk — but Tim prefers to keep his neat tidy image and his shiny shoes, instead.

Tim takes the beautiful Caroline Kook out to dinner, but he is disgusted at what is offered on the restaurant's menu, where everything seems to contain Rook. Tim can't understand what has happened to the restaurant — at lunchtime, that day, it had been an ordinary restaurant — now, at dinnertime, it had changed into a punk restaurant called "The Rook Nook". Tim finally chooses spaghetti, thinking that this would not be as bad as the rest. However the restauranteer (Graeme) makes the meal a messy and memorable one for Tim — memorable, that is, for all the wrong reasons.

Tim complains to Caroline Kook about the change to the restaurant, but she becomes angry with him. Caroline has been served with dignity by Graeme, instead of the rough-handed treatment with food which Graeme has metered out to Tim — so she lacks sympathy for what had happened to Tim. Caroline Kook mentions to Tim that there is to be a Trendsetters Ball. Graeme, who is listening to what she says, looks interested in what he is hearing.

People attending the ball try to outdo each other in punkiness, including Bill (who sings a punk song). Tim wants to go to the ball, but he is told that he looks too nice. Upset, Tim sweeps the Goodies office with a broom — until Graeme arrives and turns Tim into Punkerella by operating on him. When Tim awakens, following the operation, he can't see where the change has been made — until Graeme tells Tim that he has taken Tim's leg off — following which Tim immediately falls over. Graeme warns Tim that the clip on his leg is not secure and might come undone and that his leg might fall off. Graeme then puts a pumpkin, with rats and lizards hanging from it, over Tim's head, and Tim attends the ball.

In his disguise, Tim is an instant success. When he quickly leaves at midnight, during the ball, his amputated leg falls off and Tim leaves it behind on the stairs. And so the hunt is on to find the pumpkin-headed weirdo with one leg — with Caroline Kook vowing to marry him when he is found.