| "Snooze" | |
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| The Goodies episode | |
| Episode no. | Series 1 Episode 2 (of 76) |
| Directed by | Jim Franklin |
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| Starring | Tim Brooke-Taylor Graeme Garden Bill Oddie |
| Original air date | 15 November 1970 (Sunday — 10.30 p.m.) |
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| List of The Goodies episodes | |
Snooze is an episode of the British comedy television series The Goodies — a BAFTA-nominated series for Best Light Entertainment Programme.[1][2][3]
As always, the episode was written by members of The Goodies.
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It is morning, and Graeme's intricate alarm system goes off. Graeme and Tim wake from sleep, but Bill is already awake, having been awake all night. Bill mentions that he never sleeps, commenting that he is afraid to go to sleep because he goes sleepwalking whenever he sleeps.
Rupert Windcheater arrives and asks the Goodies to help with his company's excellent bedtime drink called "Venom". For some reason, good though it is, it just isn't selling. Graeme vouches for it, saying that "Venom" always gives him a good night's sleep. Tim suggests that the name should be changed. Various names are suggested, but none are accepted until Bill thinks of "Snooze". Everyone is delighted with this, including Rupert Windcheater, who feels that the product, with such a name, should now sell.
Graeme decides to upgrade the formula, calling it new improved snooze, with disastrous results. Graeme persuades Bill to have some of the improved Snooze to help him sleep, despite Bill's protests. As a result of Graeme's upgrade of the mixture, Bill sleeps for three weeks, and then goes sleepwalking (unbeknown to Tim and Graeme, who are discussing the terrible consequences of the formula). Tim must chase Bill as he sleepwalks, Graeme then finishes the antidote and plans to test it by drinking some of the new improved snooze but falls asleep before being able to drink the formula. Tim, who is still chasing Bill, catches up with him. However, when Tim gets Bill to go the way he wants, he notices Graeme sleepwalking. Tim manages to get back to the van where he makes Bill and Graeme push the van back to the office. Pushing the door down as they do so, Bill and Graeme enter the office. Tim then gives them the antidote and they wake up, they check the news, but the news reader has fallen asleep on his desk. Graeme says that the effect will be lessened if they add the antidote to every reservoir in the country.
The Goodies take a barrel of Graeme's antidote down to a creek, to put a teaspoon of formula into the creek (with the intention of taking the remainder to all other waterways in Britain). While Graeme is carefully filling his teaspoon with the antidote, the barrel suddenly rolls down the bank into the creek, spilling out all the contents. Tim demands to know what will happen because of the unintentional spillage, and Graeme tells him that the effect would be to speed up metabolism, as well as speeding up the people themselves. Tim and Bill ask how much things will speed up, and are horrified when Graeme tells them that people's metabolism could be increased a hundredfold.
Life takes on a surreal effect as the whole of Britain reacts to the effects of the spillage — a cricket Test Match between England and Australia takes only minutes to play, instead of days; a Royal car goes by very rapidly, carrying the Queen; and the British Prime Minister sounds like a cartoon chipmunk as he rushes through his speech in Parliament. The sleeping newsreader wakes up and takes a sip of water — followed by more sips — and, getting faster and faster with his speech, he finally jumps up and pounds his chest with his fists (like King Kong), before rushing off.
Rupert Windcheater arrives in a furious mood. His company has been forced to part with the entire quantity of Snooze free-of-charge, to counteract Graeme's antidote. He intends to take out his anger on the Goodies — but, after drinking some of the antidote, they can run faster than he can.
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Both the commercials in this episode are to do with snooze.
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