Chubbie Chumps

"Chubbie Chumps"
The Goodies episode
Episode no.	Series 5 Episode 39 (of 76)
Produced by
Starring	Tim Brooke-Taylor Graeme Garden Bill Oddie
Original air date	24 February 1975 (Monday — 9 p.m.)
Guest stars
Michael Aspel as "Michael Aspirin"
Series 5 episodes
10 February – 21 December 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

Chubbie Chumps is an episode of the British comedy television series The Goodies — a BAFTA-nominated series for Best Light Entertainment Programme.^[1][2][3]

This episode is also known as "Radio 2" as well as "The Beauty Contest" and as "Housewives".

As always, the episode was written by members of The Goodies.

Plot

Graeme and Bill return from a fishing trip to discover that Tim has become obese through eating huge amounts of lard. Tim has also taken to listening to a radio show which, it turns out, is also listened to by a lot of housewives (all of whom have also become obese), and this leads the group (Tim included) to a health club, where they slim down again.

Later, there are further instructions to the housewives which make them fat again (Tim wants to also join in, but is prevented from doing so by Bill).

This time, the person who is giving the 'instructions' to the housewives making them eat, turns out to be Graeme, who has his own reasons for wanting the housewives to be fat.

Spoofs and cultural references

• Beauty contest
• Health club
• The Benny Hill Show — where the ending music and chase of the Benny Hill Show is used as the ending music and chase for the episode.

Notes

• The initials ISIRTA can be seen printed on the wall with chalk. All three Goodies appeared in the radio program.

References

1. ^ Light Entertainment Production nomination — official BAFTA website
2. ^ Best Light Entertainment Programme nomination — official BAFTA website
3. ^ Information is given, by the BBC, about the BAFTA-nomination on the back of the "The GOODIES ... At Last ... Back for More, Again!" DVD cover.

• "The Complete Goodies" — Robert Ross, B T Batsford, London, 2000
• "The Goodies Rule OK" — Robert Ross, Carlton Books Ltd, Sydney, 2006
• "From Fringe to Flying Circus — 'Celebrating a Unique Generation of Comedy 1960-1980'" — Roger Wilmut, Eyre Methuen Ltd, 1980
• "The Goodies Episode Summaries" — Brett Allender
• "The Goodies — Fact File" — Matthew K. Sharp

External links

• Radio 2 at the Internet Movie Database

("Chubbie Chumps" is listed under an alternative title at IMDb)