Chubbie Chumps

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The Goodies episode
"Chubbie Chumps"
Episode №	37
Airdate	24 February 1975 (Monday — 9 p.m.)
Director
Producer
Guest star(s)	Michael Aspel as "Michael Aspirin"
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

Chubbie Chumps is an episode of the British comedy television series The Goodies.

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

1 Plot
2 Spoofs and imitations
3 References
4 External links

[edit] 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.

[edit] Spoofs and imitations

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

[edit] References

"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