Animals (The Goodies)

"**Animals**"
"Animals"
The Goodies episode
Episode no.	Series 8; Episode 5
Original air dates	11 February 1980 ; (Monday — 8.10 p.m.)
Guest appearances
	Mel Smith as Reginald Bowes and Cat; Patrick Moore as himself; Ronnie Storm; Ernie Goodyear;
Episode chronology
← Previous; "U-Friend or UFO?"	Next →; "War Babies"
	List of episodes

"Animals" is an episode of the British comedy television series The Goodies.

This episode is also known as "Animal Liberation" and "Animal Lib" and also "Watership Down".^{[citation needed]}

Written by The Goodies, with songs and music by Bill Oddie.

Plot[edit]

Tim has been collecting various animals to take part in showbiz. However, his agency is not a commercial success due to his pathetic ways of training animals and Bill is crazed by hunger for meat which he has not eaten while feeding the animals. Graeme arrives to collect lions for the circus but Tim has no big cats or bears for cruel taming. So, Bill and Graeme came up other ideas and put the animals to work in energy-saving domestic duties. Tim is horrified at what they have done, so he decides to support an "Animal Discrimination Act": Animals are granted equal rights with humans and it is now illegal for humans to exploit animals.

This includes a ban on eating animals, which enrages carnivorous Bill, who decides to "speak out" for vegetables in the "Rabid Frost Programme", where he ends up eating the leader of the Animal Revolutionary Party and making animals angry for seeing the true meaning of human nature. In the end, the humans have to disguise themselves as rabbits to escape from the fury of the animals.

Cultural references[edit]

References[edit]

"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
"TV Heaven" — Jim Sangster & Paul Condon, HarperCollinsPublishers, London, 2005

External links[edit]

"Animals" at IMDb

v t e The Goodies episodes
Series 1	"Tower of London" "Snooze" "Give Police a Chance" "Caught in the Act" "The Greenies" "Cecily" "Radio Goodies"
Series 2	"Scotland" "Commonwealth Games" "Pollution" "The Lost Tribe" "The Music Lovers" "Culture for the Masses" "Kitten Kong" "Come Dancing" "Farm Fresh Food" "Women's Lib" "Gender Education" "Charity Bounce" "The Baddies"
Specials	"Kitten Kong: Montreux '72 Edition" "A Collection of Goodies – Special Tax Edition"
Series 3	"The New Office" "Hunting Pink" "Winter Olympics" "That Old Black Magic" "For Those in Peril on the Sea" "Way Outward Bound" "Superstar"
Series 4	"Camelot" "Invasion of the Moon Creatures" "Hospital for Hire" "The Goodies and the Beanstalk" "The Stone Age" "Goodies in the Nick" "The Race"
Series 5	"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.?"
Series 6	"Lips, or Almighty Cod" "Hype Pressure" "Daylight Robbery on the Orient Express" "Black and White Beauty" "It Might as Well Be String" "2001 & A Bit" "The Goodies – Almost Live"
Series 7	"Alternative Roots" "Dodonuts" "Scoutrageous" "Punky Business" "Royal Command" "Earthanasia"
Series 8	"Goodies and Politics" "Saturday Night Grease" "A Kick in the Arts" "U-Friend or UFO?" "Animals" "War Babies"
Series 9	"Snow White 2" "Robot" "Football Crazy" "Big Foot" "Change of Life" "Holiday" "Animals Are People Too"