Tim has been putting on weight, and resembles a Christmas pudding on legs, so he tries to slim with the help of Radio 2 D.J. Terry Wogan's 'Fight The Flab' campaign. Housewives are taken to an exclusive health farm and put through a strict regimen of exercise and starvation by smirking attendants. When Tim returns to the office, he resembles Marilyn Monroe in her prime.
Graeme joins Radio 2 after Wogan is sacked and supplies voices for all their programmes including 'The Archers' ( a mistake here. Its a Radio 4 show ) and 'Square Table'.
Tim enters the 'Miss Housewife Of The Year' beauty contest, but Graeme tells his listeners the criteria for the contest has changed - instead of beautiful, thin girls, they now want fat, ugly ones. Which means Tim has to slip back into his old gluttonous ways. At the Albert Hall, the contest goes ahead, with three milkmen making up the panel of judges. Tim wins, but the contest has been fixed. The contestants are furious. Cut to the chase...
One of the weaker Season Five episodes, but still full of laughs, 'Radio 2' sees the Goodies taking the Michael ( Aspel ) out of beauty contests and the shameful exploitation of the obese by slim, healthy people out to make a fast buck. Politically correct this ain't, particularly as the finale has the large ladies chasing our heroes Benny Hill fashion ( 'Yakety Sax' is even played just before the end credits roll ), flattening them with their massive torsos and knocking them down like skittles. Michael Aspel notches up his second appearance in the show, his first was in 'Kitten Kong', and gets a massive cheer when he walks on stage.
Graeme gets full rein to display his talent for mimicry, including a stunningly accurate Terry Wogan ( whom he later played in 'Politics' ), the cast of 'The Archers', Jimmy Saville, Emperor Rosko and the late Alan 'Fluff' Freeman. Jimmy Young, however, is played by Bill Oddie.
Note the 'I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again' graffiti on the wall of the Radio 2 building. It was, of course, the name of the famous B.B.C. radio sketch show that starred John Cleese, Jo Kendall, David Hatch and...um...Tim Brooke-Taylor, Bill Oddie and Graeme Garden! Funniest moment - Graeme using a ventriloquist's dummy to do an impression of Tony Blackburn. "I like bubble gum music.", says the dummy, "Particularly Little Jimmy Osmond!". The jeers from the audience suggests they were about as fond of Osmond as they were of Blackburn.
Graeme joins Radio 2 after Wogan is sacked and supplies voices for all their programmes including 'The Archers' ( a mistake here. Its a Radio 4 show ) and 'Square Table'.
Tim enters the 'Miss Housewife Of The Year' beauty contest, but Graeme tells his listeners the criteria for the contest has changed - instead of beautiful, thin girls, they now want fat, ugly ones. Which means Tim has to slip back into his old gluttonous ways. At the Albert Hall, the contest goes ahead, with three milkmen making up the panel of judges. Tim wins, but the contest has been fixed. The contestants are furious. Cut to the chase...
One of the weaker Season Five episodes, but still full of laughs, 'Radio 2' sees the Goodies taking the Michael ( Aspel ) out of beauty contests and the shameful exploitation of the obese by slim, healthy people out to make a fast buck. Politically correct this ain't, particularly as the finale has the large ladies chasing our heroes Benny Hill fashion ( 'Yakety Sax' is even played just before the end credits roll ), flattening them with their massive torsos and knocking them down like skittles. Michael Aspel notches up his second appearance in the show, his first was in 'Kitten Kong', and gets a massive cheer when he walks on stage.
Graeme gets full rein to display his talent for mimicry, including a stunningly accurate Terry Wogan ( whom he later played in 'Politics' ), the cast of 'The Archers', Jimmy Saville, Emperor Rosko and the late Alan 'Fluff' Freeman. Jimmy Young, however, is played by Bill Oddie.
Note the 'I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again' graffiti on the wall of the Radio 2 building. It was, of course, the name of the famous B.B.C. radio sketch show that starred John Cleese, Jo Kendall, David Hatch and...um...Tim Brooke-Taylor, Bill Oddie and Graeme Garden! Funniest moment - Graeme using a ventriloquist's dummy to do an impression of Tony Blackburn. "I like bubble gum music.", says the dummy, "Particularly Little Jimmy Osmond!". The jeers from the audience suggests they were about as fond of Osmond as they were of Blackburn.