Tim Brooke-Taylor Picspam, Fit The First
So, I have recently been watching more of The Goodies that could be said to be entirely conducive to my health and sanity. I've been an ISIRTA and ISIHAC fan for years, and yet I've never quite got round to watching The Goodies. I have *no idea* why not; possibly, with the benefit of hindsight, it was self-defence, as since I began watching it I have developed an ENORMOUS INAPPROPRIATE CRUSH on Tim Brooke-Taylor. HE IS SO FLUFFY AND HIGH-PITCHED AND VULNERABLE, OMG.
So, in the spirit of taversham's recent glorious post on the utterly adorable perfection of Graeme/Tim (no, really, I 'ship them so hard now @_@), I present a ginormous picspam of the epic joy of TIM CROSSDRESSING, YAY.
So far I've only screencapped seasons 1-5. WHY YES, THERE ARE ANOTHER FOUR SEASONS OF TIM IN FROCKS YET TO COME. (Oh, and also: most of these are in pretty horrible quality, by the way. Sorry. Blame the BBC for not releasing the majority on DVD.)
Season 1 Episode 4: Caught In The Act
Tim's first foray into crossdressing is, to begin with, a tentative one. (Not least because this episode's been burninated and only exists in an 'orrible black and white copy.) In this episode, a government minister wants to employ the Goodies to retrieve some incriminating photographs from an exclusive women's only club. That means the boys need someone to infiltrate it. As I'm sure you know, Tim's most famous character in ISIRTA was Lady Constance de Coverlet, a lady of stout heart, ample bosom, and plummy vowels. The rest, as they say, is history.
TIM: So now we've got to get a woman to join the Playgirl club.
BILL: I've got a better idea. You can do the voice...
TIM: Yes, I can do the voice, but I can't -
Graeme looks as though a lightbulb has just switched on inside his head.
TIM: *increasingly nervously* - I couldn't - I mean - I couldn't dress up - I wouldn't - you're not -
BILL: We are. We're going to put you in the club!
Graeme produces a dress and holds it up in front of Tim.
The result is not Tim's most ravishing, but he's nervous, bless him.
Also, look at how adorably sad Graeme looks as he waves him off! IT IS CLEARLY LOVE.
Tim soon begins to blossom, however, and soon takes over as the club's business-manager, sporting a fabulous aubern bouffant and lots of black sequins:
When he hasn't reappeared after three weeks, Graeme and Bill have to go and 'rescue' him by getting employment as 'Wolves' (the club's equivalent of playgirl bunnies, only much hairier). This leads to the UTTER AWESOME of the club's proprietor, Hermione, trying to seduce a distinctly unwilling Graeme, and Tim (still in drag) having to come to his rescue.
TIM: *bursting into the room* Hermione!
HERMIONE: What are you doing here?!
TIM: What are *you* doing here?
HERMIONE: Just having a little bit of fun!
TIM: A little bit of fun?! You're talking about the man I love! *grabs Graeme and hauls him over to him*
GRAEME: What?!
TIM: *hisses in normal voice* shut up you fool!
HERMIONE: I don't get it.
TIM: And you won't. *tugs on a shell-shocked Graeme's arm* Come with me, kookypants.
GIRL: He doesn't want you! You're fat and old and ugly!
TIM: Fat and old I may be, but ugly!? Ugly - of course I'm ugly, that's what he likes about me.
HERMIONE: He's not leaving this room!
TIM: You cat! He comes away with me immediately!Come on pookums, heel!
HERMIONE: I've had my suspicions about you!
GRAEME: @_@ so have I...
OH, BOYS. <3
Season 1 Episode 6: Cecily
A couple want to employ some staff to take care of their house and their niece overnight, and they turn to the Goodies. Unfortunately, in addition to a gardener and a cook, they are quite definite about needing a female nanny. Which means only one thing.
May I say that Tim totally rocks the Mary Poppins look.
And then he gets molested by a creeper:
BONUS PICTURE: Bill blowing on Tim's hair when he takes the wig off.
"Blow on my head, will you? My hair was getting claustrophobia in there..."
Season 2 Episode 8: Come Dancing
There's only way to settle a struggle for the honour of the noble sport of ballroom dancing: a dance-off. Enter Timbellina in a gold lamé gown.
BONUS PICTURE: Graeme fixing Tim's makeup after the first round.
Season 2 Episode 10: Women's Lib
Tim and Graeme are reported to the Women's Liberation Front for sexism, and are dispatched to live with the worst chauvenist in Britain so they can understand that Sexism Is Bad. This isn't such a punishment for Graeme, as he's there as the butler and is treated as One Of The Chaps. It's not so great for Tim.
TANGENT: don't they make an adorable couple?
BONUS FEATURE: Graeme harnessing Tim to the tea-trolley and whipping him around the garden. KINK.
This is also the episode where Tim defiantly states that there's nothing wrong with him - he's *proud* to be a woman. Graeme is a little concerned at this:
Then they have Break-Up Trauma. OH, BOYS.
By the end of the episode Bill's getting married to his girlfriend and Graeme's getting married to his computer, but Tim arrives in time to give an impassioned speech about how this whole farce is demeaning to women everywhere, who should no longer be content to be second-class citizens. He is also oggled by the vicar:
And swept off his feet by the Worst Chauvenist In Britain. ZOMG NO GET OFF MY OTP.
Season 3 Episode 1: The New Office
Graeme thinks they'll be more likely to get a new house cheaply if they put on a decent sob-story for the estate agent, so the boys have to pretend to be a family down on their luck. Guess who gets to be mother.
He looks spookily like one of my primary school teachers.
Season 3 Episode 4: That Old Black Magic
Graeme is possessed by the devil and requires some virgins for sacrifice. Guess who volunteers.
TIM, YOU ARE THE PRETTIEST PRINCESS IN ALL THE LAND.
Season 3 Episode 7: Superstar
This episode is primarily notable for glamrock Bill Oddie performing a number from Saint Augustine: Superstar, but it also has the bliss, the joy, the rapture of Tim and Graeme posing as groupies.
They both have much better legs than me. Also, hawt.
Season 4 Episode 3: Hospital For Hire
YAY TIM AS DIRTY OLD WOMAN.
Season 4 Episode 5: Goodies In The Nick
YAY CONVICT TIM AS PREGNANT WOMAN WITH BALL AND CHAIN PUSHED UP FROCK, FLIRTING WITH POLICEMEN.
Also: he still has nicer legs than me.
Season 5 Episode 1: The Movies
Oh, wow. This is what I'm talking about. The boys take over Pinewood studios and start making their own movies, beginning with a new improved version of Macbeth. Guess who Tim plays.
More to the point, he starts developing his new screen persona.
GRAEME: *absently, to the tall blonde who has just sat down in the room where he's preparing for the private screening of the new film* I'm sorry, madam, but we are having a private per- *the blonde turns round* - *squeaks* TIM.
TIM: Hello Grae.
Hell YES. Graeme seems to be somewhat struck too:
Season 5 Episode 3: The Beauty Contest
Wherein Tim becomes Miss Cricklewood, and wears short sparkly pink dresses.
Bill says he's a bit of a cracker. Graeme thinks he's a bit effeminate. OH GRAEME, WILL YOU NEVER BE HAPPY. YOU SPEND THE ENTIRE SHOW PUTTING TIM IN A VARIETY OF FROCKS, AND THEN WHEN HE DOES SO OF HIS OWN ACCORD YOU WANT HIM TO BE MORE BUTCH. YOU SEND THE POOR BOY SUCH CONFUSED SIGNALS.
Bill, however, has no such conflicted feelings.
BILL: Oh *God* you're lovely!
Tim then becomes Miss Housewife Of The Year.
He is overjoyed.
Season 5 Episode 6: Scatty Safari
The Queen offers the hand of her only son and a thousand OBEs to whoever can rid the country of a plague of Rolf Harrises. There can be only one outcome.
Season 5 Episode 14: The Goodies Rule - O.K.?
Presenting the Goodies as The Extremes:
OH TIM. WITH YOUR UNION-JACK UNDERPANTS. <3
Also, Tim in yet another big pink frock:
Which takes us to the end of Tim's 'canonical' crossdressing for seasons 1-5. But fear not! I haven't exhausted the bonus features yet!
BONUS FEATURE: KILTS, HAIRNETS, AND OTHER FRIPPERIES.
One of the early features of The Goodies was a central advert break filled with their own ads. These include:
Goodies Butter: Spreads Straight From The Fridge
Goodies Airlines:
TIM: *in broad Brummie accent* My name's Gladys. Fly me to Birmingham.
And some WHO IS CLEARLY GRAEME, NO ONE ELSE IS THIS TALL ON THIS SHOW takes him up on the offer:
SURPRISE BUTSECKS. or not.
KINK.
Goodies Tyres:
hawt.
And then there are the shots which aren't really crossdressing, but please me so much I have to include them.
TIM'S GLORIOUS PURPLE HAIRNET. Also, I can't help but note that, as Graeme is meant to be reading in the bath in this shot and Tim is leaning on the edge, his eyeline clearly means he is LOOKING SOMEWHERE HE SHOULDN'T. ohohoho.
In Scotland in an attempt to capture the Loch Ness Monster, Tim is menaced in a REALLY FREUDIAN WAY by a Scottish Bagpipes Spider. Graeme shoots it. MY HERO. Graeme, incidentally, conveys the Scottish theme in his costume with a tartan overcoat; Bill, by wearing a mid-calf-length kilt. It's only Tim who is apparently rocking the Catholic-schoolgirl-stripper look.
1. I love it when Tim is domestic.
2. FEATHER DUSTER YAY.
3. Tim is here complaining about the slobbish way Bill dresses. 'You can't even dress properly! Why don't you wear ties and suspenders like everyone else?!' OH TIM.
(Note for non-British-English-speakers who may have wandered in: suspenders over here are not the bands which go over your shoulders and attach to the waistband of your trousers. Here, those are called braces. Suspenders are always the things you use to keep your socks or, more commonly, stockings up. MY BRAIN INSTANTLY JUMPS TO TIM IN STOCKINGS AND SUSPENDERS. HELP ME.)
So, in conclusion: OMG I love this show to a completely inappropriate degree and probably in completely inappropriate ways. I'm considering fanfic. Would that be considered as breaking the internet?
So, what have *you* all been doing today? @_@
So, in the spirit of taversham's recent glorious post on the utterly adorable perfection of Graeme/Tim (no, really, I 'ship them so hard now @_@), I present a ginormous picspam of the epic joy of TIM CROSSDRESSING, YAY.
So far I've only screencapped seasons 1-5. WHY YES, THERE ARE ANOTHER FOUR SEASONS OF TIM IN FROCKS YET TO COME. (Oh, and also: most of these are in pretty horrible quality, by the way. Sorry. Blame the BBC for not releasing the majority on DVD.)
Season 1 Episode 4: Caught In The Act
Tim's first foray into crossdressing is, to begin with, a tentative one. (Not least because this episode's been burninated and only exists in an 'orrible black and white copy.) In this episode, a government minister wants to employ the Goodies to retrieve some incriminating photographs from an exclusive women's only club. That means the boys need someone to infiltrate it. As I'm sure you know, Tim's most famous character in ISIRTA was Lady Constance de Coverlet, a lady of stout heart, ample bosom, and plummy vowels. The rest, as they say, is history.
TIM: So now we've got to get a woman to join the Playgirl club.
BILL: I've got a better idea. You can do the voice...
TIM: Yes, I can do the voice, but I can't -
Graeme looks as though a lightbulb has just switched on inside his head.
TIM: *increasingly nervously* - I couldn't - I mean - I couldn't dress up - I wouldn't - you're not -
BILL: We are. We're going to put you in the club!
Graeme produces a dress and holds it up in front of Tim.
The result is not Tim's most ravishing, but he's nervous, bless him.
Also, look at how adorably sad Graeme looks as he waves him off! IT IS CLEARLY LOVE.
Tim soon begins to blossom, however, and soon takes over as the club's business-manager, sporting a fabulous aubern bouffant and lots of black sequins:
When he hasn't reappeared after three weeks, Graeme and Bill have to go and 'rescue' him by getting employment as 'Wolves' (the club's equivalent of playgirl bunnies, only much hairier). This leads to the UTTER AWESOME of the club's proprietor, Hermione, trying to seduce a distinctly unwilling Graeme, and Tim (still in drag) having to come to his rescue.
TIM: *bursting into the room* Hermione!
HERMIONE: What are you doing here?!
TIM: What are *you* doing here?
HERMIONE: Just having a little bit of fun!
TIM: A little bit of fun?! You're talking about the man I love! *grabs Graeme and hauls him over to him*
GRAEME: What?!
TIM: *hisses in normal voice* shut up you fool!
HERMIONE: I don't get it.
TIM: And you won't. *tugs on a shell-shocked Graeme's arm* Come with me, kookypants.
GIRL: He doesn't want you! You're fat and old and ugly!
TIM: Fat and old I may be, but ugly!? Ugly - of course I'm ugly, that's what he likes about me.
HERMIONE: He's not leaving this room!
TIM: You cat! He comes away with me immediately!Come on pookums, heel!
HERMIONE: I've had my suspicions about you!
GRAEME: @_@ so have I...
OH, BOYS. <3
Season 1 Episode 6: Cecily
A couple want to employ some staff to take care of their house and their niece overnight, and they turn to the Goodies. Unfortunately, in addition to a gardener and a cook, they are quite definite about needing a female nanny. Which means only one thing.
May I say that Tim totally rocks the Mary Poppins look.
And then he gets molested by a creeper:
BONUS PICTURE: Bill blowing on Tim's hair when he takes the wig off.
"Blow on my head, will you? My hair was getting claustrophobia in there..."
Season 2 Episode 8: Come Dancing
There's only way to settle a struggle for the honour of the noble sport of ballroom dancing: a dance-off. Enter Timbellina in a gold lamé gown.
BONUS PICTURE: Graeme fixing Tim's makeup after the first round.
Season 2 Episode 10: Women's Lib
Tim and Graeme are reported to the Women's Liberation Front for sexism, and are dispatched to live with the worst chauvenist in Britain so they can understand that Sexism Is Bad. This isn't such a punishment for Graeme, as he's there as the butler and is treated as One Of The Chaps. It's not so great for Tim.
TANGENT: don't they make an adorable couple?
BONUS FEATURE: Graeme harnessing Tim to the tea-trolley and whipping him around the garden. KINK.
This is also the episode where Tim defiantly states that there's nothing wrong with him - he's *proud* to be a woman. Graeme is a little concerned at this:
Then they have Break-Up Trauma. OH, BOYS.
By the end of the episode Bill's getting married to his girlfriend and Graeme's getting married to his computer, but Tim arrives in time to give an impassioned speech about how this whole farce is demeaning to women everywhere, who should no longer be content to be second-class citizens. He is also oggled by the vicar:
And swept off his feet by the Worst Chauvenist In Britain. ZOMG NO GET OFF MY OTP.
Season 3 Episode 1: The New Office
Graeme thinks they'll be more likely to get a new house cheaply if they put on a decent sob-story for the estate agent, so the boys have to pretend to be a family down on their luck. Guess who gets to be mother.
He looks spookily like one of my primary school teachers.
Season 3 Episode 4: That Old Black Magic
Graeme is possessed by the devil and requires some virgins for sacrifice. Guess who volunteers.
TIM, YOU ARE THE PRETTIEST PRINCESS IN ALL THE LAND.
Season 3 Episode 7: Superstar
This episode is primarily notable for glamrock Bill Oddie performing a number from Saint Augustine: Superstar, but it also has the bliss, the joy, the rapture of Tim and Graeme posing as groupies.
They both have much better legs than me. Also, hawt.
Season 4 Episode 3: Hospital For Hire
YAY TIM AS DIRTY OLD WOMAN.
Season 4 Episode 5: Goodies In The Nick
YAY CONVICT TIM AS PREGNANT WOMAN WITH BALL AND CHAIN PUSHED UP FROCK, FLIRTING WITH POLICEMEN.
Also: he still has nicer legs than me.
Season 5 Episode 1: The Movies
Oh, wow. This is what I'm talking about. The boys take over Pinewood studios and start making their own movies, beginning with a new improved version of Macbeth. Guess who Tim plays.
More to the point, he starts developing his new screen persona.
GRAEME: *absently, to the tall blonde who has just sat down in the room where he's preparing for the private screening of the new film* I'm sorry, madam, but we are having a private per- *the blonde turns round* - *squeaks* TIM.
TIM: Hello Grae.
Hell YES. Graeme seems to be somewhat struck too:
Season 5 Episode 3: The Beauty Contest
Wherein Tim becomes Miss Cricklewood, and wears short sparkly pink dresses.
Bill says he's a bit of a cracker. Graeme thinks he's a bit effeminate. OH GRAEME, WILL YOU NEVER BE HAPPY. YOU SPEND THE ENTIRE SHOW PUTTING TIM IN A VARIETY OF FROCKS, AND THEN WHEN HE DOES SO OF HIS OWN ACCORD YOU WANT HIM TO BE MORE BUTCH. YOU SEND THE POOR BOY SUCH CONFUSED SIGNALS.
Bill, however, has no such conflicted feelings.
BILL: Oh *God* you're lovely!
Tim then becomes Miss Housewife Of The Year.
He is overjoyed.
Season 5 Episode 6: Scatty Safari
The Queen offers the hand of her only son and a thousand OBEs to whoever can rid the country of a plague of Rolf Harrises. There can be only one outcome.
Season 5 Episode 14: The Goodies Rule - O.K.?
Presenting the Goodies as The Extremes:
OH TIM. WITH YOUR UNION-JACK UNDERPANTS. <3
Also, Tim in yet another big pink frock:
Which takes us to the end of Tim's 'canonical' crossdressing for seasons 1-5. But fear not! I haven't exhausted the bonus features yet!
BONUS FEATURE: KILTS, HAIRNETS, AND OTHER FRIPPERIES.
One of the early features of The Goodies was a central advert break filled with their own ads. These include:
Goodies Butter: Spreads Straight From The Fridge
Goodies Airlines:
TIM: *in broad Brummie accent* My name's Gladys. Fly me to Birmingham.
And some WHO IS CLEARLY GRAEME, NO ONE ELSE IS THIS TALL ON THIS SHOW takes him up on the offer:
SURPRISE BUTSECKS. or not.
KINK.
Goodies Tyres:
hawt.
And then there are the shots which aren't really crossdressing, but please me so much I have to include them.
TIM'S GLORIOUS PURPLE HAIRNET. Also, I can't help but note that, as Graeme is meant to be reading in the bath in this shot and Tim is leaning on the edge, his eyeline clearly means he is LOOKING SOMEWHERE HE SHOULDN'T. ohohoho.
In Scotland in an attempt to capture the Loch Ness Monster, Tim is menaced in a REALLY FREUDIAN WAY by a Scottish Bagpipes Spider. Graeme shoots it. MY HERO. Graeme, incidentally, conveys the Scottish theme in his costume with a tartan overcoat; Bill, by wearing a mid-calf-length kilt. It's only Tim who is apparently rocking the Catholic-schoolgirl-stripper look.
1. I love it when Tim is domestic.
2. FEATHER DUSTER YAY.
3. Tim is here complaining about the slobbish way Bill dresses. 'You can't even dress properly! Why don't you wear ties and suspenders like everyone else?!' OH TIM.
(Note for non-British-English-speakers who may have wandered in: suspenders over here are not the bands which go over your shoulders and attach to the waistband of your trousers. Here, those are called braces. Suspenders are always the things you use to keep your socks or, more commonly, stockings up. MY BRAIN INSTANTLY JUMPS TO TIM IN STOCKINGS AND SUSPENDERS. HELP ME.)
So, in conclusion: OMG I love this show to a completely inappropriate degree and probably in completely inappropriate ways. I'm considering fanfic. Would that be considered as breaking the internet?
So, what have *you* all been doing today? @_@