The Goodies: U-Friend or UFO (1980)
Season 8, Episode 4
8/10
U-Friend or UFO
14 December 2022
You wonder if The Goodies could get away with spoofing R2D2 these days without raising the eyebrows of Lucasfilm lawyers. They have the very similar EB-GB apparently played by an uncredited Kenny Baker!

Trombone players are being mysteriously abducted. Bill thinks that it is the work of UFOs.

If it aliens then Graeme wants to nuke them. Bill aims to talk to them. Tim ends up being a superhero armed with a nuclear device.

There is so much spoofing going on from The Goodies here. Star Wars, Superman, The Flying Nun to Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

The more offbeat British humour is EB-GB mimicking a Dalek. Graeme doing a Basil Brush impression. Bill communicates with the aliens playing the tune of Coronation Street and Monty Python on the trombone.

As ever there is a bit of adult humour, when Bill shouts 'Take me' in a field, a gay man suddenly comes out!
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