Bunfight at the O.K. Tea Rooms

"Bunfight at the O.K. Tea Rooms"
The Goodies episode
Episode no.	Series 5 Episode 48 (of 76)
Produced by	Jim Franklin
Starring	Tim Brooke-Taylor Graeme Garden Bill Oddie
Original air date	28 April 1975 (Monday — 9 p.m.)
Guest stars
(none credited)
Series 5 episodes
10 February – 21 December 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

Bunfight at the O.K. Tea Rooms is an episode of the British comedy television series The Goodies — a BAFTA-nominated series for Best Light Entertainment Programme.

This episode is also known as Cream Cave

As always, the episode was written by members of The Goodies.

Plot

The Goodies head west (to Cornwall) to search for Gold, but instead of the precious metal, they strike cream in an old mine. Graeme files the claim for the cream in his own name, forsaking the other two who are about to leave Cornwall broke and dejected when they strike strawberry jam and scones. When Graeme finds out he offers them a poker game, winner takes all, using pieces of toast rather than cards, and stakes taking the form of biscuits and later layered cakes (it is revealed that Graeme is cheating - he is using a toaster to pop slices of toast up into his hand).

Things reach a climax in a western style shoot out, but with tomato sauce rather than guns.

Quotes

Quote 1

• Graeme: "You'll never guess what I've just found in an old tin mine."
• Tim: "Gold?!"
• Graeme: "No, old tins, and this!"
• Tim: "What?"
• Graeme: "Gold-or!
• Tim: "Or?"
• Graeme: "Or something else!"

Quote 2

• Bill: "Now listen, we've been doing all the hard work, and you've just been sitting around all day!"
• Graeme: "Lads, Lads...Somebody has to sit around all day."

Quote 3

• The Ballad of the OK Tea Rooms:

"For if you double-cross a friend You'll get squirted in the end"

Spoofs and cultural references

• Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

Notes

• Bill Oddie's song Working the Line appears in a slightly modified form on The Goodies' New LP.
• Graeme Garden injured himself during his final pratfall. Despite being heavily padded, he managed to spin around in mid-air and fell face down. When Bill Oddie was the subject of This Is Your Life in 2002 he recalled that "He (Graeme) had to be carried off, with blood and teeth all over the place" adding "That's the sort of thing that made us laugh!".
• A letter to Viz (comic) published in 1996 states that "(the author) went to see The Goodies filming Bunfight At the O.K. Tea Rooms on location in Cornwall, and when he approached Bill Oddie for an autograph, he "told me to piss off and tried to kick me up the arse". In his BBC television interview with Mark Lawson, Oddie, who has battled with depression, admitted that he had occasionally been rude to well-meaning fans in the past.

DVD and VHS releases

Main article: World of the Goodies

This episode has been released on both DVD and VHS.

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

External links

• Bunfight at the O.K. Tea Rooms at the Internet Movie Database