Line #32 Characters/TheGoodies


1	!!All Three
2	* CharacterisationMarchesOn: Their personalities in series 1 and 2 get increasingly changed and [[{{Flanderisation}} Flanderised]] in later series, although of the three Bill is the most unlike his personality in later series.
3	%%* SeventiesHair: Oh ''yes''.
4	* NiceMeanAndInBetween: Before flanderization, Tim is the kindest of the three Goodies and also a KindheartedSimpleton. Bill is rude and insensitive and even has a HairTriggerTemper (mainly in Seasons 3-9. Graeme is a polite man, but he can often come across as snarky, snobbish and bitter.
5	* TookALevelInJerkass: In series 1 they are three friends who start The Goodies service as a way of helping people. However as the series goes on, all three of them become more likely to play VillainOfTheWeek, they become much less friendly and more violent towards each other and are less motivated by helping people than by [[MoneyDearBoy how much they can get paid for it]].
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7	!!Tim Brooke-Taylor
8	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_goodies_tim.jpg]]
9	* BerserkButton: Insulting the royal family or the UK is likely to get him going.
10	* ButtMonkey: Tim gets hurt and picked on much more than Bill and Graeme. (This was probably due to Tim being the only cast member who wasn't also writing the series.)
11	* CampStraight: Although the 'straight' part is debatable.
12	* {{Catchphrase}}: Whenever Tim is panicking, he shouts, "I'm a teapot!" with [[TheTeapotPose requisite pose]].
13	* CharacterisationMarchesOn: Starts the series slightly patriotic and highly-strung, but quickly becomes an effeminate, neurotic wreck obsessed with the royal family and patriotic in the extreme.
14	* CharacterTics: The aforementioned "I'm a teapot!" panicking, making patriotic speeches to "Land Of Hope And Glory" and bursting into tears.
15	%%* ChewToy: Is constantly getting hurt.
16	* CrossDresser: Whenever the job of the week requires a woman, Tim will invariably be the one to drag it up.
17	* DirtyCoward: Freaks out and tries to flee at the first sign of anything getting even slightly dangerous.
18	* {{Flanderisation}}: From being slightly patriotic and easily upset to completely neurotic and obsessed with the royal family.
19	* GoofyPrintUnderwear: Along with his Union jack waistcoat, Tim wears Union Jack boxers and socks.
20	* IconicOutfit: The aforementioned Union Jack garb.
21	* InelegantBlubbering: Has a habit of bursting into tears with little to no warning.
22	* LargeHam: Particularly when he's panicking or performing one of his speeches.
23	* PatrioticFervor: His patriotism is played up in the later series, including him wearing his Union Jack waistcoat, obsessing about getting an OBE from the Queen, and making patriotic speeches to "Land Of Hope And Glory" in the background.
24	* TheLeader: In earlier series, when the trio were friendlier with each other and ran their service as a way to help people, he was this. Not so much in later series though.
25	* TookALevelInJerkass: Is TheLeader for the earlier series, however becomes increasingly cowardly and unpleasant to the other two as the series goes on.
26	* UpperClassTwit: In demeanor if not in status, especially in the later seasons. Behind-the-scenes commentary traces this back to him having a hyphenated name.
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28	!!Graeme Garden
29	[[quoteright:326:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_goodies_graeme.jpg]]
30	* CharacterisationMarchesOn: In series 1, he's simply an eccentric boffin, however with each series starting from series 2 he becomes more and more of a MadScientist, and also becomes much more prone to villainy.
31	* ComedicSociopathy: Particularly in later series, as he starts displaying very little empathy for anyone or anything that isn't science.
32	* CompanionCube: In one episode, he goes on a date with, and nearly marries, his computer, and in another is mentioned to have been "put away for having an unnatural relationship" with it.
33	* DeadpanSnarker: The most prone to this of the three.
34	* {{Flanderisation}}: Goes from an eccentric boffin and the brains of the trio to a raving MadScientist.
35	* ForTheEvulz: In later series, if he's not just doing whatever mad scientist scheme he's working on that episode ForScience, he's doing it for this too.
36	* MadScientist: Can end up like this on occasion, and in later seasons was the most likely character to play the VillainOfTheWeek.
37	* NerdGlasses: The pair of thick-rimmed glasses [[IconicItem he wore from series 1-5]].
38	* PuttingOnTheReich: In "Radio Goodies" he dresses in black leather and gives radio speeches as "Your Leader".
39	* SanitySlippage: Over the course of some of his VillainOfTheWeek episodes, most notably "Radio Goodies".
40	* SeventiesHair: Those sideburns, otherwise known as mutton chops. Averted in series 8 and 9, due to those series being made in TheEighties, and Graeme has shaved his sideburns to fit, unlike the other two's hair, which remains pretty much the same.
41	* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: In "The End", he's described as representing "the scientific and technical class" because he wears glasses.
42	* TookALevelInJerkass: In series 1 and 2 he's largely just an eccentric boffin, albeit one who lets it all go to his head a bit sometimes. From series 3 onwards he becomes more of a MadScientist and much more likely to be VillainOfTheWeek.
43	* YouFool: A frequent exclamation, almost a CharacterCatchphrase.
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45	!!Bill Oddie
46	[[quoteright:249:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_goodies_bill.jpg]]
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48	* AllMenArePerverts: Can be pretty crude, also reads smutty magazines and has a topless calendar.
49	%%* AxCrazy: Can become this if pushed too far.
50	* CharacterisationMarchesOn: In series 1 and 2, he was a laid-back, if slightly grouchy, pacifist. From series 3 onwards he becomes increasingly a crude, violent ComedicSociopath with a HairTriggerTemper.
51	* ComedicSociopath: The most prone to violence out of the three of them.
52	* {{Flanderization}}: Gets more and more violent as the series goes on.
53	* HairTriggerTemper: Often explodes over various things, usually Tim.
54	* IconicItem:
55	** His massive clown trousers in "Clown Virus".
56	** His Ecky-Thump black pudding and huge flat cap in "Kung Fu Kapers".
57	* PaperThinDisguise: "Robot" has him dressed up as a girl called "Helga". Despite him not shaving or changing his voice, everyone believes he is indeed Helga.
58	* PetTheDog: Even though he is often mean to Tim, Bill is always quick to reassure him when he gets upset, as seen in "The Baddies", where he comforts his crying friend.
59	* SupremeChef: Quite capable of cooking a lovely roast dinner [[ItMakesSenseInContext for a hamster.]]
60	* TookALevelInJerkass: In series 1 and 2 he's a vocal pacifist and pretty laid-back too, however he gets more and more violent and short-tempered from series 3 onwards.

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