The Goodies (TV Series) Snooze (1970) User Reviews

Snooze

[Prismark10 · 7/10 · 1 May 2023]

It certainly a case of snooze and you loose. When Rupert Windcheater (Roddy Maude-Roxby) an executive of a pharmaceutical company hires the Goodies to rebrand a sedative called Venom.

He would had never imagined that Greame's new improved formula would send the whole country to sleep in an instant.

In fact Graeme needs to come up with antidote which only makes everyone hyperactive.

The second episode and The Goodies are very much in fast forward. This is a mixture of slapstick and comedy. Maude-Roxby plays the annoying new age marketing executive type.

Bill cannot sleep as he constantly sleepwalks. As a lad he had to sleep in the basement.

Then Graeme has a contraption that dresses him snappily in the morning.

Bedtime For Bill!

[ShadeGrenade · 10/10 · 24 November 2006]

Rupert Windcheater of Beechrow Products hires The Goodies to devise a new marketing campaign for an unpopular bedtime drink called 'Venom'. They start by changing the name to the more soporific-sounding 'Snooze'. Graeme goes further, creating a new formula which knocks out anyone who takes so much as a sip. Half the country is put to sleep, and Bill starts sleepwalking through minefields...

The first 'Goodies' episode to really hit the mark, 'Snooze' is great fun, not in the least because of Roddy Maude-Roxby's turn as the hyperactive 'Rupert': "O.K.? O.K.? Fine! Fine!".

The actor had previously appeared in the U.S. series 'Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In', and was the dimwitted 'Professor Weaver' in Michael Palin and Terry Jones' 'The Complete & Utter History Of Britain'.

Funniest moment - the wordless opening in which Graeme rises, has breakfast and gets dressed. Definitely a major influence on Nick Park!

A show about sleeping that will keep you awake

[ingemar-4 · 10/10 · 24 July 2009]

"Snooze" is the very first truly excellent Goodies episode, one of the ten best, and it was only the second episode! Sadly, it wasn't included on the DVDs.

Rupert Windcheater (Roddy Maude-Roxby) is the guest star and initiator of the plot. He is a marvelously annoying "professional man", adding a lot to the show.

The show is (like many Goodies shows) a mix of dialog and slapstick. The slapstick scenes are generally more funny than silly. It also sports mock ads both in the story and in the middle, being second only to "It might as well be string" in mocking advertising.

The opening, with Graeme's morning routine, is particularly excellent. The "speedy" ending is relatively weak, too primitive tricks to be really funny, but still works.