This episode is a good example as to how The Goodies were popular with kids but not quite a kids show. Despite what John Cleese might have exclaimed at them once.
I sensed here the humour of the Pythons and even Spike Milligan with a few jokes that a modern audience might find a bit risque and off colour.
Bill and Graeme decide to follow Tim as he has been going out each night wearing a mac and a bin liner on his head. They find out that Tim is a Scoutmaster leading a troop of geriatric scouts.
They decide to join the scouts but pretty soon Tim throws them out for not taking the rules seriously. Especially as they made up scout badges they strive to get.
So Bill and Graeme start their own scout troop and commence a protection racket. Later they commit crimes leading to the government declaring the scout movement be banned.
There is even the post of Scoutfinder General (Frank Windsor) who searches for hidden scouts. Tim is took taken away for questioning.
Later Tim goes looking for the Scout bandits with his own Salvation Army.
Underneath the zaniness, there is a parody of McCarthyism. Windsor is suitably sinister while having a great time.
Watching Scoutrageous almost 5 decades later. It is outrageous fun.
I sensed here the humour of the Pythons and even Spike Milligan with a few jokes that a modern audience might find a bit risque and off colour.
Bill and Graeme decide to follow Tim as he has been going out each night wearing a mac and a bin liner on his head. They find out that Tim is a Scoutmaster leading a troop of geriatric scouts.
They decide to join the scouts but pretty soon Tim throws them out for not taking the rules seriously. Especially as they made up scout badges they strive to get.
So Bill and Graeme start their own scout troop and commence a protection racket. Later they commit crimes leading to the government declaring the scout movement be banned.
There is even the post of Scoutfinder General (Frank Windsor) who searches for hidden scouts. Tim is took taken away for questioning.
Later Tim goes looking for the Scout bandits with his own Salvation Army.
Underneath the zaniness, there is a parody of McCarthyism. Windsor is suitably sinister while having a great time.
Watching Scoutrageous almost 5 decades later. It is outrageous fun.