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Best Episodes of Goodness Gracious Me
Episode 2
S2 Ep2
8.2
20th Nov 1998
Sketches:
Grandma's Birthday,
Guru - Football,
Indian Broadcasting Corporation,
Mr 'Everything Comes From India' - Royal Family
Grandma's Good Luck Cheer,
Check Please - Humor,
Asians football,
Grandma's Bus Stop,
Check Please - Underwear,
My Son - Dependent,
Grandma's Dying,
Check Please - Fart,
Jamima and Humpty,
Great Train Journey of the World.
Episode 3
S2 Ep3
8.0
27th Nov 1998
Features the Indian Bridegroom Detective and a tribute to Hollywood's 'Blacked-Up Men'
Episode 1
S2 Ep1
8.0
13th Nov 1998
Sketches:
Asians world,
Tandoori Cooking,
The Love Dance - Club,
Check Please - Asain Woman,
Bollywood Star - Sir Jankie,
Check Please - Holding Hands,
Mrs 'I Can Make It At Home' - Paris,
The Love Dance - Ball,
Swingers and Asians,
Muslim Harassment,
Guru - Female Auras,
The Love Dance - Gentlemen's Club,
My Son - Fertility,
Check Please - Moustache,
New Zealand from Cousin,
Smita Smitten - Birthday Bash,
Check Please - Ass,
Come On Binder, Let's Go Bhangra - Punjabi Girl,
Guru - Scrabble.
Worst Episodes of Goodness Gracious Me
Episode 6
S1 Ep6
6.6
16th Feb 1998
Sketches:
Arranged Shag,
Ghost,
Journo's Daughter - PM,
Mr 'Everything Comes From India' - Famous people,
Bharat Home Advert,
Barbee Coopers,
Mrs 'I Can Make it at Home' - Serotonin,
Uncle Fixer - Directions,
Journo's Daughter - India and Pakistan PM,
Skipinder,
Mr 'Everything Comes From India' - Shakespeare,
Diwali Muffins,
Mrs 'I Can Make it at Home' - Love,
Mr 'Everything Comes From India' - Croceries,
Guru - Jungle book,
Journo's Daughter - Alien,
We'd Do It All Again (song),
Guru - Bollocks.
Episode 4
S1 Ep4
6.9
2nd Feb 1998
Sketches:
It's a Miracle,
Marriage Guidance,
Flash Ash - Street,
White Indian Wife - Dinner party,
Smita Smitten - Toilet,
Malkit - Late for work,
Competitive Mothers - Wedding,
White Indian Wife - Bus stop,
Flash Ash - Car washer,
Asian Babe,
White Indian Wife - Park,
Melodramatic Family - Car,
Competitive Mothers - Baby,
On The Waterfront,
Smita Smitten - Chip shop(Art Malik),
Overachieving Muffins,
Competitive Mothers - Pimp,
Untouchable (song),
Competitive Mothers - Long jump.
Episode 5
S1 Ep5
7.2
9th Feb 1998
Sketches:
Muslim Woody Allen,
Fat Boy - Birthday cake,
Minx Twins - Gay disco,
Fat Boy - Chicken,
The Marriage Emporium,
Chat Up,
Indian Wedding,
Mr 'Everything Comes From India' - Words,
Minx Twins - Street,
Fat Boy - Paddling pool,
Lack of Indian Culture,
Mr 'Everything Comes From India' - Books,
Minx Twins - Swing,
Immigration (song),
Fat Boy - Trifle,
Guilt Trip Parents,
Minx Twins - Football
Ad Agency,
Tampon Ad,
Mr 'Everything Comes From India' - Car parts.
Goodness Gracious Me Episode Guide
Episode 1
S1 Ep1
7.5
12th Jan 1998
Sketches:
Indian Office,
Check Please - Fat,
What does it mean to be a Sikh?,
Calcutta Male Vocal Choir,
New Image Muffins,
Check Please - Rash,
What does it mean to be a Hindu?,
Smita Smitten,
Cinema Ad,
Going For An English,
Check Please - Models,
Guru - Rhapsody,
Briefly Encountered,
Muslim Gag,
Dinner at the Coopers,
Check Please - Fish smell,
Kiss My Chuddies (song),
Guru Doorstepper - Becoming a Hindu.
Episode 2
S1 Ep2
7.3
19th Jan 1998
Sketches:
Mrs 'I Can Make It At Home' - Italian,
Six Million Rupee Man,
Gay Son,
Mrs 'I Can Make It At Home' - Cheese,
Pet Cow Montage,
Mrs 'I Can Make It At Home' - Casualty,
Uncle Fixer - Holiday,
I Know Him Too Well (song),
Uncle Fixer - Money,
Audition,
Pet Cow - Cowflap,
Uncle Fixer - Kidney transplant,
Oprah Muffins,
Uncle Fixer - Funeral,
Rough Guide to the UK,
Mrs 'I Can Make It At Home' on Masterchef.
Episode 3
S1 Ep3
7.3
26th Jan 1998
Sketches:
Coopers at Wimbledon,
Smita Smitten - No tickets,
Kid's Turn,
Check Please - Rose,
Buddhist Pest Control,
70's Quickie,
Guru Doorstepper - Double glazing,
The Accountant,
Conservative Coopers,
Masterchef,
Buddhist Pharmacologist,
When the Kids are Away (song),
Check Please - No effort,
Euromuffins,
British Asian Man's Quarterly,
Check Please - Vomit,
Authentic Products,
Buddhist Hitman.
Episode 4
S1 Ep4
6.9
2nd Feb 1998
Sketches:
It's a Miracle,
Marriage Guidance,
Flash Ash - Street,
White Indian Wife - Dinner party,
Smita Smitten - Toilet,
Malkit - Late for work,
Competitive Mothers - Wedding,
White Indian Wife - Bus stop,
Flash Ash - Car washer,
Asian Babe,
White Indian Wife - Park,
Melodramatic Family - Car,
Competitive Mothers - Baby,
On The Waterfront,
Smita Smitten - Chip shop(Art Malik),
Overachieving Muffins,
Competitive Mothers - Pimp,
Untouchable (song),
Competitive Mothers - Long jump.
Episode 5
S1 Ep5
7.2
9th Feb 1998
Sketches:
Muslim Woody Allen,
Fat Boy - Birthday cake,
Minx Twins - Gay disco,
Fat Boy - Chicken,
The Marriage Emporium,
Chat Up,
Indian Wedding,
Mr 'Everything Comes From India' - Words,
Minx Twins - Street,
Fat Boy - Paddling pool,
Lack of Indian Culture,
Mr 'Everything Comes From India' - Books,
Minx Twins - Swing,
Immigration (song),
Fat Boy - Trifle,
Guilt Trip Parents,
Minx Twins - Football
Ad Agency,
Tampon Ad,
Mr 'Everything Comes From India' - Car parts.
Episode 6
S1 Ep6
6.6
16th Feb 1998
Sketches:
Arranged Shag,
Ghost,
Journo's Daughter - PM,
Mr 'Everything Comes From India' - Famous people,
Bharat Home Advert,
Barbee Coopers,
Mrs 'I Can Make it at Home' - Serotonin,
Uncle Fixer - Directions,
Journo's Daughter - India and Pakistan PM,
Skipinder,
Mr 'Everything Comes From India' - Shakespeare,
Diwali Muffins,
Mrs 'I Can Make it at Home' - Love,
Mr 'Everything Comes From India' - Croceries,
Guru - Jungle book,
Journo's Daughter - Alien,
We'd Do It All Again (song),
Guru - Bollocks.
Goodness Gracious Me is a BBC English language sketch comedy show originally aired on BBC Radio 4 from 1996 to 1998 and later televised on BBC Two from 1998 to 2001. The ensemble cast were four British Indian actors, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Kulvinder Ghir, Meera Syal and Nina Wadia. The show explored the conflict and integration between traditional Indian culture and modern British life. Some sketches reversed the roles to view the British from an Indian perspective, and others poked fun at Indian stereotypes. In the television series most of the white characters were played by Dave Lamb and Fiona Allen; in the radio series those parts were played by the cast themselves.
The show's title and theme tune is a bhangra rearrangement of a hit comedy song of the same name. The original was performed by Peter Sellers and Sophia Loren reprising their characters from the 1960 film The Millionairess. The show's original working title was "Peter Sellers is Dead", but was changed because the cast generally liked Peter Sellers. In her 1996 novel Anita and Me, Syal had referred to British parodies of Asian speech as "a goodness-gracious-me accent".
One of the more famous sketches featured the cast "going out for an English" after a few lassis. They mispronounce the waiter's name, order the blandest thing on the menu and ask for twenty-four plates of chips. The sketch parodies often-drunk English people "going out for an Indian", ordering chicken phall and too many papadums. This sketch was voted the 6th Greatest Comedy Sketch on a Channel 4 list show.
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The best rated episodes of Goodness Gracious Me are:
Episode 2 S2E2 rated 8.2
Episode 3 S2E3 rated 8.0
Episode 1 S2E1 rated 8.0
The lowest rated episodes of Goodness Gracious Me are:
Episode 6 S1E6 rated 6.6
Episode 4 S1E4 rated 6.9
Episode 5 S1E5 rated 7.2
The first episode of Goodness Gracious Me aired on July 05, 1996.
The last episode of Goodness Gracious Me aired on March 16, 2001.
