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Goodness Gracious Me - Complete Series 3 [1998]


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Goodness Gracious Me was never quite a classic comedy series, but it did achieve the goal of all such sketch shows: to make at least a couple of its characters part of the popular discourse. The show's best creations were those that served to let the rest of Britain in on a few of the in-jokes in British/Asian life. The bitterly competitive immigrant mothers boasting about the achievements of their first-generation children, the over-compensating, more-British-than-the-British Kapoor family and the obstinately patriotic Mr Everything Came from India. The sketch in which the latter passionately argues that Leonardo da Vinci was, in fact, Indian is a particular joy.

Fine though these ideas were, Goodness Gracious Me also carried its share of padding. Hapless Romeo Mr Check Please is a less funny and less charming reading of The Fast Show's "I'll get me coat", and the kindest that can be said musical sketches is that they're not quite as lame as the ones on Smack the Pony.

On the DVD: Goodness Gracious Me, Series 3 offers the standard episode selector, a song selector to direct the viewer to the unfunny musical parody of their choice, augmented by a simple yet brilliant idea that should be mandatory for all sketch show DVDs: another selector which allows you to watch all the sketches from the series featuring one particular character. The DVD also contains an interview with cast member Nina Wadia. No subtitles are available. --Andrew Mueller


Goodness Gracious Me does it again
Review date: 2003-04-13 Rating: 10 out of 10

This program is hysterical.

From 'Check Please' to 'Smeeta Smitten' the characters are all golddust.

Great performances from the entire GGM team make this an essential buy for fans of comedy sketch shows

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Actor(s):
Amanda Holden
Kulvinder Ghir
Sanjeev Bhaskar
Nina Wadia
Meera Syal

Creators:
Amanda Holden (Primary Contributor)
Sanjeev Bhaskar (Primary Contributor)
Jon Plowman (Producer)
Anil Gupta (Writer)
Sanjeev Kohli (Writer)

Recording label: Fremantle Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Fremantle Home Entertainment
EAN: 5030697004895
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 1
Format: PAL,
Release date: 2003-05-17
Number of discs: 1
Audience rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Running time: 180 minutes
Theatrical release date: 1998-01-12
Language: English (Original Language)

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