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Golden Yucks
(April 27, 1988)
[50:44]
- The Garbage Man
- Can You Lend me $50
- The Superior Sex
- Bank Raid
- Boy's Night Out
- Bronco Benny
- Stolen Potatoes
- Boy Scouts
- Fisherman's Catch
- Paddy's Dead
- Doctor's Prescription
- Wishbone
- Pain In The Back
- Another Wishbone
- Tax Time
- Joggers
- Birds Of A Feather
- The Butcher
- Club Chic A Go-Go
- Unzipped
- Welcome To The Family
- Unzipped Again
- The Burglar
- Welcome President Fartas!
Cast: Benny Hill, Henry McGee, Bob Todd, Anna Dawson, Jon Jon Keefe, Derek Deadman, Johnny Hutch, Sue Upton, Lorraine Doyle, Christine Pilgrim, Gary O'Bee, Duncan Pettigrew and Hill's Angels
Review
Golden Yucks starts with "The Garbage Man". "Can You Lend me $50" has Bob Todd asking Benny for $50 and Anna Dawson plays the nosy operator who butts in. "The Superior Sex" has Anna Dawson as a book store owner opposite Jackie Wright's replacement. She also appears in "Bank Raid". "Boys' Night Out" has Anna Dawson sending Benny out with the "Little Angels" instead of his friends.
"Bronco Benny" is the opening song and features a group of girls I've never seen. They wear the most unattractive polyester dresses and their hoedown dancing and handclapping does not compare to previous Angels routines. Benny sings a song about movie stars.
In "Stolen Potatoes", Henry McGee, as a Police Officer, talks to grocer Benny about some stolen produce and a couple of Little Angels ask Benny for a job in "Boy Scouts". Bob Todd plays the owner of a fish market and helps a customer "catch" a fish in "Fisherman's Catch". "Paddy's Dead" has a young kid asking Sue and Benny about his Guinea Pig which died. Bob also plays Doctor to Benny again in "Doctor's Prescription". In "Wishbone", Benny and his lady are out to dinner and break the wishbone; Benny gets his wish, the waitress in her underwear. In "Another Wishbone", Benny's wife breaks the wishbone and gets her wish, the same thing!
Henry McGee takes a turn as the Doctor in "Pain In The Back" and gives Benny stress pills for his back. Not a bad accent by Henry & Benny. "Tax Time" has Anna Dawson blowing Benny's Tax Evasion in front of Henry McGee.
"Jogger's" is the centerpiece of this program it seems. I guess the joke here is that everyone Jogs? Sue Upton takes on the part of the "Old Lady" again. At one point, she whips Benny so he'll push her in the wheelchair. There is also a sequence where she is being carried on a stretcher and with the use of her cane, she starts poking, jabbing, pinching and hitting a man jogging by.
"Birds Of A Feather" has Benny trying to impress a caged budgie (Anna Dawson). It's basically a monologue with the budgie as the "straight man". Benny also plays "The Butcher" with customers coming in for different things. Sue comes in and buys one sausage and Benny asks if she's on a diet. She replies, "no… a pension".
"Club Chic A-Go-Go" is nothing more than a string of bad visual gags with a lame Hill's Angels segment and "Tania and Her Performing Men". "Tania" has Benny and the rest of the guys dressed in long underwear and she whips them to perform for the crowd like animals. She even forces Benny to eat a steak off of her chest. Hill's Angels make their appearance after a few jokes by Benny and dance to "New York, New York" (the song sung by Frank Sinatra). Their costumes are pretty conservative and so is their dancing and both my brother and I consider this "Neutered Angels". Very boring. To somehow make this ending fun or exciting, Benny, the guys and the Angels do a chorus line dance and the old guy who replaced Jackie Wright sings, which I don't really understand. With streamers and confetti at the end I think Benny was trying to recreate the fun of the Club Bizarre segment. Benny himself doesn't look like he even knows what to do anymore.
The program ends with "Welcome President Fartas!" where Benny and the new guy are told by Bob Todd (a dictator) to paint over graffiti on a large wall. There are a few repeated gags throughout and it ends with a motorcycle chase.
Overview
"Golden Yucks" is even more of a disappointment than "Golden Smiles". It contains even fewer of the stars that made the Benny Hill show famous. Sue Upton and Bob Todd seemed to settle into one or two types of characters that they usually repeat. Louise is nowhere to be found and there is a whole new cast of extras. Benny seems to be doing anything he can to keep feminists happy by having the men in the cast whipped, hit and "put in their place", or so it seems. Not a bright moment in the series.