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	"'''Culture for the Masses'''" (also known as "'''Art for Arts Sake'''" and "'''Antiques'''" and as "'''Art Restoration'''"~~{{citation needed\|date=September 2019}}~~) is an episode of the [[United Kingdom\|British]] [[comedy]] television series ''[[The Goodies (TV series)\|The Goodies]]''. Written by [[The Goodies]], with songs and music by Bill Oddie.		"'''Culture for the Masses'''" (also known as "'''Art for Arts Sake'''" and "'''Antiques'''" and as "'''Art Restoration'''") is an episode of the [[United Kingdom\|British]] [[comedy]] television series ''[[The Goodies (TV series)\|The Goodies]]''. Written by [[The Goodies]], with songs and music by Bill Oddie.

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| airdate = {{Start date|1971|11|05|df=yes}}
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* [[Julian Orchard]] as Minister of culture
* [[Tommy Godfrey]] as Auctioneer
* [[Ray Marlowe]] as Texan millionaire
| prev = [[The Music Lovers (The Goodies)|The Music Lovers]]
| next = [[Kitten Kong]]
| episode_list = List of The Goodies episodes
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"'''Culture for the Masses'''" (also known as "'''Art for Arts Sake'''" and "'''Antiques'''" and as "'''Art Restoration'''"{{citation needed|date=September 2019}}) is an episode of the [[United Kingdom|British]] [[comedy]] television series ''[[The Goodies (TV series)|The Goodies]]''. Written by [[The Goodies]], with songs and music by Bill Oddie.

==Plot==
When the Goodies attend an [[art]] [[auction]] at [[Sotheby's]], Tim is interested in a [[Pierre-Auguste Renoir|Renoir]] [[painting]], while Bill is interested in the [[Monarch of the Glen (painting)|Monarch of the Glen]] painting.

Tim is horrified to find that a [[portrait]] painting is being bid for by ''[[United States|Americans]]'', who are all willing to bid huge amounts of money for art treasures, so Tim rushes in to save the priceless work of art for [[United Kingdom|Britain]] saying: "But they're not art lovers, they're Americans!" Turning to the Americans, he says: "Too many times you've taken too much from us — [[London Bridge]], the "[[HMS Queen Mary|Queen Mary]]", [[Julie Andrews]] and [[David Frost]] — and we're grateful." Tim ends up bidding the [[Wiktionary:enormous|enormous]] amount of:

: '''one million billion quintillion zillion pounds and two and a half new pence'''

for the painting, and the painting is sold to him, much to the horror of Bill and Graeme. While the Goodies are able to afford to pay a few pennies off the painting, they are not able to pay the remainder of the buying price, and decide to leave the remaining huge sum of money to be paid for by the [[National Gallery, London|National Gallery]]. However, the National Gallery does not want the painting, and do not want to pay for it.

All seems lost until the Goodies come up with an unusual solution to the problem.

==Cultural references==
* [[Julie Andrews]]
* [[David Frost]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}
* "''The Complete Goodies''" — Robert Ross, B T Batsford, London, 2000
* "''The Goodies Rule OK''" — Robert Ross, Carlton Books Ltd, Sydney, 2006
* "''From Fringe to Flying Circus'' — 'Celebrating a Unique Generation of Comedy 1960-1980'" — Roger Wilmut, Eyre Methuen Ltd, 1980
* "''The Goodies Episode Summaries''" — Brett Allender
* "''The Goodies — Fact File''" — Matthew K. Sharp

==External links==
* {{IMDb episode|id=0590995}}

{{The Goodies episodes}}

[[Category:The Goodies (series 2) episodes]]
[[Category:1971 British television episodes]]

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