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''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". The cast casually drop Punjabi and Hindi slang phrases into their speech, in the manner of many British Asians living in the UK. The show won Best Entertainment at the Broadcasting Press Guild Award and the Team Award from the Royal Television Society, UK in 1999. In March 2014, the BBC announced that the show would return with a special episode as part of celebrations of fifty years of BBC Two.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Goodness Gracious Me back for one-off special )〕 An India special was broadcast on BBC Two on 25 August 2015. == Parodies and references in the show == * ''The Six Million Rupee Man'' - parodies ''The Six Million Dollar Man''. * ''I Know Him Too Well'' - parodies the song "I Know Him So Well". * ''Skipinder: The Punjabi Kangaroo'' - parodies ''Skippy the Bush Kangaroo''. * ''I'm a Punjabi Girl...'' - parodies Aqua's "Barbie Girl" song. * ''Hindi People'' - parodies Pulp's "Common People". * ''Club Nirvana'' - parodies Wham!'s "Club Tropicana". * ''The Marriage Emporium'' - pays homage to Monty Python's Cheese Shop sketch and "Dead Parrot sketch". * ''Fawlty Turrets'' - pays homage to ''Fawlty Towers''. * ''The Delhi Tubbies'' - fictional Asian equivalent of ''Teletubbies''. * ''They Were The Blacked-Up Men'' - parodies ''Men in Black''. * ''The Bhandari Bunch'' - parodies ''The Brady Bunch'' opening sequence. * ''Channa's Angels'' - parodies ''Charlie's Angels'' * ''Arranged Shag'' - parodies the arranged marriage * ''Not Saving Private Narayan'' - parodies ''Saving Private Ryan'' Other parodies are based on shows such as ''Animal Hospital'' (where members of lower castes take the place of the pets) and ''Rough Guides'' (where tourists from India visit and make unpleasant remarks about England). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Goodness Gracious Me (BBC)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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