A couple of famous Julians - Julian Lennon (son of beatle John )and Julian McMahon (Christian Troy for Tip and Tuck) - both are pretty hot dudes although not a stratch on our Tim    *sigh*

Yeah Tim was only the posh first class character because his name was hyphenated. Still, it's a very cool name. I don't think anyone would call their kid Julian in this day and age though. I probably would!

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urban_spacegirl : ' I must admit, I was a good few months into the beginning of my Goodies obsession before I realised that Tim was actually straight.  My flatmate's boyfriend managed to convince me (after we'd watched Funky Gibbon at the Policeman's Ball numerous drunken times) that he was a bit bent, and - well, it seemed obvious at the time - made perfect sense.  It was a bit of a shock, I tell you, to find it he was married.  I mean, when all you've got to base it on is that footage (that camp mincing around, limp wrist, ''get ready to sing THIS gibbon's tune...' and that disgraceful hip thrust) - what else am I supposed to think...? Obviously, once I actually got into the Goodies properly, I realised that there's a dirty little pervert hidden beneath that public school pansy exterior - he couldn't be anything but heterosexual.  And I wouldn't have it any other way...

That is called good comedy acting.  I loved Tim in drag and thought it was the biggest hoot.  As a child it never occurred to be that Tim would even be remotely "gay" (didn't really know what that meant until I was in my teens) but then I am Australian and we have all been bought up on our footballers (just watch the footy show with fatty ) dressing up in drag as a lark , so seeing Tim do it is nothing out of the ordinary    Also when I was little I was very disappointed to find out he was married cos my own aspirations were dashed 

I had a confusing chat with a person with a bad pop-culture memory the other day, which eventually got around to "the short blond gay bloke out of Python".

I couldn't think of a Python remotely fitting that criteria - Graeme Chapman being a gentleman of Cleesian proportions - so I wasn't prepared to let that one go.  Eventually found out they meant "that Tom Wilson-Horlix guy".

I don't know what's scarier - that I figured out who she meant, or that someone out there considers our Tim a "short blond gay Python".  More public education is obviously needed.

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Not_A_Megalomaniac : ' Well that certainly answers THAT question. Timothy Julian Brooke-Taylor really IS the poshest name ever invented.  With a name like that, hair that blonde and the ability to look so convincingly female in drag it's a wonder he turned out straight.

I must admit, I was a good few months into the beginning of my Goodies obsession before I realised that Tim was actually straight.  My flatmate's boyfriend managed to convince me (after we'd watched Funky Gibbon at the Policeman's Ball numerous drunken times) that he was a bit bent, and - well, it seemed obvious at the time - made perfect sense.  It was a bit of a shock, I tell you, to find it he was married. 
I mean, when all you've got to base it on is that footage (that camp mincing around, limp wrist, ''get ready to sing THIS gibbon's tune...' and that disgraceful hip thrust) - what else am I supposed to think...?
Obviously, once I actually got into the Goodies properly, I realised that there's a dirty little pervert hidden beneath that public school pansy exterior - he couldn't be anything but heterosexual.  And I wouldn't have it any other way...

i think we need to dig up enid blyton and make  her  write an adventure called TBT and the faraway tree with all of us in it as well.Tim has to try and escape up the tree-but it's too far away and he doesn't make it hahaha.i'm evil .

Ta.

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Not_A_Megalomaniac : ' I told you! Disgraceful.  He should be ashamed of himself, that Timothy Julian Brooke-Taylor. ........ come on, really... you simply CANNOT have randy type thoughts towards any man with a name THAT poncey. Surely???

Want to bet !!

Oh Jess Thanks for the Wacky Wales still they are deliciously wicked !!  I love it 

I'm sorry, but you've brought on a flashback of Dick and Fanny from Magic Faraway Tree.

Didn't the do a changed release where they called them Tom and Franny or something?

Ahem.  Back to Tim.

*falls about laughing*

That's it EXACTLY!!! 

All he needs is a two siblings, a cousin, a dog, a few mysteries to solve and a few bottles of ginger beer and he would BE Dick Kirrin of The Famous Five fame!!!!!!

No, he wouldn't be Julian because Julian wasn't blond and he was always the one who was the most bossy and self-righteous and easily the one you liked least - whereas you sort of felt sorry for Dick because a) he had a very embarrassing name and b) Julian was always being cleverer than him and solving the mysteries first and getting all the credit for everything. 

Similarly, you just can't help but love little Timbo to bits due to him being so very lovely and sweet and cuddly and strangely scary when saying rude things.  And enjoying a wet, warm, whipping (as James Joyce might say in a certain very controversial story in Dubliners!) just as much as the rest of us.

Erm.  Ahem.  I don't know.