Frankenfido is an episode of the British

United Kingdom

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 comedy

Comedy

Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...

 television series The Goodies

The Goodies (TV series)

The Goodies is a British television comedy series of the 1970s and early 1980s. The series, which combines surreal sketches and situation comedy, was broadcast by BBC 2 from 1970 until 1980 — and was then broadcast by the ITV company LWT for a year, between 1981 to 1982.The show was...

— a BAFTA

British Academy of Film and Television Arts

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-nominated series for Best Light Entertainment Programme.

As always, the episode was written by members of The Goodies.

Plot

When Graeme gives Tim and Bill a special 'designer-dog' that they can enter the dog as a new breed in the Crufts Dog Show, they think that their dog is the only unusual dog there is.

Then they find that Graeme has been making all kinds of weird dogs for other people as well.

Some of Graeme's weird dogs, which he has bred for other people, include: a flying

Flight

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 dog (a cross between a dog and a parrot

Parrot

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) – a chair

Chair

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 dog (a cross between a dog and a chair) – a stove dog (a cross between a dog and a stove) – and others.

One of Graeme's weirdest inventions is "Frankenfido", a six-legged monster, which is made out of a lot of 'spare parts' — the teeth being those of Donny Osmond

Donny Osmond

Donald Clark "Donny" Osmond is an American singer, musician, actor, dancer, radio personality, and former teen idol. Osmond has also been a talk and game show host, record producer and author. In the mid 1960s, he and four of his elder brothers gained fame as the Osmond Brothers on the long...

.

Bill turns up dressed as a black and white dog called "Cuddly Scamp Hairylegs of Cricklewood", which proves to be a quick-thinking 'dog' when tested on "Mastermind

Mastermind (TV series)

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".

Cuddly Scamp's meeting with "Frankenfido" has surprising results.

Quote

Quote 1

• Tim: "You're using people ... and Donny Osmond
  Donny Osmond
  Donald Clark "Donny" Osmond is an American singer, musician, actor, dancer, radio personality, and former teen idol. Osmond has also been a talk and game show host, record producer and author. In the mid 1960s, he and four of his elder brothers gained fame as the Osmond Brothers on the long...
  
  !"

Quote 2

• Tim: "Who knows what he went through! All alone with that nasty great dog!"
• Graeme: "Bitch!"
• Tim: "Well!"

Spoofs and cultural references

• Crufts
  Crufts
  Crufts is an annual international Championship conformation show for dogs organised and hosted by the Kennel Club, currently held every March at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham, England. It is the largest annual dog show in the world, as declared by Guinness World Records, and lasts...
  
  
• Mastermind
  Mastermind (TV series)
  Mastermind is a British quiz show, well known for its challenging questions, intimidating setting and air of seriousness.Devised by Bill Wright, the basic format of Mastermind has never changed — four and in later contests five contestants face two rounds, one on a specialised subject of the...
  
   — of which Magnus Magnusson
  Magnus Magnusson
  Magnus Magnusson KBE was a television presenter, journalist, translator and writer. He was born in Iceland but lived in Scotland for almost all of his life, although he never took British citizenship...
  
   is the actual host
• Frankenstein's Monster
  Frankenstein's monster
  Frankenstein's monster is a fictional character that first appeared in Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus. The creature is often erroneously referred to as "Frankenstein", but in the novel the creature has no name...