Everybody laughs at this name because it is a joke, but I really can't get it. What's so funny about the name "goodhead"? Does it have a double meaning, like Pussy Galore?

Goodhead, why is it funny?
#1
Posted 17 March 2013 - 08:48 PM
#2
Posted 17 March 2013 - 08:56 PM
IMO. "Goodhead" is no laughing matter
#3
Posted 17 March 2013 - 09:25 PM
#4
Posted 17 March 2013 - 09:33 PM
"Head" or "getting head" is slang for fellatio.
Goodhead = Buonopompino.
#5
Posted 17 March 2013 - 09:39 PM
#6
Posted 18 March 2013 - 08:37 AM
........... as a self-proclaimed hardcore Bond fan, I have never picked up on that 'TND' joke until now Professor!
D'oh! How did I miss that?!
#7
Posted 18 March 2013 - 11:24 AM
Guys, when Bond says "I have been known to keep my tip up" in Die Another Day, he just means his fencing sword, right?
And when Bond says "I'm an early riser myself" in A View To A Kill, he is referring to getting out of bed, right?
#8
Posted 18 March 2013 - 12:03 PM
So does Christmas come more than once per year?
Edited by 00Hockey Mask, 18 March 2013 - 12:04 PM.
#9
Posted 18 March 2013 - 02:08 PM
"Head" or "getting head" is slang for fellatio.
Goodhead = Buonopompino.
Thank you.
#10
Posted 18 March 2013 - 05:43 PM
And when Bond cautions against going off half-cocked . . .
But I think we've made our point.
So to speak.
#11
Posted 18 March 2013 - 07:04 PM
And it's very cold up there in Piz Gloria.
#12
Posted 18 March 2013 - 07:19 PM
SHRINKAGE!!!
...Whoops, sorry, wrong franchise.
#13
Posted 19 March 2013 - 05:36 PM
........... as a self-proclaimed hardcore Bond fan, I have never picked up on that 'TND' joke until now Professor!
D'oh! How did I miss that?!
Obviously a less corrupted mind than the rest of us, TCR!
#14
Posted 19 March 2013 - 07:55 PM
I wanted to be part of the Bond corruption though! I have to ask myself some serious questions...
Does this mean my licence to post is revoked?
#15
Posted 19 March 2013 - 08:01 PM
Of course in all seriousness, many of the aerial stunts in the films have been done by BJ Worth. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0941654/
Ta dum.
#16
Posted 19 March 2013 - 10:12 PM
I wanted to be part of the Bond corruption though! I have to ask myself some serious questions...
Does this mean my licence to post is revoked?
"Licence to post" could be another euphemism, for all I know!
#17
Posted 20 March 2013 - 03:09 AM
........... as a self-proclaimed hardcore Bond fan, I have never picked up on that 'TND' joke until now Professor!
D'oh! How did I miss that?!
Obviously a less corrupted mind than the rest of us, TCR!
Don't feel bad...there are loads of jokes we don't get (and perhaps shouldn't?) upon first viewings as a teenager that dawn on us later on...
For me there was...
"provided the collars and cuffs match" -- Diamonds Are Forever
"she's just coming sir" -- The Man with the Golden Gun
"If it's '69, you were expecting me" -- Moonraker
and even the obvious "Agent XXX" -- The Spy Who Loved Me
I'm thinking about making a separate thread on the subject...
#18
Posted 20 March 2013 - 08:23 AM
We obviously need a new Bond film QUICK if we've resorted to insepcting the classic innuendo of Bonds past!
#19
Posted 20 March 2013 - 01:05 PM
Whenever I've watched MR with younger viewers, I've always "explained" that the name meant "she has a good head on her shoulders." After all, she must be smart to have a PhD, right? :-) Thankfully I've never been reduced to claiming that "Pussy Galore" got her name from having a house full of cats.
Anyway, notice at the end of the film, Holly lives up to her name by asking James to "take me once more around the world." THAT reference I confess got right past me, until the guy behind me in the theater starting guffawing in a way that made it clear a very naughty reference had just occurred.
Such general smuttiness and schoolboy humour as Ian Fleming might have disapproved of - there's not a lot of it in the novels.
True, and as a youngster I missed it. My favorite gag came in Fleming's GF, where Pussy Galore tells a gangster, "If I could do it all over again, I'd do it all over you."
#20
Posted 20 March 2013 - 01:34 PM
Well, first time I understand the name Goodhead... but I´m Spanish, that explains something
I don´t get the "collars and cuffs" one from DAF ?
#21
Posted 20 March 2013 - 01:41 PM
It's also been expressed as "carpet and drapes."
The gag is that you don't really know a woman's true hair color until she disrobes. And now we're in the age of the "Brazilian," not even then.
#22
Posted 20 March 2013 - 02:52 PM
Such general smuttiness and schoolboy humour as Ian Fleming might have disapproved of - there's not a lot of it in the novels.
"Pussy Galore"
#23
Posted 21 March 2013 - 12:09 AM
I was at a Saturday matinee performance of Tomorrow Never Dies a week or two after it came out. Lots of single dads taking junior out for his first Bond movie. Moneypenny calls Bond at the Dutch professor's office and says that line about his linguistic skills. All the fathers start busting out in laughter at 11AM on this weekend morning. I overhear a 10 year old boy ask, "Dad, what's so funny?"
Fast forward a little over ten years and I'm watching Moonraker on Bluray. Close your eyes and it's like listening to dialogue in a porn movie. Bond walks into to Holly's hotel room and sees the champagne. "Bollinger. If it's '69 you were expecting me." Rog was able to get away with it with his smug charm in ways Brosnan never quite could. "Take me around the world one more time."
Plenty O'Toole perhaps named after her father.
So much to explain, son.
Edited by Professor Pi, 21 March 2013 - 12:10 AM.
#24
Posted 22 March 2013 - 10:59 PM
Moneypenny calls Bond at the Dutch professor's office and says that line about his linguistic skills.
Danish, not Dutch. If you can't hear the difference, I suggest you try brushing up on both
#25
Posted 23 March 2013 - 03:33 AM
I know! I tried to edit that change, without success evidently.
#26
Posted 23 March 2013 - 05:11 PM
This is a great thread.
#27
Posted 24 March 2013 - 11:03 AM
I have not figured out if this is a double-entendre or not:
Stacey: Do you know what I'm sitting on?
(Bond looks at her butt)
Bond: I'm trying not to think about it.
#28
Posted 24 March 2013 - 11:30 AM
I've wondered about that one too. If I recall, Roger does deliver it fairly straight, but maybe it was too obvious he thought he didn't need to play it up?
#29
Posted 24 March 2013 - 05:58 PM
I never caught this before but when they cut to what Bond sees, the bag of dynamite right next to her butt does say "EXPLOSIVE"
#30
Posted 15 April 2013 - 10:28 PM
I never knew what Goodhead stood for untill somebody offered it to me and when she explained what it meant she was rather insulted in my laughing because I understood the naughtiness of EON. Suffice to tell you while I got the joke the rest did not happen.
I fairly quick figured out what several names did mean like Pussy Galore, with the help of English fans. This was before the internet really was all around us.