"Good Thing" is a song recorded by Fine Young Cannibals, the second single from their album from 1989, The Raw & the Cooked. The song was their second U.S. #1, topping the Billboard Hot 100 on 8 July 1989. It also peaked at #7 on the UK Singles Chart.

The song made its first appearance in Tin Men (1987). Fine Young Cannibals portrayed a nightclub band in the movie, performing this song and three others (including the single's b-side "Social Security"). The film is set in Baltimore in 1963, and the song's retro soul style is consistent with that setting. The song appears in Doomsday (2008), starring Rhona Mitra, in an surreal scene involving the film's main antagonist.

Jools Holland played piano on the track, noting that it was "one of the biggest selling records I've ever played on".

The video features many scenes with the Orribly Good Scooter Club, the Jokers and A41 Eagles displaying their motor scooters, both at rest and in motion, as well as scooter culture. The scooters featured include stock scooters, as well as highly stylised scooters and minimalist cutdown scooters.

Alvin and the Chipmunks covered the song in 1990 for The Chipmunks Go to the Movies episode, "Daytona Jones and the Pearl of Wisdom" (a spoof of the Indiana Jones films). The song was featured in the trailer for Mad Dog and Glory (1993).

Twice during 1998, the song was featured in episodes of Top Gear, first in an used car review of the Volkswagen Golf, with an voice over by presenter Quentin Wilson, the second in the beginning of the review of the Alfa Romeo 166, with scenes showing Alfa Romeo 156s. In 2007, the song was used in adverts for the Chevrolet Captiva (United Kingdom).

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