Rhubarb (1969 film) Rhubarb (1969 film) Rhubarb was a 1969 British short film written and directed by Eric Sykes, starring Sykes and Harry Secombe. The dialogue consisted entirely of repetitions of the word ""rhubarb"", all the characters last names were "Rhubarb", and even the number plates on vehicles were "RHU BAR B". A baby "spoke" by holding a sign with the word ""Rhubarb"" written on it. "Rhubarb" is a radio idiom for unintelligible background speech. Typically extras would mutter the word over and over to provide ambience for a crowd or party scene. In "The Goon Show" the cast was usually only the
Eric Sykes These included a remake of the 1960s episode "Sykes and a Stranger", guest-starring Peter Sellers as the stranger, Tommy Grando, in what was to be Sellers’s final TV part. During the 1970s, Sykes and Jimmy Edwards took part in a performance of "Big Bad Mouse" entertaining Rhodesian troops for Ian Smith, the Prime Minister of Rhodesia. In 1973, Sykes had a small role as a police sergeant in the Douglas Hickox thriller "Theatre of Blood". In 1977, Sykes wrote and starred in another television special, "Eric Sykes Shows a Few of Our Favourite Things". He also wrote the script for