Eccles (character) Eccles: "He was living proof that the Piltdown Skull was not a hoax." The Eccles character and his distinctive voicing were strongly influenced by Milligan's childhood love for the classic Walt Disney cartoons and specifically Disney's anthropomorphic buffoon dog character Goofy. However Eccles transcended the denseness of Goofy, being instead more like a young adult with childlike impulses, which may explain his friendship with Bluebottle. His special talent is for taking things he hears literally, with humorous and occasionally insightful results. Thus: and in the same conversation (from "The Last Goon Show of All"): During an arctic expedition in "Scradge":
Major Bloodnok the 3rd Bombay Irish to fight the Red Bladder. Denis is plagued by chronic gastro-intestinal problems and his entrance is usually accompanied by explosions or flatulent sound effects, the sound being created by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop (on the one occasion it wasn't played, Bloodnok cried, "I'm Cured!") and quotes such as: In "The Policy" Bloodnok sings a song called "The Indigestion Waltz". In several episodes Bloodnok has an Indian manservant called Singhiz Thing. Bloodnok's arch enemy is "The Red Bladder", voiced by musician Ray Ellington. In the DreamWorks film "Shrek", a reference is made to the Major when the