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":
The Moriarty Murder Mystery an eye-chart, which he does, phonetically: "Aalek Elem Zedum..." finishing with "Printed by J. Smith and Sons, Birmingham". Neddie and Eccles are speeding through London in a "Flying Squad Rickshaw" when a call comes in about a "suspicious boot loitering on the banks of the Serpentine". The arrive at the spot and Eccles pronounces it a "farglow boot" because he has "farglow feet" and it fits him. Suspecting that the murderer will return for the boot, Neddie leaves Eccles and Bluebottle on guard. That night Eccles and Bluebottle have one of their classic conversations, which is interrupted by Neddie's arrival.