Major Bloodnok title character points out an Ogre constellation known as 'Bloodnok The Flatulent'. Il Capitano Major Bloodnok Major Denis Bloodnok is a fictional character from the 1950s BBC Radio comedy "The Goon Show". He was voiced by Peter Sellers. Bloodnok's army career was notable for cowardice and monetary irregularities. He was discharged after being found dressed as a woman, although he claims it was carnival night. He was repeatedly implied to be a womaniser. A prime example of this is in "Drums Along the Mersey" where he is thrown out of a boat for being caught with the captain's wife. Another
Major Bloodnok of a cavalry regiment: Roper's Light Horse are mentioned in more than one episode. In "The Last of the Smoking Seagoons", Major Bloodnok hides Ned of Wales in the Bloodnok Patriotic Military Museum; in doing so, he hears the cash register's ring, and reminisces: "Oh, that tune how it haunts me; it's my regimental march for the Third Mounted Cash Registers, you know". In "The Fear of Wages", Seagoon is the commander of the Third Armoured Thunderboxes ("who vanished in Burma ten years ago"), while Bloodnok is an officer in the regiment. In "Dishonoured", Bloodnok recruits Seagoon and Eccles into