Noddy (character) Hoffmann". Noddy, Big Ears and PC Plod are referred to in the "Two Ronnies" crossword sketch where Ronnie Corbett thinks their names are "Roddy, Big Ears, and PC Plop!" In an episode of "Last of the Summer Wine", all of the characters dressed up as fairy tale characters for a parade. Smiler is dressed as Noddy complete with a smaller version of his car in order to tow a bouncy castle with the rest of the characters on it. But it deflated while they were taking part. Noddy being associated with small children's reading has led to "Noddy" being sometimes
The Third Policeman and clarity" which she contrasted with the "organised chaos" of "At Swim-Two-Birds". Clissman regards the novel as a less experimental work than "At Swim":Its central concern is not, as in "At Swim", with varying methods of presenting reality in fiction, but with reality viewed through the medium of scientific and philosophical concepts. Keith Hopper, writing twenty years after Clissman, regards "The Third Policeman" somewhat differently. Regarding it as "the first great masterpiece [...] of what we generally refer to now as post-modernism", he argues that the book is not less but more formally experimental than "At Swim-Two-Birds":Contrary to O'Nolan's assertion