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 rediscovered, and again, and again. There's no killing a piece of mythic power like that. "The Third Policeman" was featured in a 2005 episode of television series "Lost" with the intent of providing context for the show's complex mythology, with the result that sales of the book in the three weeks following its mention equalled what it had sold in the preceding six years. John Cooper Clarke's nonsense prose poem, ""Ten years in an open necked shirt"" contains the line "What with the drink trade on its last legs and the land running fallow for the want of artificial manures",