Arguably the break-out character of the series was Bresslaw's Popplewell who would go on to be the lead of the film version, "I Only Arsked!" (1958), which used his catch-phrase as its title. On the back of the series Bresslaw became a star of the late fifties and would also use the Popplewell characteristics for other roles of the period, such as the 1959 films "Too Many Crooks" and "The Ugly Duckling". After Bresslaw left, Bass and Fraser's Bootsie and Snudge would become the most popular characters, and would get their own spin-off series, "Bootsie and Snudge", after "The Army Game" finished.