AGoon

Innocent Comedy

I will not provide references as this is a family show. The Goons was sometimes cited as a very entertaining without having to resort to sexual innuendo like a lot of modern comedy ... but it's all in the mind of the listener:

Reputedly due to his dislike of authority figures, Milligan spent a lot of time working allusions to rude and/or sexual "barrack room" jokes into his scripts. These were instantly recognised by his peers and went completely over the heads of the BBC and other innocent listeners. For instance "The Good Ship Venus" (rhymes with ...) mentioned either directly by name or allusion (eg HMS Venus) in at least four shows (Stolen Postman, Call of the West, Gaint Bombardon, Treasure in the Tower). Often innocent but quirky things are no such thing at all eg, in "The Spy or Who is Pink Oboe", Seagoon has to remember a list of secret agents: "Black Rabbit, the Blue Pelican and the Yellow Alligator, Octaroon Monkey, the Pink Oboe, and the Purple Mosquitoe, Vermillion Sock, the Vermillion Ponk, the Chocolate Speedway and the White Bint" - the Pink, Brown and White bits allude to a male member, and two possible destinations.

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Hello Jim. Hello Jeeeeem!

Needle nardle noo. --JB82 22:50, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

I award thee a paper OBE...

• "Sir, these men are flooding London with paper OBEs and the word 'Dinner' written on paper"
• "Is Stalin behind this revolution?"
• "No"
• "Is Lenin?"
• "No, Len's out"
• "I don't wish to know that!"

I hereby award you the Goon Show Barnstar, for sorting out all those bloody annoying references.

--AlbertW 11:33, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

• Thank you good sir, I'll wrap it in brown paper and send it to my mother. --AGoon 11:46, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Goonerisms

Watching the Goons page, and saw your diff: [1]. To allow readers in the know a little bit of extra mirth, I will overlook 'deaded'. Neeho! ;) —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξφ 16:20, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Yes it's almost a cliche to use deaded when talking about Sellers, but it always brings a smile to face :-) When first reading that book, I wondered why there was no chapter from Sellers - was there some tiff? - then I twigged that he was long gone when the book was published in 1997! --AGoon 09:08, 5 August 2006

I just let it pass because I knew that those 'in on the joke' would find it funny. Well done, Little Jim, what would we do without you? ;) —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξφ 11:37, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Goonery

You mean the small ball of fat bit? That was just random Goon-type madness. It is a talk page after all - can't we have fun? But I agree. It was just randomness on my part, ignited by his comment of 'What has eight wheels and flies?' 'Two corporation dustcarts.' 'I don't wish to know that!'. —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξφ 10:20, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Milligan

Great edit. I might be tempted to put one or two back in, but I agree it was hideously over-linked. --Guinnog 06:59, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Yes (really, I was trying to restrain myself), I expect some could go back in. But then again perhaps I should go further: I'm also temped to remove links to countries as well - but I keep telling myself that a lot of people are geographically challenged these days and may have no idea about countries outside their own ;-). Go to it :-) --AGoon 08:00, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Sorry...

If this [2] was you, I could not tell. - Kukini 05:48, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the extremely rapid intervention to revert anonymous changes to my user page, but yes my login had timed out without me noticing :-) --AGoon 06:02, 29 October 2006 (UTC)