Line #30 Funny/TheGoonShow


1	* It's damn difficult to pick a single moment out of ''The Goon Show'''s surreality - the series was consistently funny, but [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctM_Rvgjfpo "What time is it Eccles?"]] would be up there.
2	* With this one right behind:
3	-->'''Bluebottle:''' Oh, a cocktail. Good health. [Gulps]
4	-->(FX: Huge rumbling explosion - the kind where you hear bricks & bits of timber falling in the distance)
5	-->'''Bluebottle:''' You rotten swine! You have nearly deaded me - look, my kneecaps have dropped four inches. Who made that cocktail?
6	-->'''Gravely Headstone:''' Molotov.
7	* I has taken a look at da [[http://www.thegoonshow.net/quotes.asp quotes here]] an I tink I likes dem.
8	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_iLElHqv-w Meta-example]]: Creator/SpikeMilligan at the 1994 British Comedy Awards, [[ScrewPolitenessImASenior at the age of seventy-six]], after being given his lifetime achievement award ("It's about bloody time.").
9	-->'''Creator/JonathanRoss:''' I have a letter to read out to you from [[UsefulNotes/TheBritishRoyalFamily His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales]].\
10	'''Spike Milligan:''' Do I kneel down for this?\
11	'''Jonathan Ross:''' "As someone who grew up to the sounds of ''The Goon Show'' on the steam-driven wireless, I must confess that I've been a lifelong fan of the participants in the show and particularly of Spike Milligan..."\
12	'''Spike Milligan:''' Oh, the little grovelling bastard.[[note]]They were friends in real life. Spike later sent a fax to Prince Charles saying "I suppose a knighthood is out of the question?" It wasn't; he received one seven years later (although it was an honorary KBE, as Spike was an Irish citizen).[[/note]]
13	* In "The String Robberies":
14	** We are primed to expect an appearance by Eccles--
15	--->''[Knocking at a door]''
16	--->'''Bloodnok:''' Who is that there, who is it? [[WhoWouldBeStupidEnough Only a lunatic]] would be out in such a storm!
17	** -- but instead of just one Eccles, we get a whole ''chorus'' of them, all singing "Good King Wenceslas" with great feeling.
18	--->'''Bloodnok:''' You crazy, mixed-up Eccleses, you! Christmas has gone!\
19	'''Eccles:''' Oh? Which way did it go?\
20	'''Bloodnok:''' It's finished!\
21	'''Eccles:''' Finished? Oh, I'd better talk with my friends here.\
22	''[sound of group murmuring and muttering to themselves]''\
23	'''Eccles:''' [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes_Night Penny for the guy?]]\
24	''[sound of door slamming]''
25	* For a while, there was a great RunningGag in which Eccles made his first appearance in each episode singing a ''Paint Your Wagon'' song with... unusual lyrics:
26	** "I talk to the trees/That's why they put me away..." [[note]]in "Rommel's Treasure"[[/note]]
27	*** Eddie Braben of ''Creator/MorecambeAndWise'' claims this was a suggestion he sent in in a fan letter and was never credited for.
28	** "With a smile on my face/For the whole human race/It's almost like being insane!" [[note]]in "The Great Regency Park Swim"[[/note]]
29	** [[OverlyLongGag Ram bam ra-da-ba-bum bam ba-da ba bum da ba-da de dum-dum, pa-ram bam ra-da-ba-bum bam ba-da ba bum da ba-da de dum-dum-dum-dum... bam-de-dam... bam... dun]]. ''(several seconds of silence) (starts all over again before finally being interrupted by another character)'' [[note]]in "The Sahara Desert Statue"[[/note]]
30	* "The Siege of Fort Night":
31	-->'''Eccles:''' Will I have to walk all the way?
32	-->'''Seagoon:''' Of course not! Part of the way, you'll be allowed to run!
33	* "What's My Line": After Seagoon has performed a song that is rendered as a repeated thudding sound:
34	-->'''Grytpype''': The lad has the gift of melody! ...Tell me, what was it?\
35	''({{Beat}})''\
36	''Thud, Thud, Thud''...
37	* In a classic OverlyLongGag, Crun asks Neddie for his name and address. The result can be read in its entirety in the Quotes section.
38	* From "The Case of the Missing CD Plates", the sound effect of the steamroller hitting Neddie Seagoon and his nickel-plated bagpipes is the {{leitmotif}} of "The Treasure of Loch Lommond" [[LettingTheAirOutOfTheBand slowing to a stop.]]
39	** The RunningGag, a [[OverlyLongGag repeated]] CutawayGag that builds up to one hell of a BaitAndSwitch:
40	-->Meanwhile, in a notorious fish shop in Baryschool, in Yoshiwara:\
41	''[[{{Beat}} (Nearly fifteen seconds of silence)]]''\
42	...by Jove, I do believe they're closed.
43	* Ad-libs and mistakes are always good for a laugh.
44	** "The White Neddie Trade" was particularly rife with them:
45	-->'''Seagoon''': Are you suggesting--\
46	'''Minnie''': ''(makes a high-pitched noise in the background)''\
47	'''Seagoon''': You ''are'' suggesting--\
48	'''Henry''': She's jumped out of the window.\
49	'''Seagoon''': ''(holding back laughter)'' Are you suggesting I expose my intimate garments to the foul gaze of hot-blooded Latins?!\
50	'''Throat''': '''(moans sexually)'''\
51	''(a short while later)''\
52	'''Henry''': Then we must get them out, right away! With speed, buddy!\
53	'''Minnie''': With speed! We mustn't waste any '''time'''!\
54	''(Henry and Minnie improvise a ten second song about not wasting time)''\
55	'''Minnie''': Come on, we must hurry, Henry... ''(slightly off-mic)'' [[BreakingTheFourthWall We've filled in time like the producer asked...]]\
56	''(another short while later)''\
57	'''Seagoon''': Where are those bagpipes? I felt in the next tunnel...\
58	'''Eccles''': Ow! Oy, here! You naughty man you!\
59	'''Seagoon''': I should've said kennel, shouldn't I? Nevermind. What are you doing in this kennel?!\
60	'''Eccles''': [[TheGadfly What am I doing in this tunnel?]]
61	** Another two almost back-to-back in "The Great String Robberies":
62	-->'''Mr. Lalkaka''': I'll tell you what I've got, I've got a revolutionary-type dark room.\
63	'''Mr. Banerjee''': What have you got?\
64	'''Mr. Lalkaka''': No light in it. ''(beat, slight audience laugh)'' I meant to say it's got a light in it, but I killed the joke by saying 'no light in it'.\
65	''(thirty seconds later)''\
66	'''Seagoon''': Look! The number of the house is 66 Fairycake Lane!\
67	'''Bloodnok''': ''([[{{Corpsing}} trying desperately not to laugh]])'' That's been changed!
68	** And in "The Great Spon Plague":
69	-->'''Henry''': Min? Min modern Min? ''(imitating Jim Spriggs)'' Min modern Mii'''iiiin'''?\
70	'''Minnie''': What is it, cocky?\
71	'''Henry''': What have you put on the roof?\
72	''(Beat)''\
73	'''Minnie''': Um, can you say that line again, because I can't answer the next one...\
74	'''Henry''': Uh... "Where..." Oh, yes...\
75	'''Minnie''': ''(deliberately)'' What is it, cocky?\
76	'''Henry''': Where have you put the roof?\
77	'''Minnie''': I sent it to the menders, it was leaking, cocky!
78	** From the end of "The Junk Affair", Peter Sellers demonstrates the problem with ActingForTwo in a live recording:
79	-->'''Grytpype-Thynne''': Thinks: It can't last forever.\
80	'''Moriarty''': No, but we've got to make the most of it while we can!\
81	'''Grytpype-Thynne''': Yes! Now then nice man--\
82	'''Moriarty''': Wrong voice!\
83	'''Sellers''' and '''Secombe''': ''([[{{Corpsing}} both crack up]])''\
84	'''Bluebottle''': ''([[OohMeAccentsSlipping slightly more forced than usual]])'' Now then nice man! We want to buy that piece of junk in the window!

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