* 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.
* With this one right behind:
-->'''Bluebottle:''' Oh, a cocktail. Good health. [Gulps]
-->(FX: Huge rumbling explosion - the kind where you hear bricks & bits of timber falling in the distance)
-->'''Bluebottle:''' You rotten swine! You have nearly deaded me - look, my kneecaps have dropped four inches. Who made that cocktail?
-->'''Gravely Headstone:''' Molotov.
* I has taken a look at da [[http://www.thegoonshow.net/quotes.asp quotes here]] an I tink I likes dem.
* [[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.").
-->'''Creator/JonathanRoss:''' I have a letter to read out to you from [[UsefulNotes/TheBritishRoyalFamily His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales]].\\
'''Spike Milligan:''' Do I kneel down for this?\\
'''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..."\\
'''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]]
* In "The String Robberies":
** We are primed to expect an appearance by Eccles--
--->''[Knocking at a door]''
--->'''Bloodnok:''' Who is that there, who is it? [[WhoWouldBeStupidEnough Only a lunatic]] would be out in such a storm!
** -- but instead of just one Eccles, we get a whole ''chorus'' of them, all singing "Good King Wenceslas" with great feeling.
--->'''Bloodnok:''' You crazy, mixed-up Eccleses, you! Christmas has gone!\\
'''Eccles:''' Oh? Which way did it go?\\
'''Bloodnok:''' It's finished!\\
'''Eccles:''' Finished? Oh, I'd better talk with my friends here.\\
''[sound of group murmuring and muttering to themselves]''\\
'''Eccles:''' [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes_Night Penny for the guy?]]\\
''[sound of door slamming]''
* 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:
** "I talk to the trees/That's why they put me away..." [[note]]in "Rommel's Treasure"[[/note]]
*** Eddie Braben of ''Creator/MorecambeAndWise'' claims this was a suggestion he sent in in a fan letter and was never credited for.
** "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]]
** [[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]]
* "The Siege of Fort Night":
-->'''Eccles:''' Will I have to walk all the way?
-->'''Seagoon:''' Of course not! Part of the way, you'll be allowed to run!
* "What's My Line": After Seagoon has performed a song that is rendered as a repeated thudding sound:
-->'''Grytpype''': The lad has the gift of melody! ...Tell me, what was it?\\
''({{Beat}})''\\
''Thud, Thud, Thud''...
* In a classic OverlyLongGag, Crun asks Neddie for his name and address. The result can be read in its entirety in the Quotes section.
* 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.]]
** The RunningGag, a [[OverlyLongGag repeated]] CutawayGag that builds up to one hell of a BaitAndSwitch:
-->Meanwhile, in a notorious fish shop in Baryschool, in Yoshiwara:\\
''[[{{Beat}} (Nearly fifteen seconds of silence)]]''\\
...by Jove, I do believe they're closed.
* Ad-libs and mistakes are always good for a laugh.
** "The White Neddie Trade" was particularly rife with them:
-->'''Seagoon''': Are you suggesting--\\
'''Minnie''': ''(makes a high-pitched noise in the background)''\\
'''Seagoon''': You ''are'' suggesting--\\
'''Henry''': She's jumped out of the window.\\
'''Seagoon''': ''(holding back laughter)'' Are you suggesting I expose my intimate garments to the foul gaze of hot-blooded Latins?!\\
'''Throat''': '''(moans sexually)'''\\
''(a short while later)''\\
'''Henry''': Then we must get them out, right away! With speed, buddy!\\
'''Minnie''': With speed! We mustn't waste any '''time'''!\\
''(Henry and Minnie improvise a ten second song about not wasting time)''\\
'''Minnie''': Come on, we must hurry, Henry... ''(slightly off-mic)'' [[BreakingTheFourthWall We've filled in time like the producer asked...]]\\
''(another short while later)''\\
'''Seagoon''': Where are those bagpipes? I felt in the next tunnel...\\
'''Eccles''': Ow! Oy, here! You naughty man you!\\
'''Seagoon''': I should've said kennel, shouldn't I? Nevermind. What are you doing in this kennel?!\\
'''Eccles''': [[TheGadfly What am I doing in this tunnel?]]
** Another two almost back-to-back in "The Great String Robberies":
-->'''Mr. Lalkaka''': I'll tell you what I've got, I've got a revolutionary-type dark room.\\
'''Mr. Banerjee''': What have you got?\\
'''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'.\\
''(thirty seconds later)''\\
'''Seagoon''': Look! The number of the house is 66 Fairycake Lane!\\
'''Bloodnok''': ''([[{{Corpsing}} trying desperately not to laugh]])'' That's been changed!
** And in "The Great Spon Plague":
-->'''Henry''': Min? Min modern Min? ''(imitating Jim Spriggs)'' Min modern Mii'''iiiin'''?\\
'''Minnie''': What is it, cocky?\\
'''Henry''': What have you put on the roof?\\
''(Beat)''\\
'''Minnie''': Um, can you say that line again, because I can't answer the next one...\\
'''Henry''': Uh... "Where..." Oh, yes...\\
'''Minnie''': ''(deliberately)'' What is it, cocky?\\
'''Henry''': Where have you put the roof?\\
'''Minnie''': I sent it to the menders, it was leaking, cocky!
** From the end of "The Junk Affair", Peter Sellers demonstrates the problem with ActingForTwo in a live recording:
-->'''Grytpype-Thynne''': Thinks: It can't last forever.\\
'''Moriarty''': No, but we've got to make the most of it while we can!\\
'''Grytpype-Thynne''': Yes! Now then nice man--\\
'''Moriarty''': Wrong voice!\\
'''Sellers''' and '''Secombe''': ''([[{{Corpsing}} both crack up]])''\\
'''Bluebottle''': ''([[OohMeAccentsSlipping slightly more forced than usual]])'' Now then nice man! We want to buy that piece of junk in the window!
* The entirety of the first third of the episode "Tiddleywinks" is a masterclass in absurd. It involves Creator/PeterSellers (AsHimself) becoming obsessed with expensive cars, tape recorders[[note]] at the time, home audio tape recording was still a luxury item[[/note]] and photography, to the point that he actually believes he is a motorcar. Accordingly, he's consigned to a BedlamHouse where he manages to convince Eccles that he too is a motorcar. The two escape and are finally cornered by Neddie, Moriarty and [[CelebrityParadox Grypthype-Thynne]], who administers an experimental treatment... to Neddie, [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext turning him into a chicken]] as Grypthype-Thynne gloats and [[EvilLaugh laughs evilly]]. Then Creator/MaxGeldray has his segment and the episode just ends, with Creator/WallaceGreenslade admitting the episode ran a bit short so they're going to go right into next week's episode. Cue "This is the BBC Home Service"...
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