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This is a list of running jokes in the 1950s British radio programme ''The Goon Show''. ==Catch-phrases== Bluebottle's Catchphrases *Bluebottle reads his stage directions. ("Enters room wearing doublet made from mum's old drawers" or "Enter Bluebottle, waits for audience applause, not a sausage"). *Bluebottle would say, "I don't like this game!", especially when he was about to be, or had just been "deaded". *Bluebottle says "You rotten swine you!" when something bad happens to him like being "deaded". At one point in the episode "(The Sinking of Westminster Pier )", he complained that he was always being deaded, and that Eccles never was. This was followed by a second explosion and a call of 'You rotten swine Bluebottle!' from Eccles. *Other Bluebottle catchphrases include: "I heard you call me, My Capitaine! " Often in reference to Seagoon. *Variations of "Ooh! Liquorice! I must be careful of how many of them I eat!". *Often in reference to one of the many dangers facing him in various ''Goon Show'' episodes: "Harm can come to a growing lad like that!". This latter quote can also be found in two of the many Songs released by the Goons, the "Bluebottle Blues", and the Goons' own recording of "Unchained Melody". *The intention to use sweets to win the favours of girls: "with these two ounces of jelly babies I will be able to influence Mavis Pringe". Grytpype-Thynne's Catchphrases *Hercules Grytpype-Thynne, instead of offering cigarettes to smoke, gave strange items such as gorillas, brass instruments and pictures of Queen Victoria. Neddie Seagoon would often decline: "Have a Gorilla?" "No thanks, I'm trying to give them up." Later in the show this might be followed with "Have a Gorilla?" "No thanks, I've just put one out." *"You silly twisted boy, you!" In the fifth series, Grytpype-Thynne says this to Neddie Seagoon on a regular basis in regard to his silly behaviour. In "(The White Box of Great Bardfield )", a running gag during the show is Seagoon's attempts to win a reward of ten shillings after being chained up by Ellington in the first scene; he has complete confidence in his ability to escape: after all, he is the son of Houdini!! Grytpype-Thynne says the phrase after witnessing Neddie's long and agonising contortions. Ray Ellington himself gets to say this quote in the "(Sennapod Tea )" episode, and Grytpype also lets Greenslade say it (with permission) in "(The Six Ingots of Leadenhall Street )". It is also heard in "(China Story )", following Ned Seagoon's admission that he is the British ambassador, and in "(The Whistling Spy Enigma )", after Neddie arrives at MI5, giving a long list of patriotic and foolhardy deeds he is willing to do for his country. Other Catchphrases *Regularly one-liners are responded to with the music hall catchphrase: "I don't wish to know that!" *Moriarty (but sometimes other characters) exclaims "Sapristi" followed by a second word. This varied, including "nobolas", "needle nardle noo", "nyuckobakakas", "Fred", "pompet" or something to do with the day's plot. *When someone tells Eccles to shut up, Eccles himself joins in, usually being the last to finish. *Moriarty used the catch-phrase "and there's more where that came from". The line was also occasionally used by Bloodnok, and at least once by Grytpype-Thynne. *Bloodnok was usually introduced by his theme music. This was followed by explosions or gurgling liquid noises. These are used to reference Bloodnok's uncontrollable flatulence and are usually accompanied with Bloodnok yelling in pain. Sometimes the music failed to cue, whereupon Sellers usually covered up by saying "I'm cured!". *Other Bloodnok catch-phrases include "you filthy swine" and variations on "that's done me a power of good", "quick, get behind the screen, Gladys", "we're just good friends, I tell you" and "it was hell in there". *Little Jim's only line in most episodes is simply to say "He's fallen in the wah-taa!" It is often commented by various characters, usually Grytpype-Thynne, that they do not know what they would do without him, once even extending to Bloodnok actually attempting to do the catch-phrase for him when Jim himself had been thrown into the water. On the BBC Radio show ''"Dad Made Me Laugh"'' Peter Sellers' son Michael revealed he was the source of the phrase, when as a small child he used it to talk about people jumping into their swimming pool. *Miss Minnie Bannister used many opportunities to say "We'll all be murdered in our beds!" or something along similar lines; after being swallowed by a tiger: "We'll all be murdered in our tigers!", or in "(Shangri-La Again )": "We'll all be murdered in our monasteries!" * *In "The End Confessions Of A Secret Sennapod Drinker", Minnie gives a legitimate reason for her catch-phrase - as Jack the Ripper was never caught, she believes he's waiting until the outcry about his murders have died down..."And ''then'' we'll all be murdered in our beds!" * In the fifth series, Eccles would often state, "It's good to be alive!" at the most inopportune moments. In "(Nineteen Eighty-Five )" (a parody of the novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four"), Eccles modified this catchphrase as "It's good to be alive...in 1985!" * Henry Crun was known to comment that "you can't get the wood" and "there was a shortage of shortages". * Announcer Wallace Greenslade would often end episodes with the line, "it's all in the mind, you know." * Scenes set in the House of Commons often featured someone asking, "who is responsible for the drains at Hackney?" * Seagoon is often heard making a blatant word-twisting joke to a fellow character or the audience to which both he and the audience will start to laugh. When the audience dies out, Seagoon is often left laughing hysterically. He then notices his mistake in laughing at his own joke, stops and pretends to be clearing his throat. * Neddie's stock catchphrase was the phrase "Needle-nardle-noo!" which he would use as an exclamation and to punctuate his lines. He would also occasionally utter the phrase "isotopes peru" as a general nonsense phrase e.g.; "I didn't study Astro Navigation in the isotopes peru for nothing, you know!" ("taken from "(The Treasure of Loch Lomond )") Seagoon would also use the nonsense phrase, "Ying tong iddle-i po", usually followed by some member of the cast yelling 'GOOD". * In the same seasons, whenever the orchestra would strike up a dance number, the following dialogue would take place between Grytpype-Thynne and Neddie, as they were dancing: Q: "Do you come here often?" A: "Only in the mating season!". Later, in "The Choking Horror", Moriarty and Grytpype dance together upon learning that they are to be bombed, and the second sentence is modified to "Only during an Air Raid..." * Moriarty would be regularly introduced by Grytpype-Thynne with a different nickname and accompanying sound effect. A key example of this is Count Jim "Drop 'Em" Moriarty followed by the sound of a slide-whistle to give the impression of trousers falling down. More than once he was introduced as 'Count Jim 'Thighs' Moriarty', and Spike, as Moriaty, gave a knowing 'Ooohh!". In another episode he was introduced as "the champion barbed-wire hurdler of France - until his tragic accident". * In "(Shangri-La Again )", the issue of catchphrases was addressed directly; Greenslade wearily exclaimed to the audience, "Ying-Tong-Iddle-I-Po. Needle-Nardle-Noo. Spling-Splang-Splong. All's Well That Ends Well, and this is Wallace Greenslade, lover of good English, wishing he were dead!." The immediate response was the sound of a gun being fired, with Peter Sellers joyously exclaiming "Wish granted!" * Occasionally during an episode, a voice can be heard declaring "I don't like it at all, Pat", an example of which can be found in the opening of "The White Neddie Trade", and possibly a mock complaint to the shows producer, Pat Dixon 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Goon Show running jokes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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