the first series.:127 After the end of Series 3, original announcer Andrew Timothy was replaced (at the suggestion of John Snagge) by Wallace Greenslade,:127 who provided spoken narrative links as well as occasionally performing small roles in the scripts. From Series 3 onwards, the principal character roles were: Neddie Seagoon (Secombe) Eccles (Milligan) Bluebottle (Sellers) Henry Crun (Sellers) Minnie Bannister (Milligan) Hercules Grytpype-Thynne (Sellers) Count Jim Moriarty (Milligan) Major Dennis Bloodnok (Sellers) Secondary characters were the "Indians", Banerjee and Lalkaka, the servant Abdul/Singez Thingz, Willium "Mate" Cobblers, Cyril, Jim Spriggs, Little Jim, Flowerdew and Chief Ellinga/The Red Bladder – both played by Ray Ellington. There were also occasional guest stars including senior BBC announcer John Snagge, and actors Valentine Dyall, Dick Emery, Kenneth Connor, Dennis Price and Bernard Miles. The traditional plots involved Grytpype-Thynne and Moriarty getting Neddie Seagoon involved in some far-fetched plan, and meeting the other cast members along the way. Many characters had regular catchphrases which quickly moved into the vernacular; among the best known are: "He's fallen in the water!" (Little Jim) "You dirty, rotten swine, you! You have deaded me!" (Bluebottle) "You can't get the wood, you know." (Henry, Minnie) "You silly, twisted boy, you." (Grytpype-Thynne) "You can't park 'ere, mate" (Willium) – Milligan's dig at officious BBC commissionaires. "Ying Tong Iddle I Po" (various) – which became the basis for a novelty hit as "Ying Tong Song" Surrealism The Goon Show has been variously described as "avant-garde", "surrealist", "abstract", and "four dimensional". The show played games with the medium of radio itself. Whole scenes were written in which characters would leave, close the door behind themselves, yet still be inside the room. Further to this, characters would announce their departure, slam a door, but it would be another character who had left the room. That character would then beat on the door for re-admittance, the door would open and close and again the wrong character would be locked out. The show paved the way for surreal and alternative humour, as acknowledged by comedians such as Eddie Izzard.:vii The surreality was part of the attraction for Sellers, and this exacerbated his mental instability especially during the third series. Many of the sequences have been cited as being visionary in the way that they challenged the traditional conventions of comedy. In the Pythons' autobiography, Terry Jones states "The Goons of course were my favourite. It was