special announcement "that I have not been deaded this week". Origin Bluebottle was based on Ruxton Hayward, a Scoutmaster Sellers once met. In an interview with Michael Parkinson, Sellers described trying to keep a straight face while talking with a large red-bearded Scout leader who nevertheless spoke in a falsetto voice and had an ingratiating manner. The identity of the individual was later revealed in The Goons, one of several books featuring memoirs and scripts from The Goon Show. Cultural references The character "Pierre" in the British animated series Count Duckula (and later a similar character on Victor and Hugo) was voiced by David Jason with a voice almost identical to Bluebottle's. Geoffrey Rush (playing Peter Sellers) thanks a crowd who attended the premiere of one of the Pink Panther movies in character as Bluebottle in The Life and Death of Peter Sellers. Douglas Adams, in his book The Restaurant at the End of the Universe wrote a line of dialogue for the character Marvin, the Paranoid Android that said: "Nothing. Not an electronic sausage." Adams often acknowledged having been influenced by the Goons. John Lennon delivers a verse of the Beatles song "You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)" in a voice similar to that of Bluebottle. References The Goon Show characters Fictional English people Male characters in radio Radio characters introduced in 1951