"The Goodies Rule – O.K.?". In Alan Moore's series The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Toyland is a real nation located in the Arctic Circle. The King and Queen of Toyland are Frankenstein's Monster and Olympia, the automaton from The Tales of Hoffmann. Noddy, Big Ears and PC Plod are referred to in the Two Ronnies crossword sketch where Ronnie Corbett thinks their names are "Roddy, Big Ears, and PC Plop!" In an episode of Last of the Summer Wine, all of the characters are dressed up as fairy tale characters for a parade. Smiler is dressed as Noddy complete with a smaller version of his car in order to tow a bouncy castle with the rest of the characters on it, but it deflated while they were taking part. Derivative uses Noddy being associated with small children's reading has led to "Noddy" being sometimes used as an adjective meaning "petty or trivial" (compare with "Mickey Mouse"), for example, in computer programming: "This simultaneous linear equation subroutine crashes out on the Noddy case when n = 1, but otherwise it works." or "Remember to check all the Noddy cases." In Britain the word plod became a derogatory term to describe a police officer due to the success of the Noddy franchise, and its character PC Plod. For example somebody could say, “I’m not having a good morning, I was driving to work this morning and got pulled over by the plod for driving too fast” He inspired the nickname of Slade vocalist/guitarist Neville "Noddy" Holder. See also Toytown was a BBC radio series for children, broadcast for Children's Hour on the Home Service from 1929. It featured Larry The Lamb as its chief character. References External links Noddy in Toyland on iTunes Book series introduced in 1949 Characters in children's literature Fictional taxi drivers Fictional dolls and dummies Enid Blyton characters Enid Blyton series DreamWorks Classics DreamWorks Classics franchises Literary characters introduced in 1949