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 Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy wrote a line of dialogue for the character Marvin, the Paranoid Android that said: "Nothing. Not an electronic sausage." Douglas Adams has often acknowledged having been influenced by the Goons.
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