Cloudcuckoolander/Radio

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  • The Goon Show has several, perhaps the entire cast at times. Eccles is the most obvious through:

Eccles: Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up, Eccles!! Shut up, Eccles!! Oh, that's me!

    • The Goon Show has Eccles first and foremost, and the SCRIPT as well. Characters like Grytpype Thynne and Moriarty exemplify the latter. Other Goons such as Bluebottle are more like a Chew Toy.
      • Ned Seagoon and Henery Crun are full-bore Cloudcuckoolanders too. Bluebottle and Minnie Bannister aren't quite full Cloudcuckoolanders, but are fairly close (and don't try to say Bluebottle is sane, he was found at one point singing a map.)
      • He also pronounces all his stage directions (All of them. Including "Thinks." And "Unthinks.")
  • A great many of the characters portrayed by Bob and Ray would qualify.
  • Private-Eye Harlow Doyle from Adventures in Odyssey. If anything, he's worse than his spiritual predecessor, the bumbling Officer David Harley, who hadn't gone over well.
    • As a member of the main cast, Wooton Bassett seems to be required to spend a little more time on Earth, but he still has his moments. Oh, does he have his moments.
  • If Radio of the Golden Witch is any indication, Yuu Kobayashi is one.
  • Mister Phillips in The Navy Lark, his navigation manual is "Sinbad the Sailor's Big Book of the Sea.
  • Tenor Boy Dennis Day on The Jack Benny Program.

Jack: Dennis, I didn't know you had relatives in New York.
Dennis: No, my family lives in Jersey. I had to drive under the Hudson River to visit them, and gee was it damp! Boy, did I get wet!
Jack: Was there a leak in the tunnel?
Dennis: Ohhhhh, tunnel!

  • Lonesome Cowboy Dave, whenever he gets free rein on the Church of the SubGenius Hour Of Slack. His influence tends to rub off on Wei R. Doe.