h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

It goes without saying that without the humour of Spike Milligan and his creations the Goons and the subsequent series of Q, that comedy may be a different kettle of fish...his far reaching humour (to a greater or lesser extent)influenced the Beatles, Monty Python, and the Goodies, Douglas Adams, Ben Elton, Eddie Izzard, Vic and Bob.......

absolutely. spike was a true tortured genius, and the world is a duller place without him.

Yes. The Goons were amazing with their wacky accents and sound effects. In the Great String Robbery for example they don't have a sound effect for a piece of string and so substitute something completely ridiculous.

"He's fallen in the water!"

I recently got a DVD of a Goons film. They didn't do many, and this was an early one (Down Among The Z Men) so lacked some of the later characterisation. But it was just as weird as ever, with my favourite bit being Harry Secombe choosing a record to listen to by placing the vinyl to his ear and having a little listen.
Other visual Goonery which I have seen include The Mukkinese Battle Horn, with possibly the best bar fight/police raid/big fight scene ever to be filmed showing solely some feet and The Bed Sitting Room, a later Spike film about a post apocalyptic London with Arthur Lowe heroically smashing up chocolate machines on the underground while his wife develops into a chest of drawers.
And of course, when i think of Spike I always think of the Pakistani Dalek.