- Gad! What's this invention called?
- A ladder. Of course I may think of a better name for it later, but...

10 seconds sound clip from The Goon Show, Series 8, The Space Age classic radio program.

You can hear this line at 00:04:55 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- With this gadget you can hide in space.

- Space? But I'm taking up too much already.

- Lad, we have perfected a method of getting a man off the ground under his own power. He needs no other means of propulsion.

- What, what, what, what, what, (turns into chicken noises)

- Has it been successful?

- Successful? Do you hear that, Count?

- Why, even last night, the dear Count here, went up on the heath, and unaided, elevated himself into space to the height of twenty feet.

- Gad! What's this invention called?

- A ladder. Of course I may think of a better name for it later, but...

- No, no, no, ladder's a good name for it.

- I must tell Folks, just a minute, my trumpet. Calling folks! Hello folks!

- With this invention, folks I can go on being a deserter forever! The military police will never find me up there, folks!

- How much?

- Well, to anyone else, ten shillings. But to you, 38 pounds.

- Oh, I couldn't take advantage. I'll pay what everyone else does. Ten shillings. How would you like it?

- In thirty-eight one-pound notes.

[...]

The Goon Show Sound Clip

The Goon Show RadioQuotes with sound clips from The Goon Show radio comedy programme produced and broadcast by the BBC from 1951 to 1960.

Actors: Peter Sellers (Bloodnok / Bluebottle/ Grytpype-Thynne), Spike Milligan (Eccles / Minnie Bannister), Harry Secombe (Neddie Seagoon)

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