Also, in "The Jet-Propelled Guided NAAFI", when Moriarty arrives at his tent to bribe him into blowing up said NAAFI, he catches Bloodnok saying supposedly to a woman he was romancing, "Good night darling, I'll see you later", to which Milligan, playing Throat, replies "Good night, darling".
Unique to the character is that he has his own leitmotif, a cheerful pseudo-parade melody which plays when Bloodnok makes his first appearance in an episode.
In "The Fear of Wages", Seagoon is the commander of the Third Armoured Thunderboxes ("who vanished in Burma ten years ago"), while Bloodnok is an officer in the regiment.
Bloodnok often features in episodes as Neddie's former commanding officer, but in The Gold Plate Robbery he appears in the capacity of British ambassador to Marrakesh.
After his usual tumultuous, flatulent introduction he is heard to muse aloud "Now, for a kip on full Ambassador's pay.
Given that the episode contains a considerable amount of mockery by Milligan of the ruling class, the juxtaposition of Bloodnok as a lazy and venal diplomat in a North African setting with a reference to a distinguished British diplomat of the day may constitute another satirical swipe by the author – possibly a topical one in reference to the then-recent debacle of the Suez crisis of 1956.
The same lampooning of the English aristocracy and North African / Foreign Legion themes are also present in the episode "Under Two Floorboards", (Milligan's satirical take on P. C. Wren's 1924 novel Beau Geste), in which Bluebottle and Eccles play Neddie's brothers, who, despite being members of an aristocratic family and having taken degrees at university, are barely able to read – Bluebottle actually suggesting that, rather than read Beau Geste, they "put some wheels on it and pull it round" as if it were a child's toy dog.