In The Goon Show the cast usually comprised only the three principals, who would pretend to sound like a larger group by repeating "rhubarb" very quickly but clearly, with outbreaks of "custard!".

The inspector has a constable help him to cheat by removing his golf ball from awkward situations, and the vicar ultimately requests divine intervention.

Monthly Film Bulletin said "It would be nice to be able to applaud this independent British comedy – especially as it tries to revive something of the old Goon Show flavour – but unhappily it fails through over-emphasis and a general paucity of invention.

Apart from a would-be comic music score, it is played silent except for the word "rhubarb" which is muttered or shouted by all the characters when some sort of communication is necessary.

As it is, the basic idea of the golf match with craftily cheating players has been used to better effect in earlier comedies, and in any case W. C. Fields has probably had the last word.