Editing Round the Horne (section)

===J. Peasmold Gruntfuttock===
{{Quote box |bgcolor=#F7F8F9|salign=center| Gruntfuttock is guided by "voices" and one can only hope that one day they'll guide him into the Grand Union Canal.|source=Barry Took.{{sfn|Took|Coward|2000|p=135}}| align=right|width=25%}}

A week after the debut of Julian and Sandy came the first appearance of J. Peasmold Gruntfuttock, first broadcast on 5 April 1965.{{refn|This is the spelling used by Took and Feldman,{{sfn|Took|Coward|2000|p=16}}{{sfn|Took|1998|p=134}} although the variant "Peasemold" is sometimes seen in articles and books, and even on occasion "Peasemould".{{sfn|Took|Feldman|1974|p=11}}|group=n}} Played by Williams, Gruntfuttock is described by the writers as "the walking slum".{{sfn|Took|Feldman|1974|p=11}} In his first appearance he is a job applicant at the BBC, inspired by voices in his head, and keen to get on close terms with one of the female presenters.{{sfn|Took|Coward|2000|p=16}} In later programmes he is first the king and then dictator of Peasmoldia, a small enclave in the [[East End of London|East End]], and subsequently Brother Gruntfuttock, member of an obscure religious community.{{sfn|Took|1998|p=84}} He writes in regularly with incorrect and sometimes physically implausible answers to last week's questions:{{sfn|Took|1989|pp=57, 112, 128}}
:Finally, we had "I get a kick out of&nbsp;...". Well, Mr Gruntfuttock of Hoxton, I think we ''all'' know what you get a kick out of. And on looking at the list you sent me it's my considered opinion that you are running a severe risk of doing yourself a permanent injury.{{sfn|Took|Feldman|1974|p=65}}
In the fourth series he is a persistent caller of the spoof [[phone-in]], the ''Round the Horne'' Forum of the Air, airing his peculiar personal obsessions in between bouts of heavy breathing.{{sfn|Took|Coward|2000|p=220}} He was Feldman's favourite ''Round the Horne'' character; the two authors wrote of Gruntfuttock, "He married beneath him&nbsp;– which gives you some idea what his wife Buttercup (Betty Marsden) must be like. All in all not a couple one would wish to meet on a dark night or indeed at any time."{{sfn|Took|Feldman|1974|p=11}}