other characters included carwash, a snooty bespectacled cat (based on noël coward), with the catchphrase, "my eyes are not first-class, you know", the moog, a supposed "dog" who is unable to think for himself, twit, a small bird, the beast, a former prince turned into a hairy shambling creature by evil edna, gnomes, the astrognats (a group of bugs who explore outer space by means of their toadstool rocket), the bookworm and a regiment of toy soldiers.