stanshall would become the band's next recruit after that day in 1962, when he and slater rechristened the existing group the bonzo dog dada band. in the 2004 bbc four documentary vivian stanshall: the canyons of his mind, slater claims that the name was inspired by playing a dadaist word game using cut-up technique, which involves writing words or phrases on paper, tearing the paper into strips and then randomly re-assembling the strips to form new phrases. one of the phrases created was "bonzo dog dada band": bonzo dog after bonzo the dog, a popular british cartoon character created by artist george studdy in the 1920s, and dada after the early 20th-century art movement.