Spike Milligan was a fan of the Popeye cartoons and took the name of The Goon Show from Alice and her tribe.
However, the first English-language appearance of "goonda" (in British newspapers of the 1920s, with the spelling "goondah") predates the use of "goon" to mean criminal, a semantic change which seems to go back only as far as the 1930s comic strip character Alice the Goon.
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