​Magical British sitcom The Mighty Boosh is one of those shows that seems to heavily divide people: you're either a fanatic or you think it's thin and overrated. I'll come out and put myself in that first camp, but maybe not for the reasons you think. I feel like most Boosh-haters feel like the fans are only in it for the crazy costumes, silly vocabulary, and goofy songs. While it's true that there is a very loose continuity to the series (oftentimes within each episode, even), it's more than just a parade of nonsense. There's good comedy writing here, often with just the right performances to back it up.

Noel Fielding and Julian Barrett are well known for playing not just the leads, Vince Noir and Howard Moon, but also a whole bunch of different supporting characters, and though there are several that have appeared multiple times (The Hitcher, Bob Fossil, and Rudy VanDisarzio being some of them), there are many more that are just as funny and somehow slip through the cracks. The characters on this list are (for the most part) one-offs, confined to a single episode and sometimes a single scene, and yet still steal the show so hard that it sometimes never recovers. There are many, many examples of characters like these, both played by the "core" Boosh members and by various other bit players: come with us now as we delve into the realm of the overlooked.

10) Kirk, "Nanageddon"
The first entry on this list, unspeakably perverse young shaman Kirk (played by Noel Fielding's cousin Kirk Gaitskill-Kendrick) is also the exception, having appeared in four episodes. How can he be considered a minor character if he appears so many times, you may ask? Because, out of those episodes, he's had maybe seven lines total, many of which consist of one word. This clip, an extended version of his scene from "Nanageddon," is undoubtedly his best. Yes, he's basically a one-joke pony, but I won't spoil the joke here, suffice it to say that the blank look on his face is what makes it for me.

9) Bryan Ferry, "Hitcher"

In the first season, Vince's affinity with animals was one of his key personality traits, and that season's final episode explained this, kind of, by revealing that Vince had been raised amongst the creatures of the forest by Roxy Music frontman Bryan Ferry. What's great about Julian Barret's Ferry performance is that it's only about 30% Ferry and 70% otherworldly weirdo medicine man, complete with facepaint, stilted accent, and a fake chin. Ferry is one of many Boosh characters to give Vince or Howard an instrument with which to summon him, fairy-tale style, but his instructions to "blow upon't" are probably the most amusing. I'm also a sucker for that tree gag, especially since it seems to have been improvised, or at least a little unexpected (watch Julian's face).

8) The Electro Girls, "Electro"

Dee Plume and Sue Denim, better known as the electro-rock duo Robots in Disguise, appeared a few times throughout the series, especially Dee (she and Noel were dating at the time of production), but their best appearance was definitely as Neon and Ultra, members of electro band A Kraftwerk Orange. They hire Vince as their frontman but turn hostile once he pisses off their keyboardist, Johnny Two-Hats, and even threaten to kill him until Howard steps in as a replacement. Sue and Dee also showed up in the second series as a pair of Goth girls, Anthrax and Ebola, and it's one of the big shames of series three is that we didn't get a third pair to complete the set.

7) The Bingo Caller, "Nanageddon"
Rich Fulcher, the sole American of the Boosh, is essentially the opposite of Noel; whereas Fielding buries himself deep in different characters, accents and costumes, Fulcher is essentially always the same character no matter what he wears or sounds like. Here he is relatively undisguised, apart from the bad hair, but is just as creepy and sexually hostile as usual. Despite the cheer with which he calls out bingo balls, he is definitely the embodiment of some despicable evil (just look at those eyebrows). All the same, I have absolutely no trouble believing what he says about number 43.

6) Sandstorm, "The Fountain of Youth"
The first season of Boosh featured a character made of rags named Mr. Susan who lived in a world of mirrors and got a giddy thrill from spritzing his, uh, "mirror balls". On a DVD commentary, Barret has said that he always considered Sandstorm, a "DIY demon" made out of sandpaper and wire brushes, to be a sort of cousin, and so performed him with the same nasally voice. Sandstorm (also called "the evil sand beast" and just "sand") is actually a bit of a tragic character, until Vince gives him the ability to touch things, resulting in yet another scene with a completely perfect soundtrack.