The Funk appears in Series 2 Episode 5, "The Legend of Old Gregg". An alien life form, male, round (about 14 inches in diameter), purplish and covered in long, narrow breasts, the Funk is the source of all things funkadelic on Earth. The careers of many funky musicians, beginning with Bootsy Collins, were started/maintained through the ingestion of the Funk's black, magical, funk-power-giving and trip-inducing milk, until the Funk was lost at sea by Parliament on 2 July 1979, "the day the funk died".