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The Brit Com, stripped down to its absolute minimum requirements: two idiots, sharing living space, passing the Idiot Ball back and forth so fast that you can't distinguish between the two.Richard "Richie" Richard [sic] (Rik Mayall) - a sex-starved, sadistic, physically repugnant loser with delusions of sophistication - takes out his frustrations at life upon Edward "Eddie" Elizabeth Hitler (Adrian Edmondson), his boozy, slightly more intelligent, but equally perverted and sadistic flatmate. Frequently, this involves over-the-top violence that would make Itchy & Scratchy wince. Eddie, for his part, is quite willing to respond in kind.The Spiritual Successor to The Young Ones and Filthy Rich & Catflap, inspired loosely by Waiting for Godot. It ran for three series on BBC2 from 1991 to 1995 before transferring to Theatre as a series of two-man shows, as well as the feature film adaptation Guest House Paradiso.On 23rd August 2012, the BBC announced that after an eighteen-year absence from TV screens, Richie and Eddie would be returning in 2013 for a new six-part series under the Hooligans' Island title used for one of their stage shows. Alas, just two months later, it was announced that the series was not going ahead after all. The only explanation forthcoming was from Adrian Edmondson, who said "We started working on something and we realised why we stopped working together (with the BBC)."Sadly a year later Rik Mayall died aged 56, thus putting an end to any thoughts of a revival for good and leading to a great What Could Have Been moment in British comedy.Came forty-fifth in Britains Best Sitcom. No relation to the donkey-headed character in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, or to 2023's Sex Comedy, Bottoms. | |
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Self-Plagiarism | |
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Self-Plagiarism: In "Gas," Richie objects to Eddie cutting up the gasman with cutlery, because they have to eat off them. The same joke appeared in The Young Ones episode "Sick," where Rik objected to Vyvyan using cutlery to perform acupuncture on Neil to stop his sneezing. The overall plot of "Culture" veers awfully close to a long sequence in Episode Five of Filthy Rich & Catflap, involving two characters also named Richie and Eddie (and portrayed by the same actors) desperately trying to pass the time with board games. Just as in "Culture," Richie throws himself into playing, whereas Eddie just wants to be left alone. | |
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After getting hold of a video camera and deciding to make a documentary, Richie tries to do a Walk and Talk down a staircase, loses his footing because he's not watching his feet and ends up tumbling down the stairs and going headfirst into the toilet. So they decide to make home accident videos instead. | |
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Abnormal Ammo: Spudgun was named for his ability to fire potatoes out of a certain part of his anatomy. | |
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Darker and Edgier: "Contest" is definitely this, compared to the rest of the series. This episode – the pilot – has a distinctly bleaker tone than all other episodes of Bottom. | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything? | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything?: Eddie and Richie are referred to as being a married couple; Hedgehog refers to Richie as Eddie's 'wife', they call each other 'darling' and 'dreamboat' in front of strangers, and they are keeping some liqueur chocolates for their anniversary. In Bottom Live, Eddie becomes Richie's legally adopted son and wife (the lawyer ran out of adoption papers) to get at £15,000, which turns out to be a debt from Richie's great uncle Norman. | |
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Calvinball: Eddie's version is the card game 'One Card Slam' in which Eddie turns over a single card and demands twelve quid from Richie. Since Richie knows nothing about card games (to the extent of not spotting Eddie's five king poker hand) this works very well for Eddie. Richie's game 'Birthday Charades'. The only thing revealed about this game is that it requires the women present to undress. | |
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Do You Want to Haggle? | |
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Do You Want to Haggle?: In "Parade," Eddie ends up neck-deep in a Get-Rich-Quick Scheme and needs instant cash in order to place a bet. He finds himself in a pawn shop, trying to hock a hand-carved wooden leg worth £2,500. | |
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Anti-Humor: Happens in "Accident." | |
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Master Forger | |
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Master Forger: Parodied in "Dough," when Eddie starts churning out large quantities of extremely unconvincing fake banknotes, with all of them being triangle-shaped and/or pornographic. This results in Eddie (and by proxy, Richie) running afoul of "Skullcrusher" Henderson, Hammersmith's counterfeit money kingpin. Eddie's product is equally as good (incompetent) as Skullcrusher's,note Skullcrusher: That ain't the Queen; it's Danny La Rue! and therefore, he quite reasonably considers Eddie a serious threat to his business. | |
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The Sociopath | |
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The Sociopath: Both protagonists: Apart from being very quick to anger and violent, Richie is also a compulsive liar who makes up stories about himself whenever there's a chance that he could stand to benefit from it (most notably in "Digger" and "Parade" where he claims to be the Duke of Kidderminster and a Falklands war veteran, both times so that he could convince a woman to have sex with him), engages in various criminal acts such as stealing gas from his nextdoor neighbour, has seemingly no empathy for anyone at all and never accepts any responsibility for his mistakes. The only thing that really makes Eddie more stable than Richie is that he actually has friends, other than that he ticks pretty much all of the same boxes. One thing that does make him worse than Richie, however, is how he seemingly takes pleasure in causing pain to others such as in "Culture" where he looks completely content while smashing Richie's head with the fridge door. He also says that he continued hitting the gas man with a frying in "Gas" "for fun." | |
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Say My Name | |
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Say My Name: In "Gas", Richie and Eddie sneak into their neighbour's flat to remove the pipeline they had connected to next door's gas supply. While Richie is making himself comfortable in bed, Eddie suddenly finds himself with an open gas pipe, and only his finger to block it, so he calls for help. | |
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The Movie | |
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The Movie: The two main characters were transplanted into Guest House Paradiso, slapstick, simple plans and all. When it came out on DVD it was advertised as "The Bottom Movie," just to drive the point home. | |
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Those Two Guys | |
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Those Two Guys: Spudgun and Dave Hedgehog. | |
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Heterosexual Life-Partners | |
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Heterosexual Life-Partners: Richie and Eddie. Oh, so much (except that Richie is arguably suicidally desperate). And they've been at it for decades, too. | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: Mostly takes the form of Eddie's Aside Glance. In "Terror," Eddie makes an aside comment directly to the audience. At the end of "Culture," Eddie and Richie both address the audience. | |
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Crapsack World | |
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Crapsack World: Practically everyone in Richie and Eddie's universe seems to be an unspeakably violent sociopath and/or completely insane. Their alternate Hammersmith is full of kebab shops serving dog and human meat, nude vicars running around with guns, an annual riot replete with looters and arsonistsnote Eddie: In the olden days, we used to let the Germans do this sort of thing for us!, deathtrap Ferris wheels, travel agents who'll kill you horribly for not paying for your holiday promptly, and ambulances taking up five hours to turn up (even in the event of an emergency). And everywhere we see them go is dirty, grimy, run-down and miserable. | |
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Patriotic Fervor | |
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Patriotic Fervor: Richie is prone to these. In "Carnival," he rises to his feet and applauds respectfully upon seeing the Prime Minister's nipples on television. | |
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Only Sane Man | |
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Only Sane Man: In as much as this show can be said to have one, it's Spudgun, oddly enough; he's an idiot, but he's also often the only one who ever points out that some of the insane things that Richie has them do (such as drinking gravy instead of sherry for Christmas, using bleach to clean a baby, and wearing inside-out dressing gowns when summoning the Devil) are, in fact, quite stupid. Eddie's too used to Richie's eccentricities, and Dave Hedgehog is usually too intoxicated to object to anything. | |
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Drunk on Milk | |
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Richie is an aversion of this – he's strictly a social drinker. Richie is prone to either getting Drunk on Milk, or ending up with glasses of more unusual drinks like absinthe, homemade atrocities like the "Esther Rantzen," or Spudgun's urine. | |
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I Just Want to Have Friends | |
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I Just Want to Have Friends: Richie. Several episodes show him bemoaning his lonely life, and he does try to be sociable at times... however, his repugnant personality always drives people away. | |
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Spiritual Successor | |
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Spiritual Successor: To The Young Ones and Filthy Rich & Catflap. It was also inspired by their West End production of Waiting for Godot. | |
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Small Name, Big Ego | |
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Small Name, Big Ego: Richie. He's convinced he's better than everyone else, and on one occasion, he almost deluded himself into thinking he was "the new Messiah." | |
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Terrible Pick-Up Lines | |
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Terrible Pickup Lines: Naturally, the only ones in Richie and Eddie's repertoire. (Also see Running Gag.) | |
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Bilingual Bonus | |
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Bilingual Bonus: When Eddie sets up their stolen VCR he reads the German installation instructions out loud. The first step he reads is "Stecken dein Kopf in deine Arsch," which roughly translates as "Stick your head up your arse". The chant Richie uses to for his rain dance ( Well... Summoning bird shit!) is him saying, over and over, "Man with the Butterfly" in French! | |
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Halloween Episode | |
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Halloween Episode: "Terror." And fitting in with the unusual scheduling of their Christmas episode, this one was originally broadcast in January. | |
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The Dreaded: Invoked a few times as the series went on. "Skullcrusher" Henderson, in "Dough." "Cannonball" Taffy O'Jones, in "Finger." By the series' end, Richie himself is this to Spudgun and Dave Hedgehog, who've both become rattled by Richie's abrasive personality and erratic behavior. In "Holy," Dave calls Richie a "psycho," and by their final appearance in "Dough," the two of them nervously scurry away from Richie after he lets them into the flat. | |
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Take That Me: They both do this in 2001: An Arse Oddity. | |
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Analogy Backfire | |
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Analogy Backfire: When Richie and Eddie are on a camping holiday, and Richie is bemoaning the difficulties they're facing: Also in "Contest": | |
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Hidden Depths | |
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Hidden Depths: In the third series, Richie and Eddie are shown to have a knack for building over-the-top gadgets and traps, like Richie's exercise machine, and Eddie's electric cattle prod (which doesn't quite work properly, but still a good effort). Some of their other talents shown throughout the episodes: Richie has read War and Peace more than once (it's the only novel he owns). He also knows a bit about art, and at one point mentions Toulouse-Lautrec. Eddie can play the piano, and recognises Vivaldi at one point when Richie sings it. He's also a crack shot with an air rifle, and capable of taking out a carny's eye at ten paces. | |
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I Want You to Meet an Old Friend of Mine | |
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I Want You to Meet an Old Friend of Mine: Christopher Ryan — who played the suave Mike alongside Adrian Edmondson and Rik Mayall in The Young Ones — occasionally shows up as Dave Hedgehog. Sadly, Nigel Planer turned down the role of Spudgun, thus denying us a whole cast reunion. (Not to mention reuniting the cast of Filthy Rich & Catflap). Invoked at least half a dozen more times over the course of the whole series. Many minor characters on Bottom are portrayed by actors who were also bit players on Filthy Rich & Catflap. | |
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Divine Intervention | |
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Divine Intervention: Parodied in "Hole." Richie and Eddie end up trapped on a condemned ferris wheel and end up hanging by their fingers as their car slowly disintegrates. They pray for a miracle; God's hand appears miraculously. However, once safely on the divine hand, then they both start commenting how they don't actually want to cause offense or anything, but they don't believe in God. Accordingly, the hand disappears. | |
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Gratuitous Foreign Language | |
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Gratuitous Foreign Language: Often as a source of humour, like Got Me Doing It above. | |
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Strange Minds Think Alike: | |
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Self-Abuse | |
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Self-Abuse: Briefly hinted at in "Contest", when Richie pretends to be his aunt. Eddie then says "I warn you, that if your nephew reads any more art magazines, he may very well go blind." | |
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Got Me Doing It | |
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Got Me Doing It: In "Carnival," Eddie imitates a Dutch accent during an unusually jovial moment with Richie, who responds in kind, realises what's just happened, and smacks Eddie across the face: | |
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Attention Whore | |
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Attention Whore: Both, although Richie's far more insecure and therefore more insistent about it. | |
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Overdrawn at the Blood Bank | |
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Overdrawn at the Blood Bank: Subverted in "Terror," when Eddie passes out after nicking an artery in his wrist and coating himself in his blood, and in "Holy," when Richie loses a finger. It takes longer for him to pass out despite the fountain of blood from the stump, though. | |
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Cryptic Background Reference | |
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Cryptic Background Reference: In "Accident," Spudgun and Dave Hedgehog (in their first appearance) show up at the front door of the flat, and ask Richie if they can see "Chopper" Hitler. | |
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Disposing of a Body | |
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Disposing of a Body: In "Gas," Richie and Eddie believe they've managed to kill the Gas inspector when they knocked him out with a frying pan (and hit him a few more times after he hit the floor for good measure). They decide to add an extra entry to his diary ("Left in high spirits, to indulge in my hobby of Bus surfing.") and post his body out of the window onto the roof of a double-decker bus. | |
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HammerSpace | |
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Hammerspace: As revealed in "Hole," Eddie keeps an "emergency bitter" in his overcoat at all times, which turns out to be an uncovered pint glass filled to the brim with fresh bitter. | |
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Lethal Chef | |
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Lethal Chef: Just to show that there is no start to Richie's talents, he cooked Christmas dinner. His roast potatoes were carbonised, and broke the plate when he served them; the sprouts were closer to mash and he cremated the turkey. And the less said about his 'slap-up grill for two' (with all the ingredients grown, found or foraged), the better. And whatever you do, don't try his sprouts Mexicain, a mix of sprouts, various spices and gunpowder. Eddie isn't much better. Unable to prepare brandy butter for the Christmas pudding, he instead concocts vodka margarine with a couple of cans of hairspray for extra flammability. | |
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OnceAnEpisode | |
Bottom / int_37499c8 | comment |
Once an Episode: Planned, but not carried out. The original plan was for every episode of the third series to end with Richie and/or Eddie loudly exclaiming "SHIT!!" - for whatever reason this only ended up being done in two out of the six episodes, but the setups for the gag are still there in the remaining episodes (Richie standing next right next to a box of highly explosive carrots as it detonates; Richie and Eddie being confronted by "Skullcrusher" Henderson and unable to pay him; Richie and Eddie being knocked out by the crazy Welsh cricketer whose honeymoon they've stolen). | |
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1.0 | |
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Bottom / int_37499c8 | |
Bottom / int_375e702b | type |
Brits Love Tea | |
Bottom / int_375e702b | comment |
Brits Love Tea: A Running Gag with several disgusting variations, such as coagulated three-month-old tea, or elm tea. Another when the gas man comes to read their meter, which is empty since they've been stealing their gas from the neighbours: Having returned from the annual Hammersmith riot the pair sit down with tea and slip into the mannerisms of Northern nannies, complete with biscuit guilt and complaints about shopping. Then it turns out the tea is several months old and solidified in the cups. In Bottom Live, Eddie tries to kill Richie with a concoction of tea and goat poison. | |
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Bottom | hasFeature |
Bottom / int_375e702b | |
Bottom / int_38b48685 | type |
Born in the Wrong Century | |
Bottom / int_38b48685 | comment |
Born in the Wrong Century: Richie's common lament, which his cultural illiteracy fails to back up. He thinks Shakespeare and the French Revolution were in the same century - the 13th. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Bottom / int_38b48685 | |
Bottom / int_38b98a5e | type |
Dancing Theme | |
Bottom / int_38b98a5e | comment |
Dancing Theme: The ending credits have silhouettes of Richie and Eddie dancing. Inevitably, violence ensues. | |
Bottom / int_38b98a5e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bottom / int_38b98a5e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bottom | hasFeature |
Bottom / int_38b98a5e | |
Bottom / int_3b4f620a | type |
No Fourth Wall | |
Bottom / int_3b4f620a | comment |
No Fourth Wall: Depends on whether you're watching the television series, or the five Bottom Live shows. In stark contrast to The Young Ones and Filthy Rich & Catflap, this trope is largely averted in the TV series, and it's a rare and notable occasion when a character on Bottom breaks the fourth wall outright. It's a different story in the live shows. Richie and Eddie are completely aware that they're fictional characters on a stage, and have no problem insulting the audience's hometowns, threatening to fire crew members, and complaining that all their troubles are the fault of those fat ugly bastards who play them. | |
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-1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Bottom | hasFeature |
Bottom / int_3b4f620a | |
Bottom / int_3c0a4666 | type |
Noodle Incident | |
Bottom / int_3c0a4666 | comment |
Ethel Cardew, a woman whom Eddie ostensibly stole away from Richienote Richie: Eddie, she was my fiancé. Eddie: Well, she didn't know that., but who hasn't spoken to Eddie (or anyone else) since the "superglue incident." | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Bottom | hasFeature |
Bottom / int_3c0a4666 | |
Bottom / int_3d038b36 | type |
Rhetorical Question Blunder | |
Bottom / int_3d038b36 | comment |
Rhetorical Question Blunder: When Richie asks Eddie where his romance and sense of adventure is, Eddie replies that they work in Sketchleys and live in Chiswick respectively. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Bottom | hasFeature |
Bottom / int_3d038b36 | |
Bottom / int_3d8b73cf | type |
Trouser Space | |
Bottom / int_3d8b73cf | comment |
Trouser Space: In "Carnival," Richie manages to steal a shoulder-mount BBC video camera thanks to this. | |
Bottom / int_3d8b73cf | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bottom / int_3d8b73cf | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bottom | hasFeature |
Bottom / int_3d8b73cf | |
Bottom / int_3fca462c | type |
Deus ex Machina | |
Bottom / int_3fca462c | comment |
Deus ex Machina: When they're trapped on a disintegrating Ferris wheel, the hand of God comes down to save them. Then Eddie issues a disclaimer on behalf of The BBC before pointing out: | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Bottom | hasFeature |
Bottom / int_3fca462c | |
Bottom / int_40b1b353 | type |
Chess with Death | |
Bottom / int_40b1b353 | comment |
Chess with Death: Parodied when Eddie — as part of a ploy to trick Richie into letting him back into the flat after being kicked out — plays on Richie's recent fortune-teller inspired paranoia about dying by dressing up as Death. Richie challenges him to the standard game of chess, which hits a snag when 'Death' admits he doesn't know the rules. Richie then suggests Cluedo, which hits a snag when 'Death' reveals that he knows perfectly well that Richie always cheats by looking at the mystery cards. They settle on I-Spy, which hits yet another snag when 'Death' betrays an inability to spell. | |
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1.0 | |
Bottom / int_40b1b353 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bottom | hasFeature |
Bottom / int_40b1b353 | |
Bottom / int_415b3315 | type |
Stylistic Suck | |
Bottom / int_415b3315 | comment |
Stylistic Suck: The stage shows feature deliberately terrible plots, stages and props, with both actors often (apparently) forgetting their cues and lines and Breaking the Fourth Wall to insult each other and the audience. These often form some of the funniest moments in the production. Though reportedly the suck wasn't always stylised; in later interviews Edmondson admitted that one of the reasons they eventually stopped during the shows was that Mayall's ability to remember his lines was gradually getting worse, especially after his infamous quad bike accident which resulted in a severe head injury, and this became quite frustrating for both. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Bottom | hasFeature |
Bottom / int_415b3315 | |
Bottom / int_41feb209 | type |
Non Sequitur, *Thud* | |
Bottom / int_41feb209 | comment |
Non Sequitur, *Thud*: Eddie, in "Burglary." | |
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1.0 | |
Bottom | hasFeature |
Bottom / int_41feb209 | |
Bottom / int_4394b4be | type |
Messy Hair | |
Bottom / int_4394b4be | comment |
Messy Hair: Richie, obviously, but also Mr Harrison (the landlord), who has a ridiculous and overgrown comb-over. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Bottom | hasFeature |
Bottom / int_4394b4be | |
Bottom / int_439bff8d | type |
The Alleged Steed | |
Bottom / int_439bff8d | comment |
The Alleged Steed: "Parade" revolves around A Simple Plan to raise £500 to place a bet at long odds on a three-legged blind horse called Sad Ken, after the bookie tricks them into thinking it's a dead cert. His performance is about as good as you'd expect, and the commentator informs us that they've had to shoot him (and his jockey). | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Bottom | hasFeature |
Bottom / int_439bff8d | |
Bottom / int_43dbecd | type |
Ate the Spoon | |
Bottom / int_43dbecd | comment |
Ate the Spoon: In "Terror," Eddie whips up a "home brew" that dissolves all the cups, forcing him and his friends to use metal containers to drink it with (It is also said to have taken the enamel off of the bath tub it was mixed in). | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Bottom | hasFeature |
Bottom / int_43dbecd | |
Bottom / int_44e06bb6 | type |
Boisterous Weakling | |
Bottom / int_44e06bb6 | comment |
Boisterous Weakling: Richie plays this pretty straight. Despite eventually convincing Spudgun and Dave Hedgehog that he's a dangerous wild card who's not to be tangled with, most other characters on Bottom are able to see Richie as the pushover he really is. | |
Bottom / int_44e06bb6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bottom / int_44e06bb6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bottom | hasFeature |
Bottom / int_44e06bb6 | |
Bottom / int_4789b0b7 | type |
The Hand Is God | |
Bottom / int_4789b0b7 | comment |
The Hand Is God: In "Hole," Richie and Eddie are saved from falling off a Ferris wheel by God, depicted as a giant hand. (Which then vanishes when they realise they don't actually believe in Him). | |
Bottom / int_4789b0b7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Bottom | hasFeature |
Bottom / int_4789b0b7 | |
Bottom / int_479d4e5a | type |
Would Hurt a Child | |
Bottom / int_479d4e5a | comment |
Would Hurt a Child: Subverted. In "Terror," Richie and Eddie pick a fight with three small boys, and lose. | |
Bottom / int_479d4e5a | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
Bottom / int_479d4e5a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bottom | hasFeature |
Bottom / int_479d4e5a | |
Bottom / int_479f9ad0 | type |
Characterization Marches On | |
Bottom / int_479f9ad0 | comment |
Characterization Marches On: Richie's penis size, and his resulting insecurity, are given scant mention in the TV show. The stage shows formally measured it at a ¼ inch and applied the relevant jokes. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Bottom | hasFeature |
Bottom / int_479f9ad0 | |
Bottom / int_47fea76b | type |
Butt-Monkey | |
Bottom / int_47fea76b | comment |
Butt-Monkey: Both of them, but especially Richie, to cartoonishly extreme levels. At various times, Richie has managed to inadvertently drink urine, break both his legs during the same episode (to the point that both are bent the wrong way at about 90º), fall down the stairs and end up with his head jammed in their disgusting toilet, drink tea with pig semen in it, inhale a dart and get it stuck in the back of his head, hand and bottom, get a tent pole stuck in his eye socket, suffer the most extreme and prolonged projectile vomiting ever seen on stage. | |
Bottom / int_47fea76b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Bottom | hasFeature |
Bottom / int_47fea76b | |
Bottom / int_481220f9 | type |
Roadside Surgery | |
Bottom / int_481220f9 | comment |
Roadside Surgery: In "Apocalypse," Richie gets into an argument in a hospital waiting room with a doctor who is inexplicably performing surgery in the waiting room. | |
Bottom / int_481220f9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bottom / int_481220f9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bottom | hasFeature |
Bottom / int_481220f9 | |
Bottom / int_4a4d6f7c | type |
Comedic Sociopathy | |
Bottom / int_4a4d6f7c | comment |
Comedic Sociopathy: Probably the single best example since The Young Ones. | |
Bottom / int_4a4d6f7c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bottom / int_4a4d6f7c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bottom | hasFeature |
Bottom / int_4a4d6f7c | |
Bottom / int_4dbd3706 | type |
Clap Your Hands If You Believe | |
Bottom / int_4dbd3706 | comment |
Clap Your Hands If You Believe: In "Hole," Richie and Eddie are saved from a Ferris Wheel by the hand of God. When they remember that they don't believe in God, the hand vanishes and they fall to their doom. | |
Bottom / int_4dbd3706 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bottom / int_4dbd3706 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bottom | hasFeature |
Bottom / int_4dbd3706 | |
Bottom / int_500696c6 | type |
Seinfeldian Conversation | |
Bottom / int_500696c6 | comment |
Seinfeldian Conversation: Plenty of these throughout the series, including quite a long deleted scene that originally opened "Digger." Ultimately, though, Richie and Eddie's pointless small talk is nothing compared to Spudgun and Dave Hedgehog's. | |
Bottom / int_500696c6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Bottom | hasFeature |
Bottom / int_500696c6 | |
Bottom / int_5141fc93 | type |
Forgot to Pay the Bill | |
Bottom / int_5141fc93 | comment |
Forgot to Pay the Bill: In "Culture," the TV rental money got spent elsewhere and Richie and Eddie resorted to playing "put a piece of Sellotape on the fridge," "see how much custard you hold in your pants," and a rather violent game of chess. Subverted in "Gas." Richie and Eddie have not forgotten to pay their gas bill; instead, they've been stealing from the neighbour's gas line so that they don't need to pay the bill. | |
Bottom / int_5141fc93 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
Bottom / int_5141fc93 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bottom | hasFeature |
Bottom / int_5141fc93 | |
Bottom / int_5485efbf | type |
Dreaming of a White Christmas | |
Bottom / int_5485efbf | comment |
Dreaming of a White Christmas: Happens in "Holy." | |
Bottom / int_5485efbf | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bottom / int_5485efbf | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bottom | hasFeature |
Bottom / int_5485efbf | |
Bottom / int_54adb6a3 | type |
Staircase Tumble | |
Bottom / int_54adb6a3 | comment |
Staircase Tumble: After getting hold of a video camera and deciding to make a documentary, Richie tries to do a Walk and Talk down a staircase, loses his footing because he's not watching his feet and ends up tumbling down the stairs and going headfirst into the toilet. So they decide to make home accident videos instead. In "Accident", Richie is in a wheelchair, having broken his leg jumping off a chair. He then instructs Eddie and Spudgun to carry him upstairs and hide him in a cupboard, for a game of hide and seek. When they make no attempt to find him at all, he tries to come to them by descending the stairs in his wheelchair, breaking his other leg. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Bottom | hasFeature |
Bottom / int_54adb6a3 | |
Bottom / int_54bb502b | type |
Nobody Poops | |
Bottom / int_54bb502b | comment |
Nobody Poops: Averted numerous times, not least in Hooligan's Island, where Richie manages to have the "jappy-crappies" for three years and spends a good portion of the show with his back from knees to shoulders covered in explosive diarrhoea. | |
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-1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Bottom | hasFeature |
Bottom / int_54bb502b | |
Bottom / int_55232afa | type |
Politically Incorrect Hero | |
Bottom / int_55232afa | comment |
Politically Incorrect Hero: Richie and Eddie's hopeless attitudes towards women are lampshaded throughout "Smells," with the standout moment occurring when they approach two ladies in the Lamb & Flag, and Eddie points at one of them like he's selecting a cut of meat in a butcher's shop. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Bottom | hasFeature |
Bottom / int_55232afa | |
Bottom / int_55f92df9 | type |
Wire Dilemma | |
Bottom / int_55f92df9 | comment |
Wire Dilemma (variant): | |
Bottom / int_55f92df9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bottom / int_55f92df9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bottom | hasFeature |
Bottom / int_55f92df9 | |
Bottom / int_5642c768 | type |
Horrible Camping Trip | |
Bottom / int_5642c768 | comment |
Horrible Camping Trip: "'s Out," where Eddie remembers to bring the can opener but Richie forgets the canned food; they attempt to go blowpipe hunting with a tentpole and darts, and Richie is repeatedly injured; Eddie almost burns his own face off while trying to light the gas stove (he forgot to put the valve in); and since Wimbledon Common is technically just a giant public park, they're harassed in the middle of the night by a flasher. Also, they appear to have set up camp in an area labelled 'dog toilet,' meaning there's dogshit all over the place. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Bottom | hasFeature |
Bottom / int_5642c768 | |
Bottom / int_5c26386e | type |
City Shout Outs | |
Bottom / int_5c26386e | comment |
City Shout Outs: Subverted. In one of the Live stage shows, taped in Southampton, Eddie claims to have been born in Southampton. "Why did you ever leave?" cries Richie. "I found the railway station," replies Eddie. Later on during an ad-lib storm, Richie drops out of character to say something along the lines of, "Let's hurry up and get back to the script or we'll never get out of South-fucking-ampton!" In a later show being performed in Nottingham, the duo suddenly realise that they are on stage at the mercy of a feral Nottingham audience. Richie assures Eddie that he 'speaks the lingo' of the audience and will soon have them eating out of his hand... And then launches into a series of barely unintelligible grunts and every other syllable is 'fuck'. | |
Bottom / int_5c26386e | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
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1.0 | |
Bottom | hasFeature |
Bottom / int_5c26386e | |
Bottom / int_5caef4ca | type |
Chainsaw Good | |
Bottom / int_5caef4ca | comment |
Chainsaw Good: Richie reacts poorly to Eddie's reassurance that "all the birds love a scar," and cuts him down to size (literally) by chainsawing his legs off at the knee. | |
Bottom / int_5caef4ca | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Bottom | hasFeature |
Bottom / int_5caef4ca | |
Bottom / int_5cd8680b | type |
Doorstop Baby | |
Bottom / int_5cd8680b | comment |
Doorstop Baby: Eddie claims to have been left on a doorstep by his mother with her old service revolver and a note saying "Please look after my baby. I can't be bothered." | |
Bottom / int_5cd8680b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Bottom | hasFeature |
Bottom / int_5cd8680b | |
Bottom / int_5ceb9939 | type |
Alcohol Hic | |
Bottom / int_5ceb9939 | comment |
Alcohol Hic: Eddie has a few after a drink, or ten. | |
Bottom / int_5ceb9939 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bottom / int_5ceb9939 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bottom | hasFeature |
Bottom / int_5ceb9939 | |
Bottom / int_5e2e55e4 | type |
The Casanova | |
Bottom / int_5e2e55e4 | comment |
The Casanova: Subverted by Eddie in "Smells." | |
Bottom / int_5e2e55e4 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
Bottom / int_5e2e55e4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bottom | hasFeature |
Bottom / int_5e2e55e4 | |
Bottom / int_5fc68f05 | type |
There Was a Door | |
Bottom / int_5fc68f05 | comment |
There Was a Door: In "Break," Richie takes off through the back wall of the flat upon learning that Eddie has made off with the holiday money. | |
Bottom / int_5fc68f05 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bottom / int_5fc68f05 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bottom | hasFeature |
Bottom / int_5fc68f05 | |
Bottom / int_5fcb9ad1 | type |
Time Skip | |
Bottom / int_5fcb9ad1 | comment |
Time Skip: Lampshaded in "Carnival," when Eddie proudly tells Richie that he knows how to hook up the VCR he stole that morning. Cut to a week later, and Eddie has nearly finished unwrapping the components. Cut to the following Christmas, and Eddie is ready to open the instruction manual. Cut to Richie returning from his holiday the following summer, and Eddie is finally ready to fire up the VCR, except it doesn't so much fire up as blow up. At long last, after 364 days of effort, it's time for Richie and Eddie to watch a video. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Bottom | hasFeature |
Bottom / int_5fcb9ad1 | |
Bottom / int_60fa92ac | type |
Names to Run Away from Really Fast | |
Bottom / int_60fa92ac | comment |
Names to Run Away from Really Fast: "Skullcrusher" Henderson in "Dough." | |
Bottom / int_60fa92ac | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Bottom | hasFeature |
Bottom / int_60fa92ac | |
Bottom / int_62907b90 | type |
Bottle Episode | |
Bottom / int_62907b90 | comment |
"Break," "Carnival" and "'s Out" are technically not Bottle Episodes, but are near as makes no difference. All three take place in a single setting. One-off characters make appearances in these episodes, but they have only a few seconds of screen time each. ("Carnival" does not even list the actors in the end credits.) | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Bottom | hasFeature |
Bottom / int_62907b90 | |
Bottom / int_643659d4 | type |
Spit Take | |
Bottom / int_643659d4 | comment |
Spit Take: In "Dough" when Richie tries a pint of Pernod. | |
Bottom / int_643659d4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bottom / int_643659d4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bottom | hasFeature |
Bottom / int_643659d4 | |
Bottom / int_64b303c0 | type |
Drunk with Power | |
Bottom / int_64b303c0 | comment |
Drunk with Power: "'s Up" sees Eddie and Richie put in charge of running their landlord's shop when he has to go to a funeral. Naturally, this goes straight to Richie's head, and as soon as he gets the white coat on he's threatening to punch old ladies, shouting abuse at a man who's just trying to buy champagne for his daughter's birthday and making Eddie wear his suit jacket back-to-front. "Burglary" shows the two catching a burglar in their flat, who they sit on, tie to chair with Sellotape and try to poison. It completely backfires. | |
Bottom / int_64b303c0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Bottom / int_64b303c0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bottom | hasFeature |
Bottom / int_64b303c0 | |
Bottom / int_65bc92fc | type |
Four-Temperament Ensemble | |
Bottom / int_65bc92fc | comment |
Four-Temperament Ensemble: Richie (sanguine), Eddie (choleric), Spudgun (melancholic), and Dave Hedgehog (phlegmatic). Alternatively, Eddie could be seen as sanguine/choleric and Dave could be seen as phlegmatic/sanguine. | |
Bottom / int_65bc92fc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Bottom | hasFeature |
Bottom / int_65bc92fc | |
Bottom / int_664bc28f | type |
British Brevity | |
Bottom / int_664bc28f | comment |
British Brevity: The show ran for 18 episodes, though there were also several recorded stage shows and a movie. | |
Bottom / int_664bc28f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Bottom | hasFeature |
Bottom / int_664bc28f | |
Bottom / int_67edaf78 | type |
Gargle Blaster | |
Bottom / int_67edaf78 | comment |
Gargle Blaster: Eddie's concoction of brandy, meths (methylated spirit or denatured alcohol), Pernod, paint stripper, Mr Sheen, brake fluid and Drambuie. Weapons Grade Lager, which is made of industrial strength cleaners and the entire contents of the medical cabinet. In "Culture" they attempt to make a vodka Martini without having any of the necessary ingredients on hand; they end up combining Pernod and ouzo with a spoonful of marmalade (since they don't have any glacé cherries) and salt on the rim of each glass. Eddie suggests naming it the Bloody Awful, or perhaps the Esther Rantzen because "it pulls your gums back over your teeth". In "Terror," Eddie creates some homebrew which has the appearance and consistency of roofing tar, and has a habit of dissolving enamel and porcelain, requiring them to drink it out of steel pans. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Bottom | hasFeature |
Bottom / int_67edaf78 | |
Bottom / int_697b5232 | type |
Those Wacky Nazis | |
Bottom / int_697b5232 | comment |
Those Wacky Nazis: Played with. Eddie doesn't seem to see anything unusual in having the surname Hitler. Richie's father, Oswald (as in Oswald Moseley) Richard, is all but stated to have been a Nazi sympathizer and traitor to Britain. Richie is, of course, far too stupid to realise this. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Bottom | hasFeature |
Bottom / int_697b5232 | |
Bottom / int_6add177d | type |
Puff of Logic | |
Bottom / int_6add177d | comment |
Puff of Logic: In "Hole," they're trapped on a Ferris wheel that's due to be demolished. The Hand of God Himself appears to offer them a lift, but disappears when they realise they're both atheists and must therefore be hallucinating. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
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Meaningful Name: In The Big Number 2, Eddie pretends to be looking after a tortoise for Geoffrey Nasty. To make things worse for Richie who had presumably killed the tortoise, he points out that Geoffrey is a psychopathic penis remover and his nickname is simply "Ooh Fuck". He later admits he was joking to make Richie shit himself, which worked. Also it wasn't a tortoise at all. Another in The Big Number 2 is Mr Big, whom Eddie believes should be called "Mr Absolutely Fucking Enormous, Violent, Ugly Psychopath and Surrounded by the Dead and Dying." "Skullcrusher" Henderson, named after his favourite way of dealing with those who irk him. Spudgun claims to have one. Give him a potato and he'll show you. So does Hedgehog. | |
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Punny Name | |
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Punny Name: At least three in The Big Number 2: Michael McHooligan, Patricia O'Violence and Pat O'Cake. | |
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Like an Old Married Couple | |
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Like an Old Married Couple: The core of Richie and Eddie's relationship revolves around a massive subversion of this trope. Eddie is the "husband," who supposedly goes off to work every day – except he doesn't work; he's usually drinking. Richie is the "wife," who supposedly looks after their home – except he's not cleaning (and he certainly can't cook); he's usually wanking. | |
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Vehicle-Roof Body Disposal | |
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Vehicle-Roof Body Disposal: In "Gas," Richie and Eddie believe they've managed to kill the gas inspector when they knocked him out with a frying pan (and hit him a few more times after he hit the floor for good measure). They decide to add an extra entry to his diary ("Left in high spirits, to indulge in my hobby of bus surfing.") and post his body out of the window onto the roof of a double-decker bus. | |
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Crossword Puzzle | |
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Crossword Puzzle: At the beginning of "Culture," Eddie tries to bluff his way through one of these, fails, and then gives up out of frustration. | |
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Extreme Omnivore | |
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Extreme Omnivore: Eddie has eaten lard, straight from the pack, and washed it down with cooking oil, as well as yoghurt that was so old it sprouted grass. | |
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Christmas Episode | |
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The uneaten sprouts from the Christmas Episode make a comeback in the Halloween Episode. | |
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I Am One of Those, Too | |
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In "Parade," his attempt to cop off with a barmaid by using his Falklands story is ruined by Eddie ("This is all a load of bollocks") and an I Am One of Those, Too encounter with a real disabled Falklands veteran ("I don't believe a word of this. In fact I don't believe it so much I'm gonna smash your face in!") | |
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Culture Blind | |
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Culture Blind: Somehow, Eddie has never heard of kids trick-or-treating on Halloween. | |
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TheUnseen | |
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The Unseen: All of Richie's relatives, including at least two aunties, and a sister who is "just like [him], only with smaller jugs." Ethel Cardew, a woman whom Eddie ostensibly stole away from Richienote Richie: Eddie, she was my fiancé. Eddie: Well, she didn't know that., but who hasn't spoken to Eddie (or anyone else) since the "superglue incident." There's also Fatty Amal who owns the kebab shop across the street, Slick Digby the organist, the Hussein brothers, Cannonball Taffy O'Jones, Skullcrusher Henderson the forger, Doctor Wildthroat, Dodgy Mad Bob McMayday the violent travel agent, Keith and Deirdre from the Lamb & Flag mixed doubles nudie tag mud wrestling team, Ted Unlucky 'Suicide' McGloomy, and Harold the ironmonger. | |
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Beanstalk Parody | |
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Beanstalk Parody: Subverted in "Culture," when Eddie gets scammed by a man selling "magic beans" that don't even grow into anything after Richie plants them in a pot. | |
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Tae Kwon Door | |
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Tae Kwon Door: During one of the many violent altercations between Richie and Eddie, Eddie repeatedly slams a refrigerator door against Richie's head to an accompanying Laugh Track. In "Holy," Mr Harrison the landlord does this inadvertently to Richie when he storms into the flat. | |
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Batter Up! | |
Bottom / int_77922c8c | comment |
Batter Up!: The duo beat each other with a cricket bat on several occasions. In The Big Number 2, Eddie explicitly asks a prison guard for one so he can continue hitting an unconscious Richie in the knackers. In Weapons Grade Y-Fronts, Eddie freezes Richie in time moments before he drinks a violent poison and to stop him he smacks Richie in the face with a cricket bat. Often averted in the series. It is used only to prop up a trapdoor in "'s Up" despite the violence that ensues, and in "Gas" Eddie wields it more than once but eventually uses a frying pan. | |
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Amusing Injuries | |
Bottom / int_78c895c8 | comment |
Amusing Injuries: Played up immensely. The main characters are thrown around and tormented with cartoon levels of injury with no major consequences except when it is required for the plot. For example in the first episode, Eddie tries to yank out one of Richie's nostril hairs with a pair of pliers, throwing him around the room before dislodging them from his nose. Richie retaliated by ripping a cabinet off the wall and smashing it over Eddie's head. He barely flinches before hitting Richie right through the door. One of the most far-fetched is definitely in "Gas" where they hit the gas-man over the head repeatedly with a frying pan and punch him, then (when they think he is dead) proceed to punch him some more, inflate him with a bicycle pump ("How does he look?" "Fatter."), electrocute him with wires, stick a fork in his groin after deciding to try eating him, jump up and down on top of him to flatten him down underneath the carpet and are then about to toss him out of the window on top of a bus when he wakes up, alive and well. One of the most cartoonish no-long-term-consequences moments is when Richie cuts both Eddie's legs off with a chainsaw. Eddie then sews them back on with an ordinary needle and thread, but gets them back to front. Richie then cuts them off with the chainsaw again and sews them back on the right way round himself. Apart from walking strangely for a few moments Eddie is unaffected. | |
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Bolivian Army Ending | |
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Bolivian Army Ending: The series habitually goes one step further — the punch is thrown, connects, freeze frame, roll credits. In the finale of the TV series, this is turned up to eleven by the pair being surrounded by an SAS squad in their flat who start start firing, bullets connect, blood pops, freeze frame, roll credits. | |
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"L" Is for "Dyslexia" | |
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"L" Is for "Dyslexia": Eddie's lack of reading and writing ability is often alluded to throughout the series. Unlike Richie (who, despite being a total idiot, eventually forces himself all the way through War and Peace), Eddie's literacy is questionable at best. This is most vividly illustrated in "'s Up," when Eddie excitedly presents Richie with his latest video rental: Swedish Lesbians in Blackcurrant Jam. On closer inspection, Richie realizes that Eddie has actually rented Swedish Legends in Blackcurrant Jam-Making. | |
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No Can Opener | |
Bottom / int_7d3290a1 | comment |
No Can Opener: Richie and Eddie are forced to camp in a nasty London park for a week. Much to Richie's relief, Eddie remembered to bring his can opener. However, Richie forgot all the cans. | |
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Vague Age | |
Bottom / int_7f080f98 | comment |
Vague Age: Richie and Eddie's exact ages are never revealed, though the series occasionally telegraphs clues that suggest they are roughly a decade older than Mayall and Edmondson themselves. Eddie once makes a passing comment that they're middle-aged. Richie and Eddie have been stuck together since at least the early 1970s, and they've apparently known each other since The '60s. Their apartment bears the hallmarks of having been lived-in for decades, with every visible surface seemingly covered in grime, and features anachronistic touches like an electric organ with a framed photo of Elvis on top. They comment about new and old money - the pound was decimalised in 1971 (twenty years before Bottom began) so the change must've happened late enough in their lives for it to still be how they think in terms of cash. In "Break," Richie insinuates that he was conceived during The Blitz in 1940 or 1941, implying that he's in his fifties. | |
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking | |
Bottom / int_808cbaeb | comment |
"'s Up" sees Eddie and Richie put in charge of running their landlord's shop when he has to go to a funeral. Naturally, this goes straight to Richie's head, and as soon as he gets the white coat on he's threatening to punch old ladies, shouting abuse at a man who's just trying to buy champagne for his daughter's birthday and making Eddie wear his suit jacket back-to-front. | |
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Extreme Omnisexual | |
Bottom / int_8159411a | comment |
Extreme Omnisexual: Richie is this by the last couple Bottom Live shows, having reached the end of his rope and desperate to shag anything, female or not. The seed of this character turn was planted back in the second series; specifically in "Parade." Eddie insinuates it more than once. In "Smells," he suggests Richie's personals ad read "Ugly virgin desperately seeks sex of any description," and in "Contest," he says that even putting a wig on a Speak Your Weight machine would do. Also briefly happens to Eddie at the end of "Smells." He tries to put the moves on Richie while in a state of complete delirium, after inhaling pheromone spray on top of his typically generous alcohol consumption. Richie rejects his advances, but does accept Eddie's invitation to "plant a big one right on me kisser." Also shown in "Accident", when Richie explains the rules of Sardines: | |
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Bottom / int_815db542 | type |
Phony Veteran | |
Bottom / int_815db542 | comment |
Phony Veteran: Richie frequently tries to pass himself off as a war veteran, but is inevitably undone by his own stupidity and Eddie. In "Apocalypse," he claims to have "hurt [his] leg in the Falklands Conflict." In "Parade," his attempt to cop off with a barmaid by using his Falklands story is ruined by Eddie ("This is all a load of bollocks") and an I Am One of Those, Too encounter with a real disabled Falklands veteran ("I don't believe a word of this. In fact I don't believe it so much I'm gonna smash your face in!") In the second Bottom Live stage show, he claims in a letter to the Queen to be an "Old soldier who, during the war, fought a desperate rearguard action in Burma." Though in this instance, Richie tries to save face. | |
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Dramatic Drop | |
Bottom / int_8163e2bb | comment |
Dramatic Drop: Eddie, with a frying pan, after he thinks he's killed the gasman with it in "Gas." | |
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Large Ham | |
Bottom / int_823c6e3e | comment |
Large Ham: Richie. | |
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Bottom / int_82accf22 | type |
Gainax Ending | |
Bottom / int_82accf22 | comment |
Gainax Ending: Surprisingly this is how the "canon" ended in Weapons Grade Y-Fronts. After traipsing through (an extremely minimalistic depiction of) history in Eddie's time travelling toilet (The TURDIS) for half the show, the boys are trapped at the dawn of creation itself, where they are beholden unto a colossal pair of Y-fronts which Richie claims are the origin point of existence. Eddie declares he's too confused to even start processing what is occurring. They then break into a reiteration of the previous show's Pants song, close curtain. | |
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Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist | |
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Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: Both of them. The fact that Eddie, a deranged hyper-violent lecherous alcoholic known to drink brake fluid and Domestos, is actually the (marginally) less unsympathetic one gives you an idea what Richie is like. | |
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Bottom / int_85557b38 | type |
Reality Is Unrealistic | |
Bottom / int_85557b38 | comment |
Reality Is Unrealistic: An Englishman named Hitler, and related to the infamous German Chancellor? Not just a piece of tasteless comedy. Adolf's older half-brother Alois Hitler Jr. actually emigrated to Liverpool, where he married a local woman named Bridget Dowling and had one child, William Patrick Hitler. William emigrated to the US (he and his mother were doing a lecture tour and were stranded when the war broke out), changed his last name and had no children, but the idea of a Hitler running around the UK is not outside the realm of probability. | |
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Frying Pan of Doom | |
Bottom / int_86f2d483 | comment |
Frying Pan of Doom: In "Gas", Eddie repeatedly hits the gasman over the head with a frying pan, to stop him discovering them stealing gas from next door. | |
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No Communities Were Harmed | |
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No Communities Were Harmed: An unusual subversion, since Richie and Eddie are mentioned several times as living in the Hammersmith district of London. However, the district is constantly implied to be extremely run-down and violent, whereas the real-life Hammersmith is actually one of London's more affluent areas. Which is probably the reason Richie thinks he's part of the middle class. (Their road, sometimes called Mafeking Terrace and sometimes Mafeking Parade, doesn't exist in Hammersmith, London. There are a couple of Mafeking Terraces elsewhere in the country.) | |
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Lazy Alias | |
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Lazy Alias: Eddie uses this to Richie's great frustration in 'Carnival': To avert the wrath of "Skullcrucher" Henderson, the Hammersmith Hardmen all call themselves "Deirdre Barlow." | |
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Repetitive Name | |
Bottom / int_8cd3d091 | comment |
Repetitive Name: Technically a Running Gag; this is not the only time Rik Mayall has played a character named Richard Richard. | |
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Lethally Stupid | |
Bottom / int_8ef5ae81 | comment |
Lethally Stupid: Especially Eddie to Richie. | |
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Overly Long Name | |
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Overly Long Name: A major supporting character in "Digger" is Lady Natasha Leticia Sarah Jane Wellesley Estronski Ponsonski Smythe Smythe Smythe Smythe Smythe Oblomov Boblomov Dob (third viscountess of Moldavia). | |
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Name That Unfolds Like Lotus Blossom | |
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Name That Unfolds Like Lotus Blossom: Subverted with Harry the Bastard, owner of the local pawn shop. His real name is Ted, but is apparently unaware that nobody actually refers to him by that name. | |
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Bottom / int_94e4b975 | type |
Vomit Indiscretion Shot | |
Bottom / int_94e4b975 | comment |
Vomit Indiscretion Shot: The Movie Guest House Paradiso has one of the most revolting examples in the history of cinema. | |
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Poke the Poodle | |
Bottom / int_991af300 | comment |
Poke the Poodle: Richie, despite being capable of acts of considerable sadism, in "Finger." | |
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Double Take | |
Bottom / int_9af54b9d | comment |
Double Take: Eddie's Reaction Shot is just ten seconds of him flicking his eyes up at Richie and down at Richie's new swimming trunks, trying to reconcile what he's seeing with the person it's attached to. | |
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Springtime for Hitler | |
Bottom / int_9c4a7090 | comment |
Springtime for Hitler: A meta-example apparently occurred; after the TV show wasn't renewed, finding himself increasingly bored and unsatisfied with the stage shows, and Rik Mayall becoming increasingly harder to work with as a result of memory problems and personality changes following his 1998 quad bike accident, Adrian Edmondson decided to walk away from the project. This apparently caused some confusion, hurt feelings and tension on Mayall's part, who was eager to continue, and whenever the two would get together socially after that Mayall would apparently interpret it as an intention to restart the double act and bring back the show. After finding this increasingly awkward, Edmondson eventually agreed to put together a pitch for a show based on Hooligan's Island to the BBC, believing that after almost two decades no one would be interested in reviving it and that the two could move on without rancor as it would be "someone else's fault" that it was all over. Unfortunately for him, the BBC leapt on the project and commissioned a series. After an attempt at writing a series was unsuccessful, Edmondson walked away for good. | |
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Upper-Class Twit | |
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Upper-Class Twit: Richie falsely claims to be an "eccentric millionaire" nobleman in "Digger," in a desperate attempt to kickstart his dating life. Eddie mercifully goes along with it, setting up the premise for the entire episode. Artistic Licence, as Kidderminster does not have its own member of the Peerage. The closest would be the Duke of Beaufort, who also holds the title of Earl of Worcester (the main town of the county Kidderminster is in). However, Richie probably decided inventing a fake title was a safer bet than impersonating a real peer. | |
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Continuity Nod | |
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Continuity Nod: There are a couple: The uneaten sprouts from the Christmas Episode make a comeback in the Halloween Episode. In "Apocalypse," we see Richie struggling to finish War and Peace, but he finally manages to do it in "Dough" two seasons later. | |
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This Is Gonna Suck | |
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This Is Gonna Suck: Eddie, when just before starting his game of chess with Richie, he finds out that Richie doesn't actually know how to play chess and that Eddie is going to have to teach him. | |
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Fridge Logic | |
Bottom / int_9dfd7154 | comment |
Fridge Logic: In-universe – Halfway through Contest Richie realises that… ₤11·80note Eddie’s savings, which the pair have live from for the following two months. - ₤1·50note Cost of a porn mag/art pamphlet Eddie bought as investment. ≠30pnote What Eddie claims is leftover, the missing ten pounds sterling apparently went on a 1000-1 bet on Miss China in the Miss World Contest. See I Lied for where the money really went. | |
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Cannot Talk to Women | |
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Cannot Talk to Women: Richie, who always gives it a try anyway. Eddie is little better most of the time. | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
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Mood Whiplash: At the end of Bottom Live, Richie thanks Eddie for being his friend. Eddie looks at the audience with a touched expression on his face but then immediately brushes it off. | |
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Casanova Wannabe | |
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Casanova Wannabe: Both characters. The only difference is that at least Eddie gets some tail once in a while. It was confirmed in "'s Up" that Eddie has had sex, and with someone Richie was trying to propose to. | |
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Football Hooligans | |
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Football Hooligans: Eddie is one of these. The inside of his bedroom, as seen in "Dough," is covered in Queens Park Rangers F.C. memorabilia. He also has to be restrained by Spudgun and Dave Hedgehog after Richie insults QPR in "Terror." | |
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My Local | |
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My Local: In Bottom's alternate Hammersmith, the local pub is the Lamb & Flag, run by Dick Head. As revealed in "Dough," their rival pub is the Dog & Handgun. | |
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Forged Message | |
Bottom / int_aa517da5 | comment |
Forged Message: Richie receives birthday cards from himself every year - only he claims they are from grateful Soviet citizens, Sue Carpenter and the crew of the Ark Royal. Eddie barely manages to play along with the joke with his usual dripping sarcasm: | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
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Deadpan Snarker: Both of them, but Eddie seems to do this a bit more than Richie. | |
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Talkative Loon | |
Bottom / int_afe98316 | comment |
Talkative Loon: Richie. | |
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A Simple Plan | |
Bottom / int_b0e81c37 | comment |
A Simple Plan: A great deal of Bottom episodes are plotted around this trope. Richie and Eddie tend to set their sights on either money, women, or both money and women. Example from "Gas": Richie and Eddie have been stealing from the neighbour's gas line; now they have to come up with a way to disconnect it without getting caught - the kitchen explodes into a fireball in the process. Another in "Parade" when they try to steal a Falklands War veteran's leg to put the money on a three-legged, blind race horse whose jockey gets shot. The following plan of mugging people in the toilets to buy the leg back is foiled by the first victim - a police officer. Averted in "Apocalypse" when Richie gets an apparent death curse from a fortune teller, which he believes was a plot by Eddie to steal the other half of his inheritance from auntie Olga. In general, Richie and Eddie will inevitably let their fundamental stupidity, lack of foresight and inability to solve problems without violence bollocks up any kind of plan they make, no matter how seemingly straightforward and simple it should be. | |
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Toilet Humour | |
Bottom / int_b41c411e | comment |
Toilet Humour: There's a Running Gag in the series that Richie and Eddie shit themselves when they get in trouble. In "Dough," Richie hides some encyclopaedias in a toilet cubicle and puts an "Out of Order" sign on the door. When he comes back, somebody is occupying the cubicle. Richie asks him if he didn't see the sign, and the man in the cubicle says he did but is out of order as well. This is followed by a series of loud fart and diarrhoea sounds. The man also thinks the books are, in fact, "posh loo paper." In "Carnival," Richie trips on stairs and falls head first into the toilet. When he gets out, his head and face have brown stains everywhere. Hooligan's Island's first act has Richie fall into a latrine and spends the entire show with a skid-mark all the way up his back. | |
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Added Alliterative Appeal | |
Bottom / int_b5049d76 | comment |
Added Alliterative Appeal: In "Smells," Richie cooks "Friday night fry-ups." | |
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Take That! | |
Bottom / int_b53077b3 | comment |
Take That!: In "Holy," Richie tells Eddie that he's funnier than Jonathan Ross. In "Dough," Richie explains to Spudgun that there is no Welsh money. From Bottom Live: Several of the stage shows include rather pointed digs at Stephen Fry and the infamous time he fled from the play Cell Mates. Rik Mayall was Fry's co-star in the production and, as it was essentially a two-man play, was understandably less-than-pleased at being left holding the bag, which led to a rift between the two. Ironically, Stephen Fry was the narrator for the 2024 documentary about the show, Bottom Exposed. One of Bottom's dated pop-culture references (a very rare occurrence) occurs in "Digger," when a dating agency tries to set Eddie up with Sarah, Duchess of York. From "Carnival": From "Hole": From "Dough": | |
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Too Dumb to Live | |
Bottom / int_b58b4e3c | comment |
Too Dumb to Live: Obviously. | |
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Razor Apples | |
Bottom / int_b97f8642 | comment |
Razor Apples: Richie and Eddie receive some of these from an old lady in "Terror" while out trick or treating. When Eddie questions the presence of razor blades, Richie claims it's a "Halloween tradition." | |
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Teeny Weenie | |
Bottom / int_ba26aa0d | comment |
Teeny Weenie: Richie is infamously under-endowed. His junk actually purportedly got smaller as the show went on, with the live shows repeatedly suggesting that he had to use a magnifying glass to find it. | |
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It's All About Me | |
Bottom / int_bb18a227 | comment |
It's All About Me: Dear lord, Richie will turn ANY situation into something about him, be it his inheritance from his recently-deceased aunt, or being more concerned about his safety than the poor sod he (albeit accidentally) pushed down an open elevator shaft. | |
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Alter-Ego Acting | |
Bottom / int_bbd2a2c | comment |
It's a different story in the live shows. Richie and Eddie are completely aware that they're fictional characters on a stage, and have no problem insulting the audience's hometowns, threatening to fire crew members, and complaining that all their troubles are the fault of those fat ugly bastards who play them. | |
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Away in a Manger | |
Bottom / int_bbda4d83 | comment |
Away in a Manger: Parodied in "Holy", when Richie finds a baby left on the doorstep of the flat during their Christmas party. True to form, following a few similarities to the Nativity story he lets this go completely to his head. Convinced that he's the "Mother of God" and has maintained his virginity because he's "better than everyone else in the world," he threatens that the other characters will be sent to Hell by his 'husband-in-law'. It turns out it's the grandson of their landlord, who left him on the step because he couldn't be bothered dealing with the kid himself. Spudgun, Dave Hedgehog and Eddie are wearing paper crowns from Christmas crackers and give the baby presents with names similar to the gifts the Magi gave Jesus. | |
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Subverted | |
Bottom / int_bc103f8b | comment |
Subverted. In one of the Live stage shows, taped in Southampton, Eddie claims to have been born in Southampton. "Why did you ever leave?" cries Richie. "I found the railway station," replies Eddie. Later on during an ad-lib storm, Richie drops out of character to say something along the lines of, "Let's hurry up and get back to the script or we'll never get out of South-fucking-ampton!" | |
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Bottom / int_bc74ef27 | type |
Berserk Button | |
Bottom / int_bc74ef27 | comment |
Berserk Button: Be careful what you say about QPR in front of Eddie. | |
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Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad | |
Bottom / int_bd3b726e | comment |
Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad: In The Big Number 2, Richie insults a fellow inmate while in prison, and the inmate becomes smitten with him, because it was the sweetest thing anyone ever said to him. | |
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Lost in Character | |
Bottom / int_be81113b | comment |
Lost in Character: In "Digger," Eddie is so committed to pretending to be Richie's butler, he curls up on the floor in the fetal position and allows Richie to beat him savagely with an umbrella. | |
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Rapid-Fire "Yes!" | |
Bottom / int_c04dd69a | comment |
Rapid-Fire "Yes!": Subverted. Richie does this in "Break," but as a bizarre one-off verbal tic, not as an exclamation. | |
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Bottom / int_c06ee10d | type |
Female Groin Invincibility | |
Bottom / int_c06ee10d | comment |
Female Groin Invincibility: Lampshaded in "Finger," when Eddie, in drag, gets a firm kick in the crotch from Richie. | |
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Never Gets Drunk | |
Bottom / int_c2b0ebc0 | comment |
Never Gets Drunk: Subverted by Eddie, who never gets drunk because he is already is drunk, to some degree, at all times. At no point during the series or stage shows is he ever totally sober. | |
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Big "NO!" | |
Bottom / int_c2cedc1c | comment |
Big "NO!": Eddie after finding out Richie's decided not to commit suicide. Eddie in "Hole" when Richie demands his emergency bitter to put out the fire on the Ferris wheel. | |
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I Lied | |
Bottom / int_c3245c20 | comment |
I Lied: The missing ₤10 in "Contest" went on Eddie’s having tea elsewhere after noticing Richie foraging through the window box.note He just said the missing money went on a 1000-1 bet just said that so Richie would allow Miss World on the television. | |
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Bottom / int_c45c9fcd | type |
Ass Shove | |
Bottom / int_c45c9fcd | comment |
Ass Shove: Happens very frequently. Items include a pencil, a policeman's baton (complete with side-handle), barbed wire, a stick of dynamite and the entire contents of next-door's flat. Not to mention the entire contents of Richie's bowels (held in for two weeks) first vacuum-sucked out, then re-inserted in Weapons Grade Y-Fronts. | |
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Can't Hold His Liquor | |
Bottom / int_c4b0faae | comment |
Can't Hold His Liquor: Richie needs only one sip of scotch to either become drunk or begin thinking that he's drunk (which amounts to the same thing). In 2001: An Arse Oddity, he doesn't even take a sip, but still believes he is drunk. One's tempted to conclude that it's all in his head. On one occasion, when he needed a stiff drink to settle his nerves, Eddie offered him a shot of Tizer (a soft drink, for non-Brits), which did the trick anyway. In another episode, Richie tries to take a swig from an empty bottle Eddie already filled himself with and suddenly believes he's fallen into a drunken stupor, though it doesn't last. | |
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Bottom / int_c6eabb03 | type |
Gosh Dang It to Heck! | |
Bottom / int_c6eabb03 | comment |
Goshdang It To Heck: Despite regularly swearing like a trooper, Richie sporadically uses polite alternatives, presumably because he thinks it sounds posher. | |
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Bottom / int_c6eabb03 | |
Bottom / int_c7502712 | type |
Way Past the Expiration Date | |
Bottom / int_c7502712 | comment |
Way Past the Expiration Date: In "Culture", Eddie finds a pot of cress in the fridge. | |
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Shout-Out | |
Bottom / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: A lot of guest characters and minor characters share names with various well-known footballers of the day (Lineker, Grobbelaar, etc). The references are not always flattering. Richie and Eddie sometimes watch Emmerdale and mention the series in their conversations. Richie reads War and Peace in "Apocalypse" and finishes it in "Dough". Eddie, Spudgun and Hedgehog watch the film version in "Accident". Edward Elizabeth Hitler is a reference to the more infamous one's full name in The Producers. | |
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Bottom / int_c75df49a | |
Bottom / int_c819533b | type |
Rage Breaking Point | |
Bottom / int_c819533b | comment |
Rage Breaking Point: Comes out of nowhere in "Hole," after Eddie picks on Richie's laundry regimen. | |
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Ontological Mystery | |
Bottom / int_c8f98eb5 | comment |
Ontological Mystery: The second half of one Live show involves the characters suddenly finding themselves inside a mostly featureless steel dome. Neither of them can quite recall how they got there, as they were trying trying to beat the audience to the bar before interval. | |
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Informed Ability | |
Bottom / int_ca3a6dbd | comment |
Informed Ability: We never see the thing that Spudgun can do with a potato which gave him his nickname. | |
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Bottom / int_caa28b82 | type |
Cloudcuckoolander | |
Bottom / int_caa28b82 | comment |
Cloudcuckoolander: All of the recurring cast to some degree, though Dave Hedgehog seems to be a nose in front of the rest. Subverted with Dick Head, the proprietor of the Lamb & Flag, who appears to be normal at first but eventually turns out to be as bonkers as everyone else. Revealed in "Dough," when Richie and Eddie walk into his completely empty pub. | |
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Bottom / int_caff50de | type |
Giant Medical Syringe | |
Bottom / int_caff50de | comment |
Giant Medical Syringe: In Hooligan's Island, Eddie tries to cure Richie of poison from a dart fired by the natives using a medical kit from a Japanese bunker housed on the island. Said kit includes a syringe which is over a foot long (which Richie is naturally none too pleased at the prospect of being jabbed with). | |
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Bottom / int_cbaa9102 | type |
Signature Headgear | |
Bottom / int_cbaa9102 | comment |
Signature Headgear: Whenever he leaves the flat, Eddie puts on a distinctive brown trilby to go with his brown suit. It never comes off, even if he is plastered or getting smacked around. | |
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Fire-Breathing Diner | |
Bottom / int_cce5bf0f | comment |
Fire-Breathing Diner: They turn this trope into Fire Farting Diner thanks to Richie's "Sprouts (of evil) Mexicain." | |
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Bottom / int_cf1b706e | type |
Flat-Earth Atheist | |
Bottom / int_cf1b706e | comment |
Flat-Earth Atheist: Eddie and Richie state their disbelief in God even when standing on His giant hand which materialised in response to their prayers. This, naturally, causes said hand to disappear in a Puff of Logic. | |
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Bottom / int_d1affec1 | type |
That Came Out Wrong | |
Bottom / int_d1affec1 | comment |
That Came Out Wrong: A lot of the jokes are the result of this. | |
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Bottom / int_d267eeb1 | type |
TakeYouAsideTalk | |
Bottom / int_d267eeb1 | comment |
Take You Aside Talk: Richie wishes Eddie to join him in the pub toilets to purchase condoms. Eddie doesn't immediately follow along. So Richie's brilliant idea for alerting him is to shout "Edward Hitler, will you please join me in the lavatory this instant!" in front of everyone in the pub. Naturally, this has got everyone's attention, so Richie's brilliant excuse to explain his eagerness to see Eddie in the toilets? "We're toilet inspectors." | |
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Bottom / int_d7fc9fd0 | type |
Vitriolic Best Buds | |
Bottom / int_d7fc9fd0 | comment |
Vitriolic Best Buds: At a glance, Bottom appears to be playing this trope straight. When the series is at its best, however, Bottom is able to subvert this trope repeatedly in spectacular fashion, extracting its humour from the darkest depths of human nature. Richie and Eddie don't spend their entire lives together out of choice – they need each other, and not only are they both aware of their symbiosis, their mutual resentment of it is always bubbling just beneath the surface. Richie and Eddie truly despise each other, and they delight in causing each other all kinds of pain, anguish, hardship, and trauma––both physical and emotional––at every chance they get. Not only is this the only way they know how to function, the series makes it very clear that this is the life Richie and Eddie both deserve, and quite rightly so. | |
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Bottom / int_db2b02bf | type |
Horrible Housing | |
Bottom / int_db2b02bf | comment |
Horrible Housing: Subverted. Though at first glance their two-bedroom home at 11 Mafeking Parade in Hammersmith is rather unsightly and run-down, it's actually quite spacious (occupying two stories above a newsagent) and in reasonable shape, complete with a greenhouse-style kitchen enclosed in glass. (Only in one episode, "Apocalypse," does the flat show any real sign of dilapidation.) If Richie and Eddie had ever bothered to clean their apartment, it could be quite a nice place to live. | |
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Bottom / int_dc1761bd | type |
A God Am I | |
Bottom / int_dc1761bd | comment |
A God Am I: Richie has on occasion managed to convince himself that the fact that he's still a virgin means he's the new Messiah, because he's being kept 'pure' due to being 'better than everyone in the entire universe'. As opposed to the rather more likely explanation that he's just a completely repugnant and unlikable creep who no one in their right mind would ever want to sleep with. | |
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Bottom / int_dcd423d2 | type |
Affectionate Nickname | |
Bottom / int_dcd423d2 | comment |
Affectionate Nickname: Lampshaded in "Finger." A nervous Eddie calls Richie "dreamboat" when the gas man shows up in "Gas." | |
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ArtisticLicence | |
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Artistic Licence, as Kidderminster does not have its own member of the Peerage. The closest would be the Duke of Beaufort, who also holds the title of Earl of Worcester (the main town of the county Kidderminster is in). However, Richie probably decided inventing a fake title was a safer bet than impersonating a real peer. | |
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Audience Participation: "Have a wank!" "Fuck him!" Made even funnier in Weapons Grade Y-Fronts, where Eddie encourages the whole audience to shout "have a wank" while Richie powers up the TURDIS (a time-travelling toilet) batteries. | |
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Worst Aid | |
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Worst Aid: In "Holy," Richie accidentally chops his own finger off. Eddie's solution? Stapling it back on. When that fails, Richie bandages it back together off-screen, the tip of his finger sitting at 45 degree angle from the rest of it. Eddie also sews his legs back on after Richie cuts them off. Backwards. | |
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Intentionally Awkward Title | |
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Intentionally Awkward Title: Obviously, the creators wanted to force people to talk about seeing Bottom on the telly. Would have been even worse if the BBC had allowed them to go with their original idea and call it Your Bottom. | |
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Hilarious Outtakes | |
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Hilarious Outtakes: "Fluff," a sub-series of three compilations of outtakes (one for each series of Bottom). | |
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The Ditz | |
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The Ditz: Both of them. | |
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Stock "Yuck!" | |
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Stock "Yuck!": The traditional British joke about Brussels Sprouts for Christmas. Now the trope page quote. Made worse by the fact that the sprouts in question are being served in October. The following October. And the aforementioned hangover cure made of seven raw eggs, washing up liquid, Domestos, Jif, and ant spray. In Hooligan's Island, Richie offers Eddie some cocktails made of the most disgusting ingredients. Gin, blood and porcupine shit (without the gin). Coconut milk and napalm. Tree bark, sea water and porcupine urine. | |
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As Long as It Sounds Foreign | |
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The chant Richie uses to for his rain dance ( Well... Summoning bird shit!) is him saying, over and over, "Man with the Butterfly" in French! | |
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The Charmer | |
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The Charmer: Subverted by Eddie in "Smells." | |
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Greek Chorus | |
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By the series' end, Richie himself is this to Spudgun and Dave Hedgehog, who've both become rattled by Richie's abrasive personality and erratic behavior. In "Holy," Dave calls Richie a "psycho," and by their final appearance in "Dough," the two of them nervously scurry away from Richie after he lets them into the flat. | |
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Expy | |
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Expy: Of the characters they played in Filthy Rich & Catflap. Also pretty similar to the characters they played in The Comic Strip Presents: Mr. Jolly Lives Next Door, The Young Ones and their "Dangerous Brothers" stage act. Lampshaded in Weapons Grade Y-Fronts. | |
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Unexplained Recovery | |
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Unexplained Recovery: Given the extreme slapstick violence nature of the show, nearly any brutality the characters suffer in one episode will be forgotten about in the next. The stage shows and movie in particular make little acknowledgement to the two being brutally gunned down in the series finale (allegedly if the show had continued, it would have done the same). | |
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Aside Glance | |
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Aside Glance: Frequently used: Richie occasionally blurts out something so awkward that Eddie will shoot one at the camera. Granted, this is one of their more subtle instances of Breaking the Fourth Wall, but still. | |
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Groin Attack | |
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Groin Attack: Inevitably shows up during the knock-down-drag-out fistfights. | |
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Jerkass | |
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Jerkass: Richie and Eddie. | |
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The Mad Hatter | |
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The Mad Hatter: Richie, who tends to play this trope rather darkly. Lampshaded in "Culture." | |
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Of Course I'm Not a Virgin | |
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Of Course I'm Not a Virgin: Lampshaded in "Digger." | |
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Smoking Is Not Cool | |
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Smoking Is Not Cool: Zig-zagged. Richie is never seen smoking a cigarette, and Eddie does so only once, outdoors, in "Terror." However, it's implied in "Contest" that they both smoke in their home, and indeed, the walls of their disgusting flat are covered in what looks like decades' worth of cigarette smoke stains. | |
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Joke of the Butt | |
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Joke of the Butt: The title was specifically chosen to invoke this. | |
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Evil Plan | |
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Evil Plan: Dick Head is fond of these. In "Parade," he teams up with the local bookmaker and pawn merchant to scam the locals out of their cash and valuables. Then, in "Dough," he rats out Richie and Eddie's forgery operation to London's biggest forger, "Skullcrusher" Henderson, who demands a £5,000 tribute in order to avoid having to crush Richie and Eddie's skulls. Fortunately, Dick is running a pub quiz with the requisite £5,000 as a prize. Unfortunately, it happens to be £5,000 of Skullcrusher's own forged cash, which turns out to be useless for paying off their debt. And they don't discover this until they've already given Dick £1,000 worth of gold teeth for their entry fee. Richie often thinks he's come up with these, but few of them actually work because his own innate stupidity and inability to predict what people will do usually scuttle them. | |
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Would Hit a Girl | |
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Would Hit a Girl: Eddie, at least, doesn't seem to have any qualms about hitting women. An example of this is when Eddie lashes at a woman who turns out to be someone collecting money for a charity against domestic violence. He also blew up the owner of a B&B on their last holiday. | |
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Tim Taylor Technology | |
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Tim Taylor Technology: If you compare a real-life cattle prod to Richie and Eddie's cattle prod from "Terror" (which is about four feet long, has to be carried via a shoulder strap and has enough batteries and wiring to power a medium-sized street), it's no wonder Richie keeps crapping his pants whenever he tries turning the thing on. | |
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Birthday Episode | |
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Birthday Episode: Accident, in which Richie repeatedly sings "Happy Birthday to Me". At first happily and then later sulkily. | |
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Immune to Drugs | |
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Immune to Drugs: Or alcohol, in Eddie's case. Technically, he's only been drunk once - for about 17 years and counting. Then again, Eddie does imply he might already be dead, and thus, unable to get drunk. | |
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Drives Like Crazy | |
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Drives Like Crazy: Both Richie and Eddie. The Special Brew doesn't help. | |
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Running Gag | |
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There's a Running Gag in the series that Richie and Eddie shit themselves when they get in trouble. | |
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"Friends" Rent Control | |
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"Friends" Rent Control: Despite having lived on the dole since 1978, they're in no danger of being kicked out for non-payment. Even a flat as God-awful as theirs wouldn't drop the rent that low. Of course, Richie's Auntie Mabel is the one who pays the rent (quick, hide the fags). | |
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Comically Missing the Point | |
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Comically Missing the Point: "'s Up" has Richie and Eddie's landlord rope them into to minding his shop while he goes to a funeral, which naturally goes straight to Richie's head. He starts proudly going on about how England is "a nation of shopkeepers" and how that makes them better than countries like France and Italy, no doubt unaware that the saying was prominently used by Emperor Napoleon I. And he meant it derisively. While the phrase has been taken as Insult Backfire by Britons smarter than Richie since then, the original meaning is referred to when Eddie skeptically demands to know exactly what's so great about being a nation of shopkeepers in the first place: It's fair to say that whenever Richie claims expertise in a subject, applies his mental faculties to anything or infers some kind of noble role he has fulfilled in the past, he'll either get it completely wrong, fail miserably or be lying so feebly that practically nobody could buy his bullshit. This quote: Eddie and Richie talk about church in "'s Up": Another quote from "'s Up": In "Carnival": | |
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Hideous Hangover Cure | |
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Hideous Hangover Cure: Made from seven raw eggs, washing-up liquid, Domestos and ant spray, and apparently intended to be ingested through the nose. | |
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Artistic License – Economics | |
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Artistic License – Economics: In keeping with comedic tradition, the plot lines and characters on Bottom sometimes deal with absurdly small amounts of money, especially for The '90s, when the series is set. In "Contest," Eddie gets kicked off the dole because his life savings of £11.80 is deemed enough to sustain him for "at least two months." As "Gas" opens, Richie and Eddie are caught up in a game of high-stakes poker. Eddie pushes the tension towards the breaking point when he bets 3p in real money. Richie wipes the sweat from his cheeks as he eyes the pot. | |
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With Friends Like These... | |
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With Friends Like These...: The Series. | |
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Happy Ending | |
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Happy Ending: The series makes it a point to avert this trope at the end of each show, with but a single exception—"Holy." Every other episode of Bottom ends with Richie and/or Eddie getting beaten up, blown up, shot to death, and so on. | |
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Attack! Attack! Attack! | |
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Attack! Attack! Attack!: Richie tries this method during a game of chess, much to Eddie's amusement. | |
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Bawdy Song | |
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Bawdy Song: Richie sings this version of The Sailor's Hornpipe: Averted when he tries to sing a dirty rugby song in "'S Out" and can only manage Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. | |
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Perpetual Poverty | |
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Perpetual Poverty: Neither of the characters has a steady income. In fact, they're only allowed to buy anything when there's a punchline to be had in it. Their poverty is rather strange, Richie particularly because it seems he comes from a somewhat aristocratic, or at least a bit rich, family, since one aunt pays the rent and the other leaves them £600 in her will. Though given that Richie is, well, Richie, it can be assumed that this is the bare minimum that his family is willing to support or generally interact with him. | |
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