BBC2 series Bottom, ever watched it?

Bretrick

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Ran for 3 seasons over 4 years.
It focused on Eddie and Richie, two desperate, crude, perverted and unemployed flatmates.
This violent, slapstick comedy was ranked 45th in a BBC poll for Britain's best Sit-com.

Eddie and Richie are two pathetic, sex-crazed, slobby flatmates living in a filthy, damp flat at 11 Mafeking Parade in Hammersmith, London.
They spend their time concocting desperate schemes to convince women to have sex with them, including buying sex spray, forging money, and pretending to be aristocrats.
Their plans are never successful, however, and the stress of their miserable lives can cause them to become irritable with each other.
Whenever tensions hit a breaking point, Richie and Eddie end up fighting.
Both men are immature. Richie is a virgin; he is insecure and clueless on how to talk to women. Despite being a penniless slob, he occasionally projects a pompous sort of snobbery in an attempt to impress others and boost his self-esteem; he is sexually frustrated and obsessed with losing his virginity.
Eddie, the more popular of the two, enjoys drinking regularly, and often secretly steals family heirlooms and cash from Richie, although he occasionally has inventive moments, like building a cash forger, an electric toilet, and a time machine.

Really, the older I get the more puerile this show is.
Though I suppose it could be called light comedy worthy of watching when there is nowt more to view.

Theme From Bottom​

 

yes many years ago. Rick Mayall is dead now, died 11 years ago... ... Ade Edmondson for those who don't know is the husband of jennifer Saunders who played Edina ( eddy) Monsoon in Absolutely fabulous...

I like Ade edmondson, I was never a fan of Rick Mayall..may he R.I.P
 
Bottom also followed after the Young Ones..similar format except it was 4 flatmates.. disgusting....flatmates... starring both Rick, and Ade..along with Neil Planer, and Chris ryan



 

Bottom also followed after the Young Ones..similar format except it was 4 flatmates.. disgusting....flatmates... starring both Rick, and Ade..along with Neil Planer, and Chris ryan



I saw that one as well.
Not overly impressed.
That sort of inane comedic expressionism turns me off after a short period of time. As did Bottom.
 
Bottom spawned a few TV specials - recorded from their live and well sold out 'Stand-up/sketch shows'
Often insulting their audience with vulgar banter which was received and given in interactive audience participation
  • Bottom Live (1993):
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The original stage show, recorded at the Mayflower Theatre in Southampton, where Richie and Eddie's flatmate relationship is threatened by a solicitor's letter and a package of 'medical goods'.
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  • Bottom Live: The Big Number 2 Tour (1995):
Filmed in Oxford, the plot revolves around the pair's desperate and catastrophic attempts to have sex, convinced everyone else in the world is doing so.
 
  • Bottom Live 3: Hooligan's Island (1997):

Bottom: Live 3 - Hooligan's Island [DVD ...

A departure from the previous shows, this one finds Richie and Eddie marooned on a desert island in the Pacific.
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  • Bottom Live 2001: An Arse Oddity (2001):
Recorded in Nottingham, this show continues their adventures on the desert island.
Bottom • Specials • Big Bottom Live ...
 
  • Bottom Live 2003: Weapons-Grade Y-Fronts Tour (2003):
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The final live show, recorded in Southend, returns the setting to their Hammersmith flat, involving a time-travelling toilet.

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It was 'of it's time' and appealed to an audience (U.K.) that had gone through the years of Grocer shop goverment and were ripe for revolution.
Times change and acceptance of what was mainstream comedy can often be looked at by some latter day viewers as unacceptable (be it vio;ence, lamguage and/or trend setting antics).

In the end; I feel is an entertainment of it's day which resonates mostly with folk who were there at the time - and; going back to the 1920s/30s era only an updated plot line form the trio of stooges who exhibited similar behaviour (though violence and not languge) that continued to enertain right up to 1970
 
Classic - loved it. I remember crying laughing when the Christmas Turkey episode was first on :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:
 


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