Bottom (Complete Series 1-3) - 3-DVD Box Set ( Bottom - Complete Series One, Two & Three )

Bottom (Complete Series 1-3) - 3-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

$31.99

Alternate Title: Bottom - Complete Series One, Two & Three
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2.4 )

Running Time:
515 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
3-DVD Set
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1991 - 1995 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Ed Bye
Bob Spiers

Written By:
Adrian Edmondson
Rik Mayall

Actors:
Adrian Edmondson ..... Eddie (18 episodes, 1991-1995)
Rik Mayall ..... Richie (18 episodes, 1991-1995)
Steven O'Donnell ..... Spudgun (5 episodes, 1991-1995)
Christopher Ryan ..... Hedgehog / ... (5 episodes, 1991-1995)
Lee Cornes ..... Dick Head / ... (3 episodes, 1991-1995)
Rupert Bates ..... Mr. Tent / ... (2 episodes, 1992-1995)
Helen Lederer ..... Lady Natasha Letitia Sarah Jane Wellesley Obstromsky Ponsonsky Smythe Smythe Smy
Roger Sloman ..... Mr. Harrison (2 episodes, 1991-1992)
Robert McKewley ..... P. C. Cholmondley-Smythe / ... (2 episodes, 1992-1995)

Synopsis:

All the episodes from series one, two and three of the anarchic, violent sitcom, following the fortunes of Richie Richard (Rik Mayall) and Eddie Hitler (Adrian Edmondson), two grotesque losers living in a squalid flat in London and trying to make sense of their pointless existence. Episodes from series one are: 'Smells'; 'Gas'; 'Contest'; 'Apocalypse'; 'Bottoms Up'; and 'Accident'. Episodes from series two are: 'Digger'; 'Parade'; 'Culture'; 'Holy'; 'Burglary'; and ''S Out'. Episodes from series three are: 'Hole'; 'Terror'; 'Break'; 'Dough'; 'Finger'; and 'Carnival'.

Season 1
Smells
S1, Ep1 Sep. 17, 1991
After a bad night down the pub, after failing to pick up women. Richie is depressed because nobody wants to have sex with him. But Richie finds the answer to his problem in the form of a 'Sex Spray' that makes him attractive to the opposite sex. Richie and Eddie head down to the pub to try the stuff and see if it works.

Gas
S1, Ep2 Sep. 24, 1991
Richie and Eddie are visited by a man from the Gas board. Afraid that their pipeline from next door is about to be rumbled they desperately try to cover their tracks. Murder, cannibalism and bus surfing are possible solutions.

Contest
S1, Ep3 Sep. 30, 1991
Eddie comes home from a very bad day at work and Richie finds Eddie is not paying the rent and has only got $11.80 which he has spent on a adult magazine. But Richie finds Eddie has put on a bet on the Miss World contest on TV.

Apocalypse
S1, Ep4 Oct. 7, 1991
After inheriting from his recently deceased Auntie Olga £600.00. Richie and Eddie heads off down the funfair, where Richie's wallet gets stolen, and Richie learns from a fortune-teller that he is going to die in 3 nights. Eddie and Richie set out to prevent Richie's fate and Richie is visited by the Grim Repear who is in the form of Eddie.

's Up
S1, Ep5 Oct. 14, 1991
Richie and Eddie are left in charge of their landlord Mr. Harrison's shop as Mr. Harrison leaves to attend a funeral. But Eddie decides he'd rather watch a game of cricket and is not going to let relaxing on Sunday stop them. Richie reveals to Eddie that he is half red Indian who can predict the weather and Eddie thinks it has something to do with last night's curry.

Accident
S1, Ep6 Oct. 28, 1991
It is Richie's birthday and Richie is planning a big party for all his friends, Eddie's friends and all the women. But Richie has accident whilst putting up the decorations and breaks his leg and ends up in a wheelchair. Only Eddie's mates Spudgun and Dave Hedgehog shows up at the party and Richie learns he has no friends and he is willing to let being a wheelchair ruin his birthday.

Season 2
Digger
S2, Ep1 Oct. 1, 1992
Richie and Eddie joins Lily Lineker's Love Bureau dating service in hoping of finding the perfect women. Eddie gets a date with Sarah Ferguson, whilst Richie finds himself on a date with Lady Natasha Letita Sarah Jane Wettesley Olstomsky Ponsonsky Smythe Smythe Smythe Oblomov Dub, Countess of Moldavia. Richie pretends to be a eccentric millionaire and Eddie plays along by pretending to be his butler.

Burglary
S2, Ep2 Oct. 8, 1992
When Eddie returns home all drunk on a bottle of Old Spice, Richie and Eddie find their flat being burgled and manages to catch one of the burglars. When Richie and Eddie ties up the Burgular with sellotape, Richie and Eddie tries to think what to do with him and the loot he has burgled from other houses. Should they kill the Burgular than hand him over to the local police? or kill him or should they keep the loot for themselves and move away to the Bahamas?

Culture
S2, Ep3 Oct. 8, 1992
Richie and Eddie are depressed when their TV set is taken away when they fail to pay their license fee and cannot think of anything to keep their occupied. Richie decides to challenge Eddie at playing some games, including 'How much Custard can you put in your underpants' and Chess. Richie and Eddie decides to play Chess by using various items in the house to replace the missing pieces.

Parade
S2, Ep4 Oct. 22, 1992
After taking part in a identity parade at the local police station where Spudgun is being accused of stealing his mother Mrs. Potato's handbag, Richie and Eddie heads down to the Lamb and Flag pub where Richie gets into a argument with a one-legged Falklands war veteran, by pretending he also fought in the Falklands war and Richie and Eddie places a bet on a horse Sad Ken in a horse-race and gets the money from antiques dealer Ted in exchange for the one-legged Falklands war veteran's false leg.

Holy
S2, Ep5 Oct. 29, 1992
It's Christmas day and Richie is cooking the dinner to which Dave Hedgehog and Spudgun are invited. Although dinner is not up to Michelin standard Richie's day improves when he finds out he is the son of god!

'S Out
S2, Ep6 Apr. 10, 1995
Richard and Eddie are camping out on Wimbledon Common. Eddie has brought the tin opener but Richie has forgotten the tins. How will they survive? Chocolate Hob-Nobs and hedgehogs may be the solution.

Season 3
Hole
S3, Ep1 Jan. 6, 1995
Richie and Eddie are stranded on the big wheel at the fairground. It gets worse - the wheel is due to be demolished the next day!

Terror
S3, Ep2 Jan. 13, 1995
It is Halloween. After loosing the 'Spot the Balls' competition and visited by trick or treaters. Richie and Eddie decides to put on their own Halloween party. Where they go off trick or treating, Richie is dressed up as a devil and Eddie is dressed up as a banana, armed with a electric cattle prod, they go to get some money for beer. When Richie and Eddie invite Spudgun and Hedgehog, Richie decides to raise the Devil, so he can have sex with girls in exchange for his soul. But the Devil arrives in the form of Dave Hedgehog's daughter Doreen.

Break
S3, Ep3 Jan. 20, 1995
Richie and Eddie are going on holiday in Doncaster and they begin to plan what they are going to do and what they are going to take with them.

Dough
S3, Ep4 Jan. 27, 1995
Eddie has been spending a lot of time in his room and Richie finds that he has been printing fake money. Unfortunately local counterfeiter 'The Skullcrusher' is not amused and demands money. Luckily the pub quiz night could be their salvation.

Finger
S3, Ep5 Feb. 3, 1995
After coming home from a cricket match, Richie learns Eddie has stolen 'Cannonball' Taffy O' Jones car keys and they learn 'Cannonball' Taffy O' Jones is getting married to a woman who looks like Ted Rogers. Richie and Eddie steals the car and end up at a hotel where they pretend to a husband and wife.

Carnival
S3, Ep6 Feb. 10, 1995
It is the annual Hammersmith carnival where the local residents take part in riots and Richie and Eddie find watching the Carnival from their flat window is the best seats to watch the riots. After going looting, Eddie learns Richie has stolen a BBC camera and they decide to record a prime-time current affairs discussion program and hilarious accidents so they can make money, unaware that the video tape is a dirty video of Prime Minister John Major.

Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson give the flat-share sitcom a much needed kick up the Bottom in the show which, alongside Men Behaving Badly (1992-8) injected new life into a legendarily dire genre. With glorious comic gusto they play Richie Rich and Eddie Hitler, a pair of misfits barely surviving unemployment in a Hammersmith hovel. They spend their life in frustration, minus female company or money, in facile schemes to entertain or better themselves, their best intentions always proving the catalyst for hilariously OTT cartoon-style violence. The humour benefits from being rude, crude and surreal, and though happily bereft of subtlety or sense the situations and set-pieces are always superbly constructed, delivered and directed. But that's only to be expected from a show that essentially presents two of The Young Ones a decade down the line. Mayall and Edmondson had earlier perfected their surreal double act as The Dangerous Brothers and these first episodes of Bottom find them in side-splitting form. From a misadventure with pheromone spray and the wrong sort of dogs down the pub in 'Smells' to a birthday 'Accident', which introduces The Young Ones' Christopher Ryan as a regular guest character, this is BBC comedy at its best. Brace yourself, 'cos this is going to hurt.

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