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COLLECTION · Series · 1991

Bottom

Richie Richard (socially awkward, sexually inexperienced) and Eddie Hitler (carefree alcoholic ) are two social outcasts living on the dole. Trapped together in a squalid flat in Hammersmith, London they are perpetually skint, bored and sexually frustrated. They spend their days scheming, bickering, and being nasty and sadistic to each other.

Source: TMDB
* 7.9 (137)ComedyUnited Kingdom
Creators
Rik Mayall · Adrian Edmondson
Countries
United Kingdom
Studios
BBC Two · BBC
Runtime
30 min/ep
Age rating
TV-MA
Release
17/09/1991
Score
7.9 / 10 (137)
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Seasons and episodes
Specials
Specials
18 episodes · 1993

Two perpetually bored and broke flatmates waste their days in a futile struggle to get laid, earn cash, and not kill one another.

Bottom Live
Episode 1. Bottom Live
1993-09-27 · 105 min

Richie buys an inflatable doll named Monica as his lover, and he tries to conceal it from Eddie. But it all goes terribly wrong when Richie accidentally super glues Monica to his groin, mistaking Eddie's super glue for Handcream

Bottom Live: The Big Number 2 Tour
Episode 2. Bottom Live: The Big Number 2 Tour
1995-01-01 · 110 min

The first Bottom Live was squalid, violent and downright hilarious - The Big Number 2 Tour Live is all that and more. Filmed during the 1995 sell out nationwide tour which left over 500,000 fans standing on their seats and screaming for…

Bottom Live 3: Hooligans' Island
Episode 3. Bottom Live 3: Hooligans' Island
1997-01-01 · 100 min

Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson are back - even bigger and more Bottomly than ever - with Bottom Live 3 Hooligan's Island. Filmed during their sell-out 1997 tour we find Richie and Eddie marooned on a desert island in the middle of the…

Bottom Live 2001: An Arse Oddity
Episode 4. Bottom Live 2001: An Arse Oddity
2001-01-01 · 85 min

You laughed at their antics in 'The Young Ones'. You loved them as the Dangerous Brothers. You enjoyed their gross-out humour as Richard Richard and Eddie Hitler in 'Bottom' on the telly. Then it got even better when they took their…

Bottom Live 2003: Weapons-Grade Y-Fronts Tour
Episode 5. Bottom Live 2003: Weapons-Grade Y-Fronts Tour
2003-01-01 · 93 min

Rik Mayall and Ade Edmonson star as the criminally insane no-hopers Richie and Eddie, who plan to save the world (and possibly destroy it trying) from a conflict much bigger than a mere Gulf War - the fight between good and underpants.…

25 Years of Mindless Violence
Episode 6. 25 Years of Mindless Violence
2004-01-01 · 30 min

For 25 years, Rik Mayall & Adrian Edmondson have been kicking the s**t out of each other: on TV, on tape and on the stage... This is a definitive anthology of those eye-watering moments: 25 years of thwacking, headbutting and gouging,…

Guest House Paradiso
Episode 7. Guest House Paradiso
1999-03-12 · 89 min

Richie and Eddie are in charge of the worst hotel in the UK, Guest House Paradiso, neighbouring a nuclear power plant. The illegal immigrant chef has fled and all the guests have gone. But when a famous Italian filmstar, Gina Carbonara,…

Fluff - Series 1
Episode 8. Fluff - Series 1
1996-11-04 · 15 min

Meet Richard Richard and Eddie Hitler, two pimples on life's bottom - whose ever desperate search for cash, women and the good life had established them as the most disgusting, repulsive, needlessly violent losers on television. So when,…

Fluff - Series 2
Episode 9. Fluff - Series 2
1996-11-04 · 29 min

Meet Richard Richard and Eddie Hitler, two pimples on life's bottom - whose ever desperate search for cash, women and the good life had established them as the most disgusting, repulsive, needlessly violent losers on television. So when,…

Fluff - Series 3
Episode 10. Fluff - Series 3
1996-11-04 · 13 min

Meet Richard Richard and Eddie Hitler, two pimples on life's bottom - whose ever desperate search for cash, women and the good life had established them as the most disgusting, repulsive, needlessly violent losers on television. So when,…

Big Bottom Live (The Best Of)
Episode 11. Big Bottom Live (The Best Of)
1999-11-15 · 30 min

This combination of all the best bits of their three live performances and the making of Guest House Paradiso is superb. The countless sexual inuendos, bottom burps and violent toilet humour is cleverly followed by the making of their…

The Dangerous Brothers Present World of Danger
Episode 12. The Dangerous Brothers Present World of Danger
1993-08-18 · 30 min

The Dangerous Brothers was a stage and TV act by anarchic comedy duo Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson, performing respectively as "Richard Dangerous" and "Sir (or occasionally Lady) Adrian Dangerous". They appeared in a number of brief…

Guest House Paradiso - Making Of
Episode 13. Guest House Paradiso - Making Of
35 min

No synopsis

Guest House Paradiso - Outtakes
Episode 14. Guest House Paradiso - Outtakes
8 min

No synopsis

Guest House Paradiso - Trailer
Episode 15. Guest House Paradiso - Trailer
30 min

No synopsis

Episode 16. Boom Boom... Out Go the Lights
6 min

Boom Boom... Out Go the Lights was a 1980's television cabaret show in Britain during the 1980s. Rik Mayall made many appearances of which two are featured here. Extra on the 'Full Bottom - Not Another Half-Arsed DVD Set'.

Episode 17. The Dangerous Brothers (Boom, Boom... Out Go The Lights)
1981-05-05 · 5 min

The Dangerous Brothers were one of Rik and Ade's first comic Creations. This stand-up routine is from their May 5th 1981 appearance on 80s cabaret show 'Boom, Boom... Out Go The Lights'. Extra on the 'Full Bottom - Not Another Half-Arsed…

Bottom Exposed
Episode 18. Bottom Exposed
2024-04-20 · 90 min

Adrian Edmondson gives a first-hand account of making the hit show, Bottom, with the late, great Rik Mayall, alongside contributions from a host of the show's cast, crew and famous fans.

Season 1
Season 1
6 episodes · 1991
Smells
Episode 1. Smells
1991-09-17 · 30 min

Richie and Eddie return home after another depressing night down the pub trying to pick up women and failing miserably. Richie is beginning to think that he is never going to get the chance to do it' until Eddie suggests that he puts an…

Gas
Episode 2. Gas
1991-09-24 · 30 min

The gasman calls to read Eddie and Ritchie's meter. Not a problem? It is when you are getting your gas from an illegal connection to your next-door neighbors gas. Can the boys persuade the meter reader that they don't use gas and stall…

Contest
Episode 3. Contest
1991-10-01 · 30 min

Eddie and Richie have an argument over whether or not to watch the Miss World contest on their TV. An argument started by Eddie having spent most of the £11.80 they had to last them two months on a second hand copy of Parade magazine.

Apocalypse
Episode 4. Apocalypse
1991-10-08 · 30 min

After inheriting £600 from Richie's Auntie Olga, the two decide to spend it down the Funfair, where Richie learns that he is destined to die in three nights time. He goes to the lengths of kicking Eddie out to escape his fate, but can't…

Bottom's Up
Episode 5. Bottom's Up
1991-10-15 · 30 min

When Richie and Eddie's landlord has to leave to attend his mother's funeral, he leaves the two in charge of their shop, but something like this isn't going to stop Richie and Eddie from relaxing on Sunday, as the two decide to watch some…

Accident
Episode 6. Accident
1991-10-29 · 30 min

It's Richie's birthday and he has a big party planned, Eddie's friends and all the birds' Richie knows are coming. As he prepares for the party, putting up the decorations, Richie falls and horribly breaks his leg. Will having his leg…

Season 2
Season 2
6 episodes · 1992
Digger
Episode 1. Digger
1992-10-01 · 30 min

Eddie and Richie join Mrs. Lineker's Love Bureau hoping to find their perfect women. Richies video tells the viewers that he is, in fact, a Duke and this gets him a date with a countess from Moldavia. He invites her to his place and…

Culture
Episode 2. Culture
1992-10-08 · 30 min

The boys' television has been repossessed and they are at a complete loss, they cannot find anything to keep them occupied, they have tried to do the crossword. Richie decides to challenge Eddie to a game of chess, even though they don't…

Burglary
Episode 3. Burglary
1992-10-15 · 30 min

A burglar breaks into Richie and Eddies place and manages to get caught by them. Once they have him tied up they have to decide what to do with him and the loot he has stolen from other houses.

Parade
Episode 4. Parade
1992-10-22 · 30 min

Richie and Eddie are taken to the Police station to take part in an identity parade and find themselves in an argument with a Falklands war veteran over their participation in the war.

Holy
Episode 5. Holy
1992-10-29 · 30 min

Eddie and Richie celebrate Christmas by inviting Spudgun and Dave Hedgehog around for Christmas dinner and a day of fun and games. After a knock at the door Richie finds a baby left on their doorstep. Due to a few misperceptions Richie…

Bottom's Out
Episode 6. Bottom's Out
1995-04-10 · 30 min

After losing a bet, Richie and Eddie are forced to spend a week camping in Wimbledon Common, and the only supplies they have are a tin opener and a packet of chocolate Hob-Nobs. However, their food problems may soon be solved, as Eddie…

Season 3
Season 3
6 episodes · 1995
Hole
Episode 1. Hole
1995-01-06 · 30 min

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
Episode 2. Terror
1995-01-13 · 30 min

It is Halloween. After losing 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…

Break
Episode 3. Break
1995-01-20 · 30 min

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
Episode 4. Dough
1995-01-27 · 30 min

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…

Finger
Episode 5. Finger
1995-02-03 · 30 min

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…

Carnival
Episode 6. Carnival
1995-02-10 · 30 min

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…

Cast by season
Adrian Edmondson
Adrian Edmondson
Edward Elizabeth Hitler
Rik Mayall
Rik Mayall
Richard Richard
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Rik Mayall and Ade Edmonson first teamed up as 20th Century Coyote at the fledgling Comedy Store in 1980. Having established themselves as a duo they were blended in to the TV show “The Young Ones” (part written by Mayall along with Lise Mayer and Ben Elton). Rik as the annoying sociology student Rik and Ade as medical nutcase Vyvyan. This led to a partial spin off, Filthy Rich and Catflap written by Elton. The pair's characters were beginning to take shape with Richie as the hopeless out of work actor Richie Rich and Ade as his minder Eddie Catflap. Next the pair took control, writing "Bottom" where the characters had progressed to unemployed/unemployable, late thirtysomethings Richie and Eddie (Hitler) living in a shabby London apartment. Neither have any social skils, Rik still hasn't got a girlfriend and Eddie is portrayed as a borderline alcoholic. There are suggestions the latter has a social life although his only real friends seem to be the equally inept Spudgun and Dave Hedgehog (later on we find Hedgehog has a family which is surprising). The show lasted 3 series of 6 episodes featured a lot of verbal interaction between the 2 along with their trademark violence and Eddie belittling Richie. Quite often about his sex life or lack thereof. The duo are on safe ground with violence and sexual inadequacy however the adoption of the “two hander” is brave but highlights some deficiencies. They are almost there but I feel a more qualified comedy writer would have put the finishing touches to the dialogue. At times it is magical – Eddie taunts Richie about his visit to “Dr O'Grady's personal organ enhancment clinic - you too can have your personal organ enhanced, so that it is comparable in size to that of a fully-grown mountain gorilla!”. Eddie dribbles out the words to full effect. Richie responds curtly with “Yes, when he said _Comparable in size_. I didn't realise he meant _An awful lot smaller than_." In these cases the actors are on the top of their game. But there are times when the conversations lag – filling in the gaps between the good stuff. The combination of writing and acting is not able to interest this viewer. Soooo, bring in some violence. That always works Introducing other actors has varying results. The Helen Lederer character in Digger is excellent and well thought out. The Parade episode brought in a number of guest actors to riotous effect. The first episode, Smells, has ups and downs. Some wooden acting but some magic. In summary the first 2 series are well worth a watch if not hilarious. Series 3 struggles. Still. I have just watched the lot and enjoyed them. Maybe I am critical of those I love .
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