It's Richie's birthday and he attempts to have party in celebration.
Richie spends the majority of the episode trying to convince himself that he is popular. Eddie, Spudgun and Dave Hedgehog vaguely play along in the hope of a quiet life, but as the episode unfolds Richie's lunacy spirals out of control.
This one is about one thing: Rik Mayall acting comically insane for half and hour. It takes three straight-men in Adrian Edmondson, Christopher Ryan and Steven O'Donnell to play the foil to his madness. The one scene where Mayall does not share a stage they quietly play well off each other. Christopher Ryan in particular brings the same deadpan humour to the role of Hedgehog as he did as Mike in 'The Young Ones'.
It contains another mesmerising barrage of physical, facial and verbal performance from Mayall and to really appreciate it you have to like his brand of humour.
Bottom series 1 started excellently but tailed off in middle. This final episode gave it reasonably solid finish.
Richie spends the majority of the episode trying to convince himself that he is popular. Eddie, Spudgun and Dave Hedgehog vaguely play along in the hope of a quiet life, but as the episode unfolds Richie's lunacy spirals out of control.
This one is about one thing: Rik Mayall acting comically insane for half and hour. It takes three straight-men in Adrian Edmondson, Christopher Ryan and Steven O'Donnell to play the foil to his madness. The one scene where Mayall does not share a stage they quietly play well off each other. Christopher Ryan in particular brings the same deadpan humour to the role of Hedgehog as he did as Mike in 'The Young Ones'.
It contains another mesmerising barrage of physical, facial and verbal performance from Mayall and to really appreciate it you have to like his brand of humour.
Bottom series 1 started excellently but tailed off in middle. This final episode gave it reasonably solid finish.