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Summary: Funniest show I've ever watched!
Review: If you're not already a fan of British humour - you will be. I've never laughed so hard in my life! Watched all 18 episodes over a two-night period. Eddie and Richard are lovable losers, I only wish there was more to watch.
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Summary: Funniest show I've ever watched!
Review: If you're not already a fan of British humour - you will be. I've never laughed so hard in my life! Watched all 18 episodes over a two-night period. Eddie and Richard are lovable losers, I only wish there was more to watch.
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Summary: Stupid, Crazy, Dimwit, Slapsick Not Funny - But Hillarious
Review: In this world of high brow - intelligent humour (Frazier etc..) come the absolute opposite. Two Dim witted, slighty mental, hopeless people that you really shouldn't laugh at in this PC world that has made us people so scared of the classic gags a place that you can not only NOT laught at people like this a near crime but also your meant to feel sorry for them and perhaps create a charity in ade of them.BUT!!!! - for fu**s sake someone (or some people) at the BBC have given this sitcom a chance and have allowed this un PC, three-stooges, funny as die in my underwear comedy allow to take place. I think the worst (or best) part is that we can relate to their plight (As men) and can sit back (and this isn't killing anyone) just have a damn good laugh at someone's expense. If the guys photo's on the set don't at least make you smile then you should see a doctor. I have watched all episodes, and i'm a Psycology and Maths PHD and they say humour is the best treatment - these guys can cure what ails ya. Just watch. just because it's not High-Brow dosen't mean it can't be funny. Imagine Frazier living with these two :)
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Summary: To me, it's at the Top of the tv food chain
Review: Listen, I'm not an elitest snob but I won't ignore what I know myself. Tv has gotten pretty lame lately and is showing little sign of getting better. Sitcoms that are touted by everybody as being funny and aren't, dramas that hype the drama and don't deliver. Good shows like Farscape and The Job which get canned while demons on NBC and CBS go untamed. Thats what I like about BOTTOM. It says that you'll laugh and you will, it doesn't shout it out loud either. There are no major plots just silly events which turn into stories on their own. It has a cult following and we can pray for new episodes or at least the live performances to come to disc as well. BOTTOM comes from the minds primarily behind THE YOUNG ONES (another bastion of great watching) but on a slightly more mature and grown up level. If THE YOUNG ONES was a "family" show with Vyvian as son, Neil as mother, Mike as dad, Rick as daughter, then BOTTOM is a husband and wife style show with two chums (and no they aren't gay but at times Richie seems boderline), Sexually frustrated and annoying Richie (the wife) and stagering jobless drunkard Eddie (husband) share an apartment in England. They don't have much money, they don't have many friends, they almost never get the girl and both are almost ingratiatingly stupid. All they have is each other, and thats why one would cheat the other out of anything even to merely creep ahead in life, even if it means giving up a greater fortune. Don't worry YOUNG ONES fans, all of the slapstick violence and verbal abuse came over intact without the weird surrealism and side storys. The entire series is here on a three disc set. SMELLS has the boys getting ahold of Pheramone spray and then testing it out on girls at the local bar, too bad they don't know that they're already "taken". GAS, one of the funnier epsiodes has the gas man coming to read the meter in the apt. Little does he know that they are stealing gas from their neighbor. Can they get stop the meter man, without killiing him anyway? CONTEST is my favorite episode and cements the "husband/wife" relationship of the show with Eddie blowing whats left of the money on a vintage porn magazine and then expecting to watch a beauty pagent on TV all the while Richie slaved away making a terrible meal complete with green bacon. APOCALYPSE has Eddie and Richard hitting the fair and finding out from a gypsy that Richie has 3 days to live, sure enough he gets to meet the reaper. In BOTTOM'S UP, Richie and Eddie's landlord pays them to watch over his store while he goes to funeral, they decide to sit on the roof and watch sports instead. ACCIDENT has Richie breaking his leg on his birthday and condsiders killing himself when his nonexistant friends don't show up. The scene where picks his teeth after drinking is priceless (and gross). DIGGER has the duo hitting a dating sevice. After Richie lies about being rich a countess shows up hoping to merry only for his money. PARADE isn't so much funny as it is the best story in the series. After scoring some cash, the two go to the bar where the local bookie, whos hammered spills the beans about a hot tip. to raise cash for the bet, they steal a war veteran's fake leg and sell it at the pawn shop. CULTURE shows us what the boys get up to when the TV's been repossessed, with nothing else to do, they play chess. Too bad Richie is too hyper and excited to remember he doesn't know how to play chess. BURGLARY has the guys catching a burglar in their house and find his stolen loot. Only one thing stand in the way of them going to Barbados, what to do with the burglar. Well....they could kill him. The Christmas episode HOLY has gifts passed around, fingers cut off and possbily the second coming with Richie in the role of Mary. After all he is a virgin. BOTTOM'S OUT has the two staking out some land for a camping expidition not 50 feet from the bus stop. Along with GAS, one of the funniest episodes. HOLE has Eddie and Richie debating life and stuff after they are trapped on a ferris wheel. Oh well they can get off in the morning, hopefully before the wheel is demolished... TERROR has Richie and Eddie trying to get money at Halloween with a cattle prod. When the party starts, Richie attempts to contact Satan. (By the way this episode aired years before South Park did, you'll know what I mean when you see it) BREAK concerns Eddie and Richies attempts to get in shape so they can score some girls on an upcoming vacation, they have to survive working out and each other first. DOUGH is definetly the most plot oriented episode with Eddie counterfitting money and end up trying to win a quiz match so that the local counterfitter doensn't crush their skulls. FINGER has the pair stealing honeymoon tickets from a local cricket champ and end up posing as a couple with Eddie making a truly ugly woman. Hattrick for this episode, Eddie gets booted in the crotch 3 times. CARNIVAL is the finale with Richie stealing a TV camera during a riot and attempting a "funniest home video accident". The tape in the camera shows something quite different and then the two attempt blackmail of the prime minister. One of my new favorite shows and one that should live on longer then others. If you were a fan of THE YOUNG ONES, it definitly deserves a watch.
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Summary: To me, it's at the Top of the tv food chain
Review: Listen, I'm not an elitest snob but I won't ignore what I know myself. Tv has gotten pretty lame lately and is showing little sign of getting better. Sitcoms that are touted by everybody as being funny and aren't, dramas that hype the drama and don't deliver. Good shows like Farscape and The Job which get canned while demons on NBC and CBS go untamed. Thats what I like about BOTTOM. It says that you'll laugh and you will, it doesn't shout it out loud either. There are no major plots just silly events which turn into stories on their own. It has a cult following and we can pray for new episodes or at least the live performances to come to disc as well. BOTTOM comes from the minds primarily behind THE YOUNG ONES (another bastion of great watching) but on a slightly more mature and grown up level. If THE YOUNG ONES was a "family" show with Vyvian as son, Neil as mother, Mike as dad, Rick as daughter, then BOTTOM is a husband and wife style show with two chums (and no they aren't gay but at times Richie seems boderline), Sexually frustrated and annoying Richie (the wife) and stagering jobless drunkard Eddie (husband) share an apartment in England. They don't have much money, they don't have many friends, they almost never get the girl and both are almost ingratiatingly stupid. All they have is each other, and thats why one would cheat the other out of anything even to merely creep ahead in life, even if it means giving up a greater fortune. Don't worry YOUNG ONES fans, all of the slapstick violence and verbal abuse came over intact without the weird surrealism and side storys. The entire series is here on a three disc set. SMELLS has the boys getting ahold of Pheramone spray and then testing it out on girls at the local bar, too bad they don't know that they're already "taken". GAS, one of the funnier epsiodes has the gas man coming to read the meter in the apt. Little does he know that they are stealing gas from their neighbor. Can they get stop the meter man, without killiing him anyway? CONTEST is my favorite episode and cements the "husband/wife" relationship of the show with Eddie blowing whats left of the money on a vintage porn magazine and then expecting to watch a beauty pagent on TV all the while Richie slaved away making a terrible meal complete with green bacon. APOCALYPSE has Eddie and Richard hitting the fair and finding out from a gypsy that Richie has 3 days to live, sure enough he gets to meet the reaper. In BOTTOM'S UP, Richie and Eddie's landlord pays them to watch over his store while he goes to funeral, they decide to sit on the roof and watch sports instead. ACCIDENT has Richie breaking his leg on his birthday and condsiders killing himself when his nonexistant friends don't show up. The scene where picks his teeth after drinking is priceless (and gross). DIGGER has the duo hitting a dating sevice. After Richie lies about being rich a countess shows up hoping to merry only for his money. PARADE isn't so much funny as it is the best story in the series. After scoring some cash, the two go to the bar where the local bookie, whos hammered spills the beans about a hot tip. to raise cash for the bet, they steal a war veteran's fake leg and sell it at the pawn shop. CULTURE shows us what the boys get up to when the TV's been repossessed, with nothing else to do, they play chess. Too bad Richie is too hyper and excited to remember he doesn't know how to play chess. BURGLARY has the guys catching a burglar in their house and find his stolen loot. Only one thing stand in the way of them going to Barbados, what to do with the burglar. Well....they could kill him. The Christmas episode HOLY has gifts passed around, fingers cut off and possbily the second coming with Richie in the role of Mary. After all he is a virgin. BOTTOM'S OUT has the two staking out some land for a camping expidition not 50 feet from the bus stop. Along with GAS, one of the funniest episodes. HOLE has Eddie and Richie debating life and stuff after they are trapped on a ferris wheel. Oh well they can get off in the morning, hopefully before the wheel is demolished... TERROR has Richie and Eddie trying to get money at Halloween with a cattle prod. When the party starts, Richie attempts to contact Satan. (By the way this episode aired years before South Park did, you'll know what I mean when you see it) BREAK concerns Eddie and Richies attempts to get in shape so they can score some girls on an upcoming vacation, they have to survive working out and each other first. DOUGH is definetly the most plot oriented episode with Eddie counterfitting money and end up trying to win a quiz match so that the local counterfitter doensn't crush their skulls. FINGER has the pair stealing honeymoon tickets from a local cricket champ and end up posing as a couple with Eddie making a truly ugly woman. Hattrick for this episode, Eddie gets booted in the crotch 3 times. CARNIVAL is the finale with Richie stealing a TV camera during a riot and attempting a "funniest home video accident". The tape in the camera shows something quite different and then the two attempt blackmail of the prime minister. One of my new favorite shows and one that should live on longer then others. If you were a fan of THE YOUNG ONES, it definitly deserves a watch.
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Summary: I Have NEVER Laughed so much at Any show. BOTTOM RULES!!!!
Review: Ok, this should be review number 28. If you don't believe these other people when they say it's funny, your only kidding yourself.
Bottom is the hilarious setting of two losers always trying to find sex or ending up beating the crap out of each other when they disagree with each other. They are confused with sexuality and nothing EVER goes in their favor.
If your going to buy a Britcom, this a MUST!!! Rik Mayall's facial expressions alone will knock you down to the floor in stomach hurling laughter. I have never seen anything like this show. It's Rude! It's discusting, It's perverted and full of Double Entandres. In my book, that means it's a class act trip to wetting your knickers.
And DAMN IT! I pray to the BBC Comedy Gods, that they release another series set of Bottom in the U.S. I would buy every show ever made. It is totally worth the money!
Now I'll let you make up your mind on what to buy. I gotta go scrub my sprouts and make everything look all christmasy!
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Summary: Finally!!!
Review: The holy grail of Britcoms comes to DVD at last. Okay, maybe it's just my holy grail but needless to say I'm glad that "Bottom", a series for the most part unseen outside of the UK, is finally seeing the light of day on these shores. I first saw this show from my roommate in NYC who was a big Britcom fan (Hi Heidi). My gawd it was hilarious. Stupid but in a good way. If you want a sophisticated show, look elsewhere. This is the modern British equilvalent of The 3 Stooges or The Marx Brothers but only more vulgar and demeaning. Rick Mayall and Adrian Edmondson (from The Young Ones) just nail their roles. It is really sad that they don't get their dues. Seek this out. It will make you laugh out of sheer embarrassment.
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Summary: Finally!!!
Review: The holy grail of Britcoms comes to DVD at last. Okay, maybe it's just my holy grail but needless to say I'm glad that "Bottom", a series for the most part unseen outside of the UK, is finally seeing the light of day on these shores. I first saw this show from my roommate in NYC who was a big Britcom fan (Hi Heidi). My gawd it was hilarious. Stupid but in a good way. If you want a sophisticated show, look elsewhere. This is the modern British equilvalent of The 3 Stooges or The Marx Brothers but only more vulgar and demeaning. Rick Mayall and Adrian Edmondson (from The Young Ones) just nail their roles. It is really sad that they don't get their dues. Seek this out. It will make you laugh out of sheer embarrassment.
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Summary: Toilet humor elevated to a fine art
Review: The humor of Bottom is base, tasteless and violent but it's just so damn funny. This stellar DVD set is worth every penny. I'm surprised that it has beem released on DVD in the US as it's never screened on TV here but hey, thanks anyway BBC Video.
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Summary: A classic Britcom your PBS affiliate probably won't show...
Review: Think the anarchy and hilariously unlikeable characters of the Young Ones, the pratfalls of the Three Stooges, and the avowedly un-PC humor of South Park and it gets kinda close. It's as rude and hilarious as a TV sitcom can be. Found out about it through a bonus episode on Young Ones DVD set---amazing discovery! Bought Bottom, watched it time and again and still laugh out loud.
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