Bottom - Not Another Half-Arsed DVD Set
British comedians Rik Mayall and Adrian "Ade" Edmondson vaulted to fame in
i The Young Ones
i0 , a high-energy but decidedly lowbrow TV show about clashing roommates. Mayall and Edmondson went on to create
i Bottom
i0 , playing Richie Richards (Mayall) and Eddie Hitler (Edmondson), two hapless dimwits floundering through life at the bottom of the social scale.
i Bottom
i0 provides plenty of the spastic slapstick and cartoon violence of
i The Young Ones
i0 , but the characters have greater dimension--even, possibly, a hint of soulfulness, which is always squashed at the first opportunity--and the dialogue has flights of loony wit ("You poor, sad, deformed urban pustule," declares Richie when Eddie resists going camping). Richie is a middle-aged virgin, high-strung, frustrated, yet possessed of eternal hope, while Eddie is phlegmatic and utterly without curiosity or ambition. They abuse, cheat, and steal from each other, yet seem inseparable. Many episodes feature no other characters; in one, they spend the entire half-hour trapped in a carriage at the top of a ferris wheel. It may seem peculiar to say this about a show in which two men have a contest to see who can put more custard in their underpants, but Richie and Eddie bear a striking resemblance to Vladmir and Estragon in Samuel Beckett's classic play
i Waiting for Godot
i0 . Without jobs or any real hope of a better life, they fritter their time in their grimy apartment trying to amuse themselves aimlessly, never succeeding in any of their schemes to get laid or make money. Fear not; any existential implications take a back seat to eye-poking and iron-skillet-head-smacking that the Three Stooges would admire.
i Full Bottom
i0 includes the entirety of the three
i Bottom
i0 series, 18 episodes in all.
i --Bret Fetzer
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0794051180827 |
| title: |
Bottom - Not Another Half-Arsed DVD Set |
| theatricalDate: |
23-04-1998 |
| purchase date: |
05-01-2006 |
| publisher: |
BBC Warner |
| published: |
30-09-2003 |
| price: |
$39.98 |
| net Rating: |
5 |
| MPAA Rating: |
NR |
| number of media: |
3 |
| last lookup time: |
158204336 |
| genre: |
Comedy
Television |
| fullTitle: |
Bottom - Not Another Half-Arsed DVD Set |
| features: |
Closed-captioned
Color
NTSC
1.33:1 |
| director: |
Ed Bye
Bob Spiers |
| currentValue: |
$30.38 |
| created: |
158204336 |
| country: |
us |
| aspect: |
DVD |
| asin: |
B0000A02YG
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