5.230 minSeason 2 • Episode 6
LatestAfter 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 plans on eating a Womble!
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.
Practical Effects
Mayall and Edmondson performed all stunts — resulting in genuine injuries.
Writing
Dialogue so densely packed it rewards obsessive rewatching.
Acting
Chemistry forged from decades of real-life friendship and on-stage violence.
Creators
Adrian Edmondson, Rik Mayall
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The live stage tours were so physically brutal that Mayall needed spinal surgery; Edmondson cracked ribs multiple times.
Bottom arrived during the Major government's recession, weaponizing poverty into something viciously funny rather than pitiable — a working-class response to being left behind.
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