Category: Bottom
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The Guest House Paradiso Game
On the DVD release of Guest House Paradiso, there’s a DVD-ROM game that looks like this. I have a question. Why does Richie look like Brendan Gleason?
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Buttocks To TV Squash
If you’ve never seen an episode of Bottom, then you might be forgiven for making a parody that completely misses the point of the show. Like this one, for example. That mostrosity is from an ITV show called TV Squash. On paper, this sounds like something I’d want to watch. Made by Yorkshire Television in…
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Has HE Been?
Merry Christmas and festive wonders.
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Hancock’s Bottom Culture
Whilst I was rewatching the first series of Bottom, I often noted how the show shared a tone and shape with Steptoe & Son and Hancock’s Half Hour. Currently I’m slowly watching my new Hancock boxset, so the moment I saw this shot, I got very excited. I thought ‘hey up, did Hancock do a…
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Snakes & Ladders
Sometimes Twitter is lovely, and someone you follow shows you something that you didn’t know about. Yesterday, that meant CuriousBritishTelly directing me to a sitcom I know nothing about, to my surprise. Snakes & Ladders was written by Marks & Gran, and starred Adrian Edmondson and John Gordon-Sinclair. It was on Channel 4 in the…
