Category: Bottom
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7 You Tubular Algy Rhythms
For want of anything else to write about today, here are the first seven videos that YouTube is recommending I watch today. So, let’s watch them together.
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Stay Inside
If you’re not familiar with the term ‘bottle episode’, you will certainly understand the sentiment. This is when a show spends a whole episode stuck in one place. Sometimes they’re made to save money that can be spent on bigger budget episodes. Seinfeld’s more famous one is The Chinese Restaurant. What makes this episode so…
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Award Winning Bottom
Here’s the moment when Bottom won Best New Television Comedy at the 1992 British Comedy Awards. Take a moment to enjoy the way Roy Castle says Bottom too. I’m sure you remember 2point4 children … I’ll be honest though, I had completely forgotten about Terry & Julian. This was a sitcom for Channel Four, written…
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Bottom Exam: From Script To Screen (Accident)
The first five minutes of Bottom series one’s final episode Accident plays out exactly as it’s written on the page. What’s notable is how flat it reads compared to the brilliant performances by Rik and Ade. So much nuance and reaction is unscripted, it goes to show how comfortable they are with these characters that…
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Bottom Emissions: Accident
Bottom is at its most pure, and often its most brilliant, when it’s just Richie and Eddie stuck in one another’s claustrophobic company. It’s testament to the writing though that the show can expand and grow as needed, and the way this is best achieved can be seen in the final episode of the first…
