Category: Bottom
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Bottom Exam: From Script To Screen (Gas)
It was interesting to walkthrough the first episode and compare it to the script last week, and you can read that here. Now it’s time for one of my favourite episodes, not just of Bottom, but of any sitcom. Gas. It opens the way it’s written. SCENE ONE – THE FLAT – LIVING ROOM/KITCHEN The…
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Mrs BJ Smegma
What’s your favourite comedy name? In my more formative years, I remember being told by someone whom I respected that the use of comedy names was the last resort of the desperate. This person of course, was very, very wrong. Re-watching Bottom, I’m appreciating some of the peripheral character names a great deal. Mr Sex,…
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Bottom Emissions: Gas
Bottom manages to pull off a good trick, and in doing so it makes itself a much better sitcom for it. On the one hand, Bottom is a cartoon. A big, garish, violent, over the top cartoon. On its own, that would work, but it’s also small, intimate, featuring tiny people with tiny minds. Where…
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Bottom Exam: From Script To Screen (Smells)
A few caveats before I begin. Nowhere in the Bottom: The Scripts book does it say what version of the scripts are being presented. They’re certainly not transcripts, and are most likely the shooting scripts, but who knows. I wish there was an introduction from Rik & Ade accusing me of being a sad pathtic…
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Some Missing Bits Of Bottom
The Bottom scripts book arrived this morning, so I can answer some of my own questions from this. First, it’s a lovely little hardback copy, used, in really good condition. It’s a tome I never even knew existed before a few days ago, and I already love it. It has some great production photos in…
