Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6900 in DVD
• Released on: 2003-08-18
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 180 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson give the flat-share sitcom a much needed kick up the Bottom in the show which, alongside Men Behaving Badly (1992-8) injected new life into a legendarily dire genre. With glorious comic gusto they play Richie Rich and Eddie Hitler, a pair of misfits barely surviving unemployment in a Hammersmith hovel. They spend their life in frustration, minus female company or money, in facile schemes to entertain or better themselves, their best intentions always proving the catalyst for hilariously OTT cartoon-style violence. The humour benefits from being rude, crude and surreal, and though happily bereft of subtlety or sense the situations and set-pieces are always superbly constructed, delivered and directed. But that's only to be expected from a show that essentially presents two of The Young Ones a decade down the line.

Mayall and Edmondson had earlier perfected their surreal double act as The Dangerous Brothers and these first episodes of Bottom find them in side-splitting form. From a misadventure with pheromone spray and the wrong sort of dogs down the pub in "Smells" to a birthday "Accident", which introduces The Young Ones' Christopher Ryan as a regular guest character, this is BBC comedy at its best. Brace yourself, 'cos this is going to hurt.

On the DVD Bottom, Series 1 contains all six episodes presented in the original TV 4:3 ratio with mono sound. The transfer is flawless, if anything rather revealing the limitations of the source material. The only extra beyond optional English subtitles and a Danish dub is "Bottom Fluff" a 15-minute blooper reel that offers a masterclass in the art of swearing. --Gary S Dalkin

Special Features
English
Region 2

Synopsis
Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson return in another anarchic sitcom continuing the tradition of their previous effort--The Young Ones and Filthy, Rich And Catflap--whilst upping the quotient on the slapstick antics and toilet humour. Here, hopelessly single Richie and part-time psychopath Eddie are two losers living in a seedy London flat permanently at each other's throats like a human version of Tom and Jerry!

Customer Reviews

Bottoms Up
Since watching the Young Ones I have always been fan of Rik and Eddie, and was happy to see them in Bottom. This program is still very funny after all these years and I now own all three series. Just wanted to mention that there is a slight edit on the episode Apocalypse whereby Richie says "Dirty Thievin' Yobbos". The actual line and the word used on the chapter point on the DVD is "Dirty Thievin' Gyppos". It is noticeable, but only if you look carefully without knowing or are aware of it beforehand. This is not the point though

I know this may offend people but this should be left in the program to keep it intact. There are a lot worse things in the world.

Comedy at it's best.
This has to be one of the best comedy series of all time.

I think this series one was the best of the three series that they made and makes me laugh every time i watch it.
I can not recommend this enough to you,everybody i know who has seen it has loved it and you will too.

Possibly the funniest Rick Mayall and Adrain Edmonson work
Impossibly violent first series of Eddie and Richie's exploits. Desperate, pathtic, virginal, obnoxious, rude, crude and as funny as a clown on fire! A true classic spawned in the comedy clubs of 1970's Britain. The seeds of the duo's outragously vicious sense of slapstick humour can be seen developing in the Young Ones but really comes into it's own when they dropped the surrealist elements and focussed on the depravity of two complete losers. The BBC should be proud of this little gem and the boys should be immortalised in Bronze as statues for this and the following seasons and for pushing the envelope of taste and what was acceptable on TV ... without Bottom there would be no Brasseye, no TV Offal and many other memorable and not so memorable shows.