Search results
"Carnival" is the sixth and final episode of the third and final series of British television sitcom Bottom. It was first broadcast on 10 February 1995.
May 13, 2017 · Watch Bottom S03E06 - Carnival - Arthur Twosheds Jackson on Dailymotion.
- May 13, 2017
- Arthur Twosheds Jackson
- 29 min
- 3.1K
Carnival: Directed by Bob Spiers. With Adrian Edmondson, Rik Mayall. It is the annual Hammersmith carnival where the local residents take part in riots and Richie and Eddie find watching the Carnival from their flat window is the best seats to watch the riots.
- (310)
- Comedy
- Bob Spiers
- 1995-02-10
- Overview
- Plot
- Note
Carnival is the sixth episode of the third series of the sitcom Bottom, it first aired on 10 February 1995
The episode opens with Richie and Eddie sitting in "the best seats for the annual Hammersmith riot"—leaning out of their lounge window. While admiring the ongoing violence taking place during what is supposed to be a carnival parade, Richie and Eddie decide to do some looting "when Currys blows", with one of the planned items to loot being a TV set. They later return to the flat arguing over the fact that Eddie dropped the TV while being run over by the "riot squad" but, to his excitement, still made away with a rubber duck that "came free with the telly." Despite missing out on the coveted electrical goods, they still manage to pick up their shopping for the year, over 60 Orion VCRs (43 being sequestered in the attic), as well as a BBC video camera and tape which Richie stole from a BBC van, justifying the theft by claiming he has every right to as he pays his television licence fees.
Richie reveals his motivations for the theft. He plans to film a series of home movies, making them both famous, thus leaving them with their "pick of the birds." After dismissing Eddie's screen pitches (namely a remake of 9½ Weeks and the original title Nude Birds Go Upstairs To Eddie's Bedroom) Richie states that instead he intends to film his own prime time current affairs discussion program, inspired by the successes of "the sexiest man on TV." As Eddie films Richie (sporting a white wig and a suit) descending the stairs as part of the introduction to a "studio special report" on whether traffic wardens should be armed, Richie trips and falls down the stairs, through the bathroom door and head-first into the toilet. Eddie then suggests that if he had remembered to turn the camera on they would have had a good video to send into the fictional TV show Jeremy Beadle's Viciously Hilarious Domestic Violent Incidents. Newly inspired, Richie instead decides to return to the drawing room and agrees with Eddie's idea to film an (orchestrated) accident in which "you accidentally catch a dart in your head".
Eddie is next shown (dressed in an apron) wandering into their kitchen as he works at the stove, loudly expressing his hope that "no viciously hilarious accidents happen!" Richie ruins the first take by inadvertently throwing a dart into Eddie's eye instead of his forehead, necessitating a second take. A more subdued Eddie (who breaks the fourth wall to protest that in spite of the ostensible ordinariness of the day he has now lost the sight in one eye) opens the next take with Richie successfully managing to hit the target in the forehead this time. Compounding the injury by "accidentally" pouring a frying pan of burning fat over his body Eddie, after being set alight by Richie, hurls himself through the window.
As Eddie is recovering in some pain, Richie sheepishly reveals that the filming moved him to tears. Not because of Eddie's performance but, rather, due to the realisation that he had forgotten to put the tape into the camera. Eddie flatly refuses Richie's demand for a re-shoot as Richie angrily states that a blank tape is useless to him, only for this to give him an idea—they will instead send a completely blank tape to Beadle's show, claiming they had forgotten that it should have contained footage of Richie's wife "sewing her head to the curtains." Richie suggests they check the tape is blank, finding a use for the VCRs Eddie had stolen. Eddie spends an entire year getting the video up and running (having wasted months simply unwrapping it) and only finishes the eve of the following year's carnival and just after Richie returns from a holiday abroad. Despite Eddie's efforts leading the VCR to explode once the power is connected, they manage to get the tape up and running with the aid of an unfortunate repair man.
When Eddie reads the VCR instruction manual in German, it's loosely translated to "stick your head up your rear".
The lyric that Richie sings when back from holiday ("He rattled his maracas close to me") is from "Y Viva España", which was a hit in the UK charts in 1974.
The scene where Eddie and Richie put on their balaclavas the wrong way around resulting in Eddie bumping into things and falling over the sofa is revealed to be a blooper in the series 3 outtakes, following two takes with Ade and Rik forgetting their lines the third take which involved Ade bashing into the set and falling over was kept in the final cut of the episode.
There is a scene where Richie asks Eddie if it is so good to get his feet up. Eddie responds with "No, I'm not that pervy", with Richie saying "Are you not?". In an out-take (seen on the Bottom Fluff video), Edmondson says "No. Do you know... I've forgotten my next line...!". In the next take, he forgets to say "no", and it looks as if Eddie ignored Richie's question.
Eddie says that he is going to write to his MP, Tony Blair (who was Leader of the Opposition at the time of broadcast). Blair was MP for the constituency of Sedgefield, County Durham. Since Bottom is set in Hammersmith, London, it is impossible that he is their MP so this might be a play on their ignorance of life.
When Richie is enacting the introduction to his daytime discussion programme, he trips on trailing cables and falls down the stairs. However, although he is wearing navy blue jeans, the stunt double is clearly wearing light blue jeans. Once Richie is stuck in the toilet, he is wearing the correct colour jeans again.
Carnival. 6 / 6 At a carnival, Eddie and Richie seize the opportunity to grab a few minutes of fame.
"Bottom" Carnival (TV Episode 1995) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Bottom. Jump toEdit. Summaries. It is the annual Hammersmith carnival where the local residents take part in riots and Richie and Eddie find watching the Carnival from their flat window is the best seats to watch the riots.
