Bottom (TV Series) Accident (1991) User Reviews

Good End To First Season

[slightlymad22 · 8/10 · 27 December 2014]

"Bottoom" ends its first season, just as it started with a lot of laugh out loud moments.

Plot In A Paragraph: It is Richie's birthday and he is planning a big party for all his friends, Eddie's friends and all the women. But Richie has accident whilst putting up the decorations and breaks his leg and ends up in a wheelchair. Only Eddie's mates Spudgun and Dave Hedgehog shows up at the party and Richie learns he has no friends and he is not going to let being a wheelchair ruin his birthday, so he sets about making sure everyone has fun by suggesting some games to play.

A mixed bag of a season it started off really well in the first couple of episodes, then fell away over the next two episodes, but thankfully it picked up for the season finale.

It was nice to see three of the young ones together again

Unhappy Birthday...

[canndyman · 8/10 · 29 September 2020]

'Accident' was certainly a fine way to end a rip-roaring first season of Bottom - with Richie at his saddest and most painfully pathetic as he 'celebrates' his birthday.

As you'd expect, Eddie has some surprises in store, and none of these really contribute to make Richie's day a particularly pleasant one!

Look out too for the first appearance of Eddie's unappealing friends Spudgun and Hedgehog - and we do also get a bit of foreshadowing into how Christmas Day to come might be celebrated in the Bottom household. We also get a cringingly painful-looking incident thrown in for good measure - when Eddie attempts some 'chiropracty' of his own on his hapless flatmate!

This made a wonderful ending to season one, and both characters are on top form as their alter-egos. More classic episodes to come in season two!

Richard Richard and 'friends'

[snoozejonc · 7/10 · 2 October 2020]

It's Richie's birthday and he attempts to have party in celebration.

Richie spends the majority of the episode trying to convince himself that he is popular. Eddie, Spudgun and Dave Hedgehog vaguely play along in the hope of a quiet life, but as the episode unfolds Richie's lunacy spirals out of control.

This one is about one thing: Rik Mayall acting comically insane for half and hour. It takes three straight-men in Adrian Edmondson, Christopher Ryan and Steven O'Donnell to play the foil to his madness. The one scene where Mayall does not share a stage they quietly play well off each other. Christopher Ryan in particular brings the same deadpan humour to the role of Hedgehog as he did as Mike in 'The Young Ones'.

It contains another mesmerising barrage of physical, facial and verbal performance from Mayall and to really appreciate it you have to like his brand of humour.

Bottom series 1 started excellently but tailed off in middle. This final episode gave it reasonably solid finish.

No more Bottom for me.

[BA_Harrison · 8 February 2020]

The only clever thing about Bottom is the name for each episode, each title making an amusing two word phrase when paired with the word Bottom. Everything else about this programme is dumb. Not dumb fun, just dumb. It's imbecilic and childish and so chronically unamusing that I'm extremely relieved that this is the last of this series.

In episode six, it's Richie's birthday, and he has sent himself loads of cards in the post because no-body else cares. He's also arranged a birthday party, but no-one has accepted his invitation, leaving Richie (Rik Mayall) to celebrate with flat-mate Eddie (Ade Edmonson) and his two pals Spudgun (Steven O'Donnell) and Dave Hedgehog. Having broken his leg while hanging decorations, Richie finds that his suggestion of a game of sardines proves problematic, especially with the other party-goers content to leave the birthday boy hiding while they get drunk and watch TV.

With cartoon violence, urine drinking, testicle flicking, and gags about 'doing it', this is the same level of moronic as the other episodes. I won't be watching series two or three.