Bottom (TV Series) Apocalypse (1991) User Reviews

OK Episode

[slightlymad22 · 7/10 · 25 December 2014]

Better than the last episode, but not as good as the first two episodes in the debut season of "Bottom"

Plot In A Paragraph: After inheriting from his recently deceased Auntie Olga £600.00. Richie and Eddie heads off down the funfair, where Richie's wallet gets stolen, and Richie learns from a fortune-teller that he is going to die in 3 nights. Eddie and Richie set out to prevent Richie's fate and Richie is visited by the Grim Repear who sounds suspiciously like Eddie

Some parts of this episode made me smile and chuckle, but sadly there was no laugh out loud moments, like what was in the first two episodes.

I struggled with this one

[snoozejonc · 4/10 · 30 September 2020]

Richie inherits some money and he takes Eddie to the fair on a spending spree.

I am fan of the series, but not this particular episode. In total, I laughed at two of Richie's lines and one sight-gag where Eddie puts a pellet gun to good use on a fair stall.

To me Richie is more annoying than funny in the opening scenes. Things pick up a bit at the fair, but then comes a hospital scene with some gross-out slapstick moments that I absolutely hated. The remainder of the plot unfolds back at the flat with a few scenes that, aside from Eddie on the piano which works quite well, are mildly funny at best.

As always humour is a matter of taste, so it might be funnier to someone else, but I struggled to get through it.

I'm a glutton for punishment.

[BA_Harrison · 8 February 2020]

Episode four of series one, and Richie and Eddie (Rik Mayall and Ade Edmonson) are once again strapped for cash, at least until they discover that Richie's Aunt Olga has died and left them the princely sum of £600 in her will.

By now, I'm starting to think that Mayall and Edmonson's brand of anarchic humour isn't for me (although I do recall finding The Young Ones funny back in the day): Apocalypse didn't make me laugh once. A trip to a funfair and a run-in with some thieving gypsies failed to raise a smile, cameos from Helen Lederer and Liz Smith do little to improve matters, and the ending, in which Eddie pretends to be the grim reaper, is silly and not at all amusing.

Just two more episodes of series one to go; I suspect that I'll pass on series two and three.