A none too festive episode of 'Bottom'.
There is little peace and goodwill in Richie and Eddie's house during the festive period. Richie falls foul of the various booby traps in Eddie's room whilst posing as Santa Claus. Eddie is enraged to find he has no presents to open on Christmas morning, apart from a hideous portrait Richie made of himself for Eddie. Needless to say this gift does not go down too well. Richie ends up getting it smashed over his head. Worse to come, Richie accidentally chops off his index finger whilst trying to prepare the turkey for dinner!
Spudgun and Dave Hedgehog are invited over for Christmas lunch but it ends in failure when the dinner goes on fire. A lousy game of charades does little to lift their spirits. Indeed, the only spirit Eddie is interested in is the fermented type that comes in a bottle.
However, things look set to change when Richie finds a baby in a carry cot on the doorstep!
The previous reviewers have incorrectly labelled this episode as a Christmas special. True, the episode does concern the celebration of the birth of Christ but the episode itself was actually broadcast on 29/10/92. Nevertheless, it is a little cracker of an episode. The arrival of the baby makes Richie think he is 'the chosen one', whereas in reality the baby has been dumped on the doorstep by their drunken landlord Mr. Harrison ( who is the baby's grandfather ), played once again by Roger Sloman, who could not be bothered to babysit the poor little mite.
Funniest bit - the guys providing the baby with gifts. A box of Terry's All Gold, a Frankenstein mask and a bottle of aftershave called Grrr. Go on, work it out for yourself!
Incidentally, a Merry Christmas to all IMDb users.
There is little peace and goodwill in Richie and Eddie's house during the festive period. Richie falls foul of the various booby traps in Eddie's room whilst posing as Santa Claus. Eddie is enraged to find he has no presents to open on Christmas morning, apart from a hideous portrait Richie made of himself for Eddie. Needless to say this gift does not go down too well. Richie ends up getting it smashed over his head. Worse to come, Richie accidentally chops off his index finger whilst trying to prepare the turkey for dinner!
Spudgun and Dave Hedgehog are invited over for Christmas lunch but it ends in failure when the dinner goes on fire. A lousy game of charades does little to lift their spirits. Indeed, the only spirit Eddie is interested in is the fermented type that comes in a bottle.
However, things look set to change when Richie finds a baby in a carry cot on the doorstep!
The previous reviewers have incorrectly labelled this episode as a Christmas special. True, the episode does concern the celebration of the birth of Christ but the episode itself was actually broadcast on 29/10/92. Nevertheless, it is a little cracker of an episode. The arrival of the baby makes Richie think he is 'the chosen one', whereas in reality the baby has been dumped on the doorstep by their drunken landlord Mr. Harrison ( who is the baby's grandfather ), played once again by Roger Sloman, who could not be bothered to babysit the poor little mite.
Funniest bit - the guys providing the baby with gifts. A box of Terry's All Gold, a Frankenstein mask and a bottle of aftershave called Grrr. Go on, work it out for yourself!
Incidentally, a Merry Christmas to all IMDb users.
