Smells

A decade after appearing in anarchic comedy series The Young Ones, Rik Mayall and Ade Edmonson starred in Bottom, playing flatmates Richard "Richie" Richard and Edward Elizabeth "Eddie" Hitler, a couple of perverted losers who struggle to make cash or get laid. What Bottom adequately illustrates is that, even though the performers have aged physically, mentally they've stayed exactly the same, their show just as moronic, zany, puerile, and madcap as the one that made their names.

This first episode see the crude duo using a pheromone sex spray to try and score with women down the local boozer. Violent knockabout slapstick and gags about rubber johnnies, sex shops and foxy stoats are the order of the day, all of which raise a few giggles, but three series of such silliness? We shall have to see how thin it all wears and how quickly.