Carnival (Bottom episode)
| "Carnival" | |
|---|---|
| Bottom episode | |
| Episode no. |
Series Three Episode 006 |
| Directed by | Bob Spiers |
| Written by |
Ade Edmondson Rik Mayall |
| Produced by | Jon Plowman |
| Original air date | 10 February 1995 |
"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.
The episode opens with Richie and Eddie sitting in "The best seats for the annual Hammersmith riot" (which is watching through their own 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. When they return to their flat with the events of their looting not seen to the viewers, it is discovered to them that Eddie dropped the TV while being run over by the "riot squad", but to his excitement still got the free rubber duck that "came with the telly", although "everything came free with the telly". They then notice that the packs of Malibu from earlier have been taken while they were away. However, despite the disaster with the TV set loot, they still manage to pick up their shopping for the year and a large quantity of Orion VCRs (which is revealed near the end of the episode as one of the items Eddie looted), as well as a BBC video camera with tape which Richie took while thinking he had every right to as he pays his television licence fees, although Eddie says he don't, Richie replies "But they don't know that!" before Eddie calls him a "master criminal".
With the camera (which Richie reveals he stole after beating Eddie up for fantasing over Sharon Stone), Richie comes up with an idea to make loads of films with the camera in the hope it would make him and Eddie both famous so they would get their "pick of the birds" afterwards. Firstly, Eddie comes up with an idea to make 9 1/2 Weeks, but changes this to Nude Birds Go Upstairs to Eddie's Bedroom, before Richie tells him to come back and comes up with the idea of doing his own prime time current affairs discussion program, after both suggesting Robert Kilroy-Silk is the most popular TV male celeb of the moment. This leads to a segment in which Richie is filmed by Eddie wearing a white wig to resemble Kilroy's hair, doing a "Studio special report" asking the question "Should traffic wardens be armed?", only to go falling down the stairs and then through the bathroom door, before going head first into the toilet. Eddie then suggests that if he turned 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, so he says to do it again with the camera on. Richie instead decides to return to the drawing room and also the drawing board before agreeing on Eddie's idea to involve an accident in which you "accidentally catch a dart in your head".
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