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List Of Bottom Characters
The British sitcom ''Bottom (TV series), Bottom'' first aired on BBC2 over three series from 1991 to 1995 and starred Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson as the two main characters, Richard Richard and Edward Elizabeth Hitler. It also featured an extensive supporting cast of recurring and minor characters. Eddie & Richie Edward 'Eddie' Elizabeth Hitler (Adrian Edmondson) is a free-spirited and menacing Alcoholism, alcoholic. He wears glasses akin to those of Eric Morecambe, a worn out brown suit and a white shirt with a black spotted tie. Despite having a shaven head, he sports sideburns. He also has a brown trilby hat and a tweed coat. Eddie has two other friends, losers named Spudgun and Dave Hedgehog who mostly hang out together, though Dave is also a family man. (His wife Susan is never seen, but his daughter Doreen appeared once in the episode "Terror".) While Richie does not appear to have any other friends besides Eddie, he does get along with Spudgun and Dave Hedgehog if in n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bottom (TV Series)
''Bottom'' is a British sitcom created by Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson that ran for three series on BBC2 from 1991 to 1995. It focuses on Richard "Richie" Richard (Mayall) and Edward Elizabeth "Eddie" Hitler (Edmondson), two unemployed, crude, and perverted flatmates living in Hammersmith, London, who aspire to better themselves. ''Bottom'' became known for its chaotic, nihilistic humour and violent slapstick comedy. In 2004, ''Bottom'' was ranked 45th in a BBC poll for '' Britain's Best Sitcom''. Mayall and Edmondson had worked together since the mid-1970s, and developed ''Bottom'' as an extension of their own relationship and their on-screen characters in '' The Young Ones'' and '' Filthy Rich & Catflap'', their earlier BBC sitcoms. In addition to the series, the pair completed five stage show tours between 1993 and 2003, and adapted the sitcom into a feature-length film, '' Guest House Paradiso'', released in 1999. A proposed spin-off series featuring various ''Bottom'' c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Vivaldi
Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741) was an Italian composer, virtuoso violinist, impresario of Baroque music and Roman Catholic priest. Regarded as one of the greatest Baroque composers, Vivaldi's influence during his lifetime was widespread across Europe, giving origin to many imitators and admirers. He pioneered many developments in orchestration, violin technique and Program music, programmatic music. He consolidated the emerging concerto form, especially the solo concerto, into a widely accepted and followed idiom. Vivaldi composed many instrumental concertos, for the violin and a variety of other musical instruments, as well as Sacred Music, sacred choral works and List of operas by Antonio Vivaldi, more than fifty operas. His best-known work is a series of violin concertos known as ''The Four Seasons (Vivaldi), The Four Seasons''. Many of his compositions were written for the all-female music ensemble of the , a home for abandoned children. Vivaldi b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holy (Bottom)
"Holy" is the fifth episode of the second series of British television sitcom '' Bottom''. It was first broadcast on 29 October 1992. Synopsis It is Christmas time in Hammersmith once again, and Richie and Eddie experience a Christmas miracle. Plot One early Christmas morning, Richie enters Eddie's room disguised as Santa Claus and presents "gifts" for himself and Eddie. He accidentally sets off Eddie's homemade security system, which results in Richie being hanged. After being freed by Eddie as he gets his flatmate to pay £10, Richie returns as himself and proceeds to list off the gifts that "Santa" has left them, which consist of the ingredients for Christmas dinner, while Eddie himself receives no stocking stuffers. Eddie presents his gifts for Richie: a small empty bottle of Malibu rum (which was only just a gag gift), and a used toilet roll made into a "play telescope" featuring an image of Sue Carpenter in a bikini complete with a bad spelling speech bubble. Richie presen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terror (Bottom)
"Terror" is the second episode of the third series of British television sitcom, Bottom. It was first broadcast on 13 January 1995. Synopsis On Halloween, after losing the " Spot the Ball" competition and being visited by trick-or-treaters, Richie and Eddie decide to have a party, but first they go trick-or-treating themselves, attempting to get beer money for the party. Plot The episode begins in the flat's kitchen, where Richie is at the stove cooking a sausage that is on fire, while Eddie brings in the morning paper. Both are disappointed to learn that they did not win the paper's "Spot the Ball" competition. Eddie then goes to answer a knock at the front door and is greeted by three boys dressed in devil costumes, playing trick or treat. Eddie denies the boys any sweets, believing it to be a "set-up".The boys respond to Eddie's actions by ramming a toy trident into his crotch. Meanwhile, Richie concocts a drink to cure Eddie of his DTs. Eddie faints after consuming the d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dough (Bottom)
"Dough" is the fourth episode of the third series of British television sitcom, '' Bottom''. It was first broadcast on 27 January 1995. Synopsis Eddie and Richie's money forging enterprise causes them to run afoul of local hard man, "Skullcrusher" Henderson. Can they find £5,000 by closing time, or will they have their skulls crushed? Plot Richie is alone in his room having just finished reading Leo Tolstoy's novel ''War and Peace'', when he hears loud noises coming from Eddie's room next door. Richie attempts to get into Eddie's room but is met with a sharp stick to the eye and having his genitals set on fire. After falling downstairs and extinguishing his groin, Richie gets excited when Spudgun and Dave Hedgehog show up. They are too socially awkward to reject Richie's attempts at conversation with them, and only when Eddie comes downstairs do they head to Eddie's room. Richie follows and discovers what Eddie has been up to: he has been forging money. Eddie gives Spudgun an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parade (Bottom)
"Parade" is the fourth episode of the second series of British television sitcom '' Bottom''. It was first broadcast on 22 October 1992. It is the first of three episodes in the series to feature no scenes set inside Richie and Eddie's flat. Synopsis Having got £8 each for taking part in an identity parade, Richie and Eddie are determined to make the most of their run of luck and put as much money as they can get together on a tip from Tight-Mouthed Larry. At 100/1 "Sad Ken" is going to make them richer than the stink from a pair of Eddie's Y-fronts. Plot To receive a free payment of £8 each, Richie and Eddie volunteer to take part in an identity parade, where it is revealed that the accused criminals are Eddie's friends Dave Hedgehog and Spudgun. A woman, quickly identified as Spudgun's mother, is led into the police station and accuses Spudgun himself of being the person who stole her handbag (though Spudgun insists that he was only borrowing it for a cross-dressing party ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smells (Bottom)
"Smells" is the first episode of British sitcom '' Bottom''. The episode was first transmitted on 17 September 1991. Synopsis Richie and Eddie are finding it impossible to attract women and they attempt to pick up women using sex spray supposedly loaded with pheromones. Plot One Friday night, Richie and Eddie return home from a disappointing night "on the pull"; Richie's "bird" lies to him, claiming to be a lesbian, and he wastes half an hour on two women by winking, clenching his buttocks, and prancing backwards and forwards to the gents, until the pair of women left with two other men and Eddie was kicked in the testicles for stuffing a Vimto bottle down his trousers and shouting "Whoo-Hoo! Were you looking for the Eiffel Tower girls?". In a desperate attempt to get a girlfriend, the two write a "lonely hearts" advert for Richie to put in the local paper. After trying several ideas including "Ugly Virgin Desperately Seeks Sex of Any Description", "Hot Young Buck", "Foxy Stoat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pernod Ricard
Pernod Ricard () is a French company best known for its anise-flavoured pastis apéritifs Pernod Anise and Ricard Pastis (often referred to simply as ''Pernod'' or '' Ricard''). The world's second-largest wine and spirits seller, it also produces several other types of pastis. History Pernod *1797 – , a Swiss distiller, opens his first absinthe distillery in Switzerland. *1805 – Maison Pernod Fils (simply known as Pernod Fils) is founded in Pontarlier, Franche-Comté, eastern France, by Henri-Louis Pernod and begins production of the anise-flavored spirit known as absinthe. *1850 – Henri-Louis Pernod dies. *1871 – Distillerie Hémard is founded near Paris. *1872 – Société Pernod Père & Fils opens in Avignon. *1915 – Production and consumption of absinthe is prohibited in France. *1926 – All 3 distilleries merge to form Les Établissements Pernod. *1951 – Pastis 51 is launched. *1965 – Takeover of Distillerie Rousseau, Laurens et Moureaux, producer of S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Cornes
Lee Cornes is an English television actor and writer born in Worcester. A stand up comedian since 1980, he was a regular compere at London's Comedy Store throughout the 1980s and won best Stand Up Comedian at the Charrington London Fringe Awards in 1987. Cornes appeared in three series of ''Blackadder'', in two episodes of '' The Young Ones'' and as barman 'Dick Head' in the TV show '' Bottom''. He made an appearance in the first episode of '' Filthy, Rich & Catflap'' as a binman. Appeared in the ''Comic Strip'' episode "Slags". Appearances on ''Saturday Night Live''. Cornes also starred in children's drama ''Grange Hill'' as Mr. Jeff Hankin (1990–2002); provided voices for characters in the children's television series '' TUGS'', and featured in the ''Doctor Who'' story "Kinda" as the Trickster (1982). He appeared in ''Red Dwarf'' as Paranoia in the series one episode " Confidence and Paranoia". He also appeared several times in the BBC Scotland sitcom Rab C. Nesbitt, once ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vampire
A vampire is a mythical creature that subsists by feeding on the Vitalism, vital essence (generally in the form of blood) of the living. In European folklore, vampires are undead, undead humanoid creatures that often visited loved ones and caused mischief or deaths in the neighbourhoods which they inhabited while they were alive. They wore shrouds and were often described as bloated and of ruddy or dark countenance, markedly different from today's gaunt, pale vampire which dates from the early 19th century. Vampiric entities have been Vampire folklore by region, recorded in cultures around the world; the term ''vampire'' was popularized in Western Europe after reports of an 18th-century mass hysteria of a pre-existing folk belief in Southeast Europe, Southeastern and Eastern Europe that in some cases resulted in corpses being staked and people being accused of vampirism. Local variants in Southeastern Europe were also known by different names, such as ''shtriga'' in Albanian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Devil
A devil is the mythical personification of evil as it is conceived in various cultures and religious traditions. It is seen as the objectification of a hostile and destructive force. Jeffrey Burton Russell states that the different conceptions of the devil can be summed up as 1) a principle of evil independent from God, 2) an aspect of God, 3) a created being turning evil (a '' fallen angel'') or 4) a symbol of human evil. Each tradition, culture, and religion with a devil in its mythos offers a different lens on manifestations of evil.Jeffrey Burton Russell, ''The Devil: Perceptions of Evil from Antiquity to Primitive Christianity'', Cornell University Press 1987 , pp. 41–75 The history of these perspectives intertwines with theology, mythology, psychiatry, art, and literature, developing independently within each of the traditions. It occurs historically in many contexts and cultures, and is given many different names— Satan (Judaism), Lucifer (Christianity), Bee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bottom Live
''Bottom Live – The Stage Show'' is a live stage show based on the UK TV series '' Bottom''. It ran in 1993 and was recorded for VHS (and later DVD) release at the Mayflower Theatre in Southampton. It was written by its stars, Rik Mayall as Richie Richard and Adrian Edmondson as Eddie Hitler. Plot Following a weekend lock-in in the lavatories of their local pub, Richie and Eddie return to their flat. After they unsuccessfully attempt to prepare breakfast the mail arrives, containing a letter and parcel for Richie. The letter is from the solicitors, which Eddie is left to dispose of, and the parcel contains a blow-up doll Richie ordered without his flatmate's knowledge. He bribes Eddie to leave the flat so he can be alone with his new friend Monica, unaware that Eddie has opened the solicitors' letter and discovered that following his uncle's death, Richie is now owed £15,000, which he wishes to claim for himself. The second act opens with Richie having trouble with Monic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
