Hey look! It's Rik Mayall and Ade Edmonson as comedy grotesques! They get into compromising situations that they are too naifish to comprehend! They mug theatrically! They inflict cartoon violence upon each other! How often do we get a chance to see this?!?!?I shouldn't complain. I really shouldn't. They are masters of this sort of comedy, it is stuff that they enjoy making, and if the world has another hour of it in it, then the world is better for it. It's sort of like having the greatest chef in town opening a restaurant that only serves one dish - it's great to have it, but you know that they are capable of so much more.
This episode has the heaviest reliance so far on what has come to be known as the "stunt cast," particularly somebody named Nicholas Parsons. He appears as himself, and judging from his demeanor seems to be British equivalent of Regis Philbin. The only thing that I know about Nicholas Parsons is that he turned up in a Doctor Who episode once. His official website bestows him with the title of "King of the Quiz and Game Shows," which is something that I can't imagine too many people would want to wrestle him to the ground over. He also seems to be spending an awful lot of time "playing against type," which leads me to the question: If most of what you do is play against type, isn't that what your type has now become?
The other guest star in this episode is Peter Cook. His character spends most of the episode on the other side of a translucent glass wall. Which sort of bums me out.As a side note, I am now officially halfway done, at least by my original estimation. This episode marks the midpoint of the 39 episodes in the box, as well as the end of the fourth of the eight DVDs. (The non-inclusion of Eat the Rich is balanced in the second half as well.) I notice as well that after the recent Christmas episode there are now rumors of more episodes on the horizon. Life goes on.
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