After a decade slumming around the BBC, The Comic Strip returns to Channel Four with the core cast (Adrian Edmondson, Rik Mayall, Peter Richardson, Nigel Planer, Dawn French, and Jennifer Saunders) and an episode directed by Richardson and written by Richardson and Pete Richens. Seven of the first thirteen broadcast episodes of The Comic Strip had all six in the cast and eight had Richardson and Richens on hand for writing or directing duties.
It's like going to a high school reunion!
Of course, for many people, high school was like Lord of the Flies.
This episode is nothing but a showcase for these actors to play the sort of character that they have all been playing at this point for close to three decades. A car carrying four go-go salesmen breaks down on the way to a training conference, and all hell breaks loose. And then two women show up to provide redemption.
If this were indeed the last ever episode. If they had all come together at the wrap party and said that this would be the end, the last one that they would do, then this would be absolutely perfect.
But the DVD menu says otherwise, and so it ends slightly less so.
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