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| "Smells" | |
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| Bottom episode | |
| Episode no. | Series 1 Episode 1 |
| Directed by | Ed Bye |
| Written by | Ade Edmondson & Rik Mayall |
| Original air date | 17 September 1991 |
| Guest appearances | |
| Lee Cornes Clive Mantle Harriet Thorpe Cindy Shelley Carla Mendonça Kevin McNally | |
"Smells" is the first episode of British sitcom Bottom . The episode was first transmitted on 17 September 1991. [1]
Richie and Eddie are finding it impossible to attract women and they attempt to pick up women using sex spray supposedly loaded with pheromones. [2]
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 Seeks Pig", "Foxy Stoat on the Prowl", "Musky Sly Old Foxy Stoat" and finally "Minky Musky Sly Old Stoaty Stoaty Stoat" the two give up. Richie then spots an advert for a revolutionary new sex spray. The next day the pair visit the local sex shop in order to buy a can each.
That night the pair prepare to go out. Richie uses up his biros drawing on chest hair; however, he has to use a green pen, as he has used all the black pens ink on his legs; while in the bathroom, Eddie shaves his tongue. Eddie attempts to remove Richie's nasal hair (at Richie's request) using a pair of pliers. However, he ends up throwing Richie around the room, this in turn leads to a fight between the two, until Richie stops it by saying they should take it out on the "birds" later. Both apply the sex spray liberally and Richie fantasises about finally "doing it". Eddie slowly becomes inebriated on the spray, after spraying it into his mouth.
The pair then venture to their local pub, The Lamb and Flag, where Richie attempts to pick up the wife (Harriet Thorpe) of a large man (Clive Mantle). He and Eddie pretend to be insane in order to prevent him from beating them up, but not before Richie has his testicles crushed by the man. They then pursue two young women (Cindy Shelley and Carla Mendonça) sat nearby, who are eager for them to leave. They leave them, in a less than subtle fashion, in order to buy condoms. In the toilet, Richie is punched by the large man.
When the duo return from the toilet, the girls have moved tables in the hope of avoiding them. When Richie confronts them, they claim to be lesbians and leave. Richie is disappointed, but this subsides when he realises a drunken Eddie is now attempting to seduce him, as he has become completely "drunk" off the sex spray and mistaken Richie for a lady. The episode ends with Richie angrily punching Eddie in the face.
During the beginning of the episode while Eddie is eating lard because he is "too drunk to cook", Ade Edmondson actually ate real lard. Edmondson's reason for doing so was "You couldn't really fake it could you?". [3]
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This episode introduces a few themes that recur throughout the series: [2] [4] [5]
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