I'll start off by saying that I'm not a troll, I just want to know what other Young Ones/Bottom fans think of this show.
I bought the DVD of Fithy Rich & Catflap yesterday and have seen the first 2 episodes so far and haven't laughed once. I really was expecting better than this from Mayall/Edmondson/Elton & co. All of the jokes are very forced and the "talking to the camera" thing bugs me.
I'll hold off on any more criticism until I've seen the entire series though.
Well I absolutely adore Filthy, Rich and Catflap. I think it's one of the funniest programs of all time. I've never laughed so much as when I watched this. I love the whole breaking the fourth wall thing when they talk to the viewers, it makes it feel like Bottom Live and the jokes don't feel forced at all but feel more self-aware like how half the time they're commenting on the jokes and taking the mick out of the show as well as television in general. My favourite episodes are 2 and 5 (why didn't they give them episode titles?!). I love the whole style of the show and at times it feels like a Bottom prototype, particularly episode 5. Interestingly Richie's voice keeps changing every episode. In the first episode it sounded like Richard Dangerous, in another it sounded like Rik (YO) and by the last few episodes it sounded like Richie from Bottom.
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but it is almost like watching a comedy metamorphesis take place before your eyes.
I did think it was really funny...but like the topic starter said....the looking at the camera thing bugs me. i think its pointless and gets quite irritating. And like the above said, very much like YO and especially Bottom...how come Rik Mayall always has Richie or Rick as his name in these series ? lol.
shareI don't think it has aged as well as Bottom. Even the Young Ones has aged and younger or new viewers will not enjoy it as much as the people who saw it when it first came out.
Having said that, Rik's character is just like many of these reality TV show winners who think they are famous and talented, but clearly are not. Maybe it was ahead of it's time?
I do feel that FLC seemed to be the place where the remnents of The Young Ones came to an end and the beginning of Bottom started. In a number of the episodes you can see both of them phase in and out of being Rik & Viv then Richie & Eddie. Not only do I feel FLC is little known and underated compared to TYO and Bottom, but it is almost like watching a comedy metamorphesis take place before your eyes.
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'FLC'?? So what's that? The Chinese version? 'Filthy Lich and Catfrap'?
FR&C was a brilliant, hysterically funny series. When it was released a lot of people dismissed it as 'being the same as the Young Ones' but it's completely different. I love Ritchie and Eddie talking to the camera...
Any progrmme that has two art critics called N'Bend and P'Farty is OK in my book!
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Actually there is episode titles!!! the names aren't on the episode but on the back they do have names and they are;
Episode 1: Dead Milkman
Episode 2: Game Show
Episode 3: Dinner Party
Episode 4: A Death in the Family?
Episode 5: Breakfast Television
Episode 6: Smear Campaign
i am aware that u send this email almost 9 moths ago but hopefully i've helped u a lil bit, i cant help but help
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(replying to amyl_nitrate, post 2 on this thread)
I feel that FRC seemed to be the place where the remnents of The Young Ones came to an end and the beginning of Bottom started. In a number of the episodes you can see both of them phase in and out of being Rik & Viv then Richie & Eddie. Not only do I feel FRC is little known and underated compared to TYO and Bottom, but it is almost like watching a comedy metamorphesis take place before your eyes.
(putting back my original post from July 2006 as some evil fiend had my entire post history deleted...boo!)
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Yeah, I only weigh 90lbs...BEEFCAKE!!
Impossible.
There's absolutely no way you could be a fan of The Young Ones & Bottom and not garner a single laugh from watching the first two eps.
Its really something between The Young Ones and Bottom (live show).
But i just looked at the show yesterday for the first time, and some things really bug me, Mayall is overreacting allot on some things and his acting in this series seem a step back from The Young Ones... He was great again in The New Statesman.
This really looks like a rough version of Bottom, Eddie being the obnoxious drunk, Richie the annoying virgin... But with the looking at the audience it looks more like a Bottom live show and when they say stuff like, 'its in the script', you get taken out of the experience while in Bottom it really looked like they where in a pub or outside... And it looked like they wanted to make the characters more sophisticated and used some posh words. Some words i don't know seeing i am Dutch.
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This is definitely the least funny of the three.
You know it makes sense.
You are spot on, this was not very funny, probably because Ben Elton wrote it himself. Others were supposed to contribute to this disappointing Young Ones sequel, but Ben Elton finished it before anyone else could contribute so they went with him as sole writer.
I loved Bottom, The Young Ones and Guest House Paradiso. All are masterpieces. Yet I too struggled to laugh at FR&C. There were a few funny jokes here and there, but most of it was so tryhard and unconvincing that I found it irritating and couldn't bring myself to watch the whole series. The talking to camera and commenting on the script is such a hackneyed and feeble concept. It's like when rock bands start incorporating ineffectual jazz or "experimental" noodlings - it's supposed to give the impression of creativity and boundary-pushing when everybody knows it just signals a complete lack of ideas.
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how come Rik Mayall always has Richie or Rick as his name in these series ? lol
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You may just as well ask why Ade is always called 'Eddie'? In a very early 'Comic Strip presents..' Ade played a failed South African TV host called Eddie Monsoon (his wife, Jennifer Saunders later appeared in Ab Fab playing Edina Monsoon)..in FR&C Ade is Eddie Digeridoo Catflap and in Bottom he's Eddie Elizabeth Hitler. Maybe they just like the names and find them funny?