Britain is home to many comedies many of which get butchered when there remade in America however there is one comedy that the Americans will never dare to touch. Due to the rather adult nature of the show with this show being more adult and more extreme then South Park and more violent then a Tom And Jerry cartoon and it's the first episode of that very show that i'm about to review for you all today and so then join me as I review the episode that introduced the world to the worlds most violent flatmates with the episode n question being called simply just "Smells" enjoy.
The plot of this episode is fed up with noy having girlfriends flatmates Richie and Eddie find out about a spray to help them attract woman. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad as it was a rather simple plot which is kind of the norm not only for this show but for all sitcoms in general and to this episodes credit it doesn't really need a decent plot to get viewers interested as in this case having a simple plot means that the episode can have alot more jokes and world play in it something that just wouldn't be possible if the plot of the episode was a super deep plot ad by having an plot that's rather simple and rather easy to follow along with as well it allows the shows main characters to just be there anarchic selfs as well with the plot of this episode also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this episode is the episodes co-writer and the shows co-creator Rik Mayall as Richard "Richie" Richard. Also starring in this episode is the episodes co-writer and the shows co-creator Adrian Edmondson as Edward "Eddie" Elizabeth Hitler , Lee Cornes as Richard Head , Clive Mantle as Angry Man , Harriett Thorpe as Angry Man's Wife , Cindy Shelley as Kate , Carla Mendocina as Jenny and Kevin McNally as The Shop Manager.
Now then interms of what I personally thought /felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. As alot of this episodes actors do indeed turn in some really good performances which couldn't have been easy as this was the first episode filmed for the series proper and as a result of that is the fact that the series leads wouldn't have been able to have gotten a good handle on there characters just yet and yet they still manage to turn in a good performance in this episode with the same thing also being true for all of the episode guest cast as well as all of the episodes cast members do manage to turn a good performance with the acting in this episode really being helped by the fact that the script for this episode is just so good that all this episodes actors really have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very episode.
One of the things that makes this episodes from alot of other first episodes out there is the fact that it really doesn't tell you all that much about the main characters. As you can tell everything about the characters not only by how they act to each other but also by how badly kept that there flat is as there flat is pretty much a health hazard just waiting to happening which tells us the audience that they are slobs and don't typically care about how things are kept and heck even Richie himself admits to only owning one pair of underwear and that's it which yes is a funny idea but at the same time it also tells us that he doesn't care about his own hygiene as well and you can tell that even tho that even tho they can get really violent with each other both Eddie and Richie do care about each other even if they wouldn't admit it to each other which does make there relationship seem sweet and caring as they have each other to keep each other company even tho they can barely stand to be around each other at the best of times and while Richie is a slob and loser Eddie is constantly drunk with him starting one drink mere minuets after finishing another with him barely being sober.
To be frank this episode and this show is very adult and is NOT for the easily offended as there are things even in this episode that will offend some people. Which is something that's apart of the anti-comedy nature of this show as comedy is meant to push boundaries between what is and isn't acceptable and what is isn't in good taste and while yes there are lot of things that are in this very episode that could be seen as being in bad taste from certain people other people will see those exact same things and see them as being in good taste and this is something that the shows writers and creators Adrian Edmondson and Rik Mayall did really well as alot of the shows that they worked on pushed the boundaries of good taste in comedy and as a result of that is that none of there shows this one included wouldn't be made today because everybody is so easily offended by anyone and heck there's a good chance that someone will be offended by this review as that's how easily offended people are today with this episode having alot of mature things in it so much so that i've had to edit the name of a character , what kind of shop Kevin McNally's character is a manager of and one of the images just to make sure then this review can get seen by people as that's just how adult and how mature this episode and this show really is and it's all of those things that means that this episode wouldn't be made today due to how adult and mature that this episode and it's content are.
It's not hard to see why this show became a hit show that managed to spawn three series , five stage shows and a feature length film. Since even in this episode alone you can see that it has all of the markings of being a really good show as it has characters that your not meant to like as Richie and Eddie aren't likable characters yet over the course of the show you do grow to like these characters and it has some rather simple plot lines and while alot of the plots lines are still relevant today like the plot of this episode for example alot of them do come across as being dated but for this episode we do get alot of great moments with these characters all of which are more then enough to make you wince , cry and laugh out loud as this show has at the very least one laugh out loud moment per episode with this one really having several per scene and heck even the very idea of the episode is one that alot of people might like as it happened to them this episode really isn't for anyone as even the opening joke might offend some people and yet it's that opening scene that really does let you know right away what kind of show that this show really is.
Even tho this episode does have alot of positive thing it does have some negative things as well like the fact that the main plot of the episode doesn't come to a natural conclusion it just ends with no resolution to it. Which is something that is typical for British sitcoms as alot of them just end instead of having a beginning , a middle and an end but even so this is show that's none for being rebellious and fordoing things that other comedies just wouldn't do and yet by not having a conclusion to it's story it's doing the exact thing that other shows are doing thus it's not rebelling against them rather it's just copying and pasting what there doing only this show has adult jokes in it and that's really it and while the main characters of this show are meant to be unlikable characters this is something that could also be seen as a bad thing as the episode doesn't really leave us with any likable characters and as a result of that i the fact that we the audience have no characters that we can route for other then the two characters that we've seen aren't that good people and that's really it.
Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty nine minuets and twenty six seconds. Which is a solid running time for this episode to have but at the same time this episode really didn't need to be as along as it was as this episode really doesn't have alot there interms of plot with the episode having alot of scenes very early that while they do indeed serve the purpose of setting up Richie and Eddie as characters they add nothing to the overall plot of the episode which does make it hard for them to cut those scenes as while they do feel like filler scenes there also scenes that tell us who these characters are as people and would thus be needed in the long run if anything the only way to fix this episode would be to not fix it as this episode is as good as it's ever going to get and as a result of that is that you either except it and except the episode as it is or you just go back to the development stage and start over but I will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.
So now then as this is a comedy that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. With alot of this episodes jokes being really painfully funny with this episode and this show making great use of the fact that both characters really over do it with the physical violence all of which is painfully funny in this episode as even tho it's not as extreme as it would get in future episodes it is still some pretty extreme violence but that's not the only type of joke that we get in this episode as we do get alot of self deprecating humor as well which can be very hit and miss and we also get alot of straight forward jokes as well with all of those jokes in this episode being some really funny jokes and alot of which are the types of jokes that you wouldn't expect to see in comedies these days as alot of them are some jokes that would push the boundaries as bit with the same thing also being said for the violence that's in this episode as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall this episode is a really funny episode but like alot of the episodes of this show it's not one that's for the easily offended but if your not one of those people then you really should look this show up and watch it as this episode really is just that good and it's something that you won't regret doing either in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly an 8.5 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official The Bottom fandom wiki page , Wikipedia and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very episode that I used in this very review being the really great Google Images simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this very episode and are really of course on Google Images are also really all fairly high in quality and really as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.