The Smell of Reeves & Mortimer - The Complete Collection [DVD]

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Ear Ache: A woman on Series/Masterchef who cuts off her own ears to create a food arrangement shaped like the face of Jesus. Lloyd Grossman's not happy to find this out. Insane Troll Logic: Constantly. For example, when Vic claimed he was upper-class because he owned a colour television. Two series of Reeves and Mortimer's second quiz followed in 1999. Entitled Families at War, it featured two families competing in bizarre tasks on a loose Shooting Stars theme. The show was far more mainstream, less comedy-based, and obviously designed for comfortable Saturday evening BBC1 viewing. A regular feature was a spoof of a then-current TV programme, such as Food & Drink, which saw host Chris Kelly (Mortimer), whose face was a piece of toasted cheese with a box of tea bags taped to his head and whose legs gradually became ridiculously long, afterwards boiling his head in a pot to "prepare a nice pot of tea,", and Antiques Roadshow, where a termite mound containing the singer Prince was found inside a wardrobe. Perhaps the most bizarre was Noel's Addicts, an insane parody of a show hosted by Noel Edmonds in 1992 about people's hobbies. Unexplained Accent: Tony Baron, brother of Paul Baron, has a Chinese accent from growing up in Hong Kong.

Shooting Stars, The Game for You to Play at Home - for Players Aged 4-84, BBC Worldwide Publishing, 1996At the end of series one, Bob played a huge practical joke on Vic, who lapsed into a coma. After a rousing final song, Bob unplugged his life-support machine. Asked if he can hear anything at all in that ear, Reeves said: “It’s dead, absolutely, completely gone.

When the first series of the programme first made it to video titled "Red" & "Blue", it included extended versions of the episodes the way they were supposed to go out on TV, usually 7–10 minutes of new footage. When this DVD came out many were disappointed to find the episodes featured were the BBC edit versions. Series 2 was intact on the DVD release, mainly because it never had extended versions. Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) - The Complete Series (series 1 & 2) (Universal Pictures Video, 13 November 2006)Vic and Bob as two extraordinarily flatulent Frenchmen, in a series of sketches that were filmed in the style of arty French comedies (titles included "L'homme, L'homme, L'femme (La fenêtre)"), accompanied only by whimsical music and the duo's deliberately dubbed on French-speaking voices (the French dialogue made virtually no sense.) They usually saw the pair riding along on their bicycles before encountering things which were deemed worthy of investigation (a kids' playground, where they got a roundabout spinning by the sheer volume of flatulence; a funfair where they attempted to fart-start a motorbike). The two would frequently shout "Papa" and "Nicole" in reference to Renault Clio's Papa and Nicole advertivising campaign. This Christmas Special spawned the third incarnation of Shooting Stars, which included a sixth series in 2009, a seventh series in 2010 and another Christmas special airing on 30 December 2010. An eighth series of the show was shown on BBC 2 in 2011. The show has since been axed by the BBC. The Booze For t'Baby man continued his quest to find some booze for his baby, which eventually brought him a bottle of Babycham for which he was moderately thankful. The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer DVD (Region 2, UK), which contains both series' was released by 2 Entertain/Cinema Club on 3 April 2006.

In 1992, Reeves and Mortimer made their first brief detour into sitcoms by writing and recording a pilot episode of The Weekenders, a one-off pilot for Channel 4's Bunch of Five season. The Human League vocalist Phil Oakey, and the future Fast Show trio of Paul Whitehouse, John Thomson and Simon Day, all co-starred. [9] The Weekenders is also notable as the one programme where Vic is intentionally referred to throughout by his real name, Jim. Intended to be a series, the programme was never commissioned, but now seems to be a vague sign of things to come. The pair also recorded Star Chamber, a pilot program for BBC Two. The program was a debate show chaired by Mortimer, and featured Reeves, Charlie Higson, Johnny Vegas, Liz Smith and Rhys Thomas. The program has yet to be commissioned. Rampton, James (19 September 1997). "Vic Reeves & Bob Mortimer: Fighting for a laugh". Independent.co.uk. Archived from the original on 17 August 2022 . Retrieved 4 February 2015.

The Parody: A few remarkably surreal examples, more towards the earlier part of the show's run. Some examples of shows parodied include Stars in their Eyes, Noel's Addicts (and Noel's House Party), Countryfile, Masterchef, The South Bank Show and The Antiques Roadshow. In 1999 the two revived the format under the name Bang Bang Its Reeves And Mortimer, which will also be covered here as it is essentially a third series in all but name. Even more surreal than their earlier work, Reeves and Mortimer considered it superior but it was less popular with the fans, perhaps because each episode was weighed down by a large part of it being devoted to a single recurring setting called The Club, which was somewhat divisive. Bang Bang also developed some characters and concepts that had been introduced in The Smell, such as Tom Fun. Two fey Scotsmen who appeared in the Antiques Roadshow spoof, investigating a wardrobe which contained "wee clothes, wee shoes... almost too wee." They eventually discovered a termite mound with Prince living inside it. They had their suspicions before finding him, because he'd "only painted 18 inches above sea level." Brandy (Vic) then removed the diminutive singer and booted him through a basketball hoop. Whisky (Bob) remained convinced that Brandy was in fact Dr Nemesis.