#RikAndAdeFest Countdown! ⏳
Congratulations for getting through another week of January, scumbags! Not only does this mean there's less January left, it also means the #RikAndAdeFest2024 is a week closer too.
This time, we're here to show our appreciation of fanfic and fanart for one of Rik and Ade's lesser known shows:
✨Filthy, Rich & Catflap✨
In 2021, @neil-neil-orange-peel expanded on Eddie's anecdote about the night Richie wet the bed:
Also in 2021, @postpunkpontypandyphantomthief dropped the characters in the 2010s to see what havoc they'd wreck on modern British showbiz:
In 2023, @the-tardis-in-221b-baker-street depicted Richie Rich and Eddie Catflap at the table in a Rik and Ade parody of the Last Supper:
We'll be boosting fic and art from a different angle next Saturday! Check back then!
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I wonder if Ratflap always share a bed but Richie noticed the audience was there that morning and they had to scramble for an excuse? He doesnt even seem too shocked to see Catflap and they have a fairly civil conversation with each other like this is a regular occurence.
Oh, that’s a really good explanation. The idea of them living in a world where they have to hide things from an audience in their own home is a mind bending one. But yes, these two give off the vibe of having/having had something together, almost immediately. What’s even funnier is I don’t think it was intentional, because Catflap straight up says that he hates Rich a few episodes on.
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Working on school assignments? I think you mean uhhhh drawing random britcom shit.
1: Shitpost of some badges I think Rick should 100% wear /j
2: Little oc doodle for a friend
3: Trans Eddie Catflap, trans Eddie Catflap, trans Eddie Catflap, trans Eddie Catflap, trans Eddie Catflap-
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What was the rick mayall comedy with ade that rheyre two old fucks living in an apartment together... ik thats so vauge but im trying to remember the name of it to watch it again 😭 i just re watched all of tyo and neeeddd to find it again lol
Also hope your doing well its been awhile since ive been on tumblr to see or ask about ur page but i think abt u occasionally and im like yeah i hope theyre doing well keeping the tyo fandom alive
Also is there no charictor limit on these asks now????
Hi! Sorry it's taken me a while to answer this.
It sounds like you're describing Bottom, the '90s sitcom where Rik and Ade played two broadly middle aged bastards at the bottom (get it?) of society, loafing about, being pervy, and causing chaos. It isn't quite as surreal as The Young Ones, but it does feature lots of slapstick violence - Richie and Eddie have at least one very creative physical fight per episode - and there are occasions where something extra mad will happen, like the ceiling caving in, underpants being filled with custard, and fire farts (to name a few examples). Christopher Ryan also appears in a few episodes as one of Eddie's mates, Dave Hedgehog.
One of the original inspirations for Bottom was Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, which Rik and Ade both loved and thought was funny. It was one of the things they bonded over at uni, and the two of them got to star in a run of it in the early '90s (again, with Christopher Ryan).
There were three series of Bottom from 1991-1995, totalling at 18 episodes. All episodes were available on Dailymotion the last time I checked - in fact, I have a post somewhere on this blog with links to them, though it may very well be outdated by now. If you have a mooch around online, you should be able to find them.
The reason I'm guessing you mean Bottom is because Richie Richard and Eddie Hitler live together in a (disgusting) flat in Hammersmith, and there are some episodes set entirely within this horrid hovel. However, Filthy, Rich and Catflap also sees Richie Rich and Eddie Catflap sharing a (not quite as disgusting) flat, but these characters were a bit younger - and, to be honest, Bottom is the more highly regarded of the two sitcoms, though I don't think FR&C is anywhere near as bad as some critics made out.
Rik and Ade made five live stage shows for Bottom (Bottom Live) between 1993-2003. In fact, the fifth Bottom Live was the last substantial work they did together. All five of these have been available on YouTube for some years, so I assume they still are. I personally just slightly prefer the sitcom (or maybe I'm just jealous I can't go and see Bottom Live 😂), and I think a general rule of thumb is the quality does decline a little across the five (apologies to my comedy gods, although I think Ade might agree with me), but they are all absolutely worth a watch. Rik and Ade break character in them from time to time, and they're allowed to say fuck.
They also made a Bottom film in 1999 called Guest House Paradiso, which features Simon Pegg. Rik and Ade play the same characters, but now they run an appalling hotel on the Isle of Wight and their surnames are different (which Ade acknowledged when I went to see him touring with his autobiography was inexplicable). The film is not for the weak of stomach, certainly not for anyone with emetophobia, and unfortunately it does suffer from the curse of most sitcom movies apart from Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa in that it doesn't quite translate. To be fair, they didn't have a massive budget, and it happened only a year after Rik's accident (they were both meant to direct it, but Ade took on full directing duties as a result of this). Still, it's not unfunny, and I think it's available on Dailymotion; if you like Bottom, you should give it a watch. I wonder what a Bottom film set in the original world of the sitcom would've been like...
I have an inking who you are, although I might be wrong. I hope you're well, anyway. 😂 I'm fine, just trundling along, coming up to my last semester as an undergrad. Tumblr may well have changed the character limit on asks, though I honestly couldn't say for sure.
Thanks for the ask!
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Don’t try to talk to me about fashion, if you don’t know who Eddie Catflap is.
... Well, If you know, don’t try either, because I don’t understand anything about it anyway.
I was begining to forget how much I adore this dork :’D But the Internet, missing for a few days, reminded me of this
(cheated with color correction to get at least a little interesting coloring for once in my life, but now I don’t know if this yellow is too dazzling @__@ so I added a version without this stupid background)
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