S'out or Bottom's Out is the sixth and final episode of the second series of the sitcom Bottom, it should of aired on November 5th 1992 but it didn't air until 10th April 1995 due to sensitivity reasons
Plot[]
The episode starts off with Richie and Eddie arriving at Wimbledon Common for camping which they must do after losing a bet and must camp there for a week, Eddie remarks he can still see the bus stop from where they are. After noticing some dog mess on the floor they move to a different spot (a few foot steps in front of where they were) Richie tells Eddie is great but Eddie disagrees with Richie.
Richie tells him that its real life, nature, struggle, destiny and questions Eddie's romance in which Eddie says she works in sketches on a Saturday afternoon, he tells her he should be going out with her that night and in attempt to make a dash for it tells Richie he will go to the Chemist before they shut but Richie stops him in his tracks asking about his sense of adventure to which Eddie responds with ''Ahh, now she's in Chiswick''
Richie tells him they don't need birds and its now where he tells him that they must camp for a week much to Eddie's shock, Richie tells him they are stuck with it and begin to get the tent set up which Eddie sarcastically says ''Right well thats the toilet tent, where do we sleep?'' Richie tells him its a stormbuster 4 and that they can go anywhere with it which Eddie says they will as soon as the breeze gets up. He is surprised to find out they will both be sleeping in the tent in which Eddie knows they will be very close together, he then becomes annoyed when only Richie has a sleeping bag.
Richie informs him he isn't trying to trick Eddie tom which he says ''I would rather stick my genitals in a bees nest'' to which Eddie says ''Kinky'' after some innuendos Richie becomes cross when he assumes Eddie forgot the tin opener and after his rant Eddie proves him wrong when he shows it him but has no idea where the tins are, Richie realizes he (himself) had forgotten them he is quick to blame it on Eddie and tells them they will starve to death until Eddie tells him he has a pack of chocolate Hob Nobs which he refuses to share with Richie which results in a fight between the two and as a result the pack of Hob Nob's end up in the pond and the tent had been taken down in the process.
Whilst sat round a camp fire with the Hob Nobs they retrieved and discussing the move Deep Throat Eddie remembers they are at Wimbledon Common and asks the question ''I wonder how much meat you get on a Womble'' Richie tells him Wombles don't exist but Eddie insists they do as he has seen them on the telly, Richie tells him they were just puppets but Eddie points out a Hedgehog in which he says is Great Uncle Bulgaria, regardless Richie tells him that is there supper to which Eddie tells him it will be spiky but Richie tells him about the Red Indians and that they eat them to which Eddie remarks with ''I bet that's why they wonder around going Owwww'' after a discussion on the Red Indians Richie asks how they can kill the Hedgehog, Eddie suggests he bores it to death but the Hedgehog has moved into the thicket.
Eddie suggests they entice out the Hedgehog with a chocolate Hob Nob and remembers about his darts which he gets an idea to use them and the tent pole as a blow pipe. Before attempting the hunt Richie tells him they have to have some Amazon Indian names for themselves and after much messing around Richie decides to give him the name Pocahontas, as they go in for the kill the Hedgehog has moved again in the tree behind them, Richie thinks they should do it in their pants with pages from the Evening Standard as flaps down the front and back and getting out the Biros to doodle on their nipples but objects and go back to hunting the Hedgehog which doesn't go well.
When the Hedgehog breaks cover Eddie fires the dart out the blowpipe which lands right in the back of Richie's head, Eddie pulls out the dart and in the process Richie lands face down in the camp fire putting it out,he puts his face in the pond to cool himself down and informs Eddie their is a fish in the pond.
Eddie fires the dart out the blow pipe again but this time Richie's hand is attached to a boulder as the dart has got stuck on his hand which is why his hand is attached to it, Eddie removes it and the boulder lands on Richies foot.Fed up Richie tells Eddie to stand over on the opposite side of where he is and orders him to give him the dart and the blow pipe in an attempt to aim a dart at Eddie but instead of blowing he sucks which causes the dart to get lodged inside Richie's throat, Richie tells Eddie to slap him which he does and notices the dart, Richie tells him to get it out but at first makes him for being kinky but eventually removes the dart by hitting him in the back of the head with the mallet sending the dart flying out and bouncing off of various objects and gets stuck in Richie's backside which he removes it himself and throws it in the pond and tells Eddie they aren't cut out for the dart and blowpipe thing.
Richie insists they have another go at the fish in the pond and uses Eddie's vest as a net, Eddie gets the stove (a camp fire) lite and Richie tells Eddie they have caught a fish which has a dart lodged in it he tells him the lost the net but now they have another problem, getting the stove lite which Richie lets Eddie use his lighter. Richie gets the fish cooking on the stove but it catches on fire in the process and stamps it out with his foot and comes to the conclusion its cooked, after washing it in the pond they separate it in two, Eddie gets on half which he saves for evidence and Richie gets the other which he eats and remarks how disgusting it tasted.
Eddie and Richie sit down round the camp fire to sing dirty Rugby songs with a bottle of Scotch which Eddie polishes off the lot.Richie goes crazy and ends up singing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star as opposed to a Rugby song. Eddie passes out and whilst realizing nothing happens in the countryside a passer by flashes his gentlemens area at the pair. Richie insists its time for bed despite it only being half past 5 and still daytime.
In the tent its now night time and Richie and Eddie are tucked up for the night, Richie tries to make conversation with Eddie asking his going to bed routine and if hes ever been hang gliding. He tries going to sleep but believes its the sleeping bag making it uncomfortable for him and Eddie pulls the jaw string to tighten it, Richie then has to put out the light as Eddie goes straight to sleep and in the process breaks wind in doing so.
Once he has begun to settle down there is a clap of thunder and a bolt of lighting startling him and awaking him, he goes back to sleep but is quickly awoken to the sound of an owl but believes it to be someone doing owl impressions, he awakes Eddie who was dreaming about being in bed with Kim Basinger, they try to go back to sleep but Eddie and Richie both awake to Eddie forgetting where they are to which Richie tells him they are in a tent.
Richie tells Eddie there is something outside and he begins to question what it could be, Eddie gasps and exclaims ''WOMBLES'' and the thought terrifies them both, Richie suggests bring the fire in the tent to ward them off but as its gone out Eddie suggests they lite a fire in the tent which they do so causing the flames to shoot out from both ends of the tent, Richie then sees a silhouette of a figure outside the tent and panics and tells Eddie to help him out the sleeping bag but Eddie tells him there isn't any time and zips up the tent only for it to be opened back up by the passer by from earlier and flashes his genitalia at Richie and Eddie inside the tent but Eddie zips the tent back up and the flasher screams in pain and runs off with the tent attached to him.
Eddie then prepares to leave for home but when asking Richie if he's coming and now knowing Richie cannot move he ends up hitting Richie over the head with the mallet knocking him out and the episode ends.
Cast[]
Rik Mayall
Ade Edmonson
Rupert Bates
Julia Sawilia (Barmaid)
Broadcast[]
this episode did not air in the UK for almost three years after it was made. Following production, on 15 July 1992, Rachel Nickell was murdered on Wimbledon Common, the setting for this episode. Accordingly, The BBC decided to withhold domestic transmission for reasons of sensitivity, although it was included in overseas sales packages, and was screened in New Zealand in 1993. The episode was released on video in the UK 1993, and finally was broadcast there on from 10 April 1995.
Trivia[]
This is the only episode not to end with a freeze frame.
Episode Highlight[]
