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The Best Episodes of Bottom

Every episode of Bottom ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Bottom!

Richie Richard (socially awkward, sexually inexperienced) and Eddie Hitler (carefree alcoholic ) are two social outcasts living on the dole. Trapped together in a squalid...
Genre:Comedy
Network:BBC Two

Best Episodes Summary

"Holy" is the best rated episode of "Bottom". It scored 8.9/10 based on 435 votes. Directed by Ed Bye and written by Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson, it aired on 10/29/1992. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Gas".

  • Holy
    8.9/10435 votes
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    #1 - Holy

    Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/29/1992

    Eddie and Richie celebrate Christmas by inviting Spudgun and Dave Hedgehog around for Christmas dinner and a day of fun and games. After a knock at the door Richie finds a baby left on their doorstep. Due to a few misperceptions Richie believes the baby is the Second Coming of Jesus.

    Director: Ed Bye

    Writer: Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson

  • Gas
    8.8/10506 votes
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    #2 - Gas

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/24/1991

    The gasman calls to read Eddie and Ritchie's meter. Not a problem? It is when you are getting your gas from an illegal connection to your next-door neighbors gas. Can the boys persuade the meter reader that they don't use gas and stall him until they can disconnect their supply from next door?

    Director: Ed Bye

    Writer: Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson

  • Bottom's Out
    8.7/10375 votes
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    #3 - Bottom's Out

    Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 4/10/1995

    After losing a bet, Richie and Eddie are forced to spend a week camping in Wimbledon Common, and the only supplies they have are a tin opener and a packet of chocolate Hob-Nobs. However, their food problems may soon be solved, as Eddie plans on eating a Womble!

    Director: Ed Bye

    Writer: Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson

  • Hole
    8.7/10354 votes
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    #4 - Hole

    Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 1/6/1995

    Richie and Eddie are stranded on the big wheel at the fairground. It gets worse - the wheel is due to be demolished the next day!

    Director: Bob Spiers

    Writer: Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson

  • Burglary
    8.5/10349 votes
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    #5 - Burglary

    Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/15/1992

    A burglar breaks into Richie and Eddies place and manages to get caught by them. Once they have him tied up they have to decide what to do with him and the loot he has stolen from other houses.

    Director: Ed Bye

    Writer: Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson

  • Terror
    8.5/10354 votes
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    #6 - Terror

    Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 1/13/1995

    It is Halloween. After loosing the "Spot the Balls" competition and visited by trick or treaters. Richie and Eddie decides to put on their own Halloween party. Where they go off trick or treating, Richie is dressed up as a devil and Eddie is dressed up as a banana, armed with a electric cattle prod, they go to get some money for beer. When Richie and Eddie invite Spudgun and Hedgehog, Richie decides to raise the Devil, so he can have sex with girls in exchange for his soul. But the Devil arrives in the form of Dave Hedgehog's daughter Doreen.

    Director: Bob Spiers

    Writer: Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson

  • Digger
    8.4/10383 votes
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    #7 - Digger

    Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 10/1/1992

    Eddie and Richie join Mrs. Lineker's Love Bureau hoping to find their perfect women. Richies video tells the viewers that he is, in fact, a Duke and this gets him a date with a countess from Moldavia. He invites her to his place and arranges for Eddie to pretend to be his butler for the evening.

    Director: Ed Bye

    Writer: Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson

  • Parade
    8.4/10362 votes
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    #8 - Parade

    Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/22/1992

    Richie and Eddie are taken to the Police station to take part in an identity parade and find themselves in an argument with a Falklands war veteran over their participation in the war.

    Director: Ed Bye

    Writer: Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson

  • Finger
    8.4/10330 votes
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    #9 - Finger

    Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 2/3/1995

    After coming home from a cricket match, Richie learns Eddie has stolen 'Cannonball' Taffy O' Jones car keys and they learn 'Cannonball' Taffy O' Jones is getting married to a woman who looks like Ted Rogers. Richie and Eddie steals the car and end up at a hotel where they pretend to a husband and wife.

    Director: Bob Spiers

    Writer: Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson

  • Carnival
    8.4/10314 votes
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    #10 - Carnival

    Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 2/10/1995

    It is the annual Hammersmith carnival where the local residents take part in riots and Richie and Eddie find watching the Carnival from their flat window is the best seats to watch the riots. After going looting, Eddie learns Richie has stolen a BBC camera and they decide to record a prime-time current affairs discussion program and hilarious accidents so they can make money Unaware the video tape is a dirty video of Prime Mininster Tony Blair.

    Director: Bob Spiers

    Writer: Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson

  • Accident
    8.3/10370 votes
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    #11 - Accident

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/29/1991

    It's Richie's birthday and he has a big party planned, Eddie's friends and all the birds' Richie knows are coming. As he prepares for the party, putting up the decorations, Richie falls and horribly breaks his leg. Will having his leg in plaster and being in a wheelchair ruin his party, will it heck as like!

    Director: Ed Bye

    Writer: Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson

  • Culture
    8.3/10347 votes
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    #12 - Culture

    Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/8/1992

    The boys' television has been repossessed and they are at a complete loss, they cannot find anything to keep them occupied, they have tried to do the crossword. Richie decides to challenge Eddie to a game of chess, even though they don't have all the pieces in their set! They decide to improvise and use various odd items to replace the missing pieces.

    Director: Ed Bye

    Writer: Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson

  • Smells
    8.2/10469 votes
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    #13 - Smells

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/17/1991

    Richie and Eddie return home after another depressing night down the pub trying to pick up women and failing miserably. Richie is beginning to think that he is never going to get the chance to do it' until Eddie suggests that he puts an ad in the local paper. This idea revitalizes Richie and he begins to read through the dating pages of the local rag. There he spots an ad for a pheromone spray that women are unable to resist, this is something that appeals to him even more and the two of them decide that they are going to have to try this out!

    Director: Ed Bye

    Writer: Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson

  • Bottom's Up
    8.2/10375 votes
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    #14 - Bottom's Up

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/15/1991

    When Richie and Eddie's landlord has to leave to attend his mother's funeral, he leaves the two in charge of their shop, but something like this isn't going to stop Richie and Eddie from relaxing on Sunday, as the two decide to watch some cricket.

    Director: Ed Bye

    Writer: Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson

  • Break
    8.2/10305 votes
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    #15 - Break

    Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 1/20/1995

    Richie and Eddie are going on holiday in Doncaster and they begin to plan what they are going to do and what they are going to take with them.

    Director: Bob Spiers

    Writer: Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson

  • Dough
    8.2/10315 votes
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    #16 - Dough

    Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 1/27/1995

    Eddie has been spending a lot of time in his room and Richie finds that he has been printing fake money. Unfortunately local counterfeiter "The Skullcrusher" is not amused and demands money. Luckily the pub quiz night could be their salvation.

    Director: Bob Spiers

    Writer: Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson

  • Apocalypse
    8.1/10387 votes
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    #17 - Apocalypse

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/8/1991

    After inheriting £600 from Richie's Auntie Olga, the two decide to spend it down the Funfair, where Richie learns that he is destined to die in three nights time. He goes to the lengths of kicking Eddie out to escape his fate, but can't do anything when the Grim Reaper comes knocking!!!

    Director: Ed Bye

    Writer: Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson

  • Contest
    8.0/10372 votes
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    #18 - Contest

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/1/1991

    Eddie and Richie have an argument over whether or not to watch the Miss World contest on their TV. An argument started by Eddie having spent most of the £11.80 they had to last them two months on a second hand copy of Parade magazine.

    Director: Ed Bye

    Writer: Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson