This series is basically a live action Tom and Jerry, but some of the violence and humour really shows how dark Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson could get.
- Richie coming face to face with "Death" (it's actually Eddie in a costume) in "Apocalypse". While it's still Played for Laughs, the music that plays during this scene, along with the frightening sound effects and the fact that "Death" appears as a giant with his robe covering his face makes this quite chilling. This all happens on the night that Richie was told by a fortune teller he would die on.Richie: Oh my God... the moon's up! She was right. She was right! Oh my God!
- Even before this, there was the sounds of the front door creaking open and the loud footsteps coming towards Richie's room.
- The sound of the burglars breaking into Richie and Eddie's flat in "Burglary". Talk about Paranoia Fuel.
- The part towards the end of "'s Out" where a shadowy figure is seen lurking outside Richie and Eddie's tent. Quickly changes when it turns out to be the flasher from earlier shoving his genitalia into the tent... though it dives right back into it for the male audience when Eddie pulls the tent zip right through the flasher's testicles, causing him to scream in agony and run off... with the tent still attached.
- "Hole" in general. Imagine being stuck on a 350ft Ferris wheel that's going to be blown up in just a few hours. And that's also rusted, shorting out and falling apart while you're on it.Eddie: Hey, look! Rich! There's an article about the Ferris wheel in this week's Bugle! Not only is it the tallest, it's also the oldest Ferris wheel in Western Europe. Look! It's all here in this article, entitled: "Illegal Death Trap Wheel To Close Tonight". "Whole Area Declared Danger Zone, And Boarded Up To Await Detonation". (chuckles nervously) It's all wired up and ready to go!Richie: What?!Eddie: And it's too expensive to dismantle, so they're just going to blow it up!Richie: When?!Eddie: First thing tomorrow morning.
- Later on, when the gondola they're in collapses on one side after an accident with a self-made Molotov Cocktail distress flare, they're left hanging by their fingers off the sole remaining half, with Eddie going full-on Laughing Mad in the process. Then that falls off as well only a minute or so later.
- The scene in "Holy" in which Richie decides to cut up some Brussels sprouts with a meat cleaver... and instead chops off one of his own fingers. If you've got hemophobia, then seeing the veritable fountain of blood spraying out of the wound will definitely give you nightmares.
- Later, Eddie finds his finger, only to stuff it up his nose
- How does Eddie try to reattach Richie's finger? With a stapler, naturally. Made worse by the fact that he staples the wrong finger first, and when he does staple the right one, he does a poor job and the finger is on Richie's hand pointing the wrong way for the rest of the episode.
- A similar scene takes place in "Terror" where "the devil" visits the boys' flat. Richie tells Eddie to get the devil a glass of blood and to use his own because it's "ninety percent proof". Eddie obliges, and when it's revealed that the devil is just Dave Hedgehog's daughter Doreen, Eddie is left standing there with his wrist slashed. Just before the episode ends, we see Eddie getting absolutely covered in his own blood that's spraying out from his wound right before he collapses from blood loss.
- The scene in "Break" where Richie, angry at Eddie for causing him to go flying through the kitchen window, gets his revenge by chainsawing Eddie's legs off! He even does it again later on because Eddie had sewn his legs on the wrong way round.
- In what's probably one of the biggest Harsher in Hindsight moments in television history, Richie having what initially appears to be a heart attack — actually his bladder and kidney completely backfiring as a result of a botched back-alley operation to remove one of the latter so he could pay for everything — in "Digger".
- A scene earlier in the episode provides some Fridge Horror. A woman comes to the door collecting for victims of domestic violence. Eddie plucks the collection tin from her hand and smacks her in the head with a mallet, causing her to fall down the stairs. When Natasha comes later she mentions being late because there was a "dead body on the stairs". Eddie outright murdered someone! Not just that, but he and Richie don't care at all.
- The massive amount of collection tins under the sink imply this isn't Eddie's first kill...
- In "Accident" there is of course the scene where Richie falls and breaks his leg. The way he screams in terror when he sees it pointing the wrong way really sells it.
- Richie and Eddie in general are living examples of this when you think about it. Two violent madmen who regularly get into physical fights with one another and don't hold anything back.
- Making matters worse is that they sometimes don't hold back when fighting other people either, seeing as they nearly beat the gasman to death in "Gas", something Eddie admits doing for fun.
- They also have very little qualms about force-feeding a burglar bird poison.
- The ending of "Carnival" in which Eddie and Richie are bloodily gunned down by the SAS after a failed blackmail attempt after the duo find the Sex Tape of the Prime Minster can catch a few people off guard for the first time, especially as it's the show's final episode and the final on-screen appearance of Richie and Eddie on television (minus Guest House Paradiso and the live shows of course) which leaves their fates truly unknown as neither the movie or live shows share the same continuity. This isn't the first time that Rik and Ade had a sudden downer ending to their show, as The Young Ones finished with the gang going off a cliff in a stolen bus which blew up and killed them at the end of Series 2.
