YMMV / Bottom

• Crosses the Line Twice: Well, it's more like they use the line as a skip rope.
• Fridge Logic: When Eddie and Richie catch a burglar they sellotape him to a chair since the have no rope, However when the plan backfires they are tied to chairs with rope.
  • The burglars probably brought it into the flat with them.
• Genius Bonus: If you know your random mountain gorilla facts ^note  namely that the average mountain gorilla penis reaches a max of around 6 cm when erect, you'll also realize that the clinic Richie went to in Culture in fact didn't scam him.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • The first Bottom Live show, which is about Eddie trying to kill off Richie for his inheritance money, features a touching last minute goodbye between the two, which is way less funny since the sudden tragic death of Rik Mayall.
  • In "Contest", Richie comments on Eddie being a fussy eater as "it's like living with Lena Zavaroni". A few years later, Zavaroni died of an anorexia related illness.
  • The second to last scene in "Digger" in which Richie has what looks like a heart attack (it's actually his kidneys and bladder failing on him) is a lot less funny when you remember how Rik Mayall died...
  • Along those lines, Richie sarcastically calling Eddie's humour "heart-stoppingly funny" in "Dough", complete with hand gesture.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Twenty years after playing Eddie Hitler, Ade Edmondson played an officer in the very fascistic First Order in The Last Jedi.
  • Eddie's full name is stated to be "Eddie Elizabeth Hitler." In The Producers, the said dictator is said to be named "Adolf Elizabeth Hitler."
• Hollywood Homely: Pretty Boy Rik Mayall as the sexually repellant Richie Richard. Every now and then he forgets to pull a face, and wrecks the illusion that Richie is ugly.
• Jerkass Woobie: Sometimes, it's possible to feel just a teeny bit sorry for Richie, given how deeply lonely and pathetic he is. And then (usually seconds later) he reminds you of what an utterly horrible human being he is. The sympathy doesn't last long.
• Les Yay: Subverted when Eddie attempts to pull a bird whilst disguised as "that bird from the abattoir who looks like Ted Rodgers".
• Memetic Mutation: "BECAUSE IT'S CHRISTMAS!"
• Portmanteau Couple Name: Edchie or Reddie for Richie/Eddie.
• Retroactive Recognition: The fortune teller from "Apocalypse" is played by Liz Smith, who would later be best known for playing Mrs. Cropley in The Vicar of Dibley and Nana in The Royle Family.
• Spiritual Adaptation: It's currently the closest thing there is to an adaptation of Roald Dahl's The Twits.

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