YMMV / Filthy Rich & Catflap

• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • In the finale, Ralph explains that he survived being hanged because "I've gotta be in the next series." The show would sadly never get a second series.
  • Also from the finale, the main characters are blackmailing everyone in showbiz with slander. One such lie is that the Grange Hill kids are the love children of Jimmy Savile and Nana Mouskouri. That is all kinds of wrong right there.
• Ho Yay:
  • The Bed Mate Reveal between Richie and Eddie in the very first scene.
  • The scene where Eddie is looking under Richie’s dressing gown to see if he can see anything unpleasant looks a lot like something else.
  • Filthy tries to schmooze Terry Wogan over the phone by describing his "little looks-to-camera" as "very sexy."
  • Filthy seems to be pretty into Richie, particularly with the way he touches him and gets very close to him.
  • Richie calling Eddie, "Eddie poppet" in one episode.
    • He also calls him "darling" a few times.
  • The scene where Eddie jumps onto Richie’s back, expecting a piggyback ride.
• Retroactive Recognition:
  • Several in Episode Two. A young Harry Enfield plays Julian (the beleaguered floor manager of Ooer Sounds a Bit Rude), with Chris Barrie as Trevor (the pencil-snapping director). Later in the same episode, David Baddiel appears as a dimwitted art collector.
  • Freddy Gorgeous from "A Death in the Family" is played by Perry Benson, who would later be best known for playing Henry Livingstone in You Rang, M'Lord?.
• Moment of Awesome: Eddie calling Jumbo Whiffy a "complacent, misogynistic bumsplat."
• Unintentional Period Piece: The series is jam-packed with references to 1980s popular culture. For example, Episode Two's plotline features Richie being blackmailed by the Nolan Sisters.
• Values Resonance: The skewing of celebrity culture has become more relevant in the intervening years.
• Vindicated by History: It was cancelled after one series and wasn't repeated for years, but it has been rediscovered as a Cult Classic and its satire has become more relevant.

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