Bottom Live 2003: Weapons Grade Y-Fronts Tour

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Bottom Live 2003: Weapons Grade Y-Fronts Tour is a live stage show based on the UK TV series Bottom. It ran in 2003 (ten years after the first stage show) and was recorded for VHS and DVD release at the Cliffs Pavilion Theatre in Southend. It was written and starred Rik Mayall as Richie and Adrian Edmondson as Eddie

[edit] Plot

No longer on Hooligan’s Island, Richie and Eddie find themselves back in their flat. Having locked himself in the lavatory for two weeks, Eddie is disrupted when Richie barges in, discovering that his friend has transformed the room into a laboratory. Inside are various inventions, including "The Evacuator", a super-powerful vacuum cleaner that Eddie uses as a toilet, "The Patent Painless Tattoo Remover", alias a blunt hammer, and "Weapons Grade Lager", a self-perpetuating alcoholic drink that leads to a prolonged period of unconsciousness. Richie then discovers a trunk sent to him from his deceased uncle. Inside are the plans for the various inventions Eddie has stolen. However, one invention remains untouched: The Elixir of Life. Richie hurriedly drinks the potion but is shocked when Eddie discovers that the substance is deadly. In order to save his friend, Eddie uses his very own time-travelling toilet ("The TURDIS"), to reverse time and stop Richie drinking the Elixir. Fully restored the two friends then realise that they can use the time machine to reach the bar of the theatre before the audience, and depart immediately.

Act 2 opens with Richie and Eddie continuing their search for the bar, having found themselves unsuccessful for three years. In the course of their escapades, Eddie manages to lodge Richie's head in the door of the TURDIS (only to dislodge it again with a stick of dynamite), Richie is forced to re-power the ship via the friction caused by him pleasuring himself (leading to a mass-heckle from the theatre audience as orchestrated by Eddie), and finally the pair discover themselves travelling further and further back through time, right back to the beginning of time itself. After a narrow escape from his shrinking underpants (triggered by the reversal of time), Eddie joins Richie as they discover the meaning of everything: pants, and they depart by singing an ode to the ever-useful undergarment.

[edit] Trivia

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The song at the end of the show is the same as was sung in the previous live show, Bottom Live 2001: An Arse Oddity
Also similar to the previous show, reference is made to Rik Mayall’s quad bike accident.
The name of Eddie’s time machine, the “TURDIS”, is a reference to the TARDIS, the ship used by Doctor Who
After Richie says to Eddie that with the power of the TURDIS, they're able to do some "really old material". With that, both Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson quote a line of dialogue each from their "Young Ones" alter-egos, Rick and Vyvyan, following a huge applause.