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Two perpetually bored and broke flatmates waste their days in a futile struggle to get laid, earn cash, and not kill one another.

Genre: Comedy

Cast:Adrian Edmondson , Rik Mayall , Steven O'Donnell , Christopher Ryan , Lee Cornes , Rupert Bates , Helen Lederer , Roger Sloman , Robert McKewley , Brian Glover , Mark Arden , David Lloyd , Evie Garratt , Lisa Maxwell , Kelly Hunter , Robert Ashe , Victor Spinetti , John Abbott

1Season 1

S1.E1 ∙ Smells

Tue, Sep 17, 1991

After a bad night down the pub failing to pick up women, Richie is depressed because nobody wants to have sex with him. He finds a 'Sex Spray' that promises to make him attractive to women, and he and Eddie return to the pub to see if the stuff actually works.

2Season 1

S1.E2 ∙ Gas

Tue, Sep 24, 1991

Richie and Eddie are visited by a man from the Gas board. Afraid that their pipeline from next door is about to be rumbled they desperately try to cover their tracks. Murder, cannibalism and bus surfing are possible solutions.

3Season 1

S1.E3 ∙ Contest

Mon, Sep 30, 1991

Eddie comes home from a very bad day at work and Richie finds Eddie is not paying the rent and has only got £11.80 which he has spent on a adult magazine. But Richie finds Eddie has put on a bet on the Miss World contest on TV.

4Season 1

S1.E4 ∙ Apocalypse

Mon, Oct 7, 1991

After inheriting from his recently deceased Auntie Olga £600.00. Richie and Eddie heads off down the funfair, where Richie's wallet gets stolen, and Richie learns from a fortune-teller that he is going to die in 3 nights. Eddie and Richie set out to prevent Richie's fate and Richie is visited by the Grim Repear who is in the form of Eddie.

5Season 1

S1.E5 ∙ 's Up

Mon, Oct 14, 1991

Richie and Eddie are left in charge of their landlord Mr. Harrison's shop as Mr. Harrison leaves to attend a funeral. But Eddie decides he'd rather watch a game of cricket and is not going to let relaxing on Sunday stop them. Richie reveals to Eddie that he is half red Indian who can predict the weather and Eddie thinks it has something to do with last night's curry.

6Season 1

S1.E6 ∙ Accident

Mon, Oct 28, 1991

It is Richie's birthday and Richie is planning a big party for all his friends, Eddie's friends and all the women. But Richie has accident whilst putting up the decorations and breaks his leg and ends up in a wheelchair. Only Eddie's mates Spudgun and Dave Hedgehog shows up at the party and Richie learns he has no friends and he is willing to let being a wheelchair ruin his birthday.

1Season 2

S2.E1 ∙ Digger

Thu, Oct 1, 1992

Richie and Eddie joins Lily Lineker's Love Bureau dating service in hoping of finding the perfect women. Eddie gets a date with Sarah Ferguson; Richie finds himself on a date with Lady Natasha Letitia Sarah Jane Wettesley Olstomsky Ponsonsky Smythe Smythe Smythe Oblomov Dub, Countess of Moldavia. Richie pretends to be a eccentric millionaire, and Eddie plays along by pretending to be his butler.

2Season 2

S2.E2 ∙ Burglary

Thu, Oct 8, 1992

When Eddie returns home all drunk on a bottle of Old Spice, Richie and Eddie find their flat being burgled and manages to catch one of the burglars. When Richie and Eddie ties up the Burgular with sellotape, Richie and Eddie tries to think what to do with him and the loot he has burgled from other houses. Should they kill the Burgular than hand him over to the local police? or kill him or should they keep the loot for themselves and move away to the Bahamas?

3Season 2

S2.E3 ∙ Culture

Thu, Oct 15, 1992

Richie and Eddie are depressed when their TV set is taken away when they fail to pay the rent and cannot think of anything to keep themselves occupied. Richie decides to challenge Eddie at playing some games, including "How much custard can you put in your underpants" and chess. Richie and Eddie decide to play chess by using various items in the house to replace the missing pieces.

4Season 2

S2.E4 ∙ Parade

Thu, Oct 22, 1992

After taking part in a identity parade at the local police station where Spudgun is being accused of stealing his mother Mrs. Potato's handbag, Richie and Eddie heads down to the Lamb and Flag pub where Richie gets into a argument with a one-legged Falklands war veteran, by pretending he also fought in the Falklands war and Richie and Eddie places a bet on a horse Sad Ken in a horse-race and gets the money from antiques dealer Ted in exchange for the one-legged Falklands war veteran's false leg.

5Season 2

S2.E5 ∙ Holy

Thu, Oct 29, 1992

It's Christmas day and Richie is cooking the dinner to which Dave Hedgehog and Spudgun are invited. Dinner is not up to Michelin standard, but Richie's day improves when he finds out he is the son of God.

6Season 2

S2.E6 ∙ 'S Out

Mon, Apr 10, 1995

Richard and Eddie are camping out on Wimbledon Common. Eddie has brought the tin opener but Richie has forgotten the tins. How will they survive? Chocolate Hob-Nobs and hedgehogs may be the solution.

1Season 3

S3.E1 ∙ Hole

Fri, Jan 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!

2Season 3

S3.E2 ∙ Terror

Fri, Jan 13, 1995

On Halloween, after losing the "Spot the Balls" competition and being visited by trick-or-treaters, Richie and Eddie decide to have a party, but first they go trick-or-treating themselves, attempting to get money for beer for the party. Richie dresses up as a devil and dresses Eddie up as a banana; Eddie arms himself with an electric cattle prod. When Richie and Eddie invite Spudgun and Hedgehog back to the flat, 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.

3Season 3

S3.E3 ∙ Break

Fri, Jan 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.

4Season 3

S3.E4 ∙ Dough

Fri, Jan 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.

5Season 3

S3.E5 ∙ Finger

Fri, Feb 3, 1995

Eddie steals a car belonging to rugby captain 'Cannonball' Taffy O'Jones; in it are the hotel tickets for Cannonball and his new bride. Intent on having a free holiday, Richie and Eddie turn up at the honeymoon hotel, though Eddie is not happy at having to impersonate a woman and share a bed with Richie. The pair are even less happy when 'Cannonball' Taffy O'Jones finally catches up with them looking for retribution.

6Season 3

S3.E6 ∙ Carnival

Fri, Feb 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 that the video tape is a dirty video of Prime Minister John Major.