More Hogmanay hilarity from the 'Scotch & Wry' gang.
In a pre-opening credits sketch, we see a woman fussing over a hideous lap dog after her husband angrily rebukes it for doing its business on the living room carpet. The woman kisses the dog on the nose, only then does the husband inform her that he punished the dog by rubbing the dog's nose in its mess!
Supercop pulls over a motorist who happens to have the corpse of a woman tied to the roof of the car. Oblivious to the dead body on the car roof, Supercop merely has pulled the man over to inform him that his indicator is faulty. The man gives his name as Dr. Crippen, the infamous wife murderer. Even this does not raise any suspicion from Supercop.
A fever stricken man lies in bed incorrectly quoting Robert Burns poetry whilst his wife mops his sweating brow. A doctor calls and diagnoses him as suffering from terrible burns.
In Santa's grotto, Santa is visited by a teenage punk and his batty mother. The punk's Christmas wish is to work for Santa up at the North Pole. Obviously, Santa cannot help in this matter, however the mother warns Santa if he does not give her son a job, she will have him up before the Trades Descriptions Act!
A belligerent and heavily bandaged man visits a doctor's surgery after sustaining injuries from a fight he started at a football match. After insulting the doctor, he demands medical treatment. The doctor gives him some capsule pills. The man is then horrified to discover that they are laxative pills. "That should get you on the move in no time!", says the doctor smugly!
A drunk man at a party tries to enter a locked bathroom whilst drinking from a wine bottle. Another guest tells him the toilet is out of order and that the other guests have been using the bottle the drunk is drinking from, at which point he looks as though he is about to be sick!
In a set of three individual sketches, a character named Cyril McCluskey - a smooth talking bighead - is seen taking a girl out for dinner in a foreign restaurant ( an Italian restaurant, an Indian restuarant and a Japanese restaurant to be precise ). Each one ending in disaster because of his tactlessness and lack of dining knowledge and etiquette.
At an office party, a man tries to give C. P. R to an unconscious man. He tells another guest that the man got dragged into the pool. "What pool?" asks the guest. "The typing pool!", replies the man, only then for a group of drunk, giggling female typists to drag the terrified guest away!
This is great stuff. By this point Gregor Fisher and Tony Roper, who had joined the show in its second series had gained a lot more television experience and, with their talent for visual and physical comedy not going unnoticed by Rikki Fulton, the two landed more of the comedic roles rather than being landed with just straightman/foil roles. Indeed, as the show goes on, on will notice Rikki becomes more generous sharing the funnies, rather than hogging them for himself. A new female cast member, Judy Sweeney, joins the team here. She made two more appearances in the show for the 1987 and 1988 specials.
The Reverend I. M. Jolly ends this edition by telling us of an accident his wife Ephesia was involved in when she was struck by a double decker bus. "The bus was a write off! When the driver asked what we should do, I told him he should treat her as a double roundabout!''.
Barbara Dickson here performs 'I Remember The Sound Of The Passing Train'.
Funniest sketch - the 'Santa's grotto' sketch. Gregor Fisher is hilarious as the punk, looking like a cross between his 'Rab C. Nesbitt' and Ade Edmondson's Vyvyan from 'The Young Ones'.
Second funniest sketch - the 'medical consultation' sketch, performed impeccably by both Rikki and Gregor.
In a pre-opening credits sketch, we see a woman fussing over a hideous lap dog after her husband angrily rebukes it for doing its business on the living room carpet. The woman kisses the dog on the nose, only then does the husband inform her that he punished the dog by rubbing the dog's nose in its mess!
Supercop pulls over a motorist who happens to have the corpse of a woman tied to the roof of the car. Oblivious to the dead body on the car roof, Supercop merely has pulled the man over to inform him that his indicator is faulty. The man gives his name as Dr. Crippen, the infamous wife murderer. Even this does not raise any suspicion from Supercop.
A fever stricken man lies in bed incorrectly quoting Robert Burns poetry whilst his wife mops his sweating brow. A doctor calls and diagnoses him as suffering from terrible burns.
In Santa's grotto, Santa is visited by a teenage punk and his batty mother. The punk's Christmas wish is to work for Santa up at the North Pole. Obviously, Santa cannot help in this matter, however the mother warns Santa if he does not give her son a job, she will have him up before the Trades Descriptions Act!
A belligerent and heavily bandaged man visits a doctor's surgery after sustaining injuries from a fight he started at a football match. After insulting the doctor, he demands medical treatment. The doctor gives him some capsule pills. The man is then horrified to discover that they are laxative pills. "That should get you on the move in no time!", says the doctor smugly!
A drunk man at a party tries to enter a locked bathroom whilst drinking from a wine bottle. Another guest tells him the toilet is out of order and that the other guests have been using the bottle the drunk is drinking from, at which point he looks as though he is about to be sick!
In a set of three individual sketches, a character named Cyril McCluskey - a smooth talking bighead - is seen taking a girl out for dinner in a foreign restaurant ( an Italian restaurant, an Indian restuarant and a Japanese restaurant to be precise ). Each one ending in disaster because of his tactlessness and lack of dining knowledge and etiquette.
At an office party, a man tries to give C. P. R to an unconscious man. He tells another guest that the man got dragged into the pool. "What pool?" asks the guest. "The typing pool!", replies the man, only then for a group of drunk, giggling female typists to drag the terrified guest away!
This is great stuff. By this point Gregor Fisher and Tony Roper, who had joined the show in its second series had gained a lot more television experience and, with their talent for visual and physical comedy not going unnoticed by Rikki Fulton, the two landed more of the comedic roles rather than being landed with just straightman/foil roles. Indeed, as the show goes on, on will notice Rikki becomes more generous sharing the funnies, rather than hogging them for himself. A new female cast member, Judy Sweeney, joins the team here. She made two more appearances in the show for the 1987 and 1988 specials.
The Reverend I. M. Jolly ends this edition by telling us of an accident his wife Ephesia was involved in when she was struck by a double decker bus. "The bus was a write off! When the driver asked what we should do, I told him he should treat her as a double roundabout!''.
Barbara Dickson here performs 'I Remember The Sound Of The Passing Train'.
Funniest sketch - the 'Santa's grotto' sketch. Gregor Fisher is hilarious as the punk, looking like a cross between his 'Rab C. Nesbitt' and Ade Edmondson's Vyvyan from 'The Young Ones'.
Second funniest sketch - the 'medical consultation' sketch, performed impeccably by both Rikki and Gregor.