History Recap / BottomDigger

* FakeAristocrat: In order to get a date, Richie claims to be the Duke of Kidderminster, an eccentric (and inbred) millionaire.

-->What do you mean, it's crap? It's got eight bodies at the end, and he gets to shag his mum!

-->Where's my bloody quill? I bought five of them yesterday!

* WouldHitAGirl: {{Played For Laughs}}. Eddie gets into a brief tussle with a female charity collector before taking her tin and knocking her out with a hammer.

* FakeAristocrat: In order to get a date, Richie claims to be the Duke of Kidderminster.

* LousyLoversAreLosers: {{Invoked|Trope}} at the end of the episode. Richie loses out on his chance to sleep with the Viscountess after he passes out due to the excitement of [[YouCanLeaveYourHatOn seeing her strip naked]]. When he wakes up in an ambulance, Eddie accidentally lets it slip that while they were waiting for the ambulance, the Viscountess seduced ''him''. He tries to comfort Richie by saying she was "crap in bed" but it's clear [[SexGoddess the opposite is true]] and Richie zaps Eddie with the heart defibrillator in revenge.
* MockMillionaire: Richie and Eddie join a dating service, and Richie gets a date with Lady Natasha Letita Sarah Jane Wettesley Olstomsky Ponsonsky Smythe Smythe Smythe Oblomov Dub, Countess of Moldavia. Richie pretends to be an eccentric millionaire with Eddie as his butler.

* OverlyLongName: Lady Natasha Letitia Sarah Jane Wellesley Obstromsky Ponsonsky Smythe Smythe Smythe Smythe Smythe Oblomov Boblomov Dob, 3rd Viscountess of Moldavia[[note]]Sounds great, we'll have half a dozen![[/note]].

* {{Tuckerization}}: The owner of the dating agency is called Lily Lineker and the charity collector is a Mrs Gascoigne. This refers to Gary Lineker and Paul Gascoigne, footballers who played for [[UsefulNotes/BritishFootyTeams Tottenham Hotspur]] and England in the early 1990s [[note]] although by the time this episode was broadcast in late 1992, neither of them did — by then, Lineker had transferred to the Japanese club Grampus Eight and from international football, while Gascoigne had transferred to the Italian club Lazio [[/note]].

* {{Tuckerization}}: The owner of the dating agency is called Lily Linneker and the charity collector Mrs Gascoigne. This refers to Gary Lineker and Paul Gascoigne, footballers who played for [[UsefulNotes/BritishFootyTeams Tottenham Hotspur]] and England in the early 1990s [[note]] although by the time this episode was broadcast in late 1992, neither of them did — by then, Lineker had transferred to the Japanese club Grampus Eight and from international football, while Gascoigne had transferred to the Italian club Lazio [[/note]].

* {{Tuckerization}}: The owner of the dating agency is called Lily Linneker and the charity collector Mrs Gascoigne. This refers to Gary Lineker and Paul Gascoigne, footballers who at the time both played for [[UsefulNotes/BritishFootyTeams Tottenham Hotspur]] and England.

* {{Tuckerization}}: The owner of the dating agency is called Lily Linneker and the charity collector Mrs Gascoigne. This refers to Gary Lineker and Paul Gascoigne, footballers who at the time both played for [[UsefulNotes/BritishFootyTeam Tottenham Hotspur]] and England.

The dating episode. boys haven't had much luck with the ladies so they come to a dating agency were they both manage to get a date, Eddie refuses Sarah Ferguson. The two go back to the flat to prepare for Richie's date which almost results in Richie almost having sex.

* DrunkOnMilk: Richie reels from a nerve-steadying shot of Tizer[[note]]A kind of soft drink popular in the UK[[/note]].

%%* IAteWhat: Richie takes a gulp of 'caviar' before Eddie informs him it is fish poo. %%What was his reaction after he found out?

* {{Tuckerization}}: The owner of the dating agency is called Lily Linneker and the charity collector Mrs Gascoigne. This refers to Gary Lineker and Paul Gascoigne, at the time both stars of Tottenham Hotspur F.C. and of the England football team.

* IncrediblyLamePun: The Polo Lounge has a tray of Polo mints.

* LiteralMetaphor: Eddie boasts to Natasha that he has a few quid flying around. To illustrate this he reaches into his pocket for change and throws it on the floor.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: Moldavia is a real place - a principality in Eastern Europe near the Black Sea until the 19th century. Now divided between Moldova and Romania.

The boys haven't had much luck with the ladies so they come to a dating agency were they both manage to get a date, Eddie refuses Sarah Ferguson. The two go back to the flat to prepare for Richie's date which almost results in Richie almost having sex.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: Moldavia is a real place - a principality in Eastern Europe near the Black Sea until the 19th century.

* OverlyLongName: Lady Natasha Letitia Sarah Jane Wellesley Obstromsky Ponsonsky Smythe Smythe Smythe Smythe Smythe Oblomov Boblomov Dob, 3rd Viscountness of Moldavia[[note]]Sounds great, we'll have half a dozen![[/note]].

* Tuckerization: The owner of the dating agency is called Mrs Linneker and the charity collector Mrs Gascoigne. This refers to Gary Lineker and Paul Gascoigne, at the time both stars of Tottenham Hotspur F.C. and of the England football team.

-->'''Richie:''' Let's just forget it, shall we?
-->'''Eddie:''' That's what she said!
-->'''Richie:''' Let's just drop it.
-->'''Eddie:''' She said that as well!
-->'''Richie:''' Edward Hitler, I'm really not interested.
-->'''Eddie:''' This is uncanny! Were you there?

* IAteWhat: Richie takes a gulp of 'caviar' before Eddie informs him it is fish poo.

* NoodleIncident: Eddie once fell in love with a girl called Harry Belafonte.

* AccidentalInnuendo: Richie is nervous before his date.
-->'''Richie:''' I need a stiff one.
-->'''Eddie:''' There'll be plenty of time for that later.

* DrunkOnMilk: Richie reels from a shot of Tizer.

* OverlyLongName: Lady Natasha Letitia Sarah Jane Wellesley Obstromsky Ponsonsky Smythe Smythe Smythe Smythe Smythe Oblomov Boblomov Dob, 3rd Viscountness of Moldavia.
* ThatsWhatSheSaid: Quoted verbatim by Eddie.

* AccidentalInnuendo:
-->'''Richie:''' I need a stiff one.
-->'''Eddie:''' There's plenty of time for that later.
-->'''Richie:''' I meant a drink, you fool!

* UseYourHead: Richie makes use of Eddie as a potato masher.

* IncerdiblyLamePun: The Polo Lounge has a tray of Polo mints.

-->'''Eddie:''' There's be plenty of time for that later.

The boys haven't had much luck with the ladies so they come to a dating agency were they both manage to get a date, Eddie refuses Sarah Ferguson. The two go back to the flat to prepare for Richie's date which almost results in Richie almost having sex.