Line #3 Recap/BottomParade


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3	The Sad Ken episode. The boys are taking part in an identity parade for Spudgun's mum who was recently mugged. Turns out, though, the whole thing was a plan to scam the police for money. Everyone goes to the pub to celebrate. It so happens that there's a new barmaid, so everyone tries to scam free drinks and Richie tries to chat her up. While all this is going on, Tight-mouthed Larry the bookmaker turns up and tells everyone that racehorse Sad Ken is a dead cert in a race being held later that day.
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5	Richie chats to a Falklands veteran (who, unlike him, is an ''actual'' Falklands veteran) and finds out that he has a hand-carved, wooden false leg that cost £2,000. The boys get the veteran drunk and steal it so that Eddie can pawn it, take the cash to the bookie's and place a bet on Sad Ken. Alas, Sad Ken [[TheAllegedSteed isn't the wonder horse Larry made him out to be]] and he ''and his jockey'' are both shot during the race. When Eddie comes back to the pub, Dick reveals it was all a scam by him and Larry. The barmaid (who's actually Dick's niece) was in on it.
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7	Desperate for money to get the veteran's leg back from the pawnbroker, Richie and Eddie decide to mug someone. Unfortunately, their chosen victim turns out to be a police officer.
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9	!!Tropes
10	* AbhorrentAdmirer: Richie quickly becomes this when he tries to chat up the barmaid.
11	* TheAllegedSteed: Sad Ken is a blind, three-legged horse who is entered into the 3:30 at Chepstow, presumably due to an act of charity by the UsefulNotes/HorseRacing authorities. Naturally, his odds are very long (a hundred to one), but Larry tricks everyone into thinking that Sad Ken is in fact a dead cert. His performance [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome is about as good as you'd expect]].
12	-->'''TV Commentator''': And they're off! Well, they're nearly all off. There, still stuck in the stalls, is Sad Ken. Oh, he's off now, he's gone in completely the wrong direction, rather slowly. I must say, I think it's rather sporting of them to enter a three-legged, blind horse this afternoon. And he's in a tree! He's in a tree, and he's down. Oh well, back now we go to the leaders. Oh, no, no, back with Sad Ken now, and I'm afraid they've had to shoot him. Yes, Sad Ken has been shot! And so has the jockey.
13	* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Richie's status as this is demonstrated in many episodes of the series, but never more so than here, when everyone in the Lamb and Flag turns against him, ''Eddie included''.
14	* BatmanGambit: By hiring his niece as a barmaid, Dick is pulling one of these as the regulars all use the fact that there's a new face behind the bar to scam free drinks -- which is what Dick wants, as he needs them to be drunk so they'll fall for his and Larry's scam.
15	* BavarianFireDrill: Of sorts. On seeing a new barmaid in the pub, everyone pretends to be pub inspectors from the government to get free drinks. Subverted, though, as the barmaid is actually in on Dick and Larry's scam and has been instructed to make sure everyone gets drunk.
16	* {{Blackmail}}: Eddie gets £500 for the leg by reminding Harry the Bastard that he still has a picture of Harry with a Chippendale and industrial-sized tub of Swarfega.
17	* {{Bookends}}: The episode begins and ends with an identity parade at the local police station.
18	* BullyingTheDragon: Richie starts a fight with an actual Falklands veteran and gets his arse handed to him.
19	* CallBack: This is not the first time that [[Recap/BottomSmells Richie has loudly suggested that Eddie join him in the pub toilet]]. This time, though, they use the condom machine to attack someone.
20	* TheCon: Two in this episode.
21	** The identity parade at the start is the result of one of these — Spudgun's mum falsely reported to the police that she'd been mugged. The police got the identity parade together and gave everyone who attended (including Richie and Eddie) a backhander. Which was the whole point.
22	** For the main plotline, Dick Head and Tight-mouthed Larry are in it together. Dick ensures that everyone gets drunk by telling the barmaid (his niece) to let them get away with scamming free drinks. By the time Larry shows up with the fake hot tip, no-one's sober enough to question why this usually taciturn man has suddenly become so talkative, or point out the flaws in his information. They all therefore go to the bookie's and hand over as much money as they can get hold of from the pawning all their stuff. Larry cleans up as a result, making a £14,000 profit. Taking the £2,000 loss at the bar into account, that's £6,000 each for Larry and Dick.
23	-->'''Richie and Eddie''': Bastards!
24	* DoYouWantToHaggle: Eddie tries to sell a hand-carved wooden leg to a pawnshop for money to bet on a racehorse. He tries to haggle with the pawnbroker, with mixed results:
25	-->'''Pawnbroker''': Must be worth at least two and a half grand, I'll give you one pound fifty for it.
26	-->'''Eddie''': Um, let's haggle.
27	-->'''Pawnbroker''': Alright, a pound.
28	-->'''Eddie''': No, let's haggle upwards.
29	-->'''Pawnbroker''': Alright, 50p!
30	-->'''Eddie''': Blimey, they don't call you "Harry the Bastard" for nothing, do they?
31	-->'''Pawnbroker''': They don't, my name's Ted!
32	* IAmOneOfThoseToo: Richie's made-up stories about having fought in the Falklands fall flat when he encounters a man who actually did.
33	* InVinoVeritas: Tight-Mouth Larry the bookie tells the lads of Sad Ken being a dead cert despite his long odds. It's all a load of bollocks in the end, though.
34	* MassOhCrap: Everyone watching the race on the TV in the bookie's has this reaction as Sad Ken's performance goes from bad to worse.
35	* MistakenForGay: When Richie calls Eddie into the gents because they need lots of money, Eddie thinks Richie is going to try cottaging to get it.
36	* NoodleIncident: We don't actually see what happens to Sad Ken; we've just got the sound from the TV commentary and everyone's reactions to go on. Quite how any racehorse (let alone a blind, three-legged one) would end up in a tree is anyone's guess.
37	* OhCrap: Richie and Eddie mug the first person to enter the toilet. It's the chief inspector, leading them to have this reaction.
38	* OneShotCharacter: This is the only episode in which Spudgun's mum appears, although she is clearly well-known to the boys.
39	* PhonyVeteran: Richie's attempt to cop off with the barmaid by using his Falklands story is ruined by Eddie ("This is all a load of bollocks!") and an IAmOneOfThoseToo encounter with a real disabled Falklands veteran who happens to be sat next to him at the bar.
40	* PoliceBrutality: Spudgun's mum is taken out for a drubbing after the identity parade. At the end, several coppers attack Richie and Eddie in revenge for their attack on Chief Inspector Grobbelaar.
41	* PoliceLineup: Hedgehog, Spudgun and Spudgun's mum get the police to assemble a line-up due to an alleged petty crime, and collect a small payment for their services as stand-in members of said line-up. HilarityEnsues, as usual.
42	* RealAwardFictionalCharacter: The Falklands veteran won the George Cross [[note]] although in actual fact, none of those were awarded during the Falklands War [[/note]].
43	* RefugeInAudacity: When Sad Ken falls over, the racing authorities don't just shoot him, they shoot the jockey who was riding him as well.
44	* TheReveal: Dick and Larry scammed everyone. The barmaid, Dick's niece Veronica, was in on it too.
45	* SelfPlagiarism: "Harry The Bastard" is an important character in "Nasty", an episode of ''Series/TheYoungOnes''.
46	* ServileSnarker: Veronica the barmaid gives as good as she gets. Since she's Dick's niece, it presumably runs in the family.
47	* ASimplePlan: The duo try to steal a UsefulNotes/FalklandsWar veteran's leg to put the money on a blind, three-legged, racehorse. When that fails due to said horse getting shot, the following plan of mugging people in the toilets to buy the leg back is foiled by the first victim — a police officer.
48	* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: The performance of a blind, three-legged racehorse goes about as well as you'd expect [[note]] although to be fair, Eddie, Spudgun, Hedgehog and the rest don't know about Sad Ken's disabilities until they watch the race on TV [[/note]]. The same goes for Richie challenging a former paratrooper to a fight -- just having one leg doesn't impair the guy at all.
49	* {{Tuckerization}}: The names of the Chief Inspector (Grobbelaar) and the veteran (Mr. N. Stiles, according to the credits) appear to reference football players Bruce Grobbelaar and Nobby Stiles. At the time, Grobbelaar was the [[UsefulNotes/BritishFootyTeams Liverpool]] goalkeeper. Stiles (who, like the veteran presumably, was long retired) had played for England in the 1966 World Cup final, which is possibly what the veteran displaying his medal alludes to.

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