-> ''GAS MAN!''

The gas episode. The two have been stealing gas from their neighbour, and a man from the gas board has been called out to investigate. When he notices that the meter is running precisely zero, the two try to stop him from checking next door's. He eventually leaves and two attempt to break into next door, a task made more complicated by the fact that their neighbour, Mr. Rottweiler, is having a romantic evening with his girlfriend.

They manage to get inside, and Eddie takes out the illegal gas siphon they connected to next door's supply pipe, which results in an explosion.

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* AmbiguousSituation: If Mr. Rottweiler was the neighbour who complained about having too large a gas bill (which is highly likely), how come the gas man didn't go to see him first?
** He's just the guy who reads the meter. The higher-ups at the gas board may have sent him to read everyone's meters so they'd have some up-to-date information on who's using how much gas in the building. If so, they probably didn't bother to tell him who made the initial complaint.
* AmusingInjuries: The duo hit the gas man over the head repeatedly with a frying pan and punch him, then (when they think he is dead) proceed to punch him some more, inflate him with a bicycle pump ("How does he look?" "Fatter."), electrocute him with wires, stick a fork in his groin after deciding to try eating him, jump up and down on top of him to flatten him down underneath the carpet and are then about to toss him out of the window on top of a bus when he wakes up, alive and well.
* BatterUp: Averted; Eddie initially wields a cricket bat with the intent of knocking the gas man out, but when he actually does so, he uses a frying pan.
* BigEater: Eddie gets distracted from the task of disconnecting the gas pipe by the food in Mr. Rottweiler's fridge. He ends up eating most of it, and looks noticeably heavier for the rest of the episode. Although curiosity, given Eddie's [[TheAlcoholic alcoholism]], he doesn't go for the beer.
* {{Calvinball}}: Eddie's version is the card game 'One Card Slam' in which Eddie turns over a single card and demands twelve quid from Richie. Since Richie knows nothing about card games (to the extent of not spotting anything amiss about Eddie's ''five'' king poker hand) this works very well for Eddie.
* CaptainOblivious: Both Mr. Rottweiler and his girlfriend sleep through Richie and Eddie breaking into their bedroom by smashing a hole in the wall with a sledgehammer. Rottweiler has also failed to notice the gas siphon that Richie and Eddie set up in his kitchen, what with the gas board only sending someone round to investigate after someone (him, presumably) complained about the bill.
* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: {{Lampshaded}}. When the duo's scheme results in them breaking into the next door neighbour's flat to turn the gas off and Richie ends up in bed with the man, Richie questions why they didn't just pay their gas bill.
* CrankyNeighbour: Mr. Rottweiler, so very much. Although quite frankly, anyone living next to Richie and Eddie would inevitably become one of these at some point.
* DestructoNookie: Mr. Rottweiler's bed gets broken by the threesome that occurs when Richie inadvertently gets involved. Neither Rottweiler nor his girlfriend notice Richie, and both appear to be turned on by the fact that they managed to break the bed.
* DistractedByTheSexy: Well, by the sex. Their way into Mr. Rottweiler's flat takes them past his bedroom window, so naturally they stop to watch him and his girlfriend doing it. Later on, Richie can't resist taking a peek under the covers at Rottweiler's girlfriend, only to end up in bed with both of them.
* FiveAcesCheater: Eddie, whose poker hand consists of five kings. Fortunately for him, Richie (who has himself tried to cheat by hiding various cards about his person) has no idea of the actual rules.
* ForgotToPayTheBill: {{Subverted}}. Richie and Eddie have ''not'' forgotten to pay their gas bill; instead, they've been stealing from the neighbour's gas line so that they don't ''need'' to pay the bill. Unfortunately for them, the gas board has sent someone round to investigate.
* HeadTiltinglyKinky. The sight of Mr. Rottweiler and his girlfriend having sex is clearly this for Richie and Eddie.
* HiddenDepths: Idiots they may be, but Richie and Eddie have still managed to steal gas from their (somewhat antagonistic) neighbour for some time.
* ItAmusedMe: When Richie asks Eddie why he kept hitting the gas man with a frying pan when the guy was clearly already unconscious, he replies: "For fun".
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: When they think they've killed the gas man, their first response is to try and invoke this.
* RageBreakingPoint: Rottweiler flips when he finds out from the gas man that Richie and Eddie were in his flat. The episode ends with him throttling both of them at the same time.
* RiddleForTheAges: When you realise that Mr. Rottweiler seems like a rather violent chap who has presumably had cause to be annoyed with Richie and Eddie in the past, you can't help but wonder how they were able to set up their siphon equipment in his kitchen the first place.
* SelfPlagiarism: Richie objects to Eddie cutting up the gas man with cutlery, because they have to eat off them. The same joke appeared in ''Series/TheYoungOnes'' episode "Sick", where Rik objected to Vyvyan using cutlery to perform acupuncture on Neil to stop his sneezing.
* ASimplePlan: Richie and Eddie have been stealing from the neighbour's gas line; now they have to come up with a way to disconnect it without getting caught. The kitchen explodes into a fireball in the process.
-->'''Richie:''' What the bloody hell are you doing?!\\
'''Eddie:''' I just thought I'd burn it off.\\
'''Richie:''' What, your face?
* StuffBlowingUp: Rottweiler's kitchen.
* VehicleRoofBodyDisposal: Richie and Eddie believe they've managed to kill the gas man when they knocked him out with a frying pan (and hit him a few more times after he hit the floor for good measure). They decide to add an extra entry to his diary ("left in high spirits, to indulge in my hobby of bus surfing") and throw his body out of the window onto the roof of a double decker bus. The plan is then aborted when the man comes round.
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