He was trying to pork me!
The hotel episode. Richie wants to get revenge on Cannonball Taffy O'Jones for hitting him in face with a cricket ball, so he and Eddie decide to steal his honeymoon. Naturally, it completely backfires.
Tropes
- The Alcoholic: Even by his usual standards, Eddie puts it away in this episode.Eddie: I'll have a large Scotch.Waiter: A double?Eddie: No, half a pint.
- Ambiguously Bi: All over the place even before Eddie dresses up as a woman. The boys seem to have a thing about Ted Rogers (as does Taffy O'Jones, given that he marries a woman who looks just like him). Once Eddie becomes Eddie-wina, Richie has to keep reminding himself that Eddie's a man, while Eddie hits on both women and men (and seems to have more luck with the latter).
- Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering?: Eddie swipes Cannonball Taffy O'Jones's keys.Richie: Are you thinking what I'm thinking?Eddie: I don't know. I'm thinking about that weather girl, Susan Charlton, stripped naked and covered in Marmite, bouncing up and down on a bungee rope. What are you thinking?Richie: Err, something else, actually.
- Becoming the Mask: Eddie really gets into the whole Eddie-wina thing.Eddie: My mother warned me about you, you bastard! [proceeds to beat Richie] You brute! Oh, I've suffered in the name of love! Only women bleed!
Richie: [with nosebleed] Yeah, I think I'd dispute that, Eddie. - Call-Back: This is not the first time Richie has to drag an unconscious Eddie up the stairs.
- Cricket Episode: Alluded to, as the episode begins with the pair returning home from a cricket match. After attempting to use the ball as a masturbatory aid, Richie got knocked unconscious by Cannonball Taffy O'Jones (which was apparently the whole point of the exercise, as the match was held in honour of Taffy getting married, and the opportunity for him to knock Richie out was an early wedding present). Eddie, who was umpiring, gave Richie out even though he only saw the incident from the pub next to the ground.Richie: I tell you, that is the last time I'm stepping out for the Shepherd's Bush Spud-U-Like Irregulars!
- Crossdresser: When the boys pose as a married couple, Eddie dresses up as the wife. Complete with badly-applied make-up and the Fake Boobs on backwards.
- Celebrity Resemblance: Although we never see her, Taffy's bride is said to look like Ted Rogers
. - Disguised in Drag: Eddie as Eddie-wina. Both the hotel maid (who gets hit on by him) and the barman (who flirts with him) appear to be taken in by one of the least convincing examples of a man posing as a woman outside of panto.
- Double Entendre: As per usual for Bottom.Waiter: What would you like, madam? Entrée?Richie: What do you mean? Here in the restaurant? I'd rather not.
- Drives Like Crazy: Richie. But then, he has been told (by Eddie) that you need to drink Special Brew in order to drive.
- Fake Boobs: Eddie puts them on backwards.
- Female Groin Invincibility: Eddie and Richie pretend to be a married couple to steal the real newlyweds' honeymoon and rack up as big a bill as possible (to spite the husband, whom Richie has a grudge against). Eddie, disguised as the wife, is kicked in the crotch by Richie.Eddie: Oooh, me bol-me girl's bits! Oooh, me nothing-at-alls! It's lucky I am a girl, otherwise that would have really hurt!
- Groin Attack: Eddie-wina gets a few.
- Had the Silly Thing in Reverse: How Richie manages to ram-raid the off-licence with Taffy's car.
- Les Yay: In-universe; Eddie (as Eddie-wina) tries to invoke this more than once in order to pull women.
- Noodle Incident: Cannonball Taffy O'Jones's stag cricket match just before the episode, in which Taffy was given, and took, the opportunity to knock Richie unconscious as an early wedding present.
- Oh, Crap!: Richie and Eddie have one of these moments at the end when Taffy O'Jones shows up.
- Poke the Poodle: Richie's initial plan is to get into Taffy's car ... and leave the light on so he'll get a flat battery in a couple of weeks.
- Rhetorical Question Blunder: Of a sort.Richie: Did you check the pockets?Eddie: [smiling] Is the Pope Jewish?Richie: No.Eddie: [surprised] Isn't he?Richie: No.Eddie: Oh. Well, I checked 'em anyway.
- Shout-Out: A few.
- A subtle one to Open All Hours, as the owner of the shop that Richie and Eddie accidentally ram-raid is wearing the same kind of long, brown coat that Arkwright does in that series.
- When they are driving Taffy's car, Richie compares him and Eddie to Thelma & Louise.
- Richie's very bad impression of Leonard Rossiter consists of repeating his character's catchphrase from Rising Damp.
- Richie refers to Eddie (as Eddie-wina) as "she who must be obeyed".
- There Is Only One Bed: Richie, being the man (who is not disguised as a woman), offers to sleep on the sofa. After Eddie beats him up.
- Think Unsexy Thoughts: Even though he's not the most convincing of cross-dressers, Richie has to keep reminding himself that Eddie is a man.
- Toilet Humour: Eddie (as Eddie-wina) uses the ladies' toilet. Being totally unfamiliar with the layout of such places (and evidently totally unfamiliar with how women urinate), he hitches up his dress and pisses in the sink.Eddie: It's no wonder us birds wear high heels. These urinals are a bit on the high side, aren't they?
