History Series / TheSmellOfReevesAndMortimer

* GutturalGrowler: "Over there BY THE BEEFBURGERS!"

Rather than ''Big Night Out''`s parody of variety shows, ''The Smell'' was a sketch show interspersed with Vic and Bob sitting at their desk and doing surreal things before an audience, a format which would later be built upon for ''Series/ShootingStars''. Filling the role of Les as assistant was the incoherent Uncle Peter (comedian Charlie Chuck) and guest actors included Creator/MattLucas and creator/DavidWalliams (later of ''Series/LittleBritain'') and Simon Day, Charlie Higson and Paul Whitehouse (later of ''Series/TheFastShow''). The show also contained spoofs of then popular TV programmes, as well as adverts for bizarre products the duo were supposedly peddling.

Rather than ''Big Night Out''`s parody of variety shows, ''The Smell'' was a sketch show interspersed with Vic and Bob sitting at their desk and doing surreal things before an audience, a format which would later be built upon for ''Series/ShootingStars''. Filling the role of Les as assistant was the incoherent Uncle Peter (comedian Charlie Chuck) and guest actors included Matt Lucas and David Walliams (later of ''Series/LittleBritain'') and Simon Day, Charlie Higson and Paul Whitehouse (later of ''Series/TheFastShow''). The show also contained spoofs of then popular TV programmes, as well as adverts for bizarre products the duo were supposedly peddling.

* SpringtimeForHitler: Vic gives Bob chat-up lines for a woman called Chantelle, but all the things he's written for Bob are either insulting comments about Chantelle's GagNose or comments about Bob having an STD. Ultimately, however, Chantelle thinks Bob's insults are flirty comments, and they leave the studio together. Vic, nonplussed, tries the same thing with American model Patrice- [[SubvertedTrope but Patrice takes the insults to be exactly what they are, and furiously berates Vic while beating him with her handbag.]]

* SpiritualSuccessor: Between the mock-variety show format and the dynamic between Vic and Bob, the series often comes off as a more surrealistic version of Creator/MorecambeAndWise. This is especially evident in a series of RunningGags involving Bob (usually) attempting to do a 'serious' piece (albeit with a rather silly twist, such as his attempt to sing Barbara Streisand's "The Way We Were" while wearing a pair of skies), with Vic popping up in the background to distract, upstage or otherwise annoy him. This reflects the familiar dynamic of Ernie Wise as the deluded would-be 'serious' artist and Eric Morecambe as the clown happily-if-obliviously puncturing his pretensions.

In 1999 the two revived the format under the name ''Series/Bang BangItsReevesAndMortimer'', which will also be covered here as it is essentially a third series in all but name. Even more surreal than their earlier work, Reeves and Mortimer considered it superior but it was less popular with the fans, perhaps because each episode was weighed down by a large part of it being devoted to a single recurring setting called ''The Club'', which was somewhat divisive. ''Bang Bang'' also developed some characters and concepts that had been introduced in ''The Smell'', such as Tom Fun.

In 1999 the two revived the format under the name ''Bang Bang It's Reeves and Mortimer'', which will also be covered here as it is essentially a third series in all but name. Even more surreal than their earlier work, Reeves and Mortimer considered it superior but it was less popular with the fans, perhaps because each episode was weighed down by a large part of it being devoted to a single recurring setting called ''The Club'', which was somewhat divisive. ''Bang Bang'' also developed some characters and concepts that had been introduced in ''The Smell'', such as Tom Fun.

* VoiceOfDramatic: Patrick Allen.

* {{Corpsing}}: Quite frequent, but memorable occasions include Vic's false moustache [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi60CCM9jZU falling off]], and Music/{{Sting}} [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4Zot1i7bJk collapsing with laughter]] during his interview with the Stotts.

** Particularly noticeable in the parodies of TV shows, which insert completely random aspects as often as they actually play on real characteristics of the people and shows involved. For example, Melvyn Bragg of ''The South Bank Show'' is obsessed with his bicycle, Hugh Scully of ''The Antiques Roadshow'' is [[EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys constantly surrounded by stuffed monkeys]], and John Craven of ''Countryfile'' is a lecherous pervert who always finishes every sentence in a [[Series/DoctorWho Dalek-esque]] monotone yell.

* GuturralGrowler: "Over there BY THE BEEFBURGERS!"

Rather than ''Big Night Out''`s parody of variety shows, ''The Smell'' was a sketch show interspersed with Vic and Bob sitting at their desk and doing surreal things before an audience, a format which would later be built upon for ''Series/ShootingStars''. An intermittent character was the incoherent Uncle Peter (comedian Charlie Chuck) and guest actors included Matt Lucas and David Walliams (later of ''Series/LittleBritain'') and Simon Day, Charlie Higson and Paul Whitehouse (later of ''Series/TheFastShow''). The show also contained spoofs of then popular TV programmes, as well as adverts for bizarre products the duo were supposedly peddling.

Rather than ''Big Night Out''`s parody of variety shows, ''The Smell'' was a sketch show interspersed with Vic and Bob sitting at their desk and doing surreal things before an audience, a format which would later be built upon for ''Series/ShootingStars''. An intermittent character was the incoherent Uncle Peter (comedian Charlie Chuck) and guest actors included Matt Lucas and David Walliams (later of ''Series/LittleBritain'') and Simon Day, Charlie Higson and Paul Whitehouse (later of ''Series/TheFastShow'').

The duo returned to the sketch format yet again with ''Vic and Bob's Big Night Out'', which can be summed up as a mishmash of ''Smell'' and ''Big Night Out'', in 2018.

In 1999 the two revived the format under the name ''Bang Bang It's Reeves and Mortimer'', which will also be covered here as it is essentially a third series in all but name. Even more surreal than their earlier work, Reeves and Mortimer considered it superior but it was less popular with the fans, perhaps because each episode was weighed down by a large part of it being devoted to a single recurring setting called ''The Club'', which was somewhat divisive. ''Bang Bang'' also developed some characters and concepts that had been introduced in ''The Smell'', such as Tom Fun. The duo returned to the sketch format yet again with ''Vic and Bob's Big Night Out'', which can be summed up as a mishmash of ''Smell'' and ''Big Night Out'', in 2018.

In 1999 the two revived the format under the name ''Bang Bang It's Reeves and Mortimer'', which will also be covered here as it is essentially a third series in all but name. Even more surreal than their earlier work, Reeves and Mortimer considered it superior but it was less popular with the fans, perhaps because each episode was weighed down by a large part of it being devoted to a single recurring setting called ''The Club'', which was somewhat divisive. ''Bang Bang'' also developed some characters and concepts that had been introduced in ''The Smell'', such as Tom Fun. The duo returned to the sketch format yet again with ''Vic and Bob's Big Night Out'', described as a mishmash of ''Smell'' and ''Big Night Out'', in 2018.

In 1999 the two revived the format under the name ''Bang Bang It's Reeves and Mortimer'', which will also be covered here as it is essentially a third series in all but name. Even more surreal than their earlier work, Reeves and Mortimer considered it superior but it was less popular with the fans, perhaps because each episode was weighed down by a large part of it being devoted to a single recurring setting called ''The Club'', which was somewhat divisive. ''Bang Bang'' also developed some characters and concepts that had been introduced in ''The Smell'', such as Tom Fun. The duo returned to the sketch format yet again with ''Vic and Bob's Big Night Out'', described as a mishmash of both ''Smell'' and ''Big Night Out'', in 2018.

In 1999 the two revived the format under the name ''Bang Bang It's Reeves and Mortimer'', which will also be covered here as it is essentially a third series in all but name. Even more surreal than their earlier work, Reeves and Mortimer considered it superior but it was less popular with the fans, perhaps because each episode was weighed down by a large part of it being devoted to a single recurring setting called ''The Club'', which was somewhat divisive. ''Bang Bang'' also developed some characters and concepts that had been introduced in ''The Smell'', such as Tom Fun.

The second surreal comedy show put together by Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer, following ''Series/VicReevesBigNightOut''. Considered to be some of Vic and Bob's best work. Had two series, in 1993 and 1995.

In 1999 the two revived the format under the name ''Bang Bang It's Reeves and Mortimer'', which will also be covered here as it is essentially a third series in all but name. Even more surreal than their earlier work, Reeves and Mortimer considered it superior but it was less popular with the fans, perhaps because each episode was weighed down by a large part of it being devoted to a single recurring setting called ''The Club'', which was somewhat LoveItOrHateIt. ''Bang Bang'' also developed some characters and concepts that had been introduced in ''The Smell'', such as Tom Fun.

* {{Fartillery}}: Le Corbussier et Papin - literally, in one episode when the former uses the latter as a ''howitzer'' against passing TourDeFrance cyclists.

* FakeAmerican: Kinky John Fowler.