Line #22 Series/VicReevesBigNightOut


1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bignightout.png]]
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3	The first television outing for comedy duo Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer, which ran for two series on Channel 4 from 1990 to 1991.
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5	It was developed from a three-hour live neo-variety show which Creator/JonathanRoss once went to see and then commissioned them to make a cut-down half-hour version for TV. Allegedly the idea came about because Reeves (real name Jim Moir) ended up running a conventional variety show, but worked out that he could save money if he fired all the acts and performed them himself.
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7	Its fusion of surreal humour and StylisticSuck made it an alternative comedy favourite (being particularly popular among students in the early 1990s), and rocketed the duo to stardom.
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9	In the late 2010s it was revived under the name ''Vic and Bob's Big Night Out'', and saw the return of many characters and sketches which the duo had not performed for years, such as Graham Lister, Judge Nutmeg and the Man with the Stick.
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12	!!The show displays examples of:
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14	%% * AbsurdityAscendant
15	%% * Archenemy: Graham Lister
16	%% * ActingForTwo: Used a few times. In one episode Vic decides to listen in on backstage and hears all the characters insulting him, including the characters he himself plays. In another episode, Vic calls back all three contestants on Novelty Island, even though two of them (Graham Lister and Wavy Davy) are played by Bob Mortimer. This was achieved by Wavy Davy being played by an extra with [[LampshadeHanging a giant black and white cardboard cutout photograph of Wavy Davy's face]] as a mask.
17	* AscendedFanboy: Legend has it that Bob joined the show having sat heckling at one of the live performances, whereupon he was invited to [[LetsSeeYouDoBetter do better himself]]. Bluff called, and the rest was history.
18	* BlatantLies: Absolutely everything the Living Carpets say to each other.
19	* ButtMonkey: The Man With the Stick, who is DrivenToSuicide by the end of the series.
20	* CatchPhrase:
21	** Vic: "That was ''my'' idea!" ; "You wouldn't let it lie, would you?!"
22	** The Stotts: "Marzipan's private, Davy!"
23	** The Ramblers: "But it's not all rambling, is it?"
24	** Wavy Davy: "Hiya!!!!!"; "Seeya!!!!!"
25	** Bob: "[[DeathByFallingOver Oh Vic, I've fallen]]" sometimes followed with "I can smell the chafing!"
26	** The Living Carpets: "You lyin' get!"; "I heard that rumour" "I know, I started it!"
27	%% * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Practically everyone.
28	* ContinuityNod: In one episode both of the Living Carpets claim to be Les's father. It is pointed out that an earlier episode's Les Facts had stated that Les's father was Parker out of ''Series/{{Thunderbirds}}''. So they both promptly claim to be Parker as well.
29	* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: ''and ProductPlacement'' "The new Reeves and Mortimer ''name of product'', by Reeves and Mortimer!"
30	* DownerEnding: parodied by the final episode. [[spoiler:Vic's closing song is interrupted by Lister, and they fight with everything that comes to hand including a beer bottle from the Man with the Stick's stick. Lister is left unconscious or dead. The Man with the Stick, now despondent and alcoholic over Vic's mistreatment of his children, fires a gun randomly, hitting Vic and possibly Les as well, before slumping in despair and putting the gun to his own head as the curtain falls. Vic's hand waves goodbye weakly from beneath the curtain.]]
31	* EverythingIsBetterWithExplosions: The Stotts insist on starting their act with "a nice explosion", consisting of igniting a saucer of oil, which later became a RunningGag when they reappeared on ''Bang Bang It's Reeves and Mortimer''.
32	* InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals: In the second series Vic would periodically go on a live video feed "to our Swiss counterparts, the Ponderers", who were blond shirtless versions of Vic and Bob with giant strap-on chins to aid their pondering.
33	* OnceAnEpisode: The Man with the Stick, Les Facts and other regular features.
34	* PhraseCatcher:
35	** "And what do we cry when we see a man with a stick?" "WHAT'S ON THE END OF THE STICK, VIC?"
36	** "And what do we do with the Wheel of Justice?" " COMB ITS HAIR!"
37	* ProductPlacement: All the Reeves and Mortimer products
38	* RunningGag: Les cannot help smiling every time he sees a spirit level, but is mortally afraid of chives - among others.
39	%% * {{Satan}}: [[spoiler:Wavy Davy]].
40	* SitcomArchNemesis: Graham Lister acts as one to Vic.
41	%% * TheIgor: Les.
42	%% * TheVoiceless: Les.

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