Yes. Looks like dropsy.
The fortune teller episode. Richie's aunt Olga is coming over to visit and the two try to convince her that they need a huge sum of money. Richie then gets a phone call from a servant saying that she has died. Richie has been left £600 in her will which the two spend half of at the fair. While there, Eddie shoots a vendor in the eye and the two are chased into a tent where Richie gets his fortune told, which is that he is going to die in three days. They go to the hospital to check if he is ill, he is not, and Richie deducts that he will die in an accident.
When they get back to the flat Eddie almost drops a piano on Richie. Richie figures out it was a plot to get Olga's other £300 and throws him out. Later Eddie disguises himself as the grim reaper to scare Richie which backfires when the man he shot comes to the flat.
Tropes
- Bowdlerise: Of a way that leans into
Edited for Syndication - when Richie discovers that his wallet's been stolen, he exclaims "Thieving bastard gyppos!", which is a derogatory nickname derived from the word 'gypsie'. A later repeat of the episode, as well as the DVD release, overdub the line (albeit poorly - only the last word is swapped), turning it into "Thieving bastard yobbos!". The VHS release retained the original audio, and oddly enough, the DVD release of season 1 had that particular chapter of the episode named 'Thieving Gyppos' on the scene select, despite having the redubbed line. - Chess with Death: Parodied when Eddie — as part of a ploy to trick Richie into letting him back into the flat after being kicked out — plays on Richie's recent fortune-teller inspired paranoia about dying by dressing up as Death. Richie challenges him to the standard game of chess, which hits a snag when 'Death' admits he doesn't know the rules. Richie then suggests Cluedo, which hits a snag when 'Death' reveals that he knows perfectly well that Richie always cheats by looking at the mystery cards. They settle on I-Spy, which hits yet another snag when 'Death' betrays an inability to spell.
- Enemy Mine: The one-eyed stall owner gladly takes up Richie's offer to kick Eddie in the bollocks. Considering the stall owner hates Richie as much as he does Eddie, he knows fine well Eddie was the culprit.
- Eye Scream: Eddie shoots the proprietor of the shooting stall in the eye. Then Richie pokes him in the other eye.
- Groin Attack: The episode ends with Richie asking the stall owner if he would like to kick Eddie in the bollocks which he gladly does.
- Only Cares About Inheritance: When Richie learns that his rich aunt has just died, at first he seems shocked, then he quickly starts inquiring about her will, even insisting that her housemaid search the body for it.
- Phony Veteran: Richie claims to have "Hurt my leg in the Falklands Conflict".
- Man: Did he?
Eddie: Oh yeah, he tripped over the coffee table trying to switch channels.
- Punctuated Pounding: When Richie throws Eddie out of the flat, he threatens to set the dogs on him. When Eddie points out that they haven't got any, Richie replies that it was a figure of speech, all the while beating him with a fire poker.
- A Simple Plan: Averted. Richie gets an apparent death curse from a fortune teller, which he believes was a plot by Eddie to steal the other half of his inheritance from auntie Olga.
