Trivia / Filthy Rich & Catflap

• Creative Differences: The series never got a second season in part due to conflicts between Rik Mayall and Ben Elton. Mayall was largely uncomfortable appearing in an Elton-written project (whereas they wrote The Young Ones together) and felt that he wasn't given enough creative freedom.
• Playing Against Type: While Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson basically reprise their routine from The Young Ones (and later on in Bottom), Planer plays a very different character from the dogsbody hippy he became known for. This is mainly because Planer was already an accomplished character actor before he hit fame in The Young Ones, with Neil being only one of many characters he used on the comedy club scene.
• Prop Recycling: In the finale, Dingo Wucker's henchmen wear Federation trooper uniforms.
• Those Two Actors:
  • Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson stand among history's greatest and most famous comedy duos, with over two decades of collaboration to their credit. Their partnership continued for long after Filthy Rich & Catflap ended, becoming ever more popular and successful.
  • Two of the characters from the game show episode are references to characters from Are You Being Served? (Mr Humphries, Mr Lucas and Mrs Slocombe).
  • Episode Two features Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, another of history's most-celebrated comedy teams.
• Underage Casting: Richie Rich, and especially Ralph Filthy, are implied to be far older than the actors portraying them. Rik Mayall was in his late twenties when the series was filmed, but the character of Richie Rich is clearly written as a middle-aged, bottom-of-the-barrel family entertainer who is long past his prime. Nigel Planer was in his thirties during production, yet according to Ralph Filthy's various, bizarre anecdotes he tells over the course of the series, the character has been involved in showbiz management since the early 1950's at the very least. Also see Vague Age, Improbable Age, and Hollywood Old.
  • This trope is at its most glaring during a scene in Episode One, when Richie is forced to elucidate his supposed fame to Eddie's aunt: "Richie Rich! TVS. Links. 1972." Mayall simply looks far too young for the joke to work.

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