Burglary

"Burglary" is the third episode of the second series of British television sitcom, Bottom. It was first broadcast on 15 October 1992. Synopsis Richie and Eddie catch a burglar in their living room. Plot The episode begins with Eddie staggering drunkenly into the flat at 1:30am. He went out four and a half hours earlier with £1.75 to buy two fish suppers for himself and Richie, but instead of going to the fish and chip shop, he went to the chemist and spent the money on cheap Old Spice, which he drank. While trying to find alcohol around the flat, Eddie drinks a bottle of bleach and passes out. Richie cannot revive him, and so attaches a noose to his leg and hoists him upstairs to bed. Richie goes to his bedroom to masturbate. A few seconds later, Richie hears a window smashing; coming out of his bedroom he hears more objects breaking downstairs. Richie wakes Eddie up and says that the burglars might be looking for drugs, so Eddie suggests throwing Lemsip down the stairs for them. Eddie goes back into his bedroom and brings a service revolver back out with him and goes to shoot the lock off the hatch into the attic. Richie suggests they simply use the key and tells Eddie that the burglars will hear him shooting his gun. Eddie reminds him there is no ladder because the police confiscated it "when the nurses moved in next door" earlier, so Richie has to climb on Eddie's back to reach. Richie falls off Eddie's back and down the stairs, landing on the burglar (played by Paul Bradley).