The Smell of Reeves & Mortimer - The Complete Collection [DVD]

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When the first series of the programme first made it to video titled "Red" & "Blue", it included extended versions of the episodes the way they were supposed to go out on TV, usually 7–10 minutes of new footage. When this DVD came out many were disappointed to find the episodes featured were the BBC edit versions. Series 2 was intact on the DVD release, mainly because it never had extended versions.

The Bra Men, Pat Wright & Dave Arrowsmith, got more offended than ever when they appeared on Stars in Their Eyes, and Matthew Kelly (Bob) commented on how well supported they were. They also went to Swiss Toni's Used Cars to buy a car. Upon spotting a convertible, Swiss Toni's comments that "I can picture you... driving along in the summer with your top down" were taken very badly. Swiss Toni would later appear as a major character in The Fast Show. However he also said that he would be interested in making the radio show into a television series. [6] Film [ edit ] In November 2007, BBC Radio 2 aired a weekly radio-based sketch show featuring Reeves and Mortimer, entitled Vic Reeves' House Arrest. The first episode was broadcast on 17 November 2007 and the series ran for 6 episodes. The show centred on Reeves being put under house arrest for a crime he didn't commit. Mortimer played Reeves' hairdresser, Carl. Other performers include The Mighty Boosh star Noel Fielding as a local vagrant and Reeves' wife, Nancy Sorrell in multiple roles.The pair also recorded Star Chamber, a pilot program for BBC Two. The program was a debate show chaired by Mortimer, and featured Reeves, Charlie Higson, Johnny Vegas, Liz Smith and Rhys Thomas. The program has yet to be commissioned. Asked if he can hear anything at all in that ear, Reeves said: “It’s dead, absolutely, completely gone. Speak of the Devil: Hercule Poirot appears when Vic misreads Bob's note asking for "dancing marionettes and Pierrot" as "dancing majorettes and Poirot". This wariness was partially justified because it is hard to ignore how out and out silly the whole Reeves & Mortimer sense of humour is and I would be lying to myself if I said that I found the whole thing hilarious. It is not even that at times I found it bemusing, it was more that some of the silliness just seemed to be being done for the sake of it and that it didn't have any effect on me but to feel a bit daft. I recognise that part of this is me getting older but from my memory I didn't find much hilarious about the extremes of the show, such as people carrying signs with the word "nightie" on it, or the presentation of the two men arguing on the frozen cat urine (why they had stuff in their pants is beyond me). However, all this negativity covers up my main feeling, which was that the show is still very funny and worth seeing – no childhood memories were shattered here as is often the case when watching stuff that I remember as being brilliant to the 10 year old me etc.

In 1992, Reeves and Mortimer made their first brief detour into sitcoms by writing and recording a pilot episode of The Weekenders, a one-off pilot for Channel 4's Bunch of Five season. The Human League vocalist Phil Oakey, and the future Fast Show trio of Paul Whitehouse, John Thomson and Simon Day, all co-starred. [9] The Weekenders is also notable as the one programme where Vic is intentionally referred to throughout by his real name, Jim. Intended to be a series, the programme was never commissioned, but now seems to be a vague sign of things to come. Later in Bang Bang each episode involved someone dying, a shell-less egg emerging from their mouth, and then their body fading away in a dramatic fashion (usually this was in the very surreal car sketches, but once migrated to the studio). Vic and Bob explained in interviews that the egg was supposed to represent a soul.The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer DVD (Region 2, UK), which contains both series' was released by 2 Entertain/Cinema Club on 3 April 2006. Raeside, Julia (4 July 2011). "TV & Radio Blog". Vic & Bob's Afternoon Delights: a self-indulgent joy. London: The Guardian . Retrieved 6 July 2011.

Product Placement: Parodied - Vic and Bob take every opportunity to mention (in an anvilicious way) that this problem could be solved with the new "Reeves and Mortimer (name of product)". The Parody: A few remarkably surreal examples, more towards the earlier part of the show's run. Some examples of shows parodied include Stars in their Eyes, Noel's Addicts (and Noel's House Party), Countryfile, Masterchef, The South Bank Show and The Antiques Roadshow. At the end of series one, Bob played a huge practical joke on Vic, who lapsed into a coma. After a rousing final song, Bob unplugged his life-support machine. They would also inevitably end every transaction with someone they accused of making light of their bras with something along the lines of "And ye can keep yer [X]!" before snatching whatever 'X' was and storming off with it anyway.

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The Booze For t'Baby man continued his quest to find some booze for his baby, which eventually brought him a bottle of Babycham for which he was moderately thankful. A regular feature was a spoof of a then-current TV programme, such as Food & Drink, which saw host Chris Kelly (Mortimer), whose face was a piece of toasted cheese with a box of tea bags taped to his head and whose legs gradually became ridiculously long, afterwards boiling his head in a pot to "prepare a nice pot of tea,", and Antiques Roadshow, where a termite mound containing the singer Prince was found inside a wardrobe. Perhaps the most bizarre was Noel's Addicts, an insane parody of a show hosted by Noel Edmonds in 1992 about people's hobbies. The real Slade were reportedly big fans of the Reeves and Mortimer version, but claimed that they were never as surreal as the real thing.