Rik Mayall tribute thread

[Damon_3388]

I imagine Silent Alarm as somewhat of a Rik style character.

Did lol.

 

[Gentlemen]

Has no one mentioned his best role?

Lord Flasheart: Mind if I use your phone? If word gets out I'm missing, five hundred girls will kill themselves. And I wouldn't want them on my conscience, not when they ought to be on my *face*!

Lord Flasheart: Just because I can give multiple orgasms to the furniture just by sitting on it, doesn't mean that I'm not sick of this damn war

Lord Flasheart: Captain Darling? Funny name for a guy isn't it? Last person I called darling was pregnant twenty seconds later.

Lord Flasheart: And always remember - if you want something, take it! Bobby!
Bob Parkhurst: [enters] My lord?
Lord Flasheart: I want something.
Bob Parkhurst: Take it!
[she undoes her shirt - exeunt]

Lord Flasheart: Ah, Melchett. Still worshipping God? Last I heard... He'd started worshipping me.

Lord Flasheart: Nursie. I like it firm and fruity. Am I pleased to see you or did I just put a canoe in my pocket? Down, boy, down.

 

[iluvparis]

Missed the best one

Flasheart: Now! Always treat your plane, like you treat your woman!
George: What, you mean take it home to visit your mother on the weekend?
Flasheart: No! I mean get inside it 6 times a day and take it to heaven and back.

 

[iluvparis]

Who was everyone's fav YO?

My order would be Vyvyan > Rick > Neil >>>>> Mike.

Swap Vyv and Rick for me - I think it is generally agreed that Mike is terrible and adds nothing to the show (but maybe is there to play that role).

Always loved when Rick went into full panic mode:

Vyvyan: [about the person at the door] It's probably someone unbelievably boring.
Neil: [Upon discovering who's at the door] Oh no! It's the TV detector man!
Rick: MIKE, YOU BASTARD! Why didn't you buy a license? I can't go to prison, I'm too pretty, I'll get r*ped!"

 

[Shell]

Vyvyan: [about the person at the door] It's probably someone unbelievably boring.
Neil: [Upon discovering who's at the door] Oh no! It's the TV detector man!
Rick: MIKE, YOU BASTARD! Why didn't you buy a license? I can't go to prison, I'm too pretty, I'll get r*ped!"

... "it was the other three.. not me".

IIRC, you still need a license to buy a TV in Britain. Unless my British friends were spinning some crap to me and winding me up at the time...

Yeah Mike I think was there to just play the straight man and crack all the unbelievably shitty puns and jokes.

 

[iluvparis]

You do indeed still need a license - it funds the BBC.

 

[Shell]

You do indeed still need a license - it funds the BBC.

And I'm assuming if you don't have a license and the license man comes around.... you just eat the TV.

 

[Lyttelton Ranger]

Lord Flashheart: Enter the man who has no underwear. Ask me why.
Lieutenant George: Why do you have no underwear, Lord Flash?
Lord Flashheart: Because the pants haven't been built yet that'll take the job on!

Great comedian. I'm in shock just having learnt of his demise.

 

[Damon_3388]

And I'm assuming if you don't have a license and the license man comes around.... you just eat the TV.

"The old trick eh - eat the telly before I get a chance to nick ya!"

 

[Lyttelton Ranger]

From the Bottom episode "Carnival":

Eddie (Ade Edmonson) and Richie (Rik Mayall) were discussing their participation in the annual Hammersmith riot

Richie: You dropped it!
Eddie: Yeah, well i was being run over by the riot squad!
Richie: Well, two wrongs dont make a right, young man. Just because you're being run over doesn't mean you have to smash a television set! I could of been watching Sophie Grigson peeling a banana (Mimics peeling a banana), or washing a cucumber (Mimics washing a cucumber), or anything!
Eddie: She's married.
Richie: I know. To the wrong bloke!
Eddie: Still, at least we got the duck.
(Holds up a rubber duck)
Richie: The duck?
Eddie: Yeah, it's made out of plastic!
Richie: Eddie, what in the name of Greek buggery is the use of a plastic duck?
Eddie: It floats in the bath. [Puts duck in Richie's face] Hello!
Richie: Why?
Eddie: It's hollow!
Richie: [exasperated] Why the duck?!
Eddie: It came free with the telly.
Richie: Eddie everything came free with the telly, we were looting! Why didn't you get a free telly with the telly?!
Eddie: Well, then it would sink in the bath!

and IIRC this classic exchange:

Richie: How did you get on?
Eddie: Well I thought I'd nip down to the greengrocers to nick meself a couple of broccoli florins when you'll never guess what?
Richie: What?
Eddie: (suddenly points at a corner of the room where dozens of crates of malibu once stood) We've been burgled!
Richie: Well you may have been, young man, but I have never in my life! As a Christian I'm so tightly clenched-- OH! you mean burgled!

 

[Hap Hapablap]

was devastated to hear of his death this morning his blackadder performances and bottom with ed were unforgettable

 

[Plugger35]

I also loved that episode of Bottom where Richie and Eddie got stuck on a ferris wheel.



So many great Bottom episodes, should go back and watch them all again, it was champagne British comedy.

 

[Leper]

"The old trick eh - eat the telly before I get a chance to nick ya!"

It's a toaster.

 

[Dont be a lemon]

Old campaigners in this thread.

 

[Hap Hapablap]

Old campaigners in this thread.

im only 27 and only started watching his stuff after seeing his performance in blackadder 2

cant imagine how the world reacted when he first hit the scene.

 

[HBF]

Who was everyone's fav YO?

My order would be Vyvyan > Rick > Neil >>>>> Mike.

Same.
I lost count of how many times we watched them on VHS during the '80's.

 

[Docker Clint]

Shattered by news. Weren't to a fancy dress in the 90s dressed a Rik.

"Both my parents are dead? THE SELFISH BASTARDS!"

 

[Lester Burnham]