So, I've been curious about a thing, as I don't come from England I wouldn't know. But what's the thing Richie got against Weston-Super-Mare? Is there a sort of joke in England about people in Weston-Super-Mare being pretentious snobs?
I think there is at least two occations Richie mentions that town, both times with (even for him) extreme ironically snobbish manners. I think one of the occations is when they're talking about their nudist-beach holiday, which was in Weston-Super-Mare.
I don't remember him saying anything bad about Weston-Super-Mare.
The nudie beach was in Brighton.
Eddie: Well, there is a nudie beach in Brighton you know. It's twelve pounds sixty-nine pence exactly on the Inter-City Saver, and the nipples are bigger. Richie: Hm? Eddie: It's the cold wind. They've got these telescopes you put twenty pence in. It's very discreet! Richie: Hahhh! Let's go! H-no, no, no, no. We've got to run the shop. That's what makes us British you see Eddie. The average Frog or Brussels Sprout would be halfway down the A3 by now, polishing up his zoom lens and sticking bits of garlic up his bum. Not us!
I seem to remember Richie mentioning Weston-Super-Mare in one of the live shows, but that may be crowd baiting (Like Richie saying how great Southampton is in one of them).
Who can take you higher than a twin peak mountain blue?
Ok, the nudiebeach might have been Brighton. But I do remember him teasing Weston-Super-Mare, at least one place.... And I couldn't understand why exactly that, except that he might have felt that the people living there was either extremely snobbish, or the quite opposite.
They also mension Weston-Super-Mare in a deleted scene from "Digger" which can be seen on Bottom Fluff, I think the Weston-Super-Mare bit from the second live show was adapted from this.
"The World is Your Lobster My Son!"-Arthur Daley, Minder.
I haven’t watched Bottom for years so I can’t remember if it’s in the live show or one of the episodes but I think that Richie is either looking forward to going there or reminiscing about a holiday he had there. In fact, as I type this I seem to remember that he claimes to Eddie that he ‘did it’ there?
Either way, I think the joke is that Weston-super-Mare is just your average, grotty English seaside town which is nothing to get excited about. I went there every year between about 1988 and 1998 and can confirm this to be true. Except for the Tropicana outdoor swimming pool. That’s pretty awesome.
Actually I've heard Cleese make loads of jokes about Weston being the ideal place for the poshy lower middle class. Something about it being the perfect place for not sticking out, it's basically impossible to embarrace yourself there.
********** - Who's the lady with the log? - We call her the Log Lady.
Ritchie was reminiscing about Weston, which he had promised Eddie would be a "2-week sex-fuelled rampage". This of course turned out to be a disappointment. ("I've had bigger stiffies watching Playbus")
He also had some "pretty narrow squeaks" in Scarborough, too!