Irish Travellers: Gypsy Joe is possibly an Irish Traveller, judging by his accent and the nationality of his actor, though as far as Max and Paddy are concerned, he's just a Roguish Romani. GassHole: The pig that Max and Paddy buy from a farmer impulsively ends up filling their motorhome with the stench of its farts. Max actually has to wear goggles to defend his eyes. Amusing Injuries: Gypsy Joe's broken leg when Max and Paddy accidentally drop him from a TV screen(which they're using as a stretcher) from a great height.

And is it all (WHISTLES) Oh, it's all, er (WHISTLES) Have you got any o' them big tellies? I've got a beautiful 22-inch Futaba.This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Although the series was broadcast two years after Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights, the plot is set immediately after the events of the previous series. Max is the older and more level-headed of the two, roughly 40 years old, and usually pretending to have more life experience than he has actually had, including a stint in the army. Paddy is an idealistic wide boy obsessed with sex, pornography and food. Max often oppressively stares at Paddy or anyone who has offended his tastes and often shouts "H-how dare you!". He also calls people a clown or a melon if they've said something absurd.

Prison Rape: Mentioned a number of times by Paddy when he and Max are in prison. They do get cornered by local Depraved Homosexual Raymond the Bastard in the showers, after dropping soap, but he doesn't rape them. He just forces Max to shake his hand. The same hand he's just lathered shampoo onto his groin with. In Episode Six, Max and Paddy are being sternly warned about potentially becoming repeat offenders due to associating themselves with Billy the Butcher. However, the police chief admits that they were instrumental in ensuring Billy's arrest, and is willing to let them off. Max suddenly sees CCTV footage of him and Paddy cutting down a speed camera and tossing it into a bush. By the time the police chief notices it, the boys have bailed. Innocently Insensitive: What Max thinks he was when he laughed along with his bouncing friends' jokes about Tina's dwarfism. She certainly doesn't agree with him.

A straighter example is the end of Episode Four. Brian has been fronting a very public campaign to get Max and Paddy released from prison which destroys the persona of rich gangsters that they used to live an easy and safe life while inside. As soon as they're released, they call in an anthrax threat at the Phoenix Club on the night of Jerry's 60th birthday party. Although Brian's actions were self-serving in that they helped to promote the Phoenix more than help Max and Paddy, there was no way he could have known that he was putting them in danger. Messy Pig: Played with by the pig Max and Paddy end up buying from a mad farmer. It doesn't leave that much poo on the floor of their motorhome, but it farts. A lot. It doesn't take long before they try selling it. Paddy's cellmate in Episode Four. He either thinks he actually is Cliff Richard or just has a disturbing love of him; looking like him, having a painting of him on the wall surrounded by candles, and singing Millennium Prayer to it all night. Do It Yourself" Theme Tune: The theme song was written by Toni Baker and Peter Kay, and borrowed heavily from the theme to B.J. and the Bear. I Am a Humanitarian: When pretending to be brutal gangsters, Paddy pretends to have eaten the last person who insulted him, with a perfectly serious face.

Billy has apparently killed Paddy, and upon hearing the police, Max pleads with Billy to give himself up, shouting “Billy, don’t be a hero!”Psychopathic Manchild: Apart from being murderously violent, Billy the Butcher spends time engaging in trivial debates with Paddy over correctly guessing the theme tunes to popular TV shows, where Paddy insists on going by Exact Words including the creators as well as the show titles. Apparently, he wasn't much better as an actual child, stabbing his careworker 18 times with a potato peeler for making him play with a jigsaw puzzle that he didn't like. Also Max and Paddy in Episode Four when a news report about them, set up by Brian, is seen on one of the prison's TV; blowing their persona of rich gangsters and revealing to Raymond The Bastard that they have been lying to him. I don't tell you how to perform! (Paddy) Pleasures of the flesh, Max! Oh, you're on your arse! Speakin' of arses I had no idea they needed speakers.