The final episode of the first series of 'Naked Video'
The first sketch is a parody of a commercial for Castrol GTX Engine Oil. ''What smoothes, soothes, preserves and protects even the coldest engine? Austrian Wine, liquid engineering!'', says the narrator.
An item on the news desk reads: ''We investigate British Airways new 'Get Tough' policy on passengers who complain about the food!''. We are then shown footage of people falling through the sky from a plane!
Two drunks tell a woman at an airport of the fun they had during their holiday in Spain, such as wrecking their hotel room, urinating in the hotel swimming pool or throwing up in the local nightclub. The woman asks if they would go back to the same hotel again, to which one of the men replies: ''Certainly, just as long as they don't let in any scum!''.
'Club 60-85 Holidays' sees a rather brash holiday courier telling the elderly holidaymakers of what fun is in store for them. ''The food here is rotten, its stone cold and greasy, but this is deliberate because we know you like to moan about something when your write your postcards!''.
Siadwell tells us about him and his family making holiday plans: ''We couldn't put our dog Pedwar in the kennels. Uncle Pob said it was cruel, so he drowned him instead!''.
A sketch set in a pub sees its characters talking in chicken language. All sorts of trouble kicks off - two men end up fighting when one makes a pass at the other's wife and a customer loses his cool when the barman refuses to serve him. When Colonel Sanders walks into the bar chewing on a chicken leg, the customers run out screaming in fear!
An angry man confronts a woman for letting her dog foul footpaths and insists she make him do his business in the gutter, which she duly does. Unfortunately, a car drives through the dog's poo and splatters it all over the man's face!
'Rab C. Nesbitt' is seen visiting a psychiatrist. When he is certified by the doctor as a psychopath, he is overjoyed ( ''it's amazing what you can do when you put your mind to it!'' says Rab ), as is his wife Mary, who sees his diagnosis as a reason to celebrate. The sketch ends with Mary headbutting the unsuspecting doctor! This character had previously appeared in episode three named simply 'Woman At Ironing Board' but was upgraded into this sketch as Rab's wife Mary. She appears here sporting a black eye ( which implied that Rab was a wife beater ), however this idea was later dropped when Elaine C. Smith insisted that the idea of Mary being more capable of knocking ten bells out of Rab rather than him knocking her about had more comedy scope.
The episode ends on a song - 'The Long Goodbye' - which sees the entire cast standing before the studio audience singing of their sadness at the series coming to an end, however the more the song goes on, the more elaborate the lyrics become: ''You are such a lovely audience, we would love to take you home with us. We would love to cook a meal for you and get you into bed with us!''.
A satisfactory ending to the first series. The show received mixed reviews during its first run. Helen Graham tore it to pieces in The Glasgow Herald, labelling it 'the latest in a disastrous line of so called comedies on BBC Scotland'. However, the viewing figures were high enough for those at BBC2 to commission a second series the following year.
Funniest sketch - probably the aforementioned 'chicken talk' sketch. How the cast managed to keep straight faces here is commendable!
The first sketch is a parody of a commercial for Castrol GTX Engine Oil. ''What smoothes, soothes, preserves and protects even the coldest engine? Austrian Wine, liquid engineering!'', says the narrator.
An item on the news desk reads: ''We investigate British Airways new 'Get Tough' policy on passengers who complain about the food!''. We are then shown footage of people falling through the sky from a plane!
Two drunks tell a woman at an airport of the fun they had during their holiday in Spain, such as wrecking their hotel room, urinating in the hotel swimming pool or throwing up in the local nightclub. The woman asks if they would go back to the same hotel again, to which one of the men replies: ''Certainly, just as long as they don't let in any scum!''.
'Club 60-85 Holidays' sees a rather brash holiday courier telling the elderly holidaymakers of what fun is in store for them. ''The food here is rotten, its stone cold and greasy, but this is deliberate because we know you like to moan about something when your write your postcards!''.
Siadwell tells us about him and his family making holiday plans: ''We couldn't put our dog Pedwar in the kennels. Uncle Pob said it was cruel, so he drowned him instead!''.
A sketch set in a pub sees its characters talking in chicken language. All sorts of trouble kicks off - two men end up fighting when one makes a pass at the other's wife and a customer loses his cool when the barman refuses to serve him. When Colonel Sanders walks into the bar chewing on a chicken leg, the customers run out screaming in fear!
An angry man confronts a woman for letting her dog foul footpaths and insists she make him do his business in the gutter, which she duly does. Unfortunately, a car drives through the dog's poo and splatters it all over the man's face!
'Rab C. Nesbitt' is seen visiting a psychiatrist. When he is certified by the doctor as a psychopath, he is overjoyed ( ''it's amazing what you can do when you put your mind to it!'' says Rab ), as is his wife Mary, who sees his diagnosis as a reason to celebrate. The sketch ends with Mary headbutting the unsuspecting doctor! This character had previously appeared in episode three named simply 'Woman At Ironing Board' but was upgraded into this sketch as Rab's wife Mary. She appears here sporting a black eye ( which implied that Rab was a wife beater ), however this idea was later dropped when Elaine C. Smith insisted that the idea of Mary being more capable of knocking ten bells out of Rab rather than him knocking her about had more comedy scope.
The episode ends on a song - 'The Long Goodbye' - which sees the entire cast standing before the studio audience singing of their sadness at the series coming to an end, however the more the song goes on, the more elaborate the lyrics become: ''You are such a lovely audience, we would love to take you home with us. We would love to cook a meal for you and get you into bed with us!''.
A satisfactory ending to the first series. The show received mixed reviews during its first run. Helen Graham tore it to pieces in The Glasgow Herald, labelling it 'the latest in a disastrous line of so called comedies on BBC Scotland'. However, the viewing figures were high enough for those at BBC2 to commission a second series the following year.
Funniest sketch - probably the aforementioned 'chicken talk' sketch. How the cast managed to keep straight faces here is commendable!