Doesn't take long before they try selling it. Yesterday at 10:21 AM. * OohMeAccentsSlipping: When Max sings "That's Why They Call It The Blues" in Episode Three, Peter Kay's natural voice slips through more than usual. No, it's not as easy as that, Max. Max and Paddy then dress as paramedics and use the TV under a blanket as a stretcher to get all three out of the building. Max & Paddy's Road to Nowhere (TV Mini Series 2004) - IMDb The real farmer is more concerned about the death of his cow and so matters have to be resolved. * PrecisionFStrike: Mick Bustins OhCrap moment. His roles on television include Wayne in The Street, Raymond the Bastard in Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere and Cecil in Prime Suspect 5. When this happens, it's usually because the owner only shared it with a small group of people, changed who can see it or it's been deleted. Paddy's full name is revealed to be Patrick O'Shea. She doesn't appear to be doing that anymore. Tracing the cow to a nearby farm, the pair head off to find the farmer and claim expenses for the damage to the van. However, the fight is prevented by a prison officer telling Max and Paddy to come with him. * DisabledSnarker: A woman with a HookHand flips Paddy off when he tries his CasanovaWannabe shtick on her. After the previous episode the duo are now being held on remand in prison. The first few while Paddy is teaching Max to dance and pick up women; and the last when they hear an angry rant from Max after Paddy accidentally wakes up him while having ADateWithRosiePalms. The pair arrive in London where Max finds that his old school friend Kevin Wolfston, known as the Wolfster, is holding a 40th birthday party. He's a bog-standard white man. After the previous episode the duo are now being held on remand in prison. Paddy doesn't. Paddy notes that theyre likely to suffer the same fate when [[spoiler: their lies (pretending to be rich gangsters and promising Raymond 60% of their loot in exchange for an easy life) are uncovered. See FanDisservice. For a cut of the money, he allows them to live in a cell with Sky+. * BavarianFireDrill: Max and Paddy posing as paramedics as part of their ZanyScheme to steal a plasma TV. ** [[spoiler: Paddys cellmate in Episode Four.]] * MessyPig: Played with by the pig Max and Paddy end up buying from a mad farmer. What they didn't realise was that that train was the last train and thus they end up camping in the woods. Click here to login or here to sign up. He arrives to work to find a load of muscular black men in top hats. * ContinuityNod: When Young Kenny appears in Episode Four, he still has the impossible to remove tiger facepaint that he got at Brians fun day in Series 2 of Series/PhoenixNights. Also the farmer isn't very happy about the two killing one of his cows. * DoItYourselfThemeTune: The theme song was written by Toni Baker and Peter Kay, and borrowed heavily from the theme to ''Series/BJAndTheBear''. Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere is a British sitcom starring and written by Peter Kay and Patrick McGuinness. * AccidentalPublicConfession: Although it occurs in private; during an argument, Max's ex-girlfriend Tina frustratedly blurts out that [[spoiler: they have a child together.]]. Eventually, she goes to the Police and gets Max and Paddy released at the cost of keeping her secret, as well as finally letting Max meet Daniel after his release.]] Max convinces him the best thing to do is make the other prisoners believe they are not just two silly doormen, but genuine big-league gangsters called 'The Phoenix Twins'. Max has "How dare you" (delivered in a haughty tone) and "You only get a bucket and a half" (relating to the amount of semen a man can produce), and Paddy has "Paddy has needs" (relating to his sex drive). After eventually realising what was going on, the three of them are caught in a chase in a service station, during which Billy shoots Paddy in the bottom. * {{Catchphrase}}: A few. The pair are now in prison together after the school bus incident. ** Tina has an offscreen one in Episode Four that's both intentional and accidental. ]], ** A straighter example is the end of Episode Four. Brian brings Max and Paddy a cake while they are in prison and they immediately assume its this trope. As is. [[HandsomeLech Paddy]] exploits his costume to feel up a little boy's mother. [[spoiler: Max decides not to tell his long lost son Daniel that he is his real father; allowing Daniel, Tina, and Kevin (Tinas husband and an old friend of Max who believes he is Daniels father) to remain a happy family. Ironically, he's also gay, and Jamaica, where the original Yardies started out, is a country with a reputation for homophobia. * NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:Granted, Brian Potter's only a "hero" by loose definition, but he ends up outing Max and Paddy as harmless bouncers instead of hardcore gangsters by appealing for their release from prison on TV.]]. After an altercation with a camp inmate called Pepe, Max and Paddy are soon confronted by the main man of their wing, Raymond The Bastard (played by Everal Walsh), who is also Pepe's boyfriend. 15Hopeless doormen Max and Paddy leave clubland and embark on a series of wild and exciting adventures in their prized motorhome, \"Easy Rider\" style. He has also appeared in Coronation Street, Emmerdale and Doctor Who. Max And Paddy's Road To Nowhere is the much-loved sequel to Peter Kay's critically-acclaimed comedy series, "Phoenix Nights". ]], * LuxuryPrisonSuite: [[spoiler: Max and Paddy get one complete with duvets, a box of, ** Replace "crap" with "fuck" and you've got Mick Bustins exact reaction when he sees [[spoiler: that Max and Paddy have stolen the keys to all of his clients' cars. Doesn't take long before they try selling it. The farmer sells them a breeding pig for 100, which he claims they can sell on for 300. Everal A. Walsh is a British actor But then again, there was no way the rest of the Phoenix staff knew about it, assuming Brian kept it to himself and went along with the campaign anyway. Max in turn makes his own heroic sacrifice by [[spoiler: not telling Daniel that he is his father, and letting Tinas family remain intact. It doesn't leave that much poo on the floor of their motorhome, but it farts. Create new account. Paddy is forced to share a cell with a Cliff Richard impersonator and they have a very uncomfortable encounter in the showers!From Max and Paddy's Road To Nowhere Season 1 Episode 4: After the previous episode the duo are now being held on remand in prison. ]], ** Replace "crap" with "fuck" and you've got Mick. Login to create it. Written by and starring Peter Kay and Patrick McGuinness, this six-part comedy/drama series is the story of clueless Phoenix Club bouncers Max (Kay) and Paddy (McGuinness), as they escape clubland in their prized motor-home and take to the open highway. * {{Hypocrite}}: When Max reveals that their new TV has no speakers, Paddy angrily calls Gypsy Joe a, * IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: An example that is both romantic and non-romantic at the same time. * AmbiguouslyGay: Billy the Butcher has a Yandere-like obsession with Max, but insists he doesn't want to be with him in "a gay way.". A spoof fitness DVD was released, Max & Paddy's The Power of Two, including several gags and pieces of scenery from the main series. * ActorAllusion: Paddy's full name is revealed to be Patrick O'Shea. 14 * AmbiguouslyGay: Billy the Butcher has a Yandere-like obsession with Max, but insists he doesn't want to be with him in "a gay way." 15 Whilst in the wood, Patrick reveals his full name whilst Max reveals some of his own secrets. After a stint in a porn film (a film called Willy Wanker and the Chocolate Factory - a gay porn parody of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory) leaves Paddy humiliated, the campervan breaks down in the Midlands. Max & Paddy's Road to Nowhere - Phoenix Nights Wiki Raymond is the worse of Paddy's nightmares when Paddy drops the soap, and is eagerly commented about his manhood as "Stunning, like a young Burt Reynolds!". He was tunnelling towards the next cell. * ThePigpen: Paddy considers Max to be this. Max decides not to tell his son that he is his real father, allowing the family to get on with their lives without him interfering.]]. It comes to a close when the two of them manage to return to the garage. ]], * [[spoiler: PrisonsAreGymnasiums: Episode Four includes a scene set in the. Raymond has heard about the pair's alleged big-money heists and robberies, and wants a cut of their money. Their disguises are far from convincing, their acting is terrible, and their "stretcher" is the stolen TV under a blanket. ]], * [[spoiler: PrisonsAreGymnasiums: Episode Four includes a scene set in the prison's exercise yard and at the start of the episode, Paddy's cellmate challenges him and Max to a game of tennis.]]. Well? The film, released nationally by Lionsgate Films in June 2011, was based on the 2008 book Screwed: The Truth About Life as a Prison Officer written by the pseudonymous Ronnie Thompson. * MessyPig: Played with by the pig Max and Paddy end up buying from a mad farmer. Their situation worsens when Mick Bustin tries to charge them 500 to retrieve the campervan, causing the pair to break into Bustin's workshop and, in a parody of The A-Team, modify the van and 'bust' out back on to the road, only for the van to break down again miles later, Mick Bustin having never actually made any repairs. [[spoiler: Max and Paddy get stuck with the job of shovelling coal into a furnace while in prison, and Max says that therell be two kitchen jobs available once Raymond The Bastard arranges for two inmates to get locked in the freezer.]] * CantHoldHisLiquor: Max accuses Paddy of this in the first episode but he contends that he must have been [[SlippingAMickey spiked]]. * MistakenForGay: A running gag in the first episode is an African family camped near the motorhome catching Max and Paddy in seemingly compromising positions. The entire male staff of the Phoenix Club (expect Brian) in Episode 4, stripped nude and sprayed with disinfectant. * ShapedLikeItself: Raymond The Bastard is, as you'd expect, a bastard. * MistakenForGay: A running gag in the first episode is a family camped near the motorhome catching Max and Paddy in seemingly compromising positions. When [[spoiler: Max's psychotic friend Billy is about to murder him, Paddy (who had just been shot in the buttocks and was presumed by both Max and Billy to be dead or severely injured) knocks him out with a traffic cone.]]. They are fugitives due to an incident in the last episodes of Phoenix Nights, in which a club patron threatened to have them killed by hitmen. Paddy is not happy. Max and Paddy try to sell the pig on but no-one will take it as it is too old. He [[LampshadeHanging points out]] how stupid it is to expect this.]]. Paddy teaches him a few cool moves the following day, and they return to the club dressed as sailors in order to blend in. ]], * StuffedInTheFridge: A literal version is discussed in Episode Four. * IAmAHumanitarian: When pretending to be brutal gangsters, Paddy pretends to have eaten the last person who insulted him, with a perfectly serious face. Raymond has heard about the pair's alleged big-money heists and robberies, and wants a cut of their money. * ChekhovsGunman / EarlyBirdCameo: Maxs ex-girlfriend Tina appears in flashbacks in Episode Two before playing an important role in Episodes Three and Four. He also calls people a clown or a melon if they've said something absurd. This joke is based around the rumour that Sunderland player John O'Shea is regularly teased by team-mates for his physical resemblance to Patrick McGuinness. See EpicFail.]]. Especially when theyre on the road. Tina finally gets the duo out, but now before a payback for Potter Is due. The staff, however get punished as well as Brian, at the end of Episode 4. TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. * MessyPig: Played with by the pig Max and Paddy end up buying from a mad farmer. ** A variant of this happens at the end of the same episode after Max and Paddy finally get some speakers for their TV and Paddy puts on his [[ParallelPornTitles Charlies Anals]] DVD. This joke is based around the rumour that Sunderland player John O'Shea is regularly teased by teammates for his physical resemblance to Patrick [=McGuinness=]. [[GassHole A lot.]] Tina (played by Lisa Hammond), Max's one true love mentioned in the previous episode, turns up. They soon realise that they have been conned. * NonIndicativeName: The Patelster, a friend of Max's friend the Wolfster. They soon discover though that he's obsessed with Max ("Not in a gay way" he claims), and detests Paddy because Paddy took Billys job when Billy went to prison. Max's counter that he "has a good stand-up wash in the sink once a week" [[NotHelpingYourCase doesn't exactly help his case]]. Episode 1's opening theme is instrumental and episodes 2 - 5's closing themes are too. At the very least, he doesn't make rude jokes about her dwarfism like her first love Max did. Actor 1 episode, 2004 Beric George 1 episode, 2004 Stuart Wolfenden . It doesn't leave. The prisoners also turn against them after finding they are not big time thiefs, money they have also promised to Mr. Big for the easy life. Paddy is an idealistic wide boy obsessed with sex, pornography and food. Christine, 33, and Paddy have three children. Max & Paddy's Road to Nowhere: With Peter Kay, Paddy McGuinness, Lisa Hammond, Tony Mooney. Kay and McGuinness do not provide the DVD audio commentary. * HonestJohnsDealership: Gypsy Joe's shop is in the back of a lorry and everything is stolen. ''Max And Paddy's Road To Nowhere'' is Creator/Channel4 BritCom spun-off from the popular comedy ''Series/PhoenixNights'' that sees former Phoenix Club doormen Max (Creator/PeterKay) and Paddy (Paddy [=McGuinness=]) aimlessly travelling around Britain in a motorhome that they bought with the proceeds from faking an assassination and pocketing the cash during the final episodes of Phoenix Nights. After Max shows an incredulous Paddy his notebook filled with childlike drawings of a television programme he's invented called "Magnet and Steel", the pair reluctantly decide to sleep rough in the woods. * AffablyEvil: For a DepravedHomosexual [[TheYardies Yardie]] who's literally named "The Bastard," Raymond the Bastard is pretty polite to Max and Paddy. ]], * TunnelKing: [[spoiler: Max's attempts at this leave a lot to be desired. [[spoiler: She tells the Police why Max and Paddy stole a school bus full of children (Max was trying to meet his long lost son), which gets them released from prison but (more immediately) gets them pulled out of the exercise yard just as Raymond The Bastard and cronies are approaching them with the intention of savagely beating and quite possibly killing them.]]. The following morning, the two discover to their annoyance that they were a short walk away from a Petrol Station and a Travelodge. ** Brian Potter squeezes a few indignant utterances of his signature phrase: "I don't know if you haven't noticed but I'm disabled" into his short cameo in Episode Four. spoken by Paddy to Billy the Butcher when knocking him out with a traffic cone.]]. ]], * HugeGuyTinyGirl: Taken to its absolute limit with Max (who is both tall and fairly large) and Tina (a woman with dwarfism). Thankfully when they turn around, the credits are used as a SceneryCensor. Season 1 of Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere premiered on November 12, 2004. After knocking down a cow in the countryside, Max and Paddy approach who they believe to be the farmer and ask for compensation. We're Max and Paddy (Paddy and Max! * FatBastard: Not Max, but one of Raymond the Bastard's hired thugs is pretty fat. He also reveals that he once had a one true love by the name of Tina. This page is not available in other languages. Max and Paddy end up in Dover, where they buy a faulty plasma TV from a crook by the name of Gypsy Joe. * MessyPig: Played with by the pig Max and Paddy end up buying from a mad farmer. It's [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome real life]], not the frigging [[Film/TheShawshankRedemption Shawshank Redemption]].]]. [[spoiler: They're better known as the Belgrano Sisters ( "on account of all the sailors that have gone down on them"]]) and their MO is to pick up sailors in nightclubs, [[SlippingAMickey drug them]], and rob them blind. Then Paddy walks in, switches off the radio, and wearily asks How many times are you going to play that song?, * LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: Episode Three contains a montage of [[spoiler:Max following his long lost son to school and trying to deal with the news that, * LuxuryPrisonSuite: [[spoiler: Max and Paddy get one complete with duvets, a box of Terrys All Gold chocolates, and satellite TV after making out that they are rich gangsters and promising Raymond The Bastard 60% of their non-existent loot. The farmer sells them a breeding pig for 100, which he claims they can sell on for 300. * AddedAlliterativeAppeal: "Big Bob's Beans". Its [[RealityEnsues real life]], not the frigging [[Film/TheShawshankRedemption Shawshank Redemption]]. * {{Hypocrite}}: When Max reveals that their new TV has no speakers, Paddy angrily calls Gypsy Joe a "typical thieving gyppo" and is glad he's eating the grapes they brought him for an injury they caused while heaving him off a bridge so they could escape with the TV he'd just helped them steal. Following on from the hi-jacking, Max and Paddy are now serving time at Her Majesty's Pleasure. * BlandNameProduct: Paddy is frustrated that Max insists on buying cheap groceries like "Big Bob's Beans" and water bottled in the mountains of Afghanistan. Line # Series/MaxAndPaddysRoadToNowhere - TV Tropes ({{Beat}}) What do you want, son? He claims they can sell it on at market for around 300. [[spoiler: Daniel]] lampshades this. * CampGay: Pepe, Raymond The Bastard's ([[spoiler:the kingpin of the prison wing where Max and Paddy end up]]) boyfriend. Max often oppressively stares at Paddy or anyone who has offended his tastes and often shouts "H-how dare you!". * BeardOfEvil: One of Raymond the Bastard's men has a massive beard. Amazingly, no one calls them on it. After an altercation with a camp inmate called Pepe, Max and Paddy are soon confronted by the main man of their wing, Raymond The Bastard (played by Everal Walsh), who is also Pepe's boyfriend. Sign Up. * EmbarrassingNickname: When he was a child, Paddy wore callipers and braces and was nicknamed Spazzy Paddy. Max convinces him the best thing to do is make the other prisoners believe they are not just two silly doormen, but genuine big-league gangsters called 'The Phoenix Twins'. Max and Paddy pose as members of staff, and Joe pretends to faint so an ambulance will be called while Max and Paddy steal the TV from the stockroom. * ButtMonkey: Gypsy Joe in the first episode. Raymond has heard about the pair's alleged big-money heists and robberies, and wants a cut of their money. * {{Hypocrite}}: When Max reveals that their new TV has no speakers, Paddy angrily calls Gypsy Joe a typical thieving gyppo and is glad hes eating the grapes they brought him for an injury they caused while heaving him off a bridge so they could escape with the TV hed just helped them steal. After an uncomfortable first night, Paddy admits his fear of being 'bummed' (see sodomy) in the shower room by Raymond the Bastard (Raymond Langley).

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