* MistakenForGay: A running gag in the first episode is a family camped near the motorhome catching Max and Paddy in seemingly compromising positions. Walsh works as a voice actor and has appeared in a number of radio productions for BBC Radio 4. The lyrics are "Don't know where we're going, Got no way of knowing, Driving on the Road to Nowhere. Paddy is steaming drunk and has very loud sex in his bedroom while Max tries to have a drink and a chat with the other girl in the living room. 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!". * MessyPig: Played with by the pig Max and Paddy end up buying from a mad farmer. They agree to let Shannon, who is looking for his estranged son, hitch a ride around. [[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. * GagPenis: [[Gayngster Raymond the Bastard]] says Paddy has one of these, "like a young Creator/BurtReynolds.". * FatIdiot: Max is as much a KnowNothingKnowItAll as he was back in Phoenix Nights. With Max's inferior tunnelling skills, sharing a cell with Cliff Richard is the least of Paddy's worries; his good looks are bound to cause problems in the shower and not just in competing for the soap. * YouCanKeepYourHatOn: Non-sexy variant, when the Phoenix Club staff(the male half, anyway) is forced to strip nude and get sprayed with disinfectant, Young Kenny is still wearing his hat. The motor home originally purchased by Max in Phoenix Nights was a Ford; however, the motor home they use in Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere is a Fiat. * ThirdPersonPerson: Paddy is this fairly frequently. ]], * IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: An example that is both romantic and non-romantic at the same time. With Tenor, maker of GIF Keyboard, add popular Max And Paddy animated GIFs to your conversations. Following on from the hi-jacking, Max and Paddy are now serving time at Her Majesty's Pleasure. 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!". See EpicFail.]]. Things get worse for the duo when Brian Potter turns up, determined to get his doo. Maybe one or two biological weapons though. 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, who is also Pepe's boyfriend. 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. ]], * IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: An example that is both romantic and non-romantic at the same time. * HeroicSacrifice: Tina is determined to keep the secret that [[spoiler: Max is Daniel's father]] because it will destroy her family, despite that it means [[spoiler: Max and Paddy being in prison because her going to the police and corroborating their story will reveal everything. After the previous episode the duo are now being held on remand in prison. In the West Country, Paddy is driving the van when he accidentally runs over and kills a cow walking in the road. * PaperThinDisguise: Max and Paddy's paramedic disguises during the TV theft in Episode One. 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. Amazingly, no one calls them on it. He claims they can sell it on at market for around 300. After the previous episode the duo are now being held on remand in prison. ''With her pincer. After a raunchy night at the campervan, Paddy wakes up to find that they've stolen his wallet. They have a change of heart though and head back to the farm to reclaim their 100. When Max and Paddy reach the cattle market, they discover the pig in ill health and they've been conned. ** Tina has an offscreen one in Episode Four thats both intentional and accidental. Singer Tony Christie was to sing the show's theme, but his version was only used once, at the very end of the final episode. ** And again when Max and Paddy are meeting up with the Wolfster's friends at his 40th birthday party, thanks to Max's poor wording. What Shows Have Been Renewed or Canceled. Brian has been [[spoiler: 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. * IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: An example that is both romantic and non-romantic at the same time. This page is not available in other languages. As is RaymondTheBastard. Stars Peter Kay, Paddy McGuinness and Lisa Hammond. Get all the latest news and information in your inbox, with our range of email newsletters to meet all interests. Max agrees just to get Raymond off their backs and receive preferential treatment, including access to luxury chocolates and Sky+ . What Shows Have Been Renewed or Canceled. ]], * HeroicSacrifice: Tina is determined to keep the secret that [[spoiler: Max is, * OhCrap: Replace crap with fuck and youve got Mick Bustins exact reaction when he sees [[spoiler: that Max and Paddy have stolen the keys to all of his clients cars.]]. * HypocriticalHumor: Max insists that there's a difference between "dwarfs"(he thinks they're people with dwarfism who specifically work at circuses) and "midgets"(which is what he defines his ex-girlfriend Tina as). * ContinuityNod: When Young Kenny appears in Episode Four, he still has the impossible to remove tiger facepaint that he got at Brian's fun day in Series 2 of Series/PhoenixNights. Bringing you all the best moments from stand up to sitcoms!Subscribe here: https://bit.ly/2OKEbEf#PeterKay #PaddyMcGuinness #Max\u0026Paddy Paddy notes that they're 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.]]. The pair are now in prison after the school bus siege. * ButtMonkey: Gypsy Joe in the first episode. * EnemyEatsYourLunch: Pepe eats the cake that one of the friendlier inmates' daughter gave to him as a warning that he's due to pay collection money to Raymond the Bastard. They reject him, not wanting a high-profile campaign ruining their chances of release. After an uncomfortable first night, Paddy admits his fear of being 'bummed' (see sodomy) in the shower room by Raymond the Bastard (Raymond Langley). A popular English comedy band who had a TV show in the 80's. How old is Mrs McGuinness? But by sheer confidence and the perceived urgency of the situation, they manage to pull it off. Joe tells them that they've had a "run in" with the Belgrano Sisters, who are well known to do this sort of thing. The entire male staff of the Phoenix Club (expect Brian) in Episode 4, stripped nude and sprayed with disinfectant. The pair arrive in London, and immediately have an altercation with the traffic police. -->''''Dont know where were going, got no way of knowing. 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. Little does he realise at first that he has actually stolen the wrong bus and it isn't long before the police come after him. 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 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). [[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. * ContinuityNod: When Young Kenny appears in Episode Four, he still has the impossible to remove tiger facepaint that he got at. TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. * ShapedLikeItself: Raymond The Bastard is, as you'd expect, a bastard. A big fight is about to break out between Raymond and his henchmen against Max and Paddy. The pair are now in prison together after the school bus incident. * BearyFunny: Max and Paddy disguise themselves as dancing bears to obtain a TV screen from a supermarket. 15Hopeless doormen Max and Paddy leave clubland and embark on a series of wild and exciting adventures in their prized motorhome, \"Easy Rider\" style. Kay and McGuinness themselves sang it in the opening sequences of episodes 2 to 6. 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.]]. See EpicFail.]]. * {{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. Career 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. He either thinks he actually is Music/CliffRichard 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. Learn how and when to remove this template message, Peter Kay's Britain's Got the Pop Factor and Possibly a New Celebrity Jesus Christ Soapstar Superstar Strictly on Ice, "Max and Paddy are coming back as star reveals there's plenty of life left in the show", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Max_and_Paddy%27s_Road_to_Nowhere&oldid=1151380443, This page was last edited on 23 April 2023, at 17:52. Max And Paddy's Road To Nowhere. The pair arrive in North-East England where Max meets his old friend and once fellow-doorman Billy "The Butcher" Shannon. ({{Beat}}) What do you want, son? ** A RunningGag in the first episode is an African family camped near the motorhome catching Max and Paddy in seemingly compromising positions. [[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. Soon, their old Phoenix Club boss Brian Potter (played by Kay) unexpectedly comes to visit, along with a cake, announcing that he's organising several events to help speed up their release. No wonder Tina left him. He points the gun at Max who tells him he needs help. '', * EstablishingCharacterMoment: [[AxCrazy Billy the Butcher]] is introduced beating up a pizza delivery man with a bin for bringing him the wrong delivery. He also keeps a poster of, * BigDamnHeroes: Tina has an offscreen one in Episode Four thats both intentional and accidental. ]], * JailBake: [[spoiler: Averted. * ZanyScheme: Max, Paddy, and Gypsy Joe's plan to steal a plasma TV from a shopping centre. * PreAssKickingOneLiner: [[spoiler:"'Ave 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. * BeardOfEvil: One of Raymond the Bastard's men has a massive beard. ** One can only guess what Paddys part in the porn film ''[[ParallelPornTitles Willy Wanker And The Chocolate Factory]]'' entailed that makes him ask Max to drive over speed bumps more carefully. Paddy is forced to share a cell with a Cliff Richard impersonator and tennis enthusiast. Paddy doesn't oblige, pulling the soap over with his foot while resting his hands on Max's shoulders. A chase eventually ensues through the services and along a motorway tunnel bridge, and Shannon shoots Paddy in the bottom. The pair hand it over to a local garage run by Mick Bustin, played by Noddy Holder. After discovering the girls, locally known as the 'Belgrano Sisters', are infamous for this, they get revenge by forcing them to steal some speakers for their television. Maxs counter that he has a good stand-up wash in the sink once a week [[NotHelpingYourCase doesn't exactly help his case]]. On the DVD packaging, it is now referred to as "The UK's fastest selling fitness DVD Ever!" 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!". Max agrees just to get Raymond off their backs and receive preferential treatment, including access to luxury chocolates and Sky+ . '''Brian:''' [[spoiler: Sponge and a bit of jam. [[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. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. * BadassLongcoat: Billy the Butcher wears one of these. ** In a deleted scene from the first episode, Paddy walks in on Max having some"private time" in the toilet with his (Paddy's) copy of Razzle. 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). * LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: Episode Three contains a montage of [[spoiler:Max following his long lost son to school and trying to deal with the news that he's a father]] set to the Boyzone cover of "Father & Son". Log In. * CoitusInterruptus: After Max and Paddy bring two girls back the motorhome, Paddy predictably has sex with one while Max prefers to have a drink and a civilised chat with the other. They've got the wrong bus however, and are soon captured by the police and sent directly to prison. Paddy is then forced to share a cell with a tennis-playing Cliff Richard impersonator who actually believes he is Cliff. Amazingly, no one calls them on it. On 22 February 2010, Peter Kay stated to The Sun that he and Paddy McGuinness planned to do more specials of Max and Paddy's Road To Nowhere. * FanDisservice: At the end of Episode Four, we see the male cast of Series/PhoenixNights (apart from Brian) naked when [[spoiler: Max and Paddy call in an anthrax threat and they are forced to strip naked and get hosed down with some kind of chemical suppressant.]]. 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. ]], ** Also Max and Paddy in Episode Four when [[spoiler: a news report about them set up by Brian is seen 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. Max actually has to wear goggles to defend his eyes. [1] ** Upon [[spoiler: being sent to prison for stealing a school bus full of children (see BigDamnHeroes)]], Max and Paddy face the unpleasant ordeal of a rectal examination [[spoiler: to ensure they're not smuggling anything into the prison.]]. Ironically, he's also gay, and Jamaica, where the original Yardies started out, is a country with a reputation for homophobia. After a fight 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. Today at 2:34 AM It was broadcast on Channel 4 and began on 12 November 2004, running for six 30-minute episodes up until 17 December 2004. * PsychopathicManchild: 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 ExactWords including the creators as well as the show titles. It doesn't take long before they try selling it. He trained at the Academy Drama School, where he was the recipient of the Stage Scholarship. Join us in our mission to support and promote British comedy across the decades. Potter fails to listen, and the whole wing later see him on the news talking about 'the doormen' Max and Paddy: thus revealing their stories as lies. ** 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. * [[spoiler: ConvenientlyCellmates: Averted in the case of Max and Paddy, along with some LampshadeHanging from a guard. * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Raymond, the main antagonist of Episode 4 clearly loves his boyfriend Pepe, and vice-versa. * AssShove: When Paddy was a child he used to frequently shove. ''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. They then return to the farm to give back the pig and get their money back to find that the old man was not the farmer but in fact the farmer's alcoholic father-in-law. * NonIndicativeName: Zahid Patel, a friend of Max's friend the Wolfster. Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere is Channel 4 Brit Com spun-off from the popular comedy Phoenix Nights that sees former Phoenix Club doormen Max ( Peter Kay) 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 The entire male staff of the Phoenix Club, * StuffedInTheFridge: A literal version is discussed in Episode Four. Facebook. * 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. [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/max_and_paddy.jpg]]. Especially when theyre on the road. You should wear a mask and a striped jumper! * ParallelPornTitles: Paddy owns a DVD of [[Series/CharliesAngels Charlies Anals]] and later appears in a film called [[Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory Willy Wanker And The Chocolate Factory]]. TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Theyre generally decent guys but not above stealing and conning people if it will benefit them. * CarFu: Max and Paddy accidentally kill a cow by ramming it. He [[LampshadeHanging points out]] how stupid it is to expect this. . He's not. This brilliantly observed comedy journey follows the exploits of these two modern outlaws as they escape the club in their prized motorhome and take to the open road, creating havoc across the country. Paddy is not happy. * InnocentlyInsensitive: What Max thinks he was when he laughed along with his bouncing friends' jokes about Tina's dwarfism. 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.]] However, the child, a 10-year-old boy called Daniel, is actually Max's son. * ChekhovsGunman: Max's ex-girlfriend Tina appears in flashbacks in Episode Two before playing an important role in Episodes Three and Four. ]], ** Replace "crap" with "fuck" and you've got Mick. 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. ** Also, the farmer who sells Max and Paddy his pig. Christine, 33, and Paddy have three children. ]], * [[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.]]. * LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler: Averted. Not long after, Brian Potter pays a visit and thanks to a news article regarding the Phoenix Club, the inmates find out that Max and Paddy are just "bouncers". ** A few. He also keeps a poster of ''Film/{{Blade}}'' in his bedroom, another BadassLongcoat wearer. * RealMenEatMeat: Max and Paddy are of this opinion at the start of Episode 5. * BadassLongcoat: Billy the Butcher wears one of these. The entire male staff of the Phoenix Club in Episode 4, stripped nude and sprayed with disinfectant.

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