"Max & Paddy's Road to Nowhere" Episode #1.4 (TV Episode 2004) - IMDb Max & Paddy's Road to Nowhere: With Peter Kay, Paddy McGuinness, Lisa Hammond, Tony Mooney. * {{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. * TunnelKing: [[spoiler: Maxs attempts at this leave a lot to be desired. Mayhem would then ensue as they tried to act appropriately in the situation, only to keep unintentionally doing magic tricks based on what they found in their outfits. Especially when they're on the road. 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'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''. * {{GassHole}}: The pig that Max and Paddy buy from a farmer impulsively ends up filling their motorhome with the stench of its farts. 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!". [1], 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 was tunnelling towards the next cell. . 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!". After having been disappointed by the breakdown of their campervan and also a failed porn shoot, the two of them decide to kill time by catching a train to Middlewood. He's not. As is. ** In Max and Paddys defence, they did tell Brian that he was going to ruin their chances of freedom, so Brian should have known that that something bad was going come out of this. * EstablishingCharacterMoment: [[AxCrazy Billy the Butcher]] is introduced beating a pizza delivery man up with a bin for bringing him the wrong delivery. Paddy's limping the next time we see him. For a cut of the money, he allows them to live in a cell with Sky+. Rating: 7.60/10 (avg out of 3450 votes) Max & Paddy's Road to Nowhere Airs: Friday. The two of them breakdown somewhere in the Midlands and take the campervan to a garage, owned by Mick Bustin. -->''''Dont know where were going, got no way of knowing. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available from thestaff@tvtropes.org. * PrecisionFStrike: Mick Bustin's OhCrap moment. * LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler: Averted. Politically Incorrect!". Tina finally gets the duo out, but now before a payback for Potter Is due. Max & Paddy's Road to Nowhere (2004) s01e04 Episode Script 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.]] ]], * EstablishingCharacterMoment: [[AxCrazy Billy the Butcher]] is introduced beating, * IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: An example that is both romantic and non-romantic at the same time. ''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''. Joe tells them that they've had a "run in" with the Belgrano Sisters, who are well known to do this sort of thing. This calls for them to take drastic action. '''Brian:''' [[spoiler: Sponge and a bit of jam. Max and Paddy drive into North East England to visit Max's old doorman friend Billy 'The Butcher' Shannon, who had previously briefly appeared in the 1994 flashback in Episode 2. [[DescriptionCut And this is after Max has mentioned him "softening up" in recent years. * 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.]]. The room full of male bodybuilders is certainly a clue though. Is there a season 2 of Max and Paddy? - Sage-Answers ({{Beat}}) What do you want, son? ]], ** Also Max and Paddy in Episode Four when [[spoiler: a news report about. * TheCameo: The cast of Series/PhoenixNights briefly reprise their roles in Episodes Two and Four. The following morning, the two discover to their annoyance that they were a short walk away from a Petrol Station and a Travelodge. * MessyPig: Played with by the pig Max and Paddy end up buying from a mad farmer. 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. [[DescriptionCut And this is after Max has mentioned him "softening up" in recent years.]]. Raymond has heard about the pair's alleged big-money heists and robberies, and wants a cut of their money. * DoItYourselfThemeTune: The theme song was written by Toni Baker and Peter Kay, and borrowed heavily from the theme to ''Series/BJAndTheBear''. 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. ]], * LuxuryPrisonSuite: [[spoiler: Max and Paddy get one complete with duvets, a box of Terry's 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. A popular English comedy band who had a TV show in the 80's. How old is Mrs McGuinness? 35K views, 99 likes, 4 loves, 100 comments, 86 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from No Context Max and Paddy: You've got yourself a deal Mr Bastard! After hi-jacking a school bus, the boys are sent to prison and play up their tough image in an attempt for survival. PHONE Hello? * VocalEvolution: Maxs voice is different than in Phoenix Nights because continuing it would have risked long-term damage to Peter Kays voice. ** Also, the farmer who sells Max and Paddy his pig. He has also appeared in Coronation Street, Emmerdale and Doctor Who.[2]. TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. ]], ** Replace "crap" with "fuck" and you've got Mick. After an uncomfortable first night, Paddy admits his fear of being 'bummed' (see sodomy) in the shower room by Raymond the Bastard (Raymond Langley). m and p by Emily Grant - Dailymotion The series showed both characters going around Britain in a campervan and sees them getting into some trouble. 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). ]], * HugeGuyTinyGirl: Taken to its absolute limit with Max (who is both tall and fairly large) and Tina (a woman with dwarfism). 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 * RoguishRomani: Gypsy Joe, played by ''Series/MrsBrownsBoys'' actor Brendan O'Caroll. Doesn't take long before they try selling it. * ZanyScheme: Max, Paddy, and Gypsy Joe's plan to steal a plasma TV from a shopping centre. I know. The entire male staff of the Phoenix Club in Episode 4, stripped nude and sprayed with disinfectant. It comes to a close when the two of them manage to return to the garage. They end up changing their minds by the end of the episode [[spoiler:when they see a pig- possibly the same pig they bought from the farmer and ended up caring for- roast and served at a pub, and order two nut cutlets instead]]. * {{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. The real farmer is more concerned about the death of his cow and so matters have to be resolved. The first secret was of his sketches of a dream TV series that he called "Magnet and Steel". * ItsAllAboutMe: Both Max and Paddy are prone to this. * ButtMonkey: Gypsy Joe in the first episode. * BlandNameProduct: Paddy is frustrated that Max insists on buying cheap groceries like "Big Bob's Beans" and water bottled in the mountains of Afghanistan. It was broadcast on Channel 4 and began on 12 November 2004, running for six 30-minute episodes up until 17 December 2004. The pair hand it over to a local garage run by Mick Bustin, played by Noddy Holder. 15Hopeless doormen Max and Paddy leave clubland and embark on a series of wild and exciting adventures in their prized motorhome, \"Easy Rider\" style. After an uncomfortable first night, Paddy admits his fear of being 'bummed' (see sodomy) in the shower room by Raymond the Bastard (Raymond Langley). Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere - Wikipedia You've got yourself a deal Mr Bastard! - Facebook Kay and McGuinness do not provide the DVD audio commentary. Max and Paddy Go To Prison | Peter Kay - YouTube Things get worse for the duo when Brian Potter turns up, determined to get his doormen out of jail. * BeardOfEvil: One of Raymond the Bastard's men has a massive beard. Walsh works as a voice actor and has appeared in a number of radio productions for BBC Radio 4. Peter Kay touched on this in the DVD commentary of Phoenix Nights, saying that he should have told the production company to buy a larger motor home than the Ford as he intended to use it in the spin-off. [1] A spin-off from Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights, the series follows the two Bolton doormen/bouncers Maxwell "Max" Bygraves (Kay) and Patrick "Paddy" O'Shea (McGuinness) as they tour around the UK in their campervan. Max in turn makes his own heroic sacrifice by [[spoiler: not telling Daniel that he is his father, and letting Tinas family remain intact. * 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. * ChekhovsGunman / EarlyBirdCameo: Maxs ex-girlfriend Tina appears in flashbacks in Episode Two before playing an important role in Episodes Three and Four. ]], * IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: An example that is both romantic and non-romantic at the same time. What does he do? * YouCanKeepYourHatOn: Non-sexy variant, when the Phoenix Club. * StraightGay: Raymond The Bastard, compared to his boyfriend Pepe. * PrisonEpisode: [[spoiler:Episode Four after being set up at the end of Episode Three. ]], * JailBake: [[spoiler: Averted. She certainly doesn't agree with him. * ButtMonkey: Gypsy Joe in the first episode. * NonIndicativeName: Zahid Patel, a friend of Max's friend the Wolfster. Log In. Max actually has to wear goggles to defend his eyes. * ChekhovsGunman / EarlyBirdCameo: Maxs ex-girlfriend Tina appears in flashbacks in Episode Two before playing an important role in Episodes Three and Four. 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. No Context Max and Paddy. The room full of male bodybuilders is certainly a clue though. 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. * NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Raymond the Bastard, obviously. spoken by Paddy to Billy the Butcher when knocking him out with a traffic cone.]]. Christine, 33, and Paddy have three children. ** When Paddy was a child he used to frequently shove ''Franchise/StarWars'' action figures up his arse and once had to be taken to hospital after sticking an Obi-Wan Kenobi figure up there. 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. It doesn't leave. * NotMyDriver: Max and Paddy try to hijack [[spoiler:the school bus that Max's son goes on]] like this, [[spoiler:only to find themselves on the wrong bus]]. Tina finally gets the duo out, but now before a payback for Potter Is due. ]], ** Tina has an offscreen one in Episode Four. -->And best of all, we don't pay council tax.''''. He had also stated in 2010, during an appearance on The Chris Moyles Show, that he wanted Sir Terry Wogan to play an Irish baddie when Max and Paddy go to a funeral in Ireland but, after a stag night, only have fancy dress magician clothes. * LudicrousGibs: Implied in the case of the weird farmer's wife, who got killed by a combine harvester. * 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. * GagPenis: [[Gayngster Raymond the Bastard]] says Paddy has one of these, "like a young Creator/BurtReynolds.". * HonestJohnsDealership: Gypsy Joe's shop is in the back of a lorry and everything is stolen. Its [[RealityEnsues real life]], not the frigging [[Film/TheShawshankRedemption Shawshank Redemption]]. 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!". http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php. Max And Paddy GIFs | Tenor [[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. * CarFu: Max and Paddy accidentally kill a cow by ramming it. ''', ** Max and Paddy not paying the (admittedly extortionate) repair bill for their motorhome and instead [[spoiler: stealing it back (see MacGyvering), and taking all of the keys to cars the mechanics were working on and tossing them out of the motorhome one by one while driving off]] seems like this until the reveal that [[spoiler: the mechanics didn't do any work on the motorhome yet still tried to charge them £500. On 27 November 2014 live shows were announced for Comic Relief, with the full cast returning. The theme tune to Road to Nowhere was co-written by Peter Kay and Toni Baker. ** Paddy tries to have one at the end of the first episode but the volume of the TV wakes up Max who is less than pleased. Menu. Raymond the Bastard - King of Negotiating | The art - Facebook 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. * 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. Early life He trained at the Academy Drama School, where he was the recipient of the Stage Scholarship. * {{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. ** 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. 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. ** 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. * 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). No, it's not as easy as that, Max. The pair are now in prison after the school bus siege. 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. After being arrested for the school bus robbery, the two of them are in jail. * NoisySexNextDoor: In the first episode, Max and Paddy pull two girls at a nightclub and bring them back to the motorhome. ]], '''Brian:''' [[spoiler: Sponge and a bit of jam. or. Max tries to make amends with her, and discovers that she is actually married to, and has a child with, The Wolfster. * LookBehindYou: Paddy does this to distract Billy the Butcher and escape into the motorhome, when Billy realises Paddy rifled through his duffle bag. * ActorAllusion: Paddy's full name is revealed to be Patrick O'Shea. * PaperThinDisguise: Max and Paddys paramedic disguises during the TV theft in Episode One. After an uncomfortable first night, Paddy admits his fear of being 'bummed' (see sodomy) in the shower room by Raymond the Bastard (Raymond Langley). Elsewhere Paddys love of pornography is mentioned quite frequently. They still end up in cells next door to each other though. 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!". ** 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. * 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. You'd think by his name he'd be Indian, right? The two of them get their own back on Brian by claiming there is an outbreak of Anthrax in the club, leading to the club and its staff to be subjected to nude sterilisation. 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. He goes on to say that the relationship abruptly ended after she overheard him and his friends making jokes about her height. 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. * 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". [[spoiler: Max decides not to tell his long lost son Daniel that he is his real father; allowing Daniel, Tina, and Kevin. [[GassHole A lot.]] Max And Paddy's Road To Nowhere - British Comedy Guide * BadassLongcoat: Billy the Butcher wears one of these. Max agrees just to get Raymond off their backs and receive preferential treatment, including access to luxury chocolates and Sky+ . Line # Series/MaxAndPaddysRoadToNowhere - TV Tropes * BritishBrevity: Only six episodes were made. * InnocentlyInsensitive: What Max thinks he was when he laughed along with his bouncing friends' jokes about Tina's dwarfism. The pair thus decide to go out to a nightclub to cheer themselves up and relax, but Max's uncoordinated dancing spoils the night and he ends up fighting with some sailors home on shore leave. Me?! * UsefulNotes/IrishTravellers: 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 RoguishRomani. They soon realise that they have been conned. Whilst in the wood, Patrick reveals his full name whilst Max reveals some of his own secrets. Especially when theyre on the road. He also reveals that he once had a one true love by the name of Tina. He also calls people a clown or a melon if they've said something absurd. ** 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. After a bad first night, Paddy admits his fear of being 'bummed' in the shower room. Image shows from L to R: Paddy (Paddy McGuinness), Max (Peter Kay). However, the child, a 10-year-old boy called Daniel, is actually Max's son. [[spoiler: Max decides not to tell his long lost son Daniel that he is his real father; allowing Daniel, Tina, and Kevin (Tina's husband and an old friend of Max who believes he is Daniel's father) to remain a happy family. * ViolentGlaswegian: Billy the Butcher is from Newcastle, not Scotland, but otherwise he qualifies as this. * LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: Episode Three contains a montage of [[spoiler:Max following his long lost son to school and trying to deal with the news that hes a father]] set to the Boyzone cover of "Father & Son". ]], * 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. That's Pepe's - Raymond the Bastard's girlfriend's! Raymond has heard about the pair's alleged big-money heists and robberies, and wants a cut of their money. * CelebrityParadox: In episode three, in the scene where The Wolfster writes his telephone number on a beermat and hands it to Max, it is clearly a Peter Kay beermat, tying in with Kay's TV adverts for John Smith's bitter. ]], ** Also, his and Paddy's attempts to sell a pig ''to a Halal restaurant! 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.]]. Max & Paddy's Road to Nowhere (TV Mini Series 2004) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. What they fail to notice at the same time is that Shannon is carrying a revolver, which he uses to force a Little Chef employee called Brenda (played by Alex Hall) to open for the trio late at night. 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". * WaxingLyrical: When Max finally meets [[spoiler: his long lost son Daniel]], he attempts to give him some meaningful advice and ends up accidentally quoting Father & Son to him. * MistakenForGay: A running gag in the first episode is a family camped near the motorhome catching Max and Paddy in seemingly compromising positions. Max's amazing car alarm from phoenix nights extended to 40 secondsi own nothing - you should give this show a watch if u haven't seen it before - highly reco.
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