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Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere
Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere is a British sitcom starring and written by Peter Kay and Paddy McGuinness. It was broadcast on Channel 4 and began on 12 November 2004, running for six 30-minute episodes up until 17 December 2004. 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. 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.
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.
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. 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.
The theme song was written by Toni Baker and Peter Kay and borrowed heavily from the theme to the 1970s American series B. J. and the Bear. The lyrics are "Don't know where we're going, Got no way of knowing, Driving on the Road to Nowhere. Sponging for a living, Checkin' out the women, Riding on the Road to Nowhere... And we don't take shit from anyone, The only thing we wanna do is have some fun. We're Max and Paddy (Paddy and Max!), And best of all, we don't pay Council Tax!". 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. Kay and McGuinness themselves sang it in the opening sequences of episodes 2 to 6. Episode 1's opening theme is instrumental and episodes 2 - 5's closing themes are too.
In Dover, Max and Paddy buy a plasma television from an Irish crook called Gypsy Joe (played by Brendan O'Carroll). This leads to several arguments, especially when they realise the television doesn't have any speakers. 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. Paddy teaches him a few cool moves the following day, and they return to the club dressed as sailors in order to blend in. Their new moves lure two local girls, Tracey and Louise, back to the campervan, only for one of them to steal Paddy's wallet. 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.
This episode had 4.2m viewers.
After a humiliating cameo in the porn parody "Willy Wanker and the Chocolate Factory", Paddy's day worsens when the campervan breaks down in the Midlands. The vehicle is left with local mechanic Mick Bustin (Noddy Holder) while Max and Paddy take the last train of the day to Middlewood. Stranded with no return journey, they attempt to hike back but got lost in the woods. As night falls, Max reveals a notebook filled with childlike sketches for his imaginary TV show, Magnet and Steel. Paddy mocks him and, in frustration, burns the book on their campfire, causing a row. Max later forgives him and opens up—via flashback—about his one true love, a midget named Tina, whom he met in 1994. Their romance ended abruptly after she overheard his friends making cruel jokes about her height, leaving before witnessing Max defend her by headbutting one of them.
The next morning, Max and Paddy discover they were only a short walk from a petrol station and a Travelodge all along. Their frustration grows when Mick Bustin demands £500 for repairs, prompting them to break into his garage. In a parody of The A-Team, they modify the campervan and make a dramatic escape—only for it to break down again, as Bustin had never actually fixed it. This episode features several familiar faces from Phoenix Nights and includes a nod to Midnight Cowboy. It also reveals Paddy's full name, Patrick O'Shea—a joke referencing the regular teasing of Irish footballer John O'Shea for resembling Paddy McGuinness. This episode drew 8m viewers.
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Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere
Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere is a British sitcom starring and written by Peter Kay and Paddy McGuinness. It was broadcast on Channel 4 and began on 12 November 2004, running for six 30-minute episodes up until 17 December 2004. 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. 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.
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.
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. 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.
The theme song was written by Toni Baker and Peter Kay and borrowed heavily from the theme to the 1970s American series B. J. and the Bear. The lyrics are "Don't know where we're going, Got no way of knowing, Driving on the Road to Nowhere. Sponging for a living, Checkin' out the women, Riding on the Road to Nowhere... And we don't take shit from anyone, The only thing we wanna do is have some fun. We're Max and Paddy (Paddy and Max!), And best of all, we don't pay Council Tax!". 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. Kay and McGuinness themselves sang it in the opening sequences of episodes 2 to 6. Episode 1's opening theme is instrumental and episodes 2 - 5's closing themes are too.
In Dover, Max and Paddy buy a plasma television from an Irish crook called Gypsy Joe (played by Brendan O'Carroll). This leads to several arguments, especially when they realise the television doesn't have any speakers. 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. Paddy teaches him a few cool moves the following day, and they return to the club dressed as sailors in order to blend in. Their new moves lure two local girls, Tracey and Louise, back to the campervan, only for one of them to steal Paddy's wallet. 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.
This episode had 4.2m viewers.
After a humiliating cameo in the porn parody "Willy Wanker and the Chocolate Factory", Paddy's day worsens when the campervan breaks down in the Midlands. The vehicle is left with local mechanic Mick Bustin (Noddy Holder) while Max and Paddy take the last train of the day to Middlewood. Stranded with no return journey, they attempt to hike back but got lost in the woods. As night falls, Max reveals a notebook filled with childlike sketches for his imaginary TV show, Magnet and Steel. Paddy mocks him and, in frustration, burns the book on their campfire, causing a row. Max later forgives him and opens up—via flashback—about his one true love, a midget named Tina, whom he met in 1994. Their romance ended abruptly after she overheard his friends making cruel jokes about her height, leaving before witnessing Max defend her by headbutting one of them.
The next morning, Max and Paddy discover they were only a short walk from a petrol station and a Travelodge all along. Their frustration grows when Mick Bustin demands £500 for repairs, prompting them to break into his garage. In a parody of The A-Team, they modify the campervan and make a dramatic escape—only for it to break down again, as Bustin had never actually fixed it. This episode features several familiar faces from Phoenix Nights and includes a nod to Midnight Cowboy. It also reveals Paddy's full name, Patrick O'Shea—a joke referencing the regular teasing of Irish footballer John O'Shea for resembling Paddy McGuinness. This episode drew 8m viewers.