-->Sponging for a living, checking out the women. Maybe one or two biological weapons though. * ShoutOut: The climax of Episode Two is a homage to ''Series/TheATeam'' complete with the theme tune playing in the background. Their 10 year old son, Daniel, is secretly revealed to be Max's but Max promises never to interfere in his life and to keep the secret. * [[spoiler: ConvenientlyCellmates: Averted in the case of Max and Paddy, along with some LampshadeHanging from a guard. * AmusingInjuries: Gypsy Joe's broken leg when Max and Paddy accidentally drop him from a TV screen(which they're using as a stretcher) from a great height. ]], * DisproportionateRetribution: 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 didnt do any work on the motorhome yet still tried to charge them 500. 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. 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. * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Raymond, the main antagonist of Episode 4 clearly loves his boyfriend Pepe, and vice-versa. However, the child, a 10-year-old boy called Daniel, is actually Max's son. The room full of male bodybuilders is certainly a clue though. * AbsenteeActor: Jerry and Ray Von do not appear in the Phoenix Nights sections of the show with Marc Park ['That Peter Kay Thing'] taking over as Les Alanos' singer. No, it's not as easy as that, Max. It doesn't leave a mess all over their motorhome, but it farts. It doesn't leave that much poo on the floor of their motorhome, but it farts. . * IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: An example that is both romantic and non-romantic at the same time. When Max and Paddy reach the cattle market, they discover the pig in ill health and they've been conned. 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. '''Max''': How dare you?! * HonestJohnsDealership: Gypsy Joe's shop is in the back of a lorry and everything is stolen. Tina finally gets the duo out, but now before a payback for Potter Is due. * BearyFunny: Max and Paddy disguise themselves as dancing bears to obtain a TV screen from a supermarket. -->''''Dont know where were going, got no way of knowing. ** In a deleted scene from the first episode, Paddy walks in on Max having some * AssShove: When Paddy was a child he used to frequently shove StarWars action figures up his arse and once had to be taken to hospital after sticking an Obi-Wan Kenobi figure up there. The entire male staff of the Phoenix Club, * StuffedInTheFridge: A literal version is discussed in Episode Four. * EmbarrassingNickname: When he was a child, Paddy wore callipers and braces and was nicknamed "Spazzy Paddy". * MistakenForGay: A running gag in the first episode is a family camped near the motorhome catching Max and Paddy in seemingly compromising positions. Things get worse for the duo when Brian Potter turns up, determined to get his doormen out of jail. ]], * 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. ({{Beat}}) What do you want, son? Things get worse for the duo when Brian Potter turns up, determined to get his doormen out of jail. * LargeHam: Mix Bustin, as played by [[Music/Slade Noddy Holder]]. Stars Peter Kay, Paddy McGuinness and Lisa Hammond. -->And best of all, we don't pay council tax.''''. Supports the lads in stealing a widescreen TV from a supermarket centre. [[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. 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=]. Login to create it. * EmbarrassingNickname: When he was a child, Paddy wore callipers and braces and was nicknamed Spazzy Paddy. He has also appeared in Coronation Street and Emmerdale. 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. The lyrics are "Don't know where we're going, Got no way of knowing, Driving on the Road to Nowhere. Kay and McGuinness themselves sang it in the opening sequences of episodes 2 to 6. * BavarianFireDrill: Max and Paddy posing as paramedics as part of their ZanyScheme to steal a plasma TV. * 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 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. 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]]. They still end up in cells next door to each other though. 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. [[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. Paddy causes tension by burning Max's book on their campfire, but Max eventually forgives Paddy and begins discussing, accompanied by a flashback, his one true love: a dwarf called Tina, whom he met in 1994. * SeinfeldianConversation: Max and Paddy have these fairly regularly. * SeinfeldianConversation: Max and Paddy have these fairly regularly. Max and Paddy by Ann Jordan - Dailymotion * CampGay: Pepe, Raymond The Bastard's ([[spoiler:the kingpin of the prison wing where Max and Paddy end up]]) boyfriend. After being arrested for the school bus robbery, the two of them are in jail. 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. The introduction of all but one of the episode shows Max and Paddy singing the following song: 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 take don't shit from anyone.The only thing we wanna do is have some fun.It's Max and Paddy (-Paddy and Max! History for Series/MaxAndPaddysRoadToNowhere - TV Tropes Max And Paddy's Road To Nowhere - British Comedy Guide It's real life this son, not the frigging Shawshank Redemption! No Context Max and Paddy. He has also appeared in Coronation Street, Emmerdale and Doctor Who.[2]. * CharlieAndTheChocolateParody: One episode starts with Paddy getting a job in a promo called ''Willy Walker's Chocolate Factory''. They do get cornered by local DepravedHomosexual Raymond the Bastard in the showers, after dropping soap, but [[SubvertedTrope he doesn't rape them]]. Elsewhere Paddy's love of pornography is mentioned quite frequently. A popular English comedy band who had a TV show in the 80's. How old is Mrs McGuinness? * ButtMonkey: Gypsy Joe in the first episode. Sign in Max and Paddy Go To Prison | Peter. [[GassHole A lot.]] * DudeNotFunny: Max's bouncer friends making jokes about Tina's dwarfism. 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. 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. See more of No Context Max and Paddy on Facebook. Yesterday at 10:21 AM. For a cut of the money, he allows them to live in a cell with Sky+. ]], ** 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. ]], * JailBake: [[spoiler: Averted. 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=]. * DisabledSnarker: A woman with a HookHand flips Paddy off when he tries his CasanovaWannabe shtick on her. Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere is a British sitcom starring and written by Peter Kay and Patrick McGuinness. * MistakenForGay: A running gag in the first episode is. 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. Although the main workout is shown in full, it is more intended as a spoof product than a genuine workout. * ShapedLikeItself: Raymond The Bastard is, as youd expect, a bastard. A spoof fitness DVD was released, Max & Paddy's The Power of Two, including several gags and pieces of scenery from the main series. Phoenix Nights Wiki is a FANDOM TV Community. ]], * [[spoiler: JailBake: Averted. 15Hopeless doormen Max and Paddy leave clubland and embark on a series of wild and exciting adventures in their prized motorhome, \"Easy Rider\" style. 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 agrees just to get Raymond off their backs and receive preferential treatment, including access to luxury chocolates and Sky+ . * AffablyEvil: For a DepravedHomosexual [[TheYardies Yardie]] who's literally named "The Bastard," Raymond the Bastard is pretty polite to Max and Paddy. Dressing as sailors to blend in, the two of them get the attention of two girls called Tracey and Louise. ]], ** Tina has an offscreen one in Episode Four. Is there a season 2 of Max and Paddy? - Sage-Answers The police are quickly on to the gang, with only Shannon aware of any crime. * 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. * RoguishRomani: Gypsy Joe, played by ''Series/MrsBrownsBoys'' actor Brendan O'Caroll. * PrecisionFStrike: Mick Bustin's OhCrap moment. At the very least, he doesn't make rude jokes about her dwarfism like her first love Max did. Paddy is forced to share a cell with a Cliff Richard impersonator and tennis enthusiast. The entire male staff of the Phoenix Club in Episode 4, stripped nude and sprayed with disinfectant. ** A RunningGag in the first episode is an African family camped near the motorhome catching Max and Paddy in seemingly compromising positions. * 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. ]], * 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.]]. You've got yourself a deal Mr Bastard! - Facebook me by Jon Hughes - Dailymotion Tina finally gets the duo out, but now before a payback for Potter Is due.Welcome to the Official Peter Kay YouTube channel! 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. They crash the party and Max meets his old school pals. * NonIndicativeName: The Patelster, a friend of Max's friend the Wolfster. ''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''. They soon realise that they have been conned. It was broadcast on Channel 4 and began on 12 November 2004, running for six 30-minute episodes up until 17 December 2004. ]], * PrisonRape: Mentioned a number of times by Paddy [[spoiler: when he and Max are in prison.]] * DepravedDwarf: Subverted by Max's dwarf girlfriend, Tina, who's very much one of the nicest characters in the series. The DVD also included extra workout tips and a segment instructed by Brian Potter live from the Phoenix Club. * SchmuckBait: Raymond the Bastard telling Paddy to [[PrisonRape bend over and pick the soap up]]. Comedy Rewind: Looking back at Sink Or Swim, The making of The Oldest Comedy Club In Britain, First Gig, Worst Gig: Schalk Bezuidenhout. -->And we don't take shit from anyone, the only thing we wanna do is have some fun. He goes on to say that the relationship abruptly ended after she overheard him and his friends making jokes about her height. Learn how and when to remove this template message, Screwed: The Truth About Life as a Prison Officer, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Everal_Walsh&oldid=1104797357, Short description is different from Wikidata, BLP articles lacking sources from October 2013, Articles with unsourced statements from October 2013, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 16 August 2022, at 23:45. * ButtMonkey: Gypsy Joe in the first episode. Paddy is forced to share a cell with a tennis-playing Cliff Richard impersonator who actually believes he is Cliff. This involved holding up Little Chef employees to gun-point to make her open late for them. The pair are now in prison after the school bus siege. The farmer sells them a breeding pig for 100, which he claims they can sell on for 300. That's Pepe's - Raymond the Bastard's girlfriend's! Share the best GIFs now >>> Whilst in the wood, Patrick reveals his full name whilst Max reveals some of his own secrets. ** Also, the farmer who sells Max and Paddy his pig. ]], '''Brian:''' [[spoiler: Sponge and a bit of jam. * TheRealSpoofbusters: Parodied with Mick Bostin', a Brummie car repairman with a Ghostbusters-themed garage shop, played by Noddie Holder of Music/Slade. Paddy's full name is revealed to be Patrick O'Shea. ]], * PrisonsAreGymnasiums: [[spoiler: 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.]]. See EpicFail.]]. * {{Catchphrase}}: A few. [[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. She certainly doesn't agree with him. * 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". * DoItYourselfTheme: The theme song was written by Toni Baker and Peter Kay, and borrowed heavily from the theme to ''Series/BJAndTheBear''. 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. You've got yourself a deal Mr Bastard! - Facebook 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.]] 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. * EvilFormerFriend: Billy the Butcher to Max. Raymond has heard about the pair's alleged big-money heists and robberies, and wants a cut of their money. Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere - Wikipedia [[spoiler: Daniel]] lampshades this. ''', ** 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. ({{Beat}}) What do you want, son? It's [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome real life]], not the frigging [[Film/TheShawshankRedemption Shawshank Redemption]].]]. A big fight is about to break out between Raymond and his henchmen against Max and Paddy. 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. Max tries to make amends with her, and discovers that she is actually married to, and has a child with, The Wolfster. * 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. Menu. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php. 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. What? ''With her pincer. We don't have any reviews for Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere. 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. 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. 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. 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.
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