* RealityEnsues: [[spoiler:Paddy survives Billy the Butcher shooting him in the backside, but he's still bleeding profusely afterwards]]. 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. The police are quickly on to the gang, with only Shannon aware of any crime. The rip-off merchant Mick Bustin wants 500 from them for them to reveal the campervan. ({{Beat}}) What do you want, son? Dressing as sailors to blend in, the two of them get the attention of two girls called Tracey and Louise. ** A RunningGag in the first episode is an African family camped near the motorhome catching Max and Paddy in seemingly compromising positions. Let's get one thing straight, and I mean ''straight''. Especially when theyre on the road. * VocalEvolution: Maxs voice is different than in Phoenix Nights because continuing it would have risked long-term damage to Peter Kays voice. * AcceptableTargets: In-universe, when Max and Paddy pull up to cut down a speed camera, passers-by salute and cheer them. * 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.]]. * LargeHam: Mix Bustin, as played by [[Music/Slade Noddy Holder]]. [[spoiler: Max and Paddy get stuck with the job of shovelling coal into a furnace while in prison, and Max says that. Log In. * LudicrousGibs: Implied in the case of the weird farmer's wife, who got killed by a combine harvester. 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.]] * OopNorth: Traditionally Lancashire, but there are a few characters from other parts of Northern England, such as Mick Bustin' (played by Birmingham native Noddy Holder) and Billy the Butcher (Newcastle). ** 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. 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. Things get worse for the duo when Brian Potter turns up, determined to get his doormen out of jail. * ContinuityNod: When Young Kenny appears in Episode Four, he still has the impossible to remove tiger facepaint that he got at. * DepravedHomosexual: While Raymond The Bastard is more evil than depraved, his first scene features him in the shower being lathered up by two of his cronies and complementing Paddys genitals. ]], * [[spoiler: JailBake: Averted. 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. This episode features several regulars from Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights, and a homage to the movie Midnight Cowboy. 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. ]], * JailBake: [[spoiler: Averted. And he's also an AxCrazy Yandere. * TheCameo: The cast of Series/PhoenixNights briefly reprise their roles in Episodes Two and Four. They soon realise that they have been conned. They do get cornered by local DepravedHomosexual Raymond the Bastard in the showers, after dropping soap, but [[SubvertedTrope he doesn't rape them]]. Upon realising soon after that Joe didn't sell them the speakers to go with it, a sad Max and Paddy go to a club to find some women. * ThePigpen: Paddy considers Max to be this. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available from thestaff@tvtropes.org. No wonder Tina left him. Also Mick Bustin', but he's a car repair man, not a salesman. * PrecisionFStrike: Mick Bustin's OhCrap moment. * {{GassHole}}: The pig that Max and Paddy buy from a farmer impulsively ends up filling their motorhome with the stench of its farts. He also calls people a clown or a melon if they've said something absurd. Max and Paddy Quotes @maxandpaddyline 16 Sep 2017 Follow Follow @ maxandpaddyline Following Following @ maxandpaddyline Unfollow Unfollow @ maxandpaddyline Blocked Blocked @ maxandpaddyline Unblock Unblock @ maxandpaddyline Pending Pending follow request from @ maxandpaddyline Cancel Cancel your follow request to @ maxandpaddyline After several unsuccessful attempts to sell the pig on to butchers shops, a supermarket, and even a Halal outlet, Max and Paddy decide to kill it themselves to get rid of the burden. * DisabledSnarker: A woman with a HookHand flips Paddy off when he tries his CasanovaWannabe shtick on her. * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Max and 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'. * EmbarrassingNickname: When he was a child, Paddy wore callipers and braces and was nicknamed Spazzy Paddy. He has also appeared in Coronation Street, Emmerdale and Doctor Who. The pair come up with a plan to convince their fellow cellmates they are hardened criminals named the Phoenix Twins, in order to survive. 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 With Shannon now unconscious and arrested, Max and Paddy slip away from a police lecture - due to the fact that earlier in the episode they cut down a speed camera - and drive-off into the night. Their new moves lure two local girls, Tracey and Louise, back to the campervan, only for one of them to steal Paddy's wallet. * ShapedLikeItself: Raymond The Bastard is, as. ** 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. 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'. [[HandsomeLech Paddy]] exploits his costume to feel up a little boy's mother. ]], * MacGyvering: When Max and Paddy refuse to pay an extortionate repair fee for the motorhome; [[spoiler: they break into the garage where it's being held, build a battering ram out of ladders and oil drums, fix it to the roof of the motorhome, and bust their way out of the garage.]]. They soon discover that the old man who sold them the pig initially was actually the alcoholic father-in-law of the real farmer, and their money has probably all gone to the nearest pub. He also reveals that he once had a one true love by the name of Tina. ]], ** 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. The pair arrive in North-East England where Max meets his old friend and once fellow-doorman Billy "The Butcher" Shannon. The pair come up with a plan to convince their fellow cellmates they are hardened criminals named the Phoenix Twins, in order to survive. [[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. He also keeps a poster of ''Film/{{Blade}}'' in his bedroom, another BadassLongcoat wearer. 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. * CantHoldHisLiquor: Max accuses Paddy of this in the first episode but he contends that he must have been [[SlippingAMickey spiked]]. Max & Paddy's Road to Nowhere Status: Ended. 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. Things get worse for the duo when Brian Potter turns up, determined to get his doo. The farmer sells them a breeding pig for 100, which he claims they can sell on for 300. 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. Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere is a British sitcom starring and written by Peter Kay and Patrick McGuinness. See EpicFail.]]. Doesn't take long before they try selling it. * MessyPig: Played with by the pig Max and Paddy end up buying from a mad farmer. The pair are now in prison together after the school bus incident. [[spoiler: Max decides not to tell his long lost son Daniel that he is his real father; allowing Daniel, Tina, and Kevin. However, the fight is prevented by a prison officer telling Max and Paddy to come with him. * ThemeNaming: Max and his school friends all have nicknames derived from their names that end in "ster": Max-ster, Wolf-ster, Patel-ster, and [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Foster-ster]]. 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. Maxs counter that he has a good stand-up wash in the sink once a week [[NotHelpingYourCase doesn't exactly help his case]]. [[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. Tina, it's Max. At the very least, he doesn't make rude jokes about her dwarfism like her first love Max did. The farmer sells them a breeding pig for 100, which he claims they can sell on for 300. After the previous episode the duo are now being held on remand in prison. Raymond reasons with them after hearing about their "heists" and "raids". ** Replace "crap" with "fuck" and you've got Mick Bustin's exact reaction when he sees [[spoiler: that Max and Paddy have stolen the keys to all of his clients' cars. * NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Raymond the Bastard, obviously. 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 end up in Dover, where they buy a faulty plasma TV from a crook by the name of Gypsy Joe. * 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. * ThirdPersonPerson: Paddy is this fairly frequently. 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. ]], ** Replace "crap" with "fuck" and you've got Mick. While awaiting Tina's reluctant assistance to get them freed, they are forced to make a deal with Raymond the Bastard to share their non-existent loot. 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=]. 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. Login to create it. * CampGay: Pepe, Raymond The Bastard's ([[spoiler:the kingpin of the prison wing where Max and Paddy end up]]) boyfriend. 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. You shouldn't upset him. But by sheer confidence and the perceived urgency of the situation, they manage to pull it off. 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 and Paddy get sent to jail for their crimes. * AnOfferYouCantRefuse: Raymond makes one with Max and Paddy for his share of the (fictitious) treasure they're pretending to have stolen. 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. 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!". * AddedAlliterativeAppeal: "Big Bob's Beans". * PrecisionFStrike: Mick Bustins OhCrap moment. He's a bog-standard white man. %%* ItsAllAboutMe: Both Max and Paddy are prone to this. Max agrees just to get Raymond off their backs and receive preferential treatment, including access to luxury chocolates and Sky+ . * [[spoiler: ConvenientlyCellmates: Averted in the case of Max and Paddy, along with some LampshadeHanging from a guard. * PaperThinDisguise: Max and Paddys paramedic disguises during the TV theft in Episode One. 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. He also keeps a poster of, * BigDamnHeroes: Tina has an offscreen one in Episode Four thats both intentional and accidental. ** Despite being a one-shot character, Billy manages to get one by frequently adding the phrase "But not in a gay way" to anything that could be considered a DoubleEntendre. Stars Peter Kay, Paddy McGuinness and Lisa Hammond. Paddy is forced to share a cell with a tennis-playing Cliff Richard impersonator who actually believes he is Cliff. * EvilIsPetty: Billy the Butcher gets into childish arguments with Paddy over song titles. ** One can only guess what Paddy's 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. In Dover, Max and Paddy buy a plasma television from an Irish crook called Gypsy Joe (played by Brendan O'Carroll). Max in turn makes his own heroic sacrifice by [[spoiler: not telling Daniel that he is his father, and letting. Furthermore, Billy catches Paddy going through his stuff and prepares to shoot him. * OohMeAccentsSlipping: When Max sings Thats Why They Call It The Blues in Episode Three, Peter Kays natural voice slips through more than usual. 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.]]. * BadassLongcoat: Billy the Butcher wears one of these. The first farmer (Graham Walker) that Max and Paddy meet is one of The Grumbleweeds. He goes on to say that the relationship abruptly ended after she overheard him and his friends making jokes about her height. This involved holding up Little Chef employees to gun-point to make her open late for them. A chase eventually ensues through the services and along a motorway tunnel bridge, and Shannon shoots Paddy in the bottom. * ToBeContinued: Episode Three ends on the cliffhanger of [[spoiler: Max and Paddy stealing a school bus full of children in an attempt for Max to see his son. [[Squick The same hand he's just lathered shampoo onto his groin with. Paddy is forced to share a cell with a Cliff Richard impersonator and tennis enthusiast. When Paddy insists that there's ''not'' a difference, Max calls him "Mr. When the campervan stops off later down the road, Max sees a newspaper headline and realises what's happening. Max & Paddy Steal A Plasma Screen | Peter Kay Watch on What is Altria known for? Their disguises are far from convincing, their acting is terrible, and their "stretcher" is the stolen TV under a blanket. [2] He has also appeared in Coronation Street, Emmerdale and Doctor Who.[2]. 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. '''Max''': How dare you?! ]], ** Also, his and Paddy's attempts to sell a pig ''to a Halal restaurant! * BritishBrevity: Only six episodes were made. Max And Paddy's Road To Nowhere. ''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''. The pair are now in prison after the school bus siege. ]], * 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. For a cut of the money, he allows them to live in a cell with Sky+. Later, Max spots in a local newspaper a 40th birthday message for his old school friend Kevin 'The Wolfster' Wolfson, who had moved to London some years before. They reject him, not wanting a high-profile campaign ruining their chances of release. * MessyPig: Played with by the pig Max and Paddy end up buying from a mad farmer. He claims they can sell it on at market for around 300. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php. * ActorAllusion: Paddy's full name is revealed to be Patrick O'Shea. 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. Paddy is still bleeding profusely when he walks away afterwards.]]. * ParallelPornTitles: Paddy owns a DVD of ''[[Series/CharliesAngels Charlie's Anals]]'' and later appears in a film called ''[[Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory Willy Wanker and the Chocolate Factory]]''. 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. Tracing the cow to a nearby farm, the pair head off to find the farmer and claim expenses for the damage to the van. [1] 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. Things get worse for the duo when Brian Potter turns up, determined to get his doormen out of jail. * SchmuckBait: Raymond the Bastard telling Paddy to [[PrisonRape bend over and pick the soap up]]. Phoenix Nights Wiki is a FANDOM TV Community. I don't [[UnusualEuphemism drink from both pipes]] and [[HandsomeLech that lad]] ''definitely'' does not! As soon as they're released, they call in an anthrax threat at the Phoenix Club on the night of Jerry's 60th birthday party.]] ** Tina has an offscreen one in Episode Four that's both intentional and accidental. Following on from the hi-jacking, Max and Paddy are now serving time at Her Majesty's Pleasure. 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. Amazingly, no one calls them on it. ** 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. 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. ]], ** Also Max and Paddy in Episode Four when [[spoiler: a news report about them, set up by Brian, is seen on 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.]]. Walsh works as a voice actor and has appeared in a number of radio productions for BBC Radio 4. Raymond (The Bastard) 1 episode, 2004 Dean Stephens . They agree to let Shannon, who is looking for his estranged son, hitch a ride around. [[spoiler: Daniel]] lampshades this. * ViolentGlaswegian: Billy the Butcher is from Newcastle, not Scotland, but otherwise he qualifies as this. The pair hand it over to a local garage run by Mick Bustin, played by Noddy Holder. Before Billy can pull the trigger, Paddy recovers and renders him unconscious with a traffic cone. 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 (played by Everal Walsh), who is also Pepe's boyfriend. The entire male staff of the Phoenix Club (expect Brian) in Episode 4, stripped nude and sprayed with disinfectant. 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. This page is not available in other languages. * BlandNameProduct: Paddy is frustrated that Max insists on buying cheap groceries like "Big Bob's Beans" and water bottled in the mountains of Afghanistan. This leads to several arguments, especially when they realise the television doesn't have any speakers. Though Paddy [[ADateWithRosiePalms doesn't get very far]] before the volume wakes Max up. * DepravedHomosexual: While Raymond The Bastard is more evil than depraved, his first scene features him in the shower being lathered up by two of his cronies and complementing Paddy's genitals. * MistakenForGay: A running gag in the first episode is a family camped near the motorhome catching Max and Paddy in seemingly compromising positions. Max and Paddy turn up unannounced at his birthday party and surprise 'The Wolfster', as well as several other old faces from home present for the party. It's [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome real life]], not the frigging [[Film/TheShawshankRedemption Shawshank Redemption]].]]. ''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.

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