Finding the right Bottom Hole paper

On the 6th of January 1995, viewers of BBC Two were treated to a new series of Waiting for Godot Bottom. Stuck at the top of a Ferris wheel, Vyvyan and the People’s Poet Eddie and Ritchie wait to see what the cruel hand of fate has dealt them in this week’s episode “Hole”.

At one point, Captain Edrison Peavey Edward Elizabeth Hitler pulls out a newspaper to read.

It may surprise you to know that the “Hammersmith Bugle” is not a real paper and they never ran a headline “No News Shocker”. At which point, it is time to rip off Dirty Feed’s shtick and find out what that paper really is.

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This is exactly the kind of rabbitholey deep-dive I know and love (and have experienced ever so frequently myself). Take a ride with Terence on a long (and not-entirely satisfying!) ride to try to find the actual newspaper that’s been adapted by the Bottom production team in this particular episodes.

Anyway, it’s an amusing journey that I enjoyed going along with, this morning, and maybe you will too.