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'Rubbish' - Rick fronts a government TV recycling campaign.
Rick Spleen is a disillusioned stand-up comedian writer whose career has not gone to plan.
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Series 1, Episode 1
First episode date: 4 October 2006
Final episode date: 5 July 2011
Networks: BBC, BBC Two, BBC Four
Program creators: Jack Dee, Pete Sinclair
Content licensed to Little Dot Studios.
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[@electricEntity81]

Underated..I can never get over how many people haven't heard of this show

[@sellbydate]

I know it's crazy

[@pdunderhill]

Memories of Chamberlayne Road and Kensal Rise in London.

[@ppodism]

0:09 I never noticed before how he crumples his script up and throws it on the floor on his way inside to record the anti rubbish advert 😂 🚮 ♻️

[@james-jq8sk]

Brilliant, and Raquel Cassidy is gorgeous...

[@jasrust]

Fit as, mate.

[@TheComputec]

Agreen...Raquel Cassidy is definitely on the list

[@deanashleyspencer2994]

She's beautiful and so calming 🥰

[@cycklist]

I'd forgotten how good this was. Anna Crilley in particular is so funny.

[@steviec8370]

Yes especially when she turns around "clockwards". She made the show for me.

[@torstenscholz6243]

Anna Crilly and Sean Power are especially awesome here, great and underrated comedians.

[@karatefella]

When TOO MUCH truth is the wrong thing ! lol

[@christianl6658]

Thank-you for posting Dead Parrot. Such a great show.

[@1jimmy534]

I loved this show.

[@callummackay6580]

Retro comedy at it's simplistic best

[@MrVangassen]

Glad I found this! Bloody Spleen haha this character is brilliant.

[@Pikiah77]

This is brilliant, thanks so much for posting all of these.

[@phantom-thief]

I was beginning to think I’d imagined the Trixie thing, I have been looking for this for so long 😂

[@moreorless130]

Brilliant series and massively underrated.

[@stavrostov3512]

Slappers with tapas?

[@censusgary]

“Slappers on Tappers.” Loose women cooking in tap shoes. The show will have dance breaks while the food is in the oven.

[@allwrighty100]

Slappers on Tapas, doing continental meals.

[@LootFragg]

@@allwrighty100 Slappers on peppers, the double hot challenge.

[@mr51406]

Jack Dee and Miranda 😂 WOW there’s a freakish juxtaposition!
Nice discovery, thanks for uploading. I’m a fan of “I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue” and really enjoy getting to know Jack Dee better.
Also interesting to hear a (relatively) Canadian accent in a British sitcom. ☮️❤️🌈

[@howshecuttingbogman8999]

Slappers on microwaves and ovens

[@cherbrowne1637]

I didn't know this show existed! So it's all new to me! Thank you.

[@DanielO11]

Why is it never repeated on Gold?

[@cecilebraillie4471]

owww poor Rick

[@nickcolmanColman]

Should have made more Jack, great cast/characters...

[@MariaCDser]

Sean Power is bodyguard in hitman 3

[@karatefella]

There was a mad sitcom a couple of years ago - Vic & Bob's House Of Fools which I thought was brilliant. Is there any chance ofgetting it on here ?

[@karatefella]

Jeffrey Dahmers cooking show - Geezers in Freezers ! 😀

[@bradleybarnett9545]

I love Racquel Cassidy & I don't care who knows it.

[@stephaniewaters1777]

26:00 i thought that was MS = menstrual stress

[@shadeburst]

What happened to learning good diction in acting school? She mumbles and mutters.

[@cecilebraillie4471]

who? the daughter?

[@dannyH84]

Achieved more than your dopey kids

[@allwrighty100]

In those days you could ask if the baby was a boy or a girl

[@sa9245]

You need to get offline and go outside more. No one cares except an extremely small minority of people.

[@mariec.9102]

Great theme song! Awkward funny show. Similar to seinfeld, the silly things people do and try to lie about. But thank God there's no annoying seinfeld laugh-track

[@jasrust]

Written by Noel, sung by Weller.

[@itsokay7989]

Seinfeld was recorded in front of a live audience

[@piranha5211]

Hm. I'll watch another episode, but I don't actually like any of the characters so far, and can see them getting on my nerves right quick. Well, maybe Magda is ok; didn't see enough of her. Even Miranda Hart's character grates, and man, that is rare.
Not the uploader's fault, of course; thanks for sharing!

[@thetruth156real3]

I think there was a bit of elitist snobbery in not liking this show, I thought it was very good.

[@drdassler]

The girl playing his daughter is the worst actress I've ever seen.
Don't say it's her character, she's the same in everything.

[@dechips]

What else has she been in?

[@paulcityrocker]

She's superb in this!

[@domb8448]

Not a patch on Colin's Sandwich which is darker and funnier. Spleen is over-written as a drudge.

[@SUPER_WOLFMOON]

Kind of reminds me of a really not very funny Seinfeld. IMO...