An Utterly Pointless Fact About Your Bottom

No, the useless trivia isn’t that Rik and Ade originally wanted to call it Your Bottom instead, everyone knows that you sad, pathtic winker.

Instead, this is a fact about the episode Contest.

There’s a moment when Richie forces Eddie to watch a boring documentary instead of Miss World (nice statistic), and we hear the monotonous drone of the voice over.

Well, the voice over is provided by Patrick Lunt, and he’s reading an extract from British Social Attitudes – The 1985 Report, edited by Roger Jowell and Sharon Witherspoon. Specifically, it’s from Chapter 7, Measuring Individual Attitude Change, by Denise Lievesley and Jennifer Waterton.

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