* VocalEvolution: Max's voice is different than in Phoenix Nights because continuing it would have risked long-term damage to Peter Kay's voice. * [[spoiler: PrisonsAreGymnasiums: Episode Four includes a scene set in the prisons exercise yard and at the start of the episode, Paddys cellmate challenges him and Max to a game of tennis. Max & Paddy's Road to Nowhere - Phoenix Nights Wiki 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. ** 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. * FatBastard: Not Max, but one of Raymond the Bastard's hired thugs is pretty fat. He also begins a strong dislike for Paddy Because Paddy took Billys Job When Billy Went To Prison for 5 Years. 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. * ParallelPornTitles: Paddy owns a DVD of [[Series/CharliesAngels Charlies Anals]] and later appears in a film called [[Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory Willy Wanker And The Chocolate Factory]]. 35K views, 99 likes, 4 loves, 102 comments, 86 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from No Context Max and Paddy: You've got yourself a deal Mr Bastard! 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. [1] A spin-off from Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights, the series follows the two Bolton doormen/bouncers Maxwell "Max" Bygraves (Kay) and Patrick "Paddy" O'Shea (McGuinness) as they tour around the UK in their campervan. * NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Raymond the Bastard, obviously. Paddy is steaming drunk and has very loud sex in his bedroom while Max tries to have a drink and a chat with the other girl in the living room. ** Brian Potter squeezes a few indignant utterances of his signature phrase: "I don't know if you haven't noticed but I'm disabled" into his short cameo in Episode Four. Elsewhere, ** 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. Paddy is not happy. Especially when they're on the road. ]], * TunnelKing: [[spoiler: Max's attempts at this leave a lot to be desired. * BeardOfEvil: One of Raymond the Bastard's men has a massive beard. Apart from being a bastard, he runs this wing. He wanted Phil 'The Pastie' Murphy to play the portly soldier in love with Max's mother. Tina finally gets the duo out, but now before a payback for Potter Is due. ]], * [[spoiler: ConvenientlyCellmates: Averted in the case of Max and. ** A variant of this happens at the end of the same episode after Max and Paddy finally get some speakers for their TV and Paddy puts on his [[ParallelPornTitles. But by sheer confidence and the perceived urgency of the situation, they manage to pull it off. Phoenix Nights spin-off focusing on the adventures of the two doormen. Click here to login or here to sign up. * ChekhovsGunman: Maxs ex-girlfriend Tina appears in flashbacks in Episode Two before playing an important role in Episodes Three and Four. After discovering the girls, locally known as the 'Belgrano Sisters', are infamous for this, they get revenge by forcing them to steal some speakers for their television. They are left vulnerable and exposed as their fellow criminals realise there are no gold or diamonds, and certainly no cannibalism. Max And Paddy's Road To Nowhere is the much-loved sequel to Peter Kay's critically-acclaimed comedy series, "Phoenix Nights". Joe tells them that they've had a "run in" with the Belgrano Sisters, who are well known to do this sort of thing. 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. The DVD also included extra workout tips and a segment instructed by Brian Potter live from the Phoenix Club. Before Billy can pull the trigger, Paddy recovers and renders him unconscious with a traffic cone. '''Max''': How dare you?! A popular English comedy band who had a TV show in the 80's. How old is Mrs McGuinness? [[DescriptionCut And this is after Max has mentioned him "softening up" in recent years. Copyright: Phil McIntyre Entertainment. He's a bog-standard white man. His roles on television include Wayne in The Street, Raymond the Bastard in Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere and Cecil in Prime Suspect 5. * ViolentGlaswegian: Billy the Butcher is from Newcastle, not Scotland, but otherwise he qualifies as this. ]], -->'''Max (Excited):''' [[spoiler: And what's in this cake? * TheYardies: Raymond the Bastard is black, a convicted criminal, and speaks with a Jamaican accent, so it's safe to say he qualifies as a Yardie. Paddy is an idealistic wide boy obsessed with sex, pornography and food. * MessyPig: Played with by the pig Max and Paddy end up buying from a mad farmer. 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. The pair arrive in London where Max finds that his old school friend Kevin Wolfston, known as the Wolfster, is holding a 40th birthday party. * 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. Max often oppressively stares at Paddy or anyone who has offended his tastes and often shouts "H-how dare you!". ** In the first episode, Max and Paddy pull two girls at a nightclub and bring them back to the motorhome. 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!". Rating: 7.60/10 (avg out of 3450 votes) Max & Paddy's Road to Nowhere Airs: Friday. Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere (2004) - The Movie Database He was tunnelling towards the next cell. Create new account. He also keeps a poster of, * BigDamnHeroes: Tina has an offscreen one in Episode Four thats both intentional and accidental. Today at 2:34 AM ** In Episode Four, [[spoiler: Max tries to start [[Film/TheShawshankRedemption tunnelling out of prison]].]]. Doesn't take long before they try selling it. * TheYardies: Raymond the Bastard is black, a convicted criminal, and speaks with a Jamaican accent, so it's safe to say he qualifies as a Yardie. ]], * [[spoiler: PrisonsAreGymnasiums: 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.]]. A chase eventually ensues through the services and along a motorway tunnel bridge, and Shannon shoots Paddy in the bottom. 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.]] 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. ** A RunningGag in the first episode is an African family camped near the motorhome catching Max and Paddy in seemingly compromising positions. This joke is based around the rumour that Sunderland player John O'Shea is regularly teased by. Billy is also appears in said flashback before he returns as the main supporting character in Episode Six. After an uncomfortable first night, Paddy admits his fear of being 'bummed' (see sodomy) in the shower room by Raymond the Bastard (Raymond Langley). ({{Beat}}) What do you want, son? 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. The entire male staff of the Phoenix Club (expect Brian) in Episode 4, stripped nude and sprayed with disinfectant. * ButtMonkey: Gypsy Joe in the first episode. * VocalEvolution: Maxs voice is different than in Phoenix Nights because continuing it would have risked long-term damage to Peter Kays voice. * YouCanKeepYourHatOn: Non-sexy variant, when the Phoenix Club. ** A few. 14 * AmbiguouslyGay: Billy the Butcher has a Yandere-like obsession with Max, but insists he doesn't want to be with him in "a gay way." 15 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! -->And best of all, we don't pay council tax.''''. The theme tune to Road to Nowhere was co-written by Peter Kay and Toni Baker. Elsewhere Paddy's love of pornography is mentioned quite frequently. It was broadcast on Channel 4 and began on 12 November 2004, running for six 30-minute episodes up until 17 December 2004. He just forces Max to shake his hand. ''', ** 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. "Max & Paddy's Road to Nowhere" Episode #1.4 (TV Episode 2004) - IMDb They still end up in cells next door to each other though. * ButtMonkey: Gypsy Joe in the first episode. The entire male staff of the Phoenix Club in Episode 4, stripped nude and sprayed with disinfectant. Max and Paddy drive into North East England to visit Max's old doorman friend Billy 'The Butcher' Shannon, who had previously briefly appeared in the 1994 flashback in Episode 2. Max and Paddy end up in Dover, where they buy a faulty plasma TV from a crook by the name of Gypsy Joe. This involved holding up Little Chef employees to gun-point to make her open late for them. * MistakenForGay: A running gag in the first episode is. 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. * YouCanKeepYourHatOn: Non-sexy variant, when the Phoenix Club staff(the male half, anyway) is forced to strip nude and get sprayed with disinfectant, Young Kenny is still wearing his hat. Max and Paddy try to sell the pig on but no-one will take it as it is too old. Things get worse for the duo when Brian Potter turns up, determined to get his doormen out of jail. ** One can only guess what Paddys 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. * ContinuityNod: When Young Kenny appears in Episode Four, he still has the impossible to remove tiger facepaint that he got at. 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=]. He either thinks he actually is Music/CliffRichard or just has a disturbing love of him; looking like him, having a painting of him on the wall surrounded by candles, and singing Millennium Prayer to it all night. * EmbarrassingNickname: When he was a child, Paddy wore callipers and braces and was nicknamed Spazzy Paddy. Brian has been [[spoiler: fronting a very public campaign to get Max and Paddy released from prison which destroys the persona of rich gangsters that they used to live an easy and safe life while inside. He was tunnelling towards the next cell.]]. 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. The episode concludes with Tina, Max's ex-love, admitting to the authorities that Daniel is actually Max's son and he was acting under stress when he stole the bus. * SeinfeldianConversation: Max and Paddy have these fairly regularly. * LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler: Averted. But Max and Paddy's masquerade falls apart when Phoenix Club owner Brian Potter uses their plight as a publicity stunt for his club. * CharlieAndTheChocolateParody: One episode starts with Paddy getting a job in a promo called ''Willy Walker's Chocolate Factory''. No Context Max and Paddy. They reject him, not wanting a high-profile campaign ruining their chances of release. Facebook The lyrics are "Don't know where we're going, Got no way of knowing, Driving on the Road to Nowhere. You'd think by his name he'd be Indian, right? * FatAndSkinny: Max and Paddy respectively. 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 In the West Country, Paddy is driving the van when he accidentally runs over and kills a cow walking in the road. ]], * EstablishingCharacterMoment: [[AxCrazy Billy the Butcher]] is introduced beating, * IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: An example that is both romantic and non-romantic at the same time. A big fight is about to break out between Raymond and his henchmen against Max and Paddy. Paddy is steaming drunk and has very loud sex in his bedroom while Max tries to have a drink and a chat with the other girl in the living room. [1] They're generally decent guys but not above stealing and conning people if it will benefit them. The first farmer (Graham Walker) that Max and Paddy meet is one of The Grumbleweeds. spoken by Paddy to Billy the Butcher when knocking him out with a traffic cone.]]. 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. ** 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. * CampGay: Pepe, Raymond The Bastard's ([[spoiler:the kingpin of the prison wing where Max and Paddy end up]]) boyfriend. Raymond reasons with them after hearing about their "heists" and "raids". 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. Facebook. [[spoiler: Max and Paddy get stuck with the job of shovelling coal into a furnace while in prison, and Max says that. ]], ** A more straight example comes in the last episode. 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. in the process. Max and Paddy get sent to jail for their crimes. * ShapedLikeItself: Raymond The Bastard is, as. He arrives to work to find a load of muscular black men in top hats. Although the series was broadcast two years after Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights, the plot is set immediately after the events of the previous series. * EvilFormerFriend: Billy the Butcher to Max. Tracing the cow to a nearby farm, the pair head off to find the farmer and claim expenses for the damage to the van. * ChekhovsGunman / EarlyBirdCameo: Maxs ex-girlfriend Tina appears in flashbacks in Episode Two before playing an important role in Episodes Three and Four. Raymond the Bastard? Unbeknowst to Max, Billy has become obsessed with Max and goes to all lengths to give Max what he wants. Get all the latest news and information in your inbox, with our range of email newsletters to meet all interests. The two of them breakdown somewhere in the Midlands and take the campervan to a garage, owned by Mick Bustin. [2] * BearyFunny: Max and Paddy disguise themselves as dancing bears to obtain a TV screen from a supermarket. A second series of the show was initially planned for 2006, but Peter Kay instead confirmed a third series of Phoenix Nights (which as of 2023 has not yet happened). He also calls people a clown or a melon if they've said something absurd. * MessyPig: Played with by the pig Max and Paddy end up buying from a mad farmer. 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.]] 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!". Season 1 of Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere premiered on November 12, 2004. Furthermore, Billy catches Paddy going through his stuff and prepares to shoot him. * AnOfferYouCantRefuse: Raymond makes one with Max and Paddy for his share of the (fictitious) treasure they're pretending to have stolen. On one occasional, the pair end up in prison. Elsewhere Paddys love of pornography is mentioned quite frequently. Max And Paddy GIFs | Tenor 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. 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. However, the fight is prevented by a prison officer telling Max and Paddy to come with him. * ConvenientlyCellmates: [[spoiler: Averted in the case of Max and Paddy, along with some LampshadeHanging from a guard. * {{GassHole}}: The pig that Max and Paddy buy from a farmer impulsively ends up filling their motorhome with the stench of its farts. Max in turn makes his own heroic sacrifice by [[spoiler: not telling Daniel that he is his father, and letting Tinas family remain intact.