ChuckleVision

- Season 13

(2000)

Paul is working as a school crossing man and Barry as a traffic warden, and they antagonise Mr. Davenport when Paul sits in the road and Barry gives Mr. Davenport a ticket for stopping, so he steals Paul's lollipop stick. The brothers pursue him to his hypermarket, dressed as old ladies, to join a conducted tour, which turns very messy. The brothers get the stick back but they also get clamped.

Working as waiters for No Slacking's catering firm, the brothers are called to serve a romantic dinner given by the Duke of Kimquat for Evadne, an heiress he has never seen but plans to marry for her money. When they find out that Evadne is Dan the Van's daughter, Paul and Barry plan to stop the duke's little game with No Slacking impersonating Evadne to the Duke's horror, whilst Barry masquerades as the Duke and dines with Evadne. The wedding is off but Dan is not pleased.

The Chuckle Brothers are going into tele-marketing, and have got an office. They make efforts to put in their own telephone line, oblivious to the efforts of an actual telephone engineer, whom they accidentally pour water over, knock off his ladder, squirt with oil and blow up. He is not best pleased and confiscates the telephone, meaning the brothers have to use a phone box, but they even manage to sabotage that, putting all the local phone lines out of order.

The brothers are poultry feed salesmen with Barry dressed as a giant chicken. Calling on injured farmer Mrs. Nettle they offer to help her collect her eggs and discover that neighbouring Farmer Palmer is trying to steal her prize rooster, Roger, though he accidentally traps Barry in his chicken costume before getting trapped himself and driven away by a very strange-looking bird indeed.

After a visit to the Rotherham Museum of Fruit and Veg, the brothers discover that they have accidentally walked out with the world's rarest potato and, when they go back to return it, get locked in. Miss Pringle is visiting to bestow a cheque on the museum and presumes that Paul and Barry are curators, asking them for a guided tour. As a result she presents the cheque just to get rid of them.

The Chuckle Brothers pay a visit to their wealthy cousins Saul and Harry, who look just like them and with whom there is no love lost. They challenge Paul and Barry to a game of golf. The cousins stake their 'roller' against the Chuckle Brothers' bike, the ChuckMobile. After an all-night session,Harry suggests the outcome be decided on one hole alone and Paul agrees. That roller really seems in sight.

When Paul realises that Barry has got a photographic memory, he decides to exploit the situation by getting him to appear on a television game show with cash prizes. However, Mr. Memory the memory man is not happy to find his reputation endangered and Raymond Trophy, the television quiz master, is not keen for Barry to win.

The brothers are back in the medieval land of Runda, where Mandrake the Magnificent forces them to accompany him through the Forest of Fear to the Cave of Doom, to fetch the staff of Ronald, which will enable him to rule the world. Barry is sent in to the cave to brave the fire-breathing dragon, but he has a clever plan, which foils Mandrake and earns the Chuckle Brothers the gratitude of the king.

The Chuckle Brothers go to ailing tourist attraction Honey Castle to act as assistant bee-keepers to its owner Mr. B. Hive. A ruthless American tycoon Milton P. Linebacker is hoping to bully Mr. Hive into making a cheap sale. Stupid Paul fails to see him for what he is, and attempts to be nice to him, but covering him with honey, catapulting him off the see-saw and trampling him underfoot ensures the deal is off.

Barry and Paul are working as hairdressers for Madame Shirley, whose salon used to be a pet shop - which may account for why a particularly hirsute customer has a mouse in his hair. Paul is anxious to make a fortune with Auntie Rita's hair restorer, but after a lady client temporarily sprouts a beard due to its accidental use, the brothers see that they are not 'cut out' for this profession.

Barry and Paul are grounds keepers at the local cricket club. Their attempts to paint white line markers are literally all over the place so they use green paint to fade them out, but this kills the grass. After a visit to Reg the Hedge, the brothers plant seeds on the pitch, but this turns it into a vegetable plot and they get chased away by the team.

Paul and Barry are working in the lost property office of Slow Coach Bus Service, and keen new manager Mr. Ramsbottom tells them he is a master of disguise, who will be constantly checking on them. When old Mrs. Halibut, who has lost her husband on the bus, comes in Paul assumes that this is Ramsbottom in disguise but, after the mistake has been cleared up, he gets into bigger trouble by assuming the present the manager has bought for his wife is to be thrown away.

The Chuckle Brothers go to Scotland to be ghillies to impoverished laird Duncan, against the wishes of family servant Fingal, who has been defrauding the laird by selling off his deer to Tokyo zoo. He attempts to scare off the brothers by impersonating the Phantom Piper, but has to come clean eventually. Paul comes up with a solution.

The Chuckle Brothers are guarding a priceless Egyptian vase for Dan the Van, but two young tearaways, Ed and Fred, are determined to steal it. Fortunately Barry has accidentally cloned himself twice over in a cloning machine, and is able to send away the intruders well and truly 'battered'. He even cloned the vase as a precaution, which comes in handy when it gets smashed to pieces.

In a completely dialogue-free episode the Chuckle Brothers are working as maintenance men at a hospital, but their insistence on silence lands Dr. Procter on a hospital trolley, which runs away and leaves him with his head stuck in the railings. Transferred - with railings - to a hospital bed, he does not appreciate Paul and Barry's efforts to help him, or the busker outside his window.