A less than perfect end to the sixth series of 'Rab C. Nesbitt'.
With Gash's wedding to Natalie ( Elaine M. Ellis ) fast approaching, Rab feels it is his fatherly duty to make his last few days as a bachelor ones to remember and, along with Jamesie, take him out on a drinking binge. Later on however things to awry when Gash gets admitted to hospital with alcohol poisoning and Rab and Jamesie awake on the River Clyde clutching a chimpanzee which they have unknowingly smuggled out of the zoo.
Despite the setbacks however, the wedding somehow manages to go ahead.
The pub and nightclub scenes have some good laughs in them but by the time the moment in which Jamesie and Rab try to disguise the stolen chimp is when the comedy starts to dry up. The scene also at the end in which Jamesie beds the animal is dodgy even by 'Rab C.' standards. Jimmy Logan appears again as the curmugdeonly Mr. Grogan and Eileen McCallum from 'Take The High Road' makes a welcome guest role as his estranged wife.
The bit in the nightclub in which Rab and Gash converse over the noise with subtitles appearing on screen to translate what they are saying is a parody of the nightclub scene between Ewan MacGregor and Kevin McKidd in Irvine Welsh's brilliant 1996 movie 'Trainspotting'.
Of course, Gash's wedding did not mean the end of the show. It returned in triumph the following year with its seventh season which saw how Gash's marriage unfolded.
Funniest bit - hurt by Rab's lack of parental advice, Gash snipes at Rab: ''You've never liked me, have you?''. ''Nonsense, you have been like a son to me!'' quips Rab!
With Gash's wedding to Natalie ( Elaine M. Ellis ) fast approaching, Rab feels it is his fatherly duty to make his last few days as a bachelor ones to remember and, along with Jamesie, take him out on a drinking binge. Later on however things to awry when Gash gets admitted to hospital with alcohol poisoning and Rab and Jamesie awake on the River Clyde clutching a chimpanzee which they have unknowingly smuggled out of the zoo.
Despite the setbacks however, the wedding somehow manages to go ahead.
The pub and nightclub scenes have some good laughs in them but by the time the moment in which Jamesie and Rab try to disguise the stolen chimp is when the comedy starts to dry up. The scene also at the end in which Jamesie beds the animal is dodgy even by 'Rab C.' standards. Jimmy Logan appears again as the curmugdeonly Mr. Grogan and Eileen McCallum from 'Take The High Road' makes a welcome guest role as his estranged wife.
The bit in the nightclub in which Rab and Gash converse over the noise with subtitles appearing on screen to translate what they are saying is a parody of the nightclub scene between Ewan MacGregor and Kevin McKidd in Irvine Welsh's brilliant 1996 movie 'Trainspotting'.
Of course, Gash's wedding did not mean the end of the show. It returned in triumph the following year with its seventh season which saw how Gash's marriage unfolded.
Funniest bit - hurt by Rab's lack of parental advice, Gash snipes at Rab: ''You've never liked me, have you?''. ''Nonsense, you have been like a son to me!'' quips Rab!
