Wed, Jan 5, 2005
Paul and Barry go to visit their Scottish cousins, the McChuckles. Dougal is worried because Douglas thinks he is an Australian, having barbies and wearing corks on his hat. They follow him to the mysterious Mists of McIntosh, where Douglas returns to his old self, but another cousin, Duncan, has turned into an Australian.
Wed, Jan 12, 2005
The brothers are given three separate building jobs at three different houses. They are unaware that they are being secretly filmed for a television documentary exposing Britain's worst cowboy builders. Presenter Ruth England confronts them with her report. Could it get any worse? (That is, excluding the gravel that gets tipped on the secret filming van.)
Wed, Feb 2, 2005
Paul and Barry have gone to visit Lettice, a deaf, elderly relative of Dan the Van. After dinner the brothers are loading the plates into the dish-washer when a pea rolls off a plate and under a cupboard. Paul insists that they retrieve it - "after all, it may have been a cabbage" - and in the process they almost demolish Lettice's kitchen.
Wed, Feb 9, 2005
Whilst the brothers are taking a country walk Paul wakes up Magnus the Viking, who has been asleep for centuries and does not take kindly to the intrusion, pursuing Paul overland and eventually getting him into a boat in preparation for a Viking burial. Can Barry, dressed as Magnus's mother, soothe him back to sleep?
Wed, Feb 16, 2005
Barry and Paul get jobs as shop assistants to Monsieur Fromage, the French cheese-maker, who is excited about an up-coming competition, where he is entering his new cheese. As ever the brothers cause havoc but inadvertently expose a rival cheese-maker who is trying to sabotage Monsieur Fromage by leaving a mouse in the shop to discredit him.
Wed, Feb 23, 2005
Barry has painted the garden wall but every morning the brothers find that someone has defaced it with rude slogans and pictures of Paul. It turns out that the culprit is Paul, who is doing it sub-consciously. Barry plays psychiatrist to root into the brothers' past and account for Paul's hatred of walls.
Top-rated
Wed, Mar 2, 2005
Paul and Barry find themselves back in the eighteenth century, where they keep getting robbed by a highwaywoman, whom they mistakenly believe is their friend, the Countess. The Countess rescues them after the highwaywoman has tied the brothers up and they race to stop her robbing the bullion coach.
Top-rated
Wed, Mar 9, 2005
Whilst working as eighteenth-century blacksmiths the Chuckle Brothers are approached by a smuggler to take a valuable French watch over to Dan Le Van in France, but they are relieved of it by Robespierre, who is now the landlord of a country pub. The watch changes hands several times before the smuggler is arrested by Customs man Ebenezer Bentparcel and the silly siblings go on their way.
Wed, Mar 16, 2005
Sir Percy and the Countess have escaped from Revolutionary France but Robespierre captures the Countess. Barry, posing as the Purple Pimple, rescues her after a dual - playing tiddly-winks - but then Robespierre catches Percy and ties him up in a cellar which is filling up with liquid. Paul has to impersonate the Purple Pimple again to save him.
Wed, Mar 30, 2005
The Chuckle Brothers have got jobs in the household of self-absorbed pop diva Bettina D'Angelis, who keeps ripping up Paul's song-writing efforts for her. She is due to attend an award ceremony but is frightened of threats being made against her by the Egg-Stalker. Acting as her bodyguards ,the brothers unmask the stalker but reveal a little too much of Bettina when it starts to rain.