Exactly hitting upon the experimental remit of BBC THREE, this was Reeves and Mortimer unleashed and the results were certainly unique.

Chris and Carl are formerly estranged brothers, who reunite on what becomes a dark and bizarre road movie in an attempt to track down Carl's son.

The central duo managed to recruit a Who's Who of contemporary comic talent to augment their ranks: Little Britain's Matt Lucas as an eccentric hotel manager whose penis is kept in a jar (it was lopped off after an accident involving the till); Absolutely's Morwenna Banks as his incredulous and long suffering girlfriend Tess; Mark Benton as the hotel's harassed dogsbody Mark; Charlie Higson as bad tempered barman Pat and best of all, a splendid Reece Shearsmith as a raving psychopath.

After the relatively straightforward (well, compared to this anyway) Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) remake, this was Reeves and Mortimer's attempt to crowbar their flights of fancy into some form of narrative.

Whether it was wholly successful or not is debatable (silly voices and deliberate mispronunciation of words can seem childish and self indulgent rather than funny if you're in the wrong mood), but a further run might have cemented it as a cult classic.

Tepid ratings, however, seem to indicate that the show won't be back.

One to file under love it or loathe it.