Rigby Slowcum (mikE), a rebellious and sarcastic
twenty-five-year-old boy, is at war with the
trifling wanker of "William Simons" he was forced to
live above all last year. With a transvestite father (aka "Pops"),
a self-absorbed, distant mother (actually on a
mission to Mars, so give her some credit here), and
a puppy-like young andrex dog big sister(?) (Helen),
Rigby figures there must be a better life out there
- and sets about ordering it from Tesco.com.
Happily flunking out of yet another DPhil tute,
Rigby is sent off to a painting academy in the
dreaded Midlands. With the aid of his mother's
pilfered credit card, he goes on the lam (que?). His
darkly comedic voyage eventually lands him in
Grimsby, where he hides out at his godfather's (Leo)
weekend pied-a-terre. There he encounters a cast of
deviant characters, including his godfather's freaky
greeky girlfriend (Captain F) and the intermittantly
bored Sookie Sapperstein (Gail H). In his quest to
free himself from the oppressive dysfunction of his
sex life, Rigby's struggles veer from the comic to
the tragic in an ultimately noble attempt to keep
himself from "going down on her (or him) [sic]." |
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