Reviewed by: Haze

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Name of the DVD/series: That Peter Kay Thing
Episode Number: Three
Episode Name: The Ice Cream Man Cometh

Length of the episode: 24 mins 18 secs

First Broadcast: 12 January 2000
Overall rating out of 5: 5!

Main Characters: Robert Edge aka Mr Softee Top, Darren Bramwell, Signor Whippee

What is the episode about?
This Third episode in the series of ‘That Peter Kay Thing’ is based on an ice cream man known as Mr Softee Top, and his struggle through an ice cream recession, to tempt people to buy his traditional ice cream, and not his rival’s whipped ice cream.
Softee took over the ice cream business from his father, only difference being, whereas his father loved kids, Mr Softee hates them. Softee spends his days driving in his van with Darren his helper, selling ice cream where he can so as to make ends meet, and he doesn’t think twice about appearing at accident sites (which he listens out for on his radio), as he says ‘Where there’s tragedy, there’s trade’.
Softee also makes a bit of extra cash by renting out “adult art” videos to his older customers. One of these customers being Steve Edge’s character, who tells Softee that he has split from his girlfriend because she was sleeping around, and one of the blokes was ‘the bouncer from the Neptune Club’ (reference back to ‘In The Club’, to see Paddy telling Max about this).
In this episode the now famous ‘Ping pong balls’ joke makes it’s first appearance, and we also see Alan from ‘The Services’ again, along with Paul Le Roy!
Things get too much for Mr Softee who towards the end of the episode has a bit of a breakdown and ends up giving his van to Darren to take over.

What extras does this DVD have?
Lots of great things that we have come to know and love from Peter’s dvds, but the best extra has to be the pilot episode ‘The Services’. It’s just a shame that there are no outtakes.

What made you laugh out loud?
Mr Softee has been waiting for Darren to get back with some more ice cream and flakes. But by the time Darren returns, the ice cream has melted and he couldn’t get any flakes so he bought Crunchies instead. Mr Softee gets mad and he throws a big tub of the melted ice cream over a complaining lady customer!

What was your favourite part?
At the end when we learn that Mr Softee has opened an adult video shop called ‘Softys hard Stuff’, but he still advertises ice cream from there! (The shop makes a re-appearance in Phoenix Nights, when Paddy pays a visit).


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brilliant reveiw!!
i love the bit where he throws the ice cream over the woman! (lmaorolls)

excellant review.
"here you stupid bitch have some ice cream" :lol:

haha i think this is (along with in the club, the services and lonely at the top) is one of the best of TPKT, along with some brilliant characters theres loads of really funny quotes which makes it such a gudden! lol :lol:


so whats your favourite quotes?

lonely at the top is my favourite of all the episodes of TPKT (thumbs up)


for the ice cream man cometh another favourite bit is the bit with the sauce all over his chest :lol:

LOL that scene is sooooo disturbing! :lol:

Where he drips it along the mirror and then falls asleep with the bottle dropping out of his hand. He's like an alcoholic but with raspberry sauce. :lol:

lol yeh i love that bit!! pouring the sauce down the mirror! lol :lol:

i like the bit with steve edge, talking about his gf tht went off with a 'bouncer from neptune!!' lmao

At the end when we see the man from the services (car repair man) and he goes "i know all about breakdowns" lol good quote

I LOVE this episode,

The funniest bit is where Robert edge chases the ice cream man around the street and then gets stopped by the lolipop lady 'doreen gash' :lol:

Why in this episode does peter squirt Strawberry sauce all over himself in his flat and keepes chanting 'ice cream' that bit kind of freaked me out when i first saw it, is it a movie spoof or something?

tis a movie spoof and think it says on the commentary which film it's a spoof of, will have to watch it again to find out!!!

yes it's a p*ss take of a film but i can't think what its called
i'll have to listen to commentary on dvd to remember.

OOh I forgot to tell you all to look out for Leonard's huge wooden cross at the fun fair in this episode. You just see it poking above the crowd.

yeah!! i thought i saw that :P

Ah but did you notice in the commentary that peter makes the mistake of saying leanard will be appearing the next weeks episode, when it fact it was the arena that was next week!

I'm on the ball i am! :D