Well by jiminy this has been a welcome and interesting return for Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer, harking right back to their early anarchic days on Channel 4.

In this final episode we get more welcome blasts from the past in the form of Donald and Davey Stott and The Man with the Stick. But just in case you are thinking that this is nothing but shameless nostalgia, think again, there is a futuristic twist to The Man with the Stick.

They are certainly not short of new ideas. There has been lots of new stuff to love in this series too and the final episode is no exception, from the stupid songs to the inventive visual effects to the boots for people with bulbous ankles. Vic is still playing the fool as immaculately as ever and Bob, with all that licking of his shoulder, is as stupidly funny as ever.

For every bit of free runner filler there are at least two bits of comic genius. Who cannot love Vic's drawing of Simon Cowell in his car with his wheel coming off or a drawing of the door falling off Greg Wallace's vegetable van? Or Bob being hit with a fire extinguisher ("Ooh, you twister").

It's been odd that it has aired on grown-up BBC4 though. That seems to imply that it is as much art as it is light entertainment, but then as has been regularly said throughout the series, the duo are just having a messing about, telling jokes, having a daft laugh and that. Which is really what they excelled at when they first came along nearly thirty years ago. And still excel at now. There really is nobody like them.

Watch Vic & Bob's Big Night Out on iPlayer here. 

Pictures: BBC/Sophie Mutevelian