Otto Schtuk und die Bavarian Schtompers

## Bio

**Otto Schtuk und die Bavarian Schtompers** is a German dance and entertainment group who perform outside of the Kabaret Klug in Little Dimpton. The members include Benny Hill, Johnny Hutch, Lorraine Doyle, Bob Todd, Henry McGee and Jon Jon Keefe with an opening act by the Hill's Angels.

The Angels appear and dance to a Bavarian-style tune wearing German costumes with suspenders and lederhosen. Two of the Schtompers then appear and do a friendly slapping routine that nearly resorts in a fight. The rest of the group then appear and perform a dance while wearing bells of different pitch which are attached to their legs and arms. Their movements to the music create the tune. The female member wears a set of bells on the front of her blouse which she only shakes when their leader can't see her.

Off to the side, Laurel and Hardy (Sue Upton and Benny Hill) sit and watch the entertainment. Ollie picks up his trumpet, but Stannie's oboe comes apart when he lifts it so Ollie stands to fix it. When it is assembled, Stannie learns its made of candy and starts eating the mouth piece. A bit perturbed, Ollie sits down on his trumpet, flattening it.

The Angels wrap the festival getting thrown tambourines and performing with them. Benny comes out as well and performs with them doing fancy stuff with a tambourine himself.

## Trivia

* The sketch opens with the music from the Little Dimpton Street Party from February 10, 1982 being used again as well as on the same city set.
* The Little Dimpton accompanying bits features:
	+ Jon Jon Keefe and Anna Dawson as pedestrians outside of Spuds You Like
	+ Six of the Angels as nuns before "Just Marriage" (one nun stays behind to dream a bit)
	+ Susie Waring as the girlfriend of a biker (Benny Hill) who stops to ogle Alison Deegan(?)
	+ Sara Throssell delayed by her suitcase before Benny's Trunks (The three Angels before her are unidentified)
	+ Lorraine Doyle's pink suitcase getting mounted by a studded suitcase (Henry McGee throws water on them)
	+ Johnny Hutch tries to proposition Sue Upton outside of Benny's Trunks and gets eaten by a steamer trunk
	+ A member of the Schtompers (Johnny Hutch) plays his tuba only to find a smaller one in it
	+ An old German lady (Bob Todd) hangs his underwear on the trombone of a Schtomper (Jon Jon Keefe)
	+ A member of the Schtompers (Jon Jon Keefe) accidentally pulls the toupee off another member (Johnny Hutch) with his trombone.
	+ A old lady (Sue Upton) plays the violin with the help of Johnny Hutch. (This bit also occurs in The Widow with Henry McGee.)
* According to William Brown of "Benny's Places," Benny and Johnny Hutch's hand-slapping and clapping routine is a recreation of a bit that Benny and Jackie Wright performed years before in a previous episode.
	+ The hand-slapping entertainment was also featured in the movie, "National Lampoon's European Vacation" with Chevy Chase which came out in 1985, four years before this episode.
* The Hill's Angels role call for this sketch is unrevealed, but it is believed it includes Sara Throssell, Nicola Bacon, Helen Carpenter, Susie Waring, Alison Deegan and Victoria Rees. The seventh and eighth girls are unidentified.
* Benny has also sat down on a plate of food in another episode and his hat in Chez When in 1988.
* Had the series lasted a few more years, it is likely Benny and Sue might have done more bits as Laurel and Hardy.
* Otto Schtuk is also used as the name of the tennis player in a quickie on December 22, 1971.

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