Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy

The series format has switched from sketch show to sitcom, set mainly in a Hawaiian coffee shop.

[5] Each episode is structured around a plot involving Noel and his friends, accompanied by sketches featuring strange characters who are usually not connected to the main story.

Noel frames his felt tip drawing of Pelé holding a china tea cup.

After blowing Andy's mind and viewing by Daran Cache, Roy Circles accuses Noel of tracing the drawing which leads to Pelé coming to life.

Characters in order of appearance: Noel helps Lysergic Casserole escape their own guitar case using a ramp made of Ryvita.

Dolly falls for Sugar Bone Thompson the Fab watching Hat, Daddy Push chops onions.

Characters in order of appearance: Noel wears a flashing headband and wins a speedboat made of bananas.

City Gent blames a lack of education on Ice Cream Eyes, who in turn isn't impressed with being covered in peas.

Helen Daniel's puts a screwdriver in The Audience's works, Doo Cloth comes to the rescue.

All hopes of being rescued rest on Paul Panfer, an internet sensation who remakes Elvis films on his mobile phone.

Characters in order of appearance: Noel gets fantasy block if he doesn't overcome this and write an ending to the show, Terry, his only viewer, will be killed by an asteroid Characters in order of appearance: Noel's show is turned into a reality TV programme by fantasy terrorist Reality Man.

Luckily for Noel, Fantasy Man and Big Chief Woolabum are on hand to help, and hopefully save the day.

He has until the end of the episode to become cool, otherwise he will be destroyed by a race of alien cucumbers who all worship the poet John Gay.

Characters in order of appearance: The show's soundtrack is provided by Fielding and close friend Sergio Pizzorno of rock band Kasabian, who formed the group Loose Tapestries to make music for the series.

An album entitled Loose Tapestries Presents: the Luxury Comedy Tapes was released following the first series.

Fielding and Pizzorno returned to create the soundtrack for series two with Kasabian guitarist, Tim Carter.

The Guardian described it as a "neo-psychedelic riot of mirth that regurgitates decades of memories of broad, Technicolor TV entertainment from The Banana Splits onwards.

"[7] Stephen Armstrong wrote in The Sunday Times that "Fielding grins down like a fiendish blend of Peter Gabriel, Syd Barrett, Samuel Beckett and a TV-age Antonin Artaud, unsettling and hypnotising in equal measure.

Andy Johnson at Purple Revolver said that "if someone wanted to make TV for Salvador Dalí and Rene Magritte then Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy would be it.

"[8] On the other hand, The Yorker said "The plots are too obscure to follow, so one is left with a lurid array of half-animated, half-real characters spouting phrases which seem to have been generated by flicking through the dictionary at random.

"[9] The Scotsman said of Fielding: "as an absurdist comedian he's so painfully uninspired and laboured" and "I was left bewildered as to how anyone could ever fall for this charmless rubbish", and goes on to say "he patently thinks of himself as a mind-blowing surrealist bursting with astonishing ideas (A sentient chocolate finger!