There aren't that many TV comedies that I make a point of watching old school when they go out but Toast of Tinseltown is one of them. And that's despite the fact that I've already binged on it on iPlayer. In fact in a way it's because I've binged on it on iPlayer. The scripts, by Matt Berry and Arthur Mathews, are so densely packed with verbal and visual gags it's worth watching twice just to pick up on funnies I've missed first time round.

The penultimate episode, Death Valley, is a little different in tone, even more dreamlike than ever. Toast was supposed to be taken to a film location but due to a shortage of unit drivers his trailer has been dragged out into the desert instead (yes we know this makes no sense) – cue lots of bumping and falling about on the journey. Berry is no Chaplin or Keaton but there is some great knockabout, or rather fallabout humour here.

When he finally stops rattling around he meets up with the mysterious Barney, played by a bearded Aidan "Poldark" Turner and it feels like there's more than a nod to the Charles Manson Spahn Ranch via Once Upon A Time In Hollyood as things take an eerie turn...

Toast thought he was just acting in a Western, but finds himself in a real one, with colourful characters at every turn. Benedict Wong - who I remember as Sean Lock's lodger in 15 Stories High but has now gone on to carve out a big career in America, pitches up and is almost unrecognisable.

The fish-out-of-water jokes keep coming, particularly if you are partial to seeing our hero with a severed limb. It's often cartoonish humour, owing as much of a debt to The Simpsons as to any classic non-animated comedies. If there's an opening for a joke Matt Berry and Arthur Mathews can be relied upon to find it. 

Well worth watching. Not just once but twice. Or maybe even three times.

Toast of Tinseltown, Death Valley, Tuesday, February 1, 10pm, BBC Two (the full series is already on iPlayer)

Picture credit: BBC/Objective Fiction/Ben Meadows