Del Boy falling through the bar doesn't really work, unless there's a long lost alternate version where he falls over and over and over, to the point where it actually stops being funny at all.
Maybe the unfiltered nonsense that they are serving up speaks for itself, like, say, throwing your inexperienced sub goalkeeper who hasn't played for months into a Champions League knockout tie at Atletico Madrid.
Maybe it's watching that keeper instantly crumble under the pressure with two humiliating errors. Maybe it's humiliating the 22-year-old further by dragging him off after 16 minutes. Maybe it's being 4-0 down after 25 minutes. Maybe the only question actually worth asking is: where does this spiral end for Spurs?
The grisly evidence from the Wanda Metropolitano on Tuesday night suggests this decline has not yet bottomed out, that there are darker depths to plumb. There's such a sense of disarray that further pain feels almost inevitable.
Tottenham were never going to win the Champions League, so bowing out of that arena unceremoniously isn't a disaster in the current context. The real horror for Tottenham supporters is the Premier League table, and their team's direction of travel within it.
They sit 16th, without a league win since December 28, and now just a point above the final relegation place. They have lost five top-flight games in a row, six in all competitions.
Their status as genuine candidates for the drop is now inarguable. The bottom pair, Wolverhampton Wanderers and Burnley, are likely too far adrift to save themselves now, but West Ham United and Nottingham Forest will fancy that they can stay up at the expense of Spurs.
If nothing else, West Ham and Forest can, at least, claim to have picked up points within the last month.
Tottenham, meanwhile, are reportedly considering sacking Igor Tudor, an interim manager who has been in charge for four games.
They are a club who have been consumed by toxicity, and their squad look alarmingly unprepared for a relegation scrap. The ease with which they were swept aside by Crystal Palace last weekend suggests this is a not a group that is up for a fight.
And with only a caretaker manager in position, one who has had no positive impact on results and performances so far, it feels like a perfect storm is brewing. Tottenham would certainly have been placed in the 'too big to go down' bracket before this, but even if it ultimately does not happen, would anybody feel secure enough to bet against it at the moment?
This week's debacle in Madrid won't directly influence their league campaign, but it certainly won't do much for the mood in the camp.
Tudor's decision to start Antonin Kinsky ahead of Guillermo Vicario, as well as dropping the likes of Xavi Simons and Dominic Solanke, was that of a manager who felt he must start taking drastic measures.
Kinsky's inclusion, ironically, was farely well received by Tottenham fans online, but what happened next was an unmitigated disaster. On a human level, it was impossible not to feel for the young Czech, who hadn't played since October, as his nightmare evening unfolded.
It was agonising to watch, and yet also one of those moments you realise elite sport isn't always compatible with empathetic instincts. Tudor's decision to substitute Kinsky has inevitably split opinion, but the manager was faced with an impossible call.
Do you leave the player on the park to potentially suffer more embarrassment? Or do you remove him from the immediate situation, but risk trashing his reputation in the longer term? Arguably, leaving Kinsky on so as not to subject him to one of football's ultimate shames is not an option for a manager who desperately needs results.
Where Tudor let himself down was in not even briefly acknowledging Kinsky as he trudged off, instead leaving that to the Tottenham substitutes, who pursued him down the tunnel.
Perhaps it would've made little difference to the player's emotional state, but the optics were undeniably cold. Indeed, Tudor has drawn more criticism for his rubber ear than going through with the substitution itself.
The bigger picture, however, is more alarming.
Tudor needs unity if he is to drag Tottenham out of this mess, and while the circumstances were absurdly difficult, this incident will not foster harmony. The alternative, then, is that Spurs dispense with him as they did Thomas Frank only a month or so ago, as they did with Ange Postecoglou after he won the Europa League.
But if Spurs felt there was a better candidate to see them through this unfolding disaster, they would have hired him before Tudor. It is an astonishing situation for a club of this size to find themselves in.
Commercially, Tottenham are one of the profitable clubs in the world, but the chasm between off-pitch and on-pitch strategy is hard to fathom, and the latter renders the former utterly meaningless - even more so if they succumb to the unthinkable and spend next season in the Championship.
Yes, they have had a long spate of injury problems to deal with, stretching back to Postecoglou's tenure, but their refusal to address those via action in the transfer market has compounded this situation more than a floundering caretaker manager, or a rookie keeper having a nightmare in Europe.
With nine games left in the Premier League, their fate, and the future of the club, hangs in the balance. Next up is a trip to Liverpool on Sunday, followed by what is already a monumental meeting with Nottingham Forest.
Losing six times is in a row is an ignominious first in Tottenham's history, and now they can scarcely afford to suffer any more.