Drunken Mishap:
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Written by: Simon Nye
Directed by: Martin Dennis
Original airdate: March 10, 1992
Synopsis:
Dermot shows up late to a company training and after quarreling with the trainer, a break is called and a young woman named Kate approaches him. He discovers that she is the younger sister of a girl he used to date but when she comes on to him, he turns her down, thinking of Deborah.
At home he can’t understand why he turned her down, commiserating with Gary, deciding to try and proposition Deborah for just a friends with benefits situation. Gary meanwhile has decided to try and get Dorothy to explore an open relationship. The two tensely discuss their relationship, with Gary trying to paint a picture of how much he cherishes their relationship, but would like to also have sex with other women too. She surprisingly agrees.
Dermot practices his pitch for Deborah but when she comes down, he asks her about her boyfriend and how she’s doing and she mentions the things she misses about him, getting lost in thought, not even hearing Dermot try and give his pitch for them sleeping together. In the end, he leaves her without trying again. The next day, Dermot attempts to get with Kate, but she says she only had a schoolgirl crush, but that her mom did tell her to pass on a hello to him.
Dermot and Gary chat about the open relationship with Gary covering up his own jealousy, attributing it to Dorothy instead of himself. Gary starts to promote monogamy while Dermot fibs about letting Kate down gently and claiming he talked to Deborah and she gave him a kind of maybe concerning his friends with benefits idea.
Chat on the sofa:
Complete series writer Simon Nye's TV writing career began in 1990 when he was persuaded by producer Beryl Vertue to adapt his first novel for the small screen. Before that, he translated books on Wagner, Matisse and Braque before turning in his late twenties to fiction. After MBB, he went on to write for the short-lived 2001 sitcom The Savages. He wrote the comic adaptations of ITV Pantos, including Jack and the Beanstalk, Cinderella, Aladdin, and Dick Whittington, and he co-wrote the 2006 film Flushed Away. He even contributed an episode to the 2010 series of Doctor Who, titled "Amy's Choice."
Complete series director Martin Dennis got his start back in 1982 on episodes of ‘Allo ‘Allo. MBB was his major work, but since the show he’s worked on many other series, including The Savages, Black Books, The Vicar of Dibley, Carrie and Barry, and the revival series of Birds of a Feather. He actually returned to his hay day in 2007, and directed the 2007 TV Movie The Return of ‘Allo ‘Allo.
I Should Be So Lucky by Kylie Minogue
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Custard Creams and Gingernuts
A custard cream is a type of sandwich biscuit popular in the British Isles, and parts of the Commonwealth, filled with a creamy, custard-flavoured centre. It is believed that the custard cream biscuit originated in Britain in 1908. Usually, they have an elaborate baroque design stamped onto them, originating in the Victorian era and representing ferns. A gingernut (aka ginger snap) is a biscuit flavoured with ginger. Gingernuts are flavoured with powdered ginger and a variety of other spices, most commonly cinnamon, molasses and clove.
Sex and Violence:
Written by: Simon Nye
Directed by: Martin Dennis
Original airdate: March 17, 1992
Synopsis:
Gary and Dermot bring Deborah to the pub, on account of her being seemingly depressed the last few days. She eventually reveals that she found out her boyfriend cheated on her in Singapore and so she broke up with him. Gary suggests getting back with her by sleeping with someone, preferably someone that is tall and blond like himself, while Dermot pushes for someone shorter with darker hair and a smile like his.
At the squash court, Dermot promises he won’t take advantage of Deborah, while Gary tries to talk but is breathless due to the exercise they’ve been partaking in, leaving him to pant his answers breathlessly. Gary sees Dorothy in the gym and makes some jokes from afar, making her laugh, but then Graham shows up and the two leave together. He goes to Dorothy and confronts her and the two argue when he finds out she slept with Graham. Gary starts to hit on every woman in the club, striking out quite spectacularly.
Dermot goes to a bank to borrow money, but his goal of using the money to impress Deborah causes the bank manager to deny him.
At home, Dermot is dressed in a tuxedo, planning to impress Deborah, while Gary is getting drunk, heading to the pub to leave the two of them alone. Deborah, depressed still, doesn’t see the point of trying again. The Mexican food that was supposed to show up, ends up being Japanese food because the Mexican restaurant closed down. Deborah is impressed, Japanese being her favorite.
Jeremy, their authentic Spanish guitar player turns out to be a keyboardist, showing off his playing ability to everyone’s annoyance. After many songs, Dermot tells her he will just send Jeremy on his way. Dermot then tries to hit on Deborah, which she does seem annoyed by, but lets it drop easily when they’re interrupted by a visit from Mike, Deborah’s former boyfriend, who wants to talk. Dermot says he should leave, but then Gary shows up drunk, making a comment about Mike’s cheating ways, leading to Mike head butting him.
Gary calls Dorothy over for sympathy and learns that her and Graham stopped seeing each other, having nothing in common. Their chemistry comes through as she picks out on one of their favorite records. Dermot admits he sold their record player to pay for his date last night, but offers them mood music by playing Jeremy’s keyboard.
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My Brilliant Career:
Written by: Simon Nye
Directed by: Martin Dennis
Original airdate: March 24, 1992
Synopsis:
Dermot, lost in thought, answers the door to see Deborah, who wonders what's wrong as they walk towards the kitchen, surprised he hasn’t asked her out again. He explains he got fired after having a big disagreement with a few children in the toy department.
He asks Deborah for a job but she’s unsure about hiring him. She does decide to give him a. Try making Dermot so happy he grabs her and swings her around, much to her chagrin. She then asks them to make some room in the shed for her gardening tools.
Gary questions how Dermot got Deborah to give him a job and the discussion of jobs they wanted to as kids, makes Gary start to think about his own job and he wonders aloud the next day to George about how Dermot will now be working with Deborah, wondering when the last time was that they had a young attractive woman working with them. Gary asks Anthea if she sees him as a dynamic entrepreneur or a complete failure but she pauses which exasperates Gary. She then explains that she thinks young people are in too much of a hurry to get ahead at the expense of older people. Gary decides to try and do something special for Anthea’s birthday.
Dermot studies the workers’ manual for Deborah’s restaurant while Gary and Dorothy play Who’s The Postman, a board game (that looks suspiciously like Monopoly with the street spaces covered up). As they start to play, Gary and Dermot pick the pawns that are real jobs, relegating Dorothy to one of the wives of the careers in the game, to which she is thoroughly annoyed by, especially given Gary’s, Dermot’s, and the game’s attitude towards women. Gary puts his foot in his mouth, dismissing Dorothy’s job as not a proper job. The two argue about their jobs before Dermot finds a toy gun Gary found in the shed and the two start playing war.
At the restaurant, Dermot tries his best as a waiter but can’t get himself to be flirty with the female diners. Gary and Dorothy come in, planning to celebrate his resignation from the company but Gary doesn’t want to tell them he’s leaving. George and Anthea arrive and make several comments about their past and future working for Gary and the company, which makes him uncomfortable, given that he knows the company will close down after he resigns. As he begins to tell them his decision, Dermot opens a piece of mail informing Gary that there is no job available as he previously thought. He tries to tell Gary but is brushed off with George and Anthea thinking Dermot is playing charades. They eventually guess that he is trying to communicate “no job”, which causes Anthea to worry she’s lost her job. While George comforts her, Dermot shows Gary the letter, and he realizes he has to stay where he is. Deborah brings out the birthday cake Gary ordered which unfortunately has a goodbye also written on it, causing Anthea to cry, thinking she’s been fired.
Meanwhile Dermot gets thrown out of the restaurant by a man who got angry that Dermot was trying to kiss his girlfriend. Deborah promptly fires him. Dermot decides to get some sleep since he needs to get a few things in the morning, with Gary prompting him to get a job, a girlfriend and a future.
Chat on the sofa:
The lady diner was Suzy Cooper and aside from a few minor roles here and there (22), she had a run of 128 out of 150 episodes of Jupiter Moon (Ilea is an old space craft cruising around the Jupiter system, and functioning as a university. This is the story of its crew and students).
The keyboardist Jeremy was Phil Wilmot whose main claim to fame was also Jupiter Moon (130 episodes).
Test Card F is a test card that was created by the BBC and used on television in the United Kingdom and in countries elsewhere in the world for more than four decades. Like other test cards, it was usually shown while no programmes were being broadcast. It was the first to be transmitted in colour in the UK and the first to feature a person, and has become an iconic British image regularly subject to parody. The central image on the card shows Carole Hersee playing noughts and crosses with a clown doll, Bubbles the Clown, surrounded by various greyscales and colour test signals used to assess the quality of the transmitted picture. It was first broadcast on 2 July 1967 (the day after the first colour pictures appeared to the public on television) on BBC2. Carole was the daughter of BBC engineer George Hersee, and is said to hold the Guinness World Record for Longest Television Appearance at 70,000 hours, although she denies this. She went on to become a costume designer for many West End productions and films.
Pan's People were a British all-female dance troupe most commonly associated with the BBC TV music chart show Top of the Pops, from 1968 to 1976. The group, founded and led by choreographer Felicity "Flick" Colby in December 1966, accompanied top 20 hits on the weekly show for eight years, when artists were unable or unwilling to perform live. Pan's People appeared on many other TV shows in the UK and elsewhere in Europe, and also performed in nightclub cabaret.
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Ian [Richard Kyle] Paisley, Baron Bannside was a privy council member (advisor to the sovereign), a loyalist politician and Protestant religious leader from Northern Ireland who served as leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) from 1971 to 2008 and First Minister of Northern Ireland from 2007 to 2008.
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Men Behaving Badly is based on Simon Nye's 1989 book of the same title. Producer Beryl Vertue first considered it for a film before deciding it was suited for television adaptation. Harry Enfield, already a well-known comedian, was cast first. He had seen Martin Clunes perform in a play and recommended him for the other lead.Enfield felt out of place in the sitcom and announced he was leaving after the first series. When Thames Television found out, their immediate reaction was to end the series, and they had to be persuaded to put on a second series, with Neil Morrissey replacing Enfield.
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