Monday, September 22, 2025

RW667 - Men Behaving Badly Rewatch S03E04-06 - Weekend Cleaning Marriage

 


In this week's episode of The Men Behaving Badly Rewatch, Cory and Tom get away, tidy up and make big mistakes as they discuss the series 3 episodes 4-6, Weekend, Cleaning Lady, and Marriage.

Beer of the Week: (not a paid advertisement)

We made a Shandy! Take a nice light beer and pour it 50/50 with a lemon/lime soda like Sprite, 7up etc. Cory had Timothy Taylor's Landlord Pale Ale, while Tom tried both Harp Larger and Firestone Walker 805.

Weekend:

Written by: Simon Nye

Directed by: Martin Dennis

Original airdate: July 22, 1994


Synopsis: 

Tony tries out his bartending skills for his new job at The Crown, trying to emulate Tom Cruise in the movie Cocktail but instead ends up breaking a lot of glasses. Gary reveals that Dorothy is coming for a chat about their relationship, to which Tony offers him some of his books he’s been given by his previous girlfriends about relationships.


Dorothy shows up and says that their problem is that they find each other less sexually attractive. Gary pulls a passage out of one of the books that says they should share their fantasies with each other while Dorothy finds a passage that suggests they go on a countryside holiday together.


Gary pops into The Crown to see Tony dressed in a glittering suit jacket and he worries that Deborah might see him working there. He commiserates with Gary, saying that he figures he can get Deborah back by using his personality or make her boyfriend look stupid.


Gary wastes time showing Tony how to take care of the flat while he’s away, including the thermostats, and his pet fish, but Dorothy threatens to leave so he gives it up and heads out with her. Dorothy enjoys the countryside while Gary makes fun of it all. 


Back at the flat, when Tony hears Deborah going out he leaps to go chat with her, breaking his guitar in the process. He acts as if he is picking up the mail, but really he had been holding it in order to have a pretense to talk with her. She apologizes about hurting him by dating Ray but he plays it off, claiming he’s fine and is happy serving celebrities at The Crown.


Dorothy and Gary find themselves running romantically through the fields and holding buttercups under each other’s chins, but Gary often finds himself falling down and not really enjoying himself as much as Dorothy.


Tony finds himself drinking more and passing out while pining for Deborah. At his job he complains about how Deborah will be with Ray tonight having sex, when suddenly Deborah and Ray show up in The Crown. As Tony hides, Ray comes off a bit pompous and full of himself, leaving Les to suggest a new plan to get back at Ray, giving him a pint of the ale that gave a lot of customers gut rot the previous week.


As Gary and Dorothy lay in bed on their holiday, Gary wonders about the specifics of listing out their fantasies. They switch their papers and Gary is intrigued by Dorothy’s while she is shocked by the sheer amount and content of his, especially since his fantasies don’t include her. 


Meanwhile, Ray throws up while Deborah waits patiently on the bed. Tony shows up to help, offering her to come downstairs with him. Tony goes back downstairs and tries faking his death with ketchup and a knife, hoping Deborah would come down to save him.


Dorothy and Gary return home, and Tony tells them what his plan was and what they did at The Crown with the bad ale. Deborah rushes down to ask Dorothy to come look at Ray but Deborah comes back downstairs after Dorothy suggests that Tony would know why Ray is sick. Tony begs Deborah to go out with him but she refuses and leaves. Tony then accidentally drops a toaster in Gary’s fish tank and it kills the fish.


Later Gary reveals how he took some of the hotel's towels and a towel rack, and Tony reveals that he took Ray’s headlight and bumper. Tony heads off to bed, reckoning that Dorothy isn’t coming back, and Gary says that he tried to get her back by pretending he had an amputated leg.

Chat on the sofa:

Robin Kermode played Ray. He was in a few sitcoms before this one, but mostly he’s a supporting character actor.


Norman Wisdom was an English actor, comedian, musician, and singer best known for his series of comedy films produced between 1953 and 1966, in which he portrayed the endearingly inept character Norman Pitkin.


Dannii Minogue is an Australian singer, television personality, and actress. As a child she became known for her appearances on the television talent show Young Talent Time (1982–1988). She went on to play the role of Emma Jackson in the Australian soap opera Home and Away (1989–1990), for which she was nominated for two Logie Awards.


Selina Scott is an English television presenter who co-hosted the first dedicated breakfast television programme in the UK, before moving to the United States to join West 57th, a prime-time current-affairs show.


A rambling holiday is another term for a walking holiday, a type of trip where you explore a destination by walking, typically on trails or paths, rather than by vehicle. The focus is on a slower pace of travel, allowing for deeper immersion in the landscape, culture, and local life, often involving staying in different villages or towns each night or returning to a central base.


Babycham is a light, sparkling perry invented by Francis Showering, a brewer in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, England. The name was owned by Accolade Wines until 2021, when it was bought back into the Showering family business Brothers Drinks Limited. The brand was particularly popular during the 1960s and 1970s. The new owners are planning a major rebrand and relaunch of the drink.

Pork scratchings is the British name for deep-fried, salted, crunchy pork rind with fat produced separately from the meat, eaten cold. Pork scratchings typically are heavy and hard, have a crispy layer of fat under the skin, and are flavoured only with salt.


Morris Minor is a charming, classic British economy car produced from 1948–1971. Designed by Alec Issigonis, it was the first British car to sell over a million units. The Minor is known for its practicality and ease of upgrades for everyday use. 


Alsatian: German Shepard


Gut Rot: Upset Stomach


Gob in it: Spit in it


Buttercup tradition: Hold a buttercup under a chin and if it turns yellow, you like butter

Cleaning Lady:

Written by: Simon Nye

Directed by: Martin Dennis

Original airdate: July 29, 1994


Synopsis: 

Tony reasons that Deborah likes Ray because he has a respectable job unlike himself. Back at the flat, as Tony, Gary and Dorothy watch TV, he tries to think of jobs he could do as they dismiss his ideas. Dorothy gets disgusted by how dirty their apartment is and Gary promises to hire a cleaning lady so that Dorothy will keep coming around. 


When the cleaner shows up, she turns out to be the opposite of what Gary was expecting as she is a young, pretty, fit girl with an accent from Portugal named Elena that he starts drooling over.


At The Crown, Tony reveals he actually got a job as a model, and has decided to leave his bartending job. Gary tells Tony that the cleaning lady is coming back tomorrow because she’s missed a bit and that he should make himself scarce. When Elena shows up he tells her to do some dusting but she finishes quickly, seeing as she took care of him cleaning the day before. He invites her to sit and have some refreshments with him as they discuss her boyfriend back in Portugal and how he is looking for a girlfriend himself.


Tony, dressed up as fancy as he can, drops into Deb’s new restaurant that she manages. He brags about his new job and how she’ll see his face advertising things all day long out on the street, and makes another comment about how she could have been his girlfriend. She is adamant that she is dating Ray and he tells her that he has a girlfriend, to which she seems slightly put out but walks away.


At home, Tony goes through various techniques and products to get his skin looking strong and smooth. As he talks with Gary he accidentally gets some lotion in his eye as he yells for help. Gary meanwhile tries out some of the techniques in Tony’s skin care book. Dorothy walks in and talks with him about a dream she had of Gary having a button that turned him into Liam Neeson but since she wore it out, it stopped working and she had to shoot him. Gary tried pressuring her into leaving the house but she is aware of his ploy, but not the specifics. He tries to explain how the cleaner is horrible, hideous, and steals things and tells Tony to leave as well.


Later that day, Gary sits and watches as Elena cleans. As he schools her in English, she finds a picture of Gary and Dorothy and while he tries to play it off as being his sister, she deduces the truth. He asks her to come back and clean the next night as well, and while she feels he is lonely and pathetic, she needs the money so she agrees.


Tony arrives home and finds himself attracted to Elena but Gary takes him aside to ask him to not make a move on her. Gary leaves for work and Tony ends up asking Elena what she’s doing that afternoon, and takes her out to Deborah’s restaurant. As they talk with Deborah, Tony tries his best to spin things that Elena says.


The next day, Tony sees he has a pimple on his nose and is upset because he is supposed to start a job that day for a mail order catalog. Later, Elena shows up, ready to clean, but Gary suggests a drink first. Tony arrives home, having quit his modeling job after they let him go. He is surprised to see Gary ready to take Elena out and the two argue about who gets to have her. When Dorothy and Deborah arrive home, Gary quickly changes his tune and tells Tony to pretend that Elena is his girlfriend.


As the girls come in, Gary tries making excuses and rushes off to the bathroom. Deborah and Dorothy quickly find him, Elena and Tony in there together and Tony’s attempt at a lie isn’t accepted.


Later Tony and Gary drink away their cares, while discussing liking the flat dirty as it’s more natural, what supermodel they would date, what job Tony will go for next and various other free ranging topics to cap off their day.

Chat on the sofa:

Elena was played by Sandy Hendrickse, another character actor with a few handfuls of credits.


Michel and Albert Roux were French chefs and restaurateurs working in Britain. They opened Le Gavroche, which subsequently became the first three Michelin starred restaurant in Britain and The Waterside Inn, which was the first restaurant outside France to hold three stars for 25 years.


Douglas Hurd, Baron Hurd of Westwell, is a British Conservative Party politician who served in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major from 1979 to 1995.


The Two Ronnies is a British television comedy sketch show starring Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett. It was created by Bill Cotton and aired on BBC Television from 10 April 1971 to 25 December 1987.


Caribou is another name for reindeer.


Top Myself: K1ll yourself


Berk: stupid or foolish person

Marriage:

Written by: Simon Nye

Directed by: Martin Dennis

Original airdate: August 5, 1994


Synopsis: 

Gary talks with Tony and Deborah about a missing dustbin when Deborah calls them out on going through her garbage. Tony took a shirt that belonged to a neighbor and Gary found a ball of her hair. Tony defends it as wanting to see what makes her tick and why she likes Ray more than him. She just says that they have interesting conversations and that he is more interesting.


Gary leaves to have dinner with Dorothy and ends up getting so drunk he asks her to marry her and she accepts. The next morning he regrets his decision and  complains to Tony about it. Tony continues to wonder what Deborah and Ray talk about and Gary suggests he bug them with some listening devices he recently got at work for testing. Gary and Tony then chat about various stag nights they’ve both been involved in and the hijinks they ensued. 


On the bus with Dorothy, Gary tries to bring up his proposal as being foolish but never manages to get it out, leaving Dorothy to push for a church wedding sooner rather than later.


George talks with Gary about the joys of marriage but Gary isn’t having it. Anthea gets pulled into the conversation and she relates the one time she was asked to marry someone, way back in grade school. Gary asks them to take some of the listening devices and test them out at home.


Back at the flat, Gary tries to recapture his youth and appear younger instead of an adult and asking Tony to play with him, throwing paper balls at a cereal box on his head. Gary shows him the listening device and Tony takes a daffodil from outside to give to Deborah as a ruse to plant the bug. Tony shows his jealousy and Deborah restates that Ray is just more interesting. 


Back at work, George and Anthea give their reviews of the listening devices, both of whom placed the devices at less than ideal locations. George reveals the deal he and Marjorie made about putting 10 pence in a jar anytime they had an unfaithful thought and it turns out Marjorie has had so many of them she has managed to pay for several of their vacations.


Tony meanwhile has spent the day listening to what Deborah has been doing. Gary has started dressing awfully, even pouring onion juice on himself and gargling with it, hoping that Dorothy will be put off. 


In his room, Tony hears Ray come over and start kissing Deborah before asking about the plant she was given by Tony and deciding to toss it out. Tony rushes up to save it, and grabs the listening device and places it elsewhere in her apartment before leaving. Tony goes back down and listens again, hearing Ray insult him and rushing out to face off against him, failing to hear Deborah break up with Ray, telling him that Tony is gentle and considerate and Ray is just boring. Tony breaks through Deborah’s door, insults Ray’s car and leaves. Deborah chases after him and kicks him in the balls. 


Gary tries acting as chauvinistic and domineering as he can, but Dorothy is seemingly completely on board with it all, going along with anything he suggests, even when he suggests he should be able to sleep with anyone he wants, Tony will live with them forever, and she has to perform any sexual act he wants, even if he wants to use large vegetables. When she continues to agree, he whines that he can’t get married because he was just drunk and she reveals that she knows and just enjoyed watching him suffer all week. She then rejects the idea of marrying him and Gary starts listing his good points on why she SHOULD marry him. After listening to him, Dorothy tells that yes, he’s right, she will marry him as she kisses him and walks off. Gary is stunned as Tony limps in, suffering from Deborah’s kick.

Chat on the sofa:

Gary says his cousin Bengy married a “Great Daine” and at the wedding she sang the 1974 Eurovision entry for Denmark. However, Denmark did not compete in the song contest for 11 years straight from 1967 to 1977.


Sideboard: cabinet


Barmy: crazy

What's Up Next?

Series 4A episodes Babies, Infidelity, and Pornography

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Friday, September 19, 2025

RW666 - Bonus - Cut

 


In this bonus episode of The Rewatch Podcast, Cory and Eoghan are jumping off the screen as they discuss the cult Aussie slasher Cut.

Trailer:


Our Favourite Trivia:

This is the second horror movie for actress Molly Ringwald. The first was Office Killer (1997). She also did several thrillers, including Malicious (1995), Requiem for Murder (1999), Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999), and Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade (1994). She was also in The Stand miniseries in 1994.


Ringwald played dual roles in this movie, portraying both Chloe and Vanessa Turnbill, appearing in both of the film's eras: the 1980s and the 1990s. Vanessa is the American actress character starring in the movie-within-this-movie, 'Hot Blooded'. Chloe is the character Ringwald plays. Vanessa is the bigger role yet Ringwald found Chloe, the 16-year-old schoolgirl, the most challenging of the two. For Ringwald, it was a case of playing different characters that she tried to make distinctly different from one another.


This is the second of two film collaborations to date of director Kimble Rendall and singer-actress Kylie Minogue. The first had been the short film Hayride to Hell (1995) about five years earlier.


In the original script drafts Kylie Minogue's role was larger, which included her friend and backstory, and her character Hilary Jacobs ended up being electrified in a big scene. Minogue's part in the film was apparently reduced due to the pop star's limited availability.


Actress Jessica Napier auditioned several times with numerous call backs for her part in the movie to the point she got fed up with the project. Napier then got a phone call to say she had got the lead role.


According to the websites seen towards the start of the film, Venessa Turnbill was recently dumped from the TV series Chick Cops and has signed on to do an ad campaign for “Rotisserie Rooster.” She is also in talks to star in By the Light of the Moon, directed by actress Demi Shaw for Flickstein Films.


The acronym on the film can read FARTS and stood for "Film Audiovisual Radio and Television School". This is actually a spoof anagram parody of the real life AFTRS which stands for the "Australian Film, Television and Radio School".


Cut had a home video release on VHS in Australia during late 2000, and was released on Blu-Ray in 2019, followed by VOD. However, it never had a commercial DVD release in Australia despite being available in other countries.

What's Up Next?

We’ll be getting to Predator: Killer of Killers, Phoenician Scheme, I Know What You Did Last Summer and The Naked Gun.


This year's Halloween series rewatch will be Jaws, to celebrate the 50th anniversary.


Upcoming TV series rewatch is Eureka when we wrap up the Men Behaving Badly Rewatch.


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Monday, September 15, 2025

RW665 - Men Behaving Badly Rewatch S03E01-03 - Love Bed Casual

 


In this week's episode of The Men Behaving Badly Rewatch, Cory and Tom are considered rare condition as they discuss the series 3 episodes 1-3, Lovers, Bed, and Casualties.

Beer of the Week: (not a paid advertisement)

Stella Artois from Belgium has a stronger flavour, and a very pleasant after taste.

Lovers:

Written by: Simon Nye

Directed by: Martin Dennis

Original airdate: July 1, 1994


Synopsis: 

Gary and Tony discuss their various sexual escapades at The Crown before the conversation turns to Tony’s lack of a job and not being able to pay rent. He does fancy the idea of staying home more though since Deborah has just recently stopped dating a man she had been seeing. As they look at Les’s new reading section of used magazines, they begin talking about how many women they’ve slept with. Gary is cagey on the number, while Tony brags about stopping counting after he got to 50.


Later that night, Gary broaches the subject with Dorothy. She doesn’t want to answer for fear of being called either a slut with too many partners or a frigid old lady with too few. Gary is aghast when she finally settles on the number of 12. He quickly inflates his own number and past escapades. 


Tony rushes out of the apartment when he hears Deborah going out and chats with her about the end of her relationship, offering to talk about it more if she wants. She however is on her way to a step aerobics class, which he asks if he could go along with and she agrees. While there, Tony tries acting goofy to attract one young woman there but is surprised when her boyfriend suddenly appears to greet her. Tony finds himself stuck behind an overweight man and asks another woman to let him stand behind Deborah. All is well until the instructor comes in and has them all turn around the opposite way, leaving Tony in the front.


At work, Gary is still thinking about the idea of the number of sexual partners people have had, feeling pressure to have a larger number, since he’s only had 3. He is further depressed and surprised to learn that George himself had quite the wild youth. 


Later that night at the pub, Deborah tells Dorothy that she does like Tony, if he could only be a bit more sensitive. Les hosts a trivia night, but to the women’s chagrin they learn that most of the questions are all about hot Hollywood women and which films they first got naked in. When the question comes up about what the average number of sexual partners for a 30 year old man is, Gary says 50, leading Dorothy to laugh, proclaiming that Gary hasn’t had 50 women, to which he is very offended by.


At home, Deborah comes down to work out with Tony, who says their heater is stuck on, leaving him to strip down to his underwear as they work out. He starts taking pictures of Deborah as she works out but he gets too close to the heater, burning his legs accidentally.  They head out to the local pool and Tony explains the burn marks away as having been from a time after he saved a cat from a burning building. He hams it up on the diving board, but Deborah finds herself more drawn to an athletic man, diving from a high board and performing a perfect dive. Tony decides to try it himself and climbs up on the high board, but gets nervous and eventually throws up.


Later, Gary starts showing Dorothy pictures of his past escapades, and she gets hurt by all the women he’s showing her. However, Tony comes in, and reveals that the pictures are actually his, not Gary’s. Tony and Gary later commiserate while watching a workout video.

Chat on the Sofa:

Troy Tempest is a character from children's television series Stingray, filmed in 1963 using a combination of electronic marionette puppetry and scale model special effects. Set in the 2060s, the series follows the exploits of the World Aquanaut Security Patrol (WASP), an organisation responsible for policing the Earth's oceans, and the flagship Stingray, a combat submarine crewed by Captain Troy Tempest, navigator Lieutenant "Phones" and Marina, a mute young woman from under the sea. Stingray's adventures bring it into contact with various underwater civilisations, some friendly and others hostile, as well as strange natural phenomena.


Britt Eckland is best known for her roles in The Wicker man, and the James Bond film Man with the Golden Gun. Her first role was uncredited in the Elvis Presley movie G.I. Blues.

Bed:

Written by: Simon Nye

Directed by: Martin Dennis

Original airdate: July 8, 1994


Synopsis: 

Gary and Dorothy begin their nighttime routines, trading barbs as they do. Gary gets annoyed at her with the gunk she puts on her face, and she gets annoyed at his preparing his clothes and setting them out just so.  He comments on how they don’t seem to want sex at the same time anymore and fears turning into their parents. Gary tries coming on to her to no avail, even trying to get her to let him have sex with her while she sleeps. She tries sleeping but Gary then tries just rubbing against her but she’s not having it, claiming indigestion from his cooking.


Tony readies himself for bed, listening to a self help tape but he ignores the messages on it, choosing to read a thesaurus and play guitar instead. Deborah comes down and tells Tony she can’t sleep due to the wind slamming a gate back and forth, something Tony was supposed to fix. Despite Tony’s joking, he goes out to try and fix the problem. 


Meanwhile, Gary joins her in her place and fixes up a drink for Deborah consisting of boiled breath mints and ends up trying to hit on her when Dorothy walks in. He makes the usual excuses and she asks him to take her car to get her some medicine. Tony joins them, having picked her some weeds, but they soon hear that the fence is still not fixed so he heads back out again to fix it.


Gary meanwhile tries several places before finding a pharmacy that’s open late but when he goes to pay realizes he doesn’t have his wallet.


Deborah confides in Dorothy that Tony is interested in anyone really, not just her and after laughing at Tony’s disheveled appearance after coming in, they go down to Tony and Gary’s place together. Deborah goes to Tony and confides in him that she just lost her job which is why she’s been so angry lately. He convinces her to lay down while he starts singing her songs on his guitar to help relax her. When that doesn’t work, they discuss her future as far as jobs go and he reveals his record shop actually fell apart  and crushed his records. He suggests she be a model and she’s quite flattered and they start kissing but then the fence breaks yet again, and he heads out to try and mend it. Desperate, he seemingly just pulls down the fence and stomps on it.


Meanwhile, Gary makes Dorothy a drink of flour and water, pretending it’s milk of magnesia. She calls him out on it and demands he go get her proper medicine, seeing as how he found his wallet in the hall. He manages to get the medicine this time but then discovers he has lost his car keys, leaving him to walk home.


Deborah joins Dorothy on the couch, thinking she might give Tony a chance, but then they both think better of it.


As Gary and Tony enter, frustrated, they see Deborah and Dorothy on the couch asleep. Gary messes around with Dorothy’s lips, while they listen to Deborah talking in her sleep, trying to figure out what she’s saying. Gary realizes Dorothy is awake and Tony carries Deborah to her bed and tucks her in, climbing into bed next to her. Deborah wakes up a bit to ask him what he’s doing, but says it’s fine for him to stay but if he tries to touch her he will die. Left with nothing to do, Tony plays around with his lips, making faces.


In Gary’s bed, Dorothy feels better and is wanting to have some sex now but he’s too irritated and refuses. Dorothy grabs some left over pizza and eats it, moaning suggestively as Gary pouts.

Chat on the Sofa: 

After Eights are a brand of mint chocolate covered sugar confectionery. They were created by Rowntree Company Limited in the UK in 1962 and have been manufactured by Nestlé since its acquisition of Rowntree in 1988.

Casualties:

Written by: Simon Nye

Directed by: Martin Dennis

Original airdate: July 15, 1994


Synopsis: 

Gary and Tony discuss the differences between men and women and he contends that women enjoy being in a relationship more than normal people. Depressed Deborah joins them, but she’s too down to join them in their games, talking about being unemployed, her friends moving away, being fed up with men, and having decided to sell her flat.


At work, Dorothy stops by and gives him an ointment, revealing to George and Anthea he has a wart on his penis, and not, as Gary told them, helping the hospital cure a rare tropical disease. Noticing all the boxes in the office, Anthea reveals that Gary sublet their storage out for extra money, but Dorothy’s disapproving look convinces him to fix the problem tomorrow.

Gary and Tony visit Deborah trying to act as if they’re all a big happy family, hoping she will stay. She is not convinced though, even after they try to paint a terrible picture of different parts of the world. 


The next day, Tony starts pouring water on the walls and tearing the wallpaper off, as well as cooking up terrible smelling food, including incorporating his old socks to try and put off the real estate agents.


Dorothy expresses frustration with Gary lying so much but Tony defends him. He tells her about Gary being glad they’re in a relationship, especially since he was able to train Dorothy, to which she is not thrilled to hear.


As the real estate agents enter the house, Tony goes out to greet him and the prospective clients, putting on an accent, claiming he’s got boils, and describing the place in a negative way. Gary soon joins him, putting on a voice and telling them that it may get loud when Tony and he make love in the garden. 


Gary sees Dorothy is awake and tries joking with her but she makes no response. She then starts testing him to see what he’ll lie about, calling out his comments about the training. She then decides that she wants to break up and he is shocked. After hearing her complaints, he swears he will stop lying and treat her like a queen.


Deborah shows the flat to someone and sees that Tony has left a message in the garden saying the roof leaks and also has started playing his guitar super loud. She insists he seems to want her to be unhappy but he claims he doesn’t, saying that he felt his happiness was more important. 


At work, Gary confides in George that Dorothy broke up with him. Gary then lies about where the money from the storage shed is going but then tells the truth. He asks George to lie about the working conditions if Dorothy calls but then Anthea gets lost in the maze of boxes and panics, knocking over a box that hits George on the head. 


As a result, Gary takes George to the hospital, asking George to lie about the box. Dorothy is put off seeing Gary, and after listening to Gary’s story about a book hitting George, asks George what really happened. George agrees with the book story.


When Gary returns home to hear Tony making up a silly song about Deborah, he tells Tony about the work incident. Deborah shows up and reveals she’s decided to stay, having gotten a new job. 


Gary visits George in the hospital and sees Anthea visiting who had told George how he really got hurt. George tells Gary he’ll keep quiet about what happened as long as he and Anthea get monetary bonuses, annual raises, choices of office furnishings, and biscuits. Gary reluctantly agrees.


Dorothy returns home to Gary and she tells him that George explained how the accident happened and she says she chooses to believe him, mostly because she doesn’t have time to find another boyfriend and they make up. Tony sets up some lights to welcome Deborah back, but when he turns them on they end up exploding and causing a scene. As the smoke settles, the real estate agent enters and kisses Deborah while Tony leaps angrily towards her new romance.

Chat on the Sofa:

Catherine Tate played one half of the couple looking at the apartment, her second role ever, and she would go on to become a comedian in her own right. She had a starring role in several seasons of Doctor Who, including recently returning in 2024 for three specials. Aside from a number of movies and TV series in the UK, she was also a recurring character on The Office (34 episodes).


Ben Fox was the other half of the couple, and he’s had considerably less roles. Some notable ones include voices in Big Finish Doctor Who productions, George Orwell in the series Pennyworth, and the lead cop in Pokémon: Detective Pikachu.

What's Up Next?

Series 3B episodes Weekend, Cleaning Lady, and Marriage

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