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Written by: Simon Nye
Directed by: Martin Dennis
Original airdate: June 20, 1996
Synopsis:
While Tony travels abroad, Gary and Dorothy have been getting along very well, so much so that she asks about moving in and Gary agrees, knowing that Tony will likely need to move out.
Tony returns home with a full beard and mustache, having visited a great amount of European countries. While at first he scares Gary with his appearance, they fall right into their old habits of drinking and carousing around town. Eventually Gary tells him about Dorothy moving in and Tony begs him to not kick him out, putting doubts into Gary’s head about what it’s like living with a woman.
Gary returns home from work to see that Dorothy has moved in and already made some changes that further worry him. He tells her that he wants Tony to stay with them just for a little while until Tony sees he’s just really in the way. Dorothy agrees, but reminds him that it could take him some time to do so.
Tony meanwhile has shaved his beard and left his mustache, in an attempt to impress Deborah. He runs into Dorothy who tells him the moustache is a bit lopsided so he fixes it by trimming it short enough to resemble a Hitler mustache. Deborah is unimpressed and just slammed the door in his face, leaving Tony to spend hours just talking to her through the door, telling her about his travels. Eventually, he gives up and returns to the couch with Gary where they talk about how nothing will change, getting back into their old juvenile conversations, until Dorothy comes in and sits between both of them with a beer, resulting in an awkward silence.
Chat on the sofa:
The stoat or ermine, is a species of mustelid native to Eurasia and the northern regions of North America.
As mentioned in the episode, the labour saving device and Pokémon-
The Good Pub Guide:
Written by: Simon Nye
Directed by: Martin Dennis
Original airdate: June 27, 1996
Synopsis:
Gary and Dorothy lay in bed together chatting as Gary keeps farting which annoys her and leads to a conversation about respect between men and women and things that annoy them about each. For men, it’s all about leering at women or sitting around man spreading and for women it’s how they go on about curtains or their periods. In the end it doesn’t matter as they decide to have sex anyway until Tony reports that someone is redecorating The Crown.
The boys rush off to find that Les has been fired and the bar out under new ownership, a man named Ken. Gary and Tony decide that they will investigate all other pubs in the area before deciding on whether they will frequent the new Crown.
Tony goes to see Deborah with a gift, which happens to be the Johnny machine from the Crown, to which she is not overly pleased at receiving. The two begin to talk about Deborah’s new interest in astrology with Tony, trying to impress her by claiming he is also into it.
At home, Dorothy gets fed up with needing to be the one in charge of cleaning up and cooking around the house, with Gary claiming she is just better at those things than they are. Later, she finds Gary at the Crown, rating it and sticks a bunch of his written post notes on to his face, notes that asked her to do various chores around the house. She then proceeds to imitate Gary in every possible way until Ken bans them from the place.
Tony, ignoring Dorothy’s advice to not take advantage of Deborah, goes to show her his hand drawn star chart. He falls asleep listening to her explanation of her star chart and when he shows her his chart, she is astonished at it and his explanations, kicking him out.
Back at home, Gary and Tony talk about the places that Gary has been banned from, and whether or not they really want to predict the future.
Chat on the sofa:
Ken was played by John Thomson. He was a lead in the UK sketch comedy show The Fast Show. He’s still a working character actor, appearing in such projects as Sister Boniface, The Gentlemen, and The People Before. He’s done voices for Dog Loves Books, Strange Hill High, and Wallace and Gromit. He has a few projects currently in production as well.
Horse brasses are decorative, beaten-brass plaques traditionally attached to draft horse harnesses in the UK, particularly from the mid-19th century, for good luck, advertising, and to show trade or industry. While originally used on working horses, they became popular collector's items and decorative pieces, often seen in pubs or hung on walls today, with various designs including animals, trade motifs, and heraldic symbols.
Solero is an ice cream brand, sold under the Heartbrand name in several countries,owned by Unilever and first launched in 1994.
The song in the pub montage is “Hurry Up Harry” by Sham 69
Gary mentions The Green Man pub, a Google search shows 7 pubs in London with this name. There is only one Duchess of Kent at 441 Liverpool Rd, a modern gastropub featuring dove grey walls and vintage furnishings, with colourful art and trinkets.
Marmite is a British brand of savoury food spread based on yeast extract, invented by the Marmite Food Company in 1902. It is made from by-products of beer brewing and is produced by the British company Unilever. Marmite is a vegan source of B vitamins, including supplementary vitamin B12. A traditional method of use is to spread it very thinly on buttered toast.
Here's a video of Hugh Jackman explaining how to make Vegemite on Toast-
The M6 motorway is the longest motorway in the United Kingdom. It is located entirely within England, running for just over 230 miles (370 km) from the Midlands to the border with Scotland.
Gary mentions the little street that ends suddenly, near the station in Yeoville. This street view shows a dead end on a sharp bend on Camborne Grove.
Kharzi: is a British slang term for a toilet or lavatory.
Top Bollocks: British slang that generally means the best of the best, though it can also refer to breasts or nonsense.
Cowardice:
Written by: Simon Nye
Directed by: Martin Dennis
Original airdate: July 4, 1996
Synopsis:
As the gang watches a movie on tv, Deborah and Dorothy comment on the acting and story while Tony and Gary comment on the actress taking her top off and tiny details in movies that don’t resemble real life. Deborah and Dorothy then remark on the actress’s body as well, complimenting it, which gives the boys cause to giggle ridiculously.
Gary and Tony chat the next day about how Tony saw Deborah hanging out with a woman and theorizes she’s going through a lesbian phase. They then talk about gay men and women and how they actually have sex, deciding they’d give it a try themselves if they were women.
Tony is interviewed by Ken, for a job at the Crown, and despite Ken’s clueless demeanor, Tony is hired. Later, Deborah comes in with her friend Judy and Tony trips over his words as he is distracted by the thought of their alleged lesbian relationship.
Gary and Dorothy head out and eventually get stuck behind a car, causing Gary to reach over and honk her horn. The guy in the car gets out and starts verbally assaulting Dorothy while Gary cowers. Afterwards, Dorothy questions his actions and Gary starts getting defensive about being a coward, trying to show that he’s not a coward to both Dorothy and Tony.
Tony tries to listen in on Deborah’s apartment , piling chairs up to the ceiling but he can’t hear anything. He goes to her apartment to see what is going on, under the guise of borrowing stuff. He gets no answers but sees Judy come out from the bathroom, wrapped in a robe after a shower. He talks to her and it comes out that she slept in Deborah’s bed and he offers his services as a man to both of them but Deborah kicks him out.
At the pub, Gary and Dorothy show up, with Gary ready to show everyone how brave he is, having hired an actor to pretend to be a bully to try to push him around. Gary stands up to the bully and punches him out, returning to the table with Dorothy. Suddenly another man comes up to Gary and motions to him that he is ready to fight. Realizing that he just punched out the wrong man, Gary grabs Dorothy and leaves.
As they sit on the couch, they watch a show and instead of a girl taking her top off, the man in the show takes his pants off, to which Gary and Tony are repulsed. Tony tries prying about Judy, and Deborah explains the heat was out which is why they were in the same bed. As she leaves, she also explains it away by asking how else they were supposed to make love.
Chat on the sofa:
“Man at bar” was played by an actor named Shend. Most of his roles are as a character actor, one of which was in an episode of Torchwood.
Judy was played by Sarah Stewart. She was a lead in the series Sugar Rush (15-year-old Kim has just moved to Brighton and developed an earth-shattering, hormone-surging crush on her new best friend, Sugar). She played Martha Wayne in Batman Begins, and was also in Transformers: Last Knight. She was the voice of the computer in the Christopher Eccleston Doctor Who episode “The End Of The World.”
Carry On is a British comedy franchise comprising 31 films. Produced by Peter Rogers, the Carry On films were directed by Gerald Thomas and starred a regular ensemble that included Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Kenneth Connor, Peter Butterworth, Hattie Jacques, Terry Scott, Bernard Bresslaw, Barbara Windsor, Jack Douglas, and Jim Dale.The Carry On series contains the largest number of films of any British film franchise, and is the second longest running, albeit with a 14-year gap (1978–1992) between the 30th and 31st entries. (The James Bond film series is the longest-running, having started in 1962, four years after the first Carry On, though with fewer films.)
Simon Le Bon is an English singer. He is best known as the lead vocalist and lyricist of the new wave band Duran Duran and its offshoot Arcadia. All She Wants Is is a 1988 song by Duran Duran from their album Big Thing.
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