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1x1 | "Beginnings" | Bill
Bailey as Bilbo
Bagshot James Lance as Richard Peter Serafinowicz as Duane Benzie Anna Wilson-Jones as Sarah |
September 24 1999 | ||
Daisy Steiner and Tim Bisley meet in a small cafe and
bond over their mutual search for accommodation (he's been kicked out by
girlfriend Sarah, she's a squatter desperate to escape her down-and-out
acquaintances), and gradually form a friendship. Just when all seems lost,
they stumble upon what seems to be a perfect place - trouble is, it's
listed as being for a 'professional couple' only. Thus begins a
complicated plan involving faked photos and memorising every significant
(and not-so-significant) fact about each other to pass themselves off as a
long term couple in order to fool Marsha Klein, their prospective
landlady. To their mutual surprise, it works.
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1x2 | "Gatherings" | James
Lance as Richard Anna Wilson-Jones as Sarah |
October 1 1999 | ||
To avoid doing any actual work, freshly unpacked
Daisy plans a housewarming party - something to make their home the "new
hub of North
London." Unfortunately, all of Tim's friends
are busy attending skateboarding meets or sci-fi conventions (except for
Mike Watt, present to provide door
security), and Daisy's media contacts extend about as far as the paperboy
(except for Twist Morgan, present to provide
fashion commentary), so there's hardly any guests (except for Marsha,
present to consume alcohol, and Brian Topp, present to provide
artistic critique of Daisy's baco-foil decorations). Brian discovers Daisy
and Tim are not really dating after they slip up by mentioning they have
separate rooms. Meanwhile, Marsha's daughter Amber is throwing her own
party in conflict to the housewarming party (such that it is one). The
episode ends with an homage to Close
Encounters of the Third Kind as Tim, Mike, Daisy, Twist, and Brian
decide to crash Amber's more successful party.
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1x3 | "Art" | Paul
Kaye as Hoover Claire Rushbrook as Yolanda David Walliams as Vulva |
October 8 1999 | ||
After accepting some cheap speed from some violently friendly
Scottish blokes, Tim has spent all
night fighting zombies (or, more accurately, hallucinating while playing
Resident Evil
2) and Mike has somehow managed to get to Sheffield on the Tube. Daisy has a job interview at
a classy women's magazine and Brian has an invitation to a new art show by
Vulva, his former partner and non-gender-specific-ex-chaste-heterosexual-lover. This causes
much angst and feelings of inferiority all around. "Girl Power!" fails to impress the
magazine editors, Brian's much-practiced air of indifference fails to
impress Vulva, and Tim's Twiglets allergy and hallucinations
of zombies leads to Vulva getting a much-deserved punch in the face. The
episode concludes with Daisy's idea for performance art, a parody of
Bruce
Nauman's work "Clown Torture", which leads Tim
to remark that it's obviously harder than it looks.
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1x4 | "Battles" | Richenda Carey as
Dog pound clerk Paul Putner as Paintballer Peter Serafinowicz as Duane Benzie Anna Wilson-Jones as Sarah |
October 15 1999 | ||
After getting dumped by her boyfriend Richard, Daisy
decides to cheer herself up by getting a dog. Having suffered a fear of
dogs since childhood, Tim is not pleased by this. As Daisy bonds with an
interesting little dog she calls Colin (named after the pet box she
had as a child), Tim and Mike go paintballing, and encounter Tim's
arch-nemesis, Duane Benzie, the man who stole Tim's girlfriend. By the end
of the episode, Mike will have made the (sort-of) ultimate sacrifice, Tim
will have had his revenge, and Brian will have imparted the tragic, yet
artistically interesting, tale of his own dog's horrible
death.
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1x5 | "Chaos" | Bill
Bailey as Bilbo
Bagshot Charles Dale as Security Guard |
October 22 1999 | ||
Daisy is strongly bonding with new dog Colin, much
to Tim's displeasure. Forced to take Colin out on a walk in an effort to
bond with him, Tim is rather alarmed when Colin disappears after Tim
challenges aliens to abduct him. When Daisy won't speak to him, and when
he receives an anonymous tip-off revealing Colin's location - in the hands
of a ruthless, sinister cosmetics testing vivisectionist - he plans a
daring rescue attempt in order to redeem himself. Will they succeed? Will
a psychotic Marxist dog reveal itself? And more
importantly - will Tim let Mike's callsign be Han
Solo?
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1x6 | "Epiphanies" | Sally
Grace as Daisy's
Mum Michael Smiley as Tyres O'Flaherty |
October 29 1999 | ||
Tim's bicycle courier friend Tyres pops
round for a cup of tea and decides to takes the gang clubbing, forcing
Brian to relive a terrible event in his past (where a spilled drink during
Dexys Midnight Runners' Come On Eileen
had disastrous results). Mike, thrown out of the Rough Ramblers following
a disastrous eskimo
roll (which was more a case of 'rolling right
Inuit'), rediscovers his manhood
with the help of some ecstasy and a remix of the
The
A-Team theme. And Tim and Daisy have their
eyes opened.
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1x7 | "Ends" | Simon Kunz as TA
Officer Anna Wilson-Jones as Sarah |
November 5 1999 | ||
Tim is ecstatic when his ex-girlfriend Sarah decides
she wants him back; Daisy is less so, causing much tension around the
flat. Mike has an interview at the Territorial Army to determine
whether he should be allowed back in following the 'Eurodisney Incident'. Following a
heated argument, Daisy finally manages to bash out a few articles, and Tim
finally realises the right path for him. And Brian summons the courage to
ask Twist out on a date which, against all expectations, actually goes
quite well.
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2x1 | "Back" | Kevin
Eldon as Agent
Jones Mark Gatiss as Agent Smith John Simm as Stephen Edwards |
February 23 2001 | ||
After receiving an injection of money following the
sale of her articles, Daisy returns from her holiday in Asia, but finds it hard to settle
back into the mundaneness of her normal life after her adventure. Tim has
been struggling with his issues with George
Lucas and The
Phantom Menace (which saw him ceremonially burn his Star Wars merchandise), and after
being chucked out of home for shooting his cat up the rear end, Mike has
been sleeping in Daisy's room, transforming its decor into a tribute to
Apocalypse Now.
Things are not normal, and sinister black-suited Agents following Daisy
make things even more surreal.
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2x2 | "Change" | Bill
Bailey as Bilbo
Bagshot Rowena Cooper as the voice of Brian's Mum Gemma Padley as Francesca Jill Pegg (uncredited) as Woman in street Clive Russell as Damien Knox Martin Trenaman as Derek |
March 2 2001 | ||
Following a dispute with a young customer over
Jar Jar
Binks merchandise and Tim's inability to cope
with the Star Wars prequels, Bilbo fires
Tim. Daisy is trying to get money out of the Job
Centre people, despite not having signed on to
the dole for three months due to her
holiday. Brian is horrified to discover that his relationship with Twist
is affecting his artistic output. After Amber runs out, Marsha finds
herself a new lodger - Mike.
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2x3 | "Mettle" | Daniel Ainsleigh as
Billy Paul Mark Elliott as Marty Berghaus Gemma Padley as Francesca Clive Russell as Damien Knox Jonathan Ryland as Cromwell Tim Sampson as Chief Joanna Scanlan as Tina Reece Shearsmith as Dexter |
March 9 2001 | ||
Tim and Mike are through to the quarter finals of
Robot Wars, but a
conflict with Dexter, a rival at Mike's local TA, may jeopardise their chances.
Daisy lands a job in the kitchen of a restaurant, and immediately comes
into conflict with the quietly evil manageress. Daisy's entire experience
in the kitchen mirrors McMurphy's experiences in One
Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Meanwhile, Brian struggles to prepare
an artistic installation at a trendy gallery. In order to triumph against
their foes, Tim and Mike must enter the dark underworld of Robot
Wars by competing in a local group called "Robot Club", spoofing Fight
Club. Plunderbird 4, Cerberus, King Buxton and Invertabrat, contestants from
Robot Wars, make an appearance.
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2x4 | "Help" | Lucy
Akhurst as Sophie Rowena Cooper as Brian's Mum Mike Hayley as Security Guard Dick Lunn (uncreditied) as Man in car Clive Russell as Damien Knox Michael Smiley as Tyres O'Flaherty Olivia Williams as Knocked-down cyclist |
March 23 2001 | ||
Dark Star Comics supremo Damien Knox agrees to see
Tim's portfolio. Daisy unwittingly puts an unflattering portrait of him
Tim drew after Knox's previous rejection (bearing the legend "I'm a
massive wanker!") back into Tim's portfolio after finding it on the couch
where Tim discarded it. Both Tim and Mike must enlist Tyres in a daring
attempt to recover the item before it is uncovered, but discover that they
have an unexpected ally in Knox's beautiful assistant, Sophie. Marsha,
meanwhile, invites Daisy out to join her with her exercises, which quickly
leads to a vicious, no-holds-barred fight, and Brian takes his mother to
lunch dressed as a lawyer which leads to a confession about what he really
does for a living.
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2x5 | "Gone" | Bill
Bailey as Bilbo
Bagshot Charles Dale as Security Guard |
March 30 2001 | ||
After Sophie calls to cancel a date (leading Tim to
instantly decide she's sleeping with her boss), Tim and Daisy spend a
night out in Camden but find themselves in trouble with local youths and
Tim's nemesis Duane. Meanwhile, Mike loses Colin. Only the similarities of
the male psyche can save them now.
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2x6 | "Dissolution" | Sally
Grace as Daisy's
Mum Michael Smiley as Tyres O'Flaherty Ricky Gervais as Housing ad man |
April 6 2001 | ||
Tim and Sophie's relationship is gradually getting
closer, something which is noticed by Daisy, Mike and Marsha. Daisy and
Mike are both hurt and jealous by this, and Marsha (who still believes
them to be a couple) is horrified for Daisy. Brian and Twist have broken
up; Brian is devastated, Twist less so. Events finally come to a head at
Daisy's birthday party, with a drunken confession and a painful
betrayal.
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2x7 | "Leaves" | Simon Kunz as TA
Officer Anna Wilson-Jones as Sarah |
April 13 2001 | ||
The group is now scattered; Twist is in Manchester, Sophie's going to
America, and Marsha is selling the
house and moving on, and only something "bloody spectacular" will change
her mind. Daisy, hurt by recent events, accepts a job at a small newspaper
in Colwyn
Bay and prepares to leave London. But just
when all looks lost, Mike comes up with a bloody spectacular
idea.
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