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|ProdCode=IPEA231F | |ProdCode=IPEA231F | ||
|ShortSummary= | |ShortSummary=Steve is desperately struggling in a series of long-running attempts to [[breakup|dump]] his "unflushable", clingy girlfriend Jane — constantly thwarted in this by his "accidental" tendency to keep [[having sex]] with her — resorting to advice of his best friend Jeff. | ||
Meeting at their [[pub|local bar]], Jane will not accept it and thwarts Steve's latest attempt once again, this time in the women's toilets. At the same bar, Susan, with her best friend and beautician Sally, have arrived for "the talk" with Patrick, who is trying to dump Susan, but she humiliates him by saying she did not really think they were actually going out together. Susan goes to the toilets, whereupon Steve stumbles out of the cubicle to get a [[condom]], landing at her feet. He has forgotten that they have met before — she is a colleague of Jeff. Neglecting to tell her that he has another girlfriend in the cubicle, Steve asks Susan out. | |||
Over the phone, Steve tries to break up with Jane once more, and lucks out with the [[answering machine]] — it cuts out part way through. | |||
On their first date at Susan and Patrick’s special restaurant, all their friends turn up too: for reasons nobody is sure of, Jeff tags along in terror that they will talk about him — he had a panic attack on his one date with Susan — still under the impression that she is Steve's girlfriend, Jane stalks him there; while coincidentally, on a rebound date to the same place, Patrick has asked out Sally, who cancels a [[facial]] session with Susan, resulting in her early arrival. Jane finally breaks up with a shocked Steve as she will not compete with another woman. Having tricked Susan into showing them one of her breasts, the six sit down together for dinner. | |||
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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2000|5|19|df=y}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/coupling/episodes/s1ep2.shtml |title=BBC – Coupling – Size Matters Episode Guide |publisher=Bbc.co.uk |date= |accessdate=21 December 2008}}</ref> | |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2000|5|19|df=y}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/coupling/episodes/s1ep2.shtml |title=BBC – Coupling – Size Matters Episode Guide |publisher=Bbc.co.uk |date= |accessdate=21 December 2008}}</ref> | ||
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|ShortSummary=After an out of control pause during a phone call, Susan invites Steve to | |ShortSummary=After an out of control pause during a phone call, Susan invites Steve to a proper, uninterrupted date at her flat, and even offers to cook — something Sally assures her will be seen as "sex with catering". | ||
Prior to dinner, Steve meets up Jeff and Patrick at their [[pub|local]] where they advise him to check out Susan’s [[remote control]]s. But while Jeff warns of the perils of falling into the "sock gap" during [[foreplay]], Susan and Sally pop by too totally throwing him off his train of thought. Having sworn never to have sex with a Tory, Sally is in a tricky dilemma, conflicted over turning down a date at a car show with [[Conservative Party (UK)|"Tory boy"]] Patrick after an eye-popping revelation and is ever-more drawn to him on discovering his nickname "Donkey" does not refer to his intellect — he is a very big boy... | |||
Meanwhile, Jane turns up at the local on her date with a gay colleague, Howard, mistakenly thinking that because she is bisexual, she will be perfect for him. Howard turns out to be a Tory boy too and with Patrick tease Sally for being [[New Labour]]. Despite their opposing politic leanings, Sally needs to know what she’s turned down to overcome her aversion, and tasks Jeff with verifying this unusually [[human penis size|well-endowed attribute]] in the men’s toilets, so when in turn Steve and then Jane task him too, he freaks out. Steve is increasingly intimidated by Patrick's reputation and Susan’s massive [[vibrator (sex toy)|consumption of batteries]], until she finally puts him at ease — she pulls his socks off. | |||
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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2000|5|26|df=y}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/coupling/episodes/s1ep3.shtml |title=BBC – Coupling – Sex, Death and Nudity Episode Guide |publisher=Bbc.co.uk |date= |accessdate=21 December 2008}}</ref> | |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2000|5|26|df=y}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/coupling/episodes/s1ep3.shtml |title=BBC – Coupling – Sex, Death and Nudity Episode Guide |publisher=Bbc.co.uk |date= |accessdate=21 December 2008}}</ref> | ||
|ProdCode=IPEA233T | |ProdCode=IPEA233T | ||
|ShortSummary= | |ShortSummary=When her aunt dies, Jane insists that Steve comes with her to the [[funeral]]. So far, so good, until Jane adds that she has not broken the news that they have split, so this would be a bad time to tell her family. Understandably, Susan will not let Steve go unless she comes too, so that she can keep an eye on them. The attendance at the funeral snowballs as the friends arrange decoy dates. She brings Patrick as her date, so Patrick brings Sally. And Jeff... well he actually knew the deceased. | ||
In their local, beforehand, Jeff is fretting over an upcoming [[job interview]], so Patrick advises on preparing by recommending imagining the panel naked. Jeff introduces Patrick and Steve to the "giggle loop" — difficulty of containing laughter at inappropriate times. | |||
At the funeral, Susan bonds with Jane disconcerting Steve, while Sally meets head on her paranoia of aging. Thoughts about inappropriate behaviour ensues, until the tension broken during the [[minute's silence]] when the giggle loop strikes the least likely member of the group. | |||
Later, Jeff confidently overcomes interview nerves until he walks into his interview, only to be confronted by a mirror behind the panel... | |||
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Coupling is a BBC Television sitcom. Written by Steven Moffat, it is based on his relationship with Sue Vertue, the show's producer.[1] Martin Dennis directed all 28 episodes for Hartswood Films. The first episode was transmitted on 12 May 2000,[2] and the final transmitted on 14 June 2004.[3] The first three series were first broadcast on BBC Two, whereas the final series was broadcast on BBC Three.
The show centres on the dating and sexual adventures and mishaps of six friends in their thirties, often depicting the three women and the three men each talking amongst themselves about the same events, but in entirely different terms.