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Coupling
Six friends in their thirties navigate dating, sexual adventures, and mishaps on their quest to find love.
- Created by:
- Steven Moffat
- Cast:
- Jack Davenport, Gina Bellman, Sarah Alexander, Kate Isitt
- Language:
- English
- Country:
- United Kingdom, United States of America
- Network:
- BBC Two
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Seasons
Season 2
Episodes
E01
Episode 1
★ 8.5The Man with Two Legs
2001-09-03 · 30mJeff finally gets to speak to Chrissy, the woman on the train whose leg he has been fancying for days, and tells her that he only has one leg, a lie which becomes ever harder to undo. Meanwhile, Sally is dating a "surgeon" called David, and Jeff wonders whether it would be easier.
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E02
Episode 2
★ 8.0My Dinner in Hell
2001-09-10 · 30mAfter watching an embarrassing program on TV with Susan, Steve bumps into his dream celebrity, Mariella Frostrup, in the bar, but it is not the dream encounter he might like, as she pours her drink down his trousers. Jane and Sally's attempt to make friends with her get him into more trouble as he then has to have dinner with Susan's liberal-minded parents, which turns into a nightmare as misunderstandings multiply.
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E03
Episode 3
★ 5.2Her Best Friend's Bottom
2001-09-17 · 30mWhen Steve pops into Susan's flat, he accidentally sees Sally's naked bottom. This incident leads to dilemmas and awkwardness all round, which are dealt with in the classic sequence outlined by Jeff: the prickles (an embarrassed silence), the blurts (talking too fast), followed by the "head laugh".
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E04
Episode 4
★ 7.7The Melty Man Cometh
2001-09-24 · 30mFollowing their disastrous encounter, Patrick seeks reassurance from Steve & Jeff, who explain to him the theory of the Melty Man, and Sally seeks reassurance from Jane & Susan, who try to comfort her with their own "failure" experiences.
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E05
Episode 5
★ 5.0Jane and the Truth Snake
2001-10-01 · 30mJane gets the sack as a traffic reporter for a local radio station, and decides on a new career in children's entertainment. She starts rehearsing with a pink snake hand puppet, which turns out to have an unstoppable ability to tell the bald truth. Patrick is trying to dump his latest girlfriend Lynda, but when she says she's interested in a threesome, he desperately starts backtracking.
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E06
Episode 6
★ 5.5Gotcha
2001-10-08 · 30mIt's one year since Steve and Susan's first date, and he is dreading questions about their future. And then a wedding invitation drops through their front door. Patrick meets an ex who appears to fail to recognize him.
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E07
Episode 7
★ 5.5Dressed
2001-10-15 · 30mPatrick has boasted to his business associate, Ivan, amongst other things that he has a wife, and when Ivan comes to the bar, Patrick presses Sally and then Susan into pretending to be his wife. Things turn awkward when Steve proposes to Susan while she is pretending to be faithfully married to Patrick. Meanwhile, Jane is invited on a dinner date by Bill, a man she chatted up in a pub, but makes an unfortunate choice of clothing for the evening.
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E08
Episode 8
★ 7.0Naked
2001-10-22 · 30mAs Jeff's 30th birthday approaches, his new boss Julia Davis questions the girls about whether one should kiss a junior work colleague, while Jeff admits to the lads that he had a close encounter of the Nat (Nose Avoidance Tilt) kind in a stationery cupboard at work.
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E09
Episode 9
★ 7.3The End of the Line
2001-10-29 · 30mSteve and Susan's relationship is drifting into a new phase. They are beginning to get on each other's nerves. A bizarre set of misunderstandings brings on a crisis.
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Jack Davenport
Steve Taylor
Gina Bellman
Jane Christie
Sarah Alexander
Susan Walker
Kate Isitt
Sally Harper
Ben Miles
Patrick Maitland
Richard Mylan
Oliver Morris