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| Series 1 Cooking The Books Summary : Manny and Bernard's lives collide Slashy Moments : Bernard's lovely smile when Manny goes into the shop for 'The Little Book of Calm' Classic Moments : Bernard's smile as he asks, "...and a pickle?", Bernard and the Johovah's witnesses leading to Manny's encounter with them Manny's First Day Summary : Manny's first day at the shop Slashy Moments : The 'gay' conversation, Manny moving in, the wonderfully wimpy handshake, the conversation in the bar and the related outtakes. Just them coming together really. Lovely Quotes: Manny - "I thought you were, gay I mean." Bernard - "So did I for a bit." Grapes of Wrath Summary : Enter the cleaner so Manny and Bernard go to house-sit Freddie's house and his wine cellar Slashy Moments : The very fact they both go to house-sit, as a pair, Bernard and the cleaner, the commentaries with Tamsin and Dylan talking about the gay sub-text and over-text between Bernard and Manny, the wine-drinking outtakes. Lovely Quotes : "Would you just look at these breasts!" The Blackout Summary : Coffee and cops for Manny, Fran being paranoid, Bernard trying to remember what he did that was so terrible at a dinner party his friends are blanking him Slashy Moments : Bernard buying Manny an Espresso machine and The Sweeney for his birthday, Manny leaping on Bernard to push him out of the way Lovely Quotes : "Manny, I swear if you have one more sip of coffee...." The Big Lock-out Summary : Manny locks Bernard out of the shop with the new security system and Bernard has to fend for himself through the night while Manny drinks all their Absynthe and Fran gets off on the voice of an old school friend Slashy Moments : Bernard and Manny have been out together the night before :-) Classic Moments : Bernard working in a burger bar for an hour in a yellow uniform Lovely Quotes : "I ate all your bees." He's Leaving Home Summary : Manny quits and is picked up off the street by a photographer who turns him unknowingly into a bearded porn star Slashy Moments : Manny in his dressing gown, Bernard getting upset over Manny's yo-yo, Manny's casino night, the whole posing for photographs stuff, Bernard - "I saw him all day and all night every day." Lovely Quotes : Manny - "...the love I found in a small bookshop off Russell Square." Bernard - "Without him it's just a yo!" |
Series 2 The Entertainer Summary : Fran gets piano lessons while Manny discovers he doesn't need them and Bernard attempts to date a woman Slashy Moments : Bernard's pawing of Manny's arm when he wants him to impress Kate Classic Moments : Manny in the piano, Bernard & Fran's duet Lovely Quotes : "Spoon me." Fever Summary : Summertime. Manny tries to avoid 'Dave's Syndrome' while Bernard tries to find a girlfriend for the summer. Meanwhile, Fran's flat is getting smaller.... Slashy Moments : Manny begging Bernard not to leave him, "Stop asking that, would you?" Classic Moments : The 'Eat Me' dance Lovely Quotes : "I don't know, walls, themometres. I'll just have to hope that when I toss the coin it somehow explodes and kills me." The Fixer Summary : Manny makes a couple of deals with underworld boss Gus, but it backfires and his and Bernard's lives and thumbs are threatened Slashy Moments : Manny calming Bernard down in the bar, Bernard and Manny in the kitchen panicking, Bernard and Manny hiding behind the curtain when Fran takes over Classic Moments : The curtain-hiding moment, Bernard in meltdown when his thumbs are threatened Lovely Quotes : "Look at that face! I'll bet his cornflakes try to crawl out of the bowl!" Blood Summary : Fran finds her family while Manny turns the bookshop into a coffee shop and Bernard tries to take it one step further Slashy Moments : Bernard and Manny argue like an old married couple Classic Moments : The people-eating sofa, the 'things' with beaks and fur, the Knobs outtakes, Bernard cooking Hello Sun Summary : Fran discovers yoga while Manny and Bernard have a relationship crisis Slashy Moments : All of it. Their lives lived together. The almost-hug. The row in the kitchen just before Fran arrives for dinner Classic Moments : Fran ditching her phone in the bin, Bernard and Fran talking in the bar, the dinner, the breakfast, the bathroom... all of it Lovely Quotes : Fran - "If you and Manny could do something relaxing together, this place wouldn't be so tense." Bernard - "So whenever we bicker, we should have sex?" A Nice Change Summary : Fran, Bernard and Manny plan a holiday to escape the building work next door Slashy Moments : Bernard and Manny going on holiday together, packing together, facing off against Fran Classic Moments : the end Lovely Quotes : Bernard - "...and once I dislodge and return your thong, I never want to see you again." |
| Series 3 Manny Come Home Summary : Manny is working next door in Goliath Books, Bernard refuses to apologise for toasting his hand and eventually evicts him while Fran tries to get them to settle their differences Slashy Moments : all of it. Bernard's watching Manny through the hole in the wall, he's in meltdown over Manny leaving him. Them talking about their "soul-destroying break up" and Manny saying it's "all over between us". The almost-hug would be beautiful but Bernard defending Manny against Evan and the touchy-feely embrace following it Classic Moments : the mushrooms in Bernard's hair, the Judas Boogie, Simon Pegg as Evan Lovely Quotes : "I'll go, seeing as it's all over between us. I'll write." "I won't read it." "Well, I'll call." "I'll hang up." "I'll come and see you." "I'll be dead by then." Manny - "Bernard! He wants my hair!" Bernard - "How dare you touch a hair on that boy's head? Have you no respect? He's mine! Get your own human play-thing!" Elephants and Hens Summary : Fran goes to a Hen party, Bernard writes a novel, Bernard and Manny write a childrens books Slashy Moments : Lovely to watch the two of them getting drunk together, working together, then there's Bernard felating the lollypop and Manny in the worm. Classic Moments : I can't get the lollypop out of my mind. I wish I was a lollypop.... There's fiction to be had based off that lollypop Moo-Ma and Moo-Pa Summary : A very bad idea - Manny's parents come to stay Slashy Moments : I'm trying to think of some... but it's a wonderful episode and I love it! Classic Moments : The poker game in the kitchen and the end of it on the outtakes, Bernard in white! A Little Flutter Summary : Bernard takes up gambling Slashy Moments : Manny introducing Bernard to gambling in the first place Classic Moments : This is Bernard at his most innocent. Lovely how Fran and Manny bail Bernard out without question Travel Writer Summary : Manny's hero, a travel writer called Jason, comes to the shop to do a talk and charms them all Slashy Moments : Bernard drooling over Jason, trying to impress him with tea and biscuits. Manny drooling over Jason. The outtakes - Bernard to Jason - "Take me now!" Classic Moments : Bernard and the pest guy waiting to take out the cat who owns the flat upstairs Party Summary : Very, very strange. They all go to a party so that Manny can get together with a girl he fancies but it ends in tragedy and misery for Bernard Slashy Moments : Bernard's reaction to Manny wanting to get together with Rowena, Bernard's reaction to Manny getting together with Rowena. Manny coming down to see what Bernard wants even when he's in bed with Rowena. And Manny's reaction to Emma - it's twu lurve, but it's too late to put Rowena off Classic Moments : Bernard showing them the garden, the post-party dance competition, Emma. Lovely Quotes : "The saddest part is that she's not really dead. She lives the other side of Priory Road." |
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