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Bernard finally breaks the last straw (well, technically the last yo-yo string) with his constant bullying, and Manny decides to leave home, but doesn't even manage to let Bernard know about this without being attacked by a bee in a telephone box and finding himself on the streets. He is soon picked up by a photographer with a beard fetish and treated to a glamourous life of expensive clothes, silk sheets and crinkle-cut crisps in silver bowls, but such high living comes at a high price. (Guest starring Omid Djalili as Trebor the photographer. Also features David Walliams as a customer at the beginning of the episode).

Fran decides to learn the piano and enlists the services of an elderly blind Russian tutor. His harsh methods and her inability to master it after five minutes inclines her to quit in short order. Manny discovers he can play the piano purely on instinct, and against all odds Bernard gets a date with an attractive woman. As a result, Fran and Bernard bribe Manny to hide inside the piano, armed with only spoons, in an attempt to make themselves look good. (Guest starring Nina Conti as Bernard's date.)

A heat wave sweeps London, causing Bernard to obsess about beautiful girls and to seek a "Summer Girlfriend", Fran to suffer from insomnia and Manny to panic about his 'Dave's Syndrome', a curious condition that purportedly triggers at 88°F (31°C). Naturally, Bernard refuses to believe a word of Manny's "attention seeking nonsense" and tries to get Manny as hot as possible. Fran discovers the walls of her flat are literally closing in as her unscrupulous landlord creates another flat from the stolen space. Bernard pretends to be her lawyer in an attempt to rectify the situation but quickly falls for the new lodger, Summer Girl Alice. And Manny's condition triggers, with disastrous consequences. (Guest starring Johnny Vegas as Fran's landlord and Rose Keegan as Fran's neighbour.)

Fran is in desperate need of a job, so Manny calls an old friend, Gus—a rather diminutive underworld figure—who agrees to get her a job working for a guy named Nugent in exchange for the bookstore hosting a reading of his nephew Danny's new book. Alas, Fran hasn't a clue what she is supposed to be doing at her new job and Danny is a hulking great illiterate whose ghostwritten autobiography describes the pain he's inflicted on many others in great detail and which he will happily inflict on Bernard and Manny if they can't teach him to read within two days. Fran gets promoted. Bernard worries about his thumbs. (Guest stars Ricky Grover as Danny, Rob Brydon as B. Nugent and Big Mick as Gus.)

a 1970s BBC comedy about a former draughtsman and his wife and their attempt to be completely self-sufficient in Surbiton.

a 1970s BBC comedy about a former draughtsman and his wife and their attempt to be completely self-sufficient in Surbiton.

a 1970s BBC comedy about a former draughtsman and his wife and their attempt to be completely self-sufficient in Surbiton.

a 1970s BBC comedy about a former draughtsman and his wife and their attempt to be completely self-sufficient in Surbiton.

a 1970s BBC comedy about a former draughtsman and his wife and their attempt to be completely self-sufficient in Surbiton.

a 1970s BBC comedy about a former draughtsman and his wife and their attempt to be completely self-sufficient in Surbiton.

a 1970s BBC comedy about a former draughtsman and his wife and their attempt to be completely self-sufficient in Surbiton.

a 1970s BBC comedy about a former draughtsman and his wife and their attempt to be completely self-sufficient in Surbiton.

a 1970s BBC comedy about a former draughtsman and his wife and their attempt to be completely self-sufficient in Surbiton.

a 1970s BBC comedy about a former draughtsman and his wife and their attempt to be completely self-sufficient in Surbiton.

a 1970s BBC comedy about a former draughtsman and his wife and their attempt to be completely self-sufficient in Surbiton.

a 1970s BBC comedy about a former draughtsman and his wife and their attempt to be completely self-sufficient in Surbiton.

a 1970s BBC comedy about a former draughtsman and his wife and their attempt to be completely self-sufficient in Surbiton.

a 1970s BBC comedy about a former draughtsman and his wife and their attempt to be completely self-sufficient in Surbiton.

a 1970s BBC comedy about a former draughtsman and his wife and their attempt to be completely self-sufficient in Surbiton.