British Men Behaving Badly

- Season 7

(1998)

Tony has moved in with Deborah but is in her bad books after pushing her too eagerly on a swing lands her in hospital. However she relents and, on discharge, acts as a Gary substitute for Tony's late night chats. Dorothy and Gary are trying for a baby but he has impotency problems, a fact of which Tony informs everybody in the pub. He tries magazines and videos but, at the end of the day, following a karaoke session with Tony, settles for talking dirty and just getting on with it.

Gary is attending a security conference in Worthing and invites the others along - though they all end up sharing a cramped hotel room. On the first night the lads steal a huge ornamental fish which they hide in the room and have to keep bribing the chambermaid to keep quiet about it After Dorothy has told her she is pregnant Deborah is horrified to see Gary kissing Wendy, another delegate with whom he has fallen in love and asks Tony to do something to break them up. Tony's answer is to date Wendy though they are caught by Gary, which leads to a fight on the crazy ...

Tony, sporting a moustache and glasses, is now a postman and takes the job very seriously - too seriously for Deborah, who misses the old stupid Tony and no longer finds him sexy. After a word from Dorothy, however, the old Tony returns. Gary's office closes and, unlike George and Anthea, he has no other job to go to. Whilst he is having a farewell drink in the pub with them he gets the call to say that Dorothy is about to give birth. He rushes home but accidentally knocks out the midwife and, as he is drunk, is no help when it comes to delivery. Fortunately Deborah ...