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Coupling Season 2 Episodes
Season 2 Episode Guide
9 Episodes 2001 - 2001
Episode 1
The Man with Two Legs
29 mins
Jeff becomes obsessed with a woman whose leg he has admired from afar on the train. Faced with a chance to meet her, and the need to explain his delight at finding she has a second leg, he comes up with the lie that he is an amputee. Yet once she takes an interest, how is he ever to follow up? Then again, Sally is dating a surgeon, so ...
Episode 2
My Dinner in Hell
29 mins
Susan's sexually-frank parents are coming to dinner, and Steve's worried, and seeing a nature TV show with Susan that talks about the need for the male of the species to continue to "enjoy" himself doesn't exactly help. Patrick and Jeff become obsessed with, shall we say, publicity rights. Jane has discovered a talent for identifying people's ideal celebrity friend just by looking at them, and she has a surefire technique for meeting and befriending those celebrities. TV news presenter Mariella Frostrup stars as herself ... though her cellphone seems to be having an identity crisis.
Episode 3
Her Best Friend's Bottom
29 mins
It's time for Susan and Steve to redecorate the flat, but that's going to mean Steve achieving the biologically impossible: a man having an opinion about fabric. His dilemma is made no easier when, dropping by Susan's apartment unannounced, he gets a view of Sally that opens his eyes to the beauty that is Australia. Patrick is having car trouble, or so he says. And Jeff's old buddy "Captain Subtext" is there to explain it all.
Episode 4
The Melty Man Cometh
29 mins
Patrick and Sally each discuss with their friends the bedroom disaster of the previous episode, in which Patrick encountered a problem entirely new to him. Jeff takes this opportunity to explain to Patrick the ways of "The Melty Man," who comes "to do his evil work inside your terrified pants." Emboldened by a talk with her girlfriends, Sally visits Patrick's apartment determined to prove that what happened is no reflection on her -- and Patrick wants to do the same for himself.
Episode 5
Jane and the Truth Snake
29 mins
After getting herself fired from her radio job as a traffic reporter, Jane invents a sock puppet named Jake the Snake in preparation to launch a career in children's TV. Jake's honesty, though, could cost Jane her friends. Back at the bar, Patrick has an ingenious plan to dump his girlfriend for rejecting any hope of a threesome, a plan which backfires when she arrives in mid-phone call with the news she's changed her mind.
Episode 6
Gotcha
29 mins
Invited to a wedding as a couple Steve is worried that this will encourage Susan to want to marry him whilst Jane and Sally are perturbed that the bride is younger than them. Susan asks Jane how she can get Steve to commit and learns that Jane takes great delight in making prank phone calls to him and uses this to phone him, making him believe her to be Jane. When he at last confesses that he would like to marry her Susan cries "Gotcha!"
Episode 7
Dressed
30 mins
When Patrick needs a "pretend wife" to show off to his colleague Ivan, Sally agrees to take the job, only to be abruptly fired in favor of Susan. As Steve struggles to reclaim his someday-will be-almost-possible fiancée, Jane faces her own crisis when her fashion choices for a party make her feel a bit underdressed for the occasion.
Episode 8
Naked
30 mins
Jeff meets co-worker Julia and there is a strong mutual interest. Jeff explains his ineptitude at asking women out to Steve and Patrick--while Julia explains her ineptitude at being asked out by men to Susan, Jane, and Sally. Neither the men nor the women are aware of the identity of the love interest.
Episode 9
The End of the Line
30 mins
Jeff brags about his 3-day-old "hot" relationship with his and Susan's boss Julia. His mates burst his bubble about female attire, supposedly growing from sexy scanty to giant put-off, like their attitude. Steve and Susan seem to be working as a couple (he leaves every decision to her), but each secretly misses his/her freedom. In a bar, Steve can't resist saying "no" when Yvonne asks if he has a girlfriend, and they exchange numbers; 8 days later he and his mates freak out when he gets a call presumably from her, his only consolation being that Susan isn't home; he pretends with an Aussie accent to by Dick Darlington, who works in an equally fictitious nearby bar, at Jeff's impulsive prompting called Susan's and for Australians--her well-known sexual obsession--who all "know" Susan Walker, relieved to hear it's some French bitch, Susan's client Giselle. In fact it's Susan pretending to be Giselle while she resists flirting in another bar with real Australian Richard. In fact, the Giselle Susan thinks to imitate is no other then Julia, who accidentally reached her when calling Jeff, 'threatening' to spank him as a naughty game. The unreal phone conversation resumes when Susan redials, doubting if Susan's exists, causing the circle to close suddenly, resulting in a generalized fictitious identity-crisis, joined by real people dropping by.
