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Coupling Season 3 Episodes
Season 3 Episode Guide
7 Episodes 2002 - 2002
Episode 1
Split
30 mins
Now Steve and Susan have broken up, he has nightmares, willing to give up a lot and beg to get her back. The boys try to comfort him and contemplate weird paths of thought about phoning, sex and lust. Susan won't even admit it to herself but she is just as miserable. Sally nearly convinced Susan to call him, but that doesn't work out. Steve got Jeff to call in his place to see if Susan called him, but the idiot doesn't use his cellphone. In times of despair, each group turns to its temple: the boys to a strip-club, where Jeff remembers pole-dancer Jenny Turbot as a former schoolmate, for drinks and fun; the girls to a beauty parlor, to bag on man- and realize life is even worse without them. Back home drunk after midnight, Steve calls Susan.
Episode 2
Faithless
30 mins
Jeff tells his mates that he fears that he's caused irreparable disaster just by saying "Hi" to office colleague Wilma Lettings, whose desk gave her the best view on his posterior during a photocopying disaster. This leads to a date with her, although her boyfriend is in Australia and Julia forbids co-workers to know about them. Jane explains "how well" she addressed the religious-program presenter James, whose sexy presence makes her substitute "penis" for "car"; she went to his Bible group posing as a fellow Christian, only in her ruthlessly atheist, rude, promiscuous, and violent way. Jeff's dangerous date is coached by cellphone with two female "feelings translators"--but Julia grabs his.
Episode 3
Unconditional Sex
30 mins
The boys believed Jeff was safe by telling Wilma he's faithful to his girlfriend, but as the girls predict she forces him either to say she's not attractive or to accept meaningless sex. Jane pops in during an endless demonstration that a driver's license is no guarantee against turning parallel parking into a lethal hazard for cars (especially Patrick's) and pedestrians. She mindlessly 'cues' Jeff to the question 'what kind of girlfriend is both current and ex?' (He escapes answering why he didn't tell her about their date by answering 'a dead one'). Meanwhile Steve brought Susan's wrath on himself by failing to cue the required response, and Sally hands her a frightening tool: she has worked for the agency 'Man test', which still sends out sirens to prove they can be seduced into infidelity. Wilma promises to respect Jeff's fidelity but insists to give him a lift and use his bathroom, but a sassy surprise awaits both of them and the friends who turn up as relieve cavalry.
Episode 4
Remember This
30 mins
Having dreamed that Sally was in trouble, Patrick rushes to her flat in the middle of the night--to find another man in bed with her. The next day they recount how they met: Sally was drunk and gave him Susan's number. Ultimately they come to the conclusion that perhaps they have no future together and agree to see less of each other.
Episode 5
The Freckle, the Key and the Couple Who Weren't
29 mins
After a row about Susan's thoughtless inability to tell Steve whether his butt had an old mole or fresh freckles, they join the friends in the pub. Jeff arrives, oblivious he's wearing an SM mask, as Steve drags out of him from playing "Spankman" with Julia, desperate for advice about the use of laxatives to recover jewelry swallowed from his irresistibly naked girlfriend. Back in her apartment, where she's handcuffed and Jeff still clue- and key-less, they freak at a knock she fears to be her parents. It's worse: it's her military ex Joe. Jane reveals more ways to be utterly out-o- touch with the world, especially her patient boyfriend, who later announces that he must spend some months in Germany as a radio-maker. James and Susan discover they knew each other as wild Oxford students.
Episode 6
The Girl with One Heart
30 mins
When Steve tells that Susan redecorated his bathroom, without a lock, Jeff considers this problem #1: a woman-made hell where no man can ever de-clench again. Sally is toxically jealous when she finds out that Patrick, whom she hypocritically told to go for an open relationship, has a girlfriend, Jennifer- he believed to simplify matters by telling her Sally is a lesbian. Jane is madly in love, at first sight, of a studly pizza delivery man. At a dinner, all the friends and their present significant others meet, in various rooms, ways, and moods--except comfortable. Steve sings the praise of the toilet as modern man's version of a cave of last retreat in face of absurd female interests such as potpourri.
Episode 7
Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps
29 mins
Sally fears that she may be pregnant and takes a test though the result is muddled up and it could be that Jane or Susan are expecting. Jane did have sex with a pizza delivery man and Sally did it with one Peter the night Patrick came to rescue her. Susan is certain it is not her as she has always believed she was unable to conceive but when the girls meet the boys in the bar Patrick declares his feelings for Sally and it turns out that by some miracle Susan is actually pregnant - by Steve.
