Stressed Eric Season 1 Episodes

Episode 1

Nativity

It's Christmastime and the day of the school Nativity play. Eric's son Brian has a tiny part in it as Sheep #6, but Eric thinks that even this could prove a landmark in his son's development; his sole achievement to date has been to stuff toy cars into his mouth. But then Brian's never been on stage before and there's no way to know how he'll react to the pressure. But with the situation at work, will Eric get to the play on time to find out?

Episode 2

Sex

Eric is supposed to be writing a speech for work, but he's spending the day feeling irritated that everybody else in the world is "getting some". His hopes are lifted when an old college fling calls him out of the blue and wants to see him, but he had promised Claire that he'd take her to the non-allergenic carnival. So Eric, Claire, and his former flame are off to the carnival. At the end of the evening he takes the lady home and the pair keep trying to have sex--quietly. As if that's possible.

Episode 3

Pony

26 mins

Digging for £35 to pay the window washer, Eric is forced to break Claire's piggy bank to get the money, and he finds her diary and discovers that she wants a pony. He finds that a pony is well out of his price range, and he ends up with a smelly donkey with removable ears. When Claire insists that the donkey go in the school Gymkhana, Eric has no choice but to enter the old thing in the competition. Meanwhile, Brian and Maria wreak havoc with a chemistry set.

Episode 4

Hospital

26 mins

While rushing off to a job interview, Eric gets his foot run over by a speeding ambulance. So it's off to the hospital where he's told that he's not enough of a priority case to be seen immediately. Mishaps abound while he waits to be seen, ranging from a beating/stabbing to him acquiring pubic lice--but that still doesn't make him enough of a "priority case". Meanwhile, Claire's lips swell up when she kisses her doll, Liz freaks when city workers chop a limb off her tree, and Maria suffers from her usual hangover... Just another normal day at the Feeble residence.

Episode 5

Potato

Drowning in a sea of debt, Eric desperately seeks to improve his standing with his boss in the last-ditch hope of a pay rise, so he volunteers to entertain a troublesome but important client: Mrs. Bont, the Chairwoman of the Potato Development Board. On the evening in question, everything--for once--seems to be working out well. The table is set, the food is out, the guests are about to arrive. Then Eric discovers that he is one potato short.

Episode 6

Tidy

A Japanese man agrees to work with Eric's company, but he stipulates everything must be "clean and tidy." So Eric tasks Alison with cleaning the office while he goes home to take care of the rat that crawled up through his drainpipe--but, as usual, Alison spends her day gabbing on the phone. When Eric gets home, the rats have multiplied, and the exterminator he's hired is useless. Making matters worse, Liz shows up with her boyfriend picketing for "rights for rats". Meanwhile, Maria takes the children to the amusement park and ends up in a high-speed police chase.