Tue, Oct 10, 2000
PP, Eric's boss, has a menopausal crush on a pretty young thing, Sherry, from the canteen. Heady with lust he over-promotes her ridiculously until she becomes Head of Office Services responsible for a huge budget. Eric is brought in as the fall guy and made responsible for her every mistake, of which there are many. And things get even worse for him when Sherry rejects PP's advances and declares that Eric is the one she loves.
Sun, May 10, 1998
When Eric needs to get £35 to pay the window washer, he is forced to break Claire's piggy bank to get the money. In doing so, he finds her diary and discovers she wants a pony. Finding that a pony is out of his price range, he gets a smelly donkey with removable ears. When Claire insists the donkey go in the Gymkhana at school, Eric has no choice but to enter the old thing in the competition. Meanwhile, Brian and Maria raise havoc with a chemistry set.
Sun, Jun 7, 1998
A Japanese man agrees to work with Eric's company -- but he stipulates everything must be "clean and tidy." So Eric leaves it up to Alison to clean 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... Eric arrives at home to find that the rats have multiplied and the exterminator he's hired is useless. And to make 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....
Sun, May 31, 1998
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, the Chairwoman of the potato development board Mrs Bont. Come the evening in question everything for once seems to be working out well. The table is laid, the food is out, the guests are about to arrive. Then Eric finds out he is just one potato short.
Tue, Oct 3, 2000
Au Pair Maria has gone too far this time. She has posed naked for the adult magazine "Bare Au Pair" and has left a copy lying around the house. Not only has Eric got to sack Maria and find a replacement, he now has to explain to his kids, some five years before he is ready, what the naked bodies in the magazine are really for.
Sun, Apr 26, 1998
Although he's supposed to be writing a speech for work, Eric spends his day irritated that everyone else in the world is getting some. But his hopes are lifted when an old college fling calls him out of the blue and wants to go out. Problem is, Eric 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, Eric takes the old friend home, and the pair endlessly attempt to have sex -- quietly. As if that's possible....
Sun, Apr 19, 1998
It is Christmas time and the day of the school nativity play. Eric's son Brian has a tiny part in it as sheep number six but Eric thinks that even this could prove a landmark in the boys development especially given that Brian's sole achievement to date has been to put toy cars in his mouth. But then Brian's never been on stage before and there's no way of knowing how he will react to the pressure.