Season 2, Episode 1: The Man with Two Legs
Original Air Date: 3 September 2001
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 ...
Season 2, Episode 2: My Dinner in Hell
Original Air Date: 10 September 2001
Susan's sexually frank parents are coming to dinner, and Steve's worried. 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. Meanwhile, 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.
Season 2, Episode 3: Her Best Friend's Bottom
Original Air Date: 17 September 2001
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.
Season 2, Episode 4: The Melty Man ComethPatrick 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.
Season 2, Episode 5: Jane and the Truth Snake
Original Air Date: 1 October 2001
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.
Season 2, Episode 6: Gotcha
Original Air Date: 8 October 2001
The ultimate "ticking time bomb" lands on everyone's door: a wedding invitation. Now Steve must answer the ultimate question: Do you have a future, or are you getting married?
Season 2, Episode 7: Dressed
Original Air Date: 15 October 2001
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 choice of fashions for a party leave her feeling just a little underdressed for the occasion.
Season 2, Episode 8: Naked
Original Air Date: 22 October 2001
Season 2, Episode 9: The End of the Line
Original Air Date: 29 October 2001
