| Quantocking | |
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| Series 03, episode 06 | |
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Episode details
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| Date aired | 16 December 2005 |
| Previous episode | Jurying |
| Next episode | Sophie's Parents |
Quantocking is the sixth episode of series 3, and eighteenth overall episode of Peep Show.
Summary[]
Mark has decided he wants to propose to Sophie, and has already bought a ring. He has saved up enough coupons to take her away for a four-star holiday in the Quantocks. He agrees to let Jeremy come with him, since he has enough for two rooms, but tells him he cannot bring any friends.
Meanwhile, Jeremy invites Super Hans to come with him, even though Super Hans is going cold turkey from all his drugs, even cigarettes and alcohol. Not thinking about the consequences of keeping a crack and heroin-addicted person going through withdrawal in his hotel room, Jeremy tells Super Hans he can share his room. Meanwhile, Big Suze winds up coming to the Quantocks, which Jeremy is conflicted about, since he wants to take her back to his room but he can't due to Super Hans' presence.
Mark and Sophie are walking about the new town, having a miserable time. Sophie and Mark cannot agree on restaurants they should to go to, and Sophie ends up disposing of Mark's city guides in the Royal Mail. They eventually decide on a restaurant and discover they have very little to say to each other. Sophie ends up socializing with an elderly couple seated near them, Gerard and Isobel, who invite her to go on a walk with them. She tells Mark she will meet him at the hotel, but eventually calls him because she is lost, and has no idea where she is.
Mark and Jeremy set out to find Sophie. By the time it gets dark, she has already found the hotel, and Mark and Jeremy are now lost. Mark refuses to call for help because it's too embarrassing, and in the end, they split ways. Jeremy safely finds the hotel but Mark arrives, soaking wet and having slept outside for the night. Mark has decided, with Jeremy's help, that he no longer wants to propose to Sophie, but while he was gone, Sophie accidentally finds the engagement ring and tells Mark her answer is yes. Out of embarrassment, Mark agrees to marry Sophie.
Trivia[]
- Although Peep Show is famously filmed entirely with POV shots, the scene where Mark and Jez are out on the Quantock Hills looking for Sophie begins with a long distance establishing shot from no one's view. The show's creators have asserted that this is a "cow's" POV.
- The first draft for this episode was very different to the final draft. It started with Johnson about to get married to Toni, taking her exes on his stag weekend and afterwards starting to drink again (he's a former alcoholic). Mark and Sophie go to Paris for a weekend, coincidently Jeremy and Nancy also go there to keep up the charade of their marriage to fool the Home Office. Toni leaves Johnson and it ends with the news that he has committed suicide. For various reasons this story was scrapped, although lines and other elements from it are in the finished episode.
- The scene where Mark and Jeremy go looking for Sophie in the Quantock Hills was actually filmed somewhere in the Chilterns, probably in the Buckinghamshire region since two other locations in that county are used. None of this episode was filmed in the Quantocks, which are 100 miles away from London in Somerset.
- When Jez realizes he's lost, he again references the Moors Murders (hinted at in University Challenge, when he drops the name, "Hindley").