| “ | Dude, that's not jam, that's just total fucking marmalade. | ” |
—Super Hans, ""Man Jam"" | ||
| Man Jam | |
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| Series 07, episode 02 | |
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Episode details
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| Date aired | 3 December 2010 |
| Previous episode | St Hospitals |
| Next episode | A Beautiful Mind |
Man Jam is the second episode of series 7 and thirty-eighth overall episode of Peep Show.
Summary[]
While jamming with Super Hans and the rest of their band, Man Feelings, Jeremy realizes he cannot play the saxophone, which he pretended he could play. He makes an awful noise with the instrument and faces embarrassment from the rest of the band.
Mark meets Gerrard in an action figure store, where Gerrard tells him that Dobby, the woman they both have feelings for, is dating a wealthy graphic designer named Simon who is younger and better looking than they are. Mark is angry both to hear that Dobby is taken and to hear that Gerrard considers himself and Mark equals. They form the "Dobby Club", a club designed to break up Dobby's relationship with Simon. After they break them up, they will need to decide which one of them gets to pursue Dobby.
Zahra's boyfriend Ben has come out of his coma, but to thank Jeremy for standing by Zahra during the difficult time, he offers him a high-paying job for his music website, which involves him choosing bands to feature, essentially making him "head of the label". Excited, Jeremy decides to sign up Man Feelings and make arbitrary changes to the band, including changing the name to Danny Dyer's Chocolate Homunculus and making the men of the band wear zoot suits. It is possible that he is only doing this for revenge, since Super Hans humiliated him earlier.
Mark and Gerrard sabotage Dobby's relationship with Simon, mostly by means of exposing the fact that Simon thinks she is a goofy dancer. When they break up, Mark wins a coin toss to decide who gets Dobby, but is outraged when he notices a Facebook picture of Gerard with Dobby at Dobby's sister's party in Epsom. He and Jeremy stalk via car, and when Dobby gets up to use the loo, he confronts Gerard and Gerard apologizes for "taking his chance". When Dobby returns, Gerard is gone and only Mark remains, with his baby. Mark tells her about the Dobby Club and apologizes, asking her if there is room open for the position of her boyfriend. At first she is horrified, but when Mark gives her the opportunity to smell his baby, she melts and kisses him, becoming his girlfriend.
Later, at the gig that Danny Dyer's Chocolate Homunculus is playing, Ben tells Jeremy that he can't sign a band called Danny Dyer's Chocolate Homunculus, due to the fact that the name is too disturbing. He tells Jeremy that the band is fired. Jeremy must break the news to the rest of the band, blaming himself for firing his own band. Hans kicks him out of the band, forthwith. Unfortunately, he promised Zahra that he was in the band and that he was to play that night. Dressed in a zoot suit, he tries to make it look like he's in the band by putting one foot on the stage. However, Super Hans stops the music to tell the audience that Jeremy is dressed like the band, but is not in the band.
When Mark sees Gerrard staring through the window of the venue, he realizes he needs to find a way to make sure Dobby is never interested in Gerard again. He tells Dobby that Gerrard masturbates to her Facebook pictures, which disgusts her.
Supporting Cast[]
- David Fynn as Games Shop Assistant
- Mathew Baynton as Simon
- Danny Babington as Ben
Trivia[]
- First appearance of Mathew Baynton as Simon.
- Gerrard is made redundant at JLB in this episode.
- The interior set of The Lord Carrington (where Man Feelings has its first show) is also used as the interior of The Black Boy, a pub seen in several episodes of Friday Night Dinner.
- When Jeremy pulls his shades down in the pub, the reflection of the cameraman and the handheld camera can be seen.