Fri, Aug 20, 2010
At an art auction Pete meets 50-year old Ros,who is attractive,wealthy and urbane as well as being sex-mad,foul-mouthed and married to the glowering Duncan,though she insists that theirs is an open marriage. Duncan's disapproval,a disastrous visit to his parents with Ros and the feeling that he is her kept man drive Pete away from Ros and back to the forgiving Chloe. He tells her that Ros is his auntie and asks her to his birthday party. Here his lies come back to bite him as his distraught 'auntie' turns up demanding sex. Furthermore the girl who jumps out of his cake is Anna, who has just heard him betray a confidence she told him.
Fri, Nov 4, 2011
Pete gets a stop-gap job in a chicken packing factory owned by Frank's raunchy old flame Rebecca but,unlike Manfred,who gets to become supervisor and Rebecca's toy-boy,he is unenthusiastic and resigns after an offer of work writing for a national newspaper. The offer is based on an article he wrote criticizing tennis player Lottie Beaumont but when he meets and starts dating Lottie he wants the article withdrawn. He gets his wish but unfortunately things come to a head at a charity sports evening where Pete's deranged editor spills the beans to Lottie,thus ending his relationship and his career.
Fri, Nov 11, 2011
After winning tickets for 'Mamma Mia' Pete impresses Helene, whom he meets in a café, with his lovely new jacket. What she does not know is that he took it from outside a charity shop one evening and only donated a pound for it next day. They go to the show but Pete is arrested for indecent exposure after relieving himself against the theatre wall and she dumps him. When Anna offers tickets to 'Mamma Mia' for her birthday treat, Helene takes Pete back but unfortunately he finds himself sitting next to the donor of the jacket and the charity shop assistant, who accuse him of theft. This leads to a second arrest in two days - by the same policewoman, who Tasers him after he insults the show.
Fri, Dec 9, 2011
Pete and Rob score with two girls though Rob is anxious that Anna does not find out that he had passionate sex with his date whilst Pete ends up with Tilly,who is obsessed with UFOs and only wants to talk about them,mistaking a living sculpture for a real robot. Tilly watches as Pete,teaching football skills to children,is humiliated by Jake's nephew Zac,whom he 'accidentally' hospitalises. Chloe and Jake are dating but when Pete hears they have split he tries to get back with his former girlfriend. Unfortunately this is at Anna and Rob's fifth anniversary party,where he inadvertently gives away Rob's secret. Rejected by Tilly he has to watch as Chloe also spurns him to get back with Jake.
Fri, Aug 13, 2010
At a party Jake tells Pete that his child-like girlfriend Rachel - who says Fankoo rather than Thank You - sticks her finger up his bottom during sex. Pete promises to keep the confidence but tells their friends,leading to Rachel dumping Jake and ending up in the sack with Pete when he goes to apologize, though his tactlessness sends her back to Jake. However Pete is responsible for splitting up another mate Ollie from his girlfriend after a drunken night out leads to the loss of the expensive trainers she has given Ollie.
Fri, Nov 25, 2011
Pete runs over a cat but claims that he found its corpse to get in with the cat's owner Mel,whom he helps bury it. When a guilty Pete talks in his sleep about killing and Mel hears him he pretends to be an army veteran,the scars on his leg from a drunken fall being caused by shrapnel. In fact Mel's brother Tom is an ex-soldier traumatised in Afghanistan and Pete is called upon to counsel him - which he does,claiming to be a hero and giving Tom a new lease of life. Unfortunately when Mel and Tom find out the true fate of the cat as well as Pete's other lies Tom regresses and threatens to jump off a building. This is Pete's chance to prove he is a hero but inevitably he fails and Jake saves the day.
Fri, Oct 21, 2011
Pete's mum Noreen has broken her arm and engaged a cleaner,Polish Gracja,who appears to be a good Catholic girl but is a right little raver desperate to screw Pete's brains out. She wants his body - which is how he ends up as a catwalk model at her fashion show, leading to an embarrassing encounter with his parents,who,thanks to his efforts to impress Gracja,take him to be a heroin addict. Just as disastrous is his stint as a dog walker for a befuddled old lady. When her dog is apparently killed in his care he buys a replacement,only for the original pooch to inevitably come home.
Fri, Oct 28, 2011
Pete reluctantly hosts his father Frank who has walked out on wife Noreen but he still manages to spend the night with Chloe,returning next morning to find Frank in bed with young blonde Kiki - who forgets her phone. After causing a mishap while helping Chloe's father with his D-I-Y and actually reconciling his parents Pete's hasty supposition that Kiki must be a prostitute comes back to bite him - as Kiki plays up to the part in front of Chloe!
Fri, Aug 6, 2010
Sports commentators Colin and Terry give a blow-by-blow analysis as young would-be sports journalist Pete Griffiths lurches from one disaster to another. Wanting out of attending friend Rob's stag party in Amsterdam as annoying bride Anna will be going too he claims he won't fly as it causes pollution,impressing environmentalist by-stander Chloe,who takes him to lunch with her progressive,vegetarian parents. It is a disaster. Bribing Anna with a present intended for Chloe's mother's birthday,he gets an audition for her brother's television sports show but blows it by commenting on their somewhat incestuous behaviour. At a party given the happy couple by eco-warrior hunk Jake, Anna exposes Pete to Chloe as a gas-guzzling meat eater who feigned his green credentials to get into bed with her.
Fri, Aug 27, 2010
Feeling guilty for causing Anna's father Barry's cardiac arrest,Pete allows his Zimbabwean flat-mate Kurt to talk him into a marriage of convenience to Kurt's girl-friend Minikin. She will get a visa and Pete will get a thousand pounds. Sadly Minikin does not conform to Pete's idea of loveliness whereas Barry's hospital nurse Jenny does and it's Jenny who's in bed with Pete when the immigration officer calls. A quick-thinking deception is called for but a mistimed visit by Pete's parents ruins everything.