The essential episodes of Coupling
Watch these 25 in order and you've got Coupling — each pick states its reason.
- 01
Steve's long-running attempts to dump girlfriend Jane are constantly thwarted by his "accidental" tendency to keep having sex with her.
- 02
Sally regrets turning down a date with Patrick after an eye-popping revelation from Susan.
- 03
The attendance at the funeral of Jane's aunt snowballs as the friends arrange decoy dates.
- 04
Steve worries that Susan has discovered a compromising tape in his video library. Jane persuades her therapist to come along as a guest at a dinner party.
- 05
Jeff has a tortuous time when he tries to chat up a beautiful foreign woman in the pub.
- 06
The Cupboard of Patrick's Love
An alarming discovery is made by the girls about the contents of Patrick's cupboard.
- 07
Sally has been seeing Liam for two weeks so now everyone wants to meet him. Jeff falls in love with a leg.
- 08
Should you still be whistling if you've got a girlfriend?
- 09
Steve glimpses Sally's behind.
- 10
Following a disastrous impotent encounter with Sally, Patrick seeks reassurance from Steve and Jeff.
- 11
Jane's career as a radio traffic reporter is put in jeopardy when she receives some unexpected criticism.
- 12
It's one year since Steve and Susan's first date, and Steve is dreading questions about their future.
- 13
Jane meets a handsome stranger and ends up going to dinner with nothing to wear.
- 14
Jeff's new boss Julia questions whether it is right and proper to kiss someone junior at work.
- 15
Susan and Steve each find themselves tempted by other people. Steve guiltily swaps phone numbers with an attractive woman in a bar.
- 16
Steve and Susan split up and make their separate ways to the Temple of Woman.
- 17
Wilma offers Jeff 'no-strings' sex - after all, she only wants to 'borrow' him from his girlfriend, Julia.
- 18
Patrick and Sally have very different recollections of meeting at Susan's office party. Jeff expounds on 'porn jelly' and his names for breasts.
- 19
Sally is lonely, unhappy and unfulfilled. And then she goes and spoils it all.
- 20
Sally finally admits how she really feels about Patrick.
- 21
Susan is pregnant, Patrick and Sally are discussing relationships, and Jane has a blind date.
- 22
Can Patrick find his way home from the enchanted glade of his one true love and get a decent night's sleep?
- 23
At an antenatal class, Steve is haunted by the ghosts of spanking lesbians past, whilst Sally is troubled by a string quartet.
- 24
Is it possible that Oliver is getting somewhere with Jane? But how can you win the heart of a good woman when your living room has lost the battle with nudity?
- 25
The night before the birth of his first child, Steve Taylor is visited by an old friend. Or possibly an old maths teacher.
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