The worst episodes of Coupling
Ranked by viewer rating, lows first. Lit marks on the season rail place this list across the run. Vote on a placement to back it or contest it.
- 01
The Freckle, The Key and the Couple Who Weren't
A quiet night in with Julia leads Jeff to a 'nudity hoovering' problem. Steve is troubled by a freckle on his bottom and reaches for the Book of Death - The Medical Health Encyclopedia. Sally and Patrick have become new-partner-hating best friends and possibly mole-buddies. And if all that wasn't enough, it's time for them all to meet James, Jane's religious broadcaster boyfriend who doesn't believe in sex before marriage.
- 02
Jane finds herself in competition with the "supreme being of the universe".
- 03
Wilma offers Jeff 'no-strings' sex - after all, she only wants to 'borrow' him from his girlfriend, Julia.
- 04
Sally is lonely, unhappy and unfulfilled. And then she goes and spoils it all.
- 05
Susan is worried she's turning into an emotional tent and Steve is being executed on a nightly basis - by a foetus.
- 06
Patrick and Sally have very different recollections of meeting at Susan's office party. Jeff expounds on 'porn jelly' and his names for breasts.
- 07
Sally finally admits how she really feels about Patrick.
- 08
Can Patrick find his way home from the enchanted glade of his one true love and get a decent night's sleep?
- 09
At an antenatal class, Steve is haunted by the ghosts of spanking lesbians past, whilst Sally is troubled by a string quartet.
- 10
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?
- 11
Steve and Susan split up and make their separate ways to the Temple of Woman.
- 12
Susan is pregnant, Patrick and Sally are discussing relationships, and Jane has a blind date.
- 13
The night before the birth of his first child, Steve Taylor is visited by an old friend. Or possibly an old maths teacher.
- 14
It's one year since Steve and Susan's first date, and Steve is dreading questions about their future.
- 15
Jane meets a handsome stranger and ends up going to dinner with nothing to wear.
- 16
Steve glimpses Sally's behind.
- 17
Jane's career as a radio traffic reporter is put in jeopardy when she receives some unexpected criticism.
- 18
Susan and Steve each find themselves tempted by other people. Steve guiltily swaps phone numbers with an attractive woman in a bar.
- 19
Should you still be whistling if you've got a girlfriend?
- 20
Following a disastrous impotent encounter with Sally, Patrick seeks reassurance from Steve and Jeff.
- 21
Jeff's new boss Julia questions whether it is right and proper to kiss someone junior at work.
- 22
The Cupboard of Patrick's Love
An alarming discovery is made by the girls about the contents of Patrick's cupboard.
- 23
Sally has been seeing Liam for two weeks so now everyone wants to meet him. Jeff falls in love with a leg.
- 24
The attendance at the funeral of Jane's aunt snowballs as the friends arrange decoy dates.
- 25
Jeff has a tortuous time when he tries to chat up a beautiful foreign woman in the pub.
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