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Season 1

  • S01E01 Tim

    • August 8, 2003
    • Channel 4

    Stevie is an extremely camp man, he goes to stay with Tim. A highlight of the episode is making Tim tell his best friends he is gay and performs a camp sexual dance in front of them to win the money before all is revealed.

  • S01E02 Tiffany

    • August 15, 2003
    • Channel 4

    Tiffany has to entertain Daniel, a stereotypical internet lord of the rings loving nerd. Highlights of the episode include Tiffany being forced to tell her father and sister that she and Daniel are engaged to be married, it does not go down well.

  • S01E03 Michael

    • August 22, 2003
    • Channel 4

    Michael is a young, tidy man, a keen footballer. He will be in the company of Wicky, a new age hippie for the weekend. Wicky's pestering nature makes this episode a classic. In the finale, he is forced to tell his father he has given up his job in IT, not to his father's amusement.

  • S01E04 Matt

    • August 29, 2003
    • Channel 4

    Sasha is a rich and arrogant snob who thinks he can buy friends and love. Matt has to put up with him for the weekend, highlights include Sasha offering money for sex off Matt's close female friend and making Matt march round the coffee table for an hour to the tune "The Grand Old Duke of York". In a bizarre twist Sasha sets the task to repeat the song 4 times and missing out various up's and down's in the lyrics in a seemingly impossible routine that Matt cannot get right much to both of their frustrations. This is arguably the funniest scene and episode of the series. Matt is only contestant of the series not to win the money. The final straw was Sasha telling Matt's parents that they were planning to go to a resort in the Philippines where they would eat women.

  • S01E05 Sam

    • September 5, 2003
    • Channel 4

    Sam has to deal with the antics of Simon, the character Simon is totally obsessed with Sam and everything he does, he believes Sam to be the coolest man in the world. He copies everything he does and appears mentally unstable much to Sam's friends disbelief.

  • S01E06 Emma

    • September 12, 2003
    • Channel 4

    Gary is an intimidating , aggressive man. Emma must put up with him for a whole weekend. He makes her go to a seedy photoshoot in a warehouse, then invites her mum to along, and eventually into the photoshoot. She then ended up telling her friends she was going to star in a pornographic film and ended up in a staged drugs deal which her friends could not believe.