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Season 1

  • S01E01 Playing with Fire

    • January 17, 2020
    • Prime Video

    Paul is doing a story on a flirty fireman when graffiti is daubed on a wall. Naomi needs help with Joshie's 6th birthday party and Paul tries to help. It could work out well. Were it not for a some 30 year old Scalextric, a helium balloon and Simon's sexual designs on Ruth, the mother of the child from hell.

  • S01E02 The Juicer

    • January 17, 2020
    • Prime Video

    Naomi tells Paul that her juicer/spiritualist has warned that it would be dangerous for their Dad to go on his cruise. Simon's birthday party is coming up and it's fancy dress. A Vicar needs help from the Jewish Enquirer, so it may all come good. Or Paul may end up dressed as an Imam trying to buy condoms.

  • S01E03 The Keycutter & the Vegan

    • January 17, 2020
    • Prime Video

    Paul's new key doesn't work. When the key cutter asks for his address to drop off the replacement, Paul is worried. If he gives his address, and this guy has his key, he could rob his house. A run in with a possibly anti-semitic driver's awareness course and an even more possibly anti-semitic vegan add to the confusion.

  • S01E04 Bad Hair Day

    • January 17, 2020
    • Prime Video

    Paul has to take Joshie for a haircut. He's also going green by testing out an electric car. Is hair recyclable and where would Paul take it if it was? Was it a good idea to offer a dwarf a lift?

  • S01E05 Feathers & Foreskins

    • January 17, 2020
    • Prime Video

    Simon's sister has had a baby boy and asks Paul for help with the circumcision. Liam is dead set against having his boy's penis "trimmed". So is sex better with or without a foreskin? Paul goes to great lengths to find out. And how does a dumb young Youtube vlogger get so many hits?

  • S01E06 The Old Suit

    • January 17, 2020
    • Prime Video

    Paul insults one of Joshie's teachers. Naomi wants him to apologise but Paul is busy testing out a research suit that adds 20 years to his age. Simon challenges him to a game of badminton. Ronnie introduces Paul to an old Jewish man who is LGBTQ. Today is the day Paul is possibly fattist, racist, transist and sexist. Ronnie has an answer that involves Helen Mirren.

Season 2

  • S02E01 A Good Stuffing

    • May 15, 2023
    • Prime Video

    Paul helps Naomi to prepare a middle eastern courgettes for a dinner date. But there's something about those courgettes that is a turn on. Paul is told to interview British comedy icon Ronni Ancona about her latest film.

  • S02E02 The Wedding Planner

    • May 15, 2023
    • Prime Video

    Paul is tasked with running a story on weddings from a male perspective. He enlists Naomi's help to pretend to be his bride. How difficult can it be? Things go wrong when he meets a caterer with violent tendencies.

  • S02E03 The Wine Snob

    • May 15, 2023
    • Prime Video

    Paul accuses a mother of being perfume possessive. An Interfaith group leads him to question British values. When Paul runs into a life coach he takes him to Naomi's house to help Joshie come to terms with being short.

  • S02E04 The Donor

    • May 15, 2023
    • Prime Video

    Paul's mate Simon has started to shave his most intimate areas. When Paul is asked to do a puff piece on a mogul who's made a fortune from gambling and porn, he takes Simon's testicle razor along to show how consumerism has gone mad. And when a gay activist turns up at his home suggesting that Jews should be moved from Israel to America, Paul's nose for enquiry lands him in very hot water.

  • S02E05 The Number Counter

    • May 15, 2023
    • Prime Video

    Paul is set up on a blind date. She's gorgeous. And blind. She has an unusual way of judging how good sex is. Pippa's obsession with numbers leads her to question a number that you don't trifle with.

  • S02E06 April Fools

    • May 15, 2023
    • Prime Video

    A partially sighted woman drives into his car and Paul doesn't understand how she can legally drive. He starts to wear an eye patch. When he's bullied by a Liverpudlian's tattoos, Pauls get a tattoo of David Beckham.

  • S02E07 Reduced

    • May 15, 2023
    • Prime Video

    Paul interviews a religious chef and cooks fish fingers in his dishwasher. A lifeguard accuses him of looking at women whilst Naomi gets a strange DNA test result. Paul goes to see TV chef Matt Tebbutt to sort out antisemitism.

  • S02E08 Spag Bol

    • May 15, 2023
    • Prime Video

    An accident in Naomi's kitchen means Paul has to do some decorating. He helps a builder with tarmacking but loses his phone. Why is Ronnie so interested in who wins a Gardening Competition?