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Episode aired Oct 6, 2006
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Megan Dodds, Tim Vine, and Lee Mack in Not Going Out (2006)

Unambitious,easy-going Lee shares a flat with his more go-getting Californian landlady Kate,who suggests that ,as an outlet for his skills,he joins a class teaching people to become clowns. ... Read allUnambitious,easy-going Lee shares a flat with his more go-getting Californian landlady Kate,who suggests that ,as an outlet for his skills,he joins a class teaching people to become clowns. In the event she ends up attending it herself though with little success. Lee meanwhile da... Read allUnambitious,easy-going Lee shares a flat with his more go-getting Californian landlady Kate,who suggests that ,as an outlet for his skills,he joins a class teaching people to become clowns. In the event she ends up attending it herself though with little success. Lee meanwhile dates a serious authoress Lucy,who is a client of Kate's publishing firm and Tim,Lee's dippy... Read all

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Tim: It was actually you I came to see. Can we talk?
Kate: About what?
Tim: About... us.
Kate: There's no "us".
Tim: OK, can we talk about you and me?
Kate: There's no "you and me".
Tim: Ok, let's talk about business like show business.
Kate: There's no business like show...

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References One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

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7/10

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I never saw the early episodes of Not Going Out and it certainly was a different show back then.

I believe Lee Mack wanted to adapt a British version of Everybody Loves Raymond and it then went on a different path.

The set up is Lee is a slacker who writes Christmas cracker jokes. He shares a flat with American Kate who used to go out with Tim who traded her in for a younger model. Tim also Lee's best friends and they regularly meet up in the pub.

It is a good opening episode, with Tim Vine in the cast, the faster punslinger alive you really need to have a sense of humour bypass if you do not laugh at least once.

The episode sees Kate trying to find her inner clown by going to clown school. Tim looking to get back with Kate and Lee going out with a date as a favour to Kate with a writer called Lucy. As Lee discovers. Lucy has had a life that is far from being a barrel of laughs, if Ken Dodd ever met Lucy he will be ringing up the Samaritans!

Both Tim Vine and Lee Mack come out with fast one liners, some will make you laugh, others might make you groan.