Episode 3 - The Quiz:
Synopsis:
It's Tim's 30th birthday and the office pub quiz night. David tries to impress Ricky with his hastily looked up knowledge of Dostoevsky, and Tim recieves an unfortunate present from Lee and Dawn. David's 'best mate' Finchy arrives and insults David and everyone else. Gareth is quiz master, and all the questions are on the army and war. Finchy gets more and more competitive as Tim and Ricky just beat him and David. Inscenced, he throws Tim's shoe over the building and claims victory.
Quotes:
(Tim opens his present)
Gareth: They're sad little men? He's thrown a kettle over a pub, what have you done?
Tim: I like ballet, I love the novels of Proust, I love the work of Alan Delon, and I think that’s what influenced her buying me Hat FM. I like the radio too!
Tim: Gareth, are all the questions going to be about war?
Dawn: Would you have prefered the money?
Tim: No, no. I'd have just spent it on a huge inflatable cock anyway.
Gareth: No, I've got one on tennis, one on the Suez Canal. Loads.
...Right, question 3 - which canal links the Mediterranean with the Red Sea?
Brent's Philosophy
There are limits to my comedy. There are things that I’ll never laugh at. The handicapped. Because there’s nothing funny about them. Or any deformity. It’s like when you see someone look at a little handicapped and go ‘ooh, look at him, he’s not able-bodied. I am, I’m prejudiced.’ Yeah, well, at least the little handicapped fella is able-minded. Unless they’re not, it’s difficult to tell with the wheelchair ones.
Poor Tim. This episode is just one humiliation after another for him, ending with him going off to find his shoe. "No, you can't throw the hat because it's also a radio."