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Six friends in their thirties navigate dating, sexual adventures, and mishaps on their quest to find love.

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Coupling Season 3 Episode 3 - Unconditional Sex
    9.0/10(2 votes)

    #1 - Unconditional Sex

    S3:E3

    Jeff is still trying to decide whether he should cheat on his girlfriend Julia with Wilma, or not. While his friends try to help him, Jeff is no match in this debate for "devil woman" Wilma. She knows every argument that Susan (the expert in getting her own way) has ever used. Jeff paints himself into a terrifyingly extreme conversational corner, until he blurts out that the reason he can't have sex with Wilma is that his girlfriend is dead...

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Steven Moffat

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  2. Coupling Season 1 Episode 5 - The Girl with Two Breasts
    8.7/10(9 votes)

    #2 - The Girl with Two Breasts

    S1:E5

    Jeff and co. can't take their eyes of a beautiful stranger in their local bar. And the girl can't take her eyes off Jeff. Jeff goes over to talk to her, only to discover that she doesn't speak a word of English, which to Jeff of course is quite a relief. Her interpreter, Alice, tells Jeff she's Israeli, then whisks her away. The next day the girl is back and Jeff attempts to chat her up. With neither speaking a word of the other's language, it is an utter disaster.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Steven Moffat

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  3. Coupling Season 1 Episode 2 - Size Matters
    8.3/10(6 votes)

    #3 - Size Matters

    S1:E2

    Susan invites Steve for a date at home, and offers to cook. Jeff warns him about 'The Sock Gap', and Patrick alerts him to her collection of remote controls. Somehow everyone's conversation seems to revolve around Patrick's size, and Jeff is asked by several people to accompany him to the toilet to check.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Steven Moffat

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  4. Coupling Season 1 Episode 3 - Sex, Death & Nudity
    8.2/10(5 votes)

    #4 - Sex, Death & Nudity

    S1:E3

    Jeff explains to the guys about 'The Giggle Loop': the danger that the more you try to suppress laughter in important silences, the harder you want to laugh. Jane's aunt has died, and she wants Steve to come to the funeral, pretending to be her boyfriend still. Susan invites herself, and so Patrick must come as her 'boyfriend', and all six end up going.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Steven Moffat

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  5. Coupling Season 2 Episode 1 - The Man with Two Legs
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #5 - The Man with Two Legs

    S2:E1

    Jeff finally gets to speak to Chrissy, the woman on the train whose leg he has been fancying for days, and tells her that he only has one leg, a lie which becomes ever harder to undo. Meanwhile, Sally is dating a "surgeon" called David, and Jeff wonders whether it would be easier.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Steven Moffat

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  6. Coupling Season 2 Episode 8 - Naked
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #6 - Naked

    S2:E8

    As Jeff's 30th birthday approaches, his new boss Julia Davis questions the girls about whether one should kiss a junior work colleague, while Jeff admits to the lads that he had a close encounter of the Nat (Nose Avoidance Tilt) kind in a stationery cupboard at work.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Steven Moffat

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  7. Coupling Season 3 Episode 2 - Faithless
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #7 - Faithless

    S3:E2

    Jane finds herself competing with the Supreme Being of the Universe and she feels it isn't fair on either of them. Jeff finds himself in the middle when he has to decide to cheat his girlfriend Julia with Wilma or not.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Steven Moffat

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  8. Coupling Season 3 Episode 5 - The Freckle, The Key And The Couple Who Weren't
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #8 - The Freckle, The Key And The Couple Who Weren't

    S3:E5

    Steve is troubled by a blemish on his bottom, which Susan hasn't noticed. James remembers where he knows Susan from. Jeff and Julia try spicing up their love life, but he loses the key to the handcuffs. Then Julia's chunky ex-boyfriend calls round, and he has to pretend that they're not a couple.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Steven Moffat

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  9. Coupling Season 3 Episode 6 - The Girl With One Heart
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #9 - The Girl With One Heart

    S3:E6

    Susan has invited everyone over for dinner, which as we know is just asking for trouble. Steve is particularly worried because Susan has recently redecorated the bathroom, and removed the lock, thus robbing him of his Fortress of Solitude. Sally's worry is that Patrick is bringing his new girlfriend: she's frightened that she will overcompensate her feelings of hostility towards her new rival by being embarrassingly nice. Patrick dimly perceives there might be a problem, so has told Jennifer that Sally is a lesbian...

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Steven Moffat

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  10. Coupling Season 3 Episode 7 - Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #10 - Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps

    S3:E7

    Sally is terrified that she might be pregnant, so she takes a pregnancy test and asks the other girls to do the same so that she knows what a negative result looks like. In her fluster she gets the tests muddled up. One of the girls is pregnant, but which one?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Steven Moffat

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  11. Coupling Season 4 Episode 1 - Nine and a Half Minutes
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #11 - Nine and a Half Minutes

    S4:E1

    One bar, three different points of view, the same nine and a half minutes. Susan and Steve are pregnant (mostly Susan), Patrick and Sally are discussing relationships (mostly Sally), and Jane has a blind date - but will his job be a problem? Meanwhile, in the skies above an Aegean island, terrible danger grows.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Steven Moffat

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  12. Coupling Season 4 Episode 2 - Night Lines
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - Night Lines

    S4:E2

    A phone call between Susan and Sally grows and grows as Steve, Patrick, Oliver and Jane gradually find their way onto the line. Will the phone call ever end?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Steven Moffat

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  13. Coupling Season 4 Episode 4 - Circus of the Epidurals
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #13 - Circus of the Epidurals

    S4:E4

    It's time to start attending antenatal classes. Susan need a back-up birth partner, Steve is haunted by the ghost of spanking lesbians past and Sally is seeking the solace of a string quartet. Meanwhile, Jane is trying to find a way to out-keen Oliver.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Steven Moffat

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  14. Coupling Season 4 Episode 5 - The Naked Living Room
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #14 - The Naked Living Room

    S4:E5

    Oliver invites Jane to his apartment, not realizing that things such as porn and dirty dishes now replace the floor. Meanwhile Patrick lets the fact slip that he slept with Jane during a conversation with Oliver and Patrick which gets back to Sally. While all the drama unfolds Susan realizes that the pains in her stomach means the baby is finally on his way.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Steven Moffat

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  15. Coupling Season 4 Episode 6 - Nine and a Half Months
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #15 - Nine and a Half Months

    S4:E6

    Steve panics at Susan goes into labour, Patrick panics as Sally goes Hulk-style mad after finding out he's slept with Jane, who is oblivious to all the tension and is having a blissful afternoon with Oliver.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Steven Moffat

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  16. Coupling Season 1 Episode 4 - Inferno
    7.4/10(5 votes)

    #16 - Inferno

    S1:E4

    Steve is plunged into total panic when he suspects that Susan has found one of his porn videos. To fill the embarrassing silence, he tells her he loves her, but Susan is well-aware that he was merely panicking. Susan invites all the friends over for a dinner party. Jane brings her therapist, Jill, who everyone assumes is there as Jane's date. In front of everyone, Susan insists that Steve justify his passion for the offending porn film, Lesbian Spank Inferno.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Steven Moffat

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  17. Coupling Season 1 Episode 6 - The Cupboard of Patrick's Love
    7.0/10(4 votes)

    #17 - The Cupboard of Patrick's Love

    S1:E6

    Patrick has a cupboard of video tapes of his former girlfriends, not to mention Britt Ekland in The Wicker Man. Jeff is excited, but Steve is appalled, when he realizes that Susan must be amongst them. Susan is also horrified when she realizes this in the company of the other girls. Later on, she arrives at Patrick's, and is outraged at what she finds going on there.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Steven Moffat

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  18. Coupling Season 3 Episode 1 - Split
    6.1/10(7 votes)

    #18 - Split

    S3:E1

    Steve and Susan have had an argument about their future, and Susan storms out of Steve's flat in tears. While Steve tries repeatedly to ring Susan, his courage failing every time, the girls are locked in a debate over the merits of 1471, and what it means if the phone "chirps". Eventually the tension at both ends of the phone gets too much. The boys and the girls set out for "the Temple of Woman': in the girls' case, a beauty salon; in the boys' case, a lap dancing club.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Steven Moffat

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  19. Coupling Season 2 Episode 2 - My Dinner in Hell
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #19 - My Dinner in Hell

    S2:E2

    After watching an embarrassing program on TV with Susan, Steve bumps into his dream celebrity, Mariella Frostrup, in the bar, but it is not the dream encounter he might like, as she pours her drink down his trousers. Jane and Sally's attempt to make friends with her get him into more trouble as he then has to have dinner with Susan's liberal-minded parents, which turns into a nightmare as misunderstandings multiply.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Steven Moffat

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  20. Coupling Season 2 Episode 3 - Her Best Friend's Bottom
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #20 - Her Best Friend's Bottom

    S2:E3

    When Steve pops into Susan's flat, he accidentally sees Sally's naked bottom. This incident leads to dilemmas and awkwardness all round, which are dealt with in the classic sequence outlined by Jeff: the prickles (an embarrassed silence), the blurts (talking too fast), followed by the "head laugh".

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Steven Moffat

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  21. Coupling Season 2 Episode 4 - The Melty Man Cometh
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #21 - The Melty Man Cometh

    S2:E4

    Following their disastrous encounter, Patrick seeks reassurance from Steve & Jeff, who explain to him the theory of the Melty Man, and Sally seeks reassurance from Jane & Susan, who try to comfort her with their own "failure" experiences.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Steven Moffat

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  22. Coupling Season 2 Episode 5 - Jane and the Truth Snake
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #22 - Jane and the Truth Snake

    S2:E5

    Jane gets the sack as a traffic reporter for a local radio station, and decides on a new career in children's entertainment. She starts rehearsing with a pink snake hand puppet, which turns out to have an unstoppable ability to tell the bald truth. Patrick is trying to dump his latest girlfriend Lynda, but when she says she's interested in a threesome, he desperately starts backtracking.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Steven Moffat

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  23. Coupling Season 2 Episode 6 - Gotcha
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #23 - Gotcha

    S2:E6

    It's one year since Steve and Susan's first date, and he is dreading questions about their future. And then a wedding invitation drops through their front door. Patrick meets an ex who appears to fail to recognize him.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Steven Moffat

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  24. Coupling Season 2 Episode 7 - Dressed
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #24 - Dressed

    S2:E7

    Patrick has boasted to his business associate, Ivan, amongst other things that he has a wife, and when Ivan comes to the bar, Patrick presses Sally and then Susan into pretending to be his wife. Things turn awkward when Steve proposes to Susan while she is pretending to be faithfully married to Patrick. Meanwhile, Jane is invited on a dinner date by Bill, a man she chatted up in a pub, but makes an unfortunate choice of clothing for the evening.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Steven Moffat

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  25. Coupling Season 2 Episode 9 - The End of the Line
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #25 - The End of the Line

    S2:E9

    Steve and Susan's relationship is drifting into a new phase. They are beginning to get on each other's nerves. A bizarre set of misunderstandings brings on a crisis.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Steven Moffat

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Best Episodes Summary

"Unconditional Sex" is the best rated episode of "Coupling". It scored 9/10 based on 2 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Steven Moffat, it aired on 10/7/2002. This episode scored 0.3 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Girl with Two Breasts".