Baddiel's Syndrome (2001)
David is a thirty-something architect. His life is complicated - he’s sharing his apartment with an American personal trainer, his relationship with his cleaning lady is becoming more than professional and his ex-girlfriend is raising their son who David suspects might not turn out to be heterosexual. No wonder he’s in therapy!
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Episode 1 - Hypnotherapy
Release Date: 2001-01-14David attempts to hypnotise himself into tolerating his new girlfriend's irritating mannerisms; meanwhile, next door, Peter infuriates everyone by taking up pipe smoking.
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Episode 2 - Dead Grandma
Release Date: 2001-01-21David has to attend his grandma's funeral, where his family is traumatised by seeing her in an open coffin.
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Episode 3 - The Skip
Release Date: 2001-01-28David, Ethan, and Peter attempt to dump some rubbish in an uptight neighbour's skip, while Eva puts the immigration inspectors off the scent by posing as a conceptual artist.
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Episode 4 - Huffa
Release Date: 2001-02-04David is terrorised in the gym steam room by an obese man who stands too near while huffing and slapping himself; Peter is annoyed that the Club Biscuit kitchen staff won't serve him a rare burger.
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Episode 5 - Hair Today
Release Date: 2001-02-11Peter is taunted about his haircut; Eva intends to return to Slovenia, leaving David to hunt for a new cleaner.
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Episode 6 - Transference
Release Date: 2001-02-18Peter falls for a lifestyle journalist who writes about his shortcomings every week in her column. Meanwhile, Eva, desperate for a residency permit, offers Ethan 2,000 pounds to marry her.
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Episode 7 - Nut Allergy
Release Date: 2001-02-25David meets a beautiful woman at an allergy clinic, and Ethan tries to persuade the others to join him in a Thanksgiving dinner.
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Episode 8 - In the Valley of the Blind
Release Date: 2001-03-04Peter, who is blind in one eye, starts going out with a woman who is phobic about blind people, and Eva's mother wants to come and stay.
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Episode 9 - Calligrula
Release Date: 2001-03-12After a confusing incident in the toilets, Club Biscuit has to employ a Drugs Tsar and Josh is named the successor of the King of Calligraphy.
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Episode 10 - Dream Home
Release Date: 2001-03-19Someone is using the phone at one of David's building sites for immoral purposes, and Ethan suspects that his girlfriend may be a transsexual.
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Episode 11 - Inventions Now
Release Date: 2001-03-26 -
Episode 12 - En Suite
Release Date: 2001-04-02Gail Porter refuses to stay over with Ethan because he doesn't have an en-suite bathroom; Eva decides to testify against her former lover, now on trial for mass murder; and rumours about Peter abound, following his misguided decision to grow a moustache.
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Episode 13 - Religious Uncertainty
Release Date: 2001-04-09After discovering that he is adopted, David begins to contemplate the possibility that he may be Jewish; Eva's sister turns out to be an idiot savant; and Club Biscuit holds its first pub quiz.