Are We Going To Be Alright?

“	You always loved history, Mark. Well, now you can be part of it.	”
—Jeremy, ""Are We Going To Be Alright?""

Are We Going To Be Alright?
Series 9, episode 6

Episode details
Date aired	16 December 2015
Previous episode	Kid Farm
Next episode	N/A

Are We Going To Be Alright? is the sixth episode of series 9 and fifty-fourth overall episode of Peep Show. It is the final episode in the series.

Summary[]

Jeremy is anxious about turning 40 while Mark makes a desperate attempt to steal April from her husband.

Plot[]

Mark is at a print center in the process of purchasing a birthday banner for Jeremy. Mark doesn't see what he wants in the company catalog and requests that the clerk make one that simply says "Jeremy, you are 40 years old." While he is there, Mark also asks the clerk if he has a fax machine with which he can fax April a desperate message: "April, Please, PLEASE call me."

Back at the apartment, Jeremy sluggishly eats his toast while Joe kisses him goodbye. Apparently Jeremy and he have been on a three-day drug binge and Jeremy is completely exhausted. Mark teases Jeremy about being a "birthday boy," and Jeremy tells him he "definitely" does not want a birthday party, as he has already lied to Joe that he'll be "turning 39," the rationale being that Joe is turning 30 the following year so "they can be in their 30s together."

Jeremy, clearly stressed out about his mortality, reveals that he has begun a diet diet of sprout sandwiches and his own urine "for the vitamins."

A bit later, Mark shows up to work and is promptly ambushed and fired by Johnson for the loan Mark extends to Jeremy (The William Morris Years). To add to the humiliation somehow Jeff, Jerry, and Baker are present to witness this firing. Mark comes home, and punches Jeremy in the nose, but not without a warning. Jeremy asks, "are we punching each other, now?"

Moments later, Jeremy arrives in the kitchen to eat again. Mark is giving him the silent treatment due to the firing, and Jeremy uses this opportunity to use up Mark's milk and pelt him with Rice Krispies. Mark holds his ground (and his tongue).

Suddenly April calls and Mark silently rejoices in the longevity of antiquated technologies, while we find out moments later that April wishes to go back to her husband Angus. Super Hans then barges in and unloads to Jeremy that he "cannot live" with Molly given her slob-like lifestyle (he cites Marmite and peppermint shower gel among his grievances). Jeremy tries to match Hans but Hans continues on with his Molly diatribe. Mark is devastated and sulks on the creamy elephant, still not talking to Jez. He communicates to Jeremy through Hans. To break the tension Jeremy exclaims that he is sorry for ruining Mark's life and that he wants to make it up by being Mark's "love butler," and helping him get April back.

Hans drives Jeremy and Mark to town in his truck where they stalk April and Angus by the cruiseline ticket office. From a distance, the men observe that things don't seem to be going well for April and Angus. Jeremy suggests that he go in to the office to help Jeremy by seducing Angus. Mark decides that he'd better go and confront April himself.

Mark runs around the corner calling April's name. April is confused by Mark's behavior, but agrees to have a coffee with him. While seated April tells Mark that she has indeed purchased the tickets to a Greek cruise with Angus which hit "all the islands but Corfu" — a point which Mark needles her on as he wants her to remember Angus' previously admitted affair. Mark tells April that he loves her but she says things were "really weird" the last time they saw each other. Suddenly, Angus texts April a curve ball by saying that he doesn't feel like they should go on the cruise after all, and that he wants to go to Ibiza alone.

Mark comes home elated revealing to Jeremy that he has "done it" with April again in the bathroom (their second of two trysts in a lavatory) and that it is now he not Angus who will be going on the cruise with April. In another surprise move, Jeremy, who is happy for Mark, and still feeling remorseful about how he made Mark lose his job and Dobby, opens his bedroom door to reveal Hans and a captive Angus, who has been threatened (by Jeremy and Hans, in shifts) with appendage removal and unconsensual urine drinking. It is then revealed that it was Jeremy who had texted April using Angus' phone and that his ultimate gift as love butler was to kidnap Angus so that Mark can go on this month-long cruise. Mark is utterly dumbfounded at the criminal-level insanity of what has transpired.

Suddenly the doorbell rings and Mark has a surprise for Jeremy. He has indeed set up a surprise birthday party for him behind his back, and to top it off, April, Megan, Joe, and Molly are among the invited. While the toasts are being exchanged, Hans shirks his duty for a moment and Angus escapes catching April's attention. April and Molly are completely flummoxed and upset by Mark and Hans' involvement in this live-rival kidnapping and it is quite clear that things are now over. Jeremy tries to take the rap, but it's all just about up for the El Dude Brothers.

Hans reveals that he is going to Macedonia to set up his moped business, while Mark and Jeremy sitting on the couch one last time, reveal that they really haven't changed in all the time they've known each other.

Supporting cast[]

Bart Edwards as Joe
Neil Fitzmaurice as Jeff
Paterson Joseph as Johnson
Tim Key as Jerry
Cariad Lloyd as Megan
Conor MacNeill as Clerk
Kitty Martin as Baker
Catherine Shepherd as April Danecroft
Angus Wright as Angus Maynard

Uncredited co-stars[]

Franc Ashman as Molly

Various unknown performers as:

Long-haired party patron 1
Long-haired party patron 2
Guy who enters the apartment with Molly
Dude with the fro
Dude sitting on couch
Dude with a beret
Woman sitting on couch
Woman with beer bottle
Woman with the hoop earrings

Trivia[]

The final shot of the series breaks the POV convention of most of the series, with a two-shot of Mark and Jez on the couch — apparently from the perspective of the television tube. The original conception of Peep Show was meant to be a clip show where Mark and Jeremy would be commenting on material from the television, à la Mystery Science Theatre 3000.
The coffee shop scene was filmed at Ocean Bells Coffee in Watford.