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—Mark, ""Mugging""

Mugging
Series 03, episode 01
Josef Altin and Morgan Watkins as the muggers
Episode details
Date aired 11 November 2005
Previous episode Wedding
Next episode Sectioning


Mugging is the first episode of series 3, and thirteenth overall episode of Peep Show.

Summary[]

Jeremy is feeling dissatisfied with his seemingly dominating girlfriend, Michelle. When he tries to break up with her, partially because Big Suze, his ex-girlfriend he's still in love with, is coming back to London, Michelle offers him the chance to act out his dirtiest fantasy, in exchange for her dirtiest fantasy. Jeremy asks for a threesome and Michelle tells him "That's vanilla" and is excited to try it out.

Sophie

Mark finally gets Sophie alone in his bedroom.

Meanwhile, Mark gets mugged by some teenagers in an underpass. They have no weapons, but he's scared and ends up giving them all his stuff.

Mark finally has Sophie over and is excited to have sex with her, but is still too traumatized from the mugging that he can't get an erection. He ends up changing the subject, which greatly bothers Sophie.

Big Suze arrives to see Jeremy but it turns out she is with her new boyfriend, Stu, a former monk.

Mark buys a knife to defend himself with. He takes it with him everywhere. Sophie sees him at work and tries to flirt with him, but Mark ends up acting uptight, and pushes Sophie away so she won't know about his erection problem. She still agrees to go to the movies with him, though.

Shelley Bond as Michelle

Michelle leads Jeremy into the threesome.

Jeremy shows up at Michelle's house for the threesome, which he was trying to keep secret from Big Suze. Suze has moved in with Michelle as her roommate. In addition, Michelle has a hired and tragically boring woman, Vicky, to partake in the threesome. It is implied that the threesome is to be miserable for everyone involved.

Mark ends up meeting the teenagers' associates at Chicken Corner, pleading to them to get his Blackberry back. They ask Mark for money in exchange for his phone, and to add to the humiliation, Mark is asked to ask for it back in a lady's voice. He complies, but the muggers tell him they will need to call him back later.

Mark and Sophie go to the movie theater, and they end up sitting behind one of the muggers. When he causes a ruckus during the film, Mark whacks them upside the head, which impresses Sophie. He is suddenly able to get an erection again. He and Sophie are kicked out of the theater, but she is very impressed with him and leans in to get frisky. She feels the knife in his pocket and is visibly freaked out.

Jeremy goes to a church with Big Suze and winds up punching Stu in the face. Stu punches him back and he ends up at Michelle's house where she takes care of him. She then tells him that it is time for her particular fantasy, which is to penetrate him with a strap-on. Jeremy resolves to pretend he's being violated by Stu.

Supporting Cast[]

✝︎ non-speaking part

Trivia[]

  • Beginning with this episode, and for the rest of the series, the apartment that Mark and Jeremy occupy is a replica of the actual apartment in which the first two series were filmed. Some differences are:
    • the size of the black diamonds on the kitchen tile
    • the number of shelves of the bathroom medicine cabinet
    • lack of planter shelf in the bathroom
    • different radiator behind the living room couch
  • This episode is the second time Mark mentions his dad, albeit we have yet to meet him.
  • Mark uses Jeremy's sex mix to put Sophie in the mood. This is the same mix CD that Jez plays in Sistering.
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