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Quantocking
Series 03, episode 06
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Episode details
Date aired 16 December 2005
Previous episode Jurying
Next episode Sophie's Parents

Quantocking is the sixth episode of series 3, and eighteenth overall episode of Peep Show.

Summary[]

Mark has decided he wants to propose to Sophie, and has already bought a ring. He has saved up enough coupons to take her away for a four-star holiday in the Quantocks. He agrees to let Jeremy come with him, since he has enough for two rooms, but he tells Jeremy he cannot bring any friends.

Meanwhile, Jeremy invites Super Hans to come with him, even though Super Hans is going cold turkey from all his drugs, even cigarettes and alcohol. Not thinking about the consequences of keeping a crack and heroin-addicted person going through withdrawal in his hotel room, Jeremy tells Super Hans he can share a room with him. Meanwhile, Big Suze winds up coming to the Quantocks, which Jeremy is annoyed about, since he wants to take her back to his room but he can't because Super Hans is there, throwing up.

Mark and Sophie take walks around the streets whilst on holiday, having a miserable time. Sophie and Mark are both rigid about what restaurants they want to go to, which results in Sophie throwing Mark's guide book in a post office box, which bothers him. They go to a restaurant finally, where they have nothing to say to each other. Sophie ends up socializing with an elderly couple who invite her to go on a walk with them. She tells Mark she will meet him at the hotel, but eventually calls him because she is lost, and has no idea where she is.

Mark and Jeremy set out to find Sophie. By the time it gets dark, she has already found the hotel, and Mark and Jeremy are now lost. Mark refuses to call for help because it's too embarrassing, and in the end, they split ways. Jeremy safely finds the hotel but Mark arrives, soaking wet and having slept outside for the night. Mark has decided, with Jeremy's help, that he no longer wants to propose to Sophie, but while he was gone, Sophie accidentally found the engagement ring and tells Mark her answer is yes. Out of embarrassment, Mark agrees to marry Sophie.

Trivia[]

  • Although Peep Show is famously filmed entirely with POV shots, the scene where Mark and Jez are out on the Quantock Hills looking for Sophie begins with a long distance establishing shot from no one's view.
  • The first draft for this episode was very different to the final draft. It started with Johnson about to get married to Toni, taking her exes on his stag weekend and afterwards starting to drink again (he's a former alcoholic). Mark and Sophie go to Paris for a weekend, coincidently Jeremy and Nancy also go there to keep up the charade of their marriage to fool the Home Office. Toni leaves Johnson and it ends with the news that he has committed suicide. For various reasons this story was scrapped, although lines and other elements from it are in the finished episode.
  • The Crown in Chalfont St. Giles, where Mark and Sophie have dinner, was used as the setting for Captain Mainwaring's bank in Dad's Army (1971).
  • The scene where Mark and Jeremy go looking for Sophie in the Quantock Hills was actually filmed somewhere in the Chilterns, probably in the Buckinghamshire region since two other locations in that county are used. None of this episode was filmed in the Quantocks, which are 100 miles away from London in Somerset.
  • When Jez realizes he's lost, he again references the Moors Murders (hinted at in University Challenge, when he drops the name, "Hindley").
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