Season 2, Episode 6: "Wedding"

"Do I?!"

In the season 2 finale, Jez and Nancy have a sham wedding.

- This one has an amusing bit where Mark and Super Hans have to team up to stop Jez’ marriage to Nancy. The idea that the two of them would ever meet together on their own for a drink is amusing. I’d like to see Super Hans’ dislike of Mark played up more.

- This is the last appearance of both Toni and Tony (the latter of which is in way more episodes than I’d noticed). Toni’s a character I wouldn’t at all mind seeing return; indeed, Michelle, one of the women Jez has a threesome with at the start of the next season, was originally supposed to have been Toni.

- Mercifully, this is also Nancy’s last appearance for a while. She leaves the wedding reception early for a job interview at a health club, which exactly the job she holds when we meet her again in the fourth season. As with Toni, however, she was supposed to have returned at the start of the third season. Thankfully, she did not.

- Sophie’s behaviour with Mark is all over the place. In the last episode, she is actively trying to avoid him; here, she wants to be his friend? She seems to be behaving in whichever way a particular episode’s plot needs her to.

- Mark says that he’s not an “Italian builder,” a term I have come to enjoy.

- The girl that Sophie tries to set Mark up with, Karen, is a major character in the Mitchell/Webb film, “Magicians.” She’s also a regular on their skit show, “That Mitchell and Webb Look,” particularly the third and fourth seasons.

-Come to think of it, Sophie and Johnson are often on the first two seasons of That Mitchell and Webb Look - a fact I might have mentioned earlier.

- Why is Tony at Jez’ stag? Who are half the guys at that stag? Jez’ friends we never see or hear about? The Buddhist is said to be "Darren's mate." Who's Darren?

- It’s mentioned that Jeremy and Nancy are still abstaining from sex.

- Super Hans uncharacteristically displays genuine remorse about tricking Jez into thinking Nancy sucked him off. In the fourth season finale, this doesn’t stop him from actually getting off with her.

- I know the Europeans have a more permissive attitude with respect to public drinking than we do, but Super Hans can just drink a beer in a hospital waiting room? That’s allowed?

- Jeremy’s surname, Usborne, is revealed here.

- Who is at Jeremy’s wedding? We never see or hear about his parents being present. On that note, then, who is sitting with him at the head table?

- The visual of Super Hans on coke in the stall is one of the better Super Hans moments. That said, it would be really difficult to make a Super Hans highlight reel without including every single thing he’s ever said or done.

- Mark prefers Paul to John, which I think is odd. Isn’t John generally viewed as the better one? Not knowing my Beatles, I could be way off.

- Jeff crying on Sophie’s dress at the end is extremely rewarding. Hell, here's a photo of it:

- I absolutely hate Nancy after this episode, after she ran out on Jez at their reception. I wonder what the status of their marriage is, though. I have a feeling he still calls her his wife when they meet again in the fourth season. Perhaps this little thread can be picked up again in the seventh season.

Good Lines:
- Jeremy, after Nancy tells him she could instead marry one of her gay friends to get her visa: “Oh Nancy, don’t marry those gays!”

World War 2 References:
- Everyone has a fake moustache at Jez’ stag. Mark’s is, of course, a Hitler moustache.

UK Stuff:
- Strimmer: What they call a weed whacker. How crazy!
- David Blunkett: A Labour MP who served as Home Secretary until he resigned following an affair (which occurred after this episode). He's blind, as Mark notes. I don't really want to mention this, except to make note of how one rarely sees blind people in the highest levels of government.