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* Date First Aired: 17/09/1991
Bill is getting ready for a barbeque, needs to clean up her garden, and needs to go to the shops. However, Rona is curious to know if she had thrown out the phone number she got from Angelo last episode, which she's insistent that she has.
She hasn't.
Unfortunately, the barbeque goes poorly - Ben and David don't bother to buy any food, try to cook an old piece of meat, and Jenny is disgusted enough by it all that she goes vegetarian. Meanwhile, Ben gets a letter calling him in to see the Inspector of Taxes.
Afterward, Bill goes to the supermarket, where she has to deal with the obnoxious Christine and promptly MistakenForThief by an overzealous store detective, although Bill manages to criticize her way out of it. Before she leaves, she glimpses Angelo departing the supermarket. Unfortunately for her, the note containing his phone number has become part of a newspaper t-rex. Rona makes Bill ring it anyway, but it turns out to just be a potential customer. Ben gets a happy ending as well - it turns out that he's actually due a rebate and he's now £3000 richer.
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!!Tropes in this episode:
* AccidentalMisnaming: Bill calls Spins "Drain" when talking to Rona.
* AlliterativeName: Ben's persona when barbequing is "'''B'''uffalo '''B'''en - The '''B'''iggles of the '''B'''arbie".
* AppetiteEqualsHealth: When Ben is fretting over the visit to the Inspector of Taxes, he refuses dinner from Bill and would rather go to bed.
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Ben's trip to see the Inspector of Taxes turns monochrome to emphasize the seriousness of the situation.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Christine makes her first appearance in this episode, but it's as a meat seller - it won't be until Series 2 that she becomes Ben's permanent assistant.
* FemaleMisogynist: Bill accuses Martha Christie of being one, cowing innocent housewives, and hating the fact that she's a woman herself.
* GroceryStoreEpisode: Bill goes to the supermarket in the second half of the episode, where she ends being MistakenForThief.
* HornsOfBarbarism: Ben wears a chef's hat with prominent horns on them to promote the manly activity of barbequing.
* IntimidatingRevenueService: Ben is ordered to see the Inspector of Taxes. Ben is extremely worried, although he's unwilling to show it in front of Bill, and David gleefully notes that it probably means that Ben is going to prison. Thankfully, it goes well for Ben - he's actually due a tax rebate rather than anything serious.
* MistakenForThief: Whilst at the supermarket, Bill encounters a young man stealing from the supermarket. She fails to catch him, and ends up being accused of being the thief herself.
* NoodleIncident: Apparently, David once pestered Jenny over her small bra.
* NunTooHoly: It's revealed that when she was younger, Rona went to a convent school. Apparently, one of the sisters there, Sister Virtue, could be best described as "Heinrich Himmler in a simple".
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Even though there was no-one else there, Christine refuses to serve Bill simply because her number wasn't up yet. That said, she changes her tune when Bill changes her number.
* PlayingSick: Ben tries to fake indigestion so that he doesn't have to open a letter relating to his taxes. Unfortunately for him, Bill isn't buying it.
* RaisedByWolves: After a disastrous barbeque, Bill ponders whether it's too late to have the children reared by wolves. Ben thinks that it would be a difficult task for the wolves.
* ShoutOut: A security guard at the supermarket is watching ''Series/{{Neighbours}}''.
* SoapboxSadie: Jenny complains about the impact of meat on the rainforest during the barbeque and decides to go vegetarian right then and there, much to Bill's annoyance.
* TakeOutWordForIt: Whatever is under the grill in the garden. All we know is that it looks like a pool and it moves.
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Bill is getting ready for a barbeque, needs to clean up her garden, and needs to go to the shops. However, Rona is curious to know if she had thrown out the phone number she got from Angelo last episode, which she's insistent that she has.
She hasn't.
Unfortunately, the barbeque goes poorly - Ben and David don't bother to buy any food, try to cook an old piece of meat, and Jenny is disgusted enough by it all that she goes vegetarian. Meanwhile, Ben gets a letter calling him in to see the Inspector of Taxes.
Afterward, Bill goes to the supermarket, where she has to deal with the obnoxious Christine and promptly MistakenForThief by an overzealous store detective, although Bill manages to criticize her way out of it. Before she leaves, she glimpses Angelo departing the supermarket. Unfortunately for her, the note containing his phone number has become part of a newspaper t-rex. Rona makes Bill ring it anyway, but it turns out to just be a potential customer. Ben gets a happy ending as well - it turns out that he's actually due a rebate and he's now £3000 richer.
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!!Tropes in this episode:
* AccidentalMisnaming: Bill calls Spins "Drain" when talking to Rona.
* AlliterativeName: Ben's persona when barbequing is "'''B'''uffalo '''B'''en - The '''B'''iggles of the '''B'''arbie".
* AppetiteEqualsHealth: When Ben is fretting over the visit to the Inspector of Taxes, he refuses dinner from Bill and would rather go to bed.
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Ben's trip to see the Inspector of Taxes turns monochrome to emphasize the seriousness of the situation.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Christine makes her first appearance in this episode, but it's as a meat seller - it won't be until Series 2 that she becomes Ben's permanent assistant.
* FemaleMisogynist: Bill accuses Martha Christie of being one, cowing innocent housewives, and hating the fact that she's a woman herself.
* GroceryStoreEpisode: Bill goes to the supermarket in the second half of the episode, where she ends being MistakenForThief.
* HornsOfBarbarism: Ben wears a chef's hat with prominent horns on them to promote the manly activity of barbequing.
* IntimidatingRevenueService: Ben is ordered to see the Inspector of Taxes. Ben is extremely worried, although he's unwilling to show it in front of Bill, and David gleefully notes that it probably means that Ben is going to prison. Thankfully, it goes well for Ben - he's actually due a tax rebate rather than anything serious.
* MistakenForThief: Whilst at the supermarket, Bill encounters a young man stealing from the supermarket. She fails to catch him, and ends up being accused of being the thief herself.
* NoodleIncident: Apparently, David once pestered Jenny over her small bra.
* NunTooHoly: It's revealed that when she was younger, Rona went to a convent school. Apparently, one of the sisters there, Sister Virtue, could be best described as "Heinrich Himmler in a simple".
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Even though there was no-one else there, Christine refuses to serve Bill simply because her number wasn't up yet. That said, she changes her tune when Bill changes her number.
* PlayingSick: Ben tries to fake indigestion so that he doesn't have to open a letter relating to his taxes. Unfortunately for him, Bill isn't buying it.
* RaisedByWolves: After a disastrous barbeque, Bill ponders whether it's too late to have the children reared by wolves. Ben thinks that it would be a difficult task for the wolves.
* ShoutOut: A security guard at the supermarket is watching ''Series/{{Neighbours}}''.
* SoapboxSadie: Jenny complains about the impact of meat on the rainforest during the barbeque and decides to go vegetarian right then and there, much to Bill's annoyance.
* TakeOutWordForIt: Whatever is under the grill in the garden. All we know is that it looks like a pool and it moves.
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