Garth: That's the trouble with living with a load o' women. You have to leave the room twice a day while they talk about internals. Feel sorry about those Arab guys with a dozen wives, they must end up standing outside the tent all night.
— Garth Stubbs complaining about living with women.
- Date First Aired: 01/11/1992
Garth has made it into the Guinness Book of Records for becoming champion pancake-tosser, though Darryl doesn't believe that a sponsored pancake toss is something to be proud of. Meanwhile, Dorien believes that she's pregnant but is in for a shock when it turns out she is going through the menopause. She becomes depressed and seemingly loses her sex drive but is soon back to her old ways when Tracey suggests something to cheer her up.
Tropes In This Episode:
- Aborted Arc: Chris' desire to adopt a baby is never brought up again after this episode.
- Call-Back: Chris' infertility is brought up again and fuels his desire to adopt a baby.
- Child Hater: Dorien never wanted to have a child because of the possibility of puke on her beige carpets
- Continuity Nod:
- Dorien still doesn't care for Garth after the events of "We'll Always Have Majorca".
- Sharon jokes that Tracey's putting on weight again.
- Sharon briefly mentions that she once almost had a baby at one point.
- Sharon reminds Tracey about her drunk and disorderly charge.
- Deadpan Snarker: Sharon, after Tracey tells Dorien no one's ever gotten her pregnant before:Sharon: And God knows 'alf the world's tried.
- Driven to Suicide:
- A drunk Dorien mentions there's always a choice of using arsenic or cyanide to end her misery.
- Sharon mentions Chris briefly considered suicide over his infertility.
- Fictional Document: Garth appears in the Hemel Hempstead Appetiser.
- The Ghost: Gary, Tony, Carl, Harvey, Eric, Dennis, Giovanni, Vince, Roger and Ken - all former lovers of Dorien's.
- Heroic BSoD: Dorien is horrified when she's found out that she's entered the menopause and ends up disappearing for several days.
- Hilarious Outtakes: Pauline Quirke (Sharon) cracks up during her speech telling Tracey why she and Chris would never be allowed to adopt a baby.
- Jar Potty: Dorien is disgusted at the concept of a home pregnancy test where you piss in a bucket.
- Lady Drunk: Dorien gets pissed out of her skull after discovering she's begun menopause.
- Mistaken for Pregnant: Dorien initially believes herself to have become pregnant, but it turns out to be the symptoms of menopause.
- Morning Sickness: Subverted. Dorien lists it as one of the symptoms that she's having, but it turns out to be something completely different.
- Noodle Incident:
- Chris used to have a dog until the RSPCA took it away.
- Dorien did something in the past with a man named Franko and tells Tracey and Sharon that if he rings to say they've never heard of her.
- One-Steve Limit:
- Two Gary's are mentioned this episode: One a former fling of Dorien's, the other a mechanic she's currently trying to seduce, and Gary was also a One-Shot Character in "Subsititute" and a different One-Shot Character in "Muesli".
- One of Dorien's past flings is called Tony, a name shared by Chris' plumber mate from "Belongings".
- Page Three Stunna: Darryl tells Chris that another prisoner's son ended up with a page three tart.
- Parallel Porn Titles: One of Dorien's porn films is called The Good, The Bad & The Virgin, a play on The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
- Porn Stash: Dorien bequeaths hers to Tracey and Sharon after becoming a boring person.
- Professionals Do It on Desks: Dorien mentions having sex on a nice big desk.
- Really Gets Around: Dorien, Tracey and Sharon discuss Dorien's past flings.Dorien: No, I'm glad I had Gary an' Tony an'... Carl an'... what's his name?Tracey: Luke.Dorien: Oh yes, Luke!Sharon: Oh, an' Harvey an' Eric an' that Dennis from the AA.Tracey: An' that solici'or in the 'igh street.Sharon: An' the tennis coach, an' Giovanni from the salon, an' Vince with the big, um, Harley-Davidson.Dorien: An' all those wonderful backroom boys!Sharon: An' frontroom boys.
- Running Gag: Whenever people think of Chris trying to raise a child they bring up his disastrous time owning a dog.
- Shout-Out:
- Garth makes it into the Guinness Book of Records.
- Garth mentions The Watchtower magazine.
- Dorien mentions how Britt Ekland was 46 when she conceived.
- Dorien compares the pregnant women in the shops to the Michelin Man.
- It's noted that Dorien without a sex drive is like Emu without Rod Hull.
- Tracey tells Dorien that thanks to HRT treatment Margaret Thatcher still looks young and sexy.
- The first two lovers Dorien mentions are Gary and Tony.
- Dorien remembers meeting a former lover at AA.
- Chris recalls the RSPCA taking his dog away.
- Chris brings up Lenny Henry and his wife adopting a foreign baby.
- Among the dirty videos Dorien gives Tracey and Sharon is a VHS copy of H.O.T.S..
- Tracey and Sharon tell Dorien how good HRT treatment was for Kate O'Mara.
- Tracey reads True Confessions magazine to fill the void left by Dorien.
- Show Within a Show:
- Sharon is shocked that Dorien would give away her treasured video tape Horny Truckers Go Wild in Vegas.
- Also visible in Dorien's Porn Stash is The Good, The Bad & The Virgin.
- Status Quo Is God: Dorien becomes boring after starting menopause, but thankfully HRT treatment brings her back to normal.
- Take That!: The thought of a coach trip to Waltham Abbey is enough to drive Dorien to tears.
- Troll: After hearing Dorien confess she may be pregnant, Tracey makes a comment about having something in the oven.
