Dorien: Listen. Poor Richard. Poor, poor Richard. I've just found out what happened to his wife. She ran off with the au pair, Finnish au pair girl. Female au pair girl.
Tracey: Well, wha's wonderful about that?
Dorien: Well, it's wonderful because now Richard will be looking for something 100% hetero. I think it can safely be said that I like men.
Tracey: I' is said, Dor. In every phone box in Chigwell.
— Dorien Green telling Tracey Stubbs about Richard's ex-wife.
- Date First Aired: 07/02/1998
Garth's endowment policy has arrived and he's gotten £5,164.23. However, the sisters desperately need a holiday and Tracey considers using it to finance the holiday. Meanwhile, Richard has invited Dorien to greet his children. However, he hasn't had sex with Dorien yet so she decides to spy on him. Luckily, an opportunity arises when Richard asks the sisters to clean his house. Soon, she finds that his wife ran off with the au pair lady, so he might be looking for someone strictly heterosexual. All she needs to do is to appeal to his children.
Garth frets over the fact that credit cards aren't going to support him in his cooking-related career, leading Tracey to admit that she's keeping the money for the baby. Garth is of course annoyed, especially by the fact that Tracey doesn't know who the father is. Depressed, the sisters decide to put the free meal vouchers to good use and go to the restaurant where Garth works now, which is also where Dorien is due to meet her new love's family. As the said meeting goes disastrously, Tracey stands up for Garth's cooking to Wayne (although it is Dorien who saves the day) and they make up, with Tracey letting Garth have the money.
Tropes in this episode:
- Accidental Misnaming: Tracey accidentally calls Richard "Mr. Darcy" after hearing Dorien talk about Pride and Prejudice.
- Alliterative Name: Sasha Summers.
- And I'm the Queen of Sheba: Sharon and Greg have this exchange at the restaurant:Sharon: Well, if you're French, I'm a monkey's uncle.Greg: You'd be a monkey's auntie, wouldn't you?
- Auto Erotica: The episode ends with Sharon and Greg going off to have sex in a camper van.
- Bad Habits: Dorien lies to Richard that she got Wayne to leave the restaurant by pretending to be a nun.
- Blackmail: Dorien manages to get Wayne to stop criticizing Garth's cooking by threatening to reveal how he tried to get his nasty little end away with her to his wife, Valerie.
- Brief Accent Imitation: Sharon copies Gary's Australian accent before going off to shag him.
- Call-Back: The fact that Tracey doesn't know the father of her baby is brought up again and is one of the factors which leads to Garth storming out on her.
- Calling the Old Man Out: Garth tears Tracey a new one for failing to tell him that his endowment policy has arrived, especially over the fact that Tracey doesn't even know who the father of her child is.
- Cheating with the Milkman: Apparently, Richard's wife ran off with their Finnish au pair girl.
- Deadpan Snarker: Sharon knows Dorien is on edge about meeting Richard's children, yet does nothing to calm her nerves:Dorien: I have never been so nervous. Not since my very first date.Sharon: Why, was there an air raid?
- Department of Redundancy Department: Tracey comes across Garth's old bath:Tracey: Oh, it's 'is bath. Lit'le Garth's lit'le bath. I used to bath Garth in this bath.
- The Ditherer: Tracey takes ages to decide what she wants from the menu at the restaurant, much to Sharon's annoyance.
- Farts on Fire: According to Sharon, Garth used to set alight his farts.
- Fee Fi Faux Pas: Dorien makes a comment about Richard's old au pair at dinner... before remembering the au pair ran off with his ex-wife.
- Gasshole: When looking at Garth's little bath, Tracey fondly remembers how he used to fart and then laugh at the bubbles.
- Gender-Blender Name: Richard's son is called Sasha, normally a female name, whilst his daughter is called the typically male Morgan.
- The Ghost:
- Mrs D'Urberville, who gets Sharon to walk her poodles.
- Mr. Mamoulian, who gives Garth a free meals voucher.
- Going Commando: Dorien makes a point to tell Tracey and Sharon that she wasn't wearing knickers one time when she was with Richard.
- Greedy Jew: Implied with this exchange between Garth and Dorien:Garth: Well, 'ow d'you know about money?Dorien: I didn't think I'd ever have to say this - I'm Jewish.
- Gross Out Fake Out: At one point, Dorien seems to have come across a naked man pissing in the garden. However, the camera then changes the angle to show that he is simply using the hose.
- Human Notepad: Dorien writes the names of Richard's two children on her hands to remember them.
- Immediate Self-Contradiction: Tracey has this to say about the father of her unborn child:Tracey: How bloody dare you! I know exactly who her father is. (Beat) I'm just not entirely sure, that's all.
- Malaproper: Sharon says Dorien's been having a "run around", when she means a "run about".
- Mistaken for Masturbating: Dorien thinks that Sasha is fiddling with himself until Richard reveals that he's playing a Game Boy.Dorien: What is he fiddling with down there?Richard: Oh, come on, Sasha. You'll go blind!Dorien: What? Oh, surely not.Richard: It's a Game Boy.
- Nature Tinkling: Dorien stumbles upon an attractive shirtless man watering his lawn from behind, and automatically assumes that he's having a piss.
- One-Shot Character: Greg, Sasha Summers, Wayne and Valerie.
- One-Steve Limit:
- This episode gives us our third Greg after a Greg in "Falling in Love Again" and an unseen Gregory in "Trouble and Strife".
- This episode also gives us our third Wayne, after the ones from "Breadwinner" and "Reservoir Birds".
- One-Word Title: The title of this episode is simply "Money".
- Parent with New Paramour: Dorien's subplot has her try to impress the kids of her new love Richard's children. It doesn't work out - her attempts to interact with them prove awkwardly fruitless and they end up hating her.
- Rich Language, Poor Language: Dorien is disgusted by Sharon's use of the word "bonk".Dorien: The working class is who "bonk", Sharon. Richard and I do not "bonk" as you put it.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Dorien tries to leave as soon as Garth begins to have a go at Tracey for not telling him about his endowment policy coming in, knowing it's going to be hard to watch, but Garth and Tracey force her to stay and watch.
- Season Finale: Of Series 8.
- Shirtless Scene: Dorien stumbles across a man with no shirt and a strong-looking body whilst fleeing from Richard.
- Shout-Out:
- Sharon incorrectly believes that Dorien is going out to dinner with Dr. Barnardo.
- Dorien claims that she would make a good stepmother as she knows The Sound of Music backward. Sharon also references the song "My Favorite Things".
- Tracey calls Richard "Mr. No-Action Man", making a joke about the Action Man action figure.
- Sharon warns Tracey not to accept any apples from Dorien.
- When Dorien asks Tracey and Sharon to spy on Richard for her, Tracey complains she doesn't want to because she isn't Miss Marple.
- When Dorien frets over being caught by Richard in his house, she says it'll be worse than Elizabeth Bennet being found by Mr. Darcy.
- Sasha can be heard playing Super Mario Land on his Game Boy in the restaurant.
- Slut-Shaming: Garth calls out Tracey for not knowing the father of her unborn baby.Tracey: Is this my own son calling me a tart?!
- Spies In a Van: Dorien goes over her plan to spy on Richard using the sisters with them in their van.
- Stealing from the Hotel: When Sharon remarks Garth treats the house like a hotel, she complains about him nicking towels.
- Suddenly Shouting: Tracey keeps prodding Sharon to get off the couch before Richard comes back by saying "Up". She only gets up once Tracey screams "WILL YOU GET UP?!" at the top of her voice.
- Take That!:
- Sharon claims Essex is just like Australia without sunshine.
- Sharon calls Russell Grant a "fat plonker".
- Tempting Fate: Sharon trying to reassure Tracey that Dorien doesn't always barge into their lives.Tracey: I wish one day we could just go somewhere where Dorien couldn't walk in.Sharon: She ain't that bad, you're exaggerating. (Beat) Oh, no, you're not.Dorien: Thank God you two are here!
- Toilet Humour: Tracey remembers how Garth used to crap in the potty, then put it on his head.
- Unsatisfiable Customer: Wayne keeps complaining about the quality of the cooking before Tracey calls him out on it.
- Verbal Backspace: Dorien has to do so after accidentally letting slip that she's been snooping around Richard's house.Dorien: I bet you like Coco Pops though.Richard: Yes, he does.Dorien: Yes, I saw them in the kitchen. (Beat) I dreamt... I saw them... in the kitchen.
