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The Best Episodes of Coupling Season 1

Every episode of Coupling Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Coupling Season 1!

Six friends in their thirties navigate dating, sexual adventures, and mishaps on their quest to find love.

Genre:Comedy
Network:BBC Two

Season 1 Ratings Summary

The best episode of "Coupling" season 1 is "Flushed", rated 8.2/10 from 809 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by Steven Moffat. "Flushed" aired on 5/12/2000 and is rated 0.3 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Size Matters".

  • Flushed
    8.2/10 809 votes

    #1 - Flushed

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 5/12/2000

    Jeff reckons Steve is still in 'The Zone' with Jane: the time after the breakup when there can still be sex, but he wants to date Susan instead. When he has a meal in a restaurant with Jane, Susan walks in.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Steven Moffat

  • Size Matters
    8.5/10 724 votes

    #2 - Size Matters

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 5/19/2000

    Susan invites Steve for a date at home, and offers to cook. Jeff warns him about 'The Sock Gap', and Patrick alerts him to her collection of remote controls. Somehow everyone's conversation seems to revolve around Patrick's size, and Jeff is asked by several people to accompany him to the toilet to check.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Steven Moffat

  • Sex, Death & Nudity
    8.7/10 739 votes

    #3 - Sex, Death & Nudity

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 5/26/2000

    Jeff explains to the guys about 'The Giggle Loop': the danger that the more you try to suppress laughter in important silences, the harder you want to laugh. Jane's aunt has died, and she wants Steve to come to the funeral, pretending to be her boyfriend still. Susan invites herself, and so Patrick must come as her 'boyfriend', and all six end up going.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Steven Moffat

  • Inferno
    9.1/10 810 votes

    #4 - Inferno

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 6/2/2000

    Steve is plunged into total panic when he suspects that Susan has found one of his porn videos. To fill the embarrassing silence, he tells her he loves her, but Susan is well-aware that he was merely panicking. Susan invites all the friends over for a dinner party. Jane brings her therapist, Jill, who everyone assumes is there as Jane's date. In front of everyone, Susan insists that Steve justify his passion for the offending porn film, Lesbian Spank Inferno.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Steven Moffat

  • The Girl with Two Breasts
    9.0/10 900 votes

    #5 - The Girl with Two Breasts

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 6/9/2000

    Jeff and co. can't take their eyes of a beautiful stranger in their local bar. And the girl can't take her eyes off Jeff. Jeff goes over to talk to her, only to discover that she doesn't speak a word of English, which to Jeff of course is quite a relief. Her interpreter, Alice, tells Jeff she's Israeli, then whisks her away. The next day the girl is back and Jeff attempts to chat her up. With neither speaking a word of the other's language, it is an utter disaster.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Steven Moffat

  • The Cupboard of Patrick's Love
    8.6/10 639 votes

    #6 - The Cupboard of Patrick's Love

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 6/16/2000

    Patrick has a cupboard of video tapes of his former girlfriends, not to mention Britt Ekland in The Wicker Man. Jeff is excited, but Steve is appalled, when he realizes that Susan must be amongst them. Susan is also horrified when she realizes this in the company of the other girls. Later on, she arrives at Patrick's, and is outraged at what she finds going on there.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Steven Moffat