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The Best Episodes of Coupling Season 1

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

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Coupling Season 1 Episode 1 - Flushed
    8.2/10(873 votes)

    #1 - Flushed

    S1:E1

    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:Unknown

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  2. Coupling Season 1 Episode 2 - Size Matters
    8.5/10(775 votes)

    #2 - Size Matters

    S1:E2

    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:Unknown

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  3. Coupling Season 1 Episode 3 - Sex, Death & Nudity
    8.7/10(799 votes)

    #3 - Sex, Death & Nudity

    S1:E3

    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:Unknown

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  4. Coupling Season 1 Episode 4 - Inferno
    9.0/10(869 votes)

    #4 - Inferno

    S1:E4

    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:Unknown

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  5. Coupling Season 1 Episode 5 - The Girl with Two Breasts
    9.0/10(960 votes)

    #5 - The Girl with Two Breasts

    S1:E5

    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:Unknown

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  6. Coupling Season 1 Episode 6 - The Cupboard of Patrick's Love
    8.6/10(682 votes)

    #6 - The Cupboard of Patrick's Love

    S1:E6

    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:Unknown

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"Flushed" is the best rated episode of "Coupling" season 1. It scored 8.2/10 based on 873 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Steven Moffat, it aired on 5/12/2000. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "Size Matters".