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The Worst Episodes of Men Behaving Badly

Every episode of Men Behaving Badly ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Men Behaving Badly!

Sitcom following the misadventures of laddish flatmates Gary and Tony
Genre:Comedy
Network:BBC One

Worst Episodes Summary

"Animals" is the worst rated episode of "Men Behaving Badly". It scored 6.4/10 based on 120 votes. Directed by N/A and written by Simon Nye, it aired on 3/10/1992. This episode scored 0.2 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Intruders".

  • Animals
    6.4/10120 votes
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    #1 - Animals

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 3/10/1992

    Gary suggests to Dorothy that they should have an ""open relationship"". Much to his surprise, she agrees. Dermot makes greater efforts to get somewhere with Deborah

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Simon Nye

  • Intruders
    6.6/10140 votes
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    #2 - Intruders

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 2/18/1992

    Gary wants to leave his girlfriend, Dorothy, but she decides to leave him first. Gary owns a flat and needs a lodger to help pay the mortgage. Unfortunately, he's got Dermot as a lodger and he's no help at all. A young woman named Deborah moves into the flat upstairs and Dermot immediately decides he's in love with her. The feeling isn't mutual though!

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Simon Nye

  • Alarms & Setbacks
    6.6/10121 votes
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    #3 - Alarms & Setbacks

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 3/3/1992

    Gary tries to impress Deborah by installing a burglar alarm while Dermot tries to impress her by offering his body!

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Simon Nye

  • The Bet
    6.8/10128 votes
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    #4 - The Bet

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 2/25/1992

    Gary and Dermot play chess to decide who will win an evening of pleasure

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Simon Nye

  • Sex & Violence
    6.8/10117 votes
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    #5 - Sex & Violence

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 3/17/1992

    Dermot organises a romantic dinner for Deborah

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Simon Nye

  • My Brilliant Career
    6.8/10120 votes
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    #6 - My Brilliant Career

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 3/24/1992

    Gary thinks that he's been offered a new job so takes his staff out to dinner so that he can tell them that he's leaving! Will he be correct? Meanwhile, Dermot loses his job after he dangles a customer by the ankles.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Simon Nye

  • Gary and Tony
    7.3/10126 votes
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    #7 - Gary and Tony

    Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/8/1992

    Dermot has left the flat and gone abroad so Gary advertises for a new lodger. After interviewing a string of very strange and weird applicants, Gary offers the room to a bloke called Tony. Also, Anthea asks Gary for a pay rise and gets locked in the stationery cupboard.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Simon Nye

  • How to Dump Your Girlfriend
    7.3/10108 votes
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    #8 - How to Dump Your Girlfriend

    Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/22/1992

    Deborah is ill, so Tony decides to look after her. Meanwhile, Tony decides that his girlfriend is getting too serious for his liking so sets about finding a way of dumping her without having to tell her face to face!

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Simon Nye

  • Going Nowhere
    7.3/10105 votes
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    #9 - Going Nowhere

    Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/6/1992

    Gary and Deborah are trapped in a lift together. Tony has bought an old van and equips it with an electric blanket - Can you guess why?!

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Simon Nye

  • People Behaving Irritatingly
    7.3/10112 votes
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    #10 - People Behaving Irritatingly

    Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/13/1992

    Tony's brother has come to stay and so does his girlfriend. Gary ends up wanting to kill both of them. Then he finds out that her parents have a holiday villa which might be available for a free holiday. Now he'll have to be nice to them both!

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Simon Nye

  • Casualties
    7.3/10107 votes
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    #11 - Casualties

    Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 7/15/1994

    Deborah has become very depressed, so she decides to sell her flat and leave the country (As you do!!!). To prevent her from leaving, Gary and Tony do everything they can think of to convince potential buyers that her flat is a terrible place to live!

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Simon Nye

  • Weekend
    7.3/10101 votes
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    #12 - Weekend

    Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 7/22/1994

    Tony gets a job as a barman, working for Les. Gary and Dorothy compare fantasies.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Simon Nye

  • Your Mate v Your Bird
    7.3/1091 votes
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    #13 - Your Mate v Your Bird

    Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 7/11/1996

    Gary has to decide between keeping Tony as a flatmate and living with Dorothy. He finally decides to ask Tony to leave. Tony moves to a room in ""The Crown"". Then Dorothy announces that she's decided to move in with Deborah! Tony tries to prove his love for Deborah with a do-it-yourself tattoo.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Simon Nye

  • Rent Boy
    7.4/10114 votes
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    #14 - Rent Boy

    Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/15/1992

    Tony tries to impress Deborah by pretending that he can speak German - His plan backfires, however, when Debs gets a letter from a German customer and asks him to translate it for her! Gary begins to suspect that Tony is gay.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Simon Nye

  • Troublesome 12
    7.4/10104 votes
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    #15 - Troublesome 12

    Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 9/29/1992

    Dorothy demands an explanation when Tony sells one of her LP records, which is a 'rare' collectors' item worth £200, which is green in colour. Gary has to find a replacement! - The replacement LP is black, so Gary tries to paint it green! When Dorothy is not convinced, he has to pay her £200. Then, Tony tells him that there was a misprint in the catalogue - the green LP was only worth a few pounds!!!

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Simon Nye

  • Lovers
    7.4/10108 votes
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    #16 - Lovers

    Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 7/1/1994

    Gary is upset when he discovers that he's had well below the average number of sexual partners for a man of his age, so goes to great lengths to prove to Dorothy that he's VERY experienced. Meanwhile, Deborah has split up with her boyfriend, making Tony thinks he's ""in with a chance""!

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Simon Nye

  • Rich and Fat
    7.4/1097 votes
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    #17 - Rich and Fat

    Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 7/25/1996

    Everyone keeps telling Tony that he's getting fat, so he tries to lose weight. Tony discovers that Gary has £33,000 in his savings account and soon everyone knows about it. Dorothy 'persuades' Gary to make a donation to the hospital appeal fund but everyone is after Gary for a handout. He solves the problem by pretending that he's blown all of his money on expensive watches and Harrods lager.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Simon Nye

  • Performance
    7.4/1090 votes
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    #18 - Performance

    Season 7 Episode 1 - Aired 12/25/1998

    Gary and Dorothy are determined to try for a baby; however Gary has a slight impotence problem so collects a heavy collection of pornography to solve the issue.

    Director: Martin Dennis

    Writer: Simon Nye

  • Cleaning Lady
    7.5/10108 votes
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    #19 - Cleaning Lady

    Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 7/29/1994

    Dorothy orders Gary to hire a cleaner because she is fed up with the dirty state of the flat. Gary agrees, reluctantly, and becomes obsessed with his new cleaning lady! Tony loses his job at the pub when Les's brother comes to stay, but finds a new job as a male model.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Simon Nye

  • Marriage
    7.5/1098 votes
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    #20 - Marriage

    Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 8/5/1994

    Tony resorts to bugging Deborah's flat in an attempt to find out what she sees in her new estate agent boyfriend. Gary takes Dorothy to the ""Pasta Pig"" for a romantic meal. Carried away by the wine and the atmosphere, he forgets himself and proposes! - Dorothy accepts!! Next morning, Gary has second thoughts but how can he escape marriage?

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Simon Nye

  • Babies
    7.5/1099 votes
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    #21 - Babies

    Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 5/25/1995

    Deborah leaves her keys with Tony so that he can let the gas engineer in to service her boiler. Tony can't resist the chance to have a peep in Deborah's underwear drawer, with disastrous consequences! Gary and Dorothy think they might have a baby - Dorothy begins to wonder whether Gary is mature enough to be a father.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Simon Nye

  • Cowardice
    7.5/1094 votes
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    #22 - Cowardice

    Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 7/4/1996

    Gary makes himself look like a coward in a 'road rage' incident so he hatches a plan to make himself look macho. He hires someone to pretend to pick a fight with him in the pub but ends up fighting the wrong man. Deborah has a female friend staying with her. Gary and Tony are convinced that she's going through a ""lesbian phase""!

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Simon Nye

  • Sofa
    7.5/1094 votes
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    #23 - Sofa

    Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 12/11/1997

    Dorothy talks Gary into getting rid of his 25-year-old sofa. Gary reminisces about the events his sofa has 'witnessed'.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Simon Nye

  • Playing Away
    7.6/10105 votes
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    #24 - Playing Away

    Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 7/13/1995

    Tony has toothache but can't face a trip to the dentist. He decides on a 'do-it-yourself' extraction and ends up in great pain. Gary and Deborah have gone away on a weekend writing course. Tony calls Dorothy at the hospital and she comes round to help him. They end up in bed together.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Simon Nye

  • Hair
    7.6/1097 votes
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    #25 - Hair

    Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 6/20/1996

    Tony is away travelling around Europe. Meanwhile, Gary and Dorothy have a very romantic time and Dorothy decides that she'll move in with Gary. She also decides that Tony will have to leave the flat if he moves in! Tony comes home with a beard and is shocked to find a tidy flat with a fridge full of food instead of lager. Gary agonises about ways of breaking the news to Tony that he'll have to leave the flat.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Simon Nye