Joking Apart

- Season 1

(1993)

Mark meets Becky when he accidentally turns up at a funeral instead of a party, they marry but their relationship quickly deteriorates until she leaves him during a surprise birthday party.

Charts the key moments of Mark and Becky's relationship from their meeting at a funeral, to a disastrous dinner with boring friends and right up to their break-up at a surprise birthday party.

Robert and Tracy look after Mark after Becky leaves him but they seem to be more distraught than he is. Meanwhile, Mark reminisces about his and Becky's farcical first date.

Robert and Tracy struggle to keep Mark and Becky and Becky's new boyfriend from meeting after a scheduling mistake leads to all of them being invited to dinner the same night.

Mark reminisces about the many times he asked Becky to marry him and how he finally got her to say yes.

While she's home alone, Mark sleeps with Tracy and while he's lounging about in her bed, Becky turns up. Then, unexpectedly, Robert returns home early.

Mark juggles three women in his apartment: a drunken stranger he brought home from a club, Tracy who wants to move in after Robert kicks her out, and Becky, who has broken up with Trevor.