Rab C. Nesbitt

- Season 2

(1992)

To thank Mary for looking after them her elderly neighbours give the Nesbitts and the Cotters the use of their cottage by Loch Lomond. Unfortunately it is falling apart, with planes flying overhead and a pub run by hostile Englishmen. After disgracing themselves at the Ceilidh Rab and Jamesie have to be brought home by the mountain rescue team but Rab does have a brief moment to wax lyrical about his country.

Rab and Jamesie move into a squalid flat after they row with their spouses. A philosophical Rab recalls their schooldays back in 1962 with a sadistic teacher who told Rab he'd be dead in the gutter before he was forty and the sweet, sparky Isobel,Rab's first love. In the harsh modern world Jamesie returns to Ella after she overdoses and Rab goes back to Mary.

During a domestic argument Mary stabs Rab in the back and when the social worker makes a home visit Burney and Gash start breaking furniture over each other's heads, leading to their being taken to a sadistic care home. After Rab and Mary prove that they are fit parents and win the boys back they visit the social worker,where they witness another 'domestic'.

Jamesie falls foul of Govan's answer to Hannibal the Cannibal, Young Young McGurn, after dating his daughter Tracey,unleashing his psychotic family on the Cotters and Nesbitts. When Young Young takes Jamesie to the top of a high rise and threatens to push him off Rab is chosen by the police as the go-between in exchange for quashing his court fines. Once on top of the building he makes a surprising discovery about McGurn.

Rab stops a grumpy,ungrateful wino from drowning himself and takes him home to stay with the family. As a result they catch the man's lice and Rab is accused of having a lodger so his benefits are cut. When the unwelcome guest refuses to leave Rab realises that he has been conned and brings in a hitman to get rid of him.

A group of Devil worshippers move in next door to Rab and when he protests they curse him. He has a series of accidents and ends up in hospital. Mary and Gash both sign up to religious sects before Gash and Burney join the satanists. This is the last straw for Rab,who takes appropriate action against his warlock neighbour.

Mary's cousin Shug,who lives in England but gets very Scottish after a skinful,brings his hatchet-faced wife Phoebe to spend Hogmanay with the Nesbitts,who are still feuding after an unhappy Christmas. Shug is in his element at the karaoke, the Chinese and the home brew session...until he sobers up and gets an attack of English conscience. Phoebe,surprisingly ,lightens up and invites Mary to a party South of the border where Mrs. Nesbitt enjoys a highland fling of her own.