Carrie and Barry, tired of their own problems, try a spot of match-making with their friends Kirk and Michelle.

Barry wants to become a masseur, but Kirk is the only person who'll let him practice. Michelle has a disatrous blind date with Duncan.

Barry is bored. Bored enough to try on Carrie's clothes, stupid enough to get caught by his teenage daughter Sinead.

Carrie and Barry's sex life has gradually been replaced by hours of compulsive car-crash telly programmes. Carrie asks Barry if he'll have a vasectomy.

Barry hopes his French neighbour's sophistication will rub off on him, while Carries tries to use sex as a sleeping aid.

A cabbie and his beautician wife are struggling to keep their marriage alive. Everyone thinks Barry is a wife-batterer when Carrie accidentally gives herself a black eye.