Men Behaving Badly - Season 5

The early 1990s saw "lad" culture filtering into the mainstream in the U.K., with magazines such as Maxim and Loaded presenting bawdy, risqué accounts of the activities of the modern male. Bands such as Oasis attained huge success, with charismatic singer Liam Gallagher perhaps typifying the proper cheeky behavior. Television wasn't immune either, with the hit show MEN BEHAVING BADLY embodying the world of the lad in its two principle characters: Gary (Martin Clunes) and Tony (Neil Morrissey). The two live together in a flat beset by untidy squalor, with Gary's girlfriend, Dorothy (Caroline Quentin), inhabiting the flat upstairs with her friend Deborah (Leslie Ash). Tony's attempts to woo Deborah are met with firm rebuttals throughout the show, while Gary undergoes various crises of confidence and commitment worries in his relationship with Dorothy. The hapless pairing of the angst-ridden Gary and Tony ensures laughs aplenty throughout, as they try to escape their sorrows in alcohol-fueled discussions of the female anatomy and the mysteries of womankind. The fifth series of the show is collected here.