

Coupling
2003 · NBC · 30 min · 1 season
S01E04 · Check/Mate
Fri, 24 Oct, 11:30 am
The politics of paying for dates vexes Steve and Susan's sex life, which gets even trickier after their friends weigh in on how to settle up in the bedroom. Meanwhile, Patrick realizes that his too-cool car makes him look like a loser; and Jane takes on her stalker for not paying her enough attention.
About
Coupling centers on the dating, sexual adventures, and mishaps of six friends in their late twenties and thirties, often depicting the three women and the three men each talking among themselves about the same events, but in entirely different terms.
Episodes
- E01
The Right One
Fri, 26 Sept· 30 minSteve tries to dump Jane after meeting Jeff's ex, Susan, whose own former flame is eyeing up her best friend,
- E02
Size Matters
Fri, 3 Oct· 30 minSusan offers "to cook" for Steve, but he nearly chokes on the date after rumors of Patrick's sexier attributes come up and something in her bedside drawer refuses to be kept down. Meanwhile, Sally uses Jeff to size up Patrick before she agrees to go out with him; and Jane hits on a gay guy to get a rise out of her own ex.
- E03
Sex, Death & Nudity
Fri, 10 Oct· 30 minJane's aunt's funeral turns into a group outing once Susan, Sally, Patrick and Jeff realize that she's asked Steve to attend as her date. But Jeff has a hard time remaining respectful after getting a highly inappropriate phrase stuck in his head.
- E04
Check/Mate
Fri, 24 Oct· 30 minThe politics of paying for dates vexes Steve and Susan's sex life, which gets even trickier after their friends weigh in on how to settle up in the bedroom. Meanwhile, Patrick realizes that his too-cool car makes him look like a loser; and Jane takes on her stalker for not paying her enough attention.
- E05
Present Tense
TBA· 30 minSince he isn't Jewish, Steve is lost when Susan invites him over for Yom Kippur leftovers, and asks Patrick and Jeff whether or not you're supposed to give presents on that holiday -- which leads to a misunderstanding with Sally, who was eavesdropping. Meanwhile, Jane decides to take up charity work to prove to the others that she's a giving person.
- E06
A Foreign Affair
TBA· 30 minJeff falls for a girl who happens to not speak a word of English, and she for him, but their communication breakdown causes misunderstandings for both when she mistakenly assumes that he's interested in her interpreter, and he mistakenly confuses her name with one which means something else in her country.
- E07
Nipple Effect
TBA· 30 minPatrick wants to break up with his date, because she is too hard on his nipples. Sally seeks to uncover the mystery of why her date is insistent on her not wearing makeup. Steve and Susan decide to start things anew by hooking up as if it were for the very first time. And Jane picks a bad time to chat up her co-worker.
- E08
Dressed
TBA· 30 minJane commits a fashion faux pas while on a first date. Patrick lies to a buddy by claiming that he's married -- and then tries to get Susan to play his wife. Meanwhile, Susan and Jeff mix business and pleasure at his place.
- E09
Object Lessons
TBA· 30 minSusan has it out with Steve for failing to pick up some of his belongings from Jane's apartment -- months after their breakup. And when a bevy of chiseled firemen invade the gang's bar, Jeff decides to prove to Patrick that women don't notice him by showing the gals drooling over the firefighters his juggling and chair-balancing talents.
- E10
Holiday
TBA· 30 minFor Christmas, Patrick's sympathy plea over how he's got no one to spend the holiday with makes Sally and Jane want to spend it with him. Meanwhile, Jeff thinks he's found true love in a hot bartender by the name of Molly, but little does he know what she has in store for him. And Susan wants to take the next step with Steve and meet the folks -- to his chagrin.
Cast

Christopher Moynihan
Jeff Clancy

Colin Ferguson
Patrick Maitland

Jay Harrington
Steve Taylor

Lindsay Price
Jane Honda

Rena Sofer
Susan Freeman

Sonya Walger
Sally Harper