The original pilot has not been released; it was directed by Alex Hardcastle and Nick Wood, written by Lee Mack and Andrew Collins, and featured Catherine Tate in the role of Kate.
However, Tim's actual plan is to convince Kate to offer Lee's room to a new female flatmate, removing her from all male attention.
Tim rushes off to join a boxing gym while Lee, in an attempt to impress Lucy, makes the mistake of confronting the man in his own flat, where he finds a creepy psychopath with the eyes of a cold killer.
Lee is horrified when he hears that Lucy is considering marriage to Pavlov (Aleksander Mikic), a political refugee from the Eastern bloc who is a local mechanic, just so that he can stay in the country.
Daisy arrives with a malfunctioning nail gun which accidentally fires many times, hitting Stubbs and breaking the ropes, enabling Lee and Tim to escape.
Tim finds out about the filming when he unexpectedly walks in on it, but Lee persuades him it is a thriller, causing him to ask for a bit part or he will tell Lucy.
The tape reveals that Lucy set up the premise of having sex together on purpose so that Lee would think that they did, thereby proving her point that one can forget things when drunk.
EpisodeNumber2=7 CIN Special Wogan When Lucy accidentally runs over a female pet rabbit belonging to Sophie, the daughter of important client Paul, she needs Lee and Daisy to help cover her tracks.
Lee tries to lighten the situation by jokingly claiming he is a rabbit thief named Warren Burrows, only for Paul to think he is a lunatic and threaten to call the police.
When Lucy enrols at night school on a training course in counselling, Lee takes advantage of her new-found skill to try to patch things up with his father Frank.
Lee attempts to stop Lucy from flirting with male delegates at a three-day annual trade conference, which she does in order to gain contracts.
After Lee stops dating Rachel, she enters the flat and corners the pair with a large kitchen knife, leaving Daisy to step in and save them.
When Lucy's first love Scott (Simon Farnaby) reappears after 19 years and asks her to be in a play that he wrote for her, Lee has to fight for her attention, which ends badly.
The group go out for the meal, but Lee is acting strange about his fake job as a rich bank worker when Anna continues to ask questions.
However, Lee's fear of flying is causing him to overreact to various situations, earning him the disapproval of Olga, the stern air stewardess, before the plane has even taken off.
Lee's paranoia gets worse when he notices a passenger who he suspects of being a terrorist due to his nervous disposition and refusal to let go of his bag, even taking it to the toilet with him.
Lucy's cousin is marrying in France so the family set off in the car to catch a ferry with plenty of time to spare, or so they think until the traffic slows things down and the satnav says they will miss the last check-in if they do not find another route.
Toby has pressured Lee, Lucy, Anna, Frank, Geoffrey and Wendy into taking part in a sponsored skydive with him to raise money for their local children's hospital, despite most of them being terrified at the prospect.
When they start trying too hard to get their way, followed by acting too nice to make up for it, Lee and Lucy decide to play them at their own game, framed by a series of lies about their relationship.
Lee is outraged to find out that the twins have already started sex education in school and so, despite the urgings of Lucy and their teacher, he determines to teach them what he knows about the subject instead.
His attempts fail due to his lack of knowledge and discomfort at telling them, causing the twins to repeat misleading things from Lee at school.
Lee and Toby finish the job themselves, but due to their severe lack of building skills many things in the kitchen collapse shortly after Lucy arrives home.
However, when Lee ends up locked in the imposing old manor house, in which a mysterious old woman (guest star Marcia Warren) lives alone, he quickly realises that not only could he be mistaken for a burglar, but the slightest shock could kill her.
When he complains that Lucy has booked tickets to the Christmas Eve pantomime purely to see her teenage crush, Jason Donovan, his attitude comes back to haunt him when he wakes up trapped in a performance of Cinderella as Buttons, with his family and friends in all the other roles.
When Lee is picking up Molly the next day, he meets a man called Keith (Joe Wilkinson), a taxi driver, and makes an effort to chat to him.
He begins to think his neighbour, Stuart, has a killed a local cat called Mr Snuffles belonging to an elderly woman living in the street because of his hate for him, such as chucking water at him when he was urinating on his flowerbed.
He accuses the other eleven jurors of scratching his car, which inevitably leads to tensions, especially when the foreman (guest star Colin McFarlane) says the verdict is to be unanimous, and Lee is initially the only one who votes not guilty.
Lee, Lucy, Wendy, Geoffrey, Toby, Anna, Molly, Benji, Charlie and Jack go on a camping trip in the woods together, but the bad weather threatens to interrupt their fun.
But visits from the parents-in-law and Anna and Toby, who arrive to ask him a question he does not want to hear, ensure that his stress levels remain dangerously high.
When Lee goes to watch his son Benji playing football for a local Under-13s team, he is unable to restrain himself on the touchline and becomes the competitive dad that all the other parents avoid.