With Eddie having spent most of their remaining £11.80 on a second-hand copy of Parade magazine, he and Richie spend a night watching Miss World on the television.
It emerges that while Eddie has been out at the office trying to claim his dole money, Richie has spent all day making an inexpensive dinner for the pair (everything has been grown, found or foraged), which turns out to be inedible.
Eddie refuses to eat the dinner and reveals he has been denied his dole as he has too much in savings - £11.80, which ought to last him two months - but he has "invested" the majority of it in a secondhand copy of Parade magazine.
Richie is less than impressed when he finds out Eddie has placed the money on the hideous, apparently ancient Chinese contestant, as he felt the odds were so good.
Eddie reveals that he never placed the bet anyway; he only claimed to have done it so Richie would insist they watch Miss World.
Eddie had instead spent the money on a "slap-up grill" before he gets home as he saw Richie preparing "dinner" when he left that morning.