Doc Brown - Lloyd - Hotel Receptionist
Holiday is the fourth episode of Series 1, first airing 30 November 2009.
Summary[]
After being told not to play with the new toys by Stevie, Miranda and Gary immediately indulge in a spot of duck versus caterpillar racing in the shop, only to be brought up short when a customer enters. She assumes they have children, and they tell Mandy, that they have two little boys named Cliff and Richard, and they are Mary and Joseph Richards.
Miranda then decides she needs to be a bit reckless and wild. She's young, free, and happily single, after all, so why not book a spontaneous holiday? She announces she's going to Thailand. Her friends are skeptical, but she goes home immediately and books an on line reservation - to the local hotel, Hamilton Lodge, just down the street. A holiday with no language barriers, no beaches, and no annoying travel.
After 26 hours at the hotel Miranda has done everything - she's had six baths; eaten every room service meal; pressed every pair of trousers she owns; mistakenly ordered an overly familiar escort; and reached verbal diarrhea levels with the young porter. Her trip away reaches an even weirder level when she's mistaken for the hotel's visiting seminar leader, by coordinator, Colin. The seminar group spend the afternoon drinking and then take the party to Miranda's room.
Her new pal, Colin accidentally rings Gary on her phone, and she sends him a photo of the drunken group in front of tropical wallpaper. When she then drunkenly sends another photo of the view from her window, Gary works out where Miranda actually is, and he turns up at her room to check up on her. A regally drunk Miranda suggests that to prove the ease of their friendship, they should just sleep together, before promptly passing out on top of him. She awakes alone, however, with embarrassing memories.
Much the worse for wear, she heads downstairs where she is expected to run the seminar, something she is patently incapable of doing, and drafts Stevie, who has paid 100 pounds for the course. Amanda Barnes, the course leader, whom Miranda knew as Mandy, then appears and wants to know what is going on with her seminar. Miranda makes her escape out the window.
On returning from her spontaneous holiday, Miranda defends her choice of location - what's not wild about getting drunk, ordering an escort, making new friends, running a seminar, and jumping out of a window?
Quotes[]
Miranda: I really want to play with the toys. Do you want to play with the toys?
Gary: I really want to play with the toys.
Miranda: No, we can't, we're open!
Gary: So? Caterpillar-duck race, hello!
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Clive: Madame requested an escort?
Miranda: You're an escort?!
Clive: You're not in Thailand!
Miranda: Coming back at you with 'you're an escort?'
Clive: Coming back at you with 'you ordered an escort!'
Miranda: I did not, I ordered company!
Clive: That's just code. Well, seeing as we're here, we might as well make good, sweet love.
Miranda: Clive, I'm not going to sleep with you!
Clive: Don't be shy, I've had weirder.