Black Books

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Season 2, Episode 5, Aired 3/29/02

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Fran starts spending time with a new-age friend to try and wind down while Bernard and Manny are having another fight. Bernard believes Manny is a psychopath and sends him to a therapist, where he unlocks a confidence he never knew he had.

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Dylan Moran

Bernard Ludwig Black
Tamsin Greig

Fran Katzenjammer
Bill Bailey

Manny Bianco

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My absolute favourite episode for this series. it's brilliant! between Fran's discovery of yoga, Bernard's discovery of Freud and Manny's homemaker blues, it's one of those episodes that you can watch countless times without tiring of it.moreless

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By parizada, Sep 16, 2005 Report Abuse

Brilliant episode. encompasses everything that makes Black Books what it is. With it's share of witty humour, and downright slapstick comedy, it's one of those episodes that will have you in fits of laughter.

When Manny buys a complete set of Freud, Bernard starts reading them and becomes convinced that Manny needs to see a shrink. Meanwhile, Fran has just tried yoga for the first time at the insistence of her friend Eva, and is amazed at the transformation in herself. But how long can she really go without smokes or booze?moreless

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- Chalkboard: "No Prehensilizing" Edit
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- (picking up bits of the disgusting breakfast Manny made him) Bernard: Up with this I will not put! Edit
- Bernard: I've had enough of this, enough, I'm going out. (begins to leave) Fran: (drunk) Oh go on, go on, I'll mind the shop for you. I can be both of you, look: (imitating Manny) Bernard, Bernard, it's not fair! Bernard, here's your tea. Oh Bernard, Bernard can I have my pocket money. (imitating Bernard with a heavy Irish accent) Oh Manny, for the last time, shut up, mother o' god I think I'm gonna kill ya! (Fran laughs maniacally) Manny: Now that is mad. (Fran burps, and continues to laugh harder) Edit
- Fran: (smoking a cigarette) What are you all looking at? Oh, I cracked, didn't I? She was going on about how I had to give up milk and peas and god know's what. I mean, what's wrong with ****ing peas?! So I told her she could stuff it up her chakras! Edit
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- Thor Bernard refers to Manny as "Thor", a superhero from the Marvel range of comics. Thor is well-known for his built physique and bushy beard which somewhat resembles Manny's. Edit
- Sigmund Freud A leading writer and founder of the Psychoanalysis movement within Psychology. Freud is especially well-known within the academic Psychological realm for his controversial work in unconscious desires. Edit