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You can't help thinking that Victor doesn't do himself any favours when he answers the phone at 9.30 on a Sunday morning after a night of no sleep thanks to Mrs Aylesbury's party across the road. For god's sake unplug the phone or just ignore it. But if you'd done that we wouldn't have had this wonderful episode full of absolute torture, tragedy and downright hilarity. 'Oh, by the way, that address you gave me doesn't actually exist'. After hosting someone for a whole day and hating every single minute of it, not to mention unwittingly feeding the little sods from across the road, you'd think they'd be glad to see the back of this 'small man with the moustache' but in keeping with his on-the-whole generous nature, Victor allows mr Foskett to stay after receiving terrible news that his wife has left him and taken his children. After a very embarrassing suicide attempt that goes wrong on the roof of their house, word gets back to the Meldrews that Mr Foskett has finally thrown himself from the window of the police station while in their care and killed himself. This isn't supposed to be funny but with the subsequent bequeathal of his entire collection of false teeth arriving in the post, to quote Victor - 'if we couldn't laugh at this, we'd be committing suicide'.