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Tim is worried when Lucy points out that he's more in touch with his feminine side then Lee is. Lucy is at a talk given by sexy mature man Guy, she's told he's gay, and tells him that Lee is gay, he's invited around for dinner and Lucy breaks the news to Lee. Guy has a spare England ticket, Lee is desperate to go, after some banter Guy agrees to take him.

It's hilariously funny, lots of cringey and inappropriate jokes obviously, Lee's stereotypical views of gay men were just side splitting. One of the funniest episodes, Lee Mack's delivery in this one is fantastic.

Tim's catching Lee in gay situations is hilarious, his face when he sees him dancing with the muscle man is mint. 'What were you doing dancing with that man in that specialist pub,' laugh out loud funny.

When Lucy makes a homophobic comment to her new work colleague Guy (who she is told is gay), she uses the old 'how can I be gay, I have a gay flatmate' line. Asking Lee to pretend to be gay for one evening while Guy comes round for dinner, Lee reluctantly goes along with it, but says for one evening only. But when Guy offers Lee free corporate tickets to watch England, will he be willing to be gay for a bit longer...

This was a quality episode of the excellent sitcom 'Not Going Out' full of the usual brilliant one liners and characters digging larger and larger holes for themselves. As it turns out, Guy isn't gay either and he ends up dating Lucy, appearing on a semi-regular basis for the rest of the second series.

Me and my mate pretended to be a gay couple once to get in a gay bar. The bouncer believed us.

After a fine first series where Lee's flatmate was Californian Kate (Megan Dobbs), Sally Bretton's Lucy became Lee's new flatmate and remains so as six series have now been made. Two episodes into the role and Bretton seems totally at home here. An excellent comedy with a 70's sitcom feel about it. In my view, 'Not Going Out' is Britain's best sitcom since the turn of the century.

This hasn't aged well. Is it really only 16/17 years old ?

Lee Mack and Tim pretend to be gay because the flatmate has a client who is gay and she wants to get on with him..... something like that... the plot is slightly irrelevant.

It just means it's full of rather dated references to what is gay and what isn't, pink champagne and lager and lime are obviously gay and football is definitely not gay ... it's a long, worn out, dated joke. It feels like something from the 1970s with the constant naff references.

There is an episode of the IT Crowd about being gay and it's a little better played .