Thu, Jul 25, 2013
To celebrate his acceptance into the White Man's Reggae Club Lance bakes some hash cakes to take along to the meeting. Unfortunately the staff innocently eat most of them. As a result Janine is super-efficient but Jerwayne and Ashley become tearful and paranoid whilst Christopher becomes extremely aggressive and takes to the streets on a rampage of destruction. He is arrested but fortunately the policemen are also members of the White Man's Reggae Club and help Lance replenish his stock of cakes.
Thu, Aug 29, 2013
Jerwayne meets up with Cuzzy, who bullied him at Sunday School twenty years earlier. Cuzzy still makes Jerwayne feel so threatened that, rather than admit he works in a Phone Shop, he claims to manage a rap group called New Man Ting. Thus he ropes in the staff, led by Christopher, to perform with Lance making a video of their rap. They impress a record producer - until he discovers that they are all fakes, not to mention the fact that Lance has not entirely filmed over his sex tape with Shelley. The dejected lads return the Bentley they hired for the occasion - only to find that Cuzzy is a humble car cleaner and no threat at all.
Thu, Dec 15, 2011
Whilst Christopher gets head-hunted by Dean Bisk to work in a new firm which is so secretive its name cannot be mentioned Ashley and Jerwayne are summoned by loopy area manager Razz Prince and invited to become part of his elite selling crew. After Razz has visited the Phone Shop and berated Lance for dressing exactly like him he has a further meeting with his potential new elite selling crew members but explains that there is only one vacancy and they must fight for it. A gun is produced and Ashley and Jerwayne decline the offer as Razz has an accident with his weapon,so to speak.
Thu, Nov 4, 2010
Lance and his bossy,demanding wife Shelley have renewed their marriage vows and are on a second honeymoon,leaving Janine in charge. Pleased at her temporary promotion she tells Christopher that they must 'go the extra mile' to make their customers feel wanted but unfortunately this leads to a misunderstanding where they are taken for swingers. Ashley makes a date with a soldier,hoping that she will be gagging for it after months in the desert but her blood-lust terrifies him. Jerwayne is also terrified after Shelley,discovering that she and Lance were never legally married,makes a drunken play for him. All the staff flee for the safety of the phone shop.
Thu, Nov 24, 2011
After he has split up with her,Jerwayne's ex-girlfriend Olivia gets revenge by posting images of him,dancing,talking and sucking his thumb whilst asleep. However the shots go global and Jerwayne becomes a media celebrity under the name of Sleepyman,with fans coming from all over Europe to see him at the shop,a fact Lance is quick to exploit. Janine asks Christopher to get rid of her ex-convict former boyfriend Ray,who,she claims,nearly ruined her life though when Christopher meets up with Ray he gets an entirely different account with Ray - real name James - feigning imprisonment to escape from Janine.
Thu, Oct 21, 2010
Razz Prince,the loud and irritating area manager arrives at the shop and annoys Lance by calling him boring so Lance attempts to be a hip,ganja-smoking Rasta but ends up being sick. In the evening the staff go to a night club where once again Lance gets accused of being boring by the stand-up comic but Christopher has discovered that Razz means to get rid of him and blackmails him into changing his mind.
Thu, Nov 4, 2010
Jerwayne is exceedingly jealous of Don,the handsome international business man to whom Janine has just got engaged. Christopher,on the other hand,admires him because Don is giving him tips on how to become Salesman of the Month. In fact following a phone call from Gary Patel,Christopher discovers that he is not salesman of the month after all whilst Don is exposed as being a garbage removal man and Janine considers transferring her affections to Jerwayne as she calls the engagement off.
Fri, Nov 13, 2009
Naïve young Christopher starts on a one-day trial at the Sutton Phone Shop after assistant manager Gary Patel has been jailed for attacking the lads from Top Shop with a crossbow. He meets his new boss,Lance - whose medication has odd side effects - the ambitious but serious Janine and jokers Ashley and Jerwayne (twenty-nine but still living at home) who are nonetheless hot shot salespeople. Unlike Christopher - whom they nickname New Man. Indeed Christopher is considering quitting until he effects a sale which suddenly makes him very popular.
Thu, Oct 14, 2010
Lance is puzzled by an amorous email from somebody called Kim but decides to play along until he discovers that 'she' is actually a man. Jerwayne obsesses over a salesgirl for whom he has fallen but feels he is being controlled by the owl tattoo on her back. Ashley schmoozes with a sexy customer but is horrified to find it is the same girl. Ashley and Jerwayne's advice to Christopher to play it cool on a lunch date with a girl he met that morning does not pay off when it makes him look like an idiot. Janine also contributes to breaking up the couple though it proves to be a blessing in disguise.
Thu, Nov 17, 2011
The staff are dreading the upcoming training day when facilitator Fat Tony will subject them to group hugs. However,when Tony's glamorous associate Davinia arrives in his stead after he has been in a car accident,the men fall over themselves to impress,unaware that her seductive manner is leading them into a trap. Convinced that she has a Lesbian stalker Janine persuades Christopher to accompany her to a gay club,where he makes many new friends but loses his girlfriend as a result - and turns out to be the stalker's prey.