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SEASON 1 – IFC

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The pilot for this series debuted on the British comedy anthology series “Comedy Showcase” on November 27, 2009. This episode was edited as the series pilot.

Theme song: “Life Is Sweet” written and performed by Johnny Marr

  • 001. In Which Claims Are Made and a Journey Ensues – 10/1/2010
    • American Todd Margaret (David Cross) is seen on trial in a British court and a barrage of charges are hurled at him. We see what led up to this event fourteen days earlier, when Todd is in Portland, Oregon and is unexpectedly chosen by his new boss Brent Wilts (Will Arnett) at Global National to head up a division in London to sell an energy drink known as Global thunder. When Todd hears that he will be making $120K, he immediately lies and tells Wilts that he grew up in Leeds. Todd’s former boss Doug Whitney (Spike Jonze) is fired for trying to stop Wilts from sending Todd. Todd says goodbye to Stephanie Daley (Amber Tamblyn), the girl he considered his girlfriend, and leaves his cat with a giant tub of tuna and heads to London. Immediately lost, he visits the Graceland Cafe where he burns his hand on a jar of jam and loses his luggage to a bomb squad. However, he meets the proprietor Alice Bell (Sharon Horgan) who helps him bandage his hand. He then finds that his office is a nearly abandoned warehouse, meets his unenthused assistant Dave (Blake Harrison), and receives 16,000 crates of Global Thunder. Todd tries to sell the drink one-by-one while Dave is more interested in visiting pubs and making a fool of Todd. After having no luck selling the product in a pub and then getting headbutted by a potential female customer on the street, they return to Graceland where Todd has a nervous breakdown. Alice ends up buying one can of the drink. Todd finds that his apartment is completely run down before collapsing on the floor, and back home Todd’s cat has died, and other cats have come in through the window. John Fortune is the Magistrate. Kristen Schaal appears unbilled as a tourist girl. 11/17/15

  • 002. A Plan Is Hatched and a Date Is Not a Date – 10/8/2010
    • Todd wakes up on his floor and meets his neighbor, the pregnant alcoholic Pam (Sara Pascoe) and her children Disaronno (Ben Wilby), Malibu (Madison Masters) and a baby, then heads directly to Graceland where he arranges to meet Alice at the pub so he can pay for the damages he caused during his nervous breakdown. He goes overboard and has Dave make him reservations and then goes out and buys condoms, attempting to hook up the proprietors of the drug store Ahmet & Sons with Thunder Muscle and score a date with the clerk Mehtap (Zahra Amadi). Todd also gets pressure from Wilts about making a sale, so he has Dave take Thunder Muscle to Sainsbury’s grocery store and place them on their shelves. Dressed in old-fashioned British attire, Todd takes Alice to the pub and during their date he promises to help her get a liquor license. He has to flee when he spots the girl who had head-butted him the day before, claiming to be allergic to the nuts there. Alice comes up to Todd’s apartment but flees after finding flowers, a stuffed animal, and box of condoms. Meanwhile, authorities have seized the Thunder Muscle at Sainsbury’s because it is toxic, and the store has threatened to take legal action against Global National. Todd is unconcerned until he finds out that they are a large chain. Todd’s apartment back in Portland has taken over by rats and skunks. 11/18/15
  • 003. The Snooker Player, the Black Canadian, the Turkish Terrorist, and the Peanut – 10/15/2010
    • Todd disciplines date for planting the Thunder Muscle at the large chain Sainsbury’s, then heads out to try and get Alice a liquor license, getting thrown out of the bureau in the process when he tries to bribe the case worker Ms. Whitehead (Felicity Montagu). Todd checks back in at Ahmet & Sons, where the store’s owner Ahmet (Stewart Scudamore) talks Todd into letting him make a copy of his passport, and freely gives him a copy of his liquor license, which Todd proudly presents to Alice. In appreciation Alice invites Todd to dinner. Todd has Dave find a celebrity to endorse Thunder Muscle and he get him snooker player Steve Davis (himself), spending nearly $80,000 to do it. When Todd shows up for dinner, he finds that Alice has another man there visiting named Hudson (Colin Salmon). They have a strange meal of ducktail toothpaste, pancetta gas, ceramic plates, and paper, and Todd feels like the third wheel. When Todd eats a chocolate covered nut, Alice assumes he is allergic to them and Hudson injects him with a medicine that sends him into convulsions all over the apartment. Back home in Portland, wolves and a vulture have taken over Todd’s apartment. 12/9/15
  • 004. In Which Brent Wilts Arrives and things Take a Turn for the Worse – 10/22/2010
    • Todd arrives at work and finds that all of the Thunder Muscle has disappeared. He immediately reports Dave to the police (Adam Stevens) but cannot recall Dave’s last name. Brent Wilts arrives in London and demands a meeting with Todd. When he is told that the drinks are ‘gone’, Wilts assumes that they have sold and asks Todd for the money, which he seems to desperately need. Doug Whitney shows up at his hotel and seems to be investigating Wilts. Todd attempts to direct the Thunder Muscle commercial at Alice’s restaurant, but Todd ends up getting attacked by Steve Davis when he can’t pronounce the world ‘snooker’ to Davis’s satisfaction. Dave returns and tells Todd that he has sold all of the Thunder Muscle to the Turkish people at Ahmet & Sons. Todd goes there to collect the money and get it… but soon finds out that it is all counterfeit money, leaving him kicked out of his taxi in his underwear in the rain. When he returns to the drug store he finds it abandoned. Meanwhile Wilts is back at his hotel room crying after losing at multiple games of online poker. Back in Oregon, a biohazard team investigates Todd’s apartment. George Georgiou is Osman. Alex Macqueen is the hotel manager. Justin Edwards and Margaret Cabourn-Smith are TV newscasters. 12/9/15
  • 005. Where Todd and Brent Misjudge the Mood of a Solemn Day – 10/29/2010
    • Brent demands the Thunder Muscle money from Todd, and through flashback it is revealed that Brent himself was merely a call center employee who, overpowered by his own tyrannical boss (Janeane Garafalo) has used motivational tapes to learn his aggressive behavior. Todd is beaten up again for twice kicking a ball into the face of a kid on the playground, then donates some of the counterfeit money to a Remembrance Sunday fund, taking out enough change to buy a Canadian wardrobe in an attempt to impress Alice. Todd finds out that he is wanted by the police in Portland after his apartment was condemned because of the 30 cans of tuna he left out for his cat. Todd turns over the 30,000 pounds to Brent but doesn’t tell him that it is counterfeit for fear of losing his job. Brent orders 16,000 more crates of Thunder Muscle for Todd to sell. Todd and Brent try to peddle Thunder Muscle at the Remembrance Sunday parade, and Todd ends up getting arrested, which is broadcast on all of the news channels. Doug Whitney continues to investigate Brent. Dave films pornographic films in Todd’s office. Alice heads out to bail Todd out of jail, while Dave’s father Chuck (Russ Tamblyn) watches the news back home of his son getting arrested. Annie Cooper is Svetlana. Marcus Onilude is Andre. Peter Brooke is Ethan Harkness. Hazel Douglas is the poppy seller. 2/12/16
  • 006. What Can Only Be Considered a Dreadful Day for Todd – 11/5/2010
    • After Alice bails out Todd, she berates him for his constant dishonesty. Continuing to lie about his job, Todd tells her that he is moving into a room at the House of Parliament and tells her to come visit the next night. Pam delivers her baby in Todd’s apartment and then continues her party lifestyle. Todd returns to the office and encounters the new shipment of Thunder Muscle, and also runs into Dave and tells him that he is quitting and returning home. However, Dave talks him out of it when their Steve Davis commercial airs and they begin receiving legitimate orders for the drink. Doug Whitney visits Brent and informs him that he is firing him, that Global National doesn’t actually exist, and that his credit has been cut off. Brent acts oblivious and says that he was called by a Mr. Mountford telling him that he was being promoted to president of Global National. Todd joins a deaf tour group at the House of Parliament, and after the tour guide Barbara (Susy Kane) discovers that Todd is not really deaf, Todd hides in the handicapped bathroom until the building closes and then takes residence in one of the rooms, where a man (James Doherty) has killed himself. Alice sees him in there from the street, just before Todd is arrested again. Alice attempts to vouch for Todd, and the police (Dominic Coleman) take them both back to Todd’s apartment, where Brent and Pam are having sex, blood from Pam’s birth covers the room, and box originally marked “Alice’s Drapes 4 Kitchen” has been damaged by afterbirth and now reads “Alice’s Rape Kit.” As the chaos comes to a head, Todd’s father shows up, whom Todd claims to be a ghost. Dave is seen leaving the ambassador’s party, and is called “Mr. Mountford.” 2/12/16

SEASON 2

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  • 007. Todd’s Terrible Day Ends and His Next Terrible Day Begins – 1/6/2012
    • Todd is surrounded by Korean men holding him at gunpoint and Todd gets ready to push a glowing red button. Nine days earlier Todd tries to explain his way out of his father’s return and his other lies to Alice. Brent is scared to death that Todd’s father, who claims to have shown up in London to lend Todd a hand after seeing him on the news, is actually a ghost. Dave, who is actually a rich socialite tended to by his butler Jon Hamm (himself) desperately tries to talk Todd into going to Leeds, but Todd refuses. A cowering, weeping Brent ramps up listening to his motivational CD’s and renews his aggression toward Todd and moves in with him. Todd makes a last-ditch effort to announce in front of the coffee shop that he never intended to rape Alice and tell her the truth about everything, vowing never to lie again. Ahmet, Osman, and Mehtap feign feeling guilty and scared of Todd in order to get Todd to carry out an unknown deadly task, returning his money, and giving him the keys to their truck full of the Thunder Muscle. Mehtap sets up a date with him at a precise time at Peppermint Finger Banks, and gives him a phone to dial for her at that precise time… but not before. Chuck babysits Pam’s kids, admits he’s not a ghost, and tries to council Alice on her ‘relationship’ with Todd. Todd finds out that he is being sued by Sainsbury’s for ten million pounds. Police pursue Todd to interview him about the death of the Parliament councilman Jeremy Stevenson, which causes Todd to agree to go to Leeds with Dave, taking the new truck he received from Ahmet. Joanna Carolan is Penny Fwist. Jimmy Livingstone is Sambuca. 5/9/16
  • 008. Todd and His Valet Arrive in Leeds and What They Saw There – 1/13/2012
    • Todd and Dave head toward Leeds and immediately run over a biker named Tito (Peter Sarafinowicz). Dave privately chastises police officers Thud Sissle (Adam Leese) and Briana Spank (Lucy Black) who knows him as the powerful Mountford and arrests the biker. En route Todd makes another effort to impress Alice by stopping at the prestigious La Molecule science restaurant where Alice has always wanted to work and gets her an interview by telling Head Chef Celestine (Catherine Shepherd) that Alice is a terminal retarded woman. Dave takes Todd to the Chairman Mike Micklethwaite (Simon Rouse) who runs the rugby team Lionhearts. When Todd makes an inappropriate remark about the Yorkshire Ripper, he is thrown out of the office and then resorts to getting involved with the boy mascots, and winds up in the rugby game to try and sell Thunder Muscle to the players. Dave watches and laughs from the owner’s box. After a violent scrum, Todd winds up in the hospital. Meanwhile Brent forms an alliance with Doug Whitney to get to the bottom of finding out who Mountjoy really is. He recalls the day he arrives in London and is told by the hotel desk clear that Mountjoy is cancelling their meeting… but sends along the motivational CD. Jordan Young is Sous Chef Purdy. Ingrid Oliver is Yancy McPickles. 5/10/16
  • 009. How the Liver and the Salad Conspired to Ruin Todd’s Good Deed – 1/20/2012
    • While Todd is in the hospital high on morphine, he hallucinates that a teddy bear is Hudson, who has taken credit for Alice getting the job at La Molecule. Meanwhile Chuck tries to convince Alice to choose Todd, and tells Alice that Todd is adopted. After destroying a liver for a transplant, Todd escapes the hospital by pretending to be a doctor and takes a vial full of spores to be convincing. Alice begins work at La Molecule, and Celestine is convinced she is retarded after Alice burns her mouth on some soup and talks funny, but she still thinks Alice is a talented chef and hires her. Todd returns to La Molecule, but allows Hudson take the credit, attempting to take some of Alice’s salad dressing in the vial he stole, only to have it taken by one of the chefs. He also is forced to turn over his truck to Celestine, who misinterpreted his offer to give her a ‘truck full of Thunder Muscle’. Meanwhile Brent and Doug continue searching for Mr. Mountford based on clues dropped to them by Dave. Jon Hamm asks Dave to be released from his job. Todd gets a phone message from Mehtap asking if Todd has parked the truck – which contains a bomb – yet. Depressed about leaving Alice behind at La Molecule, Todd ignores her request to call her. Rufus Jones is Dr. Professor Tigle. Donna Berlin is Karina Marina. 8/11/16
  • 010. In Which Todd Accidentally Learns a Secret and Brent and Doug Get Closer to Further from the Truth – 1/27/2012
    • Pam returns home and finds her apartment completely cleaned and looking homey… and then throws Chuck out. Brent and Doug visit a Dorothy Mountford (Rita Davies) and Brent accuses her of being a man. Alice visits Todd to tell him that she realizes that it was him who got her the job. They nearly kiss, but then the news broadcasts that La Molecule was quarantined because of the release of Megathrax. Alice assumes Todd is responsible, and he admits that it might have to do with the vial he left. Alice spills the beans that Chuck told her that Todd was adopted. Dave sits in a car next to Brent and Doug unbeknownst to them, and speaks to them both on a phone, convincing them that Todd Margaret actually employs Mountford. Todd meets a girl named Cheryl (Juliet Cowan) and winds up swept up in a bachelorette party. When Todd disguises his fart as a ringtone, he is forced to repeat it on command, eventually soiling himself and getting thrown out of the party in his underwear and a bra. Wandering away despondent over the news of his adoption, he is arrested burying his ID near Princess Diana’s grave, and is accused of trying to dig her up. Brent and Doug’s investigation lead them back to Todd’s apartment, where they think he is taunting them after having written “Who am I?” on a pad of paper. Lucy Montgomery is Lesley. Shelley Longworth is Cath. Colin Parry is Officer Fukiyami. 8/11/16
  • 011. The Crime Scene, the Storyteller and the Sanctimonious Tower of Morality – 2/3/2012
    • Todd is thrown in jail after being caught at Princess Diana’s grave, and when he asks for a Young and Not Legal aide, he is thrown into the pedophile wing with a pervert named Brian Chisrik (Graham Duff). They go through therapy via storytelling, and Brian privately asks Todd to tell him tales of his youth, while pleasuring himself. Meanwhile when the Police Officers Petty Hurt (Steve Oram) and Tosh Hunderfunk (Ben Bishop) question the authenticity of Alice’s liquor license, she flees and heads to Todd’s apartment where she finds Brent and Doug continuing their investigation. By putting their information together, Alice realizes that Dave is in fact Granville, and also realizes that Dave has created the phony self-help CD’s with John Hamm that they’ve been listening to. Alice goes in search of Dave, while Brent goes to see Todd and tell him that Dave is behind all of this. Brent throws out the state-appointed attorney Colin De Granville QC (Andrew Havill) thinking that he was hired by Dave and decides to act as Todd’s lawyer using his self-help CD. The authorities consider reinstating the death penalty just for Todd. Todd’s father sees what is happening on the news and heads back to London. Trevor Cooper is Neville Lordhunt. Andrew Ashford is the landlord of the Hand and Cock. Norma Walker is Todd’s mum. 11/5/16
  • 012. Conclusion – 2/10/2012
    • Todd’s trial begins with Brent representing Todd based on the Jon Hamm CD’s. He calls a Sikh (Pinda Singh) and Brian Chisrik to the stand to no effect, and then insults the jury. During the hearing, it Brent finds out that Todd’s American parents adopted him, and that Todd really is from Leeds and his real name is Todd Moon. However, this does nothing to let him off the hook for his crimes. Brent tries to buy time by putting Todd on the stand and telling his story, which devolves into a stand-up comedy routine and reading directly from a law book…while Brent leaves the courthouse and catches a plane home. Doug and Pam go to see Dave’s father Lord Mountford (Mark Heap) and explain what his son has done. Alice makes her way to the courthouse with evidence that Dave has set Todd up in everything, but when the judge tells Todd that he’s heard enough, Todd makes one final phone call in desperation to Mehtep, causing the van to explode and kill Alice who is walking by. Todd if found guilty by the jury and sentenced to be hung and drawn and quartered, but Lord Mountford scolds Dave and cleans up the entire mess, telling Todd he is free but must leave the UK. Since very few countries will accept him Todd goes to North Korea. Todd’s father shows up at the trial, but the courtroom is now empty. Dave tells his father that the reason for the whole elaborate set-up of Todd and Brent was for revenge because when Dave was visiting a Portland bar, Brent spilled drinks on him, leaving the door open for a drunken Todd to swoop in on the girl – Stephanie Daley – whom Dave had been hitting on. Todd tells the Korean officials that his father was from Pyongyang and asks to head up the nuclear office. Later Todd is coaxed into detonating nuclear weapons, wiping out the earth of everyone… except a Turkish suicide bomber who find irony in the situation. Director Ben Gregor is report Snivl Chalks. Richard Dixon is prosecuting barrister Glime. Rebecca Gethings is the head juror. Mark Chappell is Officer Vagina. 11/5/16

SEASON 3

Theme song: “Life Is Sweet” written by Johnny Marr and Mark Rivers, sung by Ileen Goldsmith

  • 013. Todd Margaret Part 1 – 1/7/2016
    • A robed man (Graham Duff) reads from The Book of Prophecies and Premonitions regarding a ‘catalyst’ who flies across land and sea, signifying the beginning of the end. Meanwhile Todd Margaret wakes up and relates to his girlfriend Stephanie the show’s previous events as a dream that he had after drinking too much. Todd is actually an aggressive successful executive with Global National, sporting hair and goatee, looking similar to the Doug Whitney he dreamed about. He is getting ready to head to London to clean up a deal involving the energy drink Lightning Strike that he had sent his employee to tend to. Upon arriving in London, the airline loses his luggage. He checks in at the Piccadilly Hotel and meets the hotel chef Alice Bell, whom he recognizes from his dream, who as an employee of The Molecule prepares condensed versions of English food and not only offers him food but has sex with him. Todd also meets Wilts’ assistant Vanessa Blojabditz (Ingrid Oliver) and is introduced to the Dreamatorium think tank consisting of Peter Dervish (Justin Edwards), Reggie (Daniel Lawrence Taylor), Cindy (Charlie Coletta), and Tess (Scherrikar Bell) by his co-worker Doug Whitney (Jack McBrayer). Todd inadvertently mentions the name ‘Thunder Muscle’ instead of Lighting Strike and shoots down their idea to shoot a commercial with snooker player Steve Davis. Global National boss Lord Mountford is so impressed with Todd that he insists that he remain in London until Thunder Muscle is fully launched. While trying to track down Brent Wilts, he stumbles on objects from his dream, plus sees his dream-neighbor Pamela Taylor Woods showing one of the apartments to a woman named Barafina (Harriet Collings), all of which which give him a sense of deja vu. Back home Stephanie accidentally kills Todd’s cat Fanny by stabbing him with an ink pen since Todd accidentally took the Epi-pen to London. Gina Bramhill is Alice’s assistant Rachel Purity. 2/19/17
  • 014. Todd Margaret Part 2 – 1/7/2016
    • The Dreamatorium presents Todd with a commercial for the newly christened Thunder Muscle starring soccer star Tim Dempsey (Ben Lamb) and a launch strategy, while Todd looks forward to going home afterward. Back at the office Todd meets the Director of Strategy Dave Mountford, who has been assigned by his father. Todd experiences more deja vu when Dave mentions the word “leads.” Due to Todd accidentally paying Dempsey in pounds, their budget is exhausted and they have to come up with a new cheaper idea for a launch, so Todd decides to drop coupons for free Thunder Muscle over London. Brent Wilts returns, completely disheveled and begging Todd to give him 42,000 pounds for a ladder having something to do with a comet making its way into the atmosphere. Todd refuses but Brent manages to figure out Todd’s company password and get the money out anyway. Alice and Todd sleep together again, and Todd burns his hand causing more deja vu. Alice asks Todd to help her by getting Lord Mountford to assist with a permit for a garden party. Todd’s luggage shows up in Portland, but Dave has it routed to London even though Todd is leaving, much to Todd’s irritation. Todd goes up with a helicopter pilot (John Hodgkinson) and accidentally directs him to drop the coupons all at once, causing them to leave a crater and break a water main. Steve Davis watches this from  home and remarks that he had a dream that this had happened. Lace Akpojaro is Bartender Anthony. 2/19/17
  • 015. The Decisions of Todd Margaret – 1/7/2016
    • Lord Mountford reams Todd for the crater and informs that he must remain in London for a while longer. Doug continues to hound Todd for a microwave and gets closer to finding out that Brent has absconded with company funds, thus getting Todd to step up his interest in replacing the microwave and charges Doug with finding Brent for his signature. Todd scores some points with Lord Mountford when he has the idea to use the money to replace the crater to instead build an amphitheater for the people. Dave arranges a meeting for Todd with Jeremy Stephenson at the House of Parliament, and advises him to shave, but when he arrives, he sees Stephenson – the same man from his dream – hanging dead behind the door, which is revealed after Todd leaves to only be a trick. As Todd sees a woman selling poppies, a rugby team, and a deaf tour group, he begins to realize that his dream where he destroys the world may in fact come true. When he calls Stephanie to check on his cat Fanny, she tells him that it still alive, although privately fearing that the world really is coming to an end. Todd tells off Alice when she calls to discuss a permit for the garden party, and later takes up residence at his new apartment where he runs into Pam again. He also sees a news broadcast regarding an impending comet moving closer to earth, and receives boxes addressed to Brent indicating that he is only two rungs away on the Ladder to Complete Transparent Liberty. Todd tries to recreate his dream by ordering huge amounts of Indian food at a restaurant where his waitress is Mehtap. Once Gregory McGregory, who he believes to be Mark from the Hand and Cock, they eat a large dinner, and then Todd propositions Mehtap, only to get slapped. Todd wonders home drunk hoping he can save the world. Jarren Dalmeda is the cabbie. Cathy Murphy is the lonely woman at the restaurant. Ian Conningham is Mandy. Shaun Pye is the Dreamz Mattress Man. 5/11/17
  • 016. The Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret Part 1 – 1/14/2016
    • Believing that the events in his dream are a reality, Todd deduces that Dave is bad and that Alice is good. When Dave sets up a meeting with Sainsbury executives Collin (Andrew Havill), Jeanette (Joanna Neary), and Chris, he assumes they are actors and he is being set up by Dave, so he insults them and kicks them out. He also sends Dave to steal some toxicology reports of Tim Dempsey, with the intent of setting him up to be arrested. Conversely he meets with Alice to apologize for his behavior and pledges that Thunder Muscle will sponsor her garden party. When Peter is sideswiped by a truck and charged with indecent exposure, and then Todd finds out that Dave is Lord Mountford’s son, he feels like the events of his dream may be unstoppable, breaking his glasses in the process. Meanwhile Doug tracks down Brent based on clues he has found at the office, pleading with him to sign the microwave requisition, but Brent only wants to tell him about SEG-4, and how he had gotten the information about the catalyst, the eight rungs of the ladder, the comet, and how he can get to heaven from a man named Neville Lordhunt whom he met in a bar. Doug says he is in. Todd finds out that the garden party is now in Leeds and decides to go against his better judgement, only to find that GARDEN stands for Great ARyan Defence of ENgland, and they are a white supremacist group. Todd tries to denounce the group and manages to hit Alice in the head with a flagpole, knocking her out He is attacked by the crowd, but escapes in a mascot uniform… only to be jumped and beaten by an anti-racist crowd that has gathered outside. Nigel Planer is Gilfroy Deacon McStannahorse. Rory Barnett is the newscaster. Craig Whittaker and Tomi May are skinheads Thurmond and Helms. 5/11/17
  • 017. The Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret Part 2 – 1/14/2016
    • Todd wakes up in the hospital with his head shaved – thus completing his new look, the one from his dream – with Dave present, and no matter what Dave says or does, Todd believes he is out to get him. He ends up firing Dave and purposely causing him to be drugged. Intent on returning home to Oregon, he steals a car from Dave’s driver Trevor (Tim Dantay), but a forced detour causes him to get close to Princess Diana’s grave, and a can of Thunder Muscle under the gas pedal causes him to wreck near the Molecule where the contents of the car, including the Tim Dempsey toxicology report and the Megathrax virus, spill out and contaminate the Molecule vegetable garden. Meanwhile Doug and Brent preach the word of the cult and then visit the order lead by the robed man Reverend Goody, trying to convince them that Brent is the catalyst. As punishment, Doug and Brent are strapped to rocking horses in their pajamas. When the news report the Megathrax release with a picture of Todd as a suspect, they reveal they know Todd, and are ordered by Goody to find Todd. Alice dies from her injuries, invoking the wrath of the supremacists… and Dave, fed up with Todd’s treatment, becomes hellbent on revenge and heads the airport.Trying to avoid any suspicious cab driver, Todd winds up taking a bicycle cab to the airport, where he barely makes it through the passport officer (Dominic Coleman), and meets his Pilot Achmed (Stewart Scudamore), who is a dead ringer for Ahmet from his dream. He makes it to his seat but is called by the Flight Attendant (Donna Berlin), who only bumps him up to first class. As the plane is getting ready to leave, the pilot announces that they must check out an unattended bag and that they are taxiing back to the gate, much to Todd’s consternation. Ed Gaughan is Phillip. William Hoyland is Judge Butter Poise. Arthur Lee is the cabbie. Euan MacNaughton is the bartender. Jamie Demetriou is the demolition expert. 1/5/18
  • 018. The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret – 1/14/2016
    • After his plane is emptied, Todd heads to the police station in an attempt to confess the crimes he has/will commit according to his dreams and get himself arrested. However, Officer Tickles (Stuart Bowman) won’t arrest him, not even for spreading the Megathrax virus, since Trevor has been arrested for it, leading Todd to think that he must get arrested for digging up Princess Diana with a dildo. Dave meets with the Think Tank to try and come up with a way to get revenge on Todd, but he quickly fires all of them when they are not help – although Peter offers the exact idea of what happened in Todd’s dream. Dave ends up hiring Billy the Cheese Grater (Russ Tamblyn) to put a hit on Todd, and convinces Trevor to remain in jail so that Billy has time to make the hit. The skinheads while trying to locate Todd end up beating up Reggie for having a white girlfriend (Susannah Hewlett) and a pair of gay men. Todd gets the idea from a Hudson Bear (Colin Salmon) cartoon to kill himself to save the world. Things already start looking better as Todd is dying as the Megathrax virus is reported on the news to be benign. Brent finds Todd collapsed on the floor and contact paramedics, who attempt to revive him but fail. Todd wakes up in a room with the cult and is told that he died for five minutes but the Thunder Muscle he drank with the pills jump-started his heart saved him. He is also told that he is the catalyst and is now in North Korea with them. Todd thinks he is in jail, but when he is told he is merely a North Korean hotel and is free to leave, Todd heads toward the airport. The cult is willing to let him go, as they know the prophecy will be fulfilled no matter what. Because of the language barrier, Todd isn’t sure if he is at the airport, and soon enough he taken into custody by the military and taken to a room where he is forced to push the button again. However, this time he is congratulated and cheered at, as he has just won a North Korean game show called Push the Button. As everyone is celebrating his big ‘win’, Todd wakes up on the floor of his London apartment with the phone ringing… as he had shortly after he arrived in London during his ‘dream’ (NOTE: This takes place at the beginning of Episode 2). Anthony Shin is the gameshow host. Johnny Marr appears over the credits playing Life Is Sweet. 1/7/18

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