Season 2 Episode 25 - 5th April 2003
Episode Description
Steve is upset because Karl was late for a meeting during the week and complains about working with a half naked Ricky. He also warns that Gervais has become more annoying recently…stay tuned!

Karl reveals that he doesn’t want to work with Ricky anymore and is sick of Steve putting down his ideas. Karl brings in a copy of “The Guinness Book of World Records” which turns out to be a grave error.

Most of the show involves Ricky forcing Karl to break bizarre world records including stuffing hamburgers into his mouth. Karl tells a story about two monkeys getting married and appears in “Silence of the Lambs”.



Selected Quotes & Passages
Monkey Marriage
Karl: Right there was this monkey in a zoo in Brazil.
Steve: Right.
Karl: And there's a little man monkey and a little woman monkey...
Ricky: You're a scientist aren't you.
Karl: And they said, the people in charge were like "wouldn't it be good if they had kids".
Ricky: Brilliant.
Karl: So anyway the chimps used to stand sort of, you know, they'd have their little caves each, and they used to sort of lean on the fence havin a bit of chat n' stuff with each other.
Steve: A bit of a chat, of course, just gossiping.
Karl: The equivelant sort of thing, so anyway they were gettin on a storm and the zookeepers were like....
Steve: "Did you hear that cheap as chimps this week, I thought it was fascinating", just gossiping, I understand.
Ricky: (laughs out loud) "Any monkey news?", "dunno, tune in".
Steve: "What was the monkey news this week?"
Ricky: Go on.
Karl: So they were stood there havin a chat and the zookeepers were like "I wonder, you know, if they're ever gonna have kids n' that".
Steve: Yeah.
Karl: Anyway it went on for ages, you know this just chattin, no sort of action.
Steve: Blimey.
Karl: So what the zookeepers did was, they said "I know how they'll have kids".
Ricky: Are we letting that go, they were just chattin, are we letting that go?
Karl: You know what I mean, just doing whatever monkeys do, right.
Steve: Right.
Karl: So yeah the zookeepers were like, you know, "I wonder when they're gonna have some kids", anyway what they decided to do to sort of egg 'em on, bought one of them a suit, one a wedding dress.
Ricky: Right.
Steve: Keep going.
Ricky: No, I'm not havin it.
Steve: Shut up Gervais! Fade him down if he's gonna interrupt, I wanna hear the rest of this.
Karl: They got married.
Steve: So they got married?
Karl: Yeah, they got married.
Steve: Right.
Ricky: What, that's the end of it! Right, that's the end of Monkey News, that's the end of Monkey News! Don't do that again, you've got no features left.
Karl: Why don't you like that?
Ricky: It's not a story! It's about two chimps chatting, which doesn't happen, the zookeepers going "I wonder if they'll ever have kids", they egg 'em on, they got married, that's the end of the story! What are you talking about?
Steve: Hang on, just calm down, let me just check that you didn't make a mistake.
Ricky: What do you mean if he didn't make a mistake?
Steve: Shhh, shhh, shhh, wait a minute, he may have left out a fundamental piece of information, that would have made it into a story, let me just check, let me just check the facts, they bought them wedding outfits, did they propose to each other or were they just forcibly married?
Ricky: Don't encourage him.
Karl: It was sort of forced onto them.
Steve: And what was the outcome, once they got married, what happened, they fell in love?
Karl: Yeah.
Ricky: It'd not a marriage Karl, it's not a real marriage, I don't know what you've got in your head, it's like the head of Homer Simpson, I'd go in there and there'd be a wedding reception and there'd be a couple of fights and they'd be talking about stuff.
Steve: They got married, they fell in love, did they have children?
Karl: They're not back of their honeymoon yet.
Ricky: (laughs out loud)