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Peep Show episode
"Jeremy's Mummy"
season = 5
Episode No	5x03
Airdate	May 23, 2008
Writer(s)	Simon Blackwell
Director	Becky Martin
Guest star(s)	Tessa Wyatt as Jackie (Jez's Mum) Tom Chadbon as Martin Ingrid Oliver as Natalie
Peep Show Season 5 May 2008 - June 2008
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"Jeremy's Mummy" is the 28th episode of British TV comedy series Peep Show.

[edit] Synopsis

Jez's great aunt Gwen dies, leaving Jez an inheritance of £20,000 and another £20,000 to his mother. While searching through Gwen belongings, Jez finds a gun which he nicknames "gunny" and decides to keep it for himself. Jez's mother Jackie comes to visit in order to attend the funeral and comes with her new boyfriend Martin, a military man that Jez hates but Mark respects greatly. Martin offers Mark the chance to write his memoirs, which he accepts. Meanwhile, Jez's mother reveals that she is keeping nearly all the money for herself so that she and Martin can buy a holiday home in Corfu, resulting in Jez having no money whatsoever, expect that which Mark gives him. Mark interviews Martin's daughter Natalie in order to get a better idea of Martin. During the middle of the night, she has sex with Mark and refuses to stop after he asks her to do so. The next morning, Jez and Super Hans tell Mark that he was actually raped, but Mark refuses to believe it. Jez attempts to stop Martin going to Corfu by planting the gun in his luggage, but he is spotted before he can do so. In a last attempt to stop them, Jez talks about the rape, which result in not only them leaving but also in Mark losing the chance to write the memoirs.^[1][2]

[edit] References

The following lists cultural references, uniquely English matters and Britishisms.

Referent	Context and explanation
Antony Beevor	Mark comments that he has all of this renowned British historian's books.
Brewster's Millions	While wondering under what condition he gets the money, Jeremy references this novel/play/movie about a man who inherits money but only if he spends it all within a year.
Busman's holiday	When Mark asks if Martin, a military man, is a military history buff "or is that too much of a busman's holiday for you", he is asking whether that is mixing work with pleasure.
Call	Natalie says she is in the "catering call", meaning catering business, same as "calling"
Falklands	Jeremy ludicrously asks Martin if he "killed many black babies" during the 1982 war fought on this island off the coast of Argentina.
Gordon Brown	Jeremy said, "You can't tax that, Brown", referring to the Prime Minister.
Grand Theft Auto	Jeremy is playing this violent video game which involves murdering pedestrians.
Guns	Unlike the United States, gun ownership is strictly controlled in England.
The Hague	Jeremy asked if Martin is going to The Hague for war crimes, home to the International Criminal Court in the Netherlands, a tribunal for prosecuting war crimes.
Hamlet	Because of Jermey's antipathy towards his mom, Mark told him to stop being like this Shakespearian character who resented his mother for marrying his father's murderer.
Ian Curtis	Jeremy said unlike this English singer/songwriter of the band Joy Division who suicided in 1980, his dead aunt Gwen wasn't important to him.
Iron Chancellor	Mark gleefully uses this epithet for himself which is the nickname for Otto von Bismarck, chancellor of the German Empire from 1871-1890.
James Herriot, Frank Muir's bio, Reader's Digest puzzle books	Light reading material among Gwen's belongings.
Jonathan Dimbleby	At dinner, Jeremy's mom mentioned this BBC newsman whose brother, David Dimbleby, is also a newsman. Mark suggested whimsically that there is probably a third hidden brother named Gummo Dimbleby, referring to Gummo Marx of the Marx brothers, an exemplar of a little-known sibling.
Mike Leigh	Jeremy says Mark was raped by a soldier like in a film by this English director, known for stark portrayals including, controversially, rape in his film Naked.
Norman Mailer	Mark presumes that this American author would be glad to be gone "because there's a new gonzo in town". Gonzo journalism, an unconventional, subjective reporting style pioneered by Hunter S. Thompson, was influenced by New Journalism, which itself was championed by Mailer. Given the indirect connection between Mailer and gonzo journalism, the stronger joke would have used Thompson's name.
Nuts magazine	Mark says that Jeremy is the type of son you get free with this lad mag (known as a "men's magazine" in the U.S.).
O.J.	Jeremy, pleading not to let Natalie off for the rape, says that she is O.J. Simpson, the infamous American football player tried for the murder of his ex-wife and her friend who was acquitted, i.e., "let off".
Paddy Ashdown	Mark thinks Martin looks like a cross between this British politican, leader of the Liberal Democrats, and Indiana Jones, the American movie hero.
Paracetamol	When listing things that can kill a man, Jeremy includes this analgesic, commonly known in the U.S. as acetaminophen under the brand name Tylenol.
Pocket money	When Mark suggested giving Jeremy his inheritance in small allotments, Jeremy comments that Mark is now like his dad giving him pocket money, a British term for a child's allowance.
Prossy	Jeremy said his mom is dressed as a prossy, short for prostitute.
Routemaster bus	Jeremy describes this quintessential London sight, the double-decker bus, as a "design classic" as are guns and, vaguely, "those chairs".
Scots Guardsman	Martin is a military officer in this unit of the British Army.
Stalin	Jeremy described Natalie as "Peaches Stalin", referring to the 20th century Soviet Union dictator.
Taggart	Jeremy references this British detective television program when describing what Mark and his mom may watch and later when telling Mark that he isn't Taggart.
Tom bowler	Denying Jeremy's request for money at his aunt's wake, Mark says, "I don't think they'll be a tom bowler [a marble, larger than the others) or a bouncy castle [an inflatable structure for children to jump in]."
Trainers	The athletic shoe Martin offers Jeremy as part of his now miniscule inheritance.
Tranny	Jeremy says he has neither sniffed glue nor boffed a transvestite.
Yardie	Jeremy considers selling his gun to yardies or hire them to shoot Matin, slang for Caribbean immigrants to the United Kingdom.

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