Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps - 4 ª Season

As Janet prepares to leave Jonny, she finds a photo taken on the night that they met and the show turns into a long flashback detailing how Donna, Janet, and Louise went on the pull to a nightclub where they met Jonny and Gaz. This is a musical episode with the characters singing original songs in pastiches of popular numbers at the time.

Janet leaves a note for Jonny and moves in with Louise, who is feeling sorry for herself after David left her. Gaz is also angry with David, believing that he had sex with Donna, and challenges him to a drinking competition, which David wins. Louise gets back with David,then dumps him for dumping her. Jonny finally finds the note Janet left him after it has been turned into a paper aeroplane and he is desolate.

Louise is told that she cannot have her degree unless she returns a library book she once borrowed, 'Piggy Goes Oink.' She suspects David of taking it to spite her, but to Gaz's consternation, David is encouraging Donna to better herself by becoming a student. Janet regrets leaving Jonny, but when she goes to make up with him, she sees him kissing Kate, the barmaid at the Archer.

Janet moves in with Louise. Jonny and Kate visit Halton Castle, where he tries to show her how macho he is by climbing the castle wall, but he falls and injures his ankle. Janet rings him to get rid of a spider the girls found in the flat, so he goes round to kill it to impress Kate but faints when he sees it. Meanwhile, Donna starts life as a student.

Louise has graduated and is job-hunting. She applies to become the head of ICI but at her interview it becomes clear that she has lied about her qualifications, and it is suggested she work at Pizza Hut instead. Janet phones a dating agency and agrees to meet her date in the pub, but it turns out to be a very butch woman, so she goes back with Gaz to have sex with him instead. Donna is finding her student work difficult, so Kate helps her with her essay.