Perfect World

Maggie tells a chatroom Romeo her secrets, but it turns out to be Bob. In retaliation, she gets him drunk and makes it look like she has slept with him, then tells the whole office. Meanwhile, the Director decides to try homosexuality and pursues Vaughan after Bob tells him that he is gay.

An important client has arrived from Russia with his attractive daughter whom Bob fancies, but a spiteful Maggie claims that she and Bob and married and that she's expecting. This backfires when her family from Bombay come to visit and Bob gets his own back.

Bob lives with girlfriends and is homeless after being kicked out by his latest. He boasts that he has a large apartment by the Thames. The Director has been kicked out too so Maggie suggests that he stay with Bob, forcing Bob to steal Vaughan’s keys to use a large apartment he is looking after for a relative.

Vaughan and Briony are about to be married. Their pre-nup includes the proviso that Bob will not be best man, but Vaughan is too scared to tell him. After enduring the Director's unusual tips for wedded life, and Bob's guerilla tactics for preventing the wedding going ahead without him, will the happy couple ever make it down the aisle?

Maggie is chosen by a newspaper as the subject of an article about women in the workplace. But she soon finds herself being eclipsed by her new assistant — who is poached first by Bob and then by the Director in a meteoric rise through the company.

Bob reveals that he has padded out his CV with a Double First from Oxford. As the Director wants to encourage more graduates to join Gatehouse, Maggie suggests that Bob give a talk at his old university, to which the Director agrees.

Bob returns three weeks late from holiday to find Vaughan has taken over his job and that he is now a junior. Vaughan—who has taken an assertion course—turns into a tyrant but Bob plans to bring him down to Earth again and get assigned to the upcoming Rio conference in his place.

Confirmed bachelor Bob Slay is to meet his girlfriend Lauren’s parents. He does his best to alienate them, which pleases Lauren because to her disgust, every other boyfriend has kissed up to them for their massive wealth. Finding this out, Bob now tries to get back in their good graces while staying friends with Lauren.

Vaughan has done his share of an important project assigned to him and Bob a month ago. Bob has not started his share, deciding to leave it to the morning of the deadline. However, the Director wants it that morning, leaving Vaughan in fear that he will be sacked with Bob.

After unloading his work grievances on a female dining companion, Bob finds himself in hot water when he learns that she has been sent from Home Office to assess the branch. In an effort to absolve himself, he invents an identical twin brother named Tarquin.

Marketing and Accounts keep raising the stakes on who will raise the most for Charity Week. After Bob volunteers Vaughan for a Channel swim, Spencer from Accounts tops this with a raffle for a new car so Bob raffles a country home that he does not have.

Bob owes Vaughan £200. All his credit cards are maxed out, the bank won’t lend him any more money, and he has promised Lauren dinner at a very expensive place. Meanwhile, Maggie is being headhunted by a competitor, which she's ecstatic about as it gives her an escape from Bob.

Vaughan splits up with Briony and is very depressed. Bob tries to make him feel better by telling him that Maggie is in love with him, and Vaughan is on top of the world. Unfortunately, Maggie has no interest in Vaughan at all, so Bob has to try to reunite him and Briony.