Cooking the Books
| ""Cooking The Books"" | |
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| Black Books episode | |
| Episode no. | Series 1 Episode 1 |
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| Featured music | Jonathan Whitehead |
| Original air date | 29 September 2000 |
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'Cooking The Books' is the first episode to be aired of the Channel 4 sitcom Black Books. It was written by Dylan Moran and Graham Linehan, directed by Linehan and Nick Wood, and stars Moran alongside Bill Bailey and Tamsin Greig.[1]
Plot
Bernard Black (Dylan Moran)'s dodgy accountant goes on the run from the police, and so Bernard is forced to do his tax returns by himself, yet finds it boring and so procrastinates by doing various activities, including pairing all his socks, inviting in and talking with some two Jehovah's Witnesses who turn up at his door, and turning his tax return papers into a "rather smart casual jacket". Bernard then realizes he can get out of his taxes if he injures himself and proceeds to think of ways to cripple himself, including giving a P. G. Wodehouse book away free if the customer breaks one of his legs, and is prepared to cut his hand off with a electric carving knife. Meanwhile Manny Bianco (Bill Bailey), an accountant, also finds his work boring and stressful and buys The Little Book of Calm by Paul Wilson from Bernard, yet accidentally swallows it when it falls into his soup and then gets rushed to hospital whereupon he absorbs the book and becomes calm, he then leaves the hospital giving various people wisdom from the book and has the ability to calm animals (dog), and inanimate objects (car) by just his presence. Manny arrives outside Bernard's bookshop where he encounters three skinheads who get annoyed with his calm wisdom and punch which restores Manny back into his old self, Bernard notices the skinheads and goes up to them and insults them resulting in them all attacking him. Afterwards Bernard and Manny are both in Bernard's bookshop and a disoriented Bernard tells Manny that he doesn't have to do his taxes and that Manny is a witness, Manny then tells Bernard that he can do as he is, or was, an accountant. As all this is going on, the owner of the shop next door, Fran Katzenjammer (Tamsin Greig) enlists the help of Bernard and his customers to find out exactly what an object from her shop is and in doing so misses an important appointment to be the birth partner to her friend, at the end of episode Manny picks up the object and quickly diagnoses what it actually is.
References
- ↑ "Black Books" Cooking the Books (TV Episode 2000) - IMDb, retrieved 2021-04-29
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