We pick up the story six months on, with the situation understandably frosty between the pair. In fact, their awkward co-habitation is no more. Jez now lives in Super Hans’ bathroom where he exists on a diet of “toilet toast.” And Mark has replaced him with Jerry (Tim Key), a dull Mark-a-like with an unhealthy affection for 19th-century textile designer William Morris.
The pair might not be talking, but they are forced to confront each other at Super Hans’ stag do. A night that should “descend into the depths of depravity” is surprisingly tame however, with Super now sober, preferring to juice rather than snort.
Will that sobriety last long? We’re not going to spoil the episode here, but rest assured the jokes come thick and fast, at the expense of everything from Mark Zuckerberg and Grand Designs to Candy Crush and The Wolf of Wall Street.
The relationship between Mark and Jez remains poisonous, believable and painfully watchable, the episode paving the way for the pair to be nastier than ever. And with with both Dobby and Sophie (Olivia Coleman) returning later in the series to mix things up, it looks like ‘The El Dude Brothers’ will be going out on a high.
Will it be the very last we see of the gruesome twosome however? Actors David Mitchell and Robert Webb, and writer-creators Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain have always said it’s a show about young people, with the plan to stop now, as they plod into middle age.
But during the Q&A that followed the premiere of this episode, Bain admitted that he has created a document called ‘Peep Show Series 10,’ which features just one line, about a lawnmower. So to paraphrase a recent Shane Meadows interview about This is England, here's hoping it's a comma rather than a full-stop punctuating the series. And if it's not, savour these last six episodes as comedy doesn't get much better than this. Chris Tilly is the Entertainment Editor for IGN in the UK and sometimes feel like a cross between Jez and Mark, with a dash of Hans during nights out. He can be found talking nonsense on The Superhero Show and Twitter.