在不开心或者难过的时候，习惯了要给自己找些什么来开心。在这个年代里，你已经几乎无法找到还能耐下心来陪着你，听你倾诉的人了。更不要说这个人还要负责让你抛开烦恼开心起来。唯一能做的就是自救了。我的自救方式之一，也是一直认为最经济，最安全，最有效的办法，就是找个喜剧看看。最好是可以让人大笑的，可以暂时忘记不愉快的事情。
coupling 就是这样一部影片，当然也许不会对任何人都有效。但它的确有时候会令你笑的捧腹。
也许没有止痛药对付疼痛那么有效，但是，不开心的你，不妨试试。

Coupling的四季我都看完了，哈其实是看了好几遍。觉得最出彩的地方在于它的台词很有意思；还有最喜欢的其实是Jeff,可惜第四季他没有出演。再有就是英式对白的幽默，看第一遍有时候不一定立刻就反应过来。。总之好看就是了。。

I’m a bloke. I’m supposed to like them. We’re born like that. We like naked women as asoon as we’re pulled out of one. Halfway down the birth canal, we’re already enjoying the view.

Look, it is the four pillars of the male heterosexual psyche. We like naked women, stockings, lesbians, and sean connery best as james bond, because that is what being a boy is. And if you don’t like it darling, join a film collective.

I want to spend the rest of my life with the woman at the end of the table. But that doesn’t stop me wanting to see several thousand more naked bottoms before I die. Because that’s what being a bloke is.

When man invented fire he didn’t say.”let’s cook!” he said,”great, now we can see naked bottoms in the dark.” As soon as caxton invented the printing press, we were using it to make pictures of naked bottoms. We’ve turned the internet into an enormous international database of naked bottoms.


看到这之后就真正爱上这部剧了。

>>现在重新看这部剧，发现果然像楼下某位同学所说是S1E4里出现的，同一集里还有另外两位男生提到的对于lesbian porn的看法我也记下来了。

I was just having no clue how to begin with my recommendation of Coupling, when suddenly I got a question: how to say 打吊瓶? I checked with Genius Kane, who initiated the recommendation and she didn’t have the answer, but, she recoiled with a stunning question: “coupling里没有？”



Haha! She has been meeting Coupling, the most classic drama I have ever seen for only 2 days! But she already has got such a response! What? A life encyclopaedia? Exactly! The first reason I recommend this drama to you, is its real-life focusing-faith. Every site you come across in this drama is as real as you can imagine- of course excluding those ancient and dreamy scenes out of dramatic needs.



But that is far from the main reason I want everybody interested in the life in UK to see it. The main reason, is its unique sense of humour! So unique that it is even a bit hard to appreciate it at first; so unique that it always goes to extreme to disclose the purest emotion of human being; so unique that you can easily condone any disinclination caused by those unusual sex jokes simply because you would already have been amusedly out of breath! It is truly so unique that you can take a real deep look at this wonderful people, with even a few smart choices of words.



The whole drama is a piece of art, and the creator Steven Moffat based the characters of Steve and Susan on himself and his wife (producer Sue Vertue), as he explains: "I have described the series as being 'my life as told by a drunk'. Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research. As it happens, Sue and I are married; so I imagined a scenario about what would have happened if we had met ten years earlier, and took it from there!"



I could not come up with any better descriptions of this TV series, but one thing is what at least I can assure you, this Steven, he is never exhausted in brooding weird, bizarre, peculiar, ludicrous but also tremendously entertaining and educational thoughts and ways of telling you so!



What is the definition of Classic? My version is something old but never out-of-dated, and whenever you review it, you can still gain something new and novel and cutting edge from it, like the Bible, like New Concept English~, like, “Apparently”, the COUPLING!



Rob Belcher's review has made a superb epitome of this drama, he wrote: "this show will speak to anyone who's ever dated, been in a relationship, or just noticed that men and women are different creatures."



I sincerely wish a perpetual life of Steven Moffat! I recommend this Sexy fairy tale weaved by 6 thirtysomething lovely actors to you, you would never feel losing your capital if you try to memorize every detail in it, trust me!

previous background: Sally and Patrick are good freinds, but with their friendship developing, each of them, especially Sally, has realised the love between them. Then once Sally said "I love Patrick" incidentally and unconsciously. Then this night, Patrick send Sally a text message, asked her to go for a bar. When Sally entered, found the bar be "Private Function".

前提期要：S和P是一对好朋友，随着他们的日常交往，两个人渐渐互生情愫，尤其是 S，甚至在一次Party上不自觉的说出“我爱P”。但是鉴于P是个“从来只有下半身才会充血”的人，他很久之后才意识到。于是那天晚上P给S发了一条短信约她到平常他们去的Bar里。S很开心的去了，还发现整个Bar都被P包下来了哈。

于是俺们的主角告白开始了：

前面一段我觉得太搞笑了，都是P赞扬S的一段话，什么我希望你是我妈妈，哦，不，奶奶之类的，没记台词。从一半开始：

P: Sally, you're the most wonderful woman, in the history of entire universe.

Since you have said what you said, I have a lot of time to think.

But obviously that isn't always possible.(就像我前面说的，P从来只好下半身充血。。。他自己也知道。。。)

Nonetheless, I have been able to consider your application.

And this is the point, the very important point.

Sally, you need someone good enough for you. You don't want some mutton-headed city boy who spend all his time thinking about his cars and his golf clubs.

You want someone who can love you the way you deserved to be loved. （看到这儿的时候俺开始飚眼泪了。。。。）

Sally, you need someone who will love you forever, properly.

You're my friend, Sally, and I want to see you with the best. （继续抹眼泪，我可怜的Sally啊，Partrick还是觉得做朋友更好吗？）

You need Mr. Amazing, Mr Incredibley Superbly, Fantastickness, and in your heart, I'm sure you know I am right.

于是，于是我们可怜的Sally也哽咽了，哭着说：

Sally: I don't want Mr. Amazing, Mr Incredibley Superbly, Fantastickness,

You Stupid Stupid ASS!

I want YOU!

Partrick这个时候无奈说：for god sake, sally.

Sally：WHAT?!WHAT?!

P:I was talking about ME!!

于是我就破涕为笑了。。。。。

这一大段是对coupling片尾曲的最好解释：

if you love me, say yes, but if you dont, confess, please don't say Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps.

角色关键词：
susan & steve ：normal
susan和steve代表普通人，普通的女人和普通的男人，外表出色，思想开放，行为正常（……）作为普通女性的代表，susan集金发碧眼和高度组织性于一体，是对blonde一词的翻案～steve则集男人和男孩于一身，在可容忍范围内最大限度体现了男人的缺点和男孩的可爱，并随时随地陷入需要susan拯救的境地，因此促成了这一couple之间强烈的化学效应。
sally & jeff ：fear
sally和jeff的角色代表人类的恐惧感。这两个人随时都处于不安全的状态。sally作为女性的代表，恐惧的对象是衰老，青春不再→没有爱情→孤独一生etc。由于她的职业是美容师，所以更加造成了恶性循环。jeff作为男性的代表，恐惧的对象是女人（及一切雌性生物）。尽管很可笑，jeff是唯一对男女之间差异有清楚认知的人，但是这种认知（很不幸的）加深了他的恐惧。
jane & patrick ：confidence
jane和patrick的角色代表人类的另一个极端：完全的自信。jane作为女性的代表，自信的根源是极度的自卑，强烈地希望引起别人的注意。纵然有优秀的外表一流的身材仍然找不到适合男人的不安全感，拒绝承认的孤独感，需要夸张的行动来掩饰，并且完全意识不到这种掩饰。patrick作为男性的代表，自信的根源是拒绝思考，拒绝深刻，自我中心，直线式思维。换句话说，无知者无畏，浅薄者自信。
coupling ：man & woman
coupling所要表现的是男人和女人在思想和行为方式上的差异，同一种想法导致的不同行为，或者同一种行为背后的不同想法。每一种独特的人格经过夸张后表现出来的可爱和可笑的地方，以及应用在男和女这两种性别上的微妙差异。

好吧我承认，除了每段第一句话，其他都是我自己胡说的orz
第一句话是steven moffat编剧大神说的。

爱这个剧，爱到不能自已，笑得死去活来，哭得控制不住——没错，我是每次看到最后都会哭。
因此把结束之后的故事也贴出来。
Post-show story provided by Steven Moffat

"Sally said yes to Patrick, they got married and are very happy... especially as Sally beat Susan to the altar, and finally did something first. Patrick is now a completely devoted husband, who lives in total denial that he was anything other an upstanding member of the community. Or possibly he's actually forgotten. He doesn't like remembering things because it's a bit like thinking.
Sally答应了Patrick的求婚，他们结婚了并幸福快乐地生活在一起……只不过Sally打败了Susan第一个踏入了围城，总算也抢了一回先～Patrick现在是超级好丈夫，认为自己除了社区先进典型以外不存在其他身份。换句话说，他被遗忘了。他不怎么喜欢回忆，因为他觉得回忆和思考差不多。

Jane and Oliver never actually did have sex, but they did become very good friends. They often rejoice together that their friendship is uncomplicated by any kind of sexual attraction - but they both get murderously jealous when the other is dating. Jane has a job at Oliver's science fiction book shop now - and since Oliver has that one moment of Naked Jane burnt on the inside of his eyelids, he now loses the place in one in every three sentences. People who know them well think something's gotta give - and they're right. Especially as Jane comes to work in a metal bikini.
Jane和Oliver从没真的上过床，不过他们确实成了好朋友。他们认为彼此的关系非常简单，绝对没有被肉体关系搞乱，不过只要有一个人和别人去约会，另一个人就摔醋坛子。Jane现在在Oliver的科幻书店工作。因为Oliver曾经有那么一次当面见过没穿衣服的Jane，他现在说三句话就走神一次。了解他们二位的都觉得不能和他们俩较劲，没错，尤其现在Jane穿着全金属的比基尼上班了。

Steve and Susan have two children now, and have recently completed work on a sitcom about their early lives together. They're developing a new television project, but it keeps getting delayed as he insists on writing episodes of some old kids show they recently pulled out of mothballs. She gets very cross about this, and if he says "Yeah but check out the season poll!" one more time, he will not live to write another word.
Steve和Susan现在已经有了两个小孩，并且刚完成了一部情景喜剧，改编自他们早年的生活。他们开始着手一个新的电视剧，但是老是不停的延期，因为Steve老是坚持要把压箱底的陈年儿童剧拿出来现世。Susan对此十分愤怒，而如果Steve再对她说一次“你先看看观众投票啊”，他就活不到写下一个字了。

Jeff is still abroad. He lives a life of complete peace and serenity now, having taken the precaution of not learning a word of the local language and therefore protecting himself from the consequences of his own special brand of communication. If any English speakers turn up, he pretends he only speaks Hebrew. He is, at this very moment, staring out to sea, and sighing happily every thirty-eight seconds.
Jeff还在国外，过着平静的生活。他拒绝学习当地语言，以便远离“Jeff式谈话”带来的后果。如果有说英语的人出现，他就假装只会说希伯来语。他现在正望着窗外的大海，每隔38秒钟就快乐地叹一口气。

What he doesn't know, of course, is that even now a beautiful Israeli girl he once met in a bar, is heading towards his apartment, having been directed to the only Hebrew speaker on the island. What he also doesn't know is that she is being driven by a young ex-pat English woman, who is still grieving the loss of a charming, one-legged Welshman she once met on a train. And he cannot possibly suspect that (owing to a laundry mix-up, and a stag party the previous night in the same block) he is wearing heat-dissolving trunks.

As the doorbell rings, it is best that we draw a veil."
当然他不知道的是，现在正有一个美丽的以色列女孩——他曾经在一间酒吧碰到过的——正前往他的公寓寻找传说中“岛上唯一说希伯来语的人”。他更加不会知道的是，她的司机是一位年轻英国女孩，时刻怀念着她曾经在火车上遇到的迷人的单腿威尔士情人……总之，他也决不会想到，因为洗衣房混乱以及昨天晚上本楼的大老爷们聚会，他现在穿着一条缩水的大裤衩。
当门铃响起的时候……我们还是不要揭开面纱了～