Not Going Out

Lee and Lucy have a brittle relationship at the best of times, but here they're stepping into a minefield: Lucy is considering cosmetic surgery. “Oh, I see: Anna’s had a boob job and now you want one,” Lee scoffs, “It’s the Nespresso frother all over again.”

The slight catch with the storyline is that Lucy has never seemed like the kind of character who would go in for plastic surgery, and her self-deprecating jokes about how having three kids has wrecked her figure don’t quite have the ring of truth.

Still, there’s scope for plenty of old-school jokes, like the suggestion that if Lee is planning a tattoo of Laurel and Hardy, why shouldn’t she get a boob job? It’s a case of tit for tat, after all.