Peep Show: Mark and Jeremy's greatest chat up lines

“I’m actually a friend of the British Museum”

Filming has wrapped up for the final series of Peep Show (Peep Show)

Luck in love hasn't been a particular strong point for either Mark or Jeremy in the eight series of Peep Show up until now. With the first episode of series 9 set to air on November the 11th, we can't help but feel that not too much is going to change unless the standard of the pick-up lines gets upped fairly quickly and rather significantly. Here are some of the inept pair's most tragic clangers to date:

“It’s the best STD … just cute, old, mostly symptomless chlamydia.” (Jez to Big Suze, Series 5, episode 1).

“See, by the winter of ’42, the whole city was surrounded by the massed Sixth Army. It was pressing ... and pressing. Many wanted to submit.” (Mark trying to seduce Toni by explaining the siege of Stalingrad, Series 1, episode 1)

Toni was the original love interest of both Mark and Jez

“Just touch it, blow on it, you can use a tea towel.” (Jez to abstaining girlfriend Nancy, Series 2, episode 3).

Jeremy and Nancy in happier times

“I’m actually a friend of the British Museum.” (Mark to new date Heather, Series 5, episode 1).

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