I Know What Alan Did Last Summer (S2, E5)

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Synopsis

The Inland Revenue are due to call and carry out a random investigation on Alan's business affairs, causing him to worry. The Inland Revenue people arrive earlier than the set time, catching Alan dancing around (playing air bass) in his caravan to Gary Numan's "Music for Chameleons". During the investigation, Alan offers the two "inspectresses" a beer (which they decline) and insists that they can't have any "Mini Babybels" as they are for the car when he's driving to Harrogate. Alan makes a fool out of himself several more times, including trying to walk like R2-D2, raising his legs, and "accidentally on purpose" breaking wind (claiming it was "mostly deliberate") right next to the Inland Revenue people. This leads to him having a minor argument with Sonia, which is all seen by the tax people. In order to make things up to her, he takes her to Bono's house (really Blickling Hall), after falsely claiming to be a personal friend of his. Lynn also gets a friend of hers from the Baptist Church to pretend to be Bono, even giving him her mother's cataract glasses to wear in hope that Sonia would be convinced he is Bono.

Alan is rumbled by Sonia and by way of apology for the deception and for stabbing a giant teddy bear beefeater that Sonia bought him (with a receipt spike; on entering the static caravan, he mistook the bear for a burglar), he grudgingly consents to take her to London.