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

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

Tuesday 10 November 2015 14:44 GMT

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

Your support helps us to tell the story

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.

At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.

The Independent is trusted by Americans across the entire political spectrum. And unlike many other quality news outlets, we choose not to lock Americans out of our reporting and analysis with paywalls. We believe quality journalism should be available to everyone, paid for by those who can afford it.

Your support makes all the difference.

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)