Season 21 · Episode 1

Previously on

Twenty years, at speed.

17.08.2006Two people went on a date.
E01Neither of them can remember where.
E03 · recurringThere was a break. Then another. Nobody kept count.
E04There was a brunette. The blonde era was quietly written out.
18.07.2026Then, four weeks ago, she let him start again.
E06 – E09Seven episodes in a month. Floaties. A night swim.
E10 · ProtarasA heart in the sand. No further comment.

Which brings us to tonight.

Unresolved

Production Note

From: Continuity
To: The Writers' Room
Re: Seasons 1–20
Date: 17.08.2026

Flagging an error that has gone unaddressed for twenty seasons.

At no point in the archive does either lead ask the other to be their girlfriend or boyfriend. We have checked the tapes. Twice.

The audience assumed. The network assumed. Both leads appear to have assumed.

Nobody asked.

Season 21 cannot be greenlit until this is resolved on screen.

— Continuity

The evidence

Tabled for the record.

7,305days
20seasons
12episodes
10+breaks
2people who should have sorted this

0 times he nearly asked

Right. That's the jokes done

Twenty years ago I took you out and I still couldn't tell you where we went. So, generously, I've decided: I will let you be my girlfriend again. I've spent twenty years assuming. I'd rather ask.

BeckiWill you be my girlfriend?

Season 21 · Episode 1

The One Where

Airs tonight.