- Date First Aired: 04/02/2016
The girls are having a British summer, and Dorien has sold the film rights for her book, although she embellishes the amount of money she obtained from it. However, an issue arrives when Travis reports that Auntie Vera wants to see the sisters, and it's not long until she forces them to let her stay at theirs thanks to a faulty lift. The trouble is that there isn't enough room, so she forces them to chuck out Dorien. With this in mind, the girls try to find a solution, finding that despite council cuts, it will be possible to fix the lifts. But it involves said lifts being out for 8 weeks, so Vera stays with them anyway and, when Dorien insults her, the sisters threaten to send Dorien to the nursing home.
The situation looks bad, with Vera threatening to be a new annoying fixture in the girls' lives, until Dorien convinces Harvey, who gave Vera the laptop which she was able to use to communicate with the girls in the first place, to swap flats, using all of the money she got from selling the film rights to do so. Or at least, that's what she has convinced the sisters that she has done - in truth, she's only used part of it.
Tropes in this episode:
- Accidental Misnaming: Vera keeps calling Dorien "Doris".
- Call-Back: Sharon recalls the time that Aunt Sylvie briefly moved in with them.
- Chekhov's Gunman: Harvey is briefly mentioned at the beginning of the episode as being the one to have given Vera the laptop, then comes into play later on when she is convinced into swapping his flat for Vera's.
- Food Slap: Sharon tosses the drink she was having onto Dorien when she teases her too much about her future life.
- Frying Pan of Doom: Auntie Vera hits Garth with a frying pan when she catches him sneaking in with Travis.
- Horrible Housing: Martin mentions seeing a woman with four kids living in a single room with a level three cockroach infestation and dampness running down the walls.
- Hypothetical Casting: In-Universe, Dorien hopes that someone like Keira Knightly plays her in the movie adaptation of her book. Sharon retorts that it will more likely be Danny Devito in a bad wig.
- I Ate WHAT?!: Sharon is horrified when she learns that the "soup" she ate is actually the water that Tracey used to boil up Vera's bras.
- I Need a Freaking Drink: Vera asks for a brandy after being spooked by Garth.
- Malaproper: Vera acidentally refers to "racists" as "racialists" when the sisters mention immigration.
- No Sympathy: Dorien's response to hearing that a lot of elderly people are being forced out of a nursing home so that the lifts could be fixed is a joyous "marvelous!"
- One-Shot Character: Martin and Harvey.
- Person as Verb: Garth refers to having to satisfy the appetites of hundreds of men as "doing a Dorien".
- Speak in Unison: Both Sharon and Tracey say "Shut that door!" thrice, once when Travis and Garth come into the bathroom to get away from Vera, and again when Dorien comes in for the same reason, and finally when Dorien leaves with the brothers.
- Take Our Word for It: Whatever Dorien saw through the mail slot in one of the council flats. All we know is that it is considered shocking and that Tracey would never accept allowing Travis to see it.
- Technologically Blind Elders: According to the sisters, Auntie Vera is terrible with technology - she's so bad, she even needs a person over to figure out the washing machine, which is why they're surprised when she calls them on Skype.
- The Thing That Would Not Leave: Auntie Vera moves into the girls' house and practically annoys them with her constant demands. It's especially notable with the fact that she basically forced them to take them on. They also note that even when the lift is fixed, they doubt that they would be able to get her to move out.
- Thicker Than Water: Sharon and Tracey are willing to kick Dorien out in favor of Auntie Vera if they have no choice, arguing that whilst Dorien is their friend, Vera is family. They bite their words in the end.
