Sharon: Macro Glaze! The double glazin' experts that make your house a home! (Beat) Macra Glaze. The thievin' toerags that pay peanuts to unskilled Wally's like me. Win a million pounds and a date with Gazza, if you answer one simple question. Why am I doin' this?
— Sharon Theodopolopodous complaining about having to shill for Macro Glaze.
- Date First Aired: 14/09/1991
Sharon is attempting to sell double glazing at the shopping centre when she meets up with Dave, with whom she had an affair and whose baby she had aborted. However, it transpires that Dave already has a wife who is in fact eight months pregnant, which makes Sharon angry and causes her to break up the relationship. Meanwhile, Dorien agonises over what to wear to her nephew's bris, and Tracey finds herself beginning to miss family life.
Tropes In This Episode:
- Alliterative Name: A poster for a fast food restaurant called Brown Bun is visible in the first scene.
- Auto Erotica: Sharon hopes to have sex with Dave in his van again.
- Brief Accent Imitation: Sharon does a cowboy voice when quoting the Milky Bar commercial.
- The Bus Came Back: Dave returns for the first time since "Women's Troubles" two series prior.
- Call-Back: Dave from "Women's Troubles" returns, with the events from that episode (such as Sharon having had an abortion) being referenced.
- Celeb Crush: Jimmy Nail is mentioned to be one to both Tracey and Sharon.
- Comically Missing the Point:
- Sharon tells Tracey and Dorien that she's seeing Dave again and that he's been installing phones in a new office block. Tracey asks her if that's wise, referring to Sharon and Dave's history, but Sharon thinks she's talking about the phones and asks why that would be a bad thing.
- Garth tells Tracey he went 'round Jason's, so Tracey tries to correct his grammar and says "I went 'round Jason's house". Garth doesn't realise what she's doing and tells her she didn't because he would've seen her otherwise.
- Deadpan Snarker:
- Tracey after Dorien asks her why she's making a shepherd's pie instead of just buying one.Tracey: Because Dorien, before Marks & Spencer's was invented, people used to use these rooms, kitchens, they're called, to cook food.
- After Sharon tells Garth he's not too big for her to hit him for being rude, he stands up, towers over her and asks her if she wants a stepladder.
- Tracey after Dorien asks her why she's making a shepherd's pie instead of just buying one.
- Dumb Blonde: Lyn doesn't seem to notice the tension between Sharon and Dave, and keeps repeating her story about getting trapped in the toilet cubical.
- Help, I'm Stuck!: Lyn got wedged in the toilet cubical after she bent over to pick up her knickers.
- Hidden Depths: Dorien secretly loves watching Bambi.
- Internal Reveal: Dave learns that Sharon lied about her miscarriage and really had an abortion.
- Gossipy Hens: Sharon doesn't like telling Dorien things because she's one, and her tennis club is even worse.
- Noodle Incident:
- Dorien and her friend Judith once spent all weekend waiting outside the house of Paul McCartney.
- Dorien's brother Jeffrey was once humiliated on Beadle's About, in an incident that may or may not have involved horse manure.
- Tracey asks Sharon if she's been picking up wrinklies outside the library again.
- Dave from "Women's Troubles" isn't the only Dave Sharon has dated in the past.
- Sharon and Dave's friend Gary once stuck his bum out a car window and ate a goldfish.
- Dorien once held a plumber captive in her utility room until he had his way with her.
- One of Dorien's casual hookups once introduced her to his wife.
- Old Flame: Sharon reconnects with Dave (the man with whom she had a relationship with) and considers reigniting her old romance with until she finds out that he's gotten married and is expecting a child since.
- One-Shot Character: Lyn.
- One-Steve Limit: Sharon and Dave mention a friend called Gary, while a One-Shot Character in "Muesli" was also called Gary.
- Preemptive "Shut Up": When Tracey tells Garth she gave his shepherd's pie to Sharon, Garth is about to make a rude comment until Sharon reminds him he's not too big for her to still hit him.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Sharon warns Dave he'll be the world's worst dad if he can't stop acting like a child.
- Road Apples: Tracey brings up an incident involving horse manure on Beadle's About.
- Sequel Episode: To Series 1's "Women's Troubles".
- Shout-Out:
- Sharon mentions winning a date with Gazza.
- Dorien wishes she could be at a Hell's Angels reunion rather than her nephew's bris.
- Dorien had a crush on Paul McCartney in her youth.
- One of Tracey's favourite songs is "Mull of Kintyre".
- Tracey brings up Mother Theresa and Cliff Richard when telling off Dorien.
- Dorien's brother Jeffrey once was on Beadle's About.
- Sharon calls the Macro Glaze people the cowboys that trained Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
- Dorien tells Sharon she could out-smirk Bob Monkhouse.
- Sharon never misses Sesame Street.
- Sharon quotes a famous Milky Bar commercial.
- Sharon mentions Mel Gibson, Jeremy Paxman, and Julian Clary when trying to make Dave jealous.
- Sharon compares Dave to Pinocchio.
- Dorien loves watching Bambi.
- Sharon and Dorien rewatch the sweaty bits in Dirty Dancing to help the former forget about Dave.
- Sharon mentions both she and Tracey love Jimmy Nail.
- Sharon used to blast Sex Pistols records when she was a teen.
- Take That!:
- Tracey mixes up the Happy Mondays and the Inspiral Carpets.
- Dorien doesn't consider Esther Rantzen proper television.
- Dorien calls Joan Collins mutton dressed as lamb.
- Dorien remarks that she's seen more enthusiasm in a Benetton shop assistant.
- Dorien claims she would rather sleep with Bernard Manning than let Sharon borrow her diamond stud earrings.
- After mentioning Neighbours, Dorien quickly adds that she'd never watch it.
- Sharon says that her marriage to Chris wasn't one made in Heaven as much as it was one made in Beirut.
- Tracey doesn't like Patrick Swayze.
- Titled After the Song: The episode title is named after "Baby Come Back", a song by Player.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: Dave becomes a lot nastier to Sharon after learning she lied and had an abortion.
