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What Do Men Want? - Season 1

Series: What Do Men Want?
2.5
(2)
Episodes
13
Rating
TV14
Year
2014
Language
English

About

A bachelor pad, two struggling actors (Jimmy and Bob), a bunch of women, a love quadrangle and secret men's business. A coming of age story of two 30-something-year-old "kids" looking for meaning and love in all the wrong places.

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1. Cleaning House

30m

Bob convinces Jimmy to clean up their lives, and to get their acting careers on track by cleaning their bachelor flat, and by breaking up with their current girlfriends. Jimmy is to break up with Ding Ding, because her lack of personal hygiene drives Bob crazy. Bob is to break up with his low self-esteem suicidal girlfriend Lingual, but when he tries to break up, she locks herself in the bathroom and starts to commit suicide. Jimmy who can't even communicate with Ding Ding, tries to break things off, only for Ding Ding to misunderstand "Let's break up" for "Let's get married".

2. Sleep Where the Power Lies

30m

Jimmy convinces Bob that the only way to get a head in the acting business is to sleep where the power lies. Eager to get some acting work, Bob accepts the unglamorous advances of his talent agent, Agnes, only to discover she has a moustache! Although disgusted by her facial hair, the guys figure it must be a hormonal effect because of the power she wields. After hooking up, Agnes gets Bob a big film audition with the most powerful casting director in town, Karen Seah. The guys conclude that since she's even more powerful, she would be even more hairy. Bob sets out to find out, and everyone gets a "hair" full of the unexpected.

3. How Not to Say, I Love You

30m

Unexpectedly Jimmy becomes Lingual's (Bob's ex-girlfriend) new boyfriend. She also accelerates things by telling Jimmy she loves him. The guys' best friend Jane is going through the same thing as Lingual with her boyfriend Charles. Not ready to say "I love you" back to Lingual, Jimmy gets Bob's help, and learns the secret methods of saying "I love you" without actually saying it, as well as all the many work arounds in keeping a relationship status quo from over eager girlfriends wanting more. Jimmy manages to screw up all the techniques on Lingual, and when confiding with Jane about his screw up, they both realize Charles used the same secret techniques on her.

4. Make Them laugh and Clap

30m

Disgruntled with how slow his acting career is going, Bob seeks advice from their acting mentor Sir Rudolf. Much to his dismay, Sir Rudolf advises Bob to pander and be as over-the-top as possible to win over an audience. Bob starts to use this fakey behavior in his acting auditions and also to pick up girls, and it surprisingly works! Worried about the ethical issue of what Bob is doing, Jimmy has an intervention with Bob, only to find out Bob has used the technique to hit on their best friend Jane. Everything backfires on Jimmy when he's accused of pettiness and jealousy, and the fact that Jane is falling for Bob's act. Jimmy sets out to expose Bob with unethical techniques himself, and it all blows up when Bob finds out.

5. The Gay Seduction Scene

30m

Questioning Jimmy's sexuality, Jane and Bob convince Jimmy to film a gay seduction scene opposite Bob for his acting showreel. Jimmy can't keep a straight face playing Bob's gay lover, so Jane stands in. Everyone is shocked at the truthfulness of Jimmy's acting when he acts with Jane in a gay lovers speech. Meanwhile, Bob is dating an "Ah Lian", Jng Jng, who he has to text message in order to understand what she's saying. During ballet class, Jimmy and Jane catch Jng Jng kissing another guy, and everything gets a bit more complicated when Bob starts having sexual feelings for Jane, all because of the truthful gay seduction scene that she acted with Jimmy. Jealous, Jimmy confronts Jng Jng for cheating on Bob, and blackmails her to clean their flat, to Bob will be so impressed with her, he'll leave Jane alone.

6. Finding the One

30m

Jimmy is caught in a relationship with a much younger clubbing girlfriend, Patti. One day he is faced with a moral dilemma when he meets Patti's older sister Coral, and she and Jimmy instantly click. After a chance night of spending an evening swimming and bonding alone with Coral, Jimmy realizes that she is "the One". Seeking Bob's advice, Jimmy is warned not to go after the older sister. It's wrong, and everyone will end up getting hurt. Drawn by the mutual connection and desire for Coral, Jimmy ignores Bob's warnings, and gets himself into very hot water.

7. Screw You

30m

Depressed and messed up by losing Coral, Jimmy is cleaned up by Jane, and their attraction for each other is rekindled. Lingual comes back from sabbatical, a more mature and attractive woman, and Bob is immediately attracted once again to her. Messed up after breaking up with Charles, Jane goes to Jimmy who then cleans her up. One night when all seems right for both couples to get together, everything gets screwed up. Bob and Lingual have an argument, that causes Lingual to blurt out that Jimmy was a better lover than Bob. Jimmy gets stood up at dinner that night by Jane, because Charles has gotten back together with her. To top the night off, Lingual calls Jimmy over for a huge argument that ends with them bonding, and Bob gets beat up, in a street fight.

8. Ménage à Trois

30m

A bit down and bored, Jimmy and Bob decide to go to a party at their buddy Graeme's place, to flirt with some models and celebrities. Graeme a master pickup artist, teaches the guys the secret to picking up beautiful women. After successfully picking up on some girls, the guys get bored and are about to leave the party, when Graeme teaches them about the highest level of pickup, the "Menage a Trois". Getting 2 girls to go to bed with you. Knowing Bob's moral compass, Jimmy tells Bob he wouldn't dare do that, but Bob, still hurt about Lingual telling him that Jimmy was better in bed, takes Jimmy's remark as an insult. Bob goes to hit on 2 very sexy girls, who are not only willing to leave with him to Graeme's bedroom, but the 3 of them proceed to get wasted on shots of vodka and a whole lot of other trouble. Meanwhile Jimmy hooks up with Clare, a huge fan of his action movie, when he played the super hero, Green Mist. Clare turns out to be much more than Jimmy bargained for, and it all gets a bit twisted when he tries to break up with her.

9. Mid-Life Crisis

30m

Jimmy finds Lingual coming out of Bob's room one morning, and after some awkwardness, they end up catching up and confiding in each other over breakfast. Bob is out on a corporate acting job, where he meets a corporate professional Dianne. Curious about life as an actor, Dianne asks Bob all sorts of questions about making a livelihood as an actor, which only depresses Bob about the reality of constantly being impoverished as an actor, Bob starts having a mid-life crisis after Jane tells him why Charles would make a perfect husband. It's a list of everything that Bob and Jimmy will never have as actors. Bob proceeds to vents to Jimmy, only to get Jimmy panicked about Jane getting married to Charles. Desperate, Jimmy takes an internship at Jane's office. Bob finally gets comforted by Lingual. Jane takes Jimmy out to dinner, and Bob takes Lingual out to dinner, only to find that all four are at the same restaurant. Jane and Lingual proceed to get drunk, because they can't stand each other, and a fight ensues.

10. Hook, Line and Sinker

30m

Bob finds Lingual asleep alone in Jimmy's bed, and tells her they need a break. Jimmy takes care of hungover Jane at her place, and she invites him to stay over at her place, to give Bob and Lingual some space. Bob has a falling out with Jimmy and accuses him of leading Lingual on knowing that she's still hung up on him. Jimmy moves into Jane's place, and while she's away at work, he proceeds to clean her place, only to stumble across her diary. Invading her privacy, he reads all about her feelings for him, and when she comes back from work, he kisses Jane. Meanwhile, Bob one morning at a cafe, gets a coffee sent to him by an extremely pretty girl named, Shirley. She invites him to sit and talk, and then end up spending the entire day and night together. Shirley and Bob start dating, but she has to mysteriously go at midnight every time they're together. Jimmy finally hooks up with Jane, and they end up sleeping in Jane's bed, the same night Charles gets back into town unexpectedly.

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