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Season 4 Episode 4: A Match Made in Piffling

February 3, 2022·37 min·2 clips

Antigone and Henry discover that neither invited the other and that their double date was engineered by friends.

1. Wooden Overcoats Season 4 Episode 4, "A Match Made in Piffling," centers on Antigone Fun's attempt to pursue romance while running a funeral home in Piffling Vale. 2. Antigone Fun is the mortician at Piffling's funeral home, while Henry Edgeware is the village doctor whose first evening off in over a decade becomes important to their attempted date. 3. The episode asks whether Antigone and Henry can form a relationship when their work keeps them surrounded by corpses, patients, and emergencies. 4. Rudyard gets his head stuck in a new urn during a relay race in the mortuary, requiring Henry to use a hammer to free him. 5. Antigone tells Henry that business is slow even though Chapman's funeral home is closed for another week. 6. Henry explains that St. Sprat's failed a health inspection, leaving Piffling with one functioning hospital and one doctor. 7. Antigone and Henry agree to meet at six for a film at the Piffling Royale Cinema followed by dinner. 8. Mrs. Turner breaks her leg during the date, and Henry leaves the cinema to treat her while Antigone waits until the film ends. 9. Henry brings Antigone home, where he explains that Esther is a parrot he bought because he needed someone to talk to after work. 10. Esther learns words quickly, uses the telephone to call Henry at work, bites Antigone, and objects when Henry describes Antigone as a friend. 11. The phrase "It's so hard to meet someone who still has a pulse" establishes Antigone's comic difficulty finding romance as a mortician. 12. Henry says a dead body represents a professional failure because his work is devoted to keeping people alive. 13. Antigone says she wants someone who appreciates her work and can discuss corpses without treating that interest as a problem. 14. Henry compares Esther's controlling behavior with a salamander that once became furious, extending the episode's animal-based relationship jokes. 15. Chapman proposes that Antigone and Henry communicate through intermediaries after learning that Henry feels embarrassed about the failed first date. 16. Georgie, Rudyard, Chapman, and Eric arrange a restaurant meeting and plan to keep Esther away from the couple. 17. Esther escapes from Madeleine and Rudyard after they find her crossing restaurants off a phone book while searching for Antigone. 18. At Little Piffling, Antigone and Henry discover that Eric delivered false messages and that neither person invited the other. 19. The episode uses fast ensemble dialogue, recurring interruptions, wordplay, and escalating farce across the mortuary, cinema, home, and restaurant. 20. Listeners who prefer character-driven British audio comedy may enjoy the episode, while listeners seeking realistic romance may skip it.

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