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The Couples

The Banners

  • The Husband
  • The Wife

The Situation

A Lizard to Love

Laura and Tony grew up down the street from each other. She first set eyes on her future husband when he came to the door to return a cooking pot he'd borrowed from her mother. Their romance blossomed and the couple has now marked 14 years together as husband and wife. They clearly adore each other, but there is another being competing for Laura's attention: a large green iguana named Iggy. Laura dotes on the lizard, cooking for him, dressing him in clothes and hats. The reptilian love triangle has David at wit's end--he feels he's being neglected.

"You kiss on him more than you kiss on me!" he complains.

She's heard it before: "You're just jealous."

"I might be a little bit. He's eating better than I am today. I'm eating a TV dinner and he's eating a gourmet salad. He's just like one of our children."

DID THE REF MAKE THE RIGHT CALL?

The panel is mixed. Larry thinks it's odd that anyone would keep an iguana in the house. Madonna disagrees. "Why do people keep cats in the house? Domesticating animals is weird, but people do it." She then asks Tom to ask the couple if they're still having sex. Ricky begs Tom not to. "Typical British, uncomfortable talking about sex," replies Madonna of Gervais' discomfort. Larry observes that, "This is easily the most uncomfortable hour I've ever spent in my life."

The show returns after a break and Ricky observes that in marriage things change over time. "The vows say 'in sickness and in health.' It doesn't list everything that can happen."

Larry: "That's a problem, they need to put more stuff in there. Sickness and in health? That's bull*** *!" He's definitely with the husband on this one.

Tom takes a quick last poll from his panel: Larry's for Tony, Madonna and Ricky for the wife. Tom summons the couple via satellite and makes his call. "You're living with a dragon from a Japanese monster movie. Laura: you must put that thing back in the cage. Tony, you win!"

But as the couple is discussing the outcome, Tony reveals that he actually gave the iguana to Laura as a gift. Larry changes his tune--he's now on the wife's side. With a unanimous panel, Tom now decides to change his call too: the lizard stays in the house.

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