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==[[24 August 2002]]==
[[Xfm Series 2]] ran from August 2002 to August 2003. [[Ricky Gervais]] and [[Stephen Merchant]] were back from filming the second series of [[The Office]], and [[Karl Pilkington]] was back having recently produced [[Simon Pegg]] and [[Nick Frost|Nick Frost's]] [[Xfm]] show.
Ricky, Steve and Karl compare their individual journeys back from the Edinburgh Festival. Karl, who spent the week producing Simon Pegg and Nick Frost's Xfm show, tells ghost stories they'd told him to Ricky and Steve. Later, Karl mishears 'mammoth' as 'man moth'.


==[[31 August 2002]]==
Soon things were back to normal, with Ricky and Steve equally entertained and scornful of Karl's peculiar outlook on life. And as well as through his opinions and anecdotes, Karl also contributed to the series with several features such as '[[Rockbusters]]', '[[Monkey News]]' and '[[Educating Ricky]]'.
Ricky and Steve interview Karl to re-introduce him to the listening public. Karl reveals the true origin of the phrase 'chucking the baby out with the bathwater'. And Karl starts a competition he calls 'What's The Song', that in later shows becomes Rockbusters.


==[[07 September 2002]]==
There are 51 shows from Xfm Series 2 in circulation and each show has an individual page detailing its contents. They can be accessed by clicking the 'Title'( date) of each show.
Steve explains how Ricky and Karl spent the half hour before the show playing football but things turn sour when Karl is annoyed that Ricky can't record links for the 'Best Of' show that will play next week because he must leave immediately after to go on holiday. Later Karl talks about people with big heads and no heads, and his competition turns into such a farce that even he laughs at it.


==[[14 September 2002]]==
==List of Episodes==
A "best of" show, as Ricky and Steve are off to film The Office.
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|rowspan="2"| [[Image:Xfm.gif|100px]] || [[24 August 2002]] || align="center" | n/a || align="center"| [[Xfm Series 2]] || align="center"| 24
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|colspan="5"| Ricky, Steve and Karl compare their individual journeys back from the Edinburgh Festival, and Karl mishears 'mammoth' as 'man moth'.
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|rowspan="2"| [[Image:Xfm.gif|100px]] || [[31 August 2002]] || align="center" | n/a || align="center"| [[Xfm Series 2]] || align="center"| 25
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|colspan="5"| Ricky and Steve interview Karl to re-introduce him to the listening public. Karl starts a competition he calls 'What's The Song?', that in later shows becomes Rockbusters.
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|rowspan="2"| [[Image:Xfm.gif|100px]] || [[07 September 2002]] || align="center" | n/a || align="center"| [[Xfm Series 2]] || align="center"| 26
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|colspan="5"| Karl gets annoyed that Ricky can't record links for next week's 'Best Of' show because he must leave immediately after the show to go on holiday.
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|rowspan="2"| [[Image:Xfm.gif|100px]] || [[14 September 2002]] || align="center" | n/a || align="center"| [[Xfm Series 2]] || align="center"| 27
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|colspan="5"| With Ricky on holiday in Italy (see [[07 September 2002]]), Karl is left introducing this 'Best of' compilation (aka Best Of #1). Karl introduces all the links ("Ricky's on holiday...and Steve can't be bothered")
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|rowspan="2"| [[Image:Xfm.gif|100px]] || [[21 September 2002]] || align="center" | n/a || align="center"| [[Xfm Series 2]] || align="center"| 28
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|colspan="5"| Karl's 30th birthday on Monday leads him to think about the best thing he's ever done.
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|rowspan="2"| [[Image:Xfm.gif|100px]] || [[28 September 2002]] || align="center" | n/a || align="center"| [[Xfm Series 2]] || align="center"| 29
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|colspan="5"| Claire Sturgess stands in for Karl, as his girlfriend Suzanne has taken him to the Canary Islands for his birthday.
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|rowspan="2"| [[Image:Xfm.gif|100px]] || [[05 October 2002]] || align="center" | n/a || align="center"| [[Xfm Series 2]] || align="center"| 30
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|colspan="5"| Karl is away for another week as when he was on holiday his dad was admitted to hospital and he had to help with things.
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|rowspan="2"| [[Image:Xfm.gif|100px]] || [[12 October 2002]] || align="center" | n/a || align="center"| [[Xfm Series 2]] || align="center"| 31
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|colspan="5"| Karl introduces the new feature [[Educating Ricky]] and it's the very first week of [[Rockbusters]]. Karl also suggestions for radio quizzes including 'Strike it Ricky' and 'Big Mother' (in which listeners would win a CD if they had a heavy mother).
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|rowspan="2"| [[Image:Xfm.gif|100px]] || [[19 October 2002]] || align="center" | n/a || align="center"| [[Xfm Series 2]] || align="center"| 32
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|colspan="5"| Ricky's got a hangover, and the second week of Rockbusters.Karl wants to be Frog boy. [[Educating Ricky]] has its second installment.
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|rowspan="2"| [[Image:Xfm.gif|100px]] || [[26 October 2002]] || align="center" | n/a || align="center"| [[Xfm Series 2]] || align="center"| 33
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|colspan="5"| Steve wants tickets for Bruce Springsteen. Karl explains how to escape from anacondas. [[Educating Ricky]] has its third installment. Karl gets all three 'educating' stories in back-to-back.
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|rowspan="2"| [[Image:Xfm.gif|100px]] || [[02 November 2002]] || align="center" | n/a || align="center"| [[Xfm Series 2]] || align="center"| 34
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|colspan="5"| Karl trys to sell his futon and desk combo for £100 and has a small laughing fit during [[Rockbusters]]. [[Educating Ricky]] is back for its fourth installment.
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|rowspan="2"| [[Image:Xfm.gif|100px]] || [[09 November 2002]] || align="center" | n/a || align="center"| [[Xfm Series 2]] || align="center"| 35
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|colspan="5"| Karl gets called a dickhead by a tramp and talks about cheating church. Ricky talks about his boxing. [[Educating Ricky]] has its fifth installment. Karl's now-famous utterances "I typed 'why' into the search engine to try and confuse the computer" along with "you never see an old man 'avin' a Twix" are in THIS show.
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|rowspan="2"| [[Image:Xfm.gif|100px]] || [[16 November 2002]] || align="center" | n/a || align="center"| [[Xfm Series 2]] || align="center"| 36
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|colspan="5"| Ricky and Steve discuss Karl being labelled a genius in Heat Magazine. [[Rockbusters]] goes down a storm, and we get the 6th installment (the longest thus far at about 22 minutes total) of [[Educating Ricky]].
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|rowspan="2"| [[Image:Xfm.gif|100px]] || [[23 November 2002]] || align="center" | n/a || align="center"| [[Xfm Series 2]] || align="center"| 37
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|colspan="5"| MTV have offered Karl the opportunity to record a screen test but he's reluctant. Karl interviews a woman who claims to have a ghost living in her house in a feature called 'Pilkington'. [[Educating Ricky]] episode 7 is also featured.
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|rowspan="2"| [[Image:Xfm.gif|100px]] || [[30 November 2002]] || align="center" | n/a || align="center"| [[Xfm Series 2]] || align="center"| 38
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|colspan="5"| [[Xfm]] have started an advertising campaign for the show but Karl didn't want to be inclduded. Ricky explains how Jonathan Ross sees him as "a predatory gay". [[Educating Ricky]] Episode 8 completes the show.
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|rowspan="2"| [[Image:Xfm.gif|100px]] || [[07 December 2002]] || align="center" | n/a || align="center"| [[Xfm Series 2]] || align="center"| 39
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|colspan="5"| Karl records his screen test for MTV today. Ricky and Steve demonstrate how gullible Karl is when reading internet material.
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|rowspan="2"| [[Image:Xfm.gif|100px]] || [[14 December 2002]] || align="center" | n/a || align="center"| [[Xfm Series 2]] || align="center"| 40
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|colspan="5"| Claire Sturgess is sitting in for Karl and talks with Ricky and Steve about [[The Fight]].
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|rowspan="2"| [[Image:Xfm.gif|100px]] || [[21 December 2002]] || align="center" | n/a || align="center"| [[Xfm Series 2]] || align="center"| 41
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|colspan="5"| Karl's not buying his girlfriend Suzanne anything for Christmas because he's taking her out for dinner.
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|rowspan="2"| [[Image:Xfm.gif|100px]] || [[28 December 2002]] || align="center" | n/a || align="center"| [[Xfm Series 2]] || align="center"| 42
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|colspan="5"| A 'Best of' compilation show. aka Best of #2
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|rowspan="2"| [[Image:Xfm.gif|100px]] || [[04 January 2003]] || align="center" | ''Season 1, Vol. 1''|| align="center"| [[Xfm Series 2]] || align="center"| 43
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|colspan="5"| Ricky and Steve are astounded to learn that Karl bought his girlfriend an industrial-sized box of condoms for Christmas.
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|rowspan="2"| [[Image:Xfm.gif|100px]] || [[11 January 2003]] || align="center" | ''Season 1, Vol. 2''|| align="center"| [[Xfm Series 2]] || align="center"| 44
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|colspan="5"| Stephen has overheard some people slagging off Ricky in public, and Karl believes in ghosts of women seeing ghosts of themselves.
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|rowspan="2"| [[Image:Xfm.gif|100px]] || [[18 January 2003]] || align="center" | ''Season 1, Vol. 3''|| align="center"| [[Xfm Series 2]] || align="center"| 45
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|colspan="5"| Ricky investigates the effects of blunt objects on the skull, Stephen's feelings are hurt and Karl explores his sexuality.
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|rowspan="2"| [[Image:Xfm.gif|100px]] || [[25 January 2003]] || align="center" | ''Season 1, Vol. 4''|| align="center"| [[Xfm Series 2]] || align="center"| 46
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|colspan="5"| The now-famous (or infamous, as the case may be) “Monkey News” makes its debut. Ricky performs the jingle for the first time in the feature originally called “Chimpanzee That!”
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|rowspan="2"| [[Image:Xfm.gif|100px]] || [[01 February 2003]] || align="center" | ''Season 1, Vol. 5''|| align="center"| [[Xfm Series 2]] || align="center"| 47
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|colspan="5"| Karl slags off clairvoyants, Ricky slags off God and Stephen slags off Karl (then punches him in the arm). The debut of [[Karl in a Film]].
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|rowspan="2"| [[Image:Xfm.gif|100px]] || [[08 February 2003]] || align="center" | ''Season 1, Vol. 6''|| align="center"| [[Xfm Series 2]] || align="center"| 48
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|colspan="5"| Karl gets excited about conjoined twins but less enthused about the literary implications of infinite monkeys.
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|rowspan="2"| [[Image:Xfm.gif|100px]] || [[15 February 2003]] || align="center" | n/a || align="center"| [[Xfm Series 2]] || align="center"| 49
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|colspan="5"| Ricky is so disgusted with the show that he finally says, "that's it, we're taking two weeks off. No show for two weeks" or something to that effect.
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|rowspan="2"| [[Image:Xfm.gif|100px]] || [[22 February 2003]] || align="center" | n/a || align="center"| [[Xfm Series 2]] || align="center"| 50
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|colspan="5"| A 'Best of' compilation. aka Best of #3. Ricky and Steve pre-record their intros to all the links.
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|rowspan="2"| [[Image:Xfm.gif|100px]] || [[01 March 2003]] || align="center" | n/a || align="center"| [[Xfm Series 2]] || align="center"| 51
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|colspan="5"| Another 'Best of' compilation. aka Best of #4. Ricky and Steve pre-record their intros to all the links.
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|rowspan="2"| [[Image:Xfm.gif|100px]] || [[08 March 2003]] || align="center" | n/a || align="center"| [[Xfm Series 2]] || align="center"| 52
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|colspan="5"| Claire Sturgess stands in for a sick Karl. Ricky and Steve start giving out digits of Karl's phone number, and eventually manage to get him on the phone.
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|rowspan="2"| [[Image:Xfm.gif|100px]] || [[15 March 2003]] || align="center" | ''Season 1, Vol. 7'' || align="center"| [[Xfm Series 2]] || align="center"| 53
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|colspan="5"| Karl's been off ill - much to Ricky's disgust - a new feature is born and tension between Karl and Stephen comes to a head.
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|rowspan="2"| [[Image:Xfm.gif|100px]] || [[22 March 2003]] || align="center" | ''Season 1, Vol. 8'' || align="center"| [[Xfm Series 2]] || align="center"| 54
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|colspan="5"| Karl is disappointed by the film 'Freaks', confused by transsexuals and slapped in the head live on-air by Stephen.
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|rowspan="2"| [[Image:Xfm.gif|100px]] || [[29 March 2003]] || align="center" | ''Season 1, Vol. 11'' || align="center"| [[Xfm Series 2]] || align="center"| 55
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|colspan="5"| Ricky and Stephen are adamant that Karl should appear on the show's poster and more interest groups are offended.
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|rowspan="2"| [[Image:Xfm.gif|100px]] || [[05 April 2003]] || align="center" | ''Season 1, Vol. 9'' || align="center"| [[Xfm Series 2]] || align="center"| 56
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|colspan="5"| Steve runs to the local McDonald's to fetch 5 hamburgers for Karl to stuff in his mouth in an attempt to break a world record. After failing miserably at that, Karl eats 62 grapes in three minutes; 71 shy of the record. Karl's explanation is that he has a "small throat".
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|rowspan="2"| [[Image:Xfm.gif|100px]] || [[12 April 2003]] || align="center" | ''Season 1, Vol. 10'' || align="center"| [[Xfm Series 2]] || align="center"| 57
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|colspan="5"| Ricky, Karl and Steve break the law on-air for the first time as Karl gets curious about the extent of Derren Brown's powers.
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|rowspan="2"| [[Image:Xfm.gif|100px]] || [[19 April 2003]] || align="center" | n/a || align="center"| [[Xfm Series 2]] || align="center"| 58
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|colspan="5"| Claire Sturgess fills in for Karl, who is in Madeira with Suzanne and her parents. The boys suffer from hypochondria; Ricky wears a white suit to the BAFTAs; Steve fancies Louise Woodward; reality shows; the [[Innovations Catalogue]]; "Call your friends and tell them it's a girl"; Karl is deemed superfluous.
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|rowspan="2"| [[Image:Xfm.gif|100px]] || [[26 April 2003]] || align="center" | n/a || align="center"| [[Xfm Series 2]] || align="center"| 59
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|colspan="5"| Karl is back, bringing Rockbusters with him, and Ricky invents some new characters to liven up the show.
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|rowspan="2"| [[Image:Xfm.gif|100px]] || [[03 May 2003]] || align="center" | n/a || align="center"| [[Xfm Series 2]] || align="center"| 60
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|colspan="5"| "It's the Sonys this week, so make it a good one." Rockbusters today. Karl got a message from someone wanting Steve to do voiceover work--"money for old rope"--but didn't pass it on to Steve until a week later.
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|rowspan="2"| [[Image:Xfm.gif|100px]] || [[10 May 2003]] || align="center" | ''Season 1, Vol. 12'' || align="center"| [[Xfm Series 2]] || align="center"| 61
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|colspan="5"| Ricky is incensed that the show didn't win any [[Sony Awards]] and gives Karl money to perform degrading, homoerotic tasks.
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|rowspan="2"| [[Image:Xfm.gif|100px]] || [[17 May 2003]] || align="center" | ''Season 1, Vol. 13'' || align="center"| [[Xfm Series 2]] || align="center"| 62
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|colspan="5"| Vowing to improve the show after last week's Sony failure, Ricky consults Dr. Fox and attempts to interact with the listeners.
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|rowspan="2"| [[Image:Xfm.gif|100px]] || [[31 May 2003]] || align="center" | n/a || align="center"| [[Xfm Series 2]] || align="center"| 63
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|colspan="5"| Ricky has done his back in wrestling. Rockbusters contest today. Cheeky Freak of the Week--Lobsterman and the Siamese twins who got run over "why didn't he just look both ways?" Monkey News--chimp number 86, the magician's assistant hopped in the car at the gas station and drove to Spain. Of course it was possible--the car was an automatic.
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|rowspan="2"| [[Image:Xfm.gif|100px]] || [[07 June 2003]] || align="center" | ''Season 1, Vol. 14'' || align="center"| [[Xfm Series 2]] || align="center"| 64
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|colspan="5"| Springsteen has an armpit fetish? Hankies in back pockets, Karl has the research. Karl won't leave the hotel room in Tenerife due to his state of arousal, discussion about dying, cloning, and one's last day on earth, the weekly episodes of Blockbusters, CFOTW (Cheeky Freak of the Week), and Monkey News--with two monkey stories this week--BONUS.
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|rowspan="2"| [[Image:Xfm.gif|100px]] || [[14 June 2003]] || align="center" | n/a || align="center"| [[Xfm Series 2]] || align="center"| 65
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|colspan="5"| Karl going on Holiday to Cornwall this coming week---anxious about going to Monkey World--twice. "Bauhaus is not working, Bauhaus is not working!!" Ricky loses 400 quid out of his suit pocket, Steve recounts story at University about finding a cashpoint card in the machine, and rewarding himself 30 quid (Karl would have taken 20), the great flower/greeting card company conspiracies, warnings on fag packets, the boneless person, Monkey News (homeless chimp in Russia), Rockbusters, and CFOTW live on, Karl leaves early to catch the train.
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|rowspan="2"| [[Image:Xfm.gif|100px]] || [[21 June 2003]] || align="center" | ''Season 1, Vol. 15'' || align="center"| [[Xfm Series 2]] || align="center"| 66
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|colspan="5"| Karl's holiday in Cornwall recap; Rockbusters and Monkey News now ended according to Ricky, but they do come back anyway; Monkey News from Karl's Dad and a Monkey News 'Extra' (Monkey Business)
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|rowspan="2"| [[Image:Xfm.gif|100px]] || [[28 June 2003]] || align="center" | ''Season 1, Vol. 16'' || align="center"| [[Xfm Series 2]] || align="center"| 67
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|colspan="5"| Medical, zoo, charity, and taxi drivers talk. Shaving one's arse, feeling testicles, owl on a desk, Maggie the Magpie, "do you know the way to Camden?" Monkey News (bequeathing the monkey spa to the kids) and Rockbusters still alive but on very thin ice.
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|rowspan="2"| [[Image:Xfm.gif|100px]] || [[05 July 2003]] || align="center" | ''Season 1, Vol. 17'' || align="center"| [[Xfm Series 2]] || align="center"| 68
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|colspan="5"| Steve's great New Year's party in Bristol: "It's just that...we've arranged to meet back at you." Plus Monkey News (chimps joining the army and doing the obstacle course?), Educating Ricky, Rockbusters, [[Auntie Nora]], an' that.
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|rowspan="2"| [[Image:Xfm.gif|100px]] || [[12 July 2003]] || align="center" | n/a || align="center"| [[Xfm Series 2]] || align="center"| 69
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|colspan="5"| Ricky and Steve pre-record a spot lampooning the Radio Authority, but the Managing Director of XFM bins that. Karl has to go along with the decision, even with the swearing bleeped out. Karl getting ready to go on holiday again. This time, it's Hastings. No more cheeky freak of the week is this week's Songs of Phrase. Monkey News--monkey prison in India. The boys have stories of winding teachers up in school.
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|rowspan="2"| [[Image:Xfm.gif|100px]] || [[19 July 2003]] || align="center" | ''Season 1, Vol. 18'' || align="center"| [[Xfm Series 2]] || align="center"| 70
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|colspan="5"| Karl's kitchen re-doing,  Steve's big feet. Songs of Phrase. Karl and babies. Steve's big TV. Wheelchair tennis and the Paralympics.  Karl gets a kiss from Steve on the head. Karl recaps holiday in Hastings and specialty shops. Answers to Songs of Phrase and Monkey news--the chimp that won the 400 meter race in the 1908 London Olympics an' that.
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|rowspan="2"| [[Image:Xfm.gif|100px]] || [[26 July 2003]] || align="center" | ''Season 1, Vol. 19'' || align="center"| [[Xfm Series 2]] || align="center"| 71
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|colspan="5"| People you hate, What do you like. The chinese language. Scruting the china-woman. Anteaters and the wax museum.  Songs of phrase. KP looks after me. If Karl were PM or President. Winner of who is the most hated among the listeners. Monkey News--the chimp cyclist, on the tricycle, in the London-Brighton bike ride.
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|rowspan="2"| [[Image:Xfm.gif|100px]] || [[02 August 2003]] || align="center" | n/a || align="center"| [[Xfm Series 2]] || align="center"| 72
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|colspan="5"| Bondage shop--Open. Cock soup and hermaphrodites.  Lots of knob news (including theatrical castration, Hitler's penis and genital "torture devices"). Songs of Phrase; "I know you're just 16 but looking all of 21, that's because Chinese look older." Calling Moyles with golf songs. Educating Karl. Big eyelids. Freaks. Homeless & St. John's Ambulance people. Monkey news--monkey astronaut made a NASA trainer, then a colonel, got a pension, an' that.
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|rowspan="2"| [[Image:Xfm.gif|100px]] || [[09 August 2003]] || align="center" | n/a || align="center"| [[Xfm Series 2]] || align="center"| 73
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|colspan="5"| Handling the heat wave. Nudist chat. frontal shots of sprinters, Monkey news--chimp prostitute. Karl laughs on air.
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|rowspan="2"| [[Image:Xfm.gif|100px]] || [[16 August 2003]] || align="center" | Season 1, Vol. 20|| align="center"| [[Xfm Series 2]] || align="center"| 74
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|colspan="5"| Last show of the series. Ricky and Steve filming The Office Specials in the interim. Will they return?  More charity talk. Newton and Einstein. [[The Daily Telegraph]] is listening today! Monkey News extra -- Costa Rican monkey goalkeeper has a PhD in Physics.
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==[[21 September 2002]]==
==External Links==
Feeder - "Come Back Around"
*[http://www.xfm.co.uk/sectional.asp?id=4159 Xfm's Ricky and Steve Minisite]
"I'm really going to make an effort - I am rubbish"/"It's like a cat can talk"
Doves - "Caught By The River"
"Were you invited to go on celebrity fat club?"/Rick Waller from Pop Idol
Sugar - "If I Can't Change Your Mind"
Jonno Coleman/"They fed a mouse a load of cake and gave it a drug, but it's eyes were popping out."
Oasis - "Little By Little"
The Vines - "Outta The Way"
Apprentice sumo wrestlers
David Bowie - "Sweet Thing"
How did sumo start?/Karl and Ricky playing football/Ricky's place/art
Ash - "Envy"
Badly Drawn Boy - "Something To Talk About"
Frottage/Guinness Book Of Records/best thing Karl's ever done - he's 30 on Monday (23/09/2002)
Jimi Hendrix - "All Along The Watchtower"


==[[28 September 2002]]==
{{Xfm Box}}
Karl is absent as Suzanne has taken him to The Canary Islands for his birthday. Claire Sturgess stands in for Karl.


==[[05 October 2002]]==
[[Category:Series]]
Karl is away for another week as when he was on holiday his dad was sent to hospital and he had to help with things.
 
==[[12 October 2002]]==
The very first week of [[Rockbusters]]. Karl makes a number of suggestions of further possible radio quizzes including; Strike it Ricky; Big Mother, a concept in which listeners can win a CD if they have a heavy mother and The Rice is Right. Karl also introduces the new feature [[Educating Ricky]], a title derived from the film Educating Rita in which he educates Ricky and Steve. The topics of education for the first week include 'Hairy Chinese Kid'.
 
==[[19 October 2002]]==
Ricky's got a hangover, and the second week of [[Rockbusters]].
 
==[[26 October 2002]]==
 
==[[02 November 2002]]==
The first email from [[Richard Anderson]] aka Dicky Anderson, The Dickster…
Karl trys to sell his futon and desk combo for £100. Karl has a small laughing fit during rockbusters, a lot of people claim to have never heard Karl laugh.
 
==[[9 November 2002]]==
Coldplay - "The Scientist"
Steve got his arse pinched/talking to the homeless
"I Wanna Be Adored" - Stone Roses
Feeder - "Come Back Around"
Ricky's first week training for charity boxing, please suggest a boxing nickname
Ice Cube - "Good Day"
Suggestions for boxing nicknames, "What happens if you win? What's the point?"/Karl at Crusaders - "My mate was dead religious - I'm not..." "Well you believe in shadows running around and pushing people off bikes"
Rockbusters teaser, Educating Ricky teaser: "I already know about hairy Chinese Kids and a deaf girl who can hear again"
The Hives - "Hate To Say I Told You So"
"The amazing Karl Pilkington"/Rockbusters (prize: You heard them earlier on, We played The Stone Roses - "I Wanna Be Adored"): "That army has got some well nice trenches" - DW; "The top of those curtains are all wrecked - the material's all worn" - HV; "I was in Texas last week - I tripped and landed on me knees in a puddle" - WH
Bob Dylan - "Just Like A Woman"
Boxing nicknames for Ricky/e-mail from Richard Anderson "What actually is the point of your show?" (Last week e-mailed to say he'd rather count his feet)
Missy Elliott - "Work It"
Educating Ricky: "I'll bacon In the morning if you've had enough of me" (origin of "giving someone the cold shoulder)
Nirvana - "The Man Who Sold The World"
Educating Ricky: "Breastfeeding eight-year old" - "I put in 'why' to see if I could confuse the computer"/Werthers are old-man sweets
Electric Six - "Danger High Voltage"
"We'll have a big fire to-marrow" - the origin of bonfire
Van Morrison - "Gloria"
Free Association - ""
White Van Karl: thug wins lottery/kids know too much these days/Steve's dad calls his mum a twat
Suede - "Animal Nitrate"
"Karl's all flustered..."/Educating Ricky: Brian Blessed climbing Everest/"He's a bit of a noose-sance": money for old rope - "You nearly made me swear then!"/Rockbusters answers: "Dandy Warhols"/"Holly Valance"/"Wet Knee Houston"
 
==[[16 November 2002]]==
Ricky and Steve discuss Karl being labelled as a genius in Heat Magazine.
 
==[[23 November 2002]]==
MTV have offered Karl the opportunity to record a screen test. He is however reluctant to do this. Karl plays a recorded interview with a woman who claims to have a ghost living in her house in a short feature entitled 'Pilkington', music from television's 'Parkinson' is used.
 
==[[30 November 2002]]==
Richard Ashcroft - "Science Of Silence"
"A desperate attempt to be articulate"... "Massive poster campaign"... "Looks like a predatory gay"... "He's not listening!"... Name an attractive bloke
Feeder - "Just The Way I'm Feeling"
Reintroducing Karl/jellyfish... fish in the sea
Simon and Garfunkel - "April Comes She Will"
Trailing Educating Ricky, Rockbusters - prizes: Only Fools And Horses - "we gave away one of those last week", more of Karl's mum's Rockbusters
Warren G - "Regulate"
Nirvana - "You Know You're Right"
"The Fight" - Ricky's been in the Bod-Pod as part of his boxing training: 25% fat/"scientists can't work out how flies fly"
David Bowie - "Be My Wife"
The homeless wind Steve up - he saw one reading a book: why hasn't he got a job?
My Morning Jacket - "Lowdown"
e-mail from Richard Anderson who has been watching a puddle evaporate/"this is an award-winning show" - the show that won was the one with the upheld complaint
Karl's mum's Rockbusters: "This group are nice on toast" - Jam; "This man liked his wine" - Dean Martin; "Hope you're not speeding when you meet these" - The Police; "Sounds like these lads work for the 'ospital" - Gerry And The Pacemakers/Rockbusters prizes
Eminem - ""
"Merchant's Navy", "Merchant Of Little Venice", "Shaddapa Gervais"
Rockbusters: "You've been dunking that for too long" - LB, "You won't be able to play that game in this pub because the table ain't big enough" - FD, "I've had a rubbish day, so I'm happy it's over" - GK
Educating Ricky: "Get Your Kit Off, We're Off Down The Butcher's", "Wash Up With You?", "Why Don't They Just Get A Diary Or Some Paper Or Something?"
Oasis - "Live Forever"
Educating Ricky: "Get Your Kit Off, We're Off Down The Butcher's" (origin of "Don't let the cat out of the bag")/"This isn't a radio show, is it?"/"For a simple man, you retain a lot of knowledge - it's just all rubbish"
Aqualung - "Good Times Gonna Come"
Educating Ricky: "Wash Up With You?" - research into how different nations wash up
Travis - "Love Will Come Through"
Educating Ricky: "Why Don't They Just Get A Diary Or Some Paper Or Something?" - tattoos/vampires
Buzzcocks - "Ever Fallen In Love With Someone You Shouldn't Have"
Big headed kids/the real origin of letting the cat out of the bag
Rock Busters - Limp Bizkit, Gladys Knight, Fats Domino
Song For The Lovers: John Martyn - "May You Never"
 
==[[07 December 2002]]==
Karl records his screen test for MTV today. Ricky and Steve 'educate' Karl alongside the usual [[Educating Ricky]] reading him two fictional stories ,demonstrate how gullible Karl is when reading internet material.
 
==[[14 December 2002]]==
Karl is away again today, Claire Sturgess pushes the buttons in his absence.
 
==[[21 December 2002]]==
Xmas special
 
Karl's in a bad mood because he had a bad time last week, he didn't buy his girlfriend's dad anything for his birthday and got a joint birthday and Xmas card/he's not buying her anything for Xmas because he's taking her out for dinner at Xmas
Pretenders - "2000 Miles"
Vote for your favourite parts for next week's Best Of/Channel 4 have ripped off Rockbusters/Richard Anderson e-mail: "I've got to attend some family Xmas nonsense at Aunty Marion's house."
Badly Drawn Boy - "Donner And Blitzen"
Karl's Xmas memories: his drunken brother broke his trainset and he bought his mum a Victoria Plum and she thought it was "bloody awful..." "...so that's why I don't get anyone anything anymore."
Athlete - ""
Goldrush - "I Let You Down"
More of Karl's Xmas memories: his parents' parties where the whole estate came, Karl found a cigar and tried it/Steve's grandparents are waiting to die
Teenage Fanclub - "Christmas Eve"
Ross Noble sent Karl a picture from "Bizarre": kid with a big head
Karl went to see The Christians in concert and his dad was worried, Karl's mum told him not to tell anyone he's not christened as there's witches and stuff - "she was worried about when you were naive and stupid and easily-led"
Rockbusters non-Xmas special which Karl has cleverly tweaked because Heat magazine said it might be a special Xams edition: "there's a load of letters there asking for advice, put them on Claire's desk - oh, and have a good Christmas" - F, "Ask yer mam if you should, after you've wrapped the presents" - S, "A couple of people were arguing in the supermarket at the fruit and veg counter and it's busy in there because it's Christmas"- B
? - "?"
The toilet doesn't work/using disabled toilets/giving directions... "I need some blood"
The Pogues - "Fairytale Of New York"
Canned Laughter for Denis Norden/"Pilkington: Do We Need 'Em?" 1: Jellyfish, with Vicky in an aquarium in Angelsey
Feeder - "Just The Way I'm Feeling"
Victoria Plum/documentary about fellas with no legs nicking cars/Educating Ricky: "Well, You'd Think It Be Bug-Head, Wouldn't You?" "We've talked a lot about animals without heads..."
Mark Eitzel - "Snowbird"
A Victoria Plum on eBay/Educating Ricky: "Ooh, What A Cat-Toes-Trophe": a cat had too many toes and was really good in the snow - are disabilities all bad? Look on the bright side!
John Lennon - "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)"
Presents for Karl: Champagne
Rockbusters answers: Foreigner - "that is shit" - Shalamar, Bananarama - "What group is 'Bananadrama'? You're a fool! You're a twat!"/Steve tries to kiss Karl
Joni Mitchell - ""
 
==[[28 December 2002]]==
A "best of" show.
==[[04 January 2003]]==
(Xfm: Season 1 Volume 1)
==[[11 January 2003]]==
(Xfm: Season 1 Volume 2)
==[[18 January 2003]]==
(Xfm: Season 1 Volume 3)
==[[25 January 2003]]==
(Xfm: Season 1 Volume 4)
<br>The Birth of Monkey News!
==[[01 February 2003]]==
(Xfm: Season 1 Volume 5)
==[[08 February 2003]]==
(Xfm: Season 1 Volume 6)
==[[15 February 2003]]==
There are several references to the big anti-war demo taking place in London today; Karl's girlfriend was away and he forgets to go to bed
 
White Stripes - "Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground"
"We have got a great show lined up for you... the west End is crammed"
Guns And Roses - "Sweet Child O' Mine"
Karl forgets to go to bed/Karl saw Dracula and found a flaw: "vampires have no reflection but his centre parting's always really neat..."/"This will be the last Rockbusters." "It's a special one..." "You mean it makes sense?"
Lloyd Cole - "Like Lovers Do"
"I've got another mate with a bald head and I like to squeeze it."
Split-brain operations
WT Featuring Snoop - "The Streets"
xfamily Fortunes/"You are the most annoying man I have ever met"
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - "Bring It On"
xfamily Fortunes
Badly Drawn Boy - "Born Again"
Eminem - "Sing For The Moment"
Karl in "The Shining"
Bob Dylan - "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go"
"They're arguing about why this show is so bad..." "THis is actually more fun for me to do that you to listen to."/Ricky taking photos for Japanese tourists who don't know who he is - "this life of a minor celebrity"
Oasis - "Songbird"
Foo Fighters - "Times Like These"
Karl forgets to eat when his girlfriend's away "...and I've got restless leg syndrome..." "...I put it down to Smarties and that..."/"A woman had a baby that was having a baby"
The Zombies - "Time Of The Season"
Bonobos/Marches are pointless - there are too many people to anything done
Nirvana - "Come As You Are"
Doves - "There Goes The Fear"
Rockbusters - "it's the last ever one": "The Northern Lad remembers he had to tell his mam's daughter something" - O; "The person from Birmingham got a C in their degree" - T; "The Cockney fella isn't happy - everything's going wrong" - DH
Valentine's Special: "Letter To Hermione"
Monkey News: "There's a monkey in India in a railway station waiting for the train... fella steals a hangbag... monkey arrests him."
Rockbusters answers: Oasis, Toto, Dan Hill
N*E*R*D - "Provider"
"I hope the Sonys weren't listening to that... I'm not coming in next week... I've got to go away and rethink this whole thing... I think this is damaging to our reputation"
 
==[[22 February 2003]]==
A "best of" show.
 
Eminem - "Sing For The Moment"
"We're playing some great moments from the last three weeks"
The Smiths - "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out"
Ricky finds the swizzle stick that Chris Smith was using on the Breakfast Show this week
Karl's research: dog wigs/"we got through loads of cats", the cat was sick so Karl's mum shaved it
Goldrush - "I Let You Down"
The Coral - "Don't Think You're The First"
Linking link
Feeder - "Just The Way I'm Feeling"
White van Karl: what about Cilla Black's dead husband telling her to quit/woman seeing herself when she was young/cloning "man-moths"
Placebo - ""
Protestors at the demo last week - "just bleep some of those bits..!"
Steve in the "most eligible batchelors" list
AC/DC - "You Shook Me All Night Long"
Ask Karl: Karl on arranged marriages/Karl wanted to be a dancer, but it was shut so he bought a go-kart
David Bowie - "Ashes To Ashes"
Coldplay - "Clocks"
Do We Need 'Em: Snails
Aimee Mann - ""
Doves - "There Goes The Fear"
Pre-recorded multiple choice links
Flaming Lips - "Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots"
Chimp gets pally with zookeeper and tries it on with his wife
Oasis - "Songbird"
Siamese Twins
Pretenders - "Brass In Pocket"
Turin Brakes - "Painkiller (Summer Rain)"
Nicking "The Office DVDs"/taxi driver/Karl's dad
The Hives - "Hate To Say I Told You So"
 
==[[01 March 2003]]==
A "best of" show.
 
Eminem - "Sing For The Moment"
Steve's grandparents/Karl's Christmas nightmares
Athlete - ""
Kings Of Leon - "Molly's Chambers"
Karl in "The Shining"/Karl in a caravan/generic link
Guns N' Roses - "Sweet Child O'Mine"
Karl forgets to go to bed/Karl watches Dracula
White Stripes - "Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground"
David Bowie - "Lady Stardust"
Karl getting sick eating cream doughnuts/woman with tumour on her buttock - "I'm never doing this show again!"
Doves - "Caught By The River"
"Radio - the harder working clown"
Coldplay - "Clocks"
Do We Need 'Em - "Cockroaches"
The Cure - "I Will Always Love You"
Educating Ricky: breastfed 8 year-old/Werthers
Radiohead - "Just"
Eels - "Going Over To Susan's House"
Ask Karl: young people running riot/Karl once broke a car window playing with a stone so he pretended to be asleep/arranged marriage, kid wants to be a dancer (again!)
? - ""
"You don't talk to anyone in the week..." "Not really, I keep myself to myself"/urban legends
A Song For The Lovers: Cat Stevens - "Lillywhite"
 
==[[08 March 2003]]==
Claire Sturgess is producing; Karl's ill
 
U2 - "Beautiful Day"
"Karl's ill... well, he's not here... he'd better be in hospital"
Coldplay - "Clocks"
Is Karl a chimp?
Wedding Present - "Another Pleasant Valley Sunday"
Karl and Steve were in LA the past two weeks talking about redoing The Office in the USA/Steve's passport expired
- ""
Oasis - "Supersonic"
Where is Karl?
Aimee Mann - "Red Vines"
More about Oliver The Human-zee
Zwan - "Honestly"
Claire can't work the phone
E-Mail from Richard Anderson: "There's something making strange yelping noises in the thicket at the end of may garden - shall I go and prod it to see if it's Karl? P.S. The show's still rubbish without Karl"/Karl's answerphone message/Call Karl on 07968 157***
Feeder - "Just The Way I'm Feeling"
Karl's been slagging Steve off
Patti Smith - "Because The Night"
Let's do a better show without Karl
Richard Ashcroft - "Buy It In Bottles"
Blur - "Out Of Time"
Steve fancies the woman from the Scottish Widows advert
Bad Company - "Can't Get Enough Of Your Love"
Ricky in a rock mood
Flaming Lips - "Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots"
Rush - "Spirit Of Radio"
Ian Camfield/The A Team
Karl phones in - he's ill because he forgot to eat when his girlfriend was away. And she was away again this week and he put wet jeans on.
Kings Of Leon - "Molly Chambers"
More Karl
Hot Hot Heat - "Bandages"
 
==[[15 March 2003]]==
(Xfm: Season 1 Volume 7)
==[[22 March 2003]]==
(Xfm: Season 1 Volume 8)
==[[29 March 2003]]==
(Xfm: Season 1 Volume 11)
==[[05 April 2003]]==
(Xfm: Season 1 Volume 9)
==[[12 April 2003]]==
(Xfm: Season 1 Volume 10)
==[[19 April 2003]]==
Claire is producing because Karl is on holiday, Steve has been ill in the week
 
U2 - "Beautiful Day"
Karl is away with his girlfriend and her parents
Blur - "Where Is The Love?"
Ricky's a hypochondriac who worries about cancer, Steve's very sickly and thinks he's got SARS
Bruce Springsteen - "Lonesome Day"
Turin Brakes - "Painkiller (Summer Rain)"
Steve fancies Louise Woodward
Ten Storey Love Song - "Stone Roses"
Where is Louise Woodward working?
Peter Gabriel - "Solsbury Hill"
Placebo - "The Bitter End"
Butlins/"Reborn In The USA"/Ricky's experiences on the road with Seona Dancing: "Bucks Fizz tried to smuggle us onto the plane"
Neil Young - "Man Needs A Maid"
Radiohead - "There There"
Innovations catalogue is being shut down
Pink Floyd - "Wish You Were Here"
Feeder - "Think About Tomorrow"
Competition for "25th Hour" tickets
The Smiths - "Reel Around The Fountain"
"Horrible, scary" collectable dolls/mental case who was obsessed with Mike Read: "Imagine you were in a love triangle with her and Louise Woodward." "I'd let them wrestle it out, nude in a hotel room."
Coldplay - "Clocks"
Send e-mails to Karl, Ricky and Andrew Phillips saying the show was better without Karl
Ed Harcourt - "The Birds Will Sing For Us"
 
==[[26 April 2003]]==
Karl is back, Steve's had a sore throat all week and went home in the week
 
Blur - "Where Is The Love?"
Why does a sore throat stop you working? "It's a bit like that Ronnie Corbet thing..." /Ricky hurt his back but still did a voiceover in the week... "I'll play you what he did..."
Thin Lizzy - "The Boys Are Back In Town"
"I think it's stress: I travel in on the tube - I saw a Chinaman sneeze, I Was terrified!"/the first time Suzanne was ill she saw the real Karl/Karl giving out biscuits to old people "because he had good nails"/"I do a voiceover for X-Ray Magazine... they let me make up the script"
Voiceover 1: "We can *possibly" put that out on xfm - but we need one for Capital"
Voiceover 2: Dr Frog
"I had to play them to the MD..." "I'd like to hear Dr. Frog featuring on our show more..!"
Badly Drawn Boy - "All Possibilities"
"I've got some new characters..." Camp David, The Right Queer Gay/Ho Lee Fuk, the little funny Chinese guy/return of Rockbusters
Sugar - "If I Can Change Your Mind"
Gayvid Gray, the Bent Piano player
The Who - "The Seeker"
What would Richard Anderson sound like?/Rockbusters: "The gingerbread man Has Only Got One Leg": LB, "These people from the East Midlands swear a lot: TTB; "Have a holiday in Italy": TB
Feeder - "Think About Tomorrow"
Placebo - "The Bitter End"
Ricky's friends are all different/his mate Robin has little thumbs/Educating Ricky: "Rule Of Thumb"
The Cure - "A Forest"
Rockbusters results: Limp Bizkit, Terrence Trent Darby, Turin Brakes
Radiohead - "There There"
Don't give away the secret of Rockbusters
Steely Dan - "Reeling In The Years"
"You can say that I look like something you can buy in Forbidden Planet, but not someone who shops there!"/Auctioning Ricky's sketch of Karl, "EVen an ill person would say 'you don't have to have your head squooze for us'."/Karl's holiday with Suzanne's parents - "you're a monster, Karl!"
U2 - "With Or Without You"
"Cheeky Freak Of The Week" - dog people: "this is real..." "They're human beings who have deformed legs..." "Would you serve her in a restaurant?" "The premise being what?" "Well, restaurants don't serve animals..."/Monkey News: "Alfred was the monkey who robbed the robbers..." The monkeys bargain with the zookeepers to let them go for 250 grand: "If he was planning on leaving the zoo, he's going to withdraw his savings..."
REM - "What's The Frequency Kenneth?"
"Do you think when Marconi invented radio that this was what he had in mind for it?"
 
==[[03 May 2003]]==
This week's show is going for the Sony Award
 
Richard Ashcroft - "Buy It In Bottles"
"It's the Sonys this week, so make it a good one." That can work against you: Karl's dad meeting a bloke who looked like Ken Dodd, guy on the radio thought noise in the background on the phone was a parrot but it was a woman's Down's Syndrome child
The Smiths - "Panic"
Karl didn't pass on the message that someone was looking for Steve to offer him some voiceover work
Snoop Doggy Dogg - "Beautiful"
"You're worse than my agent!" "At least when his agent does it he's losing himself money as well!"
Warren Zeavon - "I Ain't That Pretty At All"
Rockbusters: "the hitchhiker needs a lift, but in something bigger than a car": VH, "Don't be selfish - hands some of it out to your mates": C, "the Scottish fellas can't get into their e-mails": KL
REM - "Man In The Moon"
Evan - "Stop My Head"
People in cinemas
The Beatles - "Let It Be"
50 Cent - "In Da Club"
Steve and Karl are arguing/Women can get treatment for baldness on the NHS, but men can't... Karl's bald head isn't a "hairdo" or "style"
 
==[[10 May 2003]]==
(Xfm: Season 1 Volume 12)
==[[17 May 2003]]==
(Xfm: Season 1 Volume 13)
==[[31 May 2003]]==
 
Blur - "Out Of Time"
Ricky has done his back in wrestling - "Have you seen gorillas fighting?"
Rod Stewart - "Maggie May"
Fax machines and letters
The Darkness - "Growing On Me"
Steve's new sunglasses
New York Dolls - "Trash"
Coldplay - "The Scientist"
Tattoos
Thin Lizzy - "Don't Believe A Word"
Piercing and Ricky's earrings
Lil' Kim - "Jump Off"
Placebo - "This Picture"
Rockbusters - "Customer wanted some paint to darken up her room, the shop assistant knew what to do": CB; "It'd be all right if their heads weren't so large": SF; "Chanel have got another perfume out": NO
Bob Marley - "Stir It Up"
Cheeky Freak Of The Week: Lobster Man and the Siamese twins who were run over - "why didn't he look both ways?"
Red Hot Chilli Peppers - "Universally Speaking"
"Guess who's coming to dinner"
The Smiths - "I Started Something I Couldn't Finish"
Nelson Mandela
Athlete - "Westside"
Marina Topley-Bird - "Need One"
Monkey News: number 86, the monkey who was a magician's assistant, stole his car and drove to Spain - "You must know that is shit." "Mad, innit?"
Suede - "Stay Together"
Rockbusters: Cilla Black, Small Faces, New Order
Nirvana - "The Man Who Sold The World"
 
==[[07 June 2003]]==
(Xfm: Season 1 Volume 14)
==[[14 June 2003]]==
The Darkness - "Growing On Me"
Karl's laughing
Bauhaus - "Ziggy Stardust"
Karl is going on holiday again to Cornwall with his parents
British Seapower - "Carrion"
Ricky Lost 400 quid in an envelope/finding money and getting a reward
Blur - "Out Of Time"
Woman insuring her looks/"wife"/things you won't ask for in local shops
Elvis Costello - "Alison"
Rockbusters: "He's got American coins all down his spine": M; "Jeremy Beadle has got arthritis": SLF; "Foxy, Shipman and some country and western singer having a go on a merry-go-round": SD
Placebo - "This Picture"
Father's Day/were flower companies behind Princess Diana's death?/new graphic warnings on cigarette packets
51:20 - strange skip
Selling rubbish in the street
Talking Heads - "Psycho Killer"
Red Hot Chilli Peppers - "Universally Speaking"
Origin of Karl/Another baby who had a baby
Simon And Garfunkel - "American"
"Do you reckon you could have your bones taken out?"/Dreaming about Karl
Ricky twisted his ankle before "The Office" pilot/Karl doesn't dream much
Nick Cave - "He Wants You"
Monkey News: chimp who went to Russia on business, became homeless and was arrested/Halfords ad
Badly Drawn Boy - "All Possibilities"
Kings Of Leon - "Red Morning Light"
Rockbusters: Nickelback, Stiff Little Fingers, Spin Doctors
Cheeky Freak of the Week: "lizard-skinned man married a hairy woman"
Karl's learving early
Kirsty MacColl - "New England"
Karl is gone/Karl comes back/send Karl lots of crap e-mail while he's away
Cat Stevens - "Lillywhite"
 
==[[21 June 2003]]==
(Xfm: Season 1 Volume 15)
==[[28 June 2003]]==
(Xfm: Season 1 Volume 16)
==[[05 July 2003]]==
(Xfm: Season 1 Volume 17)
==[[12 July 2003]]==
==[[19 July 2003]]==
(Xfm: Season 1 Volume 18)
==[[26 July 2003]]==
(Xfm: Season 1 Volume 19)
==[[02 August 2003]]==
==[[09 August 2003]]==
==[[16 August 2003]]==
(Xfm: Season 1 Volume 20)

Latest revision as of 13:38, 2 August 2020

Xfm Series 2

Xfm Series 2 ran from August 2002 to August 2003. Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant were back from filming the second series of The Office, and Karl Pilkington was back having recently produced Simon Pegg and Nick Frost's Xfm show.

Soon things were back to normal, with Ricky and Steve equally entertained and scornful of Karl's peculiar outlook on life. And as well as through his opinions and anecdotes, Karl also contributed to the series with several features such as 'Rockbusters', 'Monkey News' and 'Educating Ricky'.

There are 51 shows from Xfm Series 2 in circulation and each show has an individual page detailing its contents. They can be accessed by clicking the 'Title'( date) of each show.

List of Episodes

Title Xfm Label Season #
24 August 2002 n/a Xfm Series 2 24
Ricky, Steve and Karl compare their individual journeys back from the Edinburgh Festival, and Karl mishears 'mammoth' as 'man moth'.
31 August 2002 n/a Xfm Series 2 25
Ricky and Steve interview Karl to re-introduce him to the listening public. Karl starts a competition he calls 'What's The Song?', that in later shows becomes Rockbusters.
07 September 2002 n/a Xfm Series 2 26
Karl gets annoyed that Ricky can't record links for next week's 'Best Of' show because he must leave immediately after the show to go on holiday.
14 September 2002 n/a Xfm Series 2 27
With Ricky on holiday in Italy (see 07 September 2002), Karl is left introducing this 'Best of' compilation (aka Best Of #1). Karl introduces all the links ("Ricky's on holiday...and Steve can't be bothered")
21 September 2002 n/a Xfm Series 2 28
Karl's 30th birthday on Monday leads him to think about the best thing he's ever done.
28 September 2002 n/a Xfm Series 2 29
Claire Sturgess stands in for Karl, as his girlfriend Suzanne has taken him to the Canary Islands for his birthday.
05 October 2002 n/a Xfm Series 2 30
Karl is away for another week as when he was on holiday his dad was admitted to hospital and he had to help with things.
12 October 2002 n/a Xfm Series 2 31
Karl introduces the new feature Educating Ricky and it's the very first week of Rockbusters. Karl also suggestions for radio quizzes including 'Strike it Ricky' and 'Big Mother' (in which listeners would win a CD if they had a heavy mother).
19 October 2002 n/a Xfm Series 2 32
Ricky's got a hangover, and the second week of Rockbusters.Karl wants to be Frog boy. Educating Ricky has its second installment.
26 October 2002 n/a Xfm Series 2 33
Steve wants tickets for Bruce Springsteen. Karl explains how to escape from anacondas. Educating Ricky has its third installment. Karl gets all three 'educating' stories in back-to-back.
02 November 2002 n/a Xfm Series 2 34
Karl trys to sell his futon and desk combo for £100 and has a small laughing fit during Rockbusters. Educating Ricky is back for its fourth installment.
09 November 2002 n/a Xfm Series 2 35
Karl gets called a dickhead by a tramp and talks about cheating church. Ricky talks about his boxing. Educating Ricky has its fifth installment. Karl's now-famous utterances "I typed 'why' into the search engine to try and confuse the computer" along with "you never see an old man 'avin' a Twix" are in THIS show.
16 November 2002 n/a Xfm Series 2 36
Ricky and Steve discuss Karl being labelled a genius in Heat Magazine. Rockbusters goes down a storm, and we get the 6th installment (the longest thus far at about 22 minutes total) of Educating Ricky.
23 November 2002 n/a Xfm Series 2 37
MTV have offered Karl the opportunity to record a screen test but he's reluctant. Karl interviews a woman who claims to have a ghost living in her house in a feature called 'Pilkington'. Educating Ricky episode 7 is also featured.
30 November 2002 n/a Xfm Series 2 38
Xfm have started an advertising campaign for the show but Karl didn't want to be inclduded. Ricky explains how Jonathan Ross sees him as "a predatory gay". Educating Ricky Episode 8 completes the show.
07 December 2002 n/a Xfm Series 2 39
Karl records his screen test for MTV today. Ricky and Steve demonstrate how gullible Karl is when reading internet material.
14 December 2002 n/a Xfm Series 2 40
Claire Sturgess is sitting in for Karl and talks with Ricky and Steve about The Fight.
21 December 2002 n/a Xfm Series 2 41
Karl's not buying his girlfriend Suzanne anything for Christmas because he's taking her out for dinner.
28 December 2002 n/a Xfm Series 2 42
A 'Best of' compilation show. aka Best of #2
04 January 2003 Season 1, Vol. 1 Xfm Series 2 43
Ricky and Steve are astounded to learn that Karl bought his girlfriend an industrial-sized box of condoms for Christmas.
11 January 2003 Season 1, Vol. 2 Xfm Series 2 44
Stephen has overheard some people slagging off Ricky in public, and Karl believes in ghosts of women seeing ghosts of themselves.
18 January 2003 Season 1, Vol. 3 Xfm Series 2 45
Ricky investigates the effects of blunt objects on the skull, Stephen's feelings are hurt and Karl explores his sexuality.
25 January 2003 Season 1, Vol. 4 Xfm Series 2 46
The now-famous (or infamous, as the case may be) “Monkey News” makes its debut. Ricky performs the jingle for the first time in the feature originally called “Chimpanzee That!”
01 February 2003 Season 1, Vol. 5 Xfm Series 2 47
Karl slags off clairvoyants, Ricky slags off God and Stephen slags off Karl (then punches him in the arm). The debut of Karl in a Film.
08 February 2003 Season 1, Vol. 6 Xfm Series 2 48
Karl gets excited about conjoined twins but less enthused about the literary implications of infinite monkeys.
15 February 2003 n/a Xfm Series 2 49
Ricky is so disgusted with the show that he finally says, "that's it, we're taking two weeks off. No show for two weeks" or something to that effect.
22 February 2003 n/a Xfm Series 2 50
A 'Best of' compilation. aka Best of #3. Ricky and Steve pre-record their intros to all the links.
01 March 2003 n/a Xfm Series 2 51
Another 'Best of' compilation. aka Best of #4. Ricky and Steve pre-record their intros to all the links.
08 March 2003 n/a Xfm Series 2 52
Claire Sturgess stands in for a sick Karl. Ricky and Steve start giving out digits of Karl's phone number, and eventually manage to get him on the phone.
15 March 2003 Season 1, Vol. 7 Xfm Series 2 53
Karl's been off ill - much to Ricky's disgust - a new feature is born and tension between Karl and Stephen comes to a head.
22 March 2003 Season 1, Vol. 8 Xfm Series 2 54
Karl is disappointed by the film 'Freaks', confused by transsexuals and slapped in the head live on-air by Stephen.
29 March 2003 Season 1, Vol. 11 Xfm Series 2 55
Ricky and Stephen are adamant that Karl should appear on the show's poster and more interest groups are offended.
05 April 2003 Season 1, Vol. 9 Xfm Series 2 56
Steve runs to the local McDonald's to fetch 5 hamburgers for Karl to stuff in his mouth in an attempt to break a world record. After failing miserably at that, Karl eats 62 grapes in three minutes; 71 shy of the record. Karl's explanation is that he has a "small throat".
12 April 2003 Season 1, Vol. 10 Xfm Series 2 57
Ricky, Karl and Steve break the law on-air for the first time as Karl gets curious about the extent of Derren Brown's powers.
19 April 2003 n/a Xfm Series 2 58
Claire Sturgess fills in for Karl, who is in Madeira with Suzanne and her parents. The boys suffer from hypochondria; Ricky wears a white suit to the BAFTAs; Steve fancies Louise Woodward; reality shows; the Innovations Catalogue; "Call your friends and tell them it's a girl"; Karl is deemed superfluous.
26 April 2003 n/a Xfm Series 2 59
Karl is back, bringing Rockbusters with him, and Ricky invents some new characters to liven up the show.
03 May 2003 n/a Xfm Series 2 60
"It's the Sonys this week, so make it a good one." Rockbusters today. Karl got a message from someone wanting Steve to do voiceover work--"money for old rope"--but didn't pass it on to Steve until a week later.
10 May 2003 Season 1, Vol. 12 Xfm Series 2 61
Ricky is incensed that the show didn't win any Sony Awards and gives Karl money to perform degrading, homoerotic tasks.
17 May 2003 Season 1, Vol. 13 Xfm Series 2 62
Vowing to improve the show after last week's Sony failure, Ricky consults Dr. Fox and attempts to interact with the listeners.
31 May 2003 n/a Xfm Series 2 63
Ricky has done his back in wrestling. Rockbusters contest today. Cheeky Freak of the Week--Lobsterman and the Siamese twins who got run over "why didn't he just look both ways?" Monkey News--chimp number 86, the magician's assistant hopped in the car at the gas station and drove to Spain. Of course it was possible--the car was an automatic.
07 June 2003 Season 1, Vol. 14 Xfm Series 2 64
Springsteen has an armpit fetish? Hankies in back pockets, Karl has the research. Karl won't leave the hotel room in Tenerife due to his state of arousal, discussion about dying, cloning, and one's last day on earth, the weekly episodes of Blockbusters, CFOTW (Cheeky Freak of the Week), and Monkey News--with two monkey stories this week--BONUS.
14 June 2003 n/a Xfm Series 2 65
Karl going on Holiday to Cornwall this coming week---anxious about going to Monkey World--twice. "Bauhaus is not working, Bauhaus is not working!!" Ricky loses 400 quid out of his suit pocket, Steve recounts story at University about finding a cashpoint card in the machine, and rewarding himself 30 quid (Karl would have taken 20), the great flower/greeting card company conspiracies, warnings on fag packets, the boneless person, Monkey News (homeless chimp in Russia), Rockbusters, and CFOTW live on, Karl leaves early to catch the train.
21 June 2003 Season 1, Vol. 15 Xfm Series 2 66
Karl's holiday in Cornwall recap; Rockbusters and Monkey News now ended according to Ricky, but they do come back anyway; Monkey News from Karl's Dad and a Monkey News 'Extra' (Monkey Business)
28 June 2003 Season 1, Vol. 16 Xfm Series 2 67
Medical, zoo, charity, and taxi drivers talk. Shaving one's arse, feeling testicles, owl on a desk, Maggie the Magpie, "do you know the way to Camden?" Monkey News (bequeathing the monkey spa to the kids) and Rockbusters still alive but on very thin ice.
05 July 2003 Season 1, Vol. 17 Xfm Series 2 68
Steve's great New Year's party in Bristol: "It's just that...we've arranged to meet back at you." Plus Monkey News (chimps joining the army and doing the obstacle course?), Educating Ricky, Rockbusters, Auntie Nora, an' that.
12 July 2003 n/a Xfm Series 2 69
Ricky and Steve pre-record a spot lampooning the Radio Authority, but the Managing Director of XFM bins that. Karl has to go along with the decision, even with the swearing bleeped out. Karl getting ready to go on holiday again. This time, it's Hastings. No more cheeky freak of the week is this week's Songs of Phrase. Monkey News--monkey prison in India. The boys have stories of winding teachers up in school.
19 July 2003 Season 1, Vol. 18 Xfm Series 2 70
Karl's kitchen re-doing, Steve's big feet. Songs of Phrase. Karl and babies. Steve's big TV. Wheelchair tennis and the Paralympics. Karl gets a kiss from Steve on the head. Karl recaps holiday in Hastings and specialty shops. Answers to Songs of Phrase and Monkey news--the chimp that won the 400 meter race in the 1908 London Olympics an' that.
26 July 2003 Season 1, Vol. 19 Xfm Series 2 71
People you hate, What do you like. The chinese language. Scruting the china-woman. Anteaters and the wax museum. Songs of phrase. KP looks after me. If Karl were PM or President. Winner of who is the most hated among the listeners. Monkey News--the chimp cyclist, on the tricycle, in the London-Brighton bike ride.
02 August 2003 n/a Xfm Series 2 72
Bondage shop--Open. Cock soup and hermaphrodites. Lots of knob news (including theatrical castration, Hitler's penis and genital "torture devices"). Songs of Phrase; "I know you're just 16 but looking all of 21, that's because Chinese look older." Calling Moyles with golf songs. Educating Karl. Big eyelids. Freaks. Homeless & St. John's Ambulance people. Monkey news--monkey astronaut made a NASA trainer, then a colonel, got a pension, an' that.
09 August 2003 n/a Xfm Series 2 73
Handling the heat wave. Nudist chat. frontal shots of sprinters, Monkey news--chimp prostitute. Karl laughs on air.
16 August 2003 Season 1, Vol. 20 Xfm Series 2 74
Last show of the series. Ricky and Steve filming The Office Specials in the interim. Will they return? More charity talk. Newton and Einstein. The Daily Telegraph is listening today! Monkey News extra -- Costa Rican monkey goalkeeper has a PhD in Physics.

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Presenters Ricky Gervais | Stephen Merchant | Karl Pilkington
Others Claire Sturgess | Ian Camfield | Simon Pegg | Nick Frost
Features Monkey News | Rockbusters | Song For The Ladies | Song For The Lovers
Hip-Hop Hooray | Cheap as Chimps | White Van Karl | Songs of Phrase
Cheeky Freak of the Week | Do We Need 'Em? | More...
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