"Black Books": "Fever" Trivia Quiz

Answer: Buying three 99s (ice creams with flakes).

This scene, reminiscent of a Bond movie, sees Manny walking slowly through the hot, dry streets looking shiftily at the people he meets. Of course, after he has bought the ice creams, neither Fran nor Bernard want one. Bernard rejects his by saying "No, I'm not twelve..."

Answer: At 88 degrees Fahrenheit, his "Dave's Syndrome" kicks in.

Bernard, of course, doesn't believe him, because this isn't the first time Manny has suggested something ridiculous like this. One of his other supposed problems is that he has to eat lots of fudge. To stop him going deaf.

Answer: "Tempocalypse"

"Tempocalypse" is the story of a 29-year-old temp, who can't get a boyfriend. While this appeals to the women in the episode, the men are more attracted by the fact that this temp also has only twelve hours to stop a potential nuclear war with China.

Answer: A new flat is being created next door to her without her knowledge.

The landlord has moved Fran's wall so that he could create another flat next door, although both of the rooms where actually very tiny. Bernard, desperate for a summer girlfriend, went into the flat next door posing as a lawyer, only to fall in love with the redheaded inhabitant, Alyson.

Fran: "If I told you the walls of my flat were actually moving in, would you think that I was strange?"
Bernard: "No, I'd ask you to come round and look after my small children."

Answer: wine

The "lolly" is in fact a bottle of red wine that has been frozen with a large stick inserted into the bottleneck. To eat it, Bernard smashes the glass, leaving a wine-bottle shaped ice-lolly for Bernard to cool down with.

Answer: An accordion

A poem to Alyson, by Bernard Black:

"Think of a bee, you are its knees
You waft through me like a summer breeze
Can I come round Tuesday, please?"

Bernard does use an accordion later on in this episode to try and serenade Alyson, but she is in the middle of moving out of her flat at the time, and really isn't interested.

Answer: Herself

Fran says that her body is..."yours to enjoy. Like an eclair. Or a day at the zoo." She then talked about her bed was far too big for little old her, and made a lewd diagram to make her landlord move the wall back and bolt it down. Then, she tells him that he was imagining her offer, and that the walls weren't moving, and locks him out.

Answer: The power of the mind

Manny reads a book on Arctic and Antarctic animals, and throws polystyrene shapes around in an attempt to fool himself about the temperature. The polystyrene (Styrofoam) shapes are supposed to represent the blizzard in which he is caught.

Answer: True

The books are sat in the oven, which is turned on high, in tin foil, so that they don't set on fire. Manny is directed to the kitchen by a post-it note in the back of the fridge saying 'go to the oven', and one on the oven door that reads "surprise!"

Answer: Jumping on the hood of a car holding a fire torch, wearing only a hot water bottle and the words "eat me" painted on his chest.

Manny's "Dave's Syndrome" finally kicks in, and even though Bernard refused to believe that the illness existed, the builders and road workers out on the street identify Manny's problems right away. Incidentally, the answer about the small taverna is a reference to both a different episode in this series of "Black Books", and the comic "Malfunction Junction", by Matt Milby.