Their lives centre around lager and girls. The former is easy to come by, both in canned form and at their local pub, The Crown. As for the latter, Gary has a long-term girlfriend, Dorothy (Caroline Quentin), and Tony pines for Deborah (Leslie Ash), the girl upstairs. Neither of these necessarily stops them looking elsewhere for their "totty", though Gary usually feels guilty if he goes much beyond ogling some Kylie Minogue publicity shots.
The series was briefly remade for US television with a different cast. As a side-effect, the original series was eventually screened in the US on BBC America as British Men Behaving Badly.