Brian discovers that Bob is sleeping in the gym store room but has his own problems when pupils accuse him of having a boring voice. His colleagues persuade him that he is being victimized for being Northern but his attempt to get advice from Liz as a fellow minority group member goes wrong until finally he learns to accentuate his Northernness for effect. Kurt believes that Shelley, a single parent, fancies him and uses this as an excuse to give up smoking when his colleagues tell him he has bad breath. Shelley is only too happy to help him kick the habit but when Kurt reads more into their relationship and believes she wants sex with him he is let down with a bump.
—don @ minifie-1