15 Vital Life Lessons Mark From Peep Show Taught Us

3. Always Act Appropriately In A Crisis

Jeremy: We need to relax. Mark: We can't relax! We've got to fight, worry, speculate, tut, pace, swear! Jeremy: Why? Mark: Because it's an emergency! In an emergency you watch breaking news and count your tins of butter beans, you don't sit in the garden and put on Kiss FM! And quite right too. Whilst it's unlikely that you'll ever become locked in your flatmate's boss's girlfriend's hallway on the way to your son's christening, some incidents do call for all-out hysteria. Kicking back and relaxing won't open that front door. Only decisive action will do. This is, as Mark later points out, 'a mark of respect for the gravity of the situation'.