By using "low" comedy—jokes about sex, drinking, and scams—the show celebrates working-class vitality against what it portrays as "sterile" middle-class values. Steve’s character arc, a middle-class medical school dropout who turns to car theft, serves as a perfect vehicle to explore this class rejection. Critical Analysis Resources

: A digital preservation of the original 2004 UK DVD (Disc One) is hosted on the Internet Archive for historical reference .

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